The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1784-09-06 00:00:00, page 3

went in this line Re might have retorted upon her
lord, reciprocity; but Re struck out a line in thiev
ing in which Re was unequalled. Her address in
carrying off a card of lace occasioned much envy
among the ambulatory gentry, all were aftonißed at
her superior address; an instance will fuffice. Lord
March had a pair of diamond buckles, the water, the
tout enfamble of which excited universal admiration ;
her ladyßip wished to borrow them for a night; they
were returned. Walking in the dew next morning,
his lordßip observed one of his buckles deranged—it
was sent to Deard's, who returned for answer, “ It
was a paste buckle he had made for lady H. which,
when he was paid for, he would mend." Every body
commended her ladyffiip, because Ihe was so good an
alchymift as to have changed flones into gold. It is
just to add that Re was a most affectionate parent,
and took every method to inculcate into the tender
minds of her numerous family, the most exalted ideas
of virtue and honour.
We have just received the ad of North-Carolina,
containing their territorial cession ; an extract of
which, (hewing the extent of the territory ceded, fol
lows :
'' Be it enabled, &c. That this fate do hereby cede
to the Congress of the United States, for the said
fates, all right, title, and claim, which this fate
has to the weft of the Apalachian or Aleghany
Mountains, beginning at the Virginia line, inhere
the said line interfere the extreme height of said
Mountain to the 35th degree of North latitude, be
ing the Southern boundary of this fate ; thence run
ning in the said 3gtb degree to the Misf ppi ; thence
up the Misf ppi to 36 degrees and an half, North
latitude, being the Northern boundary of this fate;
thence to the frf station."
Extraft of a letter from a gentleman in London,
dated July the sth, to his son in this city.
'' The celebrated Doctor Benjamin Franklin, is in
London, and looks remarkable well for one of the
age of 85, and appears to be in high spirits."
PHILADELPHIA.
August 28. Divine service was celebrated the 25th
of this month, in the house of the consul general and
charge des affaires of France, on the occasion of his
most chriftian majesty's name day. M. de Marbois
gave the fame day an entertainment, at which were
present his excellency the Pfefident, the chief justice,
and other magistrates and civil officers of the Rate,
the fuperintendant of finance, the secretary of con
gress, the national body of the French merchants,
and all strangers in publick character. The thirteen
following toasts were given :
I. The King of France and the other sovereigns of
the House of Bourbon.
2. The United States.
3. The State.
4. The United Provinces of the Netherlands.
5. General Walhington.
6. The Ministers and Secretaries of State of the
King.
7. The Chevalier de la Luzerne.
8. The American Ministers Plenipotentiary in Eu
rope.
9. The Count de Rochambeau,
10. The Marquis de la Fayette.
11. The Marquis de Chatelleux.
12. May the liberality of sentiment promoted by the
revolution extend to all the world.
13. All Princes, who like Lewis the XVI. have ad
vanced the prosperity of their fubjeds by pro
moting that of other nations.
Wednesday last arrived the brigantine Betty and
Molly, captain M'lntofh, from Grenock, with 70 pas
sengers and some servants, in good health, consigned
to Messrs. Stuart and Barr, of this city.
On the 7th July, in lat. 45, 37, N. long. 40, 3,
near the banks of Newfoundland, captain M'lntofh
spoke the Rip St. James, capt. Cain, having on board
the Chevalier de la Luzerne, &c. from this port, 11
days out, all well.
Sept. I. We hear the following resolution passed
yesterday in the Council of Censors:
August 31, 1784.
" Refolded, That this Council will, on Wednes
day the 15th day of September next, resolve itfelf
into a committee of the whole, to confider whether
it is proper or necessary to call a convention, to amend,
explain or alter the constitution."
her superior talent at rapartee. Soon after the pre
sent Queen came to the,throne, Re desired the lord
chamberlain would inform a lady whose chastity was
extremely apocryphal, that such persons were not ac
ceptable at court. The lady flood at the elbow of
lady Harrington, when the chamberlain, in all the in
solence of office, came up and said, “ Her majesty
did not wiffi to fee any w sat court." Her la
dyffiip took the application to herfelf, and with that
naivete familiar to high life, turned round to the cir
cle and said, " Ladies, we must ail go the Queen
fays." A hearty laugh succeeded, and the Queen
herfelf unbent a little at the blunder. So far as (lie
TRENTON, September 6.
