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in his project, the lateness of the hour on which he
arose, and the little period of day-light which re
mained, are alone to be considered as the obstacles of
his success.
Some little time before the veiTel was at its intend
ed elevation, two find bags were thrown out; by
which means it was evidently lightened, as it instantly
towered, and also appeared quickened in its horizon
tal progress. At periods the vessel was so regulated
as to appear stationary; this we conceive Mr. Blan
chard effected to give a proofofhis skill. The direc
tion he took further demonstrated his ability; as he
held his course over Westminster, crossed the Thames
near Whitehall, passed over the borough, and was at
the fame time seen from every part of the city. The 5
day was somewhat hazy ; but as the atniofphere was
serene, at the height on which the vessels steered,
the motion of the files and oars were diftiri&ly to
be observed.
We had not received any certain account of the de
feent of Mr. Blanchard, but the vessel alighted near
Feverfham.
Extract of it letter from Vienna, November 18. ,
" As there has been much talk about the 1500 meri
sent to Malta, to quell the disturbances there, it may
not be improper to explain the rife of the directions.
" Some time ago a priest killed his uncle and his
hephew, and took refuge in the Hotel of the Bifhop;|
the Judge demanded the assassin to be given up, wnich|
the Bishop refilled; the authority of the then Grand (
Master, hurt by this refufal, ordered a detachment§
with all possible circumfpe^ion to take the delinquent|
from his asylum; the clergy, outrageous at this pre- §
tended infraction of their privileges, fought for no- J
thing but to be revenged of the Grand Mailer; and &
the dearness of provisions loon furnished an opportu- ,
nity. The Priests railed the people, and a {editionf
Was formed, and their plan was to 'arfaninate the ,
Grand Master, and bring the iflaod under clerical go-I
vernraent; but the Grand Matter fought the rebels irtl
person, imprisoned the ecclefiafticks who fomented |
the difeord, beheaded some and exposed their headsl
on poles. This irritated the clergy the more, who 1
complained to the Pope; but all the representations
of the Holy Sha could not convince the Grand Mailer
that he was wrong, and it is generally believed his in
flexibility cost him his life, aS a violent dole of poilori
ended his days, since which there has been no harmo
ny between the order and the clergy; and the pre
sent Grand Matter, a Frenchman, of the very illul
trious family of Roham, is faithfully attached to the'
principles of his predecessors, and in the present dis
turbances has puniShed several of the insurgents, and
narrowly watches the clergy. 1 his is the cause cl
his requesting our court to fend him 1500 men that
he may put an effectual end to the feditibn"
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American Intelligence.
CHARLESTON, February 24.
MR. Fufdam, lately from England, has erected 1
saw-mill, at Winnfborough; in this Rate, which
goes by horses. This mill saws from eight hundred to
a thousand feet of plank per day ; to that a Sufficient
quantity of lumber and plank may be had for building
on the spot.
A correspondent is induced, from motives of huma
nity, to lay before the publick the following extraordi
nary cure, which lately happened in the island or Cu
ba, the authenticity of which may be entirely depended
on: A gentleman of family, in the city ot Havanna;
being afflicted with that dreadful disorder, the Lepro
sy, applied to the mod eminent gentlemen of the fa
culty for relief, but, notwithstanding their utmost ex
ertions in his favour, their endeavours entirely tailed,
and the unhappy patient's disease increased at lad to
such an height, that it was thought dangerous to per
mit his longer flay in the city ; he was therefore or
dered to be expelled, and placed in the mod ch folate
part of the island, there to remain until his disease
Should put a period to his miserable existence. He was
accordingly conducted to 'the defined place, and there
left (as was ftippofed) to perilh ; but to the aftonilh
ment of all his relations and friends, he returned to
the city, in the course of about fix weeks, perfectly re
stored to his health and spirits. So extraordinary a cir
cumstance naturally drew the attention of the chief Ma
gistrate, and the principal inhabitants of the place, to
whom he related, on oath, the following narrative: —
That after he was left in the desolate place, being op
pressed by hunger, which compelled him to eat a num
ber of small green lizards, with which the place abound
ed ; after continuing the use of this food a few days,
he was agreeably furprized to fee his disorder diminish,
until it gradually left him, and in the course of about
fix weeks he was perfectly well. Upon the foregoing
relation being made publick, the experiment was tried
upon several other persons, with the fame happy suc
cess ; and also has been found highly efficacious in cur
ing the Yaws.
NEW-PO RT, February 26.
A Jamaica paper of the 15th of January fays, " By
a gentleman who arrived on Monday from Cuba, we
learn, that Don Galvez, who was lately appointed
Governor General of Louisiana and Cuba, has made
his appearance from Old Spain at Leguira, a port on
the Spanish main, with ten fail of the line, four fri
gates, twenty transports, and seven thousand veteran
troops, who have Served at Gibraltar."
