The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1784-10-11 00:00:00, page 2

quences to the state, from having a Legislature so well
formed that by far the greater number are intimately
acquainted with the meaning, spirit and tendency, of
the laws they pass ; and when they are all so willing,
and many of them so able, to give an account of the
statutes which they have made and ice must obey?
VII. Considering bow perfectly well the members
of a late Legislature are acquainted with the practice
of the law, as it 'till lately flood, ought we to wonder
at the following most ufeful amendments? 1. If a de
fendant does not plead in fifty days after the return
of the writ of capias, the court shall at the next term
proceed to give judgment and to assess damages, at
which assessment the defendant may attend and be
heard refpeding the fame; so that by neglecting to
plead he may very genteelly avoid the ridiculous tri
al by jury. 2d. If judgment does go against him,
he shall have two months time to convey away his
property, and to dispose of it according to his will
and pleasure, before execution shall issue to bind his
property for the use of his creditors ; which is surely
an excellent amendment! 3d. No fheriff shall be
called to an account for not felling the goods and
chattels, lands and tenements of a debtor, ia less than
fix months after execution has issued, nor in less than
two months after this, for not rendering the money
to the plaintiff or his attorney ; and certainly ten
months is little time enough after judgment for an
honest debtor to turn himfelf about, and for rogues
to wait for their money. 4. No writ for taking the
body of the defendant to fatisfy the creditor shall is
sue until all his goods and chattels, lands and tene
ments, are fold, though they are known not to amount
to one twentieth of the plaintiff's demand, which is
truly a very humane regulation ; for as the gentleman
debtor was rather hurried in the beginning of the ac
tion, it is but kind to let him breathe in the close o's
it. sth. Forms which through the folly of former
ages have been thought necessary to preserve the sub
stance, are altogether done away, and every citizen is
at liberty to declare and plead in his own way, man
ner and language, which will clearly have a happy
tendency to improve the present generation in the ar
ticle of style. 6th. That old ridiculous dodrine, that
the parties must in their pleadings come to some point
which the one asserts and the other denies, before the
cause is at issue, is also happily abrogated, and when
declaration and plea are filed, whether any such point
is fixed, upon which the dispute is to turn, and to
which the parties must be confined in their arguments,
or not, the cause is absolutely at issue, and to the
combat they go—and who does not fee what scope
is here given to eloquence, thus unfettered and dis
entangled ? But, forfooth, if the defendant pleads in
bar to the adion, that it is illegal or so, then in mer
cy a replication is allowed, but no demurrer by any
manner of means, which I am sure is a greater mer
cy still; for away with all hard words I fay, which
neither the Legislature nor we common folks can
understand, and let us have plain English ! Let us
plead in bar! All I fear, is, that those wicked lamb
ficin men will make curious work with this said plead
ing in bar. 7th. Ihe former iniquitous laws were
burdensome and cruel to unhappy debtors ; the longer
they delayed the payment of their debts, the more
costs were continually accumulating: Here also the
humanity of the Legislature has interfered ; for the
plaintiff shall have no more than five fallings and
fix-pence for prosecuting his suit ; and this is certainly
quite enough, nor ought any plaintiff to complain,
for if he does not succeed and judgment goes in fa
vour of the defendant, the defendant shall have no
costs at all, which very cleverly balances the matter.
Bth and last, for the present. It is now very fafe to
be a debtor, but woe to them who are creditors ; and
surely, as the majority of the people are debtors, all
laws ought to be made for their good.
VIII. From what has been said, have we not great
reason to believe, that New-Jersey, in a few years,
under such laws, will, from being a tributary to the
neighbouring states, become great in trade and com
merce—that her credit will be renowned far and wide
—that the rich and wealthy from every quarter will
flock hither to partake of our peculiar blessings—and
that we shall soon be second to none of our neigh
bours in fplendour and glory ?
Foreign Intelligence.
L OND O N, July 3 i.
r |°HE Ceres, Captain St. Barbe, is arrived at Cowes
in 19 days, from Boston, and has brought over
Thomas Jefferfon, Esquire, Governor of Virginia, who
is empowered by Congress to negociate treaties of com
merce with all Europe. Governor Jefferfon, immedi
ately on his arrival, hired a vessel to carry him to Ha
vre-de-Grace, from whence he is to proceed to Paris
to meet Mr. Adams, the Minister at that court.
Governor Jefferfon is a gentleman of very consider
able property, and of great commercial knowledge,
and has full powers vested in him by Congress to fet
tle a commercial treaty with this country.
