The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1784-09-06 00:00:00, page 1

BENJAMIN PITFIELD
Has opened a store in Trenton, opposite the sign of
the Blazing Star, where he has for sale, wholesale
and retail, at the lowest prices, for cash or produce,
CHINA in cases, glass in boxes, &c.
A large and general assortment of queens-ware
in crates, &c.
Childrens' complete sets of tea ware,
Window glass, 10 by 8, in boxes and half boxes,
lod, Bd, 6d and 4d nails in calks,
Looking-glasses and pocket do.
Japanned tea trays and waiters,
China mugs, bowls, and tea-sets complete,
China tea-cups and saucers, custard-cups, &c.
Glass decanters, wine glades and tumblers,
Salts, sugar diflies, cream jugs, &c.
Turkey oil Hones,
Polished iron candlesticks,
Flat irons, fire shovel and tongs,
Nutmeg graters by the gross or dozen,
Poll and box coffee-mills, Heel fnuffers,
Chasing-dishes and steelyards,
Brass curtain rings, temple fpe&acles,
Nail and spike gimblets,
Steel and japanned fpedacle cases,
Silver and plated top caftors,
Bone and wood top do.
Barlow and other penknives,
Pewter chamber-pots and close stool pans,
Tin ware, butchers' and table Heels,
Table knives and forks, pocket knives,
Scissors, sugar nippers and nutcrackers,
Scythes, chisels and gouges,
H and HL hinges, hones, &c.
Dovetail, desk and table hinges,
Plated candlesticks and japanned tea caddies,
Parlour door and Hock locks,
Copper and patent sauce-pans,
Hammers, trowels and saws,
Drawing-knives, files and fifh-hooks,
Carpenters' rules and broad-axes,
Padlocks, brushes, &c.
A small invoice of combs.—
AS the credit and utility of the paper-money
emitted by the aft of the Legislature of the 20th
December, 1783, for raising a revenue of Thirty one
Thousand two Hundred and Fifty-nine Pounds Five
Shillings per annum, for paying the interest and prin
cipal of the publick debts, depends principally, if not
wholly, upon the ftrift and pundual collection of the
taxes, all township and county collectors are called
upon, in the most pointed terms, to make their pay
ments at the day. The subscriber is determined, as
far as depends on him, to execute the law to the ut
most ; the county collectors have a proper remedy
against the township collectors ; and the latter against
the taxables.—On the execution of the law depends
its use and effect; a compliance with it is easy ; and,
after this notice, no person can complain of conse
quences. JAMES MOTT, Treasurer.
Trenton, August 30, 1784.
Some Jewellery, consisting of gold lockets,
rings, seals, handkerchief Hides and pins, set Hock and
knee-buckles; gentlemens' complete travelling (hav
ing cases, genuine Godfrey's cordial, Daffy's elixir,
and Anderson's pills ; some groceries, dry goods, &c.
A valuable PLAN FaTION in Bucks county, one
mile from the Falls meetinghouse, and about 3 miles
from Trenton Upper Ferry, to be fold.—Enquire as
above.
Trenton, August 20, 1784. 6w
Foreign Intelligence.
LOND O N, July I—l 2.
Y advices from Poland we hear, that on the
^-f 7th of April the Montenegrins, who have re
^ volted against their Sovereign the Grand
~ ~ Signor, gave battle, on the banks of the Ma
lizza, to 40,000 Janissaries, Arnauts, and Timariots,
led by the Kegler-Bey, of Upper-Albany. The lat
ter were defeated. After the action, the conquerors
NEW-JERSEY GAZETTE.
[Vol. VII.]
TRENTON: Printed by ISAAC COLLIN S, Printer to the State.
MONDA Y, September 6, 1784.
