The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1783-06-11 00:00:00, page 3

the obnoxious rifts pohibiting the intcrcourfe with
America repealed. , , ,
Colonel Braith\v rte has been attacked, all his
force, about zoo afantry, 250 cavalry, 18 officers,
and 13 field-pit^ taken or destroyed: This execu
tion was perfo med on the r ' vcr Colleroon, by Hyder
Ally's son, TPP° Saib, with the French Commander
Mons. Laiy; this led to the surrender of our town
and garrion of Cuddalore to Mons. Duchemain, on
the 6th rs April ; this batyortune was luccecded by
the taking of Permacoli. Our affairs in East-India
wear a very lowring aspect.
Mr. David Hartley let out for Paris on the 16th
of April, as Commissioner from Great-Britaih, to
fettle a commercial treaty with the Corntruffioners
from America; he is expressly to stipulate the molt
liberal terms, as the grounds oil which the British
Court is to grant peculiar advantages in commerce
to America.
The Humble ADDRESS of the Right Honourable
the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in Parliament
affcmbled.
Die Lun<c, 17 ° Februarii, 1783.
Aloft Gracious Sovereign,
WE, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal fub
jeds, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in Parlia
ment assembled, beg leave to return your Majesty
the thanks of this Honfe for your gracious conde
feenfion in ordering to be laid before us the Prelimi
nary and Provisional Articles of the different Trea
ties which your Majesty has concluded ; and we
assure your Majesty that we have considered them
with that attention which so important a subject
requires.
We beg leave to express in the most dutiful man
ner to your Majesty, our fatisfadion that your Ma
jesty has, in consequence of the powers intruded to
you, laid the foundation, by the Provisional Arti
cles with the States of North-America, for a Treaty
of Peace, which we trull will ensure perfect recon
ciliation and friendship between both countries.
That in this confidence, we presume to express to
your Majesty our just expectation that the several
states of North-America will carry into effectual and
fatisfaftory execution those measures, which the Con
gress is so solemnly bound by the Treaty to recoin
mend in favour of such persons as have fuffered tor
the part which they have taken in the war ; and that
we Ihall confider this circumstance as the surest in
dication of returning friendfhip.—And we acknow
ledge to your Majesty our due sense of that wife and
paternal regard for the happiness of your fubjedts,
which induced your Majesty to relieve them from a
burdensome and expensive war, by the Preliminary
Articles of Peace, concluded between your Majesty,
and their Most Christian and Catholick Kings#
We assure your Majesty, that we shall encourage
and promote every exertion of your fubjeds c^Great-
Britain and Ireland in the cultivation and improve
ments of those resources which must tend to the cer
tain augmentation of our publick strength ; and that
with these views we shall most diligently turn our at
tention to a revision of all our commercial laws, and
proportionably encreafe your Majesty's naval power,
which can alone ensure the prosperity of your do
mirions.
Ordered, That the said Address be presented to his
Majesty by the whole House.
His MAJESTY's Most Gracious ANSWER.
My Lords,
I Receive with pleasure this dutiful Address, and
have great fatisfadiou in observing that the Prelimi
nary and Provisional Articles appear to you, as they
do to me, to afford a reasonable profpeCt of such a
Peace, as will relieve my people from any burthens
beyond what the expences of the war have rendered
unavoidable, and, if properly improved, will ensure
the national prosperity.—These are objects always
next my heart, and every measure, which has a ten
dency to promote them, cannot but be acceptable
to me.—lt is my firm purpose to execute every Ar
ticle of the Treaties on my part with that good faith
which has ever distinguished the conduct of this nation.
I concur with you most entirely on the just ex
pectation you entertain of the like attention in No th-
America, to the stipulations in favour of the unfor
tunate fufferers by the war; which are founded in
humanity and justice, and now recognized by pub
lick engagement. Ido not entertain a doubt that
this and every other Article in the Treaties depen
ding will be finally fettled and performed , by the
other powers with that spirit of liberality and justice
which becomes them.
HARTFOR D, June 3.
