The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1784-11-29 00:00:00, page 2

she different direction of the air, in proportion to
its altitude, is an object which cannot but interest the
attention of the curious and feientifick. The degrees
of heat and cold, which it pafTes as it approximates
to, or recedes from, the earth, with a great variety
of other qualities, which belong to that subtle fluid,
may also be ascertained with precision by an indefa
tigable prosecution of these teroftatick researches.
It has long been an eftablilhed idea, at lead among
the vulgar, that so strongly did the air ad on the hu
man frame, when railed to any considerable height,
that the blood refills were unable to resist the impulse,
and consequently burst by the violence. Philosophers,
affeded by this apprehension, have refufed to afeend
mountains of any extraordinary altitude, as deeming
it madness to attempt an experiment which they be
lieved themfelvcs certain of not surviving.
Our mroftatick expeditions, which have yet been
followed w: r h no great or insurmountable inconvenien
cies, aiding from a difference or extremity of tempe
rature, express fufficiently the absurdity of this pre
pofTelf.on. For except the chilnefs perceived by the
Roberts, and an accidental whirlwind in the course of
a subsequent voyage, it does net appear that the lungs
or circulation of the human blood are at all impeded
or affected by any height to which adventurers have
hitherto been able to afeend.
Over and above all these, who knows what advan
tages may be derived from air balloons by armies or
fleets in the operations of war, in besieging towns, re
connoitering localities, detecting ambushes, taking dis
tances, marking charts, discovering water, provender,
and forage, for camps, in an unknown country ; not
to mention the utilities it may afford to phyfick, na
vigation, and astronomy.
Though no one advantage were to be the conse
quence of this difeovery, which could entitle it to a
place among the necessary, it would still have a claim
to be chffed among the elegant arts of life. For
surely it unites the beautiful and grand in an uncom
mon degree. What more pleasing than to fee the
machine afeending and defeending, with a motion so
easy, graceful, and so charming? It brings to our
ideas the remembrance of ancient times, when the in
habitants of the upper world visited and revisited ours.
But the sublimity of the fpe&acle is altogether un
paralleled—an objed thus spacious, ponderous and
magnificent, riling or springing perpendicularly up
wards, as if to rival the eagle in her flight, must be
viewed with sensations peculiarly awful and affecting.
It is not only a new light, but a light the most fur
fuppotted ns: We floated some time in that situation,
and nothing, surely, could be more majeftick, than to
fee us glide along the furface of it. At last we
relied upon the earth, having one hundred and ten
pounds weight of ballad: left in our vessel, and were
indantly surrounded by a vafc number of people, whose
astonishment was so great, as to deprive them of ut
terance.
Note. " The plain of Puiffanval, where we de
feended, at thirty minutes past seven, is fifteen leagues
from the place of our departure."
I observed that, in the greatest rapidity of our
courses, a lamp would net have been extinguished,
and thence I conclude, that fails adapted to an mrofta
tick machine would never swell.
(Signed) , BLANCHARD,
BOBY.
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Foreign Intelligence.
LONDO N, September [B.
1H E rich convent at Prague, which has
been suppressed by the Emperor, was mag-
Q nificently situated in the old town, built on
—* seven mountains, commanding a most beau
tiful profpe^t. Near it the Jesuits have a very grand
college ; and not far from it are nine synagogues, in
which were 98,000 Jews, before the King of Prussia
drove them away when he besieged the city; in the
lower part of which grows the famous poplar tree,
Lid to be 1000 years old !
T,e number of Italian and French emissaries,
chiefly ccclAiClicks, that have lately gone to Ireland,
far exceeds the importations of any former period.—•
Those whose route lay through London, and so on to
the \ cco coast, have been prodigiously many ; and
there, it seems, have been many more, who have gone
by tea from France to the different ports of Ireland.
For what an infinite variety cf purposes this afto
rifhing difeovery may not be found adequate, it is im
possible at this early period of aeroftatick science, with
any degree of precision, to afeertain ; some ends, how
ever, which it may serve, deserves to be mentioned.
The state of the atmosphere has been hitherto very
imperfectly understood, and the trivial discoveries
made in it already, fufficiently compensate all the in
cuftry and expence attending the expence of air bal
loons.
UTILITT of the AIR BALLOONS.
prising and extraordinary that ever the eye beheld.
C art, how wide and extensive is thy dominion !—•
how potent and universal thy energies ! how nume
rous, how necessary, how interesting thy utilities ! No
element is either so violent or so subtle, so yielding
or so fluggdh, as to prove superior to thy direction.
