The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1785-03-28 00:00:00, page 3

on (roods imported into this Rate, upon British bot
tom's, parted the House of Assembly.
The bill refpe&ing the emancipation of black per
sons, under certain descriptions, has also parted the
House of Assembly, and is now, for the last time, be
fore the Honourable the Senate.
Yesterday noon failed from the East-River, his
Britannick Majesty's Packet the Speedy, commanded
by Captain D'Auvergne, with fifteen cabin and twen
ty-five steerage passengers ; amongst the former were
Major Ross, of the XXXIVth British regiment; Cap
tain Macdonald, of the Quebec Rangers, and Mr.
O'Connor, from Canada; John Watts, Esq. Mr.
John Miller, merchant, of this city, with his lady;
Mr. Stackpole, Merchant, &c. &c. A number of
persons also were carried home by Capt. D'Auvergne,
at the expence of the crown of Great-Britain, in con
sequence of orders issued from the Postmaster Gene
ral in London, for the accommodation of the fubjerts
of Great-Britain and America, who may wish to be
removed to their native countries.
At the fame time failed the brigantine Mary, Cap
tain Roxburgh, for Glasgow.
Extract of a Letter from a Member of the Legisla
ture of Rbode-Ifland, to bis Friend in this City,
d^ted Newport, March 8, 178^, ,
“ In our last Session we have palled a Bill for levy
ing the Import of Five per Cent, but to be raised by
ourselves, in the fame manner as we have collected
the duties of two and an half per Cent, directing eight
thousand dollars to be paid out of it to the order of
Congress, for paying our proportion of the interest
ariling on the foreign debt ; the remainder for paying
the interert on the publick debt, and our own notes,
&c. In the fame art we have ordered a poll-tax of
one dollar, on every male poll of twenty-one years,
and upwards; one dollar on every hundred acres of
land, and one dollar on every horse kind of two years
old, and upwards ; the proceeds to aflift in difeharg
ing the interest of the publick debt and our own.—
How far this will meet with your approbation, I can
not tell, or whether it will find its acceptance with
Congress."
March 19. It is not unworthy of remark, fays a
commercial correspondent, that there is no duty laid
on the importation of American pearl and pot-affies
into England, though the fame articles from other
quarters pay from 2s. to ss. per cwt. The American
pot and pearl-allies are universally allowed to be su
perior to any in the world, and bid fair to be a valu
able staple commodity to this country, which abounds
with wood.
March 23. By letters received in the schooner
Hercules, Captain Taylor, from Halifax and Shel
burne, in Nova-Scotia, we are informed, that the
price of Government Bills on England was riling to
five per cent, above par, owing to the great demands
for them from the merchants of Bolton, &c. That
the price of fuperfine flour was fallen to eight dollars
and an half per barrel, and common flour to fix dol
lars and an half, occasioned by the plentiful supplies
of late arrived at the former place from the Conti
nent; and that two thousand perlons were preparing
to remove this spring from Shelburne to St. John's.
Last Saturday the Hon. John Haring, John Law
rence, and Melanrton Smith, Esquires, were elected
Delegates to reprelent this Rate in Congress.
We are informed that Congress have appointed the
following gentlemen as Commissioners to treat with
the Cherokees and the different Indians southward of
them, within the limits of the United States, viz —
Benjamin Hawkins, Daniel Carroll, William Perry,
Andrew Pickins, and Joseph Martin, Esquires.
We also hear, that the 20th of June next the Com
missioners are to hold a treaty with the said Indians
at Port Vincent, on the Wabash river.
PHILADELPHIA, March 18.
By the brig Chance, Captain Stafford, arrived in
fames river from London, me have received the
following extraft of a private letter from Paris,
dated December 12.
“ A stranger arrived at the Hotel of the Comte de
Mercy, in this city, on Friday evening. However
incredible it may at firft appear, I have the most un
doubted intelligence, that it is no other than the Em
peror himlelf incog, who is come to confer in person
with the French Cabinet. The Comte, who is the
Imperial Ambaflador here, and the above incognito,
have been twice at Court. The Emperor's stay will
be but short, as he passes on dirertly to Brussels,
where they expert his arrival daily."
Same letter, dated Dec 13, 2 in the morning.
" The stranger is certainly the Imperial Joseph.—
The Dutch Envoy has sent an account of this unex
perted and very unwelcome news to the Hague, but
our messenger will reach London firft, unless the bad
weather Ihould again stop the packets at Calais. The
Emperor's coming here in person is something myste
rious, but I will tell ye it bodes the Dutch no good."
March 19. By a gentleman just arrived from Lon
don, via Charleston, we learn, that no less than ten
veflels were advertised at the Pennsylvania coffee-
house in that city [London] for this port, at his de
parture.
