The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1780-01-12 00:00:00, page 2

B, Cip\ Yellot, ^bo arrived at Baltimore on Ihurfda,
the <)tb ult. in 13 days from St. Euflatius, we have
the following advices extra fled from Englijh, French
and Dutch news-papers, viz.
UTRECHT, September ~,
BY authentic advices received here, it is past a
doubt, that during the winter a negociation will
be set on foot, to terminate the differences that have
kindled a war between France, Spain and England.
The Empress of Russia, who has already acquired so
much glory by giving peace to Germany, has much at
heart there-establishment of it in other parts of Eu
rope. This august Princess has, it is faid,,made o
vertures on this fubjedt, to an ally of Great-Britain,
to engage that power to ad in concert with her on so
falutar, a work, and the Ambafiadors Extraordinary
to be lent bv that ally tor that end to the Court of
Versailles Madrid and London, are already nomi
nated. But it is feared this undertaking will meet
with so many difficulties, that it will miscarry, be
cause not one of the three powers has yet met with
any reverse to oblige her to desist from her pretentions,
unless that through fertiments of humanity they
Should give up fomgthing, to prevent the calamities
of war from Spreading further.
Leipfick, Au±. 30. The report which prevailed that
the King of Prullia was affc-mbling an army of obser
vation, gains ground, which, it is said, will consist of
a corps of between 40,000 and 50,000 men, which is
to be commanded by the Duke Ferdinand of Brunf
wicK. It is alfi> said, that before next winter the ne
ceflary recruits will be raised to supply the deficiencies
in the companies from whence these corps are to be
drawn.
Paris, Aug. 31. According to the report of the of
ficers of the Juno frigate, M. de Tronjolly has taken
and conducted to the Isle of France four ships belong
ing to the Englilh East-India Company, estimated at
fourteen millions.
Pera ofConflantinople, Aug. 3. In the course of last
week no less than ten fires broke out in this city or
its suburbs; one of which, near the Imperial summer
residence, consumed 42 houses; and another in the
centre of Conftintinoplc, in the night of the 29th
past, which raged upwards of 18 hours, and consum
ed 30 mosques, besides about 6000 houses or ffiops.
Different attempts have been made to burn Pera
and Galafa, the residence of the Franks.
LONDON, August 13.
To the Printer of the London Evening Pofl.
S I R,
IF freedom of speech, and the most vigorous oppo
sition to Ministers, were ever neceffarv in a free
country, they are certainly at this awful period; a
period which not only marks the decline of a great
empire, but the immediate fall of it; a period in
which one man seems to have usurped the sole direc
tion of government, and having procured a set ofpro
fligate associates to go through thick and thin with
him, has bribed the Senate, and deluded the people
into an approbation of meafure>, which humanity
shudders at, and common sense condemns.
A writer, who has lately taken up the pen to ex
pose the secret design - of the Crown agaiuft the liber
ties and grandeur of Britain, in speaking of the con
test with America, observes, that " to the cruelty
" and injustice of drawing the sword, were added in
" fult and calumny. Both Houses ofParliament were
" prodigal in their abuse of the Americans, whom
" they ftigmarifed as cowards and as blockheads.—
" Allowing these stigmas to have been just, is it not
" a reflection (fivs the writer) to have sued to these
" very COWARDS and BLOCKHEADS for peace,
" after a contest of FOUR YEARS, in which the
" strength of this country had been in vain exerted to
" subjugate them?"
To this passage, a bold but admirable note is fub
ioined, and as it proves the author to have a perfect
knowledge ofthe man, of whom it may be said, om
nis ilia tempeJlas Carfare impulfore exercitata est; we
hav extracted it for the perusal of our readers:
" Lord Sandwich in one House, and General
Grant in the other, were the sirs tto brand the Ame
ricans as cowards. The former summoned the ghost
of Sir Peter Warren from its silent mansion, in sup
port of his illiberal reproach, while the latter declar
ed, that with 500 men he would march from one ex
treme of the Continent to the other. These were the
opinipns of men high in the royal confidence of their
Sovereign; opinions abhorrent to reason and philo
sophy, but which were received with avidity, because
they were consonant with the sanguinary and obdu
rate temper of a man, who seems delirous of ex
changing his ancient and venerable motto for the
more classical and pleating one of,fie tolo, fie jubeo.—
Had either of the Senators above mentioned consulted
Horace, they would have been informed, that the
lion could not beget the lamb, nor the bird of Jove
the timid dove.
Fortes creantur fortibus
Est in juvencis, est in equis patrwn
Virtus; nee imbeHum feroces
Progenerant aquila columbam."
Political Mirror, or a summary Review
of the present Reign, p. 40.
L.
Extract of a letter from the Hague, Aug. 7.
