The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1780-01-19 00:00:00, page 2

EXTRACT from the Journals of Congress.
Thursday, November 2§, 1779.
WHERE AS ('ongiefs, by sundry resolutions,
have provided that eloathing be furnifhed to
officers of the line and others at prices proportioned
to their pay; but no enumeration of the articles in
tended to be comprehended in a suit of cloaths hav
ing been made, or any rules explicitly laid down
for the delivery of or payment for the fame;
Refulved, That the following articles be delivered
as a suit of cloaths for the current and every suc
ceeding year of their service, to the officers of the
line and ftaff intitled by any resolutions of Congress
to receive the fame, viz.
One hat,
One warch-coat,
One body-coat,
Four vests, one for winter, and three for summer,
Four pair of breeches, two for winter, and two
for summer,
Four shirts,
Four stocks,
Six pair of flockings, three pair worsted, and
three thread,
Four pair of shoes.
For which articles of eloathing the officers shall
pay, on receipt thereof, one half more than the
prices at which the fame were currently fold before
the commencement of hostilities in April, 1775; and
for this end the purchasing agents employed on con
tinental account shall transmit to the clothier gene
ral, with the eloathing they shall refpe&vely pur
chase, the prices marked thereon at the rates arore
faid, and also correft invoices of the fame, and co
pies of such rates and invoices, to the board of war.
And all cloathing purchased on continental account
by the refpe&ive states shall be valued, marked anQ
invoiced in like manner, and copies of such invoices
and rates also transmitted to the board of war and
the clothier general: the cloathing so purchased
shall be distributed to and among the sub or state
clothiers, to be issued by them to the regimental
clothiers, and by the latter to the officers of the
regiments and corps; and the said regimental clo
thiers shall receive from the officers, on delivery of
the cloatMg. the prices thereof so fixed; and they
shall every three months fettle their accounts of
monies received for cloathing with the auditors of
the army in which they shall serve, and pay the mo
nies which in such settlements shall be found charge
able to them or in their hands to the paymaster ge
neral or deputy paymaster general of the army or
detachment in which such regimental clothier shall
serve rind the said paymaster general or deputy
paymaster general shall make returns of the amount
of all such monies so received to the board of trea
sury. that the said paymatter general or deputy pay
master general may be duly charged with the fame.
The auditors making such settlements with the regi
mental clothiers shall transmit to the paymaster or
deputy paymaster general abttraas of such settle
ments, fpecifying the balances due from the regi
mental clothiers refpe&ively, that in cases of negled
they may be duly called on for payment of the fame:
copies of such abftra&s shall also be transmitted to
the board of treasury. Excepting from this rule of
distribution all tiff-officers not taken from the line,
who are to receive their cloathing immediately from
the clohier general; or, if attached to the corps of
or residing in any state at a distance from the clothi
er general's store, from the sub clothier of fucli
state; paying for the fame at the rates aforefaid.—
And all monies so received by the clothier general
or such sub or state clothiers, shall be placed to the
credit of the United States, and accounts thereof
duly transmitted to the board of treasury. The clo
thier general to be charged in the settlement of his
contingent account with the monies so received, and
the sub or state clothiers to be accountable for and
pay the monies received by them to the order of the
executive of the state, appointing them respectively;
and the state to be charged in its cloathing account
with the amount of such monies. Excepting also
all Raff-officers who receive commissions on their ex
penditures of public monies, who are not to receive
any cloathing provided at continental expence.
That all cloathing issued to non-commilhoned of
ficers and foidiers, inlifted artificers and waggoners,
beyond that allowed to them as a bounty, shall also
be valued and paid for at the rate before-mentioned;
but no non-commiflioned officer, soldier, waggoner
or artificer, shall be intitled to purchase in any one
year out of the public store any other additional ar
ticles than those of hats, hole, shirts and shoes, and
not more of these than are absolutely necessary, and
not exceeding the number of the like articles allow
ed as their bounty cloathing.
Tb^ all the cloathing before-mentioned for offi
cers in the line and soldiers, shall be issued on re
turns certified by the commanding officer of the
corps to which they belong; all cloathing to ftaff
officers on the certificates of their principal with the
army or in the dißri& within which they shall serve;
to artificers on the certificate of the commanding of
ficer of their corps; and to waggoners on the certi
ficate of the quartermatter general, one of the assist
ant quartermasters general, or of the deputy quar
termaster general employing them, or of the waggon
matter general or deputy waggonmafter general un
der whom they fetve.
