The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1783-12-23 00:00:00, page 2

Chintzes and calicoes of various patterns, whole
pieces as well as for gowns; likewise white cali
coes, handkerchiefs, &c.
Russia duck.
Ravens duck.
Flaams.
Cables.
Cordage.
Anchors ; and in fliort, every requisite for fitting out
ships.
All forts of goods the Danish and Swedifli East-India
companies import from thence and China, of which
the chief articles are tea arid laltpetre,
Ilartz lead, which always comes cheaper than the
English ; fmall-lhot, tin, tin-plate, steel, iron af
lorted, scythes, and every kind of coarse iron ware,
nails, needles, iron wire, brass wire, &c.
Paper of every kind, such as writing paper, coloured,
gilt and silvered paper, paper for tapestry, &c.
All forts of Bohemian and other German glafl'es for
windows, looking-glades, bottles, decanters, wine
and beer glades, &c.
German earthen-ware, china, &c.
Russia mats; and in ihort, all Ruffian products.
Rhenifli wine.
Refined sugars.
All forts of haberdashery ware, which are made very
good and cheap in Germany.
Toys of every kind, besides many more articles too
prolix to be fpecifed.
L ONDO N.
Preliminary Articles of Peace between bis Majesty
the King of Great-Bretain, and their High Migh
tinesses the States General of the United Provinces.
In the Name of the Mofl Holy Trinity.
TH E King of Great-Britain and the States Ge
neral of the United Provinces, animated by a
delire to put an end to the calamities of war, have au
thorized their refpe&ive Plenipotentiary Ministers, to
sign a declaration between them for the suspension of
hostilities ; and being willing to re-eftablilh between
the two nations union and good understanding, so
necessary both for the good of humanity in general,
and for that of the States General and their refpedive
fubje&s, have appointed for this purpose, viz. on the
pert of his Britannick Majesty, the mod illustrious
his Excellency George Duke of Manchester, his
AmbafTador extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to
His Most Christian Majesty ; and on the part of
their High M ; a L " uc ^ s the laid States General their
Excellencies Mathieu L'Eftevenon de BerUrr^
and Gerard Brantfen, their ambattadors Extraordi
nary and Plenipotentiary.
Who having duly communicated their full powers
in form, have agreed upon the following preiimina
rics :
Article I. As firm as the Preliminaries fliall be
signed and ratified, sincere and constant friendship shall
be established between his Btitannick Majesty, his
estates and fubjeds, and their High Mightinesses the
States General of the United Provinces, their estates
and fubje&s, of whatever quality or condition, with
out exception of place or person ; so as that their high
parties contracting shall pay the greatest attention to
maintain between them, and their states and fubje&s,
this amity and reciprocal correspondence, without
hereafter permitting, that on the part of the one,
or the other, any hostilities be committed by sea
.or land, under any pollible pretext or cause ; and they
ffiall avoid carefully every thing which may alter the
.union so happily re-eftabliflied, being assiduous, on the
contrary, to procure reciprocally, on every occasion,
such means as may contribute to their glory, interests,
and mutual advantages, without giving any fuccour
or protection, ditedly or indirectly, to thole who do
any prejudice to the one or the other of the high con
trading parties. There shall be a general oblivion
of all things committed or done since the commence
ment of the war, which is about to be finilhed.
Art. 11. With regard to the honour and the salute
by sea, given by the vessels belonging to the Repub
lick to those belonging to his Britannick Majesty;
they Ihall be continued refpedively in the fame man
ner as was praCtifed before the commencement of the
war, which is about to he finilhed.
Art. 111. All the prisoners taken on either part,
both by land and sea, and the hostages appointed or
given during the war, and to this day, shall be re
stored without ransom within fix months or more,
reckoning from the day of the exchange of the rati
fication of the Preliminary Articles; each power de
fraying the eXpences which shall be incurred for the
subsistence of the prisoners, by the Sovereign of the
country where they may be detained, according to
the receipts and other authentick titles which fliall be
produced by one or other part; and surety shall be
given reciprocally for the payment of the debts which
the prisoners shall have contrasted in the states where
they have been detained until the recovery of their
liberty^ and all vessels, whether of war or commerce,
taken after the expiration of the terms agreed on for
the cessation of hostilities, shall be likewise restored,
with all their crews and cargoes, and they fliall pro
ceed to the execution of this article immediately after
the exchange of the ratification of the Preliminary
Treaty.
