The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1784-07-12 00:00:00, page 2

mented !
It is notorious that the duke of Rutland accepted
his present high station, upon the most open and ge
nerous principles —determined upon the esteem and
applause of the people of Ireland, his grace would
not be prescribed to narrow systems. His good inten
tions, however, are at the present moment in great
danger of being subverted ; the odious bill for re
ftriding the liberties of the press being alone Suffici
ent to Shadow all bis virtue.
Mr. Ord finds the people of Ireland by no means
so tradable and credulous as he was intruded. He
has received several hard knocks in the House of
Commons, and dreads nothing io much as the return
of that old parliamentary bruiser, Mr. Flood, who
is hourly expeded in Dublin.
Accounts from Florence mention, that the Abbe
Ximenes, Profeffor of Mathematicks to the Great
Duke of Tufeany, has lately made several experi
ments upon seroftatick globes, and has found the
fleem of boiling water preferable to inflammable air.
We hear from Dijon, that Mr. Morveau, chymift
and secretary to the academy of that city, in filling
the air balloon, makes use, with success, of the gaz
of potatoes, which he has found,,by repeated expe
riment, is, to the inflammable air from metals, as fix
to seven.
The Devonfliire, Portland, Cavendifli families, have,
for a length of time, principally governed the county
of York; and Lord John Cavendish, with a person
of his own nomination, has for three parliaments, re
presented the city of York, without any opposition.
But the impolitick lupport given by these families, to
the unpopular and desperate schemes of the prefect
opposition, has convinced them, that the people of
that county possess virtue enough to refill: their com
mands, when incompatible with the welfare of the
state, and contrary to the interest of the kingdom at
large.
Mr. Pitt now applies himfelf very constantly to
business ; some popular bills are now under considera
tion, among which is one, that by taxing certain ar
ticles more immediately under the title of luxuries,
which will affect only those who can belt afford it,
and who are the faireft objects.
A short time before the difTolution of the late par
liament, Mr. Fox declared in the Houfc of Com
mons, that he could meet his constituents with plealure,
as he was confident that he had not loft their favour,
and their opinion weighed more with him than the
addresses from several boroughs, as the inhabitants of
Westminster, from being on the spot, were the belt
judges of politicks. Mr. Fox has now tried his con
stituents, and by tlris time must be convinced, that
these good judges do not approve of his condu& ; se
veral of them exped therefore, he would ad honestly,
by confeffing his error when he averted that a majo
rity of the parishioners of Westminster approved of
the late ministry.
Vast quantities of bone lace are exported to Ame
rica from France, as well as antlet lace; by which
means several towns in Buckinghamshire fuffer very
considerably. Commercial articles of taste and ele
gance, meet with a partial reception in the American
market.
The people of Ireland seem in a very strange Situa
tion. They raised 80,000 men, completely armed
cap-a-pee, to guard their liberties. By these men,
liberty of private opinion was soon destroyed ; and by
the parliament, the liberty of the press is about to be
destroyed. Between two fools, the proverb is some
what musty.
Letters from Dublin state, that the inhabitants of
that city are in the utmost confufion. Two men have
been apprehended for conspiring to affaffionate seven
members of the House of Commons, among whom
were the Attorney General, and Mr. Foster, fecte
tary of state. The business has been mentioned in
the hor?, as appears by the publick prints, and or
ders are iflued to march up several regiments from
the country.
May 3. The last foreign mail brought the impor
tant jews of a revolution in one of the northern king
doms, which, when confirmed, will be very advan
tageous to this realm. Too untimely injured inno
cence will then Shine.—o fair Matilda yet much la-
Extradl of a letter from Greenock, April 14.
" There are seven American ships now at Port
Glasgow, two of which are from South-Carolina,
with rice, whose cargoes fell well, as that article is
scarce in Scotland, they being the firft ships from
thence that have arrived in ibis part of the kingdom ;
the others are all tobacco ships, which has lowered
the price of that article considerably."
The price of silver was seldom, if ever, known to
be so low.as at present—resulting, we understand,
from the large quantity of silver coin that has poured
in upon our met chants, from their customers in Ame
ric 1.
Though the price of silver has been thus lowered,
the value of gold has not been at all affe&ed.—the
quantity imported, not having been nearly so much
as the silver.
