The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1786-07-17 00:00:00, page 3

The names of living worthies,
WASHINGTON,
GREENE,
WAYNE,
KNO X, &c.
Graced the other part, under the emblem of the Cin
cinnati, " The BALD EAGLE," with the sword of
justice in one talon, and a thunderbolt in the other ;
the words INDEPENDENCE and LIBERTY issuing
from its beak. This was supported by two figures
representing PEACE, with the insignia of a plough,
and LIBERTY with her cap. —The whole ornamented
with trophies, &c. &c. in a most pleasing and elegant
Ryle, drew together an innumerable crowd of citizens
of all denominations, expressing the highest approba
tion of this new and expentive attention of the ma
nagers, who, to their credit it must be confeffed, have
on all occasions endeavoured to render themselves wor
thy of (what the writer of this sincerely hopes they
will meet) the patronage of a generous publick.
July io. Captain Henderson, of the fchooncr Dol
phin, who arrived here on Saturday last, from Port-
Rofcway, informs, that on his passage he spoke a
sloop from New-Providence, out fifteen days, bound
to said place; the captain of which informed him of
the arrival of a ship from London, a Ihort time before
his departure, which brought intelligence that Provi
dence and Bermuda were declared free ports.
We hear from Albany, that since the publication of
the law for the organization of the militia, a military
spirit pervades the whole of that part of the state. —
In that city an artillery company, composed of young
gentlemen of the firft character, is nearly completed ;
and in Lanfingburgh (New-City) we are informed a
light infantry company is in great forwardnefs.
His excellency president Sullivan, of New-Hamp
shire, has diftinguiffied the commencement of his ad
ministration by spirited and pointed general orders re
fpeding the militia. The brigadiers and field officers
are directed to inform him, without loss of time, of
the most convenient places on which the refpedive re
giments can meet for review, which he intends to
commence in person, the latter end of Augult next.
Both horse and foot are to assemble as often as possi
ble, to pradife the manoeuvres; for though the manual
exercise ought not to be neglected, he conceives a
knowledge of tadicks to be the moll essential part of
military discipline. In fhort,as the people appear disposed
to aid the efforts and obey the commands of their cap
tain general, the militia of the state of New-Hamp
ihire, it is highly probable, will shortly excite a spirit
of emulation throughout every state in the union.
From the Georgia Gazette, 'June 22.
On Monday last, the 19th of June, died at his feat
pear Savannah, Nathaniel Greene, esquire, late
major-general in the army of the United States ; and
on Tuesday morning his remains were brought to
town, to be interred. The melancholy account of his
death was made known by the difeharge of minute
guns from Fort Wayne; the (hipping in the harbour
had their colours half masted; the (hops and florcs
in the town were flint ; and every class of citizens, sus
pending their ordinary occupations, united in giving
testimonies of the deepest sorrow.
The several military corps of the town, and a great
part of the militia of Chatham county attended the
funeral.
General Greene left behind him a wife and five
children, the deleft of whom is about eleven years ofage.
The loss of such a man, to such a family, must be tru
ly afflicting !
" Thy darts, O Death! that fly promifcous round,
" In such a victim many others wound."
Immediately after the interment of the general the
members of the Cincinnati retired to the coffeehoufe,
and came to the following resolution:
On motion,
That as a token of the high refped and veneration
in which this society hold the memory of their late
illustrious brother, major-general Greene, deceased,
George-Washington Greene, his eldest son, be admit
ted as a member of this society, to take his feat on his
arriving at the age of eighteen years ;
Refolded therefore unanimoufy, That he be admitted
a member of the Cincinnati, and that he may take his
feat in the society on his arriving at the age of eigh
teen: that this resolve be published in the Georgia ga
zette, and that the secretary transmit a copv of the
fame to the several state societies, and to the guardian
of the said George-Washington Greene.
REGIMENTAL ORDER S.
The honourable major-general Greene, (whose me
mory ought to be ficredly dear to every citizen of
America, and refpeded by every lover of the rights of
mankind) having departed this life, the colonel, from
a sense that fufficient honour cannot be paid his remains,
but what is in the power of the regiment ought to be
done, requests the regiment to exert themselves on the
occasion. The regiment will parade in the church
fquare, the infantry equally divided into eight platoons,
and marched off with shouldered arms to the front of
major Pendleton's house on the bay, from whence the
procession will take place ; the dragoons and artillery
will proceed in front of the regiment. When the pro
cession begins, the light infantry will conduct the
corpse, with reversed arms, to the left of the regi
ment; it being received, they file off to the right and
left, and take their former poll in front of the batta
lion; the whole will then march off with reversed
arms, the artillery advancing, firing minute guns, till
they arrive at the place of interment: the dragoons
will flank the corpse on the right and left, music playing
a solemn dirge. The procession being arrived at the
place of burial, the regiment will file off right and
left, face inwards, and rest on their arms, so as to let
the corpse, pall-bearers, mourners, &c. pass through.
