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from the persons taxed, and not by exchanging money
for the fame. Provided always, That nothing in this
aft Ihall be construed to prevent collectors from
paying forward the bills made receivable in the reve
nue tax, which they may have received in exchange
for specie pursuant to the direction of an ad, intitled,
An A& for raijing a revenue of Thirty-one Thou-
Jand Two Hundred and Fifty-nine Pounds Five
Shillings per annum, for the term of twenty-five
years, for the purpose of paying the intereJi and prin
cipal of debts due from the United States, agreeably
to a recommendation of Congress, and for appropri
ating the fame.
3. And be it further Enabled, That neither the
seventh fedion of the ad, intitled, An Aft for mak
ing compensation to the troops of this Jlate, in the
service of the United States, for the depreciation of
their pay, or the sixth section of the ad, intitled, An
Ad to procure an efiimate of the sums due the mili
tia and troops who have been raised for the defence
of the frontiers of this Jlate, and to provide Jor the
settlement of the fame, ihall, be construed or under
stood to authorize any officers or collectors in this
state to tender the notes by the said recited acts di
rected to be issued in payment of any debt due the
state, for which debt judgment is or may be obtained
in an adion of debt brought against such officer or
collector at the suit of the state.
Faffed at New-Brunswick, September 1, 1784.'
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Foreign Intelligence.
MADRI D, July 21.
A Courier arrived from Don Antonio Barcelo, on
the 19th, with letters dated the 13th instant,
from which we learn, that the combined fleet was at
anchor in the bay of Algiers, and that the lirft attack
had been made upon the place on the 12th in the
morning: That the Algerines did not come out to
meet the assailants as had been expected, but their gun
boats (sixty in number) were drawn up without the
walls of the town, ready to receive them: That the
Spaniards had funk four of the enemies gun boats,
and that a fire had been observed in the town, which
broke out about ten o'clock in the morning, and burnt
'till paid four in the afternoon: That the principal
loss sustained by the assailants was from the bursting
of one of the Spanilh bombs, by which two officers
and fix men were killed ; and a gun boat, the crew
of which were Neapolitans, blew up some hours after
the action. A second attack was to take place on
the thirteenth.
L O N D O N, August 5.
The peace concluded at Mangalore on the 11th of
March, is probably by this time at an end: For to
such a height have the cruelties exercised by the Com
pany's servants arose, that the natives are determined
on the total ext: nation of the English government. —
The French and paniards have been applied to, and
it is thought that a v ry serious remonstrance against
the unprecedented, frequent and numerous murders
of the rich natives in that part of the world, will loon
arrive from these Courts. And this probably may
occasion a new war in Europe. The unhappy queen
of Cannamore has applied to France, and a petition
is sent over to the queen of France, from the unhap
py widow and children of the murdered Ali Cawn.
The French have begun a war with this country on
slighter pretence than the black conduct of the servants
of the East-India Company.
By letters from Madrid we are informed, that the
opinion which the Abbe Raynal threw out in his his
tory, concerning the possibility of a Spanilh East-In
dia trade, has been lately particularly attended to.
Mr. Cabarrus has formed a project of a Spanifli East-
India Company, and it was laid before the Aflembly;
it has met with some opposition, but that opposition
was the less effectual, as the king sent his approbation,
and an order by M. de Galvez, secretary of state for
the Indian department, that it should be adopted.
'' The magistrates of Buda and Hungary having so
licited permission to erect a statue of the Emperor, at
once to teftify their gratitude towards their benefactor,
and to perpetuate the memory of the glorious reign
of the illustrious Joseph 11, his Imperial Majesty has
returned an answer amounting to a downright refufal.
He fays he will grant them leave to erect a statue to
him, when prejudices shall give place to found senti
ments of patriutifm and the general weal of the mo
narchy ; when every individual will with chearfulnefs
contribute to the want of the state, and what is ne
ceU y to insure its fafety and prosperity ; when the
minds of his fubjeds Ihall be enlightened by the stu
dy of the sciences brought to the highest pitch of per
fedion, and by an union of the doctrines of true reli
gion with the civil laws; when riches lawfully ac
quired, Ihall be increased by a numerous population,
owing to the progress of agriculture ; when the true
Extras of a letter from Vienna, dated July 9.
Extract of a letter from Dublin, dated Augufl I.
" The situation of his Grace of Rutland is truly
mortifying: Scarce a lady attends the levee or draw
ing room parties, and his Grace seldom leaves the
cattle, and when he does it is incog. For though the
rioters are suppressed from executing publick violence,
the spirit still exists, and the lower classes of the peo
ple take every opportunity to insult those whom they
confider inimical to the resolution formed by the de
legates of the volunteers.