Sir Guy Carleton, in his conference with his
Excellency General Washington, it is said, de
clared he could not positively assign the time when
the British garrison would be withdrawn from New-
York, as he had received no orders for that pur
pose, bit was in daily expectation that such infrac
tions fom his Court would arrive by the next
packet ; and that he should make every preparation
on his prt for such an event.
<EW.H AVE N, May 29.
' Thufday last Captain William Biintnal, .in a
PHILADELPH 1 A, June 4.
It is with plealure we inform the publick, that a
line of post offices are again elhbiiihed throughout
the continent, from rannomh, in New-flamplhirc,
to savannah, in Georgia.
The brigantine Morris, Captain Jolhua Allen,
of this port, bound to the Havannah, unfortunately
overlet, on the third of March hit; as she was ly
ing too under her main stay fail in a gale of wind,
by which unhappy accident the Captain and all his
crew, except three, perilhed. 1 hefe three per
lons remained on the wreck 35 days (having lub
firted on cakes, flour mixed with lalt water, which
they baked in the fun) when they were providenti
ally taken up by Captain Dun, in a Ichooner from
I brtola, and carried into nallifax.
Extract of a letter from Lewis.
“ On Wednesday, the 14th instant, a dreadful
whirlwind and hail palled thro' some part of 3uf
fex; the width 1 am not yet able to afeertain; some
fay four miles; but in the centre it was furious
beyond imagination. It totally deitroyed and car
ried away live homes, behdes corn-cribs, for one
Mr. Waples, on the south fide of Indian river,
witli then iiGufehold furniture, beds, pewter, &c.
Tops of boules were mounted in the air. A pet
tyaugre turned over a man to lave him fiorn the
hail, is laid to have been lifted up and dalhed to
pieces. No trees could iLnd its fury, but were
cither broke off, twitted like green withes, or torn
up by the routs. Many hiil-itones were big as a
mans two tilts. One hail-stone knocked down a
horse. let strange the Providence of God! 1 have
heard but of one man killed; though many were
bruised in their limbs. Many children remarkably
prelerved.' [lt is observable, that on the fame
day the itorm happened in Sussex, a remarkable
fhowei of hail fell in this city. See our paper of
the 2111 ult]
June 7. Saundei's Dublin News-Letter of the
2 "' ''?("' contains a very lengthy, disastrous de
tail of Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Hughes's opera
tions in the East-Indies, from the 15th of July to
the 16th of October, by which it appears he has
had two desperate, unfuccelsful engagements with
the fleet of his Most Christian Majeity, under M.
de Suffiein; and by the returns he has sent to the
British Admiralty, 1 28 of his officers and men were
killed, and 516 wounded; among the former were
Captain Duncan M'Clellan, of the Superb (flag
ship) the Honourable Captain Lumley, of the ifis,
Captain James Watt, of the Sultan, and a large
proportion of other commillioned and petty officers.
In the action of the 6th July, he asserts, that the
Severe (which he took for the Ajax) fell along fide
the Sultan, and surrendered ; but, while the Sultan
was wearing to join the Superb, gave her a raking
fire, made what fail the could, and got in among
the French fllips; that on the 7th, he sent Captain
Watt, of the Suitan, in the Rodney, disarmed brig,
as a flag of truce, and demanded a surrender of the
Ajax; and that M. buffrein returned for answer,
that it was the French ship Severe which had the
halliards of her ensign shot away, by which means it
came down, but was never intended to be struck.
The volunteers of Ireland are preparing a congra
tulatory address to his Excellency Gen. Washington,
on the glorious emancipation of America, from Bri
sloop, arrived here, in 23 days from St. Martins:
In lat. 31, he passed sixteen large ships, which he
supposed to be of the line, on their passage from Ja
maica, to England. And, on Monday last, Capt.
Christopher Hughes, in a sloop, arrived here from
St. Croix.
ALBAN Y, May 26.
On the 16th inst. as Mr. Joseph Mayall (an in
habitant of, Tryon county) was passing. through the
woods between Cherry Valley and I hurlow, he
was met by a ferjeant and two privates of the British,
who told him he mutt go with them as their pri
soner. He marched with them as far as Sufque
hannah river, where having concluded on a place
for fording, it was agreed that the tallest fnould
venture over firft, which being effected, the other
two were preparing to follow, and laying down
their guns and packs in order to fix themselves,
MayallHnatched ,up one of the guns, and with the
butt'of it knocked them both into the river. The
private, as soon as he recovered, made the bell of
his way across the river, but the ferjeant turned
round, and endeavoured to leize again upon Mayall,
who with the gun that was in his hand shot the fer
jeant through ihe body, and taking wi h him both
their guns, returned Lie to Lis own home.
