The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1784-06-14 00:00:00, page 2

P A RI S, March 8.
It is thought there will be no council of war held
on the officers of Mons. de Suffrein's fleet, as they
have been punished already by his difmiflion of them.
If they think not to have deserved it, they will take
proper steps to be reinstated, which it is supposed none
of them will venture to do.
March 19. The King has been most liberal in the
relief of the poor during this severe winter; the da
mage done in the country by the inundations is be
yond description : His Majesty has referred four mil
lions to be distributed among the poor farmers, who
are almost all ruined. This Sum is the produce of the
savings of extraordinary expences lately retrenched,
and one-tenth of all penlions above ten thousand
livres.
through the Streets at full charge. Posterity will Scarce
believe, that in the year 1784, an Irish Parliament
flew from the people, to the protection of a foreign
soldiery.
We are allured from the best authority, that misery
reigns triumphant through the land; scarce is it in the
power of the lower class to support a wretched being,
and many of those who were once in affluence are re
duced to the lowest poverty. Numbers of the master
manufacturers are determined, Since the rejection of
the protecting duties, to leave a country cruel only to
its natives, and seek for an asylum in foreign dimes.
BOSTO N, May i 3.
The Meteorological Society at Manheim, by a let
ter from their Secretary, M. Hemmer, to Profeffor
Williams, have announced their intention of pre
senting to the University at Cambridge, a complete
set of Meteorological Instruments. This donation
will be at the expense of his Serene Highness the
Elector Palatine. These instruments are the
most exact of any that have yet been made ; and they
have been distributed throughout Europe, that ob
servations made in different places may admit of the
most accurate comparison. This generous offer (the
firft of the kind that has been made to any part of
America) was in consequence of the observations made
here for several years pall being communicated to
that illustrious Society.
May 17. About two o'clock last Saturday after
noon, the dwellinghoufe occupied by Mr. Noah Clap,
of Doichefter, was difeovered to be on fire, and was
soon consumed. Afterwards the barn belonging to
Mr. William Allen, merchant (which lay in the wake
of the flakes of fire almost half a mile distant) caught
on fire, which soon communicated to his elegant dwel
American Intelligence.
S A L E M, May 18.
The Governor of Nova-Scotia has lately ordered
an a& to be published, whereby “ all and every his
(Britannick) Majesty's fubjeds of that Province, and
their heirs and every of them, are acquitted, par
doned, released and difeharged, against the King's
Majesty and his successors, of all manner of treasons,
misprision of treasons, treasonable and seditious words,
libels or correspondence, by them or any of them
committed or done, in aiding, countenancing or affix
ing his Majesty's late fubje&s in the Thirteen Colo
nies, during their rebellion, and from all pains, pe
nalties, forfeitures, pains of death, and pains corpo
ral, which may have been incurred or forfeited by
them, or any of them (before the passing of this aft)
by reason or means of the said premises."
Twenty-fix persons, who had been banished by an
ad of the Legislature of New-York, have lately been
permitted to return to their refpedive homes, and to
reside within that state.
A statute Meeting of the Fellows of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences is to be holden at the
County Courthouse in Boston, on 1 uefday the 25th
inst. at 10 o'clock, A. M.
Died, at Plaftow, New-Hampshire, Mrs. Hannah
Belknap, aged 106 years and 11 months. She re
tained her mental faculties until the day of her death.
EMMERI C, March 4.
How is it possible to write the consternation we are
in !we are bereft of dykes.— Ihe Rhyne threatens
total ruin to us; all our fields are covered with a sea
of water; in short, our situation is beyond description.
The cattle perilh by thousands. Famine and cold
unite their ravages to those of inundations ; and ves
sels that have been sent for relief, have been destroyed.
The couriers coming from Wefel to Weftervoort,
were obliged, at the peril of their lives, to pass by
the tops of the houses.
P I S A, February 13.
The ninth of this month, the Emperor returned
here from Leghorn. This morning he left this city,
and took the route to Lerici, where the galleys of
the Republick wait for his Imperial Majesty to carry
him over to Genoa.
linghoufe, and the wind being very high, both were
loon consumed, together with three horses, his coach
and other carriages in the barn, and the chief part of
the valuable furniture in the house. On difeovering
the fire at Mr. Clap's, Mr. Allen lent his fovants to
his assistance; and while adively assisting his neigh
bour, he fuffered the greater loss himfelf. The fore
going is all the particulars we have as yet obtained.
