The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1782-11-13 00:00:00, page 2

and federal other general officers, are on their pas
sage home.
Extract of a lettter from Paris, Aug. 19.
" It is certain that the Comte de Graffe Las 'e
nemies in the fleet, but there are also a large num
ber of officers ready to give evidence in his favour.
He thews in the mean-time, by the confidence of
his conduct and his difeourfe, that he is certain he
has done his duty. This affair will be soon cleared
up by the court martial which is to be held at Brest,
where that unfortunate Admiral, it is said, has had
orders to repair."
Extract of a letter from Gibraltar.
" You will eaiiiy conceive the incelfent lire kept .
up against this place, when I affufe you, that a
parapet seventeen feet high and two hundred long,
has been raised near Willis's battery, consisting en
tirely of the Shells and balls thrown in by the ene
my." :
They write from Cadiz, by way of Lisbon, that
the Bucephalus, a line Ihip ofc 74 guns, built at the
Havanna, was loft in her passage from thence to
Spain,' and all the crew periled.
On Thursday, in the afternoon, Admiral Mil
bank, with 17 fail of men of war, passed by the
bank of the Goodwin finds for the North seas, to
convoy home the Baltic fleet. It appears that he
failed from the Downs early on Sunday morning,
and arrived oft the Lexel on Tuesday evening,
'when he found the Dutch fleet in port; the fame
evening he likewise received advice from feme of
his qruizers, which had been dispatched ahead, that
the Baltic fleet was failed from Llfineur, and no
doubt by that time out of danger.
On receipt of the above intelligence, an express
was immediately lent to Lord Howe, for the grand
fleet to fail for Gibraltar, as soon as Admiral Mil
bank's squadron arrived at Spithead, and likewise
for the Exit and Weft-india fleets to fail at the
fame time.
Sept. 7. On Tuesday last Rear-Admiral Alex
ander Hood hoisted his flag on board the Queen
man of war at Portsmouth, in the room of Admi
ral Kempenfelt, deceased.
Yesterday Major Stanhope, brother of Lorc(
Harrington, set off for Portsmouth, to embark with
the second son of Lord Townlend, and another
gentleman for Gibraltar.
Yelierday an individual waited upon Lord Kep
pel, and offered a 74 gun ship, full manned, which
has been accepted. Such an example has not been
in Europe, even among the princes of the blood in
France. Too great honours cannot be paid to such
a man. It is hoped the example will be followed,
as well by individuals, equally capable, as by col
le^ive bodies of men.
They write from Utrecht, that the treaty be
tween the Republick of Holland and America, under
the guarantee of France, was Signed and exchanged
at .~mfte:dam the 20th of last month; on which
account they had publick rejoicings
The Dutch have no more than twelve fail of the
line ready at the 'Lexel, as will appear by the fol
lowing lift; the other part of the Squadron, with
which \drr.iral Hartfincke firft failed from the Tex
el, having been detached with their East and M est-
India fleets, consisting of fix fail of the line, three
of 44 guns and three frigates.
Admiral General, 76 ; Amsterdam, Shortenear
and Union, of 68; Admiral Ruyter and Prince
Frederick 60; Rhynland, Batavife and Princess
Louisa, 56; GlinthorlE Admiral Piet, Hein and
Centaur, 54; Herculus, 64; Sept Province, 70.
Lift of the besiegers of Gibraltar.
We have been favoured with the following ac
count of the whole force employed to reduce Gi
braltar, the regular siege and firings against which
are supposed to have commenced on Sunday last,
for the honour of St. Louis and the Catholick
faith :
Officers, French and Spanish, 5,675
Men, - - 34> 21 7
Lift of artillery.
Brass ordnance, Spanish.
Founders. Pounders.
Twelve 84 Nine 48.
Twenty-two 63 Forty-eight 24
Thirty-nine 48 Twenty-two 18
Forty-Seven 36 Sixteen 12
Iron ordnance, Spanish.
Fifty-three 32 Twenty-four 24
French ordnance from Toulon.
Twenty 52 Nine 48
Fourteen 36 Twelve 36
Ten 3 2 . Fifteen 23
Lefides mortars, howitzers, &c.
Extract of a letter from Cadiz, Aug. 3.
