The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1786-06-19 00:00:00, page 2

larger than that which went into the exchequer in
1785, there will be a yearly deficiency of seven hun
dred and fifty thousand pounds. Now the question is,
What is to ' be done in Order to provide for this de
ficiency of seven hundred and fifty thousand pounds,
for, at all events, there is to be a finking fund. This
is what ministry intend to do. They intend to com
pel the paymasters of some preceding cabinets to come
forward with their immense arrears to the publick ;
they mean to avail themselves of ceconomy, to which
their opponents never turned their eyes, and to divert
to the publick use the army and other savings, which
are very considerable ; and they mean to make use of
the surplus of several funds not yet appropriated.—
By these, and such aids, they are to realize the sum in
question: so that the important million will be duly
applied ; while every national demand is answered, and
the purses of the people entirely spared. To make
good a million a year for the foundation of the finking
fund, and also to defray all the expences of the regu
lar peace eftablifliment, the present revenues are fully
adequate; and government has ample and indubita
ble resources for all extraordinary expences.
Extract of a letter from Ramfgate, March 9.
" Last Saturday morning, at break of day, a large
Swedish fllip was discovered on the North-head of the
Goodwin Sands, without any masts standing: as the
boats are always a float in the harbour, four imme
diately went off, and providentially got to the ship just
time enough to save the captain and crew from being
loft, excepting one man, who had unfortunately been
drowned before the boats came to their assistance. In
their endeavours to save the Ihip's company, fix of
the boatmen were very near losing their own lives.
The crew of the ship confined of the captain and fif
ty men; the former and twenty men were brought to
Ramfgate in a perilhing condition, as they could not
stand, and their legs and hands were frozen and turn
ed black; however, they are all alive, and in a fair
way of doing well. The ship is loft, as her bottom
parted from her upper works; but the boats have
brought on Ihore a good deal of iron, fails, pitch,
ftaves," &c.
The following singular event cue give our readers from
the last foreign mail, in a letter from Mentz, dated
March 15th.'
" On the road from that place to Treves, there is
on the frontiers of France, an inn, which stands
alone. —A French officer travelling on horseback that
way, accompanied by one servant only, had occasion
to flop there for some time. His servant led the
horses into the stable. The officer was conducted into
a room mean while. On the servant's return from
the stable, they were remarking to each other the
wild looks of the inn-keeper, and the general disorder
which appeared in every part of the house. While
they were making many conjettures on the fubjed,
they neard a strange noise in the stable. The horses
could not be kept quiet, and their repeated neighings
and firiking on the ground with their feet occasioned
the gentleman's servant to enquire into the matter.
He returned quite pale and frightened, telling his mas
ter that one of their horses had beat up part of the
pavement, and discovered the hand of a dead body.
The officer finding they were in danger, determined
to trust to his arms, and his servant vowed to assist him
to the last drop of his blood.
“By and by, the servant maid came into their
chamber, to lay the cloth. The officer put some ques
tions to her, to which she made no answer; but he
could perceive the tear start from her eyes. Yet nei
ther his entreaties nor his threats could prevail upon
her to explain. His servant joined in beseeching her,
when the made signs that they Ihould not eat any of
the victuals which were to be put on the table. A
minute after, the inn-keeper entered with the supper
which he placed on the table, inviting the Grangers to
partake, but they excused themselves on different pre
tences. The holt became importunate, and they re
mained obstinate : on which he left the room, and re
turned, accompanied by three men of an alpeft as
terrific as his own, who gave the officer to understand
that he mud eat. The officer and his faithful servant
made no other answer than by blowing out the brains
of the two assassins who were the nearest to them:
the two others took to their heels immediately, the
conquerors pursued them out of the inn, and after
barricading the doors, they returned to the room,
where they fat up until day, keeping their fire-arms
loaded in case of an assault. This precaution was ne
cessary, as about the middle of the night they could
distinguish the voice of several persons, who endea
voured to break open the doors. On this they went
to the place of attack. The villains had effected a
breach, through which the mod hardy of them at
tempted to enter, but was immediately dispatched:
the others, more cautious, took some time to confider,
during which the officer and his servant saluted them
with repeated discharges of their pieces, by which one
of them was killed, and the others terribly wounded,
as appeared by the quantity of blood which fell from
them during their flight. After this the travellers re
mained unmolested for the remainder of the night:
by break of day they mounted their horses, and
took a bye road; as soon as they arrived here, they
gave an account of the whole affair, and a search is
making for the rest of this villanous gang.—The
above relation is a very remarkable instance of the
special interposition of Providence to detect villany,
and protest the innocent.
