The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1782-09-25 00:00:00, page 2

These observations are more peculiarly applica
ble to the early loans, the interest of which' has
heretofore been paid in bills of exchange. But
your petitioners are no less concerned respecting the
loans of a later date, on which but little mtcreft •
has been paid for two years part, and for the last
year none at all. Ind though it may be supposed,
that the feelings of humanity may be less affected
by the delay of the inteieft on these than on the
others,.the calls of justice are nevertheless equal
ly clear and firing in,heir favour.
Your petitioners apprehend it cannot ,be necef-
vances.
The experience of other nations ought to have
warned us of rhe danger of abandoning the ftiong
hold if publick credit, and relying on concurrent
taxes alone for carrying on an extensive war. Ihe
utm.ift stretch of taxation on such occasions, can
n'e\er keep pace with the demands, especially in the
peculiar cncumftances ot a young and growing
C untry. whose llrength is yet so far ihort of matu
rity The neceility of anticipating, by publick
lons such revenues as the country can afford, is
therefore the more conspicuous iutit is not to
be expected that such loans can be obtained, ei
ther from our own citizens or from foreigners,
without the establishment of solid and permanent
funds for the regular payment of the inteieft, and
for the repayment of the principal at a future time.
If the resources of the United States were duly ar
ranged your petitioners feel a Confidence that apart
of them, turned to these purposes, would be abun
dantly (efficient to afford a foundation on which the
publick' credit might be revived, and the means ob
to ed of supporting the army, and defraying all
the other neceflary expences of the war, as well as
of relieving the publick creditors, and tendering
that burden light and easy, by a more equal distri
fary to >ffer proofs, that the lenders of money to
the publick are generally, if not altogether, among
themoft decided friends, and the wanned support
ers of the revolution. When fuppLes have been
wanted and the publick agents had not money to
purchase them, they have been the people who
chiefly furnilhed them: When loans of money
have been demanded, they only have contributed
to relieve the pubtick wants Many of them have
so much of their capital in the hands of the pub
lick th $ t their remaining dock is too small to ad
mit of their carrying on butinels on an equal foot
ing with their neighbours ; and they have the mor
tification to find that while others, ejoying the
full benefits of their property can cafilv pay
the taxes assessed on them out of part of their pi o
fits, the li Ideis of loan Office certificates are de
prived of even common intereii for their money,
and obliged to pay at lead equal taxes besides; by
which heir contributions to the publick lei vice are
mod unequal!., and, in many inltances, oppiel
fivcly accumulated. Ihe partiality in these cases
is so flagrantly unjust, that your petitioners cannot
but hope it will meet with due attention and Ipee
dy redress
of the money, who have risked their all on the pub
lick faith, will become a prey to Speculators. Re
ceffity will oblige them to fell at whatever price
they can get, however small, thole certitic.tes which
are at once the vouchers of their attachments to a
cause which has puichafed fieedom and opulence
for others, and the lad remembrancer c of the pro
perty they once had, and which the calls of nature
or of decency compel them to part with for a trifle
ihefe are confederations which refped the in
tereits of individuals ; but the number of these in
dividuals s too great, and their merit, as patriots,
too conspicuous, to be undeserving of attention.—
Were it possible that the feeiings of humanity and
the calls of justice could cease to operate in their
favour, the dictates of policy alone, would be fuf
fieent to induce attention to their claims, and the
most ifrenuous exertions to redress their grie-
But besides these evils, so great in themselves,
your petitioners conceive it necelfaty to urge the
apprehenGon of another fall greater. The mere
fulpenficn of the payment of interest for a year or
two. though it would be injurious to all, and dis
tressing to many, would not provided there was
a certainty of punctuality afterwards, occafiun so
great an injury as is now apprehended. But from
the delay of the inteieft on some, the threatened
fu pension of that on the others, and the want of
established funds appropriated to these payments,
the capital sum is already depreciated and unkfs
some Ipeedy and effectual measures are taken , to re
vive that confidence in the juitice and integrity .of
the publick, on which alone any degree of publick
credit can be founded, a much greater degree of
depreciation will take place and the honest lenders
bution, which, resting chiefly on a part of the com
,munity only, is found to be oppiehive.