That no ftaff-officer, artificer or waggoner, not
being engaged for at lead one year, shall receive
cloathing; and if any such officer, artificer or wag
goner, being engaged for one year or more, after
receipt of such cloathing, shall quit the service be
fore the expiration of the term for which he or they
are or ihall be engaged, he or they shall forfeit and
pay the full value of such cloathing, and be fobjeft
to all other penalties and inconveniencies attending
his or their breach of contra&, or defertiou.
APerfon named Curt, a rich Pacha, an Albanian
by birth, and the two Pachas ufCavaja and Del
vina in Epirus, have joined their party, and may ren
der the rebellion of the former longer and more diffi
cult to quell. It is even pretended, that the Main
ot.es or Magnotes, inhabitants of the ancient gulph of
Laceocmonia, contorting of 40,000 persons, all natu
ral enem es ofthe Turks, who have never been able to
subdue them, will also take part with the Arnauts.
Con/lantinople, dn^uft 3. Divers disadvantageous
reports had for some days part difquicted the Porte,
relative to the situation of affairs in the Morea; but
we are this moment informed, that three Tartars,
headed by an officer, are arrived with the news of an
important advantage gained by the Captain Pacha,
over the Albanians, the principal circumstances of
which are, that that Turkish Hero having by artifice,
induced the rebels to make a felly from the fort of
Tripolizza, fell unexpectedly upon them, and beat
them in inch a manner, that many hundreds remain
ed dead on the spot, and the rest with great difficulty
entered the fortrefs, which will be immediately be
sieged. The number of heads cut off is so great, that
they cannot be lent by land, but a vessel is hired to
bring them hither. The Captain Pacha hath also
seized the Pacha of the Morea, who lately revolted
against the Grand Signior, and joined the rebel
Albanians.
Naples, August 17. On Wednesday last Mount Ve
suvius alarmed us again; but a quantity of lava being
difeharged, it is hoped this tremendous eruption is
neaily at an end. The whole country for three miles
round Ottaiano, lies buried under the alhes of Vefu
viur, and had that shower continued for one hour
longer, every inhabitant of that town must have pe
rished under the ruins of the houses, as in the city of
Pompeji, in the reign of TitUs As yet we have only
heard of two lives being loft, though the destruction
and delolation of the country about Ottaiano is be
yond description, and the damage estimated at Icafr
30c,00c ducats.
Ferrara, Augufi 24. We flill continue to have
shocks of earthquakes in the Bolognefe; and last Sun
day there was a very violent one. Our letters from
Rome mention, that some frefh differences h ive arisen
between the Court of Naples and the Holy See, which
daily become more lerious, particularly in relation to
the Archbifnop's being railed to the dignity of a
cardinal. —
Extrails from Englif papers, dated in "July and August
last.
L ON D O N.
A correspondent fays, the American refugees are
the persons who have principally and originally de
ceived this country. They firft deceived ministers ;
who listening to their falfe tales, adopted their mad
theories, ano have thereby almost ruined the nation,
by attempting to put them into practice.
It is with concern we hear, from refpeftable autho
rity, that the very important fortrefs of Gibraltar is
actually besieged from the lea by 10 fail of the line,
and from the land fide by a very numerous army, ac
companied with an immense train of artillery. And
what makes this circumstance the more alarming is,
that we have but one single ship of 60 guns, two fri
gates, and two fioops of war, on that Ration, or in
the whole Mediterranean. A gentleman well ac
qininted with that garrison, allows it to be impreg
nable to anv land force; but, if the Spaniards can at
the fame time invert: it by a superior naval force, it
must inevitably fall.
Affairs are approaching faft to a crisis, that cannot
fail to make people furious against the authors of pub
lic misfortunes. An offended nation will ferret out of
their lurking holes those wretches, whose weakness
or treachery has brought this great empire to its ruin.
Administration forefee the storm, and they have en
deavoured to prepare for it, by milleading the judg
ment of the public with hired publications, calculated
to turn that national resentment which ought to fall
upon thcmfelves, upon those illustrious patriots, who
have so long forewarned their country of the inevita
ble misfortunes which administration have brought
upon it. This is the scope and design of the History
of Opposition, that lying record ofthe tranfaftions of
VENICE, July 27.
the last session. We hope, however, that our ct>"in
trymen will suspend their judgment on this fubjed,
as a History of Administration, during the fame peri
od, will soon convince an offended people, where the
hand of public vengeance ought to fall. That it may
fall suddenly is the sincere prayer of every one that
loves his country.
