The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1784-06-21 00:00:00, page 3

We are informed that the Committee of the States
have appointed Saturday the 26th of June, for their
firft meeting, at Annapolis, that city being fixed upon
by the Committee as the place of their deliberations.
On the 28th ult. an ordinance for putting the de
partment of finance into commission was read a third
time, and passed in Congress ; and on the third inst.
Congress proceeded to the election of three Commis
sioners, to be stiled The Board of Treasury, when the
Honourable Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, of Ma
ryland, the Honourable Oliver Elifworth, of Con
necticut, and the Honourable Denning, of
New-York, were duly elected. They are not to en
ter on the bufmefs of their appointment before the
10th of November next.
Extras of a letter from Dublin, dated the 14th of
April, 1784.
" The most considerable traders in the silk, wor
sted, and other branches of manufactures in the city,
have in contemplation an address to Congress, to know
what encouragement they in their wisdom shall think
meet to grant, should they fettle with their working
people in any of their chief towns in America (they
seem to give the preference to New-York or Philadel
phia ;) if properly encouraged by that august assem
bly, they intend to be ready in the course of fix
months ; and will enter into treaty for the most con
venient vessels for passengers, to transport them thi
ther with their effects and different dependencies, to
the amount of 30 or 40,000 of the molt ufeful inha
bitants of this country.
" Should the above plan take place, in the course
of a year or two our members of parliament may
graze their cattle in the principal of the metropolis,
and the Earl of Meath let his ground in the liberty,
at 4. or 51. per acre, instead of so much by the foot."
Extras of a letter from a gentleman of a distin
guished literary character in Montrofe, in Scot
land, to bis friend in this city, dated February
5> !7 8 4-
66 I am exceedingly glad to hear from you of the
encreafmg prosperity and quiet of your country, while
our Englilh papers represent you as in a state of an
archy, poverty and despair, ready to court the yoke
which you have so lately shaken off. Such paragraphs
are often inferred by interested people, to deceive the
simple, and prevent emigrations from this country. —
Large pamphlets are sometimes published for the fame
purpose. Lord Sheffield has published a trad, which
is much cried up by the friends of the court in this
country. His Lordship undertakes to prove, that at
any rate, and through mere neceliity, the trade of the
United States must be mostly with England. I do
not understand all his details, but fufped that his po
sitions are much too flattering to be uniformly true.
Besides, there appears as yet no accomplishment of
any of his Lordihip's predidic as, and few orders for
goods for America have as yet been sent to this coun
try. Our ministers, according to their usual wisdom,
have not as yet fettled any commercial treaty with
America, and have published a proclamation for starv
ing the Weft-India islands, by prohibiting the impor
tation of provisions and lumber in any other than Bri
tish vessels, the effects of which will be quickly seen.
The immense load of debts contrasted by this nation,
and the grievous and yearly increasing taxes' imposed
to pay the interest of it, as well as to defray the
charge of publick corruption, vulgarly called go
vernment, eats into the property of every individual,
to the extent of fourteen shillings in the pound;
and if we are led into a war next summer, by the
contentions betwixt Russia and the Porte, our condi
tion must still be more calamitous. The two last sea-
obliged an injured nation to advert to itfelf and break
the ties of its commercial connexion, by a total re
jection of all goods and wares of a country deemed so
hostile to its interests.
American Intelligence.
NEW-YORK, June 17.
PHILIP Schuyler, Esquire, of this state, is ap
pointed a Commissioner, in addition to Benjamin
Lincoln and Arthur Lee, Esquires, who are appointed
by Congress, Commissioners to treat with the Indi
ans, in the room of Mr. Higginfon and Mr. Green ;
those gentlemen having declined serving in that busi
ness.
1 he Honourable Legislature of the Commonwealth
of Virginia, have empowered the Executive to lay an
embargo on Indian corn for a limited time.
