The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1785-07-04 00:00:00, page 1

NEW-JERSEY GAZETTE.
At a general town meeting of the citizens of Phi
ladelphia, Northern Liberties and Difrift of
Southwark, held at the State-house, on Monday
the 20th inf. the following report of a commit
tee mas read :
The committee appointed by a meeting of the citi
zens, on the 2d infl to prepare the business in
tended for difeuffion at the present general meet
ing, report as follows :
r ~ AT this committee are unanimous in fen
| timent, that the most efficient and proper
mode of obtaining the desired relief, which
the present ft.rte of our trade and manufac
tures, in the relation with foreign nations requires,
ought to be by < pplication to the legillature, to whose
wisdom and justice the further consideration of this
momentous concern Should be submitted; and in an
entire confidence hat this opinion of your committee
Will meet the concurrence cf every good citizen, they
beg leave to furnbit the following resolutions:
Resolved, That the prefen is a suitable occasion,
when tract; and manufaenres have sensibly declined,
and m^ny carles concur to cur oppression, for the
people to exe uie collectively that privilege of offer
ing the fentimentr and advice to their reprefenta
tivus in adembly.
Resolved, tbar to withhold from Congress the full
conftitu onai powers, fol this purpose, would be
greatly injurious to the common interef ; and from
the recekty that would tnen be imposed on the dates,
of each rtfouing to its own independent powers,
might induce a dissolution of the common government
of the United States.
Refolded, That nothing but a full power in Con
gress, over the commerce of the United States, can
relieve it An m its pielent oppreflions.
Refolded, That as agriculture and manufactures
are the great empl yment of the people, and coniti
tute the wealth of toe country ; and that as the for
mer must decline, with our export trade, it becomes
neceff v to extend die ioter.^
It is the opinion of this meeting, that foreign ma
nufadures interfering therewith, ought to be difeou
ragei; ' me by absolute prohibitions, others by ade
quate duties aid imposts.
Refolded, Ihat reciprocity of advantages and bene
fits in trade, ought to be secured by treaties of com
merce between the citizens of the United States, and
the fubjeds of those powers with whom they have
commercial intercourse, Io as to render our commerce
with other nations, beneficial to our country.
Refolded, That we will individually, by every en
couragement in cur power, endeavour to promote the
manufactures of this country in preference to foreign
ones.
Your committee presume that these resolutions em
brace and fully comprehend the landed, trading, and
manufacturing interests of this country ; and they
with to close the duties of their appointment by the
following proposition:
Whether it is your opinion that a committee fliould
be nominated to digest the resolutions into the form
of a petition, to be laid before the assembly at their
next session ; and the fame committee to correspond
with the several committees appointed for similar pur
poses.
William Turnbull, John Barry,
Francis Gurney, facob Morgan, jun.
William Jackson, Robert Smith,
Benjamin G. Gyre, J. M. Nefoitt,
Francis Wade, John M'Culloh.
John Barker,
The resolves bei^g read, the committee was dis
solved: Whereupon, >'r. Ingersoll was appointed
chairman ; the resolves were read generally after
wards, paragraph by paragraph, and approved.
A citizen then proposed the following resolves to
be added to those reported by the committee :
Resolved, That it be recommended to the legisla
ture, at the ensuing session, to use the best means in
their power, for extending the inland navigation of
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the state, as well as for repairing and improving pub
lick roads, in order to facilitate and increase the in
ternal trade of the state, and co promote the easy and
commodious transportation of the country produce to
and from this city.
Resolved, That a memorial and petition be pre
sented to the president and supreme executive council,
representing the urgent neceility of their taking effec
tual measures for battening the collection of the ar
rearages of taxes, and all other duties to the state;
thereby to fulfil the beneficial designs of the assembly;
and to effect that concurrence of the legislative and
executive branches of government, which is absolute
ly necessary to promote the belt intererts of the mer
cantile, as well as every other concern in the state.
Resolved, That rhe fenie of this meeting coincides
with that exprefled by the coi.inittee of merchants
and traders of this city, in their memorial of the 6th
of April lart, to the general aflembly of this state —
so far as the views of that memorial extend. And
that this meeting highly approves of the resolutions
of that honourable boule, of the Bth of April, in con
sequence of the said memorial.
It was then voted and resolved, That the thanks
of this meeting be given to the committee for the
manner in which they have conducted the duties of
their appointment.
That Mr. Ingersoll, chairman of the meeting, be
added to the former committee.
That seven mechanicks be added to the former
committee, the whole number of twenty-one to form
the prefect committee. The following gentlemen
were accordingly nominated and chosen, viz. James
Pearson, Joseph Marfa, Anthony Cuthbert, James Ro
ney, Thomas Leiper, Thomas Proper, James Lang.
Foreign Intelligence.
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L 0 N D 0 N, May i—§.
THE Bailly de Sufffein has received news from
Malta of the 25 families of East-Indians, whom
be brought thither trom the coart of Coromandel.—-
'lhey succeed as well as can be wilhed in their manu
fa&ure of muilins and cottons. The Admiral has re
ceived several specimens, which are equal to those
made in Mazulipatam, and in the Isle of Ceylon. It
is the design of government to encourage this manu
facture, If the merchants of Marseilles are to be be
lieved, it might be established in Provence; but it is
laid that the crown has an intention to enter into a
negociation with the Turks for the cession of the Isle
of Candia, the foil of which is favourable to the rail
ing of all the cotton plants which grow in India.
