The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1784-02-17 00:00:00, page 2

Oft. 23. It is not laws alone, it is not the mere
form of government that constitutes the power and
grandeur of a people; but Something Superior to this,
an inherent quality in the people themleives, which
arises from local, from provincial causes. therefore,
whatever advantages the Americans may derive from
a general trade, or from a new fydem of legislation, if
the genius and temper of people remain the lame the
fame circumstances which have hitherto operated
against them, must keep their force, and prevent great
parrof the prosperity that is promised them. A want
of industry, a love of pleasure, an inclination to pride,
are still to be overcome, before they can eftablihi a
rich and a flourishing empire.
How differently were ladies educated in the days of
Queen Elizabeth from what they are now—then they
were not alhamed to be acquainted witli the antient
and modern languages and polite literature of every
kind ; whereas the ladies of our times, instead of
Spending their hours in reading books of science or
morality, waste away the whole of their precious mo
ments in the infpedion of toys, baubles, and trilics of
that fort, or in the mighty business of drels. These
momentous matters engross the whole of their atten
tion, and leave their minds totally unimproved. This
levity in the sex is owing principally to the peiufal of
novels, which are grown so numerous, and are so re
plete with unchaste dnd indelicate sentiments, that it
would be a great happiness if they could be suppres
sed; for they bewitch the affections of the unwary
fair, render vice familiar to artless innocence, break
down the barriers of virtue, which ought to be alto
gether impregnable, and hold up to their view pictures
of vice, that ought not to be seen even with the
Mind's eye.
James 11. when he was duke of York, took it into
demies and boarding schools, th.it any gil wearing
fays Should not be hereafter received or countenanced
in any such schools.
" We hereby allo will and command, that it be en
joined To the college of physicians, that a dJTertation,
adapted to every ones capacity, be forthwith com
posed, (hewing how materially the growth of children
of the female sex is injured by the use of days, for
the better information of parents and school-masters,
who with to procure a handsome shape to their chil
dren or pupils; as also those who are not rich enough
to alter the stays in proportion to the growth of such
children, or, having the means, negled to do it. The
above dissertation /hall be distributed gratis, and dis
persed amongst the publick.; the mote so, that whole
nations, unacquainted with the use of stays, bring up
a race of children remarkable for the healthiest con
stitutions."
We have had occasion to give an account in a for
mer paper, of the differences which have lately arisen
between the town ot Dantzic and his Prussian Ma
jesty. This matter seems likely to take a very Serious
turn, as appears by the following extrad of a letter
dated from the above city, September 12. —“ 1 he
memorial delivered on the 9th inst. by the Prussian
minister here to the president of our magistracy, has
occasioned, for these two days, the grand council of
this city being aflembled to deliberate on its contents.
The lower order or common council have delivered it
as their opinion, that nothing Should be given up in
regard to the transit of merchant men and other Ships,
nor any negociation entered into without being firft
made acquainted of his Polish majesty's intentions on
the above fubjed. Meanwhile the delay of twenty
four hours, granted by the Prussian resident, expired
yederday at noon, but was by him protracted until the
evening, with this provision, " That if an answer was
not, then given he would in confequenCe of the orders
he had received, tike Such Steps as the inhabitants
Should regret not to have prudently prevented." This
threat, however, has by no means intimidated the
members of the common council ; and I am well in
formed that the matters of toe trading companies are
to alterable this day for the purpose of Supporting, by
their representations, the arguments already urged by
their brethren of the third order, against coming into
any terms with the king of Piuuia, especially as the
grand council have come to a Similar resolution upon
their being informed that the king of Poland had taken
part for the inhabitants, as appears by a memorial
given to the Pruflian minister at Warsaw. And in
deed it is a difficult matter to determine which is best
for the city of Dantzic : to give way to the caprice
of the court of Berlin, and thus perhaps ruin the trad
ing pant of the inhabitants, or courageously repel the
blow aimed at the very existence of that commercial
city. However doubtful the Itrengih of any argu
ment may be supposed in this case, either for or against
s passive submission, it feeins that the majority of the
inhabitants are perfectly unanimous, and lelulved at all
events to oppose the pretentions of the king of Pruf
lia, and if they mull be deprived totally of this part
of their rights and privileges, to assert them boldly,
-and fee them fall a dilputed, but never a voluntary
facrilice to a monarch, who might make their pre
sent condefeention a pretence to further encroach
ments."
his head to visit Milton, merely out of curiosity. In
the course of their conversation, the duke asked Mil
ton, whether he did not think the loss of his fight was
a judgment upon him for what he had written against
his father Charles the Ift. Our immortal bard made
the following reply: " If your highness thinks that
the calamit es which befal us here, are indications of
the wrath of Heaven, io what number are we to ac
count for the fate of the king your father ? The dif
pieafure of Heaven must upon this supposition, have
been much greater against him than me, for I have
only loft my eyes, but he loft his bead.
