The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1782-11-27 00:00:00, page 3

Last Saturday the Friends Adventure, with King's
stores for Gibraltar,- put into Cove ; the was one of
Lord Howe's fleet, and having carried away her
main-top-mast, parted from his Lordship last Tnef
day, about 12 O'clock, lat. 49:9, long, ii: 36, W.
The fleet confided of 36 or 37 fail of the line, besides
fifties and frigates : The Pegasus not having joined,
having met heavy gales of wind. He left the fleet
rather in a draggling situation, two of .them three
deckers, (one of which wore a flag) top mad) struck
or carried away, wind S. W.
Yesterday arrived at Cove the Endeavour, of Yar
mouth, Bearfoot ; the was on Thursday last separated
from Lord Howe's fleet, which die left at one o'clock
P. M. in lat. 49, long. 14, rather more collected
than when the above vet'ei parted him.
' C H ATH AM, November 20.
Since our last the British fleet have failed from
New-York for the Weft-Indies. It is said their de
parture was hurried by an express veffei from Ja
maica, which brought accounts that there were se
venteen fail of the line and 11,000 troops at the
Havanna ; also, that 12 fail of the lint; and 10,000
troops were arrived at Martinico from Old France;
and that from letters found on board of a privateer
carried into Jamaica, the inhabitants were under
direful apprehensions that an attack on that island
was intended.
Captain Afgill, who has been detained here some
months, and was thought would be executed to ex
piate the murder of Captain Huddy, is difeharged
by a resolve of Congress. He set out from this iaft
Sunday for London, via New-York.
RICH M O N D, (Virginia) Nov. 9
On Saturday last was determined by the Court
of Appeals, the important question relative to the
exclusive power of the Houle of Delegates binder
the constitution and the treason law, to pardon
traitors, when we are told a great majority of the
Court decided against this txclufive power. The
It was now about three o'clock in the morning,
when, by the light of the moon, they were seen a
bout a mile distant from our battery.
Not thinking it prooer to give them time to an
chor, I made a signal for dur battery to begin. No
thing can equal the consternation of the Spaniards,
as I have since been told by some of the prisoners
(for we have a great many, whom we have saved
from drowning) than this fecund unexpected at
tack, which was repeated from every quarter in dc
ftru&ive Ihowers of bombs and balls, and whioh un
doubtedly did great execution among them: how
ever, under these disadvantages, they brought some
1' their batteries to b # ar, and a most furious can
nurate commerced. The Spaniards, on the land
°J% hearing the adieu was begun, plied a mult
nendous and amazing fire, which we ioftained
near an hour without any return; but as soon
ry-light appeared, a signal was made from Wat
son's battery, for every gun in the whole line, that
could be brought to bear, to begin. But oh ! how
fliall I paint to you the horrid scene? you would
have thought all hell was broke loose, and that this
world was going to be crushed to atoms; the emi
nence on which I flood shook, or seemed to thake,
as if it were convulsed, or shook by a mighty earth
quake.
In this manner did it continue until ii o'clock in
the forenoon, when four of their batteries were ren
dered useless, and two more quite defected, which
Avere taken possession of by our people ; the re
mainder- Were towed off with difficulty, Supported
by their gun-boa^ s,and I am greatly mistaken m
my conjedtires, if ever they pay us another visit.
Our success on the land fide was no less promising,
for one of their advanced works taking fire, burnt
with great fuiy ; two magazines of powder blew up,
and did incredible damage; and the whole firing
ceased before sun-set. Our fofs has been very in
considerable, not exceeding 150 killed and wounded,
and many of them (lightly. Their's muff exceed
some thousands, as many were blown up, and vast
numbers drowned. Thus in about fifteen hours
hard work, ended this mighty boasting of our ene
mies in a total confufion and dismay; and it will
surely appear astonishing to future- ages, that this
little rock, with 7000 men, baffled the united ef
forts of France and Spain ; however we remain on
our guard, expecting them to make another trial ;
at present all is quiet, and we hope the Spaniards,
tired out with their fruitless endeavours, will at
length abandon the project of starving us out. A
reasonable supply at present will be of great service,
as we are in want of many necessaries.
ELLIOTT.
