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ted to the other fide of the Atlantic, I cannot con
je&are by what authority you offer ua proteaion.
Should we comply with your desires, neither the
Parliament nor King, nor even Gen. Clinton, is
bqundto fulfill your engagements, and the Procla
mation of a Commodore Parker, and Lieut. Col.
Campbell, is but Render security.
2d That you seem to fay, That Congress alone
has rejected the blessings of peace, freedom and pro
te&ion, f^eronfly tendered by his Majesty to his
deluded fubje&s of America. Now, if you know
no better, you are too ignorant to be depended on for
counfri or advice, and if you do you have too much
of the Kn^.ve to be trusted.
2d. That I have often heard, but could not credit
the report, until confirmed by you, That Congress
■has, and hili does hang, such of the King's friends
as a&ed openly against them NOTWITHSTADING
the Commissioners and army exerted their
utmost POWER TO PREVENT IT. Now this may
probably be my file, liquid I attempt to join you:
and to be b%d for loyalty would be a poor re
demption from flavcry, or fatirfa&ion for MANIFOLD
injuries fufiained. Instead of fending a detachment
there, which if capable of little else than dealing a
few negroes, plundering a plantation or burning a
barn, in my humble opinion, you would do his Ma
jesty more effedual service by keeping together, and
trying to protea his unfortunate friends from the
gallows, who, by depending on former Proclamati
ons, have been guilty of Treason against the States
in rebellion.
qth. That an invitation to take up the musket on
any fide, especially on the weakest, is BY no means
agreeable to us. Few of us love fighting. You
acknowledge that France will be toe hard for Eng
land, unlefi America help# her ; what then muff she
be if America helps France? It is a maxim with us
Tories, to keep always on the fttongeft fide. I can
five myfclfby submitting to the laws of the State I
live in', until you are in .: condition to protest me,
which at present it seems you are not ; or why press
us so earnefily to come and help you. " Help your
selves, and your friends will like you the better,"
is an oid faying, and a good one. If I must fight,
why net for the country ? But fighting is not the
trade of a Tory. Interefl or cowardice (way us all;
and you offer little except blows or the halter.
s h. That you have fixed your quarters so far
from th: people you come to prote&, that they will
be exoofr d to certain defirudion, should they attempt
to juu you, uniefs you move General Lincoln and
his army out of the way. But should the King's
friends, with the'r families and effects, escape the vi
g:ie*ce of life vtojs tin©! is uy uv im^as proba
ble you cannot funifh them with a spot of ground
on which to raise their provisions; and they have
no money which will pass current with you ; nor
have you the provisions to spare if they had. Thus
we should be exposed to famine on the one hand,
and to the vengeance of our country on the other :
For should we leave our families to join with you,
they would beat the mercy of those whom you call
bloody peifecutors, and if we carry them with us
they muff starve.
6th. That to fend a detachment under a Lieute
riant Colonel for the fecurily of three provinces, seems
a burlesque on protection. Can Col. Camp
bell's detachment subdue both the Carolinas and
Georgia, when General Clinton with an army, and
Sir Peter Parker with a squadron of ffiips of war,
could not reduce " a half conftru&ed fort on Sul
livan's Isl uid i" We have been protested too long
by P-chmations alone. Conquer one single state,
and eftabl sh a legal government therein, and then
we may think of repaying to your flandard. The
whole power of the nation has been exerted for four
years together, and yet has not been able to establish
one court of justice. Sixty thousand men have
been employed, many bloody battles faught, whole
armies loft, towns taken, provinces plundered, and
what have the king's Friend, gained by all these
mighty achievements ?- -The exquisite pleasure of
becoming beggars and vagabonds, for the fake of go
vernment.- Where had you more or warmer friends
thaa in Philadelphia ? recollect how many thousands
went cut in triumph to meet you---how the city
rung with huzzas at your approach I—Wbat return
did yon make to such loyalty ? You burnt their
country feats, laid waste their plantations, and as
icon as they had openly declared for the king, you
left them in the lurch. If this was the utmost the
grand army would or could do for us, what are we
to expert from a trifling detachment, commanded
by a Lieutenant Colonel ?
7th. That tho' many more difficulties ftaft up so
oppose our junction with you, yet they all should
vanish before my attachment tohis Majesty, and
live to the service- on removing those I have al
ready enumerated.
An Unprotected North Carolina TORY.
wInUiA^3SJKG, January 29.
