The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1786-08-28 00:00:00, page 2

into the House of Commons here, that the world may
judge how far our present ministers pay refped to the
rights of the people, and the commercial interests of
the country.,
The merchants and manufacturers who lately fol
lowed their noble and ignoble debtors to Paris, in or
der to recover their demands, have all returned with
woful circumstances. The cricketer, instead of being
their friend on the occasion, coolly admitted that thole
who fought protection from the French dominions,
Ihould not be insulted by imprudent English creditors.
One tradesman alone by this event loses 80001. and
twenty times that eight will be spent by the fame
person in France of British money; for as he is al
lowed to fit his English creditors at defiance, the in
come of his whole estate will be spent in France.
The circumstance of a flop being put to the reco
very of British debts in France, was complained of to
the Duke of Dorfet; but it had no effeft, and both
his Grace's and Monsieur de Vergennes' letters on the
fubjeCt are now in London, and will probably, to the
, astonishment of the publick, make their appearance in
print.
Vifcomte Souilac, who was bred under M. de Ver
gennes, and who was lately sent by that minister to
Pondicherry, is one of the most able and penetrating
politicians that has appeared in France for a great
number of years. From many circumftanccs it ap
pears certain, that the French court are meditating a
deep and important game in the East-Indies; but in
nothing more strongly is it apparent than in fending
this man, with the most extraordinary powers, to Hin
doftan. There is not a petty prince in that extenfive
empire, with whom he is not holding a correspond
ence : nor have we a resident at any of those petty
courts where he has not also a spy. It is the com
mon language at Parisjhat Mons. de Vergennes took
the hint of the policy of this appointment, and the
inftrudions for this office, from Mr. Fox's India Bill.
RESOLVED unanimously, as the opinion of this
meeting, That it is indispensably necessary the credit
of the paper medium, issued under the authority of
the legislature, should be supported as equal in value
to the specie, and we the fubferibers do therefore en
gage and bind ourselves to each other, in the most
solemn manner on our honours, and declare, that we
will receive the fame equal to gold and silver, making
no diftindion in receiving payment for debts due to
us, or for any articles hereafter to be fold by us, and
that we will not direftly or indire&ly purchase or
fuffer to be purchased for us of any person any arti
cle whatever in which an abatement is offered to be
made for the payment of the fame in gold or silver.
Refolded, l hat this agreement be printed, and
that copies thereof be transmitted by the chairman to
proper persons in the several parishes and dilhids,
and such persons be requested to have the fame signed
by the several planters in the said parishes and dif
tiids, and returned to the chairman, that the fame
may be printed.
Refolded, That this agreement be left in the se
cretary's office, to be signed by such planters as are
not present.
Resolved, That the expences attending the carry
ing these resolves into execution be paid by the fub
feribers equally.
Resolved, That upon the application of any five
of the fubferibers, the chairman be empowered to call
another meeting.
[The above revolutions mere signed by the chair
man, and every planter prefent.]
BALTIMORE, August 1$
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Providence,
Rhode- Island, to his friend at the Jouthward, dated
July 1, 1786.
" The wife doings of our legislative body are, at
present, the chief topick pf conversation. You have
already been informed of the small sum of £. 100,000,
paper money, issued in May latt. It not being so rea
dily taken by the merchants and wealthy farmers as
the vultures wiihed for, they, at their session in June,
passed an aft inflicting a penalty of tool, on every per
son who Should refufe taking it, or give silver or gold
the preference, or in anymfe depreciate it —this for the
American Intelligence.
BOSTO N, Auguft^
If Lord Carmarthen's answer to our minister, Mr.
Adams, be true —if a number of the states have passed
acts contrary to the definitive treaty of peace, and in
direct violation of it, what can we expedl from ftep
dame Britain ?---If we have broken this treaty to serve
onr own interest, let us not condemn Great-Britain,
when it suits her turn, for giving it another shape.
Nations as well as individuals choose generally to do
as they are, not as they would be done by.
The captain of a brig, lately from Port-au-Prince,
bound to Havre de Grace in France, arrived in town
yesterday, and informs, that he was cast away, last
Monday, on Nantucket shoals. The vessel and cargo
were entirely loft ; but the men, by taking to their
boat, were all saved. The brig had sprung a-leak, and
the crew were endeavouring to make a port when the
disaster happened.
CHARLESTON, (S. C) Aug. 11.
Lit a meeting of a number of gentlemen concerned
in the Planting Interest, at the State-boufe, in
Cbarleflon, on Thursday the 3d of August, 1786.
