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CT-1 O enter into a minute Detail of the Advantages of a well-conduced News -Paper, would, at any Time, be im
] pertinent, but more especially at a Crisis which makes a quick Circulation of Intelligence peculiarly interesting to all
the American States. The Publisher, therefore, thinks it will be more to the Purpose, to fommunicate to the
Publick a brief Account of the Nature of his Plan, than to enter into a formal Proof of it's Utility, which he esteems little
less than felf-evident. „, . cr r 1 n
He proposes to print this GAZETTE once a Week, to contain a faithful Account of remarkable Occurrences,
whether foreign or domestic; Materials for which he shall be amply furnifhed with, in Consequence of a general Corre
fpondgnce hek eftablilhmg for that Purpose. ,
Such Proceedings of the Legislature, and Courts of Justice, as may conduce to the Benefit or Entertainment ot his Headers,
Ihail find a Place in his Publications. , , ~ , „ ~ , ,
Essays ufeful or entertaining, Schemes for the Advancement of Irade, Arts and Manufactures, Proposals lor Im
provement's in Agriculture, and particularly in the Culture of Hemp and Flax, will be inserted with Pleafurc. and Alacrity.
The interests of Religion and Liberty, he shall ever think it his peculiar Duty to support ; and, atthTWne Time, to
;reat with disregard the intemperate Effufions of factious 'Zedtots, whether religious or political, as injurious to Virtue, and
iefoudive of Civil Order. With great Care shall he rejed every Proportion to make his Paper a Vehicle for the dark Purposes
of private Malice, by propagating Calumnies against Individuals, wounding the Peace of Families, and inflaming the Minds of
Men with Bitterness and Rancour against one another.
In a ifrord he will spare neither Cost or Pains to make his Paper as ufeful and entertaining as possible; and, while these
Objects are Readily pursued, the Publisher will confidently rely upon the Generosity and Publick Spirit of the Gentlemen of
:his State, for their Countenance and Support, to such a ufeful Undertaking.
NEW-JERSEY GAZETTE.
% tb^ Printer of the New-Jersey Gazette.
Sir,
BEING informed that numbers of people,
under various pretences, are passing from the
State of New-Jersey into the city of Philadelphia,
and returning back into New-Jersey, without, the
permission required by law for going into the ene
my's lines. To prevent such delinquents from
1 leading ignorance whenever they may be appre
. ended, I would acquaint them, thro' the channel
of your paper, that by an act of this State, it is
elony without benefit of clergy, in a man; and, in
.. woman, three hundred pounds fine, or one year's
imprisonment: And that government is determined
A be vigilant in causing such offenders to be appr< -
bended, and brought to condign puniihment.
lam,
.Tour humble Servant,
Princeton, Nov. 25, 1777. W. L.
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AMSTERDAM, August 6.
BY authentic advice received here from Gibral
tar, we are informed that a peace between the
States General and the emperor of Morocco, was
happily concluded at Salee, the 29th of June las ;
and that in consequence his Moorish majesty had
dispatched Don Manuel de Ponres to Gibraltar, to
bear this agreeable news to vice-admiral Pichot, IW 1
to inform him at the fame time, that all the lub
jeas of their High Mightinesses, who ' were made
slaves in his states, had been embarked on board
eapt. Muger's fliip, to be transported to Gibraltar.
Deux Por.ts, July 12. It is reported here that
many letters of marque have been distributed to
divers Ruffian officers, to go on a cruise again? r -
Americans, and that many fllips, are equipping ?r
fh^t purpose at PeterSburgh..
Subscriptions are taken in by all the Members of the Legislature of Ne^-%rfc, ; also, in Middlesex County, by Col. John Neilfon, , David Williamson, John
•lovd Esq. David Olden, Themfon Stclle. Monmouth, John Burrows at Middletown Point, Col. Daniel Hendrickson, Shrewsbury, Col. Thomas Henderson, Free
told Col. Elisha Lawrence, Upper-Freehold. Eflex, Dr. Alexander Mc. Whorter, James Caldwell, Jedediah Chapman, John Rots, Esq. Dr. Jonathan Daytop,
Jfaac' Woodruff, Esq. Jecamiah Smith, Esq. John Range, Esq. Amos Potter, Esq. Somerset, John Wortman, John Durham, Cornelius Tunifon, fen. CO. Hyer,
William Verbru'vck, 'Efq. Ipfeph Caftertinc. Bergen, Col. Theunis Dey, Roeloff Weftervelt, Esq. James Board, Gabriel Ogden, Esq. Thomas Blanch. Burlington,
Tofenh Borden, Esq. Maj&ikUaglahd, William Newbold, Jonathan Hough, Esq. John Cox, Efq.^Batfto, Zachariah Roffel, Isaac Wood, Josiah Foster, Moses
keninton. Gloucefler, Isaac Kav, Esq. John Sparks, Esq. Col. Richard Somers. Salem, John Holme, Esq. Col. Samuel Dick, John Mayhew, Esq. Jeconias Weed.
