The Connecticut courant, and the weekly intelligencer — Hartford [Conn.], 1780-10-31 00:00:00, page 4

^ RiViDgoß's N^ York paper, of July i^'fh, is
the following letter.
Europe, cff Sandy-Hook, July |6, 1780.
Mr. RIVINGTO N,
BY command of the Admiral, I subjoin for pnb^
location an ex fall of a letter lately received
'' v ° Sir George Bridget Rodney, the naval com
,ander in chief cf the leeward Elands : He defire#
it may be inferred in your paper ^ soon a, possible.
Sandwich, Grcfs-Iflst Bay, St. Lucia,
18th June, 1780.
ON the 17th of April we had a general engage
ment with the French fleet under the Corate de
Gaichen. His Majesty's squadron confined cf 20
fail of the line, the enemy's of 23 ; after an obflinate
and bloody adion the enemy slid on every fide ;
but it was full 48 hours before we could' pursue
them.
We followed them until the 221 cf May, how
ever nothing could tempt them to a second sAion;
though, on the 15th and 19th, we forced them to
two rencountres. In these the enemy had 23 fail
of the line, the British confined cf 17 and 2 fifties;
yet they pofilhnimoufly ptrfifled to avoid a second
general a&ion.
By all accounts their loss has been great indeed.
Ail their hospitals at Martinico, at Guadeloupe and
Dominique, being more than full. They own to
have 1500 hilled in the firft battle, and 600 in the
two rencounter.
I am your mo 9 obedient humble fervantj
WILL. GREEN, Sefy.
To Vice-Admiral Arbuthnot
This is cue cf the awkwatdeA letters for a com
grander in chief to write that ever I read. In the
firfi place, it locks as if he was devihfhly unwilling
to write at all ; fcr it is dated two months after the
h'B action, and one month after the left. "On
the 17th of April," fays the Admiral. " we had a
general engagement with the French fleet under the
Comte de Guichen. Hi# Majesty's fqnadron con
fining of 20 fail of the line, the enemy's of 23 ;
after an ebflinate aqd bloody a&ion the enemy fled
on every fide." What the Admiral means by
" every fide" I am at a loss to underhand, untefs he
means that they went just which way they pleated,
which I fuppefe was the case.
B^t it was mol confoundedly unlucky that the
Admiral could not flop them force where or o^hcr.
Now if he had but thought to have funk a fcw of
his big copper bottoms in some of the narrow chan
"''' '""'" f ^' waves, and so flopped up the
pf"ih'— ^d n^ ^d the rest ofbis flips to the top
of tke wzv<s. Lt m^ht have played hob with them,
andkep. them e ^e till he bad sent to England for
* reinfercerent, and rt lad taken every skin of them.
Bet icr want of this, he let them get away on which
ever fide they had a mind to 00.
Ihue much for the battle. Now for the purfelt,---
„', van managed by the Admiral with a won
deriu? crxi cf prudnrce ; for, left they ffiould go
away e;ain, he tock care not to come up with them,
nor yet to lock fcr them, till 48 hou*iafter they
wee gone. New though this was certainly a wife
p^cauden, yet it unfortunately creates a fafpicion
tUt he ran away firft himfelf; for what (by his
own zecoant) could he be doing between the time
the action elefed and the time the pursuit began,
"hich was 43 hours. He muff either be running
rway or landing Sill. And, as he woeld hardly
chocfe to wane hit time in doing the latter, we are
' hged to fuppefe he did the former ; that is, he
ran away fcr 43 hours, and feeing himfelf fafely
cf fight, turned about to fee whether the French
were following him.
Now all this is perfectly natural ; for hunt what
you will, as soon as the thing hunted gets at a fafe
difance. and fupprfes that you have „ven ever the
cfafe, it turns back and hunts you. You never fee
a mt run into a hole, but it whips round and peeps
to fee where you are ; and do yen think that Sir
George Bridger Rodney, Admiral of Great Britain,
who has lived almost his whole life time upon the
water, has net as much ferfe as a rai?
" We followed them," fays Sir George M until
the 22d of May," which is five weeks. Now this
is a plain proof that be bid net fellow very faft ; yet
this deliberate kind of following, ot rather dogging,
is what Sir George means by pursuing. " How
ever nothing," continues he, '• codd tempt them
" to a fecond#aion, though on the 15th and 19th
"we freed them to two rerciuntres. In theft the
" French had twenty-three ships of the line ; the
" British fleet confined cf 17 and two fifties."
Une io a kind of a gap in the fiery, which wants
filing up. The French 1 fee have the frme number
of fhfp# they bad at firfi, the British three leu. The
case 1 fnppefe is, that Sir George ras beaten in the
firft sEbon, and forced to fend three cf his L fhips into
port ; but the! is 2 ferret between h'm red all the
rest of the world. •• Yet, uotwithfoding this su
periority," fays Sir George, "they prfillan "moi;fly
perfifed to avoid a fecund general adion." I wish
Sir George would learn to write like a gentleman,
or pet fomthedy to write for him.
