The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1780-09-27 00:00:00, page 4

King exacting or demanding money of the people,
by his own arbitrary will, without the fanttion of Par
liament, or illegally robbing them by means of a cor
rupt and secret influence over a majority of its mem
bers ? Nay, the latter is ten thousand times more
dangerous to the constitution, and more fatal to
your liberties ; the firft, being an open violation of
the laws, and an arbitrary Stretch of kingly preroga
tive, gives an immediate alarm throughout the na
tion, and the people are presently on their guard to
oppose and refill it ; but this corrupt and secret in
fluence, or, in other words, bribing your reprNentd
tives to betray their trust, and give to the crown an
absolute power over your purses, is more flow and
sure, and its consequences not so soon forefeen or
felt, nor yet so easily guarded against or prevented. —
It is the word and blacked treason against the laws
and constitution, in the King or Minister who does
it, becaafe it goes to the entire subversion of all legal
government, it saps the foundation of publick right,
publick justice, and publick virtue, and mud in the
end not only destroy your liberties, but eltabhlh ty
ranny and dtfpotifm in the land, by ad of Parlia
ment ; and it will then be too late to complain; for
if you should have resolution to do it, you will be
told by the haughty imperial tyrant on the throne,
" It is' not in my power to give you any relief; indeed
I know of no such grievance as you mention, and
have now laid before me ; they do not exist ; the
application is therefore not only very improper, but
indecent, designed by a few discontented people to
alarm the kingdom, and to infufe into the minds of
my peaceable and well-affected Subjects falfe fears
and apprehensions; and I should ill deserve the title
of King of a free people, if I paid the least attention
to it : I cannot alter the law you complain of, and
to which I have given my assent, by and with the
advice of my Parliament, and by that advice I shall
abide."
Friends and fellow-countrymen, it is necessary
you should know, and be made fully acquainted
with your own consequence and importance in the
state, and no longer fuffer yourselves to be duped and
plundered daily, by the corrupt union cf the King,
Lords and Commons ; confider, that they have not
nor can have any power, either jointly or separately,
but what has derived from you, which they hold in
trust for your good, and the general fafety of the
kingdom ; and for which you have allowed them
certain privileges and advantages. Now, as they"
have acted in direct opposition to your welfare, and,
by that means, betrayed that trust you delegated to
them, and nearly effected your and the nation's ruin;
they are evidently become tyrants and usurpers, and
ought to\ be treated as such, and dispossessed of those
powers so abused,. which they can have no longer
any right to exercise are the origin of all the
power vested in the three heads of the constitution ;
you were a people before there was any such thing
as King, Lords and Commons, or any form of go
vernment constituted ; and that power which is ori
ginal, must be superior; and you have an undoubted
right, when you fee or think it necedkry for your
own preferyation, to enter into associations, or
ass ruble in convention, in order to take the govern
ment into your own hands, and to confider of dele
gating new powers, for the future advantage and
benefit of the kingdom.
Reason and common feofe clearly point out, to the
meanest capacity, that when ail delegated powers
fail orexpirfy when Governors ruin the people they
should protect, when the Parliament is destroyed, or,
what is :he fame thing, if not werfe, corrupted, and
betray their constituents, the people, who are the
original of all delegated power, ought to drag the
mifereants from their feats, chat they might fuffer, if
poihble, a punishment equal to their crimes, as an
example to all future traitors. But while you, my
fellow fubjeds, remain quiet and inactive under every
oppression, every violation of your rights, and every
aft of tyranny, be allured your tail-matters will go
on till you are enslaved beyond redemption, through
your own baseness, till your property is gone, and
with it your power, and till you have not one liberty
nor one privilege left to boast df.
Route then, if you have hill any claim or preten
tions to the name of Englishmen. The grand, the
important question agitated in the kingdom is, whe
ther you Shall continue to be a free people, or become
Slaves ; let not a fatal lethargy lull you into a fancied
security, and obliterate the sense of glory, till your
chains are faft rivited; 'tis freedom calls, and de
mands your protection and support ; that freedom,
which every sensible mind, and every Englishman,
holds inseparable from the idea of happiness on earth.
Be not intimidated by the displeasure or the frowns of
a tyrant, nor by the threats of power; that would
not only betray a degree of cowardice, but prove a
baseness of Spirit unworthy of Britons. In a cause
so important, so glorious in its consequences, we
Shoul(Lknow no fear. You, my fellow-countrymen,
fecmed with the armour of truth, and having all the
laws of justice, humanity and heaven, on your fide,
may bid defiance to the boldest and cruelcft tyrant
upon earth; even to a Nero, with all his host of
saves, and make them tremble.
