The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1786-02-06 00:00:00, page 1

TO BE SOLD,
AT PUBLICK VENDUE,
AT John Rutledge's, on the premises, the ninth
day of March next, being the fifth day of the
week, either together or in lots of two to three hun
dred acres, a trad of land, called Good Will Pur
chased again, situate in Harford county, in the state
of Maryland, twenty miles from Baltimore town,
near the upper cross roads, containing one thousand
five hundred and fifty-two and a half acres. It is
mostly good wheat land, well watered, and a quantity
of good meadow is and may be made on several of
the lots; each of which has a proportion of wood
land. There are several buildings, and orchards on
it, and the whole is well fenced, and its vicinity to
.Baltimore will render it very valuable. The pur
chase-money to be paid in seven equal yearly pay
ments, the purchasers giving fatisfadory security, and
paying theintereft annually. A draught of the land,
divided into lots, may be seen at John Rutledge's
on the premises, who will fliew the land to any per
son desirous of viewing it.
CHARLES JERVIS,
Attorney to Ann Pemberton.
Jan. 18th, 1786. 6w
To whom it may Concern,
THE fubferiber having now retired from busi
ness, and wishing to have a final settlement of
his affairs, refpedfully requests those who have any
demands against him to fend in their accounts; and
those who are indebted to him, to make payment on
or before the firft day of April next, or they must
expect to be dealt with according to law.
Joseph Borden.
Bordentown, Jan. 23, 1786. t. f.
Notice is hereby given,
New-Jersey, 7 TO all the creditors of Josi-
Middlesex county, J X ah Smock, an insolvent
debtor, confined in the gaol of the said county for
debt, that they be and appear before the judges of the
inferior court of common-pleas for said county, on
Thursday the twenty-third day of February next,
at two o'clock in the afternoon, at the house of ma
jor Thomas Egbert, in the city of New-Brunswick,
then and there to shew cause, if any they have,
why an assignment of the said debtor's estate
Should not be made for the benefit of all his creditors,
and said prisoner be thereupon discharged from his con
finement, pursuant to an ad of the legislature of this
state, intitled, ' an ad for the relief of insolvent
debtors.' Josiah Smock.
Jan. 20, 1786. 4w*
House of Assembly, November 17, 1785.
A MEMORIAL from the trustees of the roads
and ferries leading from Newark to the road
that leads from Bergen-Point to Paulus-Hook, was read,
praying for a law to vest the ferries between Newark
and the town of Bergen in the trustees, on their paying
a certain annual rent, or on their being accountable for
the net revenuesto the proprietors, or at least until the
trustees are repaid the monies they have expended in
repairing the causeways, and putting the ferries in good
condition; and also the monies that may hereafter be
expended by the trustees for the said purposes;
Ordered, That they have leave to present a bill
agreeably to the prayer of their petition, on adver
tising the purport thereof, and a copy of this order,
in one of the New-Jersey, and in one of the New-
York news-papers, for at least fix weeks previous
thereto.
Extrad from the minutes,
.MASKELL EWING, jun. Clerk.
Notice is hereby given,
That a bill will be presented to the honourable
the legislature at their next fitting, agreeably to the
leave given in the above order.
Jan. 25, 1786. 6w
NEW-JERSEY GAZETTE.
[Vol. IX.]
TRENTON: Printed by ISAAC COLLINS, Printer to the State.
MONDA Y, February 6, 1786.
PRIMITIVE WHIG. No. V.
In the multitude of people is the king's honour ; but in
the want of people is the defruction of the prince.
Solomon.
COULD I be really perfaaded that a new
emission of paper money, would neither
promote private fraud, nor publick dis
credit, I am sure that I Should not be
against the measure. As to personal in
terest in the matter, I have none- I have already
been cheated out of all the money I had, by those
who could pacify their consciences by what they cal
led, taking the benefit of the law. God grant that
their consciences may be properly alarmed before they
launch into that awful eternity, where the defrauding
one's neighbour, either under colour, or by express
authority of human laws, will not be received as a
juftification of the fin. But the more I think of the
matter, the more apprehensive I am of its pernicious
consequences. Among numerous ether reasons that
I have against it, I am certain that it will discourage
the settlement of foreigners amongst us. Smitten
with the charms of such free and liberal constitutions
as those of the United States; and in which even the
taxes occasioned by the late war are nothing compar
ed to those in any part of Europe in time of profound
peace, there are thousands in that quarter of the
globe, who want to transport themselves into North-
America. Gentlemen of middling fortunes, who can
make no figure there, would here, with the fame for
tune, make a brilliant one. Instead of these receiv
ing four or five per cent for the loan of their money,
they would here receive seven. And the debts occa
sioned by the late war once discharged, our taxes
thereafter will be a mere trifle. Ail this they know,
and for this they pant to spend th' emainder of their
days in this land of liberty and plenty. But they are
told, and the English are not wanting in reiterating the
tale with exaggeration, that, in this country, there
is no security for property, no stability in publick bo
dies as to the redemption of paper currency emitted
upon the most solemn assurances; and that if they
should let out their money at interest, they would in
all probability never fee it again. There is too much
truth in this tale, tho' it is told with exaggeration.
