The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1784-01-06 00:00:00, page 2

LONDO N, September 29.
Extraß of a letter from Denbigh, August 19.
" Yesterday the Hon. Mr. Fitzmaurice opened his
vast bleachery at Lleweny. The green is considered
by the best judges, to be the most capacious in Eu
rope, and the buildings and machinery such as are no
where to be paralleled, not even by the celebrated
works of Harlem. The execution of this complete
and stupendous plan does honour to the merchants.—
The famous Stanfield was the engineer, and Matthews
the millwright.—l he concourse of people who came
from all parts to behold this extraordinary fcene,was
astonishing. The country for many miles round,
while I am now writing, Runs one with the ringing
of bells on this joyful occasion. Last night we were
all ablaze with bonfires and illuminations ; and we
kept it up, as the faying is, till the dawn of day :—
In a word, such feftivity and congratulation have not
been known in these parts within the memory of man,
nor is it to be wondered at. The establishment of the
bleaching business among us, on so large and solid a
foundation, gives our poor corner of the world, aid
(through us) the whole kingdom, the most rational
profped of pofleffing a branch of trade which the
Dutch have hitherto almost exclusively enjoyed. The
bleacheries of Holland, every commercial man knows,
form one of the greatest sources of the wealth of that
republick. The most considerable part of the brown
linens of Silesia, and the Northern countries, are
whitened there; but the more extensive scale of Mr.
Fitzmaurice's works, and the excellence of his plan,
together with his lingular sagacity and unwearied at
tention to business, supported by his princely fortune,
bid fair now to carry away the prize of industry from
our Dutch neighbours, and to restore the credit which
our Irish cloths have lately, by bad management and
narrow policy, loft in the foreign markets. The com
mencement of the business was auspicious: Thousands
of pieces were spread on the plains of Salifbury* : In
fliort, we doubt not the felicity of feeing the vale of
Clwyd one of these days as much vilited by the mer
chants and the travellers, as any other spot of earth
to which commerce directs the attention of interest or
curiosity. Llewney Hall, the feat of the truly Hon.
proprietor of this great undertaking, you need not be
told was not defective of its usual hospitality on so
grand a gala. Indeed every house, and every heart
in the neighbourhood, was in unison. The cheer of
ancient Britons was revived with undiminished fplen
dour.
" Excuse this hasty scroll, I write it amidst a nu
merous, joyous company, and will conclude with the
sentiment I am just going to crown my bumper with :
“ 'Tis Mr. Fitzmaurice ;" and may the nobility of
the British Empire be taught by him—that the pioud
eft boast of England is its commerce."
* The Bleach Green, so called by Qlr. Fitzmaurice.
might not, considering his advanced age, be consi
dered by the freemen of this state as an object of
their choice at the next general election, as the Go
vernor has declared his with to retire, after the ex
piration of his present appointment, from the cares
and business of government.
Refolded, by this aflembl,, That they confider it
as their duty in behalf of their couftituents, to ex
press, in terms of the moll sincere gratitude, their
highest refped for his Excellency Governor Trum
bull, for the great and eminent services which he has
rendered this date during his long and prosperous ad
ministration ; more especially for that display of wis
dom, jutlice, fortitude and magnanimity, joined with
the most t 1 fitting attention and perseverance
which he has manifested during the late fuccefsful,
tho' distressing war; which mutt place the chief ma
gistrate of this Rate in the rank of those great and
worthy patriots, who have eminently diftinguilhed
themselves as the defenders of the rights of mankind.
And that this aflembly confider it as a most graci
ous dispensation of Divine Providence, that a life of
so much ufefulnefs has been prolonged to such an ad
vanced age, with an unimpaired vigour and activity of
mind.
But if the freemen of this state shall think proper
to comply with his Excellency's requett, it will be the
with of this assembly, that his fucceiTor in office may
possess those eminent publick and private virtues,
which give so much luftre to the character of him who
has, in the most honourable manner, so long presided
over this state.
It is further Resolved, That the secretary present
to Governor Trumbull an authenticated copy of this
ad, as a testimonial of the refped and esteem of the
Legislature of this state. And the secretary is further
directed, that as soon as he shall be furnilhed with
such copy, he cause the fame to be printed, together
with this act.
A true copy of record, examined by
GEORGE WYLLYS, Secretary.
Foreign Intelligence.
