The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1784-09-20 00:00:00, page 3

The gentleman said, if there is not any body
within hearing (stepping with the cutler into the par
lour that was behind the shop, and looking over the
curtain) if there is not any body to overlook us I
will tell you for what purpose I want it.—The cutlet
said he would thank him.—l want it, fays the buyer
of it, to cut gentlemens' pockets ! The maker was
thunder-struck, but was enjoined not to fay a word
of it to any body, and the Granger took his leave —
but had not been gone ten minutes, before the cutler
found, to his great mortification, that the firft trial of
the knife had been pradifed on him, and the very
two guineas received for it, were, with several others,
and a bank-note, all dexterously conveyed away by
this ingenious filch ; and the poor cutler left to lament
his loss, with the aggravated circumstance of having
been made the dupe of his own curiosity.
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American Intelligence.
N E W-Y O R K, September to.
Extract of a letter from Jamaica, dated March !,.
" A military gentleman, in his passage from An
tigua lately to this island, called at St. Euftatius,
where he found the inhabitants amusing themselves
with burning Lord Rodney and General Vaughan
in effigy; the illand having been delivered up only
the day before to the Dutch. As he was going on
shore, he was hailed from a /hip in the road, and
advised to return, and at least change his garbe,
unless he had an inclination to make a third person
in the conflagration. The officer took the hint, and
returned to his vessel, protesting that although dur
ing the war he had more than once had the honour
of being close by one of those noble commanders,
in a pretty hot fire, he had no ambition, now it was
peace, and he had the misfortune to be reduced, to
aspire again to so brilliant a diftindion."
The Harmony, Willet, from Philadelphia, is ar
rived at London, after 20 days passage.
September 10.
From papers received by the brig Mary, Captain Rox
borrough, cvbich arrived here in fort,-five Days from
Greenock, cue have extracted the following :
LONDON, July 10.
The Dutch are still alarmed at the movements of
the Prussians who are forming a camp of 20,000 men
at Cleves, in East Friefland, within two miles of the
Dutch territories, and near to their garrison of Ne
muguen.
The Dutch are also alarmed on the fide of Flan
ders, they have augmented their troops in Naeftricht
to 8000 men—The Emperor has marched into Bra
bant and Flanders three times that number of troops.
Notwithstanding these hostile appearances, those dif
ferences will probably be soon accommodated, as the
Hollanders must comply with the terms demanded,
being in no capacity to refill either of these great
powers.
The French squadron are not all returned from
the Eaft-lndies. Mons. Termingnon, Who succeeded
to the command as senior officer, when Suffrein left
India, was at Cuddalore the 2d of March last, with
three ships of the line, and four others. Sir Ed
ward Hughes has only the Sultan of 74 guns, De
fence 74, and three or four frigates. A natural jea
lousy should prevent the French having a force supe
rior in that quarter even for a single day.
NEW-BRUNSWIC K, Sept. 14..
The Generals Lincoln, Knox and Putnam, being
appointed commissioners to fettle the Eastern Boun
dary Line between the American United States, and
the lands belonging to Great-Britain, as agreed to by
the late definitive treaty, left Boston for that purpose
on the 26th ult.
His Excellency Governor Clinton left Albany some
days since, on his way to the Indian treaty, which
is to be held at Fort-Schuyler.—We are informed
that a number of Indian Chiefs have already arrived
at said place.
The fad (fays a late London paper) refpeding Mr.
Wilkes in Dr. Wilson's legacy, is simply this ; in the
body of the Dodor's will, made some years since, the
Hreb-patriot was bequeathed 10.000 I.; but in the
codicil, of modern execution, he was cut off with a
Filling, as a memento of his apofiac, !
What purpose the knife is intended, for in all my life
I never made or saw such an one.
Yesterday arrived the (hip Commerce, Captain
Truxtun, in eight weeks from London. Her advices
are no later than those brought by the Britilh packet,
lately arrived at New-York.
Yesterday arrived here the ships Congress, Captain
Knox, from Londonderry ; Three Brothers, Gillis,
from Belfaft; and Favorite John, Hughes, from
Dublin. These vessels have brought near one thou
sand passengers. The Favorite John, had thirteen
weeks passage.
