The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1785-03-14 00:00:00, page 2

STATE of NEW-JERSEY.
,1n A&for the relief of perfans who have purchased
property for the use of the publick.
WHEREAS divers persons have hereto
fore purchased provision, forage and
other articles, neceffafy for the supply
of the army, and have assumed the pay
ment thereof in their private character's ; Uhich fame
provision, forage and other neceflaries, have been ap
plied to that use, and which fame persons will be lia
ble to prosecution therefor, and be in danger of be
ing ruined without the assistance of the Legislature;
for remedy whereof,
Sett. I. Be it Enabled by the Council and Gene
ral Afembly of this State, and it is hereby Enacted
by the Authority of the fame. That in all cases where
any action or actions hath or have been or may be
commenced against any perlon or petfood who have Io
purchased, contracted for and supplied, the said army,
previous to the firft day of January, Seventeen Hun
dred and Eighty-two, the court, in which such acti
ons (hall or may be commenced, shall inquire into the
circumstances of the case ; arid if, on examination, the
fame shall appear to be bona fide a debt or demand
due from this or the United States, for the supply of
the army, the said court shall be empowered, and is
hereby required, to direct a stay of any execution is
sued, or any other proceedings thereon. Provided
always, That nothing in this act contained shall de
bar any person from firing, and prosecuting to effect,
any person or persons as aforefaid who have not here
tofore, or shall not within the space of fix months
next ensuing the palling of this act, fettle his or their
accounts with this or the United States; and unless
it Ihall on such settlement appear that this or the
United Stares is really indebted to such person or
persons in a sum of money equal to such debt or de
mand so sued fbr.
2. Aid be it further Enabled, That this act ihall
be and continue in force for one year, and no longer.
Passed at Trenton, December 24, 1784.
STATE of NEW-JERSEY.
A supplement to the Act, intitled; An Act for the regu
lating, training and arraying of the militia, and for
providing more effectually for the defence and fccurit)
of the fate.
WHEREAS the fines inflicted for negleCt of duty
by the aft, intitled, ' An aft for the regulating,
' training and arraying of the militia, and for proved
' ing more effectually for the defence and security of
' the Rate,' made and passed the eighth day of Janua
ry, in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hun
dred and Eighty-one, may be collected in a way more
convenient to the inhabitants; and without any detri
ment to the Rate.
Sect. 1. Be it Enabled by the Council and General As
sembly of this State, and it is hereby Enabled by the Au
thority of the fame, That whenever any fine or forfeiture
shall be hereafter incurred by any private, by virtue
of the aft, intitled, ' An aft for the regulating, train
' ing and arraying of the militia, and for providing
' more effectually for the defence and security of the
' ftate,' the fame shall be recovered by the captain of
the company to which such private shall belong, before
any justice of the peace of the county in which such
delinquent may reside, by a warrant of distress and
sale of the goods and chattels of the offender, in the
manner and. form as debts or other demands to that
amount are recoverable by the laws of the state ; and,
in cases where no goods can be found on which to le
vy, by imprisonment of the body ; which said money,
when so collected, shall be paid to the collector of the
county wherein it may be recovered, within one month
next after such recovery and receipt thereof, any law,
usage or custom, to the contrary notwithstanding.
2. And be it further Enacted, That each and every
justice of the peace within this state ffiall, within thirty
days after issuing such warrant of distress as aforefaid,
transmit an account of the name of the captain who
may have obtained the fame, and also the name of the
private against whom such warrant has been iffiied, to
gether with the sum contained in laid warrant, to the
collector of the county as aforefaid ; which said collec
tor is hereby enjoined and required, in case of delin
quency, to prosecute such captain for recovery in any
court where the sum or funis that may be deficient
may be cognizable.
3. And be it further Enabled, That in case of prose
cution of any private for recovery of any fine or for
feiture in any other way or manner than what is herein
before directed, each and every private, so prosecuted,
ray plead this aft in bar of payment of such fine.
/ Passed at Trenton, December 24, 1784.
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Foreign Intelligence.
CHARLESTON, Feb. 7.
Saturday afternoon arrived the ship Cafle
ouglas, Captain Douglas, in five weeks from
Ondon, by whom we have received the following
advices:
LONDON, December 4- 21.
Extras of a letter from Paris, November 21.
fl TNS. le Comte de Oifelles, the new Ambaffa
,l dor to the King of Prussia, is set off for Ber
'in; this Minister carries inftruCtidns for mediating
in concert with that Court, the differences which at
present subsist between the Emperor and the Repub-'
lick of Holland ; in order, if possible, to prevent the
horrors of war breaking out on this continent.
