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TO BE SOL D,
A GOOD FARM, lying in Weft-Hampton, contain
ing one hundred acres, a large house and good barn
standing thereon ; there has considerable improvements been
made upon said land, for mowing, pasturing, and plowing.
Said farm is suited particularly to grass, is well watered, and
very conveniently Situated. For further particulars, enquire
of Mr. Sylvester Judd, in said Wed-Hampton, or
JONATHAN JUDD.
South-Hampton^ April 1, 1781.
TO BE SO L D,
For Hard, Continental, or State's Money,,
A SMALL FARM, lying about twelve rods north of
the meeting-house in Suffield, containing about twelve
acres, excellent for mowing, plowing, and pasturing ; with
a dwelling house, barn, cow-house, &c. The Situation equal
to any in the town, for a trader or tradesman. For further
, articulars, enquire of the fubferiber, living on the premises.
ISAAC bissell.
Suffield, March 29, 1781.
TH E Subscriber takes this method (for the last time) to
beg all that are indebted to him by book or note—as
administrator on the estates of Mr. Daniel Johonnet, and
Capt. Justus Taylor—or as executor to the last will and
teffament of Dr. Thomas Walker, all late of Middletown,
deceas'd, to make immediate payment, as he is determined
to have all those old affairs fettled as soon as may be.
BENJAMIN HENSHAW.
Middletown, March 28, 1781.
MEETING ft^GO VERNOR and COV N
CTL of SAFETY, holden at Hartford, on the 30th day
UPON the Representation of the Committee ofPay-
Table, that in consequence of a resolve of the General
Arfembly, in O&ober last, direding them to SETTLE
ACCOUNTS with all persons having public money or
property in their hands—they have inferred advertifemcnts
the several Newspapers, and written to several persons re
duelling,an immediate settlement; vet, after all their en
deavors but very few persons have paid any attention thereto,
and reqttefting further directions.
RESOLVED, That the said Committee be, and they
are hereby direded toVrite particularly to the late King's
Attornies, and the several State Attornies, or to their execu
tors or adminiffrators, and to others who have considerable
accounts open and unsettled with this. State, afligning them
particular times to fettle their accounts ; and to call upon
the Clerk of the Superior Court, for an account of all the
fines and forfeitures belonging to this State, who is hereby
direded to furnish the fame. And if any shall refufe or neg
lea to fettle their accounts, and pay the sums due to this
State, the said Committee are hereby direded to notify the
fame to Roger Newberry, Esq. that suits may be commenced
against such as shall neglect or refufe as aforefaid.
Extract from tht Minutes,
Test. BENJAMIN PAYNE, Ctok,
WILL COVER
This Season, at the Hable of Major William Goodrich, in
Stockbridge,
TH E Famous Hqrfe, known by the name of Y OUNG
FIGURE; till lately, owned by Gen. Ethan Allen,
of Vermont-=The Horse is the Colt of Old Figure, the most
noted Horse that has ever been imported from Europe'; he is
come of an English Mare of equal character, as his Colts in
Bennington and its vicinity, will witness.
WILLIAM GOODRICH.
N. Pasture will be provided for such as ma, require it.
Stockbridge, March 29, 1781.
""" are to not ify, those who have any demands on
X the estate of Mr. ELISHA RU ST, late of Far
mington, deceas d, to bring in their accounts to Mr.
Zebulon Frifas, on tire last Thursday of April and May
'.'^ * 0 clock in the morning, and to be attended on
6 in the evening. No accounts will be allowed unlcfs
properly attested.
SIMEON HEART, ICommif
„ D JEREMIAH GRISWOLD.) ffoners.
Those accounts not exhibited at the above times,
cannot be allowed.'
prmingtoh, March fl, 1781.
SPORTSMAN,
THE Dapple Grey HORSE (out of the famous Bar
bary Horse, Ranger) WILL COVER this season, at
the (table of Lt. William Warner, in New-Canaan. He is
so famous a Horse, he needs no description.
April ;, 1781.
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WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER.
of March, ^Anno Domini 17^
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TUESDA Y, April 10, 1781.
THERE was a general cry for the question, that sum
mary mode of terminating all d.bate, when the Hon.
Charles Fox rose up, and the House was instantly calmed.
