The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1785-05-23 00:00:00, page 2

On the loth ult. Gen. Greene and Col. Hawkins
set out from this town to take a view of the islands
and inland navigation of this Rate, and to visit his
Excellency Don Vincent Emanuel De Zefpedes, Go
vernor of EaR-Florida, and returned on Saturday last.
They were received at St; Augußine with every mark
of politeness and attention, and every military honour
was paid to the General worthy so great a charader.
A Captain and fifty men were sent to his quarters as
his guard, which the General modestly refufed ac
cepting, as being no longer in a military charader.—
Sentinels were placed at his quarters, and the differ
ent guards of the garrison paid him the fame honours
as they do to a Lieutenant-General of their own na
tion. They were entertained during their residence
by the Governor in a nioft splendid and elegant man
ner. The Commandant, the Treasurer, the Secre
tary, and every other Officer of his Catholick Ma
jesty in East-Florida, seemed to vie with each other
in those marks of unaffected friendship which so justly
charaderife the SpaniM nation. The General was
escorted to Sr. John's by the Colonel Commandant of
horse and a party of dragoons; he was received by
the officer commanding at that post with hospitality
and politeness, and from thence he was attended by
the Colonel Commandant through the inland naviga
tion to the river St. Mary's, where the Commodore
commanding his Catholick Majesty's Rips on that Ra
tion, received him with the flag of Spain displayed
at his fore-top, and saluted by the difeharge of thir
teen cannon. After partaking of an elegant enter
tainment which the Commodore had provided for the
occasion, he was attended by the Commodore in his
barge (and again fainted by 13 cannon) to Cumber
land Bland in this Rate, where the Colonel Com
mandant of horse and the Commodore took their leave
of the General and Colonel Hawkins. Such attenti
on and refped as has been paid by the Governor and
Officers at EaR-Florida, to a great and beloved Ge
neral, must impress the minds of the citizens of the
United States with like sentiments to every Officer
of his Catholick Majesty why may come amongst
them.
American Intelligence.
S A L E M, May,
THE oonftitution declares, that “ the Liberty of
the Press is essential to the security of freedom
in a state " —But how is the liberty a security of free
dom, if the Legislature have a right to lay such taxes
on the Press as amount to a prohibition of reading?
For if they have a right to levy a duty whereby one
citizen is debarred the enjoyment of this inestimable
blessing, they have a right to impose taxes which will
withhold it from ten thousand, or any number what
ever. But as they can have ho such right, and as
it is a demonstrable truth, that the Stamp-Ad, lately
pal Ted, will, if carried into execution, prevent some
citizens being informed of matters, the knowledge of
which is " essential to the Security of Freedom," it
undeniably follows, that this aft tends to destroy
Freedom, and is, therefore, a flagrant violation of
the natural and constitutional rights of the people.
Since our lad, several good customers have lignified
their intention of difeontinuing this paper on the com
mencement of the Stamp-Ad; one of whom declared
he would rather pay a tax of double the stamp-duty,
to be appropriated towards increasing the circulation
of news-papers, than submit to the impositions of an
ad which will inevitably tend to their suppression.
Mr. Gill, late publiiher of the Continental Journal
in Boston, notified his customers, in lad Thursday's
paper, as follows :
The fubferiber (not being fond of Stamp-Ads, hav
ing experienced the ill effeds of two heretofore) in
forms his late cußomers, that he has difeontinued the
Continental Journal, &c. ttttt
John Gill."
“ Whatever tends in the Jmallef degree to deprive
'the people of political inforination, is inimical to the
principles of Republicanism."
The STAMP-ACT, passed the last session of the
General Court, meets, throughout every part of the
Commonwealth, with disapprobation, that part laying
a duty on news-papers, particularly so. The cloven
foot in it appears too visible to escape notice. To
clog the currents of information, and to Mackle the
means of political knowledge and heceffary learning,
are difeordant notes to the general ear. But its dan
ger is not the whole of its evil consequences. it is
deemed impolitick and unequal —impoliticly, as it will
encourage our fitter states to fend their papers into
this Commonwealth cheaper than can possibly be af
forded here, to the ruin of a set of artisans, whose ex
ertions in the late revolution, defervt a more liberal
fate.—Unequal, as the revenue arising from news-pa
pers must (while but a mite in the general treasury)
operate in a great degree, to the deftrudion of the
prefect printers of these publications.
