The Connecticut courant, and the weekly intelligencer — Hartford [Conn.], 1783-02-11 00:00:00, page 2

P A R I S, ORober^.
MR. Fitzherbert Iras received an aufwer to
the last proposals he made twelve days
ago. The English minillry, it seems, want firft
to apprize, or found the courts of Vienna and
Peterfburgh on that article ; perhaps their
answer is expected, in order to give an ultima
tum. Be that as it may, it is allured, that Mr.
Grenville has never varied respecting the offer
of the American independence, without Condi
tions , and that there has been no difficulty but
about the East-Indies ; our pretensions in that
part of the world are as great as the unwilling
ness of the English to grant them to us.
LONDO N, November 2.
Letters from Peterfburgh fay, that overtures
for a compromise of differences has been made
by the Porte, and that being of a nature too ad
vantageous to be rejected by the Empress, it was
daily expected that orders would be issued for
suspending all holtile preparations.
Extract of a letter from Captain Kempthorn,
commander of his Majesty's pacquet boat the
Antelope, dated Port I'Orient, October 21.
"We failed from Lisbon the 24th of Septem
ber, and on the 16th curt, about eight o'clock in
the morning, fell in with an Americon privateer
called the Buccaneer, Capt. Fearfon, belonging
toSalem. She gave chafe, and came up with us
- in the afternoon, and made us strike our colours,
the mail and government dispatches having firft
been thrown overboard.—The privateer mount
ed 18 nine-pounders, and is the drifted sailer I
ever met with.
Nov. 8. The public conversation having, for
several days past, turned upon the resignation of
several of the members of administration, we are
very happy to have it in our power to give the
following Statement of the foundation of it; the
truth of which may be depended upon:
A few days ago Lord Shelburne, in order to
make way for one of his creatures, exprefled his
withes, in pretty broad terms, that the right ho
norable Mr. Townfhend would favour him with
a resignation of the office of one of his Majesty's
principal secretaries of date, and accept of ano
ther situation; but Mr. Townfhend, it seems,
had too much fpir t to be kicked down stairs, as
. it is called in the language of statesmen, and
positively refufed to yeild up his office to the
convenience of the minister.
Upon the difeovery of Lord Shelburne's in
tention to remove Mr. Townfhend, Mr. Pitt
took fire, attached to his interest by the intended
union between his brother, Lord Chatham, and
the daughter of Mr. Townfhend, and informed
the minister of his resolution to resign with Mr.
Townfhend. In consequence of this, the mini
ster defined from attempting to remove him
from office. Lord Keppel, however, is to leave
the admiralty as soon as Lord Howe returns;
and the Duke of Richmond, General Conway,
Mr. Townfhend and Mr. Pitt, will quit the ad
miriftration upon the meeting of parliament.
These vacancies, it is said, are to be filled up
in the following manner:
Lord North, Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Lord Howe, First Lord of the Admiralty.
Mr. Robinson, Secretary of State.'
Mr. Rigby, to prefideat the Board ofOrdnance.
In order to obtain a majority at the meeting
of parliament the minister gives out, that he
means to pursue the measures of the Rockingham
party, and if this thould not procure him the
support he stands in need of, his intention is to
diffolvethe parliament, and try his strength by a
general re-election.
In the prosecution of the above plan, circular
letters were yefterftay dispatched to every doubt
ful member, requeuing the favour of his attend
ance upon the meeting of parliament, when it is
expected very nea, five hundred membeis will
be arrived in town.
The minister forms his great hope of continu
ing in office, in the support he experts to derive
from Lord North; but even such a coalition
would by no means secure his situation. Lord
North and Lord Shelburne, and Lord Shelburne
and Lord North^re alike to an injured, if not
an undone people.
Yesterday morning some dispatches were re
ceived from Jersey, which contain an account of
a large Dutch ship being taken and carried in
there by one of their privateers, She was un
der Flemish colours, and her cargo consists of 60
hogflieads of tobacco, 40 hogsheads of sugar, 20
Sorrels of indigo, and 20 barrels of rice. She
was from Philadelphia, bound to Amsterdam,
and is a very valuable prize.
