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is supposed, to the dry weather. Several waggon
.loads, it is said, have floated affiore.
PHILADELPHIA, Odober 30.
Extras of a letter from Washington county, Vir-
ginia, October 2, 1782.
“ Our troubles seem to be over to the south
ward, either from the British or Tories. Ihe
nothern Indians are more troublesome than in molt
former campaigns; their inroads have reached
North-Carolina. The southern Indians seem ge
nerally inclined to cease hostilities. The Chicka
faws,a liberal minded tribe, have lately lent a depu
tation to assure us of their pacific disposition. The
Creeks and Chactaws profefs their willingnds to
live in amity with the friends of Prance and Spain.
A few towns of the Cherokees, yet give an asylum
to renegado tories who have cast a (hade on human
nature, by their black deeds in the southern dates.
Several bodies of men by different routs, have
lately marched into the Cherokee country, to take
or destroy these desperadoes. Should the Indians
eifay to afford them protection, a force iudicient
are gene to chastise all oppofers.
Before you receive these, no doubt you will hear
the particulars of Colonel Todd's defeat in the
Kentuckey country, by the Indians, British, &c.
headed by the infamous Simon Girty. A most dis
couraging stroke to that infant fettiement. The
usual feene of torturing the wounded and prisoners
followed the defeat.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Paris, dated
August 3d, 1782.
" You will receive numerous accounts of peace
from this quarter, none of which you must credit.
After many goings and comings, and much talk
about a negociation for a general adjustment of dif
ferences, Mr. Grenville has taken a final leave of
Paris. This gentleman never was sincere, and I
with his fucceflor may be more so. Mr. Fitzher
bert is charged with a royal commission, empower
ing him to treat with the Mmifters ot their High
Mightinesses, and with the powers and Dates at
war; so that our empire you fee, is or is not com
prehended, just as the changeable course of things,
may or may not make it an object of primary at
tention. Comte Vergennes, however, will bring his
point to a fpecdy explanation, at Icrfc he will oblige
Mr. Fitzherbert to speak a plain intelligible language,
as soon as the forms which lead to such bulinefs
can be got through.
" Fitzherbert, in my opinion, is intruded to push
the negociation till the terms of the leagued powers
can be afeertained, but no further. One principal
end for gaining these terms is, that they may be
nfed, if occasion requires, at the fitting of the next
. iritifh parliament, to oppose an acknowledgment
of our independence ; for is seems that this questi
on is. cither materially or formally, to be debated ;
and there can be no doubt but that Shelburne, the
premier, and the late Ministry will call into action
every obstacle to prevent what they think carries
with it the ruin of Great Britain.
66 The publick reception which Doctor Franklin
and Mr. jay meet with from Comte de Aranda is
not a little ptomifing, and must serve to give them
additional consequence in the approaching negoci
ation.
" America should know how much (he is indebt
ed to Major-General the Marquis de la Fayette. This
French nobleman has been particularly ferviceablc lo
our Ministers : They have wanted no information,
nor the United States any friendly assistance which
he could give, that has not been rendered. His exadt
knowledge of our army, both under His Excellency
Gen. Washington and Geu. Greene; the temper
of the troops; their number; their virtues; their
wants, and their neceffities —His perfect acquain
tance with the spirit and difpolition of the people
wherever the enemy have been, and wherever he has
been himfelf —His intercourse with cur men in high
truft —His accurate ideas of the finances and abili
ties of the respective states, with their capacities and
inclinations to prosecute the war—l fay, all these
things could not fail to make his intelligence and
presence, during a negociation, of the utmost im
portance. His information must have been such as
no other person in France could have given to our
Ministers; and such, perhaps, as the whole body
of Congress could not have communicated ; because
his knowledge was collected from observation and
personal enquiries, and theirs, front the nature of
their situation, cannot be so various, so critical and
extensive. He was very anxious to return to Ame
rica, and was only detained here on a special request
of our Ministers. For my own part this man fur
prizes me: We of America are not less virtuous or
less firm for tire defence of our rights than we were
at the beginning of the war; but our enthufialm
which blazed beyond description at that time, is
now nearly extinguished. This nobleman, who has
been so long with us, brings with him to France
all our earliest and brightest enthusiasm, with all
our present firmnefs and virtue. Much may he be
rewarded by his own country, for much he deserves
from ours, which can give him nothing save gratitude.