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Let me conjure you to be no longer deceived, by
the pious hypocnfy of the present King ; he has done
more, in the Short Space of a few years, to subvert
your religion and liberties, and to ruin the nation,
than ever Charles the firft did, during the whole course
of his life, and yet he was brought to the block, by
the virtue, firmnefs and resolution of our tore-la
thers; if he had not, we, at this day, Should not
have had either liberty or freedom to Lave contended
for, nor would England have been reduced to its
present miserable, disgraceful and ruinous state. by a
dastardly, mulish tyrant, of the house of B mfwick.
James the second, at Lis firft coming to the crown
of England, profeffed (though not borna Briton) so
much tenderness for the people, and so great a re
gard for the preservation of their liberties, and their
property, that the Parliament and people generously
gave him more money than he aiked, and he himfeif'
had honor enough to put a flop to the profusion of
their grants, and foolilh loyalty. The delu ed peo
ple presently saw their error, for hr soon began to
put the imperial law of his own will in execution,
and to exercise an arbitrary and uncontrouled power
over them. However, James had not long tered
from what he seemed to be in his fir's speech, than
the people altered too. The fatisfa^hon in, and ve
neration for, their new King, vanished in a ihort
time ; and from the pleasing hopes of living free and
happy fubjeds under him, they funk into all the just
and dreadful apprehensions of becoming del, led and
miserable slaves. A general consternation fell upon
the kingdom, and the wretches who had armed the
tyrant with his power, and supported lorn in it, were
the firft to leave him, and the most torward to invite
and join with a deliverer. James being thus deserted
by his priests and chaplains (who had invested him
with all his illegal and arbitrary power) and by every
honest Englishman, he was soon reduced to the neces
sity of trusting to, and depending upon, a mercenary
band of hired troops, who also deserted him, and he
was at length obliged to fly from the face of an in
jured people, and to seek refuge in a foreign land, as
a proper and just reward for all his villainy. That
another base, ungrateful, perjured, hypocritical and
blood-thirsty tyrant, may Share the fame, ora worse
fate, is the sincere with of millions.
THE LAST
Votes and Proceedings
OF THE
GENERAL ASSEMBLY
of this State,
Are to be fold at the Printing-Office in Trenton.
ALSO,
BLANK ACCOUNT BOOKS.
F R'E'l G 11 T'S"
TAKEN BY
WILLIAM RICHARDS
AND
THOMAS ASHMORE,
To and from TRENTON and.PHILADELPHIA.
PASSENGERS; 2/6 Box window g!afs, 3,
I SOLDERS, 1/3 Earthen and wooden ware
Barrel of powder, 3/ jNin the pound.
Hogshead rum, 7/6 Lage crates of ware 7/6
Do. melalks, 7/6 [Smaller in proportion]
Do. Sugar, 11/3 All forts of grain, per
Do tobacco, ity bushel 4^
Do. lime, 6f Salt, per ditto, 4^ i-x
Do. cyder, 6/6 Bolts of oznabrigs or
Tierces half the price cf duck, 1/6
lit hugfheads. Inch board per thousand
P .A'wme, 11/3 feet, 2c/
Barrels of be ri'. nork, filh Trunks, bales, cases and
and cyder by the quan- boxes, with bags, &c.
tity, 1/6 'agreeable to Size and
All chance freight by the weight.
barrel, 2/3 Bundles of leather, 3/6
And every other Small ar- Bricks, ijf
ticle in proportion. Boxes cf soap, candles,
Barrels of flour by the and chocolate, 1/6
quantity, ' gd Reams of paper, %d 3-4
Do. of apples, 1/ Iron potts, per ton, 3c/
Tierces of flaxfeed, 3/3 Bar iron, do. 18,
Do. of rice, 3/6 Pig iron, do. 15/
Chest of tea, 11/3 Anchors, 17/
All freight for the publick agreeable to contract.
All goods that come up in those vessels do not pay
any wharfage, nor Storage, except they lay above
fifteen days.
The above freights will be received at the exchange.
Publick Notice is hereby given
THAT the owners and possessors of the meadows
I and marsh lying on both sides the creek Affif
kunk, being the most part within the city of Burling
ton, propose to apply to the General Assembly of the
state of New-Jersey, at their next meeting, for a law
to flop out said creek at or near the barracks in laid
city, and to ereft other waterworks, for the pur
pose of draining said marsh.
