The Connecticut courant, and the weekly intelligencer — Hartford [Conn.], 1778-05-26 00:00:00, page 1

ALL persons having demands on the fubferibet
for any articles fopphed or services done the
public in the Quarter Matter General's Department
are desired to apply immediately at his house in
Hartford. Those who negle& till after the sass of
July next, will never be attended to by
Jere. Wadsworth.
Hartford May 15, 1778.'
TWENTY= DOLLARS° REWARD?
Lost, the 2d of May, between the North
meeting hotife and the ferry, a red Morocco
Pocket-Book with a silver clasp. containing about
20 continental dollars, and a certificate for two hun
dred dollars, taken from the treasurer in the name
of Lieut. Timothy Allyn, and a number of Papers
which will be of no service buttothe owner. Who
ever will return said pocket book with its contents
to the owner, shall receive the above reward and no
questions aiked. by Solomon Mears.
Hartford, May 15", 1778.
rOGWOOD, by tte hundred or retail at a
/ reasonable price to be fold by Joseph Bulkley
at Rocky Hill Landing, in Weathersfield -- Also a
sloop of about 35 tons burthen very suitable for a
coasting vessel, and well found with cables, and an
chors.---Enquire of Bulkley at the above place,
May 23, 1778.
STRAYED or stolen from the fubferiber the Bth
inst. a brown MARE, about 14 hands high a
bout 6 years old, paces and trots. Whoever will
return said Mare to the owner, fhali have three
dollars reward and all necessary charges paid, by
Nathan Dausse.
Salisbury, May 14, 17,8
rrovidct rc < May 8 1 7,8.
LAST might made his escape from the provost
guard intown. Michael Manley a deser
ter f,om Col. Alden's reg ment of the Maffichu
fett's State; said Manley lately belonged to Gene
ral Burgoyne's army, had on when he made his e
scape a light colour'd grey coat very ragged, is a
bout 5 feet 1 a inches high has short black colour'd
hair, light complexion, black eyes, and is mark'd
with the small pox; 'tis supposed he will attempt to
join the eneray on some part-of the continent. /ny
perlon that will return said defeier to Provider ce
shall have thirty dollars reward, and all necessary
charges paid by applying to Col. Peck, 'Adjutant
Cen, of the army in the State of Rhode-Ifland.
er}ROk^ into the enclosure on the sth of this
month andnow in the possession of TiMOTHY
Skinner of Hartford (Weft Division ) a dark bay
mare supposed to be 3 years old, between 13 and 14
hands high paces and trots, the owner is desired to
pay charges and take her away.
Hartford May 8, <778.
DESERTED from Capt Judd's comfynyf Q
Wyllys's regiment, one Daniel Caher or
Casor, born in Glasgow in the Kingdom of Scot
land 5 feet 6 h<ches*high° 39 years of age black
curl'd hair, had on a brownish long skirted coat, he
fays he has lived some years in Glasgow in the date
of the Massachusetts Bay, and some time in the slate
of New Hampffiire; said Caheris very foft and
easy in his conversation and inclines to loquacious
ness. Any person that will take up said fellow„and
secure him in any goal or fend him to his regiment
at Weft or North-River, fhali receive zo dollars re
ward and all nece&ry charges paid- by
April 30. _ Wm. Juan, Cap?.
RUNAWAY from the fubferiber on the night
of the 10th instant a nolatto flaye about 34
years ofage, about 5 feet ^nd 9 inches high a well
set fellow black hair tied up, wore away a pair of
pumps that had been foald, anda pair of plated buc
kles had a good caster hat .and a ^or felt hat a
check'd flannel shirt and one of linnen, had a coat
and jacket o'mix d clotli a dark brown, and a pair
of breeches o(the fame said fellow has had the
small pox. Whoever will take up and secure said
slave or return him to the fubferiber shall haveten dol
lars reward and all necHfary charges paid, by
Norwalk May ;,, '"N^ Arieses Comstock.
TUESDAY, May 26, i„t T^E [Numb. 6964
CONNECTICUT COURANT,
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And THE
WEEKLY INTELLIGENCES
For the Connecticut Courant.
THE ppen and flagrant breaches of the regulat
ing a& call for a fpir ted remedy. What
those men do with their oaths who have I'worn to
prosecute all, breaches of law that come to their
knowledge I don't know: Butlam persuaded the
reason is that they fee so many breaches of this law,
as convinces them that nothing but confufipn and
difofder would be the conference of profecutions'
All the cattle purchased for Qoarmy since the 20th
of March faft, have been fair for a much higher
price than that fixed by law. As well may every
other article be fold so as that of beef. Indeed al
most every article is either fold, higher than the law
ful price or withheld and cot fold at all. 'The
aft has not been nor ever will be attended to---The
greatest sticklers for it will net fell at the prices fix
ed, except in small quantities': and this town and
many others are diftrefled or provisions. Our
supplies to feed the present ai mbly are in some in
stances obtained by barter, an? in others by a vio
lation of the aft Besides there.are but twoor three
other states that have adopt d it and those who
have do not fell according to it but universally
withholding wherever the ad is meant to operate
prevails. Our reprefentativc in congress are fully
of opinion that 'tis belt the arc be suspended till the*
other states come into it.
Quepe. Why is the price r'falt manufactured in
Connecticut fated at 275. when in New-Jersey it
is 48 s.
Answer. In tonnedic" he persons concerned
in the manufactory near th: tea shore pay a high
pries for t'heir wgod; and t. •.- up the risers trans
port th^ir water at a great f „Je. In New Jersey
they get, tneir wood fez cubing, and their hater
flows into their cisterns. Poor Connecticut, tapped
at both ends (asufual)- you are now bung down
and your wealth running out into the laps of your
sister states.
