The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1784-12-20 00:00:00, page 2

BELFAS T, October I—l 4.1 —14.
" These are the times that try mens fouls. The
" SUMMER SOLDIER and the SUN-SHINE PATRIOT
" will in this crisis Shrink from the service of his coun
" try,; but he that serves it now deserves the thanks
"of man and woman." The words of one of the
ablest writers who has latterly defended the rights of
mankind; and applied to the county of Antrim, they
certainly cannot put it to the blulh. Strongly tinc
tured with the principles which in many of their fore
fathers wielded the Britilh diadem from a family that
had forfeited it, and placed it in the present iiluftri
ous line, our freeholders do not “ shrink" in the day
of trial, but come forward like men, and declare in
language becoming independents, the fundamentals of
the British and Irilh constitution. Confeious that the
rights of royalty, and of the people, are intimately
interwoven, they do not scruple to avow veneration
for the Prerogative : And certain that the true in
terests of Britain are connected with their own, they
express from their heart a solicitude to promote the
prosperity of Britain and the glory of the Empire.—
Rhe enemies of freedom may be challenged to lay their
finger on a single portion contained in the proceedings
of this county, which is not warranted by the consti
tution, or that does not stand upon that noblest mo
nument of British and Irish valour—the REVOLU
TION. Shall we then find a single gentleman or
freeholder in the county, who, after a little delibera
tion, will refufe to go hand in hand with their elec
tors or fellow-eledors even while they are anting
within the line of the constitution—at a moment that
requires the countenance of every great and good
man?
When the evil dounfellors of Rehoboam prevailed
to have the fandion of royal authority to oppress
God's people, they cried unto the king, petitioned
and supplicated for relief; their cries w, inheard,
and their ; itions rejected; and in t bine; fs of
heart tb , I •,What portion have ; \ vid?
ncitbr ^^ - inheritance in the f '?'.• To
your .() srael! Ten trib .;< § and
Rehobox n vs reduced t ^ pro
vince. ^
When Ai^r : ' ade the e '. „Grifler
Governor of S, rs virtue wa effed and
vice reigned par; . rt; the /in
tolerable ; the virtuous • . T ell op Tell
was prosecuted; Tell wa: tinned ; 2 ! ^ED
I Ilk TYRANT, and 'wi zerland wa. FH ,E!
How fore are our arilkc. '. tyrant' th refpe&
to the much dreaded demolhu that ~bel of cor
ruption, which, like the rebels ^fee^unts of No
ah, they have erected on the ^it^r of their
country: But let them beware c L.;<'ofc il
lustrious villains, their prototype', , h . d.e roud
edifices or borough influence, feat buy % i . arlia
mentary jobbing, shall tremble from the ? r ^ dons,
and a universal confufion seize the g& lies,
who have so long triumphed in the fpo oerty
of the people.
There are few so blinded by prejud deny
luch a degree of merit to the America , as
to place him in a very distinguished point 61 . but
even those who have been accustomed to as
the most illustrious chara&er of this or an) om: age,
will be astonished at the following instance of his in
tegrity, which we give from the most unquestionable
authority :
" When General Washington accepted the com
mand of the American army, he rejected all pecuniary
reward or pay whatever, and only stipulated for the
reimbursement of such luins as he might expend in the
publick service. Accordingly, at the conclusion of
the war, he gave into Congress the whole of his seven
years expenditure, including secret service money, &c.
&c. &c. which only amounted to 160001. Pennsylva
nia currency, about io,oool. sterling!
In the eyes of modern British Generals, the above
circumstance will appear totally incredible, at least
they will deem Mr. Wafliington little better than a
fool; for, if we judge from certain accounts*, io,oool.
would scarcely have answered the demands of a Com
mander in Chief at New-York a single month.
The insult offered to the people of this loyal na
tion by a late illiberal# letter addrefled to the iheriffs
of Dublin, is the most barefaced and unconstitutional
ever attempted by any daring tool of despotism. To
attempt to prevent freemen and freeholders from meet
ing to deliberate upon matters which immediately con
cern themselves, is such a stab to the confeffed liberty
of the fubjed, as no man who deserves the bieffing of
walking upright ffrould lose a moment in reprobating.
Surely the citizens of Dublin cannot be such traitors
to their own rights, and to the rights of their coun
trymen, as to overlook this glaring aft of tyranny?—
If they do, they must fall indeed far below contempt.
