The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1784-09-13 00:00:00, page 3

" It is the general opinion, that the differences
between this republick and the Emperor will be easi
ly conciliated. It is said that the States-General
have a demand of 133 millions on the Emperor's low
countries, which is not unlikely, when we recoiled
that Holland could never obtain any part of the
500,000 rix-dollars a year, assigned her by the con
vention of 1716, as an indemnification for keeping up
the barriers. As to the demand of Maerftricht, it is
said to be founded on the following fad: In 1672,
the republick overwhelmed by the combined forces of
France and England, had recourse to Charles 11. King
of Spain, and promised him in 1973, if she would
affifther, to cede him Maerftricht and the country
beyond the Maeufe. As the peace of Nimeguen, the
Spanifli AmbafTador having demanded the execution
of that promise, the republick alledged the funis due
to the Prince of Orange, by the King of Spain, and
the expences at sea, which she had incurred for Charles
11. himfelf. The Ambassador presented on this oc
casion a second memorial, in which he accused the re
publick with ingratitude and injustice, insisting that
his matter had facrificed himfelf for her, and had loft
seven or eight good towns, to procure a good peace.
But this memorial had no effed."
The Friendship, Capt. Reilly, from Dublin, bound
to Philadelphia, after being out several weeks, the
Captain and second Mate dead, the crew mutinied,
and run her on shore at Cape Francois (a mere wreck)
where she was condemned and ordered to be fold.
Sept. 6. The Receiver of continental taxes for the
state of Pennsylvania, hath acknowledged the receipt
of two thousand and twenty-one dollars for the
month of August, being in part of that state's quota
for 1783.
Sept. 8. His Excellency the Governor of this
state has issued a proclamation for assembling the Le
gislature, on Monday the 4th of October next, for
the purpose of electing delegates to reprefeot this state
in Congress, and of members to form a council of
appointment, and other important matters which are
necessary to be expedited with all poflible dispatch.
able to procure, it began at a place called Shipague-
Neck, between New-Milford and Woodbury—its
course was nearly from N. W. to S. E. and the
greatest violence of the wind about fifty rods wide.
In the parish of South-Breton, in Woodbury, ten
dwelling-houses, five barns, two grist-mills, and a saw
mill, were either wholly destroyed, or greatly damaged.
The house of the Rev. Jehu Minor was entirely de
molished, and he buried in the ruins, from which he
was taken out so much wounded that his life was in
great danger. The planks of a new bridge, firmly
spiked down, were torn off, and carried a considera
ble distance. A number of orchards entirely destroy
ed, and the largest trees in the sorest levelled with
the ground. In short, nothing withstood its fury, and
deftru&ion marked its whole progress. It was at
tended with the most tremendous thunder. The
lightning struck in numbers of places, and five flacks
of hay, in Southbury, were set on fire and consumed.
N E W-Y 0 R K, August 3 i.
We hear from Boston, that the gentlemen who
lately went on a tour to ascend the White Mountains,
have returned. They ascended to the top of the
mountain, and it is said they made great discoveries,
which will shortly be communicated to the publick.—
The height of the mountains are 9000 feet from the
level of the sea, and 5000 from the earth. These
adventurers were from 6 o'clock in the morning till 6
minutes after one in ascending.
Extras of a letter from the Hague.
PHILADELPHIA, September 1. -
ExtraEi of a letter from a gentleman in London to
his friend in this city.
" The politicks of this country are now of little
importance to us ; for of whatever party, all are cold,
sulky, and implacable as to America, as daily expe
rience demonstrates. If the present minister, who is
a man of great character, and supposed virtue, was dis
posed to conciliate, and treat America liberally in
point of trade, he could not do it. Ihe spirit of this
country would revolt.
" We must learn to live with frugality, pra&ice in
dustry, pursue new branches of commerce, and leflen
our imports till they balance the exports; till then
we shall neither have specie, nor credit, nor trade
worth having."
Extraß of a letter from Baltimore, dated August
24, 1784.
" The only news here now is, that one Whaland,
formerly a noted refugee, is now a pirate in this bay;
he has committed a great many depredations on the
coasting traders lately ; some crews he has murdered
without diftindion, as has appeared by their dead bo
dies being washed on shore, and others have been put
on shore, after being plundered and stripped start na
ked, not even a shirt left them. How long this fellow
may reign is uncertain, as there is no armed vessel here
to go in quest of him."
