The Connecticut courant, and the weekly intelligencer — Hartford [Conn.], 1783-07-22 00:00:00, page 1

ALS O,
The last official ADDRESS,
of his Excellency
General WASHINGTON,
To the Legislatures of the United States.
To which is annexed, a
Collection of Papers relative to Half-Pay, and
commutation of Half-Pay, granted by Con
gress to the Officers of the Army.
Trie Hartford Stage Waggon,
WILL leave David Bull's Inn, on ever, Monday morn
ing at four o'clock, and go to New-Haven the fame
day, Wednesday morning at the fame hour leave New-Ha
ven and return to Hartford, and on Friday morning proceed
to Springfield, and return to Hartford the next day, every
attention will be paid to make it agreeable to the Ladies and
Gentlemen who will favor him with their custom and every
fiver gratefully acknowledged, by their humble Servant,
JACOB BROWN.
N. B. The Stage will leave Smith's Coffee-Houfe New-
Haven and Parson's Tavern Springfield.
PhTERCOL7 & Co.
Have just received a fresh Assortment of Goods from Bof
con, New-York and Philadelphia Markets, and a small
Alfortmenc of ebofen Goods from France and England—
which they fell on the lawvft Terms, at thgir Store eppo
fice Col. j. Wadfwoiths, Hartford.
—among which are—-
BEAUIIFULbIack& white Thickfens.
email'd Gauze. Fustians.
Spotted Saufflu Do. Janes.
Guaze Handkerchiefs. Janetts.
Bett Lawn Do. Durants.
,minct for Aprons & Caps. Table Linen#
Great Variety of coloured & Calicoes.
black Silk Handkerchiefs. Chintzes.
Linen Do. Silk Gloves & Mitts.
Ribbons and Tastes. Coarse Woolens.
Fans of all Sorts. Fine Caffimers.
Modes. Nankeens.
Sattins. Quilting.
Coloured Florence Silks. Cambricks.
Do. Belongs. Lawns.
Sewing Silksand Threads. Irish Linen.
Twilt. SmallAffortment ofCrockery.
belt fancy gilt Buttons. 6 by 8 Window 61afs.
Deathbead & Mohair Do. Tea.
Buckles. Chocolate.
Knives. Coffee.
Hard Ware. Chalk.
Velvets. Copperas.
Veiverets# Steel per Hundred or Angle
Corduroys. Barr.
With a Variety of other Articles. ___
BROKE into the inclofure of the Swbfcriber, on the 26th of
June last, a black MARE and COLT, the Mare about ,
years old and ribands high, the Colt one year old. The
owner is de fired to pay charges and take them away.
GROVE FOOT.
Sirofbury, June 8, 1,83.
WANTED, as an Apprentice to the Paper-
Making business, a healthy Lad, 14 or 17
vears of age. Enquire at the New Paper Mill,
Lardord.
To be Sold by the Printers hereof,
A few Copies of the
Address and Recommendations
To THE S TATE S,
By the United States in Congress assem
bled.
TO WHICH IS ADDED, AN APPENDIX,
Containing,
An account of the debt due from the State of
Connecticut the taxes which have been
granted since the year 1775 —the monies issu
ed—what remains unpaid, and from what
towns, as appears by Reports to the General
Assembly.
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I' U ESDA Y, July 22, 1783.
We desire and inftrua you, that you give not
your assent to, and that you firmly oppose, grant
ing any exclufiv e privileges or advantages in our
trade, to any particular kingdom or nation, other
than what may be stipulated in the Commercial
Treaties concluded by the authority of Congress,
it being the true permament interest of America
to admit the trade of all nations upon equal
terms,without preference to any, further than
the goodness and cheapness of their commodites
may entitle them to.
Wedefire and inftrua you, that you give not your
affentto, and that youoppofe any futher occlusion
oftheCourtsofJuftice; as withholdingthedueand
regular administration of Justice in any, must
loosen the bonds of society, corrupt the morals
of the people, and tend to produce anarchy and
public confufion.
We desire and inftrua you to oppose all fu
ture emiffionsof paper money, allinterference of
the Legislature in private centrads, they being
To Alexander Henderson and Charles
Brod water, Efquires,Reprefentatives for the
County of Fairfax, in the House of Delegates.
The Adderfs and Inllruaions of their Conflitu
ents, May 30, 1783.
^TrE have committed to you the greatest and
VW molt sacred trust, which a free people can
repose in any of their fellow citizens ; the care
of our dearest and most important interests, the
prote&ion of our rights and liberty, and the pow
er of making, on our behalf, those laws by which
we are to be governed, and this Commonwealth
preserved in fafety and prosperity. And al
though we confide thoroughly in your integrity
and attachment for the public good, yet we judge
it expedient, at this critical and important season,
to communicate to you our sentiments, & to ex
ercise our undoubted rights of inftruaing you, as
our immediate Representatives in the Legislature.
