The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1785-10-24 00:00:00, page 2

thunder clouds, and was at one time, as nearly as he
could calculate, 16,000 feet high.
The French king has published another arret in fa
vour of the new French East-India company, prohi
biting the importation of calicoes and muffins, ex
cept they are diredly introduced from India in
French bottoms; and also prohibiting the importati
on of foreign printed and stained cottons, gauzes, and
linens.
1. The firft article prohibits the importation of
calicoes bleached or green, as well as goods
made of cotton and thread, handkerchiefs, dimities,
and nankeens, manufactured in India or other foreign
parts, unless they shall be introduced by the French
East-India company, or according to the provisions
of the arret of the 14th of April last.
2, All calicoes printed, stained, or dyed, in fo
reign parts, to be equally prohibited.
3. For the encouragement of the French manu
factures, the king, prohibits through all his domini
ons the sale of foreign muslins, striped, squared, or
figured, as well as of all foreign gauzes and linens.
4. The prohibition to take place at the end of one
year from the date of the arret.
5. The new India company, at the expiration
of one year, to have authority to require, as often as
they shall think proper, the proper officers to visit
the magazines, warehouses, and houses of merchants,
traders, and warehoufemen, to search for articles
/thus declared contraband, and to confifcate them.
6. Merchants and others to give an account in
three months after the date of this arret, of the
quantity, quality, and kind of goods of the above
description in their hands, and to receive a permit in
these words, " Goods tolerated till the 10th of Au
gust, 1786," which shall be placed on the goods.
There are fix other articles as provisions for the due
execution of the above regulations.
The expedition to the north-weft coast of A
merica, which the French have engaged in, will
take up fevera! years, as they intend to establish a
number of factories upon the coast, and to cruise in
search of islands; the two ships are sent out at the
charge of government, and are rather intended to
make discoveries, than to trade in the firft instance.
Last Wednesday the foundation stone of the Ro
man-Catholic Chapel was laid (on ground lately pur
chased in the rear of St. Paul's Church, and how set
apart for the performance of divine service) by his
excellency Don Gardoqui, minister from his majesty
the king of Spain.
Several vessels at our wharfs, were on Wednesday
night, plundered of considerable property, particular
ly a schooner belonging to captain Roxburgh; but,
as a ftrid search is making for the thieves, it is ex
pected they will be soon very differently employed,
at the wheelbarrow, or in more exalted stations.
Oct. 10. Yesterday arrived at this port, the Bri
tish packet Carteret, captain Newman, in 8 weeks
from Falmouth ; and the ship Montgomery in 9 weeks
from London. We have received English papers by
these vessels as late as the 2d of August, but they
contain no news of importance.
By the British packet we learn, that before Dodor
Franklin left France, he had an audience of the
Grand Monarque at Versailles, who made him a pre
sent of his picture set with brilliants, worth near
14,000 French guineas.
Last week, delegates from the synod of New-York
and Philadelphia, the Dutch reformed synod, of
The influx of specie into the country is truly won
derful, beside gold in bars, the receipt of which has
been indeed amazing for the last fortnight. This,
with an abounding treasury, arising from Mr. Pitt's
system of publick ceconomy, cannot fail to keep up
stocks, and preserve such a balance of trade as mult
invigorate the country from one end of the kingdom
to the other.
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American Intelligence.
N E W-Y O R K, October 8.
Extras of a letter from Cube- Ann, Sept. 26.
" A ship this day arrived from Bilboa, and has
brought a large jack-ass, a present from his catholic
majesty to general Walhington, attended by a Spa
niard to take care of him, &c. He cost 400 dollars
in Spain, and is one of four purchased for general
Walhington ; the others are embarked in different ves
sels for this country. It is esteemed a great favour, as
none of these animals (particularly of this breed) are
ever allowed to be exported from Spain."
On Tuesday morning last, the wind being exceed
ing high, one of the Brooklyne ferry-boats filled
with water; in it were two horses, which went over
board, and thereby prevented the vessel from over
fetting, and the lives of fix persons were happily sav
ed. In the afternoon, another boat overfet in the
East-river, but by the kind exertions of a number
of seamen, belonging to ieveral vessels in the harbour,
all the passengers were providentially rescued from a
watery grave.
