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long. The members of Congress have been conti
nually changing from the beginning, so that scarcely
one of the firfl set are left behind ; yet this junto;
ordained to last forever, remains fixed as fate;-- -
and are preserved, you inform us, by a fort of CON
TRIVANCE -they so contrive it as to keep in. This
is the ne plus of the matter and ends in magick and
myflery. I must not however omit to obfetve. that
the effects produced by this jinto. are quite as in
explicable as the manner of its exiftance. To in
fiance only in the case of Mr. Dian, to whom it is
said to have been ever unfriendly and W oughta^air ft
him. If so how can we account for his appoint
ments from Congress one after another till he got to
be their minister ? This junto being all the whle
unfriendly and working against him, and all the
while governing Congress at pleafare This with
fame other difficulties you will note, Sir, to be ex
plained in your next address. Bat to proceed and
Attend a little to the account you give us of our
Commissioners at Paris. Tbefe you represent as to
tally ignorant of what is tranfiXed in France, Spain
or England and that Congress gam no information
from them. Do you believe this, Sir, yours-ls, or
expeX that any body else ffiould ? What have you
to fay of Dr- Franklin ? Has he no difeernmentf
Who difeerned and taught us how to manage the
lightning, and lead it about with a thread ? Was
not the DeXor received a' the Court of Fr^c, with
unusual marks of honor and confidence ? Dues not
Mr. Dean in bis narrative, which it seems you had a
fight of, celebrate him highly as a politician and
But that Congress Should be aftriden with a junto,
is a matter that wants proof. This junto, by your
account of it, is as full of wonders as the beast in
the Revelations is of horns, and near as powerful.
It consists, you fay, mostly of New England men ;
who we know are elected not without regard to their
religion as well as their politics; Yet they are here
Combined to vote alike in all cases, let oath and con
science go where it will, and let the public interest
go where it will. They are to take care of them-
Selves and connexions, and at all events hang toge
ther; and if all this is true they ought all to hang in
one haltar ; and I ffiould h/ve no obieXion, Sir, f
you crave the jobb to year being hangman. This
junto you tell us was formed in the fird Conprefs,
five years ago, and has continued and governed Con
gtefs to this day ; carrying the votes just as they
plcafe : and whom they would they set up and whom
they would theh pull down ; and rhe rest of Con
gress, the virtuous part, the' a great majority, have
all the while crouched down and born it. And
what is more afton filing still, the matter has to this
day been kept a profound secret. A wonderful work
of great wickedness has been carrying on in Congress
for five years and yet no mortal ever heard of it;
neither from good men within doors nor from bad
ones without. Another wonder in the metier if,
that this wonderful combination has held its own so
For the CONNECTICUT COURANT.
To the Unknown Letter Writer in Philadel
phia, who lately revealed to the public the situa
tion of their affairs.
I Cannot call you by name, Sir, but I fee well
enough what you aim at. You mean, if infinu
at ons will do it, to overfet the Congress and break
upthe union ; and perhaps you think you are do
iß7 God service too; but you certainly use the de
vil's means. If we did not know Congress better
than we do you, we mi,,ht perhaps believe what
you fay of them. If we had not tried them and pro
ved them at home we might believe they are trai
tors and ass riden because you fry it. In one thing
you fheyred your wifdem, it hiring upon a Ixcky
time for your appearance. People are always cross
and jealous enough when things go ill, and it was
just then a time of great datknefs. But you made a
wretched mifiake in another place ; you never tho't
that to do your work efLaually it was necessary to
conceal your malice; nor that faying things which
could not be true would bh^your whole design.
If you had only told us tba. Congress were a flow
body, and let their business run behind hand no bo
dy would have questioned you; for ve ill know
that such a body as Congress is can't move otherwise
but flow. There are too many men, too many ftaes
represented, of different interests, cufloms and ha
bits to get along with dispatch. And fometitnei
they will seem to be forever about a thing before
they can get it into such a shape as suits them all ;
audit may bea small matter too. But this is no new
thing under the fun ; nor it there any help for it.
If you had dfo gone further, and told us that Con
grefs sometimes grow warm and have high debates,
and are zealous on one fide and the other; this we
could have believed to; for the fame happens in all
free assemblies under heaven. Freedom of thought
and freedom of debate, amorg men of bold spirits,
will sometimes make warm work, and would scare
a clown out cfhis wits.
