The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1785-08-15 00:00:00, page 1

Tburfday fe'nnight arrived at Philadelphia the brig
Commence, from London, by which we have the
following advices : —
HA G U E, June io.
NOTHING would give us more pleasure
than to fatisfy the impatient curiosity
of our readers upon the prelent state of
affairs; but we are obliged to share
with them in the fame impatience and
curiosity, without being able to gain any information
to direct us in the judgment that we might be ready
to form concerning what will be the final event. The
present is a time of fufpence: the scarcity of news
and events renders our talk so much the more diffi
cult, as we renounce the. common resource, which is
conjecture, being thoroughly persuaded that we should
very probably midake, and that we could by no
means indemnify the publick for the errors into which
we might thereby lead them. We shall only observe
then, that nothing as yet contradicts the opinion al
ready formed in favour or peace, which opinion has
for its foundation, that on either fide there is not
any decisive movement for war: mean time, the fame
activity continues in the cabinets, and the frequent
arrival and departure of couriers, announces that
matters draw near to a criGs.
L 0 N DO N, April 23.
Monday fe'nnight, the ploughing match between
Mr. Thomas Robins, of Bowl-down, near Tetbury,
and Mr. Billingsley, was decided in favour of
the latter, before a large number of gentlemen and
farmers, who attended on the occasion. The land
was a stone brash, rather heavy than light, and had
a wheat crop on it last year.—Mr. Bilhngfley's dou
ble-furrow plough did an acre and a half in three
hours, great part of the time with three horses. Mr.
Robins used his own plough, with two horses with
out a driver, and ploughed something more than three
quarters of an acre in the fame time, and declined
any further contest. After the matter was decided,
Mr. Billingfley's plough ploughed several furrows in
a very complete manner without being held at all
by the ploughman, who only drove the horses, to
the astonishment of numerous farmers, and other Spec
tators, who declared the work to be done in a most
complete manner; and that without having seen it,
they could never have believed it possible to be done.
June 7. They write from Auvergne, in France,
that the abundant rains which have fallen in that
province have entirely reanimated nature in less than
48 hours, in such a manner, that a number of flocks
of Iheep have been conduced to the mountains, where
the pallurage is very plentiful; and it is hoped that
the crops of hay will be more abundant than in the
preceding years.,
<Two Squadrons are arming, one at Brest and one
at Cadiz, which are to be combined. The affair of
the Mufquito ffiore is the pretence; but some politi
cians give other reasons for this armament.
We hear from Cqrthagena, that the expedition
against Algiers is suspended, if not entirely given up.
The unfavourable news that the plague had broke
out there, is one of the causes of this delay. 1
The total ordinary of the navy, as made up to the
gift ult. are, 110 fail of the line, 12 fifties, 100 fri
gates, and 40 hoops.
The people of America are in astonishment, laugh
ing at the lavilh pensions given to the refugees from
that country ! Some of them, to be sure, had pro
perty, and deserve to be supported by this country;
FRANKFORf on the Oder, May 16.
The ravages occasioned by the overflow of the
Oder are very great; 44 houses, 38 stables, and 34
barns, have been carried away by the rapidity of the
torrents, and many other buildings have sustained
great damage. Upon retaining to their former
channel the water's have left immense quantities of
find upon the fields and gardens, which are covered
with it in many places from the depth of fix to twelve
feet.
NEW-JERSEY GAZETTE.
[Vol. VIIL]
TRENTON: Printed by ISAAC COLLIN S, Printer to the State;
Foreign Intelligence.,
MONDA Y, August 15, 1785.
The court of France appears to be adopting a new
fcence of politics in regard to their Weil-India
inlands; for instead of having several small settlements,
which occasion a prodigious expence to defend them
in time of war, they now give the greatest encourage
ment to the new-settlers on the island of St. Domin
go, in hopes of making it so flourifhing, that they
may, with little afliftance from Europe, be able from
their internal strength to repel any attempts from an
cneny.
June 8. The arrival of an Ambafydor from A
merica will be the cause of fending out another to
that country. Great inconveniencies have arisen for
want of a Minister there in that quality, as well to
the commercial as the political interests of both nati
ons. To remedy these, it is said, the earl of Effing
ham is to go to America in that capacity.
An Ambassador from America! Good Heavens,
what a found! The Gazette surely never announced
any thing so extraordinary efore, nor, once on a
day, so little expelled. This will be such a pheno
menon in the Corps Diplomatique, that it is hard to
fay which can excite indignation most, the insolence
of those who appoint the,charader, or the meanness
of those who receive it. Such a thing could not
have happened in any former Administration. It was
reserved, like some other humiliating ciicumftances,
to take place,
Sub Jove, fed Jove nondum
Barbato.
June ii.
Extrafl of a letter from Paris, dated May 2fr
" Yesterday Messrs. Alban and Vallet ascended
with a balloon, conftru&ed by order of the Comte
de Artois, from Juvel, and passing over the river
near the wood of Bologne, they navigated the serial
vehicle to Bagtelle, for the purpose of gratifying the
curiosity of M. Ie Duc d'Angouleme, and M. Ie Duc
de Berry. When they had been in the air about
three hours, the wind became very powerful, but a
calm ensuing, they renewed their manoeuvres; where
by they successively transported themselves at plea
sure from Bagtelle to Longchamp, and from Long
champ to Bagtelle. The difeovery of the art of de
feending without the evaporation of gas, or the dis
charge of ballast, is certainly a great improvement in
the art of asroftation, to which the publick are in
debted to the fl<ill of these ingenious aerial voyagers.
