The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1784-05-17 00:00:00, page 1

THE subscribers having obtained certificates for the
deficiencies of clothing, to the amount of upwards
of Twenty Dollars, for each non-commissioned officer
and private in the late JERSEY LINE, nvbo served
the full term of the war, do hereby notify to all con
cerned, that they mean to attend at Bridge-Town, in
Cumberland, on the 28th of June next ; and at Tren
ton, from the xft to the 3d of Julv.
J. PECK, ) . ,
J. BLAIR,S Agents
May 7, 1784. 8w
CAME to the Plantation
where the subscriber now lives, in the township
of Hopewell, on the 30th ult. two black mares, one
supposed to be about eight years old, the other four;
one of the creatures has a little white on both hind
feet ; the other a star in her forehead. The owner is
desired to come and prove his property, pay charges,
and take them away.
ELIJAH PHILLIPS.
May 6, 1784. jw±
We the Subferibers,
HAVING made application to the court of com
mon pleas in the term of April last, to receive
the benefit of the insolvent ad, are ordered to notify
each of our creditors thereof; and if any of them
have any objections to make, they are hereby notified
to attend at Allen-Town on the 15th day of June
next, at 1 o'clock, when the judges are to meet in
order to give us our discharge.
Thomas Lucar,
Leonard Robins.
May , 1784. pvf
Tbefe are to give Notice,
TO all thofc that have demands against the estates
of the following persons, fugitives and offenders
against the state of New-Jessey, to lay such demand or
demands, whether it be by mortgage, or other speci
alty, or note, or other voucher, before such persons
as are appointed to ^'certain the value of such de
mands, agreeably to the directions of the ad, intitled,
' An aft for afeertaining the value of debts due from
the estates of certain fugitives and offenders, and for
directing the payment of the fame,' passed at Trenton
the 23d day of December, 1/83. Joseph French, John
Taber Kempe, George Warner, William Brownjohn,
Henry Vanderhoff, Cornelius Stager, John Connely,
John Crane, son of Joseph, Hugh Wallace, Miles Sh< ar
brooke, James Wilton, Thomas Philips, James Blun
del, Duncan Campbell, Luther Baldwin, Philip Bralher,
David Cole, James Hetfield, Thomas White, Francis
Thomas, Nicholas Huffman, Vincent-Pierce Afhfield,
Richard Miller, Oliver Delancey, Cavalier Jouit,
Broughton Reynolds, David Oliver, Daniel Moore,
James Frazee, Jacob Tucker, Job Hetfield, Robert
Gault, David Ogden, Esq. Richard Stanton, James
Hetfield, Ichabod Oliver, John Smith Hetfield, Icha
bod B. Barnet, John Morse, John Stites, jun. George
Marshal, Isaac Mills, Isaac Stanbury, John Lee, jun.
Thomas Bradbury Chandler, Jane Drummond, Jo
seph Marih, John Slone, William Luce, John Acley,
Dr. Uzal Johnson, James Jauncey, Cornelius Hetfield,
jun. James Frazee, jun. John Faiker, John Willis, Sa
muel Oliver, Hugh Gaine, Samuel Smith, Isaac Og
den, jun. Esq. Robert Drummond, David Ogden, jun.
Uzal Ward, William Stiles, Nathaniel Richards, Tho
mas Brewen, Griffen Jenkins, Stephen Skinner, Ben
jamin Booth, Joseph Kingfland, Stephen Farrand, Tho
mas Burrowes, James Moore, Isaac Longworth, jun.
Lewis Greenfield, John Wheeler, Jonathan Sayre, Isaac
Longworth, Thomas Longworth, Esq. John Van Wag
goner, Dr. Peter Brown, Richard Yates, Peter Mow
rifon, George Walls, Garret Jacobuffe, Isaac Kingfland,
Henry Stager, Abraham J. Vangefon, jun. Isaac Stiles,
Aaron Pierson, James Gray, Samuel Hudinot, James
Courter, jun. Nathaniel Williams, Benjamin Pkrfon,
Derick Schuyler, Nicholas Ogden, Ebenezer Ward,jun.