The General Assembly of the state of Rhode-
Island, at their last session, in consequence of an ap
plication from the town of Newport, palled an ad
for incorporating said town into a CITY.
Saturday arrived here the Ship Mermaid, Captain
Park, from London ; seven weeks from the Downs.
Yesterday arrived here Captain Lewis, in a brig
from Tortola ; nineteen days passage. Also a brig,
Captain Adams, from Martinico; and a brig from
Portugal.
The Jollonving is an extraft of a letter from Ireland,
to a gentleman in this town.
Cahir, near Clonmell, Nov. 24, 1 783.
" I congratulate you, and every other spirited as
serter of liberty and independence, on your late happy
and ever glorious revolution, whereby you have eman
cipated a flourishing, though infant empire, from the
iron hand of tyranny and oppression.—l hope soon to
have the pleasure of returning my most grateful ac
knowledgments, as I intend, with two or three neigh
bouring gentlemen, to embark for Boston."
On Sunday the 2d instant two persons accidentally
difeovered in Danvers, the retreat of a gang of thieves
and robbers. Its situation is in the woods, about a
mile northwardly from the Boston road, towards
Lynn, and is a kind of cavern formed by huge rocks,
and of very difficult and dangerous access. It ap
peared by the quantity of ashes, to have been occu
pied by its infamous inhabitants for a considerable
time, though none of them were then seen. There
were several cooking utensils, some fire, fragments of
frefh meat, &c. &c.
It is said that a teamster, belonging to Reading,
having been to market with a load of wood, last Sa
turday fen'night, was robbed of four dollars, on his
way home, by a single highwayman, supposed to be
one of the gang mentioned above.
'N O R W I C H, May 6.
A correspondent observes, that the extravagances
of the present day ate fully demonstrated in the broad
cloth coats and silk gowns, the powder and feathers,
the ruffles and cardinals, the silk flockings and feet
trappings. In the feafts, the dancing parties and fe
led companies, and what is more melancholy, all or
ders and degrees help to form the general circle.—
Where is that simplicity in dress and manners; tem
perance in meats and drinks, which formed the virtu
ous characters of our illustrious ancestors? Oh!
the degeneracy of the times !
Majority for the impost, - 51
Never did people in general feel more fatisfadion
at any publick measure, than in consequence of this
ad. Every well wilher to a Continental union, must
feel every hour the necessity of a Continental head—
the necessity of harmonious concert in Continental
measures—the absolute necessity of unanimity and vi
gour in all our federal operations. That paltry jea
lousy of power in a body which is eligible by the peo
ple, or their legal reprefentativcs, can be annihilated,
or changed by the popular breath ; and is necessarily
changed once in three years; a body where power is
reftrided by fpecifick limits prescribed by the people;
a body accountable to their constituents for all their
condud ; that paltry unnatural jealousy of power in
such a body is pregnant with more mifehief to the
United States than legions of disciplined troops. —
Next to the jealous disposition, the felfiginefs of par
ticular states may be ranked as the greatest inconve
nience in our union. Should any individual state,
from motives of local interest, refufe to comply with
this equally just, equitable and salutary measure, such
refufal must at any rate retard the fulfilment of our
publick engagements, and most probably end in the
creation of some compulsory power on the continent
which will oblige the states to am in concert ; or what
is more to be dreaded, terminate in a total diflolution
of our federal government.
NEW-YOR K, May 27.
By Captain Dale we learn, that Lieutenant Colonel
Franks, on the 7th of April last, arrived at the office
HA RTFOR D, May 25.
Last Wednesday the important queltion of grant
ing an impost agreeably to the recommendation of
Congress, was brought forward in the house of repre
sentatives. The debates were managed with manli
ness and candour, suited to the magnitude of the fub
jed—the doors were opened to the anxious curiosity
of the fpedators, and after a full difeuffion, the yeas
and nays were required ; which are as follows:
Yeas, " " 93
• Nays,- - - 42
of the Secretary of State in London, with the ratifi
cation, on the part of Congress, of the Definitive
Treaty of Peace ; and the next day set off for France.