By accounts from the camp before Gibraltar, we
have the mortifying intelligence, that General El
liot had by fume means procured a number of can
non of an amazing Size, particularly in length; that
notwithstanding all the opposition of the beSiegers,
he had compleated a battery and mounted these
cannon thereon; that on theist of Augud, he be
gan a most furious cannonade on out troops, which
lasted for upwards of seven hours, in which time
he had almuft demolished the works raised very
near the rock, and detboyed many men; Captain
Lopes Sebastian, the famous engineer, and Mon
sieur Fendon, a volunteer, are among the Rain—
Two Cartilian regiments are, however, in full
march from hence to the camp, in order to replace
the killed and wounded.
• he most honourable terms of peaae have been
lately offered both to America and Holland. If
they are accepted, it will be happy for all parties.
If not, we Shall certainly have the most bloody war
England was ever engaged in.
1 he last def patches received by government from
Governor Elliot, are of the most agreeable nature,
relpeßing the state of the garrison of Gibraltar. —-
The Governor reports, that the forces under his
command are in the highest spirits, and fully ade
quate to repel the molt vigorous attacks of the ene
my, Should 1 they have the temerity to attempt a
Rorm. With refpeH to provisions, the garrison
have been more amply Supplied Since June last from
Britain and the Barbary coast, than since the com
mencement of the liege, notwithstanding the vigi
lance of the Spanish flrips of war. A cloudy night,
or a new moon, has-been always productive of a
provision or an ammunition vessel to invigorate the
garrison. Ihe Governor speaks of the approaches
of the enemy with the utmost contempt; and- from
some paflages mentioned in his defpatches, it is not
unlikely that he has made another grand sally ere
this, and levelled their batteries with the ground.
He concludes his letter by mentioning, that if he
receives the promised flipplies by the grand fleet by
the middle of October, he will bid defiance to the
whole dfeft of Bourbon for eighteen months. These
pleating defpatches have put government in the
highest spirits, as they now confider Gibraltar out
of all danger.
Extract of a letter from Paris, Aug. 27.
“ Mr. Fitzherbert has not left this .capital, but
will remain here a few dajs longer. Reports are
circulated that the obstacles to a negoejatien are re
moved; and that a peace will take place in the
course of the winter."
Ma. COLLINS,
For the improvement of the young gentlemen at
Nafou-Hail, and all otheis who are detirous
of acquiring a good Rile, and an elegant dic
tion, I with you to insert in your Gazette die
following
Specimen of modern eloquence, being
part of a speech lately delivered in a pub
lick aifembiy, by the Dev/ojibenes of
Kew-jerfey.
!</[ """' " a ' ' ara " ot indoctrinated in the
bl turgid and fcholastc phrafeoiogy and magni
loquence of those bibliotheca! Literal, who have
proiocuted in the present momentous difcumon, nor
versed in that effiorefcent decorated verbuhty, and
rhetorical brilliance, wherewith they have illumined
and befpanglcd their fallacious andjquabnoxious ra
tiocinations, yet I afeend with humilbmous affiance,
of being amply potential in my own vernacular, ma
ternal and Jubtenocetary dialed, totally to pulverize
and annihilate those dlufory, erratic arid fophilti
cated argumentations, wherewith my tergiversating
antagonists have infruduoufly empriz^d to oblufcate
and paralogize the luminous radiancy of truth, and
by ftratagemical twiltihcations and T^rdeurs, to in
veigle and incarcerate the sublimity of your electo
ral intelligentials.