" ^uch we shall not profefs—but our generous,
liberal, and much injured country, may rest assured,
that our resolution is as fixed as fate, never to relax
in the puifuit of the publick good; and that the
threats of fines, imprisonments, nay, even death it
felf, so far from shaking our constancy, shall but en
due us with freffi vigour, to pursue that glorious path
we have already troden with so much applause.
" As we shall ever hold private characters sacred,
so shall we deem it at all times our indispensable duty,
to pluck the mafic from villainy, oppreflion and ty
ranny, wherever we find them, however exalted, or
with whatsoever sacred characters invested ; to expose
and hold up to the execration and just resentment of
a mucli injured kingdom, those traitors who buy their
feats to fell our country —those traitors who vote out
money to bribe themselves—those tiaitors, who in
fine, to gain the smiles of our natural and hereditary
enemies the English, would plunge a dagger in our
country's bread; as we have dared to lafn opprefiion,
and look tyranny in the face, regardless of the imme
diate confequenccs to our persons or properties, we
trust for the support of a nation never remarkable for
ingratitude: No! it were treason against the majo
rity of the Irish nation to doubt, even for a moment,
their most liberal support; we are confident we shall
receive it, not indeed in proportion to our merits, but
according to the favourable interpretation they have
been pleased to give to our endeavours.—But if it is
registered in the book of fate (which may heaven and
our gallant volunteers long avert) that Irish liberty
shall shortly be but a name—that all our fond hopes
of constitution and commerce shall " vanish, like the
baseless fabrick of a vision, and leave not a wreck be
behind." If we must be enslaved, and hug the chains
which bind us :—lf we mult be chastened, and kiss
the rod that scourges us—that day—that fatal day—
we wish not to fee ; but as our efforts and lives are
dedicated to the cause of liberty, when she receives
the mortal stab, may heaven, in pity to our feelings
for our country's welfare, forgive our fins, and close
up our existence."
1 0 the Liberty of the Press the conftitutian of this
country owes as much as to the spirit of the people !
'tis a pillar of strength in the worst of times, against
the worst of men, and on the most critical occasions.
On its base stand the dearest rights of a nation, and
which it should ever guard with as much vigilance, as
did the dragon the Hefperian fruit. The graces that
adorn it are the amor patrice, publick spirit, intrepi
dity, and national honour. It should wage eternal
war with ministerial and parliamentary corruption;
be the prop of patriotism, and the bulwark of virtue.
In tine, the Freedom of the Press should ever be
deemed the richest gem in the Cap of Liberty ; be
the firft and constant object of our attention, and the
last in our grasp when the lamp of life expires.
Notwithstanding impious men that bear sway, may
issue out the thunder of proclamations, at the suit of
enemies to their country, and for a while consign
Printers to imprisonment, they may learn to their
confufion, that honest and spirited juries will be found,
who will not fuffer oppression to triumph, nor the
Freedom of the Press to be assailed by the prostitute
and corrupt minions of tyrannick power.
April 14. Different parties of horse and foot have
Our commerce with America, which, since its re
vival, has extended through every one of the Thir
teen Provinces, and to a much greater value than
could have been so soon expected, has hitherto been
so fettled, that the proportions of ready money and
credit, given for the goods exported from England,
have been about half and half.
May 4. Ihe French king has not declared the port
of Dunkirk open, because there is a secret article in
the late convention between France and England to
pievent it; but he has done what, without abfolu.tely
breaking the articles, is of an equal bad tendency to
this country. Dunkirk is lately restored to all the
privileges and immunities which it enjoyed in the year
1662, when it was fold by Charles the Second to the
French for 230,0001. sterling (though not ioo,oool.
of that money never came into the national coders.)
All aliens, of what nation soever, may trade in that
city, and enjoy their religion. The port is enlarging,
and putting in the best state of defence, on account of
the number of Gripping that are expected to frequent
it. Smuggling will, therefore, we may expeH, be
carried on from thence to a greater height than ever.
DUBLI N, April 9.
The Publishers of tie Volunteers Journal to
the Publick.
" IF the publick wishes for our success ; if their
ardent prayers that we may triumph over the base
arts of all our enemies; that we, borne in the bosom
of our affectionate countrymen, may prove too strong
for the ruffian and lawless hand of power; can influ
ence hearts not totally callous to generous feelings,
we find ourselves most particularly called on, to ex
piefs our waimeft gratitude for the very flattering and
partial diftindion they have been pleased to confer on
our feeble efforts in the common cause.
