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new-born empire improve in literature and arts,
must wiih to fee this property secured by law,
for the heceflary encouragement of literary pro
ductions. It is secured by statutes ip all foreign
nations, who have been celebrated for their ge
nius and improvements. An application on this
fubje& will be made at the next sessions of our
legislature, arid I have that opinion of the pub
lic spirit and natural equity of my countrymen,
that I can hardly doubt its success.
LONDON, O&ober to.
Extrafl of a letter from Faris.
" A Ta meeting held the 29th es September,
at the French Minister's, there were
present Messieurs Fitzherbert and Oswald, on
the part of Great-Britain ; Dr. Franklin and Mr.
Jay, from America ; the Count d'Aranda Am
bassador from Spain ; and M. de Bermehode
and another person from Holland : who all pro
duced their credentials from their respective
Courts, fully authorifing them to treat, and fet
tle the preliminaries of a general peace. These
ambassadors are to meet again in a few days."
Extrad of a letter from the Hague, Sept. 11,
“ On Tuesday Mr. Adams, the American
Minister, had a conference with the States Ge
neral, when the treaty of amity and commerce
between the thirteen United States of America
and this republic was signed by their High
Mightinesses.
October 12. It was yesterday confidently re
ported, that advices were received from Paris,
dated on Sunday last, which positively assert,
that the siege of Gibraltar was raised. 'Lhis im
portant intelligence was received on Thuriday
evening, by a nobleman at the welt end of the
town. The nobleman alluded to in the fore
going paragraph, is the Right Honorable the
Earl of Shelburne.
So confident was the Duc de Crihon of tak
ing Gibraltar, in consequence of the grand at
tack by sea and land, that in the last lummons
he sent General Elliot to surrender, he warned
him, that if his refinance should be obstinate,
he could not possibly answer for the impetuosity
of his soldiers, whose fury he was afraid he
should not be able to retrain, if they were dri
ven to the necessity of Itorrnmg ; the General
however, was inflexible, and Crillon s tone is
somewhat lowered since the 13th of September.
It was said yesterday with great confidence,
that Lord Keopel had resigned his office as firft
Lord of the Admiralty, and that a commission
had passed the great seal, appointing Lord Howe
his fuccefibr. It was further said, that Lord
Keppel was to officiate until the return of Lord
Howe from Gibraltar.
Oa. 13. Yesterday morning some letters
were received from Ireland, which contain an
account of the transports there having nearly
finilhed their lading of provisions, would fail for
America as soon as the convoy is ready.
The complexion of the French letters received
on Saturday, are such as place it beyond a doubt
that the court are more than ever inclined to
peace, since their late letters fromtheEaft-Inuies,
and the ill success of the Spaniards at Gibraltar.
As our court are now in the mood for peace, it
is probable they will not let an opportunity flip
of putting an end to the war.
The Count d'Artois, brother to the French
King, arrived at Paris from the siege of Gibral
tar about the eleventh of October. ?
October 1;. It is generally understood at the
weft end of the town, that the loan for the en
suing year will be proposed to the punlic ioon
after the meeting of the parliament, and that the
firg payment will be made early in the month
of January next.
The Parifrans express great astonishment at
the ideas of peace with which all, the English
papers are crowded, especially as they have no
opinion that any negotiation will take place till
the end of another campaign.
We hear Lord Cornwallis is to succeed Sir
Eyre Coote, as Commander in Chief in India,
and one of the Supreme Council at Bengal ;---
Lord Maccartney to succeed Mr. Hastings, as
Governor General ofßengal, who retires ; and
that Claude Russel, Efa; and others, will be put
in nomination as candidates for tlie Government
of Madrafs.
Every day furnishes us with frefh advices of
the melancholy effects of the violentftorm which
the Jamaica fleet met with off the Banks of
Newfoundland. Yesterday intelligence was re
ceived of the Ann, Capt. Sherrin, for London,
and the Mentor, Capt. Whitetide, for Liver
poole, having foundered ; their refpe&ive crews
were saved ; but we are sorry to find upwardsof
thirty persons periihed on board the Dutton,old
Indiaman, several df whom were officers, and
some French prisoners. Upwards of thirty fail
belonging to this fleet are unaccounted tfor,
Extrad of a letter from Plymouth, October 8
" Monday, O&. 7. The merchantmen ar
rived here from Jamaica are as follows: The
Lorfdon, the t^ley, Diana, Peter, Bellona, Bed
ford, Ashley, Prince George, Jamaica Planter,
Friendship, Lady Taylor, St. Ann's Planter,
and Britiih Hero :
The accounts brought by these (hips are truly
melancholy ; the gale of wind, the 16th ult. in
lat. 42. 50. long. 48. 33. caused a general dis
persion, and proved fatal to some of the men of
war and merchantmen. The Ramilies, Admi
ral Graves, Captain Moriatry, after having loft
all her malts, and thrown all her guns overboard
in the night, was providentially, in the morning
of the 17th of September, in this distressed con
dition, in the middle of the fortgoing merchant
men, the masters of which, at a great hazard,
saved all the crew, except those loft when the
masts aud yards went by the board. Captain
Moriatry, and 200 of the crew, are arrived here.
