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God; anti the fuperftrudure will rife glorious and
<p hire forages. Then may we humbly exped the
binding of * the Mod High, mho divides to the na
^j their inheritance, and separates the fans of
dak. Hi fine, Gentlemen, while we are applauded
'he whole impartial world, for demolishing the old
If.' ^ } awn and ruinous as it was; let us unitedly
\rue to approve ourselves master builders, by giv
ing beauty strength and liability to the ne^v
/'"ration, ' WIL. LIVINGSTON.
H,O. ! e 1776. * D^Z. xxxii. 8.
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Gw. ACT,or -the S r cu ri ty of the Governmen tof
NEW-JERSEY.
K^/HFR EAS it r eilentially necessary for the
V V faiety of the State, that every person, who
holes any office or post of a public nature, Ihould
evince his fidelity and attachment to the government
from whence he derives protection, and under
winch he is authorised to aft: And whereas to effed
this important purpose, it is necessary that a proper
teit be eilabliflied to be taken by al! officers civil and
military within this State; and that the Governor
or Commander in Chief be authorifed by law to ad
r.niniher such test, and the official and other neces
sary oaths in the several Counties thereof.
h Therefore, belt enacted, by the Council and
General Assembly of this State, and it is hereby en
acted by the authority of the fame, that the follow
ing tell shall be taken by all officers civil and milita
ry, who are now in office, or hereafter shall be ap
pointed, elected or commiflioned, within the seve
ral Counties of this fttate, that is to fay: I, A. B,
dofneerefy profefs and fwcar, (or if one of the peo
ple called Quakers, affirm) that I do not bold myflf
bound to bear allegiance to the King of Great-Britain.
So help me God.
I, A. B. do fncerely profefs and fivear (or, if any
of the people called Quakers, affirm) that Ido and
mill bear true faith and allegiance to the government
eftaolijbed in this State, under the authority of the
people. So help me God.
Which oaths or affirmations shall be administered
by any person or persons who shall be duly autho
rized to tender the fame by the Commander in chief
of this State, by Dedimus Proteftatem or otherwise.
And all officers refufing or neglecting for the term
of one montli after notification given by any person
named in the Dedimus Proteftatem, to take the laid
tell, are hereby declared to be difqualified and in
capable of executing such their offices; in which case
some other fit perlon or persons shall, pursuant to
law, be appointed or eleded as the case may require.
2. And whereas it is necessary that fit persons be
duly impowered to qualify the Magiflrates and other
officers who have been or shall be elected, appoint
ed or commiflioned throughout this state; be it en
aGed by the authority aforefaid, that His Excell.n
cy the Governor, or the Commander in Chief for
the time being, shall be, and he is hereby authori
fed to issue commissions of Dedimus Potefatem, or
other commissions, from time to time as occasion
may require, for the purposes aforefaid.
3. And be it enacted by the authority aforefaid,
That the ad pafTed the sth of May 1772, intituled
" Anaft for the security of his Majesty's government
" of New-Jersey," and so much of the ad passed the
" 10th of February, 1727-8, intituled, “ An ad
" prescribing the forms of declaration of fidelity, the
" effed of the abjuration oath, and affirmation, in
" Read of the form heretofore required in such ca
" fes, and for repealing the former ads in the like
" cases made and provided," as relates to taking
affirmations to the King of Great-Britain, and the
ads thereby repealed, shall be, and the fame are
hereby repealed.
Paffedat Princeton, the 19th of September 1776.
Pursuant to the foregoing ad his Excellency the
Governor has been pleased to ifTue a commission to
the Members of the Council, the Jullices of the Su
preme Court, empowering them and each of them
to administer the oaths and affirmations, as the case
may require, to all officers eivil and military within
this slate, and commissions to the Judges and Clerks
of the Inferior Courts of Common Pleas, empower
ing them and each of them to administer the oaths
and affirmations in like manner within their respec
tive Counties.
An ACT to render certain Bills of Credit, a legal
tender within this State, and to prevent the coun
terfeiting of the fame, and other Bills of Credit.
WHEREAS sundry difaffeded persons have re
fufed to take in payment, the Bills of Credit
emitted by the Continental Congress; and also the
Bills of Credit emitted by the late Congress or Con
vention of this State; and wliereas it is expedient
that the said Bills, and also the Bills of Credit late
ly issued on loan in this State, ihould be a legal
tender.
