The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1785-10-24 00:00:00, page 1

By the United States in Con^refs affeinbled.
October 12, 1785
WHEREAS it is indifpenfablv neces
sary, for the support of federal
government, that the states should
supply their quotas of money, for
the purposes Rated in the estimates
of the lubfifting requisitions of Congress.
And whereas certificates for the interest arising on
loan-office certificates, and other certificates of li
quidated debts, previously to the last day of Decem
ber 1782, from the deficiencies of some of the states
to comply with the requisition of the 4th September,
1782, and 27th and 28th of April, 1784, will, in'
pursuance of the requisition of the 27th of Septem
ber, 1785, be issued by the commissioners of the con
tinental loan-offices in such states.
And whereas the extra certificates which the said
commissioners may issue for the payment of the said
interest, should be called in or redeemed by the defi
cient states in order to compleat their refpedive quo
tas of the inter,eft of the domestic debt, fpecified in
the said requisitions of the 4th September, 1782,
and 27th and 28th April, 1784;
RefolveJ, That the several Rates be earnestly cal
led on to compleat without delay the whole of their
quotas of the requisitions last mentioned, and that
such of the Rates as may be deficient in paying their
refpe&ive quotas of the interest of the domestic debt
pursuant to the said requisitions, be required to col
left and pay into the publick treasury the amount of
such deficiencies, either in certificates to be issued by
the commissioners of the continental loan-offices, pur
suant to the requisition of the 27th September, 1785,
for the payment of the said interest, or in specie, to
be applied to the redemption of such certificates; pro
vided that the sum so to be paid into the treasury in
interest certificates as part of the requisition of the
27th and 28th April 1784, ffiall not at any time ex
ceed the proportion of facilities to be paid into the
treasury, agreeably to the requisition last mentioned.
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Foreign Intelligence.
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Lon d o n, August 2.
The eldest daughter of the late general Scott is on
her way to London, to take possession of his brother's
estate, which amounts to about 60,0001. This gen
tleman lately died in Percy-street, and, what is remark
able, expired with 50,000 k in his hands, which he
firmly grasped till the last moment of his existence.
Miss Scott possesses an immense fortune. Her fa
ther accommodated 250,000. by play, at which he
was fortunate to a degree of astonishment. At his
death he left 150.0001. to his eldest daughter, and
50,0001. to each of his other two female children.
The eldest of the three ladies above alluded to is
about fourteen years of age; and by her father's will
fire is obliged to reject every proposal of marriage
from a Peer, as the general was resolved that the
bulk of his fortune should not fall into the hands of
a cyphered nobleman.
Extract of a letter from Dover, July 29.
" A few days since the Wasp sloop of war fell in
with a French logger off Dungnefs, the captain of
which refufed to pay the usual compliment to the
British flag; on which captain Hills sent his lieute
nant on board to know the reason of his refufal; the
French captain said, he had particular orders from
the court of France not to do it in future; and'that
in case it was insisted on he must defend himfelf, and
immediately cleared for adion. Captain Hills did
not think proper to rifle an engagement, but sent his
lieutenant to London, with the above relation, and
to know how he should ad in future. The lieute
nant is returned. But in whatever light government
fees this matter, it is kept very secret. Various
are the opinions at Dover refpeding this affair.
Augufi 3. The following arret, which was issued
in Paris the 17th of last month, having caused no
small alarm in the political world, we lay it before
our readers for the present, without comment, and leave
to the publick in general to make their own remarks.
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TRENTON: Printed by ISAAC COLLIN S, Printer to the State.
M ONDA Y, October 24, 1785.
Third, nil foreign policed Reel works, except
tools, are prohibited on the fame penalty as above,
together with all chryftal and glass.
Fourth, His majesty permits any individual, out
of trade, to import any English or other foreign
prohibited manufacture for his own use only, firft
obtaining permission from the Comptroller-General
of the Finances, and paying 30 per cent, additional
duties.
Fifth, No rank or quality is to be exempt from
any of the above.
Sixth, Any person convided of felling any of the
above prohibited goods, to forfeit the fame, and pay
300 livres, without a possibility of the fine being
mitigated.
Seventh, His majesty particularly forbids any per
son to write over their door or shop, “ Warehouse
for English Manufactures," on pain of paying 3OCO
livres; and those who have that already written over
their (hops, are ordered to deface it within eight
days, from the publication of this arret; and proper
officers are to fee this properly executed throughout
the kingdom. The arret concludes with two other
articles, tending to enforce the foregoing ones.
The king of France's edid, laying a duty upon
English goods, amounting in some inßances to 35
per cent, ad valorem, has naturally occasioned a very ge
neral alarm in this country. 1 he firft knowledge of it
which our manufacturers received, was by a notice
from the French houses countermanding all their orders;
and more than a hundred looms, in the gauze branch
only, were on Tuesday flopped in SpitaHields. The
manufacturers had a conference with the marquis of
Carmarthen, when the noble lord told them, that
every Rep which government could take would be
pursued on the occasion. It was a policy, he said,
which we had not yet provoked, and for which he
could not account.
I his arret has put the great and flourifhing manu
factory of Paisley and Glasgow into dreadful confufi
on. In these places 4000 looms were employed in
these branches, and which, as lord Stormont Rated,
contributed to the fplendour and elegance of the
court of France. Several of the principal manufac
turers are come express to London.
