The Connecticut courant, and the weekly intelligencer — Hartford [Conn.], 1778-12-01 00:00:00, page 1

To THE KING OF ENGLAND.
Wednesday, Nov. 11, 1778.
T'HE rain pours down- the city looks forlorn,
Aid gloomy fubje&s fait the howling morn.
Close by my fire, with doors and windows faft.
And sweetly sheltered from the driving blast,
To gayer thoughts. I bid a day's adieu,
To spend a scene of solitude with you.
So oft has black rev, ^ engrofs'd the care
O. ail the Jeifure hours man finds to spare;
So oft has guilt in all its thodfand dens
Call'd forth t e vengeance of chastising pens^
That when I fain would case my heart on you,
No thought is left untold, nbpaffion new.
From flight to Hight the mental path appears
Worn with the steps of near fix thousand years.
And fill'd throughout v ith ev'ry scene of pain.
From Cain to George, and back from George to Cam.
Alike in cruelty, alite in hate,
In guilt alike, and more alike in fate ;
Both curs'd fapremely (for the blood they drew)
Each from the rising world while each wa^ new.
Go second Gain, true likeness of the firm's
And strew thy blafledhead with homely duff.<
In affies Sit-in wretched facecloth weep
And with unpitied foriows cease to sleep,
Go, haunt the tombs, and single out the place
Where earth iifch shall fuffer a disgrace.
Go, spell the letters on fume mould'ruig urn,
And ask if he who Heeps there can return.
Go, count the numbers that in filencf lie.
And learn by study what it is to die.
For fare that heart --if any heart you own---
Conceits that man expires without a groan;
That he who lives, receives from you a grace.
Or death is nothing but a change of place ;
That peace is dull ; that joy from sorrow Springs,
And war the royal raree-lhow cf kings.
Else why these (cents that wound the feeling mind,
This sport of death- -this cockpit cfmankind,
Why fobs the widow in perpetual pain ;
Why cries' the orphan, " Oh nfy father's fl^in "
Why hangs the fire his paralytic bead,
And nods with manly grief, " My son is dead."
Why shrieks the maiden, (robb'd cf ease and sense)
" He's gone-- He's kill'd - Oh ! Heavens take me
hence."
Why drops the tear from off the filter's cheek,
And sweetly tell the sorrows ffie would speak.
Why liips the infant on its mother's lap,
And looking roundtbe parlour---" Where is pap."
Why weeps the mo her when the queflion's afk'd,
And kiss an answer as the eaffeft talk ;
Or why with lonely steps does penSve John
To all the neighbours tell---" Poor matter's gone."
Oh! could I paint the passions I can feel,
Or point a horror that would wound like steel,
• To thy unfeeling, unrelenting mind,
I'd fend a torture and relieve mankind.
Thou, that art bufband, father, brother, all
The tender names that kindred learn to call,
Yet like an image carv'd in maffy ftene,
Thou bear'll the shape, but sentiment hail none ;
Allied by dust and figure, not by mind
Thou only herd'd but H v 'ft not with mankind,
And prone to love like some outrageous ape,
Thou know'ft each class of beings by their shape.
Since then no hopes to civiliie.remain;
And all petitions have gone forth in vain.
One prayer is left, which dreads no proud reply,
That He who made you breathe, would bid you die.
COMMON SENSE.
Philadelphia.
BROKE into the enclosure of the Subferiber,
in September last, a BAY HORSE, two
years old, one white hind foot, white face natural
trotter. NOAH PORTER.
FarmQton, Nov. 24, 1778.
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HARTFORD: Printed by WATSON and GOODWIN, near the Great Bridge.
ROCK and Home made SALT, to be ex
changed for live Geese Feathers, Tobacco, or
Family Necessaries. Also, to be fold a GOOD
HORSE fit fcr a farm. Enquire of
THOMAS HILDRUP.
Hartford, Dec?, 1778.
ALL Gentlemen Volunteers, who are desirous
of makin their fortunes in fix months time,
are hereby informed, that tie privateer Brigantine
Middletown, a prime failed, mounting fourteen 6
and two 4 pounders, besides fwivils, &c. in every
shape fitted for a privateer, commanded by Captain
Nathan Sage, and is now compleatly fitted, and
will be at New-London by theist of December
next, or footer, which will fail from thence on a
cruize of fix months, against the enemies of the U
nited States of America; and they may depend on
good usage and good accoomedations. She only
waits for a few more men. All those who are desi
rous of entering on board aid Brigantine for the
cruize, are requeued to ap/y soon on board the
fame, or at their tendezvo $ at New-London or
Middletown.
Nov. 24.1778.
JOHN WATSON, at his store in East-
Wiodfcr, has tuft receiv'd and opened for sale,
an Affort^.4 ct ENGLISH GOODS; a
mong which are, Bt-1/ ^, coatings, duffil
barns', and other cloths pro; er for the season, blue,
claret, and an ah riment of oth coloured Walloons,
durants camblcts, corded poplin, check'd linen
ftrip'd ginghams, fcarle. a d black drawboys for
womens G^aL. Liflilm&i, gauze Worked hose,
silk twill, mohair, few.ng iiik, pins of all sizes by he
pack, felling books by the dozen pfahers. writ
ing-paper, small fram'd and pocket looking-glasses,
shoe and knee buckles catteaus and penknives of
Various forts, brass deik locks, fpeAacles, fugar
bowls &c
Aifo Liverpool Salt, by the hogshead or bushel,
indigo by the hundred or (mailer quantity, sugar,
coffee ginger, pepper crown fcap, flax, &c.
