The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1786-07-31 00:00:00, page 2

From the BAHAMA GAZETTE.
NASS A U, June 3 .
We are authorized to inform our readers, that let
ters of unquestionable authenticity, and of recent date,
are received here from London, which speak, in the
most positive terms, of government having determined
on making this a FREE PORT, for the importation of
foreign raw materials, provifons and lumber, duty
free, including African productions of every species ;
and that such articles as can be admitted to entry in
Great-Britain, may be re-exported from hence thither,
in British bottoms, without being fubjefted to any
duty or impost here ; that no manufactured goods, or
East-India productions, will be admitted from any
other quarter than Great-Britain ; that every necessary
measure for making this a place of security will be
immediately adopted; it being the intention of go
vernment to Ration a configurable naval and military
force in these islands for that purpose, and for the ef
fectual arrangement of the salt trade here and at Turks
Island.
Letters from Jamaica complain much of a long-con
tinued drought. Plantain trees, and every other spe
cies of vegetation had fuffered greatly; and the young
plant canes being burnt up, had totally destroyed the
planters' hopes of a good crop next year.
June 17. The brigantine Friends' Adventure, capt.
Appleton, of Liverpool, supposed to have been loft
on Sandy Key, failed from New-York for Jamaica on
the 18th of last January, with a cargo of lumber. In
17 days after making the island of Jamaica, was driven
to leeward by a strong current, and spent three weeks
in endeavouring to beat up, without effed. On the
Ift of March made Cuba, a little to-leeward of the
Isle of Pines. Being greatly distressed for want of
water, on the Bth landed at Cape Corante in quest of
some, but found none. A few days after discovered
formed him that he was free to fit if he thought pro
per. The Prince thanked the magistrate, and told
him that he was not fatigued, and that the bench
that was behind him would be fufficient if he found
himfelf indisposed. He left the court at four in the
afternoon, after having remained an hour and a half
before his judges. When..his eminence came out, a,
numerous audience shouted applause, and he then saw
by himfelf that the nation was not against him. The
comt immediately broke up. The Prelate was re
conducted with Caglioftro to the Baftile, where they
dept, the others remaining in the publick prison. In
short, yesterday, the 31st of May, the Cardinal's ene
mies found themselves sadly disappointed. 1 The ma
gistrates were all assembled at fix o'clock in the morn
ing: what with re-examining the depositions, and
confronting of witnesses, &c. it was half past seven
o'clock in the evening Before the house broke up ; at
that moment the Cardinal retired from the bar. At
five in the morning of the 31st, the Rohan family
paid their refpeds to the judges; they had the Prince
of Conde, and the Duke de Bourbon, then followed
the Marechal de Soubize, the Princess de Marfan,
Prince Ferdinand, the Duke and Duchess de Mont-
Baton, the Comteffe de Brinon, the Princes de Lam
befe and de Vaudemont. After the house rose, the
President, Ormetiion, and M. Tiron, set off immedi
ately to inform his Majesty of the result of the trial.
The King waited their arrival at Bagatelle. The arret
was at length issued at three quarters after nine in the
evening. The following is the tenor of it :,
Mons. Ie Cardinal —acquitted and discharged.
Madame de la Motte —to be whipped, branded on
the shoulders, and imprisoned for life.-
Mademoiselle d'Oliva—banilhed from Court.
Count Caglioftro—acquitted and discharged.
Villette—perpetual banishment from the kingdom.
Le Memoire Madame de la Motte—fuppreffed as
containing falfe calumnies.
" When this judgment was announced, the publick,
as if with one voice, cried out bravo! bravo! bien
juge! bienjuge !fo that this affair, which has so long
kept all Europe in suspense, is finally concluded."
D UB L I N, ' April 27.
Notwithstanding the frequency of executions, and
that an unhappy fellow-creature not long since flood
in a gibbet a fad fpedacle near the above-mentioned
place, we are led to think that hanging loses force by
its frequency—and he who visits them often, will at
last have as little sensibility of it as Hamlet's grave
maker, in the exercise of his office—" custom maketh
it to him a property of case." The curtain of eternal
night being dropped on the last feene of the culprit's
life, or in other words, the execution being over, the
multitude return to their feyeral avocations, till the
evening arrives, when some of them assemble to re
capitulate the dying words and actions of the deceased:
another day passes, and you hear no more of him,
save that a few of his former associates had, the pre
ceding night, lodged his body in an obscure corner of
an unfrequented church-yard, or probably in unhal
lowed earth---where his memory and his crimes are
interred with his bones! The humanity of our legis
lators is as conspicuous as their wisdom ;,what pity it
is, therefore, that they cannot devise, for certain de
scriptions of felons, a mode of punishment short of
death, which might be nearly, if not equally, replete
with ignominy and horror, as well as possess the sa
lutary advantage of being permanent and lasting---at
present, alas ! it is transient and momentary.
