The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1784-07-19 00:00:00, page 2

lot, to. do. 532 acres and twenty-fix hundredths, but
after deducting three smaller surveys of said
Delaney's included therein, containing 155
acres and seven hundredths, there remains
377 acres and nineteen hundredths in part
nership, situate in Wantage, on the weft
fide of Papecotting, in the possession of John
Tims and others.
sl. ss. A tract of land containing 76 acres and eighty
nine hundredths, situate in Hardifton, join
ing lands surveyed for Abraham Ogden, Esq.
late in the possession of Col. Anthony Brod
rick.
32. 59. A trad of land containing 80 acres and thir
ty hundredths, lituate in Wantage, join
ing other lands of said Delaney, also joins
Abraham Westbrook's plantation.
33. 60. A trad: of land containing 69 acres and fifty
fix hundredths, situate in Wantage, near Ste
phen Mead's plantation, joining lands of
Henry Cuyler.
,4. 61. A trad of land containing within the bounds
169 acres and thirty-two hundredths, but
after deducting 120 acres of Henry Cuyler,
included therein, there remains in partner
ship 49 acres and thirty-three hundredths,
situate in Wantage, at a place called and
known by the name of Hendrick's fly or
meadow.
,5. 62. A trad of land containing 42 acres and eleven
hundredths, situate in Wantage, joining the
aforefaid 120 acres of Henry Cuyler.
36. 63. A trad of land containing 37 acres and seven
hundredths, situate in Hardifton, joining
Henry Cuyler's land, and includes nearly
all the possession of Benjamin Skinner.
37. 64. A trad of land containing 132 acres and eigh
ty-one hundredths, situate in Hardifton, on
the foutheah fide of Pochuck mountain,
including the possession of Joseph Godwin.
38. 65. A tfdA of land containing 431 acres, ftrift
measure, situate in Hardifton, on both sides
of the Wawayonda creek, including part
of the improvement of the late Colonel De
kay, deceased.
39. 66. A trad of land containing 186 acres and for
ty-fix hundredths, situate in Newtown, on
the south fide of Papecotting creek, on the
road leading from Colonel Biddle's farm to
'Squire Carey's.
40. 67. A tract of land containing 186 acres and twen
ty hundredths, situate in Newtown, includ
ing the improvement of James Kemble.
41. 68. A trad of land containing 118 acres and nine
ty-three hundredths, situate in Newtown,
about two miles southward of Papecotting,
including the possession of Abraham Mon
tanie.
42. 69. A tract of land containing 47 acres and se
venty-three hundredths, in two surveys, si
tuate in Wantage, near a meadow called
M'Quin's meadow.
43. 7e. A tract of land containing 212 acres and se
venty-two hundredths, situate in Hardifton,
on the road that leads from Elijah Collard's,
deceased, to Paulingfkill.
44. 71. A trad of land containing 53 acres and eighty
two hundredths, situate in Wantage, at a
place called Dennis's valley, and near Jere
miah Dennis's house.
45. 72. A tract of laud containing 68 acres and nine
ty-five hundredths, situate in Wantage, near
a swamp called the Beaver-Dam swamp.
46. 73. A trad of land containing 65 acres and se
venty-two hundredths, situate in Wantage,
on Beaver-Run, joining David Newman's
land.
47. 74. A trad of land containing 125 acres and for
ty-two hundredths, situate in Wantage, near
Darling Havens's.
48. 75. A trad of land containing 72 acres and seven
hundredths, lituate in Hardifton, on the
Wawayonda mountain, at a place called the
Chefnut ridge, and near John Abie's.
49. 76. A tiad of land containing 44 acres, situate in
Hardifton, on the Wawayonda mountain, at
the Little Cedar-Swmp.
50. 77. A trad of land containing 101 acres and six
ty-seven hundredths, situate in Hardifton,
on the east fide of the Walkill, about two
miles and a half below Wallin's grist-mill.
51. 78. A trad of land containing 127 acres and thir
teen hundredths, situate in Newtown, near
William Havens's.
52. 79. A trad of land containing 130 acres and nine
ty-one hundredths, situate in Newtown, 011
the great road leading from Colonel Biddle's
farm to 'Squire Carey's.
53. 80. A trad of land containing 102 acres and thir
ty-nine hundredths, situate in Wantage, on
the weft fide of the Drowned Lands, join
ing Samuel Meeker's land, called Barton's
Ifland-Trad.
54. 81. A trad of laud containing ,9 acres and thir
ty-four hundredths, in two furvey's, situ
ate in Wantage, near a meadow called the
Round meadow ; also near another trad sur
veyed for said Delaney and Cuyler.