Spain was diffofed to have negotiated with Great-
Br^ain, and obtained a peace torus; could flu but
have known what cur terms ^erc. That Congress
was acquainted of this so early' as February lafl, and
then and ever face p-eftd upon to give Spain an
answer. bj have neve- yet done it ; through which
negleX her mediation has bee. ?delayed and ffie kept
back and [invented doing a. y th nr for us or herfelf.
That Spain has ever applied direAly or indirectly
to know our terms i* file abfcluteiy so. She and
all the wedd knows that we claim to be indepen
dent ; and that Great Britain must be brought to
acknowledge or cede that claim, before there is a,
peffibility of a treaty between us upon rational
giounds. Shemtn'i firft yield to us the crest point
that we are in 'all a nation or States independent of
h% then and not till then may we go on to treat and
fetle our tx=ri; app^nda es, rights of commerce,
&c. and daw the lines be ween us. To pave the
way for such a treaty a treaty on national grounds
.- to obtain from Great Britain the great preliminary
concession cf independence, is all that Spain pr
France has ever been concerned with, or ever will
be. And if Congress has ever been admonified of
any thing from Spain, it must have been to be rea
dy and prepared for such a treaty if by her negotia
tion a door Should be open therefor, which has not
yet been the case ; so that whether Congress have
been more cr left time in preparing and adjuring
matters for such a treaty, there has yet been no door
open for making use ofthem, and cf course no de
-lay has happened for want of their more seasonable
p epsration. That Spain, for v ant of Congress be
ing ready to enter upon a treaty has been one mo
m:;.t defayed in her negotiations to pave the way
for one, is ^bfurd in the fappofition, and contrary to
fret The certain is new dropped, and all the
world may fee far themfdves whether Spain has
been prevented negecistirg for wart cf our terms or
any thing else. Theft€t is. the negotiation began
ten months afo and has been perseveringly pursued
on the part of Spain ever since, until proving to be
hie&&ua! for the ends hoped from i^ it has now
Not less groundless and malignant isyour reproach
of Congress upon the fubjeX of a foreign loan. This
you innnua e they might h&ve obtained, if, accord
ing to Mr Dean's opinion when he returned from
France they had immediately Cent a pre per person
after it ; but that instead of fending immediately,
they have been quarreling amongst hemfelves, and
not able to this day to agree who shall go after and
havethe handling of it. Do you not know. Sir, or
do you suppose that others do not, that Congress, be
fo*e Mr. Dean's return, had inftru&ed their commif
forcers refp'&iug a foreign loan ; and that the most
1 kely courts in Europe from whence to obtain it had
been founded upon the fubieX more than a year ago,
and the reason why it was ch:ne without success
mufl be obvious to every one who will corfider but
for a moment that the warlike appearances and pre
parations in that quarter of the world make a good
market for all their money nearer home, and borrow
erg enough that can give more unquestionable and
eftabliffied ftcurhy than we as yet can. Nor ought
we perhaps to regret the difeppointment. We are
now reduced to the neceffi y es taking ourselves and
paying as we go ; which though more irk some for
the present, may be less so hereafter than a foreign
debt and lef dangerous to the liberties of the peo
ple. Nor are our finances by : y means in thatdf
treffed aid languid ng slate a* that they must fail
without foreign ftpport. Si-r? the expedient of
taxing cepoufly has been ad-^^d they have not
Enrefatd. For three months past the money has
funk none ; I appeal to all purchasers and men that
handle it. But, Sir, to proceed to your
Fourth and left charge a^^nf Congress. Which
is that they have neglected the p^per means when
offered to them for bringing the war te a close. That
phiiofopler, ci well as his friend : Yet you would
now persuade us that he is perfeXly insignificant
and a fool ! And what, Sir, have you to fay of Mr.
Adams, whcfechara&er as a warm and enterpriz
ing patriot, and able statesman. is I trust too well
efablifhed in both countries to fuffer by the attacks
of emvy. As to Mr. Lee, be his other talents or gra
ces what they may, you know, if you know any
thing about him, that it is the foul of that man to
be forever prying into fccrets and communicating
them tohis employers, and that he has written let
ters enough hjmfelf to the Congress, since he has
been in France to have made a volume ; and among
much other interefling intelligence^ has not failed to
furniffi them feafouably and very particularly from
time to time with the secrets of the British cabinet.