LONDO N.
~TheSpERCH of the Right Hon. the Earl of AB
INGTON, in the House of Lords, on Thursday,
the iith of December, 1777.
\ My Lords.•
I AM just came up from the country, as I foppo
fed to do, with the rest of your Lordships our
business in Parliament; but J find that we are alrea
dy met here to day, in order to be sent about cur
business into the country- as if the business of Par
liament was not our business, and that we are called
uponly to do the business ^Ministers. Supplies
are voted, and. at this tremendous con un&ure of
events, there is it seems no further need of the great
CONST! fUTIONAL Council of the nation.
But my Lords before 1 go, I will leave one
word behind me; it is an important word, and its
fubjed matter is of a very puffing nature.
My Lords, when a noble Duke, whose manly
and spirited conduH against this war of slavery Will
ever have the testimony of my warmest applause,
made his motion the other day for an enquiry into
the state of the nation, his Grace said and he desired
his motion might be understood as a general motion,
open to every enquiry, and not simply confined to
any propositions of his own; it is therefore, my
Lords, under the shelter of this noble Duke's moti
on that I have now a motion of my own to make,
in addition tothefe that have been already recited.
My Lords, humanity has ever been the charac
teristic of Englishmen ; but, my Lords- whether
corruption has, with our morals changed our vei r
feelings or whether it be owing to that EXOTIC
influence which has so long di/efted our councils,
or not it is not for me so determine; but my
Lords, instead of hu^an/ty, our national charac
ter is NOW stamped with INHUMANITY; and
"whatis worse we . have the DAMNING PROOFS
before ou, eyes.
My Lords fam informed' , and fry information
is so hedepended upon that the American prifonefs
in this cour. ry (men who are mace prisoners in the
glorious c use ofIJBFRTY and are nick named
robots _Qur,; to :a:;cc{fv tie rebellion ©(Ministers
against the freedom of this country) are treated with
a SAVAGE- BARBARITY.
My Lords, I have heard some of their complaints,
and they have gone to my heart. I will give you
one of them in iriftanbe.
My Lords; we all know, Or the Rev Bench of
Bishops will tell us so. that there are certain religi
ous objections against inoculating for the small pox.
I hefe objection 's, the Americans for the molt part,
have; and in proportion to the credulity of the
objection, do the fears of the disease increase. It
Was neceflary, my Lord^ to premise this ; now for
the FACT. In one ofthe prisons a prisoner was
inoculated for the small pox ; # and after the eruption
appeared, the patient was put into a cell with five
Americans, who had never had the disorder. They
exprUTed their fears ; and I do luppofe they were
therefore called COWARDSbut this your
Lordinip) may be allured ofc that neither fears,
nor tears, not prayers, were able to remove the
SICK from the WELL
My Lords if this be ABETTED and does not
meet with CONDiGN punishment, all government
here is at an end and civil society no more, for,
"" Lords, what is civil society, but a PUBLIC
combination for private protection.
My present motion therefore, my Lords is,
y That ^n humble Address be presented to his Ma.
jefty requeuing that he will be pleased to dared,
that all orders and inductions which have beeri
given by the officers, whose business it is, to the fe
deral goalers, or keepers of other houses of confine
ment ' r ° m time to time since the commencement of
hostilities, and the brining of American prifeners
into this country, down to the firft of the present
r^ath Decease-, refeeddg the h^ory and treat
ment of the far'd prisoners, m*y be laid before this
House; and th^t the returns which have been made
to office from the said prisons, of their numbers and
deaths together with the accounts of each article
of expence, attending their certfinement, may like
wise be produced,
My Lords, I have made this motion, not on!,
from the feelings of humanity, but from motives of
l°"°'° '?"' Lordships will remember tha^
there is such a thing as the law of RETALIATION.
Whilst you ate making prisoners of the Americans
by fifties and hundreds, they are making priso
ners of you by WHOLE ARMIES. The fate of
General Burgoyne is KNOWN; and if Gene
ral Howe do . not again shift his position,
his fate will be the fame. My Lords, I will only
add, that I hope this motion will be agreed to, and
that ±t will be productive of good; but, my Lords,
as itwill be some time before it can have its effect I
must fignify to four Lordihips, that it is my inten
tion in fbe mean while to promote as much as lies
in me, a subscription for the relief of these unfortu
nate prisoners. in hopes of procuring the contribu
tion of every noble Lord of this House; for my
Lords the majorty Lords who have benefited by
the American war can afford 'it, Those who have
not [the bishops] will remember, that CHARI
TY COVERETH A MULTITUDE of SiNS
2nd as to the minority Lords I fhail not defp a]r of
'T at least as mu ch monev for
these HONEST WHIGS as Was procured sos
Qote TORY Priests, who, for attempting to uri
"'"" °' Afnerica were driven out
of 1 HAT country, and are, perhaps for tbe fame
purpofe^now pensioned in THIS.
STRAYED from the Subfcrito^hV Beginning
Aptil last. a likely deep sorrel MARE colt three
V™ rs old has a whi^ftreakin her forehead a small
F T of white hairs on hefbody no brand,not
dock d has not beets ranch handled, is a natural trot
er. Whoever will Return Aid colt or give notice
that the owner ma, find her, fhali b, generously re-
Warded, and haveneceffary charges paid by
„ J°H^ Watson,jun.
May 1% 1773.
'R— A ^^_p_. ,
Ci ASH' given for clean coffon and finer. ' RA<s
I of any colour or quality a t the Printh&@fe
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