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after Rockingham-died : However, Georgia Was
not saved, Charleftown possibly may be, and
New-York will be. Hence you may fee my
Creed and prophecy. Time will convince you
that I am not so ignorant as manywho will write
by this packet."
A—.Qi I c _ —■ OCTF«HO4#«WB*fo
H A R T FO R P, January (4.
Last week was killed in this town by Mr. A
mos Hinsdale, a Heifer three years and xeven
months old, and fatted only three months, that
weighed 1001 pounds and had 120 pounds or
tallow..
A late Letter from Cadiz mentions, that the
Courts of France and Spain had not abandoned
their favourite Object, the Siege of Jamaica; for
which Purpose an immense Armament was pre
paring in both Kingdoms, for Havanna and
Cape-Francois where the Squadrons under the
Command of M. de Vaudreuille and Don Solano,
it was expected, would be ready to co-operate.
JAMAICA, though more than fix Times lar
ger than Barbadoes, is not in any Degree so well
peopled ; for, though it is 140 Miles in Length,
and 60 in Breadth, the Inhabitants are only com
puted to be 25,000 Whites, and 170,000 Blacks.
It is not only the larged of all the British Weft-
India Islands, but has many natural Advantages
over them, having
70 Rivers navigable for Boats
600 Sugar Plantations
' iio Cotton Works
100 Pimento Walks
30 Ginger Plantations
Igoo Breeding Pens
600 Provision Places
150 Coffee Plantations
£ Indigo Works
136,000 Horses, Mules, and horned Cattle
From the Sugar Plantations areannually produced
90,000 Hogsheads of Sugar
30,000 Puncheons of Rum.
It lies in the 17th and 18th Degrees of North
Latitude. The Governor's Place, though the
Salary is but £.2500 per Annum., is estimated
^£.10,000.
Late European papers mention, that the
charges of Sir William Draper against Gen.
Murray go into several articles : That he allow
ed himfelf to be taken by furprize, though he
lad received abundant information of the ene
my's intentions against Minorca ; that he had
a&ed, ever after their landing, in a very un-of
ficer like manner; and that in particular, he re
trained Sir William Draper from those exerti
ons which evidently might have resisted the sur
render of the place :—That Lieutenant-Colonel
Cockburne, late Governor of the illand of St.
Luftatius, is to be tried for ignominiously sur
rendering the place to the arms of His Most
Christian Majesty.
Mess. PRINTERS,
Please to allow the following a place in your paper,
and ion will oblige at leaf one oj your readers.
'' Quid non mortalia pe&ora Cogis"
Infidelitas! Virgil.
The tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.•
King Solomon.
A More striking specimen of this truth can
not be given, than the execrable deed, per
petrated by William Beadle " Through per
fect humanity, and the most endearing fondnefs and
friendship;' he proceeded to an a&, at which, all
fondnefs and friendship, all humanity revolts.
Thst which led him to the horrid tranfa&ion,
to which I refer, was Infidelity; or as he expres
sed it, a " renouncing all the popular religions of
the world," and embracing Deism. Here then,
we have the perfect humanity and the most endear
ing fondnefs .and friend^ip of an Infidel, exhibit
ed in their genuine efFe&s; and exercised in the
most merciless, deliberate, and premeditated
butchery of the wife of his bosom, and the chil
dren of his own body.
Such is the fruit of Infidelity !—to such tragi
cal ends is its natural tendency ; and there is not
an infidel of them all, if left destitute of that di
vine restraint, which they will not acknowledge
und a&ing agreeable to their own tenets, but'
under similar circumstances, would commit a fi^
milar deed. We hence fee the danger, of con
necting with persons, whose principles will al
low them to take away our lives at any time
when divine restraints shall leave them, or the
temptations of Satan urge them to it. The in
fidel husband, murdering the wife of his Youth ;
and the infidel father imbruing his hands'in the
blood of his tender offspring ; may finely teach
us to form our connections with persons, whose
principles will, at lead, secure us from so untime
ly, and so tragical an end.
Let Infidels confider the dangerous tendency,
and extreme folly of their sentiments: for how
infinitely foolifh, even to madness, must he be,
who, merely for the fake of singularity in the
world, would take a leap in the dark, into that
Bate of being, the circumstances of which, his
own infidelity has rendered, as to himfelf, alto
gether uncertain ; when, by the belief and prac
tice of revealed religion, whether it be true or
falfe, he might, on his own principles, be sure of
a future blefled and happy existence f
BENEVOLENS.
