The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1780-09-27 00:00:00, page 2

It was a complaint against Charles the firft, that he
levied taxes without content of Parliament ; where
then, my countrymen, is the difference between a
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In CONGRESS, August 10, 1780.
CONGRESS took into consideration the report of
the Committee on the memorial of the General
officers ; whereupon,
Resolved, That the said General officers be inform
ed, that Congress have at no time been unmindful of
the military virtues which have diftjnguifhed the ar
my of the United States through the course of this
war, and that it has been constantly one of the prin
cipal objects of their care, not only to provide for the
health and comfort of the army, but to gratify the
reasonable desires, as far as the public exigencies
would admit.
That patience and fclf-deni.il, fortitude and perse
verance, and the chearful facntice of time, health and
fortune, are neccffary virtues, which both the citizen
and the soldier are called on to exercise, whilst hrug
gling for the liberties of their country:
And that moderation, frugality, and temperance,
mull be among the chief supports, as well as the
brightest ornaments of that kind of civil government,
which is wifely inßituted by the fevera) hatys in this
union :
That it has been recommended to the several Rates
to make coinpenfation to the officers and foidiers to
them refpedively belonging, for the depreciation of
their pay ; and that Congress will take speedy mea
furcs for liquidating and paying what is due on that
account, to officers and foidiers who do not belong
to the quota of any Rate :
That from and after the firft day of August 1780,
the army Ihall be entitled to receive their pay as Rat
ed before the firft day of January 1777, in the new
bills emitted purluant to the resolution of Congress
of the 18th day of March lall :
That the officers Ihall hereafter be allowed five dol
lars per month, in the laid new bills, for each retain
ed ration :
That the Board of War be directed to report to
Congress a lift of the officers not belonging to the
quota of any state, with an account of the balance
due to each, to make their pay good for past services,
agreeably to the rcfolutions of the 10th day of April
last:
That such of the Rates as have not made compen
sation to thfir officers and soldiers, agreeably to the
recommendation of the 17th August 1779, be, and
they arc hereby requeued to do it as loon as possible ;
The SCOURGE. [No. lII.]
London, Saturday, February 12, 1780.
Can ye, O Britons, unconcern'd, behold,
Your rights invaded, and your country fold !
See Freedom tott'ring on the brink of late,
Her friends imprifon'd, and her foes elate !
No !—one more glorious struggle let us make,
And if we fail —we'll perish lor her fake :
Freedom alone to Life c relilh give,
And ceasing to be free, ^a cease to live.
TO THE PEOPLE.
Friends and Countrymen,
IT is your virtue and your firmnefs alone whicli
can give new life to the expiring freedom of your
country, and restore the sacred constitution of the
British empire to its pristine vigour. It is in your
power, by a well-timed resistance at this moment
(and it is a duty you owe to yourselves and to your
poßerity) to ellablifh your violated rights and liber
ties upon a foundation, not to be again fnaken by
any base, obstinate or hypocritical tyrant upon earth.
You have seen all your calamities, all your oppres
sions, and all your grievances, not only treated with
contempt, but turned into ridicule, by him wh'ofe
duty it was to have redressed, if not prevented them,
and on whole head the crown of these realms is un
worthily placed ; for, as the immortal Algernon Sid
ney fays, " An ass will never leave his stupidity,
though he be covered with scarlet ; and he that is by
nature a Have, will be so still, though a crown be
put upon his head ;" and it is hard to imagine amore
violent subversion of the laws of God and nature,
than to raise him to the throne, whom nature intend
ed for the chain.
You have vainly expected, and as vainly flattered
yourselves, that your representatives, to whom you
have intrufted your liberty and your property, would
have redressed the injuries you have fuffered. No—
they are the venal, base betrayers of your rights,
the plunderers of you property, the traitorous au
thors of all the misery and ruin which has been
brought upon the nation ; the mere instruments of
an infamous and corrupt court, bribed by the King
and Minrftry with the public money, to oppress, and,
if possible, to enslave you. Having thus notorioully
inverted the sacred and important end of their insti
tution, instead of being your guardians and protec
tors, a majority of them are become the engines of
tyranny in the hands of the crown ; the power which
you gave them ceases of course, and reverts back
into your own hands ; your happiness and prosperity
being no longer the rule of their conduct, all laws
made for levying taxes on you (to answer the diabo
lical purposes of corruption) by such a band of
traitors and public robbers, mult be to all intents and
purposes void, in the eye of reason, justice and com
mon sense, and ought not to be obeyed, but refilled.
