The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1785-11-07 00:00:00, page 3

ful business promises to be a source of wealth to this
country. '1 he commissioners appointed to hold a
treaty at the Great Miami, with the escort of troops,
left this garrison the 30th ultimo.
'' Our situation here is only temporary; we are to
move in a few days 130 miles down the Ohio, and
take post at the mouth of the Mufkiogurn, ivhere we
shall hut for the winter season, and stockade as a pro
tection to ourselves, and to prevent any encroach
ments from the Indians. Our portion at this place
will serve as an advanced post, and preclude the peo
ple from fettling lands the property of the United
States, without firft having obtained them from pro
per authority. Should the posts on the frontiers not
be delivered up by the British, which from our ac
counts there is little reason to expe&, this garrison
may be continued here much longer than is general
ly expected."
" What is Congress about? Are they about to
conclude a peace with the Algerines ? We were a
little alarmed at firft, but begin to think it is not so:
Jt is something extraordinary that this news should
come from a consul, before it was known at court;
in an affair of so much consequence, an express would
have been sent immediately, especially from our con
sul at Madrid, who i$ a very intelligent man, and it
is to be supposed would get the firft and most authen
tic intelligence. Another circumflance against it, is
the release of captain Irvin, and his crew, who have
lately arrived in Virginia, and were very well treated
by the emperor of Morocco, and had every thing restor
ed them. There is a vessel just arrived from Liver
pool, in a short passage of 27 days, which brings no
such accounts, and insurance had not risen on the oc
casion ; so that I hope it will all turn out to be a
falfehood, fabricated by our good friends the English,
to injure us."
An extrafi of a letter from a gentleman of respec
table character in London to a gentlemen in
Boston, dated Aug+fi 15, 1785, exprefling his
sentiments with regard to their navigation-ad,
he observes —
" If the legislature passed it from a sanguine ex
pe&ation that it would soon force or intimidate the
British ministry into such a treaty of commerce as the
United States desire or can agree to, they will be dif
appointed.—lfit was adopted on mature deliberation,
as the beginning of a great system, which must be
long and Readily pursued, in order to produce its ef
feds, I think it a wife and manly regulation.—l hope
it will be followed by fimiliar laws in all the other states.
As the prejudices of this nation in favour of their
navigation ?&, appear to be so strong that the mi
nistry would not have dared to relax it further in
our favour, an American navigation-ad is the only
thing which will ever stimulate them, or indeed
which can enable them to make a reasonable adjust
ment with the United States; and the United States
must unite in it to make it fafibly felt. This will
Extralk of a letter from Madrid, dated Aug. 30.
" An affair very interesting to the monarchy, has
this day fixed the attention of the Spaniards. At the
moment we were flattering ourselves with the success
of the negociation with the Regency of Algiers, we
learn that all the hopes of a peace with the Algerine
piiates is vanished. It is true, we never thought our
monarch would fubferibe to the humiliating conditions
of peace, which most of the foreign gazettes menti
oned, and which firft arose from a single letter writ
ten from Algiers, by some designing person; but we
know that the king offered great lacrilices to induce
the Regency to an accommodation, all which have
been without the desired effect ; and it is well known,
that that nation Which is a natural enemy to all her
competitors for commerce, has worked so effectually
underhand, as to render the mediation of France of
no effect. Ihe dey has carried his prefugrption so
far as to ftipulate,—-“ '1 hat the peace that shall be
concluded on, shall be observed only in open sea, but
that the holhlities shall continue on both sides on the
coasts of the two empires." In consequence of a re
fufal to an accommodation so extraordinary, and sug
gested with a design to render the negociations abor
tive, the Algerine corsairs have already seized on
one of our vefels. His majesty has caused to be
inferred in the Court Gazette, the orders which he
has thought proper to give, in consequence of break
ing off the conferences, and of this free attack of the
pirates."
Nov. 2. The Board of Treasury, by the direc
tion of Congress, have contracted with the proprie
tors of the old line of stages, for the transportation
of the publicly mail to and from Portsmouth in New-
Hampihire, to Savanna in Georgia, and to and from
New-Aork to Albany. They are to enter on this
new plan of conveyance on the firft of January next.
The brig Betsey, Thompson, that failed from this
port on the 19th of July, arrived fafe at Cadiz the
24th of August. She was chafed by an Algerine,
but escaped by out-failing her.