By letters from India we learn, that Lord Ma
cartney has perfectly recovered from the wound which
he received in the duel with er. Sadlier.
Lord Macartney's duel with Mr. Sadlier at Mad
ras, arose from his Lordship's being under the ne
cessity of contradicting, by the parole testimony of
two gentlemen of the Council, an official statement
of Mr. Sadlier's, which declared he was present at a
particular transaction, when in fad he was at that
time an hundred miles distant from the place. Up
on this, Mr. Sadlier, as soon as the Council broke
up, sent a message to his Lordihip, requiring him to
meet him, as he had been pleased to impeach his ve
racity. An interview immediately took place, in con
fcquence of which Lord Macartney was shot through
the fide ; but from the best authority, the wound was
of so flight a nature, that his Lordship went abroad
before the defpatches failed from India.
Extrafl of a letter from ConJlantinople, dated Fe
bruary 24.
" We are assured that the Porte has serious inten
tions of attempting to re-possess themselves of the
Crimea, which the preparations making throughout
the Empire seem to confirm; and if our neighbours
took advantage of the times, to deprive us of that
peninsula, why should not we attempt to regain pof
leffion of it when the troops of the Empress of Russia
are employed in seconding the projects of the Empe-
THE
Upon the irruption of Louis XIV. 1672, in Hol
land, the Count Montery, Governor of the Low-
Countries, gave a secret assistance to Holland; and
Spain made a treaty soon after with them, whereby
Holland agreed to give up Maeftricht, the country of
Vroenhoven and Outermeufe to Spain, as possessors of
the Low-Countries, if Louis XIV. did not make any
acquisition ; or, in terms of the treaty, " if matteis
remained upon the present footing, mutually when
peace should be restored."
By the treaty of Nimeguen, 1686, Louis XIV. re
linquished all his conquests in Holland. Spain put in
her claims, but Holland pleaded certain mortgages,
which the Prince of Orange had upon Maeftricht
against that cession.
Charles 11. of Spain, with the usual Spanish good
faith, paid off the Mortgage, and fatisfied the Prince
of Orange ; the negociation trained on till his death,
but that event produced the succession-war, and threw
eveiy thing into confufion.
7 he treaty of Utrecht, gave the Low-Countries to
the German branch of the House of Aurtria, with all
the rights, claims, &c. of Spain.
This claim was renewed in 1738, by the Emperor
Charles IV. and commissioners met at Brussels; but
his death, and the difficulties that arose about the
Pragmatick Sanction, and succession of Maria There
sa, rendered the negociation abortive.
This claim, and that of the repairs of the barrier
towns are such, as if they were fairly difeuffed in a
court of law, would be good.. The Emperor, howe
ver, waved them, provided the Dutch gave up the
free navigation of the Scheldt.
Maeftricht, and a partial navigation of the Scheldt,
viz. for his own were offered by the Dutch last
summer, but not accepted.
The partial navigation of the Scheldt has again
been offered lately, and accepted, it is believed^
the terms of a pacification.
ror? The soldiers of this Empire are now very
different from what they were in the Taft war with
Russia; they are now under excellent command, and
go through their manoeuvres with a precision which
furprizes every one, but particularly foreigners."
Desirous of giving every information to the pub
lick upon matters of general importance, and of ge
neral import, we have obtained, from a most refer
able correspondent, the following Ihort, but fatisfac
tory account of the difyute between the Emperor and
the Dutch.
The closing of the Scheldt depends on a treaty at
Munster, between the United Slates and the Empe
ror, January 31, 1648.
There are no other parties to it—l64B was the
year of the decapitation of Charles the First, conse
quently England could take no part in it.
The fourteenth article, on which it depends, is
short; L'Efcaut cccident^l, les c^naux des Sas &
de Schwin, celui ciaboutiffants, feront tenus cits a
cote des etats, —viz: The Western Scheld, the ca
nals of the Sas and of Schwin, which fall into it,
shall be closed on the fide of the country which be
longs to the Plates,
This is so clear as to need no comment. The
Dutch have built several forts to prevent the naviga
tion of the Scheldt to all but their own ships.
The Emperor contends, however, that this treaty
does not bind, because Holland has not fulfilled her
engagements in other refpe&s, viz. about Maeftricht
and the Barrier Treaty.
By the Barrier Treaty, 1716, the Dutch were to
possess and garrison certain towns, but keep them in
repair; this they have not done, and the Emperor
has claims for repairs to a large extent.
The claim of the Emperor to Maeftricht is as fol
lows:
The greatest obftacies to the conclusion of the peace
between the Emperor and the Dutch, seem princi
pally to arise from a mifunderflanding that prevails
between the United Provinces, some of them being
ready to submit to any condition, whilst others seem
disposed to rifle the event of a war, rather than put up
with the imperious demands of Joseph 11. Amonnft
the opponents to peace, the province of GueldciEnd
is the most obftinatc.
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