The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1783-01-08 00:00:00, page 2

ing fifteen lanthotns. The candles are delivered
out to them every Saturday, and as soon as the
bell rings they issue out, either themselves or a
servant, and having a key to the iron box in which
the end of every cord is faftened on the tides of the
streets, they let down the lanthorn that hangs by
it, fix in it the lighted candle, and draw it up again:
Thus the whole city is lighted in the space of a few
minutes, but the light is not comparable to that of
lamps.
Paris is built on a circle, and the river Seine
runs through the middle cf it; the houses are all
built of free done; there is computed to be in it
icoo streets, the names of which are cut in large
letters, on a square piece of done or wood, fixed
at a proper height to the corner house of every
street. Ihe number of houses is estimated at about
30,000, and of inhabitants 600,000.
LONDON, September 14.
THE very important resolution of the General
assembly of the Commonwealth of Massa
chusetts, publilhed in our paper of yesterday, hav
ing been much doubted, from the direct and posi
tive contradiction it gave to the information con
tained in Doctor Walter's letter to Sir William
Pepperell, Stockdales (hop was yesterday a perfect
fair the whole day, such was the extreme curiosity
of all parties to lee the original Gazette, This va
luable date paper will be continued there all this
day, in order that the publick may have an oppor
tunity of feeing it.
The above Maffachufett's Gazette destroying at
once the whole fabrick of imposition reared upon
DoCtor Walter's letter by Lord Shelburne's friend
the Editor of the Morning Pod ; one hundred gui
neas, we are credibly informed, were offered for it,
in order that it might have been fiippreffed, and
buried alive in the College.
The ready admission which the Editor of the
Morning Pod, is said to have, at all seasonable
times, into the Sandum Santorum of the new
Minider, is by no means to be wondered at, for he
has taken two provinces, lowed discord and con
tentions in half a dozen more, and made all Ame
rica renounce the French, in the course of one week,
which is more than all our fleets and armies have
been able to do in five or fix years.
Sir W. Pepperell was ciofetted on Thursday
with the Lords Shelburne and Grantham, and Mr.
T. Townfhend ; but neither of these joint officers
of date were able to derive any information from
the cock-and-bull dory of Sir W illiam's American
correspondent !
Thole who flatter themselves with an idea of a
reconciliation between Great-Britain and her colo
nies, train the extraordinary letter (real or fictitious)
written by a Dr. Walter to Sir William Pepperell,
will find themselves exceedingly milled. Sir Wil
liam has averted the authenticity of the correspon
dence, and therefore we shall not at present call
that in question; but admitting this fact in its fulleft
extent, what does it prove ?—nothing more than
the delusive anticipation of an American loyalist,
who predicts what he hopes will come to pass ! It
is extremely lingular, if such a revolt was in agita
tion as the writer intimates, that the Carleton trane
ship Ihould bring but one single letter of advice of
fogreat an event, and that Dr. Walter ihould be
the only man to transmit the glad tidings thereof to
this country ! for government, we are autho
rized to declare, have not received a tittle of in
telligence on this fubjeC t ! That discontents pre
vail in Coogrefs, respecting the pay of the French
troops, we have not a doubt; but that they Should
rife to a height fufficient to overturn that indepen
dence which the colonies have, to our perpetual re
proach, fully eftablilhed, is an idea too preposterous
to enter the head of any but a mad-man !
During the present political pause, both Mini
sters and opposition seem involved in a date of fuf
pcnded animation. What is doing? Where is tiie
Premier? Are we to have peace, or is the war to'
be continued? are the trite interrogations of the
day. In Short, there is a mystery that rests both
upon men and measures, and the nation is left in
a date of ambiguity with refpedt to its own existence.
It were much to be wished that the veil were re
moved, and something explicit done.
September 26. A report having been industrious
ly spread Several days pad, that Mr. Laurens had
arrived in London, with full plenipotentiary power
to treat with the Court of Great-Britain, for a se
parate peace with America: we can assure the pub
lict from the very best authority, that there is not
the lead foundation for it, Mr. Laurens having
nothing to tranfad here of a publick nature.
