The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1786-06-12 00:00:00, page 2

ALBAN Y, June I.
Died, on Saturday last, Major Gershom Mott,
of this city, in the forty-third year of his age—and
on Sunday, his remains were interred in the Low-
Dutch burying ground, attended by a very nume
rous and refpeftable concourse of friends and relations.
NEW-YORK, May 25.
The rage for commerce which prevails all over Eu
rope at this time must ultimately tend to the revoluti
ons of empires; where superiority of intcreft in com
merce is destroyed, the world will have more manu
facturers than tools, and more manufactures than in
dividuals to consume them.
It is worthy of observation, that since the time of
queen Elizabeth, specie has depreciated in Europe
nearly as much as continental money did in America.
In the time of that good queen it was frequently the
case that an ox was fold for ten (hillings, which now in
Smithfield (London) will bring thirty pounds, and eve
ry article of consumption was proportionally cheap.
ExtraS of a letter from Lincoln county, Virginia, da
ted April 9, 1786.
“ I am sorry to have such distressing information to
give you, as that of the death of our worthy friend
colonel William Christian, who was last week killed
by the Indians. They had been frequently in the
neighbourhood of the falls of the Ohio, Limestone
creek, and on Beargrafs, plundering and stealing all
the horses they could find. Colonel Christian, in or
der to induce others to go in pursuit of them, has
upon every occasion turned out himfelf, and last week
he with about twenty others eroded the Ohio, and
overtook three Indians, whom they killed; but his
men not obeying his orders, which were to ruth all
together on them ; he with three others only overtook
them, and was so unfortunate as to receive a mortal
wound, as also captain Keller. What is very remark
able, there were only two guns with the Indians, both
of which did execution ; although one of the Indians
was (hot through with three balls, and was at the
time of firing his gun at Keller, lying on the ground
totally disabled in one arm and unable to rife up.
On their return they met with a number of Indian
encampments, which induced them to make a very
precipitate retreat to Clarkfville. Since the death of
colonel Christian, the Indians have been at his planta
tion and taken away horses, and have killed several
men in other parts of this country. Colonel Donald
son is among the Gain, as well as several others of our
ufeful citizens.
" The principal men of all the counties are attempt
ing to carry on a voluntary expedition against the In
dians, which I hope will succeed."
Extras of a letter from the back country, dated April
18, 1786.
" The Indians have been very troublesome this spring,
and of late have invaded the county of Jefferfon, and
are now almost every day committing depredations
there. Our good friend colonel Christian, has lately
fallen a facrifice to their barbarity, and I much fear, if
measures are not speedily pursued for the support and
defence of that part, the country will break up, and
of course the people will be greatly distressed.
“ The Indians which invade us, are principally from
the Wabash, and not more than one hundred and
fifty miles from the falls of the Ohio, and I believe
could be attacked with success, We are not only
troubled with the Wabash Indians, but the Checa
magoes, a part of whom have lately fettled over the
Ohio, on a creek called Point-Creek ; there are said
to be about seventy warriors, who have stolen almolt
all the horses from Limestone and Licking settlements ;
those on the Tenaffe disturb our eastern and southern
frontiers, and about ten days since have killed colonel
John Donaldson, on his way to Cumberland."
June 3. The publick are cautioned against a gang
cf robbers and (harpers, which we are informed from
ons to treat on the fubjeft with the Britiih ministers.
He has now continued in London near three months,
and yet the Englilh administration have never menti
oned an iota of the matter to him. —A Portuguese mer
chant of great eminence, and of considerable corre
spondence with this country, thought it his duty to
wait on the Portuguese ambaflador to demand an ex
planation of the delay. The ambassador explained the
affair as is above recited, and gave the merchant full
authority to use his name, and assured the merchants
of this kingdom, that nothing was more desired by his
court than a removal of the present differences, Ori
the merchant's arrival in this kingdom, he waited on
leveral gentlemen, and the agitation of the business
seemed to devolve on mr. Longfield. He offered at
the bar of the house to deliver his evidence on oath ;
he was in poffeflion of every information, and must
certainly throw much light on the fubjeft —but the
business was delayed until the time of his hay expired.
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American Intelligence.
PROVIDENCE, Mayrs.
ON Saturday last the honourable general assembly
of this Rate adjourned to the fourth Monday in
June next, then to meet at the city of Newport.
In their late session, a motion was made in the low
er house to emit a paper currency, and after a long
and interesting debate, a committee was appointed to
bring in a bill for that purpose. The bill, in its va
rious Rages, was strenuously opposed by the deputies
from this town, New-Port, Westerly, Bristol, and by
some of the deputies from other towns. It finally
passed into a law. One hundred and sixty thou
sand pounds was firft proposed, but the bill having
been returned, from the upper house with an amend
ment, one hundred thousand pounds was the sum
eventually agreed on.