The duke de Fitz James, grandson of the Pretend
er, accompanied the duke d'Orleans from Paris here,
which journey the above two noblemen performed in
42 hours.
American Intelligence.
BIRMINGHAM, April 19. f
P O RTSMOUTH, July 13.
A correspondent wishes to be informed whether it
is not as necessary that French vessels bound to the
United States, ffiould be furnifhed with passports
from the. American consuls residing in French domi
nions, as for American vessels to be obliged to re
ceive such from the French consuls residing among
us, on pain of being refufed admittance into their
P,"' Notwithstanding the plaufble pretext of Bri
tish fubje&s imputing themselves on them for Ameri
cans—your correspondent knows of no indulgence
granted to us more than to any other people; their
ports (which are denominated free) being open to all
nations. What neceflity of our having naval offices
established, if no credence is. to be paid to them by
foreigners without % the fa^n of their consuls?
We may as \Vell abolish them, and give up at once
all pretensions to liberty, as to fuffer such a flagrant'
infringement on aur rights and privileges.--- Where
is our (much boaffed) independence, if we tamely
submit to such violations? It is almost now merely
nominal, and as we go on, it will be even without
the name ! Aq imposition is an imposition, let it
the watering wells at Cape Antonio, where they filled
their calks. On the 12th took their departure from
Cape Antonio, intending to go through the Gulph till
they could clear the Bahamas, and then make for the
Windward Passage. On the 15th at half past three,
A. M. fleering N. the wind blowing frefh from the S.
ran on a sunken reef about two miles from a Key,
called Sandy ' Key, two leagues N. W.' from the Grand
Bahama; cut away the malts, and with great difficulty
got alhore in the boats, with a few articled .of provisi
ons, on Sandy Key. Day discovered to them that
they were cast away on a desert sandy bank, whefe
not a shrub grew, nor was' there the appearance of
frefh water. A large island, Bahama, two leagues to
the N. W. appeared well-timbered, but afforded no
signs of inhabitants. Two boats they had, but they
were infufficient to carry the whole crew off. To add
to their distress, ho person on board could ascertain
where they Were. With spars and fails they made
three tents: in digging a well, they fortunately met
with frefh water fufficient to supply them all : they
next determined on building a vessel adequate to the
purpose of transporting themselves to some inhabited
place. The island in fight promised them timber, the
wreck ironwork, and her cargo planks. A paflenger
on board, being a shipwright, encouraged them to
this enterprise, which was immediately entered upon.
While engaged in this arduous undertaking, two of
the sailors, on the sth of April, went off with the
belt boat; and, after being 18 days at sea, reached a
settlement on Abaco, where making a report to capt.
Stephens of the situation in which they had left their
companions, he sent a small vessel with necessaries to
their relief, which, after three weeks fruitlel's search,
returned back. On the 12th of April, early in the
morning, saw a large ship aground on a reef about
three leagues to the N. W. and a brig standing off and
on, wind blowing frefh at S. The wind having mo
derated, and the sea fallen, in the evening, five men
went from Sandy Key in a Moses boat for the ship,
which they reached, found her deserted, and her hold
full of water. They were agreeably surprised to find
on board a seasonable supply of live flock, bread and
other provisions. In the captain's state-room, a board
ripped from a bulkhead near the mizenmaft, attracted
their attention; and, on further search, they found
it to be a concealment, where %200 dollars dill re
mained. These they secured, and afterwards divided
equally amongst the whole crew. Some articles of
wearing apparel were also found ; and in order to di
vide the value equitably, were put up to publick sale
in their camp, and the proceeds fliared. The ship
was a Spaniard, homeward bound, and went to pieces
on the 25th. The 2d of May, the Friends Adventure
was beat to pieces by a heavy gale from W. N. W.
Continuing to work, at their new vessel, on the sth
of May they descried a small fail in the offing : sent
off their boat, and found her to be a wrecker from
this port, commanded by Philip Thomson. The day
after another wrecker appeared. Three of the sailors
accompanied Thomson hither; the rest determined on
accomplishing the work they had engaged in, build
ing the vessel which was nearly finiihed, and carry
ing their property in her, rather than comply with
the terms proposed by the wreckers. On the 27th and
28th, 16 small craft from this port arrived at Sandy
Key. Their crews assisted in launching the vessel, in
which capt. Appleton and his crew arrived here on
Wednesday the 7th instant.
June ,24.. The late severe drought in Jamaica has
been followed by plentiful rains, which set in the 21st
of last month.
July 1. On the' 28th of May, his most chriftian
majesty's ship La Fayette arrived at Port-Royal, in
Jamaica, with the customary notifications and com
pliments from Monsieur le Compte de St. Luzerne, the
new governor of St. Domingo, to lieutenant-governor
Clark.<
The intelligence refpeding the establishment of a
Free Port is confirmed. Bermuda is to have the
fame privilege.
St. John, (New-Brunswick, June 6.
