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assiduity in service, he has had an opportu
nity cf remarking each particular; this
his merit has improved; and enables him
to give Congress every fatisfaftory inform
ation. To him I beg leave to refer them
for a minute derail.
I have the honor to be, with the high
est regard and esteem,
Your Excellency's
most obedient servant.
B. LINCOLN
His Excellency Samuel Huntington, Esq;
President in Congress.
Pub 'ifbed by order of Congress,
CHARLES THOMSON, Sec.
Thursday came on the election cf a
President and Vice President at the Su
prtme Executive Council of this Com
monwealth. The Honorable the Speak
er of the Houle and the Members of the
General Assembly attended in the Coun
cil Chamber, and were received by his
Excellency the President and Council.
They immediately proceeded to the elec
tion, and his Excellency JOSEPH REED,
Esq; was unani noufly chosen President,
and the Honorable WILLIAM MOORE,
Esq; was unanimously chosen Vice Presi
dent.
November 16.
The embargo on provisions of all kinds
from this po f t, to any parts beyond sea, is
continued for thirty days.
Sunday arrived from Cape Francois,
the brig Liberty, Captain Ciunn, loaded
with rum, coffee; &c. Captain Ciunn, was
chafed in latitude 36 30, by a large ship,
which he fappofed to be the Roebuck.
The fame day was sent into our river,
by Captain Decator, a Packet boat from
St. Augustine, for New- York ; the Capt.
ofthe packet, fell in with a large fleet off
the Capes of Virginia, which he took to
be Count D'Eftaing's.
By a gentleman who came to town last
evening from Virginia, we are assured that
Count D'Eftaing's fleet, had a few days
ago arrived in Chelapeak Bay.
TRENT O N, Nov. 17.
A gentleman from Elizabethtown in
forms, that the enemy, to the number of
8000, brr/ernibarked, and part of them
faired, supposed to be bund to South.
Carolina, or the Weft Indies.
FISH-KI L L, Nov 25.
The militia, encamped in this town for
I the past month, were discharged last Sa
turday.
Count D'Eftaing, altho' he has not been
fucccfsful at Savannah, yet he has made a
mod powerful diversion in our favour, by
keeping the British mercenaries at New-
York, and its dependencies, with a train
of toiies and refugees, constantly harrafled
in throwing up various works, and finking
vessels in the Narrows and at the Hook,
they being in daily expectation of his ar
rival there for two me nths past ; but the
vessels which they funk, have chiefly drift
ed away with the current, Should Par
ker's fleet, from the Weft Indies, be upon
our coast, as is reported, the Count may
yet give the tyrant of Britain a blow in
that quarter of the world.
BALTI MOR E, Nov. 2.
F..draft of a Letter from a Gentleman in
Cadiz, to his Friend in this Place, dated
the 27th of August, 1773.
" I am sorry to inform you that on the
23d of June last, soon after my departure
trum Cadiz, I was lo unfortunate as to be
taken by a British Sloop of War, and car
ried into Gibraltar. She also took a BoG
ton Brig, which left Cadiz with me.-.-The
Circumliances that attended us that Day,
are very extraordinary the Particulars of
which, for Want of Time, I must briefly
relate.---We failed in Company with the
grand Spanish Armada, by Advice of our
Friends, and in consequence of Assurances
from some of the Officers that we should
be protested ; but, to my great Surprise,
we very soon found ourselves deceived.
Seeing the New- England- man captured
within Hail of the Spanish Frigates, I
made for the Admiral, and as soon as I
got under his Stern, informed him that the
Enemy were in Chafe of me, and solicited
his Protection. His Answer was, that he
could not grant my Petition.---! had then
no Alternative but to make the best of my
Way, I lightened my Vessel by having
Wine Calks, and heaving overboard every
heavy Incumbrance ; but this did not a
vail, as xhe Enemy was infinitely my su
perior in failing. In short, I was carried
the next Day, into Gibraltar, and, after
Examination, I was hurried, with my
People, into a dreary Prison ; and tho'our
Confinement was short, we experienced the
Horrors of Famine and Sickness, with ex
treme 111-usage of various Kinds. Happy
for us, the Spaniards blocked up the Porr,
and brought an army before the Town !---
The General, (determined to hold the Place
to the last Extremity) judged it good Po
licy, to save Provisions, to fend away all
his Prisoners, taking Receipts for their
Difeharge, in order to efted the Liberati
on of an equal Number of British Sub
je&Si---By this Means, thank Ged ! am 1
once more extricated from British Tyran
ny— an d, if I get again to America, I shall
not hastily throw myfelf in is Way.--"
NEW-HAVEN, Nov. 24.
Monday fe'nnigbt two small privateers of
four guns each, commanded by Captains Lock
wood, and Jib*fin, run into Offer- Bay, un
der Britifo colours, whet were four wood
vessels, under pt oteaion of & large 8 gun brig,
who afk'd the privateers where from, and on
being an/wered, from New York, they were
permitted, to run alongside the brig, unfufteacd,
and boarding her, the people were furpffed in
to an immediate Jurrendery, without ei en firing
a gun. though worm'd with 20 stout fellows ;
on wbith the other vefrls also submitted, and
were all brought <ut ^ port, dfonedfor Nor
walk, or Stamford, but on being pursued by
some armed vessels from Huntiugton harbour,
the brig unluckily run on a reef of rocks near
Norwalk harbour, andfell again into the ene
my's hands, who got her iff, and took her a
^g .—the other prtzes got jafe into port.
