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rican Ambaflador to the United provinces.
These gentlemen were empowered to make over
tures of peace on the part of Great-Britain ; the
iirlt condition of which was, that American In
dependence Should be admitted.
" Upon Mr. Oswald's imparting these terms
to Dr. Franklin, he said he could take no Bep
without previoully diking advice of the French
ministry. They were accordingly invited to a
conference with Mr. Oswald : But, said Mons.
de Vergennes,—' Who is Mr. Oswald ?—lt,is
inconfiftant with the dignity ofthis government,
to talk upon a fubjecl of such importance with
an individual of private Bation.—lf the Britilh
cabinet have any proposals to bring forward^
they can be attended to only through the medi
um of a perlon of high birth and diftinaion?
" When this was made known at Mr. Os
wald's return, the punctilio of the French was
complied with ; and Mr. Thomas Grenville,
brother to Lord Temple, was font over to Paris,
with powers to open a previous negociation ;
that France, Spain and America, might Sketch
out the path, which should lead to peace.
" Mr. Grenville' was no sooner arrived in Pa
ris, than be announced to M. Vergennes the ob
je& of his journey, ekpe&ing a polite recep
tion.—-Inhead of which, he perceived he was
treated with a degree of cooluefs bordering upon
contempt. However, he was invited to a con
ference ; but Vergennes opened the fubje&, by
declaring, 'That France and Spain having, at an
enormous expence, provided such an armament,
as could hardly fail of reducing jf not the whole
of the British Weft-Inda, islands) at least the
island of Jam dca, which was now the objeft of
their united attack, were determined to postpone
any further progress in the negociation till the
event of their military operations was seen, and
then they foould be prepared to give them their
terms.'
" There the matter rested when the left mes
senger came from Paris."
CONSTANTINOPLE, April jB.
THE people having begun to murmur at„the
exceflive price to which coffee had l)cen
raised, the Grand Vifir, in order to get informa
tion of the reasons of such augmentation, disguis
ed himfelf as a peafarit, and repaired to one of the
dealers in that commodity, and being convinced
that four Jews purchased it by wholesale, to fell
it by retail to whom they pleased (which is rigor
ously prohibited by the Muffuhnan's laws) he or
dered them all to be arrested the next morning,
and sentenced them to be publicly hanged, which
was immediately done.
P A R I S, May 30.
French patriotism already haßens the repara
tion of the losses sustained by the beet in the Welt-
Indies: Monsieur and the Count d'Artois have
given orders for conilruaing a firß rate man of
war, which they have offered to his Majesty;
and the prince of Conde has presented him a vote
of the Rates of Burgundy, by which they beg his
Majesty, in the name ofthe province, to accept a
(hip of iio guns.
Richmond (Virginia) Auguf tl7.
A few days ago, an engagement took place be
tween a French and Englilh frigate offour Capes,
which lulled near three quarters of an hour, and
it is said, on another French frigates appearing in
fight, the Britilh struck; but we have no official
accounts of it, and can only give it our readers as
a report, though it is generally believed here.
Extract of a letter from Madrid, dated the 24th
of April.
" The late proposals ofthe Court of London
to Holland occasioned but little anxiety here,
though appearances in the north seem more se
rious—An attack upon Gibraltar by floating bat
teries is avowed—The Duke de Crillon demands
thirty thousand men for the business, though the
late reinforcement from England renders his suc
cess dubious. Nothing very consequential has
as yet followed the late ministerial change. An
attempt to relieve Gibraltar by a decisive naval
combat is by some expected."
After the barbarous mafiacre of Colonel Craw
ford, as mentioned in one of our late papers, the
Delawares demanded bis son-in-law, Colonel
William Harrison, and his nephew, Craw
ford, of the Shawanefe, by whom they had been
taken; and they were accordingly given up.
They both experienced the moB horrid tortures
till they were dead. Colonel Harrison was then
quartered and Buck up on poles. One Slover
was to have been put to death in the fame man
ner; the lire had been once kindled for, him, but
Extract ofa letter from Sunbury, July, 28.
" Our troubles are come on again. A few
days ago there were four persons murdered and
scalped, and three taken from the north-eail
Branch. One man had four bullets fired through
his body, and was moll harbaroußy mangled
with tomahawks. We have since had federal
alarms, and the frontiers are in great uiieafinefs.
As our protection is very small indeed, the con
sequence is much to be dreaded; for we are en
tirely in the power and mercy of a merciless ene
my.
Two of our inhabitants who were taken pri
soners about a year ago, have lately made their
escape from the Indian towns, about 100 miles
on this fide Niagara, where numbers of our peo
ple are confined. The warriors were all gone
except a few from the different towns, to the
northward. It would have been a fine opportu
nity for destroying their towns. I have long
wilhed for an expedition to go into their country
and give them an effectual check. It is a very
dillrelhng circumstance, that our frontiers are
exposed from year to year, to the enemy's butch
erings, murderings and fcalpings, when we have
a Sufficient force in our country, willing to drive
them out and to extirpate them from the face of
the earth."
We hear that agreeably tothe notice in Riving
ton's Gazette ofthe 7th inßant, the inhabitants
and refugees met, to confider of a plan for ob
taining assurance of what were to be the measures
ofthe Britilh government with refpe& to them:
That as orders had been given to B@p ifluing rati
ons to the refugees, they had determined to fend
two of their body immediately to England, to
know with certainty what protection they were
further to expert, and in what manner ; and
also remonstrated to Sir Guy Carleton 011 the
occasion who informed them that those who
chose to enter into his Majesty's army or navy
should be amply paid, fed and eloathed; but as to
further provision he was not intruded.
