The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1780-04-05 00:00:00, page 3

another embarkation ; the truth of which we can
not assert.
Last week seven men robbed a gentleman's house
in Connecticut, often thousand continental, and one
thousand Spanilh dollars; the alarm was given to the
neighbourhood near Stratford : —A boat was disco
vered to let off from the Ihore, near that town, which
was supposed contained the thieves ; —it was follow
ed, and luckily the pursuers came up with them at a
house on Long-Island ; where, imagining themselves
entirely secure, were gone to bed, fatigued by the
former evening's expedition. They were all tied,
and brought back to Connecticut, where they are
properly secured. One of the villains is a wealthy
man's son, of Woodbury, in Connecticut.
A gentleman who arrived here a few days ago, in
a short passage from Bermuda, brings advice, that
just before he left that illand, a brig had arrived there
from England, which the left fame time in Decem
ber, in a fleet of upwards of 350 fail of vcffels, con
voyed by a British squadron, under the command of
Sir George Bridges Rodney, bound for the Weft-In
dies, where Sir George is to command the Britilh
navy. In this fleet there were many transports with
land-forces, destined it was said for an important en
terprize.
CHATHAM, (New-Jersey,) March 15.
Sunday afternoon, the sth instant, the Good-Hope
prison ship, lying in Wallabout-bay in the East-river
in New-York, was entirely consumed. We do not
hear that any lives were loft.
A number of our last papers, containing an account
of the late proceedings in Ireland, being sent to the
army by his Excellency, gave them the greatest latis
faftion, and fan'd the glorious flame of liberty in their
breasts. As elegant a collation as the shortness of
the time would permit was provided by the officers of
Colonel Jackson's regiment : A number oftoafes were
drank, and the night concluded with music, and a
new cotillion, called the Duke of Leinfter. The fol
lowing toasts were drank.
I. St. Patrick. 2. The Duke of Leinfter. 3. Lord
Shannon. 4. Mr. Gratton. 5. Mr. Ogle. 6. Mr.
Edward Newenham. 7. The Recorder. 8. Mr.
Flood. 9. The memory of Doctor Lucas. 10. The
volunteers of Ireland. 11. May the cannon of Ireland
bellow till the nation is free. 12. The King of France.
13. General Washington and the army.
Sailed from Corke the 24th of December, sixty
transports for America, with provisions, and a large
quantity of furniture for horses, but no troops on
board, under convoy of the Richmond and Raleigh
frigates of 32 guns each. Ten of these transports,
and one of the frigates, being flow sailors, parted
from the rest ten days after they left Corke ; which
part, it is thought, were for New-York, the remain
der for Georgia. This intelligence is confirmed by
one of the transports sent in here by an American
cruizer.
March 21. Short extracts from the late debates in the
British House of Peers. —The Duke of Richmond, having
drawn a striking picture of the tituation in which the
public affairs of Britain were in general, his Grace
endeavoured to shew, that the two officers of the
Crown, to whom they ought to impute the humili
ation to which the nation had been condemned the
last Campaign, were the firft Lord of the Admiralty,
and the Commander in Chief of the Land Forces.
He added, that whosoever had not always a superior
jl et to oppose to that which the House of Bourbon could
fend to sea was not worthy to preside at the Board of
Admiralty. Lord Amherst denied the principal
assertions of his Grace of Richmond, refpeding the
defencelefs Rate of his country. Lord Sandwich
finiihed a long apologizing speech by announcing a
much more formidable fleet for the next year than
that of the last, which he would not give a detail of,
as a conclusion might be drawn from it. Lord
Abingdon said, "There is nothing but the people that
can re-establish the tottering constitution of the Bri
tish empire—ls the people will not force its parlia
ment to save its expiring liberties, they deserve to be
flaven." His Grace the Duke of Manchester
remarked, that the King was personally responsible to
his country ; that under his reign there had been hea
vier attacks made on the constitution, than those
which had cost Charles the firft his life and throne.
— His Grace the Duke of Grafton said, he had
been President of the Council for some years; but
I feeing what had passed for some time, he could not
in honour or in conscience remain any longer in place,
he therefore retired.—He added, it is certain that at
this time the kingdom is attacked by the most for
midable confederation that has ever taken arms a
gainst it; that the war in which Great-Britain is
now engaged is the mod alarming of any that ever
threatened that kingdom ; but that it had an incon
ceivable extent of resources; and that if a fit use was
made of them, he did not doubt but Britain would
be able to face all her enemies.
PHILADELPHIA, March 28.
Saturday last the Hon. General Assembly of this
;Commonwealth, adjourned till the 10th of May next.
In CONGRESS, March 10, 1780.
RESOLVED, That no allowance of pay or rati
lons or subsistence ought to be made to any person
I after he cases to be in office :
WILLIAMSBURG, March 18.
