The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1778-03-11 00:00:00, page 3

February 27.
Whereas a few deluded inhabitants of these State;
prompted thereto by tlie arts of the enemy, have
associated, together for the purpose of seizing and
secretly conveying, to places in ppffeilion of the
British forces, such of the loyal citizens, officers and
soldiers of these States, as may fall into their power,
and being affixed by parties furnished by the ene my,
have in several indances carried their nefarious designs
into execution, and such practices being contrary to
their allegiance as fubjeds, and repugnant to the
rules of war;
Refolded, That whatever inhabitant of these States
shall kill, or seize, or take any loyal citizen or citi
zens thereof, and convey him, her or them to any
place within the power of the enemy, or shall enter
into any combination for such purpose, or attempt
to carry the fame into execution, or hath assisted or
shall assist therein, or (hall, by giving intelligence,
anting as a guide, or in any other manner whatever,
aid the enemy in the perpetration thereof, he shall
fuffer death by the judgment of a court-martial as
a traitor, assassin or spy, if the offence be commit
ted within seventy miles of the Head Quarters of
the grand or other armies of these States, where a
General Officer commands.
Extract from the minutes,
CHARLES THOMSON, Secretary.
BALTI MOR E, February 17.
A gentleman lately from Charleffown, (South-
Carolina) brings the melancholy account of a dread
ful fire breaking out on Thuff&y the 15th of Janu
ary lass, in which great part of that place was de
stroyed.—ls was perceived about four o'clock in the
morning, and continued burning with the greatest
fury till the next , day, though several houfeshad been
blown up to flop its progress, but without any
effect. —Notwithstanding all the exertion £nd vigi
lance of the inhabitants (whom the lives of levers!
were loft) there were, besides a considerable deal of
''property, the Printing-Office, and upwards of five
hundred houfes' consumed.—Further particulars of
this alarming event, we hope ere long to give our
readers.
YORK-TOWN, February 28.
In CONGRESS, February 26, 1778.
WHEREAS it appears to Congrats by the copy
of a letter from Gen. Washington to Gen.
Howe of the loth of this month, that he has con
sented to the,proportions of Gen# Howe to the fol
lowing effect, " That an exchange, of ail prisoners
now in bur poffcflion, officer for officer, soldier for
soldier, and citizen for, citizen, so far as number and
ranker ill" ripply, be carried into execution as'expe
ditipufy as the nature of the case will admit, and
without regard to any controverted point, which
"might pr<?ve ap impediment to so definable an end,"
And whereas by a refolution,of Congress of the
19th December, last, a release of prisoners in the
' power of these States, fynnot take place, before the
account of all provilions' and other npcellaries, which
, have been (applied by the, public tcpfuch prisoners,
are liquidated, and, 'discharged ;.
And whereat it is fnewfm of Congfefy to accbm
plilh the, deferable purp rh of exchanging the prifon
e'rs without unnecerfary delay;'
''Refolded, That an express be sent. to the several
'legislature's;. or fupr^me executive authorities of
•the refpeClive States, for fuch!accounts-bf money,
provisions, arid other necessaries, which .they have
lupplied to prisoners taken by the United States since
the' commencement of the., war, ,as paye not been
already trqpfmitted.. to Congress (/.that they be re
queued to make up the said accounts to the firft day
of March next, and transmit them as speedily as
possible to the Commissioners of Claims at the Board
of Trhafury : That the accounts of each State from
New-Hamplhire to Virginia inclusively, be fent+to
the faid.Commiffioners, on or before the. 15th day of
'April next, and of the other States on or before the
firft day of June next ; and that the refpedtive States
sustain the losses which may apfc from detaining
such accounts, longer than the time herein allowed
them for rendering the fame.
Refolded, That all officers in the departments of
the ' Quarter-Master, .Pay^Mafter, and - Clothier-
General, and Comrhiffaries of proyhions and pri
soners, the t Comriniffiones of accounts, and! other
~ officers who may have accounts or charges of money,
provisions, or other neceffkrics in their r'efpcaive
offices, for supplies. furnished the said prisoners, be
directed to fend such accounts to the Commissioners
of Claims at the Board of Treasury, on or before
the 15th day of April next, and that they refpedively
sustain the losses that may arise from a neglect thereof.
That , the Commissioners of Claims be directed to
prepare the said accounts for adjustment without
delay ; and that no exchange of prisoners be made
until the balance due thereon to the' United States is
discharged. •'
one thirty-two gun frigate, lying over against Smith
Town harbour', very high ; one frigate thirty guns,
and two tenders, on the Weft Meadow flats ; and
two (loops of war of sixteen guns each, lye at a place
called the Old Man, ten miles to the eastward of
the other. I came off last Saturday night, within
half a mile of the thirty-two gun frigate. The ene
my have plundered Suffolk county at an unmerciful
rate, no tongue can express the ravage they have
made."
