The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1784-07-26 00:00:00, page 3

On motion, resolved, That from and after the firft
day of August next, the salary of a secretary to a
commissioner or embassy to a foreign court, or for ne
gociating treaties with foreign powers, /hall not ex
ceed three thousand dollars per annum.
Extras of a letter from Churleflon, June 23.
" There hath been nothing of importance to relate,
but what hath arisen from the extreme heat of the
season ; I believe, from what I can learn, very few
instances of so hot weather can be recollected by the
oldest men in this country; the mercury in the best
thermometers stood at 98 degrees the 12th instant; at
noon, and rose three degrees by 3 o'clock ; in some
glasses it was said to be 110. This must have arisen
from a long drought. In the vicinity of this city the
appearance has been very threatening and gloomy;
many planters despair of their corn, some tremble for
their rice, and some, it is said, have loft their whole
crops. In other parts of the state I have heard it
hath been seasonable, as also in Georgia."
July 17. Every day evinces the dispositions which
prevail in France towards strengthening the bands
of commerce and politicks between them and the U
nited States.
TRENTON, July 26.
Ey the brig Charles, Captain flaykens, arrived at
New-York in 46 days from B riflol, me have re
ceived his Britannick MajeJjy's Speech to the new
Parliament.
L O N D O N, May 20.
House of Lords, Wednesday, May 19.
This day his Majesty came in Rate to the house, at
tended by the duke of Montague, as master of the
horse, and the earl of Essex, lord in waiting ; and be
ing seated on the throne, the gentleman usher of the
black rod went to the house of commons, and returned
with the new ele&ed speaker and several members,
who bejng at the bar, his majesty was pleased to make
the following speech :
" My Lords and Gentlemen,
" I have the greatest fatisfa&ion in meeting you in
parliament, at this time, after recurring, in so impor
tant a moment, to the sense of my people. I have a
just and confident reliance, that you are animated
with the fame sentiments of loyalty, and the fame at
tachment to our excellent constitution, which I have
had the happiness to fee so fully manifefted in every
part of the kingdom. The happy effects of such a
disposition will, I doubt not, appear in the temper and
wisdom of your deliberations, and in the dispatch of
the important objects of publick business which de
mand your attention. It will afford me peculiar plea*
sure to find, that the exercise of the power, entrusted
to me by the constitution, has been productive of
consequences so beneficial to my fubjeCts, whose in
terest and welfare are always nearest my heart.
" G entlemen of the House of Commons,
" I have ordered the eftinaates for the current year
to be laid before you; add I trust to your zeal apd
His Most Christian Majesty, informed that the U
nited States were not possessed of any harbour in the
East-Indies, where their vessels, trading to China,
might refit, or where they might find frefh provisions,
has ordered, that the harbours in the Islands of Fiance
and Bourbon (also called Mauritius) should be opened
to them, and that they should enjoy there all protec
tion and liberty, in going to and coming from China.
A well chosen colledion of books is arrived at
New-York in the French Packet, le Courier de I'A
merique : They are sent by order of the king of
France to his Consul General, to be presented to the
Universities of Philadelphia and Williamfburgh.—
They have been given at the joint request of the
Count de Vergennes, and of the Chevalier (and since
his brother's death) Marquis de Chatellaux.
PHILADELPHIA, July 14.
Extrafls from the Journal of Congress, May 7.
On motion, resolved, That from the firft day of
August next, the salary of a minister of the United
States at a foreign court, shall not exceed nine thou
sand dollars per annum.
Congress have discharged all the troops belonging
to the standing army, except about fifty men, who,
we are told, are to form two small garrisons, one at
Weft-Point, the other at Fort-Pitt.
at St. Helena, was treated very cavalierly, and in
formed by the governor, " that interlopers would not
be countenanced there, nor any privileges of trade or
Applies granted him, unless it was water, which, if
he was in want of, would be lent to him." Genuine
British hospitality !
July 9. By a Boston paper we learn, that though
the animosities between the Yorkers and Green Moun
tain Boys, carried with it the appearance of ending in
rapine and bloodshed, yet we are happy to find they
have so far subsided as to leave us the hope of perfect
tranquility being established in a ihort time.
Congress, we are assured, have it in contemplation
to make overtures to the Briti/h to commute the debt
which they owe to the United States for Canada.
affection to make such provisions for their farther sup
ply, and for the application of the fuins granted in the
last parliament, as may appear to be necessary.