[Judge HEYWARD, Chairman]
firfl offence —for the second, the fame penalty, and to
be disfranchifed —In consequence of which, as you
may naturally suppose, the principal Shops and Stores
in this place and Newport are Shut up, and every day,
in this refped, appears like Sunday. This step of the
merchants enraged some of the lower class of people
in Newport to such a degree, that they proceeded in a
riotous manner a few days ago, to distribute among
their own adherents al! the corn and flour they could
violently lay their hands on. Saturday last they at
tempted to take a quantity, the property of Topham,
Boss and Newman, who, after being aided by a num
ber of well-disposed citizens, distributed the fame,
agreeably to their own pleasure. This, in the even
ing, brought on a great disturbance. Clubs and lifts
were liberally made use of for ten or fifteen minutes.
The rioters were quelled, they are now peaceable ;
but it is expected they will not long remain so, as the
scarcity of provision, heretofore ideal, will soon be
come real, and numbers who lived from hand to mouth,
mutt speedily be reduced to the most afflicting Situati
on, as the country people, influenced by a few de
signing worthless characters, are determined, by Starv
ing us out, as they style it, to compel us to swallow
the paper money, and the inhabitants of other states
will with-hold their usual supplies, left they Should
have the paper imposed on them.---What the event
will be, God only knows---This is a consolation, that
He can over-rule their wicked counsels, and turn their
iniquities upon their own heads. The present system
of government is most certainly replete with every
vice which degrades human nature. —May we not with
propriety exclaim —Is there not some chosen curse,
some hidden thunder, to blast the mcafures of an ad
ministration, whole chief aim seems to be the hurling
into one general ruin every good citizen, particularly
those who have a law in their consciences, Superior to
the law of man, who cannot take the undue advan
tage of difeharging a debt, or debts, with what is
fyled money---having no value whatever in it ?
Thursday the 13th inst. Thomas Hutchins, Esq.
geographer to the United States, left this place ac
companied by his assistants, for the purpose of laying
out and surveying the vacant lands belonging to the
United States, previous to their being Sold for the
redemption of the certificates of the national debts.
1 hurfday the 6th inst. a detachment of continen
tal troops under the command of captain Mercer,
arrived here from New-Jersey, and on the Saturday
following proceeded on their march for the Miami.
Monday the 17th inst. marched from this garrison,
under the command of captain Ferguson, for Fort
M'lntofh, a detachment of continental troops.
On Wednesday the 25th inst. there came into this
town about three hundred savages, men, women and
children, of different nations, with a number of their
chiefs and principal personages. The king of the
Wiandots, with his family, a chief of the Senecas,
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 18.
Extras from Maritime Observations, by bis
excellency Benjamin Franklin. Read before
the American Pbilofopbical Society, December 2,
1785.
" NAVIGATION, when employed in Sup
plying necessary provisions to a country in want, and
thereby preventing famines, which were more fre
quent and deßru&ive before the invention of that
art, is undoubtedly a blessing to mankind. When
employed merely in transporting fuperfluities, it is a
question whether the advantages of the employment
it affords is equal to the mifehief of hazarding so
many lives on the ocean. But when employed in
pillaging merchants and transporting Slaves, it is clear
ly the means of augmenting the mass of human mi
sery. It is amazing to think of the Ships and lives
rilked in fetching tea from China, coffee from Arabia,
sugar and tobacco from America, all which our an
cestors did well without. Sugar employs near a
thousand Ships, tobacco nearly as many. For the
utility of tobacco there is little to be said; and for
that of sugar, how much more commendable would
it be if we could give up the few minutes gratificati
on afforded once or twice a day by the taste of sugar
in our tea, rather than encourage the cruelties exer
cised in producing it. An eminent French moralist
fays, that when he confiders the wars we excite in
Africa to obtain Slaves, the numbers necefTarily slain
in those wars, the many prisoners who perish at sea
by sickness, bad provisions, foul air, &c. &c. in the
transportation, and how many afterwards die from
the hardships of Slavery, he cannot look on a piece
of sugar without conceiving it stained with spots of
human blood ! Had he added the consideration of the
wars we make to take and re-take the sugar islands
from one another, and the fleets and armies that pe
rilh in those expeditions, he might have seen his sugar
not merely spotted, but thoroughly dyed scarlet in
grain. It is these wars that make the maritime pow
ers of Europe, the inhabitants of London or Paris,
pay dealer for sugar than those of Vienna, a thousand
miles from the sea; because their sugar costs not only
the price they pay for it by the pound, but all they
pay in taxes to maintain the fleets and armies that
Sight for it."
