The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1780-03-29 00:00:00, page 1

WHEREAS the Honourable the Congress
did, by their Rcfolution of the eleventh
day of March instant, recommend to
the several dates, that Wednesday the
twenty-hxth day of April next, be set apart and ob
served as a day of fading, humiliation and prayer;
that we may with one heart and one voice implore
the Sovereign Lord of heaven and earth to remember
mercy in his judgments ; to make us lincercly peni
tent for our tranigreflions ; to prepare us for delive
rance, and to remove the evil with which he hath
been pleafcd to visit us ; to banish vice and nreligion
from among us, and eltablilh virtue and piety by his
divine grace ; to bless ail public councils throughout
the United States, giving them wisdom, firmnefs and
unanimity, and directing them to the bed measures
for the public good; to bless the magistrates and
people of every rank, and animate and unite the
hearts of all to promote the interests of their country ;
to bless the public defence, inspiring all commanders
and soldiers with magnanimity and perseverance, and
giving vigour and success to the military operations
by sea and land; to bless the illustrious foyereign,
and the nation in alliance with these states, and ail
who interest themselves in the support of our rights
and liberties ; to make that alliance of perpetual and
extensive ufefulnefs to those immediately concerned,
and mankind in general; to grant fruitful seasons,
and to bless our industry, trade, and manufactures ;
to bless all schools and seminaries of learning, and
every means of inftrudion and education; to cause
wars to cease, and to establish peace among the na
tions :—I HAVE THEREFORE THOUGHT FIT,
by and with the advice of the Honourable Privy
Council of this state, to appoint the laid twenty
lixth day of April next, to be set apart and oplerved
as a day of falling, humiliation, and prayer, through
out this state, for the purposes in the laid resolution
of Congress mentioned; and I do hereby recom
mend it to the ministers of the gospel of every deno
mination in this state, to perform divine service, and
to the people committed to their charge, to attend
on public worfhtp on that day, and to abstain there
on from all fervilc labour and recreations inconsist
ent with the solemnity of the feftival.
Given under my Hand and Seal at Arms, in Trenton,
the tvjenty-firfl day of March, in the year of our
Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty, and
in the fourth year of the independence of America.
WIL. LIVINGSTON.
By His Excellency's command,
Bowes Reed, Secretary.
God save the People.
NEW-JERSEY GAZETTE.
CHARLES-TOWN, (S. Carolina) Jan. 12.
LAST Tuesday evening, Col. John Laurens and
Major Clarkfon, returned from the Head-Quar
ters of General Washington, with dilpatches of a
very important nature from the General and Irom
Congress.
On the evening of the 2d instant, the ship Jefu
Maria and Joseph, commanded by Don Miguel Lo
renzo Yinardi, from Havanna for this port, was drove
ashore on Capers's Island, and stranded. Part of the
cargo, confiding of rum, has been laved, under the
prote&ion of the Ranger continental frigate, which
was immediately lent out for that purpose. Capt.
Yinardi came upon the coast the 12th of lalt month,
was blown off, and loft his rudder. —Soon alter he
left Havanna, he was attacked by a large privateer
brig, and beat her off. The 24th, in ten lathom
water, he engaged a sloop of 14 guns, nine glafles,
and had three men killed and nine wounded; he af
terwards engaged and beat off another sloop ; and
the day the ship went ashore he was attacked by a
cutter; which passed this bar in light of the town
the fame afternoon, and was again seen yesterday
afternoon in the S. E.
Some deserters from the 60th British regiment in
Georgia lately came to town, fay, that the Fowcy
man of war had been refitted, and lay with the Bronde
and Daphne at Four Mile Point, with the Germain
armed ship and four other veffcls ; and that two small
William Livingston, Esquire,
Governor, Captain General, aud Commander in Chief
in and over the §tate of New-yerfey, aud terri
tories thereunto belonging, Chancellor and Ordinary
in the fame ;
PROCLAMATION.
[Vol. lit]
BY HIS EXCELLENCY
W EDNESD A Y, March 29, 1780.
We hear also that a gang of thieves irom the ene
my, were lately difperled near Augusta, by a party
of Col. Parker's men ; and that Col. Twiggs after
wards fell in with and took two of them, jelie Wil
liams and James Jarvis, two notorious villains. '1 hey
wire carried to Augusta, and, in attempting to make
their escape in the night time, were fired upon by the
guard, and both mortally wounded.