We are informed that the vessel which Whaland
Sept. 8. On Thursday the 29th ult. a fleet belong
ing to His Most Christian Majesty, arrived in the
Chefapeak Bay; the following are the names of the
Captains, and the vessels they command:
Commanders. Ships. Guns.
Le Compte de Kifainte, Le Reflecher, 64
Le Compte de Macnemara, L'Amphion, 60
Le Marquis Dubouzet, La Danae, 40
Le Chevalier Dunezat, La Medee, 40
M. Dubray, Le Montreal, 38
M. Delaborde, , La Faurette, 20
M. de la Nouffai, La Louize, 10
Wednesday evening lift, about eight o'clock, a
man was flopped in Third-street between Market and
Arch-streets, by three villains, two of whom hold
ing his arms, and the third put a pistol to his breast,
and robbing him of his watch and some money, made
off.
Since our last arrived here the Marquis de la
Fayette, from Virginia, where he has been on a
visit to our late illustrious Commander in Chief.
SHIP NE W S.
The Jet, Gibson, from Philadelphia, is arrived at
Kingston (Jamaica) after 35 days passage.
■ The Montgomery, Davis, from London, is arrived
! in James river.
I General Alured Clarke, lately appointed Gover
■ nor of Jamaica, arrived at Kingston the beginning of
July, and took pofleffion of his government; a few
days after which General Campbell, his predecessor,
failed for England.
On Friday last departed this life, in the 76th year
of his age, Mr. JOHN REYNELL, of this city,
merchant. To enumerate the merits of the deceased
is not our intention :—We trust they have found a
better repository than a fugitive news-paper could af
ford them :—The excellent character, and extensive
ufefulnefs of the man, were too well known, and too
justly estimated, to derive any luftre from encomium•
and as long as the one or the other are remembered,
(the death of John Reynell will be considered and re
gretted as a loss to the community. His remains
were deposited the day following in the burial ground
of the people called Quakers, of which society he
was a valuable and conspicuous member.
Extrafl of a letter from Kingston, in Jamaica,
dated August 3, 1784.
" On Friday night the 30th July, we had one of
the most severe hurricanes known for these 40 years
past. Of 150 fail of vessels at Kingston and Port-
Royal, only 6 or 8 are saved, among which is the Jet,
Captain Gibson, who drove on a mudbank at Green
wich, and will be got off; and it's said that all the
vessels in the out ports are totally loft. All the fu
garworks in the windward part of the island are blown
down ; —in short, no pen can describe the havock ; and
what is worse, there is not provisions in this town
fufficient for two weeks.
TRENTON, September 13.
BY HIS EXCELLENCY
William Livingston, Esquire,
Governor and Commander in Chief in and over the
State of New-Jersey, and the territories thereunto
• belonging, Chancellor and Ordinary in the fame.
WHEREAS the Honourable the Committee of
the States, by their resolution of the 26th day
of July last, reciting, " That whereas there is reason
" to apprehend there are in different parts of the
" United States articles of quartermasters and mili
" tary ftores,cloathing, &c. the property of the United
" States, which have accidentally fallen into the hands
" of private citizens, or remained in the pofleffion of
" persons formerly, but not at present, in office, of
" which the heads of the several ftaff departments
" have no account, did resolve, that it be thereby re
" commended to the Executives of the several states,
" to call on the citizens of their refpe&ive states to
" make returns forthwith of every species of publick
" A petition has been presented by the community
to Lieut. Governor General Clarke, to admit a free
importation of provisions and lumber from America
for fix months, but he refufed it."
Mr. Arthur Donnaldfon, who some few months
since was employed by the Supreme Executive Coun
cil, to raise the chevaux-de-frize, has effectually ac
complished the laborious undertaking; and it is with
pleasure we inform the publick, and our nautical bre
thren in particular, that the channel between Billigf
port and Mud-Island, is entirely freed from those dan
gerous obftrudions, and the navigation of that part
of the river Delaware rendered as fafe and easy as
before the late war.
employs for the above infamous purpose, is a top-fail
schooner with black sides and bottom, full of men,
and draws but three and a half feet water. He has
also several boats well armed, so that it is dangerous
for any vessel to go within fight of him.