" You cannot well conceive how affe&ingly de
Graffc's defeat was felt by the gayest and liveliest peo-
ple in the world; Had I been an uninterested spec
tator, I allo must have been affected. But this
shock was not of long continuance and was Suc
ceeded by a patriotic spirit which gave a new vi
gour to every thing. Voluntary fubferiptions from
provincial Rates, cities, and societies of men, loon
made up a much larger number of ships than what
has been taken. So great was the ipirit of giving,
that the King would not permit all that was offered
to be received, because he saw that numbers had
rather consulted their zeal than their fortunes. I
blulhed during this feene for my own country, there
being no infiance of the fame kind to be found on
our records.
" One word more on politicks —The recovery
of Gibraltar remains the fixed object of Soain :
The siege is pertinaciously kept up : New mealures
and a new armament arc in a train for the most de
termined attempts; and it is not improbable but
that a grand assault will take place 011 or about the
25th of this month."
TRE NT ON, November 6.
At a Joint-Meeting of the Honourable the Coun
cil and Affemblv on Wednesday last, His Excellen
cy William Livingston, Esq. was re-elected Gover
nor of this Rate for the ensuing year; and John
Stevens, jun. Esq. was re-appointed Treasurer.
A legiflativc correspondent remarks, that to the
choice of the former there was but one diffentient,
and to that of the latter only three.
On Friday last departed this life, in the 2981 year
of her age, Mrs. Martha Ewing, wife of James Ew
ing, Esq. Auditor of Accounts of this fiate. En
deared to her connections and acquaintance by her
goodness of heart, ^d complacency of manners,
her early loss is deeply lamented. The day follow
ing her remains were decently interred in the Pres
byterian burying-ground in this place, being at
tended to the grave by a large and refpedablc con
course of people from the town and vicinity. A
difeourfe, adapted to the occasion, was delivered by
the Revd. Dr. Spencer, from Rev. chap. xiv. 13.
' And I hard a voice from heaven faying unto me,
write, bluffed are the dead which die in the Lord
from henceforth: Yea, faith the spirit, that they
may rest from their labours; and their works do
follow them.'
William Livingston, Esquire,
Governor, Captain-General, and Commander in
Chief in and over the Rate of New-Jersey, and
the Territories thereunto belonging, Chancellor
and Ordinary in the lame.
Proclamation.
^^ZHEREAS the United States in Congress
7 Y assembled, did, on the eleventh day of Oc
tober instant, iflue a proclamation in the words fol
lowing, to wit,
" it being the indispensable duty of all nations,
not only to offer up their Applications to Almighty
GO D, the giver of all good, for his gracious as
sistance in a time of distress, but also in a solemn
and publick manner to give him praise for his good
ness in general, and especially for great and signal
interpositions of his Providence in their behalf;
therefore, the United States in Congress assembled,
taking into their confederation the many instances
of Divine Goodness to these states in the course of
the important conflict, in which they have been so
long engaged; the present happy and promising
state of publick affairs, and the events of the war
in the course of the year now drawing to a close ;
particularly the harmony of the publick councils,
which is so necessary to the success of the publick
cause; the perfect union and good understanding
which has hitherto subsisted between them and their
allies, notwithstanding the artful and unwearied at
tempts of the common enemy to divide them ; the
success of the arms of the United States and those
of their allies, and the acknowledgment of their in
dependence by another European power, whose
friendship and commerce must be of great and lift
ing advantage to these states; do hereby recom
mend it to the inhabitants of these states in general
to observe, and request the several states to inter
pose their authority in appointing and commanding
the observation of THURSDAY, the t renty
eighth day of November next, as a day of solemn
thanksgiving to GOD for all his mercies; and they
do further recommend to all ranks to teftify their
gratitude to G 0 D for his goodness, by a cheerful
obedience to his laws, and by promoting, each in
his station, and by his influence, the practice of
Married, on Wednesday last, John Rutherford,
Esq. to Miss Helena Morris, daughter of Lewis
Morrir, Esq. of Morriffania.