Just after they left the Ramilies (lie went down.
" The Centaur, 74, loft all her masts, rudder
and bowsprit, and was left under the care of the
Ville de Paris, which weathered the gale fur-'
prifingly, having only carried away a top-fail
yard , it was feared the Centaur mull be scuttled
or burnt, as her situation was very dreadful.
" The merchantmen seen to founderwere the
Rodney, Mentor, Firth,Galbora, and Dumfries,
Weft-Indiamen, and He&or East-India ilorc
fhip : Part of their crews were saved; one ship,
which foundered, had 50 paflengers, including
three families, coming to England, all of which
periled with the ship. The remainder of the
men of war were much disabled, as well as many
merchantmen.
The penfio^s of American Refugees are flop
ped, by order of his Majesty, till a new act can
be made, which will exclude those who have too
long deen undeserved objects of Great-Britain's
charity. Mr. Chancellor Pitt is to have the ar
rangement of this business.
i_ccfetp>¥ arcot. a>«rom —CT
CONSTANTINOPLE, August 28.
% " may attribute the terrible fire that hap
pened in this city, to the malefactors,
who have set fire to fix different places. From
the quarters of the Giamaja to the castle of the
Seven Towers all are reduced to ashes. We may
reckon among the other great number of houses
and palaces which have been the prey of the
flames, that of the Emperor Constantine the
Great, the Patriareal Church, the Quarters of
Soliman, where was the magnificent mosque, so
named: The street of the Armenians; almost
all the quarters of the Jews and Christians; like
wise the synagogues and churches of these nati
ons; many magnificent palaces and dwellings
belonging to the members of the Divan, and to
other persons of diftin&ion. In the Seraglio
even they have been in the greatest confufion;
and, as the flames approached, by degrees, his
highness was upon the point of departing to Pe
ra, to the palace of the Ambassador of Austria.
It is computed that above two thirds of this un
happy city exists no longer. About §coo people
have loft their lives. Many have been devoured
by the flames; others retiring into the mosques
built of Rone, where they met with a terrible
death ; for these edifices formeda kind of a heat
ed oven over them. Since that horrid hour there
have been difeovered often, combultibles kindled
to renew the misfortune, which makes the inha
bitants of Pera, who tremble for their fafety, to
keep a ftri& guard. The people are extremely
didurbed. The Turks cry.out against the Infi
dels; all are much irritated against the govern
ment; they bellow forth great threatenings a
gainst the Grand Seignior, who they declare in
capable of reigning ; which gives a profpea of
a general revolt; perhaps an entire revolution
throughout the empire.
To be Sold by the Subscriber, living on tL^ premises, a
two story House, with a Liras, a large Barn, between
;• and 40 acres of good Land, for plowing, pouring or
mowing, with an Orchard therein, about 40 rods from the
meeting-beufe on the post read, and about two miles from
the river, convenient for a cavva or tradesman, alf@ sundry
other tra&s ofwood land, pasture and meadow,
JOSHUA AUSTIN.
Lai-Haven, Dumber 33, !7@2.
WATCHES, &e.
THE fubferiber crabolden'd by the many favors hitherto
received (in his business) from an indulgent public,
and a steady set of customers in particular, begs leave to in
form the latter, ihat his rcmiflhefs has been owing wholly
tea want of health aud proper materials-.- those causes be
ing in feme measure removed, he once more felicits their
further favors. To those who have never employed him,
he would observe, that he fells and repairs Watches with
fidelity and dispatch, and warrants them durable for as rea
fonabie a fee as the cure effe&ed will admit. He has for fa'l*
a neat assortment of Furniture, confining of Chains, Seals,
Keys, &c. His brethren in thePivot way, willifthey pleafc
also observe, that he can supply them (for the ready) with
the following articles, viz. Crystals of any and every size,
to make up an aflortment, by the gross, dozen or jingle ;
Main Springs by the dozen, with a few endless screw keys,
and bobbins of Pendclum Wire. Sufficient commissions
allowed to Goldsmiths, Post Riders and others, who want a
quantity of work done. Orders forwarded ,by Ports os
otherwise, will be pun&ually attended to, and the least sa
ver gratefully acknowledged, by their humble servant to
command.
