The Connecticut courant, and the weekly intelligencer — Hartford [Conn.], 1782-01-08 00:00:00, page 1

Mess. Printers,
Please to insert the following.
WHEN Luxury and Extravagance prevail
among a People the final ruin of the State
is inevitable—-Let Greece and Rome fuffice 101
example, who by frugality and ©economy role
to the summit of glory and greatnels ; out by
luxury and extravagance plunged themielves in
the foweft abyss of infamy and perdition.—is
of importance then, my friends and fellow-citi
zens', that we examine our own character
that we rouse from that supine negligence that
possesses us ; —banifh every appearance of prodi
rgality and excess, and contribute all in our pow
er for the encouragement of frugality and in
dustry—kind nature has bleft us with a fertile
country, capable (by a proper management) of
producing every necessary of life we ought
therefore to encourage our own manufactures,
and scorn to be dependant on foreign nations-—
We have of late been so engaged to purchase
tritifh goods, that we have dared to violate trie
laws of our country, and have robbed toe State
of more than one haff of its circulating medium--
by means of which we now complain of a fcarci
tyof Cath, and many consequent evils—lt would
render essential service to our country Ihould all
unite and agree never to purehafe those accursed
goods, that have been illicitly imported- Ye
iiluftrious patriots of American^ liberty, who
have so nobly exerted yourselves in the cause of
freedom ! your country calls you to exert your
abilities in Convincing the people of their errors ;
and flawing them in what their true happinets
coniilts—Ye American fair ones ! are called up
on to contribute to the public good—your coun
try demands the exertions of your gentler facul
ties—(corn to let such a trifle as dress, engross
your thoughts while nobler pursuits demand
your attention—lay aside (for a while at least)
those gaities, which so ill suit our present cir
cumstances—wear nothing but what is manu^
factored in America—this will give the greatest
encouragement to industry—-k will bearing
worthy your charming selves and posterity will
rife up and call you blessed.
In fine, let us all encourage mechanic arts and
agriculture—the industrious poor will then find
employment; we ffidll have a source of richer
among ourselves far preferable to the mines of
Peru—independence and peace will be the re
ward of our patriotifm—honour, plenty and
happiness, will crown all our toils.
LONDO N, September 24.
We have advices from Paris, of the igth inst.
which fay, that the King has fignified to his Ex
cellency Benjamin Franklin, by bis Ministers, the
Count de Vergennes and M. Maurepds, that he is
determined to enter into no treaty for a general
pacification with Great-Brithin, without the con
tent and approbation of his faithful allies the
United States of America, and firmly eftablifli
ing their independence.
O3ober 6. The Spaniards, in their pompous
account of the invasion of Minorca, fay that it
fixes the attention of all the maritime powc o >oi
Europe.. They should have excepted one great
maritime power, that is, the Court of London,
-which appears to pay no attention to it at all ---
Nay, nor the people neither ! Or turely breach
and Spaniards would not have such tree egress
and regrets there and at Gibraltar, unmolested
and uninterruped by the Britain navy ! Oh poo^
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HART FOR D : Printed by H UDSON and GOUu w __ ______ _
TUESDAY, January 8,
unfortunate BYNG! Where 'is thy indignant
ghost ? Thou who died a viftim to avert the fu
ry of an enraged people from a guilty Ministry-
Punishment, though with a flow foot, is sure
to overtake the villain/ How unlucky for poor
A —, to have escaped the penalty ^of a traitor,
only to be reserved for the fate of a detested af
faflin ! And was Gen. & Ppillips's army to have
been next betrayed, to appease the betrayed Con
gress, if you had been railed to the command,
upon his concerted destiny ? OTluman Nature.
What a Spot is here in thy creation ?
Sir Henry Clinton's and Lord Rawdon s re
turns, may be deemed the surest token of a loft
cause ; no less than the meditated retreat, as it
is probable, of that arch traitor A , indicates
the inclination of final victory to the fide he iak
defeated. —IT
POLITICAL SALES by AUCTION.
By Boreas, Minden, and Co.
State and Stock-Brokers:
The British Rights in America, conking,
among many other articles, of the Thirteen Pro
vinces, now claiming independence ; the rever
sions of the governments ofi^ebec, Nova-Scotia,
Newfoundland, and Ball Florida (that of Weft-
Florida has been some time disposed of, and the
purchasers have lately come into poffeilion) toge
ther with the territories of the Hudson's-Bay
Company ; a body of difyirited troops, with a
very large collection of overgrown Commiflaries,
and all the unsettled accounts of ordinaries and
extraordinaties, to the amount of many millions ;
together with the whole mass of acts, repeals,
statutes, reftriaioip, proclamations, arrears,
propofafons, humiliations, &c. &c.-
N. B. The British Wefl-India Islands to be
included, if agreeable.---Application to be made
to Messrs- Boreas, Minden, and Co. near St.
