The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1782-05-15 00:00:00, page 3

Lord Hillfborough is upon very good terms with
the leaders of the present administration, though
his Lordship is appointed to no post at present.
His Lordship has undertaken the office of mediating
with the Iriih, with whom he is much esteemed, and
it is said he sets off for that country forthwith.
His Majesty's very gracious reception of the new
Minifte^s on Wednesday last has given the highest
fatisfa&ion. The Marquis of Rockingham, Lord
Shelburne, Mr. Fox, and the gentlemen now in
office, speak of the amiable condescension of their
royal master on this occasion, in terms of the warm
est panegyric.
The four vacant blue ribbons are disposed of in
the following manner:
Duke of Portland, and to go Lord Lieutenant
of Ireland, in the room of Lord Cariille.
Duke of Devonshire.
Duke of Manchester.
Earl of Shelburne.
The Hon. Col. Fitzpatrick is appointed Secreta
ry to the Lord Lieutenant.
The Duke of Manchester is certainly intended
to succeed Lord Hertford as Lord Chamberlain.
Lord North left the Houle of Commons last
Wednesday night with great joy. Upon receiving
. compliments of congratulation from several of his
friends, he was heard to fay, “ I have finifhed my
political life; but 1 am under no apprehensions for
my natural life."
April 8. Not excepting his Majesty of Prussia
himfelf, whose well known assiduity requires no new
record, the Duke of Richmond is to be pronounced
the most indefatigable man of business at present ex
tant in Europe.
Yesterday the Hon. C. J. Fox was re-elected
representative for Westminster, without opposition,
and was received with the loudest acclamations of
joy, by the greatest concourse of all ranks ever
collected together on a similar occasion.
It is said a letter from the Hague has the fol
lowing article: “ Some private despatches to his
Serene Highness the Prince of Orange having ar
rived from England, he went immediately to the
AiTembly of the States, and it is reported, inform
ed their High Mightinesses in substance, that he
had received intelligence that the new Ministry in
England intended to form such an alliance with the
German powers as would be of dangerous conse
quence to this country; and intreated them to be
no longer deluded by a certain court, but to en
deavour to procure a permanent peace with Gieat-
Britain their ancient ally, as soon as possible, on
the belt terms the situation of affairs will admit of.
After which warm debates ensued on the affair,
and as soon as the Assembly broke up, defpatches
were sent off to the Courts of Vienna and Feteif
burgh."
The following very important and interesting BILL
was on Thursday brought into the house of com
mons by the Attorney-General.
A Bill to enable his Majesty to conclude a peace
or truce, with the revolted colonies in Noith-
America.
WHEREAS it is essential to the interests, wel
fare and prosperity of Great-Britain, and of the co
lonies or plantations of New-Hampshire, Massachu
setts-Bay, Rhode-lfland, Connecticut, New-York,
New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, the three Lower Coun
ties on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Ca
rolina, South-Carolina, and Georgia, in North-
America, that peace, intercourse, trade and com
merce should be restored between them:
Wherefore, and for a full manifeftation of the
earnest wish and desire of his Majesty and his Parli
ament, to put an end to the calamities of war; Be
it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty,
by and with the advice and consent of the Lord's
Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this pre
sent Parliament affcmbled, and by the authority of
the fame, that it shall and may be lawful for his
Majesty to treat, consult of, agree, and conclude
with any body or bodies corporate or politick, or
any assembly or assemblies, or description of men, or
any person or persons whatsoever, a peace or truce,
with the said colonies or plantations, or any of them,
or any part or parts thereof; any law, ad or ads
of Parliament, matter or thing, to the contrary in
any wife notwithstanding.
And, in order to obviate any impediment, obsta
cle, or delay, to the carrying the intentions of his
Majesty and his Parliament into effect, which might
arise from any ad or ads of Parliament affecting or
relating to the said colonies, or plantations; Be it
ployed, in the room of those now abroad, whose
different stations will this day be finally adjusted.
Admirals Pigot and Harland will have appointments
in the grand fleet.