Extract of a letter from a gentlemen in Philadel
phia, to his friend in this city, dated October
22, 1785.
" How unfortunate it is for America, that neither
her treasury can be supplied, nor the bulk of her ci
tizens benefitted, by the hurts of the labour, and dan
ger of her patriot sons."
Nov. i. After the election of the Prefideni and
Vice-President, on Saturday last, at the State-house,
where all the officers of government were assembled on
that occasion, the whole proceded to the Court-house
in the following order:—
Constables with their Slaves.
Sub-Sheriffs with their Wands.
High Sheriff and Coroner with their Wands.
Judges of the Supreme Court, and Judges of the
High Court of Errors and Appeals.
Attorney-General and Prothonotary of the Supreme
Court.
Marflial of the Admiralty.
Judge and Register of the Admiralty.
Wardens of the Port of Philadelphia.
Collector of Customs.
Naval Officer.
Treafufer and Comptroller General.
Secretary of the Land Office.
Receiver General and iurveyor General.
Judices of the Peace.
Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas, and
Clerk of the Court of Quarter Sessions.
Clerk of the City Court.
Master of the Rolls and Register of Wills.
• Secretary of the Council.
His Excellency The President, and Honourable
1 he Vice-President.
Members of the Council two and two.
Doorkeeper of the Council.
Serjeant at Arms with the Mace.
Honourable the Speaker of the General Assembly.
°f the General Assembly.
Members of the General Assembly, two and two.
Doorkeeper of the General Assembly.
Piovoft and Faculty of the University.
Officers of the Militia.
Citizens.
His Excellency BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Esquire,
^ n ?^ claimed Prelident, and the Honourable
CHARLES BIDDLE, Esquire, Vice-President, of
this Commonwealth, the procession returned to the
State-house, in the order above-mentioned.
Captain Robertson, who arrived at Savannah, in
Georgia, on the 15th of September, in a sloop from
New-Providence, informs, that on his passage from
Baltimore to that island, he was chafed the greatest
part of a day by a brig and a sloop, which he suppos
ed were pirates ; and at Nassau he wag told, that a
yellow sided schooner, with three white men, and
two negroes on board, had failed from Abaco, about
fix months ago, on a cruise to the continent.
A report having circulated that the ship Charleston,
captain Allibone, belonging to this port, had founder
ed soon after leaving the Capes, it is with great plea
lure we mention her fafe arrival at Charleston, after
four days passage.
Nov. 2. A letter from a gentleman in London to
his correspondent in New-York, dated July 30, fays,
Ab friends to freedom and mankind in this country,
veiy highly approve of the conduct of America, to
wards Britain, knowing that the genius of liberty and
be a work of time, and a trial of patience-—Ameri
cans have too light ideas of their foreign affairs."
Extract of a letter from Alicant, July 22.
" The firft of this month a large American ship,
from Button, bound hither with a valuable cargo,
was captured by an Algerine corsair, within three
leagues of this port, and carried to Algiers. The
ship and cargo were condemned, and the captain and
crew sent up the country into slavery."
A lew days lirhe there was a cluJler of apples
brought into the city, and hung up in the coffee
houfe as a natural curiosity, This cluster is the pro
duce of a tree in New-Jersey, and consists of thir
teen fine, round, and fair apples; tindured with the
rofcate bloom of youth and vigour, closely linked to
gether by the propitious bonds of nature.--- Remem
ber, ye lons of the thirteen fates of America; that so
long as ye are united in till your councils and operati
ons, ye Ihall, not only as this aufpicial cluster has
done, excite the admiration of the fpedtators, but you
will become formidable, and be the terror cf Eu
rope.
PHI LAD ELP HI A, October 28.
Extras of a letter, dated Sullivan county, fate of
Frankland, August 20, 1785.
'' Last month I suppose you heard that the princi
pal chief of the Chicafas was as high up as the Great
Island; he leems to be a very intelligent rhan ;he
has a furprifmg knowledge of the cause of the late
revolution, and the nature of the American govern
ment, talks very feelingly of our growing power, and
the danger his people are in of having this country
wrested from them.