THO's. HILLDRUP, at the Poff-Office,
A few Rods South Weft ofthe State House.
Hartford, January 7, 1783.
ALL persons indebted to the fubferiber on Book or Note,
are desired to fettle and pay the fame, by the fi r ft of
March next; which may prevent their being sued at April'
Court.DANIEL GOODWIN-
Hartford, January 4, 178%.
Take Notice of the Reflve ofthe General Nffembl,
passed in October, I^2, published in the Connec
ticut Courant, No. 927.
THE Collcaors of State Trxes for the town of New Mit
ford, hereby call on the inhabitants of said town im
mediately to pa, the arrears of each of their refptdive
Rates, or expc& to pay cost ; and those persons who have
lands ia said town liable to be fold for Rates,that their lands
Till be fold at the public Sign-Puff, in laid New-Milfordjorn
the fecord Monday of&biubiy next, viz. Zalmon Bradlev
Benjamin Banks, Enoch Buckingham, Thomas Clark, Bil
led aud Mar, Clark,Nathaniel Camp, John Dibble, Francis
Fejir, Timothy Hubbel, Seth Sherwood, Jafeph Woodruff
Daniel Lym«n, Sarah Pomery, Ephraim Strong, Edward
Ailen, Samuel Clark and Andrew Barrett.
DANIEL BOST WICK, jun. ) Colledors
NOBLE HINE, ) of State
NATHANIEL TAYLOR, 3d.) Taxes.
New-Milford, Dec 2), 1782.
^V7B the fubferibers being by the Hon. Court of Probate
far the diftrid of Eaft-Wi^dfor, appointed Com
missioners to receive and examine the claims of the creditors
to the eßate of Mr. ABNER ELGAR, late of Hartford, de
ceased, reprefenttd infrlvent, do hereby give notice to laid
creditors, that we shall attend the business of our appoint
ment at the dwelling-house of Capt. DANIEL MARSH, in.
Hartford, on the second and third Tuesdays of February,and
the fourth Tuesday of July next, from Ten to Four o'Clock,
on each of said days.
JONATHAN WELLS,
DANIEL MARSH.
Hartford, January 2, 1783.
TO BE SOL D,
At PUBLIC VENDU E,
On the firft Monday of March next, at the dwelling-house
of Widow HANNAH BLODGET, in East-Windsor, north
Parish:
A good FARM of LAND,
containing 150 Acres, proper for plowing and mowing,
well wooded and watered, with a good HOUSE, BARN and
ORCHARD thereon, lying in said Eatt-Windfor, north
Parish.
SIMEON WOLCOT,
DAVID ALLIN,
HANNAH BLODGET.
Dec. 18, 1782.
——BE S 6 L D
At PUBLIC VENDU E,
On Monday, the Secondday of April next, at the fubferibers
dwelling-houfc, in East-Windsor:
Six Acres of LAN D, with
a DWELLING-HOUSE thereon, taken by execution war
rant for State Taxes.
DAVID ALLIN, Colleger of State Taxes.
Dec. 38, 1781.
Old Continental Money.
A SUM of CONTINENTAL MONEY may
be purchrfed of WILLIA M COIT, at his Store,
oppofitc the Court-House, Hartford.
;January 6. 1783.
STATE of CONNECTICUT, if.
Hartford County, December 24, 1782.
PUBLIC Notice is hereby given, That a Libel is filed be
fore the Hou. Jabez Hamlin, Bfq; judge of the Mari
time Court in aud for the county of Har ford, against a ccr-
j tain large Whale-Boat, burthen about five tons, about thir
ty-five feet keel, her fails, oars and appurtenances, laid to
be taken near Long-Island, below high-water-mark, on or
about the 21st day ofNovember last, and to have been the
property of the enemy-Said libel is filed in favor of Joshua
Griffith, commander ofthe armed boat Chatham, and his
associates, the owners ard crew ; for the hearing offaid
libel, a maritime court will be hoMen at the Conrt-Houfe
in Hartford, iv fiid county, on the second Wc^efday of
!February next, when and where all persons concurred may
[appear and be heard.
By Order ofthe Judge,
GEORGE WILLYS, Register.