The Connecticut courant, and the weekly intelligencer — Hartford [Conn.], 1783-07-08 00:00:00, page 3

L 0 N D O M, Aprils
The rentountre that took place on Monday
-morning latt, between George Riddel, Esq; of
the fecund troop of horse gran'adier guards, and
David Cunningham, Esq; lieutenant cf the
Scots Grey's, having been attended with the
molt fatal consequences to these gentlemen, we
think it necefldry to lay before our readers a cor
rect ft^tement of the particulars. Mr. Riddlell
and Mr. Cunningham, about three years ago,
differed on a futyed not neceflary at this moment
to particularize. About fix months ago Mr.
Riddle was induced to fend Mr. Cunningham a
challenge, in consequence of some pointed ob
servations that palled on the old fubjea. Mr.
Cunningham, however/ then declined an invi
tation to the field. This circumstance was con
strued by the corps in which Mr. Cunningham
Served, as an infiance of timidity, difgraceful to
the character of a soldier ; and finding the mat
ter took a very serious turn, and much to his dis
advantage, Mr. Cunningham early in the last
week eame up to London, on purpose to demand
fatisfa&on of the gentleman who he conceived
had disgraced him. On his arrival he immedi
ately sent Mr. Riddell a challenge, which the lat
ter dec ined in his turn, alledging that he would
not fight a Gen leman who had taken fix months
time to confide, of the propriety of such a mea
sure. Mr. Winningham construed this answer
intp a pitiful Subterfuge; and went in pursuit of
Mr. Riddel., determined to offer him some per
sonal insult. Unfortunately they met at Mr. ,
the Agent's when Mr. Cunningham instantly
(pit in rhe face of his adversary. This produced
an immediate challenge, and the parties agreed
to meet on Monoay morning at ten o'clock, in a
fieldon the ri ;ht hand fide of the Uxbridge-road,
about half a mile from Tyburn turnpike ; they
were both punctual; Mr. Riddell was attended
by Cape. Topham of the Horse-guards, and Mr.
Cunninghans by Capt. Cunningham of the 69th
regiment of foot. Eight paces were firft mea
sured by the Seconds, afterwards the contending
parties took their ground. It was, however, pre
viously agreed, that Mr. Riddell and Mr. Cun
pingham should toss up for the firft fire, which
Mr. Riddell won—This matter being adjusted,
and the gentlemen Rationed in their refpe&ive
places, Mr. Riddell fired and (hot Mr. Cunning
ham tinder the right breast, the ball passing, as
it is supposed, through the ribs, and lodging on
the left fide near the back ;—the moment Mr.
Cunningham received the Shot, he reeled, but
did not fall, opened his waistcoat, and declared
he was mortally wounded. Mr. Riddell still re
mained on his ground, and Mr. Cunningham,
after a pause of two minutes, declared he would
not be taken off the field until he fired at his ad
versary.—Mr. Cunningham immediately pre
sented his pistol and shot Mr. Riddell in the
groin---he immediately fell, and was carried in a
hackney coach to Mr. Topman's house, Bryan-
Ron-ftreet,Portman-fquare. The unhappy gen
tleman lingered untill seven o'clock on Tuesday
morning, and then expired.
We are extremely sorry to add, that Mr. Cun
ningham lies now so dangerously ill that little
hopes are entertained of his recovery.
PORTSMOUT H, June 28.
Tuesday last fell down the river, His Most
Chrißian Majesty's Blip America, of 74 guns,
commanded by M. La Chevalier De Macarty
Mareigne. She is allowed, byjudges, to be as
good a piece of workmanship as any European
power can boast of.
B O S, T O N, July 3.