The corpse being deposited, and the funeral rites ex
ecuted, the regiment will close their files, march up
on the right of the vault, and give three general dis
charges. The artillery at the fame time firing thir
teen rounds, in honour of this truly great and good
man. The regiment will then march off with trailed
arms to the place of parade, Ihoulder, and be dis
charged.
WILMINGTO N, July 5.
The brig May, Hugh Montgomery, matter, failed
from this port on Wednesday last, bound for St. Eu-
Ratius.
Arrived here on Friday last, the brig Polly and Bet
sey, Thomas Fort, master, after a passage of fifteen
days from St. Bartholomew. On Saturday the 17th
ult. in latitude 25 30, and longitude 66 40, spoke the
brig Mercury, captain , from the Miffifippi,
bound to Jamaica, out fifty days, all well.
Also arrived on Thursday last, the brig Polly and
Hetty, Thomas Mendinhall, matter, from St. Martin's,
seventeen days passage.
Extras of a letter from Barcelona, to a gentleman in
Ne^u London, dated March 10, 1,86.
" The obstacles that have hitherto existed against
your trade with the Mediterranean, fcems now to be
removing, as captain Lamb and captain Randall have
purchased a ship, and are going to Algiers, it is said
with a considerable sum of money, to treat on the
fubjedt of a treaty with the United States ; which there
is no doubt will soon be accomplished."
PHILADELPHIA, July 12.
From the Maryland Journal of July 4.
Substance of lord Cai marthen's answer to the requifi-I
tion of his excellency John Adams, esquire, &c. &c.
on the 20th of last February, refpeCting the British
polls held on the territories which were ceded by :
the late treaty of peace to the United States. —This
very interesting abftrad is inserted in this paper at
the particular request of several patriotic citizens,
who anxiously with the refpedive dates would (ere
it be too late) vest Congress with power adequate
to the great national business that claims their atten
tion, and for want of which this country hath al
ready been materially injured in her interest and re
putation.
" That when America shall mahifeft a real deter
mination to fulfil her part of the treaty, Great-Britain
will not hefitatc to prove her finecrity to co-operate
in whatever points depend on her to carry every ar
ticle of it into real and complete effed.
" The grievances complained of by merchants and
other British fubjeds having eßates, property and debts
due to them in the several dates, are as follows:
" Massachusetts Bay. The ad passed 3d of Novem
ber 1784, suspending the payment of interest.
" New-York. The act of the 12th of July 1782,
by which British creditors are precluded from the claim
of interest on ail debts before the id of January 1783,
and executions on the principal are forbidden to be
levied until the expiration of three years after the eva
cuation of New-York.
" The aft of the 17th of March 1783, and confirm
ed by others in 1784 and 1785, &c.
" Pennsylvania. The law passed soon after the peace
to redrain the recovery of old British debts for a given
period.
" Maryland. The ad of Odober 1780, allowing
British debts to be paid into the treasury, and that no
provision is since made for it; the funis paid in
144,5741. 9 s : 4d. 1-2, equal to 36151. 18s. 2d. cur-;
rency in specie.
Virginia. By an edid of the governor, the 2d July 1
1783, all British agents and factors who had arrived in:
that date are ordered to depart the fame; which re-'
dridion was removed by the legislature in November'
following, and the British agents and factors permitted
to return. That by an ad of October 1784, all Bri-I
tifh debts are to be paid by seven equal payments, thel
firft to be made the firft day of April 1786, and so on
annually—That no interest shall be allowed to British
fubjeds for any time between the 19th of April 1775, and
the 3d of March 1783, the said time to be considered
as one day.—That no settlement made by bend or
other specialty fliall carry interest.—This ad passed the
house of delegates and senate, but did not at the fame
time receive all the formalities, therefore it is doubtful
whether it exists as a law. The sum paid into the
treasury on account of British creditors 273,<<4!. 1 is. vd.
equal to 12,0351. sterling.1
"North-Carolina. Some ads in this state complain
ed of, but not particularly mentioned.
" South-Carolina. By an ordinance passed the 26th
of March 1784, no suit shall be instituted for a debt
previous to the 26th of February 1782, until the firft
of January 1785, when the interest only, which had
accrued since January 1780, might be recovered—and
on theist of January 1786, one fourth part of the
principal and all such interest as might be then due and
soon.—By another ad, 12th of October 1785, a debt
or during any period of a suit, is allowed to tender
land, which, after being valued, the creditor is obliged
to ' take three-fourths of the valuation.—These ads and #
others, and the condud of the state, are greatly com
plained of.
