The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1779-10-13 00:00:00, page 1

BY HIS EXCELLENCY
WILLIAM LIVINGSTON, Esquire,
Governor, Captain-General and Commander in Chief in,
and over the State of Nevi-ferfey, and Territories there
unto belonging, Chancellor and Ordinary in the fame;
PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS some of the militia officers of
this State, (whole,anres are, for their
own fakes, at present concealed from
public cognizance) who'have been in
captivity with the enemy and were Suffered to come
home on their parole, to return at the refpedive
times therein limited, are reported by the coininiffary
of prisoners as violaters of their parole: And where
as a conduit so ignominious to the individuals them
fclves, so dishonourable to their country, and so in
jurious to those gentlemen who were associated with
them in misfortune, but have preferred their honour
inviolate, deserves the most public disapprobation of
government, and requires the mod effectual measures
to deprive the parties of the benefit of their delin
quency, and to compel their return. —I HAVE THERE
FORE thought fit, by and with the advice of the
Honourable Privy Council of this State, to issue this
Proclamation, hereby ftriCtly charging and requiring
the laid delinquents to return to the enemy, agreeable
to their parole, and in all refpeCts to conform them
selves thereto, as they will answer the contrary at
their peril.
Given under my Hand and Seal at Arms, at Trenton,
the eighth Day of October, in the Tear of our Lord
one thousand seven hundred and /event,-nine, and
in the 4th Year of the Independence of America.
WIL LIVINGSTON.
By His Excellency's Command,
Bowes Reed, Secretary.
N A S SA U-H A L L,
Princeton, Neau-ferfej, September 30, 1779.
O N Tuesday last the Grammar School in this place
" was publickly examined in pretence of the Presi
dent and Trustees of the College, and several other
gentlemen of letters, when the different claffcs ac
quitted themselves much to the fatisfidion of all
who heard them. The fix following young gentlemen
of the firft class were approved and admitted into
college as members of the frethman class, John Wood
ford, of Virginia; John Drayton, of South-Carolina ;
Stephen Renfelaer, of New-York; William Kennedy,
of Philadelphia; George Woodruff and James Rock,
of Princeton. Prizes were published and contended
for by the firft class : (1) in extemporary exercit'es in
latin grammar and syntax; (a) in reading English \\ ith
propriety, and anfweringqueftions on the orthography
of that language : the firft was adjudged to John
Woodford, the second to John Drayton. Prizes were
also published and contended for among the inferior
daffes: (1) in latin grammar and syntax; (2) inpro
nouncing English orations: the firft was adjudged to
Matthias Baldwin, and the second to Horatio Stock
ton. In the evening the College-Hall was lightedup,
and in presence of the Governor of the State, the
Trustees of the College, and a numerous assembly of
Gentlemen and Ladies who had come up to Com
mencement, the fix young undergraduates pronounc
ed orations; John Woodford the Salutatory in Latin,
and Stephen Renfelaer the Valedictory in English,
and were heard with universal approbation.
Next day, being Wednesday the 29th, was? held
the annual commencement in college for conferring
degrees; the exercises of which were as follow ; af
ter prayer, (1) salutatory latin oration by George
Merchant, of Princeton,de conjun&ione pictatis cum
doCtrina five fcientia humana ut fibi mutuo adjumen
to tint; (2) English oration by Andrew Bayard, of
Philadelphia, on the horrors of war; (3) English o
ration by James Riddel, of Pennsylvania, on the
sources of true nobility; (4) English oration by
Richard Stockton, of Princeton, on the principles of
true heroism; (5) Latin oration by Matthew M'Ca.lif
ter, de pcregrinatione ; (6) Valedictory English ora
tion by Aaron Woodruff, of Princeton, on affability.
After this the Degree of Batchelor of Arts was con
ferred on the above-mentioned fix gentlemen, and
that of Master of Arts on Andrew Kirkpatrick, an
alumnus of this college. The whole was concluded
with prayer by the President. The company assem
bled on this occasion was numerous and refpeCtable;
and they ail expressed their fatisfaltion with the per
formance of the Scholars, and the plcafurc it gave them
to fee this seminary beginning again to rife from its
ruins, and to recover from the delolation it has fuf
fered in the present unnatural war.
