The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1783-12-30 00:00:00, page 2

LOWER ELBE, July i.
A letter from Lubeck, dated June 29, has the fol
lowing: Yesterday morning a duel was fought be
tween Baron Wedel and Count Ranzau, at .Herren
burgh, in Mecklenburgh-Strelitz. As the time and
place appointed was publickly known, a great number
of the inhabitants appeared. A half an hour was
spent in the choice of arms. Baron Wedel, not be
ing used to pistols, preferred a sword. Count Ran
zau insisted, that the matter Should be determined
with balls ; to which the Baron at last gave way, and
the distance of eight yards was measured. They
agreed, that the one who came to the mark firft,
ihould have the preference of the fnft fire. This was
Ranzau. He Shot, and miffed, Wedel Shot, and mif
fed likewise. Other pistols were got, and Ranzau
(hot Wedel in the lower part of the belly. As he fell,
Ranzau and his second mounted their horses, in or
der to pufli off. The farmers that were, by order,
assembled, attempted to hinder them from making
their escape; but with the assistance of their swords,
they cleared the way before them, and were soon
out of the farmers' reach. Count Ranzau loft his hat
in the flight. The farmers took the wounded Baron,
and carried him into a house. His wound was bound
up, and he put in a waggon. Last night he arrived
here, and Slept very well. By the Shaking of the
waggon the ball fell out of his wound, and he is now
in a fair way to recover.
M Y R N A, August 18.
The plague is much abated in our environs; the
fogs are diilipated, and we begin to enjoy a pure and
serene air.
there, and that 50,000 Tartars are ready to second
heir operations.
ft is said that our ministry have requeued the court
>f France to let them have iome men df War, offering
[,500,000 livres fournois for every firft rate ship
;ompletely manned.
s4uguJi 29, The sublime Porte, it is said, encreafes
ts efforts for defence fo,much the more, and even so
is to a& offensively, being informed that Russia, now
11poffeffion of Crimea, designs to unite the Black Sea
,vith that of the Caspian, by means of the Tanais or
Don, the Wolga, and a canal which is to join the
latter river with the Newa.
C A DI Z, June 10.
A vessel is just arrived from the Eaft-lndics, with
accounts, that admiral Hughes had loft three ships of
the line; and that M. de Suffirein had taken forty-fe
ven of his transports.
GEN O A, June 14.
Last Monday a vessel arrived here from England,
with cloths and other goods, which has occasioned
great joy, as no vessel from that place, laden with
the above articles, ha^ been seen here for three years
NAPL E S, June 15.
The accounts from Mellina ^nd Calabria seem more
favourable than heretofore. The earthquakes decrease
daily, and the inhabitants are no more hindered to
repair their losses which they heretofore fuftaiued by
them.
STOCKHOLM, June 16.
A courier who arrived here from Firmland, has
brought the difagrceabie intelligence, that on the 12th
instant his Majesty had the misfortune to break his
left arm, by a fall from his horse, who was frightened
by the firing of cannon at Tawaftehus. The physici
ans have declared, that his Majesty will be able to
leave his room in nine days; and at the departure
of the courier from Tawaftehus, on the 13th, his
Majesty honoured the company with his presence at
dinner.
Extrafl of a letter from a gentlemax in 7'ranfylva
r.ia, to bis friend here, dated May 12.'
" As my business has kept me at Bukareft since the
goth of March last, 1 have not only seen the Turks
purchase a great number of horses, but have seen or
ders issued for each diftrid belonging to the Porte, to
procure a number of them as soon as possible. The
diftrids of Kampolonger and Rimnicker found twenty
elegant horses each. In the great and little Wallachia
all the labourers or Szarahvies are employed in forti
fying Orfhova. A great number of teams have been
lent to Constantinople from this province."
B R E S T, June 17.
At four o'clock this afternoon we had the pleasure
of feeing the arffial of the Marquis de Vaudreuil,
with his squadron, in this harbour. The (hips, under
his command, are, Northumberland, Brave, Duke of
Bourgogne, Neptune, Citoyen, Pluto, Hercules, one
frigate, and a final! armed vessel. On board of these
ships were the regiments of Bourbonnois, Nantong,
and Royal Deux Ponts, who lately served in Ameri
ca, with a number of general officers, among which
were the Baron de Viominil, And Prince Broglio.