BOSTO N, May 4.
SAVANNA H, April 7.
“ It is true, when we obtained that free trade, we
could import the articles from the colonies, and also
from foreign Rates, immediately into Ireland, without
going the old round about way to England with
them; but then the navigation ad Randing in full
force, whatever redundancy the merchants here might
have on hands, not an ounce of it could be sent to
England ; whilst the English merchant had every port
in Ireland open to his surplus. This, you will rea
dily fee, must greatly damp the spirit of the import
trade, from the colonies at least, and indeed it did so
to such a degree, as to induce our merchants to take
most of their rum and sugar, at second hand, from
England, rather than by the more uncertain, as well
as more expensive way, of importing them immedi
ately from the WVft-Indies, perhaps, on a falling
market, already glutted with a redundancy from Eng
land. Now by the present adjustment, the navigation
ad will forever be done away, and Ireland will be at
full liberty to fend the produce of all parts of the
world, either raw or manufactured, into England, up
on the fame terms that England can into her, to all
intents and purposes, as well as the produce and ma
nufactures of either country into the other. This, in
my opinion, will be a great point gained; and if we
are but sober and indußrious, cannot fail to put us on
a footing we never yet have arrived at. But it ap
pears, there is to be a tael; to these new regulations,
and that is, that, a certain part of the surplus duties
arising to Ireland from this adjustment, are to be ap
plied in Support of the navy of Great-Britain, for the
better defence of the empire at large; but then, as
to the quantum of this part, it is to be entirely under
the regulation of the Irish Parliament. After these
matters of trade and commerce are fettled, the grand
question of all is to come on, both in England and
here, viz. a more equal representation of the people
in Parliament. Mr. Pitt has already appointed the
day he means to bring it on in the English House of
Commons, about ten days lienee. As for us, we
have had it already twice before the House, but with
out effeCt, and now we are all “ trembling alive,"
about its coming on a Third Time soon."
On Friday night Mr. William Print, being appa
rently in good health and spirits, ordered his servant
to execute some trifling business, and in the interim
Rot himfelf. He expired immediately, the ball en
tering the body a little below the thorax, had Mat
tered the heart almost entirely into pieces. The co
roner's inquest fat upon the body, and after mature
deliberation, returned their verdid felo de fe ; in con
sequence of which all the property of the unfortu
nate suicide is forfeited to the state, and his body de
nied not only the courtesy of funeral rites, but doomed
to be buried in a publick road, with a Rake driven in
to the grave. On a report of the verdict being made
to his Excellency the Governor, he was pleased to
remit that part of the law which refpeds the mode of
interment, and directed the corpse to be buried at
night, in the ground belonging to the poor-house;
with regard to the effe&s, a friend is put into posses
sion, until a meeting is held of the Privy Council.—
Mr. Print has resided a long time in this state, and
was much esteemed by a numerous acquaintance.
" I have just time to tell you that, in regard to po
liticks, the present moment is, perhaps, the most in
teresting one Ireland ever saw. Both the English and
Irish Parliaments are now fitting, and have under
consideration the final adjustment of trade, commerce
and manufactures, between the two nations.—Even
the manufactures of both countries are undergoing
the most thorough investigation, in order to put then!
on the most perfect equality in regard to their exports
and imports from one country to the other.
“ You may be sure both nations are in a blaze of
politicks on this account. How matters may end, I
cannot yet positively fay, as nothing has yet got the
fanßion of the law; but as far as they have gone,
every thing, in my opinion, goes hollow for Ireland,
as the spirit and intention of these regulations seem to
be, to put Ireland on an equal footing with England,
to all intents and purpoles, in her export and import
trade, not only with foreign dates, but also with
Great-Britain herfelf; which last has never yet been
the case, notwithstanding our so much boasted free
trade.
RICHMO N D, April 16.
On Wednesday last, a filing canoe was dallied to
pieces in the falls of James River. Six persons were
on board, five of whom, with the utrnoft difficulty,
got on shore. The other, a little boy, clung to a
rock, and was not got off till the next morning.
April 30. On Monday night the 25th instant the
Rip Grange, Captain Kerr, from Glasgow, unfortu
nately run afliore on Cape Charles. The cargo will
be saved, and it is supposed the veflel may be got off.
BALTI M O R E, May 13.
Extrafl of a letter front a gentleman at Glenarm,
in Ireland, dated iSth Feb. 1785, to a refpefla
ble merchant in this town.
