The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1785-06-27 00:00:00, page 1

N E W-Y0 R K, June 24.
By the United States in Congress assembled,
June 7, 1785.
Refolded,
^IOHat it be, and it is hereby recommended
M to the several states, to make provision for
officers, soldiers or seamen, who have been
disabled in the service of the United States,
in the following manner, viz.
I. A complete lift shall be made out by such per
son or persons as each state shall direct, of all the
. officers, soldiers or seamen, resident in their respec
tive states, who have served in the army or navy of
the United States, or in the militia in the service of
the United States, and have been disabled in such
service, so as to be incapable of military duty, or of
obtaining a livelihood by labour. In this lift shall be
expressed the pay, age and disability, of each invalid,
also the regiment, corps or ship, to which he be
longed, and a copy of the fame shall be transmitted
to the office of the secretary at war, within one year
after each state shall pass a law for this purpose; and
a like descriptive lift of the invalids resident in the
refpeaive ftates,' shall from year to year be annually
transmitted to the office of the secretary at war.
2. No officer, soldier or seaman, shall be considered
as an invalid, or entitled to pay, unless he can pro
duce a certificate from the commanding officer or sur
geon of the regiment, ship, corps or company, in
which he served, or from a physician or surgeon of a
military hospital, or other good and fufficient testi
mony, setting forth his disability, and that he was
thus disabled while in the service of the United
States.
3. That all commissioned officers within the afore
ftid description, disabled in the service of the United
States, so as to be wholly incapable of military duty
or of obtaining a livelihood, be allowed a yearly pen
sion equal to half of their pay respectively. And ail
commissioned officers as aforefaid, who shall not have
been disabled in so great a degree, be allowed a year
ly penlion, which fhall.correlpond with the degree of
their disability, Compared with that of an officer
wholly disabled: That all non-commissioned officers
and privates within the aforefaid description, disabled
in the service of the United States, so as to be whol
ly incapable of military or garrison duty, or of ob
taining a livelihood by labour, be allowed a sum not
exceeding five dollars per month: And all non-com
missioned officers and privates as aforefaid, who shall
not have been disabled in so great a degree, be al
lowed such a sum as shall correspond with the degree
of their disability, compared with that of a non-com
missioned officer or private wholly disabled.
4. That each state appoint one or more persons
of suitable abilities, to examine ail claimants, and to
report whether the person producing a certificate, set
ting forth that he is an invalid, be such in fad, and
if such, to what pay he is entitled; and thereupon,
the persons appointed to make such enquiry, shall give
to the invalid a certificate, fpecifying to what pay he
is entitled, and transmit a copy to the person who
may be appointed by the state to receive and record
the fame.
5. 1 hat each state be authorized to pay to the
commissioned officers, non-commissioned officers and
privates, the sum or funis to which they shall be re
fpe&ively entitled, agreeably to the before-mentioned
certificates; the said payments to be deducted from
the refpe&ive quotas of the states for the year on
which they shall be made. Provided that no officer
who has accepted his commutation for half-pay, shall
be entered on the lift of invalids, unless he shall have
firft returned his commutation.
6. That any state may form such invalids under
the aforefaid description, as are citizens of the fame,
and are capable cf garrison duty, into corps, to be
employed in guarding military stores, aiding the po
lice, or otherwise, as the state may dired.
7. That when invalids shall be formed into corps,
there be quarterly returns, comprehending the pay,
age, disability, regiment, ship or corps to which they
severally belonged, made out and signed by their com
manding officer, and transmitted to such person or
KVV-JKKdKY GAZKI 1 Ib.
[Vol. VIII.]
TRENTON: Printed by ISAAC COLLINS, Printer to the State.
MONDA Y, June 27, 1785.
persons as the state shall dired, that their pay may be
ordered according to said return.
8. That all invalids, as well those formed into
corps, as those who are not, shall annually apply
themselves to a magistrate of the county in which they
reside or may be stationed, and taking the following
oath, viz. A. B. came before me, one of the justices
for the county of in the state of
and made oath, that he was examined by
appointed by the said state (or commonwealth) for
that purpose, obtained a certificate, or had his certi
ficate examined and countersigned, setting forth that
he had served in that he was disabled by
and that he now lives in the
and in the county of
9. That the affidavits, drawn according to the above
form, and dated and arretted by a magistrate, be sent
by the said magistrate, to the person or persons ap
pointed by the state, to receive and record the fame,
and that a counterpart of the affidavit be preserved
by the person taking it, to be exhibited to such per
sons as shall be appointed by the state to pay the in
valids.
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L OND O N, April 6.
TWO Eaft-lndia ships have lately been fitted out
in the river Thames for the Americans. It is not
believed that they were altogether owned in Ameri
ca; on the contrary, it is said, that fonie in London
have chosen to open a trade to the Eaft-fndies under
the American flag, as 'other ports have under the Im
perial flag. One of these ships was for Bengal, and
the other for China.
Within the space of the month of February, there
were no less than 240 burglaries committed in the
city of London and its environs. From this sass there
can be but two inferences drawn; either that we are
the most depraved upon earth, or that our police is
the worst admihiftered.
