The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1784-06-28 00:00:00, page 1

DUBLI N, April 6.
A gentleman, whose business led him to cross most
of the northern counties, within the last fortnight,
assures us, that notwithstanding the snow lies deep just
now upon Mourne, Newry, Ballynahinch, and the
county Tyrone mountains, yet there is scarce a par
ticle discoverable upon the most northerly and shel
tered sides of those near Belfaft.
No Englifo connection ! —is now the prevailing ex
clamation. Every man pronounces it—for every man
fees the damning consequences of its continuance—
nor need it be wondered at, if calmly and dispassion
ately confidered —the sense of a century's injuries dill
rankling in our hearts—and what their arms are now
unable to do, their corrupting gold amongst our mock
senators, as fully effects. Wretched island—how
long are you to be a prey to foreign foes, and domef
tick traitors !
The tragedy of De Witts, must be acted in this
city; a blow struck at the heart of leading traitors,
will intimidate the lesser rogues; and when nothing
but a violent remedy can affect a violent disorder,
the strong hand of the people must be called for to
administer it.
If ever the wrongs of an injured people drew down
a chosen curse on the heads of a nation's undoers,
surely we may expeCtfome dreadful fate will soon
overtake our apostate House of Commons, who, deaf
to the cries and miseries of unnumbered thousands of
our starving manufacturers, have inhumanly refufed
them the means of getting bread. It cannot be
deemed a profanation of scripture phrase to fay to
them, " Depart from me, ye accursed, into everlast
ing fire, prepared for the devil and his angels ! for
I was hungry, and ye gave me no meat; I was thirsty,
and ye gave me no drink; I was naked, and ye
eloathed me not."
One of the poor manufacturers, committed to New
gate by order of our Divan, exclaimed that he was
rejoiced at it, as he had not, for two days, tailed a
, morsel of food, and should in Newgate be entitled to
at least the daily allowance of the prison.
The woollen and other manufacturers of England,
intend, we hear, to return their grateful acknowledge
ments to their faithful representatives in the Irish
senate.
April 15. Whatever heart may yet stand out to
the feelings of humanity, because he does not actually
fee the distresses of his fellow creatures, think them
all but the clamours of the day, and the noise of con
tending parties ; or who can remain so very indolent
It is evident, that the tyrannick and oppressive na
tion, to which Ireland has faithfully and unfortu
nately adhered in all her adversities, is now deter
mined to irritate the companion of her affliction to ads
of desperation. Unfuccefsful in her attempts to en
slave America, she seeks for retaliation in Ireland,
confident that in case of disturbance here, she can
wrest from us any little shadow of liberty we have
acquired during the late contelts beyond the Atlan
tick; but let no Irishman be duped, nor longer seek
relief from depraved representatives : Force is our on
ly resource ; the gallant bands of liberty are ready ;
France and Spain wait but for invitation. Then why
not at once to the field, to honour, to fame, to glo
ry, and to liberty!
TREMBLE now, ye sons of weeping Hiber
nia! there is nothing left undone to render
ye the most abjeCt Haves upon earth, but to
shackle the organs of expression, and the
trial by jury ! Are we unprotected in the year 1784?
or are we no longer to exist ? Is the hand of an arif
tocratick tyrant to prevent us from enjoying the free
dom of our native foil, and the liberty of the press,
that great and glorious bulwark of our privileges ?—
What fate is adequate to the enormity of such an in
fringement? Rouse from your slumbers, and fuffer
no innovations on the rights of a land that gave us
birth: Let Iwift perdition seize the sons of rapine,
and hurl them to b-11.
NEW-JERSEY GAZETTE.
[Vol. VII.]
TREN rO N: Printed by ISAAC COLLIN S, Printer to the State.
Foreign Intelligence.
C O R K, April 15.
MONDAY, June 28, 1784.
in the cause of charity, as not to endeavour after
some speedy plan for the starving manufacturers ; let
him take a walk on the quay near the ships ready for
America, where, unless totally loft to the common
perception of human nature, he must sympathize with
the objects there presented to his view: Many endea
vouring to obtain a passage gratis to a foreign clime,
leaving forever this, which should be the land of milk
and honey, upon the expectation of what chance may
produce in a wide and less cultivated country, to leave
their dearest and tendered: connections forever, merely
because they could not Ray to fee their unhappy wives
and children periling with hunger before their face.
He may fee too the unhappy wife, and her helpless
naked infants, hanging on the diffracted father, be
seeching him to die with them; and when at last he
tears himfelf from their entreaties and embraces, ea
gerly taking their last farewell, and with anxiety their
last look, at their belt friend, whom the impolitick
laws of his country alone banish forever.
If a few of our members of parliament, instead of
losing their temper at some paragraphs lately publish
ed, would wish to find out the true cause of the late
riling of the people, they should visit the innumerable
manlions of distress which are in every part of the li
berty, where the wretched father and dejected mo
ther hear their infants tease them for bread, and din
their ears with hungry cries, while they lie down and
weep in bitterness of want. It is not the seditious
clamour, it is the prelling call of nature that urges
them to madness.
We are informed that Jack the Paviour, having
been ignominiously hided and execrated in the thea
tre Smock alley, on Monday night, by some libel
lous, scandalous, and malicious 'prentice boys, is
fully resolved to bring in a bill for the /ecurit, of the
liberties and immunities or the upper gallery, and
preventing the licentiousness thereof, as tending to
fo-wdifeord among bis Majeftfs fubjeAs, and injure
tbe peace of individuals.
