The Connecticut courant, and the weekly intelligencer — Hartford [Conn.], 1778-08-11 00:00:00, page 1

TUESDAY, August it, 1778; T H M [Numb.;
CONNECTICUT COURANT,
ANbTH*
WEEKLY Intelligence r.
TO BE SOLD
By WENSLEY HOBBY,
At his Shop near the Church in Middletown,
SCARLET and blue Broad Cloth ; yard wide and
7 8 Linen of the best kinds ; yard wide and 78
Check ; Barcelona and other silk Handkerchiefs; a
great variety Linen ditto, of the most beautiful forts;
white Corderoy; Muslin; Dimothy ; Janes and
Mofeen ; Holland Threads and Tapes ; a few Jack
and Pen knives; Pins and Needles by the quantity:
the best Indigo ; Allspice, Pepper, Allum, Coperas
and choice Bohea Tea by the quantity or retail—
The whole to be disposed of on as reasonable terms
as the times will admit of. July 31, 1778.
THE Candidates for the second Degree are here
by notified to attend the Corporation of Yale-
College at the College Library in New-Haven, on
the 9th of September next ; that they, together with
the Bachelors, may receive their refpe&ive Degrees,
which are to be confered in the general Diploma to
be then given, there being no public Commencement
this year. And they are further notified, that those
only will have their academic Title affixed to their
Names, in the Catalogue to be printed this year,
who Ihall make Application to tne President, and
aik the Honors of this University, before the last of
Au%uft.
The Officers oflnftru&ion will, on the 9th and
loth of September, attend the Examination ofPupils
offering themselves for Admonition in this College.
EZRA STILES President.
Yale College, 28th July, 1778
[The other Printers in this State, are desired to in
infert this advertisement in their papers J
WA NT E D immediately, two journeyman
NAILERS, who may have constant employ
ment, the best wages and pun&ual payments by
applying to Stephen Chubb, jun.
art '° r ''July 29, 1778.
Deserted in F^V r yhftfcT^^
soldier in Cdl. Swift's regiment, aged about
23 years 5 feet 11 inches high, fair complex on,
dark hair, light coloured eyes well proportioned,
of good address, an inhabitant of Cornwall in Cori
nedicut, from which he rode offa horse. Whoc
ver will secure him in any goal, that he may be
brought, or cause him to be sent to said regiment,
shall receive THIRTY DOLLARS reward, and
be paid ail necessary expence.
T. Woodbridge, Capt.
White Plains, July 28, 1778.
TAKENup by the fubferiber in the™ common
field at Farmington, a brown HORSE four
years old branded on the left shoulder with W.
The owner is derfired to prove his property pay
charges and take said horse, from Peter Curtis.
Farmington July 31, 1778.
THIS may notify whom it may concern, that
Azariah Bradley of Winchester, who was
advertised in the Connect cut Courant as being re
turned to Major Bebee recruiting officer for the
6th brigade as one that was legally detached for
the continental array until the firft day of January
next, and properly warned and had refufed to march
and absented himfelf: And since that a fufficiei
number inlfted for three years and during the War.
to fill up our quota of men in the town, said Aza
riah Bradley is free according to AR of Assembly.
John Hills,
Warham Gibbs, j Ca pta^s.
_WiAchefler v July 27, 1778.
STRAYED or stolen from the fiibf<^eT7b r @
sorrel MARE, 3 years old 14 hands high, no
brand, markt with a strip in the face about 7 inches
long and one wide, a few white hairs about her
", ' e te -' fl 'r e : natural trotter. Whoever
ihall take her up or give information that the owner
may have her shill receive a handsome reward for
their cost and trouble by Ashbbl Wells.
Hartford, July 29, 1 778.
HARTFORD: Printed by W A ISON and GOODWI N, near the Great Bridge.
ALL persons having accounts against Captain
Thomas Y Seymour's troop of Light Dra :
goons, in Col. Sheldon's regiment, are desired to
exhibit them to Mr. Nehemtah Hubbard, D. Q
M. G. for iufpe&on and fettfement.
July 31, 1778.
BROOME and PL A TT;
Have for Sale at Wethersfield and Hartford,
.T/e. following Articles lately imported, viz.
WEST INDIA RUM by the Hhd.
Tenerife wine, by the Pipe.
CLARET.
RUSSIA DUCK.
A quantity of the best ROCK SALT.
August i 1778.
To be Sold at PUBLIC VENDUE, at Wethers
field. Buck's ferry on Thurtday the 13th instant,
at 2 o'clock P M. the 3 following velTels, viz.
THE sloop Le Grand, burthen about 80 tons,
well fitted for the seas, fails very fall , The
Schooner Susanna burthen about 7° tons, well
found a prime sailer; The sloop Beifey, burthen
about 60 tons well found For farther particulars
apply to Jacob Sebor, jun. Auctioneer.
Wethersfield, Aug. 1. 1778.
=*" vote- T „~^.. ".& —„' - c._ CTCTr a - -
All Gentlemen Volunteers
who are desirous of making their fortunes in eight
weeks time; are hereby informed that the fine new
Privateer cabled the NEW BROOME, mounting
sixteen fixes and four pounders b;fides swivels, IS
RAEL BISHOP commander, is now* compleatly
fitted for an eight weeks cruize near Sandy Hook'
and in the Sound, where rhe will be under the pro
tedion of His Moil Chrift.an Ma efty's fleet and will
have the.be chance that there has been this war of
taking prizes : She only waits for a few more men
and then will immediately iail on her cruize All
those who are dtfirous of entering for the cruize arb
requested to apply soon on board said brig now laying
in Connecticut river or on board her in New Lon
don harbour where she w 11 be on the firft day of
A^gutL Wethersfield July 25, 1778.
