The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1781-07-04 00:00:00, page 3

BASSE TERR E, (St. Chrißopher's) May 2s.
On Sunday last arrived here a cutter from Antigua,
and failed again immediately : by her we learn, that
,Ligate arrived there from St. Lucia, and informed
that the French landed but zoco men, and were so
apprehensive of Admiral Rodney's arrival, that they
embarked, so precipitately, that they left aJI their
cannon, ammunition, and baggage behind them:
Pidgeon-Ifland and an armed ship kept up a continual
fire on them, during their landing and re-embark
ing, by which they loft a number of men.
A gentleman in this illand has received a letter
from Antigua, tantamount to the above intelligence.
It was confidently reported at St. Lucia, that Sir
John Lockart Ross was arrived at Barbadoes, with
eight fail of the line, and two frigates; which, if
true, at once accounts for the dastardly flight of the
French army from that ifand.
BOST O N, June IT.
Since our last the Thorn, Capt. Tucker, returned
into Salem, after a Ihort cruise of ten days, to land
his prifpners, having taken three prizes, viz. a Goop
from St. Euftatia, bound to Halifax ; a letter of marque
brig of 14 guns, bound from Antigua for Quebec,
laden with rum and molasses, and her re-taken prize,
being the snow taken by the Alliance, laden with 300
hogsheads of sugar, all of which are fafe arrived in
? ort ° - j
Six or eight prizes, besides those above-mentioned,
have arrived at eaßern ports since our last.
Friday last the Captains Adamson and Ingram ar
rived here in four weeks from Surrinam; they bring
accounts of that place being almost impregnable? hav
ing had 5000 men constantly employed in fortifying
ft, ever since they heard of the fate of St. Euftatia.
'Since Thursday last have arrived in this port from
that the tax directed to be levied by this aft may be
more easily discharged by the good people of this Rate,
and that supplies for the use of the army, militia,
and troops raised for the defence of the Bate, may
be procured with the greatest certainty: Be it enaß
ed, That it shall and may be lawful for the said inhabi
tants to deliver in discharge of the said tax or of any
part thereof, the following articles of produce and
manufacture, or any of them, and at the prices to
them refpeCtively annexed ; that is to fay.
Good merchantable wheat by the bushel, weighing
sixty pounds, the sum of Seven Shillings and Six
pence.
Good merchantable rye by the bushel, the sum of
Five Siblings.
' Good -an oats by the bushel, the sum of Two
Shillings and Six-pence.
Good merchantable Indian corn by the bushel, the
sum of Four Shili'ngs.
Good clean buckwheat by the bushel, the sum of
Two Shillings and Six-pence.
; Merchantable wheat flour by the hundred weight,
the sum of One Pound Two Shillings and Six-pence.
Good merchantable beef by the pound, the sum
of Four-pence.
Well fatted mutton by the pound, the sum of
Four-pence Half-penny.
Salted beef well cured, by the barrel, weighing two
hundred and forty pounds net, the sum of Five
Pounds.
Merchantable frefh pork by the pound, the sum of
Five-pence Half-penny.
Well cured pickled pork by the barrel, weighing
two hundred and twenty pounds net, the sum of
Six Pounds Ten Shillings.
Three yard linin' by the yard, the sum of Four
Shillings, and other linen in proportion.
Good new ho^fpun milled blankets containing
five yards, the sum of Forty Shillings.
Home-made salt, best quality, the sum of Seven
teen Shillings and Six-pence. Provided always, That
every person tendering or intending to pay any of
the before enumerated articles, in discharge of his
tax, or of any part thereof, shall transport or convey
the fame to such place within the townfhrp, precinct
or ward wherein he resides, as shall be directed by
the contractor of the county, and inall there make
delivery thereof to the said contractor or person by
hi^ authorized or employed for that purpose, taking
a receipt for the fame, fpe^ifying thearticle or arti
cles so delivered, and the quantity and quality of
each, with the value of the fam„ and shall deliver
the said receipt to the collector of the precinft, town
ship or ward, before the expiration of thetime here
in before limited for the payment of the assessment
of the tax laid by this aft, in discharge of which
such article or articles Ihall be delivered.
zr. And be it farther enacted. That the contractor
of each county shall appoint one or more places in
each township, precinCt or ward, according to the
extent of the fame, where the articles before enu
merated shall be delivered and deposited, and proper
persons to receiye and Bore the fame, and shall at
or before the times in this aft fixed for the assessor
to deliver the duplicate of each afleffment to the col
lector of the township, precingT or ward' ,set up ad
vertisements in at least three of the most publick pla
ces in each township, precinct or ward within the
county, notifying to the inhabitants thereof the place
or places of deposit, and the person or persons ap
pointed to receive and store the articles aforefaid,
who shall give receipts for the said articles so to them
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France, a 50 gun ship, two frigates, and rz or 14
transports with troops to join the army of our ally
at Newport.
