The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1786-08-28 00:00:00, page 3

of the university, and a crowded proceflion of reputa
ble citizens.
A funeral sermon was preached by the Rev. R.
Molyneaux, on the mournful occasion, and on the
following text:
" The just Ihall be in everlasting remembrance: he
shall not tear the evil hearing: his heart is ready to
hope in the Lord: his heart is strengthened: he shall
not be moved until he look over his enemies: he hath
distributed, he hath given to the poor: his justice
remained! fur-ever and ever." Psalm iii. verse 7.
Sufficient pains (fays a correspondent) are not ta
ken to distinguish between the distresses of the com
merce, and the didrefs of the merchants of the United
States. While the produce and manufactures of our
Country command ready money, and a high price,
our commerce cannot be said to be diftrelled, al
though it be carried on by foreign merchants, and in
foreign bottoms. But the merchant and trader may
find relief in agriculture. This is the only basis of
national wealth and independence. In this employ
ment let our ions be educated. The air of a new
ploughed held, is infinitely more wholelome and agree
able than the air of a compting-houfe warmed with
sea-coal fires. Rome became free, powerful and hap
py, by the arts of agricC.cure. We read of many
of her heroes and great men being called from the
plough to protect or govern the Rate, but of no one
being called for thole purposes from handling scales
and weights, or from polling his books. France was
more powerful in an army, and more prosperous in
citizens, before the possessed her present extensive
commerce, Man is not naturally an amphibious ani
mal. He thrives belt upon land. Let the Europeans
continue if they will to be the carriers of our produce,
and let them enjoy, as the fruits of it, all the hard
ships and vices of a naval life. Let it be the business
of the Americans to feed the world by flaying at
home. Powerful from their numbers, fortified by
the ditch of the deep Atlantic which separates them
from all their enemies, virtuous from the labour of
cultivating the earth, free from their forms of go
vernment, and wealthy from exchanging their pro
duce for gold and lilver of foreign nations, they may
(we will not fay in the insolent language we learned
from our Britilh ancettors " bid defiance to the whole
world") but we will fay they may be the happiest
people upon the face of the earth, and at the fame
time live in peace with the whole world.
If it should be said, that in all communities there
are perlons who poflels a genius for navigation and a
naval life, and that this genius cannot be employed
while the nations of Europe export our produce, it
may be answered, that the commerce which necessity
or habit make necessary between the different states,
will always afford fufficient employment and encou
ragement for that proportion of our youth who may
be supposed to prefer a life at sea to the occupations
of agriculture or the mechanical arts. This domef
tick commence, while it gives employment to the
naval genius or inclinations of some of our youth,
will seem to conned the states together by mutual
interests and wants, and it may moreover be carried
on with much fewer inconveniencies to population
and morals, than the usual commerce with remote,
unhealthy or corrupted countries.
We learn, from good authority, that this state
has recently exhibited a frefh proof of her readiness
to promote the welfare of our federal government;
and has, in addition to the large balance already in
her favour, advanced to Congress 20,000 dollars,
which are considered and appropriated as frecie in
their requisition for the supplies of the present year.
This generous grant of monies for congressional pur
poses, has been made since the late violent and in
considerate interdiction of the board of treasury in
New York, relative to the issuing facilities for inte
rest due to citizens of this commonwealth.
A few days ago a vessel arrived in this city, from
New- York, with a cargo of wheat for sale, driven
from that port by the dread of paper money, and al
lured to Philadelphia by the solid coin of the bank
of North-America.
Never did a more favourable opportunity (fays a
correspondent) present itfelf to Pennsylvania, to en
rich herfelf at the folly and inconsistency of her fifter
ftates. Should Maryland and Delaware issue paper
money, agreeably to the wishes of all the lazy and
involved part of their citizens, and Pennsylvania call
in by taxes all her late paper emission, there can be
no doubt but Philadelphia will soon become the Am
fierdam of the United States. Before the emission
of our present paper currency, the bank of North-
America was the reservoir of the greatest part of the
Specie of our country.
It is said the principal reason why suits for debt
and executions have been so frequent of late, is owing
to creditors dreading a tender law to enforce the
circulation of paper money.
Captain Towers, in a brig with paffengefs, failed
from Cork for this port about the middle of July, and
may be hourly expected.
Trenton, August 28.
A letter of July 26, from Cape Francois, fays, a
hot press has begun there, in consequence of the cap
ture of a french frigate in the British channel.
