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Word more than this; and all that he has offered beside is gratis dictum, of his meer Grace, and not of Merit or Necessity. For he would have it intimated to you, that a conceal'd Slanderer deserves no Answer.
You have muttered a great Deal of the Non-necessity of being acquainted with the Name of the Author. You cannot see the Propriety of the Doctor's Observation on that Head-worse and worse! Had you understood, Sir, or attended to the Doctrine of the Association of Ideas, you would not have been so woefully mistaken. Compose yourself and think of a D. D .- I'll wager you have now in your Mind the Image of a venerable Sage, all the Recesses and Cellules of whose Brain are stor'd with Arabic, Coptic and Phoenician, and with various Assortments of Philosophy and History, from the Legends of Sanchoniathon and Manetho, to the Sub- limations of Behmen and Hume. Do you not now perceive the Propriety of the Doctor's requiring the Name of his Opponent? Wonderful! Why,
should Causidicus discover his Name, his Cause would be instantly ruined. What a sorry Figure would a Performance make, with the Title of an humble Scrivener prefixed, when put in Competition with one usher'd into the World with D. D. at the Tail of the Author's renowned Name. Egad it would resemble a Cock-Boat beside a Dutch Indiaman, or a Fly on the Back of an Elephant.
But I have detained you long enough in the Porch of this marvellous Performance. I will now introduce your Worship, since your Mind is properly disposed to Awe and Reverence, to the Contemplation of the Doctor's Brace of stately Arguments in his Vindication, which may be properly deem'd, after what he has already said, his Works of Supererogation.
Ist. As to what is said of Princeton College, he asks
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your MIGHTINESS this plain Question-"Must we not "avail ourselves of the Circumstances that are favourable "to us because by Implication, it may be supposed a "Reflection on those who want them? There are many "real Advantages attending a College in a large City, for "the Instruction and Improvement of Youth. Should "any Gentleman think fit to recommend the College of "New York, on these Accounts, pray how would it be "taken if I should resent it as an Injury to the College of "New Jersey."*
What at your old Tricks again! I see your con- temptuous Sneer what does your dull Com- mon Sense boggle at here? You tell me, the Doctor turns Back on his Opponent, brandishes his Sword, and dextrously parries where his Antagonist did not thrust. Causidicus, you say, did not resent the Doctor's Recom- mendation of his College, from any Advantages arising from its Situation in the Country, as an Injury to the College of New York; and yet, on this Ground the Doctor raises his Battery. Causidicus, you assert, evinced that the Doctor's College was not singular, as was supposed, in the Enjoyment of the Advantages of not having its Teachers chosen by ministerial Recom- mendation, or the overbearing Weight of Family Influence. He also pointed out, you urge, a Mistake in the Doctor's Computation of the superior Number of his Students In this Quarter, you say, he made his Attack, and here ought the Defence to have been made. Your MIGHTINESS will tell me, that you can no more see the Propriety of recommending a particular College from Circumstances common to all, than if your Neighbor Hodge should extol his Pastures because they are not infested with Tigers and Scorpions, or subject to the Depredations of wandering Tartars. You think it
* Dr. W's Letter.
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therefore necessary, in order to vindicate the Doctor's Wisdom, in extolling the College of Princeton, because its Teachers are not chosen by ministerial Recommenda- tion, or the over-bearing Weight of Family Influence to suppose that some of the Colleges in America 1night be suspected to be subject to these Evils.
Thus your Worship will cavil, for thus your paltry common Sense will dictate: But had you been ac- quainted with the Arts of Controversy, you would have admired instead of censured. You imagine, I suppose, . that in the School of Literary Contests, as in Tactics, the Knight Militant is directed to place his strongest Guard in the weakest Part of the Citadel. By the Hair- splitting Bellramine your MIGHTINESS is out in your Conjecture ! The Prince of Orators directs all Polemics to exert their Fire and Force on those Points of their Cause which are most solid and plausible, and to glide gently over, or altogether omit those which are weakest and most oppugnable. And has not the Doctor ful- filled the Precept to a tittle? He gravely vindicates that Part of his Conduct which his Opponent never censured; and as to those unseemly Passages on which he animad- verted, he says just nothing at all. No, I forget myself, his Objections are sufficiently refuted by the Epithet of conceal'd Slanderer.
