The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1783-04-16 00:00:00, page 1

Trenton, April 8, 1783.
By His Excellency the
COVE RNO R.
A GENERAL Court-Martial of the state,
of which Col. Joseph Beavers is appointed
President, is ordered to be held at the dwelling
houfe of Lieut. Col. Bonnel, near Pitts-'l own, in
the county of Hunterdon, on Wednesday the 21st
day of May next, for the trial of Col. Jacob Weft
and Captain David Johnson; of which court Colo
nels, John Taylor of Hunterdon county and George
Ely; Lieutenant Colonels, John Ten-Broek and
Joab Houghton ; Majors, Samuel Grcenendyck and
Godfrey Rynhait; and Captains, Jacob Carhart,
Francis Krufer, James Johnson, Israel Carle, John
Mott and Ralph Guild, are appointed members ;
and William Willcocks, Esquire, is appointed Judge
Advocate. WIL. LIVINGSTON.
P R O P OIS A L S
For printing by Subscription,
ACTS
OF THE
GENERAL ASSEMBLY
of the State of New-Jersey,
From the establishment of the present government
and declaration of independence to the end of the
sixth session on the sth day of October 1782;
With the CONSTITUTION prefixed.
To which is annexed,
An APPENDIX,
Containing the Articles of ' Confederation of
the UNITED STATES, &c.
With two alphabetical Tables and an Index.
Compiled under the appointment of the General
Assembly, by
PETER WILSON, A. M.
CONDITIONS.
I. This work, which is now in the pref,and will
be finished with all expedition, will be done 011 a
large type and good paper—and to be neatly bound
and lettered.
11. Price to fubferibers Thirty-foe Shillings, one
half of which sum to be paid at the time of fubferib
ing, and the remainder on the delivery of the book.
N. B. Subferiptions are received by the members
of the Legislature of this state; Joseph Crukthank^
Printer, in market-street, Philadelphia; and by the
fubferiber in Trenton.
ISAAC COLLIN S.
The well known horse
JOLLY CHESTER,
Is to cover the ensuing season at the stable of the
fubferiber at South-Amboy, 4 miles from Cran
berry, Middlesex county, at seven lilver dollars
the season.
TOLLY CHESTER is a fine bay, with a beautiful
, star in his forehead, full fifteen hands and one
inch high, very lengthy and handsome, is allowed,
by competent judges, to be one of the best foal get
ters of any in the state. Jolly Chester was got'by
that noted running horse True Britain; his dam by
old Hero; his grandam by old Spark. Good pas
ture will be provided, and attendance given by'
3wt DANIEL LOTT.
Ilie full-blooded horse
YOUNG JANU S,
"^ Hartf ° r d county, Maryland, will cover at the
stable of the fubferiber at Coryell's ferity, in Penn
" °? e r half Johannes the season.
T A %US is a red sorrel, fifteen hands one inch high,
„ rifin , { c , n , years old this g rass: He was got by
the noted horse old Janus, his dam by Fearnought,
out of an imported, m are ; heis as high a bred horse
as any on the continent for elegance, there is none
to excel him; he is as fwift as any on the continent
101 one quarter or fix hundred yards. Any gentle
men that choose to fend their mares, mav depend
fh'°°i d Pa '" re provided, and best of care
' N R ^l" '' ROBERT LANING.
fr , B - An Y ^^ from jersey to be ferriage
jw*
[Vol. VI.) ' THE [Numb. 277.]
NEW-JERSEY GAZETTE
WEDNESDA Y, April 16, 1783.
A last advice to the Tories and Refugees in
New-York.
POOR, unhappy, deluded, and infatuated
people: Now after all your vigorous ex
ertions by influence and arms in favour of
your king, he has basely shook you off with
a cold recommendation to the mercy of your insulted
and injured countrymen. If your king has no mercy
upon you, after all your faithful services, how can
you expert it from your enemies?
Your country is informed that multitudes of you
purpose to tarry in it after the departure of the
English. Be assured you cannot do it. Read the
above association * and resolution, and firmly be
lieve, that it is the genuine spirit of more than nine
tenths of the people of the country. State laws will
no longer be feebly executed ; they will have their
perfect effect.
Many of you in whining accents will fay, “ We
have done nothing, only taken refuge in Ncw
" York ; we have said nothing; we have friends in
" the country who will save us; by the articles of
" peace Congress is to recommend us to the Rates
"to fuffer us to tarry in them," &c. Allow me
here to observe :
Those of you, who have done nothing, and said
nothing (such you know are both few and infignifi
cant among yourselves) may possibly escape ; but,
depend upon it, they will ever be treated as under
ling wretches, and held in abhorrence and contempt.
But very few of you indeed, but what have both
done and laid many things; and be assured, every
a&ion you have done, and every word you have
'fpoken against your country, will be remembered
against you, and you will be infallibly executed, or
perpetually banished, or you will be so harraffed that
you will be obliged to make your escape and exile
yourselves. I tell you naked truth. 1 know what
I fay and whereof I affirm. But,
You will fondly hope your iniquities cannot be
proved. Do rot any longer indulge a spirit of delu
hon. You have been too long celuucd already. Too
many of us have been prisoners in New-York. We
have always had many whigs and friends in that ci
ty; and many of yourselves will turn witnesses for
the Rate one against another, so that not a secret
word or tingle action you have been guilty of against
your country in general, or against any individual
whig in particular, but what will be produced and
supported by incontestable testimony.
Confidcr before what courts you are to be tried;
who are to be the juries to try you ; and who your
prosecutors. Are they not all to a man determined
whigs. Have they not all fuffered and been injured
you ? “ Whig's, you will fay, will do justice:"
Impend upon —Justice, ftrid justice you will have;
therefore fly tyore it is too late.
