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depreciating our money, than the enemy with all
their force have been able to do. Let us therefore
endeavour to imitate the noble Delicarlians of
Sweden! We have a Gustavus Vafa at the head of
our army, on whose wisdom, integrity and valour,
we may fafely rely. But I fear too many are fol
lowing for the loaves and fifhes. Take them away,
and few will follow the empty dishes. I wish I may
be mistaken, and that all may really be in love with
the Liberty and Independence of the United States
of North-America.
A Jersey Farmer.
Feb. loth, 1779.
BAI, TIMOR E, February 9.
On Wednesday evening last, the brewery belonging
to Mr. James Sterret, in this town, took fire, and,
notwithstanding the vigorous exertions of the inhabi
tants, that large and valuable building, with a consi
derable quantity of malt, &c. was entirely consumed.
Several dwelling houses contiguous were in the most
imminent danger, and would inevitably have shared
the fame fate, had it not been for the alertness and
commendable zeal of a number of good citizens.
The fame evening, at a late hour, another fire broke
out in the store of Mr. Hugh Young, in Frederick-
Erect, which, it being built of wood, soon reduced it
to ashes. There is the ftrongeftreafon to believe that
this building was wilfully set on fire by some daring
incendiary, for the execrable purpose of facilitating a
scheme of plunder.
NEW-YORK, February 13.
Extract of a letter from Vance Caldwell and Vance,
to Andrew and James Caldwell, of Philadelphia,
dated Dominica, January 16, 1779, found on
board the prize sloop Richard, captured by the
Columba privateer, belonging to this port.
'' Admirals Byron and Barrington have blocked up
Count d'Eftaign in Fort Royal, and how soon they
may vilit us here is uncertain. We are pretty well
prepared as to ourselves, having removed almost all
into the country. By a letter, to-day, from Marti
nico, we are told you are fending in some flour, co
vered with tobacco, if it arrives it will be ufeful, for
money is exceeding scarce. If you can contrive to
fend us 50001. fterl. into Messrs. Hope's hands, we
shall be content 'till we fee how things turn out."
Wednesday night about ten o'clock, a fire broke
out in Frankfort-Street, and proceeded with such
rapidity, that eight or ten houses were consumed
before it could be suppressed. The gentlemen of
the army and navy afforded every assistance in their
power to the fufferers, and every citizen whose
effects were in danger ; centinels were readily grant
ed to all who required them for the protection of their
property, andby the laudable exertions of the inha
bitants, under the direction of his worship the Mayor,
who was present from the commencement of the
conflagration ; it was, before twelve, reduced to an
impossibility of doing Any farther damage.
PHILADELPHIA, February xB.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in high office, in
France, dated Pafly, (near Paris) December 6tb,
to his friend in Philadelphia.
'' I have a strong curiosity to know the artifices
and fubterfuges, with which the tories keep alive
each others hopes. When England cannot get an
ally, and many nations preparing to league them
selves against her. When her merchants are breaking,
her manufacturers starving, and they are obliged to
take them into public pay under the name of militia,
to prevent their picking pockets, robbing on the high
ways, and plundering in companies all before them."
By late intelligence from France we underhand that
the merchants of Amsterdam have by a most pressing
memorial called upon the Stadtholders for protection
of their trade against the insults of England: that
the king of Naples and the Sicilies has formally de
clared his ports open to our commerce : and that
the iith and 12th articles of the Treaty of Com
merce between France and America were difannul
led by mutual confenf of the parties.
The privateer sloop Lord North, Capt. M'Donald,
from New-York, having taken the sloop Phcenix, of
the state of Virginia, from Statia, manned and sent
her into Chefapeak Bay on a cruize, under the com
mand of William Frazier, his Lieutenant: They
soon fell in with Capt. Saunders, in a sloop bound in,
whom they attacked, but Capt. Saunders proving too
strong for the a ffailants, Lieutenant Frazier was soon
obliged to strike, and Captain Saunders landed the
prisoners soon after in the Rate of Maryland.
On the 10th instant, the schooner Hunter, Captain
Douglass, of ten guns, from Egg-Harbour, fell in
with the brig Bellona, Capt. Buchannan, of sixteen
guns, belonging to New-York, when after a smart
engagement of an hour and an half, in which Captain
Douglass and his men behaved with the greatest
bravery and spirit till finding the brig rather too
heavy for him, was obliged to quit her, leaving the
Bellona a wreck, unable to follow the Hunter.
Extract of a letter from London.