We are informed that the Convention Troops may
be soon expected at their old quarters in Rutland ;
and it is said they are now on their way from Virginia.
June 21. A small privateer from Portsmouth has
taken and brought in a brig from Scotland, bound
to Quebec, with goods, &c. her cargo valued at
£. 7000.
NEWPOR T, June 16.
Since our last embarked for Providence, part of
thetroops' of his Most Christian Majesty, under the
orders of his Excellency Count de Rochambeau.
The command of the French troops, left for the
defense of this place, devolves on Brigadier-General
de Choify.,,
PHILADELPHIA, June 2s.
By advices from the southward we learn, that the
Britiilr army in Virginia, under Cornwallis, made a
motion with a view to possess themselves of some
Bores at Albemarle Old Court-House ; whereupon
the Marquis de la Fayette, being joined by the firft
detachment of Pennsylvanians, under the command
of General Wayne, made forced marches towards
Jarnos river, and on gaining the South-Anna, he
found Cornwallis encamped some miles below the
Point of Forks. B, a Bolen march through' a dif
ficult road, he threw himfelf between the enemy and
the magazine, and took a petition upon Michunk,
where, agreeable to appointment, he was joined by
a body of riflemen. Next day Cornwallis retired to
wards Richmond, where he was at the date of our
last dispatches, which was the 18th instant.
On the 6th infant, arrived at Bolton from L'Ori
ent, after a pallage of 69 days, the Alliance frigate,
Capt. Barry. On his paffafc from Boston to L'Ori
ent Capt. Barry captured the privateer schooner Al
lert, of ten carriage guns, from Glasgow, Francis
Ruifel commander, and lent her into L'Orient. This
privateer had with her a prize, a Venetian ship, Which
ihe had captured and detained. Capt. Barry and
his officers, out of reipeft to the law of nations and
the rights of neutrality, immediately released the Ve
netian fliip to proceed on her voyage. Her cargo was
very valuable.
Capt. Barry failed from L'Orient the 30th of March
last, with a convoy. On the 2d of April he fell in
with and took two privateer brigs, from Guernsey,
one the Mars of 20 twelves, 2 fix pound cannon, 12
four pound cohorns, and 112 men; the other the
Minerva, of 10 guns and 55 men.
On the 2d of May he fell in with and captured a
brig and snow from Jamaica to Bristol, loaded with
sugars.
On the 28th of May he fell in with two British
Poops of war ; one the ffiip Atalanta, of 16 guns and
120 men ; the other the brig Trepaffey, of 14 guns
and 60 men. After engaging these near three glades,
within pistol shot they both Bruck to him. Captain
Barry had 5 men killed and 22 wounded, himfelf
among the latter. The Atalanta had 5 men killed
and 15 wounded; the Trepaffey 6 killed and 15
wounded, the Capt. among the former. Most of the
above prizes have arrived at fafe ports.
Capt/ Barry, having a greatnumber of prisoners
on board, thought it prudent to fend the Trepaffey
as a cartel to Newfoundland, which he did with about
220 prisoners, firft throwing her guns overboard, and
taking away her military Bores, reserving the Capt.
of the Atalanta and the firft lieutenant of the Tre
paffey, as,hoftages for the return of the vessel.
Saturday last the privateer brig Nufbitt, Capt. For
bes, arrived at this port, from a cruise, during which
she has taken three primes; one a dispatch boat from
New-York to Chesapeake (called the May-Flower)
arrived here last week; another sloop, the General
Leslie, from New-Yoik to Cheafapeake, with a va
luable cargo of dry goods, &c. came in with the Nef
bitt on Saturday ; and a brig sent into a fafe port to
the southward.
Tuesday came up from Chester, the ship Franklin,
Capt. Angus. And
Yesterday morning the privateer brig Malton, late
Capt. Hall, from New-York, arrived. She was tak
en by the Resolution, Capt. M'Nachtane.
Sunday last arrived here Capt. Benezet, from Hif
pauiola, by whom we are informed, that the latter
end of May a large Blip patted by Aucays, in a very
Mattered condition, supposed to be an English 80 gun
Blip, which had been roughly handled, and was mak
ing the best of her way to Jamaica, to refit.
June 30. Thursday last arrived here the prize brig
Porcupine, late Capt. Irwin, from St. Kitt's, bound
to New-York, with a valuable cargo consisting of 90
hogsheads of rum, &c. sent in by the Fair American
privateer, Capt. Eldridge. She mounts sixteen fix
pounders, and eight swivels, is copper bottomed,
and was lately a privateer out of St. Kitts, having
been very mifehievous in taking many prizes. She
had only sixteen men on board when taken, most of
her crew having been pressed into British men of war,
at St. Kitt's, previous to her failing.
