The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1785-09-05 00:00:00, page 3

Aug. 25. Being the anniversary of St. Lewis, the
fame was observed at the house of M. Marbois,
charge des affaires, with every mark of convivial
jocundnefs. The packet fired a salute on the occa
sion.
Aug. 26. Amidff all the vices and enormities of
the Algerine Turks, some good qualities are observ
able among them. The most abandoned wretch ne
ver presumes to titter the name of God in vain; or
add it by way of decoration to his ribaldry,
Draughts and chefs are their only games; and at
these they never play for money, but coffee, (herbet,
tobacco, or some such trifles.
August 30.
Extras of a letter from Utrecht, dated June 2.
" Ihe news of the day is war : all our troops are
ordered to be ready at a moment's warning to take
the field: the Imperialists in Brabant are all in moti
on; still it is probable we shall buy the peace at a
dear rate: the French hold the balance in their
hands."
P I R A C Y.
On Saturday last, in the ship Atlantic, capt. Tra
fadden, from Statia, was brought in here, taken up
at sea, capt. Duncan, of the schooner , from
Norfolk in Virginia, bound for the coast of Africa—
who failed on the 10th inst. and on the 16th Was rose
upon by the principal part of the crew and confined
in irons, together with his mate and boatswain; in
this situation they remained four or five days, when
the long boat was launched, fitted out with fails, pro
visions, water, &c. and a compass, and then set a
drift about 60 leagues off the land ; leaving on board
the schooner 4 whitemen, 1 mulatto, and 2 negroes,
not one of them understanding navigation; armed
with two fix pound cannon, and some final! arms,
&c. &c. With the boat they shaped their course for
the continent, and meeting with a brig bound to
Europe, declined a passage in her, in hopes of falling
in with tome other vessel, as they luckily afterwards
did, and arrived fafe here as before mentioned.
From the circumstance of a pilot-boat having been
along-fide a schooner off the banks on Saturday last,
answering the description of captain Duncan's in eve
ry particular- and the captain's overhearing feme
conversation of the pirates while in confinement, de
claring their intentions to cruise off Sandy-Hook,
where they expected to be joined by a veflel from
New-York ; there is great hopes they may be met with
by captain Duncan, who yesterday morning went in
pursuit of them in a pilot-boat, with a number of
armed volunteers.
Office of Secretary of Congress.
^".f 26, 1785.
The United States in Congress assembled, intend
ing to have a new, correct, and complete edition of
their journals; the printers in the several flares are
hereby requested to fend to this Office, on or before
the firft Monday in November next, the terms on
which they will engage to publish the said journals,
and to deliver one thousand copies thereof.
Ihe person or persons contrading must engage to
have a complete index made for the whole, from the
beginning to the firft Monday in November 1785,
and inferred in the volume ending at that time.
The edition is to be in folio, and bound in boards.
The proposals must mention the time when the
work can be entered upon, and the quantity which
can be composed daily; and be accompanied with spe
cimens of the paper and types.
The work to be carried on at the place where
Congress resides, or within such 2 distance thereof
as shall be determined by the Secretary of Congress,
who is to superintend the printing, and revile the
proof-ffieets.
CHARLES THOMSON, Sec'ry.
*** The printers in the several states are requested
to give the above a place in their papers.
RICHMOND, August 20.
By a letter from the Sweet Springs we have the
following intelligence : That the Shawanefe Indians
are out upon the frontiers in great force, united with
the Six Nations. At Point Pleasant they have kil
led Col. Thomas Lewis, and four other officers, one
a Major, and three Captains. Col. Lewis and his
party were killed at a place called Raccoon Bottom,
to which place they went, upon invitation of the
Shawanefe, to hold a treaty with them; and this
piece of bloody treachery is said to be a revenge for
a recent murder of an old Indian hunter, by a party
of whites going down the Ohio. The fort at Point
Pleasant is in great distress, and the inhabitants of
Green Brier, stimulated by Col. Samuel Lewis,
brother to Col. Thomas Lewis, are in motion to its
relief.
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BALTIM O R E, August 16.
We are informed that the assembly of the state of
Georgia have generously offered the Connecticut line
*f the late continental army, to locate their bounty
lands within tllat state, with other benefits and pri
vileges, on certain conditions.
PHILADELPHIA, August 24.