" The Holy Father, desirous tt comply with the
demands gs your imperial Majesty, has given me in
command to fulfil, in the most convenient manner,
every thing that relates thereto, his Holiness no ways
doubting but his equitable requests will be favourably
received. Honoured with this commifhon, 1 hastened
with all possible dispatch from Warsaw to this capi
tal, in order to approach the throne of your Imperial
Majesty. It is my duty, in the firft place, to assure
you, that no one is a greater admirer of your glori
ous government, than his Holiness my mailer. It is
from this motive alone, that he feels the greatest fa
tisfadion in the opportunity he has had of lending me
to this Imperial Court, for the purpose of congratu
lating your Majesty, for having carried to the highest
pitch of prosperity and glory, io extensive an empire
as that of Ruilia. His Holiness most gratefully ac
knowledges your Majelfy's protection and benevolence,
extended to your faithful fubjeds of the Roman
Church; and as the Holy Father knows of no enco
mium adequate to your magnanimity, so he thinks your
Majesty, for that favour, entitled to the warmed ex
prellions of his feelings on the occasion. But the sen
timents of regard and esteem which his Holiness en
tertains for your Imperial Majesty, are much better
expressed in the letter which I have the honour to de
liver, than ray words could convey. As for what re
gards me personally, I think myfclf exceedingly hap
py in the honour that has fallen to my share, of ap
pearing before your Imperial Majesty, as the inter
preter of my matter's sentiments towards you. It
would be the summit of happiness for me, could I
flatter myfelf that the choice his Holiness has made
of me, will not prove disagreeable; and that I shall
find with your Majesty that favour which I mod ear
nestly desire."
" 1 he Ambaffddor then presented his credentials,
which the Empress received, and delivered immedi
ately into the hands of Comte Overman, the Vice-
Chancellor ; after which her Majesty made the fol
lowing gracious reply to his Excellency:
" It is with very great fatisfadion 1 perceive, that
the zeal which inspires the Pontiff reigning in Rome,
answers to my well meaning intentions, in favour of
my Roman Catholick fubjeds. The choice he has
made of you, is very agreeable to me: 1 flatter my
felf, that your day at my Court will enable you to
bear witneis to the regard I entertain for your matter,
and to my exertions for the good of those of my fub
jetts who profefs the fame religion with you."
It must give every lover of kience pleasure to hear
that Mr. Thomas Harding, of Meath-Street, Dub
lin, has, after long and painful study, completed an
instrument, which he terms theimproved Odent, that
will be of lingular service in urveying, navigation,
and even astronomy. A correspondent aflures us it
will be doing the inventor the utmost injustice net to
acknowledge hie mqit in the contrivance, which by
Extract of a letter from Berlin.
" There dwells at this time, at Letterfledt, in
Brunswick, a Mr. Zichin, superintendent of the Hartz
Communion, who has lately published a small treatise
in the German language, concerning one of the most
ancient books at this time existing, which is in his
possession, and intitled “ Chevilla." This book is said
to contain, in an hieroglyphic^ language, the whole
history of the world, as left on record, prior to the
writing of the Pentateuch, and many remarkable events
that would happen in process of time. He hi|s ex
tracted from this work the most striking particulars
that concern the present century, and predicted in the
treatise that was printed in 1779, the different earth
quakes that would happen in thejear 1782, in Cala
bria and other parts; aad mentions in the treatise
the troubles that (agreeably to the contents of that
ancient book) would afflid mankind in the year 1786;
and also the places in which they would happen. If
what has already taken place, may give credit to the
truth of the other prediction contained in the treatise,
events of the most ferrous and remarkable kind may
be expected to take place in various parts of Europe,
particularly m Switzerland, Germany, and the Low
Countries, even into Iceland, near to which a ne v
llland is said to have arisen out of the sea, during the
late earthquake in Sicily and Calabria. In the trea
tise printed in 1779, the author relates the day on
which the disorders that have lately happened at Mef
fina and its adjacent parts would begin. Some peo
ple lay he has attained to this information from a
knowledge of the science of correspondences, which
the Honourable Emanuel Sneerdenbog relates was
known in the firft ages of the world, and down to the
time in which the book of Job was wrote, but which
has since been totally obliterated and loft."
E\tr ;R of a letter from PcterJburgb, Jul, 31.
" In a former letter, I mentioned the arrival of a
Nuncio from the Pope, and his audience of the Em
press ; I n^w give you the speech he delivered, and
the answer of her Imperial Majesty.
