The Connecticut courant, and the weekly intelligencer — Hartford [Conn.], 1780-10-17 00:00:00, page 1

TUESDAY, October 17, 17^0. THE NLMBEKSzr;
CONNECTICUT COURANT,
A N» T K 8
IVEEKL ¥ INTELLI Gk N C ER.
Just Publifoed, and to be Sold by the Printers
hereof, wholesale and retail,
THE
Connecticut ALMANACK,
Far the Year of our LORD,
1781.
Containing all things necessary to fuchaC^pefi^or*
The Ateriem^al Parte perftmed by the Prefer
of Mathematics, in Yale College.
October 16, 1
JAMES KIRB Y,
POST- RIDER between Litchfield 2nd
POUGHKEEPSIE, by Way of Salisbury and Sha
ton ; hereby requeSs the Gentlemen on that raxd,
who are weekly (applied with Hartford papers, by
him; that they will as soon a# poffihle, (at the fever^l
times and places, when and where he leaves ^cir
papers) meet.him, or fend money to difeha^efror
quarterly accounts. In this he hope# they roll not
fail, as his continuance in the bufmefe will depend
upon it.
OAober 16, 1780; „ - — ______
, One Ikoufand Dollars Reward.;
QTOLEN from the Subscriber, a very Ibrly
OBlack HORSE; if bands high, 6 ycartold.
branded on his ,<#r buttock with theJetters B. B.
trots and §ahfcm well: The thief, calls his name
John Clark, had on a light blue cost, red vet,
flriped overhalk, is about 25 years of age, pock
broken ; was seen in Colcheter, the 1 sth of Sep
member lift. Whoever will take up said horse and
thief, fball havetheabove reward, er five hundred
for the horse onl,, paid by
Wm. GOODRICH.
Stockbridge/ OAcber 5, 1780.
Five Silver Dollars Reward.
STRAYED from the Subfenber, the 7th inst.
a^dark Sorrel MA RR; !4 hands high, trots
ill, no ffioes on, white on cue hind feet, her mane
Im been cut, bat almost grown yin. Whoever
tahes up said mere, and returns her to me, cr given
information, shall have the above reward, and all
charges paid.
JOSEPH THURSTON.
Little Hon'ack, September 30, 1780. _
Two Hundred Dollars Reward.
RUN-AWAY from the Subferiber, the 2d
of Sept, lift, a ycllowifh likely Negro Boy,
named T OM, aboet 15 years eld ; had on when
be went away, a daik brown ve^ ; has a fear en his
right arm, near the (boulder. Whoever will return
fife negro to me, shall receive (he above reward,
and neceff^y charger.
JOHN PHELPS.
Wefficld, OAober 3, 1.780.
STR AYED from the Subscriber, in June la 2,
a tail Sorrel MARE; 3 years old, long
tail and man% trots and paces, never was shed.
Whoever will return said mate to the fubferiber,
Bull be ffhffifly rewarded; and all charges paid.
ABRAHAM HALL.
Norfolk, OAbber 7, 1,80.
fi IjirL l CNYSTIC^ is hechy fiven. That
X a Maritime Court will be held a: Lite: field, in
Litchfield county, at the Bate boufe, on the gift of
Oaobtr infant, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon ; to
try the juflice of the seizure of sixty nine bezels
and an half of reck-fib, f&d to be imported from
Long Iflind, and fendry other iflards, in the p f £<f
ffoa of the enemies of the United States, ccntraiy
to law, found in Harwinton, in the county of Litch
field, by Eufebus Aufiin, cf frd Harw inton.
By order cf the fodge,
ISAAC BALDWIN, Re;fr
Litchfield, C^ch# 3, 1,80.
