The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1781-10-03 00:00:00, page 1

From RI VI NGTON's New-York PAPER S, of
the izth and 15th September.
LONDO N.
H OUSE or PEER S, Wednesday, July 18.
r-W IIIIS day His Majesty came to the House,
and being seated on the Throne, the Uflier
of the Black Rod was sent to the House
of Commons, to desire their attendance.
The Commons being come, the Speaker took his
• stand at the Bar, and holding in his hand the East-
India Company's Bill, made the following speech to
the King:
"SIRE,
" Your Majesty's faithful Commons have, in the
course of the present session, granted every supply
which your Majesty has aiked, in order to enable
you to anfiver all the emergencies of the present crisis
of publick affairs and to relift effectually the unpro
voked confederacy which has been formed against
this country; and, although in the raising of these
supplies, they have done every thing in their power
to render them as little burthenfome to the people as
possible, they have found the resources of this coun
try equal to every demand which has been made
upon it; yet, as the burthens which the necefuty of
the times obliged them to impose were great indeed,
however chearfully imposed, His Majesty's faithful
Commons trust, that His Majesty's humanity and
wisdom will take care, that the supplies they have so
liberally granted, 111 all be applied only to the purposes
for which they have been voted.
"SIRE,
" I have the fatisfadtion to inform you, that during
the present session your faithful Commons have paid
particular attention to the support and extension of
publick credit, and the improvement of the publick
revenues, in order to be the better prepared to
strengthen your Majesty's arms, and to enable them
to answer the future exigencies of affairs.
"SIRE,
" I have in my hand the last of the bills which
make up the supply of the current year. It is an aft
for enabling your Majesty to enlarge the Charter of
the United Company of Merchants of England, trad
ing to the East-Indies, and for securing to your Ma
jesty, for publick use, the four hundred and two
tho'ufand pounds; which bill I most dutifully present
from your faithful Commons, who humbly intreat
that it may receive your Majesty's Royal approbati
on.”
The Royal afTent was then given to the following
bills, viz.—To the East-India new Charter, Bengal
Judicature, and Insolvent Debtors Bills —Bill to
amend an Error in the Cocoa Nut Ast —Bill to regu
late the Driving of Cattle —That to provide places of
residence for the parochial Clergy —Bill for erecting
new Buildings near the Bank-Bill to prevent the
healing of Iron Rails, Pewter, Brass, Solder, etc.—
Plymouth Dock Bill, and several publick and private
Bills.
After which, His Majesty made the following
Speech to both Houses:
" My 7 ords aid Gentlemen,
" ALTHOUGH the business of this Session has
required a longer attendance than may have been
confident with your private convenience, yet I am
persuaded that you look back with fatisfaftion on
the time you have employed in a faithful difeharge
of your duly to your country, in the prelent arduous
and critical state of publick affairs.
“ I cannot let you depart into your refpe&ive
counties, without alluring you of my entire appro
bation of your conduct, ano ofmy perfect confidence
in the loyalty and good affections ofthis Parliament.
'' The zeal and ardour which you have fliown for
the honour of my Crown, your firm and steady sup
port of a just cause, and the great efforts you have
made to enable me to surmount all the difficulties
of this extensive and complicated war, must convince
the world that the ancient spirit of the British nation
is not yet abated or diminilhed.
“ In the midst of these difficulties you have form
ed regulations for the better management and im
provement of the revenue; you have given additional
strength and stability to publick credit; and your
deliberations oh the affairs of the East-India Company
have terminated in such measures as will, I trust,
produce great and essential advantages to my king
doms.
“ I have observed, with much fatisfadion, that
during the course of that important business, your
attention was not more anxiously directed to the
benefits to be derived from the territorial acquifiti
• ons, than to the happiness and comfort of the inhabi
tants of those remote provinces.
[Vol". IV.] THE [Numb. 19,.]
NEW-JERSEY GAZETTE.
WEDNESDAY, October 3, 1781.
" Whatever may remain to be done for securing
those valuable pofleffions, and for restraining the
abuses to which they are peculiarly liable, you will,
I doubt not, proceed to provide for at your next
meeting, with the fame wisdom and temper that have
governed your late proceedings and inquiries.