'' My friends and I have fuffered greatly by the
stoppages of trade. On the North coast there is not
now a tingle vessel of force for the protection of trade
from London to the Orkneys, an extent of coast
above 800 miler, which has occasioned the capture
of a great many vessels principally by small privateer
cutters, one of which, with only 28 men, took above
20 vessels off Hambro' Head, all of whom the ran
fomed immediately. I paid the other day 51. ss.
premium per cent, insurance on a vessel from Berwick,
when the usual insurance is only il. per cent, which
amounts almost to a prohibition of any trade from
those parts."
On the 4th instant, Susannah Sands, wife of Chris
topher Sands, of Evefham, Burlington county, New-
Jersey, was delivered of three male children. The
mother is likely to do well, but the children are since
dead.
LOTTERY-OFFICE, February x 6, 1779.
Friday last No. 84,653 was drawn a Prize of 20,000
Dollars; notwithstanding which, on infpedting the
Check Book ofthe Lottery this evening, we can assure
the Public-the Wheels are 77,120 Dollars richer in
proportion than when the drawing began ; and that
there are yet in the Wheels the following Prizes :
2 of 10,000 Dollars
9 of 5,000
84 of 1,000
677 of 500
16427 of 30
, Paul Fooks, Check Clerk.
TRENTO N, February 24.
By three feafaring men who, on Wedaefday even
ing last, made their escape from New-York, and ar
rived here yesterday morning, the account of an em
barkation from that place is confirmed, which they
fay is to consist chiefly of Hessians; who, it is given
out, are ordered to the Weft-Indies, but it is gene
rally supposed they are to be sent to Georgia By
the above persons we further learn, it was publickly
talked of in New-York that Rhode-lfland is shortly
to be evacuated, the enemy having already destroyed
all their out-works and retired into the town of New
port —and that one hundred and eighty privateers
now fail out of the port of New-York.
The Continental Troops taken with Capt. Ran
dolph and Mr. Jackson, as mentioned in our last,
have since been exchanged and returned; but the
above-mentioned Gentlemen are frill detained by
the enemy in New-York.
We hear, that on Thursday last, the anniversary
of forming the alliance between France and the
United States of America, was celebrated at Camp
at Pluck'emin, with great propriety and elegance.
The weather having been remarkably warm and
pleasant for about a month past, has occasioned the
buds of some early fruit trees to vegetate to a greater
degree than has been remembered at this fcafon by
the oldest men in the neighbourhood.
Sunday last Capt. Cunningham in the sloop ,
lately an English cutter, mounting 20 double fortified
6 pounders, arrived at Philadelphia in 14 days from
Martinico. By him we learn, that on the reduction
of St. Lucia, the British Commander immediately
dispatched a vessel with that intelligence for England ;
'which, by the vigilance of Count d'Estaing, was
taken and carried into Martinico. Letters wdre
found on board this prize, which mentioned, that
although they had succeeded in this enterprize, they
had paid very dear for it—and that the British troops
at St. Lucia were very sickly, not less than 10 or 15
dying every day.
'*, The VOTES and PROCEEDINGS of the
last Sitting of the General Assembly of this State,
are printed, and ready for delivery.
tft A good JOURNEYMAN is quanted by the
Printer of this paper.
An ingenious young Lady having had a print of a cer
tain General given her, in order to take off a likeness,
andJbe delaying to do it, occasioned the following lines.
Addrefs'd to Miss P P .
WHAT perverse things most girls prove
Either in Friendship or in Love!
Tho' oft they please they oft'ner vex,
As all must know who knows the sex.
When Lovers plead, you'll oft be sure
To disobey, to show your pow'r,
And think if you prove kind at last
It will atone for foibles past :
But should a friend a favour ask
To grant it seems a mighty talk ;
Thus I, above a month ago
Gave you a print of Gen'ral II —e,
That your fine hand with care might trace
Each feature of his martial face,
Preserve a likeness, yet impart
Beauties above th' engraver's art ;
(And manly charms he has it's plain
For which ev'n beauty's figh'd in vain*)
Well knowing what you do is neat,
Or rather, like yourfelf—compleat:
That you, I fay, might draw with care )
His graceful military air,C
Such as is lov'd by all the fair ; )
Who ogle more a hat that's lac'd
Than parson in a pulpit plac'd.
But hold—methinks I hear you fay,
" The Gen'ral may be bold and gay,
" But yet, good Sir, I'd have you know
" He still is but my Country's Foe;
" While such, he'll be to me, indeed,
" An object, not of love, but dread;
" And therefore, tho' it may seem rough,
" JACK KETCH, for me, may take him off."
Trenton, February 18, 1779.
* See the hiJlory of bis amours prefix'd to the Town
and Country Magazine.