" The appearance of the volunteers at the several
reviews which have taken place in the course of the
summer, exceeded all expectation,not only in the ftrid
nefs of their discipline, but their numbers."
It is to be hoped that expedients of prevention were
fought out carefully both here and in Ireland ; for
English, French and American emiflaries, are now
employed in attempts to embroil us. These appear
under the form of travellers for pleasure, negociators
for trade, and Ministers collecting for meetinghouses.
Their orders are to note down their indiscretions, and
stimulate our felfifh passions and hopes. Should not
this teach us wisdom to unite? Arc the clamours of
demagogues for places and power to keep us in a state
of perpetual fluctuation, which must of itfelf be our
ruin? And are we to be diverted by such persons
from the pressing consideration, that to be weakened
in any of our remaining members, or to enter into a
contest relating to them, will greatly endanger the
whole? Let us hear no more of private disputes and
private interest. The business of the nation calls for
the assistance of all wife and good men; and bad men
only can at this time obftrudit.
August 9. We hear from Georgia news of an event,
the consequences of which are dreaded. The Prince
Salomon lent a body of troops under the orders of
his son, to the frontiers, which were laid waste by
the Ottoman troops. The party had a sharp engage
ment with the Turks, in which they proved victori
ous, but the Prince has loft his son. This event may
occasion the loss of Georgia.
General Ogelthorpe can fay more than can be said
by the fubjed of any Prince in Europe, or perhaps
that ever reigned. He founded the province of Geor
gia, in America; he has lived to fee it flourish and
become of consequence to the commerce of Great-
Britain ; he has seen it in a state of rebellion, and he
now beholds it independent of its mother-country,
and of great political consequence in one quarter of
the globe.
Augu/l 12. His Majesty has granted a charter, con
firmed by act of Parliament, constituting a Royal Col
lege of Surgeons in Ireland.
Admiral Byron has closed with the Admiralty on the
fubjed of the East-India command, and will immedi
ately proceed to his station.
Admiral Innis, the newly appointed Commander in
Chief on the Jamaica station, has been thrown from
his horse, and so much hurt, that it is feared he will
not lor some time be able to take his paffagc for the
Weft-Indies.
We are informed that the business of the present
Parliament will be finifhed by the 20th of this month,
when both houses will be prorogued for about forty
days, and not meet for dispatch of business till after
the Chrittmas holidays.
The elegant sword, which was made a present by the
London association to the late fheriff, for his spirited
exertions during the late riots, was by the executors,
at the request of several gentlemen, fuffered to be
knocked down at one guinea, in order to be reserved
for Sir Barnard Turner's eldest son are assured
the above sword cost eighty guineas.
An extraordinary meeting was summoned on Mon
day evening of the Blue and Buffs, in consequence
of the publication of Mr. Hafting's last letter; there
was such bitters in it, such confutations of cer
tain falfe dodrines ; nay, what was still worse, there
was such a display of prosperity as was really abomina
ble ; what a strange world this is, where a certain set
of men have no encouragement either for swearing or
lying!
If there are joys in retirement, how happy are the
good men at Brookes's; they, enviable fouls! have no
publick cares, they are answerable for no publick mea
iures ; the vanities of popular applause do not affed
them; they are not furfeited with pomp; they are
not oppressed with grandeur ; no, they enjoy the phi
lofophick calm which contemplative men have coveted
in all ages, and must of course experience, at a distance
from Courts, those transports which are common to
contentment.
interest of the sovereign with regard to his fubjeds,
and of the fubjeds with regard to their sovereign ; when
emulation, manufactures, and their sale, as well as
that of all the productions through the whole ex
tent of the monarchy, Ihall be reciprocally established."
August 7. The Dutch have at length consented to
let the Emperor open the navigation of the Scheld,
and Antwerp will soon become, from being the gloo
miest city on earth, one of the most active in trade,
&c. How far it may affect Great-Britain, time can
only discover.
Never was any minister of this country in such a si
tuation as Mr. Pitt, on Friday last. He was obliged,
with the whole phalanx of India supporters, to give
way to Mr. Fox, and drop the project which he so
long foftered.
Extraci of a letter from Dublin, July 24.
