The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1784-01-06 00:00:00, page 3

AfcAionate WIFE and beroick D AUG HTER.
NO W a-days, when a princess enters in the fifth
month of her pregnancy, physicians, surgeons,
and men-midwives, assume the direction of her health;
die is scarce allowed to go out of her appartment, in
the easiest carriage and the smoothest road ; the rifque
is too great for her condition; was (he ever so deiir
ous of making an excursion only from Versailles to
Fontainbleau, they would with very solemn faces op
pose it. Cayet, sub preceptor to Henry IV. relates,
that “ Jean of Albert, having requested t® accompany
her husband in the Picardy Wars, the king, her father,
laid his commands on her, should die prove with child,
to come away with her big belly to him, to be de
livered in his house, and he would take care of the
child, boy or girl." This princess being pregnant,
in her ninth month, set out from Campaigns, eroded
all France down to the Parennes, and in a fortnight
reached Pan in Berne. She was very desirous (adds
the historian) to fee her father's will, which was kept
in a large gold box, with which also was a large gold
chain,' of such a length as to go twenty-five or thirty
times about a woman's neck; (he asked him for it :—
“ Thou (halt have it, said he, on thy shewing me the
child now in thy womb, so that it be no puny, whim
pering chit: I give thee my word the whole ihall be
thine, provided that whilst thou art in labour, thou
fingeft me a Berne song, and I will be at thy delive
ry." Between midnight and one o'clock, on the 13th
of December, 1553, the princess's pains came on;
her father, on notice, hastened down, and (he hear
ing him come into the room, chanted out the old
Berne lay :
Notre dame du bout du pont,
Aidez moi en cette beure, &c.
Immediately after her delivery, her father put the
gold chain about her neck, and gave her the gold box,
in which was his will, faying, " There, girl, that is
thine, but this belongs to me," taking up the babe in
his gown, without staying till it was dressed, and car
ried it away to his apartment. The little prince was
fed and brought up, so as to inure him to fatigue and
hardship, frequently eating nothing but the coarsest
common bread ; the good king, his grandfather, had
given such orders. He used, according to the custom
of the country, to run about bare-headed and bare
footed, with the village boys, both in winter and sum
mer. Who was this prince? Henry IV.
phiLTD-EXTHTAr D ec . 3 i.
Extras of a letter from a gentleman in Annapolis,
to his friend in this city, dated Dec. 23, 1783.
" At 12 o'clock to-day General Washington
was admitted to a publick audience, at which he made
a very affeding address, and presented his commiflion
to the United States in Congress assembled ; there
were present, the Governor of this State, the Coun
cil, and both Houses of Assembly, together with sun
dry military officers of diftindion, and many ladies.
" The circumstance being extraordinary, and to the
General more honourable than any that is recorded
in history, produced such effects as might have been
expected ; it drew tears from most of the fpedators."
A kind correspondent has favoured us with the fol
lowing copy of his Excellency's ADDRESS
to the United States in Congress assembled,
with their Answer.
Mr. President,
THE great events on which my resignation de
pended having at length taken place, I have
Dow the honour of offering my sincere congratulations
to Congress, and of presenting myfelf before them to
surrender into their hands the trust committed to me,
and to claim the indulgence of retiring from the ser
vice of my country.
the blacksmith did not understand, and could not ex
ecute. The boy slept on it one night, and the next
morning went to the smith, explained the thing, and
saw it executed. When the farmer came for his
plough, he Ihook his head at it; but taking it to his
field, found the performance far beyond his warmest
expectation; so he gave the boy half a crown. He
invented a new ax for the carpenter of the village,
and a new anvil for the blacksmith. His father, when
he was fourteen, put him apprentice (like an ideot)
to a wool-comber. The boy ran-away, and served a
watchmaker for nothing, who, finding him endowed
with good parts, took him apprentice. His work and
invention in that branch were very great: He made a
watch without a wheel, in which a lever of the firft
kind vibrated seconds. When out of his time, his
third for knowledge made him walk to London, where
nobody took any notice of him. He went to Paris,
working for his support at his trade. At Mountmar
tre, feeing the expence of grinding stone for plaster,
he proposed to the surveyor of the work to erect a
machine that fliould do it for a fiftieth part of the
charge. The academy of sciences appointed d'Alem
bert to examine the proportion, who reporting favour
ably, the king ordered the execution, and the work
aftoniihed every body. Stacie had a pension of 100
louis; upon which he set off for Italy, where he is at
present, but intends fettling in France, to the eternal
disgrace of England !
