The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1782-07-03 00:00:00, page 3

Two days before the departure of the King's
schooner, advice was brought to the cape, by a
cutter, the Pandouz, which came from Brest, that
the Count Guicben, commanding a fleet of French
and Spanish ships, had intercepted off Cape Finiftere,
n n English convoy of 100 transports with 5 frigates,
id three ships of the line. This news was an
unced at the Cape the 18th of May, by the dif
arge of cannon from the forts. The Marquis
uc Bouille, his lady and Mr. Bougainville had fail
ed for France, on board the Medea.
RICHMON D, June 15.
Our last accounts from the westward announce
with certainty the designs of the enemy against the
Kentucky country, and the Spanish Illinois settle
ments. General Clarke is making every preparati
on to receive them, and as the eyes of the people
are open to the mifehievous designs of certain emif
fafies who have been endeavouring to create divi
fons among them, it is not doubted the whole force
of that country will cheerfully unite against the
enemy.
PHILADELPHIA, June 26.
Extra/2 of a letter from Brigadier-Gen. Wayne,
to Mr. Edward Moore, brother to the late
Major Francis Moore, of the Georgia line,
dated Head-Quarters, Ebenezer, State of
Georgia, 22d of April, 1782.
" In compliance with the last request of your
•worthy brother, I undertake the painful tajk, to
inform you of his fall, in an attack upon a body
of Indians the loth infant, at Reeds Bluff, on
the weft fide of the Alamatahs river, about equal
distance between Savannah and Eafl Florida.
" Previous to and at the time be received bis
mortal wound, be conduced the advanced corps
of this army, with a judgment and decifton that
juflified bis appointment to that honourable com
mand, and bis friends have this pleasing consola
tion, that befell in the line of bis duty, and in
the defence of bis country, exciting his troops with
bis last accent, to pufhjor viliory. Could num
bers expiate for worth, they have amply avenged
the blood oj their gallant leader, in whom Ame
rica has loft a brave and worthy officer, you a
brother, and I a friend."
fovTßFvnnr ous -in tTzen
State of NEW-JERSEY.
IT is evident that our enemies, instead of aban
doning their wicked purpose of enslaving us, have
only altered the measures which they at firft adopted,
and have hitherto fruitlefsly prosecuted, to accom
plish that abominable design. Finding by their own
confeffion, that America cannot be reduced by force
of arms, they have concerted a system of intrigue;
and profeffing the most pacific disposition, endea
vour, by every effort in their power, to introduce
their manufactures among us. By this project, they
expert at once to find employment for their arti
fices in Europe, to drain us of our circulating spe
cie, to re-attach us to England, to render the pay
ment of taxes more burdensome to the people, to
make us fufpe&ed by our ally, for throwing into
their hands, those commercial advantages which are
so iuftly due to the French, and to give the greatest
difeouragement to all honest and lawful commerce.
For the prosecution of this plan, Sir Guy Carleton,
(who might really have served their purpose of ca
joling and deluding at the time when their blunder
ing politicks called him from the feene of a&ion to
make room for a pack of unfeeling ruffians) is sent
BOST ON, June 13.
A schooner of the King of France, La Levrette,
^ r ed in this port last Monday night from Cape
rt a cois after a passage 01'21 days. We learn by
I that the combined fleet, commanded by the
pais de Vaudreuil and don Solano, was to fail
•..- 35th of May from that place, amounting to 45
Sips of the line in good condition, to convoy be
yond the capes 306 tail of merchantmen going to
France. The troops assembled at St. Domingo
make up 20,000 men commanded by don Galvez
and the Marquis St. Simon. There destination
Vas still a secret.
RINGST 0 N, (Jamaica) May 2 .