HARTFORD: Priktrd BY HUDSON am> GOODWIN, nea^ the Great-Bridge:
LONP ON, June 190 $
THE debates in the House of Commons
on.Wednefdiylaft,infenGbly turned
from particular obje&s, tothe general mea
sures thathad been pbrfued by adminiflra
tion,& the present aspect of affairs. Severe
censures fell upon the ministry from seve
ral of the members in the opo/ition, refpec<
ting Ireland, the disorder and eonvulfed
date of the nation, and the core of all our.
diftrefles, the fatal plan of subjugating A
merica. This attack roofed the Treafii
ry Bench, and their friends, and at last.
brought up Lord North. His Lordflyp
was more warm andexplicit than ufuih
He observed, " that Ministry had often
been reproached fori the unfuccefsfulnifs
of measures by thole very men who had
done all in their pooler todefeat these mea
furcs ; and that they whole language and'
conduct upon alloceafions tended to weak
en Government, and ififpire the people
with the utmost contempt of it,, could yet
gravely complain that Government was in
fufficient to maintain due order and regu
larity in the kingdom.. With refped to
Ireland, hadMinidr, refolded to continue
that part of the dominion under all the
circumstances of which it so loudly com
plained, and without any mild concessions,
to have drove it to extremities, would these
men have acquitted the measure ? Would
they have employed their eloquence in
favour of it? Loudly as they complain
of the continuance of the war, would they
have juflified the conceffon of thirteen
States to be allied with our antient rival
and enemy ? Our affairs in America, con
tinued his Lordship, wear a brighter af
ped. I would not be too fanguinc, but
we may be allowed to entertain agreeable
hopes from the operations of our forces
at the Southern quarter. There are other
circumstances to encreafe these hopes:
Many in the revolted colonies, who ap
peared zealous to throw cl their consti
tutional dependence on this., kingdon,
have since difeovered themselves more at
tached to their gains than their indepen
dence. There are 2 number of individu
als whom the war has greatly inriched.
Many, even of these, Shrink it is said, at
the bare mention of any extraordinary ef
forts to sustain their cause, and do not
chufe to lend what they have acquired, to
fappoft the paper money, which, frail as
it is found to be, is the only instrument
by' which the revolt can be maintained.
Their boated love of.liberty is too weak
to support itfelfagainft felf-intereft. Their
enthuihfm has abated ; they no more con
tend who shall be foremoft in defence of
their mad ideas of independence. They
begin to quarrel, it is said, about their
proportion of the taxes, and each one en-
deavours to fhift as much as he can of
this burden from his owri Moulders to
those cf his neighbours, while their army
has been unfupply'd^ Much has beenfaid
of the entire union of the revolted colonies,
tho' their confederation is not complect,
and Maryland has not acceeded to it.
While the Agents of Cohgrefs at Paris
have given exaggerated accounts of the
resources of their constituents, they have
been obliged to have continual recourse
to France and Spain for all kinds of sup
plies, for arms, ammunition, and cloath
ing.---Al.ltes so situated mull Icon become
difagrccable to one another; Notwith
standing all the reforms made in the fi
nances of France, it is known that Louis
xvv, is obliged to continue al! the taxes ^
the last war wh ; ch were to. have ceased in
1780: And that M-r, Neckar cannot sup
port the military operations of that king
dom, but by the force of loans; which
coufidering the loss it's commerce has sus
tained, cannot : cng continue."--- Upon
the whole his Lordfep was persuaded,
that Parliament would perfev^re in such
measures as must finally eCab'lifn the ho
nor and connface of the nation, and the
fafety and tranquility of its dependencies.
Mr. Burke, Col. fearre, and Mr. Dun
ning, spoke in great force in reply to his
Lordfliip: So did Charles Fox, One
must have heard him to judge thedvahnith
and force of bis fttech on this occafion—
we can only give a (ketch of it. He was
severe in his sarcasms on the ministry re
seeding rhe affairs cf Ireland, and the in
ternal commotions of Britain, both'which
had rendered the nation contemptible in
the cves.cf all Europe. He did not dis
pute the' right of Ireland to ^ ^dyanta.
ges.it had lately ob^uned ; but. all the
world knew, they had been gained as
muchagainft the will of the ministry, and
as truly by force of arms, as the indepen
dence of America, What might have
been granted as an obligation, and a bond
of amity, had been evidently extorted by
fear, and conceded with an air of mean
ness, to become a source of future confa
fion, and perhaps fivers' of blood. He
remarked with great piquancy on the di
ametrically oppo'ne principles upon which
the fame men had a&ed with refpe& to
Ireland and America: " In their infatua
ted condud, said he, resolution and con
cession% ever misplaced, have equally ope
rated to the diferace and ruin of the na
tion, The Colonies may boat, that them
arms have at once given a free trade to
Ireland, and established them own inde
pendence : And however the sage con,
ductors of our affairs may hope ata con
venient season to take back the former,
they never wi«l be able to overthrow the