A late publication has the following Anecdote.
" The whimsical and immortal author of Trif
tram Shandy, was married to Mrs. Sterne on a
Saturday morning: His parifhoners had timely
information of this circumstance, and knowing
that he would preach the next morning at his
parish church, and desirous at the fame time of
feeihg the bride, they assembled in such crouds,
that the church was full before the bell had done
tolling. The bride, as was expected, made her
appearance, and the country folks indulgedthem
felves with the usual observations, till Sterne
mounted the pulpit ; Here every eye was direct
ed to him, and every ear ready to catch the words
of his text, which turned out, to their astonish
ment, to be the following, " We have toiled all
night, and have caught no fifh." The congre
gation looked at each other, some smiled, others
flopped their mouths with their handkerchiefs
to prevent them from laughing, while the old
folks wore very serious faces, and thought the
humourift a very odd fort of man for a pulpit
lecturer : However, they attended to his &-
course, which turned as usual, very indruUive,.
and all went home very highly delighted with
the text, but poor Mrs. Sterne, who bluffed
down to her fingers ends every step of the way
to her house.
A body of troops, it is said, will be soon sent
out to Admiral Campbell, who are to attempt to
dispossess the French of the forts on Hudson's
Bay, which they have lately wrested from us.
November 23. This day the Governors and
Directors of thefoank of England, received the
following letter from the Honorable T. Town
send, Secretary for the home department.
Whitehall, Nov. 22, 1782.
Gentlemen,
HI S Majesty's ministers, anxious to prevent
as early as possible, the mifehiefs too com
monly resulting from speculations in the funds,
during the uncertain Rare of negociations of
peace, between the powers at war, which it is
the general interest of all great powers to avoid,
have thought it their.duty to aik hi; Majesty's
Notwithstanding the positive manner in which
the contrary is asserted, we,can allure the public,
from the best authority, that General Sir Guy
Carleton, commander in chief in America, has
desired to be recalled, and has obtained leave to
return home accordingly.
It is also equally true, that General Dalling,
late Governor of Jamaica, is appointed in the
room of Sir Guy Carleton, and will embark for
New-York in the course of a few days.
+ We have now in New-York, and the different
lines about it, an army of at least 17,000 men,
who stand this country in two milions a year;
and' the moll ingenious fellow, in or out of Eu
rope, could not, for the foul of him, conceive for
what purpose such a force b maintained there.
The forces in Canada may be deemed necessary
for the defence of that great government ; and
the little army at Halifax may not be thought
over Efficient to preserve the province of Nova-
Scotia, which, it does not appear, the ministers
have any intention to give up ; but that so very
great a force as 17,000 men, should be kept up
at New-York, or rather cooped up, for no pur
pose under Heaven, as that city is to be deliver
ed to Congress, is what cannot be understood !
The introduction into the cabinet, of such a
tried king's friend, as Mr. Jenkenfon, at the
present crisis, argues nothing less than a renova
tion ofthe American war !
Nov. 15. There cannot be a stronger proof
ofthe number of men which the American war
has drained from this country, than the consi
derable majority of women seen in every public
assembly; and as these cannot possibly be math
ed for some time, it is a consummation devout
ly to be wilhed, that the Legislature would, by
an experimental act, try Doctor Madan's scheme;
the ladies will allow that half a loaf is better than
no bread.
It has certainly been proposed in council, on
the part of the premier, to call Mr. Charles Jen
kinfon ; but the opposition from a noble Duke
was so warm, that the measure was dropped.
