The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1780-11-15 00:00:00, page 2

thentic information, that at a late council, at which
his Majesty afiißed, it was determined not to relin
quish the siege of Gibraltar, but to fend a reinforce
ment of io,pco men, artillery, &c. to St. Roche, and
seven fail of the line to reinforce Don Barcelo, after
which a general attack by sea and land is to be made
on the garrison,
July 4. The news of Sir Henry Clinton's taking
Charlcßown, in South-Carolina, wa§ a very timely
cordial to the drooping spirits of administration ; but
it is very far from being a decisive measure in our fa
vour, unless government lays hold of the hour of suc
cess to begin a pacific negociation. For it cannot be
supposed that the numerous continental troops in the
other parts of North-America will not endeavour to
BY HIS EXCELLENCE
William Livingston, Esquire,
Governor, Captain-General, and Commander in Chief
in and over the State of New-Jerf, and Territories
thereunto belonging, Chancellor and Ordinary in the
fame ;
PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS the Honourable the Congress by their
Proclamation, bearing date the eighteenth day
of October last, therein reciting, That ' whereas it
hath pleased Almighty God, the Father of all mer
cies, amidst the viciflitudes and calamities of war, to
bestow blefiings upon the people oftheie Rates, which
call for their devout and thankful acknowledgments,
more especially in the late remarkable interpofitiqn
of his watchful providence in refeuing the person of
our Commander in Chief and the Army from im
minent dangers, at the moment when treason was
ripened for execution ; in prospering the labours of
the husbandmen, and caufmg the earth to yield its in
crease in plentiful harvests; and above all, in conti
nuing to us the enjoyment of the gofpcl of peace :"
Did by the said Proclamation “ recommend to the
several Rates to let apart Thursday the seventh day of
December next, to be observed as a day of public
thanksgiving and prayer; that all the people may as
semble on that day to celebrate the praises of our Di
vine Benefactor; to confefs our unworthiness of the
least of his favours, and to offer our fervent suppli
cations to the God of all grace; that it may please
him to pardon our heinous tranfgreflions, and incline
our hearts for the future to keep all his laws ; to com
fort and relieve our brethren who are in any wife af
flifted or distressed ; to smile upon our husbandry and
trade ; to direct our public councils and lead our for
ces by land and sea to victory ; to take our illustrious
ally under his special protection, and to favour our
joint councils and exertions for the eftablilhment of
speedy and permanent peace ; to cherish all schools
and seminaries of education, and to cause the know
ledge of Christianity to spread over all the earth."
I have therefore thought fit, by and with the advice
of the Honourable Priyy Council of this Rate, to ap
point Thursday the seventh day of December next to
be observed as a day of public thanksgiving and pray
er in this Rate, in pursuance of the said Proclamati
on of Congress, and for the purposes therein menti
oned : And it is hereby recommended to the mipifters
of the gospel of every denomination in this Rate to
perform divine service, and to the people committed
to their charge to attend on public worship on that
day ; and to all the inhabitants of the Rate to abstain
thereon from servile labour and all recreations incon
fiiient with the fol^mnity of the feftival.
Given under my Hand and Seal at Arms, in Trenton,
the seventh day of November, one thousand seven
hundred and eighty, and in the fifth year of the In
dependence of the United States of America.
WIL. LIVINGSTON.
By His Excellency's command,
Bowes Reed, Sec'ry.
GOD SAVE THE PEOPLE.
HAG U E, August 2.
IT is assured that the States General will treat as
principal commissaries at the treaty of armed neu
trality, with the three northern powers. It is also
said, that their High Mightinesses have lent further
inftruCtions on that important business to their Milli
fters Plenipotentiaries, who continue with the utmoß
speed theirjourney to Peterfburgh. We talk already
here about the conditions of that negociation, tho'
without any certainty, as that affair is kept very se
cret, until it is brought to a conclusion.
Utrecht, Aug. io. M. de Beaumarchais's Riip Fier
Rodrigue, is arrived at the Isle of Rhe from New-
England, having under convoy 11 American Ihips
and four French, the cargoes of which confilt chiefly
of tobacco. That ship it is said, has also taken fevc :
ral prizes.
Amsterdam, Aug. 10. We have just received the
news that the Ruliian fleet, confiding of 13 ihips of
the line and frigates, cast anchor yesterday before the
port of the Texcl ; but as they are not come in, we
cannot get their names.
L ONDO N, June 15.
It is the present talk in the coffee houses about St.