1. Be it therefore enaCed, by the Council and
General Aff.mbly of the State of New-Jersey, and
it is hereby enaded by the authority of the fame
that the Bills of Credit emitted and made current
by the Continental Con :refs; the Bills of Credit
emitted and made current by the Copgreis or Con
vention of this State, and the Bills of Credit issued
on loan by virtue of an ad of the legislature of
New Jersey, made and passed in the year of our
Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy
four, intituled, " An ad for striking one hundred
" thousand pounds in Bills of Credit, and dired
" ing the mode for linking the fame," shall be,
and they and each of them are hereby declared to
be a legal tender for the payment of money ; and
if any person or persons, from and after the publi
cation hereof, shall refufe to take any of the said
Bills of Credit when the fame shall be properly ten
dered in payment of any debt or demand whatsoever
(provided the whole of such debt or demand be so
tendered) he, flie, or they shall be forever barred
from suing for, or recovering the fame in any court
in this State: And if any suit or suits shall be com
menced for such debt or demand, after tender and
refufal as aforefaid, the defendant may plead pay
ment, and give this aft and the special matter in
evidence.
2. And whereas it is necessary that the counter
feiting of the Bills of Credit, made current by pub
lic autliority Ihould be prevented, be it enabled by
the authority aforefaid, that all and every person
and persons who, from and after the publication
her eof, shall counterfeit or alter any of the aforefaid
B sos Credit by this aft made a legal tender, or
any of the Bills of Credit emitted or made current
by any of the Assemblies, Conventions or Congres
ses of any of the United States of North-America,
or utter any Bill or Bills so counterfeited or altered,
knowing the fame to be so counterfeited or altered
as aforefaid, and be duly convided thereof, shall be
adjudged guilty of Felony, and be punilhed with
deatli in like manner as persons convifted of coun
terfeiting or altering the former Bills of Credit of
this State, and knowingly uttering the fame, might
or Ihould have been.
Passed at Princeton, the 20th of September, 1776.
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HAGU E, July 11
Letters from Canton, in China, mention the
great barbarity which the French have exercised
upon the inland of Berneo, in November last, it
seems that in December, 1772, Mons. Le Veyer de
Buzidon, commander of the Eorile, with some of
the crew, had been killed by the inhabitants of the
above isles; and to be revenged for this, Mons Tro
bitant went thither with two frigates, L'lndifcfeet
and Labadine, attacked the isle, murdered about
three hundred, without diftindion of age or sex;
some hundreds were thrown into the lea, besides se
veral hundreds killed and wounded in the engage
ment; they have carried off about thirty vessels of
the inhabitants to a considerable amount, destroyed
their fisheries, and burned all the effects, wliicli they
could not bring on board their vessels.
LONDO N, July 1.1.
Extract of a letter from Portsmouth, July 9.
" Since my last arrived at this port the John and
Elizabeth, Scott, from Gallipoly, and the Ann,
Shapter, from ditto, who inform us, that on their
passage, the thirtieth of June, they law a fleet of
French (hips, confining of fifteen, viz. ten frigates
two two deckers, a snow, a brigantine, and a large
cutter, off Lisbon, all under French colours; and
on the second of July saw a nother fleet, consisting
of ten frigates, under the fame colours.
They write from Minorca, that not only fort St.
Phillip's, but all the fortreffes on that island have
been lately repaired, and put in a proper date of
defence, pursuant to orders from England.
Monday the eighth inst. was fixed for a battle at
Chinkford batch, between William Wood, a horse
hair weaver, and anoted Irish bruiser. Large sums
were laid on the issue of the battle, which indeed
was more fatal than could have been apprehended.
The combatants took the ring at two o'clock, and
fought with the utmost fury for about three minutes,
when Wood gave his antagonid a violent blow,
which brought him to the ground, and appeared as
if it would have decided the contest; but at this inst.
about one hundred and fifty Irishmen, armed with
dicks and bludgeons, which they had secreted un
der their coats, broke into the ring, laid about them
at a horrid rate, drove off the Englishmen, put an
cud to the battle, and revived the history of Balf
and M'Quirk at Brentford. One James Parrot, a
didinguilhed bruiser, was beaten so dreadfully, that
he was laid on a dunghill as dead; but afterwards
recovered so as to be carried to London in a cart.
Happy would it have been if the matter had ended
here; but the battle was afterwards renewed on the
spot, and on the road to London, till in the end ten
persons were killed, seven Irish and three Fnglifh,
whose bodies were conveyed to Stratford, to be own
ed. More than seven hundred pounds, it is thought,
depended on this battle which is to be fought again
on a future day.
July 12. Yesterday his Majesty signed inftrudi
ons, which were immediately sealed and lent off ex
press to Portsmouth, for General Howe in America.
Letters from Berlin advile, that a messenger was
just arrived from Peterfburgh, that there was a re
port that a very dangerous conspiracy had been dis
covered; the aim of it was against the life of the
Empress, and to place the Grand Duke on the
throne, but it had been discovered by an intercepted
paper. There were only three persons supposed to
be privy to it, arid they were all fled.
