The Connecticut courant, and the weekly intelligencer — Hartford [Conn.], 1783-10-14 00:00:00, page 3

PHILADELPHI A, September 27.
By the fliip Commerce, Capt. Truxton, arrived here
on Wednesday last, in fix weeks from London,
we have received the following advices.
L O N DO N, August i.
THE accommodation which has been attempt
ed between the Ruffians and Turks, is parti
cularly obltrufled by the cham of Crimea having
surrendered his dominions to the empress, and reti
red to Russia, where he lives in a private character.
That cham is obliged to bring out 150,000 men in
to the field, when the seignior goes to war. The
loss of these would have been materially felt by the
Turks, as the Crim Tartars were the best of their
troops.
A report prevails in the city, that the grand seignior
has consented to secure to the French an exclusive
right to certain commercial advantages, for a stipula
ted term, by way of compensation of losses that may
be sustained by taking a decided part with him a
gainff the empress of Russia.
The court of Versailles have determined to pay off
no shipwrights, but to keep the full complement of
men constantly employed on ships of the line, that
the peace may strengthen their navy as much as
possible.
A letter from Brest, lately received, fays, that
sailors are drawn from every part ofthe kingdam to
that port, to man such ships as are ready for sea;
and that it is given out the intent of fitting out the
fleet is to watch the motions of the Ruffians and the
Turks, in case a war breaks out between those two
powers; but others conjecture that there is some
other motive for fitting out a fleet.
Comtede Vergenneshas chosen for his ambassador
to Constantinople, one of the ablest men in France,
monsieur de Connaire, who carries over such proofs
ofthe King of France's determination to support the
grand, seignior, as give spirit to the whole Forte.
Plans have been laid in Turkey, for communica
ting the plague to the Ruffian and Austrian armies,
and also their capitals.
Every thing bears the appearance of war being re
newed again n ext spring: but it is said that neither
Spain nor America will be in the contest. The
French and Dutch are to be the only opponents to
Great- Britain.
There are two rendezvous houses now opened for
entering seamen, one in Tooley street, the other in
Wapping; and some others are preparing to be
opened for different ships wanting seamen.
Fxtra& of a letter from Portsmouth, August 4.
" The face of affairs are considerably changed
here ; every thing bears the appearance of war, and
as much diligence is used in every department as if
we were at the eve of one already. Twelve ships
of the line from the ordinary are ordered to be got
ready for commiflions, among which are the three
now in dock, which are finishing with all expedition.
" All the guardihips are ordered to ratie their
crews to the full complement, as in time of war."
The following is as near as can be collected the
true reason of further delay to the signing of the de
finitive treaties : The 4th of last month was appoint
ed for signing, anda general exchange ofthe several
treaties at Paris, and inftruftions were sent to the
British Ambassador on that head. Two days, how
ever, before the time fixed, an account arrived of the
capture of New-Providence and the Bahama inlands,
which determined the British Ministers to flop the
treaty with Spain, unless that article which refpe&ed
the giving up the province of East-Florida for the
Bahama islands was either erased or palliated in a
particular manner. It was the morning of the day
on which the last hands were to be put to the trea
ties,before the courier from London arrived with
his dispatches in Paris. The Duke of Manchester
was gone to meet the other Ministers, and had the
packet delivered to him only one hour before it is
probable the whole would have been finifhed. On
a discovery of this, with refpe& to Spain, all the
other powers demurred. An express sent to Ma
drid ; another courier returned, whose dispatches
contained directions to his Catholic Majesty's Envoy
to postpone proceeding till it should be inquired if
New-Providence was taken within the time fpecifi
ed for hostilities ceasing. On this rests the delay
of the treaties, and hence the other powers charge
our Ministers with being the cause of this delay;
but it is such a step as must convince the nation
how averse Administration are to giving up any
thing that can be saved to this country.
NE W- YO RK, October r.
