The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1786-10-02 00:00:00, page 3

TRENTON, October 2.
To the honourable the legijlatures of Virginia, Delaware,
Pennsylvania, New-Jerfe, and Ne<w- York.
THE commissioners from the said states refpedively,
assembled at Annapolis, humbly beg leave to report;
That, purluant to their several appointments, they
met at Annapolis, in the state of Maryland, on the
eleventh day of September instant, and having pro
ceeded to a communication of their powers, they found
that the states of New-York, Pennsylvania and Virgi
nia had, in substance, and nearly in the fame terms,
authorifed their refpedtive rg-mmiflioners ' to meet
such commissioners as were, or might be, appointed
by the other states in the union, at such time and place
as should be agreed upon by the said commissioners,
to take into consideration the trade and commerce of
the United States; to confider how far an uniform
system in their commercial intercourse and regulations
might be necessary to their common interest and per
manent harmony, and to report to the several states
such an aft, relative to this great objed, as when una
nimoully ratified by them, would enable the United
States, in Congress assembled, effedually to provide
for the fame.'
1 hat the state of Delaware had given similar powers
to their commissioners, with this difference only, that
the ad to be framed, in virtue of those powers, is re
quired to be reported ' to the United States in Con
gress assembled, to be agreed to by them, and con
firmed by the legislatures of every ftate.'
That the state of New-Jersey had enlarged the ob
jed of their appointment, empowering their commissi
oners ' to confider how far an uniform system in their
man by the name of Peggy Glyn, Was iriftantly Milled
with lightning. At Eaft-Hartford four cows were kill
ed under one tree. At Middleton the mast of a sloop
was split to pieces, and some other damage done.
On Saturday the 15th of July last, as the wife of
Mr. Daniel Green, of East-Windsor, wad walking at a
small distance from her house, the was attacked by a
villain who rose suddenly out of a thicket, and at
tempted to throw her upon the ground with an intent
to ravish her. To prevent the unfortunate woman
from alarming her family, the monster thrust his hand
with such violence upon her mouth, that he beat out
one of her teeth, but finding that her outcries had
been heard by a young woman who was coming to
her assistance, the villain, enraged with his disappoint
ment, stabbed the woman in the arm with a broad
knife, and escaped into the woods.
Sept. 18. We hear from Great-Barrington, that a
large number of men (who laboured under the into
lerable grievances of being obliged to pay their honest
debts) assembled there on Tuesday last, for the lauda
ble purpose of flopping the Court of Common Pleas,
by law appointed to be holden on that day, which
they effeded without opposition.
O^Otyo&frpo—o-
PRINCETON, Sept. 18.
Yesterday, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, the an
nual commencement began ; the Senior Class, the Fa
culty, and the Trustees of the College, walked in
procession from the College to the church, when the
exercises of the day began in the following manner:
Ordir of the Exercises of Commincement.
Prayer by the President.
1. Salutatory oration in Latin, on the duties of ma
gistrates, by Samuel F. Snowden.
2. Intermediate oration on heroism, by Edward
Graham.
3. Essay on the improvement of the mind, by Wil
liam Wallace.
4. Essay on the present state of poetry in America,
by William Hugg.
MV3IC K.
5. Essay on the instability of human affairs, by Tho
mas Grant.
6. Essay on college diet, and the ingenuity of a col
lege beau, by Abimael Nicoll.
7. Essay on the advantages of our present civil efta
bliihments, by P. W. Livingston.
& Essay on prejudice, by Thomas Pollock.
Musick.
9. Essay on the advantages of civil society, by James
Imlay.
10. Essay on domeflick and political difeord, by
Samuel Stewart.
11. An ironical essay on the absurdity of the mathe
maticks, and the science of demonstration, by Willi
am-Gordon Forman.
12. Intermediate oration on the evils of severe penal
laws, by Ralph Hunt. • r
Music k.—l nt 1 R v 4u
Afternoon.
13. Second salutatory oration in Latin, on the bene
fit of literature, by Edward Johnston.
14. Intermediate oration on the love of our country,
and zeal in promoting its interests, by William Brown.
15. Essay on ridicule, considered as a test of troth,
by Charles Smith.
Music k.
16. Essay on certain characters under the denomina
tions of goflings, thick heads and fofts, by Henry E.
Coleman.
17. Essay on the liberty of the press, by John Van-
Cleve.
18. Essay on benevolence, by Henry Smalley.
Musick.
19. Essay on history, by Samuel F. Snowden.
Degrees conferred.—Premiums declared.
