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PHILADELPHIA, Septemberq.
By the United States in Congress
assembled, August 12, 1782.
Resolved, That C^ngrefs approve the conduct
of General Washington in refuting to enter into
any difcullion with General Carleton; on the
fubje& of the treason laws passed by the several
tates
Resolved, That the States of America which
compose the union, being sovereign and inde
pendent, the laws refpeaively passed by them
for their internal government and the punish
ment of their offending citizens, cannot be sub
mitted to the difcullion,of any foreign power,
much less of an enemy."
It is now many months since Captain Huddy
was murdered in a most barbarous manner, and
no retaliation has yet taken place. We are in
formed Congress and General Wafhington,to6k
up this affair about the fame time, but the latter
had demanded Captain Lippencut of General
Clinton before the dispatches of Congress reach
ed him. While Sir Harry remained at New-
York nothing was done ; on his departure the
command devolved on Sir Guy Carleton, —a
frefh demand was made, with threats of imme
diate retaliation on a prisoner of equal rank, and
Captain Afgil of the British guards was fele&ed
as the equivalent. This induced Sir Guy to set
on foot an enquiry. Lippencut was brought be
fore a court-martial, but he objected to their
jurisdiction, and claimed the right of a British
fubje& to be tried before his equals, and in the
county where the sass was committed. Hisplea
was overruled. Even Smith, the nominal chief
justice, and Kemp, the pretended attorney gene
ral, declared for the competency of the court
military, because Monmouth county in New-
Jersey was possessed by rebels, and because the
courts of common law in New-jersey were not
open; of course military law must of necessity
inteTpofe, to prevent the failure of justice. The
court martial finding their own ideas thus Cup
ported proceeded on the trial, and Lippencut,
who belonged to the refugee associators proves a
verbal order from Governor Franklin, president
of the board, Dan. Cox and Mr. R. Alexander,
members of the board, to hang the unfortunate
Huddy. The court martial upon this evidence
acquits Lippencut. Sir Guy Carleton after 3
months fends out transcripts of the proceedings,
evidence, &c. to General Washington, declar
ing his abhorrence of the detestable murder of
Captain Huddy, and determination to make far
ther investigations, let them affeCt who they
may ; but at the fame time fuffers Governor
Franklin to go in the packet for England.
CHATHA M, September 4
The fallowing is an extrad from Sir Guy Carleton's ge
neral orders, issued the 24th ult. at New-York.—“ It is
recommended to the officers to dismember themfelvesof all
unneceflary baggage and horses, as conveyance will only
be allowed for a very small proportion of camp equipage
by land or water."
A late New-York paper announces the arrival of 2000
Hessians at Halifax, from Germany, who were defined for
New-York, but hearingofM Vaudreuil's squadron beingup
on thiscoaft, thought it most prudent to take fan&uary there
FISH-KIL L, September 12.
The encampment now formed at Verplank's point is said
(and with great propriety) to be the mart regular and uni
form of any since the war. The whole is decorated with a
bowery of interwoven verdure, equally ufeful and elegant,
which extends from right to left of the line ; in the execu
tion of which the different regiments have difeovered a va
riety of tastes, interspersed in such a manner as cannot fail
to impress the beholder at the fame time with admiration
and applause.
NEW-LONDON, Sept. 13.
Capt. Jared Star, in the sloop Nonpariel, of
this port, was taken the 18th ult. off Bermuda, bv
the ship Arbuthnot, Capt. Phillips, who treated
him and his people with great generosity and po
liteness. Capt. Starr was detained 12 days a
Bermuda, when he with all his people were fen
in a flag to Boston.
Saturday arrived a schooner, laden with rum,
bound from Bermuda to New-York : prize to
the brig Marshal, Capt. Buckley.
1 uefday, the brig Marshal returned into port,
with a ship and brig, having about 600 hogs
heads rumand sugar ; they failed from Jamaica
the 26th July, with a fleet of 80 fail, under con
voy of Admiral Graves with seven Ships of th
line, bound to England, but had separated frorp
their convov.
HARTFORD, September 17^
,The Legiflaturc ofthe State of New Yotk has lately p fled
sundry resolutions, relative to the proposing to Congress t,
recommend, and to each Rate co adopt, the measure ofaf
fembling a general convention of the Races, fpecidy &
thorifed co revise and amend the confederation of the Unl
ted States.
•VLr''"!' I '^'' Aigle of 22 guns, from Cape Francois
With despatches forM Vaudrcpil, is carried into New-York.
NEW-YORK, September $.
