The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1783-06-04 00:00:00, page 2

Extract of a letter from an American gentleman in
France, dated February 3.
." Since my last I have traversed the greatest part
of England, and have had an excellent opportunity
to mix with various classes of men, and was fur
prized to find so many of them of found sense so
generally wrapt up in felfifh national prejudices, as
to suppose themselves superior in every rel'ped to the
rest of mankind. However, it is generally observed,
that the American revolution has expanded their
minds, and that the clouds of ignorance and preju
dice, that have hung so heavily over their island,
begin to disperse, and by degrees that they conceive
thcmfclves but men, like all the rest of us.
" I am per funded, you would have been highly
pleased and gratified 'had you been in my place,
when the obstinate potentate of England' Looped to
pronounce the words United States' of Ameri
ca ; and it.was generally observed he never ftam
inered through ' a speech with such hiccups. 1 was
within five fret of hm with my left foot on the
throne, and was completely gratified, to fee the
cringe to admit what he had affected to treat with
contempt for a ferics of bloody years."
SALE M, May 16.
The fliip Marquis de la Fayette, Captain John
Buffinton, arrived here, on Monday last, in 49 days
from Naiitz.
Yesterday afternoon, two children, boys of about
eight years of age, while playing with a loaded
pitol, (which they, by fume means unknown to
their parents, had procured) one of them, a son
of Captain John Brewer, of this town, was Ihot
through the head, and died inftahtly.
PROVIDENCE (Rhode. Island) May 10.
Wednesday last the annual general election was
held at Newport, when the following gentlemen
were elected to the offices prefixed to their respec
tive names, viz.
His Excellency William Greene, Esq. Govef
nor. The Honourable Jabez Bowen, Esq. Deputy
Governor. Welcome Arnold, Elq. Thomas Wells,
Esq. Joseph Brown, Elq. Richard Searle, Esq. Gi
deon Mumford, Esq. Sylvester Gardner, Esq. Enoch
Hazard, Lfq. Thomas G. Hazard, Eiq. John Cooke,
Esq. John Smith (of Gloucester) Efa. Affißants.—
Henry Ward, Esq. Secretary. William Channing,
Esq. Attorney-General. Joseph Clarke, Esq. Gene
ral Treafurcr. Delegates to represent the date in
Congress. Honourable William Ellery, Esq. Hon.
Jonathan Arnold, Elq. Hon. David Howell, Esq.
Hon.. Henry. Merchant, Esq.
May it Saturday late Captain James Munroe, in
the brig Providence, arrived here from Nantz, af
ter a passage of 32 days.—He informs, that part of
the French fleet which lay at Cadiz had been or
dered to Brell, the remainder to Toulon, in order
to be dismantled and laid up. —On the 4th instant,
in lat. 4:, long. 60. he spoke the brig Roger, Cap
tain Welt, from Salem, bound tor Fayal, f>ur days
out.'
Capt. Huffey, who arrived here a few days since
from Surrinam, on his paffiige spoke Captain' Joseph
Putter, from St. Croix, bound for North-Carolina.
N EW^L O NDO N, May 23.
Captain William Coggfhall, in 16 days from St.
Croix, arrived here last week lu lat. 39 and 30 he
spoke Captain James Joyen, in the brig Ruth, trom
Cape-Francois, bound to Newbury-Port.
FISH-KILL, May 29.
We hear the fleet which last failed from New-York,
with the loyalists on board, has arrived at Cape
Rofeway, after a passage of fix days, and fafe'l y
landed fix thoufind 'of these poor chickens, lately
call off by the British hen, and left to Scratch for
themselves on the bleak Chores of New-Scotland.
A small division of transports arrived lately at
. New-York from Jamaica, confining of about forty
tail; tuppmed to be part of the lame fleet whicli
carried off the British garrison from Charieftown,
South- Carolina.
NEW- YOR K, May 21.
Just as this paper was going to press, arrived the
Apollo, Captain Bunyan, who left Spithead the
3d of April, and the land on the sth; he spoke
the brig Henry, Captain Jamaifon, from Cork, 12
days ago, all weil; by him we have received the
.following advices :
No arrangement of Ministers since the arrival of
the Iris. —;The following appeared to be the ..new
choice of his Majesty's Administration :
The Duke of Portland, First I,ord of the treasury.
Lord North, and the Hon. Mr. Fox, Secretaries
of State.
Lord Stormont, President of the Council.
The Earl of Carlifle, Lord Privy Seal.
Lord Beauchamp, Secretary at war.
Lord John CavendiSh, Chancellor of the Exche
quer.
Mr. Burke, Paymaftcr of the land forces.
Colonel North, Treasurer of the navy.
Viscount Keppel, First Lord of the Admiralty.
