The Connecticut courant, and the weekly intelligencer — Hartford [Conn.], 1780-01-11 00:00:00, page 2

BALTIMORE, December 14.
The London Papers brought by Capt. Yallot,
down to Sept. 28, further advise, That the British
Nation never experienced so difgraccful an Era as
the present: Defeated in America, by Sea and Land/
defeated also in the Weft Indies by Sea, and the grand
Fleet, under Sir Charles Hardy's Command, fairly
cha^l into Port, by the combined Fleets of France
and opsin.-That Old England, to Speak rationally,
Is perfectly becoming aTrunk, her noblest Limbs are
topping o! t, one by one, and having no Extremities
to return the Blood, the Circulation of Course muff
flop, and the Body perish --That Public Credit had
not got such a Shock since the Beginning of the A
merican War, as by the Capture of Grenada, on
which Ilhnd were made, the 1,8 Y^ar, 50 000 Hog
sheads of Sugar, mofi of which bad fallen into the
Hands of the French, with 12 Sail of laden Ships in
the Harbour-- That the Trade of the three captured
Hands, Dominica, St. Vincent, and Grenada, in
1775, the firft of the ever to be lamented American
War, amounted to nearly a Million and a Half---
That the French loft, in killed, at the Several Attacks
of these Inlands. 2000 Men : That Mr. Oliver, late
an Alderman of London, was at Grenada when it
wasjaken by the French, where he had large Pos
sessions : That 14 000 additional German Troops
had been taken into the pay of Great Britain : That
the Bombardment of Gibraltar, befitted by 30 000
Spaniards on the Land Side, and at the fame time
blockaded by Sea, was to have commenced the 18th
of August : That the Garrilon of this important
place confits of 5000 tffe&ive Men, and that of
Minorca, 0f.2500 : Tuat Governor Johnttone had
proposed to Lord George Germaine, an Expedition
against Chili and Peru ; that his Plan was highly ap
proved, and Preparations rec making that it might
take Place as soon as the Channel Service was deci
ded: That Sir Charles Hardy's Ftet, when joined
by that under Sir John L ckhart Ross (gone on a fe
ctet Expedition, Supposed for the Deftru&ion of
Transports on the Coast of France) would consist of
50 Sail ofthe Line, three 50 Gun Ships. 20 Frigates,
7 Fire Ships, fevers! Stoops, Bomb Vessels. and Cut
ters : That Admiral Graves commands the sth di;
vision cf this Fleet: That the amazing Efforts made
by France for the Re E&blifhment of aMarine, will
appear from hence, that D'O.villiers has, of Ships
cf the Line 32; D'Eflaing, 26; Le Peroulille, at
Mauritius, 3 ; fitting out at Toulon, 6 ; at Roch
fort, 4 ; beside, others on the Stocks, and 26 Fri
gates; of 36 Guns each, building in Corsica : That
the combined Fleets had returned so Bred ; that
they had Suffered much by a putrid Fever, which
prevailed on board; by which the Count D'Orvil
liers had loft his only Son, a Youth df great Hopes:
That the Count being in a bad State of Health; had
obta rid Leave to resign his Command, and that
Count Dutchaffault. Lieutenant General of the Na
vy. had been appointed to succeed him: That this
Fleet was to leave Brest, to seek the Enemy as soon
as they had taken in the necessary Refreshments:
That a Camp of 8000 Men, was ordered to be form,
ed on the Isle ofWight; That immense warlike P.e
farations were making throughout Great Britain and
reland: That in the latter Kingdom there were In^
dependent Corps, amounting to 49 460 Men; and
13.000 Regulars in Carp; all said to be as good
Troops as any in Europe: That the Profpe& of an
invasion, and the lawleft Threatening of Death and
DafhuAion (by the unemployed Artificers, who as
fociate with the Liberty and White Boys) to the
Venders of Englifn Commodities, imported into Ire-<
tad. had induced raany Families to remove from
thence with their efftAa: That several Persons had
been apprehended and committed to Prison, in Lon
don, for carrying on a treasonable Correspondence
with the French and Spaniards: Capt. Hutchins, an
American, of the 60 fa Regiment, efleemed a good
Officer, a Gentleman, and most excellent Draftsman,
Was one of them; and that the Grand Jury had
found a Bill against him: That an Expedition in
the East Indies (which cost the Company upwards
of 100 oco 1. Sterling) against Poonah, goo miles
from Bengal, had failed, with the loft of 3000 men,
and Several valuable officers ; the remainder of the
Army, ceftipofed of Europeans and Natives; con
fiding of 6006 men; were obliged, after being
greatly difoffed, to enter into a hard Treaty with
the Enem% whefe army amounted to upwards of
60,000 men, principally natives, to save themselves
from the mortification of being made prisoners :
That the termi were so bad for the company, that
Hie Governor of Bombay would not comply with
an y Part of it, though Homages were left for its per
fo mince : That Fort George, Condi, Dauphin,
Chimburra, and all the Places held by the French
Nation, as Dependencies on Mahie, were In Posses
sion of the English, having Surrendered by Capitu
lation : That ^he Coiwtefs cf Inchiquin (who was
oas of a perfidious savage enemy.
