CONNECTICUT_JOURNAL

Friday, October 8, 1773. [Number 312.] CONNECTICUT JOURNAL, AND THE NEW-HAVEN POST-BOY. Printed by THOMAS and SAMUEL GREEN, near the COLLEGE. Some Observations upon the Slavery of NEGROES. It has often been surprising to me, that while we in the American colonies, have been so jealous of our own liberties, and so cautious to guard against every encroachement upon them from our mother country; we have been so inattentive to our own conduct in enslaving the Negroes, or at least in joining in the trade, whereby they are enslaved. Has it not a shrewd appearance of inconsistence, to make a loud outcry against British parliament for making laws to obliged us to pay certain duties, which amount to but a mere trifle for each individual; when we are deeply engaged in reducing a large body of people to complete and perpetual slavery? Is it lawful and right for us to reduce the Africans to a state of slavery, why is it not as right for Great Britain, France of Spain, not merely to exact duties of us, but to reduce us to the same state of slavery, to which we have reduced them? What arguments can be offered in favour of the one, which will not operate equally in favour of the other? It is said, that we in this new settled country, stand in great need of labourers, and that were it not for the slave trade, they would be so scarce, that it would be impossible to cultivate our lands? The same may be said of France or Spain; they stand in great need of slaves to cultivate their plantations in the West Indies and South America. Therefore they have a right to send a fleet heither, and carry off, from time to time, as many of us and our children as they need. If we need the help of the Negroes, so does Great Britain need our help, to pay off their national debt. If we desire to grow rich and rest at ease, by their toils and labours; so does Great Britain desire the same at our expense.-So that while we persist in this practice of enslaving the Africans, our mouths ought to be shut entirely as to any duties or taxes, which Great Britain may see cause to lay upon us: otherwise I see not but that out of our own mouths, or by our own practice, we may justly be condemned. But it will be said, that the cases are by no means parrallel. We are Cristians; but the Africans are heathen; therefore it is right for us to enslave them, that we may bring them into this land of gospel light, and convert them to Christianity. In answer to this, I ask, is this the end, for which they are enslaved? If it be not, the argument is nothing to the purpose of justifying our conduct. If it be, it only shows, that

Extract of a letter from Paris, dated July 29. "The King's physicians have at last given it as their opinion that his Majesty is past re-covery; his increasing illness, jouned to his years, making it almost beyond possibility that he should long survive; and as his death will cause a great alteration in the system of politics in this country, it is much to be feared some commotions will succeed thereon." Extract of a letter from Leghorn, July 10. "By a French ship arrived here from the Archipelagp, we are informed, that all the Greeks in the Morea have publicly and absolutley declared themselves subjects to the Empress of Russia, in confequence of which Count Orlow has landed a number of soldiers from his fleet, and taken possession of most of the principal towns and fortresses in the name of her imperial Majesty. "Count Orlow, who, when the French came away was lying with a large quadron at Tenedos, was preparing to sail on an expedition to the cost of Syria." A letter from the Hague of the 29th inft. says, "The Prince of Denmark East-India man is just arrived here from the Cape of Good Hope, by whom we have an account that the pirate ship carried in there, which had been announced in the paper to be the Aurora English man of war, proves to be a vessel bought and fitted out at Batavia by some Merchant there, for a voyage on the coast, but the crew mutinied, and after murdering the Captian and seven more persons, turned pirates, and had robbed different ships of immense plunder, particularly a Sweedish vessel from Sunda, out of which they took bale goods to a large amount. The person who commanded her, and fix others, were tried by a Court Martial, and executed." PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 29. Extract of a Letter from London, Aug. 4. "The East-India Company have come to a Resolution to send 600 Chests of Te to Philadelphia, and the like Quantity to New-York and Bostonl and their Intentions are to have Warehouses, and sell by public Sale four Times a Year, as they do here. Captian Cook was offered Part of that for Philadelphia, but refused it. I ******** they will charter Ships to take it in as there are enough here will be glad of the Frieght; but what will be the Consequence when they arrive on your Side the Water I know not; but suppose, even if it is allowed to be landed, you will hardly let it be fold." NEW-YORK, October 4. When certain person complimented the King upon the Return of the Commander in Chief of his Majesty's Forces in North America, his Majesty answered, yes, Sir, he is returned and has brought his Characte with him, a Reply that proved no small Reproach to one who had a few Weeks before been condemned in a Court of