" He is urgent in Eliciting a trade down the Te
nafee, and lays he will protest it from the plundering
parties of the Cherokees: a ImaH essay will be made,
if it succeeds well, it will be an inducement for the
merchants on James's river to embark largely, as it is
certam, that the Eenafee is the neared and bed com
munication between the caftein navigation and the
Mississippi. One matter I am doubtful will interrupt
our pleasing ptoipeds of trade, a private company of
gentlemen leem to be driving at a project to purchase
the great bent of Tenalee, that is to lay, what may
fall out to be south of the claim of North-Carolina ;
tire Chicalas and Creek Indians is laid to be much
averse to this proposal, but we are told the Georgian
assembly countenance it, and the principal men both
in North-Carolina and Virginia are members of the
company.
common happiness, has turned his jealous courfr froiri
this once happy iile, and that they mud soon follow
her footfteps to America's favoured shores, where
they hope, and are sanguine in the belief, she has tak
en her speedy flight.
" Hope you will hill inculcate those general firing
ciples of freedom, upon which your independence is
permanently founded; and since the invitation is ge
neral—for even the great voice of nature cries unto us,'
"flee thither" —hope soon; with bur wives and little
ones, to go and enjoy the blessings with you, that we
may again become one people.
" The tradesmen and manufacturers ' of the city of
London, have answered the circular letter of the trades
men and manufactures of Boston, that appeared in
the New-York papers of June last; in which they
complain of their great diftrefles, insomuch that they
will be obliged to fly from oppression, to seek an
asylum in some other country ; begging their brethren
in Boston to advise them what method might he adopt
ed to expedite their joining them; adding, as their
opinion, that America is the only country where in
dustry and liberality of sentiment can be rewarded.
They lament their want of power to difembarrafs the
trade to America, which, if effected, would enable
them at least to get bread for thernfelves arid families.
I hey express a desire to fee the American manufac
tures flourish, and would chearfully join to promote
them, if the least encouragement should be given b,
Congress."
0^ We are forfy we have it not in our pow
er, by it'^ coming too late, to insert the piece
signed A Native of N^w-Jersey in this
week's gazette, as it contains matter very i'hte
refting to the citizens of this State, but it shall
have a place in our next.
Notice is hereby given,
TO the creditors of Henry Smith, an infolven?
debtor, now confined in the common gaol of
the county of Hunterdon, to appear before two of ,
the judges of the inferior court of common-pleas for
said county, at the courthouse in Trenton, on Mon
day the twenty-firlt of November instant, at ten
o'clock in the forenoon of the fame day, and shew
cause, if any they have, why an alignment of said
Henry Smith's estate should not be made, and he
be discharged agreeable to the ad of the legislature in
such case made and provided.
Henry Smith.
Hunterdon gaol, November 1, 1785. gw
Two Dollars Reward.
STRAYED from the ferry opposite to Lamberton,
on Friday night the 28th ult. two ftears, sup
posed to be four yearsold, one alight pide, the other 2
brindle with a white face. Whoever will take up
said Rears, and secure them, so that the fubferiber
ma y get them again, shall have the above reward,
and all reasonable charges, paid by
Daniel Smith, at said ferry.
November 3, 1785. \ zw*
1 RENTON, November so
On Thursday last came on a hearing before the Hons
the Affembly^ in consequence of a complaint against
the legality or the late election in the county of Mon
mouth. After the testimony was given in on both
sides, the house adjourned till next day, when the
lubjetl: was again taken up; and, on the question;
whether the election was legal or not ? It was unani
mously declared in the negative. The Don. the
Council also decided this question the fame way, with
but two diffentients.
Since our last the Honcurab'e Robert-Lettie
Hooper, Esquire, has been elected Vice-President of
the Legislative-Council, in the room of the Honour
able JoHn-ClLves Symmes, Esquire, appointed one
of the Delegates to represent this State in Corigrefs.
James Mott, Esquire, was on Wednesday last re
elected State, Treafufer for the enfriing year.
On Thursday fennight, a dwellinghoufe at Lam
berton, on the banks of the Delaware, belonging to
Mr. Barnt De-Klyne, wherein Major William Trent
formerly dwelt, took fire, it was supposed by a spark
falling on the roof, which entirely confuted the
fame.
WANTE D,
As an apprentice to a
B A R BE R,.
A BOY about 13 or 14 years of age#
a&ive and honest ; such a one will
find a birth by applying to John Hummel,
in Trenton.
November 3, 1785. 4W
The New-Jersey
ALMANA C K,
For the year 1786, will be publifheT
in a few days.