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thousand little channels. It is too weak to support
itfelf, especially in competition with powerful rivals :
Its merchants are too inconsiderable to make any at
tempts that will be great or beneficial to the pubiick ;
but that force, which it cannot possess while it is di
vided, it may acquire by being collected. Merchants
in one considerable city can unite their wisdom and
their efforts for its effectual advancement. If their
capitals are too small separately to manage an exten
sive commerce, they can unite them in companies, till
they shall be equal to the greatest undertakings. If
the rifles of trade are great, by such union they can
divide the loss and save themselves from ruin. If the
number and abilities of merchants be such as can al
ways furnifh a sure market for the produce of the
country, and in future can always supply to those who
need it a general assortment of merchandize, the mar
ket and the port will be equally frequented; but if,
from the smallness and the poverty of our cities, the
farmer or the citizen is uncertain of a vent for his
commodities, if the trade is uncertain of being able to
procure any assortments that his wants may require,
they will desert our little towns, they will proceed in
the firft instance to the great marts of our neighbours ;
they will, as they have hitherto done, carry thither
the emoluments that ought to rest with us ; and while
the whole state may be considered as one free port,
we shall not pofTcfs one trading city; we shall do
worse, we shall be contemptible to our neighbours as
a retreat of villany and fraud, as the receptacle and
channel of all those who wish to evade the commer
cial laws of their own states, to defraud their coun
try and ruin its morals by the perpetual practice of
those infamous arts, to which persons engaged in such
pursuits are always conftralned.
Suffer us, in the lad: place, to represent, and, in
some degree, to repeat, that every argument of good
policy and immediate interest, as well as of character,
seems to require, that our efforts to establish com
merce should be begun by the enfranchifement of only
bne or two cities, and that this should be done with
out delay. If our power be inadequate to give pros
perity to two cities, it will be dill more inadequate
to give it to a greater number. If every part of the
state were entitled to an exemption from duties and
customs, there would not remain an adequate motive
to colled the merchants in fufficient numbers to your
free ports; an event which is so absolutely necessary
to the prosperity of trade. If your wife and gene
rous efforts should not be attended with success, such
an exemption would, without any benefit to the pub
lick, defraud the treasury of the greater part of those
profits that might accrue from the small trade that
New-Jersey should enjoy. But if the desired success
should crown your attempts, the imposts given up for
a period in your free ports will be esteemed a wife
and fortunate facrifice made to a greater interest.—
That the objed of this petition should be accomplished
without delay, we believe you will easily admit. If
the flourifhing condition of commerce be a desirable
event for the state, you cannot too speedily procure
for your expeding country the benefits that will re
sult from it. If the natural progress of commerce be
flow, you will agree with us that every moment is
precious till that important progression is commenced.
As trade, since the late revolution, seems to be in a
degree of fluctuation, and has not yet determined it
felf to any permanent and exclusive marts, it appears
to be the only remaining moment in which New-Jer
sey can lay in her claim, and exert her natural re
sources with success, to obtain her just proportion of
the general wealth and commerce of the continent.—
And every delay, while it will serve to confirm the ti
tle and possession of our neighbours, will also afford
them a better opportunity to counteract our designs.
Foreign Intelligence.
LONDO N, September 14.
XT is a fad well known to those who have lately vi
sited the Northern coasts of France, that their mi
litary movements are all pointed to the North East
frontiers of the kingdom. Many inconveniencies evi
dently result from this disposition of their troops, but
they are now interested in covering the United States ;
and it is probably owing more to this circumstance
than to any resolution or confidence in their own
strength, that their High Mightinesses have met the
These confederations we humbly propose to the ex
amination and decision of your superior wisdom :—
And if we might presume to mention to you the places
in which our opinions unite for the establishment of
two free ports, we would name Perth-Amboy for the
Eastern Division, and Trenton for the Western Divi
sion of New-Jersey, extending the privileges of the
corporation to Lamberton inclusively.
In the confident belief that our intentions at least
will meet with your approbation, and be construed by
your indulgence as well-meant efforts to promote the
interest of our country, your petitioners, as in duty
bound, shall ever pray, &c.
menacing operations and requisitions of the Emperor
with so much firmnefs and spirit.