(Signed) G. WASHINGTON.
City of Annapolis, December 23, 1783.
ANSWER of CONGRESS.
"tHE United States in Congress assembled receive,
I with emotions too affecting for utterance, the so
lemn resignation of the authorities under which you
have led their troops with success, through a perilous
and doubtful war.
Called upon by your country to defend its invaded
rights, you accepted the sacred charge before it had
formed alliances, and whilst it was without friends or
a government to support you.
You have conducted the great military contest with
wisdom and fortitude, invariably regarding the rights
of the civil power through all difaters and changes;
you have, by the love and confidence of your fellow
citizens, enabled them to display their martial genius,
and trantmit their fame to poftcrity ; you have perle
vered, till these United States, aided by a magnani
mous King and nation, have been enabled, under a
just Providence, to close the war in freedom, fafety
and independence ; on which happy event we lincerely
join you in congratulations.
Having defended the itandard of liberty in this new
world —having taught a lesson ufeful to those who in
flict, and to those who feel oppression, you retire from
the great theatre of action with the bleilings of your
fellow-citizens; but the glory of your virtues will @t
terminate with your military command, it will conti
nue to animate remotest ages. We feel, with you, our
obligations to the army in general, and will particu
larly charge ourselves with the interest of thole confi
dential officers, who have attended your person to this
affecting moment.
We join you in commending the interest of our dear
est country to the protection of Almighty God, be
seeching him to dispose the hearts and minds of its
citizens to improve the opportunity afforded them, of
becoming a happy and respectable nation; and for you,
we address to him our earnest prayers, that a life so
beloved may be foftcred with all his care: That your
days may be happy as they have been illustrious, and
that he will finally give you that reward which this
world cannot give.
Happy in the confirmation of out independence and
sovereignty, and pleased with the opportunity afforded
the United States of becoming a respectable nation, I
resign, with fatisfadion, the appointment I accepted
with diffidence ; a diffidence in my abilities toaccom
plifh so arduous a talk, which however was fuperceded
by a confidence in the rectitude of our cause, the sup
port of the Supreme Power of the union, and the pa
tronage of Heaven.
The fuccefsful termination of the war has verified
the most sanguine expectations, and my gratitude for
the interposition of Providence, and the assistance I
have received from my countrymen, encreafes with
every review of the momentous contest.
While I repeat my obligations to the army in ge
neral, I should do injustice to my own feelings not to
acknowledge, in this place, the peculiar services and
distinguished merits of the persons who have b^en at
tached to my person during the war: It was impossi
ble the choice of confidential officers to compose my
family should have been more fortunate; permit me,
Sir, to recommend in particular those who have con
tinued in the service to the present moment, as wor
thy of the favourable notice and patronage of Congress.
I confider it as an indispensable duty to close this
last solemn act of my official life, by commending the
interests of our dearest country to the protection of
Almighty God, and those who have the fuperintendar.ee
of them to his holy keeping.
Having now finifhed the work aligned me, I retire
from the great theatre of adion; and bidding an af
fectionate farewell to this august Body, under whose
orders I have long acted, I here offer my commission,
and take my leave of all the employments of publick
life.
Extras of a letter from a boufe in London, to a merchant
in Boflon, dated Sept. 15, 1783.
" In justice to our unfortunate countrymen, who
have been eftablilhed in France lince the war, we fend
you an extract of a letter, received from a gentleman
in a refpedable character at Paris, which we beg you
will cause to be published in all the different newspa
pers in New-England."
" Dear Sir, Paris, zotb Aug. 1783.
" It is with the greatest anxiety, that I contemplate
the distress in which the merchants in most of the Eu
ropean ports are so generally involved, in consequence
of the sudden event of peace, and the unexpected ef
fects it has had in almost every branch of trade. The
repeated failures, in every part of Europe, have in
volved feyeral of the most eminent bankers in this ci
ty in their fall, and induced the remaining ones to
withdraw their credit from the merchants. A circum
stance of this nature is doubly injurious to them in
this critical moment, wher they stand most in need
of a temporary support. Almost every post brings us
intelligence of the continual failures of respectable
houses at Bourdeaux ; and it is with regret I find,
that no class of merchants have been more materially
hurt by the peace, than ou- own countrymen; seve
ral of whom have formed (ftablifoments in the differ
ent posts upon the Bay of Biscay, in a very refpeda
ble and lucrative line. At the return of peace, many
of them were in the most flourifhing situations, and #
near the summit of their ambition, and in possession
of the fulleft confidence of the people ; but alas! since
that period, what a fatal reverse, almost totally fbut
out from every commercial communication with Ame
rica, they have been at once deprived of their usual
J. A. De Florat,
Begs leave to inform Ladies and Gen-
TLEMEN,
" AT he has lately arrived in this town, where
4 he proposes to draw likenesses in miniature and
portrait painting. He assures those who may incline
to employ him, that he has a happy turn at this
branch—and flatters himfelf he can give full fatisfac
tion. He resides at the house lately occupied by Mrs.
