The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1782-09-04 00:00:00, page 2

NEW-YO RK, August 28.
More than two thousand of the troops of his Se
rene Highness the Prince of Hefle, are fafely ar
rived from Bremer Lee in Germany, at Halifax,
from Nova-Scotia, under convoy of the frigates
Emarald of 32, and Cyclops of 28 guns; 'tis said
they were defined for New-York, but receiving in
telligence of Monsieur Vaudreuil's squadron (now
at Boiton) pervading this coafh it was judged more
prudent to fleer for the above harbour.—ihis in
telligence was brought by his Majesty's sloop of
war Albecore, Captain Calcott, which left the gar
rison in good health. Captain Calcott departed
from Halifax on the 18th inflant; our German al
lies had a passage of about two months.
BOSTO N, August 22.
Yesterday another cartel arrived at Marblehead,
from Plymouth, in England, with American pri
soners ; 'tis laid floe failed from thence the begin
ning cf July, and brings advice that the French,
Spanish and Dutch fleets, amounting to 46 fail of
the line, had firmed 1 junction, and were cruizing
in the British channel, where they fell in with and
captured 22 out of a fleet of 26, bound to Que
bec, four only escaped.— 1 hat the British fleet un
der Lord Howe, being much inferior to the com
bined fleet, was obliged to keep inug in port.
From Rivington's Gazette of August 28.
On Sunday last arrived here his Majesty's ship Nar
cissus, from Charleftown: By her we have the
following advices :
CHARLESTOWN, July 3 0.
The fleet which arrived off our bay on 1 hurfday
last, had on board the greater part of the late gar
rison of Savanna, with a number of loyal refugees
from that place.
The town of Savanna was evacuated by the Bri
tlfo troops on the 11th of this month; the publick
Lores and the effects of the inhabitants who have
come away, being previously removed down to the
island of Tybee. On the 20th of the fame month,
a fleet failed from Tybee for Jamaica, with about
1800 negroes, and other property of the loyalists,
under convoy of the Zebra frigate and Vulture sloop
of war. Two days afterwards, another fleet, hav
ing on board about 3000 negroes, failed for St.
Augustine. On the evening of the fame day Colo
nel Brown, with a part of his regiment, the mili
tia troops of horse dismounted, some militia infan
try, and about three hundred Indians, the whole
making together nearly the number of 1500 per
sons, embarked in small vessels to proceed to East-
Florida, by the inland navigation.
The whole number of persons. independent of his
Majesty's troops, who left Georgia in consequence
cf the evacuation of the garrison of Savanna, is said
to be nearly 7000. Of that number about §oco
are negroes, who, according to some accounts, were
at least three-fourths, and to others, seven-eighths
of all the flares in the province of Georgia. A
mong the 2000 whites, who have likewise came
away, are almost all the wealthy inhabitants of the
province, and many of the lower classes of the peo-
Head-Quarters, 7th August, 1782.
THE inhabitants are hereby informed, that a
convoy will be ordered, and every poflible assistance
given to convey to Augustine such of them, who,
from the expected withdrawal of the King's troops
from this town, may desire to remove with their
families and effedfs to the province of Eaft-Floiida.
All persons who propose, are therefore required to
notify their intentions at the Quartermaster-Ge
neral's office, where they will, at the fame time,
deliver in a fpecifick account of the property they
mean to take with them.
All persons who propose to remove from town to
other parts, ate also required to give three days
publick notice of their intention.
By order of the Lieutenant-General,
EDWARD SCOTF, Sec'ry.
RICHMOND, (Virginia) Aug. 17.
From the southward we learn, that the hostile
conduct of some of the Indian tribes to the west
ward, had induced the Governor of South-Caroli
na to fend out General Pickens with a well appoint
ed body of militia to chastise them, and the expe
dition was to have taken effect the firft of this
month. The Indians, however, have since sued
for peace, and a treaty, we hear, will Ihortly be
held for that purpose.
