The Connecticut courant, and the weekly intelligencer — Hartford [Conn.], 1783-07-01 00:00:00, page 2

, L O N D O N.
April 16. Veßerday two American ships arri
ved in the river with their thirteen stripes flying,
loaded with wheat and flour from New-England;
and several others are daily expected, as they
failed with the above Chips.
An American negotiator now in London fays,
he can fee but one good arifirig from independ
ency, and that is the emancipation of the Uni
ted States from the government of a country that
cannot govern herfelf.
April 19. Yesterday forenoon, a large body
of seamen from the different Chips that have late
ly been paid off, paraded in a very disorderly
manner from Tower Hill, the appointed place
of rendezvous, to the Admiralty,' and entered
the yard, they required to speak with Lord Kep
pel, as they were kept out of their prize-money
in an illegal manner. After having dated their
case to a gentleman of the office, they proceeded
on through the park to St. James's, and giving
three cheers in the Court yard, asked, which was
the King's birth as they wi/bed to have a bit of lin
go with him about tbeir prize money. After some
altercation with persons of the court, they went
away swearing they would speak the Royal
George the next time theycame under bis quarter,
un/tf they were inflanil, paid their biize money.
And this day several hundred of sailors afl'embied
again in Wapping, and went on board every out
ward bound Chip, unbent their fails, and so far
dismantled them as to prevent their proceeding
to sea. They then in three divisions, walked
through the Rreets in good order, and with great
sobriety—they had neither arms, sticks, nor any
fortof weapons. Whentheycame to St. James's
, Dark, they found the gates Chut and guarded;
but without any hesitation they sealed the walls
and were marching in a large body to Bucking
ham'houfe, by the Bird cage walk, when they
were met by a strong detachment of the guards,
who were ordered under arms to assist the peace
officers. Mr. Justice Addington advanced to them,
and desired that they would peaceably Rate their
grievances, which their spokesman dicta follows:
—To take off the R's in the Chips captured, from
the rtame of seamen run away from one Chip to
another. To pay the bounty money to Smug
glers entered into the service To order their
prize-money to be paid by the several agents,
without being kept longer in their hands for in
teresting views. To employ no foreign sailors
on board the royal navy, or merchants Chips;
and to fix their Handing wages at 455. per
month.
Mr. Addington informed them that he was
empowered by the Lords of the Admiralty to
assure them, that they were disposed to comply
with their just demands; but that they mult
conduct themselves in a more legal and feaman
hke way. If they would apply to the proper
Boards in small parties, they would be heard and
redressed ; but when they embodied themselves,,
and came in an hostile manner, they could ex
pert no favour. He assured them that if they
would either appoint a committee, or come in
small parties, their fair demands fnould be com
plied with, and measures should be taken for
their future employment. This answer produ
ced the desired effect : The tars saluted with
three cheers, and returned with the utmost regu
larity and good order.
The horse and foot guards were ordered on
duty, and to remain so until further orders, to
quell any disturbances that may happen from the
aflcmbling of the sailors. A double guard of sol
diers was sent from the Savoy to the Bank. The
Lord Mayor gave orders for the City Marshals
and Marlhalfmen to patrole theftreets of the city,
all night,' in order to keep the peace, and to give
the alarm in case any disturbances should have
happened.
A private letter from a French officer in India
to his friend in Paris has been sent over here. It
represents the attack upon Col. Braithwaite's ar
my as the most bloody during the war. Tippo
Saib, Hyder's son, havingby forcedmarches with
20,000 men, entered the country, where Col.
Braithwaite was ported, that officer found him
felf surrounded, when he littleexpeaed anattack.