We hear General Lincoln has had an engagement
with the enemy, at Savannah, in Georgia, wherein
about 300 men were fliin on both sides. The miri
tia were turning out hrifkly, and the General expected
soon to be able to dislodge the enemy.
Baltimore, February 9 .
Extract of a letter, addressed to Mons. Le Chevalier
D'anmours, Consul of France, for the state of
Maryland, dated Nantz, November 25, 1778.
" Above two hundred British frigates and priva
teers have considerably annoyed our trade for feme
time ; but ours have cf late taken many of them, and
dispersed the greatest part of the rein. We are assured
that peace is much talked of in London, and that
the Court of Spain has declared, that she could not
dispense with taking part with France, if that of
G eat Britain did not accede to the proposals of that
of Versailles."
PHILADELPHI A, Feb. 15.
The attention of all ranks of people is fixed upon
expectation of hearing the important intelligence,
which, it is said an august body received a few days
ago from abroad, and the contents of which, it is ad
ded, they are in honor and policy bound not to di
vulge at present. There are various reports about it,
but the two following are all the printer can get any
particulars cf for this publication. One is that the
Spaniards, having acceded to the independence of
America, have agreed to assist France with thirty
fail of the line, and lend the United Spates of Ame
rica thirty millions of dollars, as they can better spire
money than their troops at so great a di^ance. The
other is, that the Dutch have agreed to supply the A
mericans with a considerable loan, which is to be
guaranteed by France. Whatever be the intelligence;
it is certain that the price of goods and hard money
has fallen greatly since an express boat arrived last
week; but what part flie comes from is also a secret.
This day hard money was offered at the rate if fix
for one, but was refuted, the price being expected to
be much lower in a short time.
NEW -YO RK, February 13.
Extra& of a letter from Vance Caldwell and Vance,
to Andrew and James Caldwell, of Philadelphia,
dated Dominica, January 16, 1779, found on
board the prize floep Richard, captured by the
Columba privateer, belonging to this port.
“ Admiral's Byron aid Barrington have blocked
up Count D'Eflaing in Fort Royal, and how soon
they may visit us here is uncertain. We are pretty
well prepared as to ourselves, having removed almost
all into the country."
N E W - H A V B N, March 3.
Extracts of two letters from F,hfidd county, dated
March f.
" Theenemy have made an excursion within four
miles of Stamford ; by the best accounts about 14
or 1500 under the command of Governor Tryon ;
they reached Horse N.ck, on Friday morning about
9 o'clock ; at Stamford they were not alarmed till
10 o'clock, notwithfLuding the enemy were dis
covered at 9 o'clock the preceeding evening, by a
small guard cf Continental troops, at Haft Chefier,
under the command of Capt. Titus Watson, who
were obliged to give way, though they fought on
their retreat, and some of them were wounded and
taken prisoners. Cap am Watson was closely pur
sued by a light horseman who he had the good for
tune to kill, and by the affiftanqe of the horse made
his escape. Gen. Putnam was accidentally at Stam
ford, but the Continental troops were 00 much Mat
tered to be cohered in feafn so oppose the enemy."
HARTFORD March 9.
Friday the 12th of February, No, 84 653 was
drawn a Prize of 20,000 Dollars, in the United
Slates Lottery,
Several valuable prizes have lately arrived at the
Eiflward.
We hear from Elizabeth Town in New Jersey,
that a party of the enemy of near 1000, landed there
from Staten-lfland on the morning of the 2§th ult.
and burned the barracks, a school house witha small
quantity of Continental provision, two dwelling,
houses and fevtral flacks of hay. They also col
le&ed and attempted to carry off about 40 head of
cattle ; but being hardly pressed by a small body of
continental troops and militia commanded by Gen.
Maxwell, they left most of the cattle behind, and
embarked on board their beats with the loss of a
number killed and wounded.
'"[ '"° LARGE OX HIDES, to be exchanged
g fcr Ind,an Corn. Enquire of the Printers.
Refined bar ironmo be Soid"bywiL
LIAM IMLAY, at hiiStore in Hartford.
Also, a neat Afforiment of DRY GOODS.
RU M, Sugar, Molasses, Coffe and Salt ; to be
exchanged on very reasonable terms; for
Tobacco Poik, Flour. Wheat, Rye, Corn or Oats,
by JO HNCALDWEL L, a few rods south
of die Court House Hartford.