" Last Tuesday night Colonel Lord Harrington, and
three other officers, returning in a coach to the bar
racks, between eleven and twelve o'clock, were flop
ped by a gang of foot-pads armed with pistols, when,
like true soldiers, disdaining to surrender at discretion,
they sallied from the coach, though fired at by the vil
lains, and attacked them so fiercely with their fivords,
that they soon thought proper to decamp, but not be
fore two of them had received the officers weapons in
their bodies." —
The following rough draught of a Political Codicil to a
great man's will, was accidentally found on Sunday
morning last, near the Park-gate of Lutton Hoo:
In addition to my former will and testament, I be
queath to the Premier the only spark of Patriotism in
my possession, because he appears to have been ne
glebed in this article, by his independent father; and
I do not think he will employ it any more than myfelf,
to the inconvenience of the Crown. —l would leave him
my contempt tor the House of Commons in its virtual ca
pacity, were it not that he already possesses an ample
share of that commanding quality.
I relinquish my greatness of foul to Earl Gower ; trust
ing that he can find room for it in his own breast !
I resign to Lord Weymouth my courtly fertility. He
stands, it is true, more in need of my independence ;
but the Imall share that remains with me of that virtue,
I mean to dispose of more at large !
To Lord Campden, I leave my confflenc,; as he will
use it with ceconomy, it will probably serve him the
duration of the present ministry.—l leave him also my
opinion, because he has none of his own; should this
part of my boon fall Ihort, I humbly recommend him
to the bounty of Lord Sydney, who has a larger stock
°f felf opinion than any other man in ChrUtendaml
I leave to the Harwich Member, a manuscript con
taining the Secret Memoirs of Jonathan Wild, the Thief
Catcher, which I request may be bound by way of In
troduction to his own life. I bequeath him also my du
plicity, as he must have exhausted his own in the faith
ful service of his late noble matter !
I bequeath to the majority of the House of Lords, in
cluding the new Peers, my Independence. It is a trifling
portion, but I doubt not they will make a little go a
great way.
To the House of Commons I give my credulity, that
the further promile of the Minister may be attended to
with so firm a belief, that, when next he pledges him
felf, there shall be no difolution of Parliament, a reli
ance may still be placed on his word, and the House be
again deceived !
I bequeath to the people of England, as the best le
gacy in my power, my infenfbility —it will enable them
to bear with temper the yoke of prerogative, which I
laboured unfuccefsfully to efted!
B U T E.
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American Intelligence.
SHELBURNE (Nova-Scotia) Sept. 13.
ON Wednesday morning last, between the hours of
three and tour o'clock, seven ruffians, armed
with bayonets and cutlasses, boarded the schooner
Swallow, Captain Mackie, lying at anchor at Sandy
Point, outward bound, and after wounding the Capt.
robbed him of cash to the amount of above 500 pounds,
and a trunk of wearing apparel. Since the perpetration
of this daring robbery, by the vigilance of the magi
strates, one of the principal persons concerned has been
apprehended, and a Imall part of the money recovered :
Parties have been sent out in different parts of the
country to secure the rest of these atrocious villains,
that they may be brought to condign punishment.
Sept. 20. Last night was brought to town, by Capt.
Hatfield, in a small schooner, from Cape Rousseau,
three ruffians who were concerned in robbing Captain
Mackie, with part of the money.
Sept. 27. We are informed, that his Excellency the
Governor has divided this town and adjacent diftrid
in three parities, named St. George's, St. Patrick's,
and St. Andrew's: That a mandamus has arrived for
the induction of the Rev. Mr. Panton, as Redor of St.
Patrick's; and that a general Vestry is nominated by
his Excellency, for the fuperintendance of all matters
relating to the several parishes, till particular inducti
ons and incorporations take place, when the refpedive
officers of each parish will be properly elected within
itfelf.
BOSTO N, Odober 4 .
Saturday arrived the brig Two Brothers, Captain
Higginfon, in eight weeks from Gottenburg : —By
her we learn, that a rupture was likely to take place
between Sweden and Denmark ; and that great prepa
rations were making, by those powers, for carrying on
a vigorous war.
Capt. Higginfon, off Fair-Island, spoke a brig from
Rhode-Ifland, Captain William Gardner, for Copen
hagen, out twenty-nine days; all well. On the sth
September, in lat. 47. long. 26. likewise spoke a French
Packet, from New-York, for L'Orient, out seventeen
days.
The fliip North-Hampton, Capt. Lane, failed about
three weeks before Captain Higginfon, for Boston.—
Brig Richmond, Captain Green, failed at the fame
time with Captain Higginfon, for Rhode-Illand. Capt.
Cathcart arrived at Gottenburg, from Amsterdam, pre
vious to the failing of the Two Brothers. Capt. Luce
and Captain Hopkins were to fail for Boston in about
theee weeks after Capt. Higginfon.
Same day arrived a fliip from St. Petersburg, after
a most tedious passage of thirteen weeks.
The ship , Captain Cleaves, of Salem, on her
passage to England, ran on the Isle of Wight, and