The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1786-09-25 00:00:00, page 2

PROVIDENCE, Sept. 2.
On Tuesday last week the hon. General Assembly
of this state met at Newport, when his Excellency
the Governor stated to both houses, in writing, the
occasion of their having been specially convened, as
follows, viz.
Gentlemen of both Houses of Assembly,
APPLICATION from many good citizens
of this state, pointing out the distresses and Of
ferings of the people, on account of the unstable state
your currency, atifiog from a combination of in-
necessary business, for two or three days ; but the itn
preffion soon wore off, and in a little time I totally
forgot it —and I think it hardly occurred to my mind
again, till several years afterwards. It will appear in
the course of these papers, that a time came when I
found myfelf in sircumftances very nearly resembling
those suggested by this extraordinary dream—when I
stood helpless and hopeless upon the brink of an aw
ful eternity —and though the eyes of my mind were
not then opened to fee these things, I afterwards
found the benefit; I obtained mercy ; the Lord an
swered for me in the day of my distress—my Redeemer
restored what was lignified by the ring, and vouch
fafes to keep it—l am not in mine own keeping, and
were it not for this, many a time, and often, I should
have ruined myfelf since my sirs tdeliverance—nay, I
should fall and perilh still, after all that has been done
for me, were it not that " the Lord is my shepherd."
[To be continued.]
American Intelligence.
BOST O N, Sept. 7.
THE Middlesex county convention met at Con
cord, the 23d ult. After voting their pro
ceedings constitutional, they stated ten grievances
which they fay the people of that county labour un
der, nearly similar to those enumerated by the Wor
cester convention; though, as is usual for such meet
ings, they have not proposed one remedy. They
have also voted an address to the people, and ad
journed to the firft Tuesday in Odober.
Extras of a letter from a gentleman of charaßer
in Worcester, to bis friend in this town, dated
Tuesday last, 5 o'clock, P. M.
" I have this day sent you a letter by the stage.
I have only time to inform you, that Judge Ward
has done himfelf great honour. He had four bayon
ets kept at his breast for some moments, but difeo
vered not the least fear, nor gave back one inch,
though desired. He told them he would not speak
to them whilst they kept the bayonets at his breast;
that he did not fear them, and as he was in the way
of his duty, they might plunge their bayonets into
his heart, &c. He discovered the greatest firmnefs,
and supported the dignity of his office. He would
answer no person, until he asked them their names,
and they told him. they have opened the court,
and adjourned to ten o'clock to-morrow. Expresses
are gone out---but I must not add."
It is a truth that the promoters and ringleaders
of the riots which have for some time past disturbed
the country, are composed of disgraced officers of
our late army; and creatures who were ever op
posed to our government.---With the cry of pre
tended grievances and danger, they have alarmed,
and led from the duty they owe the commonwealth,
numbers of honest, undesigning men, who, it is not
doubted, on a moment's calm reflection, will discover
the wicked design of these real foes to their happiness,
and will treat them and their measures with becoming
detestation.
Foreign Intelligence.
LOND O N, July 5.
Extraft of a letter from Birmingham, July 3.
“ E are detired to insert the following account
VV of a discovery in agriculture, which is efta
blithed by actual experiments :---A farmer in this
neighbourhood, finding his turnips for some years ta
ken by the Fly, was induced to try many experiments
to prevent it. The following luckily proved a reme
dy: To 61b. of turnip-feed he put 4 oz. of flour of
brimstone, and 4 oz. of black brimstone, which he
sowed together; the brimstone effectually destroyed,
or gave such distaste to the fly, as to prevent its usual
ravages, and he has produced great crops. We are
assured of this from the best authority, the attestation
of the farmer; and we think it well worth the atten
tion of every other farmer."
Extract of a letter from Paris, Jul, 20.
" The commercial treaty now negociating here,
does not by any means seem to be reftrifted to any
local tituation, or to any particular branches of com
merce ; but equally relates to all the dominions of
the two countries ; so that the present arrangements
are to be considered in the light of a complete sys
tem of commerce between France and Great-Bri
tain; and may, among other benefits to both, lay a
system of harmony between them not to be easily
disturbed. Hence the peace of Europe may be per
manent."
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LITCHFIEL D, Sept. 12.
