The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1780-03-15 00:00:00, page 2

Paris, Nov. 23. The privateer Duc D'Eftiffac, of
Dunkirk, has taken 15 prizes, of which nine have ar
rived at Chrißianfand, in Norway, richly laden with
hemp, linens, iron, tallow, &c.
A cutter privateer of 18 guns and 72 men, from
Dover, has been carried into Breit by the Concord
and Glory frigates.
Hamburgh, Dec. 2. By letters from Norway we
learn, that two American vessels coming from Got
tenburgh, having been pursued by some Englilh arm
ed vessels, had taken refuge under the guns of Frede
rickfholm, a Danish fortrefs near Chriftianfand. The
Englilh were rcfolved to attack them, and even in
formed the Governor of it, who lignified to them that
these vessels had taken refuge under the protection of
his Danini Majesty, and that he would not fuffer them
to be insulted. The Englilh perceiving by the pre
parations, that he was rcfolved to defend them,
thought belt to go off.
Tangiers, Oct. 15. The King of Morocco, our so
vereign, has publilhed an edict, freeing those vessels
of all duties whatever, even that of anchorage, that
Ihall bring into his kingdom wheat, bailey, butter,
and all kinds of provilions. This edict is made on
account of a general famine which has raged some
months on the coaits of Africa, and however dilpofed
his Mooriih Majesty may be to difobiige Spain, it will
prevent his allowing any provilions to be exported
for the relief of Gibraltar.
having French tommiffions, in company with an
other, said to be an American, brought those frigates
into the Texel as prizes taken on the open sea ; that
they cannot undertake to determine whether those
prizes belong to the French or the Americans; or if
they are legal prizes or not; nor can they come to
any determination refpeding Paul Jones. That his
Excellency the Ambassador has already been made
acquainted with their readiness to exercise humanity
to the wounded on board these vessels, and that the
proper orders were given. Their High Mightinesses
also approved of the conduct of the admiralty of Am
sterdam. The 29th Sir Joseph Yorke presented an
other memorial more pressing on the lame fubjed.
Cadiz. Oa. 26. The last advices from St. Roch are
that Don Barcelo has taken a galliot which attempt
ed to get out from Gibraltar : A letter is said to have
been found sewed up in some old eloathing, by which
he learnt the Bate of that place, and that provilions
were scarce, altho' a Venetian vessel loaded with rice
had got in. A battery raised by the enemy on a height
which commands ours, is mounted with the guns of
the Panther, of 60 guns, the only Blip they had in
the harbour.
Nov. 12. According to the last reports government
received refpe&ing the number and disposition of
their troops in America, they have at New-York
13,600, Rhode-lfland 3,300, Penobfcot 500, Halifax
1,350, Canada 2,500, Georgia 3,000, Florida 350.
Total 29,600.
Nov. 16. We cannot, fays a correfpdndent, furnifh
a more authentic proof of the decline of the trade of
this kingdom, than by comparing the number of ves
sels employed in it ten years ago with the present
number, in 1769 were 9763 vessels, and this year
only 5882.
A Spanilh Blip, of between 6 and 700 tons, laden
with sugar, coffee, logwood, and hard dollars, bound
from the Havanna to Cadiz, valued at 200,000!. is
taken by the Antigallican privateer, and carried into
Lisbon.
The election of a member for the county of Mid
dlesex was made yesterday. There were near 2000
electors. Mr. Wood was chosen unanimously, the
ministerial candidates having withdrawn themselves.
Nov. 5. Many of the ihires of Scotland having pe
titioned for liberty to form volunteer companies, as
the Englilh are authorized by government to do, the
Court thought it improper to grant it. Scotland is
much diffatisfied at the refufal. The following letter
was written from Haddington on the occasion, dated
Oct. 26, 1779. "We have had a meeting of the
county to confider of the interior state of the nation.
An unanimous resolution passed to present an address
to the King, reprefentmg our present defencelefs
fate, and to pray that a militia may be established in
Scotland, or at lead that the inhabitants may be fur
nimed with arms for their own defence. Next Wed
r hiay there will be another meeting to finifh the af
fair. If government refufes us the defence of a na
tional militia, the people threaten to arm themselves
in the fame manner as the associates of Ireland. In
all East Lothian we have only three troops of dra
goons, and not one ihip of war on the coatt from
Berwick to Leith.
Nov. 17. They write from Portsmouth, that Ad
miral Rodney, with four (hips of the line and five
others is to take up a convoy of transports at some
port of Scotland for the Weft-Indies. It is said they
will have on board 10,000 men; when he joins Afy
iniral Arbuthnot, it is said, he will have 35 snips of
the line.
miral Rodney, with tour mips or tne line ana live
others is to take up a convoy of transports at some
oort of Scotland for the Weft-Indies. It is said they
will have on board 10,000 men; when he joins Ac^
miral Arbuthnot, it is said, lie will have 35 Blips of
the line.
Nov. 23. The winds seem to have been raging
without controul in all quarters. We hear of (hip
reeks and disasters every where. We know not
Aether Sir Charles Hardy has fuffered, but from all
~ out-ports we hear of numberless accidents.