A ship is said to have been lately brought into
George-Town, South-Carolina, by a privateer from
that place, with 250 negro slaves on board, taken
on their way to Jamaica from Savanna.
Somerset, August 10, 1782.
In WHIG Society of Somerset.
IT has been the great object of this society to
promote a union of sentiments and meufures a
mongst the whigs, and to watch and counteract the
designs and operations of the difaffeded: Of the
latter we have ever counted those the most pernici
ous and detestable, who have held an illicit inter
couife and traffick with the enemy; an intercourse
and traffick of the most ruinous and alarming na
ture, and which it is the interest of every wife man,
and the wish of every good man, instantly to fop
prefs. The evils arising from a commercial inter
course with the enemy are well known, because
they are sorely felt: It would be idle to recount
them. To use British manufactures is to court our
ruin; and to imitate British fashions and British
manners, is to be enamoured of vice in her fouleft
and most deftruCtive form. It must however afford
some consolation to reflect, that there is every rea
son to believe that all traffick by land with the ene
my, as heretofore carried on, is nearly at an end,
by the late a&, and by the spirit and exertions of
the people. We do not therefore conclude that
the work is done, that the trade is orer. Let us
not be deceived; the trade with the enemy will
still go on; it will take another course; it will run
another channel; the ocean is,open, and who can
guard it? All America knows how the trade has
hitherto been conducted: it is easy to make frau
dulent importations, or colourable and collusive
captures; but extremely difficult to difeover and
detect them. How shall we come at proof, that
proof which is neeffary in a legal view? Besides,
villainy, when checked one way, will naturally, like
water darned up, overflow in another. The truth
is, that nothing perhaps can entirely suppress this
illicit traffick but a partial, if not a total deftrudi
on of all British goods, no matter how they get
among us; or a fixed resolution not to purchdfe
them. The firft calls for Legislative interposition ;
the second depends upon ourfelevcs. We live with
out Britain, and are happy because we are free ;
we can and will live without British manufac
tures, of which every shred upon an American is a
badge of dishonour, and a mark of ingratitude.—
The remedy is in our own hands, and shall we not
apply it? Yes, we will apply it; and, therefore,
ift. Resolved, that we will not at any time
hereafter, during the present war, purchase our
selves, or cause to be purchased for us or our fa
TRENI O N, September 4.
The Boston papers r rived on Sunday by post,
inform us of the lols of LeT agnifique, of 74 guns,
in Boston bay, ha. _ run on a rock and instantly
filled. Her ftoies, &c. were saved.
Notwithstanding it was averted in the most posi
tive manner, by ieveral persons from the eastward,
that a British fleet had arrived at the Hook, as
mentioned in our last, the faCt has proved otherwise.
Part of the French troops, under the command
of His Excellency the Count de Rochambeau, ar
rived here since our last, They are encamped on
the commons below the town.
Extrad of a letter from Madrid, dated the 24th
of April.
" The late proposals of the court of London to
Holland occasion but little anxiety here, though ap
pearances in the north seem more serious. An at
tack upon Gibraltar by floating batteries is avowed,
lire duke de Crillon demands 30,000 men for the
business, though the late reinforcements from Eng
land render his success dubious. Nothing very
consequential has as yet followed the late ministeri
al change. An attempt to relieve Gibraltar by a
decisive naval combat is by some expe&ed."
PHILADELPH lA, September 3.
Last Friday the Duke de Lauzun's legion palled
through this city; on Saturday the regiment de
Bourbonnois followed, as did the royal Deux Ponts
on Sunday, and the regiment de Soiffonnois yester
day; and we hear that the regiment de Saintonge
will proceed on the fame route this morning. We
are told these troops are shortly to join the army
commanded by his Excellency General Washington.
It may perhaps be useless to repeat the encomi
ums which have been so often bestowed on these
truly veteran corps, by the inhabitants of the ex
tensive country through which they have palled; but
we will venture to allure the publick, that in no si
milar instance within our knowledge, have the rights
of the citizans been so critically observed as by this
army ; not a complaint of any kind having been ex
hibited, or even barely mentioned, by the people in
the vicinity of their camp, or in the course of their
long marches.