We hear from Massachusetts, that the publick at
tention is much excited by the difeontents which are
prevailing in that state. Conventions have been
formed in several counties for the purposes of re
dressing the supposed grievances of that people. The
week past about four hundred men, armed with clubs
and muskets, aflembled at Northampton, and prevented
the fitting of the court of Common Pleas. From
what we can learn, the following are the causes of
their discontent: 1. Ihe fitting of the General Court
at Boston. 2. The abuses in the practice of the law,
and the exorbitancy of the fee table. 3. The exist
ence of the courts of Common Pleas and General
Sessions in their present mode of administration. 4th.
The appropriating the revenue arising from the im
post and excise, to the payment of the interest of state
securities. sth. The unreasonable and unnecessary
grants made by the General Court to the Attorney-
General and others. 6th. The servants of govern
ment being tQO numerous, and having too great sala
ries. 7th. The commonwealth's granting aid, or pay
ing monies to Congress, while their accounts remain
unsettled. Bth. The leant of a circulating medi
um. This last grievance is generally acknowledged
in all the dates, in a greater or less degree, except in
the state of Rhode-Ifland, which seems to be as much
distressed by a circulating medium, as Massachusetts
is for want of one.
We learn by the French packet, that the great un
dertaking, at Cherbourg, to render that port capable
of receiving the royal fleet, goes on with the greatest
rapidity. This work, it is thought, will cost govern
ment near 40,000,000 of livres. Cherbourg is situ
ated about the centre of the British channel, and will,
in case of a war with England, be of the utmost con
sequence to France.
We are sorry to observe, that that mifehievous in
fed, the Hessian Bug, which so materially injured the
wheat in this and several of the neighbouring towns,
the summer past, has already destroyed many fields
of young grain in this vicinity.
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N E W-Y O R K, Sept. n.
By the Jhip Sarah, capt. Townsend, from Briflol,
De have received London intelligence to the i^th
LONDON, July 13.
This day his majesty went in the usual state to the
House of Peers, and gave the royal assent to the
crown-lands bill, the ship-owners bill, the distillery
bill, &c. after which his majesty delivered the fol
lowing most gracious speech:
" My Lords and Gentlemen,
" I cannot elofe this session of parliament without
expressing the particular fatisfadion with which I
have observed your diligent attention to the publick
business, and the measures you have adopted for im
proving the resources of the country.
fluential men against the good and wholefom^ laws-of
this state, duly enabled, and constitutionally promulg
ed, is the cause of my calling you together at this
time.---Present appearances are big with deftruftion,
and if it be true, that like causes are productive of like
effeds, in the political, as well as in the natural and
moral worlds---if there is no check to the present
combination against the laws,---your lives are unfafe,
your property is insecure, and your liberties are at a
fatal, a final, and a melancholy end. To avert this
impending catastrophe, party spirit and private inte
rest must be laid afide,---the publick good must be
the pole Star---the legislative must be wife, and exe
cutive decisive. I am, gentlemen, with every wish
for the prosperity of the state, your most obedient
servant, JOHN COLLINS.
The General Assembly adjourned on Saturday last.
---In their late session, betides the aft in addition to,
and amendment of, the paper money aft, an aft passed
directing the requisition of Congress of September
last, for monies to difeharge the interest of our fo
reign and domeftick debt, to be paid in paper. The
20,0001, tax, which was to have been paid the firft
of January last, is directed to be paid the firft of
November next.
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N E W-H AV E N, Sept. 12.
A traveller from the eastward informs, that the
towns of Providence and Newport, Rhode-Bland,
make a most doleful appearance, half the (hops be
ing shut, and little or no business done. The corn
ers of the streets are crowded with paper money
politicians of opposed ideas, chattering like magpies;
and between them both, the poor legislature is maul
ed and bruised without mercy by the one party, for
making the accursed tender and penal ads, and the
other for not carrying them into execution now they
are formed. Many of the inhabitants have been
greatly distressed, county conventions called to re
monstrate, &c. and what will be the issue, the Lord
only knows.
Extrafl of a letter from Paris, July 10.
" Last Sunday the Queen of France was fafely de
livered of a princess, which was named Sophia."
