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thority, in Case fich Provisions (hall not be returned
to the Owner or O arners thereof without Band being
taken as aforefaid. within twenty four H urs after
thffame /hall have been fa seized.
Be it further enabled by the Authority aforefaid,
Thatifany Person shall carry-out of tbit Swe, or
be aiding or affixing therein, any Articles whatever,
prohibited by any Embargo duly laid from being
carried or tranfpurted out of this State, he shall for
feit all fech Articles, together with the Team. Cat
tie, Horse or H^rfer, Cart, Wiggon or Carriage, or
the Value thereof, used or employed in carrying foch
Articles out of this State or aiding or affi^n^ there
in ; one Half of which Forfeitures shall belong to
any Person that shall prosecute the fame to Etta,
and the other Hilf to the Treasury of thhState.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 8.
Extrad of a letter from an officer of high
command, dated Charleftown, Decem
ber 19, 1779.
" By the last accounts from Savannah,
we learn that the enemy are quiet, and,
forthe fake of an airing, they have encam
ped their troops at several plantations, at
the diflance of ten miles round, the fur
therft from town are at Abercorn. They
are fitting some transports for sea.
« Before this rccaches you, you will
doubtless hear, that the Spaniards have
been up the Miffifipi, and possessed them
selves of the English fettlemehts on that
river, and (hat they made 900 prisoners ;
that about the beginning of this month
they left Havanna with a refpedablt fleet
with 4000 troops for Pensacola or St. Au
gustine, perhaps both. This the enemy
affe& to disbelieve, and are not reinforc
ing these posts ; but hourly expert the
troops from New-York."
A privateer brig belongingto Augus
tine, of 16 guns, commanded by Captain
Redmond, is taken and carried into Charlf
town..
N E W - LOND O N, February 23.
Last Wednesday Capt. Howard art.vtd here in a
Brig, in 35 Days from Guadaloupt mcretban 20 of
which he was beating on this Coad in ver, severe
Weather.
He fays it was reported at Guadeloupe, that
Admiral Arbuthnot arrived at Batbadct about the
firft ts January, with 20 fail of T/arfem#, with
Trocp^ from New York.... That Capri John Balkley
in a Brig, and Caph Edward Laihem in a Schooner
from this Port, bad arrived in the W^ft Indies, the
Fatter loft his Stock off the D:ck in & Gale of W^d {
on Nantucket Shoals, and the fanner loft five of his
Hands in a Gale of Wind.---That about the begin
ning of January, seven fail of French Merchant Mtn
from France, were taken and carried into St Lacy, by
some Briufh Frigate#.-- That Cap. Aft Benton in a
Sloop from this Port, was taken by a Leiter of Marque
Ship, whch threw his stock overboard, destroyed
his Veffei, and carried off his People for I eland.---
That the Continental Frigate Confederacy, which
failed from Philadelphia for France, being in chafe
of a Veffe! on the Banka of Newfoundland loft all
her Marts arad Bowsprit. and had ar nved at Martinico
under Jury Mada, was there refilled and had pro
ceeded to France: And that by the fall of the Frigate's
Spars, Mr. David M'lntcfh of this Town, Gunner
of the Ship, had a Limb broke, which proved a
Means ofhis Death.
Captain Siraeon Ssmfon, in the Mercury Packet,
belonging to the United States, arrived at Ho'm^'s-
H)lelafi Tuesday Night, from Nantz in France,
which he left the 18 h of November, with Difpatch
cs for Congress. Mr. Eliffia Hirt of Say Brook,
time Passenger in this Vessel, and parted through
Town Yesterday : He informs us, that letters were
received at Nan-.z from Gentleman in London, in
forming, that the Parliament efftdard, had declared
that Kingdom to be Free and Independent of Great-
Britain : That on this Relation bemg pissed,
40 coo Men were under A^ ; and that the Lord
Lieutenant, in puffing from be Parliament to his own
House, parted through the Troops, who teftified their
Approbation of the Measures by repeated Hizzis :
That 20 fail of Men of War had been several Days
waiting at Brest, with Troops on Board, said to be
bound on a fecyet Expedition : Aid that the St#e
cfGibraltar was continued when tie last Accounts
were received from thence, which were about the ill
©[November.