Though the balloon had been inflated for fix weeks,
it appeared not to have loft any of the inflammable air
at the time of its descent."•
June 15. Yesterday a considerable mob assembled
at the end of Downing-Street, to wait on Mr. Pitt's
going to the house of commons. At a quarter past
three he went down amidst much hooting and hiding
all the way. His coach drove almost as faft as the
horses could gallop; but the mob being Rationed in
rank on each fide, they pressed hard upon him just as
he flopped in the palace yard, crying out, No shop
tax! No Irish Bill! attempted to lay hold of him
as he alighted from his carriage; but he foot like
'lightning into the paTage leading to the great flairs,
and efeaped without any other damage than that of
the mortification of being hissed, and much terror and
apprehension from the consequences of an enraged
multitude.
Yesterday a man wrote the following lines on the
but that the great majority of them have now double
the real income in their pensions, that they ever en
joyed in their own country, is beyond a doubt.
It is somewhat remarkable, that almost all the ca
pital portrait and historical painters, now in England,
are North-Americans by birth! and, what is still
more extraordinary, the greatest astronomer perhaps
in all Europe, is one Dornforth, fiom that country,
a great and able felf-taught mathematician !
A variety of orders which came over by the spring
fllips from America, are ftopt executing, till the re
regular remittances are made: particularly some from
Boston, which the merchants have refufed to exe
cute, except for cash, or atfleaft good bills, on some
firm house in France, Holland, Ireland, on Great-
Britain. The vast losses lately sustained, are the
cause of this.
T I-I E
door of the court of Requefts:—.
" Poor Watt Tyler now is dead,
" And no brave fellow in his stead; ,
" Or Pitt, this day, would lose his head!"
On most of the shop windows yesterday which
were shut, there were the following words, either id
writing on paper, or in chalk:—
" J his shop to be let. The owners removing
fnortly to Ireland. Enquire of the right hon. Wil
liam Pitt, Downing-Street, Westminster."
The hoife and foot guards were under orders of
readiness during the whole course of yesterday, to
suppress any outrages which might arise through,
the tumultuous meeting, which was apprehended in
consequence of the shopkeepers of London and
Westminster shutting up their houses.
A letter from Dublin, of June 4, fays, " Ifyou
form any judgment upon the politics of the country,
from the complexion of the publick prints, it will be
fallacious. At this instant the voice of the people
appears unanimous against the commercial alterations
in their present state ; those who were friends to them
in their original state, charge the English minister
with pusillanimity and deception; those who have
always opposed them, charge hint with design to
overturn the independency of the Irish legislature;
so that he is now unpopular with all parties.
" A remonftrarice against those altered proportions
has certainly been voted in the privy-council here,
and dispatched to St. James's, and it is openly as
serted, and no where contradi&ed, that Mr. Forfter,'
who may be termed the Irish minister, has strenuous
ly opposed the alteration of the old, and introduction
of the new proportions, and that his grace of Rut
land is equally difpleafcd.
" While this contention rages in politics, improve
ments in arts and manufactures increase with asto
nishing avidity, and no wlieie with a more rapid pro
gress than in Dublin, where several magnificent edi
fices are erecting, many old streets widening, and
new avenues making from various parts of the city
to a wide convenient road which encircles it,
" The spirit of volunteering still fubGTs. and of late
has materially encreafed in ardour, but their military
principle is itridly defenfive, and his majesty is every
where revered, beloved and refpe&ed., Indeed, such
is the loyalty of these people, that I am convinced
the most effectual means of decreasing aristocratic in.
fluence, would be to permit some branch of the royal
family to reside among them in an official capacity;
it is what I hear often wished."
A letter from Dunkirk, dated June 7, fays, “ An
American ship, the Virginia Packet, Steane, front
Maryland, is seized here for carrying on a contra
band trade; and as is customary, all the crew sent to
prison. The American minister will probably be fa
voured with the release of the people, but ship and
cargo are forfeited."
Yesterday being the firft day of the Shop Tax, the
Retail Dealers of this metropolis, agreeable to the
resolution of which we gave notice in a former paper,
observed it as a day of general mourning, There
was darkness over all the land; the windows for the
most part were wholly closed; in some places, only,
they were partially opened. On one shutter was
piously scrawled in chalk, Lighten our da;knefi we
befeecb thee, 0 Pitt ! Another exhibited, /Igood kino,.,
and a wife minister for-ever! And in all quarters of
the town were to be read, No Pitt; No tax on
Trade; No tax on Shops; No Diabolical Shop
Tax, dye. dye. We observed upon one window a pa
per importing that the Shop was to be let, and a di
redion was given To enquire of Mr. Premier, in
Downing-Street ; but the most happy perhaps was
a Ihort intimation of Gone to Ireland! On one of
the churches in the Strand, some Chriftianly Spirit
had written, Hang Pitt! Burn Pitt ! which had
drawn the following couplet from a gingling genius,
whose poetry seems not quite equal to his patriotism;
Let Pitt, be hang'd on any tree,
But only burn his effigy.
June 17. Wednesday a balloon was launched
from Boulogne in France, which took up monsieur
Filatre du Rofiere, and another gentleman; when
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