The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1785-06-27 00:00:00, page 2

Sunday fennight arrived at New-York the Grey
hound Packet, Captain Dunn, in 42 days from
Falmouth, by whom we have the /allowing ad
vices :
HAGU E, April 25.
The States General have appointed M. Martin
Vander Goes, Secretary to the Magistracy of the
Hague, to be their Envoy Extraordinary to the Court
of Denmark.
London, May 1. On Saturday evening an express
drived at the foreign Secretary's Office, St. James's,
to be conduced. They mean, we are aflured, to car
ry into effectual execution the powers vested in the
Commissioners, by an act of Parliament passed in the
second year of King George the First, for the pur
pose of making the river Shannon navigable from the
quay of Limerick to Carrickdriynruft, in the county
of Leitrim,
" The terms which the statute holds to those anting
under it, are, that this projected work is to be ef
fected at their own expence; and their recompence
is to accrue by a toll on all goods and persons con
veyed and passing up or down the river.
“ If the Commissioners of the inland navigation
fliould join their efforts, a glorious fuperation indeed
might be made, by giving this river, through cuts,
canals and sluices, a communication with some other
rivers in the kingdom"
As soon as ever the Irish business is fettled, or put
in a train of settlement by Commissioners (which
lad it is thought will be adopted) and the question
has been disposed of, the Minister Will go diredly to
the budget, ways and means, &c for the current
year; the state of publick credit much requiring the
speediest and most effectual arrangement in this de
partment.
All the world, fays one who hat been at much
pains to found the bottom of the fubjeCt, are asto
nished at the very great predilection which the Eng
lilh nation have discovered for the East India trade,
according to its former establishment. It is certain,
notwithstanding all the chimerical benefits we may
imagine to be the consequence of this system, that the 1
balance of trade is greatly against us. It is certain
that the navy of England is incredibly crippled by a 1
commerce, which, from a variety of circumftances,\
proves the grave of our seamen. It is certain that
for a deluge of luxuries, which equally po son our
bodies and minds, we exchange good hard crih, which
is the iinews of all induffry. It is even certain, that
since the discovery of the passage by the Cape of Good I
Hope, the Eastern has gained from the Western |
world upwards, perhaps, of three hundred millions!
of pounds. This immense sum they possess. And
it were worth the while of modern ftatelmen and phi- ;
lofophers to shew what Europe has received in return.
Thus India has swallowed much of her money, mul
titudes of her men, and a great deal of her attention, '
for which fire has repaid us in almost every ipecies|
of dissoluteness and profligacy.
.he gieat Handel, whose admired mufick has late- I
ly brought consider.ble turns, was, about forty years !
ago. so much neglected, that ail his oratorios werel
frequently performed to empty benches King George
the >eco t d, however, constantly attended Handels I
pieces, though they were abandoned by the rest of ;
the Court. Ahis attachment gave occahon to the
following bon met by Lord Chelferfield, who coming
out of the oratorio one night, was met by Lord De
lawar; ' Ahat,' said the latter, ' have they difmif- I
fed? Is there no oratorio to-night."' 6 O yes,' laid:
Lord Cheltei field, • they are now performing, but I I
thought it best to retire, left I should disturb the'
King in his privacies.'
The blue and buff gentry extend their badge of :
folly even to a watch firing; the Newgate link is ex-.
changed for a blue and buff ' ribbon ; and it is thought,
when some of these gentry come to the gallows, they I
will petition to be hanged in blue and buff, ribbons!,
Last week made well for the private hoop gentry;
there was a great deal of very genteel dancing, and
an exhibition of some traits of puppyifm of the most
precious kind. In thele parties the calm /miler al
ways takes the lead ; a very dangerous character. 6 A
man may fmiie, and fmiie and be a villain.'
Three fashionable follies that prevail at present in
London.
The firft, from the eager curiosity of the publick,|
a man at Charing-ciofs gets fourteen pounds per day
to shew his learned pig to tell typographically the la
dies thoughts.
Secondly. A gentleman near Westminster-bridge
gives fifty guineas to Signor Maria, to teach a dog
and a monkey to dance the Italian Fandango.
Thirdly. A person of diftindion in Clare-Street,
pays to an Italian in Upper-Mary-le-bone street, not
two feet and an half from Titchfield-ftreet, fix gui
neas per month, to teach a chicken to play on the
guitar..