%,, 16. Wednesday last, being the third day of
election of a Chamberlain for the city, Mr. James
Ts '' '" ™° '° """"d any '°'^ r> I°' the field
LONDO N, October 29.
to Mr. Wilkes. On casting up the poll, the numbers
appeared thus, —For Mr. Wilkes 2332, Mr. James
370, majority 1962.
The East-India Company have never been so unfor
tunate as they have this year, as in the course of it
they have loft four rich (hips, viz. The Rochfort,
the Colebrooke, the London and the Valentine.
Nov. 27. Governor Vaughan, who arrived eight
days since at Portsmouth from St. John's, Newfound
land, came to his lodgings in Jermain-Breet, St.
James, yesterday The frigate in which he was pas
senger was under convoy of a 74 gun Blip, which
funk on the banks of Newfoundland in a violent gale
of wind, and all hands periihed, the frigate having
sprung a leak, was in the greatest distress, and was
obliged to throw overboard her guns. The Tortola
fortunately fell in with them, and perceiving their si
tuation bore down and toolr out the crew. There
lemained so little provision on board, that they had
been reduced for nine days pad to a quart of water
and a biscuit a man per day, and without the assist
ance of the Tortola they mud have all periihed. The
crew dying with fatigue and hunger were not able to
work the pumps, and her hold was so full of water,
that the funk in a few minutes after they quitted her.
Nov. 29. This day's paper informs us, that an ex
press arrived on Sunday last from Ireland, which gives
an account that the House of Commons had unani
mously passed a Money-Bill, to continue only fix
months, that is to fay, it commences at Christmas
and ends in June.
Saturday last Lord Lyttleton died suddenly at his
house at Epsom, after having dined heartily with a
number of guests. He was born Jan. 30, 1744.
Nov. 30. Yesterday a duel was fought between
Mr. Charles Fox and Mr. Adams, in which Mr. Fox
received a wound which is not dangerous.
Dec. 3. The vessel which arrived yesterday from
New-York, with dispatches for Lord George Ger
main, brings account of the loss of the Prince of
Wales, of 74 guns, (which is the Blip Admiral Bar
rington was in when he engaged the Count D'EBaing.)
She funk in a violent gale of wind, in her pafiage
from the Weft-Indies to England.
The 74 gun Blip which was loft on the banks of
Newfoundland, appears to be the Buckingham.
The Spitfire, a privateer belonging to Liverpool,
funk in a gale of wind, and the crew consisting of 120
men, periihed.
The Bctfey, Capt. Perry, of Liverpool, for the
Weft-Indies; also a brig, name unknown, are loft in
Carnarvon Bay.
Dec. 4. The affairs of Ireland have taken a singular
turn, and raised a process against administration,
which will be decided ex cathedra by an Irish jury,
and will determine whether the ads of the Britifli
Parliament have any weight in Ireland.
A merchant presented a parcel of cloths, the manu
facture of Ireland, to the Cußom-Houfe, demanding
a clearance for them for Rotterdam : It was refufed
him as he expected, and he was shewed the Englifli
laws against it ; he thereupon sued the officer of the
Customs, so that if there is no obstacle put to it, the
most interesting question for the trade of Ireland will
be legally decided, and it will then be perceived what
force this contradictory judgment will give to that
maxim of independence which those of the opposition
in Ireland, are endeavouring to eftabliih with regard
to this affair.
Dec. 7. The Duke of Cumberland privateer cut
ter, from Southampton, is taken by the French fri
gate Aigrette, and carried into Brest.
Sunday last the crew of the Jackall cutter, which
was in the Downs, mutinied, and after having put
their officers in irons, put to sea; there ,is no proba
bility of her Beering for any Englilh port.
Letters from Falmouth mention, the loss of the
Shark privateer; also of the Richard, Capt. Jackson,
who failed a few days before for the Weft-Indies, the
was loft near Beaumaris in Wales, and out of the
crew which were jo raen, only 18 were saved. That
another vessel, supposed to be the Griffin, Captain
Chamberlain, bound to Africa, had been loft on the
fame coast, nearly the fame time, and all hands had
periihed. A hoop from Parkgate to Dublin; and a
Swedifli vessel had met with the fame fate.
A person arrived yesterday from Yarmouth brings
an account that the coasters had fuffered very much
in the hard winds, on Thursday evening and Friday
morning last, among other Blipwrecks, the Arabella,
of Dundee, was loft two leagues north of Cromer,
with ten of the crew, the Capt. and 3 men were saved.
Two 20 gun ships are ordered to fail immediately,
to carry dispatches to Sir Henry Clinton, who at this
time is supposed to be in South-Carolina.
Yesterday Capt. Salter, of the Huflar frigate, arriv
ed at the admiralty office, with dispatches from Gib
raltar. On his passage he fell in with and took a Spa
nish frigate, from the South seas, with a million of
specie, betides other rich commodities on board.
The Huflar mounts 28 guns, the Spaniard 36, and
was capable of carrying 60.
Commodore Johnftone, in the Romney of 52 guns,
with the Tartar, and another frigate, and the Rat
tlesnake cutter, arrived at Lisbon on the 13th Nov.
