The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1785-05-16 00:00:00, page 2

Extrafl of a letter from the Hague, March io.
" Anexprefs from Paris arrived here on Tuesday
last, and alighted at the house of the French Am
bafl'ador, Marquis de Verac, to whom he delivered
the ultimatum presented the firft inst. by the Count
de Mercy, the Imperial Minister at Paris, to Mons.
de Vergennes. The next day his Excellency had a
conference with the then President of the States Ge
neral, to whom he gave the aforelaid ultimatum in
communication. It contains several proportions, all
tending to bring matters back to the state they were
in previous to the Emperor's demand at Maeftricht.
His Imperial Majesty is willing to give up this point,
but enforces his requisition of the Republick surren
dering to him Vorenhaven and the country called Ou
tre Meuse. He also repeats his claim to be acknow
ledged by the States General as,abfolute Sovereign
over all that part of the Scheldt which extends from
Antwerp to the extremity of the country of Saftin
gen : That the forts of Kruys-Chans and Frederick
Henry, be forthwith demolished; those of Lillo and
Leifchenfhock, delivered into the hands of his Ma
jesty: That both lides of the Scheldt be free and
open for internal navigation, and all duties and tolls
abolished. Finally, besides several articles which have
not yet been made publick, that the Republick do pay
to the Emperor several millions of florins, by way of
ransom for the town and territory of Maeftricht.—
What the states may determine on these demands is
not easy guessed at. Meanwhile their High Mighti
nesses were so Daggered at the news, that it has occasi
oned the Assembly of the States to take place two
days before the usual time."
An account was received on Friday from the conti
nent, that the inhabitants of the frontier towns, both
in Holland and Flanders, had begun to remove into
the interior parts of the country, as they judged a
war inevitable between the Emperor and the Dutch,
both those powers having begun to augment their
troops, notwithstanding that the weather has been so
inclement there that two centinels loft their lives, hav
ing both been frozen to death on their polls in one
night.
March 20 —24. We are informed from very good
authority, that the mailer general of the ordnance, in
conlequence of Colonel Barre's recommending a board
of officers to be appointed to examine his plans of de
fence, sent to the war office a lift of such officers as
he wished to have consulted upon the fubjed. This
was not done in so secret a manner but it came to the
Colonel's ears, who waited upon the secretary at war,
and informed him, that if a partial board was sum
moned upon the recommendation of any man, he
would state the affair to Parliament. We learn that
it is now determined, that none but independent en
gineers, and officers who had commands on service,
are to be consulted; and the Generals Howe, Clin
ton, Burgoyne, Lord Cornwallis, and Sir Guy Carle
ton, are to be of the board, who are to lit during the
recess, in one of the apartments in the tower, and
have all the drawings of the intended works submit
ted to their judgment, and make their report to his
Majesty.
We have undoubted intelligence from Paris of the
following very important fads:—the French Mini
ster at Berlin has written to Vergennes, that the
King of Prussia's Minister at Vienna fays the Empe
ror is determined to persist in his demands to have
Bavaria annexed to his Imperial dominions. This has
caused immediate orders from the King of Fruffia
for forage and provision to be prepared for an army
of 180,000 troops in one body, and of 80.000 in
another; and is resolved to take the field as soon as
the froft will permit his troops to march. The French
" There cannot remain a doubt but that the fate
of war must finally fettle the dispute between the Em
peror and the States General ; the crisis advances ve
ry hastily; ovens are going to be erefted near this
place for baking bread for the Auftiian forces, which
are already become very numerous, and are daily
augmenting with frelh detachments."
Continental affairs have approached the crisis, and
with the advancement of the spring, there is every
reason to think an immediate war will break out.
“ One of the Algerine row-gallies, of 13 guns,
which had taken so many of our vessels, was taken by
the King's frigate El Sarmanta, of 32 guns, off the
heights of San Sodra, and carried into Barcelona.—
The pirates attempted, after a desperate refinance, to
set the Ihip on fire, but failing therein, the Captain
and five others flung themselves overboard, and pe
riled. Thirty-eight chriftian Haves are hereby rescu
ed from captivity."
Extract of a letter from Oftend, March 16.
The Spanifn engineers are hard at work at Cadiz,
in preparing some floating batteries upon a new con-
Ihudion for the next vilit to Algiers; it seems the
swell of the sea in the Mediterranean is so great, that
the ffiips cannot be kept steady enough for a well
pointed fire; therefore another experiment is to be
made in the next bombardment, which will probablv
end like the attack on Gibraltar.
