The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1784-10-18 00:00:00, page 3

October 13. At a meeting of the corporation for the
relief of the widowsand children of the Episcopal Clcr-1
gy, held in this city on the sth and Bth of October,
1784, the following gentlemen were chosen new mem
bers, who are hereby notified of the fame, in order
that they may attend the next meeting, which will be
held at Trenton, in New-Jersey, on the firft Tuesday
after the Feast of St. Michael next ensuing, viz.
Rev. Benjamin Moore, A. M. Thomas Moore, Uzal
Ogden, Sydenham Thorn, Charles Wharton, Joseph
Hutchins, A. M. Campbell.
Hon. Robert R. Livingston, Hon. John Jay, William
Duer, John Rutherford, John Alsop, John Stevens,
jun. Morgan Lewis, Alexander Hamilton, and Walter
Livingston, Efqrs. of New-York.
Joshua-Maddox Wallace, John Chetwood, Walter
Rutherford, Archibald Stewart, and Abraham Ogden,
Efqrs. of New-Jersey.
Hon. Robert Morris, Governeur Morris, Jasper
Yates, and Richard Wilting, Efqrs. Messrs. Matthew
Clarkfon, William Pollard, John Pollard, John Wil
cox, and John Challoner, of Pennsylvania.
On Sunday last Charity Sermons were preached for
the benefit of this Corporation, in the forenoon at St.
Paul's, and in the afternoon at St. George's, in this;
city, by the Rev. Dr. Smith, when the sum of One
Hundred and Twelve Pounds Nineteen Shillings and
Two-pence were collected, for which the sincere thanks
ofthe Corporation are hereby returned to the generous
and humane Benefactors.
N. B. As sundry Benevolent Persons, who might
not have an opportunity of attending in the churches,
in order to bestow their mite towards this laudable
charity, may yet desire to fend the fame, they will be
pleased to take notice, that donations will be received
by any of the standing officers of the present year, who
are as follows, viz.
President. —William Smith, D. D.
TREASURERS.
John Alsop, Esq. for New-York.
Joshua-Maddox Wallace, Esq. New-Jersey.
Samuel Powell, Esq. Pennsylvania.
Secretary.—Rev. Benjamin Moore, A. M.
Signed by order,
BENJ. MOORE, Secretary.
RICHMON D, OCtober z.
It is said, that the King of France has offered him
felf as an umpire between the Emperor and the United
States of Holland, and has strongly interposed with the
former in behalf of the Dutch, to bring the disputes
likely to arise between them to an amicable determina
tion. The Emperor, however, peremptorily rejeCts
all arbitration, and perseveres in his demands upon
their High Mightinesses, alleging it as a matter of right,
and point ofjuftice, which negotiation cannot palliate,
nor national equity refufe. How this difference will
terminate, it is difficult to fay.
ANNAPOLI S, October 7.
On Monday last, agreeably to the constitution and
form of government, an election was held for two de
legates to represent this city in General Assembly for
the year ensuing, when Sanyuel Chafe and Allen Quynn,
Esquires, were elected without opposition.
PHILADELPHIA, October 9.
Extraft of a letter from Danville, Kentucky, dated
July 25, 1784.
" Since you left us I do not recollect any thing of
publick concern that has transpired worthy your atten
tion, except that the Indians, after having collected
our prisoners together, from the different tribes to the
Shawanefe towns, all of a sudden, and very unexpect
edly, came to a resolution not to deliver them up. —
Accordingly, our interpreters have returned with only
half a dozen, which, they fay, they ransomed at,a very
high price. One of them informed me, that the deter
mination of the Indians was in consequence of a disa
greement between the interpreters. It seems each de
nied that the other was legally authorized to receive
bilged. The people were fared, but the vessel and
molt of her cargo loft.
Advices from France mention, that James Moylan,
Esquire, Agent to the United States, lately died at
L'Orient.
On the 2%d of July, the schooner Friendship, Capt.
William Lewis, failed from Portsmouth, in Virginia,
bound to the island of St. Thomas, on board of which
was Mr. Joseph Wilkinson, part owner, and merchant
of Philadelphia. Previous to her failing three or four
hours, they took on board as passengers, Morris Kea
ton, an Irishman, William Johnson, an American, and
Joseph Twentyman, a native of Liverpool ; who on
the 25th of the fame month, near the latitude of Ber
muda, taking the opportunity when Capt. Lewis and
Mr. Wilkinson were below asleep, the mate having his
watch on deck, to seize the mate (Mr. Chadwick) and
the man he had with him, tie their hands behind them,
gag them, and then go below and treat Mr. Wilkin
son and the Captain in the fame manner, without the
least alarm ; they then went into the steerage and con
fined the remainder of the crew. Having made them
selves masters of the vessel, they hove overboard all
the crew, except two sailors, who they made swear
allegiance :—They then proceeded to the Weft-Indies,
passed the island of Antigua, and made Point Petre,
island of Guadaloupe, when one of the pirates, named
Morris Keaton, went ashore in the character of an owner
and fold the vessel; but one of the sailors who they
had spared, making his escape in the night, they altered
their course and bore away to the leeward. The mer
chants concerned have offered a reward of 200 dollars
for the pirates collectively, and 100 dollars for each on
conviction.
