The Connecticut courant, and the weekly intelligencer — Hartford [Conn.], 1778-03-10 00:00:00, page 1

From the New Jersey Gazette.
Annotations upon hrs most grades Ma
jesty of mo# gracious Great-Britain's ras
gracious Speech.
[F is a great fatisfaflion to me that I can
have recourse to the wisdom and fapport of
my parliament in this conjtirriiure---
No doubt.it is a fatisfadion to your
Majesty, to be able to apply lor each, to
those who mull support you in measures
in which themselves are accomplices; and
who are too dependcht upon you to refufe
any of your requifnions. The more mo
ney they give you, Sir, the mote offices
you give them ; and this old trick tof one
good turn's deferring another, has more than
half ruined the nation already.
When the rebedion in North rimerica de
mands cur most fericus attention.
How wounderful, that his Majesty be
gins to think the reduction of Amenrica a
fericus matter ! Had he and his parliament
considered atall, they would have thought
it a serious matter when they firil began
it. But they wanted, it seems, at lealt
three years, to discover that theenflaving
thr«e millions of people was a serious un
dertaking. Notable g^iufles to govern
three kingdoms and the wellern worid in
to the bargain, who require three years of
blood and daughter, delola.ion and havoc,
to make them fericus !
The powers which you have intruded me
with, l have faithfully exerted---
What powers his Majtfy was intruded
with I know not. But the powers he has
exerted, have been the powers of breaking
his oath, and violating all laws, divine
and human; and if he undertook to
suppress the revolt, he has not execu
ted his trutt, for that he has net done.
Bu lam persuaded th<t you willfee the
necefo of preparing for fu ch farther optrati
©ns as the contingencies cf the war, "and the
obfenacy of tie rebels, may render expedient—
Whar, Sir, a neceffi y for farther pre
parations, when General, Grig? was to have
done the business with four regiments?
Why don't you order the invincible Grant
to strike a terror thro' the whole Conti
nent with a sue es mUfqceteers ?
rind if l foould have oceafion to enercafe
them, by contrasting new engagements
Worse and worse I What, increase your
troops to beat an undriciphned militia, if
ter having imported thirty-five thousand
already ! And increase them you certainly
must, or quit your purpose with infamy.
But whence to procure the augmentation ?
aye, I hat s the question--'! he Prince of
H^e will tell you, b,e der dander, i h beb
b.r mix meer.
I have received repeated aforances from
foreign powers of their pacific difpofaions.
And does your Majelty believe thole as
surances? Out of your own mouth I will
prove that you do hot--- For,
&/ at the time when the armaments in the
[TUESDAY, March to, 1,78. THE fy@ &
CONNECTICUT CO.URANT,
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WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER
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ports of France and Spain continue- to confirm
Lhppofe, the powers Qfeteirp&rfejfy
on. What, all the powers of Europe pa
cific, and France and Spain Continuing
their hoflik preparation 1 For shame, Sir,
bakiie your Speech maker, for not putting
lycontradi&ions at a greater difUnceth^
that of two leniences,
I will always be a faithful guardian of the
honour of the crown of Gr, ^-Britain.
A very propetkeeper of w hat has been
loft ever fmcc the 24th of Goober 1760,
the very day yous Maj By afeended the
throne !
7 h-various services I b<vemettio^d to ^
will unavoidably require large fkpthes.
As true a word as ever was ipoken; and
larger supplies than your parliament can
furnifh. Have you heard, Sir, that your
troops have already been obliged to take
Pehnfylvania currency; and that when
they cannot rob, you cannot pay ?
I wiUfeadily pursue the WHOfores in 'which
^e are ingaged for the re-tfarifmem of that
fubordinahon, &c.
How long your Majeftv intends to pur
fee, is bril known to yourfclf---But I afi
confident you muff cUnA.uCh faker than
you have ever yet dohe, or you will rot
ever take it B, your eonfitu^wfabcr
dmation tfe unde.ftand a most tyrannical do
mination, winch we havelong since bequea
thed toyburl yaifubjeds of Gieat Britan,
whom von had previously prepared to
rclifh that kind of legacy.