Jacob Brower, the Rev. Isaac Brown, Caleb Sayre,
Joseph Hallett, Garrabrant Garrabrant, Josiah Banks,
Garrat Wouters, Thomas Gillbrath, Peter Woods,
Peter Duboife, John White, Thomas Afton, Francis
Beaty, William Brooks, Nicholas Garrabrant, James
Colvin, Samuel Harrison, Cornelius Brooks. Notice
is hereby further given to all persons that are indebted
to any of the above-mentioned persons, and have not
paid the fame to some one or more of the commiffion
eis of the county of Essex, to make immediate pay
ment to the subscriber, or they may depend on being
prosecuted as the law directs, both as to fine and for
the amount of what may be due.
SAMUEL HAYES, Agent
for the county of Bftx.
Essex county, April ,6, 4784. 4w
NEW-JERSEY GAZETTE.
[Vol. VII.]
TRENTON: Printed by ISAAC COLLINS, Printer to the State.
MONDA Y, May 17, 1784.
Mr. COLLINSj
IN the New-York Journal of 29th ultimo, there
is a publication introduced in these terms :—
" The following copy of a letter'from the titu
lar Governor or the difaffeded inhabitants of rhe
Northeastern part of this state, called Vermont, may
be depended upon as authentick." It were devoutly
;o be wilhed, that the words “ titular and difaffeded,"
when used as reproachful, were universally laid aside:
A former newlwriter at New-York wore them almost
threadbare. Upon this letter probably Governor
Hancocks proclamation, some time ago inferred in
most of the papers, was founded, which deserves pub
hcK attention; being as wife and prudent as the pre
sent introduction to the letter appears unwise and im
prudent. The dispute between New-York and Ver
mont will, in due time, undergo the difeuffion of the
fupieme authority of this country, and the final decree,
if a necessity to be deplored should make it requi
site, must be inforced for the honour and good of the
union. In the mean time every thing should be avoid
ed, as the most dangerous evil, that can possibly tend
towards farther dispute and irritation.
I otally unconnected, but as a common citizen de
sirous of ^ur mutual prosperity, in the present contro
versy, and therefore able to ipeak'-difpaffionately, it
should seem as if the mistakes of other nations have
in vain erected themselves into watchtowers that we
might more lately conduct our political voyage. One
important use of history is to learn from the follies
and madness it records, in continual detail,how to shun
the dangers we mutt needs pass by in holding the fame
course : for, substituting other names and climates,
what have been, will continue to be, tranfaded upon
the theatre of human affairs. The fame causes con
tain in them the feeds of the fame events, which will
constantly ripen into new harvelts of publick distrac
tion and unhappioefs, unless timely eradicated by the
hand of experience. Can we suppose that the interest
of a few individuals is to be placed in competition with
the general tranquility? for let none pretend to cir
cumferibe the operation of this misunderstanding . —
Remember how trivial causes have given birth to the
grandest revolutions. Without ransacking the memo
ry we may name the last, which will have more ex
tensive and permanent efficacy upon the interests of
humanity than all that have preceded it, tho' as yet
it hath Icarcely unfolded its possibilities to the specu
lative. Must the sword decide—bad arbitrator tru
ly ; but if it must be drawn, and could its cruel effects be
felt only within the litigated territory, yet ought not
justice to command the use of the direful expedient ?
Might she not be heard to fay, 6 Surely there is land
' enough and to spare; are ye not brethren ? fall not
6 out by the way ; ye have before you a good land, a
‘ land of brooks of water, of fountains, and depths
‘ that spring out of the vallies and hills, a land of
< wheat and bailey, of vines and honey, a land where
-6 in ye shall eat bread without scarceness, ye shall not
' lack any thing in it, a land whole stones are iron,
' and out of whole hills ye may dig brass. You [turn
-6 ing to N. Y.] are indeed the elder brother—shew
6 then the superiority of your wisdom. Upon your
6 own principles, why retain any in an hated allegiance ?
