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want's commission in the aforefaid battalion, and of
course the said certificate was fraudulently obtained.
JOHN COMBS,
JAMES BONNEY.
The house having taken into consideration the above
report,
Refolded, That the treasurer of the state be, and he
is hereby empowered and dire<fted to bring an action
against said John Hampton, at the suit of the state,
for recovering the amount of the note to him given
and paid into the treasury, as mentioned in the said
report, and prosecute the fame to effeft.
Ordered, That mr. Nicoll do carry the said resoluti
on to the council for their concurrence.
(To be continued. )
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Foreign Intelligence.
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LONDO N, Dec. io.
An express arrived in town on Saturday, informing
ministry that the definitve treaty between the emperor
and the Dutch was at length signed and ratified. The
difficulty arose from the emperor's infilling on the
free and entire passage of the Scheldt, to which the
Dutch would not accede. The French mediated be
tween them, and it is said, that by promising the
emperor to interfere between him and the king of
Prussia, and to use their interest with the latter to
agree to the proposed exchange of Bavaria, they pre
vailed on him to conclude the treaty with the Dutch
on the terms of a partial navigation of the Scheldt.
The most important consequence of this definitive
treaty is, that it has induced the Dutch, in gratitude
to their mediator, to conclude a treaty offensive and
defenfrve with the French.—This treaty, which has
been on the tapis for a considerable time, and with the
progress of which our court was well acquainted, is
hostile to this country. It completely changes the
afped of European politics, and ought to awaken the
suspicions of Britain. If they fliould meditate a scheme
on our East-India possessions, their union would be
highly dangerous to us, and might be the means of
extinguishing our authority in Asia.
American Intelligence.
PROVIDENCE, February 9.
The eftablilhing of manufactories in our young coun
try, is a matter of the greatest consequence, and it
must give pleasure to every true citizen to be informed
of the success of any .endeavours for that purpofe—
we therefore, with the greatest fatisfaftion inform the
publick, that the nail manufactory established in the
East Parish of the town of Bridgewater is in the most
flourishing state ; that in it there was made one morn
ing a few days since, before the usual time of the
workmen going to breakfaft (about 9 o'clock) 61,500
good tenpenny nails—May success attend industry !—
TRENTON, March 7. x
On Wednesday last the legislature of this state, to
their great honour, and which will be applauded by
all the friends to justice and humanity, passed an ad to
prohibit the importation, to authorize the manumission,
and to prevent the abuse of slaves.
By this law every person bringing a Slave into this state,
either for sale or servitude, who has been brought from
Africa since the year 1776, Shall forfeit £. 50 ; every
person bringing a Slave into this state, who has not
been born in or brought from Africa since that time,
ihall forfeit £,. 20; except persons coming to reside
in the state, who may bring their families ; or persons
passing through, or coming to tranfaft business, who
may bring their attendants: provided they do not
fell, and provided they have not been brought from
Africa since 1776.
Persons wishing to manumit their Slaves may do it
under their hand and seal, without being fubjeC there
after to maintain them, provided they are not under
21 nor above 35 years of age, upon procuring a cer
tificate from the overseers of the poor and two justices,
that the Slave is healthy and able to procure his or her
living.
Persons abusing their slaves are made liable to be
indicted, and fined at the discretion of the court, not
exceeding £. 5 for the firft nor £. 10 for the second
offence.
On the 10th of February died, at his feat in Ma
ryland, John Cadwalader, Esquire. His early and
inflexible patriotism, and his intrepid perseverance as a
soldier, defying dangers and combating misfortunes,
will endear his memory to all the true friends of the
revolution. It may with the ftrideft justice be said
of him, that he possessed a heart incapable of deceiv
ing. His manners were formed on the nicest sense of
honour, and the whole tenor of his life was governed by
this principle. The companions of his youth, became
the friends of his manhood : he never loft a friend by
insincerity, nor made one by deception. His domestic
virtues were truly exemplary, and while they serve to
endear the remembrance, they embitter the loss of
him to all his numerous surviving relations and con
nections.
\ Samuel M'Donald was executed on Friday the 24th
pursuant to his sentence, for the murder of John
Connet.
*** The piece signed A Farmer's Daughter is
too incorrect for publication.
(From a late London paper.)
G AM I N G.
It is this vice that poisons the female mind, and makes
them forget all the amiable obligations of wife, mo
ther, daughter, sister and friend.
It is this vice obliterates the gratitude they owe the
deity.
It is this vice destroys their taste for intellectual
elegance.
This vice is the source of perpetual unhappiness.
Read the following example :
The Story of Miss Braddock.
Miss Frances Braddock was the admiration of every
polite circle—her person was elegant, her face beauti
ful, and her mind accomplished.
