The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1784-02-24 00:00:00, page 2

It has been notified to all the merchants, by order
of the Emperor, that the Sieur de Beelen has, by
him, been lent to Philadelphia, as Councillor of Com
merce, in order to treat with the Americans ; and all
who have dealings in that part of the world, are or
dered to apply to the laid dieur de Beelen.
state against an individual ; nay, whenever the pro
bability of recovering against a defendant is as great as
it is in the present case, they ought, in justice to them
selves, to insist upon it—l fay, as it is in the present
case, because, though I will not in opinion absolutely
judge or condemn any man without a fair trial, yet we
may adduce probabilities of a verdiCt in favour of the
state, from what we know of this man's conduct re
fpeding the premises. And I think whoever confi
ders his fuffering the money to fall into the hands of
the enemy by ridiculously hovering with it about their
lines, when he might so easily have saved it by trans
porting it and himfclf across the Delaware, which is
within a mile of his house; and his invention of the
sickness of his family as his inducement to return into
the Britith camp, of which 1 will undertake to prove
the falfehood by his family itfclf—whoever, 1 fay,
confiders these matters, not to mention many others
equally evincive of his culpability, cannot doubt but
the state has probable grounds for a fuccefstul trial
against him. Indeed, was there no other prelumption
of his mifeondud, at least in point of negligence, his
extreme aversion to a legal trial, and the perpetual
display of his lingular oratory in the Assembly, of
which he happens to be a member, to avert it, must
naturally increase the suspicion. Tor why should a
man, who is confeious of his innocence, be under fitch
excessive terror from an impartial enquiry into this
condud by a jury of his country? Rather, why should
not an innocent man, or a man of the least delicacy,
earnestly desire the only legal mode of decision that
can constitutionally acquit him; that can effectually
illustrate his innocence, vindicate his character, fatisfy
the publick, and completely prevent the further ope
rations of that suspicion which will otherwise eternal
ly rest upon his reputation ?
It is therefore ardently wished by all lovers of jus
tice and friends to their country, that the good peo
ple of this state would inftrud their reprelentatives,
before we lose the evidence necessary to convid him
of the negligence which is imputed to him, to direct
that this gentleman be brought to an impartial trial
for the money. If he is really faultlefs, 1 sincerely
hope that he may be honourably acquitted. If he is
legally culpable, the sum in question will be some al
leviation to us in the payment of our taxes; and he
will certainly have the less reason to complain of an
impartial trial by his peers as a delinquent treasurer,
considering his own most patriot prosecution, if not
persecution of our late treasurer, who every body
knows is az r bonef man.
S C I P I O.
Advices from Hamburgh, by the last mail, declare,
that a Bank on a new plan was eroding at Berlin.—
The different effects of plenty and scarcity of money
have not escaped the penetrating genius of the Sove
reign of Prullia. Money is not so plentifil in his do
minions, as to make it necessary to withdraw a quan
tity by heaping up treasure. This Monarch indeed
always retains in his treasury fix or seven millions
fterlir.g for answering unforefeen demands ; but being
sensible that the withdrawing from circulation any
large sum would be prejudicial to commerce, every far
thing saved from the necessary expence of government
is laid out upon buildings, upon operas; in short, up
on any thing rather than cramp circulation. In his
Prussian Majesty's metropolis, therefore, a bank esta
blished for lending money must promote industry and
manufactures in an eminent degree.
Letters from Vienna mention, that tince the late a&
of toleration in the Emperor's dominions the Protes
tant religion has been embraced by great numbers of
his fubjeds. Even the Roman Catholick priests are
often present at Protestant sermons.
A letter from Copenhagen fays, that a house is fit
ting up in that city for a gentleman who is shortly ex
pected there from America, in order to reside in the
quality of an Ambassador from the United States,
who is to fettle a treaty of commerce and amity with
that Court.
Of all the French commanders, not one has shown
more determined bravery than M. Suffrein. In the
engagement where his (hip received so much damage,
|:ta flic funk going into Trincomale, bis courage al
WEST-RUSSI A, October 17.
Mde Lindonowflei, the Prussian resident, quit
• ted Dantzick yesterday evening; and at ten
o'clock this morning, the Ruffian troops tock posses
sion of the suburbs of that city, without opposition.
V I E N N A, September 13.
LONDON, November 3.
