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such certificates; and as it appears most likely to an
swer the good purposes intended by the said ad to
change the mode of payment as aforefaid, therefore,
Sed. I. Bei ona&ed by the Council and General
/Assembly of this Rate, and it is hereby enabled by the
authority of the fame, That that part of the ad, in
titled, " An ad to raise the sum of Ninety Thousand
“ Nine Hundred and 1 hirty Pounds, in the state of
" New-Jersey, for the exigencies of the year One
" Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty-three, and
"for other purposes therein mentioned," passed the
ninth day of June, One Thousand Seven Hundred
and Eighty three, which direds the treasurer to pay
the sum of Twenty-one Thousand Pounds to Joseph
Borden, Esquire, continental loan-officer ; and also
that part of the said ad which directs the said officer
to pay out the fame, together with that part of the
said ad which requires the holders of loan-office cer
tificates iffoed in any of the neighbouring ftateS, and
which are entitled to interest by the before recited ad,
to get the fame endorsed by the refpedive loan-offi
cers who issued such certificates, (hall be, and the fame
hereby are repealed.
2. And be it further enaded, That the treasurer
of the state for the time being shall be, and he is here
by authorized and direded, out of the said Twenty
one Thousand Pounds, as the fame may come into his
hands, to pay the interest on all such certificates and
other debts as aforefaid in the room and Head of the
said Joseph Borden, Esquire, continental loan-officer;
upon which payment the said treasurer shall admini
ster the oath or affirmation, take the receipts, and
make the endorsements in and by the said recited ad
direded to be administered, taken and made, by the
said loan-officer. Provided always, That in case the
holders of certificates take the oaths or affirmations
direded by the before recited ad before a magistrate,
and produce, or cause to be produced, such deposition
or affirmation to the treasurer, the fame shall be ad
mitted as proof in as full a manner as if administered
by the treasurer.
A. Faffed at Trenton, December 23, 1783.
A true copy from the original,
maskell ewing, jun. Clerk
of the General Assembly.
Od. 14. Ministry have experienced the impolicy
and inefficacy of the proclamation which prohibited a
trade with the Weft-lndia islands in American bot
toms ; and we have it from undoubted authority, that
one of the firft measures will be annulling this procla
mation.—Recanting an error is a sign of grace; but
not to commit one is a mark of wisdom.
If the inhabitants of the Weft-India islands were
in conformity to the proclamation, not to admit the
produce of the continent in American bottoms, the
islands would be deprived of the very means cf sub
sistence.
The animosity of the Hollanders against the Eng
lish (particularly at Amsterdam) is so great, that it is
dangerous for any person to walk the streets, in a
British garb, early in the evenings, or late at night.
This antipathy, so strongly riveted in the minds of
every description of the inhabitants, was the sole cause
of Lord Shelburne not being introduced to the Prince
Stadtholder; a circumstance very erroneously set forth
in the London newspapers.
LONDO N, October 11.
THE Empress of Russia, during her last war with
the I urks, was at great pains to cftablifh her cre
dit in Holland, on a permanent footing. At firft the
Dutch were very jealous, and would lend only on ex
orbitant terms ; by degrees, they came down a little,
and finding great punttua ity in payment, she, towards
the close of it, borrowed at five per cent. Most of
thole debts have since been difeharged, and the inte
rest on the rest paid to an hour; so that her ambassa
dor found no difficulty in opening a negeciation for
a million sterling, at four per cent, which is suspended
at prefect, and will not take place unless the war
goes on.
In all the operations at present going on in the
French finances, the great objed is to eltablifh credit,
a system Great-Britain may rejoice at feeing take
place, in a country that would overpower herfelf, was
that canker of states rejeded in it. The Comte de
Vergennes is persuaded that credit alone can counter
ed the credit of Great-Britain.
The 27th ult. an extraordinary circumstance hap
pened at St. Auftle, in Cornwall.—A man had got a
private place near his house, to conceal smuggled
goods, and going to open the place to remove them, a
man who accompanied him went in firft, and was
struck dead. The owner of the goods entered next,
and he also died diredly. A third person then going
in, was apparently struck dead, but recovered in some
measure afterwards. His life, however, is still despaired
of. It is thought this unhappy accident was occasi
oned by the pernicious efteds of air long stagnated and
confined.
