The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1784-12-06 00:00:00, page 2

St. GEORGE'S (Grenada) O^. 23, 1784.
Letters from St. Croix, dated the 24th Septem
ber, mention, that a schooner belonging to Mr. ter
ror, of Grenville, from which she failed for this port
about nine or ten weeks ago, had been carried into
that Aland, in the greatest distress ; the captain and
mate being so exhausted with fatigue, that they died
shortly after they were landed.
It seems, that two days after they left Grenville,
they met with a thunder storm off Point Saline, which
drove them out of fight of land, and, having no com- s
pass on board, they beat to windward about a fort
night, when they fell in with a Spanish vessel, which
fupphed them with a compass and other necessaries.
The day following, they left both their masts in a
heavy squall of wind, and then remained at the mercy
needs no advocate, but a true representation of it —
and government is full as well inclined to grant them
redress, as the author of this pamphlet is to solicit for
it. But the circumstances both of England and Ame
rica happen unfortunately to be so untoward at pre
sent, that we fee no other project for the relief of
these unhappy claimants, than an ad to confifcate the
estates of all the ministers, who advised, abetted, or
otherwise concurred in this impoliticly, absurd and ru
inous war, and distributing this fund in adequate pro
portions among the fufferers.
A letter from Brest fays, that orders are come there
from Paris, not to admit any ships into that port from
any of the ports of Spain, till they have performed
quarantine for twenty days; the occasion of this order
is, that a report prevails in France, that the plague is
broke out among the crews of those (hips that were
at the bombarding of Algiers, by bringing home some
Moors whom they took prifouers.
The fame advices fay, that an union will foori be
formed among a number of the fta:es and princes of
Germany, similar to that adopted above a century ago,
for the purpose of maintaining their privileges and in
dependence; this confederacy probably arises from the
very numerous armies kept on foot by Prussia and the
Emperor.
It is recorded in an ancient Greek author, that
Ptolemy fele&ed a number of the most refpedable
young men of Greece, Italy, Carthage, &c. for tra
velling into foreign countries, and directed them to
bring back three of the wholefomeft laws out of each
country which they visited. Being returned, they re
lated, that in the lloman republick a most lingular ve
neration was had for the temples, a punctual obedi
ence to the governors, and unavoidable punishment in
fliaed upon malefactors.
It Carthage the senate commanded, the nobles ex
ecuted, and the people obeyed.
At Athens the rich were not fuffered to be extor
tioners, the poor idle, nor the magistrates ignorant.—•
“ New-Jersey, is it the fame with thee?"
In Rhodes old men were venerable, young men
modest, women solitary and silent.
In Ihebes the nobles fought, the plebians laboured,
and the philosophers taught.
In Sicily justice was impartially administered, com
merce honestly carried on, and all men enjoyed equal
privileges and interest in the state. Among the Sicilians
they admitted neither physicians to hinder the opera
tions of nature, nor strangers to introduce innovati
ons, nor lawyers to multiply contentions.
These men did not go out to fee feathers fly in the
air ; they did not go to tip the tongue with a little
language only ; but they searched into the most solid
and ufeful parts of human knowledge.
Sept. 26. It is not at all a circumstance of furprize,
that the ladies of France should be found ready to go
upon excursions in air balloons. The clouds have
lent their aid to intrigues of old. Jupiter made them
ufeful to his amours; and deities and nymphs, with
whom he gamboled, found them serviceable in con
cealing their blulhcs.
BRIDGE-TOWN ( Barbadoes) October 24.
are forty to announce to the publick the fol-
VV lowing awful and melancholy circumstance !—
and which, according to the best information yet re
ceived, is as follows: Early yesterday morning, Mr.
Reynold Philips, manager on Wolcott's plantation,
now in the poffeflion of William Morris, Esq. heard
a distant noise, and on his looking out perceived the
earth from Aackleton's Clift move downwards in
amazing large bodies; being much alarmed he re
moved his family from the dwellinghoufe, and in a
few hours after the whole buildings of the plantation
(being nearly under the hill) were entirely coveted,
the mill excepted, which could only be perceived from
the eves of the roundhouse upwards. What' renders
this dreadful phenomenon more extraordinary is, that
there had not been any rain for many hours before,
and that no undulation or motion of the earth was
felt where the buildings flood, or on the plain beneath
the hill.
American Intelligence.
