The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1785-06-27 00:00:00, page 3

oaths, and fabfcribing the declaration required by the
constitution, they proceeded to business: And on the
day following, an excellent and well adapted discourse
was delivered before them by the Rev. Jeremy
Belknap, from Psalm cxliv. 11. 15.
Neither of the candidates for the Presidency hav
ing a majority of votes from the people at large, the
house proceeded to the choice of two out of the four
candidates, agreeably to the constitution, and the
Honourable John Langdon, and George Atkin
son, Efqutres, were accordingly chosen, and sent up
to the Senate, who were pleased to make choice of
the former as President of this state the year ensu
ing. His Excellency being notified of his appoint
ment to this high office, made known his acceptance ;
and having, in the presence of the Senate and House,
taken the neceflary oaths, and subscribed the decla
ration, as required by the constitution, he was pro
claimed by the Senior-Senator, President of the State
of New-Hampshire, and took his feavin the chair ac
cordingly.
Extrafl of a tetter from Captain R. Kendal, of the
Jhip Brothers, dated March 14
" I left Sitrioine last month, and durst not stay any
longer, as I was fearful of being flopped by a French
frigate, which is arrived there lull ol soldiers, and seems
in a great hurry in erecting batteries in different parts
of the river; they have finifhed one battery at Gam
bay island, and am informed they intend having one on
Taggareen Point, and one on Fory Point, as well as a
battery on the Cape; two more French men of war
daily expert d to join this frigate, so that I fancy no
more English vessels will be fuffered to go into that ri
ver."
The British restraining our trade, keeping possession
of our frontier posts, carlying away our money, and
laughing at us-r-• — -and likely to do so forever.
His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland hath
given the royal assent to " An adt for the further con
tinuing an act, intitled, An aft for facilitating the trade
arid intercomfe between the kingdom of Ireland and
the United States o' America, and for furthering the
said trade and intercourse, and for prohibiting the im
port of tobacco not being the growth of the laid hates;
or of the British plantations, or of Great- Britain."
It is reported, that the British parliament have
agreed to the commercial propositions in favour of, and
in justice to, the kingdom of Ireland, after a long dis
cuffion.
Many refpe&able towns in this Commonwealth
have inftru&ed their representatives to use their ut
most exertions to have the stamp-ad repealed. Lhe
Printers of this Commonwealth, at a general meet
ing, held at hofton, on the 25th ult. agreed to peti
tion the Honourable General Court, relpeding the
act: Their petition was presented, and read in the
House of Representatives, on Tuesday last week, by
his Excellency John Hancock, Esquire, and was
afterwards committed.
Extrafl of a letter from Capt fames Ervine, no^v
a prisoner at Mogador. South-Barbary, to a gen
tleman in this tomn? dated April 1, 1785.
“ Soon after our arrival at Tangiers, we were or
dered to Morocco, and carried before the Emperor,
who informed us that he was at peace with our nati<
on, but soon after ordered us to this place, where we
are to remain prisoners, till Congress may think pro
per to fend an imbaflador to our relief. 1 his is the
ultimate determination of the' Emperor Me hope,
which is all the comfort we have under our dreadful
situation, they will be speedy and favourable to our
wishes, and teftore us again to our families and
friends." ——
We are informed, that the venerable Dr. Frank
lin is momently expected from Europe. It is sug
gested, in case of his fafe arrival, that, as no person
can be better qualified, he will be called to fill the
chair of state in this Commonwealth, at the ensuing
election. The faculties of this second Newton, not
withstanding his advanced period of life, are perfectly
found and unimpaired ; and the community will doubt
less continue to experience every advantage that can
arise from the superior talents and abilities of so dis
tinguished a philosopher and hatefman.
It is, a circumstance worthy of remark, that new
negroes in Charleston fell for 451- to ycl. in calh;
but for 751. at fix or nine months credit.
There has taken place at Hudson a most benevolent
institution, under the title of " The Society for pro
moting the manumission of slaves," whereof the Hon.
John Jay, Esquire, is appointed President, and Sa
muel Franklin, Esq. Vice President.
It is a most afflicting consideration, that the distress
felt in this city, pervades, as we have from indubita
ble authority, almost every state on the continent. —
From the north to the south, the general complaint is,
a total want of money to carry on trade, and this
merely in consequence of the prodigious quantities of
foreign gewgaws and luxuries, with which, as it were
to be avenged for casting off her yoke, the old world
has deluged us. The Ihort-fighted man of trade and
ALEXANDRIA (Virginia) June 9.
PHILADELPHI A, June 18.
WORCESTE R, June 9.
June 17.
The third Wonder of the World!!!
NE W-Y R K, June 14.