20. Valedictory oration, by Maturin Livingston.
Conclusion with prayer by the President.
By order of the Commissioners,
JOHN DICKINSON, Chairman.
Dated at Annapolis,)
14th Sept. 1786.
• Pursuant to the thirteenth article of the confe
deration.
Extras of a letter dated at Neca-York September Bth,
to a gentleman near Princeton.
" I am sorry to find the Hessian Fly has made its
progress so far through New-Jersey as to reach your
neighbourhood. lam told they have got rid of it on
Long-Island. The only means, I can find, used for
dommercial regutaiehsrttrido/fyr important matters,
might be necessary to. the common interest and per
manent harmony of the several states ; arid to report
such an aft on the fubjed, as when ratified by them,
would enable the United States in Congress assembled
effectually to provide for the exigencies of the union.'
That appointments of commissioners have also been
made by the states of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts,
Rhode-Ifland and North-Carolina, noneof whom have,
however, attended : but that no information has been
received by your commiffiqner; of any appointment
having been made by the states of Connecticut, Mary
land, South-Carolina or Georgia,
That the express terms of the powers to your com
missioners, supposing a deputation from all the states,
and having for object the trade and commerce of the
United States, your commissioners did not conceive it
advisable to proceed on the business ot'their miffitn,
under the circumstance of so partial and defective a
representation.
Deeply imprefled, however, with the magnitude and
importance of the object confided to them on this og
cafion, your commissioners cannot forbear to indulge
an expreflion of their eatneft and unanimous wilh,
that speedy mealures may be taken to effect a general
meeting of the states, in a future convention, for the
fame and such other purposes as the situation of pub
lick affairs may be found to require.
If in expressing this wish, or in intimating any other
sentiment, your commissioners should seem to exceed
the ftrift bounds of their appointment, they entertain
a full confidence, that a conduct dictated by an anx
iety for the welfare of the United States, will not fail
to receive an indulgent conftrudion.
In this persuasion, four commissioners submit an
opinion, that the idea of extending the powers of their
deputies to other objects, ' than those of Commerce,
which has been adopted by the state of New-Jersey,
was an improvement on the original plan, and will
deserve to be incorporated into that of a future con
vention. They are the more naturally led to this con
clusion, as in the course of their reflections on the
fubjed, they have been jnduced to think, that the
power of regulating trade is of such comprehensive
extent, and will enter so far into the general system of
the federal government, that to give it efficacy, and
to obviate questions and doubts concerning its precise
nature and limits, may; require a correspondent ad
justment of other parts of the federal system.
That there are important defects in the system of
the federal government, is acknowledged by the aCts
of all those states which have concurred in the pre
sent meeting ; that the defects upon a closer examin
ation may be found greater, and more numerous, than
even these ads imply, is at least so far probable, from
the embarrassments which charaCterife the present state
of our national affairs, foreign and domeftick, as may
reasonably be supposed to merit a deliberate and can
did discussion, in some mode which will unite the sen
timents and counsels of all the states. In the choice of
the mode, your commissioners are of opinion, that a
convention df deputies from the different states, for
the special and foie purpose of entering into this in
vestigation, and digesting a plan for supplying such
defects as may be discovered to exist, will bel entitled
to a preference, from considerations which will occur
without being particularifed.
Your commissioners decline an enumeration of those
national circumstances on which their opinion, re
fpeding the propriety of a future convention, with
more enlarged powers, is founded; as it would be an
useless intrusion of fads and observations, most of
which have been frequently the fubjeC tof publick dis
cussion, and none of which can have escaped the pe
netration of those to whom they would, in this instance,
be addressed. They are however of a nature so se
rious, as, in the view of your commissioners, to ren
der the situation of the United States delicate and
critical, calling for an exertion of the united virtue and
wisdom of all the members of the confederacy.
Under this impreflion, your commissioners, with
the most refpedful deference, beg leave to suggest
their unanimous conviction, that it may essentially
tend to advance the interest of the union, if the states
by whom they have been refpeQively delegated would
themselves concur, and use (heir endeavours to procure
the concurrence of the other states, in the appoint
ment of commissioners to meet at Philadelphia on the
second Monday in May next ; to take into considerati
on the situation of the United States ; to devise. such
further provisions as shall appear to them necessary
to reader the constitution of the federal government
adequate to the exigencies of the union ; and to re
port such an act for that purpose to the United States
in Congress assembled, * as when agreed to by them,
and afterwards confirmed by the legislatures of every
state, will effectually provide for the fame.