" Gentlemen of the House of Commons,
" My particular thanks are due to you for the
ample provision you have made for the service of the
current year. 1 fee with great pleasure that you
have had it in your power to apply so large a sum to
the difeharge of the debt of the navy, and that the
supplies which you have granted have been raised in a
manner the least burthenfome to the property and
industry of my faithful people.
" My Lords, and Gentlemen,
" While I lament the continuance of the present
troubles, and the extension of this war, I have the
fatisfadtion to reflect, that the constant aim of all
my Councils has been to bring back my deluded
fubjefts in America to the happiness and liberty they
formerly enjoyed, and to fee the tranquility of Europe
restored.
" To defend the dominions, and to maintain the
rights of this country, was, on my part, the sole cause,
and the only object of the war. Peace is the earnest
with of my heart; but I have too firm a reliance on
the spirit and resources of the nation, and the power
ful assistance of my Parliament, and the protection
of a just and all-ruling Providence, to accept it upon
any other terms or conditions than such as may con
fid with the honour an'd dignity of my Crown, and
the permanent interest and security of my people."
Then the Lord Chancellor, by His Majesty's com
mand, said,
" My Lords and Gentlemen,
" It is His Majesty's royal will and pleasure, that
this Parliament be prorogued to Thursday, the thir
teenth day of September next, to be then here holden;
and this Parliament is accordingly prorogued to
Thursday, the thirteenth day of September next."
June 23. Captain Lefle of the Surprile frigate, ar
rived yesterday at the admiralty, with advices from
General Elliot, by which we learn, th^t a tally hav
ing suddenly made by our troops in garrison there,
the Spaniards were so completely surprised, that the
British forces carried all before them, killing several
of the enemy, with very inconsiderable loss on our
fide, The consequence, according to the fame au
thority, was, the Spaniards immediately raised the
siege, and retired into the country with the greatest
precipitation.
Accounts from Lisbon brought by a gentleman just
arrived in town, give the following detail of this af
fair. That the Spaniards having resolved upon a
general attack upon the place, both by lea and land,
a fleet of seven line of battle ships, five frigates, fix
sire-ships, and three bombs, failed from Cadiz ; the
land forces at the fame time advancing nearer the
garrison, keeping up a continual cannonade, and
throwing fhclis, &c. upon the besieged. Gen. Elliot
being apprised of their design, caused two masked
batteries to be erected, and cannon mounted on
them, so that he might open these batteries, and
play upon their flanks, which succeeded, he buffer
ing the enemy to advance almost within pistol shot
of the Queen's battery, which was manned by three
companies of British Granadiers, and two Hanove
rian, who then fired on the enemy: the masked bat
teries at the fame time opening on their flanks, put
the enemy into the greatest confufion; of which
General Elliot taking the advantage, immediately
sallied out with four battalions of Bricifli, and three
of Hanoverians, and charging the ednfufed Spaniards
with their bayonets, totally routed them, destroyed
all their new raised works near the place, took se
veral pieces of cannon and other military Fores, with
which they retired into Gibraltar. The Spaniards
loss in this affair is supposed to be near 5000 killed
and wounded.
July 18. A letter from the Hague, dated June 26,
fays, " The Ruffian Ambassador has acquainted the
States, by order of the Empress, that the is unwil
ling to fee her ally the King of Great-Britain over
powered by numbers, and urges them to a negocia
tion for peace; and that the Ambassador has re
quested an answer in a fortnight, that he might fend
it to the Empress. What effect this may have on
the States is uncertain, they are to meet in a tew
days to deliberate on the matter. We are very anxi
ous to know the event, as the people in general are
desirous of a peace."
Extract of a letter from Petersburg, dated June 22.