On Sunday last arrived the Portland Pacquet, Capt.
Anson, in 47 Days from Falmouth From private
Letters, received by the Portland Packet, we have
extracted the following Intelligence :
Five English packets are Rationed in future to pass
in constant succession from Falmouth to New-Aork:
And the Ministry of France have also established
five packets to fail in continued rotation from Port
L'Orient, near Bred, to our aforefaid port of New-
York ; and HeCtor St. John, Esq ; of Goihen, in
Orange County, is appointed to rehde in this city,
as Consul to His Most Christian Majesty, and alio
to superintend the five French packets; the whole
profits of which, and a salary of twenty-four thou
sand livres a year, are fettled on this gentleman.
Captain Anson, with the August ^ail, left bal
mouth in company with the Cartaret Packet, (and
the July dispatches) commanded by Captain New
man ; the former carried another mail of dispatches
to Madeira, and last Thursday fpokea Dutch brig
for Philadelphia, 12 weeks and 4 days from off the
Start Point, the master of which told him, that his
Excellency Mynheer Van Berkel, Ambassador from
the States General of Holland to the United States
of America, was on board, which, if real, contra
di&s an expectation of the Hercules man- of war of
sixty guns being appointed for his Excellency and
suite. Captain Anson also fpbke on Friday the
Shooner Sally, Captain Joseph Afhbridge, from Phi
ladelphia to Jamaica, which on the icth September
overfet, cut away her masts, and under Jury masts
was returning to Philadelphia.
Letters from England, of the 6th of August, men
tion, that General Leslie, is appointed Second in
command to his Grace the Duke of Argyle; and A
lexander Ross, Esq; lately Major of Brigade to Earl
Cornwallis, Adjutant General in Scotland.—lt # is
universally believed, that a generous compensation
will certainly be granted to the fuffering Loyalists,
none of whom will be allowed to partake who shall
remain within the realm of the United States of A
merica, and that the gentlemen and their families,
under that difcription, now resident in England, are
to remove next summer to Nova-Scotia ; the aggran
dizement of which country, is become a principle
object of Government's attention.
His Excellency Brigadier General Fox, Comman
der in Chief of his Majesty's troops in Nova-Scotia,
is appointed to be Governor General of that pro
vince.—lt is said that East-Florida is not to be e
vacuated, but reinforced by a number of British
troops, in consequence of some arrangements with
the Court of Spain, and that several other cefhons
will be made for the mutual accommodation of both
kingdoms.---Sir Eyre Coote, from a very bad Rate
of health is happily recovered and returning to Mad
ras.—William Mollefon, Esq; is appointed to be
Comptroller of the army accompts, vice Henry Bun
bury, Esq.—Captain Peter Tytler ofthe Both regt,
is married to Miss Isabella Erskine, youngest daugh
ter of the Hon. David Erskine, Esq ; of Alva,
one of the senators of the college of justice.---The
Hon. Lieut. Col. Ramfay,late ofthe Sects Fufileers,
is dead.—The Hon. Captain Elphinftone attends bis
Royal Highness Prince William Henry on his tra
vels—lt is expected that Parliament will meet again
early in the month of November ; such seems to be
the determination of the Cabinet.—Mr. Bembridge
of the pay office has been tried before Earl Manf
field, and found guilty of conniving of the conceal
ment of certain items in the account chargable to a
late Paymaster-General of the forces, to the amount
of 48,091. 10s. and a fraction.—The Hon. Captain
Keith Elphinftone is appointed Chamberlain to his
Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.---The reduc
tion of the Marines is decided upon to consist of Se
venty companies only.-— Lord Chatham is married
to Miss Townfhend,_ daughter to Lord Sydney.—
The Parliament or Ireland is difioivcd, and a new
one summoned to meet on the 6th of September.---
It is said that one principal cause which has prevent
ed the signing of the definitive treaty, is some high
demands of the armed neutrality, which militates
much against the commercial interest of Great-Bri
tain.—Ministers so seriously expect a renewal' of the
war, that they wish to get rid of America in the moil
decent manner, as a preparatory meafufe to engage
the House of Bourbon, on terms of more probable
funcefs.—His Royal Highness Prince William Hen
ry embarked on the 26th of July, for Stade in Ger
many to make the tour of Europe, remain two years
on the continent, and when he returns to England,
his Royal Highness will be appointed a Lieutenant.