Would it not be more laudable to give the money
to a charity school, than spend it in this falhionable
manner ?
It should further be considered that Mr. Pitt hah
declared, that from a mode which he intends to
adopt, it will be found that the produce of this fund
will be much more rapid in its accumulation than is
at present imagined, even by those who have calcu
lated the powers of compound interest; this brings
the happy crisis of national vigour and profperiry dill
nearer to our own time, and proves that Lord Mahon's
idea of a linking fund of half a million annually, was
not so inconsiderable as it at firft appeared.
Mr. Pitt has declared, that the produce of this
fund must be locked up by every restraint in the pow
er of legislative ingenuity to form, left, as Lord Ma
hon seems to fear, it Should either become a prey to
the rapacity of future Ministers, or else be used as a
bait ad captandum vulgus ; for as the people seldom
lock beyond the present hour, the abolishing the fink
ing fund, though a measure highly dangerous to the
publick credit, disadvantageous to the Stockholders,
and unjuit to posterity may Still be a means of ac
quiring a temporary degree of popularity ; because it
will reduce the immediate amount of the taxes on the
publick. And here we are happy to repeat a Senti
ment expressed by Mr. Fox, and warmly approved
by Mi. Pitt, “ 1 hat a Minister of this country, who
Should ever in any degree Sacrifice the real interests
of the nation, for the purpole of procuring the ap
plaule of the people, would be guilty of the most de
ftruCtive and grossest corruption."
The fafeft and most beneficial mode of administer
ing this fund appears to be, to apply it as it is re
ceived to the discharge of the national debts, Lill ap
plying the money intended for the payment of the
interest of Such debts to the purposes of the fund.
Speaking on this fubjeCt, we Should be unpardona
ble if we omitted to congratulate our readers on the
profeffion from ail Sides of the house, that " whatever
opp. fition might be raised on other occalions, yet in
every thing that concerned that grand fundamental
principle of our national Strength and welfare, the
publick credit, all parties ought to act as if animated
with one and the fame Sentiment, for that any obsta
cle thrown in the way of measures calculated to pro
mote that end, would be a most glaring dereliction,
as well of their individual as of their representative
duty."
May 2. Letters arrived with the express over land
from Bengal, mention, that by the last accounts re
ceived there from Madras, they learned that Lord
Macartney had appointed General Braithwaite to the
command of the Circars, the most important, and
now the most lucrative command in the gift of the
Madras government. The General was perfectly re
covered from the effects of his long captivity.
Ma ) 3- The revival of the board of trade is again
in contemplation; the difficulty that has been found
in tranfaCting at the Secretary of State's Office the
business formerly submitted to it, proves that it was
not so useless an institution as Edmund Burke, the
orator, endeavoured to represent it.
from the Earl of Chefterfield, his Majesty's Ambas
sador at Madrid; which, on account of the impor
tance of its contents, was immediately carried to the
King at Windsor.
A paper in the manner of a memorial from the
Court of Madrid, is come over by this conveyance,
in which it seems the Catholick King is become an
accuser, in the affair of the British logwood cutters on
the Mufquito Shore; where it is insisted the British
settlers were the firft aggressors ; that they have gone
beyond their stipulated boundaries ; ill-treating the
fubjedt of Spain, and using thb officers of his Catho
lick Majesty with insult and insolence. This is the
account which Don Galvez, Governor of the Havan
nah, has tranffoitted home to Spain, and which is
likely to become a bone of contention between the
two powers, unless it is speedily fettled.
SINKING FUN D.
The following is a rough calculation of the amount
of one million annually, the sum proposed by Mr.
Pitt for the purpose of railing a finking fund, for the
diminution and difebarge of the national debt, with
its compound interest.
One million in ten years, will
amount to - - 12,577,860
! n 20 - 33^943
in 30 - ' 66,438,826
in 40 - 120,769,734
in 50 - 2 °9^347>9 2 5
in 60 v - 353^3,597
tn the above table we have not computed interett
on a less sum than 201 to avoid fractions; but as in
the administration of the fund, interest will certainly
be received for the smaller sums, we must suppose
the accumulation to be greater than we have stated.