New-York and New-Jersey, and the associate reform
ed synod, met in this city, for the purpose of open
ing and eflablifhing such an intercourse between these
three bodies, as shall enable them to unite their ef
forts with the greater ease and efficacy for promoting
truth, piety, and good morals among the numerous
churches under their care, and for counteracting the
baleful influence of infidelity and profanenefs, so sad
ly prevalent in our land.
Oft. 12. Yesterday arrived the brigantine Bridget,
captain Casey, in nine weeks and three days from
Cork, but brings no material intelligence, only con
firmations of a determined rejection (by the Irish par
liament) of the Er.gldh minister's favourite proporti
ons refpeding their commercial regulations.
Oa. 15. We are informed that a ship named the
Union, was soon to follow the Jenny, captain Smith,
from London for this port, with fir John Temple on
board ; that gentlemen having been appointed consul
from the court of Great-Britain, to that of the United
States.
Extract of a letter from Providence.
" The ship for Nova-Scotia that was refufed pro
visions at Boston came here —our merchants supplied
her, which ftript this place to that degree, that flour
raised from 34 shillings to 40 ; corn so scarce we can
not get any, without an unreasonable price; rye the
fame. The ship failed, and the last severe storm we
had, she stove to pieces, loft eight hundred barrels
of flour, several hundred bushels of corn, oxen, &c.
So that winds and seas, as well as ads of British par
liament, seem to threaten the tories with starving."
OA. 19. On Monday morning, the 17th instant,
died at his house in Beekman-Street, the Honourable
SAMUEL HARDY, Esquire, a delegate from the com
monwealth of Virginia to the Congress of the United
States. The patriotism, great abilities, and other
manly virtues that so eminently distinguished this
gentlemen, renders his loss a very important one to
Virginia in particular, and to the United States in
general.
" October 17, 1785.
" CONGRESS being informed that Mr. Samuel Har
dy, one of the delegates for the state of Virginia, di
ed this morning, and that it is proposed to inter him
to-morrow evening,
'' Refolded, That Congress will in a body attend the
funeral to-morrow evening, at fix o'clock, with a
crape round the left arm, and will continue in mourn
ing for the space of one month.
" Refolded, That Mr. Gravfon, Mr, Read and Mr.
Kean, be a committee to Superintend the funeral;
and that the chaplains of Congress be notified to at
tend, and one of them officiate on the occasion.
" Ordered, That the committee invite the gover
nor of the state, the ministers of foreign powers, the
mayor of the city, and other persons of diftindion to
attend the funeral."
Order of procession.
Four servants with flambeaux.
Clerk of St. Paul's church, with sixty charity boys
two and two.
Sexton of St. Paul's Church.
Two messengers of Congress.
The two Chaplains of Congress.
The clergy of the different Churches of the city.
Physicians.
The Secretary of Congress with the deputy Secretary.
^ to
THE CORPSE.^
President of Congress, as chief mourner.
Members of Congress two and two.
The Governor of the state of New-York.
The Ministers of Congress three great departments
two and two.
Foreign publick Ministers, ii^.
The Minister of the United Netherlands,
and
The Encargado of Spain,
The Charge des Affaires of France,
and
Secretary of Embassy of Spain.
Military officers of the United States in town.
Members of the Senate of the state.
Members of Assembly.
Chief-Juftice and assistant Judges of the state.
\ Mayor of the city.
Members of the corporation.
The Comptroller and Treasurer of the United States.
The Auditor and Register, and other principal Exe
cutive officers of the treasury.
Postmaster- General.
Under Secretary of Foreign Affairs.
Secretary in the War Office.
Commissioners of publick Accounts of different de
partments.
Private Secretary of the President of Congress.
Secretary of the state of New-York.
The Treasurer, Colleger, and Sheriff of New-York.
Clerks of the publick offices of the United States.
Profeffors of the university.
Consuls of France, Holland, and Sweden.
Srangers of diftin&ion.
Citizens of New-York, who were friends and acquan
tances of the deceased.
The body was enclosed in an elegant coffin, cover
ed with black and trimmed with silver.
The pall was borne by
Mr. David Van-Horne,
Mr. Temple Franklin,
Mr. James Roosevelt,
Mr. Curfon,
Mr. Alexander Clinton,
Mr. Morris,
Major Fairlee,
Mr. Charles Ludlow.