Foreign Intelligence.
Mr. Becman, member of the Royal Society of Cot
tingen, has lately made a valuable difeovery with re
fped to manufactures. He has found, from repeated
experiments, that the cathermus, or sass flower, other
wise the bastard faffron plant, gives a most beautiful
yellow dye to cotton, wool, and every linen yarn.
Od, 21. According to letters from Elfineur of the
10th inst. the Ruffian squadron from Revel was daily
expelled to pass the Sound; it confided of fourteen
fail of men of war bound to the Mediterranean, whose
force are as follows : two of 76 guns, one of 74, two
of 66, three of 64, two of 60, three of 32, and one
of 28. I hey are attended by no other ships whate
ver, but it is said they are to touch at a British port,
where they are to be joined by fix large ships, pro
vided by their agents with stores of all kinds; their
orders are to press as faft as poflible to the Mediter
ranean to make a diversion. The reason of their so
long detention in the north was not so much for want
of men, as that the necessary forms had not been fet
tled with some of the sovereign powers, whose har
bours they may have occasion to visit. The Danes
have lent a number of seamen to the Empress, on con
dition of being permitted to return home whenever re
called by an edict of his Danish Majesty.
T he very best lands, if improperly cultivated or ne
gle&ed by the proprietors, cannot enrich a kingdom:
and as a proof of this we may observe, that since the
land of Palestine, once the rich'eft country in the uni
verse, fell into the hands of the furks, it has become
the poorest of all the i urkifh provinces. Ihe fame
observation holds good with refpeCt to some of the
Spanish territories ; for Andalusia and Grenada were
once wonderfully fertile; but since the Moors were
expelled by the Spaniards, those places, which con
tained many excellent towns, and all the necessaries
and luxuries of life, are not only almost depopulated,
but fallen into the most abjeC tmifery, although the
lands are naturally as fertile as ever. If the Spani
ards had only one half of the induttry of the Dutch,
they would be the richest people in the world : but as
they are indolent and luxurious, they are the poorest,
because their outgoings are more than their incomes.
Extraß of a letter from Dublin, October 16.
" Our pariiamentaiy campaign is at length com
menced: the complexion of the lower house will soon
be known, as some particular national questions will
soon be agitated. Ihe Lord Lieutenants speech was
generally well received. The poft-office and the ad
miralty of this kingdom have long wanted a reform :
Several matters have occurred in both departments,
no less derogatory to the dignity and interest of the
crown, than injurious to the kingdom. A general re
form will certainly be attempted this winter: Lord
Northington, when he returned from the house to the
cattle, met with as great acclamations as any Voice-
Roy that ever resided here."
1 he King, Parliament, and Fermiers General, are
using their utmost efforts in France, to qualify the
failure of the bank to the publick, who, we are as
sured, have Ihewn symptoms of the utmost difeontent.
A number, of seditious papers have been duck up in
several parts of Paris, and the officers of the police
and a number of soldiers constantly parade the streets,
to prevent disorders.
An evening paper fays, we are assured from unques
tionable authority, that the important business to be
brought on early in the session before the house of
commons, is relative to East-India matters ; and not,
as has been conjectured, on the frifh business, govern
ment being more easy on that head, since the meeting
of their parliament, than they had been for some
months before. It is to the East this country is to
look to recruit her refouces, and give a spur to her
credit; a plan for that purpose is already prepared,
and every individual member of the house of com
mons has been summoned to attend his duty, to give
his function to measures replete with wisdom, and
I he late repeated forgeries of our bank-notes may
be ranked among the other events untowardly affect
ing publick credit. The fictitious drafts are said to
have been executed with such perfeCt fltill as to have
deceived observers the molt experienced. They have
pat Ted through some of the firft banking-houses, and
thus have found their way to the bank.
In consequence of the above-mentioned formidable
evil thus prevailing, the bank have taken unusual steps
to detect the fraud, and destroy its circulation; and
among other precautionary steps now arranged at the
bank, it is regulated, that before any note can be
changed into specie, it mult pass through new forms,
be examined and approved in the accomptants office,
&c. &c.