On the 19th of May last, the Britilh House of
Commons granted the following sums to their fove
rei g°> viz. 62,059 ss. to make good money issued to
the American futferers.---37501.t45. to pay fees on
the receipt of 150,000!. granted last session to Ame
rican loyalists.---24261. 9s. for the passage of Mr.
Dundas and Mr. Pemberton, commissioners for Ame
rican claims, to Nova-Scotia---And, 21,5601. 53. yd.
for maintaining convidls on the river Thames.
It is reported, that the French are about to open
all the ports in the island of Tobago, and to render
the island free.
We are informed that a silver mine has lately been
difeovered in the town of Lee, state of Massachu
setts-Bay, which promises to be of great publick uti
lity, as the ore is found in great quantities, and of
an excellent quality.
A correspondent, who is a friend to the fair sex,
observes, that the malignant and thoughtless make a
practice of stigmatizing female weakness. We are
told that the ladies dress their heads extravagantly
large, but do not the men do the fame? --It is said,
and with an air of triumph too, that ladies use lotions
to make their ficins fair, and do not the men do the
fame ?---In short, ransack every female imperfection,
display them to view, exaggerate their extravagance
---and then dispassionately examine the imperfections
of men, and you will find them no less absurd---with
this difference, that the men have hardiness and im
pertinence to excuse themselves at the fame time that
they condemn the women, and for Smaller faults than
they themselves are guilty of.
A Dublin paper of June 15 fays, " A letter re
ceived yesterday by a mercantile house of this city,
contains the following important news, that the Al
gerines have declared war against the French ; a piece
of intelligence that, if true, will be of the utmost con
sequence to Great-Britain, as it will give a monopoly
of the Levant trade, which France has for some years
superseded her in."
Extrafi of a letter from Londonderry, June 20,
17 "
" Last night's post brought an account, that Mr.
Fox having made the following motion in the House
of Commons, that " there are fufficient grounds for
impeaching Warren Hastings, efq." after a long de
bate, the house divided, ayes 118, noes 79, majority
tor impeaching Mr. Hastings of high crimes and mis
demeanors 39,'
Extract of a letter from one of the Affiflant Sur
veyors belonging to Providence, dated at Fort
Pitt, July 1, 1786.
", We arrived here the 19th of last month, and
Mr. Hutchins, the Geographer-general, on the 25th;
and as he is determined to begin surveying immedi
ately, we expert to go down the river in a few days to
the place where we are to begin.
" Captain Martin, Surveyor from the state of New-
Jersey, is now at Fort MTntofh ; he will take the firft
range, and we shall take the fecopd.
" Mr. Hutchins appears to be very much of a gen
tleman, a man of good judgment, and a mathemati
cian.
'' If we do not meet with any hindrances in sur
veying, we shall continue in that business till late in
the fall; which will make it late before we shall go
down to take a view of Kentucky.
'' There has been more or less boats going down
the river with families ever since we have been here.
I have been informed there have been near four hun
dred large flat-bottomed boats with families gone past
here this spring. Thcfe boats generally carry from
fifteen to forty persons.
" By all the accounts I have been able to get from
people who have been in Kentucky, the country is
full as good, or better, than I heard it was before I
left Providence. The country we have come through
since we left Philadelphia is excellent, and we find
much better fare than I expected ; indeed a good part
of the diflance, the houses of entertainment are as
good (if not better) than those between Providence
and Boston. Part of the diflance the land is moun
tainous and hilly, but take the whole together, the
road is perfectly good.
Extrat of a letter from Oldman's creek, in Weft-
Jersey, twenty-five miles from this city, dated
August 10.
" Yesterday, about three o'clock in the afternoon,
this neighbourhood was affrighted by a severe thunder
guft. The house of Mr. William Miller was struck,
his only daughter, of 14 years of age, killed on the
spot, and himfelf severely hurt. He complains of acute
pains in his bones and joints, especially about the arms,
and is confined to his bed ; the face of the girl ap
peared purple, but not bruited. The lightning melt
ed small spots on a row of pewter plates that flood
near her on the fhelf. Another person in the room
was knocked from his chair, and stunned for a few
minutes. A strong smell of fulphur filled the house.
This afternoon the funeral of the innocent vidim was
attended by a numerous assembly, that lamented her
untimely fate, and fympathifed with her distressed pa
rents, especially the mother, who has for several years
been deprived of fight, and is now bereft of an only
Per barrel.