Art. IV. The States General of the United
Provinces yield and guarantee to his Britannick Ma
jesty the town of Negapatnam, with its dependencies ;
but feeing the importance which the States General
attach, to the poffeliion of the said town, the King of
Great-Britain, as a mark of his good will towards
the States, promises, notwithstanding the cession of
the place, to receive and treat with them for the res
titution of the said place, in case tire states shall have
an equivalent to offer.
Art. V. The King of Great-Britain shall restore
to the States General of the United Provinces Trin
comale, with all the other towns, forts, harbours,
and establishments, which in the course of the present
war h: ve been conquered in any part of the world,
whether by the arms of his Britannick Majesty, or
those of the English Eaiblndia Company, and of
which they fliall be poffefTed in the entire state in
which they found them.
Art. VI. The States General of the United
Provinces promise and engage not to molest the navi
gation of the Britannick fubjeds in the eastern seas.
Art. Vil. As there are differences between the
English African Company and the Dutch East-India
Company, relative to navigation on the coast of Afri
ca, as well as concerning Cape Apollonia; in order
to prevent all cause of complaint between the fubje&
of the two nations on those coatts, it is agreed on both
sides to name commissioners, who fliall make the pro
per arrangements.
Art. VIII. All countries and territories, which
may have been conquered, or may be conquered in
any part of the world whatever, by the arms of hie
Britannick Majesty, or the States General, which are
not comprehended in these articles, on account of
ceflion or restitution, shall be restored without diffi
culty, and without a demand of cornpenfation.
Art. IX. As it is necessary to assign a fixed epoch
for the restitutions and evacuations to be made, it is
agreed, that the King of Great-Britain shall cause to
evacuate Trincomale, as well as all the towns, places,
and territories, of which his armies have taken pos
session, and of which he is in possession (excepting
that which is yielded by these articles to his Britan
nick Majesty) at the fame time that the restitutions
and evacuations are made between Great-Britain and
France. 'lhe States General fliall restore at the fame
time ull *^ ~— — ^4 ,p rr ;, v rf Q vr wm^n tucy nave
taken pofTeflion from the English in the Ealt-lndies,
in consequence of which the necessary orders fliall
be sent by ecch of the contrading parties, with reci
procal palTports for the ships, which are to carry them
immediately after the ratification of these Preliminary
.Articles.
Art. X. His Britannick Majesty, and their High
Mightinefes the said States General, promise to ob
serve sincerely and in good faith, all the articles con
tained in, and established by the present Preliminary
Treaty; and they shall not fuffer any contravention,
direst or indirect by tl.eir fubjeds; and the above
mentioned high contracting parties do guarantee, ge
nerally and separately, all the Stipulations of the pre
sent articles.
Art. XI. The ratifications of the present Prelimi
nary articles, expedited in due and good from, Ihall
be exchanged in this city of Paris between the high
contrading parties, in the space of a month, or sooner,
if it can be done, reckoning from the day of signa
ture of the present articles.
In faith whereof, we the undersigned, their Am
bassadors and Plenipotentiaries, have signed our hands,
in their name, and in virtue of our full powers, to
the present Preliminary articles, and have appended
cur seals.
Done at Faris, the 2d day of September, 1783.
Signed (L. S.) Manchester.
(L. S.) L'Estevenon Van
Berkenrode.
(L. S.) Brantsen.
NAPLES, August 16.
A considerable part of the summit of Vesuvius has
fallen into the mouth of the volcano, which, since the
18th of last month, is of a very great depth. This
enormous mass, which was the brim or border of the
crater, and which it was thought would have partly
filled it up, has only funk it the deeper. Two holes
are formed in the bottom, from whence there issued
fire for some hours, which is since replaced by a thick
fmoak which still continues.
The 13th of this month we celebrated the anni
versary of the Queen's birth-day, who then entered
the 32d year of her age. On that occasion her Ma
jesty married 32 young women, to each of whom (he
gave a marriage portion of 50 ducats; she also gave
considerable aims; among the rest, 400 Q ducats were
Extras of a letter from Amferdam.