" The Duc de Chartres, Governor to the Dau
phin, has just presented his Highness with a set of
English bay ponies, only nine hands and an half high,
the smallest ever seen in this kingdom; the Prince
will use them in a small carriage for his excursions
and exercise in the Royal Gardens. The rage for
these small horses is likely to be as great in this king
dom as in England."
The reports on the continent with regard to the
present contest between the Emperor and the Dutch
are so various and contradictory, that all we can do
to fatisfy the curiosity of our readers, is to lay before
them the several accounts we have received, that we
may not appear deficient in that impartiality, which
it is our duty as well as inclination to preserve. And
firft, the German news-writers, notwithstanding all
the probability of affairs taking a peaceable turn, are
ITII talking of the war as inevitable. We shall here
collect what we read in our lad letters from Austria:
“ The Ehiperor has lately aligned a sum exceeding
30 millions of florins, for the Support arid prosecution
of the war against the Dutch. Orders have been
given to fraife new corps of Houlans, of 800 men each,
who are not, however, to match towards the Nether
lands before the firft day of February, 1785. The
firft column of the Imperial troops, to be employed
in the Lower Countries, consists of 8640 horse, 1 7,358
foot, and 1078 artists, miners and underminers.
Other letters fay, that a great number of ftaff and
field officers are daily puffing through Nuremberg. —
Our Vienna correspondent adds, that the Emperor is
making the neceflary. preparations for his immediate
departure for Brufihls, his imperial Majesty being
fully bent to put a Speedy and final end to the diffi
culties he has hither.o met with, in his attempt to
force the opening of the Scheldt.
On the other hand, the Dutch are hot remiss in
preparing every thing to hand their ground, and as
sert their right, by opposing the Emperor's pretensi
ons ; for that purpose a general amuefty was pub
lished, on the parade at the gate, for all Such desert
ers of the Republick as would join their refpedive
corps by the firft of June, 1785 pat the fate time
the States General have come to a lefolution, which
meets with little or no opposition, that the inhabi
tants of the flat country shall be numbered and trained
to the use of arms throughout all the towns and baili
wicks within the Seven United Provinces.
We hear from unquestionable authority, that the
French Cabinet have determined upon taking an aCtive
part in the dispute between the Emperor and the
Dutch, in regard to the rights of navigation. In
consequence of this determination, orders have been
sent to the Colonels of the different regiments in the
Service of the French King, to call in all the absent
officers, who are without fail to join their respective
corps, by the 15th of next month. These orders
were publickly issued on the 28th of November. Ihe
Governors and Commanders of the different sea ports
of France, have also had orders to summon a certain
proportion of seamen, the ablest that can be selected,
and fend them to Brest, for the purpose of manning
a squadron, that will be fitted out to prevent any an
noyance Ct sea. General de Malbois is to have the
chief command of the French army against the Empe
ror, the camp equipage of which is to be furnished at
the King's expence. The regiments that compose this
force, consist together of 60,000 men.
I his resolution of the French Cabinet was made
known to the Emperor on the 26th of November
at which time such means were taken, to induce his
Imperial Majesty to renounce his intention of opening
the Scheldt, as were deemed politick. But he is said
to be fixed in his intentions of making a grand effort
to extend the commerce of his fubjeds, and means to
take the field in time.
By the Captain of a Ship just arrived from Cadiz,
we learn, that a dreadful conflagration has lately hap
pened in that city. Cur informant firft perceived it
on the morning of his departure from that port, at
which time its appearance and extent were highly tre
mendous; it continued to rage with unremitting vio
lence, and even on the following morning, the vessel
being retarded by calms, yet the flames could be
clearly difeerned. A vast explosion, he adds, took
place, from what quarter, the distance rendered it im
possible perfectly to decide; but he supposed it to
arise from that part of the harbour where the Spanish
Ships of the line lay at anchor.
Lifting a wbimfeal Hermitage near this City, be
longing to a whimfeal Gentleman, I was much
pleased with the following whimfeal EPITAPH,
placed over the Bones of a faithful Newfound
land Dog.
TRUE to his master, generous, brave,
His friend, companion, not his Slave;
Fond without fawning, still the fame
When fortune fmill'd; or when the dame
Led the poor wanderer such a dance,
An exile fad, thro' Spain and France.
Blulh then, ye human sons of b s,
Who fawn on ralcals for their riches;
Yet grudge the tribute of a tear
To the poor Dog that slumbers here.