The following paragraphs are copied from the Pitts
burgh Gazette, published at Fort Pitt on the 29th
tilt.
with several of his tribe, a number of Delawares,
and several chiefs of the Chippawas, the most remote
nation of Indians amongst them, and inhabiting the
country westward of lake Erie, to the lake of the
Woods, and the heads of the Miffifippi river. Ihe
language of these savages is said to be a kind of ge
neral language underflood through an extent of 3000
miles; they came to a council, as they gave out, with
the Shawanefe, and with one another, at this place,
where they expected all to meet; a number of the
Mohawks were also present. They assembled, and
made a speech, with belts of wampum as usual upon
these occalions ; a chief of the Chippawas in the hilt
instance, by his interpreter, who spoke the Delaware
language, and which was to the following eifeft:
" Brothers,
" We have come a great way on behalf of our
wires and children; it is on their behalf that we tread
on this ground---(a belt)---the great Man above has
given us a bright day to meet our brothers,---we have
come a great way, and it is to make bright the chain
of amity between us---we have one end and you the
other---take you one between both your hands, thus,
and hold it faft as we hold it---(a belt.)
66 Brothers,
*' We are poor, wretchedly poor, give us something
to cover our backsides, and lend us clothed home---
a chief amongst us has leen a fadd^e which he wants
---brothers, give us this---two Ilrings---brotbeis, our
young men passing through the town have Imelled
whitey, after smelling we ihall go unhappily away
without tasting brothers, give us a keg three
strings, and then a general hough by the difTeient
tribes."
ANSWER by an OFFICER
of this place:
" Brothers,
" We are glad to fee you, and to establish friend
fliip. As the streams in our country and in yours,
though so far apart, run always, so let your friend
fhip and ours be as perpetual. You are poor, and we
are poor also. We have had a long war with the
great king beyond the water ; whose people came over
into this country, and burnt our houles, and took
away a great part of our clothing. We followed
them and killed them all: but before we had come
up with them they had burnt and torn up the blan
kets they had taken from us. We have not yet had
time to make a great number more. We are strong
in numbers; but, like you, we are poor, but of what
we have we will give a part.
" Brothers,
" When you are at home, hunt and colled fur,
and when you come to us bring it with you; in re
turn for which our traders will be able to give you
blankets and other things.
" Brothers,
" While you are with us be sober and drink little
whilkey, least you do amiss and be ashamed of it
The great fun which, you fee above you when he is
thirsty takes the end of a cloud and fucks the water
out of it.
" Brothers,
" Do you drink water no grunt by any of the
tribes we will give you a few kegs of whifkey—
a general snort."
On Sunday evening the sixth inst. departed this
life, Abraham Smith, an African, formerly the slave
of Mrs. Smith, of this city, from whose humanity
and generosity he derived his liberty. Of this fel
low creature it may truly be said, that he was sober,
industrious, peaceable, and a faithful servant of God.
He lived and died in communion with the Protestant
Episcopal church of this city. His funeral was at
tended by the Rector of Christ and St. Peter's
churches, and@any other referable citizens, besides
above 500 persons of his own colour. "Of a truth
God is no refpeder of persons, but in every nation
he that feareth him, and woiketh righteousness, is
accepted with him."
On Tuesday next the General Assembly of this
ftatc meets here pursuant to adjournment.
Extras of a letter from captain Robinson, of the
London, dated Honduras-Bay, Jan. 15, 1786.
" On the 30th of November, in the morning, we
saw to the southward of us a boat with two square
fails, and a small boat in tow; we bore down and
found they were the crew of the Janet, belonging to
Glasgow, captain Keer, and 13 of his people, who
were wrecked on Glover's Reef four days before; I
took them on board, she was chartered at Jamaica."
Aug. 19. On Thursday morning last departed this
life, in the 67th year of his age, the Rev. Ferdinand
Farmer, a native of the circle of Suabia in Germany,
and 30 years miflioner of the Roman Catholic con
gregation. (
His pastoral zeal, unremitted piety, and benevolent
conduct, merit to be recorded as an example to his
successors.---He lived universally refpe^ed, and died
exceedingly lamented by his flock, who in him have
loft a zealous and pious pastor, a tender and com
passionate friend.
His funeral was attended by the clergy of the dif
ferent religious persuasions in this city; the tiuftces