The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1778-03-18 00:00:00, page 4

Mr. Collins,
OF all the ebullitions of disappointed malice, I
never met with a more outrageous instance than
General Toon's answer to Genera) Parsons's letter.
Could I poflibly conceive rnyfelf accountable (fty s this
felf-junifying incendiary) to any revolted subjects of the
King of Great-Britain, &c. Is there any insinuation
in General Parfonj's letter to warrant luch a piece
of incivility ? Is my giving a man who is reported to
have directed the most horrid barbarities, an oppor
tunity to disavow them, before I retaliate upon bare
reporfo assuming a right of making him accountable:
Had General Parsons made no such request, but pro
ceeded upon the report as true, and had it after
wards proved falfe, would not General Triyy have
made it a matter of complaint, that he built upon
common fame, when it was in his power to have
obtained a disavowal of the charge ? But let me tell
this waspish Gentleman, that for inhumanity every
mantis accountable to every man. Inhumanity is de
claring war against all mankind, in which every in
dividual of the species is concerned as man, abftrafr
ed from all other considerations. It cannot therefore
be palliated by considering the man in this or that
situation, because it is the violation of rights due to
him as man, in any situation. But why this extreme
indignation against revolted subjects ? Doth this de
pendant on court-favour think every revolt, consider
ed as Rich, a proper objed of his wrath ? Is he de
termined to kick the fliins of every Portuguese Gen
tleman he meets, because the Duke of Braganza re
volted from Spain ? Or is it a matter of indifference
with him, whether a revolt be with or without
foundation ? Has he forgot that himfelf belongs to a
nation which revolted from King fames, before he
had perpetrated a thousandth part of the, cruelties
and murders that have been committed by King
George ? And that upon the justice of that revolt is
built all the right which King George has to the
British throne?
Ifoould, yuere I in more authority, burn every Com
mittee-man's house within m, reach. Well said, Ge
neral ignipotent and primitial imp of Pefavius !
What pity it is that this little falam,under is so unrea
sonably reftrided in the exertions of his burning facul
ties! Surely had his matter a due sense of his pecu
liar genius for reducing houses and barns to alhes,
he would doubtless grant him an exclusive right to
commit arson, and conftityte him ( Vaughan's late
merit notwithstanding) Confagrator General of all
America. Did ever any creature in human ihape be
fore this son of combustion publickly lament his want
of power to consume houses by fire ? But you are to
know gentle reader, that this defeendant of Vulcan,
(not I presume by Venus tlrc fair, but by Erinnys the
, fury) deems these agents the picked instruments of the
continued calamities of this country. But pray. Sir,
who appointed, and who continues these Committee
men ? Have they affirmed their office ; or were they
elected by the people ? or would the people continue
them in office, unless they add agreeable to their
sentiments? Are these tremendous Committee-men
Stronger tha^n the whole community, and able to ex
ercise an usurped authority contrary to the inclina
tions of the publics ; and that too with this terrific
son of ignition at the head of the male-contents. In
"what numberless absurdities has the ridiculous rant
of this angry man involved him ? These fame Com
mittee-men, who at other times are an infignificant
rabble, are now magnified into such a mountain of
terror, that General Tryon is drilling to give twenty
fiver dollars for every dating Committee-man who
Jball be delivered up to * the King's troops. What an
ambitious mortal this, to aspire after such a plurality
of offices ! Not content with being Configurator Ge
neral, he now sets up for Universal Kidnapper ; and
is to save the nation from perdition by bribing a
man's domefticks to deliver him up, whose place,
when delivered up, would be instantly filled with
another; the action remaining exposed to the fame
perdition; and five dollars out of pocket by his
nonfenfieal bargain, Doubtless this Gentleman had
better bestow "his fiver dollars (and if he has any
gold ones, they will not be naif-applied in the way I
propose) to repair the damages sustained by the poor
inhabitants of North-Carolina (when it was his duty
to protect them} by tire peculation of a set of vil
lains of his appointment. But before the end of the
next campaign (take courage noble General, and keep
your purse in your pocket) thefefame Committee-men
quill be torn to pieces by their own countrymen, whom
they have forcibly dragged into oppoftfiod against their
lawful Sovereign, and compelled them to change their
happy conftitjtion forpaper,, rags, anarchy, qnd dist refs.
