The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1782-12-25 00:00:00, page 1

On the LIBERTY and USEFULNESS of
the PRESS.
rr HAT an extinction of the Libert, of the
■ Press would be productive of innumera
ble mifchiefs in society, is as clearly evi
" dent, as are the inexpressible benefits of
the art of printing in general. If we take an ample
survey of part ages, the tardy progress of knowledge,
while the use of this inestimable art was unknown,
and the vast improvement of science, Since its dis
covery, will furniSh us with experimental evidence
of its abundant utility. Of all the animal creation,
man is indeed, the most dependent by nature, and
stands in continual need of the aid of hrs fellow
mortals, to maintain a comfortable exigence. This
seeming constitutional defeat, is, however, fully re
paired by his communicative faculties and dispositi
on. For thus driven by want, and attracted by
inclination, to social intercourse, each individual
gains a political Sh ength, and every spring of com
miinrfy is exerted in the promotion of his happiness.
/ a re the advantages arising from this source con
10 the common affairs of life: They ascend
higher, and facilitate our mental improve
uitnw. Man is so constructed as to find his most
substantial bliss in the exercise of his rational pow
ers: Whence it is clear as demonstration itself, that
those means which tend to his improvement in know
ledge, should be dear to him as his exigence. But
although we are all born with capacities to reason,
yet, in this particular, do we also want the afliftance
of others. The mind of a new born infant is a per
fect blank, capable of receiving any impressions. In
bur tender age, a communication with our nearest
friends, though indeed contused, affords a little
stock for the exercise of our juvenile abilities. As
-increase in years, our acquaintance with man
i is gradually enlarged; and by supplying us daily
1 1 new matter of reflection, enriches the maga
:* . of our minds with a copious harvest of know
.Cuge. Hence therefore, we may eatily conceive,
that a Short life of social commerce, will more im
prove our intellectual faculties, than a thousand
yeaisof monaftick solitude. From these Short hints
it fufficiently appears, that an acquaintance with the
sentiments of each other, in our purluit of know
ledge, is absolutely requisite. Not is it less evident,
that those means which tend to support it in the
fulleft perfection, should be the objects of our utmost
care and attention.
Among the numerous advantages accruing from
this art, the travelling of these weekly news-papers
is noramong the least. The speedy communication
of the State affairs, from one part of the world to
another; that easy intercourse maintained between
the different parts of a kingdom ; the quick con
veyance of such advices, as direct what measures,
connected with the general good, are to be purfiied,
afforded by this circulation, as well as what is re
lative to particular matters in the political, com
mercial, and active feenes of life, are advantages the
world never knew before PRIN 11NG. It is of
great consequence, that the people should be in
formed of ever, thing that concerns them; and,
without PRIN TING, such knowledge could not
circulate, either so fart, or so eatily. How barren,
how rare, would accounts of any tranfaCtions in the
world, relating to these premises, have been, if
nothing of that kind had ever appeared, but what
came immediately from the pen; how tedious and
flow would the communication have been : But ap
plying this noble art to these purposes, how quick
is the dispatch, and how full and extensively the
communication!
Having already observed the flow advances of our
forefathers in the extensive field of science, before
the invention of the Press, and the vast attain
ments of later ages since its difeovery—lf we search
fur the true reason of this disparity, we shall find it
to conlift, not in a difference of abilities, but in the
vast advantages the moderns have received from the
Art of Printing, of which the ancients were en
tirely ignorant.
NEW-JERSEY GAZET'
[Vol. VI.J
WEDNESDAY, December 25, 1782.
r rHE fubferibers having at length obtained a
road laid out by authority, from the Bristol
road to the new Trenton ferry the shortest way,
a pleasant sandy dry road at all seasons of the year,
once more inform the Publick in general they keep
good Boats.
Whoever pleases to favour them with their cus
tom, please to turn to the left at the crols roads
near Patrick Colvin's ferry to Col. Bird's mill,fixty
rods above Colvin's ferry, thence near half a mile
up the river to the ferry above the falls and almost
opposite to Trenton, where constant attendance is
given by their humble feivants,
iY. JOHN BURROWS,
GEORGE BEATY.
Rates as follows, viz. J. d.
Carriage and 4 Horses - - 5 0
Ditto 2 ditto - - 39
Chair and Horse - - - 1 6
Man and Hurfe - - - 0 8
Foot person - - - 0 4
November 7, 1782.
Just PUBLISHED,
And to be fold by ISAAC COLLINS, at his
Printing-Office in TRENTON,
An elegant AMERICAN Edition of
JULIA DE ROUBIGNE,
ASENTIMENTAL NOVEL
in a Series of Letters,
By the celebrated Author of the Man of Feeling,
and the Man of the World,
In two volumes, fuperbl, gilt and lettered, bound
in one.
Price TEN SHILLINGS.