The Board of Trustees at their meeting made choice
of the Rev. Mr. Samuel S. Smith, of H impden Syd
ney in Virginia, as Profeffor of Moral Phdofophy.
NEW-JERSEY GAZETTE.
[Vol. ll.]
WEDNESDAY, October. 13, 1779.
Nassau-Hall, Princeton, Ne^-ferfe,, Oct. 2, 1779.
To the PUB LIC K.
NOTICE is hereby given that the vacation of the
college will end on Monday the Bth of Novem
ber, and that of the grammar school on Wednesday
the 27th of Oftober. Thofewhofe education has been
interrupted by the publick confufions, may have an
opportunity of compleating it by entering into any
of the classes they Ihall be found fit for; and they and
all others are desired to observe, that the orders of
college will be in every refpelt the fame as before,
and particularly that no choice nor preference will be
given as to the chambers on account of their handing
in the classes, but the time of their residence in the
school or college ; neither that however, nor any o
ther circumstance, will give a preference to thgfi; who
do not come, up at the time of the college fitting down.
As there is f) universal a complaint of the want of
opportunities of educating yonto amcr,g us at present,
it is proper to inform the publick that agreeably to
former advertisements, the instruction in this school
and college has been regularly carried on since the
enemy left the state. The grammar school is nume
rous and flourishing, and the difficulties in the way
of filling the college are now in a great measure re
moved. The repairs of the building are in great for
wardnefs and will go on without interruption, so that
there will be comfortable accommodations for as ma
ny as probably may attend this fall. Tho' the num
ber of undergraduates or proper college members this
last feflion did not exceed ten, yet one or other of the
fubferibers was couftantly upon the Spot. Now another
profeffor is chosen and a tutor engaged, so that parents
and guardians may depend upon the utmost care being
taken of the youth. Boarding may be had at the fame
price as formerly, making allowance for the state of
the currency.
The French language taught, and great attention
paid to every branch of English education.
John Witherspoon,
William Ch. Houston.
L O ND O N, fine 23.
7 'HE present is, indeed, an Epoch in hihory. At
X no period since the 30th of January 1648, or at
lead since the abdication of James, has this kingdom
been so Shaken to its centre.
By a new Treaty between Dr. Franklin and the
French Ministry, the latter are to assist the Americans
with 10,coo men, in case Great-Britain takes 20,000
Hanoverians or Ruffians into pay for the American
war.
Monday night last orders were sent over to Ireland
for an embargo to be laid on the ships there, and not
to fuller any Spanilh vcffels to take in loading, or get
out of harbour on any pretence.
Since the Spanilh Ambassador gave in his Manifesto
several of the most capital Spanilh merchants have
packed up their furniture, and are preparing to leave
England.
On Saturday expresses were sent off from the Ad
miralty to Ireland, for all the ships of war cruizing
on the weft of Ireland to keep a drift look out for
the Jamaica fleet, which is now hourly expelted, with
orders for them to put into the firft port in that king
dom which they can make. At the fame time expresses
were sent off to Falmouth, to dispatch two Hoops or
frigates to cruize off the Western Blands for the above
purpose.
Yesterday morning an express arrived from Torbay,
with an account of Sir Charles Hardy and the grand
fleet being fafe arrived there, to wait for a reinforce
ment, having been informed that the Brell and Spanilh
fleets had joined.
The junction of these two fleets is an unluckly
circumstance at present, as three fleets of homeward
bound ships are expelled to arrive in the course of a
month, viz. one from Jamaica, one from the Leeward
Islands, and the other from the (freights.
HOUSE of COMMONS, June 22.
The bill so: the augmentation of the militia was
brought in, and 3 very Serious deliberation took place
on the second reading of it. Different gentlemen pro
posed tbeir ideas on the proper means of defending
ourselves. All were unanimous in their determination
to call forth the inmost resources of the kingdom, at
the fame time that almost every gentleman who spoke
declared, that no salvation could be expelled while
the present men were in the administration. Sir George
Young proposed arming the whole of the kingdom
along the coasts, and eftablifliing alarm polls.
Printers of news papers in the neighbouring dates
are requested to insert the above in their publications
for the general benefit.