RICHMOND, May 10.
Articles of a treat, concluded at the mouth of the
Great Miami, on the north western bank of the
Ohio, the 3 IJi of January, 1786, between the
commissioners plenipotentiary of the United States
of America, of the one part, and the chiefs and
warriors of the Shawanoe nation, of the other
part.
Article 1. Three hostages (hall be immediately
delivered to the commissioners, to remain in the pol
feffion of the United States, until all the prisoners,
white and black, taken in the late war from among
the citizens of the United States, by the Shawanoe
nation, or by any other Indian or Indians, residing
in their towns, (hall be restored.
Art. 2. The Shawanoe nation, do acknowledge
the United States to be the sole and absolute sove
reigns of all the territory ceded to them by a treaty
of peace, made between them and the king of Great-
Britain, the fourteenth day of January one thousand
seven hundred and eighty-four.
Art. 3. If any Indian or Indians, of the Sha
wanoe nation, or any other Indian or Indians, resid
ing in their towns, (hall commit murder or robbe
ry on, or do any injury to the citizens of the United
States, or any of them, that nation (hall deliver such
offender or offenders, to the officer commanding the
nearest post of the United States, to be punished ac
cording to the ordinances of Congress: and in like
manner any citizen of the United States who (hall
do any injury to any Indian of the Shawanoe nation,
or to any other Indian or Indians residing in their
towns, and under their protection, shall be punished
according to the laws of the United States.
Art. 4. The Shawanoe nation having knowledge
of the intention of any nation or body of Indians,
to make war on the citizens of the United States,
or of their counfelling together for that purpose, and
neglecting to give information thereof to the com
manding officer of the nearest post of the United
States, shall be considered as parties in such war, and
be punilhed accordingly; and the United States shall
in like manner inform the Shawanoes of any injury
designed against them.
Art. 5. The United States do grant peace to the
Shawanoe nation, and do receive them into their
friendfhip and protection.
Art. 6. The United States do allot to the Sha
wanoe nation, lands within their territory, to live
and hunt upon, beginning at the south line of the
lands allotted to the Wiandots and Delaware nations,
at the place where the main branch of the Great
Miami, which falls into the Ohio, interfeCls said
good authority have arrived in this city from Phila
delphia within a few days. We are, however, happy
in assuring the publick, that through the activity of
several of the peace officers of this city, several of
them have been already taken up, and are now in
confinement.
An alteration in the various tenors made use of in
the United States, and the reduction of them all to
one standard, is an event greatly to be wished by eve
ry one interested in mercantile tranfaftions. From
the ignorance thereof, mistakes are constantly occur
ing, nor can it be expected otherwise, if we take a
view of them: —In New-Hamplhire, Massachusetts,
Connecticut, Rhode-Ifland and Virginia, a dollar pas
ses for 6s. —In New-York and North-Carolina, for
8s. —In New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland and De
laware, for 7s. 6d. —And in South-Carolina and Geor
gia, for 4s. 6d. —Thus in one nation we have four
widely different tenors, a circumftancc which has not
a parallel in any other nation on earth.
Extract of a letter from London, dated March 30.
" We are informed from good authority, that there
is now in the hands of mr. Meikelync, astronomer
royal, and will be laid before the commissioners of
longitude, for their approbation, at their next meet
ing, a method for determining the latitude of a place
at any hour of the day, when the fun can be seen, at
one altitude only (by a gentleman at Staithes, near
Whitby in Yorklhire) which will be of great advan
tage to the mariner, and the greatest improvement in
navigation, of any thing published these five hundred
years, and was much wanted, as that could only be
done by a meridian altitude; and frequently the ma
riner is prevented by clouds obfeuring the fun for ma
ny days together at noon ; and often in long voyages
is obliged to beat about to and fro for a long time,
sometimes a month or more, before he dare make the
land, if he be not sure of his latitude, which will be
now put into his power to do at any hour of the day,
as well as at noon."
SAVANNA H, (Georgia) April 20.
A correspondent informs us, that a young man
who knew but little of the world, was lately (hew
ing publickly the pieces which he had taken out of
the middle of some dollars, that he had cut into half
dollars, as they are called, whereupon a gentleman
present had the curiosity to weigh one of the pieces
lo cut out, and found it nearly equal to one quarter
of a dollar: and that there is information from
Philadelphia, that bars of this kind, thus filched
from the people of Georgia, and (hipped from hence,
have been fold to one silversmith there, to the amount
of seventy pounds weight of lilver. Will the peo
ple fuffer such plundering to go unpunished?
line, then down the river Miami to the fork of that
river, next below the Old Fort, which was taken by
the French in 1752, thence due weft to the river
De la Panfe—then down that river to the river Wa
bash; beyond which lines none of the citizens of
the United States shall fettle, nor disturb the Sha
wanoes in their settlement and possessions; and the
Shawanoes do relinquish to the United States, all ti
tle, or pretence of title they ever had, to the lands
east, weft and south of the eatt, weft and south lines
before described.