'Has not your brother, as yourfelf, a right to choose
< how he will be, and who shall govern him? Have
6 you not as much, nay more land than you properly
'cultivate? let him t r y his experiment: You cannot
‘ be essentially injured; if he is unfuccefsful in the
6 end, even then his fruitlefs labours will conspire to
'your advantage. Are the people the true source of
6 power? why not use it? Is all legitimate authority
' their own ? who then, from the simplicity of their
' manners, the absence of the means of corruption, can
6 lay claim to a ruler so truly theirs as the Vermon
' ters in their Chittenden ? The haughty potentates
'of the earth, who know not from whom they sprang,
' or when they can trace, find him in some bloody
6 scourger of the human race, may look askance at
' this their younger brother, unadorned with the spoils
6 of desolated realms, but he, perhaps, has native dig
'nity enough to pity them, and conceive himfelf much
‘ more elevated than they in the hation which he fills,
6 a Ruler of the Free.' A CUSTOMER.
Burlington, 3d May, 1784.
THE
Foreign Intelligence.
_ PAR I S, March 3.
YESTERDAY Mr. Blanchard, accompanied by
an amateur, mounted in a balloon to an astonish
ing height, made half the tour of Paris from the
champs de Mars, came back, and ftocd a few minutes
perpendicularly over the place from whence he sprang,
then made the other half tour, and came back again
to the fame place, and did as before, then went a
straight direction to Seave, where they alighted. The
balloon is 26 feet in diameter, has an umbrella over
the machine in which the navigators fit, to prevent
falling too faft in case of accident, and four fails.
Meflrs. Palmer and Mefnier, both engineers, think
they liavc found out a method of guiding the balloons
in the air, and have asked permission to go up in one
from the gardens of Luxembourg, in which they pro
pole nothing less than a journey to England, by tack
ing when the wind is contrary, and coming down to
land again when there is a phyheal impossibility of go
ing any further.
I he workmen ate employed at Brest in fitting out
the frigate Venus, some cutters, and three scouts.
They are destined for the coast of Africa. It is as
sured that they are appointed to retake from the Por
tuguese those places on the said coast which they have
taken possession of.
It is given out here, that a courtier observed lately
to the king, that his majesty would have less pleasure
in the chace next spring than last year, as the game
had perilhed in the snow; to which the monarch re
plied, “ W hat does it fignify to me, that those ani
mals peril'll in the forefts, while our fellow creatures
die with cold and hunger. I would rather that all
the beasts of the woods perish than one man should
fall a vßtim to the long rigour of this winter."
E L S I N O R E, Feb. 21.
The winter continues very severe, and the Sound
is full of ice, so that fledges and horses cross the
Sound loaded.
NAPLE S, February 3.
It is confirmed that Sicilly has been afflicted with
new disasters. A dreadful hurricane has occasioned
the greatest ravages. The waves have carried away
the new mole of Catanea, which cost 50,000 fcudi.
The vessels shipwrecked are a loss of more than 40,000
fequms to the inhabitants of Meffina. Not a place
upon the coast but what has fuffered greatly,and, from
time to time, they feel there repeated shocks of earth
quakes.
C O L O N G E, March i.
We are at last delivered from the most dreadful
scourge this city was ever threatened with—large
pieces of ice heaped upon ice to an enormous height;
our walls and houses, which should have served us as
ramparts, tumbling one after another; our two mar
ket places, with all the streets around, laid under wa
ter; every thing announced a general deftruftion, when
the day before yesterday new pieces of ice coming
floating down, broke the dyke formed by those before
our port, and thus opening a paflage, the waters re
tired through it with so much precipitation, that in
less than two hours we were able to get again into the
houses, that had been overflowed even to the second
story. This sudden retreat of the waters, however,
has not prevented the ravage occasioned by them from'
being immense.
H A G U E, February 29.
Nothing has certainly transpired concerning the ne
gotiation of peace with the English. It is believed
that this important affair will continue incomplete for
along time. If the new Englilh minister be disposed
to end that affair, he will meet with strong opposition
from the cabal of Mr. Fox.
Private letters from Vienna announce, that the Ve
netian ambassador at that court has declared on the
part of thefenate to comte de Waffenaar, that his
masters would not make use of reprisals against the
States General ; but that they desired a negociatioa
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