The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1786-07-24 00:00:00, page 2

iqnifhcd with imprisonment, being subsisted
read and water, with whipping and other
irks of disgrace, proportioned to the degree
ae, and the rank of the offender#
L 0 N D 0 N, April 17 .
A Caution —The following circumstance happened
about three weeks since at Wych-crofs, near EaR
Grinftead: A daughter of mr. J. Gregg, matter of
the inn there, a child about three years old, was one
night found in bed by the maid-servant, who usually
^pt with her, and was then retiring to bed, in a very
alarming Situation, being in appearance almost dead,
with her face and cap much Stained with blood ; the
pillow on which her head lay was very bloody. The
Servant immediately called the family to her assistance,
who, as it may be supposed, were much affrighted
and Shocked at the fight, and for some time totally at
a loss to account tor it; but, on a more minute in
fpe&ion of the bed clothes, they discovered some
marks of blood, as if left by the feet of a cat, which
led them to fufpedt that the one they kept had been
there, and which, on her being caught and examined,
appeared clearly to be the case, for her feet, face, and
other parts of her were bloody.—As no wound or la
ceration was to be seen on the body of the child, it is
supposed, while asleep, the cat applied herfeif to its
mouth, and by fusion drew from its internal parts
the blood that was found about the bed, over and
above what She had swallowed; and from circum
stances that have since occurred to the family, it is
thought it was not the first time She had practised it,
though in a less degree. The cat was immediately
killed: And the child, being providentially discovered
before (lie was too far gone, and properly treated, af
terwards recovered. The above, it is to be hoped,
will prove a ufeful caution to nurses and others, and
make them particularly careful not to leave infants
cither in bed or in the cradle, exposed to such dan
gerous attacks.
April 25. On Wednesday morning as George Kel
way, a labourer, was filling an old saw-pit, which had
been dug amidst the ruins of a house at Lyme-Regis,
in Dorfetfhire, he discovered three small oak chests,
containing an immense quantity of gold and tilver
coin, to the amount, as it is said, of 20001. and up
wards, chiefly of the coinage of Charles I. and 11. and
is supposed to have been buried there at the time of
the Duke of Monmouth's invasion, who landed at or
near Lyme, in the year 1685.
The poor fellow, upon discovering this treasure, im
mediately loaded himfclf home with a part, and in
formed his landlord of the event, they both went and
took another loading, but unfortunately having taken
too much, one of their pockets burst on the way, and
the secret being thereby discovered, all the neighbour
hood flew to the spot, and such a fccnc of disorder
and confufion arose, that they may be literally said
to have rolled in money: hats, caps, pocket's and
every vehicle that could be procured, overflowed with
the golden barveft, and scarce a person was prefect
who did not reap to the amount of sixty or seventy
pounds in value ; even the gleanings were considerable.
Kelway and his partner had secured about 140 pounds
weight; but the next day Kelway, having entruffed
the major part of this treasure (secured in a strong
cheß) to the care of his landlord, whilst he went to
a neighbouring' town to purchase clothes, &c. an artful
tinker found means to defraud the landlord of the
whole ; and poor Kelway, on his return home, found
himfelf again reduced to poverty. The tinker, whose
name is Roe, was taken into custody the fame day,
and is now confined in Lyme-Regis gaol, whence he
is to be removed to Dorcheßer to take his trial at the
next assizes. A great part of the money has been
re-gained and secured.
'To the Printer of tbe Publick Advertiser.
Sir,
HAVING seen, in your paper of this day, a copy
of a letter, &c. signed G. Gordon, averting that I
was possessed of undeniable intelligence, that John
Adams, efq. has his salary paid him quarterly by the
comte d'Adhemar, the French ambalfador, please to
inform your readers of the true Rate of the case,
which is as follows:
I had the honour of being introduced by an ncqaint
ance, by mere accident, to lord George Gordon, in
Bond-street. We ftept into the Blenheim coffee-houfe,
where, in the course of conversation, I happened to
mention that I heard from a gentleman, whose name
I have mentioned to the parties, that the American
ambassador, as he heard, was paid through the French
ambassador.
Without any further authority the above publica
tion appeared. I leave the world to judge how far
his lordship's condu<ft is confident with propriety.
I am, fir,
Your humble servant.
May 3, 1786. S. TUFTS.
Extract of a letter from Tangiers, March 7.
" The Emperor of Morocco, before he arrived in
his capital, went on an expedition against a formida
ble gang of robbers, who used to retire to the en
virons of a castle, situated within four days journey
of Sallee, and was the residence of a person who
passes for a faint. These banditti thought themselves
the more secure there, as they imagined that the Em
peror would not dare to violate the territory of the
holy man. His majesty surprised them in the night,
invested the castle of Ellmati, and sent him word,
" that his enterprize had no other objed but to pro
ted him cffedually against the depredations of the
villains that had retired upon his territory."