" I sincerely lament every addition to the burthens
of my people ; but they will, I am persuaded, feel
the necessity, after a long and expensive war, of ef
fectually providing for the maintenance of the national
faith and our publick credit, so essential to the power
and prosperity of the state.
" My Lords and Gentlemen,
" The alarming progress of frauds in the revenue,
accompanied in so many instances with violence, will
not fail on every account to excite your attention. I
must, at the fame time, recommend to your most se
rious confideraticn, to frame such commercial regu
lations as may appear immediately necessary in the
present moment. The affairs of the Eaft-lndia Com
pany form an object of deliberation deeply connected
with the general interests of the country. While you
feel a just anxiety to provide for the good govern
ment of our possessions in that part of the world, you
will, I trust, never lose fight of the effect which any
measure to be adopted for that purpose may have on
our own constitution, and our dearest inteielt at home.
You will find me always desirous to concur with you
in such measures as may be of lading benefit to my
people: I have no with but to conlult their prospe
rity, by a constant attention to every object of nati
onal concern, by a uniform adherence to the true prin
ciples of our free constitution, and by supporting and
maintaining, in their just balance, the light: and pri
vileges of every branch of the legislature."
Several counterfeit dollars have lately been difeo
vered at New-London and Groton, dated 1777; they
are badly executed, and may be easily discovered,
being principally copper, and of a dark Smoky colour;
they were puffed by one jencks, a man with one hand,
who has absconded from Groton; but as search is
making for him, it is hoped he will be taken.
During the thunderguft on Friday fen'night the
barn of Henry Freeman, Esq. at Woodbridge, was
Struck by lightning, and entirely consumed: Mr. Free
man, who had been at work in an adjoining field, on
feeing the rain approach, retired to the barn for Shel
ter, and perished in the flames. Sunday following his
remains, attended by a very large concourse of refpeft
able citizens, were interred.---His character was that
of an honest man, and a ufeful member of society.
A FARM
TO be fold cheap, and the payments made easy
to the purchaser—Situate in Middlesex county,
at Mapletown, within three miles of Princetos, con
taining about 400 acres, one hundred of which is
woodland well timbered, the remainder meadow and
arable; the whole conveniently laid out into fields,
and most of them watered :—1 here are on the pre
mises two very comfortable dwellinghoufes, a well
and Spring of water at the door, a large garden, aspa
ragus bed, peach, plumb, cherry and quince trees;
between fix and seven hundred appletrees, great part
of them of the best grafted fruit ; two as large barns
as any in the county, one 54 by 38, the other 36 by
31 feet, the whole covered with cedar; a chairhoufe,
cowhoufe, and many other necessary houses; a large
pond, which is replenished by a biook, from which
may be drawn a thousand loads of manure yearly, and
is far preferable to horse or cow-dung. The farm
was formerly the property of Mr. Thomas Vandyke,
and is so well known for its fertility that makes it
needless to fay any thing of the many advantages it
is capable of: The farm is in good fence, and to be
fold at the low rate of five pounds ten /hillings the
acre. For further information enquire of Levinus
Clarkfon, at Flat Bulh, Long-Island, or at the pre
mises of DAVID CLARKSON.
Another cheap Farm to be fold,
AN D payments as above, situate in Somerset
county, near the North-Branch of Raritan,
now in the tenure of Fulkert'Douw, containing two
hundred acres, 50 of which are the very best of tim
ber, 20 acres of good meadow, and the remainder
arable land ; the whole conveniently divided into
fields, and in very good fence :—There are on the
premises a dwellinghoufe, a barn, a weaver's /hop,
and a large framed barrack; 70 peach and 250 apple
trees, some of them of the best grafted fruit, which
will be fold for four pounds ten /hillings per acre.—
For particulars enquire as above of Levinus or David
Clarkfon.
N. B. If the above farms are not fold by theist
of March next, they are to be rented from theist of
April following. The farm of 400 acres will be di
vided if it should best suit the purchaser.
New-Jersey, July 20, 1784. t. f.