Just opened, and to be SOLD by
PETER COLT, & Co.
At his Store lately owned by Mr. Stephen
Austin, and nearly opposite Jeremiah
Wadsworth's, Efd;
GERMAN STEEL, by the hundred or fugle bar ; white
and red Lead, by rhe hundred or pound; Salt by the
cask or single bushel; and a variety of iuperfine, middling
and low priced Broadcloths, Caffimers, Taffyties, Mar
seilles Quilting, Chintzes, Callicoes, Cambricks, Sneet
ings, Paper, Seali g Wax, red, black and white Wafers,
&c. &c. cheap for Cash or country Produce.
Hartford, January 14, -178,.
— n^erß r-OrE, A T
Beardsley's & Hopkins's Store,
HARTFORD:
A small aiTortment of European GOODS,
consisting of
BROADCLOTHS, with trimmings compteat for Gentle
mens wear.'
Silks of various colours, and beautiful Chintzes for Ladies.
Linens, Silk Handkerc' i fs, &c. Also,
Best Nantz Brandy, per cask or gallon#
Seven b, nine Glass, per box or retail.
Coarse and fine Salt, per cask of dittos
Sugar, per hundred weight.
Copperas, per ditto.
Bar-Iron, American Steel, &c.
A few barrels of excellent Tanners Oil.
CASH will be given at said Store, or any of the above ar
ticles, for good Flour in Casks, Rye or Indian Corn.
January 14, 1783.
~T O ITE SOL D,
At Public Vendue,
THE last MONDAY in January inst. at xo o' clock, P.
M. at the house of Mr. Jonathan Elsworth, in Wind
far, one piece of LAND containing :6 acres, and one do.
containing 2 and half acres, belonging co the estate of Sa
muel Coy, late deceased, lying in the north part of North-
Windsor. Agood title will be given by
SETH DEXTER, Administrator.
Windsor, Jan. 7, 1783.
BROKE into cue inch-lure ot cue Subscriber on or about
the 25th of Nov. last, a dark sorrel MARE, about 14
or 15 years old, with two white spots on her breast about
the bigness of a copper, blind on the near fide, branded on
the off thigh with a dim letter, supposed to be M. a natural
pacer, about 13 or i4bands high. The owner is desired to
pay charges and take her away.
MOSES DIBOL.
Simfbury, Jan. 6, 1783.
ALL Per Tons that have been indebted to ME from SB?
VEN to TWENTY YEARS, are requeued to come and
fettle : otherways they will be sued by their old friend and
servant,
MATTHEW TALLCOTT-
Middletown, January 13, 1783.
OBSERVING yesterdays paper, to my great furprize I
found myfelf advertised by him who ought co have
been my friend and husband ; who forbids all persons trust
ing me on his account, which I can fafely fay they never
did nor never will, until he behaves better than he does at
present— but he tells what he is afraid of, &c. But one sto
ry is good till another is told ; the truth of the matter is
this: It was my misfortune to marry Martin Wilcocks
better than two years ago ; for some time after we was
married he provided a place for us to live, and we lived
comfortably together for a few months, although he was
considerable in debt, yet I was willing to do every thing in
my power to help him out; and for that reason I fold eve
ry thing I eould possibly spare, and even rob'd myfelf of
eloathing to pay his debts, in hopes to live always happy
together.—But it was not long before he enlisted to go in
the Rate service for the town, and took a considerable sum
ofmoncy for bounty, which he was very careful notto let
me have one farthing of. After (pending considerable
part of the money, he deferred and went into Massachusetts
hate, and has left me for this 18 months without providing
bread, meat or cloatbing, or any shelter to put my head in,
with an infant child to take ca:e of, and nothing to take
care of it with; without a friend, relation or acquaintance:
As I was a Stranger in these parts, I h^ve endured hunger
and cold and every thing that is possible for me to undergo
short of death, without any body to pity me or take m;
part. Finally he has rob'd me of my child, the only com
fort of my life, after I have taken so much pains with it
and undergone every thing to support it; confiderirg the
matter, it appeared to me so cruel, that I talked unbeco
mingly and tinfuliy ; for which I ask forgivenefs of God
and all chriltbn people; and leave it t o the world to judge
betwixt us, as I was always willing to live with him and be
have to him as well as knew how.
, , „ MARY VILCOCKS.
Ne ^Hartfeid, January iff, 17?3.