HARTFORD, February 29,
Extras of a letter from an honorable member
of Congress to a'Gentleman in this town,
dated February 8.
" No very late intelligence from Eu
rope : in general her affairs and politics
wear a promising afeed on ours.
" Our affairs to the southward, though
critical are not desperate---Georgia is not
yet conquered , her Assembly were fit
ting at Augusta the 15th of December,
arranging her force, providing for her
frontiers, and with aid, to expel the ene
my—have appointed delegates, and con
ceived a letter to Congress in the stile of
a Roman Senate.
" Charleftown was also fafe the 22d
of December, with shipping, French and
American, fufficient it is apprehended to
secure the harbour and keep open a com
munication for supplies.
" The Spaniards have been up the
Miffifippi and taken possession of the Bri
tish settlements and made 900 prisoners.
An expedition took place at the Havan
nah the- beginning of December against
Pensacola or Augustine, or both, the fue
cefs of which is not yet known."
The Gentlemen nominated by the Free
men of the State of Connecticut, as re
turned to the General Assembly in Oc
tober 1779, to stand for Ele&ion in
May 1780, as Delegates at the Congress
of the United States, are as follows, viz.
Oliver Elsworth, Esq; Samuel Hun
tington, Esq; Jesse Root, Esq; Titus
Hofmer, Esq; Richard Law, Esq; Andrew
Adams, Esq; Oliver Wolcott, Esq, Je
dedi^h Strong, Esq; Eliphalct Dyer, Esq;
Roger Sherman, Esq; Benjamin Hunting
ton, Esq; Pierpoint Edwards, Esq;
The 9th inflant the Rev. Joseph Vaill
was ordained to the work of the gospel
ministry in Had Lyme. •
D I E D at Enfield on the nth inst.
Mr. Isaac Kibbe, of that place, aged
forty-eight years.
Congreu having received information, "that there
are fame Spaniards on board the prison ship at New-
York, whose necessities call for our support ;" it
was thereupon " Relived, That the Cornmiffary-
Gentral of Prisoners be directed, until the further
order of Congress, to make the fame provision for
the Spanish prifopers ip . New York, as is made for
the prisoners of the United States, keeping a separate
account thereof"
Congress have elc&d Mr. George Boyd their
Deputy Secre a;y. They have also chosen the Ho
norable Francii Lewis, Esq; a Commissioner for tbe
Board of Admiralty, and Colonel William Grayson,
a Commissioner for the Board of War.
The following are the quotas of supplies for the
army, which Congress have requeued from the seve
ral States undermentioned, viz. From the State of
Virginia, 20 000 barrels of Indian corn.- From the
State of Maryland, in addition to the 15,000 barrels
of flour heretofore required of it, 5000 barrels of
flour and 5000 barrels ^ Indian corn.-- From the
State of Pennsylvania, 50 000 barrels of flour, or
wheat in proportion. - The foregoing supplies are
requeued to be furnished on or before the firfl day
of April next. - From the State of Delaware, 10.000
barrels of flour.- From the State of New Jersey,
8000 barrels of fl ;ur.-- From the State of Connec
ticut, 8000 barrels of flour ;---thefe supplies, from
the three lafl mentioned States, to be furnifhed as
soon as pcffible.
The conditions on which Congress have consented
to make peace with the Indians, are, “ Frifi, that
it shall be fepplicated on the part of tbe eremy.
Second, that they should surrender all tbeAmericans
in their hands. Thirdly, that they shall expel all
British agents and emirtarier. Fourthly, that they
shall covenant to deliver up such as shall hereafter
go among them. F fthly, that they shall covenant
not to take up the hatchet again, under penalty of
being driven froai their country. Sixthly, that they
shall give hostages for the flri& adherence to the pre
mills to be by them made."
EXTRACTS from the Journals of Congress,
Tuesday. December 28 1779.
Resolved, That hereafter all applications for pro
motion in the army of the United States of America
be made to the Board of War, and all applications
for promotion intenavy to the Board of Admiralty,
and that they report to Congress.
