The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1784-06-21 00:00:00, page 2

Extras of a tetter from Venice, March 28.
" The situation of the Republick, at this time, is
exceedingly critical, having disputes with three dif
ferent powers. Another squadron is fitting here, of
which the chevalier Anthony Emo will have the com
mand; he is the only admiral of these states: His
squadron will consist of IT ships, which, joined to
those now cruising in the Gulf, will make up a re
fpe&able fleet, and such a one as our nation has not
had at sea for 60 years. These, it is expected, will
be fufficient to protect our Eastern trade (which is
very considerable) and to chastise the insolence of the
Barbary states. These formidable armaments will
cost the states at least half a million of ducattoons,
betides the pay of the officers and upwards of 3200
seamen, which arc employed on board them."
April 17. According to letters from the Hague,
his Excellency Mons. Dreyere, the Envoy from his
Danish Majesty, has delivered to the President of the
States General, which are now fitting, a memorial
couched in terms similar to that which the Pruiiian
resident had delivered a few days ago. It contained
a very serious remonstrance in favour of the Prince
of Orange, whose office of Stadtholder has been lately
very manifeftly invaded, by the intrigues of a party
evidently in the pay of some foreign potentate, which
render his situation so extremely disagreeable, that
the Prince had thought proper to make it known to
every branch of the families of Orange, Brunswick,
and Hesse, from which line his Royal Highness is im
mediately descended. Ihe states have paid little or
no attention to the manifeftoes of the Prince himfelf,
or to that of the Duke of Brunswick, a general in the
army, who last year resigned all his employments on
that account ; but as some powerful courts have now
taken up the dispute, there is every reason to hope
such concessions will be made as may restore tranqui
lity.
Extras of a letter from Madrid, March 28.
“ Two marriages are talked of at our court ; that
of the Infant Don Gabriel, youngest son to the King,
with the Princess Maria-Anna- Victoria, of Portugal,
sister to the Prince of the Brazils. This marriage is
said to be entirely concluded upon: The other is not
yet certain; the parties are the Princess, eldest daugh
ter to the Prince of Auftrias, with the Prince, son to
me rrrnce or brazils."
At the close of the poll, this afternoon, for the
city of Westminster, the numbers were,
For Lord Hood, - 6052
Sir Cecil Wray, - 5465
Mr. Fox, - - 5305
There are now building in the river 21 new flips
of the line ; 4 of which are second rates of 90 guns
and upwards, 16 of 74 guns, and one of 64 guns.—
Slips are preparing in the King's yards at Woolwich
and Deptford for laying down two more, which are
to be likewise of 74 guns, to be called the Prince of
Wales and the Augusta.
The disorder which attacked the Queen so suddenly
on Tuesday, was what is termed by the physicians a
bilious cholick, the lymptoms of which are exceed
ingly dangerous, and have been known to terminate
in the deftru^ion of the patient in a few days, and
oftener in a much shorter space of time; her majesty
has been afflicted with a complaint of a similar kind
very frequently in the course of the Ikft two years,
and particularly since the death of her two children,
the Princess Octavius and Alfred, which has given the
alarm to her royal consort, the royal family, and all
the persons about her; but this recent complaint ra
ther partook of a disorder that has been very preva
lent since the severe weather broke up, among all
ranks of people. Her majesty is daily attended by
Sir Richard Jebb and Dr. Ford; the latter has been
almost constantly at Windsor from Wednesday till
yesterday noon, when he was discharged his residu
ary attendance, on account of her majesty's happy re
covery.
D ÜBLI N, April 9.
A correspondent recommends to the good people of
this country, to assemble in their refpe&ive parishes,
and enter into the following resolutions:
I. That, while the manufactures of Ireland are to
be had, we will not buy any other, for our own or
family's use.
11. That we will not deal with any retailer of
woolen, silk or cotton goods, who shall not swear be
fore a magistrate, that he will not fell, or permit to
be fold for him, any goods as Irilh, but such as he
knows to be the manufacture of Ireland—a true copy
of which oath shall be exposed to vie® in some con
fficuous part of his warehouse or shop.
Sir Guy Carleton is shortly to go out Governor-
General of our remaining territories in North-Ame
rica. Besides oilier officers of government, he is to
take with him a Biihop, who is expected to make " the
crooked strait, and the rough ways smooth ;" or in
other words, to make his way good, and render that
cold climate as warm and comfortable to (some of)
the inhabitants as any other part of America.
