The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1785-09-19 00:00:00, page 3

Society, it would be unpardonable in fiiendfliip, not
to pay the last tribute of esteem, and affection,'to a
character so truly amiable.
His remains were deposited next day in the Friends
burial ground at Woodbury, attended by a numerous
train of relatives and friends, to evince their regard
for the deceased, and sensibility of their loss on this
melancholy occasion.
On Tuesday the i6th ult. at his pirfonage in C^cil
county, Maryland, the good and amiable rev. Wil
liam Thompson, departed this life. He was zea
lous and a&ive in the duties of his vocation, and cha
ritably liberal as a chriftan; well pleased with his
own manner of adoring the Supreme Being, he did
not raffily condemn thole that pradifed a diderent one.
He was innocently gay, and generously hofnitable
without ostentation. When living he was eft'eemed
and beloved, now dead is truly regretted by all who
knew him.
September 13.
The following is a brief account of, the unfortunate dif
after^bicb befel the sos Faithful Steward, Connol
kM' Caufland, wafer, from Londonderry bound to
this port ; taken from a gentleman who Q^ ft-farmer
on board.
On the 9th day of July last, said veffcl failed from
Londonderry, having on board 249 passengers of
rUpeCtabihty, who had with them property to a very
considerable amount. Theyhad had a favourable pas
sage, during which nothing of moment occured, the
greater harmony having prevailed among them until
the night of , hurlday theist indent, September,
when ar the hour of ten o'clock it was thought ad
vifeable to try for soundings, and to their great fur
prile, found themlelves in four fathoms water, though
at. dark there was not the (mailed appearance of land.
Ihe consternation and astonishment which then pre
vailed, is easier conceived than described, every ex
ertion was used to run the vessel off shore, but in a
few minutes ffie struck the ground, when it was found
necessary to cut away her marts, &c all of which
went overboard, On the morning of the 2d, we
found ourselves on the Mohoba bank, near Indian ri
ver. about four leagues to the southward of Cape-
Renlopen. Every effort was made to save the un
happy fufferers, who remained in the wreck during
the night, although dirtant from the ihore only a
bout ico yards. Ihe fame evening she beat to
pieces.'
1 he sea running extremely high, the boats were
with difficulty dileng^ged from the wreck, but be
fore they could be got manned they drifted ashore,
therefore all relief was cut off, except by fwiming
or getting ashore on pieces of the wreck, and we are
forty to add, that of the above, only 63 perfuns were
saved, among which were the matter, his mates, and
to teamen. During the course of the day the inhabi
rants came down to the beach in numbers, and used
every means in their power to relieve the unfortunate
people on board, among whom were about too wo
men and children, of whom only 7 women were sav
ed. several perlons who escaped from the wreck
are since dead from the wounds they received, and
others are miserably b^uifed.
With great pleafute we learn that several humane
and publick spirited gentlemen of this city are about
railing a SUB>I RIP lION, for the relief of the un
happy people who were saved from the wreck of the
Faithful Steward: and there can be no doubt of their
meeting with great success fiom the benevolent inha
bitants, who have nevei been backward in affording
assistance to the diftrefled.
Sept. 14. she hofton papers of September 1,
mention, " Within the course of a few days, near
20 vessels have arrived in this port —But few have
entered at the naval office, owing to the'high duties
foreigners are obliged to pay here—l hey are gone
to the southward.
In the most folem—the most earned manner—we beg
leave to call the attention of the pubiick —at lead the
humane —the compaffionae—to the deplorable situati
on cf those unhappy beings—the fad survivors of the
loss of the Faithful Steward. The heart that can be
heeled against fympathifing in the calamities they have
undergone, was never intended for a human being.
Nature with it meant to animate feme ravening wolf
or prowling tyger—and the owner should fly to the
forefts—the woods—there to consort with the brute
creation, whose nature is too congenial with his own.—
Let us for a moment view the situation of these peo
ple.—Just as they felicitated thcmfelves on their arrival
in this Canaan —this " land flowing with milk and ho
ney," as their fond imagination pictured it—to behold
their little property—letters of recommendation---
their most indispensable neceflhrics---their wearing ap
parel---ali, all loft ; --their nearest and dearest rela
tives torn from their arms, and swallowed up in a
watery grave ;---fome ofthemfJvcs with legs and arms
broken ;---all of them desolate and forlorn, not know
ing which way to turn them to find " a good Sama
ritan" ready " to pour wine and oil of comfort into
their wounds."---Let us confider these circumstan
ces—-let us confider the frightful Rate in which an
unfriended Granger finds himfelf on his firft arrival
in a foreign land-let us for a moment make the case
our own---and then every man who is not a disgrace
to human nature, will undoubtedly contribute his
mite to alleviate their misery .'-.-Benefactions will be
received by mefirs. Campbell and Kingston, Conyng
ham and Nefbit, Dunlap and Claypoole, Francis Bai
ley, and Matthew Cary and co.
