The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1784-05-24 00:00:00, page 3

By the KIN G.
A PROCLAMATION,
For dissolving this present Parliament, and declaring
the calling of another.
GEORGE R.
Whereas we have thought fit, by and with the
advice of our Privy Council, to dissolve this present
parliament, which now stands prorogued, to Tuesday
the 6th day of April next: We do for that end,
publish this our Royal Proclamation, and do hereby
dissolve the said parliament accordingly: And the
Lords Spiritual, Temporal, and the Knights, Citizens,
and Burgesses, and the Commissioners for Shires and
Burghs, of the House of Commons, are discharged
from their meeting and attendance on Tuesday the
said sixth day of April next. And we being desirous
and resolved, as soon as may be, to meet our people,
and to have their advice in parliament, do hereby
make known to all our loving fubjeds, our royal will
and pleasure to call a new parliament : And do hereby
further declare, that, with the advice of our Privy
Council, we have, this day, given order to our
Chancellor of Great-Britain to issue out writs in due
form, for calling a new Parliament; which writs are
to bear the tefte on Friday the 26th instant March,
and to be returnable on Tuesday the 18th day of
May following.
Given at our court at the Queen's House, the
.25th day of March, 1784. in the 24th year
of our reign.
The Man of Wefminfer has met with some very
cutting retorts in the course of his peregrinations
among the voters. —One shopkeeper had the assurance
to tell him, that he would give bis vote to a more
bonefl man!
March 27. They write from Berlin, that the
Prussian Minister at the Hague is inftruded to op
pose the treaty between France and Holland, which
is certainly in agitation, and it is well known the
influence of His Prussian Majesty is much too power
ful to be slightly treated on this occalion.
Extras of a letter from a gentleman in London,
to bis friend in Boston, dated March \oth, 1784.
“ Unfortunately the blelling of peace was no sooner
restored to us abroad, than more serious disturbances
began to make their appearance at home. Mr. Fox's
attempt to pass a bill that deprived the East-India
Company of their charter, has thrown him and his
co-adjutors out of office, and thrown the whole nation
into a rage and confufion that it has not experienced
since the abdication of James lid. fhis bill met
with the warmest approbation of the Prince of Wales,
parted the House of Commons, with a large majority ;
but being deserted by the King, (by reason of secret
influence) was thrown out by the Loras, although
the Prince himfelf gave his vote in its favour. Ihe
House of Commons obstinately refufe to do business
under the new ministry, and the King supported by
the House of Lords, as obstinately perlifts in his right
of appointing his own servants; lo that the publick
affairs of the nation have for a long time been totally
at a stand. Parliament continue their session, but
they meet only to quarrel. Impeachments of the
firft characters have been talked of with the utmost
acrimony and freedom. Jealousies run high between
the King and the Heir apparent, and a reconciliation
appears every way more difficult. The present situa
tion of publick affairs portends most direful confe
quences—Publick credit is low and daily diminishing.
To your Rates the eyes of the peaceful inhabitants
of this devoted country are directed as an asylum
from civil diffentions. Thousands are now preparing
to embark, and many more will soon follow them to
your peaceful shores."
Extract of a letter from London, dated March 6.
" Our present political disputants, 1 fear, will con
vulse the state to its foundation, and bring this un
happy kingdom, already deprefied with the most mor-
Then the Earl of Mansfield, Lord Chief-Juftice of
the court of King's bench, Speaker of the House
of Lords, by His Majesty's command, said:
“ My Lords and Gentlemen,
" It is His Majesty's royal will and pleasure, that
this parliament be prorogued to Tuesday, the sixth
day of April next, to be then here holden; and this
parliament is accordingly prorogued to Tuesday the
sixth day of April next."
session of parliament; I feel it a duty which I owe to
the constitution and to the country in such a situation,
to recur as speedily as possible to the fcnfe of my peo
ple by calling a new parliament.
" 1 trust that this measure will tend to obviate the
mifchicfs arising from the unhappy divisions and dif
tradions which have lately fubhtted ; and that the va
rious important objects which will require considera
tion, may be afterwards proceeded upon with less in
terruption and with happier effect.
" I can have no other object, but to preserve the
true principles of our free and happy constitution, and
to employ the power, entrusted to me by law, for
the only end for which they were given, the good of
my people."
tifying defeats which it has experienced for feyen
years past, on the verge of perdition, unless they co
alesce, and that soon, to heal the wounds of this dif
traded country —torn with internal convulsions, more
to be dreaded than hostility with all the powers we
were lately contending with. My propensity for Ame
rica is so great, that was I not in the evening of life,
I would seek an asylum in America, hoping from our
example, you will avoid the rock we have split upon."
