The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1783-02-19 00:00:00, page 3

on the meeting of parliament in the present crilb
of affairs, is expected to be interesting indeed.
We are affiired the principal object of dispute be
tween the different powers, is the East-Indies.
Six thopfand troops are ordered to be immediate
ly got ready, to be sent to the Weft-Indies by the
firft convoy that will fail.
Tuesday last forty large ships were taken up into
government service, and ordered to be got ready for
sea as soon as possible, to convey over troops and
provisions for the Weft-Indies.
Yesterday twenty more large ships were taken up
into government service, to convey over qoco Han
overian troops which are to fail with the firft con
voy.
St. J AME S's, November az.
It is this day ordered by his Majesty in council,
that the parliament, which was to meet on the 26th
of November instant, be prorogued to Thursday the
sh day of December next, then to meet for the
dispatch of business.
BOSTO N, February 3.
Wednesday arrived fafe in port a ship of 20 guns,
prize to the continental frigate Hague, John Man
ley, Esquire, commander ; foe was from St. Lucia,
bound to St. Martins, and has about 1600 barrels
provisions on board. This is the sth pri%e Captain
Manley has sent into port on his late cruize.
HARTFORD, February 4.
Receipt of Continental Taxes from the Rate of Con
nedicut.
For the month of January, 1783, received Six
teen Thousand Four Hundred and Seventy-one Dol
lars. HEZ. MERRIL, receiver of taxes
for Connecticut.
February 11.
At a General Assembly of the Governor and Com
pany of the Rate of Connecticut, in America,
holden at Hartford, by special order of the Go
vernor, on the Bth day of January, A. D. 1783.
UPON the memorial of Jonathan Arnold, of Hart
ford, in the county of Hartford, in the state of
Connecticut, Dewing to this Assembly, that he is
a Serjeant in the continental army, and unfortu
nately bears the furnante of the infamous Benedict
Arnold, once a Major-General in the armies of the
United States, now a traitor and deserter. —That
some time after the desertion of the said Benedict,
the Hon. Major-General Baron Stuben, pitying the
misfortune of any person friendly to the American
cause, doomed to bear the fame name with a noto
rious traitor, offered the memorialift liberty to as
sume the name of Stuben, and by that name to be
known and called ; and engaged to your memorial
ift, on his taking and assuming the said name of Stu
ben, to pay to him the sum of Two Dollars per
month, during the present war, &c. —Praying this
Assembly, to permit him to affiime the surname of
Stuben, and by that name to be hereafter known
and called, as per memorial on file, dated the 30th
of January, 1783.
Be it enaCted by the Governor, Council and Re
presentatives in General Court assembled, and by
the authority of the fame, That the said memorial?
ift have liberty, and liberty is hereby granted to him,
to take upon himfclf the surname of Stuben, instead
of that of Arnold, and that the memorialift's sur
name be Stuben, and that by that name in all legal
proceedings he be ever hereafter known and called.
A true copy of record, examined by
GEORGE WYLLYS, Sec'ry.
NEW-LONDON, February 7.
Captain Rose, in a (loop belonging tg Norwich,
on his passage from the Weft-Indies for this port,
was captured by a British frigate and ordered for
New-York ; but was last week re-taken off the Hook
by a privateer from Rhode-Ifland, and carried into
Newport.
NEW-HAVE N, February 6.
The publick are cautioned to beware of counter
feit Spanish dollars; they are dated (779; evident
ly appear to be base metal; they ^e easily distin
guished from the true ones, the workmanship being
very indifferently executed.
FIS H-K I L L, January 30.
The following are extracted from a late London
paper :
Extract of a letter from Paris, October 6.
'' On the firft of this month Mr. Fitzherbert
had a long conference with the Comtes de Vergen
nes and D'Aranda, Meffieures Gerard de Brantzen,
Benjamin Franklin, and de Berkenrode, and pre
sented frefh letters of credence, by which his Bri
tannick Majesty authorizes him to sign a treaty, in
which that prince and his parliament proposed to
acknowledge the independency of the Americans,
as a prelude to the great work of peace; at present
the arrival of Ministers from Cougrefs are waited
for, and certain intelligence of the evacuation of the
Fourteen United Provinces by the Englilh troops,
before the conference can go on.
" It is said that Mr. Gerard de Ravneval, firft se
cretary of the navy, was sent to London by the
Count de Vergennes, to get the aft which established
the independency of the Americans signed by King
George the third and his Minivers."
N E W-Y O R K, Feb. ir, 1783.