The following extraordinary account of a Lunatick's
happy recovery may be depended on for fad :—Above
fix years since a feafaring person was taken into the
asylum for maniacks at York ; during the space of five
years and fix months he never exprefled any desire of
sustenance, and was fed in the manner of an infant. —•
The servants undressed him at night, and dressed him
in the morning: He never spoke, and remained with
his body bent all day, and was regarded by all about
him as an animal nearly converted into a vegetable.—
About the middle of May, 1783, he suddenly asto
nished the people around him with faying, '' good
morrow to you all." He then thanked the servants for
the care they had taken of him, and appeared perfect
ly sane. A few days after he wrote a letter to his wife,
in which he expressed himfelf with great propriety. On
the 28th of May following he was allowed to leave the
hospital, and will return to his family ; and has now
the command of a ship in the Baltick trade, and is in
the full enjoyment of perfect health, both in body and
mind.
Extrafl of a letter fr6m Beifaft, July 8.
" The town of Belfaft, assembled of publick notice,
have this day unanimously approved of the resolutions
of the aggregate body of the citizens of Dublin assem
bled the 7th ult. and appointed a committee to pre
pare a petition to his Majefly to dissolve the present
Parliament, and to issue writs for calling a new one,
agreeably to the plan of Parliamentary Representations
that may be agreed on by the national Congress of real
Representatives, to be holden the twenty-fifth of Oc
tober in Dublin."
C O R K, July 22.
The defpatches received from Bengal by the Duke
of Canton, a Danilh Eaft-Indiaman, re-dated in March
last, at which time Sir Edward Hughes had not arrived
on the Coromandel coait, nor was there any news from
him from the latter end of January, when he was at
Bombay, in the Sultan, of 74 guns, with four other
men of war. A Dutch country ship from Batavia was
loft at Calcutta in February, but without any great
loss, as the was light. The Dutch are reinstated at
two of their late factories in the Bengal Province.
Orders have been lent to India from the war-office,
for the return of the jzd, 73d, 101st, and xozd regi
ments of infantry to England ; permission, however,
has been given to the East-India Company, to enli ft
any number of the private men who may be inclined
to continue in the country ; as the Company give thir
ty guineas bounty money to every man who enlists,
it is very probable few of the privates will return to
Europe.
A letter from Copenhagen fays, that it is believed
all differences will be compromised between the Danes
and the Swedes, by the interposition of the King of
Prussia, and the Empress of Russia ; that the latter hath
declared, that if the Danes firlt commence hostilities,
file will fend assistance to the Swedes, and besides would
cut off all trade with the Danes, which has stopped the
failing of the Danilh fleet.
As soon as the French had retaken the important
settlement of Trinquimale, on the illand of Ceylon,
which they very easily gained possession of during Ad
miral Hughes's absence, they immediately let about the
repair of all the fortifications, which they have per
formed so fuccefsfully, that it is now reckoned a place
the molt impregnable of any in the East-Indies, and
superior to Batavia itfelf. Fort Oftenburg has been
completely rebuilt, and another fort, which they have
called Fort Louis, in compliment to the French Mo
narch, has been built in such a situation, that any ship
attempting the harbour in future, must be torn to
pieces, before she could bring her guns to bear, the
guns being long 42 pounders, all brass. The expences
of these new fortifications, which arc rated at 130,0001.
sterling, are part of the debt due to France from the
Dutch, which we understand was liquidated and paid
by mutual agreement before it was re-delivered to the
States-General. The Dutch have since sent out a mi
litary Governor, and 1200 men to garrison it, that in
case of a future war it might be equal to the talk of
withstanding the mos tpowerful besiegers.
DUBLI N, July 29.
Yesterday morning a guard of the handing army,
unsolicited, took poh at the Tholfel, under pretence
of assisting the civil power, in a manner that had more
the appearance of an hohile interference, than a mea
sure to preserve the peace. The magistrate on duty
neither desired nor expected this force ; as a detach
ment of the volunteer army had ached as a pose comi
tatus, and had not quitted the place, but on the most
perfect conviction of their attendance being unneces
sary.
If the hostile appearance visible in all the manoeu
vres of government here, were infufficient to open our
eyes to their real intentions towards this country, they
are determined their prints shall serve as a comment
on their condud. Every packet is replete with the
most scandalous misrepresentations of the situation of
affairs, and calumny of the good people of this coun
try, not to speak of the molt direct and pointed menaces
of chastisement, for our insolence ; that this is no ex
aggeration our readers may be convinced by the fol
lowing extract from the London Evening Post of last
Thursday: —The publick will please to observe, that
this paper is in the pay of the youth unhackneyed in
the ways of men:
" When it comes to be reflected, fays a correspon
dent, that a very ill-timed lenity, in the early breaking
out of the troubles in America, loft those colonies for
ever to Great-Britain, it it hoped government will be
have with a proper exertion of those laws which
God, nature, and this country have placed within
their hands, to prevent similar effects being produced
near home. Had the insurgents at Boston, in the
year 1775, been treated as their iniquity deserved, a
deal of blood had been fared, and a vast part of our
publick debt prevented. It is notorious that when go
vernments are too arbitrary, men grow desperate. It
is also certain that when laws are too much relaxed,
infurredions grow frequent ; and as lenity is misplaced,
the rogues grow daring for want of timely and exem
plary punifliment.— Verbum fat."
