The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1783-05-28 00:00:00, page 2

" ther with a large traft of country adjoining, which
" he reserved for himfelf into a new government,
'' by the name of Vandalia. And moreover, on the
" 9th of October, 1775, commissioners from Virgi
" nia made the following speech to the chiefs of
" the fix nations, Delawares, Shawaneffe, Wayon
" dotes and Ottawa Indians, who were convened
" at fort Pitt :
'' We have reason to believe that great uneasiness
" and jealousies have prevailed amongst you, te
" fpeding our intentions of making encroachments
" upon your lands. We take this opportunity to
" allure you, that we have not the molt distant
'' thought oi poheffing any part of your lands. —
'' You mult be all Icuhble the lands on this fide the
" Ohio, as far down as the Cherokee river, were
" purcaafed at the treaty of fort Stanwix, by Sir
'' Wihiam Johnson, for the King of England," &c.
" Your committee therefore anticipate, with real
" concern, the pernicious consequences which must
" ensue to the union, and to this Rate in particu
" lar, if Congress much longer delay to ascertain
" their common right to the unappropriated lands,
" which, having been wrested by their united efforts
" from toe crown of Great-Britain, are in justice
" and reality the price of their common blood and
“ treafme. WILLIAM TRENT,
NAI H. SCUDDER,
HUGH HUGHES.
" On the question, whether the house agree to
" receive and enter the laid report on the journals ?
" It was carried in the affirmative, Nemine Centra
" dicente. Whereupon,
'• Ordered, That Mr. Trent, Mr. Scudder and
" Mr. Hughes, be a committee to draw up a repre
" fentation to Congress, agreeably to the said re
" port."
Which representation to Congress, after the con
currence of council, I find to be in these words:
To the UNITED STATES in CONGRESS affembkd.
The REPRESENTATION and REMONSTRANCE
of the Legislative-Council and General
Assembly of tee State of New-Jersey,
Sbeoveth, %
" THAT the Legislature of this state did, by their
" representation dated the Sixteenth day of June, in
" the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hun
" dred and Seventy-eight, which was read in C'on
" grefs, and entered in their journals on the twen
" ty-fifth day of the fame month, make sundry ob #
" jcctions to, and propose correspondent alterations
" in, the articles of confederation proposed by Con
“ grefs to the several Rates in union.
" That although a majority of the Lid Rates in
" Congress did not agree to the said alterations, ne
" verihetefs, urged by the then critical state of pub
" lick affairs, arid particularly by the circular letter
" of Congress, dated the tenth day of July, in the
“ fame year, th e Legislature did, by an att of the
" twentieth day of November following, an exem
" reification of wh'''hwas read in Congiefs, ano en
" tered in their joL' rna l s 011 the twenty fifth of the
'' fame month, empt )wer " ie delegates of the state
" to subscribe the fair? articles of confederation.
" That, avoiding uOneceffary repetitions, they
"beg leave, in the moil earnest and explicit man
" ner, to call the attention °f Congress to these fc
" veral records, as from th' e , ^is cleaily unoer
" Rood in what confidence tL" s st at e waved, for the
" time, their just pretensions described in the sixth
" article of the repidentation before-mentioned, and
" poßponed every private confide ration to the bap
" pinefs and perfection of the unio. n , wel] convinced
" bat the time could not be far did. ^, when every
" partial and unfounded claim wool 1 bc equitably
" and fatisfa&orily relinquished.
" That they saw, with the utmost furprize, an
“ office opened by the commonwealth of Virginia,
'' for the file and difpoial of lands, wfo'ch, before
" and at the commencement of the pre Rmt war,
“ were confeffedly veiled in the crown f- Great
“ Britain, when, on the plainest principle) fl the
" law of nations, of reason, truth and justice, icy
" are become, by the revolution, vefteu in Congiels,
“ for the use of the federal Republick they repre
" That it is the iudifpenfable duty of this Legif
“ lature, in juftification and defence of the rights of
" the people, to except and remonftratc, in the
" most pointed terms, againftthe ddpohtion of any
" property under the foregoing description, loi the
" separate emolument of any state.
" That they acknowledge no tribunal but that
" of Congress, competent to the redress of such a
" grievance as the setting up, by any Rate, an cx
" elusive claim to any of the said lands, in whate
" ver part of the union they may be situated ; and
" they fee with pleasure, in the proceedings of Con
" grefs of the sixth day of September, and tenth day
“ of October last, the faithful and generous efforts
“ made by that Honourable Body to compromise and
" adjust differences upon this fubjed, and have the
" fulleft hopes they will be effectual.
" That it is the habitual predilection of this Rate,
" that all causes of complaint, jealousy and contest,
" not only upon this but every other fubjed, ihould
" subside under the conciliating influence of equity,
" moderation and liberal affections (an example of
" which, on the present question, is furnished by
“ an adjoining Rate) and that it may never become
L O ND O N, March ii.
