The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1782-03-13 00:00:00, page 2

After dwelling upon this for some time, Mr.
Burke adverted to the general nature of the war,
and particularly the events of the last campaign.
When he came to the surrender of General Lord
Cornwallis, he produced a newspaper, and read the
ahfwer to the loth article of the capitulation, and
commented on it, and its fatal conferences, with
an animation an'd glow of description that filled
the mind with horror. He worked up his passions
so much in descanting on the shocking cruelty of
the circumdance that his whole frame was visibly
and violently agitated. He declared the blood of
all the Americans, who loft their' lives in conse
quence of that capitulation, rested on the head of
Lord Cornwallis, and that he wo^fe tell him so
when he arrived. At least, as he ts no right to
charge him with it in the other ho^te, where the
Earl was entitled to a feat, he would make those
walls re-echo with it, till Lord Cornwallis had ac
counted for a conduct so difgraccful to the Britilh
name, so distressing to humanity ! He drew a com
parison between the conduct of General Burgoyne
at the surrender at Saratoga, and that of Lord
Cornwallis at York'-Town. He reminded Ministers
cf the manner in which they had treated General
Burgoyne, who gave up no loyalists to butchery.
He brought to their recollection the doubts enter
tained by them of the General's having a right to
his feat in .parliament while he was a prisoner, and
the manner in which they had prevented his throw
ing hmiielf at the feet of his Sovereign, and asked
them if such was their treatment of a General who
obtained such honourable terms of capitulation,
what was Lord Cornwallis to expert ? He painted
in drong tints, a picture of all the headlands of
the Chelap^ke, exhibiting the parching quarters of
the King s friends, and asked with an air of phrenzy,
whether the fight was not a glorious one to meet
the eyes of a Prince of the Blood Royal on his
faft arrival in America? He next shewed to what
extent the power of protection described by the
American Secretary, had been carried. By fire
and iword we had forced the Americans to join
me Kings troops, and now those very men, who
had been fighting to quell rebellion, were to be
executed with ignominy,for having themselves been
rebels. After woiking up himfelf and his hearers
to the molt diltreisful Rate of emotion, he branded
the Ministers as the cause of the horrid difalters
he had deicribed, and poured forth a torrent of
fury on the address, which he declared to be the
molt hypocritical, infamous, abandoned, lying pa
per, that ever that house had been called upon to
vote, before he fat down he mentioned the cir
cumstance of Col. Laurens, the son of Mr. Laurens,
flow in the lower, having been the person who
fetded the articles of capitulation upon which Lord
Cornwallis fufrendered, and argued upon the fingu
jarity of the cir cumftance, with all that redundancy
Of fancy, which he is remarkable for displaying
whenever he riles to take part in a debate.
LO N DO N, September 8.
A curious circumstance occurred a few days since
to Barrack-Rreet, Dublin, which may be depended
on as a fad:—John Hog, of Capt. Bacon's com
pany., was confined by Serjeant Pig, for dealing
pork.
Sept. 15. Mr. Trumbull, who lately obtained
his difeharge from prison, on condition that he
would quit the kingdom, set off lad week for Bof
gguth Bmilh Secretary a^ Arters had told
the Houle the direct contrary. What fort of con
fidence then ought gentlemen to place in an admi
piftratjon where there was so glaring a want of
concert ? What firmnefs, what vigour could arile
from the councils of men so disunited? How was
this difference of arguments upon the lame fubje&
to be accounted for ? Was it owing to their diffe
rent places of birth? Were Scotch, English and
Irish so jumbled together, that there was a Babel
in the cabinet, and such a confufion of tongues,
that the one could not understand what the other
said ? The learned Lord told the house, he did not
mean to pledge himfelf for the prolecution of the
American war, when he votpd for the address.—
What fatisfadion was that to the house ? The de
claration was the private declaration of an indivi
dual member of parliament, the address was the
ad of the house; read it; the words fay the house
is pledged if they vote it. It binds them in their
own language, and it cannot be argued away.—
Sense and meaning arise out of words and phras
es. Every body knows the written words of
the house contain one import, one meaning, and
the house ad up to another meaning ! The idea is
too gross, the delusion too palpable to operate far
a moment !
