The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1786-11-20 00:00:00, page 2

American Intelligence.
- BOST O N, OH. 28.
HOW many circumstances daily transpire in proof
of the necessity of immediately veiling our fe
deral head with power adequate to the regulation of
our commerce ! Recent ones are, that by the (King
ston) Jamaica papers it appears, there were imported
into that island, from the United States, from nu
guft 6, to September 1786, in Britifo vessels, 8172
tierces, barrels and kegs of flour, bread and corn;
173 barrels and 88 half-barrels rice, 253 tierces
peas; 161,850 Eaves, &c. 8563 feet boards, and
21,352 feet lumber; and by a paragraph in a Virgi
n. paper of October 5, which mentions, that the
freight for tobacco alone, in that Rate amounts to
90 DOol. fteriing annually; thirty-nine fortieths of
th is loft to America, by the European reßriHi
on American vessels. Mortifying consideration.
1 confeqaence of the detire of the honourable le
ture, that the supreme executive would take mea
s for protesting the fupieme judicial court, by
to be held at Cambridge, 011 1 uelday next —an
mr for the vigorous support of law and govern
t ran through all ranks of the citizens of this
1 with eledrical rapidity. The ancient and ho
bble artillery, under major Bell—the independ
light infantry, under captain Otis,, have offered
• services as volunteers. To them, and to the
pendent cadets, much credit is due for the ala
r with which, at their own expence they have
iihed themselves with the necessary camp equi
, and the zeal they discover for endeavouring to
e to the good people of this commonwealth the
enjoyment of their constitutional rights.
te town being destitute of an artillery compa
rcßerday, we are told, a few worthy gentlemen
1 foot a plan for railing one, which we also hear,
,npleted.
re proceedings of the senate, during the present
1, at a time so critical and important, fays a
pondent, has been firm, uniform, and will be
Hive of the best of consequences; they have,
te, fully accorded with the advice of Cato, to
Oman senate, when he fays,
.et us appear not rash, nor diffident
mmoderate valour swells into a fault,
ind fear admitted into publick councils,
etrays like treason,- "
ave convinced their constituents of their bein°
sheet-anchor" of the constitution.
-.. 0 — .^ accounts pubinhed or the Count
Caglioftro (who fuffered so much lately in France,
on account of the Catdinal de Rohan's affair, and
has since taken up his residence in England) a corre
spondent remarks, that nothing has been adverted to
of his firft appearance in Europe. In May 1781, he
made his firft appearance at Paris under the character
of an Asiatic Prince, possessed of unbounded wealth,
holding himfelf possessed of that elixir of universal
health, which conquered the ill effects of all disorders.
He cured such numbers, that the Mus, or great place
of Strafburgh, could not contain the Grangers which
arrived in crowds to consult him. Out of 400 pa
tients, which in one month took his grand elixir of
life, not one failed of being restored to health, for
which he would not receive fee or present. During
the whole time this true, or supposed, knight kept a
great house and a vast number of servants. His own
manner of living was very simple, but his countess
lived in a stile of elegance, which could not be sup
ported under the sum of 50,0001. per year. His
Source of wealth was inexhaustible, though secret;
for neither banker nor merchant had come to the
knowledge of his supplies. Numerous incidents oc
curred of his predictions of death, being verified on
the day and hour that he foretold to thole most heal
thy in appearance. When lately confined to the baf
tile, he was defrauded of 10001. by the deputy.
When questioned by the parliament of Paris, he said
he was a Cofmopolite, or citizen of the world, pos
sessed of such property as would beggar royalty. He
speaks twenty-seven different languages of Europe
and Alia, and his origin or country, has hitherto
baffled the most laboured researches
A R TFO R D, OH. 23.
7 of a letter from a merchant in Barbados,
f friend in this city, dated Bridgeton, Sep
>cr 24.
1 Saturday night the 2d instant, the inhabi
this island, were alarmed by a storm, which
re hours seemed to threaten the fame direful
vhich were experienced from the hurricane of
About 9 o'clock the wind blew very frefh
re N. E. and continued to encreafe in that
until half past ten, when it fhifted to the
and blew with the most alarming violence
, Suddenly and frequently to every point of
. 'pafs till about midnight, when it began gra
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ELIZABETH-TOWN, Nov. 8.