I hope by this time you begin to doubt of the Infalli- bility of your rash common Sense, and shall therefore hold forth for your Worship's Admiration, the Doctor's second Argument in his vindication. "No Man, he tells "you that reads the Address with Candour, can suppose "that he had in View a particular Family that has "influence in the College of New-York. The Argument "was stated in general, from the Way in which Things "happen in Britain, and may happen in America. By "Family Influence is meant a Family of great Distinction
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"represented by one Person as the Head, which may "obtain the Government of a College, or Country, or "Borough."
I perceive your MIGHTINESS is dispos'd to be merry. You tell me you must now admire the Doctor's Shrewd- ness and Quaintness in informing us, that he meant no more, in telling the Gentlemen of the West Indies that the Teachers at Princeton were not chosen by the over bearing Weight of Family Influence, than to acquaint them that his College was not in Britain, and was free from an evil unknown and unheard of in America. You tell me that if TOBY GLIB, your Barber, was, with his wonted flippancy of Tongue, to accost a Stranger, while lathering his Beard "Master, may I hope for "your future Custom at my Shop; you may be shaved "here, I assure you, with Safety to your Life
"none of my Apprentices were ever hired to cut a "Customer's Throat" he would not be excused of Impertinency, if he should Answer, when asked whether any of his Brethern of the Razor in the City, were ever guilty of Assassination "O no Sir! "No Reflections, I assure you, on my Neighbors! But "you know such Things have happened in Italy, and it "is not impossible but they may happen here." Your MIGHTINESS will tell me, you would not refrain a Laugh if Landlord RUBY should "hope you would put up at his "House, . because there was no Danger of "having your Clothes stolen, your Nose offended with "the Smoke of Dacha, and your Eyes with the Sight of "naked Bodies besmear'd with Grease, and hung round "with excrementitious Cauls and Paunches;" And Reply to you, requesting, in amaze, whether this was the Case in any Inn on the Road "By no Means, Sir;
"no hint against my Neighbors I only spoke "in general from the Way in which Things happen in the
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"Cabbins of the Hottentots, and in which it is not im- "possible but they may happen in America.
Unlucky Wight! out of your own Mouth shall you be condemn'd. While your Worship imagined you was debasing, you have been exalting the Author's Merit. I do insist upon it that the Doctor, by the invention of this single Argument, has more enlarged the Field, and done more Service to the general Cause of Panegyric, than the most illustrious Dedicators. For what Subject is there so barren which an Author, in Pursuance of his Example, cannot adorn with the most copious Eulogiums? Would you be firtile on the Advantages of a collegiate Institu- tion? You have no more to do, Sir, than to collect quantum sufficit, out of all the extraordinary Incon- veniences which any College, no matter when or where, has, or may possibly have laboured under, and then proclaim, with an Air of Triumph and Wonder, that yours is free from them. Thus if you are in a Protestant Country you may safely say, its Tutors are not Jesuits, and the Pope has no Concern in its Govern- ment. If in America, with equal Safety that it is not under the Dominations of Tyrannical Lords nor at the Beck of the Ministry, that your College is not governed by the Proprietor of a Borough, or subject to the Direction of a wealthy Nabob. By the same Rule, if you have a Farm to dispose of to a Stranger, you may securely inform him, that if he dwells on it, he need never be afraid of having his Children murdered by ferocious Lyons, or more cruel Savages, or his Flocks and Herds devoured by prowling Tigers. And if any of your Neighbors should chance to hear of it, and think you acted unfairly, you have the Doctor's Method of Vindi- cation in such Cases, ready squared to your Hands, and need only whisper in their Ears "That you "only alluded to the Manner in which such Things
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"happen in Africa, and that if there are any such "Creatures in America, it is wholly unknown to you."