CHARLESTON, April 25.
Resolved, That the want of a law for encouraging
the breed of horses, and preventing Rone horses of
any age or size from going at large, is a grievance.
Resolved, That all laws imposing partial taxes
whether dire&ly, or in their operation, are grievances
and against the fundamental rights of the people.
Resolved, N. C. 1 hat the inhabitants of this dif
trid have a right peaceably to assemble to confider
their grievances, and adopt such measures as they
Mali think prudent for redtefs.
Resolved, N. C. That the said inhabitants are en
titled to equal liberty and privileges with their
brethren in the eastern part of this Rate.
Ordered, That a feled Committee be appointed to
feleCt and confider of the grievances existing within
the diftrid, and make a report to the house: That
Mr. Greentip, Mr. Wallace, Mr. Morrison, Mh An
derson, Mr. Craig, Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Todd, be
of the said Committee.
The report of the fcle& Committee being twice
read, was agreed to as follows:
Resolved, That the want of a militia law adapted
to the local fitilation of the diftriCt, whereby the in
habitants may be enabled to repel the hostile invasions
of the Indians, fubjeCts them to imminent danger; and
the want of some executive power within the dißriCt
to resort to for enforcing the fame in cases of emer
gency, are grievances, and require immediate ledrefs;
Resolved, That the Supreme Court for the dißriß
not having proceeded to the decilion of suits depend
ing in that Court, is greatly injurious to the peace
and interest of the inhabitants, and the cause of this
delay ought to be enquired into.
Resolved, That the fines inflicted by the Supreme
Court, being appropriated to the support of the judges
thereof, is injurious to the reputation of the Court,
and alarming to the people, as it opens a door for cor
ruption.
Resolved, That the law imposing a tax on process
and other proceedings in the Courts of justice, and
not permitting the fame to be taxed in the bill of costs,
is a grievance, and ought to be amended.
Resolved, That one-lixth part of all furveyors' fees,
arising within the diftrid, which is appropriated to
the support of the University of William and Mary,
and not in the Tranfilvania seminary, is a grievance.
Resolved, That the practice of the surveyors, in
surveying the fame trad of land for sundry persons, is
a grievance, because it tends to multiply numerous li
tigations.
Resolved, That the practice of the register, in de
manding his fees for issuing a grant to lands before
the fame is obtained, is a grievance.
Resolved, ". hat the want of a law or laws within
the diftria, for appointing proper officers to take care
of, and provide for the poor, to bind out poor or
phans, and the children of such persons as do not
bring them up in a chriftian-like manner, to puniM
the putative fathers of bastard children, and for en
forcing the law for processioning of lands, are griev
ances.
Although Miracles long since have ceased, yet
Wonders have not: Two remarkable Ones have
lately appeared in the New-England States, demon
ftrativc of the Changes incident to every Thing in
this World
Who would have thought it?
A STAMP-ACT in BOSTON, and
A BISHOP in CONNECTICUT!
Rara Felicitas Temporum !
Extraß of a letter from a gentleman, a native of
Massachusetts, now in London, dated March 21,
'7 8 5-
“ A number of American Mips have been waiting
a long time for cargoes, and after great expence, &c.
find nothing, because British Mips are put up for this
purpose ; on these insurance is two or three per cent,
less, in consequence of the noise the designing under
writers at Lloyd's make, refpeCting the Algerine cor
sairs taking the Americans in the Atlantick, which,
by the bye, I conceive is a mere bug-bear; however,
it takes effect here—and if there was a law diredly
passed, that all goods arriving in our state in British
bottoms Mould pay a duty of two or three per cent,
extra, it would, I think, effectually put the Ameri
cans here on a footing with Englishmen. Several Mips
have failed with a fourth part of their freight, and
there are many others that must depart without any
thing. Our navigation is ruined in this part of the
globe, unless some spirited law is passed to counteract
this present calamitous imposition."
KE NTUC K Y.
Extract from the Proceedings of a Convention held
at Danville, in the Difrift of Kentucky, the
27th da, of December, 1784, and continued by
adjournments to the gth of January following.
Present— 37 Members.
THE Convention proceeded to choose a Presi
dent by ballot, and William Fleming, Esquire, was
cleCted to that office, who took the chair accordingly,
from whence he made his acknowledgments for the
honour conferred on him.