March 14. Late accounts from Europe fay, that
the Dean of Gloucester gave it as his opinion, " That
by the great innovations now attempting to be intro
duced into the constitution, the Britilh empire will be
as surely overturned, and as truly set to sale to the
highest bidder, within the walls of the house of com
mons, as the Roman empire was by the Presetorian
guards, during the declenlion of that unwieldy, fall
ing state."
The Hoop Tyger, Captain Smith, arrived at Phi
ladelphia the 6th inst from St. Thomas's. On the
16th April, in latitude 34, 2,0, longitude 69, 30,
Captain Smith fell in with tie wreck of an herma
phrodite brig, Virginia built, with a cockpit, white
bottom and black lides; nothing Handing except the
mainraaft—the gunwales Hove in fore and aft, the
deck all under water, and no people on board. He
supposed her from the continent, as Ilie was clean, and
shingles floating around.
May 19. We hear that the brig Marquis, Capt.
Conklin, which failed from New-London for Ireland,
in January last, after being at sea a few days, sprung
a leak, and foundered; the people were laved by a
French man of war, and carried to France.
May 20. The Honourable William Ellery, David
Howell, Henry Marchant and John Brown, Efquiies,
are elected Delegates to repre^nt the Hate of Rhode-
Bland in the Congress of the United States.
On the 4th instant, the lloop Lydia, Capt. Lathrop,
arrived at New-London from Demarara, which he
left the 28th March; when be failed, the schooner
this port, was in that river;
Capt. Lathrop touched at Statia, and left there, the
sth of April, the brig America, Capt. Hedges, from
the east end of Long-lfland, a whaleman, with 90
barrels of oil; on the 29th of April, in lat. 36. 38.
W. about 28 leagues E. S. E of Cape Henry, he
spoke Capt. Wenn, in a brig from Boston, bound to
North-Carolina; fame day, lat. 36. 50. said Cape,
bearing W. half N. about 27 leagues, spoke the brig
Iris, Capt. Douglas, from London, bound to Virginia,
out 5 weeks.
PHILADELPH I A, May 19.
On Monday night last fix or eight villains broke
the gaol of this city; but next day one or two of
them were taken.
His Excellency the President and Council have is
sued their proclamation, offering a reward of Three
Hundred Pounds, for difeovering the villains who on
Wednesday evening last robbed Mrs. Houston and
Mr. Learning, in Penn-street, so that the perpetrators
may be brought to justice: And also a full pardon to
either of them on giving information of his accom
plices, so that they may be convi&ed.
TRrirfoifMAY 24.
Extract of a letter from a gmtieman of dijiin-iion at
Annapolis, dated Nay 10, 1784.
" The illiberal policy of Great-Britain in adopting
an exclusive, monopolizing plan of trade, with her
Wert-India islands, has been no less a fubjed of com
plaint among the islanders thin the citizens of these
states: could it however have been conceived, that a
measure so unequal and so little calculated to pro
mote mercantile intercourse, would have been perse
vered in by that nation, ever to a system ; it ought
and would, at an earlier period, have called forth the
indignation of a free people, to check, by retaliation,
those reftridtions on her trade, which, if followed by
other nations, would eventually annihilate it. —It will
certainly be admitted, that Congress must be veiled
with powers competent to the protection of commerce,
or the United States can never command reciprocal ad
vantages in trade ; and unless they are regarded by
foreign powers as an entire, united nation, conducting
their commerce jointly and fairly, on principles of
exaCt reciprocity with all nations, I fear Great-Britain
will not be led to make extensive concessions ; but
buoyed up with the profpedof disunion in our coun
cils, and a want of power and energy in our execu
tive departments, the will not be apprehensive of re
taliation, arid we thereby loft her principal motive
to liberality: And how degrading must our situation
then be, when we are viewed by all Europe (and in
this point of view flic willies to lee us) only as the un
important consumers of her manufactures and produc
tions, and as ufeful labourers to furnilh her with raw
materials. Hence it seems to become necessary, that
the States ihould be explicit, and adopt fume effec
tual mode, by which foreign commerce, which does
not secure equal advantages, may be reltrainedu It is
for this purpose that Congress have agreed to recom
mend the following measures, which are so simple, so
unexceptionable, and yet so effective, that I trust the
States will not helitate to comply with them.
" Refolded, That it be, and it hereby is recom
mended to the Legiflaturcs of the several states, to
vest the United States in Congress assembled, for the
term of fifteen years, with power to prohibit any goods,
THREE POUNDS
R E W A R D.
