The Connecticut courant, and the weekly intelligencer — Hartford [Conn.], 1783-01-21 00:00:00, page 1

THE Subferiber being called upon by the Printers to
fettle hisaccounts up to the firlt of January, desires all
persons indebted to him for News-Papers, or any other ler
vices, to make payment according to their centrads —
Those who negle& to comply with this reasonable request,
may depend on having their papers difeontinued, by their
humble servant,
JAMES EGLBSTON.
January 15, 1783.
Just opened, and to be SOLD by
PETER COLT, & Co.
At the Store lately owned by Mr. Stephen
Austin, and nearly opposite Jeremiah
Wadsworth's, Esq;
GERMAN STEEL, by the hundred or single bar ; white
and red Lead, by the hundred or pound; Salt by the
cask or single bushel; and a variety of fuperfine, middling
and low priced Broadcloths, Caffimers, Taffaties, Mar
seilles Quilting, Chintzes, Callicoes, Cambricks, Sheet
ings, Paper, Sealing Wax, red, black and white Wafers,
&c. &c. cheap for Cash or country Produce.
Hartford, January 14, 1783.
FOR S'A LE, AT
Beardsley's &; Hopkins's Store,
HARTFORD:
A small assortment of European GOODS,
consisting of
BROADCLOTHS, With trimmings compleat for Gentle
mens wear.
Silks of various colours, and beautiful Chintzes for Ladies.
Linens, Silk Handkerchiefs, &c. Also,
Best Nantz Brandy, per cask or gallon.
Seven by nine Glass, per box or retail.
Coarse and fine Salt, per cask or ditto.
Sugar, per hundred weight.
Copperas, per ditto.
Bar-Iron, American Steel, &c.
A few barrels of excellent Tanners Oil.
CASH will be given at said Store, or any of the above ar
ticles, for good Flour in Casks, Rye or Indian Corn.
January 14, 1783.
T O BE SOLD,
At Public Vendue,
THE last MONDAY in January inst. at 10 o' clock, P.
M. at the house of Mr. Jonathan Elsworth, in Wind
sor, one piece of LAND containing r 6 acres, and one do.
containing 2 and half acres, belonging to the estate of Sa
muel Coy, Ute deceased, lying in the north part of North-
Windsor. A good title will be given by
SETH DEXTER, Administrator.
Windsor, Jan. 7, 1783.
WE the Subferibers being appointed CommiHiuners by
the Hon. Court of Probate, for the diftrid of Halt-
Vindfor, to receive and examine the claims of the Credi-'
tors to the estate ofCapt. Stephen Buckland,' late of Hart
ford, deceased, represented insolvent, do hereby give no.
rice, that we will attend on said bufiaefs at the dwelling-,
huufe of the Widow Mary Buckland, in Haft-Hartford, on
the fidt and third Mondays of February next, and the firft
Monday in March next, from one o'clock in the afternoon
intill fix. JOEL LOOMIS, ,
ABRAHAM MILLER,
Hartford, Jan. 14, 1783,
BROKE into the inclofurc of the Subscriber on or about
the 25th of Nov. last, a dark forrei MARE, about 14
or x§ years old, with two white spots on her breait about
the bign^fs of a copper, blind on the near fide, branded on
the off thigh wr.h a dim letter, fappofed to be M. a natural
pacer, about 13 or 14 hands high.' 'The owner is desired to
pay charges and take her away.
MOSES DIBCL.
Simsbury, Jan. 6, 1783.
A LL Persons that have been indebted to ME from SE
x A VBN to TWENTY YEARS, arc requeued to come and
fettle: orherways they will be sued by their old friend and
ie„ar.r,
MATTHEW TALLCOTfr
Middletown, January 13, 1783.
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From the PENNSYLVANIA PACKET.
To Mas. A SGIL L.
PERMIT a Granger, who sincerely rejoices at
the release of your son, to address the feel
ings of a mother, with a few remarks on the op
polite conduct of your nation. -All the horrors
of distress which you have felt, have been expe
rienced by many mothers, wives and filers on
this fide the atlantic. To you it is needless to
describe what the sensation must be in the breast
of a lady, who is informed that her son, brother
or husband, is destined to the gallows. It is ac
knowledged that Captain Afgill is poffefled of
great merit; but give me leave to add, that this
country has produced some characters as great
and respectable, who, though equally innocent,
have been put to death byorder of your officers.
