The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1784-05-10 00:00:00, page 2

Foreign Intelligence.
N APLE S, December 29.
ACCORDING to the laftletters from Meffina and
Calabria Ultra, they have had again some fnocks
of an earthquake, which, however, did no damage ;
they were chiefly felt in the western part of Calabria.
MOROCCO, December 14.
The Emperor has been absent from this capital
some months, and we did net expe& to fee him before
the end of the year, when he arrived here suddenly
about a fortnight ago; and travelling a village between
Tiffalet and this city,his Majesty recollected, that the
inhabitants, to the number of 580, had been accused,
about seven or eight years ago, of the murder of a
Cheriff (a kind of faint, much revered among the
•Mahometans) and to Ihew his veneration for the me?
mory of that martyr, our sovereign commanded that
all rhe inhabitants who were fufpe&ed, should be ex
ecuted ; and the facrifice took place on the spot.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. 7.
It is laid that the Porte has frefh business on her
hands, as it is reported all Egypt is in a fiame. Four
Beys conspired against Aley Bey, but he found means
,to subdue them, and having taken them prisoners, ex
posed their heads on the gate of the Seraglio.
HU NG AR Y, January 12.
Several lew families, who were fettled in the neigh
bouring Ottoman provinces, arrive here daily to seek
an asylum ; and others come to deposit their effects,
where they may be fafe from the dangers that are ap
prehended in consequence of the prefeat movements.
and a close applications the belt writers upon lac
ticks, and by a more than common method and ex
adnefs ; and, in reality, when it comes to be cor.fi
dered, that at firft he only headed a body of men en
tirely unacquainted with military discipline or opera
tions, somewhat ungovernable in temper, and who at
belt could only be Riled an alert and good militia, act
ing under short enlistments, uncloathed, unaccoutred,
and all times very ill supplied with ammunition and ar
tillery ; and that with such an army he withstood the ra
vages and progress of near forty thousand veteran
troops, plentifully provided with every necessary ar
ticle, commanded by the bravest officers in Europe,
and supported by a very powerful navy, which effec
tually prevented all movements by water ; when, 1 fry,
all this comes to be impartially considered, I think [
may venture to pronounce, that General Washington
will be regarded by mankind as ond of the greatest
military ornaments of the present age, and that his
name will command the veneration of the latest poste
rity.
I would not mention to you the person of this dis
tinguished man, were I not convinced that it bears
great analogy to the qualifications of his mind. Gen.
Waffiington is a tall well-made man, rather large
boned, and has a tolerable genteel address ; his fea
tures are manly and bold, his eyes of a blueish call,
and very lively; his hair a deep brown ; his face ra
ther long, and marked with the small-pox; his com
plexion fun-burnt, and without much colour, and his
countenance sensible, composed, and thoughtful :—
There is a remarkable air of dignity about him, with
a striking degree of gracefulnefs:—He has an excel
lent understanding, without much quickness ; is ftriAly
just, vigilant, and generous ; an affectionate huiband,
a faithful friend, a father to the deserving soldier, gen
tle in his manners, in temper rather reserved ; a total
stranger to religious prejudices, which have so often
excited chriftians of one denomination to cut the
throats of those of another; in~his morals irreproach
able; he was never known to exceed the bounds of
the most rigid temperance: In a word, all his friends
and acquaintances universally allow, that no man ever
united in his own person a more perfect alliance of the
virtues of a philosopher ui.h the talents of a General.
Candour, fn eerity, affability, and simplicity, seem to
be the striking features of his charader, till an occa
sion offers of displaying the most determined bravery
and independence cf spirit,
Such, my good friend, is the man to whom Ame
rica intruded her important cause. Hitherto she has
had every realon to be fatisfcd with her choice ; and
most ungrateful would flic be to the great Disposer of
human events, were she not to render him unremit
ting thanks for having provided her with such a citi
zen at such a crisis.
Most nations have been favoured with some patno
tick deliverer: 1 he Israelites had their Moses ; Rome
had her Camillus ; Greece her Leonidas ; Sweden her
Gudavus ; and England her Hambdens, her Ruffels,
and her Sydneys; but these illustrious heroes, though
fuccefsful in preferring and defending, did not, like
Wajhington, form or establish empires, which will, in
.all probability, be the refuge or asylum of liberty ba
milhed from Europe by luxury or corruption. J. B.
