The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1786-02-20 00:00:00, page 3

Mr. Collins,
Sir, your inserting this will much oblige our whole
fraternity. A Speculator.
WHEREAS I have the greatest reason to suppose
that, contrary to the interest, and consequently to
the wishes, of many refpedable characters, a paper
c. rency will be emitted, I take the liberty to address
them on the present occasion. And, that we may unite
all our force to hinder the execution of a measure that
will evidently tend to our great disadvantage, I deem
it necessary here to enumerate every character that,
from situation, employment or conveniency, ought to
be averse from this execrable medium. In so doing I
have a double view—for, in the firft place, by arranging
them in order, we, by a lingle glance of the eye, may
arrive at an accurate knowledge of our own strength.
In the second, by giving timely information, we will
effectually hinder every mistake which some would,
perhaps, otherwise make through imprudence or want
of reflexion —for surely, when their interest and ad
vantage are made obvious to their capacity, they will
not be such ideots as to aft contrary to their own wel
fare. Assured then as lam that my reflections will
not only be agreeable, but highly approved of by eve
ry person of common understanding among the num
ber of those for whom this address is intended, I shall
enter upon my catalogue with confidence and alacri
ty. —Hear then, you guardians of the publick, the
possessors of offices, and know that it behooves you to
oppose this paper manouvre ; you attorneys join in our
schemes, for you are also concerned ; you publicly cre
ditors fail not to exert yourselves, for your interest is
at stake ; and you, my brothers and honourable friends,
who follow the laudable science of speculation, now
is the time for aCtion ; the glorious profpedthat was
before us will in a short time be ravished from our
fight, unless, by combination and prudent management,
we defeat this pernicious fchemc. Lastly, you hoarders
of money, who are too wife and cautious to part with
the precious coin whose glittering afped and lively
chink elevates the very foul, unless at a fizeable
premium, arise, ftiffen your consciences, summon up
your generosity, and even, if you expend a trifle, de
stroy, exterminate and eradicate from the face of the
earth, this accurfedcurrency. —But now I have done with
the imagination; to your judgment and understanding
I shall make my future appeals, or at lead to that
delicate passion of the mind that leads you to fa
vour those systems that promote your private desires.
Are not you who, by your official dignities are just
ly styled the heads of the people, fatisfied for the ser
vices you render the publick in precious metals ? Are
you not enabled by the present scarcity of cafli to
live at a much cheaper rate than you otherwise possi
bly could, provided there was a sum in circulation
adequate to the exigencies of the Rate —beside the op
portunity of purchasing property at one fifth its real
value which i forbear to mention ? And are you not
perfectly sensible that the instant this no money, (as it
has been ingeniously styled) makes it's odious appear
ance, those mighty advantages will be wrested from
you. In particular it becomes you, the fheriffs of
the different counties, to render that interest that you
refpedively possess subservient to our general prospe
rity. Will you pretend to fay, that there ever was
a period which offered so many flattering profpeds
as the present—or that ever any of your predecessors
executed the office with half your emoluments. But
these arguments, even great as they are, when put
in competition with future reasonable considerations,
are trifling indeed. I dare promise you twice your
present profits, and will stake my reputation on the
truth of my prediction, as a man of common sense.
As I am now about to address a set of men capable
of perceiving with an accurate discernment what will
have a tendency to heighten or diminish their profpeds,
for the gentlemen of the bar, if Fame fays true, are
tolerably tenacious of advantages, and eager of ac
quirement, I have not the least reason to fear a want of
their approbation—nor will I trouble those litterati
with a repetition of the arguments which I suggested
in my address to the fheriffs, as I am confident their
sagacity will prompt them to make a judicious appli
cation to tbemfelves. —Thus then, supposing them to
be well possessed of an idea of the importance of what
I have above asserted, I shall proceed to answer ob
jections, and to urge some considerations which I fan
cy will not be intirely destitute of solidity—l admit
that there is at least an appearance of propriety in the
objection, that the present scarcity of cash hinders
the commencement of landed disputes, and the profc
cution of important trials—and I shall ever allow due
weight to the suggestion, that fees in all likelihood are
less capital on that account ; yet as there is only a
possibility, or at most but a bare probability of these
advantages, I humbly conceive that the mere prof
peckof them will never have an influence on men who
are perfectly acquainted with the value of certainty.
(To be concluded in our next.)
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American Intelligence.
BOSTO N, January 5.
A sage American, on being alked by his son, when
he thought America would be a great people ? re
plied, when they are a virtuous people. And when,
continues the son, do you think they will become a
gnanifefted our folicitu.de to ward off the impending
mifchicfs of a paper emission, in thus meeting to give
you our collective and united sense on the occasion ; —we
shall therefore expert from you the most scrupulous
observance of these inftrudions now given, as you re
gard our approbation and future confidence.