Though your commissioners could not with proprie
ty address these observations and sentiments to any
but the states they have the honour to represent ; they
have nevertheless concluded, from motives of refped,
to transmit copies of this report to the United States
in Congress assembled, and to the executives of the
other states.
" I lately met with an account of a worm which at
tacked the vessels in Sweden, and threatened the de
firuftion of the whole fleet and vessels of that kingdom.
The celebrated Linneus was employed by the court
to watch its progress, and, if possible, devise some
means of putting a flop to its ravages^ He repaired
to the port where the royal navy is briilt, and, after
diligent examination, found it was produced by a fly,
which at certain seasons deposited its eggs in the green
wood. Upon this he ordered the wood prepared for
building to be put under water at that season, and
when the term was over to be taken out. The con
sequence was, that the propagation of the worm was
flopped: and it being found that the fhip # timber was
rendered more lading by being soaked when green, in
the salt water, the practice is still continued."
A gentleman in the neighbourhood of Princeton
recommends rolling of wheat in the fall and spring, to
prevent injury from the Hessian fly.—To this he im
putes his grain escaping, whilst neighbouring and ad
joning fields, unrolled, have been injured.
The firft rolling should be given in dry weather,
about the beginning of November, or before the
ground be frozen.—The second should be given in
April, or about the firft of May, when the ground
is dry and fettled after the. froft is out, and before
the wheat begins to pipe.—This gentleman is so con
fident of the advantages arising from the roller in this
refpeft, that he has not hesitated to sow wheat as
usual.
that purpose, have been to forbear sowing wheat;
and in stead thereof to sow rye: by which it would
appear that wheat is its proper nutriment. It would
be well if some judicious person would carefully watch
its appearance, its time and mode of propagation, and
from thence endeavour to find out means to destroy it.
I think it an object worthy the attention of your le
gislature to prevent, if possible, the progress of thia
deftrudive infeft.
Agreeably to an all of Ahembly will be fold to the
highest bidder, on Tuesday the seventh of
November next, on the premises,.
THE publick barracks in the City of Burlington,
1 together with the lot of ground they stand on:
Three months credit will be given to the purchaser
for payment, which may be made in lawful money of
this state, notes given for depreciation of pay due the
officers and soldiers of the Jersey line, notes given by
commissioners on fcttlement of pay due to the militia
of this state, and notes given by the treasurer for ba
lances due to persons on demands against forfeited
estates, or any of them.
THOMAS FENIMORE, Agent.
State of New-Jersey,)
Sept. 26, 1786. ) jw
EMERSON'S
EXCELLENT ELECTUARY,
To be fold at his Store in Trenton.
IT cures the quinsy, and fore mouth in grown per
sons; the thrush, or fore mouth in children: It
also cures the inward bleeding-piles, and the fedrvy
in the gums; and it is so fafe a medicine that it may
be given to a child ten days old. The number of
persons cured of these disorders, both young and old,
in Pennsylvania and other places, renders it needless
to give any further encomium on it. Directions for
taking it will be given with each pot.
< 6w 5/ pd.
Gioucefter county, state of New-Jersey, July 1, 1786,
Publick notice is hereby given to all
persons whom it may concern,
THAT the fubferibers John Porch and Patrick
Flanningham, in purfuapce of an ad of the
legislature of, the state of New-Jersey, made and
passed at Trenton, on the Sth day of October, Anno
Domini 1782, intitled, 6 an ad for the relief of per
sons who have loft their deeds and other instruments
of writing containing the title of their lands, intend
to apply to the supreme court of judicature, of the
state of New-Jersey, 10 be held at Trenton, or
where-ever the fame court shall be held, on the se
cond Tuesday in November next, to remedy the loss
of the following deeds or instruments of writing, con
cerning their title to twenty-five acres of cedar
swamp, in Deptford township, in the county of
Gloucester, being part of a larger trad formerly sur
veyed to one Henry Roe, deceased.
1. A deed from the said Henry Roe to Benjamia
Cheefman, in fee for the aforefaid twenty-five acres
of cedar swamp.
2. A deed from the fame Cheefman for the fame
twenty-five acres to James Collins in fee.
3. A deed from said Collins to John Lewis in fee,
for the lands last aforefiid, who by his last will de
vised the said twenty-five acres to Peter Mancape in
fee.
4. A Deed from Peter Mancape to Joseph Cow
gill, for the fame twenty-five acres in fee.
5. A deed from the said Cowgill to the fubferibers
in fee for the said land. All which deeds were ac
cidentally burnt in the house of John Porch.
John Porch,
3m 108* Patrick Flanningham.