But uninitiated as I may be in their miltonic
and ciceronean mode of elocution, I may adven
ture to asseverate, without hazarding the imputati
on of a fattidious glorification, that through an in
numerous and reiterated revolution of Luftrums, I
have had an auspicious opportunity of being radi
cally erudited during our pristine regal gubernation,
in die variegated usages of parliamentary procee
dures; and that in point of mode and form, I deign
not to resign the legiflatory laurel to any human
essence or exigence, either on this terraqueous
globe, or throughout the whole illimitable indeter
minable immensity of space. But without farther
proem, prelude or preligomenon, I expedite to my
machinated piopofitum: and I humbly opine, and
have profoundly revolved it in my moll internal
cogitations, that the personage who ought to be
elevated to the official dignity now in contestation,
especially at this perilous epocha of martial per
turbation and turbulence, whilst our auditory nerves
are diurnally vulnerated with the terrific and hor
rendous clangour of war, behoveth to be criterion
ally and categorically bellicose and bellipotent, and
the legitimate unadulterate emanation of the con
nubial cupidinous conjunction copulative, of Mar;
and Bellona. He ought, by nature's plastic digits,
to be fabricated of such ignited and inflammable
corpufclus, as to explode smoke and fulphur like
the ignivorncus mountainous excrescence of Sicily;
and to be endowed with the capability of respiring
amidlf enveloping volumes of fuliginous atoms, like
the sooty Mqlciber, when with thunderous ham
mer and auxiliary cyclopfes, he imparts direful con
culEon to tremulous reverberating Mtna. Heought,
at the moment or the cannon's fgnal roar, to fu
pejadd velocity to his corporeal pedestals; to grap
with the celerity of elemental eleftricity, his pon
detous Toledo, of keener edge than the Aortic blade;
to mount his ready caparisoned equestrian ®ua a
draped, of Tbefalian breed, or the lineal progeny
of the pugnatious Bucephalus; and rushing fulgu
ration like amongst the # o ecoiling foe, cry, havoc,
and let loose the dogs of war. He Should then,
with remitting prides, return like armipotent Da
vid (blooming chieftain of high renown in sacred
page) with the dissevered decollated cipital apart
ment of the animal ftru&ure of his opponent Hn
glican Gcliahr; and bearing in his hand, or upon
longitudinal pole, displayed aloft in ambient aether,
the cnEngumed foolta^pimal trophy to his jubi
lant and exulting legions.
It will not defatigate this eximious auditory with
irksome prolixity, but alacrioufly submit my oft? acifr
mal or oral fuffrage to ycur fuperioily sapient and
perfpicnious rumination, and your illuminated and
unparalleled intellectuals.
The brig Delight, Capt. Samuel Johnson, from
this port, is captured and carried into New-York.
Lase Monday night three deserters from the Bri
tish regiment Rationed at Huntington, came to town
from Long-Island.
Monday a flag from New-York bound to New
port, wr.s carried into Stonington by Capt. Shef
field, in a privateer from that place, and on Wed
nesday She was sent to this port ; file having, as it
is Did,fome articles of British manufaCure on board.
Monday arrived a brig, Captain Waters, from
th^ Havanna, but last from Newport. On her out
ward-bound passage from Salem She took a valuable
brig from Tortola, bound to Glasgow.
I uefday arrived in Conne&icut river the brig Van
Trump, Capt. Thomson, from the Havanna.
Tuesday evening, about nine o'clock, a man was
knocked down and robbed of about Forty Dollars,
in Beach-Street in this town.
The Sloop Harmony, Captain Hopkins, bound
from Tuik's-lfland to this port, is run on Shore at
the Eastward, and, it is said, will be loft.
FISH-KI LL, November 7.
His Excellency General Washington has
again eftabliihed the Head-Quarters of the army at
New?u gh.
On the 26th ultimo, the firft division of the Bri
tish fleet, confiding of fourteen Ships of the line,
one ship of forty guns, seven frigates, and several
Smaller veflcls, failed from Sardy-Hook. /
P H I L A DELPHI A, November 2.
On Thursday evening last two gentlemen belong
ing to the ihip Carolina, Captain Newell, came to
town from Baltimore, where that vessel arrived last.
I ue'day, after a passage of 40 days from L'Orient.
Neither the letters nor papers have come to hand ;
but the principal accounts brought by her are,
that the combined fleet of France and Spain, con
fiding of about 60 fail of the line, had failed for
Gibraltar to second the grand attack on that for
trefs. which it was thought would be made about
the middle of September; it was uncertain whe
ther the British fleet would attempt the relief
against this very formidable armament. That the
late a&ion in the Ead-Indies had proved favoura
ble to the fleet of oCT ally, and it was averted
three Biitifh men of war were taken in it. An
English officer was heard to fay that their affairs
were ruined in -the East, and that nothing could
retrieve them from deftru&ion. That although
Sir Joseph Yorke and Mr. Fitzherbert were at Pa
ris, yet a peace seemed very doubtful, and nc
decisive opinion could be made on it ; and that the
Dutch fleet of 20 fail o£ the line, had protected
their trade in the North sea, and prevented the
Baltic fleet from reaching England.
N E W-LONDO N, Nov. 1.