Confid&ing thatfo much had been said in favor of the amend
ment, and so little against it, at leaA so little that was in any
degree plausible, he was aimoil ashamed to trespass on the
time and patience of the House, with urging any thing that
occured to him in support of that fide which was evidently
the strongest. The best thing that has been Lid this night,
said Mr. Fox, in favor of the address, has been said by the
Hon. Gentleman over the way (Welbore Ellis) who recom
mended it because it is something like the amendment. Ihave
no objection to congratulate his Majesty on the encreafe of
his domestic happiness. Long may his domestic enjoyments
continue, and continue to encreafe. These are the only en
joyments his Majesty pofleffes. Unfortunate in everyot her
relpe&, unfortunate abroad, and unfortunate in his civil
affairs at home. He is happy in domestic life ; kind Pro
vidence grants this enjoyment as a compensation for the
want of all others ; and on his happiness in his family I will
congratulate his Majesty sincerely.
But at the present moment of embarrassment and distress,
when the brightest jewelis torn from his diadem, when A
merica is ditteverea from the British empire, never to be re
united, when discord and civil diffentions rage among those
parts of the empire which yet remain, but which seem pre
pared for revolt ; to approach the throne with congratulato
ry addresses, is not loyalty, but cruel mockery andinfult. But
what, fays the Hon. Gentleman over the way, will you re
fufe to acknowledge with gratitude, the bleflings we enjoy
under his Majesty's government ? How long shall the sacred
shield of Majesty be interpoled for the protection of a weak
administration ? This word Majesty is a kind ofhocus pocus
word, which is turned into all shapes, and made subservient
to every legerdemain trick and illusion.
If, by the bleffin^s ofhis Majesty's government, be un
derstood his Majesty's virtues, I am ready to acknowledge
his Majesty's personal virtues with relped and with reve
rence. But if, by the blessings of his government, be un
derstood the ads and projects of his Majesty's Ministers, I
detest and reprobate them. What blessing are we called
upon to recognize in the address ? First, the happy effect of
this new Parliament, in giving his Majesty an opportunity
of knowing the sentiments of his people. To be sure, as an
Hon. Friend of mine observed, there Was no trick, no deceit
used in order to garble a new Parliament. When was this
Parliament called ? At a time when many voters, were dis
persed over the kingdom on military duty; before the har
vest was over, in the Sixth year of Lft Parliament.-—Well,
said Mr. Fox, Ministry must be co^fiftent with themfelyes
even though their inconsistency should lead to what is right.
- —ln words they disclaim the abridgment of the feptenial
Parliaments; in a&ions they approve it. I do not expea
ever to fee a feptenial Parliament die a natural death. To be
sure the sudden diffolucion of Parliament was intended to
furprize people, and give the Minister the advantage in the
general election. It did not, however, he said furprize him,
for having learned the principles of Ministry from observa
tion and experience, he knew that they would be sure to do
what was improper, and therefore he foreknew the dissolu
tion of Parliament at the time it happened. Six years ago
he had the honor to fit in that House, when the Subject of
their debate was precisely the fame thing it was this night,
viz. the justice and expediency of profecutirig the American
war. And I doubt not, said Mr. Fox, that if I should have
the honor to fit at the opening of the next Parliament, that
is, fix years hence, in this House, that the fame fubjed
would then be difeuffed.
The taking of Ticonderoga was a splendid affair; and
that too was to be followed by the molt important conse
quences. The event perpetually belyed bur sanguine pre
dictions ; yet now, with all our experience, we talk of fol
lowing up with alacrity, our late victory in Carolina. That
victory was a glorious one he readily allowed, to the General
Officers and British troops who gained it; but the glory of
This is no harsh or random prediction. I am warranted
to make it from the experience of fix years. For what have
we gained by the American war in that period ! We have
exchanged Boston for New-York, and Philadelphia, the
capital of Pennsylvania, for Charleffown, the capital of
South-Carolina. 0! but we have gained of late a most
Signal victory at Camden. General Gates and Sumpter are
routed by Lord Cornwallis and Tarleton. These victories
are but omens and forerunners of greater ones. Such were
our sanguine expectations, Mr. Fox observed, when in the
beginning of the war, the British troops defe ted the Ame
ricans on Long-Island. The success at Brandywine was to
be followed by the immediate reduction of the provinces,
and not a rebel was to be fecn in all the Continent of Ame
rica.
