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LOAN OFFICE CERTIFICATES,
D UE from the subscriber before the first of January last, are now ready to be delivered, for which pur- pose he will attend, God willing, at Mr. Woodruff's in Springfield, on Friday the 13th inst. at which time he will be obliged to those who have accounts against him, either public or private, to attend for settlement. The loss of so many of his papers makes this the more necessary while circumstances can be remembered; on which ac- count he hopes that no one will be so ungenerous as to em- barrass him or his family in a future day with claims they may be now entitled to make.
JAMES CALDWELL.
N. B. A list of the fortunate numbers, in the third class of the United States Lottery, to be seen at Mr. Darling's, in Chatham; Mr. Woodruff's, Springfield; Mr. Aron Ogden's, Newark; and Mr. Wynans's, Elizabeth Town. Those who have drawn blank's are to preserve their tickets for renewal.
October 2, 1780.
R AN AWAY from Lucas Von Beverhoudt, at Bev- erwyk, near Morris Town, on the 26th of last month, a negro man named JACK, and is supposed will go to New-York; he is low of stature, very black, and limps a little in his walk, though not lame, speaks broken English and some negro Dutch; he took with him a short blue cloth coat, with red lining, cape, and cuffs; a scarlet jacket and breeches, a light coloured homespun coat, short cut, with red cape and cuffs; a darker homespun jacket and breeches, with black buttons; homespun shirts and trousers, also some fine shirts. Whoever apprehends said fellow, and seeures him so that he can be delivered to said
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Von Beverhoudt, or to Mr. Patrick Darcy, shall have One Thousand Continental Dollars reward.
. Beverwyk, near Morris Town,
October 3, 1780.
To be sold at public vendue, on Thursday the 26th day of October, at the house where Capt. Joseph Riggs lately lived, all the real and personal estate of Jane Riggs, late of Newark, deceased ;
A BOUT four acres of land, through which a living brook of water runs, which makes it very conve- nient for a tanner, with a good stone house thercon, a well, garden, and barn. It is pleasantly situated near the centre of the town of Newark, which makes it conveni- ent for any business. The vendue to begin at two o'clock in the afternoon. All that are indebted to said estate are desired to make speedy payments; and all those that have any demands against it are desired to apply soon to the Excentors for payment.
ELIHU CRANE, TIMOTHY ANDERSON, Executors. JOHN OGDEN, Esquire. - Newark, Sept. 29, 1780.
B ROKE into the pasture of the subscriber, the 29th of September last, a dark brown horse, about 14 hands and an inch high, three white feet, a star and snip, trots and canters. The owner is desired to come, prove property, pay charges, and take him away.
WESSELS TUCKER.
Springfield, October 3, 1780.
T ITE subscriber being desirous to have the accounts in : the Quartermaster and forage departments settled with the greatest dispatch, proposes to attend in his office every day in the mouth of October (Sundays and days of election excepted :) All those who have any de-
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mands must bring in their accounts within that time, or they will be debarred from a settlement until another order is received from Congress or the heads of those departments for that purpose.
JOSEPH LEWIS, late Q. M. Morris-Town, 30th Sept., 1780.
Best Bohea Tea
To be exchanged at the Printing-Office for cheese, butter, or grain of any kind.
TO BE SOLD,
A NEW riding chair with harness compleat. Also, Earthenware wholesale and retail, by ROBERT HUNT. Elizabeth Town, Sept. 26, 1780.
ALL persons indebted to the estate of John Cobb, late of Hanover, deceased, are hereby desired to come and discharge their accounts in a short time, which may prevent trouble. JOHN SALTER, CLISBY COBB, } Administrators.
SAYRS CRANE,
IN NEWARK,
Has for sale the following articles, viz.
W EST-INDIA rum by the gallon, bohea tea, sugar, pepper, souchong tea, steel spurs, dry goods, &e.
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TO BE SOLD,
By ANTHONY L. BLEECKER,
For cash or country produce, at the house formerly occu- pied by Mr. Gerardus Duyckinck, in Hanover, two miles from Morris Town ;
B OHEA tea, Coffee, Chocolate,
West-India rum, Cotton wool,
Fine and coarse salt,
Sugar,
Pepper,
Lead,
Indigo,
Knives and forks,
Scotch snuff,
Pins, &c., &c.
Port wine,
September 27, 1780.
TO BE SOLD,
A PLANTATION, containing 40 acres, situate in New- Providence, near the Meeting-House. There is on said place a sufficiency of timber and meadow, with a comfortable dwelling-house, &c. For particulars enquire of the subscriber at Connecticut Farms.
WILLIAM HERD.
September 26, 1780. The New-Jersey Journal, Vol. II., Numb. LXXXVI., October 11, 1780.
12d. and 20d. nails,
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PRINCETON, September 29, 1780.
L AST Tuesday the grammar school in this place was examined in presence of the President and Faculty of the College, several of the Trustees, and other Gentlemen of learning in the neighbourhood, when the scholars gave very satisfying evidence of their profi- ciency in Latin and Greek, in the reading grammar and or- thography of the English language, and in pronouncing English orations. Premiums were distributed after the examination, and adjudged as follows: For the first class, who are now admitted Freshmen in college, to Matthew Baldwin of Princeton : For the 2d class to Abel Johnson, of Somerset county, New-Jersey: For the 3d class to Ralph Hunt, junior, of Hunterdon county, New-Jersey : For the 4th, or English class, to George Pollock of Eliza- beth-Town: For the competition, free to all the classes in extempore exercises in Latin, grammar and syntax, to Mat- thew Baldwin; and for pronouncing English orations, to John Morgan of Princeton. Next day, being Wednesday the 27th, was held the annual commencement of the college. The exercises of which were as follows:
1. Prayer by the President of the college.
2. Latin salutatory oration on the character and quali- ties of an illustrious GENERAL, by Samuel W. Venable.
3. An English oration on the advantages of civil liberty to particular states, by John Rhea.
4. A dialogue on the present slate of the college, the prospect of its restoration and of the revival of letters throughout America, along with the return of peace, and the establishment of our independence, by Samuel and Abraham Venable and James Rosevelt.