To be SOLD at publick Vendue,
On Saturday the 27th inst. (Feb.) at the house of
Jacob Benjamin, in Trenton,
SUNDRY household furniture, pewter dishes and
plates, one walnut deik, a feather bed, &c. a
quantity of good tobacco, some copper flew-pans,
an alfortinent of glass tumblers ; chairs and tables ;
Jamaica spirit by the hoglhead or smaller quantity;
also some wearing apparel, jackets, trowfers, and
shirts ready made; a good rifle gun. The vendue to
begin at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, where at
tendance will be given by JACOB BENJAMIN.
N. B. All forts of goods will be taken in at said
vendue-ftore, and fold on commission at a low rate.
The vendue to be continued weekly.
- ——————
At Veridue, on Saturday the 6th of March next,
A GOOD Waggon and four Horses, with gears.
The waggon has a good cover, suitable for a
stage. The vendue to begin at 2 o'clock, when at
tendance will be given by the fubferiber, in Borden
town. THOMAS TOWN.
February 23, 1779. 2wf
WAN T~E D;
A Quantity of FLAXSEED, for which TWO
DOLLARS per bushel will be given by
John Plaftet in Trenton, or Job Phillips in Hopewell,
till the firit of April. zw*
To be SOLD by the Subscriber,
A Plantation containing 120 acres of land, in the
county of Sussex, in the township of Oxford,
on the main road leading from Eafton to Sussex court
house, four miles from the Moravian mills, very suit
able for any publick business ; whereon is a publick
tavern, kept these several years past in as good a stand
as any on that road, with a convenient house and
barn; the land good and plenty of timber, with a
good quantity of meadow ground. The title indis
putable. The vendue to be held on the 25th day of
March next, where due attendance will be given by
me ARCHIBALD STINSON.
February 13th, 17792 2wp
A Few hogsheads high proof Welt-India rum,
eight quarter chests bohea tea, to be fold foi-
Continental Currency of the emissions of 20th of
May, 17^7, and iith of April, 1778. For terms
apply to Capt. John Clunn. gwf
TO'BE SOLD,
A Small FARM, lituate in Upper Freehold, lying
within three mile^ of the main road that leads
from Allentown to Monmouth court-house, eight
miles from Allentown and three from Lawrence Tay
lor's tavern ; containing 118 acres, about forty clear
ed, and ten acres of very good swamp, the remain
der well timbered. On the premises is a good new
house and kitchen well finish'd, a young orchard-of
130 bearing trees of excellent fruit; the land will
produce very good wheat, rye or Indian corn; a
stream of excellent vyater running through the place.
The situation is very pleasant and advantageous,, be
ing about three miles from a good grist and fulling
mill, called Gaston's mills, and a neighbourhood of
very reputable farmers. For terms apply to Mr.
David Baird, near the premises, or Capt. John Dey,
of Macheponix. Feb. 18, 1779. 4p
State of New-Jersey, A T an Inferior Court of
Monmouth county. A Common Pleas for said
county, held on the 29th day of January last, were
returned inquisitions for joining the army of the King
of Great-Britain, and other treasonable practices,
found against William Perine, of Upper Freehold,
John Williams, son of John, ofFreehold, Silas Cook,
jun. James King, Alis Lippincot, Joseph Price, son
of William, of Shrewsbury, Henry Retcr, Samuel
Stevenson, William Stevenson, George Rapaljie, of
Middletown, late of Monmouth, and Israel Bedel,
of Staten-Ifland,-ftate of New-York, having property
in said county; of which proclamation was made in
said court, that if they or any on their behalf, or any
person interested, would appear and traverse, a trial
should be awarded ; but no traverses were offered—
Therefore notice is hereby given, that if neither they,
nor any in their behalf, nor any interested, shall ap
pear and traverse at the next court to be held for the
said county, on the 4th Tuesday in April next, the
inquisitions will then be taken to be true, and final
judgment entered thereon in favour of the state.
Samuel Forman, ) r
Feb. 9, 1779. Kenneth Hankinfon, ,-
„ j^ Jacob l^koff,
New-Jersey, As an Inferior Court of Com-
Middlcfex county.rron Pleas held for the coun
ty of Middlesex, on the 19th day of January last,
were returned inquisitions against Frederick Smyth,
Heathcot Johnson, John Thompson, Henry Dugon,
William Kent, Stacy Lift, James Shotwell and Cecii
Sergeant, for joining the army of the king of Great-
Britain, and other treasonable practices; of which
proclamation was made in open court, that if they
or any on their behalf, or any person interested,
would appear and traverse, a trial should be award
ed; but no traverses were offered—Therefore notice
is hereby given, that if neither they, nor any person
on their behalf, nor any interested, shall appear and
traverse their inquisitions at the next court to be
held in and for the said county, that final judgment
will then be entered thereon in favour of the state.
iw Ebenezar Ford, Commiflioner.