Very lavish of your money indeed, good Matter Try
on, to offer twenty dollars for a man who will so
shortly be torn to pieces^ without any expence of
yours. I begin to fufpeCt from such unnatural libe
rality, that this limb of Mount aEtna intends to
fcorc the whole reckoning to King George; which
would rather be unconscionable, considering that he
has already been dragged intp so many idle bargains
of this kind, that his troops , in Philadelphia, inflead
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of fingering any fiver dollars, are ready to jump at
the very fight of our paper and rags. And whatever
we have changed the constitution to, (with which
we are perfectly content, or we should not so vigor
ously defend) I know full well, Major-General Fire
brand, what we have changed it from, (and judge
you whether that be preferable to paper and rags)
it is, in plain English, from tyranny, corruption,
villany and vassalage; to which, Sir, you ate eter
nally welcome at one half of your premium for kid
• napping a Committee-man. But by what kind of
force did the Committee-men drag their countrymen
into the oppoftion ? It mud certainly have been by the
force of magic, and the Devil and Dodor Faustus
mutt have helped them pull with all their might and
main. For did you ever fee, good Matter Combustion,
out man at one end of a rope, and one thousand at
the other, and the firft able to drag away the latter ?
Surely if these Committee-men are so incredibly
strong, it will require a couple of regiments to hold
a fingie prifoncr; and then instead of twenty sher.
dollars, each of these giants may cost the nation
twenty thousand. Nor can I fee hue General 'Try
on can save this expence, unless he grasp at another
office, and turns burner of men as well as burner of
houses. But in sober earnest, his charging the firing
of New-York upon the inhabitants, whose interne
it was to save it, is such a compilation of cruelty
and falfehood, as is rather to be detested in silence
than capable of being exprefled in words.
HORTENTIUS.
Mr. Collins,
I HAD in contemplation to draw a petition to our
assembly against taxing money at interest, to be
presented if any motion ihould be ihade for it ; but
feeing the piece published in your last paper No. 13.
against the measure, thinking perhaps it may answer
a better purpbfe to put my objections in your Ga
zette, that the arguments and reasons may be seen as
well by the rep relented as representatives, I have con
cluded to mention a few objections for your publica
tion not noticed by that writer.
The measure for taxing money at interest has been
long thought of by a large number of the inhabitants
of New-Jersey, especially by the landed interest in
whofe'favour this new tax was to be levied, &; by so
much as should be collected in that Way,iwoilld be
taken off or lessen their tax.' Let us put the ques
tion, who is it that has made so many freeholders jn
New-Jersey for fifty years past, or ever since the set
tlement of it, has it not been the usurer? It is cer
tain there is a great number of our able farmers
who have made themselves so by hiring money,
which if they could not have done, must have become
or remained tenants perhaps their whole lives ; and
how much more ufeful freeholders are to the com,
munity than tenants, common observation teaches
us. The proprietor of a plantation improves it,
ereds good buildings, and becomes a heady ufeful
man to'fociety. The tenant has no interest in erect
ing buildings or improving the lands, only to answer
for the prelent crop, so that instead of a country
being improved, in time it will be impoverished by
tenants. And when the present gaih of putting
money to interest is -flopped by being taxed or low
ered, the usurer will immediately call in his money
and lay it out in lands, so that in a few years we Ihall
have treble the number of tenants we now have.
This objection would have always flood good'; but
if we take a view of the present times, what advan
tage has the farmer or freeholder of the usurer?
Have not the farmers estates doubled in value, and
bonds funk in proportion ? Can a man's effate, be
ing all in bonds of two thousand pounds, be now
looked upon worth as much as one thousand , pounds
was to him three years' ago ? And in whose favour is
this mighty change ? Is it not in the freeholders, the
landed men who have heretofore hired money, made
great profit by it, and grumbled because their bonds
were not taxed in the hands of the possessor ? I know
a landed man who always hired considerable sums of
money, and by that means kept from felling any part
of his estate, has very lately fold a plantation for
upwards of one thousand pounds, which if he had
advertised for sale for half the money from 1765 to
75 would not have met with a purchaser ; and this
is the way the farmers who are in debt in general
through New-Jersey arc felling, and paying off their
debts where they have not moveables to fell and an
swer their obligations. Won't every reasonable per
son plainly fee and fay that the estates which are
increasing in value can and ought to pay the taxes ?
To tax persons for the money they have at interest
is really adding to their ruin, and helping or eating
those very persons who have made such great gain
out of them as -has been mentioned,
Hunterdon County, March a, 177%. A< B.
A SMALL parcel of ALLUM, LOAF SUGAR,
and good BOHEA TEA, to be fold by
JOHN MURRAY,
In Pott^Grove, Philadelphia County.
