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and every person, who is not HA offender in the man
ner described in the aforefaid aft, that shall make it
appear to the judges aforefaid, by fatisfa&ory proof,
that he was beyond the seas, or that he was a pri
soner of war, and involuntarily detained within the
lines of the enemy, cr that his residence had been dis
tant from this state, or that he was in such other situ
ation and circumstance as rendered it impracticable to
produce his demand, of what nature or kind soever,
either mortgage, specialty, note, or other document,
on which his demand is founded, within the periods
limited in said aft, shall be, and hereby is permitted to
lay the fame before the judges as aforefaid for settle
ment, within the time limited in this ad: And where
as, by the eighth fedion of the aforefaid ad, it is En
acted, That any person thinking himfeff aggrieved by
the determination of the said judges, in the liquida
tion of any debt or demand not fettled in term time,
may appeal to the next court of common pleas to be
held in the county, who shall hear and decide the
fame accordingly ; and every person or persons may
in like manner appeal on behalf of the state : And
whereas the Legislature is informed many demands
against forfeited estates, other than those authorized
to be allowed by said aft, have been admitted and al
lowed by the judges in several of the counties in this
state, to whom an appeal would be improper after
such their proceedings; for remedy whereof,
Sed. I. Be it Enabled by the Council and Gene
ral Assembly of this state, and it is hereby Ena&ed
by the Authority of the fame, That all demands laid
before the judges of the court of common pleas in
this state, pursuant to the seventh fedion of the above
recited act, which may have been in whole or in part
allowed by said judges, together with all other de
mands exhibited and allowed, shall be reported by
the said judges allowing thq fame, with the nature
and circumstances of such demand, to the auditor of
accounts, to be by him examined and infpe&ed ; and
in cale the said auditor shall find any accounts allow
ed, which, agreeably to the true intent and meaning
of the before recited ad, ought not to be allowed,
he shall, and is hereby required to take account of
all such demands, and lay the fame before the trea
surer, who is hereby required to withhold all pay
ments thereon until such demand shall be inquired
into by the judges of the supreme court, in the man
ner herein after directed.
2. And be it furtner Ena&ed by the Authority
aforefaid, That the treasurer of this state shall not
pay any demands fettled and allowed by the judges,
either upon a re-adjuttment of demands before exhi
bited, or of such as may have been exhibited after
passing the above recited ad. until the auditor of ac
counts shall have examined and approved of such set
tlement, and certified the fame to the treasurer; and
all accounts or demands allowed by the judges of the
court of common pleas, which shall be disapproved of
by the auditor, shall be returned to the perlon or per
sons having such demand; which person or persons
may apply to the judges of the supreme court, or any
two of them, for redress, at or before the firft day
of December next, who shall, and hereby are re
quired to hear and determine upon such demand in
a summary way, upon the party applying, giving
timely notice to the auditor to attend at every such
hearing and determination, with his objections against
the fame; which determination of the judges of the
supreme court, or any two of them, shall be conclu
sive touching the premises: And all demands allowed
by the judges of the supreme court, in manner above
mentioned, shall be paid by the treasurer in the man
ner directed by the before recited aft.
3. And be it further Enacted, That the party ap
plying to the judges of the supreme court for a deter
mination upon their demands excepted to by the au
ditor, shall pay the judges for their determination
thereon the sum of ten fhiliings.
4. And be it further Enacted, That the time li
mited for the auditor in and by the before recited ad,
to lay the amount of each estate, and the amount of
each several demand against the fame, before the
treasurer, shall be, and hereby is prolonged to the
firft day of May next, any thing in the before recited
act to the contrary notwitlaftanding.
PafTed at New-Brunswick, September 2, 1784.
(C A GREEABLY to the directions contained in
the Ift feCtion of the above aCt, the judges
in the several counties who have allowed anv de
mands against forfeited estates, are requested to re
port the fame, together “ with the nature and cir
“ cumftances of such demand," to me before the firft
day of November next, that if any objection Should
be made to any of them, the parties concerned may
have time to apply to the judges of the supreme court
for a determination of the fame, before the firft day
of December next, the time limited by law.
JAMES EWING, Auditor.
Foreign Intelligence.
D U B L I N, july 20,
The affairs of this kingdom forebode an approach
July 27. His Grace the duke of Rutland has been
pleased to order the sum of four hundred and thirty
pounds, annually, to be paid to the honourable the
city of Dublin, for establishing peace officers ; in con
sequence of which, the Right Honourable the Lord
Mayor and Aldermen have advertised for twenty able
bodied men, who are to get 201. per year; and there
is to be a ferjeant appointed to command them, who
is to get 301. per annum. This noble institution of
his Grace must undoubtedly have a good effeft, and
among other things prevent robberies, which are now
hourly happening.