---Christopher Atkinson, Esq; Member of Parlia
ment for Heydon in Yorkfliire, the great contractor
for Government, has been on trial found guilty of
perjury ; but the sentence of the court was postpon
ed to a future day.—Colonel Watson of the guards,
lately serving in America, is lately Married to Miss
Crow, of Lower Grosvenor-street ; also, Major Bru
en, lately Deputy Qnater Master General in New
York, to Miss Ann Morris, eldest daughter to Roger
Morris, Esq ; of that city—and the celebrated Gene
ral Lloyd, heretofore in the Austrian service, author
of two quarto volumes of military operations, is
dead.
October 8.
'We feel extreme concern in acquainting the pub
lic, with the loss of one of the Transports, which
lately failed from hence for Nova-Scotia.—We hear
the Commander, and no mere than seventeen, were
preserved out of near three hundred lives. The ca
tastrophe happened on Gannet Rock, off Cape Sable,
which lies at the Northern entrance of the Bay of
Fundy.
PHILADELPHI A, Odober 1.
Since our last arrived here the ihip Commerce,
Capt. Truxton, in a short passage from London.
When she left Europe, the definitive treaty was not
signed ; and there was much talk of an approaching
rupture between the Ruffians and Turks : But the
accounts in the London papers of these events are
so uncertain and contradictory, that it is evident
they are ignorant of the real state of matters ; and
therefore we shall not trouble our readers with their
idle conjectures.
At a general court martial, held near this city, for
the trial of sundry persons accused of being con
cerned in the late disturbance among amumber of
soldiers of the Pennsylvania line, Christian Nagle
and John Moraifon, late ferjeants in the 3d Pennsyl
vania regiment, were convicted of a breach of the
WHOLESALE and R ETAI L.
Just opened, by A SHBEL WELL S, junl
At his Crockery and Glass Ware Store,
A beautiful assortment of
China, Pencel'd, Enemel'd, Delph
and Queen's Ware. A large assortment of Glass,
together with a variety of WINES, Spirits, Rum,
Brandy, Geneva, Loaf and Brown Sugar, &c. &c.
cheap for Cash or Produce in hand.
Hartford, October 13, 1783.
To be Sold at the Au&ion Room
in Hartford, on Tuesday the 21st instant, at 2 o'clock
in the Afternoon, a large quantity of Dry Goods.
Also, a quantity of Brandy, Rum and Geneva in
Barrels.
*, Public Auction every Tuesday and Friday.
Drugs and Medicines.
THE fubferibcr does himfelf the pleasure to acquaint his good
customers and others, that he has just received, at his Shop
next door to the Printing-Office in Hartford, a fresh supply of
DRUGS and MEDICINES, imported in the latest Vessels fiom.
Europe. He has also Madeira, Teneriffe, Port, Malaga and other
Wines, Jamaica Spirits, Vest-India and New-England Rum,
French Brandy, best Holland Geneva in Cases and Kegs, Mo
lasses, Tea, Pepper, Allspice, Corks, Junk Bottles, Lemons;
Radius, Coperas, Allum, Logwood, Redwood, Madder, Otter,
Oil Vitriol, Paints of different kinds, best Spanish White, Spirits
of Turpentine, &c. &c. which articles he is read, to difpofc of
at the most reasonable prices, for Cash or Produce.
JOSEPH LYNDE.
O&ober 13, 1783.
