The Connecticut courant, and the weekly intelligencer — Hartford [Conn.], 1779-03-02 00:00:00, page 1

ALL PERSONS within this State, having
any demands, against the Quarter-Master Ge
neral's Department, before the 2d of March : 77°•
Are once more requeued to exhibit them to the hub
scriber, within fourteen days from the date, as he
will not ever after that date pay any such accounts.
JEREMIAM WADSWORTH.
Hartford; March 1 >779 p _
NEW HARTFORD BRIDGE
l otte r y.
THE MANAGERS of said Lottery,
would inform the adventurers and others, a
greeable to their publication ; that the drawing of
said Lottery will begin @n Wednesday the tenth day
ofMarch next, at the meeting house in New-Hartford.
The Managers, would be much obliged to the
gentlemen, that have received tickets to fell if they
have any left on hand to fend them by the firft fafe
opportunity to the person of whom they have received
them; and if it should fall in the way of any of those
gentlemen, to call on the Managers for to pay the
monies they have received for tickets, it would save
the Managers much trouble.
New Hartford Feb. 16, 17,9.
' SMITH AND COIT,
HH VING for several years past, carried on in
Partnership the APOTHECARIES and
BOOKSELLERS Bufiatfs in Hartford. —
Now inform their cufton ers, that their Copartner
flip will be diffclved in April next. And as Mas
Cost purposes then to leave the town, it is neces
sary that all their open accounts should be adjusted.
as so as my be. —They therefore requ^tt all
persons having accounts against them, to bring them
in as soon as possible; and wherever they are indebted,
the creditors may depend upon receiving the balances
dae to them according to the OriAeft rules of com
mutative juflice -and balances found to be due
to said Company, will be chearfully received from
all those who are willing to pay them in the fame
Way.
Those who have borrowed Books either of Smith
or Corr, are desired to return them immediately.
N. B. After the expiration of said partnership,
the business will be carried on (as well as the times
will admit of) by SOLOMON SMIT H,
at the Store now occupied by Smith and Coit.
Hartford. March 2, >779°
fT H E Managers of SHETUCKET
[ BRIDGE LOTTERY, have the
pleasure to inform the Public, that the drawing of said
Lottery will commence at the Court- House in Nor
wich, on the 15th of March next. Therefore request
those gentlemen who have received Tickets to fell,
to return those unfold to the Managers by 1 o'clock
in the afternoon on said day, those not returned by
that time will be co fi toed as fold, and the possessors
adventurers in said Lottery.
A few tickets are hill in the hands of the managers,
which may be had if applied for before the time.
Norwich, Feb. 16, 1779,
Just come to Hand, and to be Sold,
By JAMES PERCIVAL,
At his Store at Kensington;
INDIGO of the best kind, by the barrel, hun
dred or lesser quantity. Also, Logwood and
Fuftic, by the hundred weight. Also, by retail.
Rum, Pepper, Allspice, Ginger, Brimflone, Pins and
Ivory Combs.
DE SERTED from Capt. Walker's Com
pany, Col. Samuel B. Webb's Regiment,
the 16th instant, JOSEPH PROWLANDSON,
belonging to Wethersfield ; 21 years of age. 5 feet
8 or 9 inches high, of a dark complexion, hair and
eyes black : Had on a scarlet regimental coat faced
with yellow, white vest and breeches. Whoever
will return said deserter to his regiment, or secure him
in any gaol, and give notice thereof, ihall receive a
Reward of Twenty Dollars, and necessary charges,
by ROGER WELLES, Lnor.
Warren, Feb, 17, 1779.
fUEsD AY, MARI:# 2, 17^- t M E • [Lumber 73G.
CONNECTICUT COURANT,
AND T HR
WEEKLY INTELLIGENCE R.
HARTFORD: Printed by HUDSON and GOODWIN, near the Great-Bridge.
To RICHARD HENRY LEE, Esquire.
SIR;.
IH AVE read a publication in Mr. Towne's pa
per of the tqth, taken from Mr. Purdie's Virginia
Gazette, of the firft instant, under your signature.
Whatever is delivered to the public, by a person of
your elevated rank and character, mull be supposed
to carry uncommon weight with it whether it re
fpe&s men or things. This consideration obliges
me to make a few observations, on what you justly
term your hasty narrative. In doing which, I Shall
take no farther notice of the terms, libel, fabulous,
inuendo, calumnies, &c. with which your narrative
is enriched, than 'o observe that .t serves to support
the assertion of Mr. Payne, whofoas told the public
that he has been for several year| past your intimate
acquaintance; and at the fame rime to shew how
much you have improvedby his conversation, as well
as by his writings Had you taken proper time for
reflexion, you would I doubt not have prevented me
the trouble of writing, and yourfelf the pain of rea
ding what may be difa^reeable to you. You fay, "had.
''l winked at all information of public abuse I do
" not think I should have incurred Mr. Deane's cen
" fare, but whilst lam honored with public trust it
" shall be my constant endeavour to prevent the com
"munity from being injured, and certainly to insist
"that all those who have fingered large sums of the
" public money should be called upon for a fair and
" honest Settlement."
Have I been charged with abuse of the public trust
reposed in me, or with having misapplied public
monies? Have Congress or any one member of that
honorable body brought forw , ' any such charge!