4Wf
ALL persons indebted to the estate of JAN E
II COMMA NS, deceased, of Trenton, whether
by bohd, note or book accounts, are desired to come
and make payment by the 15th of April next : All
thole, likewise, 'who have any demands against said
estate, are requested to bring in their accounts, pro
perly attested, that they may be fettled, by me
JOSEPH GREEN, administrator.
Feb. 27, 1778. 4 w*
James and Alexander Stewart
Have for S ALE, in Hackett's-Town, Sussex county,
New-Jersey,
ALarge quantity of PAINTS, viz. Spanish
brown, red lead, white lead, yellow oker and
mahogany colours; glass 6 by 8 and 8 by 10 ; muf
covado sugar at 6/. per lb. by the hogshead; or 6^. by
the barrel,beft white clay'd do.at ts by the boghead
or barrel, second ditto at Bf 6. third ditto at Bf.'
N. B. They give 3/9. per Ib. Jo r BEES-WAX. gw*
Trenton, February 28, 1778.
TO BE SOLD,
AN extraordinary good, strong, and very hand
- tome one horse CHAISE, elegantly painted,
with an iron axle, steel springs, and leather fall-back
head, gears, &c. Enquire of Mr. B. Smith, saddler,
opposite Mr. Williams's tavern.
N. B. A pair ofgood strong horses wanted 0 buy ;
and a few horses so fell. Enquire as above, gwf
March 4, !„&
TO BE SOL D,
SEVERAL Tracts of valuable LAND ; one lying
situate at the head of Mufconetcung river; in
New-Jersey, al out thirty-five miles from Elizabeth
Town and four from Suckafunney Plains, containing
about three thousand acres, having on it a large forge
with four fires and two hammers, a grist mill and
saw mill on one of the best streams in America, with
eighty acres of choice meado<and many valuable
buildings on the fame, all in good order, which is
now under leafc for eight and a half tons of bar iron
per annum ; it will be fold together or wparde. Also
another trad lying situate on the said river, known
by the name of Squire's Poii , about fifteen miles
from Eafton on the river Delaware, containing about
one thousand eight hundred acres, having on it an
old fcr/c and very good grist mill, a dweiling-houfe
and barn, all in good order. Also another trad ly
ing situate about fifty miles from Efopus, containing
about nine thousand acres. Also another tract lying
litigate on Otter Creek, choice good land, contain
ing about four thousand acres. Allo a large parcel
of cattle, sheep, and hogs, and a large quantity of
farming utenhls too tedious so mention. Also a pho
ton and pair of neat horses, chair and fulkey, a fine
English stallion and several breeding mares. All those
that have demands to bring in their accounts, and
they will be adjusted; and those that are indebted
to me either bv bond, note, or book, accounts, are
requested to : difeharge the fame immediately, as 1
intend to remove to Weft-Florida, chief of my fa
mily being now there. Any person or persons by
applying to the lubfcriber for any of the above arti
cles or land, may purchase as they can agree for
Continental Money or credit, with giving bonds and
good' fecuritv, by
3 wf ' GARRET RAPALJE.
lo all whom it may concern.
New-Jerfey,^ OTICE is hereby given, that a.
fs. Iv Court of Admiralty will be held at
the house of Renfelaer Williams, in Trenton, on
Monday the 23d day of March instant, at ten o'clock
in the forenoon, then and there to try the truth of
the facts alledged in the bills of Joseph Wade, com
mander of the armed boat called the Fame, (who as
well, &c.) against the fioop or ^ffel called the Duck,
and the sloop or vessel called the Betsy, with their
refpedtive tackle, apparel, furniture and Cargoes,
lately captured by the said Joseph Wade, and Capt.
Martin Wert, commander of the armed sloop Arne Id.
To the end and intent that the owner or owners of
the said sloops refpeflively, or any person or perfns
concerned therein, may appear and ihew cause, if
any they have, why the said sloops er vessels and
their relpedive cargoes, ihauld not be condemned
according to the prayer of the laid bills.
3w By order of the fudge,
March ?d, 1778. ___B. REED, F^o^Reg.
Trenton,- Feb. 9, 1778.
NOTICE is hereby given to all persons capable of
driving a team, who are willing to enlist for
carters in the continental arm;, to serve for th:ee
years ; that they fliall have twenty dollars boui ty,
fix pounds per month, from the time of their en ft
ment, afuit of new clothes every year, and a g sac
coat (if possible) and shoes or bpats, by their [ cr
ducing a certificate from their waggan-mafte! of
their good behaviour. All. persons willing to e 4ift
on the above terms, are desired to apply to m at
my quarters in Trenton.-
3 w SAMUEL H. SULLIVAN, D. QM G.