The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1785-11-21 00:00:00, page 2

Jofoua Sands, Alexander Robertson,
William IV. Gilbert, William Wilcocks,
Anthon, Pof, John Wiley,
Thomas Ivers, Isaac Governeur.
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(CIRCULAR to the COUNTIES.)
Gentlemen,'
THE interest of the landholder is so closely con
nected with that of the merchant in all coun
tries, that it is impossible for commerce to languish
without agriculture feeling the immediate and corre
sponding effect.
From this conviction the chamber of commerce
of this city, who have been for some time witnesses
to the ruinous consequences which flowed from the
reftri&ions laid on the trade of our country by
Great Britain, petitioned the legislature at their
last session, to vest Congress with ample powers for
regulating the commerce of the United States.
A draught of the memorial on this fubjeCt, we now
transmit to you. The reasons adduced in it (though
stated in a concise manner) must be so obvious to
persons of your difeernment, that we deem it need
less to enter into those details of which the fubjef tis
capable; we shall content ourselves with observing,
that unless the United States are speedily vested with
such powers as will make it the interest of other
nations to court a commercial alliance with them^ the
merchants will no longer be able to persist in the
dangerous experiment of exporting the commodities
of the country at a certain iofs; a total ftagnatioh
in the purchase of produce must take place; the states
be drained of all the gold and silver coin ; the people
rendered unable to difeharge their engagements, or
to pay the taxes necessary for the ordinary expence
of government, much Jess of doing justice to those,
whose meritorious contributions of service and pro
perty refeued the community from impending slavery,
and established the liberties of the people on the
broad balls of independence.
In so critical a situation, it is impossible in out
opinion, for the virtuous and enlightened inhabitants
of your county, to view with supineness and uncon
cern the ruin that threatens our common country:
By the union of the farmer, the merchant and me
chanic we have, in the most dangerous crisis, been
able to withstand the open force of our enemies; and
if this spirit still actuates us, we shall soon convince
them that their insidious politics in peace, are of as
little effect as their open attempts in war—our trade
will soon revive, our agriculture flourifh, our naviga
tion extend itfelf to every part of the world, and be
come not only the source of wealth, but the best se
curity for defending our rights against any power
who may be bold enough to invade them.
When such are the evils to be avoided, and such
the advantages to be gained, we venture to express
our confidence that your exertions will be united
with ours to efFe& so valuable an end. We have
therefore to request, that you will be pleased to lay
this letter, with the enclosed memorial, before the
inhabitants of the several diftrids in your county,
and that you will unite in giving pointed instructions
to your representatives^ to Support every measure at
the next session of the legislature, which shall tend
to vest the United States in Congress with those
powers which are necessary for eftabliihing the Com
merce of this country upon a footing of equality,
and for doing justice to the numerous class of publick
creditors, whose fufferings can only be equalled by
the patience with which they have borne the injuries
they have so long sustained, by a delay in receiving
the mere interest of their claims.
In obedience to our instructions as a committee of
correspondence, we have opened the principal ob
jects of our appointment; we shall at all times be
happy to have the unreserved communication of your
sentiments, and to co-operate with you in every
firm and constitutional measure, for refeuing the state
from that dangerous situation to which the mifehiev-
Ous policy of other nations, and the want of wife and
timely measures on our part, have reduced us.
We are, gentlemen, with refpeCt,
Your friends and fellow-citizens,
Jacob Morris, William Constable,
Eleazer Miller, Daniel Nevin,
Daniel Phoenix, Archibald Currie,
James Wat Jon, William Neilfon,
Pa/chal N. Smith, Nathaniel Hazand,
David Brooks, Adam Gilchrist, jun.
Robert Bowne, Jacobus Can Zandt,
Jonathan Lawrence, Alexander Stewart,
ffbua Sands, Alexander Robertson, 2
William W. Gilbert, William Wilcocks,
Anthony Pofl, John Wiley,
Thomas Ivers, Isaac Governeur.
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Foreign Intelligence.
L ()N D O N, August 17.