SPRINGFIEL D, March r. ,
We hear from Windsor; in the County of Berkshire,
that on the 15th of February, as Mr. Benjamin Cole, of
that town, was going to a neighbour's house, he heard
a great out-cry. Upon his nearer approach, found it
to be one of his neighbour's daughter's beset by a
wolf; the wolf took a dog in his mottth which was
with the girl; and made off; Mr. ^ole pursued him
with a cudgel ; upon this the wolf turried and met him
three or four rods,; but Mr. Cole engaged the wolf
with his cudgel and killed him on the fpotl
N E W-YO R K, March 1.
Last week Thomas Wigley, bound to the gallows,
was involuntarily put on board the Detainer, Captain
Piercy. This is the identical chap that robbed William
Kay, of Philadelphia, of a variety of gold and silver
jewellery and a quantity of cash. The cirtiuhftaiices
that led to his detection were as follow: Two inhabi- I
tints of this city, Mr. Hobfon and Mr: Everett; being I
on Long-Illand, met Wigley at Hemftead, who was !
coffering his jewellery for Hie at so cheap a rate, that I
gave cause of fufpicidn, and on their return to the city,
feeing Mr. Kay's ad> rtifement, were confirmed in
their opinion, and Werit in pursuit of him, but did not
overtake him till he had eroded the Sound, and got to
New-London, where he was secured a; d re-conducted
to this city.
March 4. The Honourable the Senate have patted a
Bill for investing the United States in Cohgrefs, with
powers to prohibit the importation and exportation
df all goods or merchandizes, for the term of fifteen
years.
March 5. Congress have been pleased to appoint Col.
William Smith, late Aid-de-Camp to his Excellency
General Wafhingtori, to be Secretary to the Embassy
from the United States of America to the Court of
London. His appointment, we are told, is £. 1200
per annum; This choice meets with univei fal appro
bation.
March 7. The Emperor of Germany has comniif-‘
fioned two gentlemen at present in Charleston, to col- I
left for him such different productions of nature as are
to be found in that part of the country, either in the
animal or vegetable elafs: They have been already
very foccefsfdl in their pursuits, and the cabinet at
Vienna will receive no inconsiderable addition, ffoni
the unbounded variety with which bountiful nature
Ihas adorned South-Carolina.
The fliip Almy, Captain Hattie, from GlafgoW,
;laft from Charleston, arrived last Saturday at the
)Hook ; Ihe left 150 North-British redeiriptioners
;there, and has brought hither 44. They were much
I attached to the rice and indigo plantations.
I March 14. We are well informed, that a re-enforce-|
ment of one thousand troops wa^ lately sent from the|
I Havanna to New-Orleans. The valt numbers of Ame
s ricans fettling on the frontiers of Louisiana, and the
§dneafinefs they manifest at being retrained from the
free navigation of the Miffifippi; affords the Spdniih go
1 vernment grounds of jealousy and diftriilL
(From Kingston, in Jamaica, We are inforrhed, that
IMaurice Keating, the pirate and murderer, was exe
§cuted at Cuckold's Point, on the 27th of December
{ lalt, near Fort-Royal, and afterwards his body was
I suspended to a lofty gibbet, in chains. He met his
fate with uncommon fefignation, penitence and forti
[tude; and told the surrounding multitude, after he
was tied up, that he wits not afraid of death, but
$ courted the grim tyrant as a relief from all his forrbws.
He then turned to the executioner, and forbad him to
take away the ladder, laying, that he would jump off
Ihimfelf when he was ready, which he accordingly did
I about two minutes afterwards:
§ 2
P HILADELPH I A, March 18.
Extract of a letter froth Cork, October 27.
I “ The Ocean, Captain Moore (belonging to Glas
s gow) is arrived here from Jamaica. Captain Moore
,fell in with a velLI off Newfoundland, from this king-
Idom to America, witla emigrant-, in so great distress,
that had he not providentially come across them, the
I whole mud have perilled: His humanity led him to
I take the people on board, and has brought them in
1 here. The vedel almost immediately went down after
the people were taken cut."
TRENTO N, March 21.
JThe Honourable Henry Knox, Esq. late a Major-
I General in the army of the United States, has, by
§the appointment of Congress, been invested with the.
Idirection1 direction of all our military affairs, as minister at war.
CT^ra^romrt MfiCT*FMff ararxira Hfaffermm'^- ^ : a^ gm rav^^- ^ r^^^TOaLft/jUftaii
To be Sold, by Publick Vendue,
On Thursday the 7th of April next, 1
A Valuable PLANTATION, containing about 200
2 I acres of land, lituate and lying in the township
of Mansfield, county of Burlington, and western divi
sion of New-Jersey, about fix miles from Burlington,
five from Bordentown, and two from the river Dela
ware : —There is on the plantation a good dwelling
houfe, a new convenient barn and stables, an orchard
of fruit trees, and a well of water at the door. The
cleared land is good either for wheat, rye or Indian
corn. There is about 40 acres of wood-land well tim
bered, about 15 acres of good meadow, and more may
be made; the whole is under good fence, and in a
very agreeable neighbourhood, in the heart of a healthy
country. The conditions will be made known on the
day of sale, and an indisputable title given by
^ w * WILLIAM & JOSEPH POTTS.
