The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1786-09-04 00:00:00, page 3

bad as it now is; fyflem and arrangement, that virtue
and union of sentiments, in peace, which has saved
us in war, a serious, firm and permanent determina
tion in government to do justice, are only wanting to
give us fair expectations of relief from our real dis
tresses. Any different system must expose us to the
wiles of bad men who constantly avail themselves of
;he real or imaginary troubles of the people, to ex
cite their passions, and raise themselves to places of
honour in their country, at the expence of truth, and
the weal of the state.
The late" requisition" of Congress being made " in
virtue of the powers of the confederation, dif
fers greatly from those heretofore made by that body,
and ' delay, or non-compliance therewith, will be
productive of events which will (hake even the basis
of the union ;---it is confidently said, it was reluctant
ly adopted by that honourable body---but the inat
tention of the several states, to their pressing recom
mendations, has driven them to this dernier resort.
ring. 28. It is remarkable, fays a correspondent,
that New-York, once a strenuous advocate for the
impost (when she had none to give) and then exe
crated Rhode-lfland for a non-compliance with fede
ral measures, fnould now be influenced by the fame
narrow policy, by which that Rate once prevented
our national credit from assuming liability. And till
this is done; till Congress have money and authority,
" we (hall uniformly fee irresolute reflations, impo
tent requisitions, and unpaid grants." We shall
fee a continuation of reftri&ions and impositions on
our commerce from every power with whom we may
hold a correspondence.---And even be tacitly obliged
to put up with ftich insults, as, otherwise, they would
not have the temerity to commit.
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PITTSBURGH August 5.
We are requeued to inform the publick, that the
Moravian Indians, who formerly resided on Mufking
hum, have returned from their captivity as far back
as Gihawaga, where they are now encamped, and
purpole to return to their former abode in the fall---
The great distresses these people have underwent, were
oce dioned by their attachment to the cause of Ameri
ca; it is therefore hoped that they will receive every
afliftance from the inhabitants of this country.
August 12.,
A fpeccb was received in this town from tie Indian
Chief, Cornplanter, addressed to gen. Butler,
dated at Venango, Aug. 5, 1786, which is
couched in the following manner :
I HAVE been at New-York at the treaty, and
have returned to this place; you told me that [
should make peace with the back Indians, for which
I shall do all in my power ; it has now been seventeen
days since I held a council at buffaloe creek, with
the Shawanefe, Wiandots, Munfees, Delawares, Che
rokees and Chippawas, but they requested another
council might be held when the leaves get red on the
trees, at the Shawanefe towns, when they would let
us know their minds: if they are not peaceable, we
the Six Nations will endeavour to make them so. The
treaty at the Shawanefe towns will be held in two
weeks from this date. I have now been all round,
and am quite tired; I was used very well, and have
done all in my power to make peace.
While the treaty was holding, a capt. John Brant,
an Indian, came from England, and told us that the
English had made a peace with America, and if the
Indians was not peaceable they must put up with the
consequence.
CORNPLANTER.
By late intelligence from Kentucky we are inform
ed, that the Indians continue their practice of plunder
ing the inhabitants; that about the middle of May
last they came into the neighbourhood of Stroud's,
and stole a number of hoi fes, but being pursued by
a party under the command of captain M'Entire,
three of the Indians and a white woman were killed,
and the horses retaken, together with the Indian bag
gage, arms and ammunition; that in a very Ihort time
after the Indians killed and scalped a white woman,
who lived near a place called Crab Orchards.
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WILMINGTO N, (D. S.) Aug. 23.
In a letter from Dublin it is said, “ The fate of
Ireland is known only to God. It is much apprehend
ed by knowing ones here, that it will become a feat of
misery. Government carries all before it. By a late
aft of parliament the Catholics are all disarmed; the
magistrates are authorized to force their way into their
houses in search of arms, and even into Proteftauts
houses in search of stolen goods : so that a man's house
4s no longer his castle. It is thought that this act is
tody the forerunner of a blow intended against the
volunteers and their friends ; and that the refurredion
of the 20 English propositions will soon happen. The
majority for this aft was 138, minority 36."
TRENTON, September 4.
Extrad of a letter from Augufia, fug. 11.