Frederick Montague, and Sir drey Cooper, Lords
of the Treasury. 1
Mr. William Adam, one of the Lords of the Ad
miralty.
No Commander in Chief to be appointed.
* The Lord Chancellor to go out, and the seals to
be put in coinmiffion.
Lord Sandwich, and Lord Edward Bentick, to be
joint Postmasters.
Mr. Pitt does not accept of any place, and in
tends going abroad.
The American treaty of commerce, and the ge
neral definitive treaty, not yet completed.
Dr. William Hunter died on the 31st of March;
a great loss to .the line of physic and anatomy.
CHATHAM, May ar.
At a meeting of a very refpe&able number of the
inhabitants of the county of ERex, in the State of
New-Jersey, at the county court-house in Newark,
on Monday the 19th day of May, 1783, agreeably
to invitations given in the two preceding New-Jer-i
fey Journals, and publick notices put up in different
parts of the said county :
Resolved unanimously, That the draught of a cir
cular address to the inhabitants of the other coun
ties in this state, now read, meets with our ap
probation.
Resolved urianimoufly, That twelve copies of it
ought, without delay, to be made out, to be signed
by the chairman, and attested by the clerk of this
meeting, and fowarded to the several counties of
this state.
Resolved unanimously, That two more copies of
the fame be immediately made out, signed and at
tested as the others, and lent to the Printers of the
New-Jersey Journal and of the New-Jersey Gazette,
who are Severally requeued to publish the fame in
their ufeful papers.
Extract from the minutes,
JOHN STAG, jun. Clerk.
To the refpeHable inhabitants of the county of ,
in the state of New-Jersey.
Friends, Countrymen, and Fellow-Citizens,
AFTER almost eight years continuance of a most
cruel and unnatural war, commenced by Great-
Britain againSt us (then her coionifts) for the
purpose of establishing an unlimited authority over
us: On a cessation of hostilities taking place, likely
to terminate in a firm and lading peace, by which
our freedom, Sovereignty and independence, are se
cured, yoqr fellow-citizens, inhabitants of the coun
ty of EGcx, cordially congratulate you on this au
spicious event. But though it would argue insensi
bility not to rejoice, it would evidence ingratitude
not to declare our joy on this resplendent occasion :
Yet there being many momentous concerns of (he
state requiring our immediate attention; and con
vinced of the weight and importance of unanimity,
we take this, early opportunity of addrefiing you,
perluaded ot your concurrence in measures tending
to advance the publick weal, and guard it from fu
ture Gangers. .
The Support of publick faith and confidence in the
state ; the promotion of trade and commerce ; the
exclusion from a participation of tie blessings of
freedom and independence those men who, by join
ing or taking refuge with the army of the King of
Great-Britain, have endeavoured to Subjugate this
country to his domination; and the partition or ap
propriation of the crown-lands ceded to the United
States of America by the provisional articles of peace,
Signed at Paris on the goth day of November last,
are matters which, of ad political ones, engage cur
.warmest zeal.
We cannot conceive how any man, or set of men
Should be so left to the interest of the date ; so 101 l to
common justice, as to wish to fee Solemn engagements
entered into by the Legislature of an independent
ft ite, treated by a Succeeding Legislature as being no
ways binding on them. Yet such men there 'are
(we flatter ourfcives they are few in number.) Shall
it Ue said, that to ease a multitude of paying a just
debt, it is neceflary to defraud the honest creditor
of the publick, the widow and the orphan (whose
al! is in the hands of the publick) the patriot, the
zealous affertor of his country's rights, who, in times
of imminent danger, advanced bis property for the
advancement of his country's cause, relying Solely
for re-payment on the fuccefsftil ifiue of the war?
That it is necessary the engagements of the state, so
lemnly enacted into a law by our legal representa
tives for the redemption of the paper money, emit
ted on the faith and credit of this state, Should be
violated by a Succeeding Legislature, and the said mo
ney be only in part redeemed ? Justice recoils at the
thought, policy, publick faith, and virtue, spurn the
idea. This doctrine, if adopted, by Striking at pub
h k virtue and publick credit, would deßro^ all con
fidence in publick engagements hereafter, which
mult prove disadvantageous ; for frequently the good
of the state mull require that contrasts and engagc
m.ntf be entered into which cannot be complied
with for years to come: But publick engagements
once broken, who will trust them again? Belides,
we apprehend an example of this kind, in the Legis
lature, would go far in its effects on the minds of
individuals, and that we Should footr find ourfcives
deferred by private as well as publick virtue. On
this article we are Sure of the support of every well
wifher to the dignity and welfare of the state; of
every ,over of publick and private virtue, and of eve
ry friend to juftice,'
Trade and commerce, ever found to be the strength
and riches of a people, at this .important and criti
cal cera, have made a Strong imprcffiou upon our
minds ; now is the time for New-Jersey to push her
felf forward, and take her rank among the commer
cial fta^s in our union, or hereafter be contented
with her own want of importance. Philadelphia and
New-York formerly engrossed our trade ; and, if we
have riot prudence, will do so again: And as each
state has the power of regulating its own commerce,
they may, by duties to be laid on their imports and
exports, raise a very considerable revenue from us,
and thereby lessen their own taxes; but a trade pru
dently managed within ourselves, would either bring
our goods cheaper to the confirmer, or raise a reve
nue for the benefit of this date, and thereby ease
taxation in the ordinary way. Now is the time,
let us not lose it! If our trade, centers again in any
other than our own state, it may not be easy to di
vert it from its eftaldifhed course. We have ports
equally, if not more convenient than our neighbours.