By the Charming Molly, Capt. Stillwell, and Hi
bernia, Capt. Baxter, arrived here yesterday morn
ing, after a short passage from the Havanna, we learn
that transports, having on board the British prisoners
taken at Pensacola, by General Galvez, had touched
at the Havanna, on their way to New-York, where
they were, by capitulation, to be sent.
TRENTON, Jult^
A correspondent observes, that from the cota^
mtncement of the present war the British Ministry,
their agents and tools, have depended more upoii
the base arts of deceit and corruption, than the jus
tice of their cause or the power of arms. It is a
sass weH-eftablifhed, that in the cotrfe of the last
year the British ' government expended upwards of
Fifty Thousand Guineas on hirfl±s employed to tell
lies in pamphlets and in the news-papers in Europe
and America. The present year will probably colt
them double that sum, as their affairs are in a more
critical state; and we may expect to fee marks of
redoubled industry in the trade of mifreprefentatiou
and falfehood. The news-papers begin to abound
with this species of intelligence. We are tola that
fleets of Ihips and armies of men are coming to Ame
rica ; that all the powers of Europe are against Us ;
that the rupture with Holland is to be made tip ;
that a peace is about to be concluded among the
European belligerant powers, and the United Stated
are to be left to fhift for themselves ; with a thousand
tales of this stamp, so (hallow and absurd that any
man who has the least reflection of the slightest means
of information, and believes them, almost deferve*
to be duped and imposed upon. It is to be lamented
that the uninformed, the unwary and the timid are
sometimes deceived, notwithstanding the whole ex
perience of the war. — Beware, Americans, that the)
who cannot fight you out of your liberties; be not
fuffered to lie you out of them, is the advice of a
Gentleman in Europe, who has the best means of
information..
It is said that Mr. Brigadier Arnold was much bx
afperated at the late GeneraLPhillips, after he took
the command in Virginia, bccaufe he plundered the
inhabitants, and, adding unfairnefs to cruelty; con
verted the whole of the acquisitions to his feparatv
emolument. The humanity and justice of the Ame~
rican could not bear such conduct, and as expostula
tion with his superior officer was unavailing; can the
former be blamed for taking a certain means to help
the latter to the end of his mortal course ? Things
then went on quietly until the arrival of Lord Corn
wallis put every thing again into a wrong form, and
the Brigadier feeing ho hopes of reformation, em*
barked for New-Yorliin disgust, leaving the undii
turbed enjoyment of the negro and tobacco traffick.
in the hands of his Lordfliip.
Thursday last the General Assembly of this Bate
adjourned to Wednesday the 19th day of September
next, then to meet at Princeton. During th. :fitting
they passed twenty-seven laws, the titles of which will
be in our next.
IF ROBERT BOOTH, late a waggoner in the
continental service, will apply to the printer, he
will hear from his friends in England, and of Some
thing much to his advantage. §W
TO BE SOL D,'
For Cash or Country Produce, by
Peter Crolius & Anthony Aiaraquier;
At their STORE in TRENTON,
ALL kinds of chintzes, lawns, cambricks, muflinfy
gauze handkerchiefs, black ad blown lace,"
ribbons and tastes of the newcl tfafhions, and ad,
other kind of summer Wear fuitabic ior ladies and
gentlemen. Also sugar by the box, barrel or (matter
quantify; and a healthy negro wench 24 years bid,
and a boy 18, fold for want of employ only. . I*.
To all whom it may concern :
New-Jersey, ) NT OTICE is hereby given that 2
to wit, J Court of Admiralty will be held,
at the house of Gilbert Barton, in Allentown; in the
county of Monmouth, on Saturday the twenty-firft:
day of July next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon,'
then and there to try the truth of the faits aIR dgd
in the bill of Aaron Swain (who as well, &c.)ag init
the sloop Gcneial Greene, her tackle, apparel, fuini
ture and cargo, and also three negroes on boaru the
said sloop, lately captured by the enemy, and re
captured by the said Aaron Swain and others : To
the end and intent that any person or ptrfoiis con
cerned therein, may appear and shew cause, il any
he or they have, why the said sloop, with hcr.mkle;
apparel, furniture and cargo, together with the ne
groes, should not be condemned, and a decree there
on pass, according to the prayer of the said bill.
By order of the Judge,
JOS. BLOOMFIELD, Regiftef;
Haddonfield, Tune 20, 1781.
ROBERT SINGER-
Has for sale, at his store in Trenton, the following
goods, viz.
GREEN and bohea tea, sugar and coffee, man
taus, mode and perfians of different forts,
calicoes and chintzes, black and white gauzes,
gauze handkerchiefs, linen ditto, hlk ditto, broad
cloths, black and white blown lace, an affortmeut
of ribbons, and several other things. 3*
THE price of thio Gazette for the enfding
year, which will commence the 25th instant,
is fixed at 3/9 per quarter, to be paid in gold or
silver. Pioduce will also be taken in payment at
the current market price. ISAAC COLLINS.
Trenton, July 4, 1781. ,'