HARTFOR D, January 11.
It is reported that a vessel is arrived at the East
ward from France, that brings an account that the
combined fleets of France and Spain, and the British,
are by order of their refpe&ive Courts ordered into
port, in cpnfequence of other foreign powers ffiter
pofing.
The late violent Snow Storms have prevented the
Polls from performing their ufaal stages ; in conse
quence of which we have received no papers from
the Ea^ward or Weßward later than the 23d of De
cember.
Rom a la'e London Paper.
<' Multum in Parvo—Dominique! St. Vin
cent's ! Grenada 101 l !—The rest of the Weft-India
XHlinds, perhaps, in the fame situation !—The Grand
Fleet of England in Port !—France and Spain tri
umphing on the British Seas !—An English Ad
miral, end a brave one too, defeated in the Weft-
Indies ! Eight E&ft India Ships, without Convoy,
skulking from the Enemy at Limerick—an American
Commodore with a firong Squadron in their Neigh
bourhood ! The Power of France ready to embark
for an Invasion !—lreland without Defense !—
England in a State of Apathy !— The Forces in A
merica in imminent Danger !—
« What a melancholy Situation is this Counts,
now in ? Gibralter blockaded ; and we cannot fend
any Succours. The Weft- India Inlands at the Mercy
of the Count D'EAaing, and we have not any Ships
to spare for their Relief. A Check in the East Indies;
and the Company must Shift for themselves. The
Merchants in the City despoiled of their Property ;
no Help can be given them. Who have been the
Authors of this mighty Ruin ? The Ministers ; the
prefect infamous Minifiers. Yet they are to be ccn
tinued in Power, because, fosfooth. Sir Francis
Wronghhad chooses that it Should be so.
" A Short Question Should now be proposed to the
King Whether he chcofes to part with his Mini
sters, or with his Kingdom ? If he retains the one
for Six Months longer, he will lose the other."
burn deaf and dumb) was fitting out, at Cork, a
Privateer, 28 Guns, and 150 Men, entirely at her
own Expence, and is called the Royal Charlotte---
That an American Brig, with 108 Hogsheads of
Tobaco, from Virginia, bound to France, had been
carried into Liverpool--- That an American Priva
teer had been funk, on the Lifh Coast, by two Bri
tish Frigates That a French Transport, with 300
Officers and Soldiers, bound from France to the
Weft-Indies, had been carried into Waterford, by
the British Ship of War Grafhopper- -That the Lion
British Privateer had taken, and carried into Fyal, a
Spanish Ship bound from Havana to Cadiz, with
2,000 000 of Dollars on board, and a great Quanti
ty of Cochiucal -That the Unicorn Privateer, of
Guernsey, had taken a Spanish Ship, bound from
Cadiz to Nantz, worth £ 40 000 Sterling--- That a
Spanish Snow, worth £ 18 000 Sterling, bound to
Port LOrient, had been captured by a British Pri
vateer-- Thatan Acapulco Ship; with immense Rich
es; said to amount to £.750,000 Sterling, in hard
Cash, besides Ingots of Gold and Silver, had been
captured and carried into Limerick, by a British
Privateer---That Capt. Goffelin, in a Privateer from
Guernsey, had taken and (with the Affiflance of the
Hannah Privateer, of London) carried into the fame
Port two French East India Ships, laden with Tea,
Silks, China, Coffee, Indigo, Chintz, Muslin, 7
Chests of Gold Daft, and 600,000 Qollars, valued
at £.250 000 Sterling---That the value of the Vef
fels which lay at Limerick, including these Prizes,
and 22 English Edd Indiamen, which 2 firong Squa
dron had been sent to convoy to England; amounts
to more than Four Millions and a Half Sterling.
PROVIDEN C E, December 18.
We learn that letters are received at the Westward
from Col. Broadhead, Commandant at Fort Pitt, in
forming that feme Canadians had arrived there, and
brought advice, that the several tribes, of Indians
which had been driven from their towns by Cen.
