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I1e>v York Tufclic Litrflry 
 
 JUN 27 1^]2 
 
 
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 REMARKS . 
 
 The American Squadron is anchored oppofite 
 Monlville, within 4 miles o\ Norwich, and confid 
 ercd pcrfecflly fafc from any attack. 
 
 FORT GRISWOLD, 
 
 commanded by Major Lii:, is a ftrong picketed 
 Fort, and crcc^lcd on the fame cite where the fort 
 was during the revolutionary war. It is a com 
 manding pofition, with ftrong baflions fronting the 
 river, and mounting e.xtenfive batteries of heavy 
 cannon 18 and 24 pounders; the height of this fort 
 is about 1 50 feet above the level of the river, and 
 fo fituatcd as to pour on the decks of the cnem.y's 
 fliips in the channel, heavy fhot, grape and cannif • 
 ter, with 2 furnaces for heating balls, which in a 
 Ihort time would fet them on fire or fend them to 
 the bottom. 
 
 77/yY WATER n/lTTERY, 
 is jufl belov/ Fort Griswo/d and is alfo a command - 
 
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ary Officers, and has fcrvcd uiulcr Montcomkry 
 and BuTi.KR ; he has fccn much fervice and is every 
 v.ay calculated to promote the difcipHne of his 
 corps, and to render important fervice to his Coun - 
 try. He has all the adivity of a young man of 30 
 years of age, a man of known courage, prudent, 
 yet energetic, and as a farther recommendation of 
 this gentleman he is a ftaunch republican and a 
 firm frientl of the adininflration in words and ac - 
 tions. If he had been poffeffed of the controuling 
 power over our troops at the time of the attack on 
 Pettipaug tht! troops would not have advanced 
 from the garrifons at the late hour they did on that 
 occafion "to attack t!ic enemy. If Col. Benjamin 
 had received information of the enemy's attack at 
 10 o'clock he would not have delayed their march 
 till 4 o'clock in the afternoon. He would not have 
 waited till the laR hour before he marched the 
 troops. He would have headed them himfelf and 
 every man of the enemy would have been fecured, 
 and this is the general opinion amongft the 
 moft refpcctable people in New - London. He has 
 no doubts about the juftice of the war ; he is no 
 enemy to the adminiRration; he does not revile 
 them on all occafions as fome other officers do; he 
 will not favour the efcape of the enemy; he would 
 not have refufed the citizens a few pieces of flymg 
 artillery to attack the enemy if they had called 
 upon him. 
 
THE BLOCKADING SQUADRON, 
 
 confifling (jjenerally as ftationary fhips) of the La 
 Hogue 74, frigate Statira and Nimcon, were at an- 
 chor on Friday 15th ult. about 7 miles from New- 
 London infide of Fifher and Plumb Iflands. They 
 occafionally up anchor and ftand in under full fail 
 for about a mile, no doubt for the purpofe of excit- 
 ing alarm at New -London, but the people have got 
 over ufelefs fears as they have full reliance on the 
 proteftion of the forts, which no doubt are ample 
 fecurity againfl any attack of the enemy. 
 
 N. B. At the entrance of the Harbor will be perceived 
 a Htfle Island, with a tree upon it, which very much resem - 
 bles a Turpi'do. It is two miles from Fort Trumbull, and 
 such good marksmen are they at the Fort, that they literall.y 
 took a limb olT the tree by a cannon shot. 
 
 PETTYPAUG AFFAIR. 
 
 The foul flain fi.xed forever on the prieft- rid- 
 den State of Conne^iicut, by the daRardly conduct 
 of the inhabitants, in the affair at Pctiypaug, will 
 be recorded on the page of hiftory to their everlaft- 
 ing (hame and difgrace. That i 50 pcc, from the 
 enemy's fliips, fliould be permitted to land :uk1 def- 
 troy fo much property, in op'',n day, with^ v:t r;fift- 
 ance, can be accounted f( - in no other way, than 
 
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by the clcbufed ftatc of the public mind in that State. 
 AKliougli Massachusetts is funk in difgrace by the 
 deleterious efforts of a vile and unprincipled fac - 
 tion, yet fhe is not yet quite fo loft to honor, as to 
 hokl uj) one check to be fmote, to fave the other ; 
 or to make a daftardly bargain with the enemy, to 
 give up their valuable fliips, to fave a few pitiful 
 hamlets on the fea-Hiore. Shame, fliame upon 
 fuch condu(5l. Let the war be juft or unjuft, no 
 people ever ought to difgrace theinfelves by a mif 
 crable and cowardly truce with the enemy. 
 
•' The biijckuih of Xetc London iras kept yp i,t 1814, and 
 as eurhj as April a party of British smmcn and marines, 
 in several small vessels ( eac/i armed with a !) (;/• l'^ /lO/rnd - 
 er), under the ('ommand of Lieutenant Cotde, of the Iloiptl 
 Xavii, went up the Connectirut Hirer in the erenitii/. and 
 at four o'rhn-k the tie.rt morninxj, ( April 8. 1814) Imided 
 on I'autopiiuij Point, seven miles from the Sound, spiked 
 the heavy yuns found there, and destroyed twenty two res - 
 sets, valued at one hundred and sixty thousand dollars. At 
 ten o'elork they went down the rirer two or three miles to 
 Hroekway 's Ferry, whrre they indulyed in similar inrendi- 
 ary sport. In the mean time a body of Militia, with some 
 marines itiul suitors from Decatur '.v vessels in the Thames, 
 under Ciijiliiiu Jones (tnd Lieutenant /liddle. yathered on 
 the shore and eudenvored to rut of their retreat, but. under 
 rover of darkness that niyht, and with the silence of muffled 
 oars, they escaped. " 
 
 ( Lossings Pictoiial Ficlil I'.ook of tlio War of \'*Vi. Cliap. 38 
 p. 838. ) 
 
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