On the 25th of October, 1694, a bowl of puncli
was made at the Right Honourable Edward Russell's
house, when he was Captain General and Commander
in Chief of his Majesty's forces in the Mediterranean
seas. It was made in a fountain in a garden, in the
middle of four walks, all covered over head with le
mon and orange trees; and in every walk was a ta
ble, the whole length of it covered with cold colla
tions, &c. In the said fountain were the following
ingredients, viz. 4 hogsheads of brandy, 8 hogsheads
of water, 25,000 lemons, 20 gallons of lime juice,
13,000 weight of fine white Lisbon sugar, 5 pounds
of grated nutmegs, 300 toasted bifeuits, and last, a
pipe of dry Mountain Malaga. Over the fountain was
a large canopy built to keep off the rain; and there
was Built on purpose a little boat, wherein was a boy
belonging to the fleet, who rowed round the fountain,
and Silled the cups to the company ; and in all proba
bility more than 60,000 men drank thereof.
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American Intelligence.
CHARLESTON, S. C. Feb. 14.
THE Honourable William Moultrie, Esq. is
elected Governor, and the Honourable Charles
Drayton, Elq. Lieutenant Governor of this State.
The Hon. John-Ewing Colhoun, J homas Sump
ter, George Haig, and Daniel Huger, Lfqrs. aie
elected Members of the Privy Conned.
Honourable Charles Pinckney, Jacob Read, John
Bull, David Ramsay, and John Kean, Esquires, are
ele&ed Delegates to represent this Rate in the Cun
grefs of the United States.
His Excellency the Governor will be proclaimed
this day, at twelve o'clock, with the usual ceremonies.
A balloon of greater magnitude than any yet exhi
bited, is intended to be sent up from Queen-theet, at
three o'clock in the afternoon, in honour of the day.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman at Pai is.
Che account given of the extraordinary discovery
made at Paris, to which they have given the name of
Magnetism Animate, has been generally looked upon as
a mere fable; and indeed well it might, though it was
said that the Duc de Chartres had experienced the ef
fects of it. However, thus much is certainly true, that
Messrs. Dillon and Melmer; two reputable gentleman
of the faculty, who were the difeoverers of this art
were applied to by Mr. S— (an English gentleman
well known, and who was in lize almost equal to the
late Mr. Bright) to reduce his bulk, which they un
dertook to effect, and did so without any internal me
dicine ; or, to his knowledge, any other application
but that of chafing and touching his body in different
parts with their hands, which they continued to do
till he was reduced to the common size, and without
any illness. Mr. S—, however, did not long survive
this experiment ; but his son and daughter, who fuf
fered under some chronicle complaints; were both per
fectly cured by them:
“ Messrs. Dillon and Meffner proposed making this
secret publick for a thousand Louis d'Ors; but the
Doctors of the Sorbonne have very wifely represented
the fatal conltquences of a publication of such a difeo
very to the King, who has forbade it, as they profefs
to be able to deprive any person, without even touch
ing him, of all the animal functions for a certain time,
and did so by two ladies, Who provoked them to it
by defying their powers.
" Thole who have often seen the Electrical Eel give
such an eleCtrical ihock to a small fifh in the fame tub,
when it came within a certain distance of the Eel, but
without touching the Eel, may do it ; and therefore,
strange as it may appear, it is not impossible but the
fame power may be found out by man, especially in
this age of new difeoveries, when wooden dolls can
speak, and automatons can be made to play at a game
which requires a stretch of the human faculties to per
form it but indifferently.
" A lady of fafhion, now in London, who accom
panied that gentleman and his family to Paris, was an
eye witness to the whole. It is said Dr. Franklin is
acquainted with this occult art, and highly disapproves
of its being made publick."
However apocryphal the curiosities in the above ex
tracts may appear, yet they are not more extraordina
ry than the qualities ascribed to a fubtile fluid in Dr.
Mead's authentick treatile on poison.
NEW-LONDON, Feb. 25.
A young man, named Thomas Wigley, who had
stolen a large and valuable parcel of jewellery, from
Mr. William Kay, at Philadelphia, having been pur
sued, was on Monday last taken in this city, and most
of the articles found in his poffeflion.
HARTFOR D, March e
We hear from Beikhampfted, that on the 17th
ult. about an hour before break of day, one Thomas
Gofs murdered his wife, in a most Locking manner,
as Re lay in bed with three children. He perpe
trated this crime with an axe, which he plunged into
her forehead, even to her brains ; with a second stroke,
he made an incision from her temple to her neck.—-
Waiting till day, he took an infant child, besmeared
with its mother's blood, as it had lain at her breast,