Now for the lift of thekJhdand sconced. "By
" all account," fays Sir Cec§g% "their loss (fcr
" he fays not a word stout his cvr) hrs beta
" great indeed ! Al their bofpihls at Mauinico,
" Guadeloupe ard Dominique, being more than
" full." The devil Oey are! I h@ve heard cf an
Irishman who complained that his glaft was net big
enough to hold a temper; but Sir George crnld
.have redrafted his grievance, and taught him hr w
to make it held more than a bumper. New wlen
a place is full, and you went to, put in it more than
it can hold, that ft to nuke it fuller than fell yen
muß not feed fcr an Irifhnnn, but an Adrifrsi; ard
that no left a one than Sir Geerge Bridges Rocney,
naval commander in chief at the Leeward Islands.
I ara, Moufieur Rodneys humble f-rvant,
A, B, C D fcrl thi. kit time hs
fhou d learn the d| babet.
,>^B^B#^^®®!®®&®
', ° '™ s°^° by the Subscribers: and entered
L on the firfi day of April next, r ^erd con
venient and well fiaifhed DWELLING HOUSE,
a lar^e Barn and Cow House, pleafauriy situated, a
little north cf the State House, in Hanford ; and
about eight Acres of Land, on which it cut, yeariv,
twenty tons of the beff Ea^fh hay, with a number
of bearing Apple and oth:r Fruit Trees; and ?
jufily esteemed one of the bed hem^fcds in the
town,---ALSO, Four Acres of the bro of Land
with a good House, Barn 2nd Out Hoefer, a ye^r^
Bearing Orchard, and* variety .f Frit Trr&
pleasantly situated fez a private ,ertlrman, a little
^ of the South Mestin, Hcufe; and ray ^ en
<md on the firft day rs May next...ALSO, Eight
Acres cf choice Mowing Land, within a few rods
of the premises. - ALSO, about Forty Acres cf
Land, lying in fundr, lots, in the North and South
Meadow.--- ALSO, about Fifty Acres of Land
suitable fcr plowing and paHurin, with a valuable
growth of Wood thereon.--.ALSO, Two Wcod
Lets, containing abpvt fourteen acres.— The
when of said land# lit handy for improvement of
the person cr persons that may parchaft the home
ftead#.---Any gentleman inclined to purchase the
whole, or any part thereof, may know the condition,
and fee the preraifes, by applying to
FELETIAH PIERCE.
Hertford, Oacber 9.
AL L Ptrfons indebted to thee^ate cf RICHARD
Alsop, Esq. late of Middletown, demo'd,
on bond or note; are defredto call on the febferiber,
and pay the intere^ due on them ; and, ell perfens
having accounts unsettled cn book, are defred fpea
dily to call and fettle the fame, by note of hand. If
the above reqheft i# not complied with, vry forn,
the fubferiber will be under tie dift^mble r.eccffity
of calling cn 'here in a way they wdl not like.
MARY ALSO?, Administratrix.
Middletown, O&obrr 23, 1780.
~WT UlctTm' IT 0 ^E-R-S?
Has for file, athisS ore opposite the Printing Office
the following Articles (from Boston) viz.
Broadcloths. Baizes,
Velvet#, Taborets,
Calamancoes, Hairbines.
Drawbeye m D miiby%
Mode Silks, Handkerchief#,
Silk and Worked Hose, Duroys,
Sergedenims, &c, &e. &c.
October 23, 1780.
TIMOTHY FALTER,
Hat for sale, at his Store in Suffirid ;
JAMAICA RUM, by the bhd. cr barrel;
Tea, by the che% cr hatched : Fepper, by the
hundred ; Spice, by the hundred ; Cbccolafr, by the
bex; Indigo by the hundred; Silk Handkmhiefs,
by the dozen. „ Also, one funded Phihddpbia
drefi'd Dear Skins, end a quantity of food live
Feathers, cheap as at any Store in the State, for
Continental or hard Money.
OAcber 21, 1780.
CALEB BD LL, jun'r.
HAS to fell rofimble, fcr State merits, ,„ Any
other tht fuit# the fpurchafer, (or produce.
L^rge and Sa,ll Pins, by the pack cr paper ; Needier
by the thousand or hundred ; Black Barcelona Hand
kerchief#, by the de zen cr single ; Wccl Cardt, by
the dozen cr single pair ; Sewing Silk, by the rcend
or kfi quantity ; Tea, Ceff e, Choccl^e, St^,
Alfpite, Grn„r, Ruin, Wine, &,, & c , &c. "
.Hartfcid^ Oflobe, | 7 , i 7 fo,
'*r' H^ SF ^r*-fr r~^y a e XtrnUn cf 'the
X First Public Medical Society in the Thirteen
United States cf America, fierce their Independence#
Thst a Meeting is to be attended at Sharon, c^
73?fd?y the 28th day of November next, at ic
o'clock, A. M.