The Americans have made a contrast with their
%ood and great ally, the French king, to supply that
Sept. 15. Rewards judicionfly bestowed on per
sons eminently conspicuous for their literary or other
qualifications, seem to actuate the conduct of some
foreign courts and sovereigns, much more than is to
be found in these countries. The empress of Russia
acfs with a well judged munificence, so as to encou
rage in the most liberal manner the profeffors or in
ventors of whatever has or may conduce to the ad
vancement of the arts and sciences, or to the utility
of mankind in general; this great woman has not
only procured the laurels of conquest for her ma
jestic brow, but by her profound wisdom and vastness
of design peculiar to herfelf, with finances that fall
infinitely short of those of Great-Britain, has
also displayed her magnificence upon a thousand oc
casions, so as to excite the surprise and admiration of
the world. The emperor and the French monarque,
have also signalized themselves upon such occasions,
in a most princely and laudable manner; while a ve
nerable and magnanimous sovereign who has render
ed himfelf famous by his extraordinary prowess a
gainst surrounding enemies, dedicates a great part of
his important time, in his palace of fans fouci, to the
conversation of great and learned men, and takes eve
ry opportunity of rewarding distinguished merit in a
manner truly suitable to so great a prince;—but in a
certain kingdom the money is lavished for no other
purpose but to support the system of venality and
corruption, and none receive rewards but the very
spawn and vermin of a court, with the whole tribe
of dependant parasites, and those who perform indis
criminately the servile work of every administration.
Extraß of a letter from Vienna, Aug. 12.
" Among the resolutions of police that have lately
appeared here, there is one which prohibits females
from appearing at church unless they are dressed in
the most decent manner; they are neither to wear
hats, nor to have the bosom uncovered.
power with all the fpermaceti oil which they can
procure; and to encourage the American fifhery, we
understand the city of Paris is to be in future lighted
with American, instead of vegetable oil. This is the
only article of American produce which we should
have difeouraged for the fake of our own fishery.
The Americans, in consequence of this contract,
have sent twenty-five flrips to the southern whale-fishe
ry, and We have only sent seven.
Extrafl of a letter from Liverpool, dated Aug. 11.
" After many cruel disappointments Mr. Lunaidi
performed his second afeenfion on Tuesday last; a
high wind had prevented him on Monday, and some
ill-natured wretches, who take delight in insulting the
unfortunate, endeavoured to propagate several unjust
and scandalous reports. Anxious to vindicate him
felf, he determined, at all events, to afeend on I'uefday;
and hurrying to the fort, resolved to wait there till
he could fulfil his engagements with the publick:
Nothing could persuade him to leave the place a mo
ment; he spent the night there, and a disagreeable
one it must be, for the wind was very loud and high.
About twelve o'clock on Tuesday he began to fill the
balloon with the utmost composure, and luckily the
wind soon began to abate, the process was carried on
with the greatest regularity, and about three o'clock
he gave the signal that the balloon was full, and be
gan to prepare for his voyage. Unfortunately he was
persuaded to afeend from the centre of the fort, and
flopping into the boat with his usual calmness, desired
his two active friends, Mr. W. Earle, and Mr. Nif
fen, to carry him from the N. W. fide, to the mid
dle of the area, but no sooner was the balloon unshel
tered, than the people, who saw it roll about, ima
gining the danger to be great, crouded furioufly a
bout him, to prevent his afeenfion; and deaf to all
his entreaties, broke the ropes, burst two holes in
the balloon, and tore the netting almost to pieces !
At this moment he threw himfelf down in the boat,
and editing his eyes up to heaven, exclaimed 0 ! Dio !
then, as if suddenly inspired, he rose as quick as
lightning, and drawing his hanger, threatened to cut
every hand that laid hold on the hoop. This had
the desired effed; he was immediately liberated, and
afeended in an instant, with the rapidity of a sky
rocket. A thousand screams of terror were sent forth
at once, when the fpeCtators beheld him in the air,
with the torn netting and ropes fluttering in the wind,
and the boat so frightfully inclined as to cause the
most dreadful apprehensions for his being thrown out ;
but so collected was he, in this moment, that he was
seen faftening the firings, and soon after saluted by
waving his flag. He continued in light only four mi
nutes, and then was loft behind a thick cloud, from
which he soon emerged, and was seen at intervals,
for near half an hour. His height appeared to be ve
ry great, and direction almost south.
" There was a letter received from him yesterday
afternoon, informing his friends that he defeended near
Tarpoley, in Cheshire, after being dragged a consi
derable way."
Extract of a letter from Brufels, Sept. 13.
