The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1778-02-18 00:00:00, page 4

For the New-Jersey Gazette.
Thoughts on bringing to a speedy and happy end the
present cuar.
AMONG the numerous and pleasing advantages
arising from a republican government, the peo
ple not only enjoy the perfect and unrestrained pow
ers of legislation and taxation by representatives free
ly chosen from among themselves, but each individu
al ever retains the unalienable right of intruding his
representatives, and suggesting to them at all times
every expedient he may judge most for the public
good. —The sentiments published under the signature
of Adolphus in the New-Jersey Gazette (Numb. 8.)
gave pleasure to thousands—And these alone imme
diately executed are likely to bring to a speedy and
happy conclusion the present war. # His were the
private thoughts of multitudes refpe&ing our publick
affairs, wherefore I was highly delighted with The
publication of them.—And as his plan refpeds the
United States in general, I take the liberty of second
ing his motions and supporting his proposals with a
particular application of the fame to the State of
New-Jersey.
If the Continental regiments are instantly filled up,
and our wife, our enterprizing and glorious General
enabled early in the season to take the field with an
army of fifty or sixty thousand men, depend upon it
the Britijb army, with all the reinforcement they can
obtain, will not venture from their garrisons and
firing-holds. Britain will fay, her officers will fay,
and her venal administration will lay, " Itis in vain
“ to contend with these Americans, for instead of
" becoming weaker, they grow stronger and more
" powerful: We may ruin ourselves, but we shall
" never be able to subjugate them." But, if
we idle away this winter, this infinitely important
winter, in a lethargic security, and have only a small
army in the field next summer, they will apprehend
from our supineness that we are weakened indeed,
and we shall have a laborious and bloody campaign
like the last, and perhaps less fuccefsful. Thus at the
end of another year we shall be as far in profped
from peace as we are now. Whereas in the spring
if we parade before them our army having its regi
ments completely filled with effective men, which
will then be but a small exertion of the real strength
of these Rates, it will strike such a terror into Eng
land and her troops, pour such confufion into their
counsels, will so baffle their projects, and turn to va
nity their boasted promises, that they will in all pro
bability immediately enter upon measures for nego
tiating a peace.
As militia substitution has indeed greatly injured
the recruiting our army, there is no way remains for
completing our regiments but by drafting men. It
will not take more than a tenth man of the militia of
New-Jersey to furnifh out our compliment. And what
is it for every company of fifty men to turn out five
for the service ? Nothing of equal importance can be
so easily accomplished. -Let a law be passed for
drafting the men for nine months ; their service
commencing the firft of April, and ending the last
of December, when the campaign will surely be over.
Let these drafts have the fame quantity of eloathing,
which is allowed a soldier for a whole year. Let
them have a reasonable and handsome bounty granted.
Let each militia company meet together, and con
fider as every tenth man of them is to be drafted, it
is belt to collect a sum of money for those in the
company who will offer their service. And upon
such encouragements as these, there will be a fuffici
ent number of hearty young men, who can be well
soared, that will present themselves. The time of
service will be fMort, the inducements great, and the
cause is glorious. But if there are any compa
nies that do not choose this method, but will take
their chance of a lot, then those on whom the lot
falls, and are averse to the military employment, will
easily procure substitutes in their places. —Thus our
regiments will be filled, and filled with volunteers,
and these volunteers such as are already well ac
quainted with military duty ; so that as soon as they
take the field they will not be regiments of raw re
cruits, but really veteran soldiers. For there are
very few of this class of people among us, who have
not been in the service a great part of their time
these two years past, and have not been in numerous
ikirmifhes and actions.