Last Tuesday the Right Hon. Lord Hood ar
rived here in his Majesty's ship Barfleur, with
the Jupiter and Champion frigates, from the
Welt-Indies : The fleet, under the command
of His Excellency Hugh Pigot, Esq. Admiral of
the Blue, left Jamaica on the 26th of July, and
after escorting the trade pa'ff the Havanna, left
them with a Strong convoy, and with 22 fail of
the line proceeded for this continent; on their
arrival off the coast, his Lordfltip left his Excel
lency Admiral Pigot cruizing with the red of
the fleet ;---off the call end of Cuba, Several rich
prizes were taken by the fleet, amongst which
three polacres with a considerable quantity of
cash. Three rebel vessels who had taken shelter,
under the Moro Cattle, were cut out by his Ma
jesty's Blip Enterprize.
September 7.
On Thursday evening arrived ofFSandy-Hook,
his Excellency Hugh Pigot, Esq. Admiral of the
Blue, Commander in Chief of the British navy
in the Weft-India and American seas, with a
fleet of twenty-two fail of the line.
Extras of a letter from London, dated fulj 12.
Lord Rockingham died on Monday the ilt of
July, the King immediately appointed Lord
Shelburne, the declared and positive opponent of
American independence, to succeed him as Pre
mier, and firft Lord of the Treasury—the promo
tion brought Mr. Fox to resign his flation in the
ministry, and he was followed by Several of his
friends, Mr. Fox had another leading induce
ment to leave administration as you will fee by
bis speech in the debates, the following I have
extracted from what he pronounced in the House
of Commons, on the 2d of July.---" ids to Ame
rica bis mind bad been made up four years ago, as
feon aj be read the French refcript, though as that
time be bad the misfortune to differ with many of bis
friends. As for the prefentfentiments of his heart,
they were to give America the mos explicit, uneva-
Jtve, unequivocal declaration of independence, and
the minder who Would not concur in this doßrine,
would be highly criminal, and so culpable that he
would not aft with him; as for himfelf he trufled
that be bad feme personal character with the house,
and that personality he would pledge as a security to
his honourablefriend Sir George Savile '' that there
was not an intention in any of his Majesty's mi
nisters to refufe American Independence." —I
called next day at :—where L found this de
claration had given the greatest offence, as it
was contrary to the noble Lords fixed, invariable
opinion, and repeated declarations, which have
been since renewed tdth'e House of Peers. Mr.
Fox findinghimfelf unableto carry the Independ
ence of America contrary to the spirit and sense
ofthe nation, and piqued at Lord Rockingham's
successor being, on the demise of the Marquis,
infantaneoufy appointed, and without his being
consulted, presently afterwards entered the House
of Commons, and there took his feat on the fide
opposite the Treasury Bench, whilst Mr. Willi
am Pitt just turned of three and twenty, went
from that fide to the Treasury Bench as Chan
cellor of the Exchequer, vice Lord John Caven
dish; Lord Advocate Dundas has joined Lord
Shelburne, taking up the room made by Mr.
Burke's resignation of the Pay-Mafterflii'p,. Sir
George Younge is Secretary at War, Lord Tem
ple and Mr. T. Townfhend, Secretaries of State;
these are the chief arrangements at present made
in the confufion occasioned by the death of the
Marquifs, who headed the late administration;
rhe Bedford connexion are to be provided for,
particularly the Lords Gower, Carlisle and Wey
mouth Mr. Jenkinfon too is talked off. Lord
Howe is to be firft Lord ofthe Admiralty on his
return home. Lord North is gone into the
country, declaring absolutely against taking any
oart on occasion of this sudden change, at lead
for the present. The Dutch have informed the
Czarina that their engagements with the court of
France and the plan of reciprocal engagements
gainll Great-Britain precluded her from agree
ing to a cefTition of arms, or to a separate peace,
without the concurrence of tbeir ally. Two oi
he flaming Irish patriots are lately promoted,
Mr. Huffey Burgh to be Lord Chief Ba on of
he Exchequer there, vice Lord Tacton, and Mr.
Barry Yelverton, to be Attorney-General, and
if the Privy Council. Sir Henry Clinton was,
on his arrival, most cordially received by the
King, and has been much consulted, reflecting
American affairs. We have very favourable ac
counts from Gibraltar^ the garrison having blown
rhe besiegers chief magazine, with prodigious ex
ecution, and killed their boasted chief engineer,
a Frenchman,
The following is copied from the Morning Pflj
dated July 9.
The late resignation will save this country from two im
pending evils ; in the firft place, the people will hear no
more of American independency ; and in the fecord. Par
liament will not be dissolved Until its conftitational duration
is expired.
Mr. Fox's fcdulous endeavours in the interest of the re
volted provinces, and his late declaration in the House of
Commons, refpc^ing their independency, have entirety de
ftroyca his popularity. Had such a peace been concluded as
was I rtely in agitation, the present generation might have
lived to fee graft growing on the Exchange of London. Grant
ing independence to America is neither the voice nor the
wish ofthe people, unless by this is meant the people, who
wi>h in future to live there, or those who, in hopes of ri
peace, are by trade to make immediate fortunes.
Lord Rodney, immediately on his arrival, is to be ap
pointed to the command of the channel fleet.