That what is here advance d, is not the croaking of
an omening, ill-boding raven, we have but two many
proofs : of an infinity, however, we shall only advert
to the most glaring, that of bankruptcies: it will hardly
need an argument to prove, that if our merchants and
traders had not fatally indulge d themselves in the cost
ly produce of the east for their raiment, and had not
vied with the depraved Europeans in their sumptuous
and epicurean banquets, there would not have been
one third of the failures which have happened here
lately; nor would so mine persons have had recourse
to swindling; to reimburse themselves for the hums'
swallowed up in the vortex of pomp and luxury.
These things being incontrovertible, it is obvious,
that the primary object in all the dates Ihould be, to
recal as speedily as possible th* amiable innocence and
simplicity of manners, which engendered the noble
spirit of independence that emancipated this country.
To this end, the introduction of every commodity,
which only serves to minister to luxury, should be
guarded against, as the most noxious of the contents
of Pandora's baneful box. Sumptuary laws are, per
haps. incompatible with the spirit of a free constituti
on; otherwise, this would be a very easy means to
oblige people to live within their income: however,
some plan might easily be devised, to banish that spi
rit of dress and shew, which at present sets out the
shop-boy in such a style, that it is hardly possible to
diftinguilh between him and the firft merchant in the
city-.,,
business, blind to every object but those which threat
en to affeft his immediate interest, looks no farther
than the stagnation of trade, and poverty consequen
tial thereof. But the politician, the moralist, the di
vine, the philosopher, who combine the pad, present,
and future, and from the two firft draw conclusions
for the last, take a more enlarged profpectof the fatal
consequences, which impend from these luxuries, and
in comparison of which every other consideration is
beneath notice : that is to fay, a depravation of mo
rals and character, and a taste for dissipation, prodi
gality and extravagance, which bid fair to exhibit in
the new world a political phenomenon, such as history
may be ransacked for in vain : viz. a nation in the out
let of her dominion, being in a very advanced stage of
depravity and corruption. Let history be examined,
and there will hardly be found an exception to the ob
fervatioh, that the founders of empires have been un
tainted with the vices we speak of, which are charac
teriftick of dates in the last stage of decadence. The
introduction of luxury in a state has ever invariably
precipitated it from the furnmit of power. What a
melancholy profpeCt, then, that the emancipation of
these countries from a foreign yoke, and the preva
lence of a most unbounded taste for luxury, may be
referred to one and the fame era !
New-Jersey, Mid- ? NT OTICE is hereby given, that
dlefex county, JIN the vendue held for the sale
of the lands situate in my bailiwick, of and belonging
unto Humphry Wall, taken in execution at the suit
of Samuel Stevenson and others, is adjourned for want
of buyers to Monday the firft of August next, at Ben
jamin South's tavern, near the premises, when it will
certainly be fold if any buyers, between the hours of
12 and 5 o'clock in the afternoon, &c. —All that plan
tation and trad of land, said to contain 320 acres,
house and barn, with other necessary improvements ; a
good bearing orchard of about 300 apple-trees, about
150 acres of tilable, the remainder timber-land ; very
valuable swamp, some of which is cleared for meadow;
it is very convenient to mill and market, the road
leading from Allentown to Trenton going through the
fame: The said farm will admit of great improvement,
&c. ABRAHAM SCHUYLER, Sheriff.
June 20, 1785. 5w
June 22. The river Potowmack empties into the Bay
of Chesapeake, and divides Virginia from Maryland.
It passes through a fertile country, and if the proposed
improvements in its navigation are carried into effect,
will perhaps be of greater importance in the commerce
of America than any other river in the United States.
It has hitherto been navigable for only ten miles above
Alexandria, where there i- a fall of thirty feet ; eleven
miles above there is a second of 70 feet; and ten miles
above is a third fail of 70 feet, beyond which the river
is navigable to its sources nearly ; but the distance
from its month to the head of navigation, we are not
able to mention. A canal of a few miles in length,
will unite the Potowmack with a branch of the great
river Ohio, and by amending the said river, boats may
approach within forty miles of lake Erie, in the pas
sage between which and lake Huron is situate the for
trefs of Detroit. Perhaps there never was a plan of
more importance undertaken. It will serve to trans
port the productions of the fruitful banks of Potow
mack to Alexandria, and, may be thomeans of secur
ing the rich fur trace of the lakes to the date of Vir
ginia.
We hear that Congress have been pleased to appoint
His Excellency Governor Livingston, Ambassador
to the Seven United Provinces; but we have not yet
learned whether he has accepted the appointment.
Died, On Sunday the 12th inst. at his house in
Greenwich, Cumberland county, Joshua Ewing,
Esq. one of the late Members of the Legislature of
this state—he had for many years laboured under a
decay, which at length carried him from this world to
a better—he had the exercise of his reason to his last
hour, and expired with this joyful observation. “ There
is a glorious rest laid up for the faints of God."
Wednesday last his Excellency Don Gardoqui,
Ambassador from his Most Catholick Majesty to the
United States, pafled through this town on his way
to New-York.