Colonel Franks failed from this port, on the 22d of
February last, in the ship Edward, captain Cooper.
His Excellency Matthew Griswold, Esq. is eleded
Governor of the state of Connecticut (in the room of
his Excellency Jonathan Trumbull, Esquire, whole
age has induced him to retire :) And the Honoura
ble Samuel Huntington, Esquire, is elected Lieute
nant Governor of the said state.
The Honourable William Pitkin, Jedediah Strong,
John Treadwell, Joseph P. Cook, James Wardfworth,
and Charles C. Chandler, Esquires, are elected dele
gates to represent the state of Connecticut in Con
gress.
MAY 31.
It is expected that the Bank of Nem-Tork will
soon commence its operations, as the President and
Directors on the 22d inst. were qualified before his
Worlhip the Mayor, to condud the business of the
Bank to the best of their knowledge and abilities, for
the interest and benefit of the proprietors, and agree
ably to the true intent and meaning of their consti
tution.
The Roebuck Packet, Captain Richards, arrived
here on Friday last, in five weeks and four days from
Falmouth.
T he Sifters, of Greenock, Thomas Kerr, late mas
ter, from New-York, is arrived at Clyde, after a pas
sage of nine weeks. On the 26th of February (he
mer with a violent gale of wind, and (hipped a sea,
which swept away boats and every '' :n g upon deck,
together with the master and three of the crew ; one
of the latter, however, after having gone over, caught
hold of a rope, and was providentially saved.
June 4.
Extraft of a letter from Charleston, South-Carolina,
dated May 18, 1784.
'' At a time when we had a profped of enjoying
the blessings of peace, we are cruelly disappointed by
the nefarious projects of such of the toiy leaven as
the impolitick lenity of our government has permitted
to remain amongst us: Some little time ago a parcel
of naval stores was condemned as confifcated proper
ty, and advertised to be fold for the benefit of the state ;
although it was not possible for the difeontents to pre
vent the sale, they nevertheless had the audacity to
threaten the personal fafety and property of such per
sons as should be hardy enough to become purchasers:
Their threats were deipifed by a reputable merchant
of this city; he bought the whole at an equitable price,
but soon had reason to repent of his temerity—the
nest of vipers which we nurse in our bosom are so
united, that they perform faithful service for one ano
ther ; a few, delegated by the rest, set fire to the
warehouse in which the stores were deposited, and it
was burnt to the ground, notwithstanding every pos
sible assistance being given to extinguish the flames.—
Government offered a reward for the bringing the of
fenders to justice, but without any effed. Although it
would have been a fair conclusion to have hoped that
the above atrocious adion, and others of a Similar na
ture, would have routed the generous indignation of
every friend to his country, yet our Legislature have
lately passed a resolve encouraging such of the inha
bitants of Nova-Scotia as may be diffatisfied with
their present situation, to come and fettle amongst us.
I his was rather too much to be endured by me.iwho
had fuffered So much in the defence of their dear
rights and privileges as Americans have done: A set
of men in whose memories the unprovoked murders
and depredations committed by bands of hired merce
naries are itill frefn, published an intimation to twelve
notorious tories, that it would be to their fafety to
leave the state with as much speed as possible ; this
temperate and friendly admonition was received with
the usual ingratitude and insolence; the Governor
was applied to, and he has issued a proclamation, of
fering one thousand dollars reward for the discovery
of such persons as have dared to threaten their High
Mightinesses the T ories.
" I had almost forgot to mention, that in the midSt
of this alarming confulion, the Governor has had a
publick Squabble with the Senate about the propriety
of letting out the publick room in which that body
meets to tranfad business, for a tlancing-fchool; the
Senate have carried the point, and the Governor is
left to refled, that—Nero fiddled mhilft Rome was
burning."
By the America, Captain Carpenter, which arrived
here yesterday from Bristol, we have papers of that
city to the 24th of April, and in general we learn that
the whole kingdom had been thrown into confulion
by the contests for members for the new Parliament.
The returns have been very favourable to Mr. Pitt's
administration. A few large cities were yet in the
warmth of contention, such as Westminster, Bristol,
&c. At Bristol, on the 24th of April, the poll flood
as follows :
For Brickdale, ... 222$
Cruger, .... 1962
Daubeny, ... 1945