Cumberland Ananias Say r e. Esq. Timothy Elmer, Esq. Samuel Ogden, Esq. Col. Enos Seely. Cape-Maj, Henry Hand, Esq. James Godfrey, Esq. Hunterdon, Abra
ham T lunt,'Efa.jaW r Smith, Esq; Moore Furman, Esq. John Mehelm, Esq Joseph Inflee, Esq. Morris, Stephen Day, Esq. Alexander Carmichael,.Efq. Stephen.
Oucklii'm,' wriliain Yov±e,Efq. Abel Cary, Major John Stark, Lieut. Col. Robert Gaston, John Mandervilk, Esq. Henry Remfen, Esq. Suffix, Lieut. Col. John
%' va # d Abia Brown, Ef^ imThv S'ymmes, Esq. Thomas Anderson, Esq. Col. John Rofencrantz, Aaron Hankifon, Dr. Kennedy, Ezekiel Ayres—Charles Beffo
met, at Bristol; and by the Printer hereof.
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Whitehall, Augufl 30. The king has been pleas
ed to appointed John Dalling, efq. to be captain
general and governor in chief of his majesty's island
of Jamaica, in the room of Sir Basil Keith, deceased.
L OND O N,
July 24. Orders are sent to Ireland for getting
ready provisions fufficient to load forty fail of tran
sports for America, which are to be at Cork the
20th of August next.
August 12. It is said, that governor Pownall
and general Tryon are to have the two ribbands
now vacant by the death of Sir Charles Montague'
and lord Inchinquin.
A letter received from Paris has the following
paragraph : “ The Pallis frigate is failed from Brcli
Ar Philadelphia, commanded by monsieur de Du
vbl, who has a proclamation from the French king,
aich is to be published in America, .requiring all
French officers in the fervive of the Congress, on
pain of death, immediately to return to France.'?
P'^fylvania Ledger.
The divisions in the cabinet, for and against a
war with France, stood thus:
For a war.
Lord G. Germaine,
Lord Suffolk,
Lord Barrington,
Lord Gower,
Mr. Wedderburne,
A r. Rigby.-
General Carleton has obtained leave to come
Lome, and' general Haldiman Succeeds him as go
vernor of (Quebec.
Colonel Allan M'Lean is appointed a brigadier
general.
August 30. A treaty is said to be concluded with
Haifa for taking 36,009 Ruffians into pay, and with
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Against it.
Lord North,
Lord Mansfield,
Lord Weymouth,
Lord Nugent,
Mr. Jenkirfon,
Mr. Ellis,
The King.
the king of Pruffa, but'the contents are not known;
it is not for a body of his troops, but 12,000 more
Heflians, Wirtemburghers, Palatines, and Meck
lenburghers, are agreed for. Four and twenty new
regiments are to be raised in England and Ireland,
of 500 men each ; so that the army in America,
next campaign, will not be Short of 80,000 men.
WANTED IMMEDIATELY,
In t,he Character of an Apprentice,
AL A D About 14 years of age, who can read,
and write a fair hand, and can be well recom
mended for his honesty and sobriety. For further
particulars inquire of the printer.
November 20, 1777.
FIVE POUNDS
R E W A R D.
WA S loft on Thursday the 1 3d) instant, be
tween Bristol and Newtown, in the county
of Bucks, a double cased Silver WAT CH, mak
er's name Benjamin Lamb, London, the number
forgotten, marked II in a double cypher on the*
back of the outside case, the cypher somewhat worn,
has a ribbon firing, a brass key much worn, and a:
small red Cornelian seal set in silver, with the com
pass and square in the silver work. Whoever finds
the fame, and will leave it with Mr. Robert Ram
sey in Newtown, Mr. Beflonet in Bristol, Mr. HAc
Wood in Mountholly, or with the printer, Shall
have the above reward.
N. B. If the person into whole pofTeffion it may
tome, Should be so ungenerous as not to return it
to either of the above gentlemen, every watchmaker
and others, are requeued to endeavour to expose
the villainy. the*
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