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NOTICE is hereby given, that a Commodious Building
is preparing in Lebanon-Crank, for a Grammar Scnool,
and will be improved soon ; laid school is already opened,
and inftru&ed by a Gentleman recommended and approved
by the Rev. Dr. Stiles, President of Yale College, in New-
Haven.---Gentlemen who are defrous offending their sons
to said school, shall have good accommodations, their board
and tuition will be reafonable,and the ftri&eft attention paid
totheir morals ; the Greek and Latin languages, together
with the various branches of Geography, Logick, Methema
ticks. Trigonometry, Plainfailing, Surveying, Writing and
Reading, are taught in said school.
ASAHEL CLARK, jun.
Lebanon, November 5, 1782,
THE Colledors of the State and Town taxes for the town
of Harwinton, hereby give notice, that chafe persons
who have lands in said town, liable to be fold for rates, will
have their lands fold at the sign post in said Harwinton, on
the third Monday of January next, if they negled to pay
their refpedive rates, viz. Charles Williams, Jofeph,Smith,
Thomas Doolittle, and Joseph Luddington, also the late
dwelling house of Jacob Benton.
THOMAS SKINNER, )
JOHN FRISBEE, ) Collegers.
JACOB HINSDALE, )
Harwinton, Nov. 6, 1782.
ALL persons that have an, demands on the estate of
JOHN WEBSTER, late of Glaltenbury, deceased, are
desired to bring in their accounts to us the fubfetibers, at the
dwelling house of the deceased, who will attend on said bu
siness the third and fourth Tuesdays in November, and the
firft and second Tnefdays in December next, from one o'-
clock in the afternoon until nine—all perlons that are in
debted to said estate, are desired to make immediate pay
ment. '
STEPHEN TREET, ) Admini-
ELIZABETH WEBSTER, ) ftrators.
Glaftenbury, Odober „, 1782.
T O A E $ 0 △ 1),
For Cash or short Credit,
THE House, Barn and Lott, in this town, where Mr. Jo
nathan Huntington now lives, there is about five rods
of good Land, with a small Orchard on it, within seventy or
eighty rods of the town bridge, and is very convenient for a
tradefman—for further particulars enquire of Col. Seymour,
who will procure a good title to the purchaser.
Hartford, November 12, 1782.
STRAYED or Stolen from the fubferiber, on the 12th inst.
a Black HORSE, near 14 hands high, a liar in bis fore
head, his hind feet white above his footlocks, shod before
with a pair of new shoes Whoever will take up said
Hoife, or fend word where he may be found, shall receive a
reasonable rewardand all necessary charges paid, by
NATHAN BARNES.
Southington, Odobcr „, 1782.
Y'n'o C U-L~Tf I 0 N.
THE fubferiber has liberty from authority to inoculate
for the Small Pox, and has built a hospital on the molt
beautiful eminence the town affords, where he has good ac
commodation and will pay ftri& attention to hispatients.—
Any gentlemen or ladies, inclining to rake the small pox,
shall be waited on by their humble Servant,
JOHN COLEMAN.
Glaftenbury, Nov, 4, 1782, ____
THE Collectors of the State, Town and Society Taxes, for
the town of New-Hartford, hereby warn the inhabi
tants of said town, to pay their refpeftive rates immediately,
or expe& cost ; thafe persons who have lands in laid town,
liable to be fold for rates, will have their lands fold at the
sign post in said New-Hartford, on the 15th day of January
next, if they negled to pay their refpe&ive rates til! that
time, viz. Levi Austin, Benjamin Bartholomew, Mary Burt,
Joseph Bigelow, Elisha Bigelow, David Coe, Jesse Doolittle,
Thoman Goodman, Asher Henman, David Mills, James
Merrell, Isaac Marsh, Thomas Merrell, Daniel Phelps, Ti
mothy Skinner's heirs, Hozias Taylor, Jonathan Humphrey;
Daniel Elmer's heits, Joseph Wells, Samuel Galpin, Jolin
Barnard, George Barnard, Jonathan Hills, Levi Kely, Dani
el Collyer's heirs, Sarah Richards, Seth Meacbim, Icabod
Wells, Joseph Meekins's heirs, Jonathan Lowring, Samuel
Marsh, Nehemiah Buß'shtirs, John White, Joseph Messen
ger, Johann&h Smith's heirs, Jonathan Hill's heirs, Isaac
Sheldon, Wiliam Baker, Elijah Andras's heirs.
JOSEPH MERRELL, ROGER SHELDON, )
JAMES STFEL JON. MARSH, 3d. )C<4lec-
ISAAC STEEL, PHINEHAS MERRELL, ) tors.
MOSES KELLOG.)
New-Hartford, Odobcr 25, 1784,
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HA R TFO RD: Printed by H U DSON and G6O D T Y IN, near the Great Bridge!
TU E S D A Y, NovEMBER 12, 1782.
NEW-YORK, October 23.
Further advices by the Swallow Packet.
COPENHAGEN, July 27.
WEDNESDAY last the Ruffian fleet of to
ships of the line and 4 frigates, under the
command of Vice Admirals Touchitchagoff and
Kruse, arrived in our road; and it seems that
they will anchor here some days.
LONDON Aug. 9. The Cabinet are said to
be at present so much divided, that very few of
these confidental servants of the Crown attend ;
and the whole of the government of the country
is executed under the sole direction of the Earl
of Shelburne. <
Count de Graffe, Count de Siben, Viscount
de Grofe, and other French officers, prisoners
in this county, all dressed in the full uniform in
the French service, with swords and cockades,
were at Court yesterday. They were received
with great and peculiar diftinaion, and the
Count difeourfed for a long time with his Ma
jesty.
