The Connecticut courant, and the weekly intelligencer — Hartford [Conn.], 1779-09-07 00:00:00, page 4

Sprinted from tie Pennffluania Packet, by
particular Djite, tn oraer to fir up an In
quiry into, with a View to reform public
Abuses in the General HoJpital Department.
For the Pennsylvania Packet.
TO THOSE at the HELM who Lave been
au'horiftd to grant Appoir'men s, and particular
ly to the Special Committee, ctof&n to en
q are into a r i4 reform abuses in the Quarter Mah
ten, H fpiul and Ccmmiffa rial Departments.
A L?EADY has he impropriety of one appoint
f,l ment, of aD, QMader General been fobmit
ted 'c your confederation. It was then promrfed to
ex .ibit other delinquents and other abuses to public
no ice. I/-thofe in the Hofphal Department at
Daaburv rex chim your a tention, A memorial
and patriot dated D c. 14^ 1778 has been long
fi ce f'ajfmHted to Conr'tG, conpWn'ng of the
iniquity a-d dtforic conduct cf D-&rr Isaac Fo%r,
Depuy D rector General of the H'ripitals at Dan
burr ( idcr Dr. Wlliara Shippen jun. D<e&or
Gene, 11 4 all the Hosp al department in Am©ic&).
Tne Memorialists save long impacendy waited
the eve jin, pt bhcation for a rediefs of grievan
ce ^/Lut re erving any answer They ilk what
is become of that Memoriz! ? Surely, fay tney no
private friendffip rrhm;y connexion, has inter
poled to fetetn a delinquent of tha magnitude from
public jifice. I appears by /be Minutes cf Con
gref; a e if that Memorial wai referred to the co fide
ration of the Medical Committee, Jan. 14 1779.
Har .the committee made no report yer upon ?It
must 'hen probably be laid under the table :o iltep.
Inorder to awaken it unto new ,ife a d to qu cken
an 'r q ury mt- it, is the charitable design of this
f'ae fobferibers of t' a' Memorial are Mipiratei
and other p inc pal inhabitants if the trwn cf Dan
bury, in the Are cf Cou^ & rut. Tlryfet forth
to Conr^fa,- That thry are vo y uneasy on recount
Oi h* etdud of D &or Ifaa Foter, as by his ne
g'ed o. # iitteitioa, t ie sick were enrirelydsfi trie
cf .7 ,od in that cold and inclement winter ferfin
(1 D ctmte?) the conf*q lence of which was their
b^r ting the rails, and laying wife the inebfam of
the inhabitants, (in aft of fava^e violence, equally
ho tie and brenuouf, They further declare, that
the public Hoe, intro fled to him are profufely 'qusn
dered and wafied; and, that Doriot Foflerh: a:bi
uuy a/d tyrannical conduA eras accor parried with
fact menaces ar could not be patiently endured by
freemen. A# 1 appeared probable to them, that a
new armament nt Hop a]matters rrrofl take ,?a
or the ferv c: frff% amazingly, (rd Congreft ^,
indeed sct openly declared the tvar cannot be sup
ported by em ffions cf paper rconey, without the
enormous abufa pra&ifed by this and the other Staff
departments are correaed) they humbly and unani
mn,fl, remonfate^ainft the re appointment of D # .
F:f'er t, ffice. So far that memo,'al. It is father
3ffi ued on very food authority, that a gentleman in
office under D: Fo^tr was crufhrd some time ago
to prevent % dp/ | c^feqvec©^ *hzt would eifue
to ue D'uft 7 if his & 0 mo^ expenditures of ,11b
lie mo uy should be made known. aid winch hat
gentleman dec 1 *s hr ^i|| rubl £h whh 'he vouch
t whenever ^A/ Fofl-Z, cond ais enquired
into. ' Can it h p:ffi!ie. (favan eye wiintii wlO
' h?a raffed through the H iprial) that the weft
' pumpoil enter acumens and orders givn upon
the public Acres which be knows tc baa fa& to
-the fopply cf men at ph^fure, that ae as uncon.
'r^Aed with tie H fphal as the north is with the
' fauth, are 'o be supported at a peblc charge, un
' der the L ead of H^ptal expenditures „dn,ila
tions ?' Go on, SOdD A.<Fl; i r the fop
cf you: rc/ P-inc pal and Lender. Make F tends
at the public cost, a d you need # ot sac havn,a
powerful par ,to ft,port you; for he (fays 3
grea; Pa x>?) mud be but a poor rogue indeed, who
ermot make friends tojuftfy his measures however
difgracioui/
Al tHy h s the qnefiion ben aiked in this poper
by Old F ffiiqn, Wt ether if a pr fcu were to exhi
bi a complaint to CentreA that one of h servants
w^ b.ify 11 plundering the public, could we know
within a twelvemonth wh was done to chrk and
bring the delinquent tc jufti:s! I aniw^r thirty men
have exhibited such a complaint, cf which no no
tice is taker, fix months as er. Whe~her it will wth
in the twelve month is uncertain. C^ngref# being
overwhelmed with business cf the greatest importance,
whch leave little leisure for such investigations. Is
it because the nuferndua of great men, in cffice,
for! dale not call dem servants of the public t'e
violation of the ^/b # of Foremen, or the txtrava-
„ T ^ ^•! public money of which we hear so
* Ihe Hun. Mr. Laurcas, late Kefident of Congress.