I am well convinced your HIGH MIGHTINESS would not much admire the Sagacity of JEREMY, your Butler, if he should solemnly accost you "Hem! Hem! "Master, an Egg is not a Pudding, an a Sauce-pan differs "from an Elephant;" but beware, Sir, that you judge not so hastily of an oraculuous Sentence in the Doctor's concluding Argument. See it and admire! "I have "heard, says he, of several Families of the same Name, "who may be supposed to side together in the Politics of "the Province but that is quite different from "the Management of a College," i. e. to be united to- gether in the Politics of a Province, and to manage a College, are two different Things.
The Wisdom, Penetration, and Profundity of which oracular Sentence I could unfold to you, Sir, but I chuse after the Manner of all great Authors, to leave something to the Invention of my Readers.
And now drawing near to a Conclusion, I must inform your Worship that I at first intended to have suffixed to this Performance my Name, with all my Titles of Honour; but I afterwards recollected, that it was suf- ficient for me that I fought under the Doctor's Standard : And I accordingly desire Causidicus, and all his Abettors, to take Notice, that if they wag a Pen against this epistle, without the Signature of their real Names and Places of Abode, at full length, I will set them down as conceal'd Slanderers, which shall be, to all Intents and Purposes, a complete Answer to all the Objections they shall or can offer.
CAUSIDICO-MASTIX.
From my solitary and philosophic
Retreat, Dec. 31, 1772.
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ANDOVER PIG-METAL,
TO be sold by the subscriber, at Elizabeth-Town. 1 Gentlemen in New York may be supplied with any quantity, on giving the shortest notice to
JOHN BLANCHARD.
NEW-YORK, January 18.
To the several Printers in this and the neighbouring Governments. You'll please to give the following a Place in your next Paper, and you will, I make no Doubt, oblige the Company of Military Adventurers, as well as the Public, and your most humble Servant,
A Military Adventurer.
Sunday at 12 o'Clock sailed from this Harbour, the Sloop Mississippi, Wait Goodrich, Master, bound up the River Mississippi, having on board (appointed by the Company of Military Adventurers) a Committee, to Explore, Reconnoitre, and View, all the Lands &c. &c. &c. lately said to be granted by the King and Privy Council, to Major General Lyman, and the Company of Military Adventurers-bounding West on the River Mississippi, North on the River Yasou, between the Latitudes of 32 and 34. The Gentlemen of the Com- mittee who are gone to View said Tract of Land, are Col. Israel Putman, Capt. Robert Enos, Mr. Thaddeus Lyman, and Lieut. Rufus Putman, who on their Return are to make their Report to the Standing Committee of Military Adventurers, to be laid before said Company. The Sloop is about 65 Tons, a good Vessel, a prime Sailor, is well and completely rigged and manned; has two good new Cables and Anchors, a good new Suit of Sails, a Topsail and Flying Jibb; mounts 4 Brass Cohorns, 4 Pounders, and 4 Swivel Guns, with Small Arms, &c. and a good Store of Powder and Ball for
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Defence in Case of an Attack from any straggling Indians, &c. they may happen to meet up the Mississippi; the Sloop has Orders, or rather Liberty to pass up the Mississippi as far as the Mouth of the River Yasou and Ohio, provided it can be done with Safety both to the Committee and Vessel. In her Way to the Mississippi, she is to touch at Pensacola, where the Committee have Orders to wait on the Governor of West Florida to know what Instructions he has received from the Crown, con- cerning the Military Adventurers as aforesaid. The Sloop Mississippi was seen the same Day at half past 4 o'Clock P. M. standing out to Sea, under a fair, pleasant and moderate Gale, about 5 Leagues beyond Sandy Hook.