Our readers may rest assured that Mr. Fitz
herbert, the British resident at Brufl'els, has been
appointed to succeed Mr. Grenville, as the pa
cific negociator at Paris. He left Brussels im
mediately on the appointment of Lord Temple;
to the Lieutenancy when Mr. Granville was re
called; and several dispatches have passed be
tween him and the Minister since his residence
in France. Mr. Potter, the King's meTenger,
was sent with the last advices to him from this
country on Monday last. The appointment of
Sir Joseph Yorke to this employment, has never
been so repeatedly and positively asserted in the
public papers. It is said Lord Torrington is
ap,ointed locum tenens to Mr. Fitzherbert, at
Brussels, but that arrangement we underhand is
not yet finally adjusted.
August 17. On'Saturday came on at the cas
tle at Winehefter the trial of Mr. David Tyrie,
of Gofport, for holding a treasonable correspon
dence with the French Ministry. The trial be
;gan at 12 o'clock at noon, and lifted till near
eight o'clock at night, when he was upon the
cleared evidence convicted of the offence, and
received sentence to be executed at Portfmoctb,
on the 24 instant. He is to be drawn upon a
hurdle to the place of execution, and to be quar
tered, as in cases of high treason. A great num
ber of papers were produced in the Hind-writing
of the prisoner by a woman he lived with, which
had been depofired with a gentlewoman, who
^delivered them up to Government ; and a pac
ket was intercepted which he had delivered to
the Captainof a fwift failing vessel to carryeither
to Bolongne or Cherbourg, which ever port he
could best make, to be delivered to the Com
mandant to be forwarded with all difoach to the
Minister of the Marine at Paris. The papers
contained accurate accounts of all the navy of
Great-Britain, both in and out of commission;
a copy from the weekly returns to the Navy-Of
fice, from the several dock-yards, of the pro
gress made in the buildingand repairing the Roy
al navy; authentic accounts of the deitination
of our fleets and cruizefs ; a prcpofal to furnifh
the French Ministry for the sum of 7001. with
our signals ; a plan for obtaining intelligence
from all the boards and offices of Government
by bribing a cl< rk in each oiFice, with the exa&
sum requisite to acccmplifh such corruption, and
a propofol to affix spies at Portsmouth and Ply
mouth to obtain intelligence of the opperations
of our fleets. He appears to be a molt artful,
iindefatigable and enterprizing man. During
the trial he wrote a great number of notes to his
Council of questions which he wished to have
put to the witnesses, and was astonishingly col
le&ed in his mind throughout the trial. ' After
conviction, when he was asked by the Clerk of
Arraigns what he had to fay why Sentence of
death should not be pronounced against him, he
replied "he did not suppose any thing he could
fay would avail him, but he had a hope beyond
the grave, and he difpifed the malice of his ene
mies." He is alikely man, aboutgo years of age,
and was born at Leith in Scotland.
Extract of a letter from Portsmouth, August 19J
“ We have now at Spithead 26 fail of the line,
and at St. Helen's two, and in the harbour nine,
making in the whole 37 fail of the line; when,
the ships from the River, &c. join, we reckon we
shall have 38 fail of the line, exclusive of eight for
the North Seas."
The rental of England and Wales amounts to
24,000,0001. is. in the pound, on which is 1,200,
pool, a sum that would build 120 74 gun ships,
in other words, more than double the navy of
England. Ibis shews the immense resources
which are still in the power of this country, pro
vided the patriotism of the people is really put
on its mettle, by a ministry in whom they can
have confidence.
It is said, that a negociatibn for a treaty, of
fenfive and defenfive with Russia, is now and
has been on the tapis ever since Lord Shelburne
became premier. It was proposed on our part
that Russia should receive a subsidy of 1 100 oool
from England, and that for this the should en
gage to furnifh us with 20 fail of the line com
pletely manned ; the Court of London pledged
itfelf to undertake an expedition against Minor
ca, which, when conquered, should be given up
to Russia to hold as a fief of the crown of Eng
land.
On Wednesday night, or early in the morning
of yesterday, one of the most singular attempts
was made to obtain the secret tranfaftions of our
Privy Council ever recorded in the history of
Britain. An extraordinary council being held
on Wednesday relative to American affairs, the;
papers were arranged in proper order by the
official clerks, after the members had left the
chamber; but on its being opened yesterday,
the whole appeared a perted: chaos, some per
son having, during the night, found admission,
and, as it is supposed, with an intent to infpe&
or carry off the minutes ofthe day. Lord Cam
den however, having carried them Lome, the
scheme was happily defeated ; and it is to be
hoped that such effectual means will be taken
in future, as to prevent a like attempt from be
ing carried into execution.
lug"/! 224 We arc informed that the Parlia
ment will meet early in the month of November
for the dispatch of business.
E x traa of a letter from Patts, August 3.
" A few days since the eldest son of Admiral
Comte de Graffe, an amiable character, and art
officer in the King's guards, who in the course
of eight days faught as many duels with the tra
ducers of his father's honor, unable to bear up
any longer against the popular indignation that
increased againk him, put an end to his existence
by a coup de p'tfolet.
,"g^ 2 4- Forty-two transports and ftore
fhips are going out to Gibraltar with the fleet,
exclusive of other veflels taken upon freight for
the passage out, four of which are to be fitted up
to be employed as gun boats after the delivery
of their cargoes.
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