Be it enaded by the Governor, Council and Assem
bly, that an Englilh Guinea shall pals current and be 4
received for 235. 4d. and a silver Englilh or French
Crown-piece for ss. 6d. and all other Englilh gold and
silver coin in the like proportion; and that Spanish
milled Dollars shall pass current and be received for
ss. each; and a Half- Johannes for 40s. in all pay
ments to be made within this province.
TRENTON, July ~
A gentleman, who for several years resided in Ken
tucky, has favoured us with the following circumstan
tial description of that country, for .the entertainment
of our readers:
Kentucky is fubjeft to, and is the western extremity
°f Virginia; it is bounded by the river Ohio, which
divides it from the lands yet possessed by the savages,
and ceded to Congress by Virginia, on the N. W.
by a small river called Great Sandy, which divides it
from the county of Virginia called Montgomery, 011
the N. E. by the Cumberland mountains on the S. E.
and by the line, which divides Virginia and North-
Carolina, and which runs a due weft course, on the
South.
The extent of this country, from N. E. to S. W.
with the meanders of the Ohio, the general bearing
of which is nearly S. W. and by W. may be between
fix and seven hundred miles, and from the Ohio to
the Cumberland mountain about two hundred and
fifty.
Its principal rivers are the Ohio, Kentucky, Green
river, Salt river, Licking, the Cumberland and Tenefee
rivers. The Allegany and Monongahela rivers are the
most considerable northern and eastern branches of the
Ohio ; inthe Forks of which hands Pittfburg, at which
place these two branches lose their names in the com
mon name of Ohio.
The falls or rapids of this river are in 38 deg. 30 m.
navigable for vessels of moderate burden—are about a
mile ih length, and said to be 680 miles below Pittf
burg, and about 400 miles above the junction of the
Ohio and Miffifippi. This is the only rapid in this
extensive river, which, from Fort Pitt to the Miffifippi,
is about 1100 miles. The Kentucky river, which gives
name to the country, and in the Indian language •lig
nifies bloody, is navigable, excepting in the dry fcafon%
taking its meander measure, upwards of two hundred,
and it is loft in the Ohio about feventv miles above'
the falls.
Green river, at present the foutliern limits, of the
.Kentucky settlement, is of the fame dimenfites with
PHILADELPHIA, July 24.
We learn from Nova-Scotia, that the most vigi
lant eye and malicious heart, is engaged in seizing
and insulting the American vessels and flag. The
Sharks of the custom-houses in their several ports,
even fend out boats beyond their harbours in quest of
vessels belonging to the States. One lately they
took from Penobfcot, bound 'to St. Peters, a French
port in Newfoundland, owned by col. M'Cobb, of
Kennebec. They have likewise seized and condemn
ed the cargo of the brig Mary and Ann, captain Ro
binson, from this port. The brig was acquitted as
being British property."
We are well assured, that notwithstanding the re
fugees in Halifax seem virulently interested in pre
venting American produce from being carried there,
tlieir markets have nothing in them but carrion—
Veal fells for rod. and beef for yd. per pound, ster
ling; and, was it not for the supply of fifh, which
is only in summer, these vultures would starve. Such
is their inveteracy and fubtilty, that they have influ
enced the flexible governor Parr to prohibit the im
portation of provisions from the United States, ex
cept flour, and that only in British bottoms, which
is diftreffindy experienced by the poorer fort of peo
ple, as well as much reprobated by the old inhabi
tants pf that infant province.
come from «rhat quarter it may, as such, it ought to
be considered and relented. If we are indebted to
foreigners, let us endeavour to pay them with honour,
and assert our 'rights like freemen , not fuffer such in
dignities, because we are under obligations ; it denotes
servile fear, which Americans ought to be ashamed of.
B OST O N, July 13.
A letter from one of the best men in the world,
and a constant friend of America, in London, to a
correspondent in this town, fays, “ I fear as you do,
that we have entertained too high expectations from
the American revolution. There are, howei
mong many difeouraging circumstances, fom
are very encouraging. 1 have been lately cl
with a declaration of the legislature of Virgii
the fubjef tof intellectual and religious liberty. Mr.
Jefferfon has lately been in London, and I admire
his wisdom and liberality. The influence of such
men, as the Aqams's, Franklin, Jay, Bowdoin,
&c. &c. cannot but produce the happiest effects.
" # Our measures are becoming more and more hos
tile to the trade of America. This, though the
worst of policy in us, may prove a great advantage
to the United States, by checking their rage for fo
reign finery, and leading them to seek true indepen
dence, by fopplying their wants within themselves.
When will the world fee a people so wife as to pre
fer real to artificial wealth; simplicity of manners to
the refinements of luxury, and a well-guarded in
ternal happiness to the Tplcndor of commerce, arts,
arms and dominion.
" I shall take care to convey your letters to the
society for constitutional information. Dr. Jebb is
dead, and by his death this world loft one of the belt
men that ever lived. The letter directed to him I
shall convey to his forrowful widow."