Dunbar, next door to Ebenezer Cowell, Esq.
1 renton, ]^;, LZ^ 2Wl[
TO B L D,
A Negro man, about 30 years of age;
has been kept to plantation work
these 20-years pafL There will be some
time given for part of the money, if it
should best suit the purchaser. For par
ticulars enquire of the subscriber in Hope
well - MINNE GULICK.
_December 30, 1783. 2 w
ALL perlons residing on or near the
road from Trenton to Elizabeth
'wh° w " h to become fubferibers to'
the New-Jersey Gazette, may have
their packets carried, on moderate terms,
b y applying to
JAMES MARTIN, Pofl-rider.
The fliip Favourite, Captain Vallance, is arrived in
our river, in 7 weeks from Cork; the brings an ac
count of the meeting of the parliament of Ireland,
on the 27th of October, when Sir Edward Newenham
laid: That though not perfectly recovered in his
health, he came to attend his duty that day, in order
to lay before parliament information of the greatest
national importance, and therefore requested the atten
tion of the house for a few moments; his information
was contained in a letter from a nobleman of exalted
rank in France, dated the 2d of October, 1783- an
extract of which he read as follows:
" Notwithstanding your friends have spoken about
including Ireland in the commercial treaty now pend
ing between Great-Britain and the United States of
North-America, the British Commissioner has not done
it; I am inclined to think the question was asked him,
and he (Mr. Hartley) wrote home for intrusions'
but none have arrived ; therefore you have no time to
lose in taking proper and ipeedy measures to have
Ireland included by name; otherwise there will arise
numberless doubts, delays and misunderstandings be
tween the two countries, and which may prove equally
detrimental to both;—the treaty is now open, and
may possibly be loon re-assumed; lam confident that
the American Ministers, Mr. Adams, Dr Franklin and
Mr. Jay, will most cordially agree to include Ireland,
and give her every possible equal commercial advan
tage, but it cannot be done unless Ireland is included
in that or some other treaty."
He had, he said, thought it his duty to lay the
above information before the house, but he did not
intend to embarrass government by tendering any mo
tions or resolutions at present; he only solicited justice
for his country, and requested that those whole duty
it is would take these matters into immediate consi
deration; the treaty continued open on the 4th of
this month; no time, not even one post, ought to
be loft; the treaty might be signed, and Ireland left
out; it that should happen, this nation will experience
greater difficulties, than we luffer by the omiflion of
Ireland in the treaty with Portugal. This house will
then be foiced to take it up in the warmest manner,
and find commissioners to Paris. For the present,
he should leave it in the hands of those who have
power and abilities to do us justice, and trifled they
were desirous of preventing future jealousies.
They will, I dare fay, in America (and very na
turally) suppose that a suspension and failure are fy
nonimous terms, and produce the fame effects, but
this is far from being the case. The diftrefles have
been so general, and the state of their books so fair,
that government has not hesitated totally to protest
them, until they can receive their funds ; when tiiis is
the case they will enjoy the confidence of the people,
in the fame degree as if no suspension had ever taken
place."
resources of consignments ; and what is more distressing,
of their own funds, laying in different parts of America.
" In consequence of so many complicated and dis
tressing circumhances, some of our firft American
houses have been under the unavoidable necessity of
claiming from government a suspension from one to
two years; which has been granted. Those who shall
still keep their ground, stand upon the brink of the
fame precipice, and without immediate relief, mult
necessarily have recourse to the fame alternative. I
am however happy in observing, that a temporary in
convenience will be the only consequence, as you well
know that suspensions in this country are never granted,
except when the merchant can fully prove by his books
that he possesses efficient property to pay all his cre
ditors twenty Shillings in the pound; fortunately this
is the case with every American house, that was well
eftablilhed, and indeed most of them have realized so
much beyond it, that they will be effectually enabled
to revive their houses, and return again to 'the fame
refpe&able line, when affairs are better regulated, and
their funds come in.