The French funds have given way as well as our
own, on the apprehension of a continental war.
We hear that a very refpeClable gentleman from
Scotland, eminent for his learning and extensive know
ledge in commerce, has lately prepared a plan for pay
ing off the national debt, which he has laid before Mr..
Pitt and Mr. Dundas, and it is said, in many refpeds,
has met with their approbation. We doubt not that
every well-wisher to the prosperity and happiness of
this country, will confider the undertaking not only
laudable, but allo worthy of encouragement; and that
the efforts of so many eminent people as have wrote
on this fubjed, will, under the patronage and direc-'
tion of our present great Premier, at length produce
some general system, whereby this great and desirable
purpose may be accomplished.
The King of Prussia is just gone to make his an
nual review in Silesia; Prince Henry of Prussia is gone
before him; and in the suite of the Monarch is the
Marquis de Bouille, late Governor of Martinico.
'I he King of Sweden is no less remarkable than the
Prince of Wales for his expeditious mode of travelling.
He was only fourteen days in going from Paris to his
own capital. It is imagined there that some hostile
operations against a neighbouring state will be the con
sequence of his journey to Paris.
Sept. 24. Ihe Dutch have just concluded a treaty
of perpetual amity with the Court of Lisbon, by means
of which they have guaranteed forever their possessi
ons in the Eall-Indies.
We are well informed, that the firft object with
the French Ministry in uniting with the Dutch, is to
extend their fettlenients in the East-Indies, whenever
they have a pretext for another war.
Ihe Lisbon letters, which are seldom over expli
cit, intimate, that the [aft mifearriage at Algiers has
amounted to a positive defeat, and that a great num
ber of the Spanish seamen have been slaughtered.
Advices from Rouen, dated August 21, mention,
that upwards of 7000 soldiers had been at work for
some weeks past upon the fortifications ; and in clear
ing the harbour of Havre de Grace, which is to be
made capable of admitting Ships of the line within the
new moles.
They write from Constantinople, that the Grand
Vifier is exerting himfelf to the utmost to increase the
strength of the Ottoman forces, both by sea and land.
Fourteen new ships are ordered to be conftruded, and
all is in motion in the dock-yards. Notwithstanding
there are no immediate apprehensions of war, these
movements are thought to be directed merely towards
the publick security.
It is just difeovered by Opposition, that Mr. Pitt is
not the Minister of the King, the People, the Parlia
ment, or even the Junto ; nor yet the Minister of
France or Spain, but the Minister of Mrs. Hastings,
who has come over that She may be upon the fpot,and
at hand, to give him his inftru&ions!
However the revenue of India may be mismanaged
in a publick consideration, it certainly flows in private
channels very plentifully into this country; and must,
so long as we preserve our present territory, contri
bute to support the publick credit and strength of this
country, till She has surmounted all the domeftick em
barrassments that now surround us.
The bill which it is said Mr. Pitt has in contem
plation for the reform of Parliament, will go a great
way towards clearing St. Stephen's of some of its
most vociferous Members, by taking away that pe
culiar privilege which enables them to bid defiance
to those bloodhounds of the law, 'ycleped Bailiffs,
and vacating their feats by being in the custody of a
Sheriff's Officer.
The Portuguese ships in the late attack in the Me
diterranean, kept a very refpedful distance—there was
no waste of courage—no prodigality of spirit—they
followed the Keppel system precisely—and fought like
men who were desirous of fighting again to-mor
row.
The balloon influenza rages with more violence
than ever; added to balloon hats, balloon bonnets,
balloon caps, balloon ribands, and balloon pins, the
ladies have now double balloon ear-rings, and bal
loon fide-curls ; so that there are no less than seven
balloon articles appertaining to the decoration of the
most beautiful balloon in nature the head of a
pretty woman.
The Prince of Wales has sported a new travelling
carriage. It is a four-wheeled chaise, drawn by three
horses at length, the firft rode by a postilion.
1 he accounts given of a circumstance which lately
happened to Mr. Pitt, and by which his life was en
dangered, a correspondent allures us, has been mif
tated. Mr. Pitt, he informs us, had not loft his way,
but was on the main road, and coming up to a turn
pike gate, found it not only faftened, but no atten
dance given to open it. Whilst his servants were em
ployed in endeavouring to force open the gate, Mr.