By the brig Ranger, Captain Roger Boyce, who
left France the 23d of December, 1782, and cap
tured on the 6th instant, by the Eagle privateer,
Captain George Bennifon, arrived here this evening,
the following important letter was received :
Extract of a letter from the Right Honourable T.
Townihend, Secretary of State, to the Lord
Mayor of London, dated the 3d of Dec. 1782.
My LORD,
IN consequence of my letter to your Lordship, of
the 22d of last month, I take the earliest opportu
nity to inform your Lordship that an express has just
arrived from Paris, who brings the preliminary ar
ticles for a peace, signed on the 30th of November,
by the Ambassadors on the part of England, and
those on the part of the United States of America ;
it now only remains to sign the fame articles between
Great-Britain and France, to constitute a general
peace, and this notice you will give to the publick
as soon as possible.
R I C.H M O N p, February 1.
The brig Buck, Captain Williams, belonging to
this port, on her voyage to St, Kitts, unfortunately
foundered in the Gplph stream the 6th instant, by
which melancholy disaster, eighteen out of twenty
two of her crew periled.—The Captain and three
of his men were taken up by Captain Folger, and
carried into Baltimore, after being on the wreck
fixty-five hours.
assembled, January 15, 1783.
THE Honourable the Minister Plenipotentiary of
his Most Christian Majesty having notified to Con
gress, that the term allowed tp the capitulants of
St. Christopher's, Nevis and Montserrat, for receiv
ing cargoes fi om Great-Britain, and for loading back
the vessels under neutral colours for that kingdom,
is expired, and that the Governor General ai those
inlands is inftrutted to grant no more permits for
such purposes.
Ordered, That the notification be publilhed.
CHARLES THOMSON, Sec'ry.
Extract of a letter from St. Christopher's, dated
January 16, 1783.
" You have enclosed a copy of the Honourable
Mr. Townihend's letter to the Governor and di
rectors of the bank of England, which firft gave rife
to the idea of peace. Since then the Governor of
Dominique has wrote Count Dillon, that the Anson
man of war arrived at Barbadoes the Bth inst. and
left England the 10th ult. She brings an account
of peace, and the different defpatches from govern
ment.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 5 .
By the UNITED STATES in CONGRESS
" If the above accounts are true, you will have
them in America before this reaches you.
" I saw a gentleman from St. Thomas's, who left
that island eight days ago: he informs me the news
had the fame effect there that it has had here."
Extract of a letter from St. Christopher's, dated Ja
nuary 17, 1783.
" Count Dillon has received a letter from the Go
vernor of Dominica, informing him of the arrival
of the Anson man of war at Barbadoes, with an ac
count of the preliminaries of peace being actually
signed before her departure from England, which
was the 10th of December.
" From the different advices we have lately had
from thence, we are inclined to believe this is the
case.
" This piece of news you may readily suppose has
put a hop to all business, until it shall be confirmed
or contradicted.
" A snow just arrived from Oftend, which she left
the 3d of December, brings an account that every
body there expected peace would ihortly take place."
ExtraCt of a letter from Baltimore, dated February
7, 1783.
" You fee by the enclosed (the accounts from St.
Kitts) what the opinion of a peace is grounded on,
which seems generally believed here; added to this
account we have a ship from St. Croix, in a short
passage, that spoke a neutral schooner, the Captain
of which assured that he h^d spoke Captain Barry,
in the Alliance, on his way to the Cape, to prevent
any further operations in that quarter, and that hof
tilitics had absolutely ccafed in Europe."
ExtraCt of a letter from St, Thomas's, dated De
cember 30, 1782.
" All profpeaof peace seems to have vanished for
the ensuing twelve months, and should Great-Bri
tairi be as fuccefsful the following year, as she has
been this, it is more than probable we ihall not have
a peace in lel's than two years.
January i, 1783.
" The veffgl having been detained to the present,
I have to acquaint you, that such advices have ar
rived from England, as leave a very great probabi
lity of a peace being concluded by this date.
" I enclose, for your better information, a copy
of the secretary of ftatc's letter to the Governor
and directors of the bank of Rugland, from which
you can draw your own conclusion.
" The letter referred to, though it advises the
possibility, yet leaves a very great uncertainty of such
an event taking place, by allowing so fliort a time
for the fcttlemcnt of so important an object.
" M e Gerard, who went over so London as ple
nipotentiary, with intention of reliding there three
TR ENTO N, February 19.
Extract of a letter from the postmaster at Head-
Quarters, February 12, 1783.