The southern states are filled with widows, or
phans, and bereft mothers, made so by British
executions. Lord Cornwallis, Lord Rawdon,
Colonel Balfour and Colonel Brown, have reali
fed to many of your sex, ^ofe very evils; the
bare expectation of which has filled you with
inconceivable distress. The late Colonel Hayne,
in bravery and personal merit, was not inferior
to your son. I, who have a thorough knowledge
of all circumstances, can with justice add, he was
no more guilty, and yet he buffered on the gal
lows by order of Lord Rawdon and Colonel Bal
four. The only crime eve; laid to his charge by
his murderers was, that he bore arms with the
Americans after submitting to the,royal govern
ment. One single argument destroys this apo
logy for the execution. He had as good a right
to rejoin his countrymen as he had to join the
British. If the principle is adopted, that the in
habitants of a country may change their allegi
ance with their matters, he had the fame autho
rity for the second change that he had for the
firft. All who knew him acknowledge his great
worth, that virtue, honor, and public spirit, were
the ruling principles of his conduct. Possessed
of all these amiable qualities, and the father of
four children, he was notwithstanding delibe
rately put to death. The ladies of Charleftown
prefered the following petition, which was refu
sed. After reading it you will better judge
what hearts the commanding officers must haze
had, to be able to withstand such melting argu
ments. His sister-in-law, with his four mother
less children, presented herfelf on her bended
knees to Lord Rawdon and Colonel Balfour, but
without any eff# They doubtless represent,
on your fide the ocean, that this barbarity was
dictated by policy; but they who know all its
circumdanees are convinced, that it proceeded
from low, mean, pitiful revenge. They had
wrote home pompous accounts of their victories,
and represented the country as completely con
quered. When Lord Rawdon was drove from
all his posts in the upper country, and compelled
to seek fafety in flight, his pride was so mortifi
ed, that in a fit of difpair, revenge and chagrin,
he facrifijed this worthy man to the ghort of his
departed military fame. Your nation was once
brave, and they were also humane, but how are
they changed ? Anoble Lord hangs whese he can
not conquer, and breaks through the tenderest
ties of human nature, to make some reparation
for his loft honour. Contrafl this conduct with
that of the Americans. I can assure you that
the tear of generous sympathy flowed from ma
ny eyes on behalf of your son, when destined to
an untimely end. T^he conduct of our rulers, in
sparing his life, is generally approved, though
many think that the finer feelings, national ho^
nour and character, are thereby sacrificed to the
finer feelings of humanity. The bare reading of
your pathetic letter had its effed on the feelings;
of this country, so as to fofteri them into lenient
measures; but your officers were unmoved by
the following petition, and the more melting
eloquence of four children^ accompanied by the
sister of their deceased mother, on her bended
knees, soliciting for the life of a brother and a
father, equally innocent and worthy as your son.
The contrast must strike you in the most forcible
manner. May my country build her fame on
the noble and exalted virtues of generosity and
humanity! May yours repent of her many deli #
berate murders; cease from her ambition, and
once more rertore peace to contending nations.
. An AMERICAN.
^The following petition, the genuine mark of
a lady now in South-Carolina, nolefs remarkable
for the goodness of her heart than the fuberiority
of her understanding, was signed by all the ladies
of Charleftown, expecting four, and was present
ed a few days before the execution of Colonel
Hayne, but without any effect.
To the right honourable Lord Rawdon, com
mander in chief of his Majesty's forces in
South-Carolina, and to Colonel Balfour, com,
mandant at Charleftown.
My Lord and Sir,
, E should have reason to reproach ourfelve#
Vs. of having omitted a proper occasion of
manifefting the tendendernefs peculiarly charac
teristic of our sex, if we did not profefs ourselves
deeply interested and affected by the imminent:
and shocking doom of the most unfortunate Mr.
Haynes, and if we did not intreat you in the
most earnest manner graciously to avert
prolong or mitigate it. We do not even
think, much less do we intend to imply in the
remotest degree, that your sentence is unjust ;
but we are induced to hope, that every end it
proposes may be equally answered as if carried
into execution ; for to us it does not appear pro
bable, that any whom it is intended to influence
and deter from similar delinquency, will be en
couraged with the hope of impunity by reafoti
of any favour fnewn him, as they must surely
reflect, that it was owing to certain causes and
circumstances that will not apply to them. We
presume to make this intercession for him, and
to hope that it will not prove fruitlefs, from the
knowledge of your dispositions in particular, as
well as from the reflexion in general, that hu
manity is rarely Separable from courage, and
that the gallant soldier feels as much relevance
to cause, by deliberate degrees, the infliction of
death on men in cold blood, as he does ardor in
the day of battle and heat of action, to make
the enemies of his country perish bv the sword.
He may rejoice to behold his laurels fprinklecb
with the blood of armed and resisting adversa
ries, but will regret to fee them wet with the
tears of unhappy orphans, mourning the lose
of a tender, amiable and worthy parent, execut
ed like a vile and infamous felon. To the
praises that men, who have been witnesses and.
sharers of your dangers and services in the field,
may found of your military virtues and prowefy
we trust you will give the ladies occasion to add
the praises of your milder and fofter virtues, by
furnifning them with a striking proof of your
clemency and politeness in the present inrtance.
May the unhappy object of our petition owe to
that clemency and politenefy to our prayers and
(No. 939.)