LITCHFIELD, the capital of the above county, a post-town, situated about thirty miles west of Hartford, and thirty-one north-north-west of New Haven. The situation is elevated, and affords a beautiful and extensive prospect of the surrounding country. The town contains a courthouse, a jail, a female academy, a law-school, a printing establishment, a bank, and nine places of worship. It is a good agricultural town, and possesses numerous mills and manufacturing establishments, cotton manufactories, iron-works, &c. Long. 73. 37. W. Lat. 41. 50. N. The population amounted in 1830 to 4456.