Intelligence from Annapolis, Nova-Scotia, assures
that a froß the beginning of August last, destroyed
nearly every vine throughout that luxurious pro
vince: and that the refugees have abundant cause to
rejoice in the repeal of the Massachusetts navigation
aH.
PRINCETON, Nov. 9.
On Tuesday the New-Jersey Medical Society, at
tended their half yearly meeting in this place— twen
ty-three members were present. An ingenious disser
tation was delivered by the president, at the opening
of business, “ on the phenomenon of Reep, with the
effeHs of opium, and other foporiferous drugs." It
must give real pleasure to every lover of feience, to
oblerve an association, composed of a number of the
most refpeHable praHitioners in every part of the
Rate, eßablilhed and prosecuted with such spirit
and ardour, for the extension of medical erudition:
indeed the benefit resulting both to the publick and
to themselves, from their Rated meetings, muR be
obvioußy great; since all the unusual and difficult
cales which have occurred in the praHice of any of
the members, are submitted for the examination and
advice of the whole body, and difeuffed with that
social harmony and freedom, which will always cha
raHerife gentlemen of liberal minds and extensive
knowledge, when engaged in such benevolent deligns.
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SAV A N N A H, Sept. 14.
The Creek Indians have lately received large sup
plies of ammunition from Pensacola, which, with
their having warned the settlers to remove from the
Oconee lands by the firft of OHober next, leaves
little or no room to doubt of a war taking place im
mediately.
OR. 12. We are informed that the commissioners
appointed to treat with the Creek Indians, were to
set out from Augusta the middle of this week, to en
ter upon business.
CHARLESTON, (S. C.) OH. 10.
Should the intelligence prove true, that is so ge
nerally reported, and indeed publickly averted in the
Georgia Gazette, that the Spaniards have assisted
the Creek Indians with military implements, a war
with Spain will inevitably follow, unless this unge
nerous assistance has been given to the Indians by
private individuals. Indeed it would appear as if
Congress had some weighty affairs to adjust with
Spain, from their having withdrawn Mr. Adams from
the Englifli court, and sent him to Madrid, notwith-
Randing this able minister's presence was certainly
Ofl. 9. On Friday last, being the 3d instant, the
honourable the Congress, after having referred the
several matters then before them to the annual choice
of the United States in Congress, to be assembled in
the usual place on Monday next,
Resolved, 1 hat the thanks of Congress be given
to his excellency Nathaniel Gorham, Esquire,
for his able and faithful difeharge of the duties of
President, while aHing in that important Ration.
from England, captain of the Pegasus frigate. He
is a fine looking young fellow, and appears a little
upon the buckifb order. Business is dull; but his
arrival will make a conliderable stir."
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N E W-Y O R K, Nov. 7.
Extrafl of a letter from a gentleman at Dartmouth,
near Halifax, to his friend in CharleJlomn
(Massachusetts ) dated Ofiober I.
" I am not surprised at the accounts we have
every day of the disorders prevailing among you in
your government —but am very lorry therefor. It is
no more than what we have long since expeHed, con
sidering the low ebb at which your commerce with
England and the Well-lndia ißands has arrived,
and the burthens which your peop'e labour under.
The New-Englanders aie not to be opprefled; nor
will they fuffer themselves, like dumb jack-asses, to
be overborne and crushed. Your peace, and that of
mankind, has ever been my wish ; and that you might
prosper, and become important among the nations of
the earth—that commerce, agriculture and the arts,
might fiourifh in the American states, has ever been
my prayer; but so long as power to regulate the
trade and other affairs of the union, is wanting in
the federal council; so long as energetic measures in
civil government is neglected, by not making exam
ples of thole who violate the constitution, and dis
regard its sacred laws— difeord will prevail, and
anarchy and confufon delight and revel in your mil
fortunes !
" We are honoured with a visit from the young
Prince William Henry, who arrived a few days since
exhibited the most striking picture of desolation, not
a vessel having rode out the storm.
Lecc^ery at the b # /.oa court, in Dicier tu lavuiiace
the negociations between Great-Britain and America.