BALTIMORE, March 14.
T O BE SO L D,
THE grey Colt Abdalla, rising four years old,
- L compleat in his form, in fine condition, and got
by Mr. Heath's Traveller out of the Dove mare,
whose dam belonged to the late Mr. Anthony Waters,
well known by the name of the Dutch mare, and in
her day thought to be superior to any of her blood
in America : Traveller is from Col. Lloyd's Old Tra
veller out of his fine mare Nancy Bywell, who won
the match against Mr. Delancey's Lath with great
ease in 1772.-—To save trouble, One Hundred Pounds
hard money, or its value in paper money, is the price
of the above Colt, and a stout young horse or mare
or a pair of either, well broke to the draught, will
be taken in part, if they and their prices are approved
of. Apply to Esau Brookes at Mr. Earle's farm near
Bohemia Ferry, Cecil county, in the Rate of Mary
bnd. March 25th, 1780. gwf
To be SOLD by Publick Vendue,
r On the sixth of April instant;
W O LOTS of Land and the Improvement, in
1 the county of Somerset and township of Hills.
borough. The one Lot contains one acre, with a
new frame house ; the other Lot contains one and a
half acre, with also a house. Both lots are at Cocks-
Town, and very convenient for either a tradesman
or tavernkeeper. A good title will be given to the
purchaser by iw* ROBERT EASTBURN
By a gentleman who left New-York on Sunday
fennight, we are informed that part of the transports
that failed with Sir Henry Clinton in December for
Charleftown, had arrived from that place at New-
York, with orders from Sir Henry Clinton fora rein
forcement : In consequence of which, a brigade con
lifting of 4000 troops, were preparing for embarkati
on, and was expeded to fail the latter end of last week,
under the command of Lord Rawdon, who has been
lately appointed a Brigadier-General.
We hear that letters were' received in Philadelphia
from Charleftown on Friday last, bringing advice that
General Hogan, with his brigade, had got to that
place—That the Virginia line were also within one
day's march of the town, where the troops had been
halted to refrefh themselves—That Gen. Scott, with
2500 Virginia militia, were well advanced on the road;
and that the enemy had remained inactive since their
arrival at John and James's islands.
In Rivington's Royal Gazette of the 22d ult. ap
pears a proclamation of Sir Henry Clinton, dated at
James Island, South-Carolina, in which he announces
himfelf his Majefly's sole Commissioner for restoring
peace to America, &c. advising the Rebels to come to
him and receive pardon for their manifold offences com
mitted against the befl of Sovereigns.
General Robertson lately arrived at New-York from
England, having been appointed titular Governor in
the room of Mr. Tryon ; and it is said that an at
tempt is to be made there to establish civil govern
ment again under the tyrant of Britain.—But it is
presumed that before this can take place to any effect
they mult obtain a little more elbow-room.
Last week a party of the enemy landed at Tenton
Falls, in Monmouth county, and carried off 6 or 7
of the inhabitants prisoners.—Another small party
which landed at Middletown, carried off a Mr. Bowne,
who had but three days before been exchanged, and
just returned home.
That if any Issuer deliver out public stores to such
persons, without being authorized by Resolution of
Congress, the fame ought to be charged to his ac
count. Extract from the Minutes,
CHARLES THOMSON, Sec'ry.
The refpedive Deputies and Assistants in the Issu
ing Department, are hereby directed to pay ftritt at
tention to the above Resolve. [The Printers in the
different States are desired to publish the above.]
CHARLES STEWART,
Commissary General of llfues.
March 29. The Tryon, Capt. Sibbles, a privateer
of New-York, mentioned in our paper of the 15th,
(under the Boston head) to have been severely hand
led by the Thorn, Capt. Waters, has since got into
Antigua, in a very Shattered condition, having loft
her Capt. and 20 men.
By a gentleman arrived in this city we learn, the
account under Bolton head, of March 9th, refpeding
the British convoy bound to Gibraltar being taken by
the Spaniards, is to be depended on ; for that he law
17 of the transports in Cadiz bay before he left that, in
Nov. last, as also a great number of the troops. [The
account Isere alluded to was in our last week's Gazette.]
We hear that a New-York paper of the 30th ult.
contains an account of an a&ion at sea between a
fleet of Dutch men of wai, consisting of five fail of
the line, convoying 30 merchantmen to a port in
France, with military stores, and a Britilh fleet of
superior force. The Dutch convoy and 25 fail of
their fleet were captured. The British commander,
it is said, had orders to search all Dutch bottoms,
and by attempting to enforce these orders the action
was brought on. This account we are told, is under
the St. Kitt's head, and is published as a fad; but
we have not yet been able to obtain a fight of the
paper above-mentioned.
The Court of Oyer and Terminer, which opened
at Hillfborough, in Somerset county, last week, is
adjourned to meet at the fame place the 2zd day
of May next.
