The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1784-07-05 00:00:00, page 3

It will ffiock every man who still retains an attach
ment to the constitution of his country, to be informed,
which is nevertheless ftri&ly true, that most of the
poor fellows belonging to the above corps, were com
pelled some time ago to fubjed themselves to the ex
pence of house-rent, that they might be convertible
into use on an election emergency.
If any new inducement were wanting to fix the
electors of Westminster in the interest of Mr. Fox, the
gross and unconstitutional influence that has publickly
and notoriously been exerted against him, would
amply supply it. It is a literal fadt, that, on one of
the ladies of the bedchamber menacing a tradesman
with the loss of the Q 's custom, if he dared to
vote against Sir Cecil Wray; the honest and inde
pendent answer was this :—“ I assure you, madam,
I have every refped for their Majesties, but still more
for the constitution of my country. You'll excuse
me, madam, but I vote for Mr. Fox."
Tuesday last the Committee of the Merchants of
this city waited on his Excellency the Minister of
France, and presented the following address :
To his Excellency the Chevalier de la Luzerne, Mi
nister Plenipotentiary of his Most Christian Majes
ty, &c. &c.
THE Merchants of Philadelphia, having been in
formed that you are about to return to your
native country, beg leave to express their regret on
your departure from this city, which has been ho
noured with your residence for some years past; and
at the fame time to assure your Excellency of their
warmest wishes, that you may enjoy a fafe and plea
sant passage, and a happy meeting with your friends.
The many good offices and essential benefits ex
tended to this country by the august Monarch whom
you represent, merit the grateful acknowledgments
of every American, and fix a lively impteffion on the
mind of every one who duly feels the importance of
national freedom and independency.
The part which you have taken, Sir, in furthering
his Majesty's benign intentions ; your exertions for
the protection of our commerce in time of war ; your
wisdom in negociating, and your affability and atten
tion in conciliating the affections of the people of this
country, and cultivating a friendly intercourse be
tween the two nations, have attached to you the re
fpe&ful esteem of the citizens of Philadelphia, among
whom you have chiefly resided, and cannot fail to ob
tain the approbation of your sovereign.
The emancipation of the American commerce from
the improper restraints by which it was fettered, we
esteem among the leading advantages of the late re
volution ; as it not only enlarges the field for the con
sumption of our own productions, but enables us to
import and consume the productions and manufactures
®f such other countries as may choose to cherish a
commercial intercourse with us on terms of equality
and reciprocity. It is therefore with pleasing fatif
fa&ion that we contemplate, in the wisdom and libe
rality of the Court of France, an opportunity of cul
tivating this kind of intercourse with a people whom
we highly esteem, and whose interest we wish to pro
mote.
Signed by order and in behalf of the Merchants of
Philadelphia, by their Committee.
CHARLES PETTIT,
JOHN NIXON,
THOMAS FITZSIMMONS,
' J. M. NESBITT,
JOHN ROSS,
ISAAC HAZLEHURST,
CLEMENT BIDDLE.
Philadelphia, June 22, 1784.
The following is a translation of his Excellency's
Answer:
Gentlemen,
DURING the five years that I have remained
among you, I have enjoyed every advantage
“ If you receive the London papers, no doubt you
may be inclined to conclude, that no speck on the
face of the globe can be as unfortunate as our com
monwealth. Abating the ordinary ferment attending
differences of opinion in our assemblies, we never
were more united nor disposed to make a lefpedable
figure in Europe. Whilst England, at home and
abroad, appears convulsed and on the verge of some
revolution, every power on our continent attends to
her fall with jealous anxiety. The Irish volunteers,
who have made some figure, are now in a ferment ;
and we hear, that some of their gafconading and de
feated generals, with their roost-robbing followers
from your continent, are preparing to commence cam
paigns against them; but it is the general wish that
they may terminate, as very lately, in disgrace and
separation of dominion."
PHILADELPHI A, June 26.
Extrafl of a letter from Amsterdam.