Thou dreadeft not the fierce impetuolity of fire, but
haft rendered its qualities both obedient and ufcful.
But if thou haft foftened the stubborn tribe of mine
rals, so as to answer many valuable ends, by assuming
linnumerable Ihapes, hence weapons, armour, coin,
I and previous to these, all those tools and instruments
I which empower thee to proceed to further ends more
1 excellent.
I To these we owe whatever we derive from all the
§ improvements of navigation. The seas and waves are
§ thus made subservient to man, by thy assistance. The
; yielding element of water thou haft taught to bear
$ us ; and the rolling ocean henceforth promotes that
„ intercourse of nations which ignorance would imagine
! it was defined to intercept.
; Nor is the subtle air less obedient to thy power,
zWhether thou willeft it to be a minister to our plea-
Ifure, or a hand-maid to our necessity. At thy com
:mand it g.veth birth to founds which charm the foul
; with all the powers of harmony. It exports our fu
f penalties to supply the wants of others, and it brirgs
; to our doors the riches, the dainties, and luxuries of
, afar. And when the great modern scheme of mro
-4 ftatick failing is perfected, who can tell what innu
,merable benefits may frill result from thy unwearied
[ endeavours to direct, improve and accommodate hu
:man life.
I All the noise that has been made about a supposed
:intention in the King of Spain to alter the fucceflion
f to the Spanilh monarchy, by admitting to it (next
I after the Prince of Asturias, and the heirs of his bo
!dy) the issue of Don Gabriel, the King's youngest
;fon, to the prejudice of the King of Naples, who is
£ his second son, was founded in mistake. The Am-
I baffador from Naples at the Court of Madrid, hav
ling got an imperfect account of the articles of mar
§ riage then negociating between his Royal Highness
' Don Gabriel and the infanta of Portugal, seemed to
§ insinuate in his defpatches to his Court, that his Royal
,Master and his issue were to be postponed in the fuc
: cession to the issue of his younger brother. The
^ Queen of Naples, milled by the insinuation, became
1 almost enraged at the unnatural attempts of the King
; of Spain to injure an unoffending son ; and fearing that
I the chance her children had of succeeding to the Spa
[ nifh monarchy, which was already fufficiently remote
i (the Prince of Asturias, the elder brother of the King
, of Naples, having both sons and daughters, and the
1 latter being capable of inheriting the crown of Spain
[ to the exclusion of collateral males) would be removed
§ aimoil out of light and knowledge, immediately lent
an express co her brother the Emperor, and another
/ to her filler the Queen of France, to interest them
; in behalf of his children. The Emperor entered into
I all the feelings of his lifter; he lent her for answer,
«that he would not tamely fuffer his nephews to be
j wronged ; and that he would accordingly dispatch
;proper inftrudions to his Ambassador in Spain. The
!Queen of France was not less zealous in her lifter's
I cause ; (he prevailed upon her Lord to second the re-
Imonftrances that were preparing at Naples and Vi
£ enna. Her Sicilian Majesty had thus conjured up a
[ form, which was to break on the head of her father
§ in-law: The firft express arrived from Naples; it
1 brought him a serious and pathetick remonstrance
[ from his son : The next was from Vienna ; contain-
[ ing a remonstrance couched in rather an authoritative
; style, bordering somewhat on the menacing. The
: laft was from Versailles; it conveyed a letter in the
ihand-writing of his Most Chriilian Majesty, in which
} he good-naturedly advised him to give up every idea
:of a measure that might poflibly (hake the happy uni
on that then existed between all the Princes of the
I House of bourbon. The poor old King was thun
[ derftruck at what he read: And he could not lor the
[ foul of him conceive how the different Princes who
;remonftrated with him on this occasion, could ever
: have taken it into their heads that he was going to
{ alter the succession, a measure that never so much as
[ prefented itlelf to his imagination, till he read of it
§ in the defpatches. He was thrown into so bad a hu
[mour by this piece of business, that he locked him
; felf up in his closet; and for many days would fee no
§ person whatever, unless such as he himfelf had sent
§ for; and the boldest courtier in Madrid, when sent
Ifor by the King when in that mood, went trembling
,to the closet. A Angle letter to the King of Na
§ ples set all to rights again; but the old King made it
I a point that the Ambassador with whom this trou
i blefome affair originated, should be recalled.
h Sept. 20. The account given of the number of
iinhabitants in the United Provinces, as mentioned in
I our last Friday's paper, may appear to lome to be
I greatly magnified, considering their small extent of
!territory; but a correspondent assures us, from au-
Ithentick intelligence, that the statement there given
[muft be pretty near the mark. There are complete
American Intelligence.