Ift. Resolved, that we will give every assistance
in our power to all officers, civil and military, ii
the difeharge of their duty, and vigorous executi
of the laws of the state, particularly those for re
straining trade and correspondence with the enemy
and preventing suspicious persons travelling without
proper passes, or carrying about for file any mer
chandize seizable by law.
Kingwood, August 16, 1782.
A considerable number of the inhabibitants of this
township, and of the two adjoining townships of
Bethlehem and Alexandria, in the county of
Hunterdon, being this day met together pursuant
to notice for that purpose,
Moore Furman, Esq. was appointed Chairman.
r rilE meeting then took into consideration the
state of publick affairs, and being convinced
that the British nation finding, from experience,
(which they thernfelves acknowledge) that they
cannot conquer America with the sword and bayon
et, with all their unmanly and inhuman use of
them; and being unwilling yet to give up the point,
have meanly substituted in their place the arts of
duplicity and intrigue, and are now carrying on a
trade, with the assistance of those monsters among
us, " our internal enemies," by smuggling in their
manufactures, and thereby draining us of our circu
lating cash, contrary to the laws of the state, which
if not timely prevented, will be attended with the
worst consequences ; therefore.
We the fubferibers, being willing and desirous
of joining our fellow-citizens in doing every thing
in our power to counteract any attempt of our ene
mies to injure us, have now associated, and do
pledge ourselves to each other and to our country,
for the faithful performance of the following reso
lutions:
sth. Resolved, that it be recommended to the
several township societies of this county, to adopt
such measures as they shall think best calculated tc
carry the above resolutions into effect.
By order,
Fred. Frelinghuysen, President.
Attest, John Taylor, Sec'ry.
4th. Resolved, That it is our interest and duty
to pay our taxes with punduality, to encourage
others to do so, and to prevent the ill designs of
those who clamour against them. The taxes are as
light as in reason and policy they ought to be.—•
We know the scarcity of money, but are persuad
ed that it will not eventually hurt America either
in a moral or political view; it will promote in
dustry, and bring on a spirit of frugality and ceco
nomy; it will restrain luxury, extravagance and
thoughtless profufion; it will answer the end of
fumptuary law^. We know the necessity of taxati
on; we feel the taxes that are laid upon us, and
rejoice that we do feel them; we can pay them,
and we do and will pay them with cheerfuloefs
and punctuality ; they are not indeed very heavy in
thernfelves; and they fink into nothing when con
sidered as the price of our political salvation Here
too we have the advantage of our enemy; where
we pay a shilling in taxes, they pay a pound. It is
idle to talk of the inability of America: /America
is now more able to carry on the war than ever.
Retrench, retrench, and the taxes will be
light; the money annually squandered upon British
gewgaws will more than pay them. The tories are
busy and clamorous upon the occasion; they rail
violently against the Legislature, and taxes of eve
ry kind, and unhappily some short-sighted whigs
very heedlessly join the cry, and echo back the cla
mour. The insidious arts and factious temper of
the former are well known; their rage encreafea
with their despair: it would be cruel to deny the
creatures the pleasure of roaring, the only plea
sure they have at present, considering the situation
of their friends. Let them roar and rail; to pay
taxes we know is our interest, and we feel it to
be our duty. We acknowledge the wisdom and po
licy of the Legislature, particularly with regard tc
taxation; it is a tribute and applause which they
merit.
milies, any dry goods of British manufacture, whe
ther legally or illegally imported. This refolutior
to comprehend all prize goods of the above nature
The faithful observation of this resolution we loo!
upon to be an ad of gratitude, a point of honour
and a principle of duty.
2d. Resolved, that we will, as much as in us
lies, enforce the law against all perlons who hold
an illicit intercourse and commerce with the enemy,
or who travel without proper paifports.
3d. Resolved, that we will cause to be publilh
ed in one of the newspapers of this state, the name
of every person who shall be convinced of carrying
on the above trade.