THE
Sir Charles Bunbury proposed the applying the
30,000 men intended to be railed by the present bill
to the fcrvice of the navy, 15,000 to be seamen, and
15,000 to be marines, for that, he laid, was the true
defence of Britain.
Mr. R. Whitworth recommended, that every gen
tleman' ihould require a man from every tenant he
had; he had already adopted that plan; he had 30
tenants, and he had applied to them to furniih him
a man each.
Lord Nugent proposed pressing from all parliament
ary proteltions, calling meetings of every county, con
tributing sums of money to be employed in different
ways, calling forth all the spirit of the nation, and
lefl'ening our danger by telling every man that we
were in danger, that his assistance was wanted, the
noblest compliment, he said, that could be paid to a
brave man, and which he was lenfible would have its
effect with Britons. He rejoiced in the profpelt of
unanimity at home; in the certainty of it indeed, for
the conduct of the gentlemen on the opposite fide of
the house had given him the warmest fatisfaltion, since
they had dropped all little animosity against men, and
had joined cordially in measures for the general good.
We had no alliance abroad; he knew not why we
had none, he knew not where the fault lay, but we
had none ; Europe had deserted us ; the nations that
we had railed, the nations that owed their refpedfq,
us, Rood with arms across, while our dissolution was
meditating by invading powers; but, fays the old
Lord, we have made one alliance fuperior,tdall other
alliances, we have made an alliance with one another ;
we are allied at home; the struggle now'fy whether
we ihall be free, or whether we Ihall be (laves; whe
ther we (hall be independent Britain, the 'lnafters of
the ocean, or a dependent province on haughty
Bourbon.
Mr. Fox was called up by the noble Lord's assertion,
that the opposition had allied themselves with the mi
nisters, and that a coalition of sentiments had taken
place. “ Allied themselves with the ministry !" ex
claimed he, " No, I execrate the thought; no men
on this Side of the house could ally themselves with
those whose treachery had brought upon this devoted
country all its calamities, and had fold it to perdition ;
treachery, lie called it, in the ftrilteft sense of the word,
but whether they were traitors by their connections
with TVance, he could not fay, or whether they were
traitors by acting from opinions not their own; by
giving up their judgment to their ambition ; by being
the Daves, the tools, the engines of other men ; per
haps he might be of opinion they were traitors of the
latter description.
But could the men with whom he acted ally with
dife;race and ruin ! Alliance ! what ! ally themselves
with the men who, when he knew that this country
was threatened with an invasion from the combined
force of France and Spain, yet sent out Sir Edward
Hughes with seven ships of the line to the East-Indies,
where there was no enemy to beat, and leave the heart
of the kingdom unprotected! To ally themselves with
such men, was to ally themselves with disgrace and
ruin. Alliance! what! ally themselves with the men
who sent Admiral Arbuthnot to America with seven
Ships of the line under the fame circumstances! No!
it would be to ally themselves with disgrace and ruin.
Alliance ! what! ally themselves with the men who
had sent Sir Charles Hardy out with a fleet, to be ex
posed to meet the combined fleets of France and Spain,
amounting to near fifty Ships of the line, and perhaps
to Sixty, when they fay at the fame time that in a few
days more they could have added to this unequal fleet
five or seven Ships more ! To ally themselves with such
men, was allying themselves with disgrace and ruin.
Alliance! what! ally themselves with the men who
had driven every old officer of experience and popu
larity from the service ? ally themselves with men,
whose weakness and whose pride had made Europe
desert us, and in the hour of distress Hand with arms
across, unpitying and unaffifting us! No! To ally
themselves with such men, would be to ally themselves
with disgrace and ruin.
Another gentleman proposed that every nobleman
and gentleman Ihould post his Servants on horfc-back,
and fend them to a general rendezvous, that they
might in some degree be trained to hai rafs at least,
if they could not expel the enemy.
Sir George Saville recommended calling forth from
their lurking holes and hiding places, the seamen that
have served 011 board our Goading vessels, men full of
bravery, and who have so frequently exerted them
selves nobly.
General Burgoyne recommended employing all or
most of the old officers 011 half-pay, erecting posts,
collecting little bodies, and planting artillery, and in
commanding places.
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