Your petitioners feel a conicious pride in having
been thus far instrumental in contending for the
-freedom of America, and the rights of mankind;
and whatever may be the will of Providence as to
their tailing the fruits of it in peace, they are de
sirous that succeeding generations should enjoy the
benefit. I heir ardour is not abated, and they are
willing to contribute their proportion, in common
with their fellow citizens, even to the last Filling,
if it should be necessary, to secure peace, liberty
and independence to the United States. A fair and
equal distribution of the publick burden, is all they
^t, and the justice of their claim is so evident,
that they hope they dial! not be disappointed. They
confide in the strong affurunces of Congress, and
the faith of the United states folemnfy and repeat
edly pledged in then leveial resolutions on the fub
jett of the publick loans, that the intereii will be
punctually paid.
Your petitioners hope to be excused in adopting
the language of Congress, in the dole of their cir
cular letter of the thirteenth of September 1779,
on an occasion to which it is so peculiarly applica
ble. " Humanity as well as justice makes this de
mand upon you ; the complaints of ruined widows,
and the cries of fatherlels children, whose whole
support has been pl iced in your hands, and melted
away, have doubtless reached you — Take care that
they afeend no higher. Let it never be said that
America had no looner become independent than
foe became insolvent; or that her infant glories and
growing fame were obfeured and tainifhed by brok
en contrasts or violated faith, in the very hour
when ill the nations of the earth were admiring
and alm<ft adoring the fplendour of her rising."
lour petitioners therefore earnestly pray that
Congress will be pleaded to direct the payment of
the inteieft on the debts due from rhe United States,
and more especially that on loan-office certificates;
and. that they will edablifh effectual and permanent
funds for the continuance of such payments, until
the principal Hull be fairly discharged.
Blair M'( lenachan,
Charles Pettit,
John Ewing.
Benjamin Rush.
Philadelphia, July 8, 17^2.
which brought fuccours to the British army. It
appears, however, that the affairs of toe last cam
paign have not been deceive; that there has only ]
been a number of post adions, in which the advan-;
tage has rather been on the fide of Hyder Ally, t
who can recruit with much greater facility than the
English. Weare at a loss to conceive why no
mention is made of Admiral Hughes, in the late
accounts from India. t
presented as the conqueror of the Marattas. there
hs been in effed three engagements between the
two armies, Hyder illy was repulsed twice with
I jfs in the Attacks he made to dislodge the Engliih
from, the advantageous post occupied by them near
Madrafs; but the Vlarattas, always indefatigable,
returned a third time to the charge, and drove the
British army quite into their intrenchments under
the walls of the city Ihe cavalry of Hyder Ally
have also h d feverd successes, and have killed and
taken prisoners about 4.500 men, among which were
500 Europeans of whwh last number they reckon
General Monk and three Colonels, who have died
of their wounds. they add that Hyder ally's son
has deftroved some charingos or provision veflels
P A R [ S,pri| 95
The second of this monh. the vrimller of the
marine received the following delpatches, brought
by the ship rgus, which lately arrived at Mantes:
that on anchoring at the isle of France in Novem
ber last, the 1 dillit de huffiein, ( ommander n
Chief of a squadron, was very bulily employed,
without loss of a momen . in taking in provision tor
them, and colluding a number of transport veffcls
He took on board about 4.000 regular troops and
all being ready he let fail on toe 7th of December
with his squadron 'Us presumed that this expe
dition was destined for the die of Ceylon his firtt
defan being to put this ?u:ch colony out of dan
ger of an inlult ; and from thence to proceed to the
coast of Malabar, to attack Bombay, which is the
chief British eftablifhmegt in this country. I hey
flatter themselves much on the success of this expe
dition, as the Engliih have not a force equal to cp
p fe them. Previous to the departure of the baiilif
de ^uffiein for India, the fi.gite la Dihgente arriv
ed from the coast of Coromandel, at the isle of
fiance, with news from Hyder Ally and fir Eyre
Coote, whom the Briufh papers have so often re-
SALE M, September c.
