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fame sum must be adequate in every other Rate, the
public may well doubt of the foondnefs of his judg
ment or his honesty. If we are to be amused w,th a
comparison of the salaries allowed in these two Rates,
let uS also be informed with refpe& to the expences of
house-keeping in those Rates. Let your correspond
ent go on to compare the house rents, the prices of
European and Weft-India goods, of meat, and of eve
ry other article of expence; he may find the calcula.
lion to be not subservient to his views. It may ap
pear, that the 3751. (she lowest salary allowed to the
affißant judges in Miffachufetts) will go as far in sup
porting a family, as 6001. or 7001. in Philadelphia. It
always was much cheaper living there than here. The
rtfiderce of Congress and the great officers under them;
of the minister ; of a multitude of firangers, and of our,
exiled friends from New-York, Carolina, &c. the in
terruption of our trade : the greater fafety of the New-
England navigation, with a variety of other circum
stances, have effeded' much greater difference than ever
between the expence ofliving in those two Rates. This
camparVon of the salaries could only be intended to de
ceive and delude. Your correspondent is entitled,
however, to some credit for his modefly, in not forming
his comparison with diflant times as well as distant
placet Tne lord chief juflice Hangham", * who once
presided ia the king's bench (England) was contented
with sixty marks, or 401. per annum, and lord Coke
had about 1801. He might have quoted these inßan
ces to prove, that the fame sum would be fefficient for
the prefect lord chief justice Mansfield. In his nextef
fay on this fubj<-& he may c cry thi matter through,
and inform the public, that the last chief juflice ofTenn
fylvania, before the revolution, had a salary (as
chief jußice) of only 4 01. but left it interfere with
h;s'particalar views, let him not mention, tht thejudg
- es, in addjt;cn t)their salary then, received fees for their
services, and that the chief jufiice then held the office
\^gißer general of wills, &c. which was commonly
Vd :- 1 6 ’orth 10001. or 1200 per y ar ; or that
^aF.. juJe c 01 the neighbouring hte of Mary^
I?^ ' .ah ^ r : 600! each, and those ofSouth-Caro
liu^ ^ oh ^ . G < G ,'
J printer, a mcr: important quefiion has
o r " dif'v^^orw at a more candid writer than
y e 'i. ri , n would fay, has influenced the
r ? ^f fr < )erty of the citizens of Pennsylvania,
u ;° e ^ainft the late aft for establishing the
ar ur judges. The constitution declared, they
ought i ^independent either of the assembly or coun
„cG an for this purpose ought to have adequate and -
~ salaries. Be ore any gentlemen were appointed,
iia ies were annexed to the office by the firft assem
bly, in March, 1777, after the revolution. The aft
referred to I Gns those fabrics not only for the
timeto come, but for fix mouths back, and in pofi
tive'ernp .eclares, that the house may alter them from
time to time. Where do they now leave any independ
ence o, tne judges on the assembly of the day ? Does
your correspondent's comparison tend to juflify this ?
There is the great difficulty. The judicial branch of
government, on which the life, liberty and property
of every citizen so greatly depends, becomes a creature
of thel giflative. The framers of our confutation did
what they could to' render our judges not dependent.
Mv. CLAYPOOLE,
{ Correspondent of your's, inyour Packet of the
A- 13th inflam observes, that a great noifThas been
made of late about the salaries of our judges, and
has therefore desired you to publish a comparative
view of the salaries allowed ' to the judges of Pennfylva
nia, and to the judges of the supreme court of the
ftateof Massachusetts. How this comparison was in
tended to operate, it is not easy to judge ; if the wri
ter meant to insinuate, that because a certain allowance
is deemed adequate in Massachusetts, therefore the
'Benjamin Shakles, dead. William Ciber, James
Hartland, William Carpenter, William Aufburn, en
tered on board a man of war ; of England,
John Stainfeild, John Dagone, entered on board a
man of war „of Holland.
Robert Richey, entered on board a man of war; of
'Scotland.
John Lott, William Harden, dead. Cuff '6ott, en
tered on board a man of war. Jofepl,. Frederick, Je
remiah Luce, Thomas Luce, Tuomas Chafe, Abiiha
Rogers, B/rzelia Crower, Samuel Lambert, Emanuel
Swayefy, Elipnalet Rogers, exchanged; of Martha's
'Vineyard.
