The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1784-05-24 00:00:00, page 2

MARCH 13.
Accounts from Rypen, in Norway, mention, that
one Christian Houghmeil, a fiHerman, died there in
the beginning of lad month ; hij poAcAcy way cAu^cd
ing numerous, and it is remarkable, that at his decease,
several of his grand-children saw their grand-father
and their grand-children at the fame time. Hough
meil had by two wives 18 children, 9 only of whom
survived, and produced him 85 grand-children ; from
these defeended 201 great grand-children, and from ,
them 5 great great grand-children. Total, 309.
Nothing ever gave more general fatisfa&ion than
the late piece of Dean Tucker on the question, whe
ther an administration ought to stand, having a majo
rity in parliament against them? Sir Richard Hill,
in his speech on Monday the Bth inst. said, that he
was glad to find that a much better political optician
than himfelf had lately presented the publick a recti
fying glass. One of these glares he had then in his
pocket, which he had lately received from Gloucester,
with the ingenious artist's name upon it, Josiah
Tucker; and he Ihould be happy to lend it to any
of the gentlemen on the other fide of the house, par
ticularly to an honourable member, who he was sure
always meant to a& uprightly (viz. Mr. Powys) and
ifhe would please to hold it up before his eyes, he
would not perhaps think the funeral of the house of
commons so very near as he apprehended; but if he
remained of the lame opinion, the lead the house
could do would be to vote him to hold the office of
undertaker upon the occasion, which, though it was
certainly a military office, was such a one as would
not vacate the honourable gentleman's feat.
March 19. The house of commons resumed, and
went into a committee on the American intercourse
bill; and the blank left for the space of time that it
was to last, was filled up with the words 66 24th of
June next."
Letters from Virginia mention, that the Assembly
(in consequence of several American vessels having re
turned from Jamaica and other parts of the British
Weft-Indies, without being allowed to dispose of their
cargoes, or bring away the produce of those illands)
had voted some violent resolves in retaliation ! How
modefl are these resolutions ! So after we have con
cluded to the Americans the perpetual sovereignty of
a fertile and extensive territory; granted to them a
most valuable fifhery, while they have excluded Bri
tish fubjefts from theirs ; after we have given up the
fur trade, with the command of all the forts, lakes,
and carrying-places, which were necenary to secure
its monopoly, while we have been requited only with
enormous prescriptive duties; after all these obliga
tions, America fays, “ Concede to us a free trade
to your Weft-India possessions, and the carriage of
your sugar to the European market ; ship building is
our trade, we can carry them cheaper than British
built ships. Grant this, or we will retaliate I" Bet
ter to perish with the little honour the peace has left
us, than to submit to such disgrace and humiliation
from a French Congress, from French agents, and a
confederacy of frantick American committees.
March 20. The Grand Duke of Tufcahy, Black
et, belonging to London, valued at 60,0001. being
near the port of Leghorn, was taken possession of by
three Sclavonian sailors, who killed the man at the helm,
and two others, and wounded the captain, whom they
confined below, with the remainder of the crew, con
fiding of upwards of twenty sailors: They then set
fail for a Turkish port. Some cruizers are gone after
them from Leghorn, but is thought will be too late.
A jealousy subsists at prefect between the Spani
Tiie king of France is now on the point of efta
blilhing an academy of experimental agriculture,
which will bid fair for proving of the highest utility
to that kingdom, A farm of 1500 acres is marked
out for them in a royal domain, within ten leagues of
Paris, where they are to make experiments necessary
to eftabh/h the art upon uncontroverted principles.—
There are also to be a court of justice, and appeal
from all parts of the kingdom, in the enclosure of
commons and other lands, in such a manner as to fa
cilitate greatly that circumstance in rural economy,
which is so much wanting in France. No less than
300,000 livres a year is aligned to this academy, to
support its expences.
hire died of die plague; but that the severe cold of
the winter had so far checked the contagion, as to give
little reason to apprehend the breaking out of the dis
order again upon the approach of summer.