After repeated and urgent solicitations on my part
for an audience and to be informed ifany such charge
had been made or any unfavorable representations of
my conduct, you produced, it is true, an extract of
a letter from a person notoriously ignorsnt of my
tranfa&ions who was nut in public trust himfelf,
and scarce known to me personally, and who wrote
not to Congress but to you or some other individual,
not what he pretended to know himfelf but what he
understood from the converfatiou which passed be
tween him and a gentleman of my intimate acquain
tance. This you were pleased at the time to call in
formation,- -you did not wink at it, but brought it
forward, groundless and unsupported as it Was; for
tunately the gentleman of my acquaintance referred
to was in town, and was called before Congress and
examined. What was the issue ? This gentleman,
from whom this information was said to be original
ly received, who had been intimately acquainted
with me and my public conduct from my firft arriv
ing in Paris until, be left it, which was but two or
three months before I set out on my return to Ame
rica, informedCongrefs of nothing on which the most
diflant grounds for a charge could be laid against
any part of my tranfa&ions. You could not be ig
norant of this when you wrote your hasty narrative.
You were present in Congress at his examination.
You were also present when I entreated that I might
be heard before Congress, and that all the affairs I
had been concerned in for the public, whether of a
commercial or political nature, either solely or joint
ly with my colleagues, might be examined into and
fettled, and for reasons urged that my private cir
cumstances and Situation pressed me exceedingly to
have such examination and Settlement made. You
know that this was the stile, in which I uniformly
(poke and wrote to Congress from my firft arrival un
til you left Philadelphia, several months after ; and
the public will judge whether this is the stile of a
man who wiffies to have all information of the pub
lic abuse winked at, or any information withheld
which refpe&s himfelf. The resolution of Congress
for my recal was taken in November 1777 ; the let
ter inclofing that resolution was dated the Bth De
cember following. Neither the resolution nor letter
accompanying it (though you were yourfelf one of
the Committee for foreign affairs) intimated any
charge or suspicion of abuse of trust in me, but di
re&ly the contrary. It is now more than fourteen
months since the resolution was taken, mor4 then fix
that I have been attending in this city. Has there
to this moment been any charge against me I If there
has been I call on you to publiffi it to the world and
to support it-, for my part I have heard of none.
I will here leave the artful but groundless insinua
tion with which you set out, to take notice of the
fa& asserted in my publication of the §th of Decem
ber, which is the only one denied by you in your
narrative. In your denial you carefully repeat the
words I made use of, and deny your ever having said,
" that America hada right by the alliance to make
peace without confuting her ally, if England did
not declare war." You indeed acknowledge that
you said, " that war may be made without declaring
it, and that if England would acknowledge die inde
pendence oT America, and not resent the p^ France
had taken, America was at liberty to makea Similar
treaty with England or any other nation." I leave
to abler casuists than I pretend to be, to find out any
material difference between the two assertions, and at
the fame time, to reconcile if possible your doArinc
With that of Congress, declared in their resolution
of the 14th instant, which is as follows: " Resolved
unanimously. , That as neither Fiance, nor these Uni
ted States, may ofright, so these United States will
not conclude either truce or peace with the common
enemy, without the formal consent of their ally firft
obtained, and that any matter of things which may
be insinuated, or asserted to the contrary thereof,
tend to the injury and dishonor of thefeStates " This
is the only fa& asserted in my address which you
have denied, but insinuations foretimes aafwer as
well as dire& assertions, or denials, and therefore you
fay, That 6 Mr. Deane talks much about his great
f-rvices a^d^nod condu& but how happens it, that
of four Comrtiiffioners besides himfelf, three are so
clear and so strong in reprobating that conduct ? Nor
are these the only men thao have done so as I fhall ^
make appear hereafter." I ask you who these three
are ? and why you did not tell the world that two
of them are your brothers, and that the third is not
DoAor Franklin ? You know that Doctor Franklin's
conduct is as severely reprobated by this Triumvirate,
as mine has ever been by them. You know in what
stile two of them have wrote to Congress refpeAing
him, and his conduct nor are you ignorant of what
this truly great man has wrote to Congress of me.
my services and condu&. Were you not present in
Congress when his letter ofthezift December, 1777.
was read 1 Speaking of me in this letter, he fays,
" He daily approves himfelf to my certain know
^ ledge, an able, faithful, affive and extremely use
" ful fervantof the public; a teftjnlony which I *
64 think it my duty to take this occasion of giving to 1
" his merit, unasked as considering my great age, I
" may probably not live to give it personally in Con
!' grefs and I perceive he has enemies." You were
? refent when the following letter from him to the
resident of Congress of the gift of March 1778,
was read.
" SIR,
" MY colleague, Mr. Deane, being recalled by
" Congress, and no reasons given, that have yet ap-.
" peered here it is apprehended to be the effect of(
“ some misrepresentations from an enemy or two at ]
" Paris and at Naniz. I have no doubt that he
" will be able clearly to juftify himfelf; but having
" lived now fifteen months, the greatest part of the timaty
''in the fame house, with him, and been a conlantfl
'' witness of his public condu&, I cannot omit giving
!' this testimony, though unasked, in his behalf, that
" I esteem him a faithful, a&ive and able Minister,,
• " who, to my knowledge, has done in various ways
"great and important services to his country/
" Whofc interests I wiffi may always by every one''
" .in her employ be as much and as effeaaally pro.
" moted."
You introduce jour hasty narrative by dedaring
that you have s good conscience, and that you have
done your duty, and afterwards go on to declare up
on the honor of a gentleman and the faith of a chrif
tian. But let me ask you how, a&uated by such
principles, you could throw out so doubtful and so
ensnaring an expression as this^" Mr.Dcane talks