" At break of day the Emperor ordered the attack,
and the robbers made an obstinate defence. Two hun
dred of tbe Emperor's soldiers were killed in the field
RICHMOND, July 12.
By the Severe gust on Wednesday last, the Ship St.
Thomas, lying in Portsmouth road, was upset, re
ceiving considerable damage; many veflels Suffered
there, as well as at Norfolk, being driven from their
moorings. About the fame time a Ship at Bermuda
was " ru . c '' with lightning, having her main
mast Shivered to pieces, damaging her rigging, &c.
NE W-Y O R K, Julyii.
Extract of a letter from Danbury, 'June 2c, 1786.
" On Friday last as ms. Nathaniel Barnum of this
town was riding with a feythe in one hand, and sundry
articles in the other, his horse Rumbled and threw him
upon the feythe, which opened a gaftly wound, be
ginning within three inches of the back-bone, on the
left fide, cut the third lower rib in two, and passing
across the pit of his stomach to the right fide, deflroy
ed the midriff. This let out a great part of the bow
els and caul, but the unhappy man had the fortitude
to attempt to put them back, being however unable
to do it, he took them up in his hands, rose from the
ground, and walked with them in this manner about
three rods into a house that was near Dr. Wood
being immediately called, informed him that his case
was desperate, especially as his lungs were wounded :
he however immediately put back the bowels, and
sewed up the wound, which was about ten inches in
length. The person remained in excruciating pain
about twelve hours, in the full exercise of reason, and
then expired, leaving a Sorrowful widow and fix small
children to bewail their loss A serious warning
this against the dangerous practice of riding with
naked scythes.
Every day's packet brings further accounts of the
numbers sentenced for execution in the different assize
towns throughout England. That there have been
twice as many felons convicted during the present
affzes, as there have been at any former period, is
universally agreed to by the Several English prints;
some of them attended with circumstances of barba
rity fhameful to human nature. —And is it not strange,
that we have heard of no rumours of riot, no high
feafoned Rories of disturbances in the fifter-country—
while this unfortunate kingdom, for-ever the dupe of
misrepresentation, was published to be nearly in a
state of infurredion, and the theatre of outrage, al
though by the returns of the trials in several counties,
it is evident that the offences committed in this coun
try, bear but the proportion of one to forty! with
those that have occurred in England.
In the infignificant town of Taunton, in the county
of Somerset, no less than seventy-sour perlons have
been arraigned for felony, the greater part of these
are under the age of twenty-one.
Two gentlemen, who lately happened to have some
words in company, instead of determining their dif
ference by sword and pistol, agreed to submit the mat
ter in dispute to three friends they named, and that
the party who Should be adjudged in fault, fliould
pay a rump and dozen to the other, the three umpires,
and fix other friends that Should be invited on the
occasion. As this method of fettling personal difoutes
tends to promote good fellowship, it is ftrcngly re
commended for general adoption, and as a very ex
cellent method to put a stop to, or at least greatly
lessen the horrid practice of duelling.
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American Intelligence.
B O ST O N, July 10.
A letter has been received by his excellency the go
vernor, from our Delegates in Congress, containing
an intimation of the propriety of postponing the as
certaining the boundary line between this common
wealth and New-York, until October next.
Diffentions of a very alarming nature now prevail
in our neighbouring state of Rhode-Ifland, occasioned,
it seems, by its late emission of paper bills. The as
sembly, which met at New-Port on the 26th ult.
palled an aft, whereby every person who Shall, by
declining to receive them at their nominal value, or
by any ways, means or manner what soever, discou
rage or discountenance the passing of the said bills, or
in any degree depreciate them, on conviction thereof,
forfeit and pay the sum of one hundred pounds, law
ful money ; and if convicted of a second offence, to
be rendered incapable to eleft, or to be elected to any
office of honour, trust or profit, within the Rate, and
to forfeit and pay the sum of one hundred pounds.
The above act was passed, in the lower house, by a
majority of fix. The deputies of the town of Pro
vidence protested against it, conceiving it to be intro
dudtive of Such penalties to enforce obedience as would
disgrace the courts of Tripoli or Algiers. The pro
test was rejected by the two houses as difrcfpcCtful,
and, by a large majority, refufed an admission on the
files.
of battle. This refinance exasperated his majesty; he
gave orders to surround them, and 500 of them were
hanged or beheaded on the spot. Their habitations
were destroyed, and the soldiers made an immense
booty. The faint was dislodged from his castle, and
obliged to retire to another province.'
An old miser of this city lately advanced a young
gentleman two hundred pounds, after deducting the
moderate premium of twenty-five per cent, on condi
tion that he paid him four hundred pounds on Succeed
ing to the estate of his father, who was an infirm
man, and in his 84th year. Not a fortnight had elaps
ed before the young gentleman was carried off with a
fever, which has so affected the old miser, that it is
expected he will speedily follow him to that country
where neither money nor difeount, nor intcreft are of
the least value or consequence.
DUBLI N, April 27.