Justice to pay a Fine of 30001. for Oppersion in the Country where he had commanded. On Monday Night last one James Aigins, a Seaman, was found in the ****** of his House strangled with a small Cord fastened to a Beam; he was to near the Floor as almost to sit on it, and one of his Legs doubled under him. He was a very good Seaman, and had the Character of a soberm industrious Man. It is thought this rash Action was occasioned by Jealousy of his Wide, and uneasiness at her Conduct. Capt. Dillon, the 18th of August, in Lat. 45, 43, Long. 20, 35, met with a very hard Gale of Wind, and the next Day he fell in with a French Ship from Guadaloupe for Bourdeaux, that had lost her Mizen Mast in the same Gale; the 19th, in Lat. 43, Long. 36, 17, he saw the Dead Boady of a Woman and Parts of several Masts that appeared to be newly cut. By a Letter from the Bay of Honduras, of the 23rd of August, we learn, That they are in a most unhappy Situation at that Place, most of the Negroes that ***** took to the Bush being still out, and little Hopes of their ever returning to their Masters again; and those that have been taken were many of them burnt or hang'd; that a Spanish Vessel lately arrived there to demand the Cargo of a Register Ship cast away some Time since on the Northern Triangles; which alarmed the Settlers to much that most of the principal Ones there intended soon to embark for the Musqueto Shore, Genrgia, &c. with all their Property. We can assure the Publick, That Raynolds lately executed at Morris Town, was not a native of Ireland, but born in Pennsylvania, where his Father and Mother are yet living; and we are told, that Samuel Ford embarked at Barnagat some Time ago for St. Kitts, and from thence intended for Sr. Eustatia. NEWPORT, October 4. Last Wednesday, in the fornoon, the weather was very hot for the season, the mercury in the Thermometer being at 80 deg. or rather above, for a considerable time; Between 12 and 1 o'clock, came over from the north, and extreme black cloud, with a hard squall of wind, which carried away some of the vanes of several windmills, on this island, and vert nearly overset the new Gaspee brig, as she lay at anchor, back of Fort George. The change of weather was to great, that the Mercury fell 23 degrees, ***. from 80 to 57, in less than an hour. BOSTON, October 4. We hear from Georgetown, at the Eastward, that some time the beginning of last month, a girl of about 12 years of age, named Abigail Brackett, daughter of Mr. Abraham Brackett, seaman, going over a Mill Dam fell into the water and was drowned. From the same place we hear, that Mr. Edward Libbey, of that town, was on the 9th *** among others at a horse pacing, when on their course a calf, threw his rider and fell upon him, by which he was so much wounded that he died in 48 hours. NEW HAVEN. October 8. We hear from Ripton, that the Church and Society in that Place, have unanimously invited Mr. David Ely to settle with them in the Gospel Ministry; and the 27th Inft. is appointed for his Ordination. About 10 o'Clock, last Evening, a Cooper's Shop owned by Mr. Edward Churchill, of his Town, was discovered to be on Fire, which was soon destroyed, together with a considerable Quantity of Cooper's Work newly finished. It was with freat Difficulty, that a small Dwelling-House, contiguous to the Shop, was saved. Cufton-House, New-Haven, Octo. 7, 1773. ENTERED IN, from Sloop Edward, Benjamin Brown, Grenadoes. Sloop Lilly, Abraham Bradley, New-York. Sloop Julius-Caesar, Obadiah Spencer, Do. CLEARED OUT, for Sloop Orley, Ephraim Ofborn, Barbados. Sloop Irene, Ephraim Parrish, Bolton. Schooner Lark, John Ward, New-York. Sloop Endeavour, Henry Whitney, Ditto. Mefsrs. GREENS, READING in your Journal No. 308, an Advertifement fign'd Samuel Turner, offeromg Five Dollars Reward for taking up a Molatto Fellow, named Pero, whom the said Turner claims to be a Slave for Life. I esteem myself bound in Duty to inform the Public, That said Pero, was born FREE of an Indian Woman, called Hannah Moree, and bound to me by Advice of Authority by the Name of Aaron, per Indentrue bearing Date the 16th of Nov. 1750, the said Aaron being Twenty One Years of Age in Nov. 1768 - And do advise all who have the common Feelings of Humanity, to yield their influence and Affiliance to protect the said Indian against all Attempts upon his just Liberty. All Printers who read this, are ** give it a Place in their Papers, and the same to Account of Services ren Poor and Friendless. OLIVER CO UPON a full Conviction that Moree, a Molatto Fellow, adv in this Paper, No. 308, by Mr. Samuner, by the Name of Pero, was free b havce this Day commenced a Suit * Trial of his Liberty, and taken him ** Service and Protection, until it shall fued; And do hereby assure any, who the Influence of that Advertisement, molest the said Aaron, that it shall be a Peril. BENJA, DOUGL New-Haven, 7th October, 1773. Octover 6th, 1773 Livingston's Manor, in the County of A. New York Government SUTTONIANINOCULATI For the SMALL-POX. Mr. LATHAM, Surgeon to the K (or 8th) Regiment of Foot, conti to practice INOCULATION as usual, I vingston's Manor; he has several H engaged for the Reception and Accomdation of Strangers in Claverack, and Kline-Kill, where every Thing nec will be attended to. The following Gentlemen of the Fac are connected