Extract of a letter from Malaga, March 3.
It is now high time for the good people of this
country to think seriously of discountenancing the im
portation of British manufactures, and of encouraging
our own, when they appear to be Draining every nerve
to ruin us. In London, the name of an American
merchant is said to be odious, and every opportunity
is embraced to degrade and infalt them. Our ihips
are not {offered to load there, but obliged to return
with nothing but ballast, while the British vessels are
freighted with the goods ordered to America. Our
whale-fifhery, which used to average in England, eight
hundred thousand dollars per annum, is now entirely
cut off, by a duty of eighteen pounds sterling per ton
being laid on oil. We are not allowed to carry our
produce to any of the British Weft-India islands, New
foundland, Nova-Scotia, Quebec, or Great-Britain.
A duty of seven Shillings sterling per hundred weight
is laid on our rice, and an extra one, of a penny a
pound on tobacco. At the fame time they are crowd
ing us with goods, sent in their own vessels, some of
which have already arrived, and many more are
daily expected, with agents and factors to dispose of
them.
It may be depended on as a fad, fays a correspon
dent, that there is a person now living in Marfhlield,
who is of the second generation only from those of
our ancestors who firft landed at Plymouth. How
astonished would those worthies have been, had they
been told, that that barren spot which firft received
their unwelcome feet—that spot which afforded no
shelter superior to the dens of bears, or wigwams of
Indians, should at some future time compose a part of
Fourteen free, sovereign and independent States ! —
But how would their astonishment have been increas
ed, had they been further informed, that their grand
children foould be members of them! Nothing but
the voice of a God would have gained their belief of
this wonderful story—nor indeed has any thing short
of the hand of a clod accomplished it.
By the brig Mary, Captain Bell, from Georgia,
we learn, that the brig Swallow, Captain Bryers,
which failed from this island in the month of Decem
ber last, for that port, was loft the 13th of January,
on the north breakers, in going into St. Mary's river,
East-Florida. The crew were saved.
TT appears by the American papers, that an ordi-
I nance has palfed the Court of Verfaillcs, directing
all governors and commanders at the French islands
and other ports in the East-Indies, to treat all Ame
rican ships in the fame manner as those failing under
French colours.
P O RTSMOU T H, April 22.
The following melancholy circumstance happened
at Stratham, on Thursday the 14th inftant: —Mr.
Samuel Kenifton, Mr. Thomas Bracket, and Mr.
Eliphalet Wiggins, having occasion to go on board a
Ichooner, then lying in the river, from Newmarket,
took fortheir conveyance a small float which lay on
the Shore. They had not proceeded far when (the
Wind blowing frelh) the float upset, and the three un
happy persons were drowned. The neighbours, upon
miffing the above persons, jealous of their welfare,
collected, and in searching, found their bodies near
" The commercial regulations for Ireland have
caused an univerfT ferment in this kingdom, and if
the Irish remain true to themselves, and firm to the
resolves of their Parliament, the Ministry here will
be ousted and undone. Whether these prepositions
will be beneficial to Ireland, time only can deter
mine; but sure I am they are injurious to the Colo
nial commerce of Great-Britain."
Ministers are eager to keep back from openly declar
ing, till the Emperor makes some movements; while
we may be assured at the fame time they are waiting
the evv.it of our proceedings in regard to the differ
ences in the Cabinet.
“ M. Vander Monde proposes to conftrud an mro
ftatick machine, at the expence of 900.0C0 livres,
which is the usual price of a ship of 64 guns. This
academician pretends that trade-winds are to be met
with throughout the whole atmosphere, which may
serve to carry it to any directed point. He believes
thr with this zroftatick ship, the plan of which he
hath formed, it will be possible to make the tour of
the globe through the air, as has been done on the
ocean by Messrs. Maupertuis, Condamine and Bou
gainville. If he should lucceed in this undertaking,
he will have difeovered the use of balloons."
NEWBURY-PORT, April 20.
Extrafi of a letter from Paris, March 9.
American Intelligence.
F A LMOU T H, March 12.
DUBLI N, March tB.
Extract of a letter from London.
KINGSTON, March 9.