Thefallowing intelligence, relative to the lute expe
dition againf New-Providence, communicated by
a gentleman, who happened accidentally to be
thcra at the time of its capture, may be depended
on:
On theist of April, 1783, Andrew Devaux, a
refugee Colonel, left St. Augustine, upon the
wildest expedition that perhaps ever was con
certed : There was not a soldier or ship employed
in it, belonging to his Britannic Majesty, but the
Beet confided of two privateers (a ship and a
brig) two flags of truce, armed in New-Provi
dence, and a schooner said to belong to the be
iorementioned adventurer; On board of this fleet
were about 50 men, in which number were in
cluded above a dozen negroes, reported to be the
Colonel's property) and three indians ; the rest
were refugees, and people who had belonged to
New-Providence, but had left it on the terms of
the cap itubtion : This extraordinary forcewas
officered accordingly—meclianicks quitted their
{hops, and became Captains. The pretext for
their coming, it is said, was the delivery of this
country from the cruel oppression of the Spani
ards, tho' at the fame time it is a known truth,
that no people could be treated better than those
of the Bahamas were by the Spaniards, except
a few owners of privateers, who, by their mis
conduct, were the sole cause of their own fuffer
ings; but the real bafisof the expedition was the
hopes of possessing a large money chest of the
Spaniards, said to containeighty thousand dollars
and the estates of about twenty of the principal
inhabitants, whom these men of conscience made
no scruple to prescribe. In order to strengthen
their party, they anchored near the Harbour
Plan'd, and attempted to gain the inhabitants of
that island and Elnethera to join them ; and tho'
it is Scarcely credible,they actually seduced those
poor ignorant wretches from thcii public faith,
so Solemnly plighted in the capitulation, to ob
serve a ftri& neutrality ; and, by the promise of
plunder, got an addition to their number of
about 240 men: With this force they landed at
the eastward, on the 14th, and furpri fed Fort-
Montagu and two galleys ; After Son alterca
tion and a great deal of treaty, the Spanish Go
vernor capitulated, on the 18th, and marchedout
with his men, to the number of 39c ; of which,
250 only were effective men. He had previously
received orders from the Havannah, to be in
readiness to deliver up the Bahamas to his Bri
tannic Majesty, when properly 'demanded ; and
of this he acquamted the Colonel, in answer to
the fumnions of surrender But the best of this
famous expedition is to come—-By the prelimi
nary articles of peace, hostilities between Great-
Britain and Spain ceased in this latitude on the
9th of April, and the Colonel, with his myrmi
dons, aid not arrive here till the 14th, or take
possession till the loth. Alas ! What a terrible
disappointment ! &hefty? f April (the day on
which he Set out on the expedition) stares himin
the face, and covers it with its peculiar confufi
on; and the prize has truly pros'd a Scotch one.
The proscription by degrees vanished ; arid he now
thinks of nothing so much as quitting the place
as soon as Doflibie. The Spaniards are prodigi
ously exasperated against the Bahamians, for
breaking the neutrality-—the confluences of
which are obvious---The two most lucrative
branches of trade carried on here, Ileifn, are the
catching of turtle on the coast of C^ba (those
among the Bahamas being very fcar,e and small)
and the wrecking trade on the coaftuiFlorida ;
as the Floridas now belong to Spain, the Baha
mians must bid adieu to their favourite wreck
ing on those coasts, or be in constant danger of
being overcome and murdered by the vindictive
Spaniards ; and they must expert the fametreat
ment on the coast of Cuba ; so that the Colonel
has fared this country to some purpose ; and
Great-Britain, and Jamaica, in particular, will
also be fufferers by the capture ; as many lives
and much property will more than probably be
loft, which otherwise might have been saved by
the wreckers.
HARTFO R D, July 8.
A late Dublin News-Paper mentions, that a
Man of very moderate Parts may now be the
Premier of England, as he has now little to ma
nage; before, the Minister of Britain was the
Minister of the World.
AT a meeting of the Merchants and Retailers
in Hartford, on the 3d day of July 1783, to
confider of the proposal made to them by the
Merchants and Retailers of New-Haven, touch
ing the Excise Afl, and of the convening of a
County and State Meeting, for the purpose of
applying to the honorable Legislature at their
next session, upon the fubje<ft of said a& and 0-
ther mercantile concerns, &e.—--After observ
ing and deliberating thereon, a Committee of fix
Gentlemen were appointed to report to the next
meeting, and adjourned to the sth inflant, when
the Committee reported as follows:
WE your Committee take, leave to report it as
our opinion, That the proposal and invitation
made by the Gentlemen ofNew-Haven is timely
and eligible, and may, in its consequences, tend
to promote Agriculture, Commerce and Manu
factures within this State, obje&s of the greatest
importance at the present period.
That therefore a Committee be appointed to
Notify the several Towns in this County, and
request that a County-Meeting be held at the
State-House in this Town on Wednesday the
16th Day of July Instant, at ten o'Clock in the
forenoon, to confider on the above Proposal,
when a Time and Place may be agreed on for a
BROKE into the inclofure of the Subferiber, on the 26th of
June last, a black MARE and COLT, the Mare about 7
years old and 14 hands high, the Colt one year old. The
owner is desired to pay charges and take them away.