[We <w ouldjuft remark on tbe abate letter, that it is
a:. very common fcr. a bind officer t; udaref ins gab
lick letters to the bead of the natal department. From
this circumflance, and some unufaal expressions for an
officer of General Elliott's rank, such as," you would
have thought all Hell was broke loom," &c. cue can
not believe it genuine.]
was dallied against boat, and many went to the
bottom.
consequence will be, that the unfortunate criminals,
who have for a long time been suspended between
hope and fear, will now probably be executed agree
ably to their condemnation.
Nolatc intelligence from the westward. Theex
pedition of the southern states against the unfriend
ly Indians is (till carrying on, and will probably put
a total period to their hostilities.
T HILADELPHI A, November 20.
Extra ft of a letter from ! Orient, dated Sept. 28.
“ Admiral Howe failed from Torbay on the 1 ith
inst. with 32 fail of the line, besides frigates, flore
fhips and transports, amounting in all to near 200
fail, for the relief of Gibraltai ; but the winds have,
ever fierce his departure, been contrary. From the
latest accounts we have had from Gibraltar, Gov.
Elliot must, ’ere this, have .^rendered, as the gar
rison is exceedingly reduced and worn down, both
by fatigue, and the want of provisions.”
Extract of a letter from a gentlemen in Nantz,
to bis friend in this.city* dated Sept. 8.
" Mr. Fitzherbert (sept from London to Paris)
has declared, that the British Ministry will not treat
with any publick character from America, but only
through the medium of the French Court. 'J he
Americans will undoubtedly reje& luch a mode, and
it is the general opinion, therefore, that peace is far
distant."
Extract of a letter from a gentleman belonging to
t^e St. fames letter of marque, of ibis port,
dated at L'Orient, Sept. 2fo 1782.
" 1 have the pleasure of incoming you of our fafe
arrival in this port, after 32 days pillage, with three
prizes, captured during the passage ; the one a cut
ter, called the Will, from Cork to Cirarleftown;
the others were the ship Luxford, from Bristol,
bound to Newfoundland, and the Lyon, of 36 guns
(a double-decked ship) but pierced for 40 guns:
this ship carries 18 pounders on her lower deck,
and is equal in appearance to any 40 gun ffiip I ever
saw. She was bound from riftol to the windward
coast of Africa. Her cargo is worth 8000 1. ster
ling. Our iirit prisoners informed us that (be had
42 gußs, and 200 men, but when Hie struck flic hid
only 77 men.
" 1 here is no profpe& of a peace here."
Monday last, the ship Riling Sub, Captain De
catur, arrived here in 28 days from Teneriffe, a
few days before he left that iflamd, a vcffel had ar
rived there from Lancerot. one of the Canaries,
TRENTON, November 27.
To-morrow is to be observed as a day of publick
thanksgiving throughout the United States of Ame
rica, agreeably to a recommendation of Congress.
To the publick Creditors of the State of New-
Jersey.
THE Honourable Congress have lately trans
mitted to the Legiflatue of this Rate an ac
count of all funded debts due from the United
with the agreeable intelligence, that the garrison of
Gibraltar had, on the 17th of September, surren
dered to the arms of his Most Catholick Majesty.
Captain Decatur, on ids passage, fell in with and
captured the brig Grace, Captain Car, bound to
Antigua, from London, with a very valuable car
go of dry goods, cordage, porter, cheese, and some
very fine horses.
Captain Decatur further informs, that a gentle
man in Cadiz writes to his friend in Teneriffe :
" Yesterday the garrison of Gibraltar furiendered
to the arms of his Most Catholick Majesty." The
letter was dated the 18th of September.
The Honourable WILLIAM PACA, Esquire,
is elected Governor of the state of Maryland.
On Sunday last departed this life, jn the 103 d
year of his age, Mr. Edward Drinker. He was
born in a log-house, near tue corner of second and
walnut-ftreccs, and spent many youthful hours in
picking wild fruit, and catching wild fowl on the
most improved and populous part of the city. He
enjoyed the use of ail his faculties, particularly his
memory, to the last years of his life. His eye-fight
was impaired by age, but his hearing was uniform
ly perfect and unimpaired. He once in his life fat
down at his table, with fourteen children, and not
long before his death, he heard of one of his grand
children having a grand-child. In the early and
middle stages of life, he laboured at the business of
a cabinet-maker ; but neither labour, company, nor
the usual misfortunes of human life, led him to the
use of strong drink in any shape. He was not only
sober and temperate, but through an uncommon pe
riod of probation manifefted all the virtues of the
Christian life.