The ambassador from the court of Russia hath late
ly received his expected defpatcbes, relative to the
accommodation of the affair between his Prussian ma
jesty and the city of Dantzic. The arrival of the de
puties from that city is only waited for in order to
begin the conferences with M. Boccholtz, who hath
also received his neceffaiy powers.
We are informed, that the Turks cantoned along
the frontiers of the empire, begin to file off, in order
to return home.
LONDO N, March 10.
ards and Americans, relative to the boundaries of Flo
rida, that may possibly occasion a union of some fort
or other between Great-Britain and the United States.
(Vain hope! miserable caput.)
Letters from Dublin mention, that at a meeting of
the volunteer delegates of the province of Connaught,
the earl of Clanrickaid was appointed generalissimo of
the province, and that brigadier generals were ap
pointed to every county, and the several counties of
the cities. At the fame meeting it was absolutely
resolved, that the reform of parliament being essenti
al, must be obtained, and every rheans used for that
purpose.
March 23. It is now said to be a fettled arrange
ment, that Prince William is to reside in Germany
for two or three years to come.
The flota, from the. Havanrah, arrived at Cadiz
the ill instant.
Saturday last W. K. Leonard, late an apothecary
in this town, was tried at York, and found guilty of
obtaining models and plans of machines and utensils
used in the woollen manufadory, with intent to ex
port the fame to America, and sentenced to fuffer
twelve months imprisonment, to pay a fine of 2001.
and to be imprisoned until the fine be paid.
WHITEHALL (England) March 29.
The FUNERAL PROCESSION of the HOUSE of
COMMONS.
“ Afoort pause! A Jingle day! Twenty-four hours
to mourn over the funeral of the House of Com
tho^.” Ma Powys's Speech.
Twenty-four Irilh chairman, with bludgeons, to keep
the peace and clear the way.
Twelve butchers in crape shirts, with marrow-bones
and cleavers muffled.
The two addresses lately presented to his Majesty, in
a wheel-barrow hung with black.
The door-keeper of the House of Commons, with a
key pendant on his button-hole.
The Mace in a Mourning Coach.
The Speaker in character of a Mute.
The CHAPLAI N,
With a final! volume of occasional sermons in his hand.
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With the following inscription on the plate :
" I have said to Corruption, Thou art my Father."
Job, chap. xvii. verse 14.
The Pall supported by twelve gentlemen of the St.
Alban's.
Mr. Powys, Chief Mourner, in Weepers.
Mr. Fox in Brazen Armour, with this motto on his
Helmet: " Aut Cajar aut Nullus."
Lord North, in a Sackcloth Surtout.
A Chimney-Sweeper carrying a CRUCIFIX.
Mr. Burke reading the office of Vespers.
Mr. Rigby,folus.
The Commissioners of Accounts, two and two.
Armfroug, the Sheriffs officer,
with several Writs of Extent in his hand.
Mr. Brinfley Sheridan.
The Treasurer of the Opera-House, with an empty
Box.
Italian performers, in deep Mourning.
Thomas Levi Simon, and Nadab William ifhmael;
two responsible Christian Bail.
A licenser of the press, carrying an empty purse.
1 he Opposition Writers, two and two.
An AN THE M, the Words
" And now, Lord, what is our hope! Truly our hope
is not in Thee."
General Conway.
His servant with a rusty firelock.
General Burgoyne.
A Trumpet founding a retreat.
Mr. Sawbridge in Jack boots, and an Alderman's
Gown.
George Byng, dressed like a Jockey.
Lord John CaiendiJh,
with the amendment Receipt-Tax, bound in calf.
Opposition Ballad Singers, two and two.
The Waiters at Brookes' carrying a Faro Table on a
new Conftruftion.
The procession closed by
Mr. Keys, the Messenger of the People,
in Character of MERCURY.
Sam. House, in his night-cap, and Uppers, beating
the " dead march in Saul," on a kettle drum.
A jack-ass in body clothes of fable, carrying the re
solutions of the majority.
A news-hawker, with Mr. Fox's speeches in black
letter.
LEEDS (England) March 16.
American Intelligence.