PHILADELPHIA, September 14.
TRENTON, September 10.
At the Supreme Court held in this place last week,
John Smoke was convided of burglary; Noah Cham
berlin and Henry Willfon were severally convided of
grand larceny ; and Andrew Brown was convided of
forgery, for which he was fentenccd to stand an hour
in the pillory.
The Honourable the Justices of the Supreme
Court have appointed Courts of Oyer and Terminer,
and General Gaol Delivery, and of Nifi Prius, to be
held the 26th of October in the county of Bergen,
and 17th of November in the county of Middlesex.
On the iith instant the brig Mary, Captain Rox
borrough, arrived at New-York, in forty-five days
from Greenock.—ln this vefTel the Rev. Dr. John
Witherspoon, and several other gentlemen of the
clergy, came passengers.
Sir, Burlington county
I MET with the enclosed queries by accident,
and I think them worthy of a place in your paper;
your insetting them I think may be of service. Your
compliance will oblige one of your customers.
Yours, &c.
P. S.
U ER I E S.
WHETHER the representatives of a free and
generous people ought not to be independent
in their estates, and independent in their principles ?
Whether every member of the Legislature ought
not to go into the House with clean hands, and un
biased hearts, in refrrd to publick monies and pecu
lations ?
Whether any country can be said to be free or
happy without equal laws and equal justice ?
Whether it is not eflentially necessary for the ho
nour and prosperity of a state or community, that
publick credit Ihould be held (acred and inviolate ?
Whether the condud and proceedings of a late Le
gislature will juftify such conclusions?
Whether it is not the duty of every representative
of a free people to revise, amend or repeal, their laws
when the necessity has ceased, and the continuance
and execution of them are attended with flagrant in
justice, violation of private property, and breach of
the publick peace ?
Whether many ads of oppression and lawless out
rage have not been lately committed under fandion
of the militia law of this State, in force?
Whether our representatives are and ought not to
be the guardians of our lives, liberty and properties ?
Whether their negled and omission has not justly
forfeited the confidence of the good peoples of this
county, and rendered them unworthy the fuffrages
of the free and independent citizens thereof?
WHEREAS Mary Allen, widow of John Alien,
Esq. late of the city of Philadelphia, deceased,
did, by petition to the General Aflembly of the state
of New-Jersey, on behalf of her infant sons, William
Allen and John Allen, pray leave to present a bill to
enable her to fell and convey the undivided five six
teenth parts of the meffuages, furnaces, forges, lands
and tenements, called the Andover iron-works, in the
said state, being the estate of her said sons, devised to
them by their grand-father, William Allen, Esq. late
of Philadelphia, deceased, she giving proper security
that the money for which the fame mail be fold, shall
be well secured and truly accounted for to her said
sons, when they arrive at the age of twenty-one years,
or in case of their decease, to their lawful heirs:—
And whereas, the Honourable the AfTerably did
thereupon order as follows:
House of Assembly, Augufl 19, 1784.
Ordered,
THAT the petitioner have leave to present a bill,
agreeably to the prayer of her petition, at the
next fitting, previously advertising the purport of her
petition, and a copy of this order, for at least three
weeks in the New-Jersey Gazette, and in one of the
Pennsylvania news-papers.
Therefore, in conformity to the said order, the pur
port of the said petition, and a copy of the said order,
are hereby pubjifhed to all concerned, that they may
appear and shew cause, if any they have to shew, why
the prayer of the said petitioner shall not be granted.
MARY ALLEN.
August 26, 1784. gw
By wholesale and retail, at the Printing-Office in
Trenton,
Dutch ALMANACKS
For 1785.
WANTE D,
A Journeyman Fuller,
WHO understands the business, sober and indus
trious ; such a one will meet with good encou
ragement by applying to
2wf ABRAHAM SKIRM.
Nottingham, Burlington county, 14th 9th mo. 1784.
TO BE SOLD,
CAMPHOR,
Opium,
Jesuit's bark,
Jalap,
Ipecacuana,
Tartar emetic,
Spanish files,
Quicksilver,
Calomel,
Red precipitate,
Corrosive sublimate,
Manna,
Senna,
Salt petre,
Musk,
Borax,
Also mprge assortment of Patent Medicines,
elegant ffgeons pocket instruments, best crown and
spring lancets, and neat lancet cases, &c. &c.—Jer
sey State-Money will be taken in payment the
fame as Specie, and every kind of publick securities
at their current value.
