The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1778-09-30 00:00:00, page 2

fore, or do now represent you, determine your vote
refpehting them. Acquaint yourselves, as much as
poffibie, with their legislative character. Carefully
peruse the minutes of their proceedings. (I am lor
ry to fay, that from some cause, undoubtedly known
to our honourable h gillature, those have been puo
lilhed so late, as aimolt to prevent electors this Op
portunity.) Thole published may serve refpedting
some. Take notice or their yeas and nays. A few
you will find in every proposed case, on the nay lice.
You have great reason to fufpeft this proceeds from
a temporizing principle. Only confider, it will afford
as good a plea to comprornife matters with the ene
my, to have it in their power to Ihew by their re
cords that they have opposed all bulinefs, as any
whatever. It is matter of amazement to me, that
true friends to their country, in counties which have
fuffered much, have not noticed this before now.
3. Let the known and approved abilities and pa
triotum of the person principally sway you. Those
that have faithfully served you to the belt of their a
bilities, deserve your grateful acknowledgments, not
withstanding imperfections attending their endeavours,
which flew from natural inability or human frailty.
Let your choice be directed to men who Ihow to the
world, they are determined to rife or link with their
country —who have embarked their all in this vessel
ofthe state, as independent. Friends and countrymen,
the time at this juncture will probably be as trying
to your repfefentatives as any we have had ; there
fore be cautious, be zealous, and determined in pur
suing your uuty. ——May kind Heaven direct you,
and preserve this diftreded country farther in a pe
rilous day, is the cordial with and prayer of your
friend and well-wilder ! A true PATRIOT.
And are such fit persons to commit your dearest con
cerns to? If they really believed a future state of
punilhments and rewards, would it not influence their
own conduct? But their practice Ihows it does not.
What then will influence them, to make them faith
ful in toe important trust you repofc in them? All
the sacred. obligations of oaths and virtue can have no
influence on such abandoned minds. As their sensu
ality and lelf-inter,efts ate chief in their view, so will
they most powerfully operate upon the whole of their
conduct.
2. Let the past conduct of those who have hereto-
In C O N G R £ S S, September 17, 1778.
ARDERF D, Tua: One Million of Dollars be ad
" vanced to General Mdflm, late Quarter-blotter
General, for which he is to be accountable ; and that
he be directed to render an account ol all such turns
as arc now due from the late Quarter-Matter Gene
ral, in order to their being paid.
^^^i cd foum the minutes 7
CHARLES IriOMSON, Secretary.
IN pursuance 01 tut foregoing order 01 vougrefs,
the Deputy Quarter- Matteis, unuei-mentioned, are
appointed to lectio ana pay the accounts of tne Dn
tritfs refpedtively annexed to their names. 00 loon
as th, emh is received from the Public frtalury it
Brail be pain 10 the Deputies lor that purpole , of
proper notice will be given uy them to their
fevciai Diitrufts.
Darias.
fMiudkleX, ]
|Someriet, 1
Doctor James Caldwell, : Efhx,l
at j Morris,
Eiizabeth-Town. ; Bergen,
:Hunterdon, tNew
lMonmouth, i jerky.
f Burlington,
Israel Morris, jun. Esq. ' Gloucester,
at v'^^
GlQucelier. I Cumberland
LCape-May, J
Col. Robert L. Hooper, ( Sufiex, in New+Jerfey.
al; Northampton, ]
Elton. (Bucks,
Cel Ma a Bird, Reading, Berks, iPennfyl-
Coh G. Ka&jun. Lancalter, Lancaster, , varna.
Col. John Davis, at < Cumberland, ;
Cairnle. '(York, J
Col. A.\b.tam Steel, Diftiidt of Fort Pitt, 1
Mr. Jacob Hiltzhcimer, ( Philadelphia City, ; ^
at 2 County, { ^'^
Philadelphia, (chester County, j T
Mr. Nathaniel Cranch, ) Maryland,
at Philadelphia. (Delaware State.
Col. Clement Biddle's contrasts for forage prior to
the 2d of March last, will be fettled and paid by
his brothei, Mr. Owen Biddle, in Philadelphia,
agreeable to orders from Col. Biddle.
Mr. crunch will fettle and pay all other accounts
of the army which belong to the late Quarter-Matter
General's department; and which are not included
in any contracts made by any of the other Gentle
men mentioned above.
It may be necessary to inform those who have de
mands against the late department, 'that certificates,
from the Officers and Deputies who contrasted the
debts, will be required ; and that 110 calh will be paid
uulefs the transactions upon which the demands are
founded are made very clear, and are properly fup
poited.
When Col. Chace of Massachusetts-Bay, and Col.
Hughes of New-York, have produced accounts of the
sums due to the innabitants of their rcipe&ive Dis
tricts, they will be furmihed with calh to discharge
them.