Pitt got out of his chaise, and beat with his flick
against the door or window-shutters of the gate-house,
and the keeper, probably awakened out of a found
Deep, immediately difeharged a loaded piece at Mr.
Pitt, with the effe& which has been attributed to that
supposed to be fired by a gardener.
From the London Chronicle.
A Sketch of the Modern Glory of England.
'• glorious pride, and unreserved communi
cation of it to all the world.
2. Our glorious contempt of other nations, with a
felf-fufficient disregard to what they think of us; for
which they heartily despise and laugh at us.
3. Our glorious Ad n; by whose manage
ment we were soundly beaten in America, and gene
rously gave up the country, and returned home with a
becoming humility.
4. The glory of our two H s of P , in
having either no other opinion than that of the M—r,
or always opposing his opinion, because it is his.
5. Dur glorious debt of above 270 millions; which
we never can, nor intend to pay.
6. Our glorious host of increasing taxes ; which ren
ders it necessary to have a glorious income, if we shall
be able to live in this country.
7. Our glorious defying all the world to rival us
in these two last mentioned points.
8. Our glorious submission to an insolent mol )in
Ireland, into whose hands we ourselves have wifely
put arms to keep us in awe.
9. Our glorious plundering and killing the poor na
tives of the E. I. to get at their wealth; and
10. Our glorious indulgence to these robbers and
murderers, and our generous altering our opinions in
favour of them, because it is more for our own interest.
11. Our glorious highway robberies, housebreakings
and commission of murders, so frequent, numerous,
and daring, as to be unparalleled in any country in
the world; which our M y has no time or leisure
to refled seriously upon, nor to take any effectual mea
sure to prevent.
12. Our glorious indifference about the manner of
punishing very different crimes: For he who robs a
man on the road of 6d. and does him no farther hurt,
must be hanged; and he that murders another in the
most blocking manner, is also to be hanged ; and the
difference of the punishment is deferred till they are
both dead, for which he who is hanged in chains, is
much obliged to us.
13° Cur glorious lawsuits, with the comfortable
length and expence of them; whereby he who gains
the cause has reason to rejoice at having enriched the
lawyers and grown poor himfelf.
14. 1 he glorious appearance of our tradespeople,
and their breaking in consequence of it.
15. '1 he glorious living of our gentry and nobility
far beyond their income, and their fashionable omission
of paying their just debts, according to the rules of
gentility, while they provide gloriously for their
hounds and wh—s, and pay what they have loft at a
gaming table—but above all,
16. Our glorious contempt of our Maker, and glo
rying in our infidelity and debaucheries, together with
our heroick determination not to mind the hand of
God, which chastises us.
And who can enumerate all the like glories of this
kingdom? But if the mention of these few can be of
any entertainment to the publick, they are welcome
to them.
SPECTATOR.
August 9, 1784.
American Intelligence.
NEW-Y O R K, November 5.
From the appearance of the state of politicks in
Ireland, a revolution must certainly be not far dis
tant. An anxiety for the fate of a nation in a pre
dicament, from which we have, by the blessing of
Heaven, been emancipated, will be entertained in
every bread not callous to the impressions of liberty;
and not to wish them success, would be entertaining
a suspicion of that holy flame which once shone so
bright in the annals of the late revolution. They
have learned the lesson from Americans, and they
are pursuing, step by step, the fame course. Analo
gous is the establishment of the volunteer associations
with the American minutemen. Committees of cor
respondence, &c. are chosen, and the nonimporta
tion agreement has lately been adopted. Prosecuti
ons on the part of the crown, against the patriots,
have been frequent, and have met with the fame un
daunted firmnefs which they met with here, and the
far famed method of tarring and feathering now
reigns triumphant in Dublin, and other places: and
to complete the example, a delegation for a grand na
tional Congress had been chosen ,when our last ac
counts came away.
Wednesday arrived in this port the ship Four
Friends, Captain Parrot, from Bristol, after a short
passage of fix weeks. We have received several Eng
lifli papers, from which we have formed the follow