Thus the present generation have a comfortable
contemplation of their immediate security in the pub
lick fund, while a mod glorious profped opens to
posterity of an exeirq con from above two-thirds of
the takes which now he like an incubus on the nati
on, enervating her powers, curbing her exertions, and
loading her faculties with the molt severe and dispi
riting burthens.
The evacuation of East-Florida, it is thought, can
not be completed before the month of August. The
number of people yet to come here from thence, is
said to exceed seven hundred. The transports that
arrived yesterday, return immediately to St. Mary's.
May 15. The seasonable and heavy rains that have
fallen in the course of this month, encourage the ex
pe&ations of a favourable cotton harvest : But as we
have already been thought by some to hold out too
flattering a picture of the profpeds here, we shall only
now express a wish, that these expectations may be
realized.
PORTSMOUTH, June 10.
ON Wednesday fennight the Great and General
Assembly of this state convened in the state
house in this town; when, after taking the neceflary
ylpril 23. On Wednesday last the General Aflem
bly of these islands met here. The heats and misun
derstandings that occasioned the last prorogation of
the Assembly, do not appear yet to have subsided ; of
the twenty-five members which the Commons House
consists of, only thirteen have appeared in their places;
and the validity of the returns, by which fix of these
hold their feats, is disputed.
Tuesday the 17th instant closed the term of indul
gence to foreign vessels bringing hither the produce
of the American States.
NASSAU (New-Providence) April 9.
Extras of a letter from Kingflon ('Jamaica) dated
theist infant.
" I know not what to think of this Mufquito shore
business ; whether the ultima ratio will be resorted to
or not. Be that as it may, we seem determined to
be strong in that quarter; for in addition to the naval
force already there, the Janus of 44 guns, the Flora
of 36, and the Ariel (loop, failed for that place
from Port-Royal the 26th of last month."
KINGSTON (Jamaica) April 6.
WE are informed, by the arrival of a turtling
vessel at Port-Royal, on Sunday, that a Spa
nilh Sloop of war had made prizes of five turtlers, on
the Turtling Keys. Ihe veflel that brought this in
telligence made her escape by dint of failing.
A gentleman who arrived from Hispaniola within
these lew days, averts, that on his passage hither he
observed a fleet of ten Spanish men of war, with se
veral merchantmen and transports, fleering westward,
supposed for the Havannah. This formidable force,
no doubt, must be meant for the reduction of the
Mufquito Indians, and, it is imagined, has brought
the ultimate commands of the Spanish Cabinet, said
to be expected by the Spanish commandant.
^pril 9. There is scarcely a family in this parilh
but what is visited with that dreadful malady, the
small-pox, though it has loft most of it horrors by
the practice of inoculation, which has now become
universal, to the manifeft and deserving gain of every
gentleman of the faculty, excepting the felfifh im
porter, who, whilst he beholds the game he impi
ously started borne away by his competitors, droops
like a weeping willow in December, or a mute at a
solemn funeral
Zlpril 27. They write from the Mufquito shore,
under date of March theist, that the troops, with a
body of Indians attached to them, were in high health
and spirits, and that their encampment extended up
wards of half a league. (hey had began to erect a
flrong work, under the direction of an experienced
engineer, about twelve miles from he mouth of
Black-River, which is to be mounted with heavy
cannon, and will completely command the navigation
of that noble stream ; they had also thrown up an en
trenchment in front of their line, and were making
every preparation to give the Dons a warm reception,
should they persist in the expelled invasion.
Yesterday Several more of the officers who compose
the board of infpedion into the state of the fortifica
tions on the sea coast, set off to Portsmouth on that
business—the firft board is to be held there this day.
General Lord Viscount Townfhend, General Lord
Amherst, General Conway, and Admiral Pigot, have
declined Serving under the commission appointed to
survey the fortifications.
May 5. Admiral Campbell takes leave of the King
at St. James's to-morrow, preparatory to his going
to his command at Newfoundland, of whicli place he
is sole Governor; the Salisbury man of war, of 50
guns, now waits his arrival at Spithead, with the
Hebe frigate of 36 guns, and Merlin of 18 guns,
which are also going to that station. The Winchel
fea and San Leocadia frigates, which are a part of
the squadron, the fame as last year, failed from Spit
head on Saturday last.
American Intelligence.
Weft-India News.