However hedifplayed greatcoolnefs and presence
of mind. @ He threw his troops into a hollow
square, with 13 field pieces interspersed through
out his fronts, andhis squadron of cavalry, which
confided only of about 250, he drew up in the
center. In this disposition his men sustained a
heavycannonade with the greatest firmnefs. The
enemy's cavalry then advanced several times to
the charge; but the clofc and quick fa of the
April 9. Yesterday about eleven, Mr, Fox
came to the Hustings, accompanied by Lord
Surry, Mr. Byng, Dr. Jebb, Messrs. Sheridan,
Sawbridge, Howfe, and some other gentlemen,
the procession being preceeded by two men car
rying a blue silk banner, tinged with gold, and
with an inscription in gold letters, of, " Man
of the People," and two men carrying each a
blue flag ornamented with gold, on which were
the words " Freedom and Independence."
Mr. Fox had no sooner afeended the Hustings
than a most violent clamour enfued,--hiffings,
bootings, cat calls, whiftlings, &c. < —To give
an idea upon paper, of this strange complica
tion of villainous founds, is not possible, nor
could the utmost art and ingenuity of man con
trive instruments by which such violence and
extravagancy of discord could be exprefled.,
Dr. Jebb, Mr. Sheridan, Mr. Sawbridge,i
and Mr. Byng, each made repeated efforts to
appease the tumult, and obtain attention, but
all their perseverance of endeavour was in vain,
the inceffan#clamour drowning every word they
uttered..
piatiffi mufquetry and field pieces, threw them
into disorder; and the cavalry sallying forth
from the center did great execution, and then re
turned to their former Ration. This was repeat
ed several timeswith considerable success. Mons.
Lally, the French General, at last perceiving that
the Indian cavalry could not be brought to ride
over the British infantry, advanced himfelf at the
head of 400 Europeans, intermixed with a great
number of native troops, and flanked with caval
ry. With this force formed in a column, he
bent hisattack against Col. Braithwaite's weakest
front, whilst the others were threatened with
large bodies of horse ready to come down upon
them; aheavy fire of artillery being kept up at
the fame time. The French advanced with bay
onets fixed; the Seapoys worn out with a long
a&iqn, were unable to withstand the charge.
Their ranks were broke, Tippo Saibs cavalry
poured in, and a dreadful carnage ensued. M.
Lally did all that man could do to save the van
quished. He is said to have cut down five men
with his own hand, because he could not restrain
their barbarous fury.
By the packet from New-1 ork we are inform
e, that Sir Guy Carleton, the Commander in
Chief, had directed the Commissaries who were
not in adual service, to return to England, there
to make their balances and fettle their accounts.
When these dispatches came away, the January
and February mails from hence were not arrived,
which occasioned a very disagreeable suspense
from want of orders from home, as peremptory
directions for the conduct of the army, together
with Sir Guy Carleton's recal, were forwarded
in those packets.
On Sunday last, and not before, Mr. Hartley
set off for France. He was detained on account
of the dispatches being not finally prepared, as
great pains have been taken in fettling the com
mercial plan which is to be offered to the Ame
rican Commissioners. The most informed men
in the kingdom have been advised with in this
business, and we hear that a system is at length
fully digested, which, if it is established, will do
much towards recovering the important commu
nication between the two countries. The firft
and most material charge which Mr. Hartley has
received is to Ripulate for the immediate repeal
of the acts by which the American ports are (hut
against us, before their commerce shall be di
verted into new channels.
Mr. Burke made a very apt remark on the con
du& of our bufmefs; wnen he heard that Mr.
David Hartley was nominated to go over to Pa
ris, to fix the plan of future trade between us
and the new Rates with the American Commit
fioners there.—
" Our wife rulers, fays he, shew their pene
tration to all the world. They sent a merchant
(Oswald) to negotiate the peace ; and a politi
cian to fettle the treaty of commerce."
March 8. A letter from Paris fays, a pressing
invitation has been sent by the king and queen
of France to General Washington, to come for
some months at lead at Versailles, and in person
receive the investiture ofthe honours that await
him. A line of battle ships is ordered from
Martinico to the General on board if he acceeds,
to the wishes of their Majesties.
WESTMINSTER ELECTION.