Foreign Intelligence.
most drove him into a phrenfy ; it being well authen
ticated, that some of his officers, thinking it impossi
ble to carry the ship out of the line of battle, begun
a murmur about striking, on which Suffrein instantly
seized a lighted match, and making towards the pow
der-room, declared that no enemy should capture him,
and therefore they had no alternative to choose, but
either to attempt carrying the ship into port, or be
blown up in her. By this threat he preserved him
felf and crew from being made prisoners, though it
proved afterwards impoflible to save the ship.
It is certain, that Dr. Franklin has in a particular
manner recommended it to Congress, to suppress gam
ing throughout all the domains of the United States
of America.
Nov. id. The Parliament is now met. No set of
Ministers ever had so much indulgence from the pub
lick. I here is not as yet the shadow of opposition in
either house. Every thing is left to the management
of those whose poffeflions have long been handed to
the people in every vehicle.
.The speech was cautiously worded, but affords no
great specimen of ministerial openness ; for that fub
jeCt, which seems of all others to engross the atten
tion of all men, viz. Ireland, is not so much as hint
ed at.
An evening paper fays, we are well informed that
Lord John Cavendish will certainly resign his office of
Chancellor of the Exchequer on or before Christmas
recess ; and that an arrangement, including Mr. Pitt
and Lord Temple, will be brought about by the re
treat of Lord North, with his pension of 40001. per
annum.
Extras of a letter from Shields, November 12.
46 I am extremely happy to inform you of the arri
val, last night, of his Majesty's sloop Kite, commanded
by Lieutenant Gunter, which we had given up for
loft, some time back. She is greatly damaged, and
her fhip's company has experienced every hardship
that is possible to imagine, having been out in one of
the most severe, and at the fame time longest gales of
wind that ever was remembered by the oldelt seaman
on this coast. She is without masts, bowsprit, fails,
and anchors, and had not even a boat on board (they
being Stove to pieces by the violence of the sea) to
When Washington's Circular Letter was read, a
few days lince, at a Coffee-Houfe not very distant
from the Royal Exchange, every hearer was full of
the writer's praises, the composition was said to be
equal to any thing of antient or modern date.
I here are (lays a correspondent) I believe, many
people who frequently read newspapers, without at
tending to the importance of the word N E W S, or
the idea it ought to furnifh us with. In the firft place,
as news comes from all quarters of the terraqueous
globe, so the very word itfelf clearly points out to us,
viz. N. North, E. East, W. Weft, S. South ; so that,
I believe, no language in the world can furnifh us with
a title more equally expressive. Again, when seriously
conlidered,it recommends to us the practice of the four
following virtues, viz. Nobleness in our thoughts,
Equity in our dealings, IVifdom in our conduct, and
Sobriety in our lives.
Though the French claim the honour of the new
invention of air-globes, there is little doubt but the
Englith will be the men to make a rational use of
them. Dr. Frieftlej is said already to have made
some collateral difeoveries on the fubjed, which will
excite greater altonifhment than the original invention
itlelf!
I he salary of Mr. Fox, as Secretary of State, is
ycool. a year, and he is allowed what he pleases to
draw for on the head of secret services.
Travellers lately returned from the Continent,
agree that in France the people are well fatisfied with
the peace, though they afciibe it to the magnanimity
of their prince, in being content with procuring li
berty to America, for which the grand Monarch be
gan the war.—ln Spain they stroke their whiskers,
and Italk quietly away whenever the war is mention
ed; but in Holland they splutter and frown, and are
ready to devour every Englishman they meet. In that
country, it is evident a prevalence for the French still
prevails, which is not likely to be changed during the
remembrance of the late hostilities.
Many of the Dutch merchants are deeply interested
in the new bank formed at Philadelphia, which seems
likely to be a capital institution ; and we hear they are
going to lend Congress a sum of money for the use of
the dates, which is to be sent in specie from Holland.