The faft is, Mr. Laurens has been in the south
of France with his children ever Since he hft Eng
land, and is now here with , 5
A no other view than to
take the packet for New-York, _ w h enc he
means to proceed by a passport to Phi^.,^.
which has been given him by government.
1 he lad defpatches from New-York, by the Roe
buck packet, informs us, that Captain A'gill was
dill confined on the 18th of August as an object of
retaliation, at Chatham, in the jerfies, which oc
casioned a general condemnation among the Ameri
cans, as well as britilh army, as Lippencut's ac
quittal was by no means fatisfadfory to Gen. Wash
ington, or even to the British in general, to whom
it appeared that justice was overpowered and awed
by the loyalists influence at New-York.
A Capt. Clark, a loyalist, having however been
taken by the Americans and closely confined, it was
imagined he would be more eligible as an object of
retaliation.
Private letters from New-York mention, that
that worthy youth, Captain Afgill, had been hurt
in his health by accounts which had been circulated
in the American papers of the death of his father
Sir Charles Afgill, and by letters in numbers ad
dreiTed to him ; in consequence of that opinion, and
that he had had leave to fend an epidle to New-
York to receive information on that head, he had
dill a doubt that the painful circumstance was con
cealed from him.
The artful and the mercenary dealers in the
funds will not fuffer Mr. Laurens to return to this
country (which never treated him with refpe&, but
in the hour of its fears) without the olive-branch
in his hand. Individuals who do not with to be the
dupe of dock-jobbers, will do well to bear in mind
that it is not upon our ark that this dove intends to
rest his foot for any length of time.
The manner in which the new Minider has given
independence to America is as little reliffied on that
continent, as in this island; we have all along fore
told, that Lord was the tool of the crown,
not the friend of liberty or the nation.
Before the war with America, the Ead-India
Company sent annually to that country tea to the
amount of 600,000!. the loss of io valuable a mar
ket for the above, and many other articles, mud be
extremely injurious to the Company, and, in the
fame proportion, that it hurts this country ,operates
to the advantage of the Dutch, who have nearly
engrossed the trade with America in Eaft-india
goods.
The truth is at length come out: The very un
gracious manner of the Minister in offering inde
pendence to America, has more the appearance of
a court bribe than a free-will offering.
Ail the late accounts from the North seem to
threaten a general rupture in that quarter of the
globe, if peace is not concluded during the ensuing
winter.
Mr. Franklin, who is just arrived from N. York,
has been proscribed by Congress, and a considera
ble reward offered tor apprehending him. His com
ing here at this juncture thews, that Sir Guy Carle
ton's proposals, refpefting the loyalists, were not
much relilhed by Congrets, and that this gentle
man did not think New-l ork longer a place of
fafety. It is said he is come with proposals from
the loyalists to the Minider.
Extrafl of a private letter, dated Bloomingdale
camp, New-York island, August 4, 1782, to a
gentleman in the city.
'' We were in high spirits about our great vic
tories. We are all low since the packet arrived
wnich brought out a person lent by the Ministers
with Independency to America. The Invalids, &c.
are diftra&ed ; molt of them have the greatest estates
in the country.
“ Last Wednesday a French fleet were on this
coast, consisting of thirteen Ihips of the line, and
frigates. His Majesty's ship Santa Margaretta,
Capt. Saltar, fell in with a French frigate, L'Ama
zone, both of equal force, of 36 guns. The two
frigates engaged for an hour and a quarter ; then
the French ship struck her colours. They had her
in tow all night, and next morning left leventy or
eighty prisoners on board, most of them dangerously
wounded. Early qext day the thirteen line of bat
tle ships bore down upon them. They are pleased
to fay here, it has been one of the moll gallant ac
tions this war.
“ The Captain and most of the officers are killed
on board the French ship. Colours, and some of
ficers and men, are brought in here. Ours had five
killed and seventeen wounded.