N E W-Y O RK, October 7.
Extract of a letter from ManebeJler, in England,
dated ^uguft 11, 1784.
" Now for an alarming circumstance: This trade
is at prelent stagnated beyond conception, owing to
your friend Mr. Pitt. His taxes arc numerous, bur
densome, and oppressive. I will mention a few, which
must fuffice at this time, as to mention all would be
too tedious, viz. on all printed calicoes, &c. 3d. per
yard, and from id. to 4d. per yard on all kinds of
fuftians, bleached, dyed, &c. tnofe at 3s. per yard,
id. and higher proportionably, till it comes to 4d. —
This tax is to be paid by the dyers and bleachers,
and is three times the amount of the money they re
ceive for their work; and they are now absolutely
agreed to flop entirely all of them from doing any
more business till the next session of Parlament; and
a fubfeription is on foot for £. 30,000 to support them
during this interval. Several of the firfthoufes have
flopped buying goods, and many others fay they will
decline. They had much ado to prevent Mr. Pitt
from laying 20s. upon every machine spindle, and 3/6
per spindle on every common jenny; this would have
been an effectual blow. In this dilemma we now
stand; truly alarming; but to add to our liberty we
have a tax of a half penny per pound on candles, and
another on hats, saddle-horses, gauze, ribands, qua
lifications of game, and many more too numerous to
take notice of. Mr. Pitt's bills are very incorrect:
Three days ago he was burnt in effigy here. He was
determined to have £. 120,000 from the cotton trade.
Captain Thomas Potter, of the association of this city,
applied to him for frefh commissions; but was an
swered he had no further occasion for them, as he
would have no associations, which, I believe, will cause
them to deliver up their arms."
October 12. The following relation of what paAed
during the time of the duke de Chartres and Messrs.
Roberts going up with an air balloon, from Paris, on
the 15th July last, may be added to the account of
that enterprizing serial voyage, given in our paper of
the 27th ult.
They give a description of the principle of the
machine, by which they were not only to govern their
flight in the regions of the air, but also, by internal
means, were to enable themselves, when aloft, to
afeend or defeend without the loss either of gaz or
ballast. To direct the machine, they prepared oars
of twelve feet in furface, fixed to a lever ten feet in
length, and placed at the extremity of the gallery op
posite to the helm, whose furface was fifty-four feet.
After a short account of their firft mounting into the
air, the state of the barometer, thermometer, &c. they
Rate, that being carried to an immense height, the
earth became invisible to them, and carried away, or
rather buried in a dense vapour; whirlwinds turned
the prisoners ; and the Indians, not knowing whom
to place confidence in, would trust neither. Others
have told me a different Rory."
On Sunday evening last, Captain Tolbert was flop
ped on the Germantown road, as he was coming to
this city, by two foot-pads, who robbed him of his
hat, watch, and money, and wounded him in the face.
They were taken two days after, convicted on Thurs
day iaft, and are to receive sentence of death this day.
We hear that John Armstrong, jun. Esq. Secretary
to the Executive Council, is appointed Adjutant-Ge
neral of the militia of this Commonwealth, and Bri
gadier-General of the fame. In order to quiet the
unhappy disturbances which have taken place at Wy
oming, the Supreme Executive Council have ordered
that a body of militia be again called out, and that
the direction of this important business be committed
to Brigadier Armstrong.
Yesterday arrived here, in fix weeks from Liverpool,
the Blip Grange, Captain Roberts, and the ihip De
laware, Captain Smith, in 7 weeks from the Downs,
by whom we have received Englilh papers as late as
the 19th of Augult.
The combined fleet under the command of Don
Barcelo, after having made eight different, tho' gal
lant attacks on Algiers, in which he burnt and de
stroyed many parts of the town, and fuffered several
severe lodes and rebuffs, had retired to Bpain, without
accomplilhing their object, which was the capture and
extinction of that nest and nursery of pirates. Nothing
could exceed the gallantry of the combined fleets, ex
cept the warlike spirit of the infidels. The conster
nation of the Moors is said to have been very great,
and numbers of the people mult have perished, as the
flames were very rapid, and the firing on the town
was continued for nine hours, without the lead inter
million.
The bombardment of Algiers has, it is said, de
stroyed upwards of 3000 houses, 170 mosques and
other publick buildings, and effects to a very consider
able amount ; the chief part 01 which was the pro
perty of the Jews, who are the principal merchants in
that city ; though many of them, apprehensive of dan
ger, had removed many valuables about eight leagues
from the, sea-coast.
The expedition to the Mediterranean has cost Spain
alone upwards of a million in its equipment.