TREN TON, July 24.
Notwithstanding the flattering profped of great crops
ot wheat and rye this season, we are informed by Se
veral of our country correspondents, that the former
is considerably injured by the rult. and the latter ren
dered very light in Some places by the exuberance of
the Straw, owing to the uncommon wet weather in
May and June.
Education, fays a correspondent, has been more
promoted and encouraged in America, since the con
clusion of the late war, than at any period before the
revolution. This circumstance, he adds, has given
him a lively hope, that the morals of tbe rising gene
ration will, in some measure, escape the temptations
concomitant on war, and a depreciated paper curren
cy. These have been the ruin of the morals of but
too many of those who are now upon the active Rage
of life § and who. for want of having their minds en
lightened and enlarged by literature and Science, have
been overcome by temptations, and committed a&s of
injustice, which would disgrace the aborigines of Ame
rica in their mod uncultivated state.
, In spite of their murmurs and almost in spite of
themselves, these American States are defined to na
tional importance and to national felicity. The great
Father of nature has chequered their condition with
the passing clouds of temporary dejection ; but their*
natural force will soon burst them into being—they
Shall then look back with aftoniShment at the trivial
causes which have impeded their progress, and blush
for the pusillanimity with which they afccuded the Steps
of empire.
How cautious foe Should be that her infant reputa
tion be Rained with no vices, which may be cast in
her teeth on any future day, or that may excite a blush
on the face of her posterity, let her rulers and guar
dians judge and determine.
On Saturday the 15th inst. Felix Hammel and William
M'Lone, the peifons who were convided of robbing
and cutting off the hand of Clement Terry, in the
county of Burlington, as mentioned in our paper,
No. 425, were executed agreeably to their sentence.
They declared, when under the gallows, that they
were perfectly innocent of the crime for which they
were about to fuffer. This declaration appears the
more extraordinary, as the evidence was very full
against them; and Hammel swore on the trial, that
he saw M'Lone cut off Terry's band.
His Britannic majesty's packet Portland. Sampson
Spargo, esquire, commander, will fail from New. York
with the mail for Falmouth, on Wednesday the 2d of
August next.
Ilis Britannic majesty has been pleafcd to appoint
colonel M'Arthur, governor and commander in chief
01 the Bahama-Islands, in the room of colonel Max
well, who has resigned.
On Saturday the Bth inst. died at Philadelphia, in
the Seventy -second year of her age, Mrs. Joyce Be
nlzet, rclift^ of the late mr. A. Benezet; and on
Sunday evening her remains were interred in the
Friends burying- ground, attended by a large and re
number of citizens. A few days before her
death, die was flruck with the palsy, and remained in
a state of apathy until She died. She was pious and
benevolent, and, as She passed along the decline of
life, " meek resignation gently Slop'd tfie way."
''°, e "f ze L who died about two years ago, in his
last will, bequeathed the annual income of his whole
, ate , % eve . r (after the decease of his wife)
if. the i ?" ftruai ° n an d education of negro and mu
latto children. In the humble and obfeure vocation
of teaching those children, he Spent several years of
his benevolent life, from a desire to make them use.
Lil members of society.
" On Sunday last arrived here from the western
country, Schodofh, a chief of the Wyandots, and
half-brother to the king of that nation; he is well
known for his humanity in protecting several of our
people from the malignity of the savages, and is the
greatest speaker in their councils ; also the widow of
the late celebrated White-Eyes, king of the Delawares;
they are on their way to New-York to talk with Con
gress ; mrs. White-Eyes intends paying a visit to her
son, who is a Student of Princeton college these fix or
seven years past.
" They were accompanied by an interpreter, capt.
Drolleyer, a Canadian, who relates that he left De
troit about the middle of May, which was garrifohed
by seventy privates of the British ; and that there was
not any hostile appearances in that quarter. —Some of
the officers informed him they expected to be called
away Shortly, as matters were in a train of accommo
dation between Congress and their court."
July 19. Tuesday afternoon the 4th inst. a Shower
of rain from the weft, attended with hail, fell in and
near this city : since which we learn the hail has done
much damage in different parts of the country. —At
Moyamenfing some fields of wheat were considerably
injured by it ; but in Hartford township, Chester coun
ty, about fifteen miles from this city, the hailstones
were so large, and defeended with such violence, thirt
one field ot wheat was entirely beat down level with
the ground ; thirty-seven lights of glass were broken in
one house, and all the glass and many of the sashes in
another house which faced the storm, were destroyed.
Our informants add, that the halftones were in ma
ny places as large as turkies eggs, some of them mea
suring Six inches round, hut of irregular Shape; in
other places they were of the Size of walnuts. —Those
that fell in this city were not larger than hazel nuts,
and we are told, that 110 hail was seen above the No
thern-Liberties.
The dauphin of France is spoken of as a young prince,
who difeovers early very bright talents.'
PHILADELPHIA, July 7 .
Extract of a letter from Carlisle, June 28.