His Majesty has in contemplation, to plant lunar
colonies by the American loyalists, as they appear to
be difeontented with Port Rofeway, and indeed with
the world; and have ever manifefted a lunatick dis
position. lam in hopes of living to fee all the pla
nets, with their fatelites, under the British thumb.—-
The inhabitants of Jupiter seems at present to bid de
fiance to her arms; but let the Lion be roused, and
what cannot Britain atchieve ? 1 hope the nations of
the earth will not be so preposterous, as to dispute
the British title to the new planet, which was incon
testably gained by the firft discovery. His Majesty
has fettled a pension of five hundred a year, during
life, on the amiable Mis. Solander, widow to the late
Do&or Solander, who loft his life in his Majesty's
service, by the fatal crush of the Jupiterian toe."
Extract of a letter from London, dated April 2f.
“ Our party diffentions run to a height that strongly
indicates a civil war. Ihe whole nation is convulsed,
and those convulsions, 'tis feared, can only terminate
with a fubvegfion or dissolution of our government. —
paraded these two nights past for the protection of
Mr. Foster, who, on Monday, ' was obliged to take a.
sergeant and 12 men into his house. The fheriffs
have likewise had their patroles, all for the good of
the publick, and to extirpate those manufacturers who
have been driven to desperation.
BELFAS T, April 16.
A correspondent, of undoubted veracity, informs
us, that a number of spirited men in the neighbour
hood of Saintfield, have come to a resolution to raise
a fubfeription, in order to have every person in their
vicinity, capable of bearing arms, trained in the mili
tary exercise, gratis ; and as a similar plan is in agi
tation in other parishes, it is expected the mode will
be universally adopted ; by which means, at least
300,000 good men, in their shops, may be added to
the volunteer army, at a trifling expence. It is not
intended that those additional bands should need uni
form dress; and it is well known in a late glorious
contest for liberty, that a man can fire a gun as well
in any other coloured coat as a red one. How will
virtuous men, struggling for their liberties, rife supe
rior to every opposition.
Extraft of a letter, said to be from a True Blue
Briton, to his friend in America, Nov. 30.
" The affairs of the balloon has at length leaked
out to the French, who pierend to be the fiift in
ventors; but it was difeovered by the Britons fix
years ago, when seventeen g.ntlemen of genius and
learning, were secretly dispatched at the expen e of
the crown, to explore the planet Jupiter. J hey re
turned some time last month, and report (among other
aftonilhing matters) that they reached Jupiter in two
years and about three mouths after their depaiture
from the earth ; that they puffed near Mars, and had
a fine view of the planet; that the others were not
accurately difcoveiable ; that the atmosphere of Jupi
ter, being proportionate to her amazing bulk, was so
dense, by preflure, that they floated in the Cait. with
out the ule of the globe, which they were obliged to
unbend, and take in ; that alter much difficulty in de
fcendlng to the furface, they landed upon a large hil
of sand, which, though void of vegetation itfelf, af
forded them a fine profped of a rich and fruitful
country ; that the inhabitants were of an enormous
size; that while they were erecting a monument, and
taking possession in his Britannick majesty's name,
they were attacked by a large number of Jupiterick
ants, which, in spite of all reliftance, dragged three
of their company in their hole at the top, and would
undoubtedly have lodged the remainder in those dreary
mansions, had they not been ditturbed by one of the
inhabitants, who, in palling over them, covered the
hole with one of his little toes; while the remainder
of the company (except Doctor Solander, who was
crushed to death by the great toe of the fame foot)
reached the cart and failed off; that on their return
they passed near a comet (the fame lately seen from
the earth) which seemed not to observe his Majesty's
balloon, as she did not douse her tail, in honour to
the British flag, as might have been expected; that
they interfered and landed on the moon in her a
phelion, and took possession of her in his Majesty's
name ; in doing which, they destroyed a number of
the poor little inhabitants, who had the imprudence
to dispute the propriety of the measure; that they
difeovered a new planet, without the orbit of Saturn,
&c. &c.
American Intelligence.
NEWBERN (North-Carolina) June 10,
A wager has been laid between two gentlemen in
Newbern, that goods will be imported from Europe
in air balloons, within the course of three yeais, and
that the insurance would not exceed 5 per cent.
N E W-Y O R K, July 2 .