Nothing could be more sudden than the quick
change of the unmeaning smile on Sir Lucy O'Grin's
countenance, into terror, when last Monday, on some
noise arising at the door of the House of Commons
(owing to the insolence of some of the door-keepers)
it was thought the unhappy starving manufacturers had
come down to wreak vengeance on their enemies.—
O'Grin knew these poor people had been injured ; his
heart told him he was guilty, and it was but reasona
ble for hinito expeCt the just retribution of his crime.
April 16. Who can repress his indignation, when
he confiders the mean fubterfuges of the tyrannical
Englilh ! During the American war, when the spirit
of the Irish nation was fired, at the sense of repeated
unprovoked oppression, and bent or the recovery of
our usurped rights, our insidious enemies, knowing the
foible of the nation, appealed to our generosity, that
it would ill become us to take advantage of the dis
tresses of poor England; and we had only to await
her being disengaged from the claw of her enemy,
when she would make ample retribution. She is now'
disengaged. What is the retribution? Such as ran
kles the heart of every Irishman. An inundation of
soldiers, slushed in the carnage of the brave Ameri
cans, and poured forth triumphant in all the parade
and pomp of war, to dragoon this kingdom into un
qualified slavery, by crushing all opposition to the most
deftrudive measures imagination could devise ! The
important concerns of a general election, no<w, diftrad
the attention of the British legislature to such a de
gree, that they cannot spare a moment to think what
regulations they will permit the independent Irish na
tion to make for the security of their trade. How
long, oh ! Ireland, will your cullibility expose you
to be the dupe of your unfeeling oppressors!
April 17. A privy council has been this day sum
moned with the utmost precipitation, to take into con
sideration an express which has arrived at the castle,
supposed to contain orders for DISARMING THE
VOLUNTEERS. Nothing particular has as yet
transpired, but we hope that such a measure will not
be taken, as it might drive to desperation a people
already fufficiently roused and alarmed by the in
fringements of corrupt representatives.
It is recommended to the gallant affertors of liber
THE
ty, to seize the person of his G—ce, as an hostage
for the conduct of the enemies towards such persons
adhering to the glorious cause as may fall into their
hands. May the example of America Simulate Ire
land, and may this injured country never relax un
til crowned with similar laurels of triumph and inde
pendence.
April 19.
Saturday morning Mr. Matthew Doyle and Mr.
William Bingley, who were apprehended on Friday
as supposed publishers of the Volunteers Journal,
were brought before Justice Robinson, who without
hesitation difeharged them upon bail. The Deputy
Serjeant at Arms, who was present, then arretted
Bingley, on the Speaker of the House of Commons'
warrant, but the upright Judge, in the most peremp
tory manner, reprimanded him for his audacity, and
ordered him to be fafely conduced out of his house.
The Judge behaved with that noble, manly spirit,
which loves the law and reveres the execution; it is
not a Shakefpear's warrant, or the ebullition of any
individual body of men that makes law ; the common
law is common justice, not to be twisted to serve the
turn of every rogue in office.
Poor Bingley was afterwards surrounded by a body
of armed soldiery, headed by the Deputy Serjeant,
and taken into custody a second time. Mr. Robin
son, the high constable, behaved with the greatest spi
rit, but in vain, as Bingley was carried off before he
could effect his release.
It is now generally admitted, that nothing can al
leviate tire distress tlre nattc labours under, from the
refufal of administration to concede the system of pro
te&ing our manufactures but a general non-consump
tion association: The people of Kilkenny, Clonmel
and Cork, have already determined to wear only the
manufactures of Ireland, &g a bill for
proteding them passes nr Legislature ; the whole
kingdom it is thought will follow their example, and
even cur House of Commons, as a small atonement
for having rejected the protecting duties, in compli
ance to the prejudices of an English administration,
will, it is hoped, enter into some resolves of this kind.
The idea is not new, for on their journals we find
precedents of non-consumption agreements.
April 24. Thursday there was a general and most
numerous meeting of the aggregate body of this city
in the Tholfel. The fheriffs presided. After a long
and most interesting debate, it was agreed that a com
mittee should be chosen from the assembly present to
prepare resolutions expressive of the sense of that
meeting, on the great and momentous questions which
so immediately affected the trade, liberties and consti
tution of the Irish nation.
The committee, after two hours deliberation, re
ported to the meeting a petition to his Majesty against
the bill “ for the better securing the liberty of the
press ;" also, an address to his Excellency to forward
the fame. Resolutions of non-import and non con
sumption of British manufa&ures, till the great object
was obtained that secured to the people of Ireland
the protection of their industry.—Resolutions of their
determined perseverance in the procuring a more equal
and adequate representation of the people, and their
readiness to co-operate in every con ftitutional means
with the other parts of the kingdom in that necefHry
work,
Friday the Hankey, Captain Cheap, failed with a
valuable aborted cargo for Philadelphia, having like
wise on board 300 fine fellows, redemptioners, and
other passengers, who are thus forever separated from
and loft to this country^ America, awake to that
good policy which regulates and directs all nations de
lirous of the improvement and aggrandizement of their
people, will undoubtedly hold forth every encourage
ment to the present spirit of emigration which univer
sally pervades the kingdom, and which there is but
too much reason to fear will continue, while we ex
hibit a supineness, a narrow, imbecile, deftruCtive con
duct, as favourable to those views and wishes as the
want of humanity, wisdom, or common sense can pos
sibly make them.
1 he severe frofts which have continued every night
for fix weeks past, have done more real mifehief to
vegetation than all the rigour of the past winter.—
[Numb. 320.]