American Intelligence.
which can endear a country and its inhabitants to a
foreigner. The testimonies of friendfhip which you
are pleased, at this moment, to give me, can only add
to the regret which I feel at parting with you.
I have observed, during my stay in the United
States, the progress of the mutual affection which now
unites the two nations. I have seen those prejudices
vanish which once separated them, The commercial
intercourse which has taken place between France and
the United States, by making individuals better
known to each other, has contributed not a little to
strengthen the bands of our union. It is you, gentle
men, who by your friendly cares and labours are to
extend the chain of our connexions: Your yfeful
and pacifick measures are to perfect what war and po
licy have begun.
I have long been a witness to your efforts in an ho
nourable cause, and to the success with which they
have been crowned. This cause was common to both
nations ; and never was there a more perfect unity of
interests, nor more carefully preserved. During fix
or seven years of an arduous struggle, even in the
most difficult times, no division intervened to inter
rupt the harmony which subsisted between us I fee,
with pleasure, that the fame dispositions still subsist,
although the crisis and danger are over; the people
feel how important it is to them to preserve an alli
ance founded on justice, and which never had any
other object but the happiness of both nations. You
ever had, gentlemen, his Majesty's earned willies for
the prosperity of your commerce, and I ihall think
myfelf happy, when I am arrived in France, to throw
on that important fubjeXthe lights which I have
drawn from the various conversations with which I
have been favoured by you. I can assure you before
hand, that the United States may expert to receive
from his Majesty, every favour that can be concili
ated with the welfare of our own national commerce.
Le Chevalier de la Luzerne.
Philadelphia, June 22, 1784.
" His majesty has at length vigorously affirmed
the distribution of rewards and the government of
the pension lift. The firft munificent Ipirit seems to
do him honour; but it happens to be intermixed, if
not altogether pregnant, with date policy. Some
time in December lad, a letter from Doctor Franklin
to one of the Royal Society, was carried to the King,
describing the serial flight of a balloon. His majesty
enraptured with the difeovery, fettled a pension on
the Irish eftabliJbment of one thousand a year, on
monsieur Montgolfier, on condition of his condruCting
one to conduct him to a review of the Irish volunteers,
before he flipped the dog of war and pronounce them
rebels."
TRENTON, July 5.
The Maryland Journal of the 2„h ult. has the fol
lowing article :
BALTIMORE, June 25.
" Yederday the ingenious Peter Carnes, Esquire,
made his curious /Eroftatick Experiment, within the
limits of this town, in the presence of a numerous
and refpedable concourse of people, whom the fame
of this superb balloon had drawn together from the
east, wed, north and south, who, generally, appeared
highly delighted with the awful grandeur of io no
ble a feene, as a large globe making repeated voyages
into the airy regions, which Mr. Carnes's machine
actually performed, in a manner that reflected honour
on his character as a man of genius, and could not
fail to inspire solemn and exalted ideas in every re
flecting mind. Ambition, on this occasion, so fired
the youthful heart of a lad (only 13 years old) of the
name of Edward Warren, that he bravely embarked
as a volunteer on the lad trip into the air, and be
haved with the steady fortitude of an old voyager.
The “ gazing multitude below" wafted to him their
loud applause, the receipt of which, as he was “ soar
ing aloof," he politely acknowledged by a fignificant
wave of his hat. When he returned to our terrene
element, he met with a reward from some of the
fpedators, which had a solid, indead of an airy foun
dation, and of a species which is ever acceptable to
the residents of this lower world."
Extras of a letter from London, dated April the
17th.