American Intelligence.
PROVIDENCE, May 27.
THE post from New-London informs, that on
Monday last, seven or eight persons were ap
prehended at or near Eaft-Haddam, on Connecticut
river, and committed to Hartford gaol, as counter
feiters of money. They were on board a small (loop,
which had been in the river a considerable time. A
quantity of counterfeited coin, said to be well executed,
was found on board, with dies for guineas, dollars
and piftareens.
NEW-HAVEN, June 8.
Extract of a letter from Stratford, June 1, 1 786.
" Last evening as I was walking in Stratford to
wards the weft, at half pad twelve at night a sudden
slash of light like that of lightening shone round me.
I turned round and saw in the S. E. a meteor of
nearly the size of the moon in the meridian, and al
most as bright as the fun, descending in a curve line
and tapering to a point within about fifteen degrees
of the horizon, where it vanished. Ido not exact
ly remember whether there were any sparkles or not.
I judged that the star near which it firft took its rife,
was nearly two thirds of the height of the polar
star, or about fifteen degrees.
“ At about fifteen minutes after one, the fame
night, as I was walking towards the south, I saw in
the weft another phenomenon of the fame kind, at
the height of about thirty degrees, descending to
wards the north in a tight line, to the height of fif
teen degrees, where it ended in sparkles. This ap
peared to be about four or five inches diameter, and
was of an oblong figure.
N E W-YO RK, June 8.
Extras of a letter from Boflon, June 1.
" Yesterday being the last Wednesday in May, the
gentlemen returned to serve as senators and repre
sentatives in general court, met at the statehouse in this
town, agreeable to the constitution, and took the
oaths, and subscribed the declaration required before
the governor and council for the time being, who
then withdrew: the senate made choice of the ho
nourable Samuel Philips, jun. esquire, for their pre
sident: and the house of representatives chose the
honourable Artemas Ward, esquire, for their speak
er; the governor and council were then escorted to
the statehouse by the Roxbury train of artillery, com
manded by John Spooner, esquire, from thence the
whole body proceeded to the old brick meetinghouse,
where a sermon, well adapted to the occasion, was
delivered by the rev. mr. Samuel Weft, of Need
ham."
Extraft of a letter from New-London, dated Junel.
" A forrowful accident happened on Saturday last:
three sons of Deac. Nathaniel Otis, were fifhing in a
canoe on the Great Pond, so called, near their fa
ther's house, the lower part of Colchefter, and a
sudden flaw of wind striking the canoe while they
were attentive to fifhing, gave her a careen, when
they immediately leaning on the other fide of the
canoe, overfet her: they were tolerable good swim
mers, but having their great coats on, one of them
only reached the shore, the other two were drowned.
They were of the age of twenty-one and fourteen.
After laying in the water about half an hour, they
were taken out, and various means used to restore
them to life, but to no effed.
" Another son of Deac. Otis, about two years old,
was taken sick of the throat distemper the fame day
that his two brothers were drowned, and died the
Monday following.
" Several houles in this city were robbed in the
course of last week, of clothing, in the evening,
while the families were in the back parts of their
houses. Three stragglers, two men and a woman
were deteded on Monday last, and one man and the
woman (with whom were found a quantity of cloth
ing) committed to gaol for trial at the next county
court; the other, a young man about twenty years
old, being convided of dealing two hats, received
the discipline of the whip—eleven keys of different
kinds were found on him.
June to. The (loop Polly, Benjamin Chadwell,
thirty-seven days out from Jamaica, bound to Hali
fax, put into this port in distress yesterday, with a
number of passengers on board, having carried away
her rudder and short of provisions.
By the United States in Congress afembled, May
17, 1786.
Resolved, That after the fitft day of July next,
the Salaries of the commissioners for fettling the ac
counts between the United States and individual
states, be twelve hundred and fifty dollars per an
num.
CHARLES THOMSON, Sec'ry.
Died at his house in Nassau-street, on Friday last,
in an advanced age, the honourable Alexander
M'Dougall, esquire, one of the senators for the
southern diftrid of this state, and late a major-ge
neral in the army of the United States.—Yesterday
afternoon his remains were interred in the Old Presby
terian church yard, with all the refped and honour due
to the memory of so great and distinguished a charac
ter —the Cincinnati and the clergy preceded the
corpse and mourners ; the marine society, members of
Congress, and a very numerous and refpeftable con
course of citizens, formed a grand procession io the
church-yard, during which, minute guns were fired
from the battery.