We hear that a cartel from Halifax arrived at
Marblehead yesterday and brings an account, that
a fleet of transports had arrived there with troops
tp the number, as it is said. of between 3 and 4000.
NEW-LONDON, Sept.
Thursday last, Captain Burnham failed from
this port, m a brig, for the Weft-Indies, and 4 i>
Though the general cry at the isle of
Was, that our expedition relpe&ed bomb;
nevertheless very possible that it will be
against the coast of Coromandel, where we are as
sured Hyder Ally waits for them, in order to press
the attack againit Madrafs. Bombay is said to be
poorly deferred by sea, and if M, de Suffrein at
tacks it before he goes to join the Indian General,
’tis presumed it will surrender, at least if the squa
dron does not come to its support. The fortifica
tions on the land fide are more considerable, as the
BRUSSELS, April 25.
According to the late letters from H c ffe, the
recruits for Gieat-Britain go on moie brilk th..n
ever, particularly when they are enrolled with con
dition of going to America. The Landgrave has
made an excellent treaty with the Court cf St.
James’s, who are to pay 3 01. sterling for each re
cruit that is not returned home at the end of the
war, and besides that, to pay a considerable sum
for engaging the men. Volunteers arrive fr. m all
quarters, knowing there is no more Americans to
be killed, and having learnt from their comrades at
Saratoga and York-lown, they may go to Ame
rica, and there receive from the Congress of the U
nited States, after abandoning the British standard
a quantity of land, by the culture of which they'
will be able to support themselves with ease and
affluence: This pealing profped, and what is still
more so, the acquisition of their liberty, has in
dt ced a number of persons to fell themfelves'.
English have worked hard to defend it against the
incursions ot the Marattas.
Ihe French squadron when they failed from the
isle of France on the 7th of December, confilted
of I’Orient, le Heros, and I’Annibal, of 74 guns;
le Vengeance, le Severe, le Bifarre, le Sphinx,
I'Artifien, 1’ gax, and le Brilliant of 64, and le
Flammand of 50; frigates, la Pourv< yeufe of 36,
la Bellone, and la fine of 42 ; sloops, la Subtile
of 22, la Silphide of 16, and le Dligtnte of 10;
firelhip, le Fulverifeut; flutes, les Bens -mis. and
le Duc de ! ulcane, which serves as a hospital ship,
and eight transports this squadron carried 3^oo
regular troops, exclusive of the volunteers of the
isle of France, 1200 negroes, part of which lerve
on board the ships, and part^for the service of the
artillery ; they carry 400,0001 b. powder, besides
their Complement, and eighty pieces of heavy ar
tillery; they failed with provihons for seven months.
I he ardour which reigns equally among the land
and lea forces, gives us reason to expert some im
portant advantages from them. And we have much
to expert from the union of our forces with those
of Holland. M. Duchemin Marchal de Camps,
commands the troops for landing; he takes with
him the volunteers of the isle of Bourbon, who
form a corps as tine as they are well disciplined.—
The Marquis de rleury, is Major-General in this
army.
The politicians of this capital declare, that there,
arrived at Versailles, Englilhmcn charged with in-'
ftru&ions to make overtures of pe ce; however
that is. the proceedings of the dates general, who
have sent to out court the plan of the approaching
Campaign, and have acknowledged the independences
of merica. receiving a Min fter from Cohgrefs,
has caused here the most agreeable fenfations.'
In ipiie of our conjectures relative to an .
ptoiching pacification, a formidable expedition com
poled of 60,000 men, under tire orders of the count
de Stainville, is cuirently talked of: And it i 3 ^ r
tain, M de Longeron who commands the land
troops at Brest has given oiders for all the regi
ments in that quarter to hasten their preparations
for departure: it is added, that the mareqh al de
Broglio will have a laige ffiare in this expedition,
and that he will take the chief command in the mo
ment of execution Weare assured that for fifteen
days pall he has not quitted Versailles, and that
he has had fiequent conferences with his Majesty.
The viarquis de la Fayette is to set out imme
diately for Breit from whence he is to return to
Virginia before the equinox. Whenever this young
hero appeals in publick, he is received with trans
ports of universal admiration; flattering tributes
which the 1 rench nation pay to men of merit.