Signed by order, and in behalf of said county, by
JOHN WILKINS, Chairman.
Gloucester Courthouse, Jan. ii, 1786.
JUST PUBLISHED,
And to be fold at the Printing-Office in Trenton,
THE
H I S.T O RY
OF THE
REVOLUTION
OF
SOUTH-CAROLINA,
FROM A BRITISH PROVINCE
TO AN INDEPENDENT STATE.
By DAVID RAMSAY, M. D.
Member of the American Congress.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
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THIS work contains not only the operations of the
late war in South-Carolina, but in a great mea
sure those of the Rates of Virginia, North-Carolina
and Georgia. The author being unknown in the lite
rary world, felt an unwillingness to pre-engage pur
chasers by subscription. He has therefore taken on
himfelf the risk and expence of a whole edition. No
costs have been spared that an American work might
appear in a refpedable American dress. For the pa
per, printing, binding and engravings, all of which
have been executed in the United States, the author
has been obliged to advance more than nineteen hun
dred dollars, and to make himfelf personally liable for
three thousand more. Notwithstanding the superior
expence of workmanship on this fide of the Atlantic,
the volumes are offered to the publick at as low a
price as is usually asked for imported books of the
fame size, with an equal number of engravings. Though
the amount of the sales should not reimburse actual
expences, yet the author will have the fatisfadion of
reflecting that he has facrificed to the encouragement
of American arts, while he was endeavouring to pre
sent the rising generation with a faithful detail of what
their fathers have done and fuffered to secure for them
the inestimable blessings of liberty and independence.
To be Sold, at Private Sale,
AGRIST-MILL and saw-mill, situate on the
South-Branch of Raritan river, near New-Shan
nic church, in the township of Hillfborough, county
of Somerset, and state of New-Jersey ; the grist-mill
is in good order, the works being all in good repair,
and is generally known by the name of the New-Mill,
and is situated in the heart of a fertile,wheat country,
being about 18 miles from New-Brunswick and 25
from Trenton ; the saw-mill is new and in good order.
There is on the premises two good dwellinghoufes,
one lately built; about 80 acres of excellent land ad
joining said mill, 12 of which are excellent good mea
dow, a fu fficient quantity of timberland, the remain
der good arable land ; a small orchard of apple trees,
and an excellent peach orchard. The payments will
be easy, and an indisputable title will be given to the
purchaser, by BERGUN HUFF,
Feb. 10, 1786. 3 w* PETER HUFF.
Notice is hereby once more given
TO all persons who are any ways indebted to the
estate of Samuel Henry, late of Trenton, deceas
ed, to make payment by the firft day of May next,
as the money is much wanted, to enable the subscrib
ers to comply with the will of the testator; those
who do not comply with this request ; may expert to
be dealt with as the law directs.
ABRAHAM HUNT, )_
CHARLES AXFORD, J £xec °
'Trenton, Feb. 20, 1786. 6w*
rich people ?—When they become an honest people.
And when shall America be refpeded by the nations
of Europe ?—When, replied the sage, they pay more
attention to their publick faith, and less attention to
trifles. However simple the above answers may ap
pear, they are truths in which the interest of America
is greatly concerned.
TRENTON, Feb. 20.
Samuel M'Donald, who was charged with the mur
der of John Connet, at Bound-Brook, had his trial at
the courthouse in Somerset county, on Wednesday
last, and was found guilty. He is Sentenced to be ex
ecuted the 24th instant.
The honourable the legislature of this state met here
on Wednesday last, agreeably to adjournment, for the
dispatch of publick business.
*, Acknowledgments to our correspondents.
An old Soldier has been received. This piece is
not without merit, but it is too incurred for publica
tion. If the author will revise it, and correct the style,
so that it may go forth in a deserved dress, the prin
ter will with pleasure insert it.
The Instructions from the Robinhood Society to
their representatives, we have been obliged to omit
this week for want of room. The knowledge of the
author's name is also indispensably necessary.
The piece signed Justice we conceive not fuffi
ciently guarded in expression to merit a place in this
paper. The sentiments we approve, and could have
wished to have seen them couched in fofter terms.
The Widow's Request we confider as out of sea
son, otherwise it should have been complied with.
We wish to gratify A Friend to the State.
But as we intend to insert the votes and proceedings
of the hon. the house of assembly weekly, it is doubt
ful whether we shall have room for his performance.
Other papers are under~confideration.