" The States General after deliberating on the me
morial presented by Sir Joseph York, have come to
tut following resolutions :
1 s
" ift. Not to yield the flffiftanCe to Great-Britain,
which was required by the memorial.
" 2d. To increase the land forces of the republic.
" 3d. To .provide fufficient convoys for the trade
of the republic.
" These are the resolutions to which the Aflembly
of the States General have agreed. The Stadtholder
is very much chagrined, as he was strongly inclined to
furnifh Great-Britain with the quota of ships fpecified
in the treaty ; but he was absolutely over-ruled by the
French and republican party, who confider the idea
of an invasion, only as a lure thrown out by the Court
of London, to draw assistance from Holland, and
thus involve her in a war with France."
Extract of a letter from Hanover, July 30.
" The number of men raised in this Electorate,
since the commencement of the American war, has
been so great that the recruiting parties find it ex
tremely difficult to raise new levies to compleat the
augmentations that are ordered to be made; petitions
have been presented to the regency, praying, that
men who have large families, and who earn an honest
livelihood by hard labour, may not be compelled to
serve. In some of the diftrids they have gone so far
as to oppose recruiting. Accounts are sent off to
London for inftruftions how to proceed."
The last letters from Jamaica mention, that three
companies of foot, with a train of artillery, had just
embarked at that place, to reinforce the English set
tlements on the Mufquito there, and to erect some
strong batteries next to the Spanish fide.
Extract of a letter from Jamaica, June 12.
" Though we are at a distance from the present
feat of war in the Weft-Indies, yet every care and
precaution is taken here, as if an enemy were at
hand; all the militia and independent companies,
horse, &c. are kept in continual exercise, and amount
upon the whole Illand to 1200, besides the Liverpool
Blues, who are 1000 strong, and the other regular
corps making together near 3000; the works through
out the Island are in the most compleat repair, and
new ones have been added, though we think the
French will not ha^ffiiftfs enough to attempt this
Island unless D'Eftaing, with all his fleet, and 10,000
troop o , should make the essay."
The Patuxam, Capt. Lufk, which arrived a few
days ago from Jamaica, was taken on her passage by
an American privateer, and afterwards ransomed for
530c1. This is the firft ship that has been ransomed
from the Americans since this unhappy contest; —
therefore it is imagined it will occasion a dispute a
mong the underwriters.
Lord Macartney's dispatches for government were
on board the Supply armed ship, which were burnt the
day before the fleer failed to St. Kitt's, and consumed
with her. Lady Macartney had embarked on board
the above ship at Grenada. The Supply drifted
through the whole fleet whilst on fire, and yet did not
damage any one vessel, but went on shore and there
blew up.
In all changes of Administration, and revolutions of
the Cabinet, the people, for whose fake all government
is or ought to be instituted, are never considered as
having any weight or consequence in the State. They
are looked upoc as beads of burden, and called the
scum of the earth; they are tit only to be insulted
and trod upon, to be loaded with taxes, and galled
with oppreflion.
If the Prime Minister after a long and inglorious, a
weak and wicked adminiftratiqn, should think proper
to withdraw into retirement, he must be gratified with
a title and rewarded wi h a pension ; and the people
are obliged to give an annual sum to support the man
in luxury and affluence, who has betrayed their in
terests and drained their purses.
Lord Barrington is indeed an instance of singular
moderation.—This Nobleman after having acquired
above 100,0001. by his place of Secretary of War,
declined to accept the offer of a pension; and the best
of Princes was reduced to the necessity of employing
all his rhetoric to overcome his Lordship's modesty,
who now enjoys the small token of the King's grati
tude in a pension of 20001. per annum.—What a gra
cious Prince !
Au^. 14. Her Majesty is reported to be pregnant
for the fourteenth time.
Though we are seemingly in the midst of war, a
peace is on the tapis, under the direction of the
very man, who made the last honourable peace of
Paris; and under the mediation of the fame Court,
that of Sardinia, who were so much our good friends
on a foimer occasion, that we rewarded their Am
bassador, Count ^Viri, with a penlion upon Ireland,
which he enjoys to this very hour.
Lord Mountftuart, eldest son of the Earl of Bute,
is preparing to set out direftly for Turin, on affairs
of importance, being lately appointed Ambassador to
that Court.
A correspondent is much surprised that the King,
after swallowing such large quantities of thiflle broth,
should not be troubled with qualms or pains in his
stomach, and that in all this time, some portion of
it should not have been difeharged. He recommends
a large dram of Irish whiskey, as the best antitode for
so pernicious a beverage as the thiflle broth.
Sept. 2. Capt. Hutchins, of the 6cth regiment,
who was on Tuesday examined at Lord George
Germain's office, for carrying on a treasonable corre
spondence with the French and Spaniards, and com
mitted to prison, which makes the third person ap
prehended for those practices firce Friday last. He
was again examined yesterday at Lord George Ger
main's office, and the proofs appearing stronger a
gainst him, was remanded back to prison.