Extras of a letter from an English gentleman at
Paris, to bis friend in Briflol, dited Oft. 22.
" The weather has been very cold and foggy in Pa
ris till Sunday lad, when, to my great surprise, I saw
an advertisement that Mr. Montg >lfer and another
gentleman were to go up with the globe that has been
so much talked of, the next day I went to the place,
and was a witness, among many thousands, of their
executing their promise. Mr M. and no less a per
lon than a ma; quis, an officer in the king's service,
went up 350 odd feet, and remained in the air some
time, and afterwards descended without the lead
hurt or inconvenience. The place they were in was a
kind of gallery, conftruded below the globe. The
next experiment is to give it a direction at will, and
meant higher : in short, this globe engrofles every
converfatioh here." ,
Nov. 12. Mr. Paine, the excellent author of Com
mon Sense, is, we are told, preparing a hiltory of the
late war in America. Mr. Paine, obviously, with all
his talents, cannot mount to the source and secret
Ipring of things, and there is one who can thus mount,
and that is General Washington. What a desidera
tum must it be in the world of letters and political at
tainment, if the General would, without delay, enter
on this great work! Of his talents in literary com
position, his circular letter alone is a fufficient proof.
Nov. 18. As the accounts of the peace could not
reach all the company's settlements before the end of
July, the next Ships from India will not in all proba
bility arrive before the middle of February at soonest,
when they may be expected to follow each other in
a very quick lucceflion of arrivals.
On Saturday at noon Some advices were received in
town from Paris, by which we learn, that a vessel is
arrived at I'Oiienc from the Edit-Indies, with de-,
fpatches lor the government, from Mons. de Suffrein,
commander of the French Squadron in India, who
writes word, that on the Second of June he received
advices by Ie Pie frigate of 24. guns, 1 aptain le Cha
valier taoier, that a peace was concluded between
France and England, on the receipt ot which intelli
gence he had taken measures, according to the instruc
tions Sent out, to make this intelligence known all over
India as early as poinbic, by dilpatciimg balks to Ba
tavia, Bombay, Madras, and other Settlements, as it
did not appear that either the Englilh or Dutch had
received any intelligence of that kind at that period.
The Commod ire had allo onpatched le tie to Penpal
as a flag of truce, in order to acquaint the Engiiih
Commodore in chief, that the eftuiion 01 more blood
might be Stopped. The Commodore, at writing of
these despatches, was at Ptincomale with fourteen
Ships of the line betides frigates, and Mons. Marigny
was cruizing off the island with three or four other
Ships.
Nov. 22. Yesterday dcfpatches were received by
the court of directors from India over-land. Un ac
count of the general court they could not be com
pletely lead, but the rumour was, that they contain
an account of an action in the Bart-Indies 111 April
last, between Tippo Saib, the successor of Hyder nl
ly, and the company's troops, under the command of
General Matthews, which was attended with a dread
ful carnage on both Sides, a 1 d it is laid, terminated in
a drawn battle. Col. Macicod and Col. Humperlton
are reported to be among the Slain. Sir Eyre Coote
died before the action.
In addition to the above disagreeable intelligence,
an account is received of the capture of the Hound
Sloop, by Mons. Suffrein ; and that the Fairford East-
Indiaman. Captain Haldane, was burnt at Bombay,
the crew fared ; the Duke of Athol, Captain Ratray,
was brown up in Madras road, with 3^o people on
board, molt of whom perilned. VVe mail in uur next
be able to give a detail of the dcfpatches.