OLIVER FULLFR, CM4 of said Soofety.
Kert, October 10, 1780.
BROKE into the incloftne of thh fubferiber, a
grey HORSE ofa ra.ddlmg size, withrut fhresj
branded CA cr the left fhonlder, and PCA on
the right fhculder, with other brands cr marks cn
the left fide behind, that cannot be particularly disc
cribetd. Th^ owner is defied to prove hi# proper
ty pay charger end ta\e fir ^v/av.
DUDLEY HUMPH RY.
Norfolk, S-p'. 25, 1780.
PURvUAN T to an A& of Confrefi of the loffi
cf M^y 1780, relative to the dearuaien cr lof;
or Loan Office Certificates by accident : The public
arehereby informed, that the fabferibep had takea
from him by troops in the British service, the Bth of
J lr -* ,779, f ° ur Continental Lean Office Certifi
cates in Suffolk County, in the State of New Yo>k,
No. i§o2 and 1903. erch cf 1000 Dollars, and No.
593 S and 6201. each of 500 Dollars, which Certi
ficates all Warinf date March 23d, 1779, and pay-:
able to the fobferiber.
BENJAMIN HUNTTING.
Hertford, OAober 17, 1780.
To be Sold for Hard Money in Hand,
A Few Rods wet from the Main S reef, jnn within
the new high way, so celled, in Middletown^
nealy oppefite to M r . Thomas Danforth's, Pewter
er. &c. A vary gecd Dwelling.Henfe, two Series
high, five rooms cn a Beer, with\abuttery at each
end cf the kitchen, with fix fire places' three belcw
and three abov^ Aaire, arcT,ocd cellar under one
Wf the Icufe, with a voy good ftenc fleer and
dreer to it. Also, r fodl ham and other out henfe
airaoft rew, with w. credent v ell cf choice w^er
that never cas failed in tie drygft season witbin
about 14 fret cf the brek deer; rife, another small
ere v: c t^v^s to k^eh rain rater, and affords
watzr fcy^fhip, r_<fi cf & ye„ • with an excel
tent Garden Spet, containing 1 mly hit ;r acre,
very weil fiocLed with fruit tree,. Enquire cf
SAMUEL WINSHIP.
Hartford, Ca. 20, 1780.
AL L PTrc,x havie£ aa, c^roandt on the ettre
„ of C pt. Jonathan Seymour late cf Hart
ford, deceas'd ; arc defr^d to exhibit the ftrae to the
^bfeiber, fcr rtbhi CT § ,„, a j ]thofe who r^
indebted to sod ^We re requeued to make imme
diate payment .in order „h: s a id eHarc mry be
speedily fettled, which has been too long ne^tAed,
by means of th, emba^afynt of the timer."
ISRAEL SEYMOU R, Excenter.
OAober 23, 1780.
^OE SALE &. r^ .^meif %.Wth re B\li
£ in Bartk/d a few B^eb of choice LIVER
<, I L, for which rood Wheat Flour or Hzxd Mc
n^y will be taken in psymeat by
RICHARD WOODMAN.
Hertford, ORober 21, 1,80.
F~ O~R S'A L
By GEORGE MERRILL,
A few Rod# Scuth cf the Cc^rrifofe, Hartford,
for Qmtinental cr C.oncAicut Biils,
QUGAR. by tir HI:. Fxrel cr fmrikr cuanti
u) ty ; New Rutland Run by the Hhd. French
Brandy by the Ticrcr # Tea by tit-hundred, dezern
or finale [curd ; Rock sr.d Amer ran manufaaerfl
Salt by the Hhd, cr finfle tv fuel ; Pies by thep^ck;
Needles by thTlcuEr.d.
Oaober 16, 1780.
One 7 k%fa%d Dollars Reward.
STOLE N fiuoi the SuHeriter, a very likely
Black B ORSE; 15 hands high, 6„artdd,
branded on bis tear buttcik with the letters .B. B.
trots end ran^m ml!: Tie thief, crib his err:?
} hn Clrik, bad cn a light' blue tert, red ve^ s
tripod twrW!s, Isybc,t 25 yern rfa,% rth
treira ; was seen in Cclckfefy th i gth ci'S<,-
tenter ho. Wbetver will Übe up Wd herfe,
th es, fia!) have the abevs reward, cr five hundred
so the herfe only, paid by
W M . GOODRICH.
Stockbridge, Gaoler 5, 1780.
of Inftuaien in I< .Tocci: forte next half
ythr; win be Twenty Si Jin,r„hard money, per
quarter; red tl at no nenethan T&y Scl < hrs will
leadr, ittec, ^lefe entered before £rt ft of N; vera
^ T. LWIGHT.I
Northampton, QQcLgr 1, r,8%