The Connecticut courant, and the weekly intelligencer — Hartford [Conn.], 1782-03-26 00:00:00, page 1

CHICOPEE BRIDGE LOTTERY.
THE Managers of a Lottery, instituted for the Purpose of
eroding a Bridge over Chicopee River, in the Town
of Springfield, in the County of Hampshire,Commonwealth
of Massachusetts, on the great Road from Springfield to
Hadley, agreeable to an Ad of the General Court of said
Commonwealth, of the third Day ofMarch, 1782 ; hereby
present to the Public the following
SCHEM E:
To consist of 4167 Tickets, at Two Dollars each, 8534
Dollars.
, J2OO of which are Prizes of the following Value, viz.
I of 500 Dollars, is 500 Dollars
2 200 400
3 iso , 300
6 50 300\
X 35 35°
20 10 300
1154 4 4^16
12®o Prizes 6666
2,67 Blanks. For buildingfaid Bridge, 1668
4167 . 8334
As said Bridge is greatly needed, and will be of Special
Advantage to the Public, in accommodating Travellers
crossing laid River, the Managers flatter themselves they
shall be able to commence the Drawing said Lottery in a
short Time. Seasonable Notice Will be given of the Time
and Place ; and as soon as said Lottery is drawn, a Lift of
Prizes will be published in the Connecticut Courant, and
benefit Tickets paid off in Twenty Days after said Lottery
is Drawn, fubjed to no Deduction.
Prizes not demanded within fix Months, will not be paid,
but deemed as generously given for the Purpose of building
said Bridge.
*#* Tickets may be had of William Puncheon,
jun. Thomas Williflon, Luke Blifo, Jonathan
Hale, jun. and Gideon Burt, of Springfield,
who are appointed Managers of said Lottery.
4>fkAYED or STOLEN out of Farmington Meadows,
O last Fall, a redish brown HEIFER, two years old
this Spring, no marks.---Whoever has taken up said Heifer
and will give Information to the Subferiber where she may
be found, shall be handlomely rewarded, and all necessary
charges paid, by
SAMUEL LEWIS.
Farmington, March 20, 1782.
F 1 S K B EAC H,
COLLECTOR of State Taxes for the Town of
GOSHEN,
HAVING received a Number of Warrants from the
Treasurer, since the firft of December, 1780 ; and
being called on in the most pressing Terms to make Settle
ment-takes this Method to inform all Persons that have
not fettled their Rates with him, that he shall attend on that
Business at Landlord KETTLES, in said Town, on the firft
Monday of each Month, in the present Year; and on the
Saturday of each Week, at his own House—-And all Per
sons that owe Rates, and do not fettle within two Month
after they become due, may depend on being called on at
•heir own Houses; and not only be obliged to pay their
Rates, but Inch Fees as the Law allows.
N. B. Said BEACH also desires all Persons that are in
debted to him, on Account of the Partnership of MILES
and BEACH, and others, in the Year 1780—10 make im
mediate Payment; or expe& to be called on in a Way
disagreeable to him and expensive to them.
Goshen, March 20, 1782.
To be SOLD, cheap for C ASH.
AFARMlying in Wilbraham, containing about one
hundred and eighty acres of good land, proper build
ings, a good well, a good young orchard, a great part under
improvement, a large flock may be kept winter and sum
mer, and a large quantity of grain ra ised, well wooded and
watered : A reaforable time of payment for a part may be
had on good security. For further particulars inquire of
landlord ENOCH CHAPIN, on Springfield plains, or Dr.
STEARNS of frid Wilbraham, or the fufyferiber.
„. „ DANIEL ROBBINS.
March 25, 1782.
~C A N N ON.
DOUBLE FORTIFIED fix and nine pounders, which will
weigh about thirteen hundred each, and Hand full
proof, may be had at Salisbury Furnace, if engaged soon,
Thefaperior quality of the guns made at dm furnace, is
too well known to need recommendation#
March 7, 1782..
WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER.
HARTFORD : Printed by H 1J D SON and GOODWIN, near the Great Bridge.
TUESDA Y, March 26, 1782.
Messrs. PRINTERS,
You are requested to publish the enclosed Ad
dress of his Excellency the Governor to the
General Assembly during their late Session,
and the Report of the Committee of both
Houses thereupon. It is a Publication which
by undeceiving many virtuous Citizens, will
not only do Honour to an injured Individual,
but Service to your Country.
To the Honourable General Afembl, now fitting.
A Member of the honorable House of Repre
sentatives handed in a letter to me of the
21 ftinftant, which is herewith offered for your
observation, and opens the occasion of this ad
dress.