EXCELLENT MOLASSES,
Imported in the brig New-Jersey,
and to be fold by
MOORE FURMAN.
February 17, 1786. qw*
^S L O S T
AT Trenton about the 28th of December last, a final
1 settlement note, for 178 dollars and some nine
tieths, given in the fubferiber's own name, signed by
Mr. Denning in New-York: all publick officers are
requeued to flop said note if it should be presented to
them for payment. Any person who may have found
the fame, and will return it to the fubferiber, shall
have two dollars reward. ROBERT SPROWLE.
February 17, 1786. iw*
Burlington T) Y virtue of a writ of Venditioni Expo
county, ff. D nas to me directed and delivered, will
be exposed to sale, by way of publick vendue at the
house of William Coleman, in Nottingham, on Satur
day the twenty-fifth day of this instant, February, at
eleven o'clock in the forenoon, horses, cows, swine,
a good waggon, beds, bedding, chairs, tables, hay, grain,
with many other articles, all late the property of said
William Coleman ; seized and taken in execution at
the suit of the executors of William Pidgeon, deceas
ed, and to be fold by
JACOB PHILLIPS, late Sheriff.
February 7, 1786. iw
House of Assembly, Feb. 17, 1786.
A PETITION was presented from sundry inhabitants
of the county of Gloucester, praying that a law
may pass to permit the petitioners to build a bridge
over Mantua Creek soy subscription at Smith's landing.
Ordered, That the petitioners have leave to present
a bill agreeably to the prayer of their petition, on ad
vertising the purport of the bill they mean to present,
and a copy of this order, at least 3 weeks previous there
to, in three of the most publick places in each of the
townfllips of Deptford and Greenwich, and also the
fame length of time in the New-Jersey Gazette.
ExtraCt from the minutes,
3w* MASKELL EWING, jun. Clerk.
A faithful narrative of
ELIZABETH WILSON;
WHO was executed at Chester, January 3d, 1786.
Charged with the murder of her twin infants.
Containing some account of her dying sayings ; with
some serious reflections. Drawn up at the request of
a friend unconnected with the deceased—May be had
by wholesale or retail at the Printing-Office in Trenton
TOBES O L D,
AT PUBLICK VENDUE,
ON the ninth day of the third month, on the pre
mises, pursuant to the last will and testament of
Thomas Stackhoufe, late of Bristol township, Bucks
county, Pennsylvania, deceased —a valuable plantati
on, situate in Bristol township, about twenty-three
miles from Philadelphia, and three and a half from
the borough of Bristol, and within two miles of a
good landing on Delaware river; containing cue hun
dred and seventy acres of land, the ploughland is of
a good foil for grain or grass, about one hundred
acres cleared, thirty acres of meadow, a large bear
ing orchard noted for making good cyder; there is
on the said premises a frame house, two rooms on a
floor, cellar, kitchen, and a well of good water at
the door, a frame barn, stables, waggonhoufe and
other convenient out buildings, all in good repair.
The purchaser may have possession and an indisputa
ble title immediately after the sale. Attendance will
be given, and the conditions of sale made known by
JOHN BROWN, )_
3w* WILLIAM STACKHOUSE, )
Bristol townfllip, the 9th day of the 2d month, 1786.
FOR a term of years, and may be entered upon
the firft of April next, an elegant two story house,
with three rooms on a floor, and a cellar under the
whole, with a kitchen, and draw-well at the door,
with a good frame barn, about twenty acres of
fertile land, five of which are good English meadow;
would suit a storekeeper, a smith or a tanner (several
vats being already funk) as there is neither store nor
tanner within a considerable distance, it being in Mid
dlesex county, township of Windsor, nine miles from
Trenton, eight from Princeton, seven from Allen
town, eight from Cranberry, upon the great road
leading to each of the above places. Any person in
clining to rent may view the premises by applying
to the fubferiber. SAMUEL MINOR.
February 17, 1786. 3W*
To be Sold, at Private Sale,
THE valuable mills in Allentown, containing two
pair of stones, one of which is an excellent pair
of burrs, with two reels in the merchant box; two
ditto, one for country work and one for corn, with an
excellent kiln for drying corn for exportation; two
good dwellinghoufes, fpringhoufe, barn and outhouses,
with thirty-five acres of land, fourteen of which is
excellent meadow, all adjoining the above premises,
with seven acres of woodland within two miles of the
fame. The above premises is in an excellent part of
the country for merchant and country work, all in
good repair. The payments will be made easy. Any
person inclining to purchase may view the premises by
applying to the fubferiber on the fame.
PETER IMLAY.
Allentown, Feb. 17, 1786. 4w* N
TO BE RENTED