Jacob Norris, Henry Sheaft, Phineas Smith, escap
ed. James Dean, Alexander Frazier, William Van
Ifor, entered 'on b ard a man of war. William Black,
exchanged; of New-York.
William Audifons, Thomas Welsh, Bartley Burrell,
entered on board a man of war ; of Ireland.
* See Black,ftone, vol. 3, page 408, lord Mansfield
has 40001. per annum.
T , .\G;ON's Prize, taken April 4; Crew
cemmitt- d June, 1777.
Nicholas Siotr-^s, escaped. William Sterns, ex
changed • o's Maryland.
Benjamin Locket, entered on board a man of w<%
Thomas Haley, exchanged ; of England.
Wiliam Laue, eyoatiged ; of Philadelphia.
John Gandou, entered an board a man of war.; of
Ireland.
Trig CAROT's Prize, taken Cflobr 24: Crew com
mitted January, 1777.
Peer C Tiingbury , entered on board a man of -war;
of Philideipbia.
r?ul hi fr.cs xchanged; of Rhode-IRand \
E v d Cov'l : tered ou board a man c war; 'Mar-
STURDY BEGGAR'S Prize, taken October, 1776;
Crew committed June, 1777.
George Southward, exchanged ; of^alem.
I hilip Mefervey, escaped ; of Marblehead.
J vines Richardton, exchanged ; of- Woburn,
(To be continued.)
Our government has published here the edi& of.the
emperor, concerning the prohibition of appealing..to
the fee of Rome, for marriage dispensations.
Dec. 29. As the army estimates have passed, there is no
doubt but government may revive the war in America,
just in the proportion they plehfe : we have a greater ar
my upon paper now, than we had last year ; arid for
that support of posts alone which lord North declared
for, 20,000 additional troops must, firft and last, be feat
'to America.
Lord Cornwallis, like everyman that has loft an-army
or a thip (the objid, whatever it is, committed to his
care) can no more appear in the king's-presence
than general Burgoyne ; he mull when his captivity
is over, be tried by a court martial His lordfllip has
not seen many persons ; but those to whom he has e
pened himfelf fay, that his opinion and complaints are
loud against the employment of foreign troops:; those
in his army had been wrought upon by the Germans,
among (he enemy, who gave most flattering accounts
of the settlement made by the Germans that were ta
ken under general Burgoyne, to whom ample tracts of
land were granted in perpetuity, so that moR of them
were now Tubftantial farmers, fettled far out of the
r^ach of the war. 'Worked upon by these instigations, -
they called loudly for a surrender, and declared they
would throw d>wn their arms, if any more attempts
were made. Thus was his lordship tied down to a coq
duß, which he would otherwifehave abhorred.
The measure which injured the king'saffairs the most
in Virginia, was the news arriving there, that lord
Dunmore was to be their governor again—this circum
ftaace operated like a charm—it arrefied the activity of
every man inclined to loyalty, arid quickened with
exasperated force, the enmity of the rebels. Whoever
adviled such an impolitic measure, as re-appointing the
old governors, so detefled by the people, when the war
' broke out, Should be marked for ever as an enemy to
his mnjefty and his councils!
'The experiments that have-been made in fllipbuilding
in India have already succeeded so well, that govern
iment have it in contemplation to make some royal dock
yards near the company's settlements, for the purpose
of building ships of -force to carry 40 guns ; these will
afford a considerable pro tedion to our Aliatic trade,
and at the fame time be a great faying of expence both
to the company and the nation at large.
'M A DR I TO, December 4.
vTismot yet known, whether Don J. 8. Bonet has
4 refufed the command ofthe troops - now blockading
Gibraltar ; but it is certain that he preserves 'the fecohd
command in the fleet. Our navy has fullered a consi
derable loss by the death of Don Vincent Doz, knight
of the order of St. John, who died at Cadiz the 14th
ult. aged only 45. From the simple Ration of a mid-
Thipman, he arrived to the dignity- of commodore.