Superfine flour 41s
com. do. 35s
Bur middlings 30s to 32s 6d
Indian meal 30s
Tar - 8s
Pitch - iis
Turpentine -12 s
Pork, Burlington 51
Beef Irish - 51
Country - 4I
Mackerel 50s to 52s 6d
Herring 20s to 22s 6d
Per Cwt.
Ship-fluff res so 13s
bread 18s 6d to 20s
Rice -27 s 6d
Sugar Mufcov. 50s to 6oS
Tobacco James river
30s to 40s
York 30s to 40s
Rappahannock
25s to 35s
Coloured Maryland
403
Western Shore
long leaf 20s to 30s
Eastern Shore
20s to 30s
Lead in pigs 35s
Ditto in bars 43s to 45s
Shot -46 s 50s
Red lead 48s to 50s
White ditto 85s to 90s
German steel 65s
American -55 s
English blistered 90s
Cordage imp. 52s 6d to 60s
Codtifh Amer. 26s to 27s
Cocoa -4! to 4I 5s
Per lb.
Cotton - 3s
Beeswax - 2s 4d
Feathers 3s to 3s 6d
Hams 8d to rod
Sper. candles 3s gd to 4s 6d
Mould ditto - lad
Tallow ditto -13 d
Soap - yd
English cheese 13d
Butter - gd
Chocolate 13d to i6d
Coffee - i6d i,d
Tea Hyfon 8s to 12s 6d
Souchong 8s
Bohea 2s gd
Indigo French 9s to 12s
Carolina 6s 6d to 73
Hemp - 6d
Ginseng 2s
Starch - 6d
Snuff - 2S 6d
Loaf sugar -13 d
Havanna, white, Sd to gd
Ditto brown jd|
Nutmegs -70 s
Cinnamon 17s 6d
Mace -60 s
Cloves 12s 6d to 15s
Pepper - 3s 6d
Pimento - is lod
Copper in sheets is rodi
Anchors - 8d to gd
daughter, that with the tendered fobcitude attended
to her wants, and shed a cheering ray on her perpetual
night. A suitable sermon was preached on the occa
sion.
Philadelphia, Price-Current, Aug. 18.
Course of exchange—On London 771 to 80 per cent.
Amsterdam 3s 2d per guilder.
Paris 7s 6d per 5 livres.
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Per bushel.
Wheat - 7s 8s
Rye - 3s gd to 4S 3d
Barley - js 6d
Oats - 2s to is 6d
Flax feed - 8s 4d
Allum fait ißd to 22d
Liverpool ditto 2xd
Coal (dull fale)i6d to ißd
Per pipe.
Wine Madeira 401 to 80l
Lisbon - 401
Port - 401
Teneriffe - 271
Faval - 171 103
Per gallon.
Jamaica rum 4s to 4s 6d
Windward do 3s 2d togs 6d
French ditto - 2s
New-England ditto
2s 3d to 2s 6d
Brandy 3 s 6d to 4s 6d
Sherry wine 5s to 8s 6d
Malaga 5 s 6d to 6s 6d
Molafts - 2id
Per ton.
Bar iron 251 to 261
pig -9!
Logwood - ill 5s
unchipt 7I ios
Fuftick 9 1 to 121
I Braziletto - 30 l
Lignumvits esl iosto 7IIOS
Snip building. White
oak frames 51 to 51 ios
Live-oak and Red-cedar
ditto 61 ios to 71
[The Philadelphia tonage
is 10 to 15 per cent, bet
ter than any other port
on the continent.]
Per icoo.
Staves pipe - 121
W. O. hhd. 71 ios
R. O. do. 61
Leogan 61 ios
barrel - 4 1 ios
Heading (drefs'd) iol
Boards oak 4I 2s 6d to 51
pine 3I to 3I ios
lap 40s to 45s
cedar 31 to 31 ios
Plank oak, 2 inch 81
pine 2 do 61 to 61 102
Scantling oak 3 1
Shing, short 8s 4d to iis 3d
long 31 ios to 41 5s
Skins and furs.
Deer-skins per lb. 2s
Beaver do. 7s 6d to 15s
Otters per piece 22s 6d
Minks - - 2S 6d
Foxes grey 6s 6d red 4s 6d
Martins - 53
Fishers - - 4s6d
Cats - - 3s gd
Bears - ios to 15s
Rackoons - 4s 6d
Mulkrats - ijd
Tin in boxes 4I 15s to 5!
Gin per case 28s
Claret perdoz. bot. gosa 45s
Port wine ditto 30s