A correspondent, who has seen announced in the
papers the arrival in the new world of Don Galvez,
with a most formidable armament, declares, he can
not repress his astonishment and indignation, at the
supineness and indifference with which we regard an
event, pregnant, he fays, in the opinion of every in
telligent, refle&ing person, with the most tremendous
consequences to the prosperity of this rising empire.
The entire condurt of the Spaniards towards this coun
try, continues he, is replete with hostility, either
avowed or disguised—their interdirtion of the naviga
tion of the river Miffifippi—their seizing and fortify
ing the Muscle Shoals—and in fine, their fitting out so
warlike an armada, in a time of profound peace, fpe?k
to our rulers, trumpet-tongued, to shun the approach
ing vortex, which threatens to envelope us in ruin.
Our correspondent is also of opinion, that previous
to the dispatching any deputies or commissioners to en
quire into, or remunerate on, any encroachments, the
country should be put in martial array. The expe
rience of ages serves to evince, that the best means
of preserving peace, is, to be prepared for war; and
when treaties are to be fettled, or knotty points dis
cussed, he has vartly the advantage who comes to the
conference with arms in hand.
Another correspondent, treating on the fame fub
jert, fays, if it prove true (of which he has very lit
tle doubt) that the Spaniards really meditate a breach
with the States of America, they will afford as strong
a proof as can be had from history, of the justice of
the old remark, " ^uem Deus vult perdcre, prius
dementatC For human sagacity cannot difeover a
single well-founded reason which ihould induce the
Spaniards to wish a rupture, but every possible one to
avert it, as most eminently pernicious. Money and
territory, the general objerts of ambition, they cannot
seek for, from a contest. Of the former, by a too
partial division, they have monopolized alraoft the
whole to be found in three quarters of the globe, and
cannot hope to acquire any from us ; and of the latter
they have engrorted io much, as to render their em
pire too unwieldy for management, in so much as to
call aloud for pruning. The children of the southern
hemisphere, doubly enervated by the climate, and by
the galling yoke of rtavery, and anxious for an oppor
tunity to rend their chains, would afford a too easy
virtory to the warlike bands that the rage of a recent
war has trained up to oppose them: And if the inha
bitants of Old Spain are not equally enervated, dill
the depopulation of the country must preclude any
hopes from that quarter. In whatever point of view,
therefore, we confider the matter, we must conclude,
that nothing but the madness of folly could precipi
tate them thus headlong to their deftrurtion !
T R ENTON, FCFb 28.
We are informed that Congress have appointed the
Hon. Thomas Jefferson, of Virginia, Minister to
the Court of France, in the room of Dr. Franklin,
who, on account of his advanced age, has leave to re
turn to America.
A correspondent informs us, that Congress have now
twelve Rates on the floor, and that another Delegate is
daily experted from Georgia—the fame correspondent
adds, that there has not been an instance of a complete
representation under the confederation.
A correspondent expresses astonishment, that Con
gress have not yet fallen upon some mode of opening
a Land-Office for the sale of the Western Territory,
which, were it well conducted, would be a mean of
finking a very considerable part of the national debt.
The Honourable John Brown, Esquire, of Pro
vidence, in the state of Rhode-Irtand, was lately
elerted by Congress one of their Commissioners for
ererting the Fcederal Buildings on the banks of the
Delaware, in the room of General Schuyler, whose
ill state of health has obliged him to decline that ap
pointment.
The Legirtature of Rhode-Ifland have at length
parted an art, empowering Congress to lay the Con
tinental Impost of five per cent. They have likewise
parted another art inverting Congress with the power
of regulating the trade of the United States for twen
ty-five years.
To the General Proprietors
OF WEST-JERSEY.
WHEREAS a meeting of the General Proprietors
was requeued by advertisement, to have been on
the second day of February last, which, from the ex
treme hardness of the weather and difficulty of crossing
the river, the Committee appointed for tranfarting the
bufinels of the General Proprietors were prevented
from attending ; therefore, the Proprietors of the
Western Division are requeued to meet at the house of
James Ifdell, in the city of Burlington, on Monday the
nth day of April next, by 11 o'clock in the morning,
for the purposes mentioned in the former advertise
ment ; as the business proposed concerns the general
interest of the Western Proprietors.
DANIEL ELLIS, Clerk.
March 3, 1785. ________
A few New-Jersey Almanacks,
For 1785, may be had at the Printing Office.
For the New-Jersey Gazette.