Such tories in this and other dates, as may be pre
paring to remove to that land of Gofhen, Amboy,
are desired to remember— all is not gold that glit
ters. This golden truth has been recently experi
enced by two supporters of the Britifo Lion, in the
Jerfies, on Monday lad. Allured by flattering invi
tations from the good people of New-Brunswick, Pif
cataway, &c. Thomas Crowell, and Elias Barns, ex
hibited their well known faces at Woodbridge, a vil
lage about five miles distant from Amboy, where
Barns had purchased a place ; as soon as their arrival
was announced to the neighbourhood, a number of
From a New-York paper of the 10th ult.
the inhabitants (being general muster) formed a com
mittee to represent the whole, and after receiving the
necessary orders, waited upon the welcome drangers,
and informed them of the great joy entertained by
the village at their arrival, they being just such peo
ple as were wanted amongst them. Messieurs the
tories behaved with becoming dignity; after a suita
ble acknowledgment for so much civility, they de
clared that at firft they were inclined to have fettled'
at Port-Rofeway, a place, as they were informed, of
great plenty, but receiving earned invitations to fet
tle in Woodbridge, and being acquainted that such
persons as were heavy laden would find in Amboy a
place of rest, they were inclined to become good
citizens. This tory flourifh being ended, the Wood
bridgians one and all returned thanks for such unex
peded goodness; one, more forward than the rest,
declared, that for his part he was pleased to the heart:
at such a happy meeting: He had been desperately
afraid the tories would all have gone to 'Scotia ; but
assured his new friends, that he was sorry to inform
them—the people of Woodbridge had unanimous lv
agreed that all returning tories Jhould be tarred and
feathered previous to being allowed to fettle. The
gentlemen made a stout refinance—talked much about
the sixth feXion of the definitive treaty —of the re
commendation of Congress—the people of Pifcata
way, Amboy, New-Brunswick, &c. but all in vain;
they were dripped in an instant, and as completely
tarred and feathered, as if the operation had been
performed in either of those great seminaries, Con
neXicut or Boston; after fitting some time in their
new apparel, they were permitted to depart, " to
think on what is past, and scrub at leisure."
Was married, on Saturday the 26th of June, ult.
major Nathaniel Donnell, late of the Mafla
chufett's artillery, and now merchant at Cohanfey,
to Mils Sally Faress, an amiable young lady of
Philadelphia.
TO BE SOL D,
By the subscriber, at publick sale, on Thursday the
20th of July next,
A Valuable farm, on which Major William Trent
lately lived, situated on the river Delaware,
within two miles of 1 rentoo, containing about seven
hundred acres ; three hundred and fifty cleared, one
hundred of which is meadow of the firft quality ; two
orchards of fix hundred trees of the best grafted fruit,
an excellent (had fifhery, and old accustomed ferry,
known by the name of the Trenton Lower Ferry,
(with boats) also the frame of a large fliallop.
There are on the farm a large brick dwellinghoufe
and kitchen, barn, Rabies, and other outhouses—
One-sixth part of the purchase money to be paid
down ; the remainder the purchaser may have a consi
derable time, upon paying the interest annually.
ELIJ 1H BOND.
Trenton, June 28, 1784. gw
Stolen or Loft,
On the afternoon of the second instant, the following
certificates, ifTued on the final settlement of an ac
count between the United States and Richard
Long, and signed by J. Pierce, commissioner, viz.
ONE of 973 g dollars, and two of 80 dollars each.
Whoever will deliver the above notes to the
subscriber, at the Blackhoi fe, in Burlington county,
who has been an old and faithful soldier in the Jer
sey line, fliall be generously rewarded for their trou
ble. RICHARD LONG.
3d July, 1784. 3 w
Commissioner's Office for adjuring
the Public Accounts of New-Jersey.
NOTIC E.
THE following resolution of Congress, relative
to a settlement of the continental lottery debts,
is published for the information of such of the inha
bitants of New-Jersey as may have drawn prizes in
either class of the said lottery, and who have not re
ceived the amount of such prizes, viz.
By the United States in Congress
assembled, December 21, 1782.
Resolved,,
THAT the commissioners for fettling accounts,
according to the ad of the 20th of'February last, do
receive lottery tickets as vouchers for the prizes
which may have been drawn to such tickets, and cer
tify the fame as debts of the United States, at and af
ter the rate of one dollar in specie for every forty
dollars of such prizes.
BENJAMIN THOMPSON,
3w Commissioner.