On the 15th of March, a Spanish squadron ap
peared off Rattan confining of 2 ships of the line,
a frigate and 10 transports. The batteries of Port
Royal harbour were attacked the fame day, and
on the 17th the place surrendered, the garrison and
inhabitants made prisoners of war, the batteries,
magazines and publick stores deniolifhed, the houses
burnt and the settlement totally deftioycd. On
the 23d the Spanish squadron went over to Truxil
lo Bay, and landed a body of troops, who marched
through the country to tire British settlements at
Black river, which experienced the fame unmanly
and cruel devaluation.
cruizers, to prevent the importation of any French
commodities; and every exertion is made use of by
the enemy in New-York to deluge the continent
with the manufactures of their nation. This trade
at firft arose from mere accident; and as the English
were never famed for invention, though they havea
tolerable knack at improvement, they did not even
stumble upon this obvious expedient to embarrass
our finances. But when pointed out to them by ras
cals in our own bosom it was warmly embraced,
and pursued to considerable extent under the moon
light comfaand of Sir Henry Clinton. The honour
however of carrying it to full perfection was, it seems,
reserved for that great solar orb of pallavaring
emanations, which is lately risen in the horizon of
Manhattan's, to eclipse all the twinkling glow
worm luminaries, that liave hitherto preceded him.
His plan is known to be'that of exhausting all our
specie for the worthlcfs bawbles and trinkets of
Great-Britain, to corrupt the patriotism of our ci
tizens and to weaken the foundation of our publick
credit; and in order to tempt those execrable vil
lains known by the name of London-traders with
the highest possible allurements, to run every rifque
in carrying on this nefarious traffick, the national
treasury of Great-Britain is at the devotion of the
ministry to enable their factors in New-York to fell
the cheaper.
To check this pestilent trade which must other
wise reduce us to beggary and finally to Slavery, the
legislature of this state have at their last fitting en
aded a law, that for vigour and efficacy greatly sur
passes every former ad upon the fame fubjeCt. As
there is however reason to think that the magistrates
will not be able, from the number of mifereants con
cerned and affociat.ed in the said diabolical com
merce and their infinite arts to elude the justice of
their country, fully to execute the law, it is thought
necessary to have recourse to a more competent ex
pedient. It is proposed that the virtuous whigs as
sociate and form themselves into committees in
every proper township or diftrid, and especially near
the lines, and the different ferries in the state, for
the express purpose of carrying this salutary law in
to execution, upon which, next to the blessing of
heaven, depend our political falvaticn and exig
ence. It is recommended to those committees to
keep regular accounts of the net proceeds of every
seizure they shall make, to pay out of them their
own expences, and the wages and rewards of such
horsemen and others as they may find it neceffiry to
employ for watching the different roads and avenues
by which the accurjed thing is conveyed through
this state; to examine all travellers for the pages re
quited by law, and to search all carriages that can
with the lead probability be fuppoled to contain
prohibited merchandize, to keep a regular corre
spondence with each other—to advertise in the news
papers the name of every fcoundrcl who shall be de
tected, that he may be transmitted to the latest po
sterity with everlasting and indelible infamy, as a
out to coax, to conciliate, and to effe& by secret
sap, what his predecessors have been found incapable
of atchieving by open assault. This gentleman is
to make a parade of all the virtues of humanity ; to
write complimentary letters to Congress and to indi
vidual characters of influence amongst us. As anir
refragable pioof of his resolution to carry on the war
in the most honourable manner, he is to restrain a
number of loyalists who have hitherto made a most
brilliant figure under the banners of his Britannic
majesty, and by the immediate direction of the high
birthed nominal governor Franklin, he is to ic
ftrain them from—horle-ftealing. All this time our
ports are most sedulously blocked up by the English
monger in nature, preying upon the vitals ofhis own
fpecies,and enriching himfelf at the expence of the
blood and treasure of thousands of his country
men, by his instrumentality in protracting the war—
And it is in the last place recommended &o such
committees to appropriate either the whole or such
part of the remaining monies arising from their seiz
ures (after deducing all expences)as shall be thought
belt, to the public use. Rouse then my dear coun
trymen, to repel the danger which threatens you.
The most alarming, depend upon it, of any that has
hung over us since the commencement of the
war, For God's fake be aroused and exert your
selves like men : nor fuffer to be reduced to bon
dage by a set of detestable {peculators and traitors,
a country that can not be subjugated by all the
power of Great-Britain. Once more I fay, rouse
and be free.
HORATIUS.