Sullivan, in his late expedition, were in a Starving
Situation ; that they had applied to the Commanding
Officer at Niagara, and demanded provisions, al
ledging that he had been the cause of all their mis
fortunes, by prevailing on them to strike the Ameri
cans ; that for prudential reasons he had for a ffiort
time afforded them 1 Scanty supply, but on receiving
advice from Gaelic that no more provisions were
expeAed to arrive from England 'till the ensuing
Spring, he was obliged, for the preservation of his
prison, to refufe the Savages any further Support, in
consequence cf which they were dying in great num
bers. -Thus, by the Spirited exertions and perfeve
ranceof this brave and a£tive officer; under every
difficulty, and the happy faccefs of the expedition,
our frontiers are entirely fecttred against the incurfi
A Description of Farenheits Stands
Thermometer.
THIS inftrament is conftru&ed to determine
heat and cold of the atmosphere or any if
into whichit is immersed. It is formed by a holl
glass ball or globe, which communicates on thfy
of the ball with a small glass tube about twenty
ches in length, and hermetically Sealed. The 1
and a small part of the tube is filled with Argenti
VivuM or Qiick Silver. By heat the Mercury
thinned and expanded; by cold it is condensed a
contrasted in bulk, so that it rises and fills in t
tube, in proportion to the temperature of the afmi
phere. The ball and tube are placed upon a nice
graduated plate of metal, by which the rife and f
of the Mercury may be accurately afeertained.
certain point in the tube is marked upon the pls
with a cypher; thus 0, from which point the d.
frees are numbered and marked on the plate, bo
up and down. In our climate the Metoury fal
below 0 bat seldom, perhaps two or three co!
mornings in a winter as the fetfon is common!]
When the Mercury stands at 32 water begins 1
freeze or feim over with ice ; at 55 the air is calls
temperate; at 76 Summer Heat; at 98 Blood Heat
at 112 Fever Heat. Immersed in boiling spirits th
Mercury stands at 175 ; in boiling water at 212.
The height cf the Mercury the firft eight days i
January at fun-rife is below. Several days it ha
been as low at 2 o'clock P. M. as in the morning
which uncommon cold is owing to the great bod
of snow with which the earth is covered.
January. Sunrise.
I-- 2
2 - - 7 below ©
3 - - >4
4 - - 16
5 - - s 6
6 - - 10
7 - - 9
8 - - i below 0
LOST by the subscriber, on Tharfday the 6th
infant, about 3 o'clock P. M. between Mr.
James Steel's in Cooper Lane, and the new School-
House fading toward Rocky Hiil, a rhiddimg sized
China faced WATCH, in old metal cases, the gild
ing wore off, makers name Josephson, No. 10350,
Supposed to have been|picked up by a transient per
lon then in fight. If it has got into such (honefl,
hands as will return it, they Shall be generously re
warded. My brother Pivots in this and the neigh
boring States are requeued to enter the minutes ofit
in order to flop it hereafter. Also, any other per
son that may have a watch offered to them for Sale
may (if they pleafc) examine its name and number
for the fame purpofc, and give notice to their hum
ble Servant, THO's HILLDRUP.
Hartford, Jan. 11, 1778.
TO BE SOLD.
BrGEORGE BURNHAM,
Under the Printing Office Hartford,
BOHEA TEA, Sugar, Allspice, Gin,er, Pint,
Half Pint and Half Gill Glasses, Leng Pipes
by the Groce or Dozen. A small assortment of
Cream coloured Ware, best Cotton Wool, wideand
narrow Silk Lace, Sewing Silk,Coat Button', Pocket
Books, Gimlets, Gun and Pistol Locks, All Hafts,
Writing Paper. &c. Any of the above articles or
the highefi price in Cash given for OLD BRASS or
PEWTER, by said Burnham.
N. B. Pepper to be exchanged for Butter.
FOUND, in Hartford, a number of FAN
MOUNTS. The owner may have them
by paying for this advertisement, and applying to
E.DOOLITTLE.
STRAYED from the Subscriber, in Decem
ber left, a Sorrel COLT, two years old. with
a white Spot in his forehead, branded with a Small
brand on one of the fore hoofs, thus I. D. Whoever
will return said Colt, or give information so that he
may be had again, Shall have a handsome reward, paid
by JOHN DEMING.
Wethersfield, Jan, to, 1780.
May be bad of the Printers hereof,
VERMONT'sAPPEAL
To the W O R L D.
CONTAINING,
A fair STATING of the CLAIMS of
Massachusetts Bay, Nrw-Hampshirr, and
New York.
The RIGHT the STATE of VERMONT
has to INDEPENDENCE.
With an ADDRESS to the Honorable American
Congress, and the Inhabitants of the Thirteen
United States.
Wrote by STEPHEN R. BRADLEY, Esq; Ag,%t
for said State, and published by Authority.