James's, that his Royal Highness the Duke of Glou
cester will soon be honoured with a c6mmand ; and
that the Duke of Cumberland will go out with the
grand fleet the next cruize.
June 22. From Madrid we have received very au-
repair their loss by attempts on our forces, which will
be more divided from this very conquest.
If we take an eßimate of our loss at Saratoga, and
our gain at Charleftown, we Ihall scarce find that the
latter compensates for the former. This will appear
if we Rate the two accounts as Dr. and Cr. and then
strike a fair balance.
Great-Britain Dr. to Saratoga, in men.
oa. 17, 1177.
To English troops laid down their arms, 2442
To German ditto, 2198
To Canadian and volunteer ditto, 1100
To Staff ditto, 12
Total to men surrendered, 5752
To killed, wounded, taken and deserted, from
July 6, to Odobtr 16, 2933
To wounded left in camp, and taken, 588
Total loss of men, / 9273
Great-Britain Cr. of CharleJlo^n, in men.
May 12, 1780.
By French and Continental troops who laid
down their arms, 6000
By ditto, at Fort Moultrie, 218
Total loss of men, 6218
Balance of men againJl Great-Britain, 3055
Perhaps some may imagine that though the balance
is against us in refpett to men, yet that may be coun
tervailed by the quantity of ordnance and arms ; the
following eßimate will let that point in a clear light.
Great-Britain Dr. to Saratoga, in arms, &c.
To ordnance delivered to General Gates.
Brass guns, 28
Royal howitzers, 5
Brass mortars, 2
35
To complete stands of arms, 7000
To clothing for provincials, 7000
To tents,
To a large quantity of ordnance floret,
To the military chest,
Great- Britain Cr. of CharleJlown by arms, &c.
By brass guns, 21
By brass mortars, 10
By iron guns, 360
By howitzer,l
. 392
By muskets, 5416
By a large quantity of stores,
By the town of Charleftown,
Now if we compare the two accounts, we fliall not
find the profit very great. For although there is a
balance of 357 guns in out favour; yet there are 1584
Rands of arms against us, and 7000 suits of clothing,
with the tents of an army; and it is very strange if
their value is not equivalent to the 357 cannon ; not
even reckoning the military chest, or what monwy there
was in it, which hath never come to the knowledge
of the public.
All then we seem to have gained is Charleftown ;
but when we bring into the account the expciice of
keeping it, and the rifque of losing it, perhaps we
have not such a capital advantage as appeared at the
firft view.
Spine may alk, Do you count as nothing the glory
we have gained ? To that question it may be aniwcr
ed, it is not glory gained, but only the glory we loft
at Saratoga is regained. Thus the balance being neai'-
ly equal, we may open a freih account.
Aug. 16. Lord George Gordon is now indulged
with pen and ink, but that only on condition that he
does not correspond with any others than his brother
and counsel. His letters are all infpetled by order of
government. He is in very high spirits; but has been
greatly afteded whenever he heaid of any of the ex
ecutions of the rioters, and has been known to filed
tears.
Aug. 19. The lift of the Ruffian fleet, just announ
ced in the public prints, mutt impress one important
truth 011 the mind of every reader, which is, that al
though Raffia is fertile in men, it is not so in regard
to naval officers ; out of the fifteen ihips of the line,
four of them are commanded by Britilh officers, as
are also two of the four frigates. Thus we have not
only taught them the road to maritime power, but
even now, in this critical lituation, fix Britons con
dud their Ihips to serve our enemies.
It has ever been the fate of Britain to have her ser
vices repaid with ingratitude ; and to fee those who
owed moR to her, not only look quietly on, while
others attacked her, but basely join her alidikuits, and
aid them in their attempts to undo her.
HOUSE of COMMONS, June 27.
This day, the firft business of a I consequential na
ture that arose, was a plan suggested by Mr. David
Hartley, for the foundation of an amicable settlement
of our disputes with America. The chief parts of
which plan were, that Commißioners might be ap
pointed by the Crown, who Should have power to
proclaim a cessation of hostilities in America, as well
as to suspend for the term of ten years such ads of
Parliament as had been made to restrain all inter
course with the Colonies. He concluded a very long
speech with the following motion: " That leave be
given to bring in a bill for the purpose of investing the
Crown with Sufficient powers to treat, conlult, and
finally to agree upon the means of restoring peace with'
the provinces ot North-America,"
Lord North and Lord George Germaine opposed
the motion, and made use of the arguments often re
peated, that the Americans are every day more and
more inclined to return to their allegiance, and that
they will of themfclves offer terms, or have it in their
power to accept those that his Majesty's Commander
in Chief of the forces and the Admiral on the Ration
1 are empowered to grant them.