The following singular affair happened on Satur
day morning last; A person who arrived from Eng
land some time last fall, hired in the family of Mr.
David Bacon, and during his residence had conduc
ed himfelf with great propriety, got up early and fe
cuting a door at the bottom of the stairs, to prevent
interruption, opened a desk below, took out up
wards of ten pounds, and ransacking two money
drawers of their whole contents, in the front store,
together with a new beaver hat, immediately run off.
The perpetrator of the above robbery calls himfelf
Joseph Edge, is about five feet fix inches high, well
set, light complexion, nineteen years old, and had
with him, among other apparel, a white hat, with
white bobbin loops.
Aug. 29. Saturday last was apprehended and se
cured in the gaol of this city, a certain Francis Reed,
alias Red, who was advertised in some of our late pa
pers, for robbing the house of the widow Mande
ville, in New-York, and made his escape from a con
stable there. He was found on board a fhallop, at
the Crooked Billet Wharf.
Aug. 30. Mr. Marbois, charge des affaires of
France, has delivered to Congress a letter from his
Most Christian Majesty, concerning the Marquis de
la Fayette. It contains expteffions of that monarch's
friendship for the United States, and assurances that
the king wishes for opportunities to let the young
general experience farther marks of the fatisfadion
he has of his zeal and ability.
A veflel is returned here front New-Toundland,
whither (he was bound with a freight, but being an
American bottom, did not enter, or land any part
of her cargo; as her captain found that a brig from
this port had been seized there, and was to be fold
in a few days riot being owned by Britife fub
jeAs; manned by British seamen, and navigated ac
cording to Britifo laws.
Aug. 31. Between the 26th of May and 26th of
August, died in this city five widows, the aggregate
of whose ages is 463 years. Che youngeit of them
had counted 00 summers before file arrived at the
" house appointed for all living."
We are informed, that a certain merchant of this
city, lately wrote a letter to a person in Jamaica, con
taining a circumstantial account of the merican ves
sels fitted out here, provided with British colours and
papers, to evade the rigorous regulations observed in
the Weft-India islands; the letter was fortunately in
tercepted. What makes this affair of a more villain
ous dye, is, that this merchant has, we are informed,
carried on an illicit trade with the islands since the
peace.
TRENTON, September 5,
Died, on 1 uefday last, in Bordentown, at an ad
vanced age, Dodor Alexander Moore, many
years physician in that place. Tender and cautious
in his practice, he joined the character of the indul
gent friend to that of the physician. Every honest
man, who was acquainted with him, esteemed him
when living, and now laments him dead.
Walter Colvin,
CLOCK AND WATCH-MAKER;
INFORMS his friends and the publick in general,
that he has opened ihop neatly opposite to Mr. A
braham Hunt's, where he carries on the clock and
watch-making business ; and hopes, by his assiduity
and attention to business, to give full fatisfa&ion to
those who will please to favour him with their cus
tom.
Trenton, August 29, 1785. 4w*
TO the PUBLICK.
ACompleat Nautical Almanack and Agronomical
Ephemeris, calculated for the use and inftruftion
of the American navigator, surveyor and the lovers of
knowledge in these United States, is a work which
the lubferiber hopes will meet with the approbation
ol the virtuous citizens of America ; convinced of the
advantages which must attend a publication of this
kind in America, he has takes the liberty to lay before
the publick
PROPOSALS
FOR PUBLISHING BY SUBSCRIPTION,
T H E
American Nautical Almanack
A N D
ASTRONOMICAL EPHEMERIS.
The Almanack and Ephemeris shall contain.
I. The Sun and Moon's'rifing and setting, and time of
high-water for every day in the year at Philadelphia;
with an easy rule to make these answer any place
in the world. Also, the changes, full's and quar
ters of the Moon, with the eclipses of Sun and Moon
throughout the year, fitted to Philadelphia; with
an easy rule to fit them to any other place of the
world.
11. The declination and passage over the meridian, of
the planets every day, with an easy rule by these
to find their rising and setting in all places of the
world.
111. The right afeenfion and declination of the Sun 2
also the Equation of time for the noon of every
day; likewise, the Sun's semi-diameter for every
fourth day.
IV. The Moon's right afeenfion and declination for
the noon and midnight of every day; also, the
Moon's semi-diameter and horizontal parallax for
every noon, and her passage over the meridian eve
ry day.