Burlington, Aug. 26, 1780.
We ed immediately,
A SCHOOL-MASTER, in a good neighbour
hoo l, to teach Reading, Writing, and Arith
metic. A Single man, well recommended, will meet
with proper Encouragement, by applying to Mr. Mer
cer, at Schenck's mills, near Somerset Counhoute.
September 12, 1780. gw
CLOCKS and Av ATCHES MADE^
and OLD REPAIRED.
r rHE fubferiber takes this method of acquainting
I his former Customers and the Publick, that he
has removed from the house of Mi. John Reynolds
to Mr. William Roscow's, where he carries 011
the CLOCK and WATCH-MAKING BUSINESS
in all its various branches ; and hoy es by his know
ledge of and attention to his business, to give fatis
lactioii to all those who Ihall please to favour him
with their custom.
3w* JACOB MAUS.
_Trenton, Sept. 12, 1780. ____________
To all uhom it may concern :
New-Jersey, Middlesex County, ff.
BY yirtue of an order from the Honourable the Jus
tices of the Supreme Court of this state, 1 am
directed to certify the Public, that Courts of Oyer
and Terminer and General Gaol Delivery will be held
at Princeton, in and for the county of Middlesex, on
Tuesday the 17th day of October next ; —All Juft'iccs.
of the Peace, Coroners, Conftabl^s, and other offi
cers and mirnfters of justice of the laid county, are'j
hereby delircd that they be then and there in their
own persons, with their roils, records, indictments,
and other remembrances; and all persons who will
protecute, or can bear testimony in behalf of the state
against any offenders in the said county, are ddired
likewise to give their attendance on the day, and at
the place atorefaid.
Sept. 11, 1780. 4w JOHN PIATT, Sher.
Freehold, Monmouth county, Sept. 4, 1780.
THE Subscriber will dispose of one very likely ac
tive NEGRO fellow, twenty years old, for jl.ijcn
in Specie, and two likely active NLGkG girls, fif
teen years old, for £.120 each aforefaid, or the va
lue thereof in current money. They are not 'to be
fold for any fault, but the want of business: They
are all country born, and underhand most kinds of
bnfinefs. 4 SAMUEL FORMAN,
RAMA WA r,
On the evening of the 17th instant,
A NEGRO MAN called NED, a stout fellow
about five feet ten or eleven inches high,
speaks very low; had on and took with him when
he went away, a wool hat with white loops, a brown
homespun coat, one woollen check and a tow cloth
shirt, and two pair of tow cloth trousers. Whoever
apprehends and secures the said negro, so that his
master may have him again, Shall be amply reward
ed, and all reasonable charges paid by the fubfeti
ber. J. WINTERS.^
Reeky-Rill, Sept 19, 1780.
Two Hundred Dollars Reward.
Strayed from Princeton, on the 12th or 13th inst.
A dURREL MARE, with white mane and tail,
9 or 10 years old, near 14 and a half hands
high, a natural pacer, the fetlocks of her fore feet,
have been lately trimmed. Any person who will'
Secure !a.d mare, and deliver, her to Captain James
Moore in 1 rinceton, Ihall be entitled to the above
reward. JAMES RIDDLE.
September 15, 1780. gwf
W A
TW 0 experienced Hatp'oniets in the whaling
business, to enter the firlt day of November
next, to whom good encouragement will be given
by iienry Guest at New-Bruni wick.
N. B. None need apply without having proper
vouchers of their dexterity in the business. sow
a“Y~L D~ or" S 1 O L~EN,
ON the 17th instant, from the Subferiber at Tren
ton Landing, a bright BAY MARE, Irei near
hind foot white, and a large blaze in her forehead ;
her prune hangs the near fide ; moll natural toa rack
and pace ; about 14 hands one inch high. Whoever
has found the fame and • ill dc^ver her r the owner
or give information so that the may : . had again, Shall
have TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS reward, and
reasonable charges, paid by
July 25, 1780. JOHN CLUNN.
A K
A SWORD wa, fopur the 14th of August, on the
2 I road from ram.o.gton to Penningtoh. Ine
owner by proving ^ ? c rty and paying the ex
pence of this advtr ir .cm, may have it again by
applying at the Port-Office in Trenton.
Segyrnber 178 c.