And I will ventureto add had he wrote somewhat
less than he has he might have been left obnoxious
to men both on that fide of the water and on this.
And yet, Sir. you would porfoade us that since the
recal ofMr. Dean have entrusted our foreign affairs
to men of little d feernment and no info mation at all.
given place to arguments cf /
fa&s and your infinuatio^s you <&.'- %
arc direAly opp fed to each otl^
confounded ; bin I will not rev le,•
tent in the publ c's having a fvr p? : <./ i
judge of your chaiaAer and defier'. -
A Friend to Truth and Fair Plal
Hartford Septembe 1, ^779
TO B E S OL P
At Mr. ELLER Y's
Store m Hertford ;
Good rum AND molasses by the
Bartel or Gallon; also, Good COFFEE,
bept. 6 1779.
TO BE SOLD "
AT private file the fifteenth day of September
inst. at two o'clock in the afternoon a' R ck
ky Hill the sloop TRYON, burden forty fivetons,
and the schooner YORK, thirty tons, with appurti
nences belonging Alio a few small fails.
Wethersfield, Sept. 2, 1779.
I N D I G O, ~.
ALaree Quantity of C pper and Purple IN
DIGO of the fi ft quality to be -fold by the
Hhd. or smaller quantity, and the highest pnee
Riven for Bills on France, by - .X
TIMOTHY PALM E R.
SuffitU. August 31, 1770
ILL be Sold at Rocky Hill Landing, in We
ihen field, on Thursday the 23d day fSp
tember instant, the Schooner REWARD bur
then about 130 tons,well found, and fit for a voyage
Wethersfield, Sept. 4 1779>
TAMPING of LINEN is carried orc
by Stephen Russ, in Mansfield, in d.ffcrent
colours and figures.
September 6, ^779'
—FIF~TY'D O L L'ARS REWARD.'
RUN away from the f bicriher, living in Hart
ford in June lafl. a fm*ll LAD named Wil
liam Johnftone, alias William Sutherland, about 4
feet high, 14 years old, sandy hair, grey eyes ---
Whoever will return said run away to the fubfcriher
or give information where he may be found, Hull
have the abov^ reward
FREDERICK BULL.
Hertford S-pt. 6 1779.
SUPPOSED to be taken off the fubferiber Ho-fe
at the door of Mr. Justus R ley or John Weight
in Wethersfield, on the night of the firft instant, &
new Portmanteau, with a brass lock and clasp upon
it, with fandry articles in them, such ar ffiirts, flocks,
white holland breeches and drawers, one pair cf new
cotton flockings, one ditto linen, one pair rs open
work fiiver fhoc buckles one napkin merit H H ne
large check handkerchief. Whoever will give in
formation so that the owner may have them shall
have Forty Dollars Reward and no questions ?fked.
AARON OLMSTED.
Hartford, September 4 1779.
Just-published, and to be Sold by the Printers hereof,
Burgoyne's Surrendery,
A POE M, entitled
GRATEFUL Reflexions on the d ; vine Good
nefs vouchfaf'd to theAmerican Arms in their
remarkable Sacceffes in the Northern Depar ment,
after the giving up cf our Fortresses at Ticonderoga,
cn the 6th cf July. A D. 1777. With force Ac
count ofthe Battles fought and the Tranfa&ions cf
that memorable campaign, occasioned by the furren
dry cf the King's Forcer by Lieutenant General
Burgoyne to Major General Gates, on the 23d Day
of Oaober# in said Year.
TO BE SOLD
At FREDRICK BULL'S
Store in Hart ord;
GOOD ROCK SALT, by the Hhd. or
buffid, cheat, for ealh
N B. Good fLur or Wheat will be taken in
Exchange.
Hartford, Sept. § 1,79
“ ~ O'B~ E SOLD
At the NORTH DOOR
Under the Printing Office ;
SU GAR of dfftreui Qualities, by the Barrel?
Hundred or Angle pound Cc ffee Pepper, Snuff,
Pigtail Tobacco Writing-Paper Pcfs Paper Wap
pine P per Pfahers Packet Books &c. &c &%
'WINDED IMMEDIATELY,
FOUR Journeymen H ATTER S, to work at
Wool for which good encouragement will be
6 ven. by NOAH WELLES.
Bast Windsor, Sriemher 6 1779