" Georgia. This state is charged with having passed
laws and regulations similar to those of South-Caroli
na, with the aggravated circumstances that the judges
from the bench have declared that no suit shall be
proceeded on if brought by a British fubjed, while,
on the contrary, they allow British fubjeds to be sued
by their creditors.
" That no provision is made for the real property
confifeated and fold for publick services, nor for mo
ney paid into the treasury. His lordship observes, that
most of these recited ads which interrupt and prevent
the collodion of British debts, in the preamble run
thus —" Whereas this state is determined to fulfil and
.y mto effed the treaty in all its parts," &c. Up
on the whole, that a British merchant is in some ftate3
positively, in others virtually, prohibited by their le
gjflatures from recovering his property, which is a
violation of the fourth article of the treaty of peace.
In several Rates judgment for interest for more than
seven years is actually suspended by law, whilst in
others, although the courts appears to be open, the
lawyers are afraid to prosecute for British debts.
" Those creditors are deemed fortunate who, upon
giving up all claim to interest (which is equal to thirty,
and in some cases to forty per cent.) can obtain security
for payment of the principal."
Extract of a letter from Alexandria, June 20.
" By authentic accounts from the western country
we learn, that a body of Indians, supposed to be of the
Wabash Tribe, collected and hole all the horses they
could find, from the white settlers there.—They were
soon after pursued and overtaken, when they engaged,
and the whites were obliged to retreat with the loss
of 3 men killed. —They soon collected a large number
of the settlers, and again pursued and overtook them,
when another engagement ensued, in which the In
dians were defeated, and loft 17 of their men."
Notice is hereby given,
TO all persons indebted to the estate of Henry Hoff
- Lman, junior, late of Lebanon, county of Hun
terdon, deceased, to pay off their refpe6tive accounts
immediately to the lubferiber, to prevent being fued—
allo all those who have any demands against said estate,
are requested to bring in their accounts properly proved
for payment before the 15th day of August next, as
git is propoled to fettle the accounts of the said estate
by that time.
HENRY HOFFMAN, Admr.
Lebanon, July 15, 1786. 4w*
By the United States in Con
gress assembled.
June 27, 1786.
Resolved,
'['HAT the judges of the court of appeals be, and
1 hereby are authorized and directed, in every cause
which has been er may be brought before them, to
sustain appeals, and grant re-hearings or new trials of
the fame, where-ever justice and right may in their
opinion require it; provided that an order for a re
hearing or new trial shall in no instance suspend the
execution of the firtt sentence, if the party in whose
favour it may have been, shall give fatisfaeftory securi
ty for the payment of such colts and damages as the
court on re-hearing the cause and reversing the decree
may think proper to award ; and that the said judges
be intitled each to ten dollars per day, during the time
they shall attend the fitting of the said courts, and
including the time they shall be ncceffarily employed
in travelling to and from the fame.
Resolved, That the said court assemble at the ci
ty of New-York, on the firft Monday in November
next, for the dispatch of such business as may then
and there be before them.
CHARLES THOMSON, Sec'ry.
*** The printers in the several Rates are requested
to re-publilh the above resolutions, and to continue
them in their papers for the information of all persons
concerned.'
TRENTON, July 17.
Died at Princeton, on Saturday morning the Bth in-
Rant, after a lingering illness, which she bore with the
greatest resignation, Mrs. Susannah Harrison, con
tort of John Harrison, Esq. poßmafter at that place ;
and, on Sunday afternoon following, her remains
were interred in the Presbyterian burying-ground.
Last week Mrs. WELLS, the celebrated wax work
er, removed to the neighbourhood of this town, where
she has opened an exhibition room, in which are shewn,
to the lite, belides the butts of several eminent person
ages, the following interesting feenes, viz. Cain murder
ing Abel, Samson and Delilah, Elifiia railing the Shunam
mite's lon, Eloisa and Abelard, the devil tempting
Arnold, and several others. The great ingenuity fliewa
in the conftrudtion of these images, and the vivacity
and expression given their countenances, render them
an entertainment well worthy of attention.
The honourable Nathaniel Gorham, Samuel Holten,
Rufus King and Nathan Dane, esquires, are chefen
to represent the state of Massachusetts, in the Congress
ot the United States.
Tne legislature ot New-Hampshire have chosen the
hon. John Langdon, esquire, hon. Pierce Long, efq.
and the hon. John Sparhawk, esquire, delegates to re
present that state in Congress.
JUST PUBLISHED,
And to be fold at the Printing-Office in Trenton,
THE
HIST O R Y
OF THE
REVOLUTION
OF
SOUTH-CAROLINA,
FROM A BRITISH PROVINCE
TO AN INDEPENDENT STATE.
By DAVID RAMSAY, M. D.
Member of the American Congress.
IN TWO VOLUMES.