James's-.
By JAMES TWITCHER & Co.
The remaining Stock in Trade of the Royal
Navy of Grcat-Britain, confiftingof afmall num
ber of old hulks, built with Stetin-timber, un
equipped and unmanned. They will be fold
with all their furniture on board, of old women
in command, old men, and a young Prince-
Perfonsare desired to apply without loss of time,
to prevent their mouldering away without any
benefit to the auctioneer. For the convenience
of purchasers, James will have no objection to
fuffering the fleets of the enemy to come into the
Channel, for the purpose of carrying, oil what
the, may buy..
Also the Garrisons of Gibraltar and Minorca,
with all the empty storehouses and magazines.—-
Those are now upon sale, and will be knocked
down without any loss of time. I heywill be an
excellent bargain to the purchasers, as they will
be peremptorily told.
The people in general seem to be exceedingly
alarmed at a late gazette. It is the general opi
nion, that all the distresses we have laboured un
der, during the course of this unfortunate war,
are owing to our want of intelligence. A<lmi
rat Parker at the conclusion of his letter,, lays,
“ the enemy's force was, I believe, much fape
riorto what their lordships apprehended. Here
an honed and brave seaman, in effect, duchies
his apprehensions, that the lords ofthe Admiral
ty, on whose good and wife conduct the glory
and4iappinefs ofthis country in a gre^t measure
depends, have, for want of proper information,
loft a glorious opportunity of diilreffmg the ene
my- We shall not comment on this very extra-
1782.
ordinary paTage in the Admiral's letter, 1 as the?
sovereign will, no doubt, make a proper enquiry
into the cause of aur late miscarriage, and do his
fubje&s justice.
Extract of a genuine letter from anpfficcr of one
of hisMajeffy's ships, dated Barbadoes, Junezg.
" The great fuperierity of the enemy's fleet,
has thrown a damp not only on the spirits ofthe.
planter's, who fee nothing before their eyes bur
the capture of the whole Wetblndia ifandi,but/
even the brazen fortitude of the sailors of out
fleet is staggered, for we fee noquarters fronx
whence our help can comc. Your channel fleet:
is, God knows, ill able to spare a single frigate.
The flips on the North-American Ration have:
their hands full, we can have no hopes from them.
—ln Ihort, unless providence raises up some ma
ritime ally, to support us againlt so powerful 3
confederacy we may, in all probability, very foor<
have no occasion for any ships at alfin this quar
ter of the globe, a& nothing will be left us to de
fend."
August 14. By advice from Deal we learn,
that on Sunday morning foil, at halt pall < cieix
o'clock. Admiral Parker, with the squadron and,
part ot the convoy under bis command, arrived
in the Downs. Most ofthe men of war bear the
raoft convincing proofs, that the Dutch gun pow
der is not fubje& to rite fame complaints which
have long been made against that of our menu
factories, furnished to government by a set of
avaricious contractors. All expedition is used
by the 'Admiral to land his tick and wounded^
Our correspondent is of opinion, that in order to
do justice to opr brave seamen, a few more fucli
encounters with tire Dutch, will soon render the
building of another wing to Greenwich hofpitaL
indispensably necessary.
All the (hips that went out to the Weft-Indies
with Admiral Byron,mull come home this year,
the number are seven.. At lealta dozen fail are
wanted to replace them ; but where they are to
be procured, or from what Ration we can possi
bly spare so large a force as twelve fail of the line:
now that we have the Dutch to cope with, hea-<
ven only knowsl
The report so induflrioufly circulated, that:
Admiral Darby is gone to Gibraltar, is altoge
ther apocryphal. Lord Sandwich knows th<-
danger to which that important fortrefs is expos
ed, and from the vigilance and zeal with which
he always ads, wishes, no doubt, to relieve it-
But the fad is, the noble lord has a wonderful,
penchant for the preservation of the British na
vy, and Admiral Darby is much fafer where he is.
CSall our naval commanders, and lord Sand-,
wich has been very happy in his choice of them,
no one has kept a better look cut than Admiral
Darby, for, industrious as the enemy have been,
to do it, they have not yet been able to come near
him. Admiral Keppel was quite another fort of
a man, and instead of keeping a ^ood look out,
and taking care of Lord Sandwich's ffiips, blun
dered upon the French fleet, and beat them into
Brest. Such commanders will not do lor the;
present fyitem of politics Is,1 $ ,
One great saving has certainly been made under
the present ministry, who have no intelligence to
pay for, and confequuntly will thereby greatly
reduce the amount of fccret service money.
As we seem utterly incapable of beating the
enemy, with a fleet at all inferior to theirs, it is
to be regretted that we have at this time a firft
Lord of the Admiralty, who never fcrtds out a
superior fleet.
(Ne. 885.)