To BE SOLD,
A Good dwelling-house and lot of ground, pleasantly situated in the town of Hackinsack, or new Barbados, in the county of Bergen, New-Jersey, between the court- house and Dutch-Church, fronting the green or com- mons; now in the tenure of Isaac Brown Esq; said lot is one hundred and six foot in front, as also in the rear, and one hundred foot deep on each Side; an indisputable title will be given to the purchaser thereof. Enquire of Theodorus Van Wyck, at New-York or William Pro- voost, near the premises.
Reading, Writing and Arithmetic,
BOTH vulgar and decimal, with Book-keeping, Survey- ing, Mensuration, and Navigation, taught in the most modern and approved Method. The different teaching and Branches above mentioned, to be inspected once every Quarter by Gentlemen of Character and Abilities. The School-House is situate on an Eminence, in a fine Air, and exceeding commodious; good Entertainment
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for Boarders, from 14 to 16 1. per Annum, quite con- venient to the School-House.
By their most obliged Obedient humble Servant,
THEOBALD BURKE.
N. B. The Advertiser, and his Terms, to be known by applying to the Printer hereof.
Hackinsack, at the New-Bridge, Dec. 30, 1772.
RUN-away last Monday night, from | his master, an apprentice boy named Ichabud Roberts, well set, about five feet four inches high, light brown hair; had on two jackets, the one of green cloth, the other streaked blue and white, leather breeches, had with him a light colored coat and blue jacket : He is a shoemaker and tanner, and understands something of currying, and is nineteen years of age. Whoever brings or secures the said apprentice in any public goal, shall have TWENTY SHILLINGS re- ward, and all reasonable charges paid by
ISAAC PLUME.
Of Newark, in East New-Jersey.
THREE DOLLARS REWARD.
RUN-AWAY from the subscriber living at the sign of the Unicorn, in Elizabeth-Town, New-Jersey, on Wed- nesday night the 6th inst. a certain hostler, who calls himself THOMAS ROBINSON, a native of Ireland; he is a short fellow of a brown complexion, wears his own hair and seems to walk as though he was somewhat bow- legg'd. He broke open a box belonging to the sub- scriber's apprentice, and stole out of it three white shirts, one new castor hat, and about six shillings in money; also took with him a striped flannel shirt belonging to said apprentice, and a pair of ribb'd stockings of the
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subscriber's. The said fellow is about 5 feet 3 inches high, commonly wears a drab-coloured long-skirted sagothee coat, red double-breasted jacket, leather breeches, and has with him a litish-coloured shortwaisted bearskin coat, which is rather too small for him; has also with him a striped burdet jacket. Whoever apprehends said fellow, and secures him in any goal, so as he may be brought to justice, or gives notice to the subscriber, shall have the above reward, and all reasonable charges, paid by me, WILLIAM GRAHAM.
RUN-AWAY from the Subscriber, on Sunday Evening the 27th Day of December last, a Negro Man named JACK, about 33 Years old, a short spare Fellow : Had on when he went away, a brown double-breasted short Forrest Cloth Jacket, with plain Brass Buttons, lined with red Baze; a red Baze under Jacket, Leather Breeches, and Blue Yarn Stockings. He took with him a light Coat much wore of fine twilled Frize, the knap wore off, and a new blue Watch-coat of Coating, with white plated Buttons. He was purchased from Hendrick Emons, of Rockey-Hill in New Jersey, about 9 years ago, and it is supposed he is either gone that Way, where he has a Mother, or else to Anthony Ten Eyck's at Albany, where he has a Wife. Any person that will take up said Negro and secure him, so that his Master may have him again, shall have Sorty Shillings Reward, and all reasonable Charges, paid by PETER KETELTAS.
-New York Gazette and Weekly Mercury, No. 1108, January 18, 1773.