Some such plan as this being immediately adopted,
and vigorously executed, will soon put an end to the
war, and it will probably be ended without the fur
ther effufion of blood; and the blessings, the impor
tant blessings of peace and liberty secured unto us
as the reward of our exertions. Had these measures
been entered upon last winter, we have every reason
to believe, under the smiles of heaven, the war would
have been over. But through our negligence we must
now prepare for another campaign. Wherefore let
us do it, as people who are awake and in earnest. —
Remember the emissaries of Britain, and the tories
of America, will not be idle this winter, and while
they are with the utmost vigilance collecting their
strength to make their last effort next season, they will
not relax in their endeavours to intimidate some, and
lull to security others, by everymifreprefentation and
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falfehood, in devising which, if they have not the
most happy, they have the most fruitful inventions,
so that nothing vigorously may be done either by
Congress or the refpedive Legislatures. As there
are baits for every filh, so lies will be variegated to
delude persons of every make. —One while you will
hear of holts of Ruffians ; another of the occult ma
nceuvres of Prussia ; then we shall be entertained with
rebellions in Ireland ; . reconciliation, if we renounce
independency ; proposals for ceffati®n of arms by
Hocue ; peace in the spring, &c. But if we really
desire peace, and really wish to prevent the shedding
more blood, let us hearken to none of these delusive
tales ; for be assured, under all these pretences, the
enemy will be straining every nerve to crulh us the
ensuing year. Wherefore, let us not'be fafeinated
by tory inchantments, but rouse like men, like men
of wisdom, like men of valour, who abhor an igno
minious slavery, and who fight for the richest bles
sings for ourselves and for millions unborn. —' —
Let the worthy and honourable Legislature of this
State imitate the generous example set by the noble
and spirited Virginians, and thus the zeal of exer
tion being propagated from Rate to state, the mighty
strength of America, when displaying itfelf but a
little, will cause to vanilh the machinations of ty
ranny, refeue us at once from the terror of our ene
mies, secure our property, and establish a glorious
peace, and the indefeifible rights of human kind
upon a firm and lasting foundation.
PERSIU S.
WHEREAS it has been represented to us, that
some evil minded persons, enemies to the li
berties of America, or prefering private lucre to the
important interests of their country, endeavour to
persuade the more ignorant and unwary, that a cer
tain a& of the legifiature passed the eleventh day of
December last, intitled, An act for regulating and
limiting the price of sundry articles of produce, manu
facture ' and trade, and to prevent foreflalling, regrat
ing and engrgfing, will not be carried into execution ;
hoping by such wicked arts to discourage a due obe
dience thereto, and to defeat the salutary purposes
thereby intended: And whereas the public fafety in
difpenfibly requires, and the executive authority of
this State is in duty bound to have the said ad punc
tually carried into effect; it is therefore earnestly re
commended to, and ftridly enjoined upon all Jus
tices of the peace and other officers whom it may
concern, on pain of being prosecuted for neglect of
duty with the utmost rigour of law, to execute
the said aft with all possible vigour and diligence;
and if need be, to apply to this Board for their aid
and co-operation in the premises, and to transmit
the names of all such delinquents (together with
those of.the witnesses) who shall presume to speak
contemptuously of the said law, or to ad in violati
on thereof, in order that they may be brought to
speedy and condign punishment, and treated as per
sons dangerops and difatteded to the present go
vernment.
WIL. LIVINGSTON, Prefdent.
Burlington County, February 4, 1778.
WANTS to engage in partnership with some
gentleman that is inclined to carry on the
works for making Epsom's salts, at Great or Little
Egg Harbour, a young man who will constantly at
tend and carry on the business. Any gentleman in
clinable to engage as above, by conveying a line to
the printer hereof, shall be waited on immediately.
LIKEWISE a young man that would be glad to
serve any gentleman as a clerk to iron works, or
clerk and manager at public fait works, being capa
ble of that business. For further particulars, enquire
of the printer hereof.
WANTS employ as a schoolmaster, a young man
who writes a good hand, and can teach vulgar and
decimal arithmatick in all its branches, and the di -
ferent branches of the mathematicks ; also book
keeping, &c. after the methods taught in England.
Any gentleman inclined to employ Much a person,
bv fending proposals (either inclusive or exclusive of
militia fines) to the printer hereof, shall be duly an
swered. _3 w 2.
Cumberland County, Weft New-Jersey, Jan. 21.
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN AWAY from the fubferiber, on the 20th of
August last, an indented MULATTO BOY
named Levi, eighteen years of age ; he has a crown
look, Aim and straight built: Had on and took with
him five shirts, two of them striped flannel ; three pair
of trowfers, one pair of them striped; three veils,
one a light colour, the other a pale red ; one pair of
light coloured cloth breeches ; a cloth coloured great
coat. He passes for a free negro, fays he has work
ed about Cohanfey Bridge. Any person securing said
servant, so that his matter may get him again, shall
have the above reward paid by
6w* ABIJAH HOLMES.