The press was the paladium of liberty; to it we
owed our dearest and molt sacred rights, both civil
and religious; when this bill was firft brought in, it
was fraught with clauses inimical to the liberty of the
press; among others, a clause for compelling a man
to give security in a large sum of money, for crimes
not committed, but for luppofitious delinquencies, and
another, impowering a justice of the peace to take
away the liberty of the fubje&, without the benefit of
his natural right, the trial by jury, and that, though
ignorant of his crime, being in all probability totally
illiterate; those exceptional clauses are in some mea
sure done away, one was omitted, and the other ra
ther foftened ; that certainly had been owing to the
opposition the bill met with in the other houle, in or
der to give it a specious appearance of unanimity, tho'
they were certain of carrying it by numbers; and to
facilitate it through this house, there certainly never
was a time more improper for bringing forward such
an unpopular measure, when the minds of men were
in a ferment; it was natural for the people to be
watchful of their rights, and they had often no other
immediate way, but through the medium of a news
Men of Ireland, your representatives have refufed
to do you justice ! On yourselves alone ye must now
rely! An universal nan-import agreement brought
your enemies to reason in 1779: —lt cannot fail to
do the fame now—now that Great-Britain is assisting
you by her own internal dinentions.
April 13. Three thousand infantry, and a regi
ment of horse, which compose our garrison, are to a
man furnifhed with 30 rounds of powder and ball, and
ordered to be in the barracks as well as at their re
fpe(tive guards, at ten minutes warning, to rush upon
the publick, and deal destruction. Spies are posted
in all parts of the town ; groupes of more than three,
though of the most respectable citizens, are not fuf
fered to flop and converse within forty yards of the
military polls and picquets; and nothing is now want
ing completely to establish the happiness and security
of Dublin but the proclamation of martial law.
Fain would I praise
Great Rutland's rule, and Ireland's happy days.
Philips, e. p.
When Content resided in the cottage, the hind
smiled on his plough, and the chearful long of indus
try was heard from the busy loom.
When murmur fled from the Greets, blessings were
sent forth from every shed, and discontent a ft^anger.
When the terror of tumultuous desperation was
unknown in the mansions of the great, civil security
covered the capital with its wings, and the mercenary
bayonet was never called forth to maflacre the poor.
When the regent, mindful of his induction oath,
governed the people with justice, and preferred their
advantage and prosperity to every other consideration.
When all was peace and happiness.
April 16. lelterday Mr. Mathew Doyle, book
seller, and Mr. William Bingley, were taken by justice
Graham, supposed to be parties concerned with the
Volunteer Journal.
We hear a considerable sum has been fubferibed in
the town of Belfaft, to support Mr. Carey, the sup
posed printer of the Volunteers Journal.
HOUSE of LORDS.
Thursday, April 15, 1784.
On the reading the firft clause for obliging the
printers of news-papers to make an affidavit of their
name and place of residence, to be lodged in the
ftamp-office, or with the distributer of stamps, to be
forth-coming as should be required, and the fame to
be conclusive evidence in cases of prosecution for li
bels,
Lord Mountgarret, in a manly speech, which did
great honour to his feelings as a man, and shewed him
the real friend and advocate for the rights of the fub
jed, and the liberty of the press, said, he wished to
fee the parliament better employed at this time, that
is, he wished to fee them deliberate for the commer
cial advantage of the kingdom; he often before men
tioned his fears, his opinion, that our free trade was
a shadow, a mere name ; could it be shewn that any
real advantage had occurred to the nation? No, he
supposed the intention of the English ministry to this
country, and the prejudice of the English nation pre
vented the mealure; he therefore wished to fee their
lordihips employed on this great business coolly and
deliberately, without Irilh or English prejudice, be
ing not a subject so trivial in itfelf as a few nonsensi
cal paragraphs in a news-paper, a matter of little or
no importance to the community at large, though it
might hurt the feelings of an individual, who could
not be put in comparison with the whole, nay, with
ten; he was no advocate for licentious publications;
he had, for years, divested himfelf of all thoughts of
them; he would not read them; but, in his opinion,
the liberty of the press was a matter that should not
be lightly handled; every man had a right to a free
difeuffion of thought on political fubjeds, and to give
his opinion freely thereon, as it concerned the welfare
of the whole; he thought the present clause a hard
fuip to compel a man to criminate himfelf, against the
known law of the laud.