The following letter was received yesterday from
Mr. Charles Barns, commander of the snow Blake,
in the service of government, dated Cadiz bay,
June 20.—" Yesterday morning I chafed an Ame,
A letter from Gibralter fays, that a ship from
Alicant was put in there, the master of which re
ports, that soon after he failed, he met three Ame
rican vessels under Spanish colours, failing for the
above port, under convoy of two Spanish men of
war, who had met them on their passage, in order
to protest them from being seized by the Englilh
cruizers.
A.letter from Cadiz, dated June 12, fays that
the fleet which failed from thence about a fortnight
ago, were bound to the coast of New England,
where they are to have orders, from the Congress,
to ad in conjundion with a French fleet, which
were to join them there.
July 16. In the examination which Mr. Burke
has lately made, with the greatest attention, into
the date of the manufadures of this country, he has
found that the loss of the North-American trade is
principally made up by a prodigious increase of ex
ports to Ruflia, particularly in the hard ware branch
and in coarse woollens. There is a great commerce
lately opened from that empire to the Black sea, by
whicli route, it is supposed, our fabrics have found
their way in great quantities into Persia.
A letter from Madrid, dated June 31, fays, it is
now no longer to secret that the Spanish squadron,
commanded by Admiral Gaston, is to ad against the
Moors; he is to be joined by a French squadron;
they are to ad in conjunction, with a view of giving
the Infidels a fatal blow.
A lift of theTrench and Spaniffi fleets which, it
is now given out, are to ad on some interesting ex
pedition in conjundion. The French fleet, under
the command of the Duke de Chartres, consists of
the following ships:
Guns Guns
La Province (the 77 Le Ferme, 50
Duke's, ship) 64. Le Prothee, 64
La Solitaire, 64 L'Artefien, 64
Le Bourdelois, 50 L'Hazard, 64
One bomb, four frigates, and several transports.
The Spanish fleet is composed of the following ships;
Guns Guns
La Europa (flag ship) 60 El Monarcho, 68
El Acquillon, 68 El Dichofo, 68
Ferdenando, 60 Elßelampago fire fhp.
El Brillante, 68 El Piermonte bomb, 16
Three frigates, and a number of transports.
The gentleman, who sent us the above intelli
gence, fays, his correspondent at Cadiz informs him,
two reports are current there, one, that the above
fleets are to ad in the Mediterranean; and the other
is, that they are to meet off the Western islands,
and proceed to the Weft-Indies.
Extras of a letter from Plymouth Sound, dated July
7, to a gentleman in Briflol,
" We have been nine days from Portsmouth, and
put in here yesterday. Our fleet consists of firv-fix
fail 01 ships, under the command of the Diamond,
Capt. Fielding, and two other frigates We have
on board the fleet four thousand five hundred Hessi
ans, a thousand Waldeckers, some hundred Englilh
recruits, and two thousand baggage horses, the
troops are all strong, healthy young men, in great
spirits, and seem fond of the expedition; and we
have some companies of rifle-men with us, very
dextrous fellows "
July 20. Sir Thomas Rich, in his Majesty's ship
Enterprize, met with a French fleet, of two ships
of the line and several frigates, commanded by the
Duke of Chartres. The French bore down upon
her, and the Admiral hailed the Enterprize, and
desired the Captain to come on board immediately;
to which he replied, thatdf the Admiral had any
thing to communicate to him he might come on.
board the Enterprize, as he ihould not go out of
his ship. The Duke infilled that he ihould, or he
would fink him; and the French ships accordingly
pointed their guns at the Enterprize. but Sir Tho
mas Rich, regardicis of their holtile threats and
preparations, declared that he never received orders
but from his own Admiral, and that they were at
liberty to fire whenever they pleased, as he positively
would not go on board , upon which the Duke of
Chartres admired his spirited conduct and begged
it as a favour that he would do him the honor of
coming on board, as he wished much to be acquaint
ed with him; Sir Fhomas immediately went, and
was received with the utmost refpe& by all the offi
cers.
From the LONDON GAZETTE, June 22.
St. JAMES's. The King has been pleased to ap
point his Grace George Duke of Montagu to be
Governor; Richard, Lord Bilhop of Litchfield and
Coventry, Preceptor; Lieutenant Colonel George
Hotham, Sub preceptor; and the Reverend Willi
am Arnald, B. D. Sub-preceptor; to their Royal
Highnesses George Augustus Frederick, Prince of
Wales, and to Prince Frederick, Bilhop of Ofna
burg.
rican fliip, of about two him ' 1 ns, in
to this bay, but cannot take In \< # n
port. I never was more furprized in ; hie, when.
I found there were three American privateers riding
here at single anchor, and a number of their mer
chant vessels loading and unloading at the quays. A
large Spanish fleet of men of war are failed from
this place, but to what part I cannot learn, all man
ner of business being conducted here with the great
est mystery."