Dublin, June 13. Tuesday morning a number of
journeymen artificers, to the amount of several thou
sands, assembled in the Phoenix Park, with an inten
tion to go thence in procession to the Parliament house
with a petition against the heads of the bill now de
pending for preventing combinations, &c. Such a
numerous meeting at this time, when the metropolis
ot our lifter-kingdom is convuifed with dangerous in
furredious, was truly alarming. The volunteers of
this city assembled at the Exchange, and the civil
power law itfclf supported with.looo citizens in arms.
A millage was then sent by the Lord Mayor to the
people in the Park, acquainting them he would not
fuffer more than fix men to enter the city together
with their petition, and advised them by all means to
disperse. A recommendation from the chief Magi-
Itrate, whose power on this occalion was so refped
able, had its effect, and the populace dispersed. De
tachments from the volunteers did duty however all
night at the Royal Exchange; but we are happy to
That the provision for granting lands by the reso
lution of the 16th September 1776, be, and is hereby
extended to the General officers, in the following
proportion, to wit: '
A Major-General 1100 acres.
A Brigadier-General 850 acres.
That th: officers of the army be furnifhed as soon
as possible, with two months pay, on account to re
lieve their present wants, mentioned in the memorial.
August 24.
Resolved, That the officers of the line of the army
commanding corps, when in camp, be allowed to
draw so many of the rations of proviftons heretofore
with-held, as the Commander in Chief, or the com
mander of a separate army foall judge necessary, but
that no provision be issued for back rations not drawn,
on the days they become due;
That if it ihall appear that the subsistence money
allowed to the officers in lieu of the rations with-held
is not equal to the cost of the rations, the deficiency
Ihall hereafter be made up to them:
That the resolution of the 15th day of May 1778,
granting half pay for seven years, to the officers of the
army who should continue in the service to the end
of the war, be extended to the widows of thole offi
cers who have died or Ihall hereafter die in the service,
to commence from the time of such officer's death,
and continue for the term of seven years, or if there
be no widow, or in case of her death or intermarri
age the said half pay be given to the orphan children
of the officer dying as aforefaid, if he ihall have left
any : And that it be recommended to the legislatures
of the refpe&ive dates to which such officers belong,
to make provision for paying the fame, on account of
the United States :
That the reftrifting clause in the resolution of the
15th February 1778, granting half pay to the officers
for seven years, exprelied in these words, viz. " and
" not hold any office of profit under these Rates or
" any of them," be, and is hereby repealed.
Extract from the minutes,
CHARLES THOMSON, Sec'y.
LOND O N, July 1.
The Earl of Lincoln arrived in London in the morn
ing of the 15th of June, with the important news of
the surrender of Charleftown, and its numerous gar
rison, on which occasion the guns were fired from the
Tower, which was succeeded by illuminations, and
addresses of congratulation to the throne were pre
sented from all parts of Great-Britain.
It is said Mr. Wilkes, who very eminently distin
guished himfelf in the preservation of the Bank of Eng
land, fupprefling the disturbance, and restoring tran
quility, has gained immortal honour, and received
the thanks of the Privy Council.
Since Parliament is prorogued, it is expected Lord
George Germain will be called up to the Houle of
Peers, by the title of Lord Drayton; and General
Fitzroy will be created Lord Southampton.
Protestant Association.
Whereas no Hall in London can contain forty thou
sand men :
Resolved, That this Association do meet on Friday
next, June 2, in St. George's-Fields, at ten o'clock
in the morning, to consider of the most prudent and
refpedful manner of attending their petition, which
will be presented the fame day, to the Houle of Com
mons.
Resolved, For the fake of good order and regula
tion, that this Association, on coming to the ground,
do separate themfclves into four diltintt divisions, viz.
the London division, the Westminster division, the
Southwark division, and the Scotch division.
Resolved, That the London division do take place
upon the right of the ground towards Southwark, the
Weßminfter division second, the Southwark division
third, and the Scotch division upon the left ; all wear
ing blue cockades in their hats, to diftinguifli them
selves from the Papists, and thote who approve of the
late ad in favour of Popery.
Resolved, That the Magistrates of London, Weft
minlter and Southwark, are reqUefted to attend, that
their presence may overawe and controul any riotous
or evil-minded perlons, who may with to disturb the
legal and peaceable deportment of his Majesty's Pro
testant fubjeds.'
By order of the Association,
G. GORDON, President.
London, May 29, 1780.
IRELAN D.
acquaint our readers, no riot or disturbance happen
ed either in the city or its environs. The guards alt
the cattle were reinforced by a regiment of foot, and
a squadron of horse from the barrack.
BOSTO N, September 11.