ELSI NE UR, September 5.,
The officers of the customs at Riga having de
manded of fix French Ships arrived there, the duty
for the timber they had on board, the French Con
sul refufed to pay it, alleging they were ships of war,
and in consequence exempted from all duties.
VIENN A, September 7.
Canteens are almost among the lalt military prepa
rations, and the troops are never furnished with them
till they are very near taking the field. Our tinmen
are all now at w@rk on them, which seems to indi
cate an approaching war.
ROME, September 26,
The great bell of St. Peter's Being broke to pieces,
in order to be new cad, the metal of it has been
weighed, and found to amount to 2i,2fl|b. and a
half; 4ocolb. of oftal is to be addled to it.
L O N D O N, September 19.
The accounts from Cadiz fay, that the Spanish
armament against Algiers had destroyed fix coilairs,
which had taken Shelter under the guns of the great
battery in that harbour, and that four row-gallies,
full of men, had been captured by the rear of the
Spanish fleet, on board of which was the nephew of
the present Dey, who died of his wounds two days
after the engagement.
Sept. 27. by the custom-house books of Belfaft it
appears, that from the 25th of January to the 3d of
June last, there were exported, by the merchants of
that town, to America and the Weft-Indies, 11,649
pieces, 310,672 yards of linen cloth.
There are 42,000 suits of clothing flipped from
Toulon, for the use of the Turkish army, There are
also in the above port 14 fail of the line, ready to
put to lea on the Shortest notice.
We also hear, that on the arrival of Don Solana,
he was put in confinement, for having misapplied for
ty-five millions of hard dollars ; and that all the fleet
which arrived from the Havanna, are sent to Ferol,
to be coppered. There are also kept in readiness
Bcoo men, to embark for Naples, at the shortest no
tice.
The mail from France, which arrived yesterday,
brings nothing new. The following account of the
experiment made at Versailles on the 19th instant,
upon the air balloon, or arcoftatic globe, we extract
from a private letter, dated Paris, September 20.
" Yesterday was tried, according to appointment,
the experiment of the arcoftatic globe. Yhe greatest
concourse of people assembled early, in the firlt court
of the palace at Versailles, A fire-pot was let off
to inform the Spectators of the time when the air was
about to be introduced into the globe; a second fire
pot announced its being filled up, which was done
under the direction of M. de Mongolfier, and lasted
about ten minutes; when a third fire-pot gave notice
of the cords which tied down the globe being cut off,
it instantly flew up in the air, and by its prodigious
size flruck every beholder with admiration. Toits
inferior part a wicker basket was faftened, containing
a sheep, a duck, and a cock. The elevation of the
globe efttoated at about 200 fathoms. By the im
pulse of a brill; south-west wind, it took its course
horizontally, which laded twenty-Even fecohds, when
it gradually declined towards the earth, and at last
fell in the sorest of Vaucreffon, at a place called
Carefour Marech^l, half a league distant from the
place of its departure. Mons Pilatre de Rozies was
the firft who arrived at the place, and found the bal
loon separated from the basket by some felled wood
that lay on the ground. The sheep was feeding^qui
etly, nor were the cock or duck any way hurt by the
serial exclusion. A barometer, which had been placed
above the basket, was overturned, but not in the least
fractured. If any further detail should appear on this
fubjed, you may exped to hear again from me."
Oft. 2. The following regiments, it is said, are
under immediate orders for Ireland, viz. the 6th,
loth, 13th, 16th, 21st, 26th, 47th, 48th, 51st, 61st,
65th, and the Gift battalion of Royals.
Government have wrote off to the Mavor of Wa
terford, directing him to prepare, with all expedition,
five complete houses for the reception of some Ge
noefe families, who are hourly expeded to arrive in
that kingdom, among whom is the virtuous, but long
fevering Mr. Melly, who Struggled so indtfatigably
in the cause of liberty, and whole miraculous escape
from confinement, has givca the sincerest pleasure to
every virtuous mind.
o^, 4. It is calculated at Lloyd's, that the mer
chants of London alone, have fuffered to the amount
of half a million Sterling by the evacuation of Geor
gia and Charleftown.
I he American Resident at Madrid complains much
to a friend in London, of the distant formality of
Spanish proceedings; hinting, at the fame time, that
the jealousies of that court, in confcquen.ee of the in
dependency of the new states, occasioned an extraor
dinary tardiness in complying with all tkwt comoacr
tol requifitioEs.