" We are all in agitation here, all is war and ru
mours of war. On Friday morning last marched to
the frontiers of Holland, upwards of three thousand
men of the Bender regiment by older of the empe
ror, and double that quantity, confiding of dra
goons, &c. are preparing to follow them: There is
to be an immediate encampment near Antwerp, which
is to consist in all of about 20,000 men; and late
last night (Saturday) a courier arrived at the court
of BrufTels to the arch-duke's, but the secret of his
defpatches have not yet transpired. The general
speculation is, that the requisition made by the —
— is acceded to on the part of the Dutch;
American Intelligence.
P O RTSMOUT H, October 28.
On 1 hurfday the 20th instant, commenced and
continued for three days with little or no intermission,
the heaviest fall of rain ever known or experienced by
the oldest person here. It railed the water at the
heads of the rivers to an amazing height, carrying
away stores, bridges, mills, vefiels from off their
stocks, vast quantities of lumber, &c. In a word,
the damage is hardly conceiveable; for a specimen,
we refer our readers to the following paragraph,
handed us by a correspondent from Dover:
" Dover, October 24, 1785.
" Yesterday we experienced the largest frefhet ever
known in this place, in the memory of man; the
water rose about fifteen feet perpendicular above ths
usual flowing of the tide, and carried off several hun
dred thousand of lumber, besides timber and plank,
from the landing. It destroyed a valuable store be
longing t 0 major Tibbet, containing more than one
thousand bufhcls of salt which was wholly loft; it
also removed and almost ruined another store belong
ing to Mr. Horne, but fortunately the goods were
mostly fared: Seven mills and two bridges in this
town were carried away. In fliprt, it exhibited such
a feene of destruction as was never known before in
this place. We hear the damage done at Berwick,
and many other towns in the country, exceeds any
thing of the nature ever known before; almost every
bridge and mill being wholly destroyed."
We hear that a fulling and grist-mill, belonging to
the honourable major-general Sullivan, have been car
ried off from their situation at Packer's Falls, by the
above frefhet.
others are of a different opinion, and conclude t
this military pageantry will produce very serious c
sequences; mean time, the amusements and levi
of this gay town go on as usual, and the grim vifagea
war has by no means “ smoothed his wrinkled front;"
the Brabantains, or rather the anglicifed Flemings,
“ dance to the lascivious pleasings of a lute."
“ The emperor seems resolved to cut up superstiti
on root and branch, by turning nunneries into stables,
and convents into coach-houses. The priesthood mur
mur, and the philosophers congratulate themselves on
the occasion. He is at once intrepid, generous, can
did, and decisive."
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Amidst the distresses felt here, which have arisen
from an efflux of specie, and consequent stagnation
of trade, it is the duty of every individual to point
out such steps as may seem most likely to palliate, if
not totally to remove the evil. ft will hardly
admit a doubt, that, next to the extravagant a
mount of fuperfluous imported articles, the most pro
lific source of calamity to' this country has been the
British reftridion of her Weft-India trade. This be
ing the case, it Ihould be the utmost endeavour of the
different legislatures in the union, to oblige that na
tion to withdraw this reftridion. The man in the
fable, whose cart get immersed in the mire, kneeled
down, bawling to Hercules for assistance. What
did Hercules reply? “ Fool, put your shoulders to
the wheel." It would not be amiss if some of our
groveling partizans attentively considered this fable,
and regulated their conduct by the moral to be
drawn from it. According to rhe dilates of found
policy, Great-Britain, in order to afford her shipping
and commerce all possible protection and encourage
ment, has made a bold attempt to secure to herfelf
the supplying her settlements with American produce.
Is it not wife in her to attempt this? Should not
every nation fek the prosperity and advantage of its
own inhabitants? Dpubtlefs. What steps then,
should America take to counteract the conferences of
BOSTO N, October 20.
It is reported, that many ladies of the sos cha
racter and fortune, in this metropolis, have it in con
templation, in consequence of the present melancho
ly state of their country, to desist, the approaching
season, from all publick amusements; and to difeou
rage, all in their power, every species of luxury,
extravagance and dissipation. —A resolution that will
gain them immortal honour! and afford them the
pleafiog reflexion of faviog many families, of their
fellow-citizens, from the gulph of ruin, to which
they are rapidly hastening.
Oct. 31. On Friday last a number of the crimi
nals who were condemned at the last superior court,
were conveyed to Castle-Island, being sentenced there
to hard labour.