Sept. 14. Accounts from Nova-Scotia mention the
arrival at Quebec of fir Guy Carleton, governor
general of his Britannic majelty's colonies in North-
America. One of his aids, who, with his secretary,
arrived some days before him, was ordered, immedi
ately on his arrival, to strengthen the Back Posts:
In consequence of which orders, the day after he
(the aid-de-camp) arrived, the 23d regiment, and
some artillery, were marched to thole places. Query,
Why this unusual haste ?
" Mankind are not made to govern themselves,"
—is a favourite maxim of defpolick power. "It is
a very lad reflection, that the American Rates are now
the only free governments on the globe. Should Liber
ty, therefore —that faireft daughter of Heaven —be ex
iled from the new world, as the has long been from
the old, there is not a Ipot upon the face of the earth
where the sole of her foot can furnifh a resting place.
These states are a phenomenon in the political world.
The history of man does not find another instance,
and probably for ages never will, of a people purchas
ing their freedom with their blood, and then peace
ably meeting together, and coolly and deliberately
forming and executing the great compact of civil go
vernment. If, with all these advantages, joined to
our local situation, we should, like all other free go
vernments which have gone before us, trifle away our
freedom, and sport with the belt blessings of humanity,
while we spurn at the maxim which has been mention
ed, we must acknowledge its truth. Should this so
lemn event unfortunately take place, Enthusiasm her
felf, that noble, elevated weakness, with all her ardent
expectations about her, can never think of attempting
the establishment of another republick upon the prin
ciples of equal liberty—And the patriot, instead of
cherishing, will feel it to be his duty to check that
love of freedom, natural to the human bosom, and
substitute in its stead a spirit of calm submission to the
will of a master."
We learn, that on the 29th ultimo, the lady of the
late major-general Greene, arrived at Newport, from
Georgia, alter a tedious passage.
County conventions, embodying of the populace,
&c. in the commonwealth of Massachusetts, has not
very inconsiderably alarmed the government; but we
are allured that the accounts were at firft much ex
aggerated, that instead of 1500 men being assembled
at Northampton, they did not exceed 300. They
are now peaceable. By attending to the different
county proceedings it may be discovered, that the
firft grievance complained of, is, the enormous ex
pence of government. They wish to be peaceable
supporters of the constitution, but, nue are aafbea
with taxes, &c. is the cry. ,
“ Gentlemen of the House of Commons,
" I thank you for the supplies which you have
granted for the service of the current year, and for
the provision you have made for difeharging the en
cumbrances on the revenue applicable to the use of
my civil government. The most salutary effeds are
to be expected from the plan adopted for the reduc
tion of the national debt; an object which I confider
inseparably conceded with the effentiai intetefts of
the publick.
" My Lords and Gentlemen,
" The assurances which I continue to receive from
abroad, promise the continuance of tranquility.'
" I he happiest effects of peace have already ap
peared in the extension of the national commerce;
and no measures Ihall be wanting on my part, which'
can tend to confirm these advantages, and to give ad
ditional encouragement to the manufactures and in
dustry of my people."
His majesty having concluded, earl Bathurft, by
his majesty's command, prorogued the parliament till
the 14th of September.
The four gentlemen whom his highness the prince
of Wales has chosen to retain in his household, and
to whom the management of the funds to be set apart
for the payment of the debts is entrusted, are, col.
Hotham, col. Hulfe, col. Lake, and Henry Lyte, efq.
Tatterfall, it is said, has received orders to go to
Newmarket, and take inventories of the horses which
make up his highness's stud, together with his car
riages, &c. &c. and to fell the whole by auction with
all convenient speed. When this is done, the credit
ors are to be assembled by advertisement, and the
whole arrangement submitted to their consideration.
The grand rooms, the furniture, See. of Carleton
House are to be cased, and the whole to be locked
up, except two or three small apartments for his
highness's use, when he may occasionally come to town.
Ihe prince of Wales's debts are estimated at
150,0001. His race-horses cost him 30 000 l a year.
I he king very wifely determined that his son fliould
not be supported in this excessive extravagance, whilst
his fubjeds groaned under the present oppretiive taxes.
When the state of the debts was laid before his ma
jesty, a positive refufal of his content to the difeharge
of them was the result. Nor would he allow any
increase of income. The prince therefore deter
mined to lay aside his state, and re.ire to a private sta
tion.