Mr. Fox coming forward, the indefinable
noise became more outrageous, if possible, than
tfit with which he was saluted at firft, and the
^ore urgent he w^ t 9 be heard, th^ more vio
lent was the oppofnicn. The candidate retiied,
and several other gentlemen Elicited attention,
but with no better success than before. Mr. Fox
again addressed himfelf to the electors, when
hundreds of stentorian voices exclaimed, " Off,
off; no Fox ; no North ; no turncoat ; turn
down that Fox to be hunted by the people."
The little that could be collected of what the
new secretary said, went to juftify his condition
with Lord North, and regelate his public con
du& by those independent principles, which,
on former occasions, had procured him the ho
nor of the fuffrages of the electors of Westmin
ster, whose interests, he said, next to those of
the community at large, it would be always the
firft wish of his heart to promote. No other
candidate being proposed, Mr. Fox was declared
duly elected, and alter bowing, he retired, a
midst every possible expreflion of disapprobati
on, and presently afterwards he was chaired,
and carried to Wood's Hotel, where he dined
with a numerous company of his friends.
In justice to the electors of Westminster it.
should be observed that the rude and grofly af
fronting treatment of Mr. Fox, did not proceed
from them, but an amazing croud of people of
the lowest classes of society.
April 28. We hear that Mr. Silas Deane,
who is now in town, has had several confer
rences with Mr, Pitt, relative to the commer
cial treaty that is now on the tapis with Ameri
ca.
Extra& ofa letter from Paris, April 18.
" By a sloop of war lately arrived at I'Orient,
government has received dispatches from th*
Fart-Indies, dated the i<th of November, the
contents of these dispatches areof avery unpleas—
ing nature. The famine which rages at Madrafe
is dreadful indeed, as it carries oft weekly 1400
in that city and the adjacent diftrifts; but this
calamity is not confined to the English Settle
ments^ it has reached the French army, and th#
dominions of Hyder Ali Khan ; its ravages were
so great among our forces, that Mons. D'Offalis,
who succeeded to the command on the death of
Mons. Duchemin, found it impossible to main
tain his post near Madrafs, and fell back three
days march from his former Ration near th©
town. The fupphes which used to be sent to our
army from Hyder's dominions, have greatly fal
'e" ^ ort , an( lthat Prince is scarcely able to sub
sist his army : The Carnatic is so ravaged, that it
can furnish him no subsistence and he can draw
very sparingly from home, for there the famine
raged with infinitely more fury than atMadrafs,
for, by computation, 1200 of his fubjeQs ars
daily carried off by it. This has saved Madrafs,
which, weakened by famine, must necessarily
have fallen into our hands, if the famine had no#
made its appearance in our army. Hyder Ali,
cannot recruit his army with the numbers he
expected, as men begin to be as scarce as provi
sions in his once most populous provinces.—
Whilethe Carnatic is thus furnifhed, the utmost
plenty reigns in Bengal, where the last crops are
as plentiful as could have been wished for ; so
that there is a redundancy of rice in that king
dom, fufficient to supply the wants of the Car
natic ; but what with the superiority of our fleet
and the storms that have raged of late, the unfor
tunate Carnatic derives little or no benefit from
the plenty of Bengal. About a month before
the fibop of war left the East-Indies, a fleet of
transports, laden with provisions, appeared off
Madrafs, but was dispersed by a dreadful storm
in which most of the ships were loft, and with
them an immense quantity of rice, which the
Governor General of Bengal was fending to
Madrafs. It was computed, when the dispatches
came away, upwards of 300,000 persons had
periled by famine in the English territories, and
those of Hyder Ali Khan, so that if this scourge
Should rage for any great length of time, as
dreadful consequences may be apprehended from
it, as were produced from the famine in Bengal
some years ago, which carried offtwo millions
of people."
St. A U G USTI N E, May to
On Thursday last arrived off our bar his Ma
jesty's Roop Hound, Manly, Esq; com
mander, in 13 days from New-York.
Orders, it is said, have been received by the
Hound, from the commander in chief, to colleft
returns of such ofthe provincial troops and loy
a, lifts in this province as may wiffito go to Nova-
Scotia, the Weft-Indies, or Great-Britain, that;
vessels may proceed to carry them to any of the
above mentioned places.