Thursday last the Hon. the Legislature of this State
adjourned fine die.
Remainder of the ads passed at the last fitting of
General Assembly at New-Brunswick.
17. An ad for defraying sundry incidental charges.
18. An ad to amend and explain an ad, intitled,
' An ad for ascertaining the value of debts due from
the forfeited eßates of certain fugitives and offenders,
and for direding the payment of the fame.'
19. An act for regulating and shortening the pro
ceedings in the courts of law.
20. An ad for the relief of persons holding publick
securities, and for other purposes therein mentioned.
21. An ad for setting free Peter Williams, a negro,
late the property of John Heard.
22. An ad to ratify and confirm the proceedings of
Peter Tallman, Esquire, as a Judge of the Inferior
Court of Common Pleas in the county of Burlington,
and to revive and continue the Inferior Court of Com
mon Pleas in the said county.
23. An ad for incorporating the town of New
\Brunfwick.
24. An ad for eftabliffiing certain free ports in the
Rate of New-Jersey, and for the encouragement of
commerce therein.
25. An ad to prevent the further issuing surplus
certificates by township collectors, and calling in the
books or accounts of those already issued.
26. An ad for incorporating sundry persons as trus
tees of the Preßyterian church at Bound-Brook, in
the counties of Somerset and Middlesex.
27. An ad to compel the officers of this Rate to
pay forward the fame species of monies and obligati
ons by them received in trust for the Rate.
28. An ad to repeal the three several ads therein
mentioned.
29. An ad to legitimate Samuel Matfh, and to en
able him to inherit as one of the legal representatives
of Noah Marsh, deceased.
The Council and Aflembly in joint-meeting have,
at their late fitting in New-Brunswick, made the fol
lowing appointments:
Judges for Burlington county.
Peter "Tallman, Thomas Fenimore, Ijrael Shreve,
Joftua-Maddex IVallace, George Anderson, Ejqrs.
For Middlesex county.
Joseph Olden, Jeremiah Manning, Azariah Dun
ham, Matthias Halflead, Esquires.
On Friday the 3d inst. at 10 o'clock in the fore
noon, came on the quarterly examination of the
Grammar-School at the Academy in this place.
His Honour the Speaker of the House of Assembly,
and several other members of the Legislature, who
were occasionally in town, the Trustees of the Insti
tution, and a number of refpedable Citizens of the
town and vicinity, were present. The Students ac
quitted themselves to great fatisfadion.
In the afternoon a crouded and polite audience was
entertained with exhibitions in publick speaking.—
The improvement of the Students in this and in geo
graphy, and the other branches of education taught
here, gives the most flattering presages of the advan
The private affairs of the honourable the delegates
representing the Rates of New-Hampßire, Massachu
setts-Bay and New-Jersey, in the Committee of the
States, having occasioned their leaving the city of
Annapolis on the 11th of last month, whereby the
Committee of the States were reduced to a number
inadequate to any publick a&, and there being no
profpe& of again assembling at Annapolis a fufficient
number of delegates to proceed to business, before
the time appointed for the assembling of Congress at
Trenton, pursuant to their adjournment, the delegates
from the Rates of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia,
North-Carolina, South-Carolina and Georgia, on the
19th ult. recommended to the secretary of Congress
to embrace the present favourable opportunity of a
recess to remove the papers and records of Congress
from Annapolis to this city, until proper offices can
be prepared for their reception at Trenton.
The members of the committee have also recom
mended to the honourable Mr. Hardy (delegate from
the Rate of Virginia) their chairman, to write a cir
cular letter to the executives of the several states not
represented in the committee, giving information of
the situation of the committee, and requesting that a
delegate from their refpedive Rates may forthwith at
tend the committee of the Rates in the city of Phila
delphia, in order to proceed to business.
We hear that the honourable Mr. Reed, a delegate
from the state of South-Carolina, and representing
that Rate in the committee of the Rates, arrived in
this city from Annapolis on Wednesday evening last,
as did the honourable Mr. Hand, a delegate from and
representing this Rate in the committee, on Friday.—
I he remaining gentlemen of the committee may be
very shortly expelled ; and as the papers and records
of congress are already arrived, there is every reason
to believe, that the committee of the Rates will be
able in a few days to resume their deliberations on
the variety of important matters before them.
