The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1785-11-07 00:00:00, page 2

Canton, Japan, and other parts of India, felling at
enormous profits.
By a letter from Tunis, dated July 9, we learn,
That the Venetian fleet, commanded by the Chava
lier Emo, is expected every day before our port, to
begin hostilities again; but far from being disposed
to peace, our regency authorifes the captures which
continue to be made on the fubjeds of the repub
hck. One of our corsairs has again lately taken a
Venetian ship laden with corn. The third of this
month a large English ship from Constantinople ar
rived at Port Farina with the following presents for
our regency, viz. 30 brass cannon, 20 iron cannon,
4. mortars, 150 bombs, 100 barrels of powder, 30
tons of pitch, a quantity of cordage, fails, &c. There
were allo on board the fame ship four fkilful bom
badiers, or engineers. It is lingular that this ship
could escape the Venetian fquadton. The pestilence
abates here every day; but at Tripoli it has redoubled
its ravages, and that city is in the greatest desola
tion."
Extraft of a letter from the Hague, fluguft 24.
“ It is in vain to attempt to conceal it, that not
withstanding the efforts of the friends of the house of
Orange, the affairs of the Stadtholder, instead of
mending, grow every day worse and worse. His se
rene highness's eiders for the troops to march to A
mersfort, at the sole request of four deputies of
Utrecht, without the fanAion of the majority of the
states of that province, gives a general offence; the
letter written by his highness on that occasion has
been criticifed with great severity and bitterqefs.
The burghers of Utrecht, on their part, persist in
their resolution of defending themselves, and Ihutting
their gates. This resolution is strengthened by the
conduct of several towns in the province of Holland,
who have determined to lodge a complaint before the
States against the Stadtholder, for issuing those orders,
and at the fame time to propose depriving his highness
of the power of granting patents without the consent of
the provinces. It is not easy to forefee how his
highness will extricate himfelf from this dilemma, if
the other towns should adopt this plan, which, it is
more than probable, they will."
Extras of a letter from Lisbon, August 18.
" The situation in which the Spaniards have left
our court by the truce they have patched up with the
infidel Algerines, is far from being pleasing; and
considering the family connexions that have lately
taken place, rather unexpected : her moss faithful majesty
is resolved, however, to protest her trade. The Al
grave of 3c, and San Joseph of 24 guns are for this
purpose ordered to Same-Bay to convoy and pro
test the home trade from the mouth of the Streights.
There are also in the Mediterranean a ship of 60
guns, and three others, cruising against the Barbari
an flag, with orders not to fpaie them where-ever
they meet them."
Sept. 6. The court of France have issued an order
which seems Wrongly to indicate their pacific inten
tions.—The performs who are under obligation to
hold in readiness and maintain the artillery horses,
have received permiflion to dispose of them, if they
think fit, upon condition that only once a year they
shall, upon a given notice, be able to produce at the
muller an equal number of horses to that which
they received into their custody. Till the prefect
order came from the War-office, all the artillery
horses taken up in the last war have been kept in con
stant pay, and liable to be called for and mustered
every month.
We hear from good authority, that notwithstanding
the triumph obtained by the people of Ireland over
ministry in regard to the propositions, Mr. Flood still
intends to bring forward his motion declaratory of
the legislative independence and omnipotent authority
of the Irish parliament.
Advices from Madrid mention the death of Don
Lewis, youngest brother of the king of Spain, which
happened a few days since, in the 58th year of his
age.
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American Intelligence.
FALM O UT H, October i.
Last Wednesday appeared at the meetinghouse of
the firft parish in Falmouth, agreeable to a requell
lately published in the gazette, a numerous collection
of the refpedable inhabitants of the province of
Maine, to consult on a method of obtaining the sense
of the people in York, Cumberland, and Lincoln,
concerning the expediency of endeavouring to get feid
counties formed into a separate government. Some
of the remote towns empowered others to declare
Extract of a letter from Bruftls, August 23.
" This day's Dutch pod brings an account of a
dangerous infurreXion in Utrecht, and that troops
were marching to quell the insurgents, who, when
the post came away, had formed themselves into mi
litary petitions, as if determined to face all opposition.
The cause of these commotions is related variously
here. The Prince de Ligne, governor of Antwerp,
arrived here this day."
N E W-Y O R K, October 21.