PHILADELPHIA, June 7.
In consequence of a notification, the merchants and
traders of this city met at the city tavern last Mon
day evening, when it was unanimoully resolved, that
an association to prevent the growth of smuggling
fliould be entered into. The immorality of smuggling;
the injury to the publick revenue and to the fair tra
der —and above all, its pernicious effects upon our
paper money, are some of the serious evils of this
dishonourable business. When people of every de
scription are joining in giving a free circulation to out
money, it becomes the bounden duty of every good
citizen to check a practice that might defraud the
publick of one of the solid funds appropriated to its
redemption.
We learn from the best authority, that the court of
London have absolutely refuted to deliver up the posts
on our western territory, alleging the violation of
the treaty, in a variety of instances, on the part ol
America.
A very considerable armament, it is said, is equip
ing at Brest, but their destination is not known.
TRENTON, June 12.
At the last fitting of the legislature of this state at
New-Brunswick, the following laws were passed:
An aCt to alter part of a road called George's road
in the county of Middlesex, leading from New-Brunf
wick to Cranberry.
An act for building a courthouse and gaol in the
county of Gloucester, and for other purposes therein
mentioned.
An aft to enable Ann Pemberton, widow and ad
ministratrix of all and singular the goods and chattels,
rights and credits of Joseph Pemberton, late of Weft
river, in the state of Maryland, deceased, who was
the eldest son and heir at law of Israel Pemberton,
late of the city of Philadelphia, in the commonwealth
of Pennsylvania, also deceased, to fulfil certain con
trads fcverally made by the fame Israel Pemberton
and Joseph Pemberton, for the sale of certain lands
in the county of Cumberland, in the state ofNew-Jcrfey.
An act more effectually to empower the justices and
chosen freeholders in the several counties in this state,
to call to account county collectors for money and
other publick property by them received.
An aft for making the bills emitted by the aft, in
titled, an aft for railing a revenue of thirty-one thou
sand two hundred and fifty-nine pounds five (hillings
per annum, for the term of twenty-five years, fob the
purpose of paying the intcreft and principal of debts
due from the United States, agreeably to a recommen
dation of Congress of the eighteenth day of April Se
venteen hundred and eighty-three, and for appropria
ting the fame, a legal tender in this state.
An aft for the establishment of a coinage of Conner
in this state."
An aft for draining and making partition of a cer
tain tract of bog or meadow, situate on Pequannock
river, in the county of Morris, and for other pur
poses therein mentioned.
An aft for felling the proprieties, (hares of propriety,
and rights to unlocated lands of persons whose estates
have become forfeited to, and vested in this state.
An aft for making partition of a trad of land in Es
sex county, commonly called Afhlield's trad.
An aft tor the relief of poor and insolvent debtors.
A supplement to an aft, intitled, an aft to direst the
agents of forfeited estates in the refpeftive counties of !h\
Art. 7. If any citizen or citizens of the United
States shall presume to fettle upon the lands allotted
to the Shawanoes by this treaty, he or they shall be
put out of the protection of the United States.
In testimony whereof the parties hereunto have
affixed their hands and seals, the day and year
firft above mentioned.
Attest, ALEXANDER CAMBELL,
Sec'ry of the commiliioners.
(Signed)
G. R. CLARK, 1 Commissioners
RICHARD BUTLER, , of the United
SAML. H. PARSONS, J States.
Aweecony, Kakawipilathy, Malunthy, Mufqua
conocah, Meanymfecah, Waupaucowela, Ni
hipeewa, Nihinefficoe, chiefs and warriors of
the Shawanoe nation.
BALTIMORE, May 30.
The Saturday's Itage, from Philadelphia, which was
detained by the excessive rains, in attempting on Sun
day to cross Humphrey's run, three miles beyond
Harford, was carried thirty yards down the stream,
and overfet upon a tree which lay under water. Pro
videntially no lives were loft—the horses were got out
with great difficulty, and the baggage of the passengers
though injured to the value of some hundreds of
pounds, was all recovered, some of it having floated
not less than three hundred yards. A fufferer in this
disaster recommends it to the proprietors of the stages,
to have the common depth of all brooks and runs wel
ascertained, that drivers may not sport with the live:
and property of passengers.