Archbishop Tillotfon has wifely observed,
that " ignorance and inconsideration are the two
" great causes of the ruin of mankind :" th^
fate of this unhappy country has fully illustrated
the truth of this Sentence ; our ministers, igno
rant of the principles, natural strength, and re
fcources of America, precipitately plunged the
nation in a civil war, which has divided the em
pire, exhaulted our commerce, and brought on
innumerable evils.
perm^on so communicate to you, that the ne
gotiation now carrying on at Paris, are thought
to near a crifis,as to promise a decifivecoriclufion,
either for peace or war, before the meeting of
Parliament, which, will therefore be prorogued
from Tuesday the 26th instant, to Thursday the
sth of December, and I have his Majesty's com
mands to assure you that you will receive imme
diate notice of the fame.'
(Signed) T.TOWNSEND.
PH IL AD ELEKTA, Jan. ic.
The relief of Gibraltar by Lord Howe, was
owing more to the weather than to his superior
ikillin naval manoeuvres. And such was his
precipitancy to avoid an aQion with the com
bined fleet, that after havingthrown in his trans
ports and itorefhips,he left behind him aSpanilh
74 gun fmp which had run ashore at point Euro
pa, and was got off by the garrison. Theadtion
which did ensue, after being overhawled by the
combined fleet, was merely defensive 011 his
part, and what the sons of Neptune style " a
running fight." He however, sustained some
damage in his spars and rigging, and the loss of
about threeqor four hundred men killed and
wounded.
The schooner Antelope, Capt. Garfton of
Baltimore, on her way down the Bay, captured
on the 19th inst. pffthe mouth of Rappahanock,
the privateer schooner Active from New-York,
and retook a schooner belonging to Virginia.
A few days ago nineteen refugees were bro't
hither from head-quartern, under a Captain's
guard. They were takenin Long-Eland found,
on one of their plundering expeditions. By
their wretched appearance they cud not seem to
have pai ticipatcd to any considerable degree in
the blessings "of that government, which (as
General Robertson fays in his proclamation) all
men admire, but Providence has been kindly
pleased to reserve for the fubjeds of Great-
Britain."
C H A T 11 A M, Januaryzg.
By an express w ffel from Lord Hood, which
arrived at New-York lad Friday from Jamaica,
we learn that Don Solano was at the Havannah,
with ten fail of the line ; that Count de Eftaing
had arrived with a lle^t from Europwm Martini
co ; and that a most vigorous attack on Jamaica
was resolved on, as soon as a junction ot the dif
ferent fleets was formed.
In consequence of the above ,'information an
embarkation of seven regiments, we arc told,
has or will take place shortly.
The Delaware regiment is on its march from
the southward, to be annexed to the troops of
this State,which are to form one brigade.
Sir Guy Carleton has, in his great clemency,
paroled near one hundred of our marine priso
ners, upwards of sixty of whom came over to
Elizabeth-Town last Sunday.
FISH -KI LL, February^
A correspondent has favoured us with the fol
lowing extraa from the General Orders of
the army :---
" Itis withgreat pleasure the General commu
nicates to the army, the following translation of
'a letter he received from the Minister of France.
To his Excellency General Washington, and
the American ArmY.
Gentlemen,
His Majeity has been informed of the marks
of joy shewn by the American Army cm the
Birth of the Dauphin, and it has given him
great fatisfadion, to fee the part which the
American Officers and Soldiers have taken in
that happy event.
The King has commanded me to make known
to you, his sensibility on this occasion ; and has
charged me to allure the American Army, and
the General who commands it, of his affection
and particular esteem.
I have thehonor to be &c."
In a latqLondon paper is inferred as follows :
“ From General Gage, the command of our
forces in America has at length come down to
General Dalling! When all our regulars have
been tried, where will be the wonder if one of
our Generals of the city trained band Ihould be
sent over to take America fooher than give it up.
B O S T O N, February 3.
Wednesday arrived fafe in port a ffiip of 23
guns, prize to the Continental frigate Hague,
John Manley Esq; comraander, flie was from
St. Lucia bound to St. Martins, and has about
1600 barrels provisions on board—This is thegth °
prize Capt. Manly has sent into port 011 his late
cruize.