Nov. 17. The Commercial Treaty with America
is said to be still as far from being fettled as it was
the firft day the negociation began: It was, indeed,
an unlucky circumstance, that the different parties
thought themlelves obliged to carry it on at Paris, as
whenever the treaty appeared to be in a fair way of
being concluded, the french Ministry constantly in
terfered, and overturned all that had been done, so
that Mr. Hartley found it impossible to conclude upon
any terms in France, and therefore, gave up the mat
ter till an opportunity shall offer for renewing the ne
gociation, either in London or Philadelphia.
fend on Shore for refreshment ; and in this distressed
situation she was lying at the mercy of the waves for
fifteen days, and when she arrived she had but one
day's provision on board. Just before the gale came
on, flie took, off the Isle of May, a large Dutch smug
gler, after an hour's obstinate refinance, which, I am
lorry to add, foundered in the gale, and every foul
on board perished. They also law two sloops go down,
one of which was close to the Kite, but it was impos
sible for her to afford them the least assistance, she be
ing, except foundering, in as bad a condition. lam
fearful one of these is the Hopewell, commanded by
our friend Captain Brown; I am also fearful that we
shall have but bad accounts of our shipping. The
Kite put into three different bays, but was always
drove out to sea again by the violence of the wind.
The wind for these seven weeks pad has blown ter
ribly hard from the westward, sometimes to the south
ward of weft, but generally W. S. W."
Extract of a letter from Dublin, November 13.
" A difference of opinion on the most serious fub
jeds is held by the Delegates of the .Volunteers, and
the Representatives of the people; but what is most
extraordinary, the Roman Catholicks and DifTenters
have formed a junction, and in their writings and
speeches insinuate a necessity of resorting to the firft
principle of government. Be assured of this, that a
general alarm pervades the whole country."
Fy the resolutions proposed at the meetings of the
Irish Delegates, it appears that their military repre
sentatives think differently from the civil representa
tives, and the business of reform they are determined
to carry at all events.
T he Delegates of the province of Munster, previ
ous to their going off for Dublin, came to the follow
ing resolution: " Resolved, That all our former re
solutions be put into immediate execution."
BOST O N, Jan. 19 .
TH E severity of the cold has been such, that,
within these three weeks past, it has froze our
harbour to so great a degree, that carriages of every
description pals and repafs, on the ice, so that we have
a free, easy access with the towns of Charleftown,
Cambridge, Brooklyne, Dorchester, &c.
We are told that the demand, from this country,
for British goods, is so great, that the manufacturers
in England, many of whom were lately out of em
ploy, now cry out—“ Blessed are the Peace-Makers."
The following are the particulars concerning the
national bankruptcy that lately happened at Pa
ris—taken from a BritiJh publication of Octo
ber, 1783.
In the year 1776, thirteen bankers, the most emi
nent in France, funded five and twenty millions for
the establishment of a Caiffe d'Efconte, literally a
chest of discount, that is, a discounting bank; the
purport of which was to discount bills of exchange,
pa;t in cash, and part in notes, in imitation of our
Bank notes, for the purpose of facilitating trade, and
at the fame time of Supplying the occasional wants of
government. This scheme had the desired effect, and
answered the publick expectation till the 25th of last
month, when an extraordinary and unexpected run of
creditors put the Directors under the necessity of flop
ping payment. The deficiency is not yet afeertained,
but it # must be very considerable, lince they were hardly
able to pay 700,000 livres. The event being soon
spread abroad,occafioned an universal alarm; upon which
the Ministry made use of every political measure to
prevent any bad consequence, as in the time of the fa
mous Scotchman Law. Soon after appeared four
edicts of the King, which they had the precaution of
antedating of five days. The firft forbidding all no
taries to protell the notes issued from the Caiffe d'Ef
conte, under the penalty of a mulct, besides corporal
punilhment. The second flopping all the demands
on the aforefaid bank till the firft of January, 1784.
The third, enjoining all persons to receive the above
notes in payment, without any fort of difficulty. The
fourth, laying a very heavy duty on all the specie ex
ported—in the mean time orders were dispatched to all
the mints throughout the kingdom, to enable the Bank
to continue its payment.
HARTFORD, February 2.
The state of New-York having lately passed an aft
to prevent the inhabitants of Vermont from commenc
ing any suit or action at law within that state unless
the said inhabitants acknowledge the jurifdiCHon of
New-York, so far as to take an oath of allegiance to
the fame. The General Assembly of Vermont lately
made a similar aft refpeding the inhabitants of New-
York, to be in force until the Legislature of New-
York shall allow the inhabitants of Vermont full li
berty to commence suits, &c. within their jurifdidi
ons, without any lets or hindrances.
American Intelligence.
JANUARY 22.