Philadelphia, September 13, 1784. jw*
—f- BT-s'o L 57
BY PUBLICK VENDUE,
In the county of Hunterdon, and townlhip of Am
well, on the thirteenth day of the tenth month, Oc
tober, on the premises, at two o'clock in the after
noon,
A Valuable trad of land, containing 326 acres,
140 or thereabout cleared, with a log dwel
linghoufe, barn, &c. and a young apple-orchard; now
in the tenure of Henry Case, bounded by lands for
merly Samuel Scattergood, Robert Pearson and Isaac
De-Cow's. The purchaser paying one-third of the
purchase money in fix months, shall have a deed on
giving security for the other two-thirds; the next
payment in nine months, and the other in twelve
months, with paying interest from the day of sale.
SAMUEL WETHERILIS- n
SAMUEL ALLINSON, J
September 17, 1784. ^w*
~T OBE SOLD,
AT PUBLIC K SALE,
On Monday the 27th of this instant, September, at
the store of Joseph Borden, Esquire, in Borden
town, a variety of fliop goods, confining of the
following articles,
STRIPED and white ticking, black everlastings,
durants, tammies, calimanco, moreen, corduroys,
fuftian, jeans, brown and white linens, velvet, gauze,
handkerchiefs, check linen, calico, Russia Meetings,
dowlas, coatings, flannels, buckram, thread and
worsted hose, threads, sewing silk, gloves and mits,
needles and pins, chip hats, caftor and wool do. gar
tering, bindings, tapes, tapborers, gimblets, fnuff, brass
cocks, stock locks, knives and forks, coat and vest
buttons, shoe and knee-buckles, rice, coffee, sugar, tin
kettles, window glass, earthen ware, a parcel of
queens-ware, glass tumblers, wine glafles, about 20
bushels of fine salt, about 2000 feet of pine boards,
rum and molasses, hogsheads, and a variety of other
articles. Attached as the property of William Gib
son, lately abfeonded, at the suit of Miller and Aber
crombie, and to be fold for cash only, for the bene
fit of the creditors of the said Gibson, by us the fub
fcribeis, auditors appointed by a rule of the supreme
court of the state of New-Jersey. The vendue to be
gin at ten o'clock. JOHN TAYLOR,
Fresh Drugs & Medicines,
A general assortment, just arrived in the last vefTel
from Europe, and now on sale by
DAVID JACKSO N,
In Second-street, midway between Maiket and Chef
nut-ftreets, among which are,
Notice is hereby given
To all Persons whom it may concern,
'HAT the subscriber, one of the children and
I devifees of Joseph Sharp, late of Pilefgrove, in
the county of Salem, and state of New-Jersey, on
behalf of himfelf and others, the children and devifees
of the said Joseph Sharp, in pursuance of leave had
for that purpose, intends to offer to the General As
sembly of New-Jersey, at their next fitting, an ad for
confirming the ad, intitled, ' An ad for barring the
' estate tail in certain lands and tenements in the pro
' vince of New-Jersey, lately belonging to Anthony
' Sharp, the elder, deceased; and also for veiling the
' fame in Isaac Sharp and Joseph Sharp, his grand
' sons, their heirs and afligns, pursuant to an agree
' ment made with the tenants in tail,' except the pro
viso, which suspended the force of the said ad until
the king's pleasure ffiould be known—made and pas
sed by the Legislature of New-Jersey at Burlington,
A. D. 1767. JOSEPH SHARP.
September 17, 1784. 4w%
SAMUEL ROGERS,
JOHN BUTLER.
Bordentown, September 14, 1784. iw%
Gentian,
Cream of tartar.
Flowers of fulphtir,
Salts,
Sal. ammoniac, .
Saffron,
Soccotrine and common
aloes,
Gum ammoniac,
• Affa foetid.
• Benzoin,
Balsam capivi,
Oil annifeed,
— Cinnamon,
— Cloves,
— Lavender.