NEW-YOR K, May 5.
Mr. PRINTER,
As the improvement of the rifng generation is
one of the principal cares and pteafures of the pre
sent, it will be an agreeable amusement to many of
your readers to be entertained with the advances
they are making in their studies; I therefore fend
you a little extraft from the correspondence of a
young gentleman in the JerJies, to his companion in
this city.
" New-Jersey, April 6, 1784.
My dear Harry,
I WAS a fpedator, among many others, On
Thursday and Friday evenings last, at the academy
of Bordentown, where I Lw the exhibition of the
much celebrated tragedy called the Mourning Bride,
by a set of young gentlemen under the tuition of the
Rev. Burges Allison, of that place.
I wilh, for the fake of doing justice to the per
formers, as well as to the gentleman from whose
abilities and good management they have made so
rapid a progress in oratory, I had a pen capable of
describing the merit due to both.
The room for the exhibition was ingeniously paint
ed, and furnished with handsome and becoming feenery,
well adapted to the occasion, and seemed only defi
cient in the size, whicli would contain but about one
hundred people—that being but half the number in
vited on that occasion, made an exhibition on the se
cond evening necessary.
The feene opened to foft music, well performed
on four instruments, which continued throughout the
exhibition, at proper times, and had a most pleating
effe&.
May 10. On Friday last the Naturalization Bill,
in favour of the late emigrants, puffed into a law. It
must be a pleating reflection to every real friend co his
country, to find upwards of two hundred ufeful and
refpeftable fubje&s added by this bill to the State,
since the peace, and more especially as it is a convinc
ing proof of the good opinion foreigners entertain of
us. In our infant situation it is certainly good policy
to give strangers every reasonable encouragement :—
Much depends upon firft impression ; and local conve
nience ought never to be preferred to the general
good. Any personal illiberality at this time, may
turn out in tendency, not only a disappointment to
those (perhaps ill calculated to bear it) but also a loss
and grievance to the publick, by suppressing genius and
preventing the future efforts of merit.
The publick are cautioned against a daring banditti
of robbers, lately escaped from prison, several of whom
have been lurking in the neighbourhood of Green
wich, but we do not hear of any mifehief being per
petrated by them at that place, other than dealing one
fifherman's boat, in which it is probable some of them
have got to the Jerfies. What a melancholy reflec
tion of depravity, that the late awful punishment
should so soon lose its horrors !
MAY j 3.
By the ship Cruger, Captain Jones, arrived ) efler
da, from Briflol, we have received English papers
to the 27th of March last, from which the follow
ing are extrafled:
L OND O N, March 25.
House of Lords, Wedi cfday, March 25.
HIS Majesty being seated on the throne, the Com
mons were sent for, and being come with their speaker,
the King gave the royal aflent to 17 publick and 6
private bills; after which his Majesty made the fol
lowing most gracious speech from the throne :
" My Lords and Gentlemen,
" On a full conlideration of the present situation of
affairs, and of the extraordinary circumstances which
have produced it, I am induced to put an end to this
I was struck with admiration to fee a tragedy wrote
in so high a stile, and in such elegant language as that
of the Mourning Bride, so well performed by a set
of youth, whose short study seems scarcely to admit
the proficiency displayed on that occasion.
The dress of the young gentlemen, from the taste
and ingenuity of Mr. Allison, assisted by the good
Ladies of the place, was really elegant, and well
becoming the several characters exhibited.
I have heard it observed by many gentlemen, that
the youth of Bordentown Academy, are thought to
be brought on in the several sciences, as faft, if not
more so, than at any other seminary of learning in
this or the adjacent States; and this opinion seems
to be corroborated by the school's being chiefly made
up of gentlemen's sons from your city and Philadel
phia."
The character of the Mourning Bride was so pa
thetic and well drawn, that it melted a great number
of the audience into tears, and more especially among
the fair sex. Your favourite Miss B wept sweetly.
1 he great utility arising from a competent know
ledge and power of oratory, is too obvious to persons
of the least difeernment, to need any thing said in
its commendation.