A long debate took place on this motion, in which
Mr. Fox, General Conway, and many other gentle
men, bore a part, and it was at length terminated by
a division, on which the motion was loft by a majority
of 65; there being for jt 28, against it 93.
Sir George Saville then proposed another motion,
which produced a very long and warm debate. He
wished the House to come to a resolution, " That
the war with America is unconstitutional, expenlive,
and ruinous." In this however he was as unfuccefs
ful as his friend Mr. Hartley had been ; there being,
on a divilion, only 34 for the queltion, and joj a
gainst it.
Mr. Alderman Sawbridge then rose to lay before the
House two proportions, to which he trusted no man,
who set any value on liberty, or the bill of rights
(which bill he caused to be read by the Clerk) could
poflibly have any objection, The Alderman confeff
ed that the letter of the noble Lord at the head of the
Raff to the Lord Mayor of London, had pointed out
to him the necessity of meeting the unconstitutional
doctrine contained in that letter, by resolutions of
that House declaratory of the people's rights. The
resolutions that he intended to submit to the House,.
and which he moved in form, were these:
" That it is the undoubted right of every Protest
ant fubjedt to have arms for his defence in case of
danger.
" That any attempt to deprive the fubjeCts of their
arms, was highly unconstitutional."
In the course of his speech, Mr. Sawbridge took
occasion to censure the ministry for having deprived
the civil magistrates of all controul over the militaiy.
Titis, in his opinion, had been the cause of much
mifchief; and to his certain knowledge, a deal of
harm might have been prevented, if the military had
been under the controul of the civil power. He him
felf, he said, could have saved Newgate, the Fleet
prison, and Mr. Langdale's house, if he could have
but commanded a finall body of troops. He had ap
'plied in time to the commanders of several detach
ments; but they had all refufed to follow him, al-
Icdging that they were posted in a particular diftrid,
and could not go out of it without disobeying their
orders. He was obliged to submit, for the mandate
of the millifter had deprived him of all power over
the military.
Mr. Sawbridge's resolutions were considered by a
majority of the House as improper to be put at the
present time ; they were therefore disposed of by the
previous quellion. For the question 100; against it 25.
By several persons from the northward we are in
formed, that the savages are committing great depre
dations on a part of our frontiers where we little ex
pected them. It is said they have advanced within a
few towns of Dartmouth College. 1
Lalt Friday night a party ot men from Long-Island
in a boat, landed at Stratford, where the western poR
lives, whole house they immediately entered, seized
him, with the mail, and carried them to the water
tide, where they set him at liberty, but the mail,
which contained all the western papers, letters, &c.
they took with them.
PROVIDENC E, October 25.
Saturday lalt the following tragical affair happened
at Scituate. One Joseph Bugs, whole wife in conse
quence of his bnital behaviour towards her, had been
separated from him about a year, formed the horrid
delign ot murdering her. With this view he went to
a boule where his wife was visiting a relation, and in
his way call'd at a neighbour's to sharpen a knife ;
while at the houlc where his wife was, he seemed
much agitated, and on her departure, which was a
bout two in the afternoon, he followed and overtook
her at a little dißaiice from the house where the had
been, having another woman in company with her.
He demanded of his wife whether the would return
and live with him, to which (he replied in the affirm
ative, provided Rie could be well treated. This, an-
Iwer not proving fatisfaCtory, he drew the knife, fciz
ed and slabbed her in several parts of the body. The
other woman immediately ran towards the house, and
Brigs, observing a young man approach him, quitted
his mangled wife, and Itabbed himfelf in the breafi,
and under the ribs, of which wounds he soon after
expired. Mrs. Brigs's life was at firft despaired of,
but it v as yesterday said there was a possibility of her
recovering. A jury of inquest, which fat on the body
of Brigs, brought in their vpdift, suicide.
On Monday evening 29 of the prisoners, taken to
the northward by Governor Clinton, were brought to
this town under guard; and, according to Jemmy
Rivington's phraleology, were faftly lodged en provojl.
Nov. 9. We hear that the enemy have again ap
peared on our northeastern frontiers. The Albany
post not arriving when this paper went to press, pre
vented our giving any particulars of their movements.
FISH-KIL L, November 2.
NORWIC H, October 24.