We hear from Jamaica, Long-Island, that on
Wednesday last there was one of the most severe
ftofms, which, for its ravages and duration, has not
been remembered for these forty years past. The
air was close and sultry, with tremendous claps of
thunder all the afternoon till about five o'clock,
when the wind in an instant veered from the south
ward to the northwest, with the greatest violence,
accompanied with hail and fluicts of water, which
poured down incessantly till fix. Many of the hail?'
stones were as large as musket balls. Ihe force of
the wind was so great as to break off large trees by
the trunks, and carry the fences away many yards
from their places. It is remarkable that in this city,
little or no thunder was heard, and but a few drops
of rain; although the distance from this to Jamaica
is but about twelve miles.
The brig Peggy, captain Garner, from Port-au-
Prince, to Newbern, North-Carolina, foundered at
sea in lat. 24.30, north; long. 75. 10 weft, the 4th
of May, the crew took the boat, and were taken up
by the Hoop Charlemont, James Stevens, master,
from Jamaica to North-Carolina, and landed at Beau
fort, on the Bth of May.
Last Tuesday arrived here from China, the Impe
rial ship Count Beligiofo, commanded by J. J. Bauer,
lieutenant in his Imperial majesty's service. She left
Canton the 23d of January last.
A correspondent recommends the following method
of extinguilhing great fires; into a pump containing
fifty or sixty pails of water, put eight or ten pounds
of brine or pot-ash. The water so impregnated will
undoubtedly stop the progress of the greatest confla
gration.
KINGSTON, (Jamaica) April 1.
Captain Chemenfon, of the Elliott Guineaman,
which arrived on Monday, on his passage from the
coast of Africa, met the ship Grandville, Tait, from
Glasgow to Black-River, all well: he also fell in
with his majesty's ship Grampus, and the Nautilus
sloop of war, when he was in the latitude of the
tropic of Cancer; the former bound to England, and
the latter to make discoveries round the globe, by
the route of the Cape of Good Hope. He then
learnt, that captain . Thompson, of the Grampus,
had been dead three weeks: he had been surveying
the fortifications on the Gold Coast. Captain
Tripp, late of the Nautilus, then commanded the
Grampus; and a nephew of the late captain Thomp
son, commands the Nautilus.
The ship Mary, Wilcox, from Savannah, in Geor
gia, is arrived in Martha-Brab.
The order of the king in council for the regulati
on of the American trade, expires the sth of this
month; a circumstance which it is to be supposed,
will create some embarrassment to the officers here,
under whose fuperintendance that trade is carried on.
April 29. Mr. Flowerdew has added to his well
known chara^er for vigilance and integrity in the
service of his king and country, by seizing another
American smuggler last Thursday night, in this har
bour, loaded with flour, foreign spirits, fpermaceti,
candles, &c. &c. The prize is said to be a brig from
Maryland.
Yesterday, after a passage of fifty-one days, ar
rived his majesty's packet boat Prince William Hen
ry, captain John Davis, with the March mail.
No intelligence of regulation with refped to our
trade with America having been announced from the
packet, there is little reason to suppose that any ves
sels from that continent will find admission in this
island; at least, not while there remains here a re
venue officer, who determines to perform his duty,
and to obey the laws of his country.
St. Jago de la Vega, April 13.
The laudable exertions of the officers of govern
ment in the Weft-Indies and the remaining British
provinces in North-America, for the fuppieffion of
American Snuggling, must call forth the commenda
tions of every friend to his country. In vain, fays a
correspondent, will their disunited states empower
their impotent Congress to exclude British vessels
from their ports, or cramp, by illiberal reftridions,
those which enter them; in vain will they denounce
their anathemas of starvation against these inlands,
while our ministers have virtue fufficient to preserve
inviolate the aft of navigation, that palladium and
foundation of British power, wealth and greatness.
Our correspondent willies never to fee any comme
cial treaty formed with those faithlefs people, and
thinks the temporary regulation of his majesty in
council, as circumstances may suggest, the most pro
per mode of carrying on any intercourse with them.
As for their narrow illiberal policy in withholding
the payment of British debts, he would recommend
in that case the adoption of such a conduct, as Oliver
Cromwell observed with a much more formidable
enemy; he would fend out a fufficient number of
crullers, to make prize of every one of their vefTel>