TO THE PUBLICK
WHEREAS a certain John Pope, of the town
ship of Mansfield, in the county of Burling
ton, apd Aate of New-Jersey, h^ attempted to in
jure me by a certain advertisement or notice th ill
publick, dated the 11th day of July, instant, the dorr
tents of which are replete with untruths, and the real
facts much misrepresented.—When injury i§ offered
to my property, and insults added thereto, to wound
my feelings, 1 conceive it my duty to inform the im
partial publick, that I purchased a plantation, con
taining 227 acres of land, situate at Matchaponix, io.
the county of Middlesex, of the said John Pope, for
the sum of £.2000, which hath been fully paid ac
cording to contract, as by Vouchers remaining in my
hands may appear : — And that on the firft day of Ja*
nuary, 1779, I became legally pofTefTed of, and it
this time have in my poiTeilion, a good and fuie war*
rantee deed in fee for the premises aforefaid :— And
that although the said John Pope, by miftating faCts,
and presenting unjust accounts, obtained an award
against me for a certain sum of money, yet I trull
when justice takes place (which 1 expect to obtain at
the supreme court) the publick will be convinced that
I do not owe him one /hilling. I think it my duty
further to assure the publick, that John Pope has nd
fee or legal claim to the afore-mentioned farm, nor
any other lands which I possess, although he has held
up an idea to his creditors to the contrary. There
fore the premises aforefaid are veiled in me, my heirs
and assigns forever, and shall be fufficiently warranted
and defended to any person inclining to purchase the
fame. EDWARD THOMAS.
Mansfield, July 21, 1784. 2W±
TN confequer ce of an advertisement I inferred in the
I New-York papers, for the distribution of a book,
intitled, Journal de Medicine, Chirurgie et Phar
macie Militaire, 1 find that the demands exceed By
far my most sanguine expectations, as well as th@
number I can pblhbly be supplied with.
Earnestly desirous to disappoint no one person, and
to render this work if possible frill more generally
ufeful, I have put the French originals in the handi
of Mr. Browne, burgeon, of New-York, to be trans
lated into the Englilh language, whose knowledge of
the French tongue will, i make no doubt, enable
him to execute it with fidelity and corredtnefs.
St. John, Consul of France,
THE publick have been already informed, that
by an Ordinance of His Most Christian Majesty, all
the physicians and surgeons of his military hospitals,
are directed to furnifh the royal society of physicians
at Paris, with the memoirs of all the diseases in the
several hospitals, and the mode of treating them ; of
all chirurgical cases and operations, and of the im
provements made in pharmacy ; from which the foci*
ety are directed to feleCt such as may tend to the ad
vancement or knowledge in either of the profeffions,
and publish a volume every year, to be printed in
numbers, one every three months.
Impressed with the idea that periodical publicati
ons of this kind must prove a rich source of profeffi
onal knowledge to the gentlemen of the faculty, and
to render them ft.ll more extensively ufeful, I have
undertaken a tianflation of these memoirs into Eng
lilh, which I propole to publish by fubfeription. The
Honourable Mr. St John, has engaged to furnifh me
with the originals as expeditiously as they can be ob
tained from the Royal Frels at Paris.
•CONDITIONS:
I. That the numbers be translated and printed as
soon as they arrive.
11. That they be printed on a good type and papers
111. I hat each number contain about one hundred
and twenty pages oCtavo.
IV. That the price to subscribers be half a dollar
each number.
V. That a number be sent to the press as soon a 3
there are three hundred subscribers.
There are already, two volumes published and io
my possession, which contain such interesting matter,,
as must prove highly acceptable. A work of this
kind needs no eulogy to induce the practitioners id
phyfick and surgery of this country to purchase, for
so small a sum as two dollars a year, an epitome of
all the experience and observations in the several fei*
ences of all the military physicians and surgeons io
the kingdom of France.
JOSEPH BROWNE.
Subscriptions will be taken in by
James Rivington, at New-York; Isaac Collins, at
Trenton, New-Jersey; Augustus Van-Horn, at Phi*
ladelphia; the post-master at Wilmington, Lower-
County, Delaware; William Goddard, at Baltimore,
in Maryland ; Mr. Dixon, at Williamfburgh, in Vir
ginia; Mr. Ihomas Tomlinfon, at Newbern. North-
Carolina; Mr. Miller, at Charleston, South-/ , aro
lina; Mr. Johnson, at Savannah, in Georgia; Mr.
Isaac Beers, at New-Haven, in Connecticut; Meflrsw
Adams and Nourfe, in Boston ; Mr. Wheeler, at
Providence, Rhode-Ifland; and at the poft-office id
Portsmouth, New-Hamp/hire.
New-York, June 23, 1784. qw
A ounjber of Jocelin's Singing-books to be had of
the Printer.