On his passage he took the Santa Margaretta, a very
fine Spaniih frigate of 36 guns.
A letter from Dublin, by the last mail, informs,
that they have nearly established a national bank, and
that the fubferiptiens already amounted to 400,0001.
sterling. Messrs. La Touche, Bankers, had subscrib
ed 20,0001.
Extract of a letter from Dartmouth, Nov. 6.
“ The following is an exact account of the cargo
of the Spanifti ihip the N. S. de Piedad, taken by the
Dart privateer of this port, and now fafe in our har
bour; the is upwards of 600 tons burthen, has been
built seven years, mounts 16 carriage guns, had 70
men, was fitted up for close quarters, and yet struck
to the Dart, after firing only two guns, though the
mounts but 14 four pounders, had but 60 men, and
is not 200 tons burthen : —142,117 silver dollars, —
38,949 dollars in gold doubloons, —31 ingots of gold,
5 ingots of filver,---42 bales of fine beaver,---31,061
hides in the hair,---3 bales of fine wool, —1 ditto fine
fur. Exclusive of the ingots of gold and silver (the
value of which is not known) the rest of the cargo as
far as it hath been known by the bills of lading (tho'
it is supposed there is more on board) amounts to
eighty thousand pounds.
Dec. 18. Yesterday afternoon an officer from Sir
Peter Parker's fleet arrived at the admiralty, with ad
vice that a detachment of frigates, with a body of
land forces, had furprized and taken a fort in the
Spanish Weft-Indies, with two Spanish galleons in
the harbour, having on board three millions of dol
lars, besides other goods. The above Blips put into
that port on hearing that war was declared between
Great-Britain and Spain, to wait for a convoy, of
which the Admiral got quick intelligence.
Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen,
I have learned a lesson in captivity.—The enemy
keep no terms with those they Bile rebels; let us
profit by the example, and hold none with those who
publicly or fccretly adhere to the cause of the tyrant. ~
Artful and insidious as they are, let us be no longer
irnpofed upon, but effectually put difaffeCtion out of
countenance. For the attainment of the great ob
ject of the war our citizens have bled freely, and fa
crificed every ease and comfort. Your enemies con
fefs them to have been brave, and to have contend
ed for their country like freemen ; and we know that
all our councils have been uniformly leading to pre
sent fafety and permanent independency. Hitherto
sustained by your own virtue, there is no doubt but
that, in your present dißreffes, Congress will support
you. Let us not, therefore, despair ; but chearful
ly bear every present ill, rather than admit an idea
of a partial accommodation with the enemy. Real
services from our illustrious and most friendly ally,
are complete proofs of the sincerity of his intentions;
and the junction of Spain and Sweden in the war are
new pillars to the independency of America, which
no earthly powers, in my judgment, can Ihake.
George Walton.
To His Honour George Walton, Esquire, Governor
and Commander in Chief of the said State.
WE, the Representatives of the Freemen of
Georgia, in Assembly met, beg leave to inform
your Honour of your unanimous election to the
office of Governor of this State.
The firm confidence we repose in your abilities,
and steady attachmment to the independence of our
country, give us full assurance that, under your admi
nistration, a perseverance in those exertions which
have hitherto characterized the faithful councils of
this country, will take place. Sir, We have con
signed to your care a sacred trust, the government of
a people who have bled freely in the cause of the
confederal alliance, and are determined to seal the
attempt of redeeming this country with the blood of
all, rather then submit to the detested and abomina
ble yoke of Britifli rule.
William Glascock, Speaker.
To the Honourable the Speaker and the rest of the Mem
bers of the Aflembly of the State of Georgia.
Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen,
I am thankful for the honour of your appoint
ment, and polite address of yesterday : But I had been
hopeful, from the late afflictions with which it has
pleated Heaven to visit me, that I should not have
been required, at this time, to take an active station
in your affairs : Nor would any thing but the situati
on of the state, calling for the afliftance of every man,
induce me to accept it. Relying upon your faithful
support, I Biall use my best efforts to enforce the laws
for the fafety and welfare of the people.
On your part much may be done. —The constitu
tion and the laws call for a vigorous support, to pre
vent otherwise unavoidable anarchy. A representa
tion at Congress is most essentially necessary : The
well-being of our state ; the exigence of its indepen
dency; and the balance of fufferage upon questions
determinable by inevitable interest—all depend upon
it: Nor is the restoration of credit to our paper cir
culation less important. The enemy, exhausted by
great exertions, may chufe to risk all in one conclud
ing effort the ensuing winter; and therefore it is in
cumbent to make the most speedy and effectual pre
parations for the fafety of the state. A corps of
horsemen to watch the motions of the enemy and the
Indians, and fufficient to keep out the thieves from
both, Ihould immediately be raised. Decisive mea
sures ihould be pursued against the unhappy but dan
gerous few, who Bill live amongst us —and yet love
our enemies ! My late situation gave me an opportu
nity of feeing, that by persons of this description,
the councils of the states are betrayed. By our laws
it is already criminal to correspond with or fend in
telligence to the enemy ; but some certain and effec
tual mode of detection might be pointed out and
authorized.
GEORGI A.