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American Intelligence.
KINGSTON (Jamaica) August 7.
The direful effects which we dreaded from the tre
mendous hurricane of the 30th ult. has been but too
fatally realized. Considerable damage has been done
in this town ; many buildings have been thrown down,
numbers of piazzas destroyed, and most of the fences
in the Savannah levelled with the ground. The roof
and part of the wall of the inner barracks on the pa
rade, appropriated for the private soldiers, were driven
in, and some of the most substantial buildings in town
Flipped of their coverings. The dwellinghoufes at
most of the penns in the neighbourhood of Kingston,
have also every one been in a greater or lesser degree
injured.
The harbour of Kingston and Port-Royal, on the
morning after the hurricane, exhibited the most strik
ing pidure of desolation: His majesty's ships Janus,
and Iphigenia, the Vernon armed ftore-fliip, the ship
Nelly, Dawson, and some small craft, being the only
vessels that rode out the storm. Every other in these
harbours were either funk or driven ashore, and dif
mafted. To give a perfect account of the loss is a talk
at present impossible; many vessels being absolutely
funk, of which no vellige remains, but the heads of
masts that appear above water. —The following lift,
imperfect as it must be, contains the name and the
fate of every one that has come to our knowledge:
ing storm; the answer of his Grace of Rutland to
the address of the citizens of Dublin, was certainly
ill-timed ; it should have been couched in the terms
of a consummate politician ; it betrays a want of dis
simulation, of political, as well as natural temper ; —
qui nefeit digimulare, nefeit regnare, the term " a pa
per," should have been spared, as it is the forerunner
of similar papers from every county and city of
the kingdom; and when a nation speaks thus in the
moment of ferment, any man of common penetration
can judge that it deferred another name; and as no
one should be put at the head of an army who is not
an adept in military science, with all the requisite ta
lents, and the coup d'oeil of the general, the govern
ment of a country, upon the fame principles, should
not be vested solely in a ducal shadow and princely
fortune, but in such hands as are accustomed to the
regular and progressive knowledge in the ways of go
vernment.
His majesty's armed brig, Antelope, and Duke of
Rutland, at the king's wharf, Fort-Royal.
Brigs Friendship, O'Neal, twelve hands perilhed;
James, Hare ; Industry, O'Brian ; Adventure, 1 hom
fon; Regulator, ; on Salt Pond point; a brig
belonging to capt. Everitt, every foul perilhed ; Spa
nilh brig, Souverain, Jonas, three hands perilhed.
Schooner Eliza, Lewis; La Bifche, Ducofe, Ma
rianne, Solarie; Endeavour, Lowrie; Kingston, Reed-
Union, Cadeou ; Bell, Burnside; Daphne, Soublette
a watering schooner belonging to the king's yard.
Sloops Fly, Kitts ; Patty, Albro', and three hands
loft; Dolphin, Marian, 1 passenger and 7 seamen pe
rilhed; Viper, Moor; Surprise, ..
VESSELS ON SHORE.
Ships Three Sifters, Johnston, and difmafted; at
Green Bay, Simon Taylor, Baker; Tartar, For'ref
ter, and one hand loft ; Savanna-la-Mar, Jenkins;
Either, Robertson, and totally difmafted; Jett, Gib-'
son, without a bowsprit.
Brigs Two Brothers, O'Brian, and totally difmaft
ed; Fox, Jones; Sally, Gleen; Sophia, Heartwell.
Schooners Fox, Lowrie ; Providence, Jones ; Three
Friends, Watt; Grann, Folie le Feux; Success,
Bontin.
Ships, his majesty's frigate Flora, at Port-Royal ;
Thynne packet-boat, Wolfe; Maria, Jones, arrived
from New-York the morning after the hurricane, and
drove on Ihore under the old fort at Port-Royal ;
Martha, Boyle, and aground ; Garnett, Harborne,
drove down to the Apostles battery, and there brought
up iy good ground; Two Brothers, Brithwait ; Nan
Sloops Two Friends, Lowring; Santa Croix Packet,
Campbell, and difmafted ; Bun, Craigburn ; Kingston,
Bedman; Juno, Smith.
KESSELS DISMASTED.
Ship Thomson, Doyle, totally loft; 2d mate and
two negroes drowned.
KESSELS SUNK.