STRAYED from the fubferiber, living in Upper
Makefield, on the 21st ultimo, a large bay horse,
about 15 hands high, was in very good order, has
not a spot of white about him, trots and canters, a.
middling gay carriage, and has a fear over the near
eye that runs along his eye bone; he was Rod before,
and had no corkings to his Roes; has a switch tail,
not very long; not gentle to go in the gears. Who
ever takes up said horse and secures him, so that the
owner may get him again, Rall have Six Dollars re
ward, and reasonable charges paid by
JOHN BURROUGHS.
September 4, 1784. gwf
REWAR D.
RAN away on the 29th ult. from the fubferiber,
. living in Caecil county, Rate of Maryland, a
negro man named Jacob, about twenty four years of
age, near fix feet high, middling well built, his knees
bend inward, Roops in his walk; the one fide of his
face and left hand are remarkable, having been burned
when a child, which alters the colour of the Rin, and
causes the little finger on th^ left hand to be very
crooked; wears a falfe cue; took with him one new
blue coat, made regimental faßion, breast and cuffs
turned up with red, one pair of black breeches half
worn, fine hat cocked soldier faffiion, with a yellow
button and loop: It is expected he now passes for a
free negro, that Rould have been in the army ; has
Role and took with him a good musket, old haversack
and a difeharge, the property of James Croffier, a
whiteman, signed by colonel Gunby, of the Maryland
line. There is a yellow coloured negro in company
with him, who lays he is a freeman, and has a pass,
but cannot give any further defcnption of himfelf; he
is badly clothed, and they have both been seen in Phi
ladelphia. Whoever takes up said negro, so that his
master may have him again, Rall receive the above
reward ; if both are taken together, Six Pounds,
paid by Samuel Miller.
September 3. 1784. 4W,*
S~O L
A Valuable PLANTATION,
LYING in the township of Kingwood, Hunter-
J don county, on the main road leading from
Trenton to Pitts-Town ; has on it a good new frames
house, with an entry and two rooms below, and four
above, and a cellar under the whole; a good new
frame kitchen adjoining the house, a good spring of
water, and a paled garden before the door ; a good
frame barn, with stables ; a good new frame waggon
houfe, with bins above to hold all kinds of grain; a
young apple-orchard beginning to bear, and peach
orchard : The land is excellent good for grain and
pasture ; there are above fifty acres of good meadow
of the best kind of grass that is fit for the feythe, and
more may be made; the ^ is a plenty of good timber
land ; there are 230 acres in the whole, and more may
be bought adjoining it :—There are two tenements on
the lower end of the place that rents for upwards of
twenty pounds a year ; there is a stream of water runs
through the place, befidcs a number of good springs.
Any person not inclining to buy the whole, may have
a part, as it lies convenient to be divided into two
small farms, and more may be bought adjoining the
lower part. Any person or persons of property in
clining to purchase, may have the payments to suit
themselves, with paying the interest and giving securi
ty, if required. If not fold by the 20th of OCtober,
then it will be let. For further particulars apply to
Daniel Merßon, on the premises, or Benjamin Clark,
Esquire, near Trenton.
August 21, 1784. al
tages to be derived from the eftablißment of this aca
demy, and the highest pleasure to the lovers of fei
ence and- the ufeful arts.
Since our last the Brigantine TRENTON, Charles
Clunn, master, came up to Trenton Landing from
Cohanfey, in Cumberland county, in this Rate, where
Ihe has been lately built, by a Rilful artist, under the
infpedion of the master. She is of the burthen of
150 tons, has complete accommodations for passen
gers, and is intended for the Weft-India trade. For
freight or passage apply to Moore Furman and Com
pany, or the master on board.
The above is the firft top-fail vessel which has be
longed to this port — but the fruitful mother of a
thousand more !
We learn from the Eaßward, that colonel Hull,
who went into Canada to demand the surrender of
the polls on the northern and western frontiers, has
retuined. Governor Haldimand received and treated
him with politeness, but assured him that the polls
could not be yielded to the United States, as he had
received no orders for that purpose.—Great-Britain,
would gladly deprive us of the benefit of our internal
as well as our external commerce.—She has not yet
learned to yield a point gracefully.
We hear that the treaty between the United States
and the Indians, is to commence on the 20th inst. at
Fort-Stanwix.