The following is said to be a genuine copy of the
letter from his Excellency General Waihington
to Sir Harty Clinton, on the lubjed of the mur
der of Captain Huddy.
Sir, Head-Quarters, April 21, 1782.
THE inclofed representation from the inhabi
tants of the county of Monmouth, with testimo
nials to the fad (which c a n be corroborated by
other unquestionable evidence) will bring before
your Excellency the moil wanton, cruel, and un
precedented murder that ever disgraced the arms
of a civilized people. 1 shall not, because 1 con
ceive it altogether unneceilary, trouble your Ex
cellency with any' aniniadverlions on this tranfac
tjon. Candour obliges me to be explicit;—to
lave the innocent I demand the guilty.
Captain Lippencut, therefore, or the officer who
commanded at the execution of Captain Huddy,
must be given up ; or if that officer was of inferior
rank to him, so many of the perpetrators as will,
according to the tariff of exchange, be an equiva
lent. To do this, will mark the justice of your
Excellency's character. In failure of it, 1 shall
hold myfelf juftilied, in the eyes of God and man,
for the measure to which I shall resort.
1 beg your Excellency to be persuaded, that it
cannot be more disagreeable to you to be addressed
in this language, than it is to me to offer it; but
the fubje& requires franknefs and decision.
I have to request your fpcedy determination, as
my resolution is suspended but for your aniwer.
I have the honour to be, &c.
Last evening arrived here the privateer schooner
Recovery, Capt. , of eight fix-plunders, and
30 men, from New-York, prize to the privateer
Holker, of this port. the Holker was return
ing from the Weft-Indies, where she has been cruit
ing for some timepaft, when she captured the above
schooner. By the prize-master of the schooner we
have information of two anions in the Weft-lndies
between the French and Britiih fleets (on the 9th
and 12th ult.) to leewaid of Gaud-loupe. she
fleets confined of 35 fail of the line each, ard the
Flench were convoying a large number of mer
chantmen to Hispaniola. On the 14th the Holker
ipoke a French cutter, who informed him that one
French ship of the line had blown up in the action,
that the Britilh fleet was so disabled as to be oblig
ed to return into port, and that the French had
proceeded on to Hispaniola with the whole of their
convoy. He further informs, that he saw three or
four British ships of the line difmafted, towing into
St. Lucia. :
further enabled by the authority aforefaid, That for
the concluding and establishing a peace, or truce
with the said colonies or plantations, or any of
them, his Majesty shall have full power and autho
rity, by virtue of this ad, by his letters patent un
der the great seal of Great-Britain, to repeal, annul,
and make void, or to suspend for any time, or times,
the operation and effect of any ad or ads of Parlia
ment which relate to the said colonies or plantati
ons, or any of them, or any part or parts thereof,
or any clause, provision, or matter therein contain
ed, so far as such clauses, provisions or matters,
relate to the said colonies, or plantations, or any
of them, or any part or parts thereof.
And be it further enacted, that this ad, as to the
exercise of the powers and authorities hereby given
to his Majesty, shall continue to be in force until
the
N E W-Y O R K, May 8.
The town of St. John, in Antigua, was on tiie
loth ult. visited with a great calamity by a dread
ful fire which destroyed a great part of that town.
Extract of a letter dated London, April 2, 1782.
Since my last, a total change has taken place in
the administration of this country, the present Mi
nisters have been two short a time in power to
digelt the measures of future government. If the
ruling powers on your fide the water should, as hi
therto they have done, rejed overtures for peace,
with tenders of a most desirable constitution, ad
vantage wiil be taken of inch opportunities as may
offer to promote the end of war —a good peace.
On Friday last came to town from New-York,
Lieutenant-Colonel Livingston, son to His Excel
lency Governor Livingston. This gentleman was
taken, the 25th df April last, on his return from
Spain, by the Quebec frigate, and carried to New-
York—lmmediately on his landing there, he was
committed, by General Robertson's orders, to the
provost, and continued in confinement until the ar
rival of Sir Guy Carleton, who has liberated him
on parole.