Beng only ensign on board one ofour frigates, he was
sent out to reconnoitre the river Orroncko ; and promot
ed to the rank of pofi captain, he went to California,
to observe the transit of Venus over the fun.
"The tendency of this a& is to, make them abfolutdy de
pendent. By the confutation the judges were to be
commissioned for seven years on the only tenure of good
behaviour. After being once appointed by council,
council could not controul their official conduct by
threatening to remove them. The constitution decla
red that their salaries should be adequate and fixed.
The assembly then could not influence their conduct
by huckstering out a greater or a lesser salary, as the
gentlemen appointed were more or less agreeable to
the house, or their conduct more or less agreeable to
this or that prevailing party in the house. But the
akt in queflion destroys t is Rriflure of judicial inde
pendence, and threatens to bury the constitution and
the liberty of the Rate in ruins. While we are yet
contending in an expensive, and dangerous war with
Britain, occasioned by, the trifling demand of two
pence for a pound of tea, because it was a violation of
cur conßitutional rights : Wealready fee the onftitu
tien, which is daily sealed with the blood of our citi
zens thus treated : We fee the Ripends of public ser
vices, earned in the hour of danger, and at the rifque
of an inexorable halter, with which the tyrant of Bri
tain uniformly threatened our civil officers, taken away
or withheld by an expoßfaflo and retrofpe&ive act.
If this principle of legifiaiing be once eflablifhed, ' who
can tell how soon we may have judges the devoted
tools of faaion and corrupt influences, or what citi
zen of Pennsylvania earn fay his property, or bis life or
liberty is his own?,
On the Bth instant failed from the Sound a fleet of
301 ships, belonging to different nations, and among
them were two English men of war, two frigates and
225 merchantmen; there only remain 22 fail in the
Sound, bound for the North sea, prevented, by the
severity of the weather, from attempting to reach their
deflination.
It/eems that we are to exped aTevere winter, such
a quantity of snow having already fallen in these parts,
that fledges are become necessary for travelling, ard
the froß so intense, that the lake Meler Is paffabie
on foot.
A MSTER D A M, ! December 25.
By letters from Bosnia of the 9th of October, we are
informed, that the Abanefe/ 12,000 in numbers effect
ed at the lattereend of September, a defeent on the Mo
rea; that the belt* part cf .he inhabitants had left the
inland and retired towards the hills ; add that the Al
- had pillaged their boufes and carried off their'
provisions, &c. The porte, \p? r i(ed of this invasion,
has dispatched a fleet to Morea; but it is to be feared
that the invaders had fufficient time to secure the;,-.
felvesand their plunder.
CO PEN H AG E N, - December zt.
STOCKHOLM, December 7.
Foreign Intelligence.
L O N ID O N.
BRUSSELS, December 20.
That no Negro be allowed to walk the streets of this
town after nine o'clock at night, without a ticket from
his or her owner or employer, to be granted for the
particular night on which it is used.
That the patrole be desired to take up all perfone
found in the streets, whom they shall think are to be
fufpe£ted as dangerous to the fafety of the town.
ELIPHALET FITCH, Chairman.
An arrfied vessel from Newbury-Port was rowed out
of the harbour against the tide, and failed the fame
day, for the purpose of overtaking the enemy.
The new privateer ship Revolution, belonging to Be-=
verly, commanded by capt. Webb, failed from Ports
mouth the fame afternoon, for the like purpose.
The spirit and activity of the inhabitants of Cape-
Ann, on the above occasion, deserve to be particular
ly mentioned. A ship which was hauled up, and which
they were graving, with neither fails, rigging nor bal
last on board, and with her bopmafts upon deck, was,
between fun rjfiugand iio'clock, A. M. rigged, bal-
Tasted, manned and armed; and in the fame time, had
her fails bent, and other wife so fitted for sea, as to get
under way, in purfujt of the enemy.
We have just heard, that the exertions of the gentle
men of Cape-Ann have been crowned with success. The
ship fitted out as above, obtained fight of the captur
ed ship the next morning, came up with her at one
o'clock, and retook her. Both vessels arrived fafe i&
Cape-Ann harbour 'about 4 o'clock, yesterday after
noon. The privateer escaped.