CONTINENTAL BILL.>
of May zoth, 1777, and .April ii'h <7/8.
WI LL be taken in payment for a Q^r^ty of
Philadelphia Dreft Leather and P % Made
Breeches, left in the care of the Subferiber, and at
the very leweft prices. Enquire of
STEPHEN AUSTE N.
March 9, 1779.
Commissary's Office, Hartford, March 4, 1779.
^^7 HEREAS many inconveniences arile,
both to the Public and to her servants, from
the ne^lea of the persons imployed in hanfporting
public stores, from one magazine to another ; or
from the various purchasing Corrmiffmes, to the
magazines or army, of returning the vouchers for
the delivery of the goods; and exchng^ u air
receipts. This is frerwently the case where they
receive payment for transportation, from the Quarter-
Matter's department ; and in too many inflarc^s
where they expert payment from this office. To
remove this evil, afr conductors of teams as well as
private carters, are hereby called on for an
Immediate exchange of receipts, for all public
goods delivered them ; - -- and notified, that if
they, in future, ne gle& this part of their duty,
all such receipts returned to me will be put in suit,
on the supposition of their having converted the
goods to their own use. The receipts for the deli
very of any provisions or stores, should be return
ed to the person from whom they were received :
This is the more necessary as frequently part if not
the whole of the goods received by the conduftors,
&c. are delivered at other magazines and posts, than
those for which they were originally intended; and
the purchaser or magazine-keeper, has no other
means of rectifying his books than that of the receipts
for the delivery which are returned him.
All persons concerned, are requeued to make im
mediate returns, to this office, of the delivery of
any stores entrusted to their care.
PETER COLT.
D. C. G. Pur. Elf. Depart.
Providence, February 19. x 779.
ESCAPED from the main guard in this town,
about nine o'clock in the evening of the 18th
instant, a certain WILLIAM CROSSING,
who fays he is a Captain in Whitman's corps of to
ry refugees; and JOSEPH CASWELL,
of said Croffihg's company, who were captured at
Seconnet, Croffi^g is about 40 years old, 5 feet 9
inches high, has a light complexion, light blueeyes,
short hair, is marked with the (mall-pox, and is a man
of great activity; w^: dressed in a brown velvet coat;
red waistcoat and breeches, and a furr cap. Cafwell,
i^4x;rft -v^to p!<t # fact ,o, ? "^ I ™t §jefr f°ll
fac'd, well let, very dark complexior/d, has a re
markable black bwfhy beard,werrs bis hair short, and
was clothed with a blue coat and waistcoat, and dark
brown breeches. Whoever will apprehend and
secure the abovementicned villians, flall receive
Two Hundred Dollars Reward, or One Hundred
Dollars for either of them.
Published by order the hon. M^j; Gen. Sullivan.
WILLIAM PECK, Aili. Gen. I. R. I.
IF the parents of Moles Goideu deceas'd, (//ho
was a long time prisoner with the enem ) will
apply immediately to the fubferiber, they will be
informed of Something greatly tc their advantage
ELIPHALET BRUSH.
Hartford March 6, 1779.
On Monday the 15th inflant, at one o'clpck P. M.
will be fold at the dwelling h use of John Skin
ner in Hartford, sundry Gords, viz.
BROADCLOTHS of divers forts, Coatings. Flan
nels, Serge, Linens, Check, men's and women's
Hose, women's shoes, silk and linen Handkerchiefs,
white Thread, Needles, Pins; Penknives, and sun
dry other articles not here enumerated.
N. B. I have been desired by sundry gentlemen,
to continue fiid Vendue one day in a week for feme
time ; and I have determined to opeß a fair and pub
lic vendue, to be held at the above place, in the af
ternoon of every Monday, in each week, until the
12. hof May next Any Gentlemen or Ladies that
have any thing on hand, that they want to make a
quick sale of, and their money collected if they will
lend them in may depend on being treated wiih the
greatest fidelity and dispatch, by their most humble
servant. JOHN SKINNER.
Hartford, March 5. 1779.
AL L persons having any demands, agaml ithe
eflate of Will am Andrus, late of New Hart
ford deceas'd, are defied to exhibit them for settle
ment to William Andros of Herford, or Nehemiah
Andrus of New Hartford. All these indebted are
desired tc ma^c immediate payment, to
WILLIAM ANDRUS, ? _
NEHEMIAH ANDRUS, j ~ xf ^ on
Match 8, 1,79.