You MyrfTYou,&ive many friends in the coun
try." „This is too true. But your friends have no in
fluence. If they can now save themfclves, they must
be more prudent and silent than they have been for
fix years past. They must no longer shew them
felvcs as the friends or favourers of Cories, plunder
ers, house-burners and enemies of their country.
Remember those, who wish you well, will not dare
to put forth a hand to help, and scarcely will lisp
a word in your behalf. Yea, many ot those persons
you now imagine your friends, will become your
most zealous persecutors and enemies, in order to
ingratiate themlelves with their countrymen, and
wipe the stigma of toryifra from their own charac
ters, which now they would be glad to have re
moved.
Your last hope is, the recommendation of Congress
according to the articles of peace. A forlorn hope it
is. Congress will recommend: But if Congress were
bound by the peace to save you, they would hardly
be able to do it. A Congressional recommendation
cnce had mighty weight in this country; but then,
it was in matters pleating to the people. Now they
are invested with definitive powers. They cannot go
beyond the confederation. They have no power to
interfere in the internal police of any state. Howe
ver venerated that glorious assembly is by Ameri
cans, this recommendation will be confidcred as a
matter of mere form, and it will do you no good.
Trust not to it. Entertain not a spark of hope from
it. Your king put you off with a recommendation;
so will Congress. The former you fee does not re
gard you; and the latter abhors you. Wherefore
now be advifid not to admit a thought of returning
to your country.
Confider, we view you as our worst enemies. We
* This association to be in a future paper.
believe, when Britain firft made the acts which ag
grieved this country, had you been whigs, and una
nimous with us, they would, as the stamp-ad, have
been repealed, and blood would not have been shed.
We believe, that at any period had you forfaken the
British cause, and returned and taken an active part
with your country, the war would have ceased. We
believe, that by the falfe information you gave the
Britons, and by your influence, you have been lead
ing instruments in protrading this awful war. We
believe, that you have instigated the British to ren
der the war unspeakably more horrid, barbarous
and inhuman, than it would otherwise have been.
.Wherefore now, while you have an opportunity, save
yourselves from the vengeance of an incensed coun
try; save us from the trouble, and the painful talk
of punishing. If you wish yourselves to live, and
your friends who are here to enjoy tranquility in
the country, be gone. Adhere to the cause you have
adopted. If you have no virtue, at least, have hu
manity enough to be fome<what consistent. How can
you abjure your king, whom you. love? How can
you swear allegiance to a government which you
hate ? Therefore entertain not the most distant
thought of staying among us. Hesitate not a mo
ment; Go off in the firft ships, left you be left fur
ther in the lurch. You have no time to lose. Cast
yourselves upon the mercy of your king. Keep in
his dominions. Recoiled, the firft article of your
creed is, " Your king can do no wrong." Here you
cannot live. Your friends cannot help you. A cold
congressional recommendation cannot save you. You
fliewed no mercy to your country, and you will
have judgment without mercy.'
I thirst not for your blood ; therefore I give you
this earnest counsel. If you do not take it, your
blood will be upon your own heads. If after all this,
you will still stay, you are surely left of Heaven to
strong delusions, to believe lies that you may be
hanged. This is the last counsel to you from one
who has always been, even in the worst of times, a
STEADY WHIP.
Io the Citizens of New-Jersey? '
HENEVER a question arises refpeding the
▼ V proper line of condud to be pursued in a mat
ter wherein the publick welfare is nearly concerned,
it is the duty of an individual who, from the nature
of his office, may be supposed to be possessed of
information of material consequence to be known,
in order to the forming a right judgment of the tub
jed in difeuffion, to render to the publick every af
fiflance which it is in his power to give. From a
full conviction of the justness of this position, I beg
leave to lay before the publick a state of fads, ie
fpeding the paper money issued under the faith of
this state ; and at the fame time to express my sin
cerest wishes that it may have some tendency towards
giving a proper direction to the publick measures,
in a matter ot such general importance.
By an ad passed the ninth day of June, 1780, tin
titled, "An ad tor establishing a fund for finking
" and redeeming the proportion of the bills of credit
" of the United States, assigned as the quota of this
" state, 'it is enacted, " That the sum of Two Hun
" dred and Twenty-five Thousand Pounds, being
" the amount of the quota assigned to be funded
" and redeemed by this state, in a resolution of Ccn
" grds ot the 18th M^rch last, in bills of credit, be
" issued upon tiie faith of this state, redeemable in
" Ipecie within fix years after the present year, up
" on the terms and in the manner and form in the
" before-recited resolution of Congress recommend
ed; and that the said sum of Two Hundred and
''Twenty-five Thousand Pounds, together with the
" interest therefor, at the rate of five per centum
" per annum, amounting in the whole, principal and
" interest, to the sum of Two Hundred and Sixty
" four Thousand Three Hundred and Seventy five
" Pounds, be levied, railed and paid into the trea
" fury of this Rate, in the proportions and at the
" periods following, to wit : the sum cf Forty-eight
" Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty Pounds, be
" ing the firft payment of the said sum, including
" the whole interest of the principal sum of Two
" Hundred and Twenty-five Thoufond Pounds tor
" one year, be paid into the treasury on or before
" the 31st day of December, which will be in the
" year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred
“ and Eighty-one."
In like manner one sixth part, together with the
interest, is directed to be railed and paid into the
treasury on or before the 31st day of December of
each year, until the whole fhal| be paid, which will
be pn or before the 31st day of December, 1786.
„ On the 3d of October, 1781, a resolution was