We may have all the encouragement by law that
policy can warrant. Do not let our own exertions
be wanting.
The provisional treaty of peace, signed at Paria
on the 30th of November last, being evaded in the
Seventh article, which refpeCts the restoration of ne
groes and other property of the American inhabi-'
tants, by officers, both civil and military, in New-
York, in many and repeated instances, We think it
politick, and, at the fame time, confident with the
Stricter principles of justice, to withhold our com
pliance with the fourth and other articles of said
treaty, which militate in favour of Great-Britain,.
until She Shall have complied with the said Seventh
article, or made us restitution for that part of our
property which may not be rtftored. We know not
on what principles it can be expected that the re
commendations made, or to be made, by Congress,
in conformity with the fifth article of the faid.treaty,
will be complied with by a Single Rate in the union.
If the several descriptions cf persons in whose favour
the said recommendations are to be made, are consi
dered as citizens ofthefe Rates, we have an undoubted
right to deal with them as we please ; and it is an
insult on our dignity to suppose otherwise. If they
are fubje&s of Great-Britain, the insolence of the re
quisition on her part is equalled only by the folly and
absurdity of it. But altho' Congress mutt earnestly
recommend, the Legislatures are not obliged to com
ply. We, fee not the propriety of admitting to a
participation of the blessings of freedom and inde
pendence, persons coming within any of the descrip
tions of the said fifth article, with those who, by
their toils, their perseverance and exertions, have
saved the country from the machinations of these pa
ricides, and from Bitifli domination. We conceive,
Should they return into this Rate (which has felt so
heavily their defolatirg hands) bloodshed and muY
ders will be the inevitable consequences.
The crown^duds ceded to the United States of
America, by the said provisional articles of peace,
are among the acquisitions gained by the joint exer
tions ofthe whole union ; we therefore conceive that
we are equally entitled to a participation in them,
proportioned to our expenditures and exertions in
the late war. Can it be reasonable—ls it just, that
two or three Rates in the union, who have only
contributed their bare proportion towards supporting
,, ar > ^ o ^~ !acquire properly thereby more than
Efficient to defray the expences of the whole union
throughout the war ; and the other states, whose ex
ertions have been at least equal, and some of them
perhaps superior, fliould be loaded with a debt,
which neither themselves nor their posterity will be
able to bear ? No arguments can be wanting to con
vince any reasonable man how the scale of justice
mul t preponderate in this case.
We have therefore, on these several beads, hum
bly petitioned the Legislature, paying to each that
attention the weight and importance of the fubjeft
may require. We have also given instructions to
the representatives of this county, in both Houses
of the Legislature, Similar to our petitions.
So far as you fee propriety in our measures, we
hope for your concurrence.
With the warmest zeal for the good of the union
in general, and of the state of New-Jersey in parti
cular, we are your friends and fellow-citizens.
By order of the meeting,
r MAI rillAS HALSTEAD, Chairman.
Essex county, May 19, 1783.
John Stagg, jun. Clerk.
$,1 h . an d their adherents, so habituated to
perfio.), fina it difficult to forgoe it; for, in the last
Nova-Scotia fleet, they sent off upwards of 700 ne-
Longing to the good people of these Rates
n^nammous appearance of the America^
iamus, at a late interview, had such an effect on a
gicat perlonage, and Shook his whole frame so much
p^lible'^ ° f " e '"'"?''" becanie i^i^
A certain milklivered typographer, of a neigh
bouring city, who put his hand to the plough, but
had not fortitude to persevere, we are told, is verv
busy in procuring certificates to Show that he
mo:e;" ed "'" the '"' " b t 0 the contin ent'al
''^7" taylor in the ci ^ ° f New-York, being
alked, how does business go on ?" replied, “ nol
^'^7 C ° mers have all lcarnt to tuin their
CHARLESTOWN (South-Carolina) May 3
Tins, evening a yeffel arrived in port from Borrof