" Col. Barber, of the Jersey line, riding near where
some soldiers were cutting a tree, as he was oppo
site to it, it fell, and in an instant crulhed to death
both him and his horse."
months, departed on the third day after his arrival,
with proportions delivered as the ultimatum of the
British court; and Mr. Fitzherbert, the British resi
dent at Versailles,, is directed to leave that court if
the proposals are not immediately accepted.
" The vessel by which the above intelligence was
received had a passage of twenty-eight days from
Plymouth. By her we also learn, that preparations
are still carrying on with the greatest vigour for the
ensuing campaign, should there be one. Four thou
sand troops to be sent to the Weft-Indies, for which
transports are already engaged."
On Sunday last the body of Thomas Kelly, an
old inhabitant of this place, was found in the race
between the grist and paper-mills, where it is sup
posed he was drowned on the night of the 23d of
December last, as he has been miffing ever lince.
He was fond of strong liquor, which perhaps was
the cause of his untimely death, and which, it is
hoped, will be a warning to all others fubjeft to this
failing.
*“* The LAWS palled at the last fitting of the
Legislature of this State are printed, and ready to
be delivered.
TO b E sin'i),
By the fubferiber, on the premises, in Pennington,
eight miles from Trenton, in a very publick place,
viz.
ONE large convenient brick house, with four
rooms on the lowgr floor, and five on the up
per, a large entry through the centre below, and a
imall one above, a good cellar under the whole in
three divisions, a large kitchen adjoining said house,
a large store-house, one final! do. a large smoke
house, a good barn, about three acres of excellent
meadow, about eight acres of good pasture land,
a good garden ; ail convenient to said house ; a
number of excellent iruit trees: Also one frame house
and garden adjoining, five acres of good woodland.
If not fold by 17th M^rch, may be rented for a term
of years. 2 w JOSEPH INSLEE.
TO BE SOLD,
On reasonable terms, the full blooded horse
KOULI-KHANN,
RISING fix years old ; he is a dark brown, with
a star, full fifteen hands high, bony and firong,
well proportioned, very gay and moves well ; he
was got by Bajazet (a son of Wclftcnholmes Tan
ner) his dam was Mr. Hiltzheimer's Molly Paco
let, she was got by the late Col. Hopper's Pacolet,
grand-dam by old Spark, great grand-dam was called
Queen Mab, and her great great grand-dam Miss
Calwell ; he covers well, and has got large hand
some colts; also a handsome pair of well matched
brown carriage horses, full 15 hands high,<that move
well and are very gentle ; a full blooded bay mare
of the Juniper breed, with a yearling full blooded
colt got by Traveller. For further particulars ap
ply to Mr. Abraham Hunt in Trenton, or the sub
scriber at Bowhill farm, Nottingham, Burlington
county, where they may be seen.
RANDLE MITCHELL.
February 178 j: 2m
Notice is hereby given,
qpHAT a court will be held at the dwellinghoufe
- Los Ephraim Harris, Esquire, on Thursday the
13th day of March n\xt, at ten o'clock in the fore
noon of the said day, then and there to try the
truth of the fads alledged in'the bills of Captain
William Low, against the armed boat Blacksnake,
her tackle, apparel and furniture, lately commanded
by Andrew Gillis, and bound from New-York on a
cruize in the river Delaware, and captured by the
said William Low in a small creek of the said river,
on the 31st day of January last: Likewise against
a small sloop, her tackle, apparel and furniture,
name unknown, burthen about ten tons, said to
have been late the property of Amos Irclan, cap
tured by the said armed boat in the afortfaid creek,
and re-captured by the said William Low in the
river Delaware, on the day aforefaid : Likewise
against an oyfterboat, her tackle, apparel and furni
ture, name unknown, said to have been late the pro
perty of Daniel Taylor, captured in the said creek
by the armed boat aforefaid, and re-captured by the
said William Low on the day aforefaid : And like
wise against a certain schooner, name unknown,
burthen about 28 tons, her tackle, apparel, furni
ture and cargo, consisting of a quantity of wheat
and corn, bound from Duck-Creek to Philadelphia,
and captured by the said armed boat in the river
Delaware, and re-captured in the said river by the
said William Low on the 3d of February, irift. to
the end and intent that the owner or owners, or
any other person claiming the said vessels, or any
of them, or any part of them or their cargoes, may
appear and shew cause, if any they have, why the
said vessels, &c. fliould not be condemned to the
captors, agreeably to the prayer of the said bills.
WILLIAM LOW.
Cumberland, Feb. 10, 1,83. ywf