THIS performance has been so very universally
I and justly admired, that it needs but little re
commendation from a publisher. The story is high
ly interesting; the language elegant, harmonious,
pathetick and impaflioned.—lts charaderiftreks are
an amiable philanthropy, and peculiar delicacy of
sentiment, conspicuous through the whole. —While
it entertains the fancy and delights the imagination,
it has an irrdiftible tendency to improve the heart
and impress on the mind the noblest and most ex
alted sentiments.
To those who contemplate with pleasure the dig
nity of human nature lupported with manly firmnefs
amidst the reiterated attacks of adverse fortune, it
will afford the highest entertainment —And to the
foul of sensibility, which " melts at every human
woe," and finds a luxury in indulging the fympa
thetick tear, this tender tale of foft distress will be
an unrivalled favourite.
It is their security against errors; for where there
is a Press (a licensed Press is worse than none) no
falle doctrine on religion, learning, or liberty, can
be broached, and remain long undetected. The
vices as well as the virtues, the humours as well
as the understandings of mankind, will always
prompt them to unmalk the faults of others.
Surely then every one, who is a friend to religion,
learning, or liberty, must be an advocate for that
which is tne best means of preserving and improv
ing them all.—Such persons cannot fail to encou
rage such an ufeful employment, and be ready to
purchase such productions of the Press as have any
ufeful tendency, that the artitts may acquire that
comfortable, reputable support, which an employ
ment so beneficial to others really merits.
To enumerate the particular instances, in which
this art is peculiarly serviceable, would procraft this
paper beyond its proper limits. Let it be fufficient
to oblerve, that it is the spring, the flay, the sup
port of ufeful knowledge; from thence genius kin
dles in the young ; from thence helps are borrowed,
as men advance in years and science; and by this
means the old communicate their difeoveries, and
conduct their rivulets of particular experience into
the ocean of human wisdom.
A few copies of ALLINSONS's edition of the
LAWS of New-Jersey
may be had of the PRINTER.
THE
BEST hyfon, break
fall: and bohea
teas,
Mufcovado and Spaniel
sugars,
Teneriffe wine,
Rum,
Molasses,
Hard soap,
Candles,
Tobacco,
Pepper,
Ginger,
Indigo,
Madder,
Biimftone,
Ahum,
Looking-glasses,
Shoe and knee-buckles,
Sleeve buttons,
Handsaw files,
Gimblets,
Awl-hafts and blades,
Shoemakers' knives and
tacks,
Shoe heels,
Ivory, horn and crooked
combs,
Door latches and
handles,
Stock-locks,
Cuttcau and pen-knives,
Pins, darning, white
chapel and common
needles,
Set broaches and knee
buckles, -
Thimbles,
Plane-Irons,
Castor hats,
Rosin,
Wool cards,
Shoes, 0
Sweeping, scrubbing and
buckle-brulhes,
Metal tea-pots,
Tin-cups,
Table and te'a-fpoons,
Corduroy,
Superfine jeans,
Blue and green moreen,
Black, blue, pink and
green durant,
Bombazeen,
White rattinet,
Brown camblet,
Sheetings, and a variety
of white linens,
Those Gentlemen and Ladies who may please
to favour the store with their custom, may depend
on every effort to please, both in the quality, kind
and price of the goods.
Oftober go, 1782.
JUST PUBLISHED,
And to be fold at the Printing-Office
in Trenton, the New-Jersey
ALMANACK,
For the Year of our Lord 1783.
CONTAINING,
Besides the usual Astronomical
Lieper's fnuff by the bottle or dozen; and a
general assortment of Philadelphia made earthen
ware.
As these goods are mostly of the firft quality, and
laid in on the lowest terms, they will be fold at a
moderate profit, for cafli only.
Observations, a Variety of
ufeful and entertaining Mat
ter in Prose and Verse.
For S A L E,
pit the Printing-Office in
TRENT O N,
Check linens,
Flander's bed-ticks,<
Chintzes and calicoes,
Humhums,
Jaconet, book and ftrip'd
mullins,
Holland,
Cambrick,
Millinet and plain lawns,
Black and white, plain
and trimming gauze,
Striped andclouded
Bengal,
Bandanoe, Barcelona
and pocket handker
chiefs,
Black mode and taffeta,
Sewing silk,
Ribands and taste,
Gartering,
Tapes,
Bobbins,
Gilt, plated and wooden
buttons,
Mohair,
Taylors' and Scotch
threads,
Damask and diaper table
cloths,
Coarse and fine kentings,
Kenting handkerchiefs,
Black, blue and green ell
wide Persians,
Silk lining for gentle
mens' clothes,
Womens' laces and white
kid gloves,
Leather breeches and
Skins,
China cups and saucers,
Queens'-ware muftard
pots and sugar-bowls,
Decanters,
Half-pint and gill tum
blers,
Beer and wine-glasses,
Bibles and testaments,
Spelling-books and
primers,
Schoolmasters' af
(iftants,
Lowth's Englifo
grammar,
Writing-paper of various
forts by the ream, &c.
Bonnet pasteboards,
Blank-books,
Sealing-wax,
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