The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1784-11-22 00:00:00, page 3

ing compendium: The Halifax packet-boat is arrived
at London, in 28 days from New-York. By advices
received from Constantinople, it appears that an earth
quake had happened on the frontiers of Armenia, by
which a town has been entirely destroyed, with the loss
of about fix thousand inhabitants. A Bafhaw, attended
by a retinue of five hundred persons, happening to be
on the spot at the time, perished, and of his attendants
only eleven escaped. A fire broke out in Constantino
ple, which burnt twenty-fix hours, and raged with
such violence as to consume ten thousand houses. It
appears that Holland is now fallen into the hands of
the French, by means of the present prevailing faction.
The Emperor of Germany and the King of Prussia are
inimical to the views of Vcrfailles, so that a war is
looked upon as inevitable. The late unfuccefsful at
tempt upon Algiers, has exasperated the Algerines so
highly against the Spaniards and their allies, that when
ever they take any of their (hips, the unhappy people
on board are put to death without distinction. The
English American merchants are in high spirits on ac
count of the large remittances they have received from
America, accompanied with very extensive orders.—
The Westminster scrutiny still continues to creep on,
at a snail's pace ; the gentlemen of the law waste time
without remorse of conscience. In Ireland all is anar
chy and confufion ; a young man of the name of Dow
ling is committed to prison, on a charge of high trea
son, in publilhing a libel. This is the firft instance of
treason being difeovered in a libel since the bigotted
rule of James the Second.
Nov. 9. All Europe is at present in a state of com
motion. France has entered into a treaty of alliance
of the firifteft kind with Holland. Spain too, it is
supposed, will join the confederacy. Holland has of
fended the King of Prussia, and demurred to the claims
of the Emperor. The Emperor is at Luxembergh, on
the borders of France, with 25000 men ; and the King
of Prussia is reported to have marched with 40,000
men into the territories of the States General. De
fpatches are hourly passing between these two great
Potentates of Germany. British funds, in consequence,
have fallen one per cent, and probably will fall much
lower ; these appearances still continue to threaten the
tranquility of Europe, and revive the flames of war,
with its concomitant horrors, at a time when we fondly
hoped that peace would pervade the world.
Our last accounts from Europe mention, that the
Dutch are on the eve of a war with the Emperor, on
account of the navigation of the Scheld, to which they
declare he has no right, nor will they ever acquiesce
in such an unjust demand, be the consequence what it
will. Orders have been issued from the refpeftive of
fices that every preparation for war may be carried on
under their various departments with the utmost dis
patch. Deputations in particular are issued for in
fpedting, with accuracy and expedition, the frontiers
of the several provinces. The great Mound, to the
Unices of which they owed their last and molt illustri
ous deliverance from the French, engrosses their parti
cular attention, as notwithstanding their recent confe
deracy with their ancient and hereditary enemies, it
still promises an immediate and infallible relief from fo
reign invasion. Some of the knowing ones, however,
affect to put this evil day at a very great distance.—
They allege, the Emperor is too wife and humane to
embroil the empire for the fake of an object so trivial
as the revival of a navigation, so long obsolete, that
it seems at this time almost impracticable. Others, who
reason on what is molt probable, from the temper and
character chiefly concerned, form very opposite con
clusions. Meanwhile all is mysterious, doubt, suspen
sion of judgment, and apprehensions of the worst.
According to letters from Paris, the Cabinet appears
in a great bustle. The Duke de Chartres, who has been
appointed Governor to the Dauphin, has been fuper
ceded in that appointment, and is now preparing to go
on an important Embassy to the Court of Vienna. Ex
presses arrive almost daily from Holland, which give a
wretched account of the state of the land forces of that
Republick, which amount in the whole to only 35000
men, of which many are totally incapable of service.
Prince Henry of Prussia, since his arrival at Paris, has
been twice at Court, and had at each time private con
ferences with his Most Christian Majesty, with whose
Ministers he confers daily.
It is now without doubt the design of the Dutch to
annihilate, by degrees, the office of Stadtholder al
together, and to new model the government of the
States, unless fomc powerful interference from some
of their neighbours prevent it.
'' The schooner Navarre, Capt. Burrows, from your
port, arrived within fix miles of the town, and she
would have been permitted to land, and dispose of her
flour, had not, unfortunately for her owners, an ex
press arrived the fame day, with orders to Governor
Miro, from Madrid, via Pensacola, commanding him
not to permit any vessel whatever from any port in
North-America to enter the river Mississippi: The rea
son assigned for this prohibition is, that the plague had
Extract of a letter from a gentleman at Neou-Orleans,
dated July 27, 1784.