" Most gracious Sovereign,
Some accounts of Mr. John Stacie, the inventor
ofa machine for reducing hard bodies to powder
cufer than in an, method ,et known.
I his man, so much deferring of celebrity, and yet
so little known, is the son of a common labourer in
Northamptonshire. From his infancy he shewed signs
of an uncommon disposition, which manifefted itfelf
in a remarkably power of fixing his attention on any
object, in a manner totally unusual with children.
His father, once complaining that his wood-hook
would not do some work he described; the boy, then
only nine years old, thought of it day and night, wak
ing his father to ask questions about it; and in less
than a week gave directions to a blacksmith, and pro
duced a hook so superior to the common, that it was;
used by every perlon in the neighbourhood. A farmer,
bringing his plough to b.e altered at the smith's forge,
young Stacie, then twelve years old, was there; he
wanted the plough to perform a given work, which
a Gmple motion of the instrument, without any labour
or trouble, expeditiously solves every case in plane
and spherical trigonometry with the greatest precision;
exhibits the difference of latitude and departure, by
having the course and distance at one view; as also
the course, distance and difference of longitude, by
having middle latitude and departure. It is, in short,
an epitome of volumes, comprising such a multitude ofc
figures, in the compass of ten inches square, as if dis
tributed into sheets, would fill a folio book of 20®
pages. Our correspondent further informs us, that
Mr. Harding presented a model of this instrument to
the Dublin Society, in the year 1769, which, tho'
at that time imported, was greatly admired ; the sim
plicity of its conttrudion and facility of its operation,
gave general fatisfaftion—but the main point to render
it extenfivHy ufeful being then undifeovered, it could
not at that time be received without some exception.
The inventor having long since remedied the defed,
has, by the aid of an ingenious artist, given it the
finifhing stroke, and made it, without flattery or osten
tation, the most perfed mechanical calculator that has
been offeied to the publick.
T he peace eftabliihment of the Dutch, especially in
their foreign settlements, is much larger than what
was kept up by this country before the war, and shews
that they are determined once more to revive the ho
nour of their flag upon the ocean.
I here has not been a period, for twelve years past,
till the present year, when rhe Ministry and the Cor
poration of London agreed in political opinions- a
circumfence of efTential consequence to the country
at large, as it tends to advance its importance abroad,
while it preserves a beneficial harmony at home.
The Qteen of Portugal has at last consented to ac
knowledge the Independence of America, with a good
grace, which is however rather the consequence of
tear than friendlhip, as no power in Europe is more
jealous of the riling consequence of the new States,
which in time may reach the settlements of Brazils,
on which the interest of the Portuguese so much de
pends.
Mr. Baron Mafleres, who is one of the greatest
algebraists, has calculated a means of the people tak
ing the national debt on themselves, and abolishing
all the taxes that pay the interest.
Sept. 30. Ihe manner of recruiting the army in
Rulha, is the most singularly arbitrary of any in the
whole world perhaps, and is done as follows: When
any regiment wants recruiting, or when new levies are
to be raised, the officers who are appointed to that
business, go into the chief towns and villages of the
several provinces, where a herald by found of trumpet
summonses all the inhabitants together, at which
meeting a day at no great distance, is appointed for
all the men from 18 to 40 years of age, to meet at a
particular place; when the day is arrived, the officer
locks over the men, who Hand in ranks for the pur
pose, and such as he likes he marks, just as a butcher
at Smithfield marks such cattle as lie chufes to buy.
W hen he has procured as many as he chufes, the rest
go to their refpe&ive homes, while the recruits are
immediately marched to some diflant place, without
being permitted to take leave of their friends, or to
go back again. When they arrive at the place of
domination, they are clothed and put in discipline,
and alter a month ipent in schooling them thus, they
are then lent to join the armies, which are on real
service. Should a man desert, his own relations are
obliged to find him; if caught, he is knouted ; if not,
the ramify mutt supply two men in his place.
A correspondent observes, that whatever may be
the fate of the loyalists in America, they surely de
leive the most severe punishment. Their crimes are
of the blacked die, viz. honesty, and love of Great-
Britain, Had they followed the example of the vir
tuous friends of government at home, they would
ere now have fhifted sides, explained away their for
mei principles, and formed a coalition on a broad
basis with Congress—they would have buried all
animosities, and " wondered what the devil they had
been squabbling about." But, alas ! poor men! they
could not take a hint.