Bug. 4. On Tuesday evening his grace the duke
of Dorfet arrived in town from Paris; his private
secretary is hourly expected, and his other fccretary
is left charge des affaires in the absence of his grace.
* Cherry, Esquire, late secretary to lord
Howe, is appointed commissioner to the victualling
office in the room of Mr. J. Bates,
An order, it is said, has been sent to Plymouth,
for four of the guardships of that port to be immedi
The preamble sets forth, That, in consequence of
the complaints of the tradesmen and manufacturers of
this kingdom, relative to the open sale of foreign
(particularly English) manufactures, to the great de
triment of the national industry, and the more so as
all French goods are prohibited in England under a
high penalty, his majesty has thought proper to make
some regulations, of which the following are the prin
cipal.
First, That all foreign goods, the entry of which
into this kingdom is prohibited by the ordinances and
regulations from 1687 to this day, shall Rill remain
prohibited, on pain of the penalties contained in the
laid ordinances.
Second, That all English manufactures, except
those permitted by the arret of the 6th of September,
1701, or other subsequent ones, shall continue to be
prohibited on pain of confifeation of the effects, and
a forfeit of 10,000 livres ; the goods prohibited are
all faddlery ware, hats, hosiery, woolen cloths, and
hardware. Those permitted to be imported by the
arret of the 6th of September, 1701, and others,
are, horses, wool, raw hides, tanned ox and calf
fkins, cows hair, tallow, yellow and white wax,
coals, salted meats, beer (in bottles only) glue (cal
led English glue) horn, round or flat, copperas, dy
ing drugs, instruments used in any art, &c. unwrought
tin, shipbuilding timber, and ftaves, &c. from Eng
land or English Colonies.
at a time so very critical, and on a fubjed so interest
ing and important.
Mr, Blanchard afeended on the 30th of July from
Rotterdam, in the fame balloon in which he crofted
the channel, at half an hour after fix o'clock in the
afternoon, and defeended at } ffelftein, near Utrecht,
at nine exactly, where the reception he met With
overbalanced the rough treatment he experienced at
Zevenhuifon. Mr. Blanchard fays this was the most
dangerous serial voyage he ever took, as he was met
by a^ftrong whirlwind, and palled through several
lhe logger's refusing a salute is nothing; the
I rench king s arret is nothing; our AmbafTador's re
turn is nothing; nor is there any thing in a French
fleet's manoeuvring in the channel; and yet it is a
well-known fad, that a squadron has been ordered
out from Portsmouth, however oddly it may found,
to guard against these very nothings.
^'^ 5° Ihe present time seems to be the gene
ral epochs of fetthng all arrears ard demands with
the Dutch; for we unde: Rand,' that besides the claims
of the emperor, the prince of Prussia, on behalf of
the prince of Hohenloke, &c. the king of Great-
Britain, in quality of elector of Hanover, is also go
'"£ t° make and realize a large demand, which the
chancery of war, and several Hanoverian generals
and Raff-officers, have on the States-General from
tire war about tire Spanish succession in the beginning
of this century; the particular accounts of which are
now a&ually making out at Hanover, and will, as
soon as ready, be transmitted to Mr. Botemeißer at
the Hague, to make the claim in proper form.
The principal reason with the court of France for
laying on the duties in question, has been the fup
prelfion of smuggling on this fide of the water. While
that trade continued, France derived a million a year
in specie from this country; but now Mr. Pitt's bill
has operated so effectually as to deprive them of al
most every drilling of it; this led the French ministry
to seek an expedient, which might perhaps oblige
our government to give a more general reception to
the manufactures and produce of that kingdom.
Aug, 6. Some frefh arrets, subsequent to those
already mentioned, have been published in France,
and received here this morning, which, it is said,
will most materially injure the trade of this king
dom.
Letters from Algiers, dated June 27, fay, “ On
the sth of this month, a French veflel from Cadiz
brought over the compte d'Efpilly, charged with the
full powers of the king of Spain to treat of peace,
which after some formalities was concluded and Lign
ed upon the following conditions, viz. the king of
Spain is to give the regency of Algiers a million of
pieces of eight, 25 pieces of brass cannon, 25 of iron,
four mortars, 4000 bombs, 10,000 balls, 2000
quintals of gunpowder, 5000 quintals of muftet balls,
500 quintals of cordage, 15 of strong rope, 30 ca
bles, 100 masts, 500 oars, 2000 oak planks, 400
pieces of fail cloth, besides the presents to the dey
and his ministers; the city of Oran is to be as be
fore."
ately equipped for sea with all expedition; they are
to be victualled for three months previous to their
going out of harbour into the found.
The French have just launched la Sophie and
I'Lfperance, of 50 guns each. The Spaniards are
building I'America, to supply the place of their old
1' America of 64 guns; the new flop is to carry
90 guns upon three decks. They are also building
several third-rates with two tiers, destined for foreign
service.
Mr. Crawford went to France to negotiate a com
mercial treaty. It was one of the marquis of Lanf
down's equivocal schemes when he formed his peace,
lie went Witl rno adequate powers. He had only to
offer on the part of Britain to admit some of their
wines in return for their acceptance of hardwares,
gauzes, and cottons. Ihe French declared there
was no reciprocity in this; the English should want
very little wine, and they would take immense quan
tities, of hardware. The English climate required,
and the taste relished strong wines, and port was and
would be their wine. 7 hey required, therefore, that
we should admit their brandy, their cambrick, their
gloves, their faffiions, and so forth, but this was pe
remptorily refufed.