TO BE S O L D,
(At a reasonable Price)
By M. DEST. PHILLI P,
At his Store in Hartford:
A quantity of Rice, per cwt.
French Salt, per bushel; anda large quantity of empty Bags;
WE the Subferibers being appointed Corrimiffioners by
the Hon. Court of Probate, for the diftrid of East-
Windsor, to receive and examine the claims of the Credi
tors to the estate of Capt. Stephen Buckland, late of Hart
ford, deceased, represented insolvent, do hereby give no«
tice, that we will attend on said business at the dwelling
houfe of the Widow Mary Buckland, in Eaft-Hartford, on
the firft and third Mondays of February next, and the firft
Monday in March next, from one o'clock in the afternoon
untill fix. JOEL LOOMES,
ABRAHAM MILLER, Com missioners.
Hartford, Jan. 14, 1783,
WE the Subferibers being appointed Commissioners b,
the Hon. Court of Probate, for the diftria of Raft-
Windsor, to receive and ex amine the claims of the creditors
to the estate of ELIPHALET ROBERTS, late of Hartford,
deceased, represented insolvent, do hereby give Notice, that
we will attend the said business at the dwelling-house of
Capt. GIDEON OLMSTED, in Eaft-Hartford, on the firft
second and third Thursdays of February next, from One
o'clock, m the afternoon, until Six.
JONATHAN STANLEY,
ABRAHAM MILLER.
_!_£d' J a "° a 7 9> 1783 Q
Now Collecting, and will be published as
soon as the nature of the work will admit, &
Compleat Sett of
Psalm Tunes, Hymns and Anthems.
GREAT part never as yet published ; together with art
explanation of the rules of Mhfick: The whole tor
make up nearly one hundred pages, which will contain all
metres, all airs, and all forts of time proper for Church
Mufick, by the publick's humble servant,
OLIVER BROWNSON.
N. E. The whole to be neatly engraved on Copper-1
Plate, the Engraver being now at work. All authors will
have credit for their mufick, and the time set according to
their copies.
Take Notice of the Resolve of the General Affemblp
paffedin October, I^2, published in the Connect
ticut Courant, No. 927.
THE Collectors of State Taxes for the town of New-Mil-*
ford, hereby call on the inhabitants of said town im
mediately to pay the arrears of each of their refpe&iye
Rates, or cxpe& to pay cost , and those persons who have
lands in said town liable to be fold for Rates,that their lands
will be fold at the public Sign-Post, in laid New-Milford,ora
the second Monday ofFebruary next, viz. Zalmon Bradleys
Benjamin Banks, Enoch Buckingham, Thomas Clark, Bil
len and Mary Clark,Nathaniel Camp, John Dibble, Francis
Fenn, Timothy Hubbel, Seth Sherwood, Joseph Woodruff;
Daniel Lyman, Sarah Pomery, Ephraim Strong, Edwardi
Allen, Samuel Clark and Andrew Barrett.
DANIEL BOST WICK, jun. ) Colle&ors
NOBLE HINE, ) of State
NATHANIEL TAYLOR, 3d.) Taxes.
New-Milford, Dec. 25, 1782.
WE the lublcrioers being by the Hon. Court ot Probate
for the diftria of East-Windsor, appointed Com
mitfioners to receive and examine the claims of the creditors
to the estate of Mr. ABNER ELGAR, late of Hartford, de
ceased, represented insolvent, do hereby give noticeto laid
creditors, that we shall attend the business of our appoint
ment at the dwelling-haufe of Capt. DANIEL MARSH, infy
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.
Old Continental Money.
A SUM of CONTINENTAL MONEY ma,
be purchased of WILLIAM COIT, athis Store,
opposite the Court-House, Hartford.
JUST PUBLISHED,
And now Selling by the Printers hereof,
REGULATIONS.
FORTHE'
Order and Discipline
OFTHE
Troops of the United States.
(Adorned with eight elegant Copper Plates.)
BROKE into the inclofure of the subfcrite;-in"d&ob?r
last, a Mare COLT, two years old pall, of a dark co
lour. The owner is desired to pa, charges and take hec
aw %,. JOHN PETTIBONE.
Simfbur,, January 4, 1783.
ALL persons indebted to the lubferiber on Book or NooT
are desired to fettle and pay the fame, by the firft of
March next; which may prevent their being sued at April
Court. DANIEL GOODWIN.
Hartford, January 4, 1782.
CASH given for clean Cotton
and Linen Rags, coarse or fine,
byCapt. Miles Beach, of Litch
field.