American Intelligence.
from the Massachusetts Centinel.
Generosity not confined to Christians.
GENEROSITY is not the inhabitant of any par
ticular country. Like the fun, it visits every
clime, and warms the bread of what is called the infi
del, as well as the chriftian. The following (reported
as a fad) proves the assertion:
Anecdote of a TU RK.
Some few years since, a Turk, destitute of coun
trymen, a Ibanger and from home, was under very
difficult circumdances in the town of Boston. A Bos
tonian, a merchant, became acquainted with his case,
and being moved by a benevolent dilpofition, relieved
the I uik from all his difficulties, procured a passage
and sent him home to his friends, without the lead
profped of gain or reward in this world. If we were
never to hear any more of this matter, where is the
man so dupid that he would not glory in such an ac
tion? a deed worthy to be imprinted in letters of
gold.—But mark the end: It happened some time
after this, the fame gentleman's son, travelling in Eu
rope, fell into the hands of the Algerines, who ex
poled him for file as a Have at Constantinople. The
generous Turk hearing that there were Christian slaves
to be disposed of in the market, and no doubt recol
leding his own deliverance by a Christian, went to
the place. Here flop—and think how a generous
pride swelled the heart of the Barbarian, when he
difeovered the image of his deliverer in the son of the
Bolton merchant ; the feelings that animated his bread,
can better be conceived than exprefled by the tongue
or pen. Ata vast expense he procured the young
man's ransom, and sent him to his father, rejoicing to
think that (so contrary to his expectation) it was put
in his power to render a kindness to his generous be
nefador.
Friendship delights in equal fellowship,
Where purity of heart, and mutual offices,
Engage both sides alike, and keep the balance ev'n.
'Tis irksome to a generous, grateful heart,
To be oppressed beneath a load of favours,
Still to receive and run in debt with friendship,
Without the pow'r of paying something back.
NEW- YOR K, April 29.
Conliderable quantities of Counterfeit British half
pence have lately been puffed at Providence. They
are of a bale metal, badly executed, and of course
easily dete&ed. It is laid, that they are openly ma
nufadured in the Rate of Massachusetts.
1 he frequent robberies committed by gangs of foot
pads, are truly alarming, and calls loudly tor the se
rious attention of the magidrates and citizens in ge
neral, to endeavour to check so great an enormity.—
Attempts were made by some of this gang on Friday
night last, in different parts of this city, at an early
hour on several gentlemen, but most of them repulsed.
Dr. Bradhurft was flopped by one of them, and on
his refuting to deliver bis watch and money, the vil
lain fired a pistol at him, loaded with two balls, which
penetrated his left bread, and came out at his right,
but the alarm being given, he made off without his
booty. We ate happy to afl'uie the publick, that the
Doctor's wounds are thought not mortal.
I he Independence, Luce, of and from America for
London, with a cargo of tobacco, was wrecked on
the eighth ult. near Athcrficld rocks, in the file of
Wight.
A letter from Paris, dated January 11, mentions,
that the Vifcomte de Vibraye will succeed the Che
valier de Luzerne, as Minister Plenipotentiary from
the Court of France.
Extra.? of a letter from 3b. W. IF. to W. C. in
Boston, dated London, 6th March, 1784.
" As I know you are a warm whig, you mull have
considered it as an indisputable maxim in our govern
ment, that no Minister ought to remain or could re
main in office, against the lenfe of the House of Com
mons.
" Mr. W. Pitt (a fen of the immortal Chatham)
has for more than two months pale, and still continues,
an instance to the contrary. You probably fee some
of our papers, and I am apprehensive I may be re
peating to you what you have read more at large,
when I inform you, that the Ministry, formed by a
coalition of Mr. Fox and Lord North, with their re
fpedive parties, have brojght in and carried through
the Commons by a great majority, a bill for the go
vernment of the British Eatt-India territories (which
government was, by that bill, to be put into the
hands of a Board of Comniillioners, named in the aft,
to be resident in this coun ry, accountable only and
controllable only, by Parlhment.)
The King, by the advice of Lord Temple, declared
himfelf inimical to the bill, and went so far as to fay,
that he should confider eve-y man who voted for it,
his enemy ; in consequence of this interference, the
bed-chamber Lords, arid other Peers, under the more
immediate influence of the crown, formed a majority
against the bill, and it was rejected in the House of
Lords ; this was followed by an almost immediate dif
miflion of Mr. Fox, Lord North, and the rest of the
Cabinet Ministers, and the resignation of all their
friends in the different official departments, and Mr.