Last Tuesday arrived at a fafe port, the prize
Ship Experiment, Daniel Sinclair, late matter, cap
tured the 23d ult. on her paflage from England to
Jamaica, by the privateer Ship Junius Brutus, Capt.
Brookhoufe, of this port. The cargo of this prize
consists chiefly of flour, having on board 1500 bar
rels. She mounts 18 long fix-pounders, and fought
3 glades before She struck, had 2 men kdl&l, atd.^
wounded. The Brutus had one killed, and two
Slightly wounded.
She Experiment failed from Portsmouth on the
rft of December, in company with the Britilh grand
fleet, said to be bound on a cruize. Since her be
ing captured, in lat. 17 N. long. 54 W. She Spoke
with the Ship Count de Graffe, from Newbury-Port,
—all well; also with the privateer brig Fair Ame
rican, from New-London, which had taken a Ship
bound to New York.
We have just heard, that a vessel belonging to
Newbury-Port, commanded by Capt. Calfe, and
bound in there from the Weft-indies, ran alhore on
Plumb-Bland beach, when eight of the people, by
Nov. 10. The Iris man of war, taken in com
pany with the Richmond and Gaudaloupe by the
french, is an American built vessel; was called the
Hancock, taken by his Majesty's Ship Rainbow, of
44 guns; She is a prime sailer, and Since being in
our Service, has taken so many prizes in America,
that the officers have all made fortunes. She was
distinguished by the name of the lucky Iris.
A Scheme is on foot to cred a building for the
reception of 10,000 children, on a plan Somewhat
Similar to that of the foundling hospital: the children
to be sent to the navy, and the expence Supported
by a tax on bachelors.
ton, in New-England. This gentleman, during his
confinement, amyfed himfelf with painting, in which
he had been regularly educated.
Some beautiful ftrpkes of the above gentleman's
pencil were admired in the Royal Academy, without
any idea that they came from the gloom of a prison.
Ingenuity and a line taste, combined with judgment
and accuracy, procured him no incontiderable share
of credit in his profeffion.
An application has been made by the Royal So
ciety, to re-open the tomb and coffin of Edward the
Firlt, in Westminster-Abbey; but the request
has met with a negative. Ihe coffin of this mo
narch was opened to gratify the curiosity of that
Society about fix years ago, when the body was
found quite perfect, a crown on its head, and a
feeptre in each hand, and clothed in royal garments
of fattin. One of the gentlemen attempted to
wrench off a finger, but was prevented; and this sa
crilegious attempt of the virtuoso is fuppnfed to be
the cause of the present refufal. The nrft applica
tion was founded upon a paflage in Rymer's f cedera,
which states, that Edward the First ordered that his
body should be cased with wax, and that his tomb
should be opened at the end of an hundred years.
The virtuofi now are ardent to fee what effect the
air had on the corpse.
The following improvement in the Mariner's Com
pals is proposed to those who are interetted in the
use of that valuable instrument:
Make the inner box globular, that is, the box
part of brass, something more than a hemisphere,
having a spherical glass to make it a complete
globe, to hang on two pivots exactly from its cen
tre, and to have no more weight under the centre
than just what will overcome the fridion, and keep
the card always horizontal; the manner of hanging,
in other refpedts, as usual.
"I he advantages from this conftru&ion will be
from its globular Shape; it will meet with almost no
resistance in moving in the air, and from its having
So little weight under the centre, it will not be
near so much agitated with the motion of the Ship
as the compass now in use ; for suppose a globe
could be hung in gimbles without any fridion, and
equally heavy on all Sides, it is evident, which ever
fide was set uppermost would keep so, let the box
in which it was hung be agitated ever so much;
but if one Side of this globe was made heavier than
the rest, then, the box being agitated, would make
the globe vibrate considerably; now, as a compass
cannot be hung without some fridion, the only
thing that can be done will be to let it have as lit
tle as possible; for the nearer fri&ion can be an
nihilated, the more perfect the compass will be.
Nov. 3. A potatoe, planted this season in Lord
Weymouth's garden at Longleat, has produced 420,
weighing thirty-nine pounds and an half. The
potatoe was of the Bristol Species, called Bristol
whites, and was planted whole in a bed of rotten
oak-leaves.