" Since Sir Guy's arrival, he has fixed a board
to examine into police accounts, and has poisoned
all those caterpillars in publick departments who
have been preying so long on the vitals of poor
England. He has fold all the Quarter-Master Ge
neral's horses and waggons. No small number had
government to pay for in that department, only
1 goo and 2000 horses.
It is laic!, r believe too true, that five thou
sand pounds a year have been made by mixing wa
ter with the rum ; and it has been a custom to buy
the Yankey-brewed spirits, and issue it out to the
soldiers as good rum, though the smell of it was
enough to poison the d—l. This spirit was made
here in time of peace for no other purpose than to
be lent to the coast of Guinea.
“ An order came out against these men in publick
employ, not one of them to fit at the board of pub
lick accounts, nor are they to charge more than
they gave for any article they buy for the crown,
nor use any of the stores, nor take any thing under
the name of perquilite of office, or any fraud what
ever. Any one found guilty will be prosecuted for
a breach of publick trull
“ I am this moment informed, that our flag that
went up the North river with the terms England
sent out, is returned, and brings word that nothing
will be fettled till our fleets and armies are with
drawn from this country.
" P. S. I have this instant got into New-York.
Thousands are diftraded. 7 hey have waited on
Sir Guy to know if independency is granted to this
country. He could hardly speak, when he told
them it was too true! He has printed the letter he
has written to Washington on the occasion. The
militia, who have done the duty of the day this
summer, give it up, and fay there is no occasion to
do more, as they are to be delivered up to Con
gfels."
B OST O N, December 12.
A T a town meeting on Saturday last, the Ho
-4 JL nourable Samuel Adams, Esq. moderator,
the Honourable James Sullivan, Esq. and Samuel 1
Barret, Esq. together with the gentlemen these-,
le&men, were appointed a committee to wait on
His Excellency the Baron Viomenil, General
and Commander of the forces of His Most Christian
Majesty in the United States of America, with the
following address ; and yesterday the committee
waited on His Excellency accordingly.
To His Excellency the Baron Viomenil, General
and Commander of the forces of His Most thrift
tian Majesty in the United States of America.
S I R,
THE freeholders and other inhabitants of the
town of Bolton, legally assembled in Faneuil-Half,
congratulate your Excellency on your fafe arrival
in the capital of this Commonwealth. It is with
particular pleasure tliat we embrace this opportuni
ty, of teftifying the lingular refpe& with which we
regard your Excellency and the gallant army under
your command, lent by His Most Christian Majesty,
the il^ltrious ally of the United States, to their
fuccour, and crowned in this service with the most
brilliant success and permanent honours.
We can assure your Excellency, that no part of
the United States can be impressed more deeply
with every sentiment becoming the most faithful
allies towards the King your Sovereign, and the na
tion which he governs with so much glory ; or can
entertain a higher sense of the great merits of his
land and naval forces in America, than the inhabi
tants of Boston. Our whole country attests the
perfect discipline, the uncommon good order and
civility which these forces have constantly preserved;
a circumstance, among many others, which, while
it leaves the most agreeable iinpreflions on the minds
of the inhabitants in every quarter, and must be ex
tremely favourable to the publick friendfhip, cannot
but at the fame time heighten our regret at theii
departure.—Whereever these forces may full be em
ployed, may Heaven defend their persons, prosper
their valour, and add new glories to their names
and to that cf their nation.
Your Excellency we are sure will be pleased, that
upon this occasion we do not forget to mentior,
with the utmost refped, the name of Count Ro
chambeau, your predecessor in this important com
mand; whose diftingudhed services in America cat
never be forgotten, and to whom also we ardentb
with every felicity.
May the happy alliance with France never be df
folved or impaired! In the support of which sch
expenecs have been incurred—such toils endurec—
fuch valuable lives exposed—such great actions if
played, and such generous blood offered! And ray
the reciprocal fruits of it to both nations be pe»e
tually augmented.
The following is the translation of the Geneft
answer to the foregoing address:
Gentlemen,
IT belonged to the Count de Rochambeau met