A great drought now prevails in the island of Ber
muda, insomuch that there is scarcely any grass left
for the cattle.
" property which may be in their pofleffion ; and the
" said Executives were thereby requeued to forward
" to Congress, or the committee of the states, a ge
" neral return of such articles, the property of the
" United States, as they find to be in the pofleffion
" of their citizens, or 'any of them, in which shall be
" fpecified the names and places of residence of the
" persons in whose pofleffion they are," as by the said
resolution may appear. I have therefore thought
fit, in compliance with the said recommendation, and
in pursuance of the said resolution, hereby to call on
the citizens of this state to make returns to me forth
with of every species of publick property which may
be in their pofleffion, in order that such return may
be made of the fame as in the said resolution is fpe
cified.
Given under my hand the thirtieth day of Au
gust, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eigh
ty-four.
WIL. LIVINGSTON.
NOTICE is hereby given, that a Court of Ad
miralty will be held for the State of New-Jer
sey, at the house of Joseph Douglass, innholder in
Crofswicks, in the county of Burlington, on Friday
the twenty-second of October next, at ten o'clock in
the forenoon of the fame day, then and there to try
the truth of the facts alleged in the bill of Colonel
Samuel Forman, who as well, &c. agaiurt a certain
sloop or boat called the Brunswick, loaded with lum
ber, commanded by Jofliua. Warden, and taken on
the twenty-fifth day of June, 1781, on her intended
voyage (as is said) to New-York, and libelled against
as prize: To the e^d and intent that the owner or
owners, or any other perlon or persons interested
therein, may appear and shew cause, if any they have,
why the said sloop Brunswick, her cackle, apparel,
furniture and cargo, fhculd not be condemned and
forfeited to the ule of the captors and others con
cerned, pursuant to the prayer cf the libellants.
By Order of 'he judge,
Joseph Bloomfield, Register.
Burlington, September 10, 1784. qw*
A MILL E R.
WANTED on hire, by the month or year, a
single man, sober, honest and industrious, who
understands his bvfinefs, and is willing to ad as se
cond hand in a mill which requires three men to at
tend ; in a healthy part of New-Jei fey, twenty miles
from Philadelphia.
Apply to Robert Lewis and sons, in Philadelphia;
or to the fubferiber at Mount-Holly mills, state of
New-Jersey.
Nathaniel Lewis.
September 7, 1784. 4w^
FIVE P 0 U
R EWA R D.
STRAYED or stolen out of the pasture of the fub
feriber in Amwell, near Flemington, on Sunday
evening last, two horses, one black, 10 years old, 14
hands high, has a blaze face and fore back ; the other
dark bay, fourteen and a half hands high, eight years
old, star and blaze, has had the fiftula, near Lind foot
white, and very much windgalled. Whoever takes
up the said horses, and delivers them to the owner,
and secures the thief, so that he may be brought to
justice, shall have the above reward ; or Three Pounds
for the horses only, and all reasonable charges paid
by ANDREW MILLER.,
September 7, 1784. 4W
TO BE SOL D,
At PUBLICK VENDUE,
Q N Monday the 4th of Oflober next, at the house
of the fubferiber in Trenton, feather beds, bed
ding, tables, chairs, and a variety of kitchen fur
niture ; one flocking-frame, late the property of
James Hill, deceased. And all persons indebted
to the estate of the said James Hill, are requeued
to make immediate payment ; and those mho have
any just demands againfl said efate, are also re
queued to bring in their accounts properly attested
to for fettiement.
JOSEPH HALL, )
S 4RAH H 4LL, , Execut.
MARGARET HILL, )
Trenton, September 9, 1784. 310*
TO BE LET,'
ON the Farm where Mr. John Amcheil 'Tcs,
adjoining Lamberton, about 20 acres of good
tillable land in fence, fit for wheat or rye, on the usu
al terms of the shares. Any person inclining to take
it, is requeued to apply to Mr. Geoige Davis, or Mr.
Abraham Hunt, in Trenton; or to Mr. Randle Mitch
ell, at Bowhill Farm.
Spring-Brook, September 7, 1784. 4W
State of New-Jersey, to wit.
To all whom it may concern.