The spirited town of Rofcommon has taken the
lead in censuring the above insolent stretch of power ;
the inhabitants met the 25th September ult. anduzu-
* Tide the expenditures of the last near.
nimoufly came to the following Refolution§, Counci
lor C. Lyfter in the chair :
" Refolded, That as the present imperfect repre
sentation of the people in Parliament is felt and com
plained of as a national grievance, we conceive a Na
tional Association, to deliberate upon the redress of
the fame, as perfectly warrantable and constitutional.
" Resolved, That we regard the accusation of the
high fheriffs of the city of Dublin (and consequently
of the majority of the high fheriffs throughout the
kingdom) by his Majesty's attorney general of Ire
land, as a most desperate attempt to overawe the free
spirit of the people, and to misinterpret the free prin
ciples of the constitution.
Resolved, That we solemnly recommend it to
our fellow-citizens, to confider of the expediency of
inftru&ing their representatives to impeach the present
attorney general at the bar of the house of lords, or
of transmitting an address to our most gracious fove
reigll) P ra ying his removal forever from his Majesty's
council, or to pursue such other temperate and con
stitutional means as may be best calculated to redress
an insulted people.
" Resolved, 1 hat the copy of a letter in the pub
lick papers, Signed John Fitzgibbon, containing the
above accusation, be committed to the flames by the
hands of the common hangman.
" Resolved, 1 hat we agree with our fellow-citi
zens of Antrim, in the expediency of holding the Na
tional Congress in some place more central than Dub
lin, and that we take the liberty of recommending
Athlone, both on account of its Situation and the very
liberal offer of its independent sovereign and inhabi
tants, as well entitled to the honour of being the feat
of Congress."
The VOLUNI EERS of IRELAND at this cri
tical time, when every illegal and unfair art is prac
tifed to prevent the assembling of the Peoples' dele
gates in Congress, Should certainly come forward and
confirm to their fellow-citizens that they feel them
selves bound by their former declarations, to support
the great body of the nation in pursuit of a Parlia
mentary Reform, at the hazard of life, fortune, and
every thing dear to them upon earth. The necessity
of union and indefatigable ardour in a cause which
was taken up upon the fulleft conviction of its justice,
Should bear upon every good mind ; and, like the
power of the loadftone, draw the men of Ireland to
one common point of exertion. If ever we Shrink,
we are undone,
BELFAST WHITE LINEN-HALL INTEL-
L IGE. NCR.
As the business of the Hall closed last night, we are
enabled to take a retrofped of this great and fuccefs
ful attempt, the complete eftabliihment of which, in
the heart of a manufacturing country, promises equal
benefit to the buyer and feller of the staple article of
the kingdom.
The whole number of packages and boxes amounted
to upwards of fix hundred, comprehending a very ge
neral and valuable assortment ; and the sales very far,
in reality, exceed the warmest hopes of all the per
sons concerned, particularly in the coarser species,
which met a very rapid demand, and were all fold off.
Several of the rooms in the course of the market were
twice, and some thrice filled.
Many circumstances combine to render Belfaft Sin
gularly eligible as the site of a market ; but none more
so than the union and mutual regards that subsists be
tween our merchants, as well as the poffe'ffion of a
very considerable actual property, generally diffufed
among the trading part of our inhabitants.
On the whole, the decided success of this firft at
tempt is so great, that no doubts can be now enter
tained but that a very considerable market cannot fail
to be firmly established in this place.
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American Intelligence.
HA LI FA X, November 12.
( The following is publifoed by authority.)
An account of buoys laid down for the better guid
ance of vessels failing in and out of Halifax har
bour.
Litchfield rock, 15 feet depth of water, buoy white.
Mars rock, between Chedabudo and the Litchfield
rock, 21 feet depth of water, buoy white. Point Plea
sant Shoal, the south-east paits of it, 22 feet depth
of water, buoy white. Shoal between Cornwallis and
George's Island, 30 feet depth of water, buoy red.
The storm last Friday morning raised the tide higher
than ever was known in this town before, whereby
many people have fuffered much loss, as the water en
tered their stores and destroyed considerable quanti
ties of sugar and salt, besides clearing most of the
wharves of the boards, Shingles, and other lumber, &c.
which were thereon. The towns of Salem and Ports
mouth, we hear, were in similar circumstances.
NEWBURY-PORT, December I.
N E W-Y OR K, December 15.
Last Saturday arrived the ship Skinner, in fix weeks
from London, by which we have a confirmation of the
firm intentions of Holland to rifque the event of a war
with Imperial Joseph, as hostilities had already com
menced on the fide of the States- General, not only
in the river Scheldt, but in their attack and carrying
the Emperor's post of Sluys*.