" Two great national points are now before the
assembly, viz. the war with the Creek Indians, and
an emission of paper money; also a new militia law.
Great opposition to each by the lower members.
'• Since the affair of the Oconee, little damage has
been done on either fide. A line of forts are ereded
along that river (consisting of seventeen, each manned
with thirty men) by the militia of the counties of
Wilkes, Greene, Washington, Franklin, Richmond
and burke. Col. M'Murphy, who only returned
from the Indian towns, and was ordered off by the
Spanish agent, fays they consist of about 4000; out
of which only about 800 are peaceably inclined ; that
M'Gilvery is gone to Pensacola, and before his re
turn, they fay they can do nothing; that they receiv
ed 300 weight of powder from the Spaniards; and
they further fay, that as they had most men killed,
terms must be offered to him, and demand that the
settlers Ihould remove from their ground, to the Cld
Line. On the other hand the people here are all for
war, and to drive the Creeks over Flint-river. Arms
and ammunition have been, and now will be procured
from Virginia; for which the assembly is now about
to provide.
" Yesterday the committee brought in the report
refpeding the affair between the governor and coun
cil, and the suspended judges and justices in Savan
nah: the report fays, that they aded, in detaining
the records, as individuals, and not in their official
capacity; that the governor and council were not au
thorized so to do by the constitution; that it is un
precedented, and an arbitrary stretch of power. The
report now lies before the house, and the governor
and council have leave to vindicate themselves at the
bar of the house."
our federal government, that as a free people, to be
jealous of our rights and liberties, is one of the fun
damental articles of our political creed; but there is
a wide difference between manly jealousy and mean
suspicion: The one dignifies our character, the other
debases it. Weak men mistake these qualities of the
mind, as knaves and fools mistake cunning for wis
dom.
This misapprehension of political jealousy is too
common among many politicians, who, with the bed
intentions, often defeat their own views. Human na
ture, they think, is in too depraved a state to deserve
confidence, and therefore no men ought to be trusted.
Upon this principle we fliould, with a fine theory of
government, never emerge from anarchy.
By giving a supreme executive power to Congress,
in all cases which relate to the general good, we
Jhould only give that power to ourflves, for the in
dividuals of the United States fit there in the persons
of their delegates, who, instead of wafers, are ho
nourable servants, dependant on the approbation,
though supported by the confidence, of their conlti
tuents.
While the mode of representation in the different
states is uncorrupt, Congress cannot abuse its powers,
because it is if/?/,/ ' the very essence of such a repre
sentation. T his then Ihould be the object of our po
litical jealousy; while the source is pure, the streams
that issue from it must be pure also.
Immense quantities of linen and woollen goods,
with other articles of British manufacture, have been
recently flipped from London for Quebec.
It is laid to be the intention of the British govern
ment, to consecrate and fend over from England a
Bilhop to Quebec, with a view to the complete efta
bliihment of the English church there.
The Spanish snow, St. Francisco de Paula, captain
Vidal, bound from the Havana for Cadiz, arrived at
New-York, in distress, on the firft ult. She was
boarded by a pirate sloop of ten carriage guns, and
about 80 tons, with a white bottom and black sides,
under blue and black colours, and navigated by about
40 men, (7 only of whom were white) and robbed
of thirty-three thousand three hundred and forty-nine
dollars, in gold and silver, as registered at the Hava
na, betides several chests of sugar, and a variety of
gold and silver buckles, linen, &c. &c.
A friendly letter from a gentleman to his female
friend, who was addicted to drinking to excess, has
the following fentence:---Had you the intellects of an
Angel, this crime would reduce them to those of a
monkey or an ass; could I paint in their native co
lours all the indecencies; the little mean apilh tricks;
the broken thoughts; the senseless harangues; the
abrupt impertinences; could I shew to life the swim
ming eyes; the faultering tongue; the awkward pos
tures ; the daggering gait, by which this debater of
humanity has sometimes exposed to ridicule and con
tempt persons of the most finished politeness and de
corum, you would forgive my friendly zeal. We
pity an ideot that is such by nature, but an ideot felf
made we cannot but despise: far beneath the ideot,
he finks into the brute.