April 13. A new coinage of guineas and half gui
neas, to the amount of 30,0001. is now going on at
the mint in the tower, from frefh dies, by order of
the lords of the treasury, and will be iflued shortly.
April 19. About the end of January, we informed
our readers, that a convention was concluded between
the Emperor and the Elector of Bavaria, for an ex
change of territory. The belief of such a convention
soon became so strong, in the country most concern
ed, that the dates of Bavaria addressed their love
reign upon the fubjed.
On the firft of February the Elector publilhed an
answer to this audrefs, wherein he solemnly declared,
that " the only objed of the convention, made the
gift of Augud, between us and the Imperial Court,
and which was signed and ratified on the 3d of Ja
nuary, is the fixing the limits between Bavaria and
the diftri& of the river lun, which were very uncer
tain, and of which convention the part which inte
rests the country was made publick on the firft of
February," &c.
The states of Bavaria, we are told, are not fatisfied
with this answer, and the following observations may
serve to shew that their uneasiness is not void of foun
dation.
There can be no doubt but that the supposed ex
change would be greatly to the advantage of the Em
peror, because the Bavarian territories are not only
rich and populous, but immediately contiguous to his
own ; whereas the low countries are widely Separated
from the centre of his power, are a dead weight
upon him in time of war, and in time of peace raise
very little more revenue than what is expended upon
their own government.
The only obje& of the convention is said to be the
afeertaining the limits between the Bavarian territo
ries and the district of the lun. It is very natural
that the Elector should, for the fake of his fubjeds,
with for a convention that would promise to secure
them against the encroachments of a powerful neigh
Foreign Intelligence.
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bour; but it is not probable, because not politick,
that the Emperor should content to such a conventi
on, unless accompanied by some other advantages.—•
Upon the death of the Elector of Bavaria, the House
of Austria will have a specious at least, if not a just
claim to several parts of his territories; but a very
powerful Prince having claims to any part of the suc
cession to a weak neighbour, can have no interest in
any measure that tends to establish the boundaries or
other regulations of the several parts of that successi
on ; superior power always prefers Uncertainty, for
this obvious reason, that is, determined not to be
content with less, and takes the chance of obtaining
more than its due.
There is something ambiguous in these words of
the Elector's declaration, “ The Convention, made
the 31st of August, and ratified on the gd'of Janua
ry," confidently with this expression there may
exist another convention of a different date ; there
may exist a testamentary, or some other instrument
not called a convention; there may even be another
convention agreed upon and even signed, of which the
ratification is not to take place till the moment of ex
change.
Another expression in this declaration is no less
equivocal, viz. “ Of which convention the part whicla
interests the country was published theist of Febru
ary," a part only of this convention is made publick ;
there is then a part dill concealed. Are we to sup
pose that that part of the treaty does not interest the
country ? But what treaty between the Emperor and
the Elector can be uninteresting to the fubjefts of the
latter? If the concealed part means any thing, it must
mean something relative to a succession, which, when
ever it happens, will be open to disputes and the
claims of several Princes ; if it means nothing, why
is it concealed, or rather, why was it ever -inferted>
If the fad would have warranted the Elector, why
did he not at once remove all doubts and suspicions,
by simply declaring, “ that no exchange of territory
whatever had either been treated of or agreed upon
between himfelf and the Court of Vienna ?"
As it is, we cannot help thinking the account cf
the reported exchange is rather confirmed than done
away by the Elector's declaration.
We likewise wish our readers to recoiled that we
acquainted them that the consent of France to this
exchange, was supposed to be obtained by the rever
fionary cession of Flanders, upon the death of the
Elector of Bavaria. Ihis we dill think highly pro
bable, and the part the French take in the defence of
the Dutch, will be the touchstone. If they remain
quiet, or but feebly active, it may be fairly conjec
tured that they look forward to the pofleffion of Au
strian Flanders, and wish to fee the Scheldt become
a port in the North Seas.
A negociation, not much known to the publick, is
now going on between Administration and the Eaft
lndia Company, relative to the quota of troops on
government establishment intended to be continued
in India. At the renewal of the charter, in 1780,
when I^ord North was firft Minister, he bargained
for the publick, that the Eaft-lndia Company should
pay a stipulated sum annually, for every regiment of
British troops doing duty, and continuing in India at
the Company's desire, as well as for every ship of the
line and frigate (each proportionably) above a certa.
establishment, if the urgency cf affairs should at
time require it. The present business is with a view
of keeping up a certain ratio of troops in India,
the service of the Company, to protest their posse
ons and settlements at the expence of the nation, u
are also to provide subsistence for such troops.
Minister seems to listen to these proposals, which
now under the consideration of the Cabinet.
Extras of a letter from Limerick, March 2^
" The approaching increase of our coinroe
(thanks to the genius that inspired it!) has alrf
brightened every visage here. We are afiured
some of the great men in our neighbourhood, ur,
by the fame patrioticle spirit that has procured us t
agreeable profped of various and extensive trade, a
about to render it dill more splendid and enliven
by the commodiousness with which they propofc
[Numb. 372.]