Relation of roehat pafled at the opening of th treat,
between the. United States and the Indian Nati
ons at Fort Schuyler, October 3, 1784.
The Deputies of Congress, those from Pennfyl-cania,
the Marquis de la Fayette, M. de Marbois, Con
sul-General of France, and the Cbev. de Cara
van, * veent in a bod, to the Council-Room,where
the Marquis pronounced in French the following
Difcourje :
'' KT7HILSI I am thus drawing near unto my
VV children, I thank the Great Monitow who
has brought me to this spot of peace, where 1 find
you all imoking the calumet of friendfhip; if you re
member the voice of Kayewlaab, remember also the
belts and good counsels which he so often sent you.
I am come to thank my faithful children, the chiefs
of nations, the warriors, the heaters cf my words;
and if the memory of a good Parent was not more in
clined to forger evil than good, i might now punish
thole who (whillt they were opening their ears, kept
their hearts (hut up) with a blind hand lifting up the
hatchet very high liruck their Father.
" I he cause of the Americans was a just one, did
I then lay to you, it is that of humanity, it is there
fore peculiarly yours; remain neutral at least, and let
the brave Americans take care of their independence
and liberty: Your rather over the great lake will
take them by the hand, the white birds will loon co
ver their shores, the great Ononthio like the fun will
clear away the clouds which hang over your heads,
and the ichemes of your enemies will vanilh like
smoke.
" Listen not to Kayewlaah, did other people tell
you, litten not to what he lays: An army from the
North will enter triumphantly into Boston, another
will seize on Virginia, and the great warrior IVaJh
ington, at the head of your fathers and brothers, be
obliged to abandon their country. This, and a great
deal more was said by people, who though they had
their eyes opened, yet kept yours (hut. Peace is
made, you are acquainted with its conditions, and in
pity to lome of you I (hall not repeat them. My pre
di&ions are accomplished—listen then to the frefh ad
vices of your father Kayewlaah, and let my voice
resound throughout the nation.
" V\ hat have you ever gained, or rather what have
you not loft by meddling with the quarrels of the
whites ?-r--Be wiser than they, keep peace amongst
yourselves, and make use of the favourable dispositions
which the Council of the great Congress seem to ma
nifelt. Ihe Americans are brothers to the French your
ancient fathers. 1 his union will be as permanent as
it is advantageous and ufeful : Henceforth the great
Onanthio will always hold them by the hand, and
they wilh to hold yours also—this will make a bright
chain. Trade then with the Americans your bre
thren, and with such of your fathers as have crossed
the great lake. In felling your lands take care not
to fool them away for brandy ; dispose of them to the
Council of the Congress for valuable considerations.
If you have listened well to my words, I have said
enough—repeat them one to another. 1 shall hear
from you, from the other fide of the great lake; and
until I come again to smoke with you and lie on your
mats, I wish you health, fortunate huntings, peace and
plenty, and the fulfilling of such of your dreams as
foretell good luck."
The Chief of the Mohawks rofc, and holding up a
Belt of Wampum,faid,
" LET the last of Kayewlaah (a great chief from
Onontbio) our father be obeyed; to receive my words
father, we have heard thy voice, and we are glad thee
haft revisited thy children, in order to give them good
and wholesome advices. Thee haft said that we had
listened to the wicked, and shut our ears against thy
voice ; that is true father ; we the Mohawks have
quitted the good path, we have been surrounded with
a black cloud, but we are returned, and desire thee
should find in us gc^d and dutiful children.
" Truly father, it pleafeth us to hear thy manly
voice amongst us, which without wounding us does us
a great deal of good: It feemeth as though if Mani
tow had led thee hither on purpose to smoke with thy
newly found children.
“ Kayewlaab our father, as to our situation, thee
* This gentleman was named b, the Indian; Sa
ganah-Houfly, a great warrior.
accounts laid annually before the Prince of Orange,
by the tax-office at the Hague ; and, by that pro
duced about five years ago, it appears that the num
ber of fouls amounted to 4,875,000. A prodigious
number for so small a country ! We are not to sup
pose, however, that the inhabitants are all Dutch.—
They are composed of many different nations ; and by
that means, form a group not to be seen in any other
country upon earth.