Congress took into coafideration the report of the
Committee to whom was referred the letter of No
vember the 22d last, from the Governor of Connec
ticut, and thereupon
Resolved, That Congress entertain a jn^ sense of
the great and effeaual exertions of the St^e cf Con
ne&icut in the common cause, and of the readiness
with which they have executed the meafuru recom
mended to them :
That as any alteration in the quotas eftabl shed by
the rtfolution of the 7th of OQober last would pro
bably be productive of confifion and embarrassments,
it be recommended to the said Safe to fa fe the quo
ta therein aligned to them, confiding that ' due at
tention will in future be paid to the circumflances
mentioned in Governor Trumbull's letter of the 2d
tof November last :
That Congress are earnestly disposed to do full
justice to evety State in the Iquidation and allow
ance of all regular expenditure#, and have efiablifhed
the means of adjuring and fettling all accounts of
the refpe&ive States with the United States,
in order that due attention may be seasonably paid
to that obje& ; but cannot in the prefect critical
pollute of affairs, aifen't to the retaining of any part
of the taxes raised for general nfe, as aa.exaApe of
that kind might involve the most fatal consequences:
'T^t Continental pay a:,d rations, agreeably to
the resolutions df the 22d and 6 h of June, 1778,
be allowed for the service of the militia which shall
appear to have been necirtatily employed for the de
fence of the said State between the firft day of April
and the firftday of Noverber last.
TO be Exchang'd, for Land l,ing within one
mile and a half of the Kate house; or fold fete
hard money (prompt payment) a 'fmall FARM,
containing forty acres, (or thereabouts) well wood
ed, and watered the year through ; fit for immediate
improvement, lying in the fourth end of Weft Divi
fiou, on the road leading to N wington, about half
a mile south of N, Sfymout'* tavern. For further
particulars, enquire of Tho's. Tisdall, Hmfi.\.-\
who will treat for the fame.'
Hertford, Feb. 1780.
S~T-AT=E~OF Ye"r M-oTt.
Pawlett, December 4, 17,9,
WH EREAS application has been made to
me the Subferiber, one of the Justices of the
Peace, for the county of Bennington, by more then
a fixtelnth part of the proprietors of PAWLETT,
in said county; to call a meeting of said proprietors.
These are therefore to w^n the proprietors of said
town, to meet at the houf^ of Mr. Jonathan Willard,
in said Pawlett, on the last Wednesday in Much
next, at nine o'clock in the morning, to ad on the
following particulars, viz. Firfi, to choose a modera
tor. Second, to choose a proprietors clerk. Third, to
confitm the tra& of land, laid out for the firft minister.
Fourth, to fee if they will lay out another division.
Fifth, to fee if they will raise a tax to defray the ex
peaces of said proprietorship in laying out the public
rights, the proprietors book and recording said rights.
And to traaha any^ther business that may be tho't
proper on said day.
GIDEON ADAMS, J. P.
WE the bubferibers, being appointed Commis
sioners, by the Hon Court of Probate, for
the diflrid of Middletown, to receive and examine
the claims of the creditors on the eftite of Capt. John
Elsworth, late of Middletown, deceas'd, it being
r<p<wentcd insolvent, and fix months being allowed
for the adjuOment of Aid claims ; do hereby notify
the creditors, that we shall attend said business at
the dwelling house of the deceas'd, in said Middle
town, on the last Monday of this and the five fuc
cceding months, from two o'clock in the afternoon
until fix. All accounts must be attested.
ELIHU STARR.
JOSEPH KING.
Middletown, Feb 8 1,80.
Hartford, Feb. 19, 1780.
LO S Tin Knifington, near the bridge, by Capt.
Hurlbut's, a BAG of BOOKS, contain
ing Verffs, Pictures, Primers, Hiflory of the Ne
therlands, a pair of Scales and Weights, and a leather
Bag containing 4or 5 pounds of Snuff. Whoever
has taken up said Bag, and will leave it with the
contents at C pt. Hurlbut's, in Kenfigton, or the
Pointers, in Hartford, or give information where the
right owner may have it again, shall be handsomely
rewarded, by
JAME 3 THOMSON.