The tumult among the great political leaders is
grown still warmer and more importhut. The de
sign of the cabal has been to keep the Rockingham
party from St. James's; and in order to effect this,
various wild and incoherent arrangements have been
formed, which have as conßantly turned to nothing,
and the nation has been left for a whole fortnight
without a government. At length they prevailed on
Earl Gower to take the office of Prime Minißer, at
lead for a time, until they ihould be able to drive the
temporary bills through the two houses. He con
sented, on the provilion that Mr. Pitt Ihould con
tinue Chancellor of the Exchequer, to conouCt the
bulinefs of the House of Commons. In this ihape
things Rood on Sunday : Lord Alhburton to be
Chancellor; Lord Thurlow to be President of the
Council; Mr. Jenkinfon and Lord Stormont to be
Secretaries. The only difficulty to be got over was,
to prevail on Mr. Pitt to join thio new body ; and
yesterday morning there were many conferences, the
results of which were, that Mr. Pitt peremptorily
refufed to aft with this set of men, declaring that
he would make no part of an administration which
Should take in any of the members of the secret jun
to. Earl Gower then declared that he would not
accept of the premierihip. The King being told this,
delivered himfelf, we underhand, with uncommon
warmth, declaring, that he had been idly amused by
men who had not influence in the country to fom
any Ministry by which the bulinefs of the nation
could be managed—and having said this, he, much
ruffled in his temper, fat off into the country, with
out going near the levee. Loud. Chron.
March 13. Lord North was yesterday lent for by
his Majesty, and desired to form an arrangement of
Administration upon as broad and permanent a ba
lls as possible.
We are well informed that a Ministry (fa long
wanted to this country) is at latt formed under the
direction of his Grace the Duke of Portland, to
whom his Majesty yesterday committed the office of
First Lord of the Treasury, and the nomination of
the persons whom he thought moR adequate to fill
the other departments of the Rate.
The new arrangement, we are informed, is as fol
lows: —Duke of Portland, First Lord of the Trea
sury; Mr. Fox, and Lord Fitzwilliam, or Mr. 1 itt,
Secretaries of State; Mr. Montague, Chancellor of
the Exchequer.
It is uncertain whether Mr. Pitt will join the
above, but it is hoped and believed he will be pre
vailed upon to take a principal office.
If Mr. Pitt does not continue Chancellor of the
Exchequer, Lord John Cavendilh is likely to suc
ceed him.
March 15. Two merchants of the city who were
deeply engaged in the American trade, and had very
great arrears owing to them at the commencement
of the troubles, have received letters from their cor
respondents by the way of France, within these few
days, wherein they are promised to have consider
able consignments lent over as soon as their ports
are all open for a trade.
Our readers may red affufed, that though the fi
nal hand has not been put to the ministerial arrange
ments in all the parts of it, yet that the principal
departments are actually disposed of, and that the
ultimate formation will be announced on Monday
next at the levee. The offices already filled are as
follows: The Duke of Portland, First Lord of the
" just to entertain a thought of resorting to other
" means.
" Confiding therefore in the watchful care, the
" wisdom, justice .and firmnefs of Congress, they
" assure themselves that the Republick will be fe
'' cured against detriment, and the rights of every
" Rate in the union ftridtly maintained." See the
journals of the Houle of Adlmbly for the 29th of
December, 1780.
Notwithstanding these repeated remonstrances to
Congress, as yet, nothing has been done by them
in justice to New-Jersey, or to any other of the
Rates which are in the fame situation with this Rate.
I confef?, that these circumstances are difeouraging:
But, as the Delegates -^ Congress are yearly chang
ing, and the present period being the faired and
mod proper for the difeuffon cf this bufmele, I
most humbly request, as a citizen of New-Jersey,
that your Honours will remonstrate, once more, to
Congress, on the fubjeft, explicitly and for the last
time, unlcfs you are honoured with an answer; for
I am as jealous of the honour of New-Jersey, as I
am of its interests, and would never become grove
ling by frequently importuning for a part of that
property, to which we are entitled as proprietors in
common with the other Rates, whet it is at all times
in „our power to enter and possess ourselves of a
part.
Great numbers of our citizens are intent upon
providing for themselves settlements in the new
countries; and they will do it: Therefore, unless
your Honours will provide lands for them, and re
ceive their money, or secure a jult proportion or the
profits arising from their purcbafes, if paid else
where, the state of New-Jersey will be deserted of
it; citizens, and beggared of its cash, while tiiofc w ho
remain in the state mull be rendered bankrupts by
the publick debt.
E Q_U A LIT Y.
May 18, 1783.