+ Honesty oppressed has been received. The
Editor approves of the good intentions of the au
thor ; but the language being very incorrect, the me
thod confufed, and the object more obscure, it can
net be admitted in the New-Jersey Gazette, until
it has undergone a thorough repair.
BY 11 1 3 EXCELLENCY
TEKLY receipt of continental taxes in the
state of New-jersey, for the month of Octo
ber, 1782. Dollars.
From 5 October to 12, from the State
Treasurer, 600
12 19
19 26
26 2 Nov. from the
State Treasurer, 187%
Total. 787%
Wm. C. HOUSTON, Receiver.
TO BE SOLD,
A PLANTATION within two miles of Mr. Da
-2a vid Williamson's, and four miles of Cranberry,
containing one hundred and forty-fix acres, Sixty
acres of which is well timbered; there is a good
dwellinghoufe, kitchen, large barn, cut-houses, two
good orchards, with a variety of fruit on laid farm ;
a never failing well and Spring near the house: For
terms apply to John Plum in New-Brunswick, or
the fubferiber on said farm.
HENRY SILLCOCK.
November 5, 1782. 3W*
true and undefiled religion, which is the great foun
dation of publick prosperity and national happiness."
I have therefore thought fit, by and with the ad
vice of the Honourable the Privy Council (as well
in conformity to the said proclamation, as from a
deep sense of our indispensable obligations to tefti
fy, in the most publick manner, our gratitude to Al
mighty God, for his unspeakable goodness towards
us) to appoint the said twenty-eighth day of No
vember next, to be set apart, and obfeived in this
state as a day of solemn thanksgiving to God for
all his mercies ; hereby recommending it to the mi
nisters of the gospel of every denomination therein,
to perform divine service, and to the.people com
mitted to their charge, to attend on publick wor
ship on that day, and to abstain from Servile labour,
and all recreations inconsistent with the solemnity
of the feftival.
Given under my hand and seal at arms, in
Trenton, the thirtieth day of Odober, in
the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven
Hundred and Eighty-two, and in the seventh
year of the sovereignty and independence
of America. WIL. LIVINGSTON.
By his Excellency's command,
Bowes Reed, Sec'ry.
GOD SAVE THE PEOPLE.
LOWER TRENTON FERRY.
r I 'HE road on each fide of the river Delaware to
X the landing is now completed; good boats are
provided ; the best attendance and quickest dispatch
will be given to all persons who may please to fa
vour it with their custom. In this part of the river
there are no obftruftions, the water is deep and
smooth, and the shores gravelly, so that the boats
may at all times be brought so near the shores as
to land their paffcngeis without ever wetting the
foals of their Shoes; these advantages, added to the
good attendance and dispatch that will be given in
putting passengers over, it is hoped will entitle the
fubferiber to the favour of the publick, especially
as the ferriage will be as low as at any of the other
ferries. Those coming from Trenton, and who may
please to make use of this ferry, are de tired, instead
of turning off to the right hand at the brick house,
which is situated at tl,e entrance of the town, to
keep strait forward down the Croffwicks road about
four hundred yards, and then take the right hand
road which leads to Lamberton, where most of the
vchcls that pass up and down the river load and un
load their cargoes. Here are two good houses of
entertainment, one kept by Capt. John Clunn, the
other by Mr. Abraham Waglum. The distance
from here to the house of the fubferiber, who lives
at and keeps the feirv, is about a quarter of a mile.
NATHANIEL MOORE.
November 4, 1782. 4W
ONE DOLLAR REGARD.
STRAYED, on Monday the 14th ult. a small pale
red milch cow, about nine years old—the has
a few white spots in her forehead, her face greyilh,
a little white on her Shoulder, the switch of her tail
white, and a white stripe under her belly. Who
ever will bring the said cow to the fubferiber living
in Trenton, Ihall receive the above reward, and all
reasonable charges, from
PHILIP LOTT.
November 2, 1782. 2W
TO BE SO L D,
For cash or country produce, at the Printing-Office
in Trenton :
CHOICE old Madeira China,
Wine, Queen's ware,
Rum, Leather breeches and
Sugar, Drclfed Skins.
Indigo,
And a variety of dry goods as usual.