We are allured that Dr. Gordon has been favoured
with the infpeftion of the papers belonging to the late
Generals Washington, Gates, Lincoln and Green;
but that he has not been the least concerned in any
historical publication that has yet appeared, neither
will he engage in any, till he has announced the fame
to the United States by his own signature.
We hear from Falmouth, Cafco-Bay, that a vessel
arrived there last week, which failed from that place
last May for the Gulph of St. Lawrence, on a voyage
for sea-cows ; soon after her arrival there, the master,
Captain Reuben Higgins, and three of his crew, went
out in a boat, and pierced one of those animals witli
one of their iron weapons for that purpose ; but the
cord, to which it was faftened, having accidentally
got intangled in the boat, the cow in her flight, witli
the instrument fixed in her body, forced the boat un
der water, and left the unfortunate crew immersed in
that dreadful element. Captain Higgins and one of
his men were drowned—but the others saved by the
men who (as is common in such dangerous enterprizes)
remained in the vefTel to observe the motion of the
adventurers.
cy, Wadington; brig Dragon, Stonehoufe. Sloops
Fort-Augusta, Williams ; Betsey, Little ; Durald,
Merchant.
Two vessels, of what denomination does not ap
pear, said to be dallied to pieces on the rocks near
Fort Small, and most of the people perilhed.
At the Apostles Battery, the barracks entirely de
molished; the Captain's house partly unroofed; a store
house and kitchen blown down ; the block-house con
siderably damaged.
At Port Henderson, the wharf destroyed ; a range
of new stores blown down; the bath-house demolished,
and a great part of the tavern.
At Fort-Augusta, the new barracks blown down, 4
men killed, and 30 wounded.
Port-Royal has fuffered very inconsiderable damage;
a few houses that were in a state verging to ruin,
blown down; one or two more unfhingled.
In Spanish-Town, the barracks hlown down, 23
men hurt, legs and arms fractured, none killed; the
church considerably damaged, several private budd
ings unroofed, and piazzas blown down.
In the windward parities desolation seems to have
stalked around with relentless fury ; many of the
estates and settlements in St. George and St. David
have loft their buildings, and most of their provisions;
but St. Thomas in the east, is one continued scene of
ruin and deftruftion ; numbers of people have perilhed,
and the buildings in general levelled with the earth.
The towns of Port Morant and Morant Bay, are almost
entirely demolished, and every vessel in those harbours
driven ashore. funk, or destroyed; the ship Fame,
Robin, excepted, which rode ont the storm, with the
loss of her main-mast.
In St. John's and St. Dorothy's, the damage we
hear is considerable ; the ship London, Spence, is
alhore at Old Harbour, and as we are informed, en
tirely loft.
Vere prefects a very painful fpedacle ; many sugar
works, and a number of other buildings destroyed ;
the canes every where almost levelled; plaintain walks
laid down all over the parish.
Clarendon, St. Elizabeth, St. James, Trelawny,
and St. Ann, have fuffered little more than they might
expect in a common gale.
Our accounts from Weftmoreland and Hanover
are so various and contradi&ory, that we cannot ha
zard a conjecture on their teal situation.
In St. Mary's, the trash-houses, male pens, fences
and plaintain-walks, are mostly destroyed ; some cane
pieces laid level.
At Anotto-Bay, in St. George's, the ship Spencer,
of which has loft her Captain, Rice, and fix seamen.
The ship Portland Planter, Hawes, is dashed to
pieces at the mouth of Pl. Garden river.
The following vessels which failed from Port-Roy
al a day or two before the tempest, have since returned
in distress, viz. ship Rofehill, M'Quoid, with the loss
of her main and mizen-mafts; ship Sally, Darrel, with
out her topmalls; ship Phillippa, Fenton, totally dif
mafted, and one of the people killed.
The negro houses, plaintain-walks, corn, and canes
in Liguanea, are in general destroyed; the house of
Matthew Wallen, Esq. at Coldfpring, and the boil
ing-house at Hope-Estate, are, we hear, blown down;
the barracks at Up-Park are demolished, and four sol
diers killed.
All the small crafts along the coast and in harbours,
are entirely loft, and it is much to be feai ed the crews
are all drowned.
On Sunday there was a meeting of the cuftos, ma
gistrates, and principal inhabitants of this town, who
presented a petition to his honour the Lieutenant Go
vernor, praying, that the prohibition ofimporting pro
vilion in American bottoms, might be suspended for
four months; in consequence thereof his honour has
been pleased to call a council to confider of it.
BOSTO N, Sept. 2.