His Majelly has declared, that in case of such an
event, lie will command the aimy in person. The
Qiccn ana ner yuu^g lamuy, iouic of the Lreafure,
rc o diia, n c. are to leave the capital (occasionally mov
ing to avoid being too near the Rent ol action; attend
ed oy tile troops or horle guards ; the seven battalions
or toot guards go with im Maxell) ; the hone grena
diers will be the omy regulars left in London, who,
with the city militia, wm patrole the tercets, to pre
vent any uengmug men oom taxing advantage of the
unavoioaolc hurry and connuion.
the Louiia, Henuncks, (a bwedilh velfel) laden
wih cannon and ammunition, bound from Cauiz to
Virginia, is taken by the dntegal man 01 war.
Extract oy a letter from Corke, May 20.
'' To .u.u to our tears 01 a French invaiion, I have
just now heard 11 reported, that two large American
privateers have DeelLen ciuiling about 20 leagues to
the vVeituaru 01 us. Ine Stag frigate is on a crude
oil this place, but by report lire is not ilontenougn
to attack them both. Gur preparations tor a camp are
ftul g^og 011."
j^ 4. Last week there were failures in Dublin to
the amount 01 above 200,000 pounds. A great Qua
ker houic lias Itopped for 80,000; a general bank
ruptcy prevails there; all ranks or people partake of
the chill cis ; the manufacturers arc ruined ; the jarce
01 enlarging their trade tney consider as an iidult of
fered their unaerltanuing ; the relentnicnt of the po
pulace is every day incrcaiing, ana threatens ueitruc
tion to ail the Eiighih goods they find lodged 111 the
importers warehoules.
A correlpondciit lays, he ihould not be furprized
to lee a General Congress elected by ine irilh, to re
drcis their grievances, provided a necedary amftance,
encouragement and lupport is denied them by Mini-
Iters on this tide the water.
The man who has the whole of the present immense
contrast for provision and forage, which will amount
to near half a million per annum, is the ion of a rebel
Lord u r ho was executed in the year 1746.
June 6. Captain Sutton saw at Cadiz, twenty-one
fail of Spaniih men of war of the line, ready to put to
lea, and lying at lingle anchor.
Sixteen battalions of foot, and the light horse, with
the foot guards, are ordered home from America.
Extract of a letter from Dublin, May 22.
" A Frencli war appears to be now inevitable, as the
Biitilh Ministry seem convinced of the holtile intenti
ons of the Court of France, and delign keeping no
mealures with her ; in consequence of which the
French vclicl now at Waterford, prize to the Guern
sey privateer, is cohuemnea, and, with her cargo,
will be fold there the frit week 111 June. The French
Captain and the commander of the privateer left this
city on Thurfuay, in order to attenu the lale."
June 12. File Hanoverians to be taken into our fcr
vicc arc to be lent to Ireland and Minorca,
Payments, under this grant of Congress, are not
to extend to any damages which may have occasion.
ally arisen to individuals from the matches or en
campments of either of the armies. In all probabi
lity, Commissioners will be appointed in the several
States by Congress, to afeertain and fettle such da
mages. THOMAS MIFFLIN.
Philadelphia, Sept. 23, 1778.
MR. Lee, the American deputy, who arrived here
last Saturday from Paris, was presented yelter
day by the French Ambahador to Prince Kaunitz, to
the Foreign Ministers, and other persons of distincti
on. Since the arrival of Mr. Lee, nothing is talked
of here but the differences arisen between the Courts
of Versailles and London ; and we seem to have loft
light of those between our Court and that of Berlin,
relative to the fucceifion of Bavaria.
Paris, June 19. England dreads a descent from our
troops, and has marked out the place where her
36,000 national militia are to encamp, Marshal Brog
lio regulates his measures in consequence ; and the
general officers under him have orders to repair next
month to the coasts or Normandy and Brittanny : M.
de Laletz de la Taherie, intenaantof his army, is to
be at Bayeux the firtt of July, where the head quar
ters are to be fixed.
Brunels, June 27. The court of France have de
ma ided fatisfadfion of the court of London, for the
insult offered to their flag in the Belle Pouie frigate.
It is hoped that the English Captain who brought on
this affair, will be disavowed by the English Ministry,
and that peace will be re-cftablilheu.
Orders are ready at the War-Office to be sent ex
preL, in case of an invaiion, that the march of the
regulars and militia may not be retarded a moment
for want of a route and given place of aflembly.
Snojild the enemy land on the Kent or Suhex coalt,
a linall rorce iiLy impede them palling the river Med
way, till a fuliiment force can be collected to prevent
them further progreu, and oblige them to accept a
lets honourable capitulation than was made at Sa
ratoga.
LONDO N, 'June 3.
A letter from Philadelphia, dated April 24, men
tions, that the plan of the conciliatory bill with Lord
North's lycech, was burnt in Washington's camp by
tile common hangman.
The diligence and activity used in accelerating the
armament at Brest are incredible. Four hundred
workmen are kept working upon it night and day.