The wretched tool of a worthless and wicked ad
ministration, who has presumed to defame all the
members of opposition, in a late pamphlet, has bor
rowed all he fays on American fubjedts, from the evi
dences of thbfe two immaculate ministerial witnesses,
Messrs. Robertson and Galloway; the firft an avarici
ous designing barrack-master, and the second a paltry
attorney, whom the Congress, on account of his ho
nest views in favour of his own interest, thought un
worthy of a feat among them. The writer of the
" short history passed entirely bver the evidence of
those btave and honourable officers, Lord Cornwallis
and General Grey." But truth did not suit his plan
of deception; for he was hired to tell fallhoods, to
support an abandoned set of men, who have not a sin
gle friend that is not either bought or deceived.
lb it not a Shameful thing that the ministry Should be
bogging fubferiptions from the Citizens of London
and Weflminfter, whom they have nearly ruined to
Support their blundering measures, while so many
thousand American refugees are supported in idleness
and luxury at the expence of the public treasure? If
these people are such staunch friends to government
as they pretend, why do they not go and fight its
cause in America, instead of parading to St. James's
with their fulfome addresses and empty nonsense?
A correspondent fays, that to accuse the innocent,
that the guilty may go unpunished, is the present
mode of Court defence. Thus to save Lord George
Germain, General Burgoyne and Sir William Howe
were attacked; to save Lord Sandwich, Admiral
Keppel was Slandered; and now to save the whole
Ministry, Opposition is to be charged with their mal
administration: but it js surprising that the fruitlefs
attempts of Sir Hugh Pallifer on Admiral Keppel,
have not sickened Ministry of this manner of proceed
ing ; of which, it is said, Lord Sandwich was the
author, having borrowed the idea, and made a mat
ter of state of it, from his Lordship's favourite catch:
" 'Twas you that kifs'd the pretty girl, 'twas you,
'' Sir, you:
" O no, no, no, it was not I, 'twas you, Sir, you.',
Bon Mot. —A gentleman puffing a bookseller's shop
a few days since with his friend, remarked, " that
there was a poem called Honesty in the window." —
" Aye," replied his friend, " that's a well-founded
work, for honesty in modern times is indeed but a
fiction."
Sept. 8. The following is the particular account
published at Paris, by authority, of the taking of the
Ardent.
The combined fleet came a-breast of Plymouth on
the 17th of August. The Chevalier Bernard de Ma
rigny, Captain of the Juno frigate, had chafed a cut
ter and an English privateer quite to the opening of
the Sound, where they escaped; but as he was re
turning, with the wind at east, to join the fleet,
which was failing in a line of battle, at a few leagues
from the coast, about eight o'clock in the morning he
perceived off the Start Point, two fail coming right
before the wind, with all the fail they could croud;
the largest of these ships seeming to be in chace ofthe
other. The Chevalier soon discovered the one was a
Danish ship, and that which chaced and examined
her, was an English man of war of the line. On this
the Chevalier made a Signal to Commodore Tieville,
who commanded a flying squadron, part of the com
bined fleets: The Commodore shewed that he under
stood the lignal, and made a signal to his squadron to
make fail.
Whilst the English ship was employed in bringing
to and examining the Dane, the Chevalier de Marigny
seized the opportunity of making a tack to gain the
wind; and at length, by dint of failing, got into the
encmy's track. The English ship made many efforts
to shun the frigate, but the Juno followed all her mo
tions, and shewed them by signals to the Commodore
Treville, who directed his squadron in consequence
of these signals. The enemy, at length, resolved to
put before the wind, and the Chevalier tacked to in
tercept her course; when on a sudden the enemy lay
to and took in a reef. This appearance of security
made the Chevalier conclude at firft, that she was one
of the squadron of observation, commanded by Don
Louis de Cordova, to be certain of which he made a
private signal, which was not answered.
As soon as the Chevalier got within gun-shot, he
hoisted French colours, and fired a ball; the enemy,
without shewing any colours, began to open her ports
on the larboard fide, which she turned to the Juno.
The Chevalier no longer doubted but she was an e
nemy, and attributed her delay in showing her colours
to the hope she had entertained, that whilst she was
unknown, she should not be attacked, and should
gain more time to prepare for adion. The Chevalier
immediately came on the starboard tack, and by a
rapid evolution enabled himfelt to pour in two broad
sides on the enemy's larboard quarter. The Englifli
ship did not hoist her colours till all her ports were o
pen, and she was ready to engage the frigate; when
the Chevalier, thinking the other might be ready only
on one fide, contrived to quit the larboard, and range
up on the starboard fide; in the execution of which
manoeuvre, he fired two broadsides on the enemy's
stern and quarter. He saw, indeed, that she had not
yet got her lower tier quite ready qn the starboard, and