She unhappily Spent a season at Bath.—The whole
beau monde courted her acquaintance. —She gave the
ton not only to the fafhion, but the Sentiments of eve
ry assembly. Her taste was admirable, her wit was
brilliant.
Her father at his death bequeathed twelve thousand
pounds between her and her sister, besides a consider
able sum to her brother the late general Braddock,
who was cut off with a whole party, on an American
expedition against the Cherokee Indians.
Four years after the death of her father, She loft
her sister, by which her fortune was doubled —but
alas! in the course of a month, by a constant appli
cation to cards, she loft the whole..
She fell under the infatuation of her own opinion—
die conceived that judgment was fufficient, being to
tally ignorant of unfair practices.
Her misfortune preyed upon her mind, nor did she
communicate the cause even to her moll confidential
friends for a considerable time, till at last her mind
being unequal to Struggle with accumulating adversity,
she declared to an intimate female, that the world
Should never be sensible of her necessities, however ex
treme they.might be.
Notwithstanding her caution, her poverty became
known, and her sensibility was daily injured by the
real and fictitious condolance of her acquaintance, which
stimulated her to the rash uefolve of terminating her
anxiety, by putting an end to her existence.
On the night of perpetrating the aft of suicide, she
retired to her chamber in apparent good health, and
in full possession of her sense attendants left her
in bed with a candle lighted, as was usual, and hav
ing locked the door, put the key under it.
Miss Braddock always opened her chamber door in
the morning to admit her attendants, but the next
morning the maid coming as usual, and not hearing
her mistress stir, retired till near two o'clock in the
afternoon, when being alarmed at receiving no answer
to her calling, she employed a man to climb in at the
window, when the horrid catastrophe of her mistress
was discovered, and the following fact appeared in
the evidence upon the view of the coroner's inquest.
After the departure of the maid on this night, she
got out of bed again, and it is supposed, employed
some time in reading, as a book was discovered lying
open on her drefling table. She put on a white night
gown, and pinned it over her breast ; tied a gold and
silver girdle together, and hanged herfelf on a closet
door, in the following manner* —at one end of the
girdle she tied three knots, each about an inch asun
der, that if one failed, another might hold ; opening
the door, she put the knotty end over, and then lock
ed it, to secure the girdle, at the other end of which
foe made a noose, put it about her neck, and drop
ping herfelf off a chair, accomplished her fatal purpose.
She hung with her back to the door, and had hold of the
key with one of her hands. She bit her tongue through,
and had a bruise on her forehead, supposed to have
been occasioned by the breaking of a red girdle, on
which she had tried the firft experiment, : and which was
afterwards found in her pocket with a noose upon it.
The coroner's inquest being called, they returned their
verdift non compos mentis. On the day after, she was
decently buried in the Abby Church, by the fide of
her brave old father, who happily did not live to weep
over the misfortunes of his children. In her window
were found written the following lines:
O death ! thou pleasing end to human woe !
Thou cure for life ! thou greatest good below;
Still may'ft thou fly the coward and the Have;
And thy foft slumbers only bless the brave.
Thus by an ad of felf-murder or of madness, a
young lady in the 23d year of her age, in the full
possession of personal charms, sensibility and virue, loft
her life by an unhappy infatuation to a fafhionable vice.
O Cards ! ye vain diverters of our woe !
Ye waste of life! ye greatest curse below!
May beauty never fall again your slave,
_Nor y° ur delusion thus destroy the brave.
To be Sold, at Publick Vendue,
THE seventeenth day of March next, a valuable lot
of ground, consisting of one quarter of an acre,
free from ground rent, fronting the main street, from'
Elijah Bond's, at the flourifhing town of Lamberton,
to Trenton, and fronting a new brick house of Benja
min Olden, where a number of valuable houses have
been built within one year past ; there is a new frame
building on said lot, one story and a half high, twenty
two by sixteen feet ; likewise at the fame time and place
will be exposed to sale, household and kitchen furni
ture of all kinds, one batteau, and sundry other arti
cles too tedious to mention. The conditions will be
made known at the day of sale, by the subscriber,
who will give an indisputable title for the house and
lot. ROBERT WHATLY.
N. B. The said lot is inclofed with a new board fence.
Lamberton, Feb. 3, 1786.
FFuLLING-MILL
IN good repair, on a never failing stream, two miles
from Princeton, to be rented or let on shares. A
good workman who can be well recommended for his
sobriety, honesty and industry (for no other need
apply) may me et with good encouragement by apply
ing to the subscriber on the premises.
WILLIAM SCUDDER.
