Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1818-10-13

to these calamities they are perhaps Ia
separable from the very nature OF the
employment, and our masters may lament,
but cannot redress them. All we ask is
fair and candid investigation into the
grounds of our complaints, and we are
confident that both justice aud humanity
will decide in our favour.
"We solemnly declare as men, as ia
theirs, as loyal subjects, and well-wishers
to constitution the spirit and letter OF
which will not couutenance any thing
like slavery and oppression, that we can
not obtain with the greatest possible ID
dustry the common comforts and necessa-
ries of life, at. the present low prices; to
labour hard is not an easy task, but to
llabour hard and want is impossible. Let
our masters consult their own hearts, and
as the seat OF justice and humanity, they
will not Ions hesitate to grant our just re-
quest"
C Paris, Dag. IT," A lady OF dis
tinction at Berlin has been condemned TO
hard labour for cruel treatment towards
male orphan, which she brought up.
Bonq6, Aug. Captain Ridley, oil
the TRADE whaleship, OF this port just
returned from the northern ocean, informs
us, that on the 10th of May he was in
lat. 80 SIS, about miles IRON Spitzber-
gen, 10 % fathoms water: the sun was at
a great altitude there was scarcely any
night: they could follow the glorious lu-
minary circling again and again round the
heavens: the atmosphere, at this time,
was very clear. Capt. r. went to the
topmast aud could see, with glass, to
the extent OF between 10 and SO miles Gas
he supposedly across the great polar ocean,
which was more open than when he was
in 81, last year.-There were, indeed,
large islands OF flaw ice floating about !;
but he is sure the sea was navigable, with
out great difficulty, as far as the eye could
reach. But the ice was running ashore,
and accommodating in large masses on the
northern coast OF Spitzbergen. Indeed,
! it would undoubtedly appear, that the
discovery ships have been obliged to aban
don the attempt to navigate the sea be-
tween Greenland and Spiizbergen. Capt.
r.. says, that, when he left the sea, there
was an immense accumulation OF field and
flaw ice, stretching almost from shore to
shore. He quilted the vicinity of Spitz
bergen about the 9Th OF May, and di
recfed his course towards Greenland -
About the middle Of June, being in lat rs,
100 miles from land, as nearly as he can
judge, the weather very rainy, with a
thick fog, he spoke an Aberdeen whale
fishing ship. the master of which had
seen the discovery ships, on the 10th Of
June, 10 lat. 80, and went on board with
his log book. He was informed by the
officers, that they had explored in every
direction 10 the west Of spitzbergea for a
passage northward, but could not get half
a degree farther thar they were. They
were steering S. w. when last seen.
Whether they might not find it practica-
ble to pass between Spiizbergen and Nova
Zembla, is another question. Theirs. w.
course would induce, us TO think they did
not intend trying at that time. From all
this, there is much apparent cause for re-
greet that the expedition did not set out.
sooner as then they might have coasted
Spitzbergen and entered the polar basin
by the opening which captain Ridley
| found.
LONDON, Aug. "a
The manufacturers have this week
raised the prices of weaving Is per cwt.
or about 10 per ct. on the sort Of goods
most generally manufactured in this neigh
ourhood.-Preston Chronicle.
Some thousands Of quarters of English
and foreign wheat are pow on board YES
I sells lying in the river Thames and every
granary on its banks that could be pro
cured has been taken for the purpose Of
storing
In the Insolvents' Court in London, Oh
Friday. William Hall was remanded back
ioprison, for squander'ng upon attorney 81
the money with which he should have paid
a just debt, Che had expended 1911 in re-
sisting the payment of l3t. los. y and for
a fraudulent transfer of bis property.
Report says that the Earl Of Mnlgrave
is to be the first Lord Of the Admiralty
and the Duke Of Wellington Master Gen
eraI of the Ordnance.
Mr. Justice Abbot is spoken Of as like
ly to succeed Lord Peterborough, on the
retirement of his Lordship from the Court
OF Kings Bench.
The domestics Of Bonaparte and count
Bertrand, who arrived few days ago inI
the Thames from 81. Helena, have taken
tha;, do,a.t.. No fo, ua,oh,,rn