RUN-away from the Subscriber, at Evesham, Burling- ton county, an indented negro man, about 34 years of age, 5 feet ten inches high, a West-Indian born: Had on when he went away a sagothoy coat almost new, of a lead
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colour; black cut velvet jacket, with glass buttons; a new small check shirt; and took with him a 30s. hat, almost new; a pair of calf skin shoes, odd buckles, one silver the other brass. Whoever takes up the said negro, and secures him in any goal, so that his master may have him again, shall have SIXTEEN DOLLARS reward, and reasonable charges, paid by WILLIAM HOLDCRAFT.
-Supplement to The New York Gazette and Weekly Mercury, No. 1108, January 18, 1773.
NEW-YORK, January 14, | Sunday at twelve o'clock sailed from this harbour, the sloop Missisippi, Wait Goodrich, Master, bound up the river Missisippi, The sloop Missisippi was seen the same day at half past four o'clock P. M. standing out to sea, under a fair, pleasant and moderate gale, about 5 leagues beyond Sandy Hook. December 26, 1772.
BY virtue of a Writ to me directed, will be exposed to Sale on the sixth day of March next, between the hours of twelve and five o'clock, at the house of Thomas Champin, in the township of Great Egg Harbour, the following tracts of land and marsh; 1450 acres of land and Swamp on South River, on which is a mill seat said to be claimed by Israel Pemberton; 95 acres of pine land, on Miry Run, 200 acres of salt marsh, between Tucke- how and Middle River, said to be the third part of 600 acres; and 50 acres of land and marsh, on a place called Garrits' Island, being all the several tracts more or less; late the property of JOSEPH SOMERS, deceased; seized and taken in execution at the suit of SAMUEL RISLEY, Esq; by Thomas Denny, Sheriff.
Cumberland County, West New-Jersey, Jan. 7, 1773. TEN POUNDS REWARD,
RUN-AWAY from Cumberland county, in the province
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of West New-Jersey, on the 6th instant, at night, two servant men; one an Irishman, came with Capt. James Curtis from Waterford, a year ago from last summer; about twenty-four years of age, five feet six inches high; his name is JAMES KEEFE, talks good English, but says he can neither read nor write; had on when he went away, a large home-made flannel jacket, of a lightish colour, with the under part of the sleeves sewed up all the way, an under-jacket of blue and white striped home- made flannel, with stamped pewter buttons, good new buckskin breeches, grey stockings, good shoes, a strong pair of brass buckles, one of the rims of which has been braised near the corner, which makes it less than else- where, a striped flannel shirt, and a good home-spun linen ditto, old blue trowsers, old green jacket, and a new felt hat. The other named JACOB WARRINTON, born in Penn- sylvania, about five feet five inches high, well built. brown hair, no beard, and about twenty-two years of age; had on and took with him when he went away, a half-worn castor hat, black neckcloth, chocolate coloured cloth coat, one red flannel, one Bengal Holland, and one light coloured patched cloth waistcoat, snuff coloured velvet breeches, one fine, one home-spun linen, and one check shirt, a pair of half-worn blue trowsers, two pair of fulled stockings, two pair of worsted ditto, a new pair of double soaled shoes, and pinch-beck carved buckles. Whoever takes up said servants, and secures them, so that their masters may have them again, shall have the above reward, or FIVE POUNDS for each, and reasonable charges, paid by us
EPHRAIM SHEPHERD, and DANIEL MULFORD.
-The Pennsylvania Packet, No. 65, January 18, I773.
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Was taken up, adrift, in the river Delaware, about the 20th of December last, a small YAWL, with a white bottom, and red within. Whoever has lost the same, by applying to the subscriber, living at Egg-Harbour, prov- ing property, and paying charges, may have her again.
JOSEPH DAVIS.