Yesterday the bill for the repeal of the charter of
the bank, was enabled into a law.
Same day, the bill for regulation of bankruptcy,
was ordered to be engrossed for the purpose of being
enacted into a law.
I he mechanics' bill stands as the order of the day
for to-morrow.
Sept. 15. It is with great fatisfaCtion we give the
publick the following intelligence:
Yesterday arrived in the ship London Packet, capt.
Truxton, His Excellency Doctor FRANKLIN,
late minister plenipotentiary from the United States
of America to the couit of France, after an absence
of near nine years.
1 he important feenes in which this gentleman hath
been a principal agent; the steady and painful servi
ces he hath rendered his country for a long series of
years, and the honours he hath conferred on America
asa politician and a philosopher, furnifh aftriking ex
amplehow much a people may be benefitted by an indi
vidual, and how greatly a single citizen may dignify a
nation.—l he exalted names of Washington and
Iranklin will be the boast of Americans in centu
ries yet to come.
I he Dodor was received at the wharf by a number
of citizens who attended him to his house with acclama
tions of joy. The difeharge of cannon announced
his arrival, and the bells rang a peel to his welcome.
With the Doctor came his grandsons Mr. Temple
Franklin, and Larter benjamin Bache.
TRENTON, September 19.
TrENTON-AcADEMY.
The publick examination of the flu
dents will begin at this place, on Friday
next, at IX o'clock A. M. Orations are
to be pronounced at VI in the evening,
Ladies and gentlemen, who are the friends
of literature, and especially those who are
interfiled in the support of this instituti
on, are requeued to give their attendance
without further invitation.
Mr. Collins,
Idy sole motive for during you to infe,t the following
piece in your Gazette is this; Being extremely alarmed
at so open and unmasked an attempt, to introduce a
mongst us, all the pernicious cohjequences of making
inieref to obtain pubiick offices, as is the address of one
George LinderJon, to the Freemen and Electors of the
county of Burlington, to make him a Sheriff; I cannot
refrain from inciting my yet virtuous countrymen to pre
vent the pefilent mifebiefs that mufl nectforily result
from such practices in a commonwealth l:xe ours, be
fore they become more fafbionable, and acquire too much
Jlrengtb to be Jupprifled.
One of your cifomers and a whig.
Wff 7" HO is this fame George Anderson, that ad
vertizes himfelf as the fitted man in the
county of Burlington for the Sheriff 's- Office
at the approaching election, I know not: But
what he is I can easily guess fiom ft ch his auvertite
ment. It is not only with astonishment, but with in
expressible apprehenfiohs, for the ruin ot my country,
that 1 have icen such bare-faced electioneering in one
of our fiftcr-ftates, which 1 fondly hoped the virtue
of the citizens of New-Jersey would forever have ex
cluded from ours. A man's publickly aiking for an
office! Modesty with a witness ! Who art tbou, fir,
that thinkeft thyfelf the htteft man in our coun
ty for this port? If thou art not, why go about
publickly mendicating for it to the execution of those
who are better intitled to it than thyfelf? If thou art,
why not leave it to the people to find out thy supe
rior merit by thy deeds, inftcad of trumpeting thine
own deserts upon the house-tops, and intruding into
publick office before thou art called for? Art thou
Soliciting votes in a republican government, in which
every appointment ought freely and spontaneously to
flow from the people ? Good Heavens, what an aw
ful omen of the declepfion of our publicly virtue!