The new mode of lottery, by way of annuity, is
fathered upon the present minister; from whomsoever
it sprung, it is an offspring of unbounded genius, and
marks a capacious mind. The blanks being entitled
to five and a half per cent, for the life of the holder
of the ticket, is an idea well conceived, as a power
ful inducement to fubferibers, who thus, if unfuccefs
ful, find their property is not wholly loft; and the
chance of a large annuity, like 20001. a year, for the
duration of two lives, is a prize of much more mag
nitude than is at firft perceived ; and certainly far ex
ceeds the receipt of the highest price in the former
lotteries, because that would not purchase half such
an income. As stocks now fell, to be sure, a pur
chaser has more than five and a half for his money;
but in lotteries, each purchaser has better hopes, and
here, if they should happen to be fruftrated, they are
well recompensed by an inferior interest for life.
A curious difeovery of ecclefiaftick avarice was
despoiled the dead, and thus caught the infedion of
the plague, which then raged in the Turkish army.
Extraft of a letter from /'Orient, June 2.
" The council of war, assembled in this city, have
given sentence on the affair of the 12th of April,
1782. The following is the sentence, as it was com
mitted to court, on May 23, viz. Of the Hercule,
Mons. Coalis, reprimanded. The Neptune, Mons.
d'Alenis, reprimanded. Souverain, M. de Glandeves,
acquitted unanimously. Le Palmier, Mons. de Mar
tellery, acquitted, but not unanimously. Le Nor
thumberland, M. de Combaud, acquitted unanimous
ly. L'Augufte, M. de Bougainville, reprimanded una
nimously for having rashly hazarded his life. L'Ar
dent, M. de Gouzillon, suspended for three months
unanimously. Le Scipion, M. de Chavels, acquitted.
Le Brave, M. d'Amblimont, acquitted, but not una
nimously. Le Cireyen, M. Dettry, acquitted unani
mously. Le Hector, M. de Beaumanoir, acquitted,
and commended unanimously. Le Caesar, M. Lamb,
acquitted, and commended unanimously. Le Dauphin
Royal, M. de Montperoux, acquitted, not unanimous
ly. Le Languedoc, M. d'Aros, acquitted and oom
mended. La Ville de Paris, M. le Comte de Graffe,
acquitted unanimously. La Couronne, M. de Mit
ton, acquitted and commended, but not unanimously.
L'Eveille, Mons. de Tilly, acquitted unanimously.
Le Sceptre, Mons. le Comte de Vaudreuil, acquitted,
but not unanimously. Le Gldrieux, Mons. de Trog
hoff, acquitted and commended unanimously. Le Di
ademe, Mons. de Montecier, acquitted unanimously.
Le Deftin, M. de Goimpy, acquitted unanimously.
Le Magnanime, M. le Bigne, acquitted, but not una
nimously, and that it should be recorded in the Jour
nal to be presented to the Minister, that after the
relief of the morning, he endeavoured to retreat and
fly. Le Reflechi, M. de Medines, acquitted unani
mously. Le Conquerant, M. de la Grandiere, ac
quitted unanimously. Le Magnifique; M. de Mar
teignes, acquitted and commended unanimously. Le
Triomphant, M. le Marquis de Vaudreuil, acquitted
and commended. La Bourgogne, M. de Charite,
unanimously acquitted and commended. Le Duc de
Bourgogne, M. d'Efpinous, reprimanded unanimous
ly. Le Marfeillois, M. de Caftellane, acquitted and
commended unanimously. Le Pluton, M. d'Albert
de Rioms, acquitted unanimously and commended.
" All the captains of the frigates and cutters were
acquitted unanimously."
There is something truly valuable to the country
in Mr. Pitt's language on Wednesday last refpeding
the funds; it shewed at once the genius and disposi
tion of the man ; it demonstrated such a positive de
termination to serve the funds, as cannot fail to af
fed them in the estimation of foreigners as well as
ourselves. While Mr. Pitt is minister, the principal
never can be taxed; while he is minister, the interest
never can be reduced; for he has declared his fixed
intention of securing it from every species of infringe
ment or violation. We sincerely congratulate the pub
lick on this declaration, but more especially the Na
vy Holder, who may now get rid of his suspicions
that his bills were not to be funded at par, and rest
fatisfied that the minister means to provide for that
part of the debt on such terms as shall effectually ad
vance its value.