TRENTON, June 27.
Have for Sale, at their Store in Trenton,
An elegant and very general assortment of European,
East and Weft-India Goods, suitable to the season,
among which are
CHOICE old Jamaica
spirit,
Weft-India and New-
England rum,
Bottled claret,
Molasses,
Best hyfon and bohea teas,
Loaf and mufeovado
sugar,
Coffee,
Chocolate,
Rice,
Indigo,
Pepper,
Alfpicej
Rosin,
Brimstone;
Redwood,
Snuff and tobacco.
Soap and candles,
Frying-pans,
Scythes,
Brass kettles,
Nails,
COLLINS ^ EWING,
Copper tea-kettles)
Brass and iron candle
dicks,
Sad-irons,
Drawing-knives,
Hand, tenant and sash
saws,
Hammers, augers, gouges,
chizels, hinges, and
screws,
Drawer, trunk, cjofet,
chest, and tea-table
locks,
Brass nob locks.
Files, bolts, and padlocks,
G B wool cards,
A variety of queens and
earthen ware,
An assortment of hosiery,
confining of
Mens' and womens'
cotton dockings,
Woollen, worded, thread,
and hemp do.
Silk and worded mits,
A good assortment of fu
perfine, fine and coarse,
broad-cloths,
Superfine caffimers,
Sagathies and wiltons,
Black fattinet, lading and
ruffel,
Corduroy,
Royal rib,
Superfine and common,
spotted and plain, jeans
and fuftians,
Beaveret,
Nankeens,
Brown and white Russia
sheeting and duck;
Scotch fleeting and
oznaburghs,
Apron-width, yard-wide,
and 7-8 cotton and
linen checks,
Yard-wide and 7-8 Irish
linens,
Brown holland,
Black taffety, fattin,
modes and peelong,
Blue and green ell-wide
perfian,
Single perfians and farfe
nets of all colours,
Black, blue, pink and
green moreens,
Blue, pink and green
joan's spinnings,
Calimancoes,
Durants, tammies and
camblets,
Poplins,
Bengals,
Rattinets,
Shalloons,
Striped, plain and cross
barred muslins,
All which they will fell on the mod reasonable terms
for cadi or country produce.
To be Sold, at Publick Vendue,
On Monday the 11th of July next, at 9 o'clock, at the
house of Stephen Johnes, deceased,
A Valuable dock of horses, milch cows, young cat
tle, Iheep and hogs: Also one half of the wheat,
rye, corn and flax 011 the ground; some hay in stack,
household goods and kitchen furniture. The conditions
made known at the day of sale, and attendance given by
DANIEL JOHNES,) F
DAVID JOHNES, J
Maidenhead township, Hunterdon
county, June 24, 1785. 2wf
s'i^ gT ^G^
Just come to hand, and to be fold at the Printing-
Office in Trenton.
Cambricks and lawns,
Black and white, striped
and plain, gauze,
Dark and light ground
chintzes,
Printed linens of the most
elegant patterns,
Olive, purple and light
ground calicoes,
Cottons and cottonets,
Furniture fringe, cord and
tassels,
Barcelona, Bandano,
Bilboa and Irish silk
handkerchiefs,
Check and spotted linen
ditto,
Fans,
Mohair, fewihg silk, ahd
taylors' thread of all
drens' leather shoes,
Stuff shoes of all colours,
very neat.
A L S O,
An assortment of books
and ftatipnary, among
which are
Bibles,
Testaments, ,
Dilworth's fpelling-bookfy
Watts's psalms, and
psalms and hymns
bound together,
Schoolmafters' assistant,
/Efop's fables,
Bailey's dictionary,
Gibson's surveying,
Buchan's family phyfician„'
Wilson's edition of the
Jersey laws,
Religious courtship,
Joseph Andrews,
Ali Bey,
Independent,
Eloisa and Livarot,
The mirror,
Dr. Price's observations,
Almanacks for 1785,
Janeway's token for
children,
Familiar dialogues,
Watts's divine fongs,'
And a variety of small
books for children.
Parchment,
Writing-paper,
Pasteboards,
Ink-powder and ink-cake,
Sealing-wax and wafers,
Brass and leather ink
stands,
Black lead pencils, &c. &c.
colours,
Balloon ribbons,
Ferrets, binding, tapes,
and bobbins,
Brass and plated thimbles,
Taylors' do.
Pins and needles;
Sleeve-buttons,
Watch-keys and seals,
Shoe and knee-buckle^
Knives and forks,
Pen-knives,
Childrens' speckled
knives,
Family shears and feiffors)
Table and tea-spoons,
Razors,
Cork-screws, :
Temple fpedtacles,
Crooked and strait combs,
Ivory do.
Snuff-boxes,
Balloon wire,
Mens', boys and chil-,
drens', beaver, caftor
and felt hats,
White do. and white
lined with green,
Mens', womens' and chil-