55 82. A trad ofland containing 84 acres and forty
fix hundredths, situate in Wantage, on the
call fide of Papecotting, about half a mile,
adjoining a trad of 130, surveyed for said
Delaney and Cuyler.
Also all those several valuable trads or lots of
land herein after described, being part of the
forfeited estate of Colonel Joseph Barton, viz.
1. 83. A lot of land containing 11 acres and twenty
(For the remainder fee the fourth page.)
From the Publick Advertiser. London, April 28'
A Few years ago some “ rules were laid down
for reducing a great empire to a (mall one," *
which being happily pursued, the success has ex
ceeded expectation. But as the work may be made
more perfect, I beg leave to continue the system, and
shew how a small empire may be made itill less, and
the trouble of extensive dominions more conveniently
diminished.
Ift. As the trade and manufactures of this king
dom are of no consequence, without imperial powers
of sovereign rights take special care to abridge the
former without any hope of regaining the latter. To
effect this with the greater certainty, advise with re
fugees and deserters, who having no prejudices to
millead or refeutments to gratify in America, their
information or advice, as in the course of the late war,
may always be depended upon.
2dly. If it should happen that from predilection,
sameness of language, religion, or other attachments,
the people of North-America prefer British manufac
tures, seek a friendly intercouife, and cultivate pri
vate friendfhip ; ascribe it all to their necessities, and
the impossibility of doing without you. If you devise
commercial reftridions while they allow you perfect
freedom of trade, and they complain, tell them to go
to their great and good ally, who will relieve them.
They may probably take your advice in time, and ease
you of the unpleasant burthen of such an unweildy
trade: For what pleasure or profit can there be in a
trade which you cannot monopolize, and with a peo
ple whom you cannot govern? Betides, they dare not
retaliate by reciprocal exclusions or heavy imposts.
gdly. If, ncawithftanding all, your merchants will
nuke very E^ exports, give extensive credit, and
press the manufactures of Great-Britain on America
in a far greater proportion than that country can con
sume, or find means to pay, you cannot admore wife
ly than to abridge those (lender means, cut off every
source of circuitous remittance, confine them to a se
vere ceconomy, and punish your improvident mer
chants by a general bankruptcy. Then you will have
the pleasure of reproaching the Americans for their
baseness and dishonesty in peace, as you did for cow
ardice in war.
4thly. As your Weft-Indies are of no consequence
to you in point of navigation or revenue, pay no re
gard to their complaints. Colonists, you know, are
always discontented. If they spend all their money
here, it is because they cannot help it. If they are
obliged to get provisions and lumber from America
through the neutral islands, and lose the sale of their
rum, it does not enhance the price of the former, or
lessen the value of the latter. The consumer never
pays the duties, or feels the weight of a .double in
surance, freight, &c. and as to the rum, you may im
port that here, without any disadvantage to your dis
tillers or corn trade. Besides, the founds of navi^a
tion ad, palladium of British power, &c. are as faf
cinating and influential now, as Wilkes and liberty,
No. 45, were twelve years ago, and will be equally
permanent. If the Wert-India islands, insensible to
these solid arguments, complain, remonstrate to their
governors, petition yourselves, and state the almost
impossibility of fubfuimg without a direst intercourse
with North-America, despise their arguments, laugh
at their complaints, and reject their petitions. You
did so before with America, and succeeded to your
wilhes. They do not know the true interests of
Great-Britain, which now and then require them to
starve pro bono publico. If they tell you that Canada
has seven months winter, and Nova-Scotia is rocky
and too unsettled to supply them, they must be as
sured the climate of Canada will alter, and Nova-Sco
tia mend daily, and at the end of seven or ten years
they will be fully supplied, so that they have only to
starve patiently in the mean time.
gthly. If you find the French issue arrets and edicts
similar to your own, then you have no reason to be
alarmed. They never court the American trade or
connection, or have any interest to detach you from
them. Perhaps they may not execute their arrets
and edicts as you do your ads of parliament and pro
clamations : But what of that ; they look as well on
paper, and a sword is a sword, whether it is drawn or
in the scabbard. Besides, the French are allowed
by yourselves to stand preeminent in honest policy and
candour, holding all duplicity and deception in the
utmost abhorrence.
6thly. As the remaining colonies are become more
valuable for those you have loft, support as much des
potism as you can in them. Let their governors im
prison and oppress them at pleasure; make large grants
to a few individuals of the best lands, that they may
find convenient tenants in the poor loyalists, who must
be fufficiently humbled now, so as to prevent aspiring
to become landlords or landholders. By such means
you will dispose them to accept the invitation which
the new states will give them to return, as soon as re
sentments subside a little more.