STOLEN from the fubfeiber on the 6th instant, a HORSE
of the spotted breed, about io years old, about 14 hands
high, no shoes on, paces square, fraall tail, he had a notch in his
maae wore off with a collar, has a fear made with a cork of
another horse, on the fore fide of two of his legs close down to
his hoof, final! eyes. Whoever shall take up the thief and horse
and secure the fame shall have Eight Dollars reward, or Fouc
Dollars for the Horfc only, and necessary charges paid, br
WILLIAM GOODWIN.
Hartford, Odober 8, 1783.
third article of the second fe&ion of the articles of
war, and were accordingly sentenced to fuffer death ;
and John Lilly, Abner Vanhorn, Thoman Flowers
and William Carman, were also convifled of a
breach of the said articles and sentenced to receiver
corporal punishment. Nagle and Morrison were
accordingly on the 22d instant led out to be execut
ed; but as Congress had been graciously pleased to
pardon the offences of all the above criminals, the
two unhappy men received this most agreeable news
at the awful moment when they expected to be
launched into eternity.
B OSTO N, Oaober 9.
We have an account from London of August 10th,
via New-York, that there was then in the British
channel a large fleet of men of war, consisting of
Dutch, Spanish and English : Various conjectures
had arisen of their design, but no particular object
could be fixed upon : Time alone must produce the
result of such an unexpected manoeuvre.
H A RTFOR D, October 14.
At the public Commencement held at Princeton
in New-Jersey, on the 24th ult. the degree of Doc
tor in Divinity was conferred on the Rev Elizur
Goodrich, of Durham, in this State, one of the
Corporation of Yale-College.
A London paper of the sth of August, announces
the arrival there of Mr. Adams, who will appear at
St. James's, in his ministerial capacity, after the
ratification of peace,—That Dr. Franklin is prepar
ing to leave Paris to return to America; he will be
succeeded in his public capacity, by Mr. Laurens.
Died at Windham on Thursday fe'nnight, Na
thaniel Wales, Esq. of that town.
Died last Tuesday fe'nnight, at Winchester, the
amiable consort of Dr. Josiah Everitt, in the 30th
year of her age.
Stage Waggons.
THE subscribers having furnished themselves with convenient
Stage Waggons, propose to set off from Hartford, on Mon
day the 20th of O&iber instant at 11 o'clock, and arrive at Levi
Peafe's, Somers, at night -From thence to Rice's Tavern;
Brookfield,Tuefday night---From thence to Martin's, Northbu
ry, Wednesday night—From thence to the Sign of the Lamb ire
BAon, on Thursday evening. The Stage will leave Boston on
Monday morning at fix o'clock, and stop at the aforementioned
places, and reach Hartford on Thursday at 120'clock. A Stage
will set off for New-Haven on Friday, and return on Satur
day. The price will be Four Pence per mile forever, Pas
senger, including 14 lb. Ba gage, and the fame pricefor eve
ry 150 lb. The greatest attention will be paid to thePaffen^
gers, by the public's humble servants,
LEVI PEASE,
REUBEN SIKES, jun. l
October 14, 1783.
Dilworth's Spelling Books,
(At Ten Shillings per Dozen)
To be Sold by the Printers hereof.
Mess. P RINTER S,
lOBSERVEI OBSERVE in your Paper of this day,an Advertisement fign~
ed Jonathan Phillips, Agent for the Artificers of Col. Bald
win's Regiment, to meet at Mr. Jtffe Austin's Tavern. This I
desire you to insert in your next paper, to inform Mr. Phillips,
and the pul he in general, that the said Mr. Jesse Austin is not a
Tavern-Keeper, nor hath he been either appointed or licenced
to keep a public house for seven years last past, and that there
is no licenced Tavern-Keeper in this town but Maj. Samuel
Camp and myfelf.'
ELNATHAN CAMP, Tavern -Keeper.
Durham, O^ober 7, 1783.