The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1781-10-10 00:00:00, page 1

To the PUBLICK.
Princeton, September 28, 1781.
, ff ™,HE Trustees of the College of New-Jersey
at their last meeting, finding that the se
minary notwithstanding its late desolation
„ by the enemy, and by the confufion ofthe
times, is now filling faft, were of opinion, that the
whole former fyfiem might be re-established, and
took every necessary measure for that purpofe:—
Amonglf others they directed the fubferiber to give
publick notice of the principal regulations, for the
information of parents and guardians who may be
desirous of fending their children here foraitaftion.
In confcquence of this order, the publick will be
plcafdd to observe,
1. That a confidcrable part of the College is alrea
dy repaired, and the Trustees hAe given directions
for the repairs being completed without delay; there
fore all under graduates will, as formerly, be oblig
ed to lodge in College, that they may be immedi
ately under the eye of their teachers ; and a ftrid com
, pliance with the orders of College, as to attending
prayers, the hours of the day, and being in their
chambers at night will be expend. This rule is to
hr unaerftood to extend not only to those who board
with the Reward, but to those who board out with
license, and to those whose parents live in the town
or neighbourhood.
2. The Truftces have chosen a steward, who will
board the students at the moderate rate of Ten Shil
lings proclamation money per week, and none will
be buffered to board out of College, but with the
exprefsdicenfe of the President, or in his absence
of the senior profeffor, and when this license is grant
ed, they mult pay to the Reward at the rate of One
Shilling and Six-pence per week, for the necessary
expence of keeping the College and rooms in order.
3. Every new scholar, at his firft coming to College,
mult pay one guinea entrance money, and at the
rate of Ex pounds per annum tuition, and two pounds
per annum for chamber rent. The entrance money
and chamber rent arc to be paid to the Treasurer,
the tuition to the President, and the board to the
Reward in advance for fix months. This laftcircum
ftance of paying in advance every fix months, will rot
be in any instance dispensed with, as the Trustees have
renewed or ratified the former law, that if complaint
is made by the Treafcrer or Reward that any student
has not made his advance for the current half year,
the President must cither dismiss him from College,
or be himfelf answerable for the debt.
4. If any student from a grammar school Shallat
his firft entrance be admitted to the sophomore or
junior class, he must pay the back tuition for the
term or terms which he hips oxer; but if he has been
a member of any other College, and be found Quali
fied, he will be admitted to the fame Randing with
out any extra expence.
5. The tuition for the grammar school is the Rime
as in College, fix pounds per annum, and must be
paid henceforth in the fame manner in advance. The
entrance money to new fcnolars is only one pound.
The Scholars of the grammar school are not obliged
to live in College, as many of them are young and
must be in private families; but if any parent incline
to have his child in College under the care of a more
advanced student, as has been often the case, they
have liberty to place them there, only it must be
observed that they are then fubjed to ail the rules of
College, as to their hours and behaviour.
Those who are acquainted with the College must
know, that excepting some small alterations in the
rates, all the above regulations are the fame that
were formerly in force, and .which will again be
ftridly and invariably adhered to; though for these
three years past fcvcral have lived in private houses
and behaved with much propriety, yet now that the
number of Rodents is large and daily encreafing, it is
I neceffary to have recouefe to the fame order' and
difapline that were formerly of so much benefit to
the institution. With regard to enforcing punctuality
in the payments, the reader will easily perceive that
the burden must lie wholly on the fubferiber, who
has already fuffered so much by arrearages and pledg
ing himfelf for persons at a distance, that no body
need exped a repetition of the fame expensive and
dangerous complaisance.
Jr is hoped that those who are at present members
es College will be careful to attend at the beginning
of the session, and that both they and future intrants
will remember that regularity in attendance isabfolute
ly necessary to their progress in their Rudies, and
therefore absence without leave, or beyond the time
for which leave has been .given, will be punilhed in
the fevered manner, that is to fav, by publick cen
fere or eipulbn.
NEW-JERSEY GAZETTE.
[Vol. IV.]
^ EDNESDA Y, October 10, 1781.