* Printed originally in the Publick Advertiser,
and supposed to have been written b, the celebrated
Dr. FRANKLIN.
,thly. Though the ferenth article of the treaty has
been expressly violated by carrying away from New-
York the negroes, the property of American inhabi
tants, when applied for by their masters ; and though
some of the new settlers of Nova-Scotia, counte
nanced by government, have seized on lands long
since granted to companies of gentlemen now fubjeds
of the new states, and which they were at great ex
pense to fettle agreeably to the terms of their grants,
no bad consequences can ensue, as breaches of treaty
on one fide can never produce or justify a disregard
of it on the other ; and you have a right to expert a
punctual performance of every part in your favour,
if you should not comply with any one in theirs.—
And as to those lands, the property of Americans,
which happen to fall under the British government,
the fubje&s of Great-Britain have no lands under
American government to be retaliated upon, or if
they have, the Americans will not dare to treat Bri
tons as foreigners and aliens. It is true, lord Shef
field lays, with great truth and general approbation,
that America must henceforward be viewed as a fo
reign country, as in a state of alienage, and prohibi
tions and exclusions now go forth on that principle,
but this is to be understood only as operating on A
merica, and by no means reciprocal, or ever likely
to become so. It is true one would have exported
that provision would have been made in the treaty for
the security of the titles of British fubjeds in the care
of lands as well as debts, at least until time had been
given to dispose of them as is usual in cases where the
sovereignty of a country is changed. The Americans
had too few lands in England to draw their attention,
and they will be too good not to permit British fub
jeCts to hold lands in America, and other privileges
of natural born fubjefts as formerly, though an Ame
rican cannot hold lands in England, nor indeed ought,
as Mr. Eden fully convinced the house of commons
in the debate on Mr. Dempfter's bill for naturalizing
the issue of English women married to foreigners, for
he particularly remarked that in this case if an Eng
lish woman married an American, their children might
inherit lands in England: On this principle the bill
was rejeded; but we know the Americans are so
weak and timid, and extremely ignorant withal, that
they will not fee or raise any such diftindions.
Bthly. If the Americans, by ads of the Congress,
or the publick bodies, Ihew a spirit of conciliation,
and a disposition to comply with the treaty, pay no
regard to it, but exclaim against them as falfe and
faithlefs, who do not mean to perform it, as men who
disregard all the obligations of private honesty and
publick faith; encourage printers and paragraph writ
ers to publish every idle story and misrepresentation
of the proceedings of the country, and of their en
mity to this, and believe them; it will work finely,
and you may possibly, as has happened to many a
husband, jealous without cause, produce the very ef
fect which existed before only in his own imagination.
Though you have desolated their country with fire
and sword for seven years, annihilated their trade,
reduced thousands from affluence to poverty, and
brought general distress on all, it would be mean and
pitiful, unworthy a free born Briton, to Ihew any
sympathy or concern. On the other hand, you will
ad nobly, by insulting them with their fancied wealth,
rigorously demanding the payment of old debts with
the intervening interest, which you have disabled them
from paying, and then reproach them with dishonesty.
9thly. If you apprehend emigration from this coun
try to that, pass severe laws against it, and publish
them in every Gazette ; set spies over the gentlemen
of that country to trepan them. Experience shews
that such laws are fully fufficient to ch„ck the dispo
sition to emigrate where the necessaries and comforts
of life are easily procured, more equal liberty enjoyed,
and wages doubled and trebled. If there iy a chance
of carrying on some trade up the Mediterranean, from
which they may draw a balance of specie to help to
pay for your manufactures, use your influence with
Portugal to dift.efs and embarrass it. If the old
passes, favoured by language and similarity of appear
ances, afford some opportunity to elude the Barbary
corsairs, call them all in and change their form.—
Every vessel taken from the Americans is one added
to your stock. Besides, you cannot take too many
methods to convince them how four and ill tempered
you are, and the pleasure you enjoy in making them
fuffer for having defended them.elves so fuccefsfully.
It is true at present it will lessen remittances, and in
time the consumption of your manufactures, but I
have already ihewn they are of no fort of conse
quence.
By a careful obfetvance of these excellent rules as
of the former, be assured you will in time get rid of
their trade as you have done of their dependence, and
not be plagued with either. And should you have
another war, which may possibly happen, you will not
only be rid of them yourselves, but, perhaps, fairly
saddle them upon France, who are foolirt enough to
think the trade and friendfhip of three millions of
people in the neighbourhood of the Wert-India islands
rather beneficial than burthenfome. But this uatioa