TH E house in which Mr, Robert Singer now lives,
adjoining Mr. Joseph Milnor's, in which a store
has been kept many years, and is a good stand for any
publick business: The lot contains about a quarter
and half quarter of an acre of ground, on which there
is also a good liable, well of water, &c. Two lots
of land near Mr. John Ricky's, containing near one
acre each, about one half of which is good meadow,
and the remainder may be made so ; they are very
pleasantly Htuated, and in a good part of the town for
building on. Also a lot of land containing fix acres;
in good fence, and near the town, on which is a good
bearing orchard. Six months credit will be given for
one half of the purchase money, and twelve months for
the other half, paying interest, and giving security, if
required. For further particulars enquire of John
Chaloner, William Sykes, or Jacob Baker, in Phila
delphia—or Moore Furman, Esq. in Trenton.
March {Ofßs: 3 w * _
Best Malt, Table and small Peer,
r ro be fold by the barbel, half barrel or larger quan
tity, for cash or grain delivered in Trenton, where
ready rhoney will be given for a quantity of good hops
and barley, by SAMUEL DOWNING,
GEORGE SOWERBECK.
N. B. Said Downing carries on the taylors business
at his dwclling-houfe in Trenton, as usual;
J rento| U Marchi2^1 785. 4w ..
To be Sold by the Subscriber,
THE house in which he now lives, with the spaci
ous lot whereon it hands, the water, lot and new
wharf of 78 feet front; it is known to be as good a
stand for business as any in the city of New-Brunswick.
Likewise the house and lot on Water-street, adjoining
next below Colonel Taylors, in possession of William
Nevius ; the lot is in front on the street 75 feet; and
extending the fame breadth about 175 feet, with a wa
ter lot in front of the whole, as advantageously situ
ated, dud as capable of improvement, as any lot on
the river :—A number of lots and Water lots lying bn
Water-street arid the river Raritan, between Doctor.
Cochran's lyuife and the mine-pits; with a number of
lots on Albany-street, New-street, and other streets to
be laid out. Also, the freehold right to several lots
and houses in Albany-street, upon ground rent:
The city of New-Brunswick is perhaps more advan-
tageoufly situated for an inland trade, than any town
in New-Jersey; it being a thoroughfare between Phila
delphia and New-York, and at the head of the navi
gation of the river Raritan; distant from the former
about 60 mile§, one half of which is water carriage;
arid from the latter; about 35 miles by land, and 40
by water. The ftage-waggons from both these cities
pass through every day in the year, except Sunday;
and, vessels of very considerable burthen afford daily
opportunities bf transportation to New-York. It is
remarkable for being a healthy spot, and situated in
the heart of a well fettled fertile country, which af
fords daily supplies of provisions of all forts, at lower
rates than any town in New-Jersey: No place can be
better situated for fforekeepers, mechanicks or manu
facturers, hs tradesmen of all kinds may find coriflant
employ, and fend or carry their manufactures either
to New-York or Philadelphia, at very little expence. —
So fine a lituation is really an object for a company of
honest Germans, whole iudiiftry the proprietor wifnes
so much to encourage, that if their families will be
come citizens by purchase; he will give them a proper
lot to build a church on, and a convenient lot of four
or five acres for a parsonage. This place is likewise
distant, by land or water, about 12 miles from the city
of PERTH-AMBOY, situated at the mouth of the
river Raritan, lately made a free port, and endowed
by charter with privileges, and by nature with advan
tages, that cannot but be the means of promoting com
merce Very rapidly in this Rate; A number of lots and
water lots are likewise to be fold there. Those that
incline to purchase, may know the terms and conditi
ons of sale, by applying to
JAMES PARKER.
IState of New-Jersey, New-?
I Brunswick, March 1, 1785. J t f
~T B E ~ S~ 0~17 D,
That elegant MANSION-HOUSE,
With the out-buildings; and 47 acres of land, lately
occupied by the fubferiber; in the Village bf Freehold,
county of Monmouth.
"rHE house, which is almost new, and is built and
finifhed in the best taste, consists of four rooms on
the firft floor, five on the second, two commodious
kitchens and A garret, and under the whole is a go:
Icellar; and at the door a well of excellent water. Tt
out-buildings are two barns, fufficient stabling, a b
ing-houfe, smoke house, and all others requisite
lufeI use or convenience, &c. On the premises is a tin
young bearing orchard, of 400 trees; and the ffo>
garden is furnifhed with a varietiy of peaches, plumbs
cherries, and many other kinds feleded from Prince'
celebrated nursery on Lbng,lfland. The foil is fert
and 400 acres adjoining, or any less quantity, may
purchased on reasonable terms. The price dem.
for the whole estate, is upwards of two hundred
less than the prime cost of the improvements
third of the purchase-money will be required in fp
the residue will be taken in paper currency of Nefr-ft.
fey or New-York; the latter in preference. Furthe
information may be obtained by applying to Johatha
Rhea, Esq. on the premises; William -Churchill Hou
fton, Esq. in Trenton ; or the fubferiber, at No. 3€
Smith-street, New-York.
( WILLIAM WILLCOCKS.
March 15, 1785. gw
To be Sold, at Publick Vendue,
On Saturday the 9th of April next, at 5 o'clock in the
afternoon, at the market-house in Trenton,