Never was a fqurdron better furnilhed or better armed.
VIENN A, May 27, 1778.
It is a faft, that Dr. Franklin has sent a formal of
ficial letter to the States of Holland, containing pro
posals relative to certain branches of the America
trade. The States are deliberating upon it. The^
can be no doubt, Dr. Franklin knew.his ground b,-
fore he sent his letter. And arc we to remain i.i&ij
rent, while our former great source of wealth aiD
strength, is thus parcelled out to the different natioik
in Europe ?
The retreat of Mr. Kepple from before Brest, the
more it is considered, the more it ought to be ap
plauded. Matters are now reduced to that extremi
ty, by our rifauing, bungling Miniflers, that this coun
try can have no other dependance than on the pru
dence cf our Admirals and Generals. And if the
French mould land with twenty -five or thirty thou
sand men, the fame prudence Ihould govern Admi
ral Kepple, not to rifque a battle with an inferior
force, because, if that is once loft—all is loft ; nay,
if London was to be the facrifice, it ought not to be
done; for melancholy and difgraceful as the idea is,
it is the only method left us to save the remaining
part of the island.
KINGSTON, (Jamaica) June 6.
A cbrrefpondent gives us the following article
relpefting the declaration of war against France.—As
that nation has by treaty entered into a commercial
alliance with our colonies, the ministry have resolved
that France mult firft take that Itep ; to compel them
to this, our men of war are ordered to obftrudt their
trade to America, and make captures of all French
vessels bound to that part of the world ; this will in
stantly produce a declaration of war against England,
it they are really ferrous in supporting the independ
ence of America.
BALTIMORE, Sept. 15.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman at Cape Francois,
auted s..ug yi 23, 1778.
" I have just time to acquaint you, by this oppor
tunity, which departs early in the morning, with the
ariival, this evening, of a French inip, called the Con
cord, of 36 guns. Sue brings certain intelligence of
a declaration ot war on the 2d ot July, a farther tes
timony or which the has given us in the capture of the
Minerva, an linglifh frigate of 32 guns, which he met
with lomewheic in the neighbourhood of this illand;
thy particulars have not yet transpired, as they are
but jui tcome to an anchor. However, it appears,
oom the condition of the latter, that the engage
ment has been pretty obitinate, foe having loft her
mizzen and iore-topmatfs, and is greatly damaged in
her lulls and rigging."
By a gentleman lately from St. Martin's, we have
authority to allure our readers, that war was abio
lutciy ueciarea there in form against England the 21st
mt. and in Martinico the 17th. —A vessel arrived here
this morning 111 fifteen days from St. Euftatia, with a
confirmation of the above account.
BOSTON, Sept. 10.
Last Saturday about 40 fail of British men of wai
and transports appeared off Bedford, at fix o'clock
they landed about 4000 British troops, tories, &c.
under the command of General Gray, and then begar
their hellish work, of burning the rope-walks, twelve
dwellmg-huufcs in the lower street, and all the store
houses and the 'principal part of the Dipping in tha:
harbour ; allo burnt ail the dwelling-houses arid Blip
ping at M'Pherfon's wharf, and the principal part 0
the houses at the head of the river, and the mills
and burnt two or three houses on the road on the cal
line towards Fairhaven, and a number of Ihipping
The enemy embarked on Sunday and Monday, am
on Monday night re-landed a party to burn fom<
vefiels and stores at Fairhaven, but were prevented
The fleet remained at the harbour's mouth on Tues
day last. They killed Abraham Russel and a boy
wounded one Cook,Lieut. Mitchel mortally wounded
The above intelligence was received from a gentle
man who arrived in town last evening from Bedford,
and who is a person of undoubted varacity.
Saturday last arrived at an Eastern part, a prizl
brigantine bound to Quebec, having on board 18)
pipes of wine, and 200 calks of beef, pork and buttei,
besides other articles. She was taken, it is said, by th:
Montgomery privateer, from Salem
Lately arrived at an Eastern port, a prize brigantirt
of 160 tons, from Britain, but last from Madeira
bound to New-York, a very valuable prizes ladet
June 18. On Saturday fe'nnight the number of pom '
manufacturers and their children, fed by the public
bounty, in Dublin, amount to 20,154.
Yesterday the minifterialrunners ihifted their ground
a third time, receding their pretended accounts from
America. Their tale yesterday was, that the New-
Jersey government had declared for Ministry. It is
an entire falsehood. The Minilters may amuse them
selves with such huff, but no man of common sense is
now imposed upon by their reports, which have been
so repeatedly found destitute of all truth.
June 19. A letter received on Wedneiday from Do
ver, written by a gentleman just arrived there from
Paris, fays, " De Charters was expected to fail on the
14th instant. There are 50,000 men at Dunkirk ready
to embark at an hour's warning, and it was expected
at Paris that war would be declared against England
next week."
A certain unfortunate general officer has received
the peremptory orders of his Royal master, to return
without delay to America.