Pitt (now about five and twenty) was appointed firft
Lord of the Treasury, and declared Prime Minister.
The late Ministry preserve their majority in the House
of Commons; the present administration is stronger
in the other house, but you know the Commons hold
the publick purse, and nothing can be done without
them. They have repeatedly declared, in the most
explicit terms, and by different votes, their want of
confidence in the Minister, or rather their aversion to
the secret influence which brought him in, and have,
by several addresses, applied to the King to dismiss
this Administration ; this the King has in pretty po
sitive terms refufed; and in short, no business has been
done in Parliament, for almost three months, the
whole time having been taken up in a struggle of the
Commons against the King and the Lords; the want
of the supplies and of a mutiny bill, are certainly the
only reasons why the Parliament has not been dissolv
ed, to give the Ministers of the Crown (as Mr. Pitt
and his Administration choose to call themselves) a
chance of better success in a new House of Commons;
but this weapon the house will not keep in their own
hands, for they will never pass a mutiny bill (the only
authority for keeping any army in this country) of
fufficient continuance, or grant such supplies as to en
able the crown to do without a Parliament for so
lohg a time as must be taken up by a general election.
Thus are many of our great men, when they should
be endeavouring by every means to restore commerce
and credit to an almost exhausted country, taken ' up
in a contention for personal power.
“ Many people are much alarmed at the present si
tuation of our affairs, and think their appearance too
much like that which preceded the fall of Charles Ift.
Indeed some of the relolutions of the House of Com
mons, are formed upon the precedents of that reign.
I am, however, among those who think that the pre
sent struggle will end tn a union of the contending
parties (I mean the late and present Administrations)
as each must be aware that publick business cannot
be carried on against such an pppofition as the other
party -can command. If such a union is effeded, and
is a union upon principle, this diftraded country may
expert affairs to take a more favourable turn. 1 ought
to inform you, that the King has received many ad
drenes offering him support, and desiring him to con
tinue his present Ministers—But not so many as James
the Ild. and you Know how well he experienced the
support they promised him.
1 believe I mentioned in my last, that our 3 per
cents, were as low as 581 they have from that time
been, and still are, lower ; they were lately little more
than 54, but have rather mended within a few
weeks."
A Jamaica paper of the 13th ult. mentions—That
the inhabitants of Turks-Bland have lately been mal
treated by the ciews of several American vessels, and
compelled to dispose of their salt, &c. on very unequi
table terms.—lt is added, that one cf his British Ma
jesty s vessels is intended fhcrtly to be sent there from
Bort-Royal, as well to protect the Bland, as to en
force vefiels trading there duly to enter and clear.
The Medea frigate lately arrived in England from
the East-Indies, informs, that the Cato, Admiral
Parker's slag-ship, of 50 guns, in her passage out,
struck againit a rock and foundered.—l he Admiral
and crew, besides a number of troops on board, pe
riled.
BALTIMOR E, April 24.
In a late debate, in the British House of Commons,
Mr. Erlkine reprobated the new ministry as a ministry
set up by the house of lords, in defiance to the de
claied sense of the house of commons. He added, that
the right honourable gentleman (Mr. Pitt) at the head
of that ministry, could not look for the confidence of
the majority of that house, because he had come in
upon secret influence. The son of lord Chatham had
abetted that which had ruined his father! He had
besides treated the majority of that house with appro
brious epithets. It was as vain therefore as it must
be impracticable, that a right honourable gentleman,
whole recent language within these walls had been so
violent against the majority, should be able of a sud
den to regain the confidence of the majority, and with
out the confidence of the majority, every body knew
he could not ad a day as a minister.
Sir Edward Aftley laid, before he joined the coali
tion, he mull drink deep of the waters of Lethe, and
forget that the noble lord in the blue ribband (North)
had loft T hirteen Colonies, that he had dissipated one
hundred millions of the publick money, that he had
disgraced the country, and wafted its strength, in car
ryi^ on a wicked and ruinous war.
Lord North said, lie challenged that account which
he was daily threatened with being brought to, and
earnestly wrflied for it, that he might refute the unjust
accufaticns that had been so often urged against him.