V. The distance of the Moon's center from the Sun
and from stars east and weft of her ; for every three
hours throughout the year.
VI. The eclipses of Jupiter's Satellites.
VII. A number of other tables requisite to be used
with the almanack, with several rules, illustrated
by a great variety of examples, shewing the use of
the almanack and tables, particularly in finding the
longitude at sea and land.
The price to be One Dollar, which is Ten-pence
less than the price of the British Nautical Almanack,
although it will contain many things not in the other.
The almanack for the year 1786, will be published
some time in October next, and that for 1787, in Fe
bruary or March following: after which time, should
the publiiher meet with fufficiept encouragement, they
shall always be published at lead two years before
their date, for the use of those mariners who may gd
long voyages.
BENJAMIN WORKMAN.
Philadelphia, August 9, 1785.
Subferiptions are taken in by Messrs. Edes and Son%
Boston; F. Barber, Rhode-lfland; R. Hodge and
S. Campbell, New-York; J. Murphy, Baltimore;
J. Hays, Richmond, Virginia; J. Campbell, Wil
mington, N. Carolina; J. Muirhead, Charleston;
S. Carolina; by the publisher; by all the book- tel
lers in Philadelphia; and by the printer hereof.
The utility of the proposed publication of a Nauti
cal and Agronomical Ephemeris, is so well known in
Europe, that computers are annually paid by the pub
lick, on whose fidelity, care and abilities, the Astro
nomer and navigator may lately depend; while ob
servatories are established almost in every country id
Europe to furnifh the necessary materials of calculate
on. A similar publication in America must, of ton
fequence, be of singular advantage to promote the
navigation of the United States, if executed with care
and ability. From our acquaintance with the skill of
the gentleman who proposes to undertake the business,
we have no doubt, but that it will be executed with
the greatest attention and fidelity, and that he deferred
the encouragement of the friends of America.
JOHN EWING, D. D.
ROBERT PATTERSON.
Forty Dollars Reward.
RAN away from the fubferibers, on Sunday evening
the 21st of this instant, the followihg'iridented
Irilh servants, viz. Daniel Tonney, about seventeen
years of age, dark complexion, short black hair, about
5 feet 6or 7 inches high, thin visage; had on and
took with him, a white jean coat, a blue short sailor's
jacket, two under jackets, one spotted the other a fine
dimity, one pair of olive green corduroy breeches, a
caftor hat almpft new, &c.
Michael M'Phaddin, about twenty-fix years of age,
of a fair complexion, with long black hair tied, stout
and well made, about 5 feet 9 inches high ; had on
and took with him, a linen coat, jacket and breeches
of corded linen with thread flockings, wool hat witli
a black riband round it, a blue short jacket and check
wallet, a weaver by trade,
Thomas Kennedy, about twenty years of age, of a
sandy complexion, freckled face, long brown hair,
thick legs and the left leg the shortest, which causes
him to limp, very thick set, and about 5 feet 4or 5
inches high ; had on, and took with him, a cloth coat
of a drab colour, almost new, no lining, a spotted
velvet jacket, and a blue cloth ditto, two pair of
breeches, 1 jean and the other fuftian with thread flock
ings, new shoes, a pair of square copper buckles, a'
wool hat; a shoemaker by trade, and took some tools
with him.
Also a certain Edward Dowr, 19 or 20 ytars old, 5 feet
4 inches high dim built, much pock-pitted, ruddy com
plex on, talks on the brogue, and swears much in his
difeourfe, fond of a club or stick, and values himfelf
on his prowess in the use of it as a weapen of defence,
has been used to tend a sawmill; had on a short blue duf
fil sleeveless jacket, new Russia linen shirt, brown cor
duroy breeches, ribbed linen flockings, a pair of calf
fkin pumps, nearly new, plated carved buckles, halfr
worn felt hat, an old black silk handkerchief, but may
be likely to change cloths with his comrades : Who
ever secures said servants in any gaol, so that their
masters get them again, shall have the above reward/
or 6 dollars for either, and reafonabie charges, paid!
by DAVID FORST,
WILLIAM RICE, ,
WILLIAM M'CALLA,
JONATHAN INGHAM, juh;
Bucks county, August %6, 378,' zw*