P. S. To drew how agreeable the associations
above recommended will be to Congress, I flrail
subjoin two resolutions of that august Assembly of
the 21st instant, viz.
Resolved, That it be and hereby is recommend
ed to the Legislatures of the several Rates, to adopt
the most efficacious measures for suppressing all
traffick and illicit intercourse between their respec
tive citizens and the enemy.
Resolved, That the Legislatures, or in case of
their recess, the executives of the several states, be
earnestly requested to impress, by every means in
their power, or their refpedive citizens at large,
the baneful consequences apprehended by Congress
from a continuance of this illicit and infamous traf
fick, and the necessity of their co-operating with the
publick measures by Juch united patriotic and 'vigi
lant exertions as will detect and bring to legal punjb
ment those who Jball have been in any measure concern-
ed therein. -
('''A SIE. tothe plantation of the fubiciiber, living
1> in Chefterfield township, Burlington county,
a sorrel horse about fifteen years old, has on his
back three or four white spots, thirteen hands three
inches high: The owner or owners are desired to
come and prove their property, pay charges, and
take him away, or otherwise he will be fold to
pay the cost. ANTHONY TAYLOR.
June 6, 1782. tw§
TO BE SOLD,
A Valuable tract of land, containing one hun
dred and thirty-three acres, joining the loath
branch of Raritan, in the township of Reading,
county of Hunterdon, about four miles from I lem
ington; there is about iixty acres cleared, half of
which is meadow ground, and the rest well timber
ed; and there is on said trad of land a very good
gristmill, the running works all new; also a new
fawmil! in good repair: Both mills Landing upon
said branch, an everlasting stream, and in a thick
fettled neighbourhood, and a healthy part of the
country; and likewise a new dwelling house two
stories high, three rooms upon a floor, and a good
cellar, barn and other out-houses, very suitable for
a store, as there has been one kept for feme years
past; also a young bearing orchard, and a well of
excellent water at the door: For further particu
lars enquire of the fabferiber, living on said premi
ses, who will give an indisputable title for the fame.
iwJ PHILIP DILS.
THI R-fY TWO DOLLARS
R E W A R D,
STOLEN out of the pasture of the fubferibers
in Trenton township, Hunterdon 'county, on
the 24th of June last, two mares, one a bay four
years old, fourteen hands three inches high, natural
trotter, and not broke to a canter, thin black mane
and tail, with a long dock, heavy, but moves very
gay with head and tail, no shoes on; the other a
light grey roan, five years old, fourteen hands and
an half high, a star and snip, hind feet white, trots
and canters well, and paces a little travel, shod be
fore. Whoever takes up said mares, so that the
owners may get them again, shall have sixteen Dol
lars reward, or in proportion for either, and sixteen
Dollars for the thief or thieves.
DANIEL CLARK,
3 wj ISAAC CARLE.
TO BE SOL 1),
J^OUR likely young Negro Men, three of whom
are seamen, the other used to wait on a gen
tleman—Enquire of Mr. John Wood, gaol-keeper
in Burlington :—lf not fold by private bale before
Tuesday the 9th of July, they will then be fold at
publick vendue at Ifurlington.
June 28, 1782. 2W§
RECEIPTS of continental taxes in New-Jersey
for the month of June 1782, from the Trea
surer of the state. Dollars.
From June Ito 8 - - 200
8 15 - - So§
15 22 - - 600
22 29 - - 4307$
Total, 5912$
WM. C. HOUS FON, Receiver.
TO BE Fo
'"' plantation whereon the fubferiber now
A - lives, containing three hundred and sixty acres
of land, about one hundred of it is thought will
produce as good timothy and burthen grass as any
in this state; the remainder good corn and rye :
There is on it a good new house and kitchen, a
well of good water at the door, a large apple
orchard, remarkable for making good cyder,' the
never-failing stream of Miry Run running through
the land, whereon is a good conveniency for a
mill, there being a dam already for that purpose.
Any person inclining to purchase, may know the
terms by applying to the fubferiber on the premi
ses, in Burlington county, township of Nottingham,
on the road leading from Princeton to Bordentown.
BENJAMIN BILES.
April 29, 1782. 3wf