J F Mr. Scawm You Neet had known the particular
4 circumstances of the Monmouth commiffioners' sup
posed debt, the Monmouth , commissioners could not
have been disobliged at the publication. The fub
feribcr thinks it very right delinquents should be ex
posed, but does not look on himfelf as one. This sup
posed debt (he calls it supposed) had been paid twice;
the payments returned to the disadvantage of the state.
A receipt in discharge is now given ; I hope Mr.
Scawm You Neet and everv other person fatisfied.
SAMUEL FORMAN.
March 23, 1785.
By the UNITED SPATES in CONGRESS anrtubkd.
March 17, 1785.
TZ7HEREAS it mult conduce to the preservation of
publick credit, and the equal distribution of jus
tice, that the amount of the national debt be ascer
tained with the utmost expedition ; and as delay in the
settlement of accounts tends to render them obscure,
and to encourage frauds, by preventing the means of
deterting them.
Refolded, That all persons having unliquidated claims
against the United States, be, and they are hereby re
quired, within twelve months from the date hereof, to
deliver a particular abftrart of such claims to some
commissioner in the state in which they refpertively re
side, who is authorized to fettle accounts against the
United States. And any person or persons, neglecting
to deliver their claims as aforefaid, Shall be precluded
from any adjustment of the fame, except at the board
of treasury ; provided that in those Rates where there
is no commissioner of accounts, the citizens of such
state or Rates Ihall be allowed one year for delivering
their claims, from the time when a commissioner Shall
have been appointed and enter on the duties of his
office.
That all persons who shall neglert to deliver in a
particular abftrart of their claims as aforefaid, ihall be
excluded from the benefit of settlement or allowance.
Refolded, That the commissioners of accounts, ap
pointed under the revolutions of 27th February, 1782,
be, and they are hereby inftrurted to remove their re
fpertive offices to the place in which Congress resides,
before the firft of May next, except such of them as
by special order of Congress have been appointed to
fettle accounts in some other place.
CHARLES I HOMSON, Sec'ry.
ALLENTOWN ACADEMY,
WHICH was opened in November last, is still at
tended to with the utmost care, where are taught
the Latin and Greek Languages, Arithmetick, Mathe
maticks, Book-keeping, Geography, English Gram
mar, and such other branches as are usually taught at
institutions of the like nature, by
ALEXANDER VAS S, A. M.
a gentleman whose character is well attested both from
Europe and America, qnd whose ability and fidelity,
as a Teacher, are known and approved.
The situation of said Academy is peculiarly eligible,
being in a pleasant healthy part of the country, on
the publick Rage-road, near midway between New-
York and Philadelphia, where the Rages pals twice
every week from the above places, so that thole who
choose to fend their children from either of the cities
may have frequent, and the molt convenient and fafe
conveyances. Said Academy is distant twenty-seven
miles from New-Brunswick, fifteen from Princeton,
twelve from Trenton, tight from Bordentown, and
eighteen from Burlington.
Good board and lodgings may be had at convenient
houses near the Academy, and at as low rates as per
haps can be had at any place of education in the Rate.
The Rev. Mr Clark, who resides in Allentown, in
fperts the business of the Academy ; and btfides other
occasional visits, attends regularly with the Trustees at
the examinations once every quarter, to judge of and
encourage the improvement of the Rodents.
The vacation this spring will commence on the 12th
of April, and continue a fortnight, so that the Ru
dents will collect again and fit down to their Rudies on
Tuesday the twenty-sixth of April. Those who choose
to fend their children, are requested to have them at
the Academy punctually at that time, that they may
be classed to more advantage, and fuffer no inconveni
ence by others getting before them.
ELISHA LAWRENCE, Clerk
of the Board of Trustees.
Allentown, March 23, 1785. 4w
To be Sold, at Publick Vendue,
On Friday the 15th of April next, on the premises, pur
suant to the last will and testament of Tobias Pole
mus, late of Upper-Freehold, in the county of Mon
mouth, and Rate of New-Jersey, deceased,
THE plantation whereon the said Polemus lived
near Allentown, containing 130 acres, where ;
is a good dwelling-house, an exceeding good barn,
the other buildings in good repair; a quantity of g
meadow ; the land is good either for grain or paßm,
there is an excellent orchard thereon of good re
and all under good fence, with a fufficient quantity
wood-land for the use of the place, and water i
the fields: Also horses fit for either saddle ng
cows and calves, sheep and lambs, hogs, a
farming utensils, rye and Indian corn by the "
green grain in the ground, household goods, conb
of beds and bedding, tables, chairs, a delk, cher
drawers, a clock, and a great variety of household a s
kitchen furniture, too tedious to mention. The ven
due to begin at t^n o'clock of said day, where atten
dance will be given, and the conditions made known,
by 'ARTHUR LEFFERSON, Execut.
March 19, 1785. gwf