Feb. go. Some recent Philadelphia papers an
nounce, that on the next anniversary of the decla
ration of independence the 4th of July, a new 01 " d f r
of knighthood, called the Order of Freedom, 1 will
be established, and the installation take place in , the
city of Philadelphia.
Patron of the order, St. Louis.
Chief of the order, President of Congress for th e
time being.
Grand Mafler, General Washington.
Chancellor, Dr. Franklin.
Prelate, Dr. Witherspoon.
Gcnealogift, Mr. Payne..
Gentleman usher, Mr. Thomson.
Register and Secretary, Mr. Diggs.
Herald, Mr. Hutchins.
Twenty-four knight companions, consisting of the
Governor of each state for the time being, which
they reckon nineteen.
General Lincoln, General Greene, Gen. Waynes
Colonel Washington, and Colonel Lee.
The robe is to be scarlet and blue, with ermine—
the ribband a broad fattin, with thirteen alternate
Rripes of red and white ; to which will be suspended
an embossed medal of gold and enamel, on the front
of which dill be represented virtue, the genius of the
United States, dreifed like Amazon, resting on a
spear with one hand, and holding a sword with the
other, and treading on tyranny, represented by a
man proflrate, a crown fallen from his head, a bro
ken chain in his left hand, and a icourge in his right:
in the exergue, fie temper tyrannis. On the reverse
is a group; libertas with her wand, and Pileus;
on one fide of her, Ceres with a cornucopia in one
hand, and an ear of wheat in the other ; on the other
fide eternity, with the globe and Phcenix. In the
exergue, Deus nobis h^c otia fecit. The loop of*
the medal is to be formed by the figure of a rattle
snake, with the tail in its mouth, as an emblem of
eternity: An ere& ftaff of liberty, terminated by
the cap at top, will be fixed to the body of the snake,
and under it the motto of in redo decus.
March 1. A considerable society of neighbours and
friends from Norfolk and Lincolnihire are preparing
to emigrate to America. They have drawn up ar
ticles of agreement to ihare jointly in all the ex
pences of the voyage, freighting a ship, &c. and in
every thing that does not concern the property of
land when they arrive there. There are fix of them,
neighbours to each other, in the fame waste, draw
ing lots who shall choose his estate firft, to the extent
of ip,cco acres, or 50^0, according to his means
of fettling. The next lot is to choose where he
pleases, provided it joins for the length of a mie
Treasury ; Mr. Fox and Lord Stormont, Secretaries
of State; Lord North, member of the cabinet, as
warden of the cinque ports ; Lord Keppel, Firlt
Lord of the Admiralty; Lord Carlifle, Ambassador
to France ; Mr. Eden, Secretary at war ; Mr. Burke,
paymaster of the forces; Mr. Sheridan, under Se
cretary of State ; Lord Foley, Poftmaller-General.
The Chancellorship of the Exchequer is not yet
finally disposed of. Englilh Chronicle.
The army in Ireland is to be reduced to 4000 ef
feclive men, in which four regiments of herfe and
three of dragoons are to be included. This is the
smallest peace teßablifhment that kingdom ever had,
March 15. Yesterday an express arrived at the Se
cretary of State's Office, giving an account of the
people of Staffordfllire having rose in large bodies
near Newcastle ; they were upwards of 3000. The
militia of the county had been employed, but threw
down their arms ; the principal inhabitants had
formed themselves into committees, but hitherto
had not been able to disperse them, their numbers
increasing every day, on account 01 the high prices
of the necefiary articles of life.
March 18. We are happy to acquaint cur read
ers, that a meflage from his Majcfty carried Lord
North to Buckingham house, on Sunday evening, at
seven o'clock, when a conversation took place be
tween the King and his Lordlhip, which ended in
a re-eftabiiihment of his Lordship's royal commis
sion to form an arrangement of Adnd idflration ; and
we have every reason to believe, that we shall have
it in our power to congratulate our fellow fubje&s
on the reiteration of a government of Great-Britain
within two or three days at fartheft.
Letters from Paris lay, that a report has been,
lately circulated there, and generally believed, that
a French Laii-lndia Company is loon to be efta
bliihed; and that this Company sill, accprding to
treaty, have the exclusive privilege of supplying the
States of America with oriental commodities, for a
stipulated term of years, and that, in return, the
Court of France will relinquish all claim to the debt
incurred by the United States, during the late war.
Extract of a letter from the Hague, March 12.
'' The orders which have been ißued out for all
the sailors belonging to the men oi war actually in
commission, to repair on board their refp€&ive Ihips,
forms matter of many conjectures."
March ao. From the late versatile niode of ap
pointing Miidflers, it is generally imagine d that, in
future, they will be pricked down as the sheriffs are
lor the year ensuing ; and of course a new ft t of men
hold the reigns of government annually. „It is the
flux and reflux of the sea, with the Rhine p articles
mixed in the fluid, which prevent the wate r from
putrefaction.