The brig Rose, Captain Martin, arrived at Que
bec, in 36 days from London, on the 3d of March
last :—She is the firft this season, and the earliest ar
rival at that port for many years past.
sons have been extremely hard on the labouring part
of the people, and multitudes of them are willing to
emigrate, if they were able to pay for their paflage,
or could get indented on reafonabte terms. At pre
PHILADELPHIA, June 12.
sent this is not to be expected, as the merchants of
Glasgow, who have almost a monopoly of the trade
to America, have an interest in railing their freights,
not only to fill their pockets, but to keep their trades
men at home, that they may reap the benefit of ex
porting their manufactures. The freight of a cabin
passenger from Greenock to America, is now more
than tripled, being at present eighteen guineas. If
any of your ffiips could come to the east coast of Scot
land with a cargo, or even call in their return from
Holland, they might find goods fit for your market,
and a number of emigrants, who cannot travel to a
port at 200 miles distance from any part of this coast.
This would be the most laudable way of trading in
the human species, to take them from poverty and op
preflion to a land of liberty and plenty. It is not like
ly that our governors, notorious as they are for wis
dom, will adventure to make a law against emigrati
on, though they will use all their influence in a pri
vate manner to prevent it. But though none should
emigrate from this country, except those who cannot
find comfortable subsistence in it, an immense addition
would be made to the population of America, with
out the least hurt to Great-Britain, as those left be
hind would reap greater advantages from their labour,
and every profellion would not be overstocked as at
present. The Romans, who were in some refpeds a
wife state, drained their territories from time to time
of the burdensome and helpless part of the society.
But our governors are strangers to every liberal and
rational sentiment, and mind only the increase of their
power and revenue, and even these ends they are in
capable of pursuing in a rational manner. At present,
the spoils of India attract their attention, and they
are contending with each other for the profits of pro
tecting the most scandalous of the human species.—
How their contentions will end, it is impoffibie to fay;
but we are sure it will not be for our profit. If your
government is wife, as 1 hope they will be, they will
take care not to luffer private individuals to raise their
fortunes by peculation, nor fuffer the course of jus
tice to be obtruded by money. The eventual history
of our misfortunes may prove a salutary lecture of
political wisdom to them, and it may be a fafe rule
of proceeding, to order every matter in the direct op
posite way to what is done in England. If a faith
ful history of the late revolution were written, it
might be a very proper School-book for your posteri
ty, who would early be taught the benefits of liberty
and the horrors of arbitrary government. I should
think that your country would prove an asylum to
the French Protestants, who are deprived of the ex
ercise of their religion at home. This would realize
the glorious design of the Marquis de Quefne, which
was disappointed near 200 years ago, and retarded
the population of America. If your people avoid
war, and encourage religion and good manners —if
they make laws consistent with common sense and the
happiness of mankind—they will become the glory
and envy of the rest of the world."
June 16. The Honourable Mr. Hardy, member
for Virginia, is chosen Chairman of the Committee of
the States.
A late London paper mentions, that as soon as the
Duc de Charters heard of the approaching election
in Britain, he poted off with the utmost expedition.
He would not be absent, he said, from the glorious
buttle, for all the pleasures France had to bellow.
We are informed that General Armand, with his
suit, left this city ycflerday morning, on his way to
Baltimore, where he intends to embark for France.
Extraft of a letter from Newark, dated June 13.
“ Our wheat which, a month ago, was covered
with a most beautiful verdure, flattered us with an
exuberant harvest; but, alas! our profpeds are va
nished ; many of us will not get as much feed as we
sowed, it being attacked by thousands of small worms,
or rather maggots, near the lower part of the stock
and in the root. The maggots are about an inch
long.”
We hear from Poughkeepsie, in Dutchefs county,
that on Sunday, the 6th inst they had the most ter
rible gust of wind and hail ever known in that place;
the haii-ftones (many of which were nearly as large
as goose eggs, but of all shapes and sizes) broke
nearly every pain of glass on the northerly fide of their
buildings ; its extent was but a few miles in breadth,
but the deftrudion and devastation that it spread over
the gardens, and fields of corn, exceed description.—
Numbers of barns, barracks, &c. were overturned,
and several trees torn up by the roots. Geese, tur
kies, and other kinds of poultry, were almost all de
stroyed. Thus the careful husbandman, who imme
diately before, with pleating fatisfadion, might have
viewed, in his teeming field, the growing grain wav
ing responsive to the morning breeze, now, alas! in
one short hour, by the breath of the Almighty (if
we may so speak) his hopes, with his fields of corn,
are hurled into one general ruin.