%f publifted and now felling by
JOHN DUNLA P,
In Queen-Street, LANCASTER,
Father Abraham's POCKET ALMANACK,
For the Year 1778.
Being the third Year of the Independence of America.
Fitted to the ufe,of Pcnnfylvania and the adjacent
States.
CONTAINING
The articles of CONFEDERATION and PERPE
TUAL UNION of the United States of America,
as proposed by Congress to the Legislatures of the
different States.
This great Confederacy is so intimately connected with
the Freedom, Happiness and Independence of the Peo
ple of America, that no person can hold a proper rank
in society, without being ffflly acquainted with its very
important contents.
*, The Agronomical Calculations of this Alma
nack are compofedby David Rittenhouse, A. M.
of this State.
T RENTO N, March, ir.
A correspondent defines us to insert the following :
After Gen. Howe's pathetic complaint to the Bri
tish ministry that Gen. Walhington would not leave
the mountain at Middlebrook to fight him in a inan
ner molt advantageous to his Majesty's service, it
seems rather ungenerous in this English Commander
(who ought certainly to do as he would be done by)
that his troops in their late irruption into this State,
not only refufed to fight us as we thought most for
our advantage, but what.is infinitely worse, refufed
to fight us at all, merely because they thought that
any fighting would have been to our advantage.
After a most pompous parade in landing in two se
veral divisions to the great terror of the horned cat
tle, and the r.o small peril of tome undefended stacks
of hay, they marched into Haddonfield with above
two thousand men, when they knew we had not
above a quarter of that number in arms in that part
of the country. Gen. Wayne' the mean-while I'e
cured and sent to camp all the cattle and horses they
came to steal, and to elude their search, artfully
attracted their attention towards the river by setting
fire to such part of the forage as lay on its borders.
Though they knew our inferiority of number, our
attacking them with a few light horse at Haddonfield;
under the command of Brigadier-General Count Pu
laski, amide their fears get the better of their know
ledge, as well as of their courage, and happiest was
that Briton who had the longest legs and, the nimblest
heels. Leaving bag and baggage, they retreated pre,
cipitately to Cooper's Ferry'. 'There Count Pulaski
charged among the thickefy and when they found
that he was surrounded by them, by his having
rushed into the middle of them, they plucked up
courage, enough to pursue what they were certain of
never overtaking ; but our militia lying in their way,
and giving them a few of their last winter, still re
membered New-Jersey, blalls, they fled ten times as
faft from the militia, as theypurfaed after the Count,
who being determined the next morting to push them
into the Delaware, behold they had re-crossed to
Philadelphia, and left him the mortification to parade
on the banks without the fatisfadion of an enemy to
fight. And thus eudeth the firft leflbn of; their Ex
pedition into this State, (since they were ignomini
ously driven out of it last fun?me r ) without the cattle
or forage they wanted ; andtwithfeveral killed, and
about one hundred wounded, which, I presume, they
wanted not. And if the Hritifh horse take it in their
heads to desert as faft for want of provender, as their
then have lately done for want ,of freth provisions,
I suppose the Emperor of.Perfia, will be subsidized
for cavalry, as the Prince of Helle is for infantry.
And yet I would lay two to one that this fame con
temptible manoeuvre, properly dished up by the loyal
and the royal typographical cooks in New-York,
with a little of parson I —'s political theology by
way of garnilh, will make as luminous a figure in the
London Gazette, as have done any of its ridiculous
predecessors of nonsensical memory; it being the
curse of heaven upon an abandoned nation that it
shall be deluded till it is destroyed.
" The public has been already informed of the
death of Elizabeth Shipley, of Wilmington, but a
circumstance relating thereto is a secret (perhaps)
except to a few. On her death bed, as well as during
her better date of health, the was much affected with
the calamity that this country now labours under,
from the cruel oppreflion of the king and parliament
of England ; but a ray of that light by which the foul
can look into future events springing up in her, the
was comforted, and with godly confidence declared,
That this country fliould not be conquered by Great-
Britain. —This she uttered with such solemnity that
it commanded the particular notice of all who heard
her, and is now made public for the encouragement
of every well-wisher to the freedom and liberties of
America. Every one who had an opportunity of
knowing this great and good woman, whether they
be Whig or Tory, will be inclined to give'eredit to
her prophecy, and for the fake of all such who knew
her not, they are now informed that she was a wo
man eminently endowed with knowledge both natu
, ral and divine."
Bow-Hill, February 26th, 1778.