A correspondent fays, it is agreed on by all parties,
that Gibraltar is only a feather to the English, which
the Spaniards will purchase of us at a molt enormous
price. It is, therefore, to be wished (continues he)
that government may despise the vulgar prejudices of
the day, and dispose of the honour which colts the na
tion some hundred thousands of pounds, for the more
substantial pofleflion of gold and silver, which is so
much wanted to raise the publick funds.
Paece, though not attended by her handmaid
glory, may be welcome if the has other eligible fol
lowers: but be it remembered, there is no peace to
the kicked!
Electric heat, we are told, produces cold hail—
contrary extremes produce similar effeds. This is
worthy of patriotich conf deration.
Eighty-four members are returned to serve in par
liament of Ireland, who were not in the last parlia
ment.
All men have their faults, yet all seem to expect to
find others without any.—What is the reason? Why,
that mankind may easily conceive perfection, but no
man can attain to it.
A recollection of the conduct of this country to
wards America and Ireland during this reign, seems
to fay, that we have long since forgotten a proverb,
the memory of which might have served us, that,
" more flies are caught by a drbp of honey than by a
ton of vinegar."
The proclamation of peace seems to have been re
ceived over the kingdom with great coolness. No il
luminations—no intoxications—no jocund healths—
all bare and hungry parade, for the peace is what
every man hears of, but no one fees.
Ministry are assiduously employed in framing a plan
of conciliation with Ireland, which is to be produced
early in the approaching session of parliament. Deli
cately as affairs are situated between the two king
doms, this is an arduous undertaking ; but fhouki they
succeed in their endeavours, they will acquire immor
tal reputation.
A medal has been struck in France emblematical
of the relative connexion subsisting between America
and that country. On one fide of the medal there is
a juvenile profile with the cap of liberty, and this in
scription, “ Libertas Americana." - The other tide
represents an infant in danger of being devoured by a
lion; but Minerva, with a shield, on which three
fleurs delis are displayed, proteds the infant. The
motto is, “ Non fine dii animofus infans." The
dates are the 17th of October 1777, an ^ the 19th of
October 1781, the refpedive days when the two Ge
nerals, Burgoyne and Cornwallis, were unfortunately
'captured.
A certain filly fellow, who endeavours to palm him
felf on the world for a deep philosopher, being some
time ago in company with several ladies of rank, pre
tended to argue their ladylhips out of the fear of the
devil, for this single reason, that he had never seen
the black gentleman; when one of the ladies replied.
Upon the lame ground, Sir, none of the company will
think you poffefled of either wit or judgment, for they
certainly arc invisible to us all.
MERI T S.
In great men Juflice.
In rich men Charity.
In wife men Modefy.
In weak men Silence.
And in all men Honefy.
Extras from the Journal of Paris, dated the 26th
October, 1783.
To the PRINTERS.
Paris, 20th October, 1783.
Gentlemen,
THE new acroftique machine, which M. de Mant
golfier has conftruded at his own expence, and for his
own proper inftrudion, in the street Montreuil, is 70
feet in height, and 46 in diameter, it weighs 1000
pounds; the gallery destined to carry men 500 pounds,
and it contains 60,0c0 cubic feet.
Wednesday the 15th, M. de Rofiers, filled with a
noble enthusiasm, was carried up about 21 minutes
after 5 o'clock, to the height of 80 feet, which was
as high as the firing would permit ; there the machine
remained in equilibrium 4 minutes and 25 seconds,
and defeended again very slowly.
Friday the 17th, the fame experiment was repeat
ed; there was a prodigious concourse of people; the
company were a little disappointed by a wind which
Suddenly arose, M. de Rofiers went up nevertheless to
the fame height.
Bon Mot of an ingenious and beautiful Lady of
Fashion.
which will produce a revenue equal to the present ne
cessities of the state.
The Hudson's-Bay Company are in daily expecta
tion of the fafe arrival of their ships from the South-
Seas, as by the last accounts they were to fail the be
ginning of September.
From the Maryland Journal and Baltimore
Advertiser.
By the brigantine Eclipse, Capt. Coward, arrived
in Patuxent, from London, and by several other
arrivals in Eafern ports, me have the following
advices, viz.
LONDO N, October 9.