much and grow callous upon it, are not objeAs that
merit immediate consideration ? What then, ate not
the names of thirty refpcdrble freeholders, Magri
traits and Sekamen of .he town of Danbury &c. of
authority enough to give any weight to the changes,
or to acquire an immediate enquiry into the fads in
question I Deserve no those complaints that the ac
cufcd person should be trizd. and that the Memori
alifr be called upon to appear in evidence against
him I We have heard cf one perfun condemned and
ignominiotfly aimiffed the fa vice, without a trial,
and without a Angle charge brought again ft him, in
that very department, on vague clamours, and now
although thirty fieemen unite in fpecifying the of
fences committed by this perlon, and those too ofa
very capital nature, yet intend of calling the accuf
ed to any account we find by the minutes entered
on their Journals that on the 12th day of June last
he obtained a warrant on application for One Hun
DRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND Dollars, he giving
his receipt to be accountable. Are these actions
true or falfe ? Let the person who can, appear to
deny them. And yet Congress gravely tells us in
their address to the publics which is thrown ou to
prepare the good fubjeds of these States to farndh or
fink for y millions for the present year, as if it wee
a small affair to aik, ' We hold ourfeives In duty
6 bound to declare, that we arenot convinced there
' has been as much diligence tried in de efiing and
4 reforming abuses, as 1? commuong or compla n
0 ing of them.' Is it p ffible ? I am ready tu aik,
which of my ferries J the lying one ; that by which
I fee or that by which I hear. Irevue Congress as
much as any man, but cannot implicitly give into all
I hear. I can only reconcile those euntradifhonsby
fcpp.fing Congred know not that the memorial re
ferud 0 above was ever before thrm. Let them
con salt their own Minuses of Jan. 14, 1779, and of
Jure 12 h.
To return. If DcHor Fofler is unjuflly accused,
why should he not be called upon to make that ap
pert ? If ja%ly, why is he ftll intruded wi.h foim
p nant a charge as the expenditure of public money
and the lives of the sick and wounded ell another
campaign is over, in which time the pace of the
H. # pils may be fhifcd he may refiga, or the evi
aenecs againd him aenwved or difcouta^cd from ap
plating. Call him then to a speedy trial. If oe is
innocent, he will be acq^itrid li guilty, let fen
fence be pronounced, and every vulture rhat has
preyed on the vitals of the public be made '0 drigorge
the unjafi prey. Is it not a?omfh^|, or is it not
true, that whilst cur excellent General and Commaa
der in chief sets an example of frugality that will
do;im no left honor r.n his viAories, the Prin
ciPALcfrie Hofpiul Department and his Extern
Dt^y have lived l<ke Ea£em Princes and fiom the
flendar allowance cf a few dollars a day pay, have
had the art to raise lordly eflatee?
ASPECTATOR.
Daniel Taylor Thomas Starr, jan Z Taylor,
Amu#Hoyri Andrew Comdock Lemuel Gregory,
E i.atban Grego..y John T:oubrid,e Nathan Starr,
A rjv Starr, Nathan Gregory, Levi Stone, Mat
thew G'e,cry Brnajah Starr.
T adrih Bened.a, Eh Myatt (Justices of Perce)
Sep tn Trowbridge, Jofhus K^pp Sele&men for
■777
J^p'- Benedict, Major Tayler; Comfort Hofl,
D- d Brecon Elijah Hoyt, Seleamen for 1778.
Z'doc< BrnedA T adens Barium, Josiah Siarr,
Di 1 d Hitchcock, Ezra Dabble. Richard Shute,
Hi d .ty PUBLIC NOTI Eis
July 31; 1779. hereby given in s!l con
ce. id at a Libel isfiud before Jabez Hamlin
Esq; j'd eof the county court in the county of
Huric d, arid the fchocntr Maria, burthen 80
toy Eraimu. Hay eslaie matter, he: tacklin, appar
reii, ar d cargo in favor cfDavid Brooks commander
of the Privateer Schoorer called 'he Eagle and his
afl&ca s the capofa and fetter- forth rfthe said
fchocnerEagle who took her upon the hi,h fcu,
and fen: her into the county of Hartford# and for the
tryal of the juflice of fid capture he maritime court
for the county of Hartford will be held at Hertford
in said county oa Wednesday the 22d day of Sept,
next, at which time all persons claiming property,
m^y appear and £hew reason if any they have why
the said crooner Maria with her apparrell and car
go, humid Ist be adj .dged a, lawful prize to the
c pem and fetters ferth agreeable to the prayer of the
libellants.