Mr. Adams, our ambassador at the British court,
is very popular; and his indefatigable endeavours to
establish a commercial treaty between the two nati
ons, on reciprocal principles, shews that our confi
dence is well placed.
We might (fays a correspondent) in a country like
this, which furnifhes most of the raw materials for
B OST O N, October 17.
Yesterday arrived here, in 54 days from Amftet
dam, the ship formerly the Gustavus, now commanded
by captain Barnard; we hear she brings accounts of
the Algerines having captured two Americans, and
it is dittreffing to our trade to find that ten per cent,
was asked to insure the said ship to this port, although
she was coming north about.—We conjecture that
from this calamity, we owe much to our old parent,
who has had neither generosity to applaud valour in
her children, nor honesty to permit us undisturbed
to enjoy the fruits of that valour: What is
to become of our scanty remittances to Eu
rope, if luch a heavy insurance is to be annexed
to it.
OA. 20. While our people complain of the fear
city of money and their high taxes, let them attend
to the following extract of a letter from a gentleman
in Great-Britain, whose eldest son, an officer in the
British army, was killed at the time general Howe forced
his way into Philadelphia ; which letter was received
on Saturday night last, and came by the last British
packet to New-York. After reading this extract,
jet any of us fay, which is the country that is now
fuffering the most ? and, upon reflection, we shall
find we have reason to bless Gon that our lot is cast
in this goodly land. The letter is dated the 23d of
July last.—
" The oldest man living does not remember such a
dry season; few have been able to cut a tenth part of
their usual quantity of hay : the corn, however, is in
general fine, particularly the wheat and barely. I
am afraid out tenants will be ruined, and of course
the landlords also; for as there is no grass, no body
will buy cattle. Money is become very scarce and
taxes are as high as plenty. I am obliged to pay for
the liberty of tiling a four-wheeled carriage an an
nual duty to government of above 101. viz.—7l. a
year for the carriage only, 21. ss. for the driver or
poftillion, and a guinea a year for using 2 horses. In
deed our taxes arc so heavy that people of middling
fortune mutt continually experience great difficulties.
The American war hath ruined England. You
should thinle yourfelf happy in living under another
government."
their fentimeats.—The conference was conduced in
a very decent and orderly manner ; at the close of
which it was with great unanimity voted to choose a
committee of seven to draft a circular letter to the
several towns and plantations in three counties, fe
quefting them to meet in convention, by their dele
gates, on the firft Weodnefday in January next; to
confider the expediency of said counties being formed
into a separate state; and, if after mature deliberati
on, it should appear to them expedient, to pursue
fume regular and orderly method of carrying the fame
into effect.
”A " ' M, October 18.
We are desired to insert (as worthy of publick
notice) an account of two operations in surgery, viz.
On the 15th of June last, the wife of Mr. Benja
min Stoddard, of Scituate, a woman in her 73d
year, had her leg amputated by Dr. Thomas Thax
ter, of Hingham, for a cancerous excrefence, .which
weighed two pounds and seven ounces. Though it
was of seventeen years growth, had become ulcerous,
and the woman much emaciated, it is now healed,
and she is very well for one of her years. About
two years since, in the month of July, Dr. Thaxter
extirpated from the breast of a Mrs. Turner, a like
. excrefence, which weighed seventeen ounces, and
which, it was judged, would have opened within
three weeks. She entirely recovered, though more
than 70 years of age.
On the 7th instant, at 7 o'clock in the evening,
lat. 44, 4.5, long. 55, the people in the forecaftle of
captain Lyde, difeovered a great smoke, which was
supposed to proceed from a fire in the hold, they di
rectly hove the ship to; and observing a filhing
schooner close by, made signals of distress; the
schooner, captain Marble, belonging to Portsmouth,
came down to the assistance of the ship, and took the
passengers on board; after which the people went to
work down the fore hole, broke open a number of
packages, and hove a considerable quantity of hemp
overboard, in order to get at the fire, which they
soon did, and extinguished it; they found it to be a
calk of drugs, which they supposed to be oil of vi
triol, which consumed the calk and so communicated
to the hemp. The above schooner had on board 50
quintals of fifh, and was bound to Bank Quero to
make up her fare.
Oct. 29. Capt. Hensley of the ship Bristol, (which
arrived here last Tuesday) spoke with the brig
Molly, captain fanner, from Carolina to Liver
pool, out four weeks, in lat. 50 deg. 24 min.