A late London paper mentions, that in no part of
America does trade make so rapid a progress as in
Virginia.—Their liberal encouragement of manufac
tures from al! countries, &c. and probity in dealing,
produce this effeCt-.-That their tobacco trade To
France only, employed 67 vessels the lift year, and
It is observed by a sensible writer, in a view of
it is thought the number will be increased in the pre
lent.
We are informed by a gentleman from Rhode
lfland, that the legislature of that government has
been expressly convened, to take into confederation
the depreciated state of the paper money they have
lately emitted and made current.
Burlington, Aug. 31, 1786.
Mr. Collins,
IH AVE often been pleased in reading your Ga
zette, to find many paragraphs evidently intended
to promote the great principles of publick and pri
vate virtue and morality. A with to cultivate this
spirit---and a delire to betray some unreflecting reader
into the weekly perusal of a serious and genuine piece
of biography-have induced me, for the firft time in
my life, to attempt to entertain the publick through
the channel of a News-paper. The story which I
have chosen is meant to please as well as to profit---
It is the private history of the mind and manners of
a gentleman, communicated by himfelf, in a series of
letters to the Rev. Mr. Haweis, of Northamptonshire,
in England, and by him made publick.
This piece of history, while it addresses two classes
of readers, establishes two important principles:
While it addresses the foft movements in the heart
of a parent, it verifies the words of the wife man,
Bring up a child in the way in which he ought to go,
and when he is old he will not depart from it:
While it addresses those who are exposed to the
enticements and temptations of the world, it points
out the danger of erasing the impressions, and making
shipwreck of the principles of an early religious edu
cation.
If this proposal meets with your approbation, I
shall be made acquainted with it next Monday by the
publication of the following letter, introductory to a
very interesting and inftruCtive narrative. Those
who have or may read the narrative, published in
a small oCtavo volume, will observe many things omit
ted in this weekly publication, but I tiuft they will
find every thing material retained, and the chain of
the history unbroken.
The Life of John Newton, in a series of letters
to the Rev. Mr. Haweis.
LETTER L
Rev. and dear fir,
At E W weeks since I yielded to the judgment
and request of a much refpeded friend, and
sent him a relation at large of the history of my life,
in a series of eight letters. The event has been what'
I little expeCted. I wrote to one person, but my let
ters have fallen into many hands: Amongst others I
find they have reached your notice; and, instead of
blaming me for being too tedious and circumstantial,
which was the fault I feared I had committed, vott
are pleased to desire a still more diftind detail." In
some refpeCts, I know no case more extraordinary
than my own---and more persons to whom I have re
lated my story have thought it worthy of being pre
served. I never gave any fuccinCtaccount of the
Lords dealing with me till very lately; for I was
deterred, on the one hand, by the great difficulty of
writing properly where felf is concerned; on the other,
by the ill-use which some persons are often known to
make of such instances. We are cautioned not to
cast our pearls before swine. The pearls of a chri
ftian are perhaps his choice experiences of the Lord's
power and love in the concerns of his foul And
these fliould not, at all adventures, be made publick,
left we give occasion to some to profane what they do
not understand. These were the chief reafens of my
backwardness: But as you, and others of my friends,
apprehend my compliance with your request may be
attended with some good effed, I am willing to obey
I give up my own reasonings upon the inexpedien
cy of so inconsiderable a person, as rnyfelf, adventur
ing in so publick a point of view—l shall therefore
write with that confidence and freedom which your
candour and friendfhip deserve. In the mean-time I
entreat the assistance of your prayers, that in this, and
all my poor attempts, 1 may have a single eye to His
glory, who was pleased to call me out of horrid dark
ness into the marvellous light of His Gospel.
I am,
with sincere refpe&,
dear fir,
your obliged and affectionate servant.
January 12, 1763.
[To be continued.^
*** I hi ladelphus will appear in our next.
A LL persons indebted to the estates of Aaron or
'' Rebecca Forman, deceased, are requested to be
speedy in making payment; and those that have any
demands against the fame, to exhibit their accounts,
properly attested, to the fubferibers—who have for sale,
in this city, two houses and lots advantageously filtr
ated for trade—also a valuable horse and chair.
JOHN VAN-EMBURGH, Executor,
AMY TAYLOR, Executrix.
New-Brunswick, Aug. 34, 1786. 4 w