N E W-Y O R K, November 18.
A writer in an Irish paper observes, that there is
not a fad more certain, than that every penal law pas
sed in this kingdom since the revolution, has been an
acquisition to hr.nec. A) them her armies have been
recruited; and a sense or persecution added double
energy to the arms of an oppressed people ! From the
year 1691 to 1745, no less than 450,000 Irish have
bled for the support of France; and she gained much
greater advantages by the adopted mode of govern
ment in Ireland, than if the kingdom had been re
duced to the date of a French province ! Again, the
restraint on our trade, and the ruin of our woollens,
were new sources of wealth to France. At the re
volution, she had scarce any manufactures, and the
very clothing of her armies was sent from Ireland and
England. In the course of five years subsequent to
this period, above 20,000 woollen manufacturers quit
ted this kingdom, and the wife Colbert availed him
felf of this new blunder in Englifli politicks, by giv
ing every degree of countenance and protection to
these proscribed manufacturers.
Friday last arrived here captain Lane, from Got
tenburgh, after a most tedious passage of upwards of
one hundred days.
Extras of a letter from Paris, to a gentleman in
this city, received by the last French Packet.
" We hear that the noble, the generous, the phi
lanthropick feheme of the God-like Doctor Fother
gill, is not buried with him, but is likely to be re
vived and put into execution; several worthy and il
lustrious persons in Europe, are forming an aflbeiati
on, in order to eitablifh a dock fufficient to carry this
admirable scheme into execution. With a fubferip
tion of 300 0001. they imagine they will be able to
fend proper missionaries to the different parts of Afri
ca, not to teach the Christian system to the natives,
but to inftrud them in the art of cultivating the su
gar cane, which improvement would, at one and the
fame time, enrich chose countries, and convince the
miserable rulers, that it is.more advantageous and
profitable for them to employ their fubjeds in this
ufeful husbandry than to fell them to the whites, and
enable the poor in Europe to eat sago.
" Ihe heart of every good man will glow (J am
sure) at this intelligence, and form the most fervent
wishes for the accomplishment of this sublime, this
consolatory enterprize. It was M. Vic. d'Azier (Se
cretary to the Royal Society of Medicine at Paris)
who lad year pronounced, to a crowded and illustri
ous audience, the funeral eulogium of that wonderful
man, Dr. 1 homas Fothergill; who was, at one and
the fame time, an ornament to the Britilh nation, to
the human race, and to the society of friends, of
which he was a member, as well as a most eminent
physician; every body knows his epitaph to the man,
who, during his life, gave three thousand guineas to
the poor.
" We understand from you with great pleasure,
that the system of the Marquis de Beccaria, is likely
to be adopted by several of your Legiflarive Assem
blies :—lO your consideration, to the exalted honour
of many excellent heads, may human nature Owe the
adoption of so ufeful a branch of legislation :—May
your bright example cross the Atlantick to illuminate
some kingdoms in Europe, and serve to expel the re
maining ihades of cur Gothick darkness. We are
very glad the dates of Maffaebufetts' and New-York
are likely to be the firft to adopt it, and change the
punishment of death for publick works; I hope that
in less than two or three years, your criminal laws
will be corrected and amended by able Beccarifts ; if
I was with you I should certainly enrol myfelf in that
fed, and glory in the appellation."
Nov. 24. Last Monday evening his Most Christian
Majesty's frigate la Nymphe, captain Grandchain, of
40 guns, was, owing to the ignorance of a coasting
pilot whom they had on board, run alhore on the
Weft Bank, but 'tis expected will be got off.
The publick are hereby informed, that his Most
Christian Majesty's Packet-boat, the Courier de I'A
n,erique, commanded by captain Cornick, will fail
from this port for I'Orient on the 15th of December.
Last Wednesday, agreeably to the constitution of
this date, came on the election of governor or chief
magistrate, in the room of his Excellency Benjamin
Harrison, Esq. when Patrick Henry, Esq. was una
nimously chosen to that high and important office.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 24.
The Commissioners of the United States have con
cluded a treaty at Fort Stanwix with the Six Indian
Nations, and have given peace to the Seneca, Mo
of the waves, until they were perceived by a gentle
man, who went off in his canoe and brought them in,
and treated them with the greatest kindness and hu
manity. The name of the gentleman is not mentioned.
BOSTO N, November 15.
RICHMOND, November 20.
November 20.