May 6. The affairs of Europe are, perhaps, at this
period, in.a greater state of uncertainty than at any
one time within this century. It is true, the States
General have seemed to yield implicitly to the man
dates of the Imperial Court; but how long this du
plicity may lie concealed, is a problem in politicks
that Machiavel himfelf would find extremely difficult
to solve. It is not the mete navigation of the Scheldt
that actuates the cabinet of Vienna ; objects far more
extensive are in embryo. Joseph has an eye to all
parts of the globe, and is industrious to avail himfelf
of every possible opportunity which may picfcnt itfelf
of increasing his territories. From this Sketch of his
Imperial Majesty's political plan, it may not be fur
prizing to fee him soon a competitor with the United
Provinces for naval power. It is true his ports are
not numerous either in the channel or the Mediterra
nean ; but a navy may be commanded by dint of mo
ney, without a single dock to launch one frigate.—
Ambiguities constitute the language of courts; but
we expeCl the mafic will soon be dropt upon the poli
tical theatre of the world, and the borrida bella pre
dominant in Europe.
Spain has, in a great degree, emerged from her na
tional charaCferiftick supineness, and will probably
soon display a turn for commerce both in the old and
new world.
England, absorbed in debt and venality, is prepar
ing the usual estimates, and frefh taxes are in agitati
on for her groaning fubjecls, so very little burthened
already with imposts. How ler.g they may be able
to pay the interest of the publick loans, is a aueftion
that may be agitated on a future day; but as'to the
principal, the liquidation of it will never be seriously
considered.
The venal adminiftraticn of Ireland, confeious that
their deeds would be productive of censure, have most
audaciously attacked the Liberty of the Press. Those
printers who published truths were to be facrificed to
their fury ; while those who published the basest falfe
hoods against the friends of liberty, were to be pro
tected and paid by the ministers of the crown, thus
offering to dander the double protection of emolument
Bishop Seabury is the firft personage consecrated
for the government of the Episcopal Church in North-
America.—And, on his arrival in New-London, a
number of Candidates for Holy Orders from several
Seminaries of the firft rank, will repair thither for the
purpose of ordination.
Early in last March, a ship commanded by Captain
Dawson, failed from London for Halifax, in which
embarked the Right Reverend Father in God, Doc
tor Samuel Seabury, biShop of the state of Connecti
cut. He was consecrated by three Bifliops on the
14th day of last November. He will stay a few days
in Nova-Scotia, and may be expected to meet the
Episcopal Clergy of his See at the city of New-Lon
don (the place of his residence) in the course of this
month.
NE W-Y OR K, May 5 .
Extrafl of a letter from LiJbon, dated Feb. 16.
" We can have the fatisfaCtion, and think it not
improper, to tell you, that Since that one American
brig, coming from Cadiz, no American ship has been
moleffed or captured by the Barbary States, in spite
of the fnccre London papers, which abound with
events of this nature ;- and in the prefect season we
hope, and have no doubt of, escaping.
" Besides, we are fince' from Tangier informed,
that upon proper application by Congress by appoint
ing any agent, or fettling a kind of treaty, like any
other foreign powers, the brig's crew and c@rgo will
be delivered up again, and for the future in this case,
not be any more molested; and that this has taken
place we are in daily expectation to hear."
We hear from the northward, that about a fort
night since, the son of Younglove, Esquire,
of Cambridge, was returning from Albany with a
large sum of money, which he imprudently difeover
ed at a tavern above New-City. A couple of footmen
were observed to leave the house immediately, and
were heard by a negro man, to fay they would take
care of that money. The young man went directly
after them. The negro man gave information of what
he had heard to the landlord, who ordered his herfe
to be got ready, armed himfelf, and rode full speed
in pursuit of them ; but, unfortunately, before he
came up, the villains had murdered Mr. Younglove,
and were plundering the body. The gentleman se
cured one on the spot 7 the other was soon taken, and
both committed to Albany gaol. Tire Court of Oyer
and Terminer and Gaol Delivery, fat at Albany last
week; the lefult of the trial we have not heard.
The Earl of Dunmore, formerly Governor of Vir
ginia, in America, is appointed Governor of Jamaica
in the Weft-Indies.
the place they were supposed to be drowned. “It is
appointed for all men once to die."
It is hoped the above circumstance will be a warn
ing to all persons, how they venture in such a ticklish
machine, which have often proved so fatal to the lives
of many—especially those not skilled in swimming.