And will such monied-men, after a tale so told, come
to fettle amongst us? I hey will not. And yet would
not one such man be more advantageous to this country
than some twenty of those who are clamouring for
paper money to cheat their fellow-citizens. They
would. Population, fays the motto of my paper,
and it is taken from the wisest man that ever
lived, constitutes the riches of a country. —We have
an immense territory to fettle. How do we fettle it?
Not by a proper encouragement of the influx of fo
reigners, who would be areal addition to our strength;
but by schemers and projectors on the one hand, who,
I suppose want to be petty princes in the western
country, and lords paramount upon some of the lakes;
and on the other hand, by those who are running away
from publick taxes, and private debts. Thus we diminish
our internal strength under the notion of extending
our dominion. We injudiciously separate that emble
matical bunch of rods of the United Netherlands,
which, collectively is strong and infrangible; but dif
parted, weak and contemptible. What are we to ex
ped from settlers in the back country? What from
people emigrating thither without carrying with them
either law or gospel; and telling us as loon as they
get there, procul a Jove, procul a Fulmine ? We
might, in case of a war, as reasonably expedaffiftance by
calling for it, upon the inhabitants of China, as up
on those of Kentucke and along the eastern banks of the
Ohio. We ought as soon to exped the payment of
our taxes by the great mogul, as by the borderers on
Lake Superior. I hope that the Indians will not
knock these emigrants on the head for fettling lands for
which they fay they have never been paid; and of
which they certainly were the prime occupants. The
Indians, tho' cruel in war (such is their manner of
warring, and Achilles and Hedor waged it in like
manner) are generally honest men. I wish the whites
were as honest. They part with their lands for a
trifling consideration. Let us rather pay them that
consideration out of policy than provoke the elevation
T H E
Mr. Collins,
Please to give the following a place in jour next week's
gazette, and you'll oblige a confant ctfomer, and the
publick in general.
IN answer to the Primitive Whig, No. 2. Nothing
is more astonishing, in this present age, as to be
hold men of judgment so biased with felf-intered, as to
facrifice all truth, honour and virtue; it therefore be
hoves every uninterested man, who has a real concern
for the welfare and prosperity of his country, to
oblige the publick with his speculations, if grounded
upon good principles. I have for a long time conti
nued iilent, and could have wished to remain so, daily
expecting to fee men of brighter abilities step forth,
in defence of their diftrefled country, to answer
those able though most felf-inteiefted and biased pie
ces, at sundry times published in your weekly ga
zette, which are so strenuously supported by the Pri
mitive Whig, in opposition of a new paper emission,
but rather a circulating medium. But apprehensive
of such daily ruins occasioned by such evil-minded
speculating and designing men daily subsisting, which
calls for immediate relief, and now is the only object
which induces me (though uninterestedly, only for the
real concern and prosperity of my distressed country)
to take up my pen, in vindication of my country and
the publick petitioners for a new paper emission, whom
Mr. Whig so scandalously reprobates and censures, as
a set of double-minded, unconscionable, prevaricating
and insidious petitioners. 1 could wish Mr. Primitive
Whig had honour enough to apply that phrase on
those deferring that compliment, and not on the pub
lick in general, but on those felf-interefted designing
beings (or pick-pockets as they may be stiled) and
such as would wish to drive their neighbours to the
utmost extremity, in order to engross their estates
into their own hands; yet he will attempt to hold
those up as just and laudable. Impartial publick,
judge for yourselves ! Must honesty be turned into kna
very,and knavery into honesty ! The firft point in questi
on, who are those in favour cf a paper currency? Hean
fwers, they are debtors, and debtors by their own
confeffion utterly irretrievable, without this iniquitous
device of a paper currency. He calls them so, be
cause, unless they pay in money greatly depreciated at
the time of payment, it can afford them no relief How
in the name of common sense, can Mr. Whig support
that argument. If the industrious man could have
good hard (or any other lawful money) on loan, for
five or fix years, to pay a debt immediately called
of their tomahawks again ......heads of our citi
zens. Rather let us pay it from principle than un
justly possess ourselves of what is theirs. The hea
ven is the Lords; but the earth hath he given
to the children of men. That part of the earth now
in question, belongs to that part of the children of
men. They were there, when we came here. Pos
session, fay the lawyers, is eleven points of the law.
At any rate, it is a good title against intruders, who
pretend to no other but their intrusion. But an ho
nest man will not desire to wrest from them their pos
sessions by force. William Penn, one of the wisest
legislators, 2nd one of the most conicientious of men
in the world, did not. Why the defcendents of this
great and good man were lately dripped of their patrimo
ny by the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, I will not
take upon me to determine. It is above my comprehen
sion; and said King James I. of England, the arca
na imperii are inicrutable, save by those who hold
the reigns of government, and doubtless this monarch
was as great a mercury as his preceptor Buchanan
could make ex quovis ligno. Sure, however, I ani
that the preamble to the ad that so stripped them
of their property doth not determine the justice of it
to my fatisfadion.—l return from all my digressions,
and asking the reader's pardon for having made them,
I fay that the future glory and riches of these dates
will eminently depend upon their population. That
we ought therefore for this purpose, to give the
greatest possible encouragement to the influx of fo
reigners. But that our system of a paper currency
will eternally discourage such influx; and that it con
sequently is an argument against the further emission
of such paper currency.
[Numb. 404.]