Nov. 23. An erucipufing gemus, of the name of
Wright, has conftruded a most irgenious machine,
which he calls a diving cap, which is much superior
to all those inventions denominated diving bells, and
which have proved coffins to several diving mad-men,
who ventured in them. The dangers of drowning and
fuffocation are, by this contrivance, rendered impos
sible, the whole apparatus, weighing no more than
two pounds seven ounces, is fitted on the neck, and
inclofes the head only, giving the diver all the advan
tages of tiling his hands and feet free from any incum
brance. His machine has been examined by several
gentlemen who are fellows of the royal society, who
have been pleased to speak in its praise in terms of the
highest panegyrick. He exhibited his diving cap in
the river Nen, which runs from Wifbech to North
ampton, at a place called Peerless Pool, in the depth
of twenty-nine feet of water, and continued under wa
ter three hours and seventeen minutes, traversing up
and down rhe river near two miles, picking up as he
went, foffils, which he conveyed to the furface of the
water by a firing made of a fine cord, and a cork,
which floated as soon as he let them out of his hand,
and entertained a most numerous company of fpeda
tors with several experiments, while he was thus em
ployed in exploring a passage which never before was
explored by mortals.
The confirmation of this machine is globicular, and
is twelve inches in diameter, having a pane of glass
fixed to enable him to fee his way, and on the top of
it are two pipes of leather, guarded with rings to pre
vent prefTure, which pipes are so contrived as to float
on the water, having valves which give a free passage
of air, and which, from the peculiarity of their con
trivance, prevent the water from making way into the
cap. From such geniuses as Mr. Wright and Mon
sieur Montgolfier we may soon exped to make jour
nies to the moon, or cross over on foot from Dover to
Calais and back, with as little trouble as to go on
dry land.
The following is a true state of the news from In
dia, fer.t to us by a gentleman who was present in
the general court when it was read, and pledges him
felf for the truth of it ; Sir Eyre Coote arrived at
Madras in April, with ten lacks of rupees, from Ben
gal, after having been chafed by four French (hips:
but, most unfortunately, this old hero died two days
after he landed. Ihe grand army on the coast of
Coromandel, after Tippo Saib had quitted the Carna
tic, marched to attack the French troops at Cudda
lore : they had foiced the out-works, and there was
no doubt of their success against the place, when in
telligence arrived at Cuddalore of the peace, and then
all hostilities ceased. There was an action between
the two fleets in June, but not decisive. Colonels
Macleod arid Humberstone were attacked by the Mha
ratta fleet, and taken before the Mharatta peace was
known at Geiian; the latter unfortunately died of his
wounds, the former was released, and returned to
Bombay. The Mharatta peace was fully fettled, and
hiadajee Sindra had engaged to procure complete fa
tisfadion for this unhappy accident, from the Poona
mimfters. A correiponder.ee had been opened be
tween Bombay and Mharattas, and a day appointed
for ceding the countries we were to evacuate by trea
ty. General Matthews, after taking Mangalore, re
turned to Bidnore, where he was attacked by Tippo
Saib's whole force, and was compelled to surrender.
Tippo had iince attacked Mangalore, but was repulsed
with very great loss in three general attacks, and there
was no doubt of the garrison holding out, till rein
forced. Three hundied Europeans had failed from
Madias, for the purpole, and a strong detachment
from Bombay. No recent accounts from Bengal
all well theie by the lad letters.
THE Committee to whom was referred a memo
-L rial of the publick creditors in the city and neigh
bourhood of Philadelphia, report:
That the said memorial sets forth, “ That the Ge
neral Ahembly of the Rate of Pennsylvania did, on
the twenty-firft day of March last, pass an ad autho
rizing and directing the treasurer to make and iifue
BALiI MOR E, January 23.
The stage from Philadelphia, lait Monday, eroding
the Sufquehannah on the ice, broke in, and with dif
ficulty the passengers were saved. Two of the horses
were drowned.
PHILADELPHIA, February 11.
By the UNITED STATES in Congress assem
bled, January i„b, 1784.
BO ST O N, Jan. if.
The accounts from the East-Indies appear to be
important indeed, and plainly shew, that had the late
war continued, meft of the British pofEffions would
have been in great danger of being wholly loft, as well
as their armies captured. The arms of France and
their allies, were perhaps never so victorious in the
Eaft,y botli by lea and land, as they have been during
the late war.
SALE M, January 22.
Last evening, about 40 minutes after 6, was disco
vered in the S W. a Comet of very considerable mag
nitude, whose tail extended two or thiee degrees, be
ing at that time more than an hour high, for it set
about 15 minutes before 8 o'clock. Its place in the
iieavei.s, as nearly as could be judged, was between
the condellations of Caetus and Aquarius, and nearly
upon the tropic of Capricorn. The point of the ho
rizon it fat in was S, W. by W. a little southerly.—
It leems to be retiring from the fun; if so, his pro
bable it may be viewed for a good while to come.
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