THE
I he fees taken at al! publick offices are already
much reduced from that exorbitancy which prevailed
under former administrations; and according to a plan
of Mr. Pitt, lord Thurlow, and the duke of Rich
mond, they are to be totally abolished.
Lord Courtown, who was said to have refgned his
place as lord of the bedchamber to the Prince of
Wales, did not resign, but was dismissed, and inform
ed, that it was in consequence of his having voted
with the ministry; and at the fame time a hint was
thrown out, that every one who wished to be in fa
vour at Carleton house, must conform in politicks to
the inclination of a certain party !
Miss Catley has not only retired, but retired from
the stage with a handsome competency to an elegant
villa in Hertfordfhire, where she keeps her carriage,
and " kills her own mutton," in a Hile of enviable
felicity: Her place is about four miles from Barner,
and is called Balance-Hall, fiom its former posses
sor who built it, Mr. Reid, afcale maker!
All young members, more especially if they are
young men, are advised to frank letters in a coffee
room, or any publick place, in order that Hrangers
may form a proper judgment of their importance.
All pleaders who have no business, are requested
to carry large bags, because it looks as if they wanted
none.
All poets and authors of every denomination, who
have no brains, are entreated to run full butt against
every man they meet in the streets, as a proof of the
absence of their understandings.
All beaux who cannot afford to dine, are solicited
to pick their teeth in publick.
All citizens' apprentices who wifli to keep a horse,
are requested to wear boots when they run on er
rands on a Sunday morning.
All maids, who never mend an hole in their Hock
ings, are required to wear wire caps and washed
gauzes.
LUCC A (Italy) April 14.
The inhabitants of the villages of Saint Cafeiano
de Controns, belonging to this Republick, and situ
ated at the foot of the Apennines, lately experienced
a most terrible disaster. After a violent rain, accom
panied with high winds, on the 29th of last month,
about noon, an extraordinary motion of the earth was
felt in the village of Colle, which occasioned the in
habitants to leave their falling houses, with what ef
fects they could collect amidH their horror and amaze-
lately made at Vienna. A Monk of an Imperial Con
vent, happening one night to have no great inclina
tion for Heep, got up to walk in the gallery. Struck
with a panick at the sudden appearance of a light, he
ran to hide himfelf in a corner. A few moments af
ter, he difeerned two ancient fathers with flambeaux
in their hands, and four others carrying bags, full, to
all appearance, of money. Their reverences having
removed the statue of a faint, opened a door which
the figure of the faint concealed. They deposited in
the opening the money bags, put the statue again in
its nich, and went off in silence. The Monk, who
was a fpedator of this feene, took the favourable mo
ment of making his escape, and went to throw him
felf at the feet of his sovereign, to whom he gave an
account of what he had been a witness to. The Em
peror, determined to fift the affair to the bottom,
went himfelf to the Monastery, and approaching the
statue of the faint in question, asked what was his
name? The Monks answered, that it was a faint,
whole name, from his great antiquity, was unknown
in the convent. The Emperor fignified his desire of
a closer examination of it, and for that purpose or
dered the statue to be taken down. The private door
was then discovered, and the pious fathers obliged
to open it. The treasure was immediately laid open
to view, and the Emperor took care to have it applied
to better purposes, than those for which it was pro
bably intended by the holy fathers.
Earl Mansfield has, within these few days, pro
posed to resign the chief jufticelhip of the King's
Bench; but it was upon condition of naming his im
mediate successor, viz. Mr. Justice Buller, to which
administration have begged leave for the present to
demur !
[Numb. 330.]