By accounts from France we learn, there appears a
determination in the cabinet of that country to lay
the foundation of a commercial and military conse
quence, which will throw the balance of the European
system decidedly into their hands, and this they flat
ter themselves is at no great distance. Every possible
retrenchment is going forward, and while other king
doms are convulsed with internal divisions, or terrified
with apprehensions of overhanging dangers, the utmost
harmony and unanimity prevails throughout their do
minions, and they are peaceably planning their ex
pected greatness.
RICHMOND (Virginia) Od. 30.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 9.
been brought in a (hip from Leghorn to Baltimore, in
September last, where it broke out, and from whence
it was communicated to all the sea-port towns in the
United States. Whether this is the true reason for
ordering Captain Burrows away, or not, I will not
undertake to assert; but I am inclined, for various
reasons, to thinly that it was not, and that no flour of
your country will be received here in future: Certain
however it is, that Governor Miro will not allow any
American vessel to enter the river, or fuffer any Ame
rican flour to be used here, until his present orders
from Court are countermanded."
November 13.
Extraß of a letter from a Gentleman at Fort Stan
<wix to his friend in this city, dated OR. 24, 1784.
" Yesterday peace was concluded to the very great
advantage of the United States, and also to the fa
tisfadion of all the Indians, between the commission
ers and the fix nations. Our business being fully fet
tled here, we shall set out from hence on Tuesday
next for Cayahoga; our route will be down the Sus
quehanna, as far as Harris's ferry, where we shall
take borfes and cross the country to Fort-Pitt."
TRENTON, November 22.
Friday last the Honourable the House of Assem
bly of this state ele&ed Benjamin Van-Cleve, Esq.
their Speaker, in the room of the Honourable Daniel
Hendrickson, Esq. resigned on account of bis ill state
of health.
Wednesday last the Honourable Henry Laurens set
out from this place on his way to Chaflefton, South-
Carolina.
At a Supreme Court holden here on Tuesday the
9th inst. Elijah Oakes was tried and convi&ed of a
rape. His execution is fixed for Friday the 3d of
December next.
John Smoke and Valentine Kuntz were severally
convi&ed of grand larceny, allowed their clergy, and
burnt in the hand.
Henry Wilson was convicted of forgery, and flood
in the pillory an hour.
Joseph Reed, Joseph Gardiner, William Henry,
(Lancaster) William Montgomery and Cadwalader
Morris, Esquires, were, the 16th inst. chosen by the
General Assembly of Pennsylvania to represent that
state in Congress lor the ensuing year.
Extrafl from the Journal of Proceedings of the
House of Commons of North-Carolina.
North-Carolina.
In the HOUSE of COMMONS, 2d June, 1784.
Refohed,
'HAT the Report of the Committee what Tax
X is proper to be laid be printed with the Laws,
that the people at large may know the sum required
for the Civil Lift.
Thomas Benbury, s. c.
By Order,
J. Hunt, c. H. c.
In the SENATE, 2 d June, ^B4.
Concurred with.
Richard Caswell, s. s.
B, Order,
J. Haywood, Clk.
'' It was yesterday reported, by some of the Cadle
runners, that it had been resolved in Council, to pre
vent, by force, the meeting of the national congress
in this city, the 25th of next month; and that pursu
ant thereto, a proclamation for that purpose would be
issued on Friday next. Should our Governors be so
devoid of understanding as to proceed to such a vio
lence, the next step must assuredly be a proclamation
for martial law ; the consequences of which proceed
ings would then indeed be dreadful."
By the Virginia Journal, we learn that a meeting is
proposed, at Mr. Lomax's, in Alexandria, on the 15th
inst. at 10 o'clock, A. M. of gentlemen of the states
of Virginia and Maryland, especially of those who
live contiguous to Patowmack, and wish to fee an at
tempt made to open and extend the navigation of that
river. The objeds of this meeting will be to form a
company, and determine on the propriety of prefer
ring a petition to their refpeclive aflemblies, praying
to be incorporated, and favoured with such immuni
ties, as to them may seem proper for such an under
taking.
A few days ago a gentleman, on his way in the stage,
from Frederickfburg to Richmond, was robbed of a
turn of money, amounting to upwards of 4000 dol
lars.