To be SOLD, by way of public VENDUE, | at the late dwelling-house of John Chumard, deceased, in the | township of New-Hanover, and county of Burlington, West | New-Jersey, on Thursday, the 28th day of this inst. January, | the following real and personal estate, viz.
THE REAL ESTATE :
A SAW-MILL, and TRACT of LAND thereunto belonging, containing about 800 acres of pine land and cedar swamp, commonly known by the name of Bard's saw-mill.1 And one other saw-mill, lately erected, within half a mile of the former, with about 700 acres of pine land and cedar swamp thereunto belonging; each of said mills are sup- plied with never-failing streams of water. Also several lots and tracts of cedar swamp and pine lands; as also a quantity of unappropriated West-Jersey Rights.
PERSONAL ESTATE, consisting of a variety of cedar and pine boards, 7 draught horses, a pair of good working oxen, several cows, young cattle, sheep, hogs, green corn in the ground, a quantity of rye in the grain, hay, buck- wheat, two broad fellowed waggons, one light ditto, and gears suitable. feather beds and bedding, tables, chairs, looking-glasses, iron pots and kettles, pewter; and a great variety of other houshold goods, and kitchen furniture, too tedious to insert.
Attendance will be given by the subscribers, at the said saw-mills, on the 25th and 26th instant preceding the
1 See N. J. Archives, XII., 667, note.
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vendue, in order to shew, if any person or persons should incline to view the premises, and at the late dwelling- house, at the time of sale, when the conditions will be made known, by MARY CHUMARD, Executrix; NATHAN FOLWELL, JOHN BLACK, Executors.
N. B. The Execut. of said estate desire the creditors to meet them at the honse of Edward Pancoast, at the new mills, on Friday, the 22d instant, in order for the adjustment of accounts .- The Pennsylvania Gasette, No. 2300, January 20, 1773.
BOSTON, January 4.
The following may be depended upon as a genuine extract of the letter from Lord Dartmouth, to the Governor of Rhode-Island, dated Whitehall, Sept. 4, 1772.
"The particulars of that atrocious proceeding (re- ferring to the burning of the Gaspee schooner ) have by the King's command been examined and considered with the greatest attention; and although there are some cir- cumstances attending it, in regard to the robbery and plunder of the vessel, which separately considered, might bring it within the description of an act of piracy; yet in the obvious view of the whole transaction, & taking all the circumstances together, the offence is in the opinion of the law servants of the crown, who have been con- sulted upon that question, of a much deeper dye, and is considered in no other light, than as an act of high treason, viz. levying war against the King.
"And in order that you may have all proper advice and assistance in a matter of so great importance; his Majesty has thought fit, with the advice of his Privy Council, to issue his royal Commission, under the great seal of Great- Britain, nominating Yourself and the Chief Justices of
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New-York, New-Jersey, and the Massachusetts-Bay, together with the Judge of the Vice-Admiralty Court established at Boston, to be his Majesty's Commissioners for enquiring into and making report to his Majesty; of all the circumstances relative to the attacking, plunder- ing and burning the Gaspee Schooner. The King trusts, that all persons in the colony will pay a due respect to his royal commission, and that the business of it will be carried on without molestation; at the same time the nature of this offence, and the great number of persons who appear to have been concerned in it make every pre- caution necessary.
"His Majesty has therefore, for the further support in the execution of this duty, thought fit to direct me to signify his pleasure to Lieutenant General Gage, that he do hold himself in readiness to send troops to Rhode- Island, whenever he shall be called upon by the Com- missioners for that purpose, in order to aid and assist the civil magistrate in the suppression of any riot or dis- turbances, and in the preservation of the public peace. I have only to add upon that head, that his Majesty depends on the care and vigilance of the civil magistrates of the colony, to take the proper measures for the arrest- ing and committing to custody, in order to their being brought to justice, such persons, as shall, upon proper information made before them, or before his Majesty's Commissioners, appear to have been concerned in the plundering and destroying the Gaspee schooner.
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