On Sunday arrived, in 8 weeks from Londen, the
ship Sarah, Capt. Mefnard—and, after a passage from
London of ten weeks, the ship Mefborough, Captain
George Dancer, at two o'clock on Monday morning,
unfortunately ran on shore on the beach of Hamfted
South ; the passengers are happily landed, amongst
them are James Ricketts, Esq. and his lady; the ship
had three feet of water in her hold, but the merchants
interested met yesterday, and ordered round every ne
cessary assistance for recovering the vessel, and securing
as much as possible of the cargo.
The fliip jenny, Capt. William M'Gill, from Glas
gow, arrived at Norfolk, in Virginia, the 24th ult. and
brought in Nathaniel Howard, commander of the
schooner Young Peter, from Philadelphia bound to St.
Croix, William Sadlier, the mate, the crew of the said
schooner, and two passengers, John Lobby and Willi
am Barret, jun. The Yeung Peter left the Capes of
Delaware the 2d of November, wind W. S. W. On
the second day from their departure, a violent gale of
wind obliged them to clear their decks of all the lum
ber. The wind Lifting to N. W. and the gale increas
ing, they sprung a leak, and kept both pumps going,
and lightened her of what cargo they conveniently
could, for the preservation of their lives. On the 6th
of November they happily spoke the above vessel, and
were taken on board. The schooner had then up
wards of four feet water in her hold, and a gale of wind
blowing, they saved tQeir lives with the loss of every
thing they had.
* A large to<wn in the Netherlands, one of the froe
sea ports of Flanders, having a very good harbour ;
thought impregnable because of its sluices ; lies ten miles
N. E. of Bruges, and twenty-one N. W. of Ghent, and
was fubjeU to the Emperor.
H A R T F O R D, Nov. 30.
The following melancholy accident happened at
Hebron on the night of the 18th inst.—Two young
men, about twenty years of age, the one a son of
Capt. Elisha Beach, and the other a son of Mr. Tho
mas Summers, had erected a hut in the woods with
poles, supported with stakes, thatched with straw,
and covered with a large quantity of dirt and turf,
for the purpose of sheltering themselves from the wea
ther, while they watched the burning of a coal-kiln.
Here they slept securely till the last night, in which
they expected the kiln would require their atten
dance, when a fall of rain, accompanied with consi
derable wind, added so much to the weight of the
foot, that it fell and buried the two hapless young
men in its ruins. Their bodies were taken out next
morning, and by the appearances on them, it is sup
posed they were not crushed to death instantly, but
draggled for some time, and were rather fuffocated.
Their faithful dog lay by the pile and forbid the ap
proach of any person. On Saturday the twentieth,
the deceased were both interred in one grave, and a
sermon delivered from these words in the firft of Job:
" And the building fell upon the young men and they
are dead."
December 7.
from Long-Island we are informed, that, on the
25th tilt, the wreck of a brig was discovered near
Southampton, the tops of her masts only above wa
ter: Some human bodies and some horses were found
floating ; from the latter circumstance, she is supposed
to have been outward bound, but from what place is
yet unknown!
Last Wednesday night three dwellinghoufec and
shops in this city were broke open, and robbed of
cash, plate, &c. to a considerable amount.
" I thank you fircerely for your kind invitation to
visit America, but am inclined to flay at home, more
especially as the violent party spirit which has been
lately so turbulent seems daily to die away. This agree
able change is in a great measure owing to the appear
ance of affection and good will which subsists between
his Majesty and the Prince his son. They are always
together, and appear in such a friendly manner as to
BOST O N, December 6.
From the Utrecht Gazette of October 7.
About a week ago the following extraordinary ex
periment was tried at the Hotel of the Baron de
Dietrichftein. They took a sheep ana a calf, and hav
ing tied their legs, they were laid upon a table; they
then opened a jugular vein of the sheep, and let him
bleed till the physicians and other fpe&ators owned
there was no signs of life left ; they then opened the
fame vein of the calf, which was placed near the
sheep, and by means of a quill let the blood out of
the calf into the sheep, and in a short time, to the
great astonishment of the fpe&ators, the sheep began
to move, and shew signs of life; and when th@ sheep
was thought to have received blood enough, the vein
was tied up, and the sheep loosed; he immediately
began to run and eat grass, and joined the flock which
were in a neighbouring field.
Extras of a letter from London, Oflober 8.