North, and long. 24 deg. Weft.
We are informed that about twenty of the E
piscopal Clergy, joined by delegates of Lay gen
tlemen, from a number of the congregations in
several of the Southern States, lately assembled
in convention at Christ-Church, Philadelphia, re
vised the Liturgy of the Church of England,
(adapting it to the late revolution) expunged
lome of the creeds, reduced the thirty-nine ar
ticles to twenty in number, and agreed on a let
ter, addressed to the archbishops and the spiri
tual court in England, desiring they would be plea
sed to obviate any difficulties that might arise
on application to them for consecrating such re
fpedable clergy as should be appointed and sent
to London from their body, to a& as bishops
on the continent of America, where there is at
present only one prelate dignified with episcopal
powers, viz. the right reverend Dr. Samuel
Seabury, bifliop of the apoftoheal church in the
state of Connecticut. Hitherto Mr. Pitt, the
British Minister, has vehemently opposed all applica
tions preferred lor consecration to fees in America;
this difeou ragement occasioned bishop Seabury to fe'-
cure his consecration from three of the bilhops in
Scotland, which proves as perfectly valid and effici
ent, as though obtained from the hands of their right
reverences of Canterbury, York and London ; and is
inconteftibly proved by a lift of the consecration and
succession of Scots bifliops since the revolution in 1688,
under William the third. For the particulars of which
vide an address of the Episcopal clergy to the right
reverend bishop Seabury, published about a month
ago.
Extraß of a letter from Fort M'lntofo, dated
October 4, 1785.
" We shall leave this in a few days for Mufkingum,
where we are to remain the winter season. We shall
be compelled to hut and ftoekade, the former as a
preventative fiom the inclemency of the weather, and
the latter against the encroachments of the natives,
who are by no means fatisfied, and shew rather a
hostile disposition; they, about ten days since in the
vicinity of that place, killed one man and two children,
so that prudence will dictate a security, although the
military are under little apprehensions however hostile
they at present appear.
Extract of another letter from Fort M' Intofo,
to a gentleman in this city, dated OAober
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“ After a fatiguing march of fix weeks, we arrived
at Pittsburgh on the sth ult. where we remained only
one day, and then proceeded down the Ohio, twenty
eight miles, to this place, where our living is by no
means contemptible. This garrison is situated on
the banks of the Ohio, which river abounds with
the most delicious fifh I ever tailed. They have a
pecuniar flavour that vie with any fifh whatever, and
grow to an enormous size. 1 have taken cat-fifh that
weighed forty pounds, perch fourteen, and pike
twenty-five. As to water-fowl we have an exuber
ance of every species; venison in the greatest perfec
tion, and so plenty that it fells for one penny per
pound. So fine a country my eyes never beheld, and
bids fair to become as great as it is good. Perhaps,
you may fay, notwithflanding the elylium that I have
painted, we are unhappy for want of fociety.' It is
true, it would be a completion of thjs paradise; but
permit me to fay, and with sincerity, that I would
not relinquish my present happiness to become a Mo
gul to these states. The emigrants r rom the differ
ent states, to form settlements on this river, is asto
nishingly great. Many speculators are now out with
the surveyors, particularly from New-Jersey and the
Eastern States, who speak with rapture of the coun
try. Colonel T upper, who is one of the gentlemen
alluded to above, is so much pleased with the coun
try, that he is determined to become one of the set
tlers, Kentucky, a settlement scarcely known in 1775,
from its fertility of foil, has almost exceeded the
bounds of belief in population; its inhabitants are
now computed at 30,000 fouls. People have very
exalted ideas of this new country, and very justly.
When it shall be practicable to obtain permission from
the Spaniards to pass down the Mifliflippi, it is propos
ed to go largely into the shipbuilding way during the
summer season, and fend vessels from 100 to 140
tons down the river, which frequently rises 40 feet
every fall. Indeed I conceive this to be no chimeri
cal idea, as from the abundance of timber, this use-
manufa&ure, by the interposition of wife and salutary
laws extricate ourselves from the disadvantageous trade
we now sustain. To instance in the article of nails—ln
the town of Bridgewater, (New-England) immediately
previous to the peace, a flittingmill was ere&ed,
whicli furniflied 40 tons of nails every fix weeks;
but from the excessive importations consequent upon
the peace, this ufeful business declined in all its
parts.