The fubferiber earnestly recommends to all parents
and guardians at a distance, that they would com
mit the management of their pupils, as to accounts
and expence, to some person ot character at College
in Princeton, or in the neighbourhood: For want of
this they often run into extravagance in point of dress
and incidental charges, set a bad example to one
another, are imposed upon in their accounts, and
bring a reproach upon the institution. We often
hear complaints of the expences of education from
the friends of those who never paid any thing for
their education at all, but were fuffered to miipend
their money for the gratification of their own fancies,
and left their teachers to solicit the small pittance
that was due to them for many years after their re
turn home. Such inßances occasioned some of the
orders of the trustees mentioned above, and it is
hoped the mention now made of them, will be fuffi.
cient to jußify the paeafures in the opinion of every
impartial person.
JOHN WITHERSPOON.
N. B. The vacation in the school is four weeks,
and that in the college fix weeks from the 26th inst.
A letter from Cadiz fays, that Don Louis Cordo
va's fleet, which was damaged in a gale of wind, is
fitted again for sea, and was preparing to fail when
the accounts came away, with a number of trans
ports, having on board 10,000 troops; and that it
was reported he was to proceed to Mexico and Pe
ru, to quell the insurrection laid to have broke out
there.
The last letters from Gibraltar mention, that a
Spanish and Algerine frigate have had an engage
ment in the Mediterranean, and after a contest of
five glasses yard-arm and yard-arm, the sea run
ning, very high, the Spaniard funk, and both vessels
being grappled, carried her antagonist with her;
part of their crews were taken up by a Portugueze
Ship.
We arc informed that all the soldiers of the garri
son at the Hague have received 36 rounds of ball car
tridges each, with orders to be ready at a moment's
warning.
Extras of a letter from Cowes, July 1.
" This day a vessel arrived here from Gibraltar,
the master ot which fays, that the lots the Spaniards
sustained when General Elliot sallied out upon them
was very considerable; that the fleet which was be
fore Gibraltar is returned into Cadiz, and that part
of the troops are drawn off, from which it is ima
gined that they intend to give over any further at
tempts for the present upon that garrison; he also
lays, that many of the Jew families are obliged to
leave Gibraltar, having no houses to live in since they
were beat down by the Spaniards, and are in want
of materials to build new ones."
The losses of the British navy this war equal if not
exceed our captures. According to a very accurate
account, the number of ships taken, loft and destroy
ed, are 99 fail, 7 of which were of the line, viz.
Ardent, Augusta, Defiance, Culloden, Thunderer,
Somerset, and Stirling-Castle ; 2 of 50 3 of 44 and
26 Rout frigates, from 28 to 40 guns.
Peace begins to be talked of in the purlieus of the
Court, as if it were reduced to a certainty, that
such a circumstance would take place Shortly; our
naval, our military, and our financing Ministers,
work double tides to bring it about; the firft feels
himfelf in a critical Situation, the second pants for
refignatio'n of the disagreeable bufmefs ofthe Ameri
can war, and the last feels experimentally there will
be no more East-India or* Bank Charters to be re
newed Bcxt year; in fine, the noble financier has at
last found his ne plus ultra.
A gentleman who is a friend to his country, and
has been long a resident in Georgia, concludes his
letter to a relation in Edinburgh, with the following
remark: To forefee such a revolution was beyond
the ken of human knowledge; but the weakness of
the Ministers, the inactivity of your commanders,
and your diffentions at home, have produced events
that none couid imagine; hence many losses to my
felf, and much disappointment to my friends. Fare
well, and reflect on the folly of many on your fide
the water with detestation and abhorrence.
Extract of a letter from Edinburgh, June 27.
" Yesterday afternoon, about 100 French prisoners
were landed at Leith, from on board the ships of
war, being part of the crew of the Marquis de la
Fayette, and two French sloops of war that were
wrecked in the Weft-Indies, and their people picked
up by the Ramilies. They were brought up to the
Cattle; the.fick, and those unable to walk, being
placed on carts. It is believed that such a compli
cated Scene of wretchedness was never exhibited in
THE
this or any other country. The poor creatures,
reduced by famine and disease to the last extremity,
were almost unable to walk, and, fiom their frequent
haltings to rest, and the flow pace they moved at,
the journey from Leith took up near two hours.