" Another loan to the American states is a topic
of much conversation here; and, if negociated, it is
expected it will be conditionally, that the fubje&s of
Holland shall have the privilege of fending a greater
number of ships to America than any other people."
A letter from a capital merchant at Amfterdani
fays, that people who have invested their property
in the Dutch East-India Company, are exceedingly
alarmed on account of their securities being rendered
very precarious by the state of the company's affairs,
which are in such a situation as to induce a strong
apprehension of a speedy dissolution.
Extract of a ferre? fiurre ^^in^ocrgb, Sept. go.
" Ihe Hon. Henry Erskine, Lord Advocate for
Scotland, received by Saturday's post, from the Se
cretary of state for the northern department, the de
finitive treaties with France and Spain, and the
preliminary articles with Holland. The two former
do not differ very materially from the preliminary
articles with those kingdoms, except that in the trea
ty with France, the articles concerning the enclosing
a part of the country in the neighbourhood of Chan
denagore, in the Eaft-Indiec, is particularly explained,
so as to prevent the idea being entertained, that by
that article any fortifications were to be allowed to
be ereded, nothing further being thereby meant than
a ditch enclosure filled with water. In the treat,
with Spain, the article regarding the cutting of
logwood, is likewise more particularly explained than
in the preliminary articles, and the boundaries where
such an allowance is granted, accurately and diftinft
ly pointed out by certain rivers. New arrangements
with regard to trade are to be agreed upon, both
with France and Spain, within the space of two years,
to be computed from theist of January, 1784."
LONDO N, September 13.
We may be very thankful to Divine Providence,
that this island has not been visited with the dreadful
calamities that, with the most frightful convulsions
of nature, have desolated the oriental islands of For
mosa, China, Sicily and Calabria. It is beyond a
doubt, that the globe has undergone some mighty
change, the effeds of which are felt from the Indian
ocean to the frozen seas of Iceland ; nor is this ccn
jedure wholly built on what has so recently happened
at the above-mentioned places. A phenomenon, of
whose existence there cannot be the least doubt, in the
parish town of Caßleton, in the High Peak of Derby,
proves almost to a demonstration, that the poles or
axle of the e^rth have been changed. The fad is as
follows : Caftleton is situated at the North fide of a
very deep mountain, the shadow of which covers a
great part of the town in the winter season, so that
some of the inhabitants there have no sunshine for
seven, eight, nine, or ten reeks, more or left, as they
are nearer or more distant from the mountain. It is
asserted by many ancient persons, inhabitants of these
houses, that the sunshine now enters there houses se
veral days sooner fter the Shorted day in the year,
than what it did fifteen years since; that there is also
a certain close or meadow, not far from the foot of
the mountain, nearly level, which they remember was
overshadowed, and for several yards beyond it, to the
Northwards in the shortest days, at noon; now, at
the fame hour end season, the said close or meadow
is never wholly shaded.
Sept. 1^ h n ° w appears that some commercial
regulations are to be adjusted between this country
and America; the fad is, that we have been obliged
to yield in this particular; for the Americans would
not treat with us on any other footing than that of
reciprocity. All claims of exciufive benefits, have
therefore been waved, and we are compelled to make
the best regulations we can. If a tolerable share of
the American trade fliould fall to our lot, it will be
fortunate, considering the number of rivals whose
commercial interests induce them to oppose our efforts.
PARI S, August 17.
We have just sent to the Americans (by a corvette)
the sum of four millions. The want of money in that
new Republick seems to incline some factious persons
there to a revolt and civil war; but it is hoped these
fuccours will ftifle it in the bud, and remove all pre
tences for mifchief.
From the Dublin Evening-Post, September 23.
“ If we may judge of the future from the past
resolves of Provincial Assemblies, the meeting of
Ballinaflce will be important to posterity. The lite
rary elegance and spirit breathing in Connaught Con
ventions are already in high esteem with the patriots
and literati of the times. Dungannon has chalked
out the line to be pursued. Ballinflce has already
sacredly followed that great original of national sal
vation, and Odober will convince all Ireland, that
unanimous independence will charaderife the concur
ring wishes of a kingdom determined to be free."
distributed among the unfortunate inhabitants of the
two Calabrias.