RAN away last night from the fubferiber in Not
tingham townfllip, Burlington county, an in
dented huh servant man, named William Blair, about
20 years of age, 5 feet 7 or 8 inches high, pretty
much marked with the small-pox, black eyes, black
curled hair, full-faced and well-set; a weaver by
trade: Had on when he went away, a new Russia
sheeting fhiit, old oznabrigs trowfers, linen jacket,
old grey coat, old pair of ihoes, and felt hat half
worn : Whoever takes up said servant, and secures
him, lo that his master may get him again, shall have
the above reward, and all reasonable charges paid by
JAMES COALMAN.
May 21, 2784. 2 w^
" Rejoined, That it be, and it hereby is, recom
mended to the Legislatures of the several States, to
vest the United States in Congress assembled, for the
term of fifteen years, with the power of prohibiting
the fubjeCts of any foreign state, kingdom or empire,
unless authorized by treaty, from importing into the
United States any goods, wares or merchandize, which
arc not the produce or manufacture of the dominions
of the sovereign whose fubjeCts they are.
" Provided, That to all ads of the United States
in Congress assembled, in pursuance of the above pow
ers, the assent of nine States shill be necessary."
Collins & Ewin^
Have for sale, at their store opposite Mr. 1 ticker's
in Trenton, a general assortment of European, East
and Weft-india goods, which they hope to con
vince those who will be so kind as to call on them,
that they are determined to fell on the lowest terms,
for cash or country produce ; among other at tides
they have
JAMAICA spirits,
J Weft-india and New-
England rum,
Teneriffe and Malaga
wine,
Molasses,
Sugars of all kinds,
Tea, coffee and chocolate,
Spices of various kinds,
Indigo,
Alum,
Brimstone and copperas,
Linseed oil and tar,
Glass and china ware,
Queens ware in crates,
well assorted,
Sagathie,
Camblets and camblettees,
Moreens,
Calimancoes,
Shalloons,
Durants,
Everlasting,
Jeans and fuftian,
Nankeens,
Dutch cord,
Russia drilling,
Russia and iriih sheeting,
hilh and other linens,
Fine French chintzes,
Calicoes and cottons,
Mens' and womens' cot
ton and thread Hock
ings,
Bristol shoes,
India taffety,
Sattin, peeking and mode,
Barcelona and other silk
handkerchiefs,
Linen do.
Sowing silk,
Taylors' and Scotch
threads,
An assortment of shoe,
knee and flock-buckles,
sleeve-buttons, fnuff-
wares or merchandize, from being imported into, or
exported from any of the States, in vessels belonging
to, or navigated by, the fubjeCts of any power with
whom these States shall not have formed treaties of
commerce.
Has for sale, next door to Stacy Potts's in Trenton,
the following articles, viz.
BRASS knob, ringhandle, flock, chert, cupboard,
drawer, profped and pad locks; ringhandle, knob,
and common thumb latches; butt, chert, card-table,
H. and HL. hinges; black, bright and screw augers,
tap-borers, gimblets, gouge and centre-bits, chisels,
gouges, squares, compasses, chalk, chalk-lines, faih
pullies and cords, carpenters' hammers, jack, trying,
and smoothing planes, hand, tenant and sash saws and
sets, mill saw, bastard, and fine cut files, cross-cut,
hand, and panned do. different kinds of rules, draw
ing-knives, plane-irons, currying-knives, coffin and
other screws, tacks, a variety of sprigs and trunk
nails, bed screws, marking irons, lead pencils, Turkey
hones, cartors, sash knobs, drawer rings, some shoema
kers hammers and land stones, with sundry other ar
tides. 4wt
Isaac Barnes
boxes, mohair and me
tal buttons,
Knives, razors and scis
sors,
Beaver, caftor, felt and
chip hats,
Leather breeches and
skins,
An elegant lady's hunting
faddie,
Brass kettles,
Copper tea-kettles,
Pewter mugs and cans,
Bd. rod. and zed. nails
and sprigs,
Iron shovels and spades,
Frying-pans,
Englilh feythes,
Window glass,
Knives and forks,
Steel-plate, hand, tenant
and sash saws,
Plane-irons and augers,
Morticeing, heading and
firmer chisels,
Spike and common gim
blets,
H. and HL. Hinges,
Butt hinges,
Coffin and other screws,
Tea-table locks,
Chert, cupboard and pad
locks,
Coffee-mills,
Iron candlesticks,
Flat-irons,
Half round, flat, three
square, mill, cross-cut
and hand-saw files,
Wool cards,
Powder and shot,
Chalk,
Shoemakers' hammers,
nippers, pincers, knives,
tacks, awl-hafts and
blades.