TRENTON, April 5.
A Quantity of excellent
SOAL LEATHER
TO BE SOLD for READY MONEY.
Enquire of Mr. Abraham Lott, at Trenton.
April 3d, 1780. iw*
State of New-Jersey, March 17, 1780.
TO BE SOLD by private SALE,
ryHE one full equal and undivided third part of a
-I-valuable trad ofland, containing fifty-two acres,
under good fence, situated in the township of Green
wich and county of Sussex, one mile from the mouth
of the Mufconetcong, a never-failing stream of wa
ter, which empties itfelf into the river Delaware four
miles from Durham furnace, eight miles from Eafton,
and fifty-two miles from Philadelphia. There is on
said trad a forge with two fires and one hammer,
called and known by the name of Chelsea Forge, a
saw-mill, three convenient dwelling-houses, one of
which is stone, two dories high, with fire-places at
each end, and in which a tavern has been kept for a
number of years past ; the other two of frame and
square logs well finiihed, with convenient fire-places,
a smith's shop, store and counting-houses, barn,
stables, and a number of log-houses fufficient for ac
commodating the hands necessary for carrying on the
works, all of which are in good order and repair.—
Also a valuable trad of land, the furtheft part of which
is not moie than one mile and a half from the forge,
adjoining the river Delaware, on which it has a front
of one mile, containing 450 acres, about one half of
which is wood-land and mostly well timbered, the
remainder cleared and under good fence, part of
which is rich bottom adjoining the river ; there is on
the premises three good new log-houses, at one of
which a ferry across the river Delaware was designed
to be kept, near which place is a valuable shad fifh
ery.—Alfo will be fold at the fame time, 700 cords
of wood cut and put up, and all the tools and imple
ments necessary for carrying on the works. The pur
chaser can have possession of the last described trad
immediately, and of the forge and other premises on
the firft day of June next : Any person inclining to
purchase may view the premises, and be informed of
the terms, by applying to Moses Yaman, at Chel
sea Forge aforefaid.
Bar iron or loan-office certificates will be taken
in payment. 4 w t
TO C OV E R,
The ensuing season, at the Subferiber's in Maiden
head, in Hunterdon county, the beautiful and
high bred HORSE
ARABIA N,
Rising ten years, at Three Pounds in Gold or
Silver,—Continental at the exchange, ready calh,
or fix bushels of Wheat, Buckwheat, Rye or Corn,
in the fame proportion, to be paid in the season
of the crops.
ARabian is full blooded, fifteen hands and two
inches high, very adive, and is a remarkable
fine bay, his colts are in general very tine, a few of
them may be seen at his stand. Arabian was got by
that famous stallion Willdair, his dam by Babraham,
his grandam by Old Sterling, his great-grandam by
Merry Andrew out of Laughing Polly; she won the
King's hundred guineas at Hambleton, and was got
by Childers, her dam by Chancellor, and own filter
to Thunderbolt ; her grandam by Luggs, and her
great-grandam by Davill's Old Woodcock.
Willdair was got by Old Cade, the best stallion that
ever was got by the famous Godolphin Arabian, out
of a daughter of Steady, a very fleet ion of the Duke
of Devonshire's Flying Childers. This horse, the fire
of Arabian, was a few years part purchased of James
Delancey, Esq. at a very high price, and dipped back
to England at the particular desire of the greatest
breeder in that country, and covered at Forty Guineas
the season, his blood being in the highest degree of
reputation among the nobility and sportsmen.
Good pasture will be procured for mares that are
brought any distance.
6w RALPH PJH ILLIPS.
One Hundred Dollars Reward.
ST OLEN last night from Capt. Shaler's stable at
Bafkenridge, a large black Horse upwards of
hands high, about 7 years old, has a white star in his
forehead and snip on his nose, and his near hind foot
white ; he paces uncommonly fait and trots, his gaits
remai kably easy to the rider; he is gay when firft
mounted, in pretty good order, and shod all round,
one of his fore shoes new. Whoever secures said
horse and delivers him to the subscriber at the Gene
ral Hospital, Bafkenridge, or for him to any of the
Gentlemen of the military hospitals at Morristown,
Princeton, Trenton, or Philadelphia, shall receive
the above reward and reasonable charges, paid by
April 3, 1780. 2w§ W. BROWN.
One Hundred Dollars Reward?"
STOLEN out of the stable of the subscriber the
25th of March last, at night, living in Middle
town township, Bucks county, a light dun Mare,
three years old, near 14 and 1-2 hands high, has a
bald face, with white main and tail, and most natu
ral to the trot. Whoever takes up the thief and
mare so that I get her again, and the thief brought
to justice, shall have the above reward, and reason
able charges, paid by me JOB WILLIAMS.
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