Parliamentary Debates, on the Address to his
M^jefy.
that victory was due to the arm, only; and the disgrace of
reducing Lord Cornwallis to that dangerous situation which
made his vi&ory so noble was the Min ifter's. The only
fruit of the reduction of Charleftown, was the dangerous
situation that led necessarily to the engagement. Tie uce fit
of that engagement was owing to the army. The affair
seemed farther alarming to Mr. Fox in another point of
|view. It was a proof thatthe majority of tie Americans was
not, as had been said, friendly to this country, but on the
contrary, rhat they were almost unanimously attached to the
cause of Congress. For no sooner did Gates appear among
the Carolinians, then those very men flocked to his Standard,
who had taken the oaths to our government, carrying along
with them the arms that had been put into their hands by our
General, which reduced the mild nature of Lord Cornwallis
to the necessity of putting them to death, justly, in Mr. Fox's
opinion, for breaking their parole or their oath. But, said
Mr. Fox, I do not contend that no advantage at all is to be
derived from the late victory ; great advantage may be
drawn from it, if we improve it wifely, and make it the
means not of protraffing the war, but of obtaining honorable
terms ts peace. Here Mr. Fox animadverted on the dodrine
that alliances were not of any great consequence. To be
sure, said he, if that doarine were true, that the fewer allies
the better^ Great-Bricain is the most flourishing nation in the
world. The reasoning of his Hon. Friend, with whom he
was sorry to differ in opinion, on the present point, from
the League of Cambray, was certainly far from being con
clusive. For Venice had been left in the circumferibed Situ
ation to which nature had limited her, according to his own
words, and such would be the fate of Britain.)
The grand alliance, in the reign of Louis XIV, of France,
had not been indeed so fuccefsful, on account, he would fay,
of the impolicy of England, as might have been expedea;
but it gave a check, a wound, to the growing power of
France : a blow from which nothing but such a Ministry as
qur's could recover it. It is common danger, and distress
that chiefly endears nations, as well aS individuals, to one
Another ; and this tie. for the present, unites the French and
Americans in the closest friendship. But if you hold out co
the Americans something that may be a separate interest,
and that may be a security to them by removing the common
danger, you dissolve the friendship.
' An Hon. Gentleman (Sir Richard Sutton) has said, conti
nued Mr. Fox, that the Americans were bound to the French'
by the obligations of gratitude. If I, said Mr: Fox, had 'faid
as much, it would have been in all the papers to-morrow or
next day, that I was a friend to American rebellion, and co
the enemies of this country. But ! approve of the freedom of
speech, said he, and this I fay only by the bye. But with
out afciibing to the Americans any extraordinary degrees of
gratitude or perfidy, and considering them merely as men,
whose condud will naturally be governed by a mixture of
both reason and passion, I think that in this manner, thef
might be detached from them, they would soon forget them,
and return to their old habits and connexions.
With regard to the principle of dis-union said to subsist be
tween the Spaniards and the French, he thought little was to
be expected from the probability of a rupture between two
nations governed by the fame family Since nearly the be
ginning of the prelent century. Mr. Fox calculated the im
mense difference of the expence at which we and our ene
mies carry on the war.
First, we are forty millions a-head of the French already,
who keep their troops at home, or in their 6wn dominions
abroad. We arc as, hundred times more expence in our
American operations, he concluded, then they are ; and we
might carry on the war with greater success by calling our
forces from America, and pouring them into the French set
tlements. As it was said in the last war, that France was
conquered in Germany; so if ever America is to be conquer
ed, it must be in France.
Mr. Fox adverted next to what had fallen from the Hon.
Gentleman (Pultncy) to w%om he acknowledged feme obli
gations, concerning the justice of carrying on a war against
America. He alledged, that according to that Gentleman's
reasoning, what was unjust in its origin, became just in its
advancement and prosecution. The Gentleman thinks now
he has got justice on his fide, he has got all—and noble fer
timents, said Mr. Fox. But does the Hon. Gentleman think
that the Americans, once driven by our injustice to afferr
their independency, ought, in justice, to relinquish that in
dependency, and to alter their eftabhshed government, and
rely on our word for the performance o c our promises ? Mr.
Fox thought it unfair to charge a man with despondency, be
cause he candidly weighed die difficulties he had to encoure
ter, and who should shut his eyes, and run blindfolded into
danger. He thought itwifdom fu fi to deliberate pn the most
likely means of success, and then to put them in execution
with vigor and expedition. The Honorable Gentleman who
moved the address, had bellowed particular commendations
on a long lift of officers.
---—Quern virum aunt herca^
Lya Tefa&Tc Juba;
(No. 845.)