Capt. Samuel Spencer in the brig Betsey, from
Georgia, for this port, with upwards of 100 louts 'on
board, was taken by the Guadaioupe, anu gives Capt.
Robinson the credit of having created his planners
with great humanity and generosity.
Jan. 26. Lah Sunday morning a vessel in diftiefs
appearing off tins bar, pairing it, the Lagie hate
schooner, employed as a tender to the Providence
continental frigate, was lent out from Rebellion-
Road, and soon brought her in : It proved tu be the
brig Lady Crolby of 8 guns (farmed) a galley, and
probably intended to be employed loon again as inch)
from New-York for Georgia, in his Britannic Mi
jetty's service; having on board part of a supply of
eloathing intended for the troops 111 Georgia, two
Britilh officers (Mr. Hamilton and Mr. Allworth, of
the 46th regt.) and a few soldiers. They had been
29 days out from New-York, with Admiral Arbuth
not's whole fleet, conlilting of the Rullel and Robulte
of 74 guns each, Europa, Defiance and Rcalonable
of 64 each, Renown of 50, Roebuck and Romulus of
40 each, and Perseus and Galatea of 20 each, 'with
94 tranlports, laid to have on board between 8 and
9000 land forces, supposed to be destined part for
the Weft-Indies, and part for Georgia; but having
met with a series of bad weather, parted from them
to the southward of Cape Hatteras about three weeks
since the winds that have lince prevailed, 'tis
presumed, that no fleet ever was more scattered.
Part of the divilion 01 Count D'Eftaiiig's fleet, that
was destined for Chefapeak Bay, and blown off that
coast, are since arrived at Cape trancois : Eleven o
ther ships of the line of the laid fleet are also arrived
at Martinique. And some of the others are said to
have been gone to Havanna, to prepare for an early
expedition irom thence in the spring, in conjunction
with the Spandh squadrons there.
Last Monday His Moll Christian Majesty's frigates
Chimmere, Lively, and Ariel, and the continental
frigates Providence and Ranger, with the Eagle ten
der, failed upon a cruize.
At the fame time failed, a sloop for Havanna,
with dispatches.
We have Bill in port, of the ships sent us by Count
D'Eltaing, the Adventure of 20 guns, the Truite of
26, and the Bricol of 2c, but can be mounted with
64; the continental frigates Bolton and Queen of
France, the state brig Notre Dame, several gallies &
other armed veffcls —by a proper difpolition where
of, a vigorous exertion of our whole force, and a re
vival of that spirit which animated and dillinguifhed
the inhabitants of this state in 1776, we may bid de
fiance to the last effort of the enemy in this quarter,
and much accelerate the independence, peace, and
fafety of America.
The Iphigenie frigate of Count D'Eftaing's fleet,
commanded by M. de Kerfaint, which failed from
hence the 23d of November last, with 18c soldiers
on board, arrived at Martinique the 12th day after,
and carried in with her two New-York privateers,
supposed to be Mr. Goodiich's, a Ihip of 18 guns
and a brig of 14, the ship built on the pilot boat con
ftrudion. All our St. Euftatius fleet arrived fafe a
bout the fame time.
privateers were fitting out at Savannah, for the pur
pose of plundering negroes from this coast.
The schooner Greyhound, Henry Geddes master,
from Martinique for Philadelphia, has put into this
port, after having in vain attempted to get into Phi
ladelphia, Virginia, and North-Carolina.
We are well advised, that the inhabitants of Geor
gia, are not only determined to support, to the last,
and in every event their laws of baniihment, attain
der, and confiscation ; but that some few characters
who yet remain among them, will be fliortly put in
the lilts and predicament with their brethren. It is
remarkable, that of seventy odd persons, who signed
the petition to their Affcmbly for a repeal of those
Ads, fifty odd are with the enemy. —Nor is it less
remarkable, that, ofthofe persons who were affedtd
by these laws, and afterwards admitted to the rights
of citizenship in this state, one only bad virtue or
gratitude enough to keep tyom the enemy ; and all
the left are now plotting, writing, and anting against
us. And it is laid, that a military officer of tank,
belonging to that Rate, has given general offence, by
carrying his family to, and living with, hie v^tu
ous one. It is conlidered as an insult to their laws.