Those upon the carts bad scarcely the appearance of
human beings, and, from their death-like afpeCt, it
was the general opinion that they could not hold out
the night; though we hear all of them are still living.
Many of them are almost naked, and the whole of
them destitute of fufficient and comfortable clothing.
About 60 ot them were received into the Caftlc; the
remaining 40, being those upon the carts, were car
ried to the hospital. Five officers were landed on
Monday, and the rest, with the whole of the com
mon fcamen, are exported on Shore to morrow.
" Some humane gentlemen ordered wine, bread,
&c. to be distributed among them on their way to'
the Caftle.'
" Yesterday Luke Ryan made an attempt to eftft
his escape by bribing the centinel, but without suc
cess."
Last year, the Spaniards took two valuable fleets
from us at one blow; the French lately took a third ;
and now again we have two more fleets, the home
ward bound from the East and Weft, in the most
imminent danger of Sharing the fame fate. Should
the like misfortune happen to these, our commerce,
within the Space of one twelvemonth, will have re
ceived a blow, which, perhaps, no other nation ever
experienced, or could be able to bear. The capture
of five such fleets in so Short a time would be as afto
hiShing in the event as fatal in the consequences. In
such a case, what could our rulers fay for thrmfelves?
The trifling excuses made for what is past, would
not do in a new misfortune. The patience of the
publick has been put to the utmost trial, and could
bear to be Stretched no further.
Our American profpeas grow every day more dark
and gloomy. Our Ministry (good men!) in cem
pafliuu to the feelings of a generous people, have
tenderly concealed the fallen number of their gallant
countrymen under the Lords Cornwallis and Rawdon.
The Gazette doesjuftice to their native ardour, and
the brilliancy of their arms; but the fame Gazette
alas! cannot conceal the fatal truth, that the enemy
hate caught the sacred fire, and rivals us in martial
glory.
We are sorry to observe, that notwithstanding the ~
several accounts of the enemy being defeated by
Lord Cornwallis, there appear little hopes of bring
ing matters to aconclufion. Our whole time seems
to be taken up in marching and countermarching
without effecting any thing decisive; and if our it)!
formation is true, nothing final can be effected
unless a much larger force is sent out; for when the
French troops which were .sent cut in the fprirg
arrive there, there will be a great Superiority on the
other fide.
The Generals Howe and Clinton were said to be
men of the greatest courage and most cntei prising
tempers, when they were sent out; but from what
they have effected we may with truth affirm, that
something more than enterprize and courage is re
quisite to bring the war to a conclusion. °
All the ground gained with such valour and mili
tary atchievements by Lord Cornwallis, does not at
all approximate us to the object so devoutly to be
wiflied, a concluflon to the war. Through the whole
extended track of a 600 miles march, what does that
track yield at present, what will it yield in future
but barrenJ.aurei? And may not Laurel be meta
phorically a political, as well as it is literally a Culi
nary poifen ?
The uniting in the fame person ,Sir H. Clinton, or
even Lord Cornwallis, the different officers of a mi
litary command, and the commission for raftering
peace in America, is certainly an obvious solecism
in politics. With less honest men than those above
mentioned the large pay of the Commissioners might
happen to operate as a premium for the continuance
of the war.
S OUT II - C A R O I. I N A.
By NATHANIEL GREENE, Efe. Major General
commanding the American army 'in the Southern de
partment.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS on the fourth day of the present
month, Colonel Ifaae Hayne, con^marding a
regiment of militia in the fcivice of the United Stakes,
was captured by a party of British troops, and after
a rigorous confinement in the Provoß ot Charleft own,
jroft cruelly and unjuftifiably condemned and ex
ecuted, in open violation of the cartel agreed upon
between the Commanders of the two armies for the
relief and exchange of prisoners of war.
[Numb. 198.]