,Hartford county, July' 11, 17^'
PUBLICK notice is hereby given to all to whom
it doth, or may concern that a libel is filed be
fore Jabez Hamlin Esq; judge of the county court in
the county of Hartford, against the sloop Jenny,
burthen about ten tons. Philip Milligan late master,
her tacklin apparel and cargo in favor of Ebenezer
Eglefon commander of the armed schooner, called
the Hawk, and his associates who took her upon the
high seas and sent her into the county of Hartford
an dfor the try al of the justice of said capture the
maritime court for tlre county of Hartford will be
held at the Cdurt-Houfe in Hartford on Tuesday
the eighteenth day of Atiguft, 1778 at which time
ah persons claiming property may appear and £hew
reason if any they have, why the faidfloop with her
2 RP a ' e ' '""' car 6° Should not be adjudged as law
ful prize to the captorsand fetters forth agreeable to
the prayer of the libellant.
By order of the judge,
George W'i.lvs ^^ er of said Court.
In CONGRESS, July 9 17^8.
Ordered That all letters received by members of
Congress from any of the Bzitifn Commissioners, or
their agents, or from any fubjeft of the King of
Great-Britain, ofa public nature be laid before Con
gress. Extraft from thetoinutes,
CHARLES THOMSON Sec'ry.
In conference of the foregoing the following let
ters were laid before Congress.
To FRANCIS DANA. Esquire,
[PRIVATE]
Dear Sir.
IT gives me great pleasure to find your name a
mongst the lift of Congress because lam persuad
ed from personal knowledge of me and my family
and connexions you can entertain no jealousy that I
would engage in the execution of any commission,
that was inimical ft )the rights and privderes of A
merica or the general liberties of mankind While
on the other hand' your chamber must be so well
known, that no man will suspect you will yield any
point that is contrary to the teal inhered of your coun
try, and therefore it will be preUmed we will lefe no
opportunity from falfe punctilio of meeting to dif
cafs our differences fairly, and that if we do agree,
it will be on the most liberal, and therefore the most
lading terms of union. There are three faffs I wish
to assure you of. First That Doctor Franklin on
the 29th of March last, in difeuffing the several arti
cle we with to make the basis of our treaty, was
perfectly fatisfied they were beneficial to North-
America and such as she should accept. Second,
That this treaty was not the firft that France had
exacted and with which Mr. Siphon Deane had put
to sea but granted and acreeded to after the senti
ments of the people of Great Britain had fully
changed, after the friends to America bid gained
tkeir points for reconciliation and solely wuha view
to disappoint the good effefls of our endeavours.
You will be pleased to bearthe pamphlet wrote by
Mr. Pulteney was a great means ofopening the minds
of the people of England to the real date of the ques
tion between us. and that it has run through thirteen
editions. Therbird fa& is that Spain unasked had
sent a formal meffa,e disapproving of the condu& of
France All these I will engage to prove to your
fabs^aion. I hep to recommend to your personal
civilities my friend Doctor Fer, ufora. Heis a man
of ibe greatest gerous^rd vh+ue and has always
been a heady friend to America. ---Private
^'• . . .c . . . *
If you follow the example of Britain in the hour of
her pride, indolence and madness and refofe to hear
us, I Bill exped fi ce I am here to have the pr;vi
lege of coming among you and feeing the country,
as there are many men whofa virtues I admire above
Greek or Roman names that I fhouldbe pJad to tell
my children about, lam with esteem and affc&ion.
Dear Sir Your friend and servant
GEO. JOHNSTONE.
Philadelphia, June 10 1,78.
A true copy compared with the original*
Examined in Congress julv '6 1778.
CHARLES THOMSON Sec'ry.
To GENERAL JOSEPH REED
SI R.
YOUR near and worthy relation Mr Dennis de
-Berdt has made me happy by favouring me
with a letter to you. I have been inform,dby Ge
neral Robertson of your great wo^h ard conse
quence in the unhappy disputes that have fubffted
between Gre^t Britain and her defeende its. Your
pen and your sword have both been used with glo
ry and advantage in v'md^ating^he rights of man
kind, and of that community of wh ; ch you was
a part. Such a conduct as the firft and fupefor of
all human duties mtift ever command my warmest
frindfhip and veneration.
In the midst of those affcfling.feenes my feeble
voice has not been wanting to stop the evils in their
progress, and to remove on a large and liberal foot
ing the causes of all "ealoufy - that every (object of
the empire might live equallv free and secure in the
enjoyments of the bl e ssings of!fe not o „ e %
pendent on the will of the another with
interests. . but a general union on terms of peife&
security and mutual advantage.'
Duringthe conteO, I am f^ t o c o %fc
wifheshave ever been that Anta might so f ar
prevail as to oblige this country r o f ee tbeir ,
and to reflect and reason fairly in the case ofo%rs
heirs to the fame priviezes with themselves. 'T t
p^eafed God in hisjuftice so to difoofe of events that
this kingdom 15 at length co winced ofher folly an d
her faults ArcirnrrrffLon under parliamentary autho
rity is now iflhed for fettling in a manner confident
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