But Ifoalt ever be watchful for an oppor
tunity of putting af%tothe efofon of tiebleed
tfmy fubjedls, ana the calamities whib cae
infparable from a fate of war.
Ring the bellsl Ring the belß back
ward! To church, all hands to church ;
for Nero is to give us a ferrnon against
murder, and fonashan Wild an ethuitari
on to abfirain from robber, !
rind Ifrail hope that the deluded and un
happy mufi:udc willretwn to their allegiance --
And when the iky falls wt fhaj catch
larks.---And so, the late in/igntfcam facti
on iA new multiplied to a multitude. In
deed, did you but know, Sir, what a
multitude it is, you would as soon think
of levelling Mount /Etna, as of conquer
ing America. But they are not deluded,
Sir. I hey knew that you had preceded
their slavery ; and they will not be enfhv
ed. It there be any delusion in the case,
it is the British nation that is deluded, and
it is deluded by you, and yourlelf are delude
ed b f a set ofvillins, who expe&ed to have
divided oureftares upon the success of our
arms. Allegiance we owe you none.
I hen, Sir, did we show our allegiance
when we lay prostrate at your throne, sup
plicating fir the continuation of thole li
berties, which God and nature and the
law had given us ; and when you spurned
us from it.
%hat the remembrance of what they once en
joved, the regret of what they have loft, and
the feelings of what they now fufor una t r the
tyranny of their leaders, will reLnale in their
" £ afpirit op loyalty to their fovereipn,
and of their attachment to their ri iba counts'.
Lyon will beplealed,Sir, to allowyot
felf a moment's refl ation, you will" find
they have loft nothing that was worth Icetp
"g& I hey have loft nothing but the
puaiUrc cf being oppressed under colour cf
law; and cf enriching myraids of harpies
of your appointment, and appointed for
the exphfs purpose of fleecing them, and
of lavifhirg the fruits of their toil, and la
bour in British luxury and riot.---Is this a
IoF to btr^et^d? If it is, 1 know who
will regies it. Thir feelings indeed ^e
very great, and for them you must aniwe,
at that awful b r, whtreyour royalty will
but aggravate \cur c< ndemnation. As
to the tyranny of their l^drs, it is indeed
so groh and thread-bare an abfurdiry, that
I wuuld advise your ALjefty to drop it
for t^e future for the meie lake of its vul
gduty. In this centric, the people in re
ality had no leaders. They ffed, fuon
tane<)Llly and hlf-led, to cxcingmfh ths
cctiimon file; and icr coiioicur,g with
the greater regularity, the meafurts w hich
you compel them to adopt, they after
wardr appointed the proper < dicers Thcfe
officers, (which to serve your ptrpojq
you c^ll leadeis) cannot tyrannize over
them, b.cfule they ait constituted by thd
people, and by them removeable. Ncf
Will any confderatioh rekindle in their hearts
a ^forit <f loyaity to their foiincr foveiegn.
I hd( flame, 3ir, and an ardent one it was
find more ardent than that CT your fub
j^s in Britain, you have extinguifind,
totally extinguished, with torrents of
blood, not having a single 'fpark to light
up the antient blaze. And as for th^f
nwto&r county —An erica, Sir, is our m o _
ther country, and Great- Britain, making
the mr.tt of the figure could never claim
to b~ more than our grand mother, and
that flit has been a molt unnatural One is
written in luch chatadters of blood as
none of your fhmfy coaxings will ever ob
literate.
rind that they will enable me with the con
currence and ftpport cf ny parliament to ac
complife. &c.
And so we are to assist the parliament,
it stems, in effeaing our own bondage.
Pray, Sir, do not flatter yourfelf with so
vain an invagination. We have too great
a reverence for the inihudions of cur
m0,#.6?, to follow the infiduous advice of
out grand m iher, so evidently calculated
for our deilruction. Ho'rtentjus.
NT° TICE is i^Ay given for the benefitof'thofe
Lconcerned that Hartford County Court fluids
adjourned to the third Tuesday of March inflant.
fer ine fpecia purpose of bearing 2nd determining
meters cf dclin uency in the rnijifa.
F—Aon 3, iyfr. O, ^Ltswc^TH, Attorney.