By ord^r of the Judge,
GEORGE WYLLYS Refl;
To fatisfy every candid mind whether there is rea
son or not to call for a public enquiry into the con.
dua of Dc&or Fofler the name* of the truly wor
thy gentlemen who fubfetibed the iuerr oriri and re
monflunce againfi him, a s here annexed, by
STRAYED from the pafraye of John Martin, in
Winrenbury, a dark blown MARE 5 yeais
old, rtois acd paces, facing built, good hr draft,
no brand or mark, has a few white hairs under her
fcreiop, shod all round. Wheeve rwill take up said
Mare and return far to the fubferiber in New Hiven.
or to Mr Daniel Goodwin, in Hartford. Ihall have
twenty dollars reward and charges paid, bv
JOHN MARTIN.
Autuft 12. 1779.
WHEREAS myw.feDEßGkaH SEDGWICK,
uses me with info'enc behaviour unoui ful
carraige, and hard provoking words, too bad to
pubhfh ; has fold and imbezzeh'd my goods and
estate, and perfitts in so doing. I is therefore ne
cessary for me to forbid all peifons trading wab her.
trusting of her, or harbouring her for I will not pay
any debts shall contrail after this date.
SAMUEL SEDGWICK.
Carman. A}<2. 1770
.Aieffi'rs KELLIGEK & fUDALL,
Havejuft ope ed, and tow rca rt y for Sale at .heir
Store epp fi e he Printing-Office, a quantity
of ENGLISH GOODS among which are
the following articles :
COARSE and fine Linens, Chintzes, Callicoes.
Poplins, figur'd plain, black and white Gauzes,
G^z: Ha rikerchefr silk cotton and linen ditto,
fill'd & plain Lawns Miflins, Lateftr n,, Modes;
Satinets, and Pelong, Grern Umbrelloes. black silk
Bonnets. Ribbons bl,ck and white Laces Sewing
Silks, Silk Stay Lac6s. Woman, best worsted M tti;
Hairbines, Shalloons, Surge Denim spotted and
plain Jeans, Men's worked thread and hemp Hose,
Boys hemp and thread d.tto, Scotch Cord, brown
and striped Holland, Bed Bunts and Ticks, Fans by
the Groce Dozen or fingie Fan. HJman'rbeft Lon{
don Ink Powder, good Tea and Sugar by the hun4
dred or smaller quantity, with many other article#
too tedious to mention, which they will fell on the
mo'l reasonable terms for Continental Bills.
Hartford June 26, 1779. g§
N. B. Choce Snuff in Bladders, by the Cwt. or
smaller quantity.
TO BR SOLD,
By FREDERICK BULL,
At the Store cf Mr Caleb Bull, near the Ferry in
Hartford
A Quantity ofGlaffes & Queen's
WARE 'uch a: D flies, Plates, Beakers, Wine
Glasses &c.
Just come to H-nd and to be Sold a- th- S>op of
THADEUS LEAVITT,
In Suffield.
BROADCLOTHS, Coatings, Ba zes, Shalloons,
Drawbys. Camlets, figur'd Rufols Morces,
b^ck and colour'd Crapes. M ffinets, silk Cambists;
Dorfetteeni, Mecklenburgs, Callimancoes, twenty
pieces printed Linens, Calhcces and Chin zes,
printed In en Handkerchiefs, flriped Luteflring,
Cast and B/eaft Buttons' Sewing Silk. Twist and
Mohair, Gauzes and Gp Wire, German Steely
Quality and Shoe Binding, best Bohea Tea by th®
Chr.fi or Ib. Jamaica Rum by the H'd. or Gallon;
Sa ; R ; hl„, 500 we^ r cf excelsnt Saddle Leather.
Fo BE SOLD
By GOODRICH& WRIGHT,
In Pittsfield,
RUM Tea, a good aßortaeiri of Cloth#. Hoik
low Ware, Alcm, Ccper&s Indigo. A gene*
ial assortment cf Medicines by wholesale or retail;
A varie.y of other articles too tedious to mention.
STRAYED or stolen from David Strong's pafiure
in Bolton, an Iren Gray HORSE, about 14
hands high trots light and (hurt, carries himfdf well,
sor 6 years old, bred in Pomfret. Whoever has or
Mill take up said herfe and fecore him so that the
owner may have him again shall &, well rewarded
and all rafonabh charges paid by
AARON OLMSTED.'
Hertford, August so, 1779,
Q iRAYED from the padure cf the fubfenber at
J Litchfield, a large brindled OX. Whoever
will take up said Ox and return him or fend word to
the fubferiber, shall be hend/cmely rewarded, by
THOMAS PHILLIPS,
Litchfield, August 10, 1779.
Liffion S AL T,
Of the best Quality, by the hundred bushel, Hhd;
or Smaller quantity to br Sold by
JOHNCALDE R,
In Hartford.