HARTFORD, November 30.
A few days face arrived at Bedford in
Dartmouth, a prize Brig, taken by the Mifflen,
about three Months ago, bound to New York,
laden with Port NNine. She bad been beat
ing the Seas ever finee foe was fift taken, and
bad but pix Pounds of Bread on board when
foe arriv'd.
We learn from Newport, that all the
public stores are removed from that place
to the main.
NO complaint is more just, or nniverfal at the
present time, than the dsclin: of Schcoh,
and the difficulty of obtaining the rudiments cf
knowledge. This circumstance, with fevers! others,
has induced the fabferber to exhibit the following
defirn tc the publc, which he flatten himfelf may
not be unworthy of 'heir attention.
1. As soon as fufficient encouragement ffiall be
offend, % School will be opened at NofljiaD.p & aD,
fcr the inflrn&ion of young Matter# end Misses a
elegant Reading and Writing, in Arithmetic, Elo
quehte, Enghfh Grammar, Geography, and the
Latin and Greek Languages.
3. A young gentleman will be employed to fa
penntend the School, fcr whefe character and con
du& the fubferiber will be anfwcrable.
3 Children who can read, and no others will
be admitted into the School at the rate cf Three
Dollars the Quarter.
As in this town Board may be obtained, in a se
cure fixation, upon eify term# and in families whose
moral# are unexceptionable, and a# the fubferiber
pledge# himfelf to the public tl at the best modes cf
infiruaion and government shall be adopted, he can
not but hope that the design will be encouraged.
Such gentlemen a# with to countenance it, are re
queued to give the easlieft intimations to their hunt-'
ble servant, TIMOTHY DWIGHT.
Northampton, November 16, 1779.
WHEREAS more than one sixteenth partof the
proprietor# of the towrifhip of Tinmouth
have made application to me the fubferiber 'hat a
meeting of hid proprietors be called. This therefore
"fr * a '° 3 meeting of said prop ietors to he holdem
at Tinmouth, on the 3 h Wednesday of December
next, at the house of Solomon Bingham in said Tin
mouffi, at io o'clock in the forenoon, to a& on the
following particulars. I. To choose a Moderator.
2. To fee whether said proprietors will digest their
fever&l accounts that have arisen in the proprietor
sh r p that are unsettled. 3. To fee that the publie
rights te well taken ca e of. 4. To fee if said pro
prietors mil agree to lay out a fourth division, and
grant a tax on the frights offaid proprietors to defray
charges if need be ; and §. To do any other bull
nefs that may then be thought necessary,
CHARLES BREWSTER, Proprietors Clerk.
M'chc^fr S ate cf Vermont. Oft. 20 17^9.
SCHEME of a LOT TERY,
FOR railing Four Thousand Five Hundred
Bounds, for the Furp-fc cf re building a
Bridge ov.frHoufa onuck River, in tie Town cf
Sheffield, on the great Road, leading from Connec
ticut, through the County of B*r^ sh re, to Albany,
a d other Parts cf the State cf New York viz.
Number cf Prizes. Dollars Dollar#.
I Prize cf ^ 3000 is 50C0
4 Do. - iooo - 400®
4 Do. - 500 - 2000
4 Do. - 400 - 1600
4 Do. . 300 - 1200
20 Do. - 100 - 2000
100 Do. . jo - § o °q
3200 Do. - 20 - 64000
1 Fuft Drawn i@o - 100
1 Lad Dawn 100 - 100
85000
3359 P/ze^ to be paid without Deduction.
6661 Blanks ; Not two Blanks to a Pri@e.
10000 Tickets at 10 Dollars each, amount to
100 000 Dollars, or 4 500 1. for the ex
ecution of the Purpose for which the Lot
tery was granted.
THE foregoing Scheme is proposed, in conse
quence cf, and agreeably to an Aft of the Great and
General Court of Maffachutetts-Bay. As the Lot
tery is defijntd to effi a a Purpefe of public Utility,
the Managers doubt not, the public spirited and
patriotic part cf the Community, will, frem that
Motive, became Adventurers : They have also
made it their Study tc concert the Scheme in such
manner, that felf Litereft may co operate with pub
lic Spirit, in a rapid Sale of Tickets. The subscri
bers dare give the highest Affnrance, that no Exer
tion for that Purpose, shall be wanting, on their
part. The Time and Place cf drawing, (which^
will not be further diflant than three Months) will
be seasonably advertised in the Hertford and Wor
cester Papers, and an accurate Lift, immediately af
ter the Drawing is finished, published in the fame.
The Prizes not applied for in fix Months will be
cor.fidered as geucrcufly given for the Purpose fog
which the Lottery is granted, and appropriated ac
cordingly.
JOHN FELLOWS, )
WILLIAM BACON, )
EZRA FELLOWS, JManagsct
JOHN ASHLEY, jun. )
THEODORE SEDGWICK,)
Sheffield. November 30, 1779.
AS ;teTf^MUSTARD
SEED, by Mr. MERCHANT
CLARK, Hartford.
READY Money given for Rags at the
Printing Qffice and Paper Mill,