“ London has undergone a strange metamorphosis
since I left it, in 1767, in the way of improvement, as
well as the reverse ; improvement in the police, in ci
ty regulations, in superb buildings, in French mimick
ry, in hanging villains with more decency and so
lemnity, and far less bustle, &c. But every necessary
of life is double the old price—every day adds to the
burthen of taxes—and although John Angleterre mut
ters at his burthen over his porter, and pays his quo
ta in dudgeon, yet like Iffacher, he Hoops his shoul
ders to it, thanking God he lives in a free country,
and has a vote for a parliament man."
Extraßof a letter from Dublin, dated Sept. 8.
Extraß of a letter from London.
N. B. A good still and still-house, and half a cy
der-press and mill, conveniently situated, and in good
order—about forty cord of good tanners' bark; a
quantity of foal and upper leather ; calf and fheep
(kins, to be fold for calh or any just obligations against;
the fubferiber ; also about seventeen acres of cedar
fwamp.
November 15, 1784. gwf
THE Committee on the Tax-Bill report, That
it will be necessary to raise the following sums for the
support of the Civil Lift for the year 1784:
For the Governor, - - f. 1000
Governor's Secretary, - - 200
Council of State, - - 100
Secretary of State, - - 175
Comptroller, - - 800
First Clerk, - - 250
Two other Clerks, - - 306
The Judges each 70c!. - 2100
Attorney-General, - - 660
Three Delegates in Congress, including
time for travelling, - - 3360
Seven Treasurers, each 1001. - 700
Their extras, as hitherto allowed, - 700
Ten Boards of Auditors, suppose to fit
fkty days in this year, - - 2400
Commissioners for fettling the officers and
soldiers accounts, - - 120
Members of the Legislature, their Clerks,
and all expences, - - 15000
Stationary, &c. for the Comptrollers-Of
fice, - - - _ ico
The Publick Printer, - - 500
_ , £ 28,465
„1 en per cent, for collection and deficien
cies on this sum, - - 2,846 2
31,311 2
THE Committee further report, That it will be
necessary to raise, for sundry allowances granted this
year, the sum of eight thousand fix hundred and eigh
ty-eight pounds eighteen Killings, making in all, in
cluding the Civil Lift, the sum of forty thousand
pounds; to raise which sum, the committee recom
mend the following tax on lands and polls: On every
hundred acres of land two Killings ; which, on nine
teen million of acres, the supposed quantity in this
state, will raise 19,0001. on every poll fix drillings,
which, allowing there are 80,000 polls, will raise
24,0001. I hefe two sums together, fuppefieg no de
ficiencies, and that the calculations are just, will be
30001. more than the sum required, and will remain
for the after appropriation of the Legislature.
I he Committee further report, That it will be ne
cessary to levy a like tax of forty three thousand
pounds, to form a finking fund for the state dollar
bills, soldiers bounty certificates, specie certificates,
and currency certificates; and for this purpose they
recommend a like tax of two shillings. on every hun
dred acres of land, and fix shillings on every poll.
I he Committee remark, That they have compre
hended, in their calculations, the property in towns,
to be valued according to the method of afTefTment
pointed out by an aft of the present Legislature ; but,
that there should not be any doubts on this head, they
have been explicit in the amendment which they offer
to the bill.
In the House of Commons, 2d June, 1784.
Read and concurred with.
Thomas Benbury, s. c.
By Order,
J. Hunt, c. H. c.
In the Senate, 2d June, 1784.
Read and concurred with.
Richard Caswell, s. s.
By Order,
J. Haywood, Clk.
Extract of a letter from Kingston, dated Jamaica,
Sept. 25, 1784.
" A (loop arrived at Montego Bay on Monday the
13th instant, from the Grand Caymanas, with an ac
count of a dreadful hurricane happening there on the
morning of the 31st July, which blew down all the
houses upon that island, except Mr. Edens, which
was only unroofed, and has totally destroyed the pro
visions."
For a term of years,
A House, lots and tan-yard, barn and stables, fitu
' 1 ate at the Blackhorfe, in Mansfield township,
Burlington county: The house is thirty-fix feet by
eighteen, two stories high, two rooms on the lower
floor, and four above, a good cellar under the whole ;
a good kitchen, a final! brick-house adjoining the
fame, suitable for a tradesman or small family; a pump
of good water at the door. The tan-yard is situate
about one hundred yards from the house—there is a
mill-house, bark-mill, two bark-houses, cue forty feet
by eighteen, with an entry twelve feet wide; the
other is twenty-three feet square—there are vats {ef
ficient to hold three hundred hides, with a pump of
good water fufficient to supply the yard :—The whole'
will be rented together or separate. For further par
ticulars, apply to the fubferiber on the premises.
TO BE LE T,
Edward Thomas.