The circumstance of the vessel, which made the a
bove recapture, being the property of the fame gentle
man who owned the one recaptured, renders the success
more pleasing. — —~-
B O ST O N, April s.
Extract of a letter, dated Old Mill prison, in Plymouth,
from.an unhappy fufferer in the American contest,
to his friend in this town, dated December 15, 1781.
" The frowns of fortune still attends me, a most dif
agreeabie prison at last, after receiving the most inhu
man treatment ever enforced by a chriflian nation.
" We failed from Newport on the 28th of April, and
on the loth of May fell in and took the snow lord
Frederick, from Glafgew, and sent her for Newport.
On the 14th of June fell in with the ship Chatham, who
after a long chafe of ten hours came up with us, took
and carried us into the, Hook, where they flowed 105
in a forehold on the water-calls, with only about two
feet height, under the haul-up deck, and without re
ceiving any air but what came down a small scuttle;
they had also taken away every article we had
S AL E M, April 4.
Last Monday morning was cut out of the harbour
of Cape Ann, by a filing-boat, with fifteen men, be
longing to a privateer brig of fourteen guns, a new
fllip, with a valuable cargo on board, and nearly rea
dy to fail for the Caracoas :-—lntelligence of which
arriving here abortt 10 o'clock, the privateer ship mar
quis de la Fayette, and a letter of marque brig, got
under way alittle after one, and went inquest of the
ship and privateer; butreturned the ensuing night,
unfuccefsful.
At a meeting of the committee appointed to adopt
measures for the fafety of this town, held at the Court
house on Friday evening, the &th inst. —it was unani
mously resolved,
That in order to preserve the remaining part of the
town from dißrudion, the inhabitants be requested to
keep some trusty person to watch their refpe&iye hous
es during the night ; and that they keep a large quan
tity of water in readiness, to extinguish the fire that
may happen in their own or their neighbeurs houses.
That a lift of the houfholders in this town be taken,
in order to regulate the number of inhabitants to be no
urinated as a nightly watch, and to'affign a suitable
person to foperintend the civil patrole through the
town.
A gentlemen long resident at Oporto and Lisbon, and
lately arrived from the last place, assures us, that the
American flag is not admitted into any of the harbours
of Portugal. He does not pretend to fay, American
vessels never visit there, but insists that what traffic they
carry on thither is under the colours of France, which
they use on all occasions.
The history of navigation does not produce a more
perilous or tedious voyage than that of the Jamaica
fleet. During one month of the twelve weeks which
the fllips were out, several of the crews lived entirely
on fait pork and rum, not having either bread, bis
cuit or water, except a very small quantity of the
latter, under which scarcity many died. Other ships
were plentifully supplied, and fought every opportu
nity to relieve their distressed friends, but in vain; the
wind was so very high, and the seas so extremely rough,
that their good wishes could not be accomplished. The
Lord Howe, a very fine ftorefhip, in the service of go
vernment, together wi h four others of the convoy,
foundered,and it was with the utmost difficulty the peo
ple were saved. It is, however, a pleasing refleaion,
that not a tingle fliip of so large a fleet fell into the ,
hands of the enemy, who had no less than 12 men of
war upon the watch for them.
“ A melancholy feene presented itfelf about seven
o'clock on Monday night, which ought to be a cauti
on to youth in general:—A young gentlemen and a
beautiful girl, both genteelly dressed, walked down to
Surry flairs, in the Strand, and clasping each other in
their arms, plunged into the Thames, determined to
die together. A waterman fortunately observed them,
who, greatly to his credit; (though not without the
utmost difficulty) refeued them to a public house
in Surry street, where, through the humanity ofa gen
tleman, they got dry deaths. They for some little time
separated, but no sooner did the girl fee the partner
of her dißrefs, thao the said, "My dear,we will die to
gether yet." The gentleman declared Re had been im
prudent enough to Squander away his fortune, and not
hing having left to maintain his Sally, was the reason of
their reciprocal resolution to die together.—Wefincere
ly hope their friends will interfere to reconcile, and to
persuade them, that while they are virtuous they may
be happy."
KINGSTON, (Jamaica) February 9.