At fix o'clock the procession began to move, from
the house lately occupied by the deceased in Beek
man-Street, towards St. Paul's Chutch, which was
properly lighted on the occasion, under a difeharge of
minute guns from the Battery, and was continued
till its arrival at the church ; where funeral service
was performed by .the Reverend Mr. Bache, and a
sermon suited to the occasion by the Reverend Mr.
Provost, one of the Chaplains of Congress, to a very
crowded audience.
The concourse of people assembled on this mourr
ful occasion was prodigious—the splendor and adm;
ble order of the procession has never been equalled
America, who has, in the death of this virtuous,
amiable, and eminently accomplished Senator, sustain
ed a loss exceeding all description.
There has, during the summer months, been an un
common drought in Europe; it has been severely
felt by the manufacturers of Yorkshire, who could not
execute half the orders sent to them for woollens on
account of the mills, all over the country, being flop
ped from the total want of water.
Yesterday failed for London, the fltip Betsey, capt.
Watson, in which went passenger major Trumbull,
and lieutenant Delanoe of the royal navy of Great-
Britain.
Last Monday a sloop coming down the East-river,
was unfortunately overfet at Hell-Gate. The passen
gers saved their lives by getting on the bottom of the
vessel.
Captain Hastier, of the brigantine Sifters, bound
from Virginia to Cadiz, writes to his correspondent
in this city from Cadiz, dated August the Bth, as fol
lows :—" I met in my passage with many obftru&ions
from the Algerines, who are very drift in their exa
minations, and have extended themfcives far westerly.
I fell in with no less than 5 between the Rock of Lisbon
and Cadiz." —Captain Hastier was saved by having a
Mediterranean pais, which he fortunately procured at
Falmouth.
Oft. 20. It is, and ought to be, one of the firft
studies of a prime minister, or of government in
general, of every independent nation, to create and
to circulate prejudices against all nations that are
their sworn or natural enemies. The most latent
spark being once introduced it is esteemed a premier
policy gently to fan the fire until the whole constitu
ent body becomes impregnated with this venomous
principle, and the breafis of all ranks of men beat
high to arms ! —Then, only rank and file them and
they will fight like bull dogs !
The dullest observer, let him but travel, and at
tain to the most trifling knowledge of the men and
manners of different nations, and he will difeover this:
he will fee that national prejudice in general is not
confined to the nation only, but is extended to its in
dividuals, to its manners, and to all it produces.
For an instance let us examine the prejudices that
exist between France and England: England is a
natural enemy to France, therefore national policy
didates that a prejudice be inculcated. A number
of articles of French manufacture were prohibited, as
were also in France of English manufactures, in or
der to encourage their own, this augmented the pre
judice on both tides, and among the vulgar in Eng
land (it has even become a ministerial idea) French
goods of every kind were regarded as poor trafo !
It was natural for Americans to imbibe the fame
sentiment while they were fubjed to Great- Britain;
but that is happily no longer the case. France is
now our great friend and ally. We have experien
ced many striking and never to be forgotten ads of
philanthropy and rioblenefs in the ever to be rever
ed Louis XVI. La Fayette, and many other
patriots and heroes of that nation; we have seen
many proofs of heroism and magnanimity in her
troops when interposed in our behalf, and an ami
ableness of disposition in the French in general; we
have seen for ourselves, that no nation can outvie
them in profound researches into the polite arts and
sciences, such as natural philosophy, metaphysics,
mathematics, &c. and finally, we know that their
manufactures are superior to the English, even of
those articles which necessity obliges us to import;
(for those who have visited the French manufactories,
who are judges of goods, give them the preference)
and shall we, notwithstanding all these very forcible
considerations, prove ourselves incapable of every
sentiment of gratitude or benevolence, by fuffering
these illigitimate prejudices still to exist? It is cer
tainly high time that we turn the scale; let us di
vest ourselves entirely of all those prepofTeffions in fa
vour of Britain and her manufactures, and prohi
bit the latter, except in our own bottoms, for the
encouragement of our manufadures and those of our
friends; and, taking our perfpedive through a true
mirror, let us view France in its fair light, and [
doubt not we shall properly attend to her loud invitations
and turn our commerce to that country, to the de
triment of those who are striving to ruin us as a
commercial nation.
R IC H M O N D, Odober i.
Abridgement of politics in the IVeftern country.
March 1785,
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