Saftday last Capt. Jarvis, in a Ihip, arrived from
Suring.
Same day Capt. M'Farlin, in a brig, arrived from
St. Euftatia ; also a iloop from the fame place.
The fame day also arrived a French iloop from
Martinico.
FIS H-K IL L, September 21. Q
A frigate of the enemy has advanced up the North-
River as far as King's ferry : There was a cannonad
ing yesterday, luppofed to be there, with what effect
we have not as yet heard.
From Albany we are informed, that our New-levies
under the command of Col. Malcom, are at Schenec
tady, and part gone up the Mohawk river. Also,
that between Fort Edward and Lake George, two
officers were killed, and Col. Warner, of the Grants,
wounded, by a party of about thirty Indians.
On Monday the 17th instant, early in the morning,
four Indians beset the house of Col. Johannis Janlen,
in Shawengunck precinft, about twenty miles from
New-Windsor, and took off two of the Colonel's and
one of his brother's negroes, with a young woman.
On their retreat they met Mr. M'Key and his daugh
ter, whom they inhumanly murdered and scalped.
The country was immediately alarmed, have pursued,
ano we arc in hopes they will return a good account
of them. Col. Jansen narrowly escaped ; —he took to
his house on firft feeing them, and secured himielfm
a room, and called out for arms, which deterred
them from cither firing a guy or setting fire to any
buildings. They several times struck the door with
an ax 111 order to force it open.
BALTIMORE, September 12.
Four Hops of the line, and 6000 troops, are sup
posed to be on their way from Brest to Rhode-Ifland.
The celebrated Monsieur Bougainville, who has hoiß
ed his nag 011 board the Languedoc, of eighty guns,
commands the squadron.
On the firft of June last several transports, with
troops from Germany, arrived at Portsmouth, in
England,
The British man of war Romney, Commodore
Johnftone, lately captured and carried into Lisbon,
two Dutch Ihips, very richly laden, from Marseilles
to Havre and Morlaix.
1 A gentleman just arrived from Richmond, Virgi
nia, hath favoured us with the following paragraph:
" The Maryland and Delaware troops have done
themfclves eternal honour in the late action in South-
Carolina.—After being deierted by rhe Virginia and
North-Carolina militia, they fought their way thro'
the enemy, made a good retreat, and brought off 9
field-pieces—ln doing this, according to the belt ac
counts, they killed about 500 of the enemy. Their
loss is near 300; no General officer except Baron de
Kalb. Generals Smallwood and Gift are both fafe.—
The orave troops abovementioned are now at Hillibo
rough, where they have collected about 5000 of the
militia once more ; and 'tis to be hoped they will not
run a second time."
Extract of a letter from a gentleman on board the let
ter of marque brig Fox, Capt. James Buchanan, of
tbi) port, dated at Jea, in latitude 29, longitude 68,
August 17, 1780. 0
" We parted with the Weft-India fleet, fifteen in
number, bound to St. Euftatius, after we had been
five days at sea, all well.
" This day we fell in with and captured the brig
Flora, bound from St. Kitt's to Charleftown, South-
Carolina, laden with wine, rum, flour, and barley.
She failed with a large convoy, bound to the fam>
place. She was the property of a Mr. Gamble, of
Greenock. It appears, by the Captain's informati
on, that a squadron of the British fleet, consisting of
15 fail of the line, suddenly departed from St. Kitt's
before he failed, in consequence of some advices hav
ing been received, refpetting the combined fleets of
France and Spain, whicli, it was supposed were go
ing against Jamaica."
PHILADELPHIA, September 20. °"
Extract oj a letter from Albany, dated Augtfi 25, 1780.
" I returned here a few days ago, after a fatigu
ing march of 17 days against the lndians. The feenes
which I beheld are not to be equalled by any thing
I ever saw. We marched from hence the 31st of
July, intending to relieve Captain Hicks, who was
guarding provilions to Fort Schuyler, but was oblig
ed to entrench himfelf by the way, being surrounded
by a number of Indians. The 3d of August, about
', o'clock, we difeovered a fmokc ascending at
Canijohary, about four miles from us, but not fuf«
petting an enemy at that time, we marched about
one mile, when we received intelligence of the sa
vages burning houses, &c. We then halted up, being
about 200 men in number, and at 11 o'clock came
in light of the settlement, the Indians then burning'
all before them. An officer and fix men (there be
% ° ut '5 me ° i n the fort at Conijohary, General
Renfakar having taken all the rest) tallied out upon
our approach, and gave the Indians a fire, which was
returned, but none were either killed or hurt. The
savages by this time having destroyed all they could
get at, and feeing us approaching, ran off. After