He oas likewise a few barrels of sugar, at Dr.
Smith's store in Staren which he will fell on rea
sonable terms, to ay person that may find it conve
nient to take it there.
East Windsor Nov. 30 r 778.
/""lOHE 23d of April iaft, I Eliffia Cornwell of
I Chatham, fold the farm I live upon to John
Fuller, jun. fcr eight hundred pounds, for which
he paid me part in money, and for part I received a
note.
The 14'h day of July last, John Fuller, jun. mort
gaged the (me farm to Jesse Day and Ebenezer
Carrier for eight hundred and eighty pounds, re
deemable in one month from that date.
This mortgage being unredeemed, and my note
for the farm unpad, to save myfelf, on the 26th
day of Anguft last the aforefaid Jesse Day and E
benezer Carrier, were prevailed upon to assign their
mortgage to me, for which I paid them the principal
and interest, for which-the firm was mortgaged to
them.
The 14th of August, John Fuller, jun. mortga
ged the fame farm to Andrew Carrier for one thou
sand pounds payable the 12th of August next year.
This L a second mortgage, on which the greatest part
of the mortgaged money is paid by Fuller to Car
rier.
The. farm is not worth more than the sum for
which I fold it, and for which I now hold it under
the argument of Fuller's firft mortgage; and as
Fuller threatens to fell the farm again, to prevent
trouble, I hereby make known the true date of the
tide to (aid farm and give notice, that lam deter
mined to hold said farm against any future purcha
fer, as I have given the full value, and am reduced
to a mortgage tenure, merely by said Fuller's failing
to pay according to his contrast.
ELISHA CORNWELL
Nov. 3% *778.
FOUR Hundred Bulhels of FLAX SEED
in tierces, to be Sold at Mr. Edward Hol
lom's New-London, cheap for Cassi, Wed India,
or English Goods.
Nov. 30, 1778.
T)ROKE into the enclosure of the Subferiber,
living in Brattleborough, in the State cf New-
York, about the 17th of October last, a Yoke of
STEERS, three years old pass ; dark red, top
of each ear cut off high horns. The owner is de
sired to prove his property and pay charges.
JONATHAN HERRICK.
December 1, 1778.
BROKE into the enclosure of the Subferiber,
the 12th infl. a Dark Brown HORSE, about
fix years old ; three white feet, a Bar on his fore
head, two white foots on the nose, looks as if it
was gall'd with a halter, blindly branded on the
near thigh with letters unknown but resembling CA)
nigher then any else, about 14 and a half hands high,
trots and paces. The owner is desired to prove his
property, and pay charges.
DANIEL BRADLEY.
Sa^fbiry, Dec. 1, 10,8.
BEST wool CARDS Made and Sold,
for Cash or Country Produce, by Ezekiel
Fosdick of Wethersfield.
Goo^ LIVER OIL to be Sold by the
calk or smaller quantity, by David Bissells
01 East-Windsor.
OF 'AKEN up Dy the Subferiber, the 12th
& day of November inf. a Chefnijt Colourl
HORSE, about 14 hands high, bald face, neat
hind foo L white, natural trotter, food before.
ALLEM SEYMOUR.
Hartford, Weft Division Nov 30 1778.
Drugs and medicines, o f
best quality, just received, and to be Sold
by William Jenson, at his ffiop a few rods
south of the South Meering-houfe in Hertford;
among which are. Camphor, calomel, rhubarbs
tartar emetic, opium, the best quil cortex Peru, i p £
cacuanha Bateman's drops, Lockyer's pills, 'war
ranted genuine, Also, Surgeons capital infbu'raent{
artery needles, &c. &c.
Hartford, Nov. 27 1778.
S~TR AYED'o7s T OLXfCT^Tt^
scriber, Sometime in Ofrober last a Bright Bay
MAR E, seven or eight years old no brand, near
14 hands high; paces and trots, and has a few white
hairs in her forehead. A generous reward and
charges will be paid to any person who will return
her to
ISAAC SHELDON.
Hartford Nov. 27. 1778.
Q' R? °'-'' OLEN out of Wethers-
O held Meadows, since the Ift of November a
Light Bay HORSE, f oor year 3 old, with a whi^
face, white hind feet, food before, trots naturally
and paces some, black mane and tail, mane cut tie
near fide, tail something ffiort, and about i 4 hands
high. Whoever will take up and return fad borfe
to the Subferiber, living at Wethersfield Rockyhill
shall receive Five Dollars Reward, and all neceffatv
charges paid by y
Thomas Danforth.
Nov. 30, 1778.
One Hundred Dollars Reward."
RU N AWA Y from the Sabferiber, of Beek
man's precinct, in Dutchefs County, the 2d
inst. a certain George Cary, a resident cf Plain
field, in Connecticut, a likely, freffi, hearty locking
young man, 22 or 23 years of age, about five feet
seven or eight inches high defected for Faffing COOT
terfeit Continental Thirty Dollar Bills. Whoever
will secure him in any of the jails in the United
States, shall be entitled to the above reward, and
all necessary charges paid by
PETER NOXON Confab
November 24, 1,78