GROVE FOOT.
Simsbury, June 8, 2783.
WE the Subscribers being [appointed commiffieners by
the Hon. Court of Probate, for the diftrid of Sim(-
bury, to receive and examine the claims of the creditors to
the estate of Capt. THOMAS SYLL, late of Hartland, deceas
ed, reprefehted insolvent : Do hereby give notice, that we
shall attend said business at the dwelling house of Capt. Abel
Brace, in said Hartland, on the firft Tuesdays of August and
September next, from one o'clock to fix p. M. on each day.
ABEL BRACE,
ISRAEL WILLIAMS.
Hartland, Juhe 27, 1783#
THE Subferibers being, by the Hon. Court of Probate, far
the diftri& of East-Windsor, fully impowered to exa
mine the claims of the creditors to the estate of Samuel Hol,
man, late of Raft Windsor, deceased, represented infolvcnr;
give notice that we shall attend the business of our appoint,
ment, at the dwelling-house of Mary Holman, in Bast ^Hart
ford, on the last Tuesday in August and the firft Tuesday of
September next, from one o'clock afternoon until fix. on
each of said days. *
ASHBEL PITKIN,
JOHN WYLES. ) Commissioners;
Hartford, June 23, 1783.
LOOK TO 1 T.
WHEREAS the General Assembly of the State of Can
neditur, at their session in January last, granted a
rate or tax of fix-pence per acre on all the lands within
Berkhemftead society, to be paid by the firft day of June
following, to be improved for the purpose of building a
Mccting-Houfe for said society ; this is therefore to warn all
the non-residents, together with the inhabitants that own
lands in faidfociety, to meet the Subferiber at landlord Cafe's,
in Berkhemftead, on Thursday the 31st of July instant, and
pay said tax or the non-residents may exned their lands will
be fold at said landlord Cafe's, on tburfday the 21st of Aueuff
next, as the law direfr. ' "
„ JAMES AUSTIN, Colledor.
Brrkhemftead, July 1, 1,83.
ANTED, a few Barrels good C YDER^
for which good pay will be given.
JAMES & HEZ. BULL.
Hartford, July 5, 1783
STRAYED or STOLEN from the Subferiber, about a month
ago, a sorrel HORSE, white face, his under lip hangs
down, hind legs considerably crooked, about 13 and a half
hands bight supposed to be taken and rode to the eastward.
Whoever shad take up said Horse and return him to the own
er, shall be handsomely rewarded and all necessary charges.
P ^ by „.., JOSIAH KILBORN.
New-Britain, July 2, 1783.
BROKE into the inclofure of the fubferiber in June last, a
Bay MARE, black mane and tail, about 13 hands and
half high, natural trotter, her near fore hoof split, 5 years
old. The owner is defined to prove his property, pay char
ges and take her away.
SAMUEL WHITE-
Coventry, July 4, 1783.
WANTED, as an Apprentice to the Paper-
Making business, a healthy Lad, 14 or
years of age. Enquire at the New Paper Mill,
Hartford.-
ALL Perfens indebted to the estate of Capt. THOMAS
SYLL, late of Hartland, deceased, are requested to
make immediate payment to the fublcrjber---Likewife, all
the creditors to said estate, are requested to bring in their
accomDts to the commiflioners by the time advertised, and
agreeable to the laws of this State.
URIAH HYDE, AdminiHracor.
Hartland, June aj, *783.
genera! Meeting, from the several Counties in
the State, by their Committee for the purpofe#
aforefaid.
Hartford, 7uly 5, 1783.
The foregoing Report being unanimously ap
proved, Mess. Solomon Smith, James Church,
Caleb Bull, jun. Samuel Burr, Peter Colt, Bar
nabas Deane and James Bull, were chosen a
Committee to carry the fame into execution.
Gentlemen,
The foregoing proceedings of the Merchants
and Retailers of this town, is now published for
your perusal—ls you approve of the fame, you
will of course appoint one or more of your num
ber, to meet at the State House in this town on
the aforementioned day for the purpofe# before
exprefled.
We are,
Gentlemen,
Your very humble Servants,
Solomon Smith,
fames Church,•
Caleb Bull, jun.
Samuel Burr,
Peter Colt,
Barnabas Deans,
fames Bull.
To the Merchants and Retailers)
in the several Towns in the>
County of Hartford. J
Hartford, July §, I7®3<