Morrifo^vn, January 16, 1778.
In Council of Safety.
By public vendue on Monday the 2d day of March,
at 11 o'clock in the forenoon on the premifes,'
AN elegant COUNTRY-SEAT in Bucks county,
fourteen miles from Philadelphia, containing
one hundred and eight acres, bounding on the river
Delaware and on Brihohrend, with as elegant a house
as any in the county, two barns, stables, and all
kind of out houses well badt and partly new ; there
are about twenty acres of meadow, and wood in pro
portion to the place, an old orchard of good' com
mon fruit, a young orchard of .the best grafted fruit
been planted about fix years, a great variety of pear
trees, peach trees, plumb trees, and cherry trees,
all grafted of the beftfruit : The whole plantation is
fenced with red cedar posts and white cedar rails ;
there is a front on the river of one hundred rods, and
the house on a fine eminence about twenty rod from
the river, in a genteel neighbourhood and remarkably
healthy.
On the fame day win be fold,\all the flock, houf
hold goods, and farming utensils ; confiding of cows,
horses, sheep, hogs, hay, wheat, rye, Indian corn,
buck-wheat, potatoes, grain in the ground, and a
number of other things too tedious to insert. The
place will be struck off precisely at three o'clock,
that the purchafcr, if he chufes, may have an op
portunity of buying arty of the dock or other articles.
The condition of sale will be made known on the day,
and attendance given by the fubferiber, who lives
on the place. Any gentleman that has a mind to
purchase the place, I Rail be ready to ihew it to
him any time before the day of sale.
4 w^ JOSEPH PENROSE
TO THE PUBLIC.
ANY person that has for sale beef, pork, flour,
wheat, and potatoes, will find a purchaser in
William Crifpin, Commissary to the State fleet of
Pennsylvania, at Trenton. ts
WANTED to hire immediately, a PLANTATI
ON of about 2 or 300 acres, with a fufficient
quantity of good meadow. Any person having such
a place to let, may hear of a tenant, by applying to
the printer of this paper. ts
Mountholly, Jan. 8, 1778.
WILLIAM CHE W,
At the house formerly occupied by the Rev. M?
Brainard, near the Friends new meeting-house, in
Mountholly, hathnow for sale on reasonable terms,
AL ARGE assortment of white threads by the
pound, quarter, ounce, or stein ; sewing silks of
all colours ; black silk dockings and breeches pieces;
men's and women's white cotton and silk stockings;
silk ferrets and ribbons; worsted and silk knee gar
ters of all colours ; mohair, silk and hair, and scars
twist ; silk stay-laces; silk Damascus and Loretto's ;
black hat-band crape ; India nankeens ; white cord
ed dimitty; men's damped jacket Rapes; child
ren's thread and worAT hole ; men's and parfens
gloves; a few fine rfewing needles; fhagreen tea
spoon cases ; gold hat buttons and looping ; likewise
tea, coffee, sugar, molasses, pepper, cinnamon, al
spice, &c. &c. 4w*
THOMAS BUD D, Jun.
At Julia-Town, in Burlington County, New-Jersey.
Philadelphia County, Jan. 26, 1778.
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD.
WAS STOLEN from the fubferiber's stable, in
the Manor of Moreland, on Friday night the
16th instant, a GREY HORSE, about thirteen and
a half hands high, has a thick neck, a short dock and
switch tail, and a lump on the off fide of his belly ;
paces, trots, and canters well, the mane cut off
where the collar is worn; he is about eight years
old. Whoever returns the Lid horse to the fubferi
ber, shall have the abo\e reward and all reasonable
expences, paid by
3^7PAUL RUST.
January 28, 1778.
TO BE SOL D,
A HOUSE and LOT in Bordentown; also a
house and lot of nine ceres of land and meadow
near Richard Wain's mills, in Upper Freehold : And
also a plantation of 200 acres of land and meadow,
with a house, barn, and orchard thereon, near Al
- in Middlefcx county. For further par
ticulars enquire of the- fubferiber in-Bordentown.
4^ SAMUEL ROGERS.
SPERMACETI OI L,
LAMP, TANNER S,
AND
February 2, 1778.
T O BE S O I, D,
To be fold by