By a proclamation of the Supreme Executive Coun
TRENTON, June 21.
cil of Pennsylvania, dated the 4th inst. a reward of
Five Hundred Dollars (to be reimbprfed by the
United States) is offered, for difeovering Charles Ju
lian de Longchamps, commonly called Chevalier
Longebamps, so that he may be arrested ; with the
additional reward of Five Hundred Dollars, for de
livering him into the New-Gaol of Philadelphia, in
order that he may be brought to justice, for violating
the laws of nations, and of the land, in insulting and
menacing, thereby endeavouring to extort from the
Sieur de Marbois, Secretary to the Litigation from
his Most Christian Majesty to the United States, and
Consul General of France, a certificate for the verifi
cation of certain papers; and afterwards assaulting him
in the publick streets of Philadelphia.
We hear that the Chevaux-de-Frize, which have
long obtruded the navigation of the Delaware, will
shortly be removed. The ingenious mechanick, Mr.
Arthur Donaldson, having undertaken the Herculean
talk, and prepared his vast apparatus, on Thursday
the loth inst. succeeded in his very firft attempt, and
brought up one of the largest Chevaux-de-Frize that
was funk in the deepest water.
Married, on Thursday morning last, Mr. FRAN
CIS BARBE D'M ARBOIS, Consul General of
France, to Miss. ELIZABETH MOORE, daugh
ter of the late President of Pennsylvania.
The fame day Captain John Mott, of Tren
ton, was married to Mrs. Alexander, widow of
Captain Alexander, late of Philadelphia.
Moore Furman & Company,
HAVING established a store at Lamberton (com
monly called Trenton Landing, one and a half
miles below Trenton) beg leave to inform the pub
lick, that they are now opening a general assortment
of merchandize, which will be disposed of wholesale
and retail, at the most reasonable prices, for cash or
country produce.
June 21, 1784. 4 w ,
TO 57-
At PUBLICK VENDUE,
At the house of the subscriber in Trenton, on Satur
day the 26th of June, inst. at 10 o'clock of said
day, sundry goods, to wit,
BEDS and bedding, andirons, Ihovel and tongs,
fowling pieces, pistols, swords, hats, watches,
boots, trunks, (hoe and knee silver buckles, all the
different kinds of mens' apparel, to wit, coats, jackets,
breeches, Lockings, fliirts and flocks, overalls, razors,
and sundry other articles too tedious to mention.
JACOB BENJAMIN.
Trenton, June 16, 1784. iw
— ITE S O L
For want of employ,
TH E time of a healthy Irilh servant man, who
has better than three years to fetve—fit for
farming business. Enquire of the Printer.
Burlington county, New-Hanover.
AL L Pcifons are hereby fore
warned from taking an alignment on a note of
hand I gave to Joel Gibbs, the last of January or
the beginning of February last, for Seven Pounds
Ten Shillings, as I am determined not to pay the fame
unless compelled by law.
THOMAS WILLSON.
June 15, 1784. gw*
Fresh Drugs & Medicines,
A general assortment, just imported in the Olive-
Branch, Captain Willet, from London, and now
on sale by
DAVID JACKSO N,
In Second-street, midway between Market and Chef
nut-ftreets,
ALSO, very elegant furgeons' pocket instruments,
scalpels, best crown and spring lancets, neat lan
cet cases, cathetars, trocars, bolus knives, apotheca
ries' scales and weights; a general assortment of (hop
furniture, smelling bottles, marble mortars, phials,
pill boxes, cammel hair pencils, a few sets of Cray
ons, fine carmine, drop lake, flake white, &c.
Likewise the following patent medicines, viz. God
frey's cordial, Anderson's, Hooper's, and Lockyer's
pills, Turlington's balsam, British oil, eflence of pep
permint, and Hill's American balsam.
N. B. With the above assortment is also arrived a
quantity of that most excellent drug, the Red Bark,
which is now in the highest reputation, as a perfect
cure for intermittent and other fevers.
Philadelphia, June 15, 1784. 4 w l
An elegant SOFA,
Full trimmed with Fringe and Tassels, to be fold.
Enquire of the Printer.