Mayall was a piifoner with them twenty-four
hours; he lays they were formerly inhabitants on
the Mohawk river.
tish tyranny. To that renowned Chief, and the virtu
ous struggles of the American army, they, in a g.vat
measure, ascribe their own happiness and ind< pen
dence, and are therefore determined to pay tueir tri
bute of gratitu^ 7,/
TRE N r O N, June n.'G
Extract of a letter fiom a gentleman in Philadel
phia, to his correspondent in this Rate.
“ I was in hopes New-Jersey would have pre
ferred its reputation for found policy and pubnek
hohefty, relpeding its paper money utyullied;
Specially as the temptation to a breach from the
quantity it has out, is too fm 11'to be an objeCt
even to expedient politicians, such a trifle, lup
pofing no reputation were to be loft by it, is hardly
worth the trouble of filching: But the smaller the
objeCt of theft or knavery, the mote the thief or
knave will be defpTed; because it argues a more
apt disposition to the bufiuefs ; when the temptation
is great, some allo vances will be made for the
frailty of human nature."
On Thursday the fifteenth ult. was married, at
Shrewfbury, Dr. Elisha Newell, to Mils Sal
ly Cock.—
And on the fame day and fame place Mr. Ro
bert Lawrence, to Mils Sukey Leonard.
On Wednesday the 21st ult. was married, at
Allen-7 o&n, Dr. John Grandin, to Mils Ecl
ly Newell.
Trenton, June 9, 1783.
The collectors of taxes in the several counties of
the state are earnestly called upon to pay forward,
as expeditioudy as possible, all monies in their hands,
and to give the most di'ligtnt attention in getting in
the arrears. The present publick exigencies, and
particularly the want of a large sum of money to
discharge a part of the pay due to the army, will
urge every one, both payers and collectors, to do
their utmost. WM. C. HOUSTON, Receiver
of continental taxes, New-Jersey.
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JO H-NTTro MPSOTt
Has opened store next door to Dr. Moses Scott,
in .Ilbany-ftreet, New-Brunswick, and intends
to fell the following articles on as good terms as
they are at prelent retailed in New-York, viz.
I EEL plate and Coffee-mills,
O other saws, Pegging-awls,
Plane irons, Drawing-knives,
Double spring and other Table butts,
locks, Handsaw and other
Mortise and other files,
chisels, Carpenters' compasses,
Augers, Chalk lines,
Iwo foot rules, Coffin and table screws,
Hinges, , Padlocks and horse
'I humb latches, locks,
Brass handles and Brads and clouts,
feutcheons, Scissors,
Solid check and other Cutteau knives,
hammers, Knives and forks,
Former's iron Smoothing-irons,
squares, Frying-pans,
Bolts, Shovels and tongs,
Hinges, With a number of other
Gridirons, articles in the iron-
Awl-blades, mongery way.
hLSO dry goods, consisting of
Irish linens, Tea,
Black, white and foufle Sugar,
gauzes, Window glass,
Cambrick, Putty,
Lawns, Prufia'n blue,
Calicoes, Red and white lead,
Silk and linen handker- Spanilh brown,
chiefs. Yellow oaker,
Calimanco, Chalk,
J eans , Hard soap,
„', ea , Tea cu ps and saucers,
Ribands, Bowls
' ins . Tea-pots, &c.
Laces, &c. &c.
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Robert Singer
Has for file in Trenton,
W r EST-INDIA White and black silk,
rum > Handkerchiefs,
Sewing silks and mohair,
MoLffes, An assortment of broad
and narrow ribands,
Chintzes and calicoes, Cambrick
R,,^, Lawns and muffin,
Shalloons, Mens' and womens'
Durants and caliman- thread and cotton
Back and white gauze, And a variety of other
,1k gloves, articles.
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