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BALTIMORE, Nov. 7.
His most Catholic majesty, after conferring extra
ordinary marks of his favour on count O'Relly,
hath permitted that faithful veteran chief to resign
some of the important commissions and employments
with which he had been honoured, agreeable to his ear
nest request, on account of his advanced age and bo
dily infirmities. The report of his disgrace will, of
course, be considered entirely groundless.
On the 1 2th ult. his excellency Thomas Chitten
den, Esquire, was re-elected governor of the Rate of
Vermont, for the ensuing year. At the fame time
the honourable Joseph Marih, Esquire, was chosen
lieutenant-governor of that Rate.
The honourable Joseph Prentis, Esquire, is cho
sen speaker of the general assembly of the common
wealth of Virginia, now fitting at Richmond.
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PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 1.
This day commenced the operation of the aH for
altering the penal laws—by some Riled the roheel
barrow afl. If the example set in New-York, of
chaining criminals to wheelbarrows, and obliging them
to work in the publick streets, be followed in this
Rate, as we are informed is intended, it cannot fail
to produce consequences here equally salutary with
those it has been the cause of in the lifter Rate.
Nov. 4. After a delay of eleven days from the
time appointed for opening the session—and eight
from the organization of the house—this day was
fixed for the eleHion of president and vice-president.
His excellency Benjamin Franklin was unanimously
re-elected president. It is more than probable, that
had the voices of all the inhabitants of the common
wealth, been colleHed upon the occasion, there would
not have been a tingle dissent.
It were to be wished, that the eleHion of vice
president had been equally unanimous: but it was
closely contested. I hat party which is now predominant
in the assembly, had determined to exert themselves
to place in the vice-prefidental chair a member of coun
cil of their fide of the question. The honourable
Henry Hill, we are told, was firft fixed upon. He de
clining it, general Muhlenbergh, was next agreed to
be run for vice-president. However, the constituti
onal fide of the house, who were to a man in favour
of colonel Biddle, with the council, where he had
a dead majority, gave him a superiority of three bal
lots over his competitor.
Men of moderation, unattached to any party, who
only seek to promote the welfare of the publick, are
highly pfeafed with this issue of the business. Dif
milfing from office a man who has behaved meritoriously,
merely because he differs in political sentiments from
those in power, is a dirty bufinefs —and far from
honourable to those who made through it—particu
larly at a period like the present, when lenient and
conciliatory measures should be pursued, in order to
afluage and allay party rage and malice.
I his trait of conduH needs no auxiliary circum
stance to call forth publick censure—it is, however,
attended with one. When the conftitutionalifts were
in power, the greatest and most general complaint
against them, was, their displacing republican offi
cers. Yet here is an attempt to do the very fame
thing. So true it is, that our exclamations against
impropriety of conduH are frequently no more than
through dislike of the person—not of the adion.
Extract of a letter from the Falls of the Ohio, dated
September 20.
" In my last letter I informed you that the state of
Virginia had formed an expedition against the Indians,
and now I can fay that the troops, consisting of 1700
men, aHually took up their march on the 15th, 16th
and 17th ink. Two field pieces and 100 men will be
sent off to-morrow from fort St. Vincent. What the
result will be, God only knows. Captain Carbury
goes out as adjutant-general to the detachment from
Virginia."
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I RENTON, Novem. 20.
On Thursday last John Bifpham, Esq. was ele&ed
a member to serve in the general afl'embly for Bur
lington county, in the room of Uriah Woolman, Esq.
who did not accept his feat.
STATE of NEW-JERSEY.
Hn aft for making fate-notes or certificates, receiv
able for certain fines and forfeitures therein
mentioned.
Se& le R E jt enaHed by the council and general
assembly of this state, and it is hereby
enaHed by the authority of the fame," that from and
after the publication of this alt, it (hall and may be
lawful for all and every person or persons, who hath
been, or shall hereafter be fined by the supreme court
of judicature of this state, or by the courts of oyer
and terminer and general gaol delivery, or by the
covert of general quarter feflions of the peace, in any of the
counties within the fame, in consequence or by the di
reHions of any law now in force, or that hath hereto
fore been in force in this state; and where such fine