The Britilh at New York in order to impress
the world with a notion of their humanity have
granted paroles to a considerable number of pri
soners, (tingled out for that purpose) upon condi
tion they would sign declarations fignifying their
good usage, &c. The poor fellows rather than
die in those infeCted hulks, it is to be supposed
would set their names to any thing; so that
these declarations totally fail of proving what the
enemy with the world to believe, viz. that they
are a humane sett of gentlemen—but let us give
you a fa&---the privateer hoop Chance was car
riedinto New-York the 19th of May last; the
crew were put on board a prison Blip in good
health to the number of 7;, where they lay about
7 weeks—of these 17 dieci in the said Ship-—8 left
at the hofpital—2s arrived tick at Providence,
a heavy Brower of rain falling, saved his life then,
and before the next day he fortunately escaped.
By our last accounts from the north-western
frontiers we learn, that the Indians have lately
deltroyed Hanna's town and another small vil
lage on the Penufylvania fide, and killed and
captured the whole of the inhabitants. It is also
confidently said, that Fort Henry at the mouth
of Wheeling, is cut off. The militia of that
quarter ofthe country are all in arms to avenge
these incursions of the savages.
From the southward we learn, that the hoftite
conduct of some of the Indian tribes to the welt
ward, had induced the Governor of South-Caro
lina to fend out General Pickens with a well ap
pointed body of militia to challife them, and the
expedition was to have taken effect the Brit of
this month. That the Indians, however have
Since sued for peace, and a treaty, we hear, will
Shortly be held for that purpose.
PHILADELPHI A, August 27.
Extract of a letter from New-Jersey, Auguß 20.
" You may depend that Lippencut is released
from confinement, he obtained his final difeharge
on Friday lalL His good friend Governor Frank
lin has embarked on board the packet for Eng
land. As a Borm seems impending, its probable
he has retired to his plantation, the experienced
clemency of an indulgent Sovereign inducing
him to cross the Atlantic, to an alfylum from the
hands of juitice. But Lippencut lias fared much
better, five hundred pounds are collected for his
relief; what great encouragement for a man to
persevere in a bad cause."
We hear from New-Jersey, that the Tories
and their wives are flying from New-York in all
directions, and many of them seek protection
from the very people they have injured and in
sulted.
one of whom died as they came into the river,
and not above three or four of the rest able to
walk—dhe remainder were detained in New-
York, put on board the men of war, or made
their escape.-—This is Britilh humanity.
We hear from New-York, that Mr. Rivington,
King's printer in that poll, has refuted taking
any more fubferiptions for his paper, and makes
no scruple to declare, that the last number will
be published on or before the firft day of October
next and possibly sooner. The Royal Gazette
has already decreased to the size of a small Sheet
of writing paper.
F I S H-K I L L, September ;.
The army moved from Weft-Point audits
neighbourhood, by water, to Verplank's point,
the 31st ultimo, where they are now encamped.
This movement, the firft considerable one which
has yet been attempted by water, was made
with the utmost regularity and order.
Last week Mr. Peter Corne, late an inhabi
tant of Peeks-Kill, with three other persons, who
came out to Stamford with a flag from Briga
dier-General Birch, were feizedby Col. Can
field, and sent upto Weil-Point. This flag be
ing a repeated deviation fioin the convention
fettled between the British and American Com
manders in Chief, that no flags should pass or
repafs by any other route than tl>e post of Dobb's
ferry : The persons are detained as prisoners, to
put a Bop to any further impositions of this na
ture.
We have various reports, that the Britilh are
preparing to leave Neu-1 ork ; the tories are Bill
in perplexity there ; and several of them are
gone and going off; some toghe Weft-Indies,
and others to Canada. It is also confidently re
ported that the Britifligan ifon is arrived at San
dy-Hook from Charlctiowb.
The Experiment a Britilh <0 gun Blip, is tak
en by two French frigates and carried into the
Chesapeake.
7^ Pubafad, and now Selling by the Printers
hereof,
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ceased, or any demands on the lame, are defined to exhibit'
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REBECCA PAYNE, Administratrix.
Hartford, September s, 1782.
WE the lubfcriters being appointed by the Hon. Court
of Probate for the diftrid of Hartford, and also b,
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RBUBE N SKINNER.
Bolton, Sept, 6, Y7R2.
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HLIZURWARREN, ) a , .
EBENEZER KNEELAND, ) Adminirt rs+
Hartford, Sept. 6, 1782.'
Beardflej's and Hopkins,
Druggists and Apothecaries, in Hartford.
Have just recruited their Store with a fresh Supply of
MEDIC INE S, viz.
EXCELLENT Quill Jeluits Bark, Aloes, Camphor,
l Opium, Gum Arabic, Volatile and other Salts, Caftilc
Soap, Eflfence of Pepper Mint, Turlington's genuine Bal
sam, India Spices, &c.
Also, Elfence of Bergamotte, Figgs, Rice, Cotton Wool,
belt Spanish Indigo, Brimftonc, Litharge of Gold, Verdc
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make immediate payment, to
JOHN CADWELL, Executor.
Hartford, September 2, 1782.
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VICTO FORRIS, late of Glaftenbury, deceased, are de
sired to bring them in to the subscriber for settlement—
Those indebted co said estate, are requested to make pay
ment.
RHODA FORRIS, Administratrix.
, GkeCenbury, August 26, 1782.