And firft ; Gentlemen, we desire and exprefa
ly inftrua you, that you give not your assent to,
and on the contrary, that you ? ofe, to the ut
most of your power, the fn/Jtat infraction of
the late Treaty of Peace, either with refyeft
to the payment of debts or in any other matter
whatsoever, whereby the public faith, solemnly
pledged by the American Commidioners duly
authorized, may be violated, and this country a
gain involved in the ealamites of war-—or the
dangers of reprisals.
We also direa and inftrua you that you use
your utmost endeavour to ena& for repayment of
the principal and interest to each and every in
vidual, who hath paid paper money into the pub
lic treasury, in discharge of debts due to Britifli
creditors, according to its real value in specie, to
be adjusted by the legal scale of depreciation, at
the time each sum was refpeaively placed in the
Treasury : and that such debts, as well as all 0-
ther private debts and contrasts, be hereafter
left to the common ceurfe of the laws of the
land. And in case of any division of the House,
upon either ofthefe fubjeds, or upon any other
important matter, whereby the rights of the peo
pel, or the fafety of the Commonwealth may be
endangered, the maxims of justice contravened,
or the fundamental principles of the constitution
violated ; we desire andinftru& you to call for,
and cause to be published, the yeas and nays up
on the state of the question, that so the people
may at lead be enabled to distinguish their cqun-°
try's foes from its friends, and hereafter to fepe
rate the tares from the corn.
From the Virginia GAZETTE.
properly cognizable in the Judiciary departments
of the State ; all ex poll facto laws, except such
only as are warranted by the greatest emergencies,
and the plain principles of justice ; and that you
endeavour to procure a revifal or repeal of all
laws, which may have been heretofore made,
contrary to such principles.
We desire and inftrud you to oppose any fur
ther delay in the collection of this year's taxes,
than will be absolutely necessary to ^ive the peo
ple the benefit of this summer's market, for their
commodities now on hand ; all such delays be
ing highly injurious to public credit.
We desire and inftru& you to promote a ftri&
inquiry into the expenditure of public money,
and the bringing to speedy account and punish
ment, all public delinquents and defaulters.
We desire and inftrud you to endeavour to
procure ample justice to the officers and soldiers
of the American army; whe, tho' constantly sur
rounded with uncommon distress and difficulties,
have so bravely defended the rights and liberty
of their country.
We desire and inftru& you, that you assent not
to, and that you oppose repealing the law for pre
venting excessive credits upon open accounts;
and also that you assent not to, but oppose the impo
sition of, any greater duty upon imported iron
or cordage than Shall be imposed upon other im
ported goods, for the reasons refpe&ively given
in our petitions to the Assembly, upon those
fubjeCh.
We desire and inftru& you, strenuously to op
pose all encroachments of the American Con
gress upon the sovereignty and jurifdi&ion of the
feperate states, and every assumption of power,
not expressly veiled in them, by the articles of
Confederation. If experience Shall prove that:
further powers are necessary and fafe, they can
be granted only by additional Articles to the
Confederation, duly acceded to by all the states ;
for if congress upon the plea of necessity, or upon
any pretence whatever can arrogate powers not:
warranted by the Articles of Confederation, in
one instance, they may in another, or in an hun
dred : every repetition will be strengthened and
confirmed by precedents.
And in particular we desire and inftrua you
to oppose any attempts which may be made by
Congress to obtain a perpetualrevenue, by the ap
pointment of revenue officers. Were these pow
ers fuperadded to those they already possess, the
Articles of Confederation, and the Constitutions
of Government in the different states would,
prove mere parchment bulwarks to American
liberty.
We like not the language of the late address
from Congress to the different states, and of the
report of their committee upon the fubje& of re
venue, published in the fame pamphlet. If they
are carefully and impartially examined, they will
be found to exhibit Strong proofs of lust of pow
er : They contain the fame kind of arguments
which were formerly used in the business of (hip
money, and to juftify the arbitrary measures of
the race of Stuarts in England. And the present:
King and Council of Great-Britain might not:
improperly adopt great part ofthem, to prove the
expediency of levying money without the con
fentofparliament. Alterhavingrelu&antlygivea
up part of what they found they could not main
tain ; they still insist that the several states (halt
invest "the united states in Congress assembled,
with a power to levy, for the use of the united
Rates, ths following duties &c% and tha#
(No. 965.1