Extract of another letter from Eng land, dated July 14.
" Mr. Fox is gone out because he could not succeed Lord
Rockinghom in the Treasury, name a successor, and fill up
all vacancies. Lord Shelburne is made fill Lord at that
Board. Lord Keppel, Jahn Cavendish, Mr. Burke, &c. are
gone out likewise. Lord Howe is to be fiiftLoid of the Ad
miralty Board. Lord Temple, and Mr. T. Townshend are
Secretaries of State, vice Fox, &c. Lord Shelburne has de
clared in the House of Peers, that he has never altered hili
opinion about the independence of America,, but thinks
when that is granted, the SUN OF GREAT BRITAIN will
be set forever. The Parliament is prorogued to the 3d of
September, and the King declares an inglorious peace shall
not be made. The Duke of Richmond is still in office, but
fays he will go out if America be not declared independent ;
indeed he will soon go. The combined fleet is certainly in
the chandel ; Lord Howe is gone a fter them w ith an inferi
or fleet. Our Weft-India fleet of more chan 100 fail, are ex.
pe&ed every hour ; one or two erf the Jamaica fleet are arri
ved. Lord Howe has been met by a vcffcl, the commander
of which Informed him, that he saw the combinedfqusdrons
that morning, on which my Lord flood cowards them ; this
may produce a very decifivc event. I wish this epistle, ma,
get fafe into your hands, that you may know Lord Shelburne
guides theaffxirs of government, and that America will not
be independent yet. His Majciiy has a great attachment to
his Lordship."
STATE of CONNECTICUT, ff
Hanford County, Sept. 14, 1782.
PUBLIC Notice is hereby given to all concerned, that <
Libel is filed before the Hon. Jabez Hamlin, Esq; Judge
ofthe Maritime Coutt for the County of Hartford, by Jonathan
Bigelow of Hartford, in said County, against a Sloop called
the PATTY, about fifty Tons burthen, her Tackle, Apparct
and Cargo, aonffting Onions, Sheep, Oats, Hogs and Corn/
with ocher Articles, Seized in Middletown, and said to be
bound to New-York or other Place within the Enemies Pof
feflion, against the Laws of this State: For the Trial of the
Juliice of said Seizure, a Maritime Court will be held at the
Court-House in Hartford, on the Bth Day of O&ober next,
when and where all Persons concerned may appear and shew
Reason why the said Sloop, her Tackle, Apparel and Cargo,
should not be Condemned. By Order ofthe Judge,
GEORGE WtLLYS, Regift'r.
RUN away on monday night the ,ch ihftint, a NegrW
man named P OMP, about ;o years of age, a shore
thick fellow, lame in his right foot, occasioned by a cute
with an ax; carried with him a blue broadcloth coat with
a red cape, a green broad cloth coat and v# ft, one pair of
old leather breeches, and one pair of striped ticking ditto,
one white dimoty vest, and one v/hite holland shirt, two
check woolen ditto, and one coating loose coat the fore
parts lined with red baize. Whoever will take up said Ne
gro, and return him to the fubferiber in Hartford, shall have
Five Dollars reward, and necessary expences.
DANIEL GOODWIN.
N.B. He went away in Company with a young Square
and fupprfed to be gone to New-York or lurking about:
New-Haven. September 16, 1782.
THE persons in this State interested in Certificates for
Monies loaned to the Continent, are defi ed to meet b,~
themselves or agents, at Hartford, on the 9th of Odober
next, to agree on rceafures to be pursued to procure the pay
ment ofthe interest already arisen; and shall hereafter be
come due on such Loans.
The Printers in this Scare are desired to insert this notifi
cation.
State of Connecticut, Sept. 12, 1782.
BROKE into the inclofure of the fubferiber in Farmington^
in July last, a pale red STEAR, about three years old.
The owner is desired to prove his property, pay charges and
take him away.
JONATHAN THOMSON.
Farmington, Sept. 12, 1782.
Io be Sold, for Cojh, or other property,
AHOUSE and LOT, Containing about 5 acres, opposite ta°
Capt. Pratt's; in Goslien, three miles north ofLitch
field Court House, and on the main road leading from the
Sound to Vermont. P?r particulars enquire on the premi
ses. September 14, 1782.
BROKE into the inclofure of the fubferiber, about the 28th
of June last; a Sorrel HORSE, about 14 hands high,
trots and paces, has four white feet, no brand, shod before,
had on a poke. The owner is defiied to prove his property,
pay charges and tail him away.
ELKANAH PHELPS.
Norfolk, Sept* 8, 1782.
ALL persons indebted to the estate of Samuel Holman,
late of Hartford, deccafed, are defi ed to make imme
diate payment. Those who have any Bernards on said e
state are requested to exhibit them to the fubferibers by the
firft of camber next, properly attested for fcttlemeht.
M ARY Hot MAN,
RICHARDSON Ml NO ^
Hartford, September 10, ifla.