Were I before determined to choose a man to that office,
inch his Ihamelefs seeking it, would immediately de
termine me to the contrary. Pray good people make
me a Sheriff. And pray good Mr. Anderlon have
patience till they do. Electioneering is the corrup
tion, and has proved the deftrutfion of the liberties
of Old England. And are we so soon after our glorious
revolution, to follow her ruinous steps ? Had we not
better imitate the example cf that part of New Eng
land called Connecticut, which has been a republick
from its very original Settlement, and in which, if
any man had ever dared to propose himfelf as a candi
date for any office, he would certainly not have been
appointed to it, how much soever the people might
have been previously difppfed to elect him ? In that co
lony (while such) they always entertained a proper fenle
of the majesty oi the people as not only consisting in
being the origin of all political power; and having con
ftquently the appointment, either mediated or imme
diately, of all officers of government; but also in being
the best judges of persons the most proper to be ap
pointed. By this they have constantly preserved that
political purity, and given that Itimulus to real merit,
(invariably with them she road to preferment) wrth=
out which no commonwealth can Secure its stability :
but mutt as nem ffarily hasten to its dissolution as the
fparfo fly upward. This principle—a principle be
coming tlie dignity of a democratical government,
and an impregnable bulwark againtt publick corrup
tion and intrigue, has ever Secured them against the
attempts of ambitious and mercenary men, who only
want offices for the fake of filthy lucre ; who court
the voice of the people, not to advance the common
weal, but for their own private emolument ; and who
tell the world in advertisements that they'are cleverer
fellows than probably the world would ever have dis
covered without such telling. In that country, they
have no George Anderfons who beg to be Sheriffs
or to be put into any other office. The people there',
are persuaded that they are Sufficiently able to difea^
ver the different merits and abilities of every man
amongst them, and consequently who is best qualified
to fill the refpedive departments of government,
without his obtruding himfelf upon his country in
the news-papers, and Supplicating fora port as a Ro
u)ilh mendicant friar would for a cruft of bread while
his cellar is fiored w?h the choicest wines. But Mr.
Anderson, it seems, wants to lay the axe to the root
of our tree of liberty, and to hew it down before it
has arrived to the size of a sapling by introducing that ex
ecrable corruption which is the irreparable attendant
on electioneering. Ina word, Freemen and Lleclors of
the county of Burlington, to preserve our liberty and
independence, let us imitate the laudable example be
fore-mentioned; arid determine never to choose any
man who has so ardent a passion for being chosen.
AWHIG
To the Freemen and Electors of the
County of Burlington.
Gentlemen,
BY this I make known to you my intentions of Stand
ing ^candidate for the fheriff's office, at our
next election ; and, having Served you in Sundry pub
lick appointments in this county heretofore, flatter
myfelf I have discharged the trust reposed in me with
candour and fidelity.
Therefore as this is the firft office I have Solicited
you, I now request your votes and interest at the next
election.
Should I have the happiness to obtain your vot,
I intend Burlington to be the place of my residence.
JOHN WOOD.
Chefterfield, September 7, 1785. gw
TO BE LET,
A COMMODIOUS house and lot, at Lamberton
near Trenton, to be entered on this fall. For
terms enquire of the fubferiber, on the premises.
JOHN CLUNN.
September 16, 1785. ^tf
'HE publick are desired to
-= -take notice, that the fubferiber intends to ap
ply to the laon-ufficer of this state, to lenew two
continental loan-office certificates, No. 2120, for 300
dollars, and No. 4768, 600 dollars, issued by Joleph,
Borden, Esquire, and dated February 11, 1779,
payable to William Baker, which certificates were
dertroyed in his house in the county of Hunterdon,
in this state, on the night of the 15th September
1783, by the rars, the drawer in which they were
kept having been unfortunately left open. Any per
son having objections against the renewal of the said
certificates, agreeably to an aft of Congress of May
10, 1780, are desired to exhibit the fame within fix,
weeks from the date hereof.
WILLIAM BAKER.
N. B. The above certificates were advertised in
this paper in March 1784.
September 15, 1785. ~ w
Five Pounds Reward.
STOLEN from the fubferiber, near Arney's-town,
Monmouth county, a large sorrel horse, with a
large star, a good deal mare faced, and spavined in
both his hindlegs, has been galled on his fhouldeis,
and $ shews the marks. The thief calls his name Je
lemiah Bruffi, but his real name is George Ross, much
pitted with the small pox, brown hair, fays he was
born in Germantown, in Pennsylvania, his head is ve
ry bald, has black eyes, chunky made, wore a dark
blue grey coat, with flaffi sleeves, a black jacket
with white trowfers. Whoever takes up said horse
and thief, and secures them, shall have the above re
ward, or three pounds for the horse only, and forty
(hillings for the thief when convicted, with reasona
ble charges, paid by
JAMES SHINN.
September 14, 1785. /f
LAMPBLAC
Of the best Quality, -
May be had at the PRINTING-OFFICE.
SINGIN G-B 00 K™S
To be fold at the Printing-Office in Trenton.