Extras of a letter from Waterford, Judy 24.
'' The never enough to be lamented emigrations
are going forward in this part of the kingdom, with
uncommon desolation. The Anne, Benjamin Edmon
fton, master, from Cork, for Philadelphia, has upwards
of 300 passengers, amoogft whom is not one redempti
oner ; they have all paid their passage, 10 guineas in
the cabin, 6in the steerage, and 4 in the hold. This
is his second voyage in that trade, and he intends con
tinuing in the fame line, for the accommodation of
passengers chiefly. This must convince the tyrants and
fathers of oppression, that they are not the feum of
the people alone who are leaving them in peaceable
possession of a desolated country, for the full exercise
of their tyranny: One of the passengers has been in
America since the peace, and returned for his family,
whom he now brings away, in number 25."
To the Volunteer Army of IRELAND.
Countrymen and Fellow-Citizens,
I BESEECH you let not the new foftered sentiments
of a Charlemont in any wife mar the perseverance of
your resolves. Even if he mould totally desert you,
which Heaven avert! still there may be found amongst
you a character, whose bravery, virtue, and integri
ty, will prove a WASHINGTON, in restoration of
your long loft liberties; neither fink under the falfe
idea, that from your youthful inexperience in war,
you cannot be an overmatch for a mercenary army ;
no, my countrymen, harbour not these ideas; though
you perish in the event, resolve, unite, and let your
warlike preparations terrify the much detested enemies
of Ireland. Then you will teach them not to under
value our beloved Volunteer troops, or to lay too much
dependence on their own. For resolution, constancy,
and a good cause, are more than all the niceties of
manual discipline, which is soon learned, to a fuffici
ent degree. I am, gentlemen, a sincere friend to a
speedy emancipation of Ireland's rights, your obedi
ent servant,
July 24, 1784. O. N.
Extract of a letter from Kilkenny, July 28.
" On Monday General Butler reviewed the Kilken
ny horse, Kilkenny rangers, Kilkenny volunteers, Car
low afTociation, and Dunltckeny volunteers, at War
rington, near this city. The finenefs of the day, and
a general desire to partake of a fight we hope will ever
be held dear by Irishmen (i. e a display of the profi
ciency in arms of lerne's favourite sons) called forth a
vast multitude of fpedators, who, as well as the General
were highly gratified with the veteran-like manner in
which the business of the day was conducted. The
friends of the volunteer infiitution, were happy to fee
that all the corps appeared with an increase of num
bers, discipline, attention and military exadnefs, which
proved, that instead of glorioudy relaxing in the day
of peace, they had, with the fame ardent spirit that
firft routed them to arm in their country's cause, con
tinued their exertions so as to acquire that degree of
excellence, which must always render them what they
have been so often justly and emphatically Riled, "the
faviours of their country." The General was escorted
to and from the field by the corps of Kilkenny horse.
" At night General Butler and Lady Butler gave a
splendid ball at the Tholfel.
" The Dunleckeny horse, who joined the other
corps in the field, marched home when the review con
cluded.
'' Yesterday morning the Carlow association marched
from hence to Carlow."
LONBONDER R Y, July 2 (.
In the morning a Captain's guard was mounted by
the Londonderry affcciation. About ten o'clock the
Strabane battalion, commanded by Col. James Stew
art, marched into town ; soon after, the Rapho batta
lion, commanded by Col. Alexander Montgomery, and
the Tyrone battalion, commanded by the Honourable
Col. Hervey, also marched into town ; and, during the
day, a number of corps continued to come in, and
were billeted on the inhabitants. At five o'clock, his
Excellency General Earl of Charlemont arrived, and
accompanied by his Aids-de-Camp, Sir Annefly Stew
art, Baronet, and Major Gudeon, Adjutant-General
of the province of Leinfter.
•July 22. The different battalions formed on their re
fpeclive parades at nine o'clock, and at ten the whole
army marched to the field, where they were formed in
to two brigades—the firft contifted of the Strabane and
Derry artillery, the Dungiven and Rapho battalions,
and Ulster regiment—the Strabane, Tyrone and Lon
donderry battalions formed the second brigade. Unfor
tunately the excessive wet weather, both before and dur
ing this day, rendered the ground (naturally swampy)
so foft, that it was with the utmost difficulty the artil
lery could pass, and, in many parts of the field, the
men were up to their knees in the mud ; in consequence
of which, the firft brigade ended their part of the bu
siness with the manual exercise and firings; and the
second (which had guarded the lines for the firft) only
passed the General by sub-divisions in quick time ; and
then the whole returned to town, after being severely
drenched by successive deluges of rain.
July 23. The different corps left town; and about
4 o'clock in the afternoon, Lord Charlemont, escorted
by the Derry troop, set out for the feat of Sir Annefly
Stewart in the county Donegal.
It is impossible to do justice to the zeal of the volun
teers on this occasion. When we confider the extreme
badness of the weather for several days previous to the