“ We begin to discover the interest of the Britilh
Court improving since the late change the Empn fs
has made in her Cabinet Counsel. The memorial
delivered last week by the French Ambassador, re
fpe&ing the inactivity of the armed neutrality, has
given great disgust. Those who are about the Cou^
fay, that when the present war is the fubjedtof con:
. verfation, the Emprefs' and her Ministers declares
that they think it very unjust that Great-Britaiq
should be compelled to deciare her American colo
nies independent, and open to the trade of the whole
world, unless France, Spain and Holland, will a
gree that their colonies (hall be equally free froin
commercial restraints. It is imagined some overtures
for a peace will be brought forward upon this
ground."
A letter received on Saturday by an eminent Bank
er of this city, mentions, " that a French Blip of
war cruizing off the Cape of Good Hope, h^d cap
tured an Imperial Eah-lndiaman, and carried her in
to that port ; that the Captain of the Indiaman claim
ed protection of the Dutch, as he deemed the con
duct of the French Captain a gross intuit upon the
imperial flag, but the'Dutch refused to interfere."
It is most probable that a war with the Emperor,
against France and Holland, will be the consequence
of his opening the ports ; the late capture of an Im
perial Eaft-Indiamau by the French, teems to be the
firft step to actual hostilities.
The Emperor of Germany has granted the esta
blishment of an Englilh Church for the use of all Pro,
teftants who reside at Oftend.
July 3. Yesterday Mr. Whieldon, publisher of the
Whitehall Evening Post, and Mr. Ayre, printer of
the Middlesex Journal, were called up to receive
judgment in the court of King's bench for a libel
against the Ruffian ambassador, and were each li.ll
- to a year's imprisonment in the King's bench,
and tool. fine. Mr. Baldwin, printer of the St,
James's Chronicle, was also called up to receive
judgment for the like offence, and fined reel.
As the Ruffian ambassador has received so ample
fatisfadion by the heavy sentence passed on the
oltenfible authors of the libel against his sacred person,
it is to be hoped he will further vindicate the honour
of his country, not the Icaft distinguished lor its
generosity, by pleading for a remission of the sever
est puts of the penalty to the unfortunate, and,
perhaps, unintentional offenders.
What have Englilh martyrs to fear from a pillory,
when the cause in which they fuffer is likely to make
it a triumphal car, amidst the plaudits of their gene
rous countiymen? The British zeal which has made
it an instrument of death to the base, will make it a
vehicle of glory to the virtuous fufferers.
Yesterday the news-men held their anniyerfary
feaft at the Adam and Eve at Pancras. Several prin
ters and other members of the typographical order
attended on the occasion, when plenty and- variety
spread the tables as usual, and the whole day was
spent in the most perfect harmony and order.
The following toasts were drank, with three huzzas.
The liberty of the press.
Every thing Lord Mansfield deserves.
The several printers and publishers confined in the
King's Bench.
May truth never be deemed a libel.
The reftridtion of publick comments upon judicial
proceedings, as lately recommenced from the bench,
could only be meant as applicable to those prejudica
tory remarks which may tend to bias the minds of
jurymen. The publicity of judicial decisions is the
greatest security against th.ir abuse, at the fame time
that it extends the knowledge of the laws by which
we are governed. A desire of concealment and a
fear of aster-scrutiny, mult argue a want of confident
and confeious rectitude.
The rumour of a peace being upon the tapis was
very prevalent yesterday in the city; it is said to be
negotiated by the Emperor, and the Empress of
Russia.
A letter from Paris dated June 23, fays, “ It seems
to be confirmed by miniltry that M. de la Mothe
Piquet fna:l go Commander in Chief to the East-
Indies, the latter end of September at furtheft, with
a ftrpng naval and military reinforcement; and that
Hyeer Ally Kahn is to be assisted by that officer with
all the forces he may be able to spare."
Captain Dyddingftone, of His Majesty's ship Bos
ton, and the Martin cutter, are to be ready the 28th
instant to convoy the linen drips from Dublin to
Liverpool, Park Gate and Chester.
Six vessels are now fitting out in the river, on a
peculiar conftrudion; they are intended to carry
two long 48 pounders brass, and in the center there
are beds for mortars, after the manner of the Spanish
gun boats.
The Experiment privateer of London,' Captain
n ~!four, in company with the Jupiter of Briltoty