S A L E M, Feb. 21.
Leghorn, Sept. 28. A Tartan which failed from
Mahon the 17th inst. has brought from thence the
following particulars:
“ Though the Duke de Crillon has tranfporte.
<to Marseilles a great number of Greeks and Jews
formerly fettled in Minorca: that nobleman has
however, detained some of the principal Jews a
hostages, for the payment of 100,000 piaftres, which
their nation is indebted in the island, as for the con
siderable damages which they have done to the trade
of Spain, as the Jews were the principal perfon'
concerned in Sitting out privateers from Mahon.
The Honourable General Assembly of this Rate,
at their late sessions, appointed the Honourable Eli
phalet Dyer, William S. Johnson, and Jesse Root,
Esquires, as Council on the part of this state, to
meet their competitor the state of Pennsylvania, be
fore Congress, theist of June next, in order to
produce the evidences of claim to the western fron
tiers, called the Susquehanna Grants.,
By a late resolution of Congress, the commander
in chief is to inform the minister of war of the num
ber of Generals wanting for the service of the next
campaign, and the surplus are to be upon half-pay,
Last Sunday evening, Capt. Samuel Spencer, in
a small privateer from Eaft-Haddam, took a sloop
from New-York, bound to Say-harbour, with a
valuable cargo of British goods, and has brought
her into port: It is said her invoices amount to
about 80001. The sloop when taken was at anchor
in Oyster-Bay, within a mile of the guard-ship.
endeavouring to save themselves in the boat, weir
unfortunately drowned; the remainder, three iq
number, by Raying on board, were happily preserv
ed. Among the drowned are, Capt. Calfe, who
commanded the vessel, and Capt. James Barr, 0:
this town. Both vessel and cargo were finally sav
ed.—Thu surviving people, we hear, give an account
that Brimstone-Hill having surrendered to the French
forces, the whole island of St. Kitts is now in the
quiet possession of our gallant and victorious allies.
From some late English papers found on board the
prize Ship Experiment, captured by. , the Junius
Brutus privateer of this port, we i^A. taken the
following advices, viz.
M A D R I P, Oft. 5.,
BY the last letter from the camp at Gibraltar,
dated September 24, we learn with what v -
gpur and vivacity the firing has been kept up fine
the 16th of that month till the 24th, between on.
troops and those of the enemy. In the night of
the 16th a road of communication was begun for
some new batteries to be erected in places the molt
proper for incommoding the English in their camp
and in the Bay. During the two or three firft nights
our men executed some works with great tranqui
lity. Afterwards the fire from the garrison dar
geroufly wounded a Serjeant of the Walloon guards,
who died soon after; but then the enemy fearing
the effects of our works, kept up for the three fol
lowing nights an incessant, terrible, and well direct
ed fire against our works, whereby one Serjeant c
artillery was killed, and 18 or 20 soldiers wounde;
During this successive firing, which did not ir
any manner suspend our works for a new commu
nication, our batteries answered it with zeal arm
vivacity; and it was observed, that twice or thrice
they set fire to some fafcines, &c. of the enemy
emplacement, which continued burning a long tint,
and did them much damage.
Monday last a gentleman, one of the three saved
in the vessel cast ashore on Plumb-Island, as men
tioned in the papers, arrived in town, who informs,
that he was late a prisoner at Antigua, which he
left the 6th of January, at which time there was
but two men of war in the harbour, viz. the Russel
and Royal-Oak, the remainder of the Britilh fleet
were, as he was informed, at Jamaica: That there
were but 2 British regiments, the 25th and 55th at
Antigua, neither of which can muster more than 70
men; and the inhabitants were in daily expectation
of an attack from the French fleet, under Count de
Graffe;„and it was said, if they should attempt the
conquest of the island, it would fall an easy prey,
as they could make but a feeble opposition. Our
informant left Guadaloupe the 18th of January,
and the next day spoke with a sloop directly from
St. Kitts, who informed that the fortrefs on Brim
stone-Hill had surrendered, and that the whole island
was in pofTeffion of our victorious allies: Count de
Graffe had 26 fail of the line, and 7000 land forces
at St. Kitts.
N EW - LONDO N, March 1.
BOSTO N, Feb. 28.
NORWICH, February 28.