Phenomenon, &c. for the Philosophers,
Monday night, about 9 o'clock, a body of fi re or
some other luminous matter, took a horizontal direc
tion front north to south, across the firmament, and in
its transit, which seemed to continue about four se
conds, emitted light nearly as vivid as the rays of
the fun at noon-day ; it was not circular, but of a/i
^regular form, and had a tail something refembli^
a Kite, with vanned colons; die r^^op was fe
The French for some time past have been fending
oyer cloths to America of a fitperior manufacture, in
order, if possible, to engross a larger (hare of that
trade to themselves; this must furnish an hint to our
own dealers, not to injuiq the market, as has for
merly been the case, by fending a damaged and infe
rior commodity.' *
They write from Lisbon, that some brass cannon
were preparing to be feat as a present to the Dey of
Algiers.
Few orders have yet been received from South-Ca
rolina, where the animosity of the inhabitants towards
the mother country seems rather to have oncreafed
Since the peace than Subsided.„
Advices from Paris, dated September 30, state,
that the Comte de Vergennes has sent an official inti
mation, on the part of his Molt Christian Majesty, to
the ambafTadors of the United States, residing in Pa
ris, “ That his Majesty is ready to surrender to the
Republick all the poffeihons that his forces have re
conquered from the English, in the course of the late
war, without exacting any compensation or indemnity
whatever ; and his Majesty entreats their High Migh
tinesses to give the neceflary orders for receiving from
his officers the restitution of all the possessions coming
under the description alluded to."
September 26.
The policy of the french Cabinet must appear in a
foperior point of view, when the efferis of it, during
the last Seven years, are considered with 3 proper de
gree of attention. By the secret overtures made to the
Americans, at the beginning of the war, the French
Ministry effectually supported the contest, which mull
otherwise have been crushed at the cutfet. By their
subsequent assistance, and open declaration in their
favour, they almost exhausted the blood and treasure
of this country ; and by their influence in procuring
American Independence, they have fevered us from
a trad of dominions, more than ten times as large
as our original feat of empire; and what is still worse,
deprived us of more than three fourths of that trade
on which the present falration, and future welfare ol
the country, must depend. Add to this, they have
improved the discipline and Strength of their navy, tc
an higher degree than it had reached in the reign ol
Louis the Fourteenth; and in spite of the defeat and
disgrace they sustained on the 12th of April, they
have finished the war with such „ force, as added t^
that of Spain, left the House of Bourbon a decided
superiority over every other naval power in Europe
If we confider their conduC t refpeding the Dutch, we
Shall find they have found meant, to f&parate us from
an ancient ally, who was concerned with us in ftp
porting the protestant interest of Europe; have found
occasion to create a malignant enmity in that quarter,
and induced them to put their marine on so formidable
a footing, as ta excite constant jealousies and alarms
in this country. In the East-Indies they have fop
potted Hyder Ally and the Mahrattas, to the great
injury of the Company and the country at large; and
in Africa have deprived us of our most valuable'pof
feilions. If we add to all this, the concessions they
have obtained from us by the articles of the treaty,
we Shall be obliged to confefs, that they knew how
to take advantage from the mifconduC tof men, who
were wantonly Sacrificing the int^reft of this country,
and were too wife to mistake any opportunities of
triumph that were offered them.
Extract of a letter from Hamburgh, September 28.
" In the midst of the local tranquility we enjoy,
and the happiness of our citizens, in feeing their trade
flourish, the predictions of politicians, grounded on
the formidable preparations making on every fide,
come to disturb the momentary fatisfadion we en
joyed Since the return of peace. Every thing an
nounces, they fey, a general conflagration in Eu
rope."
Extract of a letter from Utrecht, September 25.
<c It is reported, that the Republiok of Venice has
concluded with the Empress of Russia a treaty offen
sive and defenfive, for 20 yeai&, according to which
the Venetians are to fit out ten Ships of the line, and
a proportionate number of frigates and gallics, which
are to join the Ruffian fquadious againik the Turks.
They add, that the republick of Venice engages her,
felf, moreover, by that treaty, to receive into her
ports the Ruffian Ships of war, and give them every
necessary assistance; and that the Empress of Russia
engages, on her fide, to put the Venetian, in pofleffi
on of Dalmatia, and all the inlands thereunto belong
ing. The little Republick of Ragufa, in the Gulph
of Venice, will alor&remain independent as before."