November 21 , 1782. 3wj
ALL perlons indebted unto the estate of Wilson
' 1 Hunt, dec^afed, by bond, bill or note, are re,
quested to pay the fame to the fubferiber by the firft
day of January next: Any person having unsettled
accounts with the estate, will pleafc to call on John
I'. Hunt, or Peter Gordon, in Hopewell, who have
the books, and will adjult the fame; and if the faic
Wilson, Hunt, deceased, was indebted to an, one
by bond, bill or note, they will please to present
the fame for payment to
ABRAHAM HUNT, one !
ot the Executors.
Trenton, November eg, 1782. jwf
DANIEL VAN-VOORHIS,
GOLD-SMI T H,
HAVING removed from Philadelphia, takes this
method to inform his friends in particular, and
the publick in general, that he has now opened shop
in Princeton, a small diflance to the caftward of the
Coliege, where he intends carrying on his business
•in ail its branches, and shall always be happy to re
ceive the commands of those who choose to employ
him, and they may rest assured that their work shall
be executed with dispatch, in the neatest manner,
the newest faihions, and 011 the most reasonable
terms, he being enabled to execute his work at a
lower price than it can be done in Philadelphia.
He MAKES and SELLS
CTfaJ3ite3flraQr ^31.-.PU&T #tbt&tßßtfrtG. .tot—±-sQ^SCTOCwnHCTrfr<n
"TWENTT~DOLLARS~REWAIID?
MADE his escape from the Constable of the
townihip of Upper-Freehold, in the county ol
Monmouth, a certain Thomas Gnifebartfon: Who
soever will apprehend the laid Thomas Cuifebart'-
son, and deliver him to the Constable aforefaid, 01
the Sheriff of the county aforefaid, or his gaoler, fej
that the said Thomas Guifebartfon may be had .at
the next Court of Oyer and Terminer for the county
aforefaid, ihali be entitled to the above reward,
from ZEBULON CLAYTON, Constable.
States to the individuals thereof; at the fame time
requeuing that provision may be made to difeharge
the interest due thereon : 1s it not therefore highly
necelTary that the inhabitants of this date, who
have lent their money to the publick, Should form
meetings throughout the Rate, and fall upon such
plans as may be thought expedient to enforce the
neceflity of their representatives giving the most
particular and early attention to a measure so in
dispensably necessary to the exigence of a very con
siderable number of their constituents, who, in an
early period of the contest, freely lent their al! for
the fuppott of their bleeding country, and whole
families are now in the greatest possible distress, by
reason of the payment of the interest on the money
they have thus patriotically lent being totally flop
ped?
In order therefore to obtain justice, and to ef
fed so desirable an event, as well as to evince the
union of sentiment which pervades the minds of all
the publick creditors; and to follow the laudable
example of our fellow-fuffereis in Pennsylvania,
it will be necessary that they fix on such places and
times of meeting as may be molt convenient, and
then and there determine on such modes of appli
cation as may be judged most proper, to induce
the Legislature to take up the business as nearly in
the sessions as possible.
State of New-Jersey, Odt. 23, 1782.
CAME to the plantation of the fubferiber in
Chefterfield, Burlington county, about the mid
dle of August last, a sorrel mare, branded L D on
the near shoulder, has a star, fourteen aad a half
hands high, about eight years old. The owner is
desired to come, prove property, pay charges, and
take her away. JOS. WOODWARD.
November 26, 1782. 3w||
PURCHASERS at the vendue of the personal
estate of Samuel Statts Coejemans, Esquire, late
of Raritan, deceased, arc detired to observe that the
period at which payment became due is pall ; the
i'ubferibers request those who have not yet fettled
their accounts, to do it without delay.
Wm. PATERSON,
JOHN NEILSON, J Execut -
November 25, 1782. ,vs
URNS,
Coffeepots,
Teapots,
Sugardiflies,
Slopbowls,
Tankards,
Candlcfticks,
Sauceboats,
Pint, and half-pint cans,
Milkpots,
Water do.
Soupe ladles,
Callers and hands,
Salts,
Punch ladles,
N. B. He i-kewife gives the highest price for old
gold and silver. „wj
Punch drainers,
Table spoons,
Tea spoons,
Sugar tongs,
Desert spoons,
Shoe and knee buckles,
of a great variety of
patterns,
Scissors-chains,
Pincuihion-hoops and
chains,
Gohl and silver Deere
buttons,
Gold and silver breaches;
Gold beads and chains.