Letters from Paris, dated Augull 4th, declare, that
a negociation is actually on foot between the Spanish
and British Millifters at the Court of Versailles, for
the restitution of Gibraltar to the Court of Madrid. A
compensation of territory in the Weft-Indies, the ac
count further fays, was to be given by the Spaniards,
and a sum of money, the quantum of which had not
been-agreed upon.
* , The Laws sassed at the lafl Sitting of the General As
sembly at New-Brunswick are printed, and ready to be de
livered.
the machine three times in a moment. The violent
fllocks they fuffered made them abandon all the means
prepared for their direction, and they set themselves
to tear away the taffety of which their helm was
made. Never, fay they, did a more dreadful feene
present itfelf to any eye, than that in which they were
now involved ! An ocean of shapeless clouds rolled
one upon another beneath, and seemed to forbid their
return to the earth, which was still invisible. The
agitation of the globe became greater every instant.—
1 hey cut the cord which held the interior globe, and
it fell to the lower furface of the great machine,
where the gallery was fixed, and by its weight crushed,
jammed up, and incommoded them ; they endeavoured
in vain to push it up, and at length it burst. In these
dreadful circumstances, when they were still riling
higher, they judged it necessary to make an orifice
in the lower part of the great globe. The due de
Chartres took himfelf one of the banners and made
two holes in the seroftatick machine, which tore open
seven or eight feet. They then descended with great
celerity. One moment they saw neither heaven nor
earth—the next they were clearly within fight of
land. They would have fallen into a pond if they had
not critically thrown out a quantity of ballad, bv
which they alighted without accident, about 30 feet
beyond the bank.
October 13. At the late court of Oyer and Ter
miner h'eld in this city, the Chevalier Longchamps
was sentenced to pay a fine of 100 French crowns, to
be imprisoned two years, and then to give security for
his good behaviour for seven years, himfelf in a bond
for one thousand pounds, and two freehold securities
five hundred pounds each.
Luke Keating was convicted on three indictments
for the forgery of promiffary notes, and of endorse
ments of names thereon. He was fined in the sum of
25 pounds, and ordered to be imprisoned 6 months for
each offence, making the whole of his imprisonment 18
months, and adjudged to stand in the pillory three
different market days, viz. one hour in the forenoon
of this day, one hour in the forenoon of Saturday
next, and one hour in the forenoon of this day week,
and pay costs, &c.
TRENT O N, October 18.
Tuesday the 12th inst. came on the annual election
in this state for representatives to serve in Council and
Assembly, and of Sheriffs, for the ensuing year, when
the following gentlemen were returned, viz.
Somerset. Council, Ephraim Martin, Esq. Affm
bly, Edward Bunn, David Kirkpatrick, Frederick Fre
linghuyfen, Efqrs. Sheriff, Robert Stockton, Esq.
Middlesex, Council, Samuel Fitz-Randolph. Esq.
Assembly, John Combs, James Schuurman, Moses
Bloomfield, Efqrs. Sheriff, Abraham Schuyler, Esq.
Monmouth. Council, John Imlay, Esq. Assembly,
Thomas Hcnderfon, Danie! Hendrickson, Elisha Wal
ton, Efqrs. Sheriff, David Rhea, Esq.
Burlington. Council, William Newbold, Esq. As
sembly, James Kinsey, Cleayton Newbold, Richard S.
Smith, Efqrs. Sheriff, Joseph Mullen, Esq.
'I he returns for the other counties have not yet come
to hand.
It appears by a South-Carolina newspaper, that
William Logan, and Charles-Frederick Fuh
rer, Esquires, are the gentlemen sent by that state
as Commissioners to England, for the recovery of
SLAVES, and other property, taken by the British
army in the late war, without compensation being
made for it, as flipulated by the 7th Article of the
Definitive Treaty of Peace.
Extract of a letter from, a gentleman in Boston, to
his correspondent in New-York, dated September
1, 1784-
" We have received here the most authentick ac
count of the plague having broke out at Leghorn;
this melancholy event ought to be published by every
Printer on the continent, more especially in New-
York, where I am informed there is no health office."
Tuesday last the general election was held through
out the state of Pennsylvania, when the following gen
tlemen were chosen Members of Assembly for the city
of Philadelphia: Charles Pettit, William Moore,
John Bayard, Frederick Kuhl, and William Will,
Esquires.
The New-Jersey Medical Society
MEET, agreeably to adjournment, at the house
of Major Thomas Egbert, in New-Brunswick,
on the ill Tuesday in November next, at 11 o'clock
in the forenoon. Lewis Dunham, Sec'ry.
New-Brunswick, October 7, 1784. 2W
WAN T E ^
A Journeyman Fuller,
WH O understands his business well.—-Such a
person, bringing good recommendations, will
meet with constant employ, and get good wages, by
applying to th e fubferiber, near New-Germantown,
Hunterdon county. Abraham Vandyke.
October 14, 1784. 4wl[
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