THE
Feb. 9. Thursday fennight the Providence and
Ringer continental frigates, with the Eagle tender,
returned to the bar from a cruize off Tybee ; where,
on Monday and Tuesday, they dilcovered five Bri
tilh ships at anchor, aving the appearance of men
ofwar, and eight other ships under tail. The above
mentioned frigates have sent into this port two large
sloops, from New-York, bound for Geoi gia, which
they had taken, having on board 14 officers and paf
iengcre, nod j& non commiflioned office , dIJU privates
of Lord Cathcart's light dragoons, and a quantity of
horse furniture. We are told that 1400 horses were
embarked in the fleet, but that 'tis not probable they
have saved 300, the bad weather the fleet met with
having obliged moil of the ships to throw them over#
b ;ard ; one of the sloops brought in saved only one
out of 31. On this pallage the prisoners fay they saw
a ihip bottom upwards : They also mention .he cap
ture of the brig Setfy, George CroL, master, of and
from this port (on her firfl voyage) for Cape Fran
cois, (one of the fiiieft veffcls ever built in this state
for faft failing) by the Roebuck man of war, owing
to a heavy gale of wind, wherein the brig could not
carry tail; and that when the gale abated, the out
failed the man of war every way.
On Saturday lennight a sloop, laden with salt,
came in from Turk's island; by which several vefiels
were seen at different times, supposed to be of the
fca.tcred British fleet from New-York.
The fame afternoon the Providence and Ranger
continental ships of war, with the Eagle, came in,
up< n the appearance of a British ship of war of 50
guns, supposed to be the Roebuck, and a frigate,
coming up from the southward, the firft of which
was almost within gun shot of the Providence before
she got in. The weather has been exceflive hazy
ever since, but the Eagle went out last Wednesday to
reconnoitre, and discovered the two largelt ships off,
and so near the bar, that she was obliged to have re
course to her oars to < scape them.
We hear from Georgia, that they have 300 Indians
and about 400 armed blacks encamped in the late
French lines near Savannah.
1 he General Assembly is fitting, and much is ex
petted from their deliberations. The vast prafpeds
formed by {peculating monopolizers and foreliaders
seem to diflipate. The prices of many articles are
greatly fallen.
The last accounts of Admiral Parker's fleet are,
that they were at St. Lucia, waiting for part of the
late embarkation of troops at New-York.---French
accounts fay that the number expected is 5 or 6000 ;
and that they expected hourly at Martinique 11 ships
of the line from Count D'Orvilliers' fleet.
Another divilion of North-Carolina troops aye ar
rived here.
It teems not improbable, from some particular cir,
cumftances, that the French frigates which failed
from hence last week, on a ci uize, under the com
mand of M. Durumain, have gone on a visit to Ber
muda or New-Providence.
We have the pleasure to observe, that every pre
paration seems to be making here for a proper re
ception of the enemy, should either a part or the
whole of the late embarkation from New-York be
destined this way. Succours come in from different
quarters, and our own people seem much animated.
Mr. Collins,
YOUR correspondent Honeftus, in your No. 102,
seems a lover of combat: If he had any other
view, it probably has been the grand desideratum, viz.
Horn to raise the neceflary /applies, without doing far
ther injustice to individuals.
As this gentleman appears in the garb of reasoning,
and therein broaches some matters of importance, I
hope the candid publick will excuse me in particular
ly canvassing some of them.
He lays, be has proved in three <words that regula
tion is a solecism in politicks. Can he be in earnest ?
Suppose A stands for the quantity of trade, and B for
the circulating medium, what authority has he for
faying A=B, or that A is equal B ? Peihaps he may
find it difficult to prove this equality in any nation. I
confefs it would be to the advantage of society if they
could be made and kept equal. But the contrary is
obvious from the daily rife and fall of prices, which,
in the main, are the struggles of trade to restore this
equality. This equilibrium is broke, and becomes
fluctuating by various causes. Congress distinguishes
them into natural and artificial. The natural is fume
times in A, when the surplus of trade gluts the mar
ket, or its scarcity, the money. Sometimes in B,
when the money is either superabundant or deficient
for an ordinary market. Where the circulating me
dium is specie, and trade without extraordinary em-
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