New-Market, Feb. 22, 1786. iw*
TO BE SOLD, OR LET
ON the fifteenth,of April next, a large brick house
and lot in Trenton, very pleasantly situated on
the south fide of the town, overlooking the river De
laware. There are fix rooms in the house, two of
which are neatly papered, and a good cellar and kitch
en under it. There is half an acre of excellent garden
adjoining the house, with a liable for four horses, and
a never failing spring of the belt tasted water, nearly
before the door. The terms may be known by
applying to Mr. Andrew Pettit, merchant in Philadel
phia, or the subscriber in Trenton.
SAMUEL W. STOCKTON.
March 6, 1786. t. f.
THE subscriber acquaints his customers in particu
lar, and the publick in general, that he, in company
with John Schuurman and Son, has provided a new
sloop, he flatters himfelf the most convenient belong
ing to this place, and intends plying weekly as ufual'
between New-Brunswick and New-York —setting out
for New-York on Tuesdays, and returning on Satur
days. Gentlemen who will please to favour them with
their custom, are requeued to apply to the captain on
board, or to the said John Schuurman and Son, at
their store in New-Brunswick, who have provided large
and commodious stores for the reception of all kinds
of country produce, and may be relied on for their
punctuality and dispatch in any business entrusted to
them. JOHN THOMSON.
New-Brunswick, Feb. 28, 1786. 4W
TO BE SOLD,
PURSUANT to the last will and testament of Wil
liam Bidgood, late of Bristol township, and coun
ty of Bucks, in Pennsylvania, deceased, that valuable
plantation and excellent farm whereon the aforefaid
deceased lately lived, situate in Bristol township afore
faid, about twenty-two miles from Philadelphia, and
three from the borough of Bristol, and within two
miles of a good landing on Delaware river, contain
ing two hundred and twenty-fix acres of land, the
ploughland is of a good foil for grain or grass, a large
proportion of excellent meadow, with a fufficient quan
tity of woodland well timbered ; a good done dwel
linghoufe, two stories high ; pleasantly situated, a good
kitchen, a well of good water under a died near the
kitchen door, a fpringhoufe at a small distance from
the dwellinghoufe, a good frame barn, waggonhoufe,
stables and barracks; there is also on the premises an
excellent apple orchard. Any person inclining to pur
chase may view the premises, and know the conditi
ons of sale, by applying to' William Bidgood, of Bris
tol township aforefaid, Benjamin Palmer of Lower-
Makefield township, or Robert Kirkbride of Plum
ftead townfllip, executors.
The 12th of theist month, 1786. 4W*
House of Assembly, Feb. 17, 1786.
A PETITION was presented from sundry inhabitants
1 of the county of Gloucester, praying that a law
may pass to permit the petitioners to build a bridge
over Mantua Creek by fubfeription at Smith's landing.
Ordered, That the petitioners have leave to present
a bill agreeably to the prayer of their petition, on ad
vertising the purport of the bill they mean to present,
and a copy of this order, at least 3 weeks previous there
to, in three of the most publick places in each of the
townfllips of Deptford and Greenwich, and also the
fame length of time in the New-Jersey Gazette.
Extract from the minutes,
3w* MASKELL EWING, jun. Clerk.
Notice is hereby given,
THAT the subscribers intend to present a bill to the
legislature, agreeably to the above order, on Tuesday
the 28th of March next, to authorize certain persons
therein to be named, to build a bridge and causeway from
what is commonly called Smith's now Eaflev's landing,
on Mantua Creek unto the faftland of David Chew, said
bridge and causeway to be built by voluntary subscrip
tion. Those persons that may have any objections
why the said bill may not be passed into a law, will
have an opportunity of making them known.
JOSIAH FOSTER,
THOMAS HESTON,
THOMAS CARPENTER.
Feb. 28, 1786.
THE subscribers beg leave to inform
-L the publick in general, and their friends in par
ticular, that they have furnifhed themselves with a
good and convenient boat for the transportation and
accommodation of passengers and goods of every kind,
from this place to New-York ; they have also conve
nient stores and wharves, one store" the upper end of
town and another near the lower end, for the recepti
on of all kinds of goods and produce; and the pub
lick may be assured that the ftrideft care and attenti
on will be paid to the receival and delivery of goods
delivered to their care ; also that the charges of tran
sportation will be done as low or lower than any other
boat plying in this river. The boat will leave this
place every Tuesday and New-York every Saturday,
under the direction of captain John Guest, who is an
honest and an experienced boatman. And flatters
themselves that nothing will be wanting on their part,
to render their mode of conveyance ufeful and agree
able to all who may please to favour them with their
commands. By the publick's most humble servants
PETER TEN-EICK,
EPHRAIM LOREE,
New-Brunswick, Feb. 18, 1786. t. f.