Capt. Hutchins was, in 1763, a Lieutenant in the
firft battalion of the royal Americans, under Gerh
Bouquet, with whom he went upon an expedition a
gainst the Indians in America, when the General re
lieved Fort Pitt, which was at that time besieged by
the enemy, and brought over a vast number of the
Shawanefe to the British interest. Capt. Hutchins
was born in the lower Counties upon the Delaware^
esteemed a good officer, a gentleman, and most ex
cellent draughtfman, having about the year above
mentioned published very accurate charts of most of
the rivers, lakes, &c. belonging to the British Ame
rican settlements., "
Notwithstanding all the reports about peace being
on the carpet, we can assure the public there is no
such thing, though a servile begging pardon and a
train of unmanly, unconstitutional concessions are
offered to the Courts of France and Spain, to secure
the Ministers in their places. A peace we understand
to be a mutual acquiescence in two, or more powers,
to put an end to war; which a prostitution of honour
and dignity on one fide cannot be said to effect, tho'
the negociators by such a prostitution may for a time
save their own bacon.
Sept. 8. Admiral Barrington's ship received 2%
foots between wind and water, had many men killed,
and Admiral Barrington wounded severely, being sur
rounded by three French ships of 74 guns each.
Sept. 10. The trade ofthe three islands which we
have loft in the Weft-Indies, within the last nine
months, amounted in the year 1775 (the firft of the
American war) to nearly a million and a half: Do
minica that year exported produce for the British
market to the amount of 310,000!. St. Vincent's up
wards of 150,0001. and Grenada to more than a
million.
On the march of the troops from Bengal to Poo
nah, they travelled no less than 24 miles without be
ing able to get one single drop of water, though the
heat of the climate was at that time excessive.
The route the Haft-India troops had to march from
Bengal to Poonah, is upwards of 900 miles; they set
out with 10,coo men, only 6000 of whom were alive
when they surrendered.
Sept. 16. The Tiger, Adamson, from Chriflian
fand to Berwick, is taken, and ransomed for 180
guineas; and the Endeavour, Scot, from Alloa to
Gottenburgh, is taken and ransomed for 150 guineas,
both by the Necker privateer.
A ihip from the East-Indies, bound to Suez, is loft
in the Red Seas, on board of which, it is said, was
Mr. Chevalier, the late Governor of Chandernagore,
in the river Ganges. The letter which brought this
intelligence, mentions that Capt. Waugh, of the
Britannia, affll seven gentlemen, bound to India,
were beset by the Arabs, seven miles from Suez, and
all murdered.
It is now publicly known, that Sir Charles Hardy's
orders were not to fight, but decoy the combined
fleets so far up the Channel, as for them to engage at
the greatest disadvantage. This species of naval con
duct might now be called British spirit for what we
know, but it was not reckoned so in the days of Oli
ver Cromwell.
By a private letter from France we are informed,
that the troops which had assembled along the nor
thern coasts, had all embarked on board the transports
on the 4th instant, by an express order from Court
two days before.
Extract of a letter from Ke,keJin, in the Ba, of Hon
duras, dated May the 20th.
'' The rebel privateer Washington, of 12 guns and
70 men, in company with the brigantine Monmouth,
of 14 guns and 80 men, commanded by Capt. Hin
gifton, of Salem in New-England, have ravaged and
destroyed the keys of the islands of Benacea and Rat
tan, and carried off many negroes."
Sept. 2£ A letter from the Hague which came by
the last packet mentions, " That on the loth inst.
the States General met, and the British memorial
was again read and considered; but they came to no
conclusion, further than declaring that they had not
the stipulated number of ships of war to lend Great-
Britain ; and as for the troops, they could not 'pare
any without laying open their own country to the
mercy of their enemies. This was notified immedi
ately to the British Ambassador, but not as their final
answer, which is to be given in the middle of Oc
tober."
Extraß of a letter from Paris, Sept. 7.
" A peace begins again to be talked of here be
tween this Court and that of England, to which his
Catholic Majesty and the Americans are 10 be allowed
to accede as the preliminary to a cessation of hostili
ties, by which American Independence will be con
firmed in the face of all the powers in the globe. Of
this, however, we are certain, that when the articles
come on the tapis, which will be during the winter
months, no terms will be listened to but such as arc
adequate to the advantages which we have already
gained, as well in Europe as the more distant quar
ters of the Globe."
It is now asserted that the Empress of Russia, in
conjunction with the King of Prussia, has proposed
terms of peace to the Court of Versailles and Madrid,
accompanied with such declarations as may tend to
make them effectual.
Letters from the Hague mention, that the treaties
of amity and commerce between the States General
and his Prussian Majesty, which are nearly expired,