A legal correspondent who has seen the warrant of
alderman Warren, published in the Volunteers Jour
nal of yesterday, aflerts, that if it is a true copy, that
Mr. Cary, on bringing his Habeas Corpus, must be
discharged, and has a good action against the aider
man, and against those magistrates who refufed ad
mitting him to bail, as the committal is wholly ille
gal ; every committal must fpecify the crime for which
the party is apprehended, in order to shew whether the
offence is bailable or not. —This is absolutely essen
tial. Now fee how this stands :—The warrant re
cites, " That Mr. Carey, on the 3d inst. signed a re
ceipt for a fubfeription for the Volunteers Journal ;"
he is not charged with being the printer, the pub
lisher, or the author of the paragraphs condemned by
the house of commons on the sth instant. No crime
is fpecified, for signing a receipt cannot be criminal ;
and it being anterior, it does not appear but Mr. Ca
rey (even if he had been concerned in the Volunteers
Journal of the 3d) might have wholly abandoned it
before the sth. The liberty of the subject is not to
be trifled with, and it is apprehended this warrant was
for these reasons wholly infufficient.
1 he non -importation agreement now entering into,
if ftrialy observed, of which there is no doubt, when
the present temper of the people of Ireland is consi
dered, will be a fatal stroke to the declining com
merce of Great-Britain, for which the people of that
kingdom may thank the Rutland administration, who
by conceding a few trivial duties, on a small part of
the almost innumerable articles of manufactures im
ported into Ireland, might have fatisfied the Irilh by
setting the unemployed weavers to work, and still se
cured to England the best market she has in the world
for her goods, has now by its blundering violence
paper ; he was therefore against that clause and some
others, which tended to impose a restraint on the li
berty of the press.
Lord Mornigton said, he would confine himfelf
to the principle of the bill, which was only to make
the printer ostensible for any improper publication ; it
did not take away the liberty of the press; he hoped
the noble vifeount did not mean to adopt the resolu
tions of the parish of St. Michan's, St. Nicholas with
in, or St. Nicholas without, or other parishes; he
thought the bill proper, and it should have his sup
port.
Lord Farnham, Lord Carysfort, the Archbishop of
Cafhell, and the Bishop of Clonfert, supported the bill
on the principles of its not being inimical to the li
berty of the press, for that every man was at liberty
freely to declare his sentiments as before, it only
tended to prevent wanton and licentious libels, to
make the printer ostensible in a court of justice.
Went through the bill without amendment.
Report received and agreed to, and ordered to be
read a third time to-morrow. Adjourned to this day.
April 17. It has been often remarked, that there
is ficklenefs in the people of this country, that generally
counteracts the best designs before they can be exe
cuted. Of this class we may rank the project of a
Genevefe colony, and the building of a city for the
emigrants who are to form it near Waterford: Fifty
families are already arrived, but the foundations of
the New Geneva are icarcely laid; the building is
protracted on various pretences, and difficulties arise
fafter than houses: In the mean time, the Genevefe
already arrived, who are of the better and most de
cent kind of artisans, are lounging through our streets,
without cither settlement or encouragement. An op
position to protesting duties, and the persecution of
printers, are objects of more importance to govern
ment !
Extrafl of a letter from Belfaft.
" The truly spirited Constitutional Society
has represented to the inhabitants of this town, not
only the absolute necessity to the preservation of the
constitution, of petitioning his majesty against the bill
introduced for Jecuring (alias overturning) the li
berty of the press, but have also prevailed on the nor
thern sons of freedom to enter into a most liberal sub
scription for supporting the Proprietor of the Volun
teers Journal, against the weight of the prosecution
now carrying on against him, as they conceive it in
dispensably necessary, left hereafter others might be
deterred from giving timely warning to their country
men of approaching danger."
It is not to be wondered t, that the chartered
rights of this city should be v ' !i CTnr -_
ftrates held in contemn ^ :„;I : ^>
wanting in publick spirit and he duties + .'
fice,as to refule bailing a fellow-citizen th: ...
dread of power. 'I he name of Lightburne was 0
refpetable; his activity was applauded, and the exer
tions he used to bring a kidnapping justice and re
cruiting officer to condign punishment, won him me
rited applause. Where was the fame nobleness of
mind when Carey was brought before him ?—why
did he shrink ? 'I is alone by proper magnanimity
the magistracy of a city can become authoritative.—•
Dublin is every day declining in her consequence, and
has even been threatened with the abolition of her
charter.