Perhaps no person in the United States Was
earlier apprized of the origin and ffi fidions design
of our enemies, to set on foot and carry on a
trade and commerce, with this and the other
States, for the manufactures or merchandize of
this country, or more deeply sensible of its dan
gerous and pernicious effects ; and I am per
suaded no one has been, or could be, more active
and vigilant to prevent the execution of that en
snaring and ruinous project : And during my
administration, my whole time and talents have
been devoted to and intent upon, the salvation of
my country, and the defence of its inestimable
rights, against the open force, and more danger
ous secret fraud, of our restless and implacable
enemy.
My chara&erand conduct in these refpeas, I
am happy to believe, meets the approbation of
all the true friends in this State, in proportion to
their knowledge and acquaintance with it, and
is not unknown through all these States and in
Europe.
Pardon me gentlemen, I am far from boasting,
I have not done more, but less than my duty;
and it is my highest temporal with, to do much
more good to my State and country, and to fee
its liberty and independence established on a firm
and immovable basis. But who can stand against
the secret and malignant whispers of envy and
falfhood, which, like the peftifence, walketh in
darkness!
My character is dearer to me than all worldly
emoluments, or the remains of a life so far spent
and exhausted in the service of my country.
For several years past accumulated and en
creafing danders, similar to the present, have
been whispered and secretly spread and propa
gated concerning me, by the radical enemies of
our country's cause, by deceived or malicious
persons, or all, as I must believe. Conscious
innocence andintegrity have enabled me calmly
to bear them ; and in my circumstances I have
not thought it prudent or proper to seek a legal
redress, although, in some instances, I could ea
sily have traced the slanders to their authors; and
my neglecting to seek such redress, has, to my
knowledge, been construed into an acknowledg
ment of guilt.
If indeed I be guilty, or have any connexi
ons with a conduct so contrary to the laws and
interests of my country,and which I protest from
my heart to detest and abhor, is it not high time
to be known,and for me to be spurned from your
confidence and trust ? The author of the present
report may be brought to your view, the way is
open for it.
Permit me to afk,if I be and have been thus
guilty, whether your honour, wisdom or integri
ty, or all, are not also affe&ed, while by your
fuffiages, I hold a Ration too important for even
a fufyeded person to fill (--Whether under all
these circumstances, it may not become the ho
nor and dignity of this virtuous assembly, to in
quire into and investigate the truth or falfhodd
of the fads alledged, and let my guilt, if it ap
pears, be fully exposed ? It is my wish ;-—but
cheerfully submitted to the wisdom and justice of
this honorable assembly;
By their faithful obedient
Humble servant,
JONATHAN TRUMBULL.
Hartford, January 29, 1782.
In the Lower House;
General Silliman, Mr. Canfield, Mr. Souths
Worth and Col. Talcott appointed a committee
upon this representation, to join with such gen
tlemen as the Upper House (hall appoint,-- -to
examine into this matter and report their opini
on what ought to be done.
Test. STEPHEN M. MITCHEL, Clerk
.In the Upper House.
Oliver Elsworth, Esq; is appointed to join the
gentlemen appointed by the lower house in the
affair aforementioned.
Test; GEORGE WYLLYS, Secretary.
To the Heneurabie General Assembly now fitting.
YOUR Honors committee appointed to exa
mine into the matters represented in the
foregoing address of his Excellency the Gover
nor, and report make---beg leave to report,
That we have attended to and examined into
these matters, and have called before us such per
sons as we were induced to believe, might be a
ble to give us proper information in the matter:
And we find that about the fevehth day of Ja
nuary last, a certain Granger (whose name we
have not been able to discover) who said he be^
longed to Middletown, at a tavern in Enfield, in
converfa+ion with a number bf people there pre
sent, said that a vcffel that belonged to his Excel
lency the Governor, arid which was employed in
carrying on the illicit trade with the enemy, had
been then lately taken coming froth the enemy
loaded with goods, and that /be was brought in
to one of our ports for condemnation ;---and
added that it might be depended upon as an un
doubted truth. The ftrafiger passed on up Con
necticut river, but the story which he told be
came soon the topic of converfatlon among the
people of Enfield. And we also find that after
this, Mr. Joseph Kingsbury, of Enfield, one of
the company present at the tavern, when the
story was firft told by the aforefaid ftraftger, in
conversation with one of the inhabitants of this
town at Enfield, mentioned the story to him, as
others had done before, and added, that he had
heard so much about these rtUtter# fcfpt&ing
the Governor's being concerned in illicit trade,
that he began almaft to believe that they were
true. This, we are of opinion, from the mari
ner of speaking (though incautiously And >m^
prudently spoken) was not laid with ' design to
injure his Excellency.
We have also endeavoured to discover what
foundation there was for this report, but cannot
find the least reason even to fuffea that ever his
Excellency the Governor gave the least counte
nance whatever, to illicit trade with the enemy,
much less that he ever had any concern with it
himfelf. Yorir committee are of opinion, that all
report^cf chat kind, ^peaing his Excellency,
zre falie, fcandalons and altogether groundless,
and that they most probably originate from the
partisans and emiftartes of the enemy, that are
(No. 896.)