TO BE SOLD
At PUBLIC SALE, for ready Money,
AT the dwelling-.houfe of the fubferiber, at Bow-
Hill Farm near Trenton, on Friday the 13th of
March, sundry hanjfome blooded horses, mares and
colts; alfp some horned cattle and sheep. They are
all in good order, and are only fold on account of
the owner's not haying fufficient fodder for keeping
them until next grass. 'The sale to begin at eleven
o'clock in the forenoon. Those gentlemen who
choose to be well mounted, will then have an op
portunity of Applying thcmfelves.
RANDLE MITCHELL,
BOND and P A I N,
Have for sale at their Store in Morrifsown,
BEST bohea tea, Mufcovado sugar, spices of dis
ferent kinds; a quantity of Dutch linen by the
piece or yard, black and coloured Barcelona hand
kerchiefs by the dozen, black and coloured ribbons,
with a variety of other articles too tedious to enume
rate. ..
N. B. Said Bond and Pain make great allowance
to those who buy to fell agaip ; and would be willing
to take country produce in barter. 4wf
TO BE .SO L D,
And may be entered on the firft of April next,
A PLANTATION, containing 95 acres of
land, in the county of Middlesex, New-Jersey;
8 acres of which is excellent English meadow, about
50 acres of good wheat land,: and the remainder in
good timber. There is on the premises a convenient
dwelling-house, kitchen and barh±ablackfmith's shop,
and several other conveniencies. The whole in good re
pair. For terms apply to Joseph Potts, in Cranberry,
or the fubferiber on the premifesp gw*
MAIII SAMUEL POTTS.
Middlesex Co. March 6, 1778. )
February 23, 1778.
SIX POUNDS REWARD.
"YTTAS STOLEN out of the liable at Nefhameny
VV Ferry, a young BLACK MARE, about three
years old, fourteen hands two or three inches high,
trots and canters, has a blaze down her face, her
hind feet somewhat white, her tail trimmed down,
very hollow old looking eye, large head; has been
rode hard, Which hath occasioned her fore fetlock
joints to be (hot forward, ihod'all round when taken
away. Whoever apprehends and secures either, shall
have THREE POUNDS reward, paid by me
6w* JOSEPH VANDEGRIFT.
To all whom it may concern.
New-Jerfey,XT OTICE is hereby given, that a
fs. Court of Admiralty will be held at
the house of Renfelaer Williams, in Trenton, on
Monday the 23d day of March instant, at ten o'clock
in the forenoon, then and there to try the truth of
the fatts alledged in the bills of Joseph Wade, com
mander of the armed boat called the Fame, (whoas
well, &c.) against the sloop or vessel called the Duck,
and the sloop. or vessel called the Betsy, with their
rcfpeclive tackle, apparel; furniture and cargoes,
lately captured by the said Joseph Wade, and Capt.
Martin Wert, commander of the armed sloop Arnold.
To the end and intent that the owner or owners of
the said hoops refpeftively, or any person or persons
concerned therein, may appear and shew cause, if
any they have, why the said sloops or vessels and
their refpedive cargoes, should not be condemned
according to the prayer of the. said bills.
gw By order of the Judge,
March 3d, 1778. B. REED, Pro. Reg.
Morris-Town, Morris County, Feb. 23, 17,8.
npHE present precafioufhelk and situation of pub-
I lick as well as private • affairs, oblige the Sub
scribers, auditors appointed by Court, of the suit of
Thomas Coe, Plaintiff, against William Demayne,
Defendant, late of Morris County, abfeonded, earn
estly to call upon those who are indebted to said
estate, to make payment by the 16th of next month,
or they will be under the necessity of putting their
bonds, accounts, &c. in the hands of an Attorney
for prosecution ; and those who have any demands
against the fame, to exhibit them tor settlement.
JOSEPH WOOD, )
'JOSHUA LAMBERT, ^Auditors.
RICHARD JOHNSON,)
Pof-Office, Morris-Town, March 2, 1778.
THIS is th inform the Publick, that the POST
sets dff from Fish-Kill on Thursdays, and' ar
rives here bn Saturdays about 7 or 8 o'clock in the
morning, and then the Mail is immediately dispatch
ed for Eaftdn ; and in about two or three hours after
a Mail is made up and dispatched for the Poft-Office
at Fifh^Kill. The Post returns with a Mail from
Eafton to this Office on Monday evening.
January 26, 1778.
TO BE SC) L D
By WILLIAM RICHARDS at Lamberton,
'* half a Mile below Trenton,
An Assortment of MEDICINES, and Spring
Lancets, Sweet-Oil of the best Kind, Mustard,
Chalk and Hair-Powder. gw