Article 6. The fubjeds of the King fliall continue
the navigation of the haft-Indies, in the manner the,
have hitherto exercised it, but it shall on no account
whatever be permitted to extend beyond#hofe limits.
Article 10. The King confirms forever, in behalf
of himfelf, his heirs, successors, &c. the charters of
the Dutch East and Wed-India Companies, which
shall on no account be infringed upon; and his Ma
jesty undertakes also for himfelf, his heirs and succes
sors, to be perpetual guarantees, for the protection of
the commerce of the two countries.
hawk, Omondago, and Caynga tribes, and received
them into the protection of the United States, in con
sequence of their having delivered into the hands of
the Commissioners fix hodages (who are Sachems and
Warriors) to remain in the power of the United
States, until the people who have been captured by
those late hostile tribes flrall be delivered up; which,
it is expected, in case the weather shall be favoura
ble, will be in about two weeks from this time. The
Commissioners of the United States have given a par
ticular attention to the wants of the unfortunate pri
soners, and therefore made an inftrudion to the com
manding officer of the troops of the United States at
Fort Stanwix, to forward (agreeably to a special di
rection given him) such a quantity of goods which
are left in his hands, and also, such a competent sup
ply of provisions as will be necelfary for the support
of the prisoners while on their way to his pod; and
that on their arrival there, they will participate of
his care and tenderness. They have also ordered,
that the prisoners be delivered by the command
ing officer to such of their friends as may come for
them, and that he give passports and provisions to
those, and to all such as he may think are sincere in
their wishes to return to their own homes. And that
all such as are not applied for, and may pot know the
way to their homes, be sent with the greatest care to
Weft-Point, and that their names, descriptions, and
(if known) their places of abode, be published in the
different newlpapers.
By an article of the treaty, a boundary line is esta
blished between the United Stares and the possessions
of the Six Indian Nations, by which a very consider
able territory is yielded up to the United States, to
compensate them, in some measure, for the injuries
which they have received from the said late hostile
tribes during the late war. And by the pofTeflions of
the Six Indian Nations being thus accurately pre
scribed, it is expected, that all future disquiet and
vexation will be prevented.
Extrafi of a letter from the Weflern country, dated
Smith's River, October 26, 1784.
" About the 10th infl a party of Indians came
across some people travelling through the wilderness
to Kentuckey, killed 9 men and 1 woman, wounded
several others, took 50 horses, and a good deal of
other property. len days previous to this, fix peo
ple were killed in the wilderness on the road to Ken
tuckey. One hundred and fifty men, well mounted,
are in puifuit of them. I expect every day to hear of
the Indians breaking out on our frontiers.
“ If a few men cannot be Rationed in Powell's Val
ley, the people mutt break up, which will be of fatal
consequences to the settlers and travellers, as there
are large crops of corn made, which would be a great
support to them, and all that the settlers have to de
pend on."
Nov. 26. The following are the articles in the
treaty of Munster, which the Dutch insist on as un
equivocally binding on the Emperor of Germany, as
successor of Philip, Count of Burgundy, and duke of
Austria:
Article 36 and last. The said King Philip IV. de
clares solemnly, that he approves and ratifies every
article of the treaty for himfelf, his heirs and succes
sors, as King of Spain, duke of Burgundy and Bra
bant, Copnt of Flanders, &c. (here all the titles ar3
inserted) as also for his vassals, fubje&s, and inhabi
tants of the kingdoms, eHates, lordships, as well in
as out of Europe, without any exception, in all it,
parts and contents.
The Emperor's answer is briefly, that he does not
confider himfelf bound, either in law or equity, b,
any such provision.
she Consul General of France has received official
information refpe&ing the trade between the United
States and the Ille of France and Bourbon, other
wise called Mauritius.—The American vessels shall
enjoy full liberty to import into the said islands car
goes the produce of this continent, and to fell it for
money, or barter or exchange it for the produce of
the islands, or of India and China. This regulation
is a material addition to the former, by which Ame
rican vessels were admitted to take refreshments, and
afterwards proceed on their voyage to China or In
dia. Now they will have their option, and as the,
find the market in the islands, they may continue their
route to the continent cf Asia, they may return to th#
islands, may fell their cargoes there, or proceed far
ther and shorten considerably their voyage. It is ex
pected this liberal arrangement will be very beneficial
to the American India trade and to the islands.