PHI LADELPHIA, May 8.
TRENTON, May 15.
GOVERNOR.
WHEREAS His Excellency the Commander
in Chief of the armies of thole United States
has given the most peremptory orders to the officers
under his command, that no flag from the enemy
shall be received at any other place or port than
Dobbs's-Feriy, on any business or pretext whate
ver; and that no flag from us to them shall (forany
reafen however pressing) be permitted to pass to
the enemy's lines, except from the fame place; and
hath ioheited my concurrence and assistance in the
execution of this measure—l do therefore hereby
notify the fame to all the officers of the militia of
this Rate, and all others whom it may concern: and
ail iucli officers are hereby diretied not to receive any
'"✓ from the enemy at any other place or port than
Dobbs s-heriy, on any business or pretext whatever,
nor to permit any flag from us to them (for any rea
son however pressing) to pass to the enemy's lines,
except Bom the lame place. And for the more ef
lettually carrying into execution the said regulation,
which from toe present jun&ure of affairs is become
peculiarly neceiTary; every officer of the said mili
tia who is now, or hereafter may be, on command
at any poll in th.s state, is hereby directed to put
under immediate arrest any other officer who shall
piefume to contravene the intention of this order on
cur fide; and to detain, as prisoners, ail persons
that shall come from the enemy with flags, at any
other place or port than t^e one as aforefaid for that
purpose established.
2VL L& LIVINGSTON.
7NF () R A^A TI ()~N.
CT'HE underwritten intends to apply to the hon.
JL the Legislature of the date of New-Jersey,
at their next fitting, for a law to invest him (as fur-'
viving executor of the last will and testament of
Aaron Doud, Esquire, deceased) with as good and
{efficient a title to certain lands near the log gaol in
the county of Sussex, and state aforefaid, now in
the poffeflion of Benjamin Willcocks, as the said
Aaron Doud in his life-time had, and held, by deed
of bargain and sale of Alladah "Wright, to enable
him, the Surviving executor, to fulfil the directions
of the said last will and testament ; of which this is
for notice, to all manner of persons who may con
ceive themselves interested in the premises.
JOS. PHILLIPS,
May 10, 1782. gw Surviving Execut.
A Middle aged woman, to tend children and
few in a small family—Enquire of the prin
ter. None need apply except they can be well
recommended. gw*
ALL persons indebted to the estate of William
Compton, deceased, are desired to pay by
the middle of June next; and those who have any
demands agiind laid estate, are requeued to bring
in their accounts for settlement.
Ichobud Compton,)
A T i n } Executors.
3wl John Compton, )
Upper-Freehold, Mon. County, May 8, 1782.
TO BE SOLD,'
A STRONG healthy negro man, about five
and twenty years old, bred to farming, has
had the small-pox and measles, is very honest and
sober : the purchaser will have a fatisfadory assur
ance of his character, and that he is fold for no fault.
Enquire of Thomas Norris, of Windsor township,
Middlesex county. gw+
TAKEN up for horse-stealing, one Jesse Meri
dith; there was found with him a brown
horse, thirteen hands high, about twelve years old,
paces under the saddle, without brand or ear mark;
allo an old hunting saddle, fnaffle bridle, a pair of
odd holders, and a pair of brass barrelled holster
pistols, marked Barker on the lock; one pair of
leather saddle-bags, at the end of the strap that
laces them is a pewter hasp, and in them were sun
dry articles, &c. which are in the hands of the sub
scriber. Any person or persons owning any of the
above-mentioned goods, may have them again, by
proving their property, and paying charges.
JOHN CORYELL.
Bucks county, May 7, 1783. gwf
On Monday the sixth inst. the house of Andrew
Larifon, in Amwell, caught fire by accident, and
was entirely consumed, with molt of the household
goods.
O The Legislature meet here this day, pursuant
to adjournment.
Head-Quarters, Trenton, May 13, 1782.
BY HIS EXCELLENCY the