5. An English oration on the origin and advantages of civil society, by Abraham Venable, which concluded the ex- ercises of the forenoon.
6. The exercises of the afternoon were introduced with an oration on the power of the people to constitute their
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own governments, and to alter and reform them for their own advantage, by John Wilkes Kittera.
7. Then the following gentlemen, Samuel W. Venable, and Abraham Venable, of Virginia; James Rosevelt, of New-York; John Rhea and Allen Russel, of Pennsyl- vania, and Ebenezer Stockton, of New-Jersey, were ad- mitted to the degree of Bachelor of Arts; and John Wilkes- Kittera, Hugh Hodge and James Reid, of Pennsylvania, Joseph Lane of Virginia, and Theodorus Bayley, of New- York, all alumni of this college, were admitted to the de- gree of Master of Arts.
8. Charge by the President to the graduates.
9. Valedictory oration on the beauties and utility of poetry, by James Rosevelt.
10. The whole was concluded with prayer by the Presi- dent.
The exercises were attended by a numerous and polite audience, who expressed great satisfaction with the per- formance of the scholars.
The Board of Trustees, at their sitting, conferred on his Excellency Samuel Huntington, Esq. President of Congress, A. M. of Yale College, the honorary degree of L. L. D.
On the Rev. James Sproat, A. M. of Yale College, the degree of D. D.
On the Honourable Robert R. Livingston, Esq. Member of Congress, and Chancellor of the state of New-York, the degree of A. M.
On Charles Thompson, Esq. Secretary to the Congress, A. M. of Philadelphia, the same degree in this college.
N. B. The public is hereby informed that the vacancy of the grammar school will expire on Wednesday 'the 18th of October, and that of the college on the 8th of November, when it is requested that the scholars may attend punc- tually. Also reproduced in The Pennsylvania Journal, October 25, 1780, and in The Pennsylvania Packet, Oc- tober 28, 1780.
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Princeton, October 2, 1780.
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I SEND you a part of a dialogue delivered at the commencement in this place last week by three ingenious young gentlemen, Messrs. S. and A. Venable and J. Rosevelt, that it may be given to the publick through your useful Gazette. The whole dialogue was too long to be published at once, and the former part of it having a more particular reference to the present state of the college, and the general decline of letters since the beginning of the war, I have thought it better to send you only the conclusion of it, which offers a fairer prospect of the revival of learning through the continent, from the establishment of independence and a free government. I do not find fault with it because it is a kind of poetry written in prose. Some of the best writers, both in France and England, have given us examples of that species of writing; besides that, I think it cramps the ideas of such young writers less than rhyme, or a rigid attention to the measure of feet. If it will amuse the publick, or give any favourable presage to the friends of the college of its restoration, I have all that I desire. A. B.
S. Venable.
Cleander-But see, Eugenius! where my friend and brother ad- vances. This is a theme that accords with his temper. Generous and noble in his nature, he equally cultivates freedom and the muse, and all the virtues that attend upon them .- But his warm spirit I could never bring to that cool philosophy by which I study to regu- late my own .-
A. Venable.
Enter Cleoron. I am glad, Cleoron, to embrace thee, and to make thee partner with us in a subject that I know is always welcome to thee.
Cleoron .- Cleander I rejoice in all occasions of repeating to you how much I am your friend. The name of brother is dear to me- but friendship formed on principles of virtue, on a long course of the same studies and pursuits, and on an equal love of liberty and science, is still more dear .- Welcome, my Eugenius! How do you support your spirit through the troubles of these times? I joy to meet thee, though it be within the walls of this dismantled college, that ever raise in my idea the execrable rage and tyranny of Britain, that have sometimes moved your tears, but always kindle my spirits . into flame .- May I learn from you the subject of your discourse ?
J. Rosevelt.
Eugenius. What can it be, Cleoron, on this day, and in this place, but the subject you have named? We have lamented the ruins of our Alma Mater -- We have flattered ourselves with the expectation of her future rise, from the justice and friendship of the present gov-
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ernment-And not of her rise alone, but of the growth of science, of the glory and improvement of human nature throughout America, from the independence we have just asserted, and the shackles of un- worthy masters that we have gallantly broken and cast from us.
Cleoron .- May Heaven, in mercy to mankind, blast their dishonest ambition ! Learning, genius, glory ! How could they flourish in a state of slavery, and of abject dependence upon so many foreign masters? Let it not offend thee, O my country, that I would rather make thee a province to the Turk! For if he doth extinguish knowl- edge, he suffers his wretches to enjoy their ignorance in quiet-they have only the rapacity of one lord to gratify, not of nine millions. But how miserable is their state who are slaves, and are sensible of their slavery? Who are slaves and are insulted with the name and forms of liberty? Could wretches so dispirited have a genius to exercise? See the unhappy Africans, whom Britain, in spite of all our laws, hath compelled us to receive as slaves !- Every clown can call them stupid .- Is it because they want the faculties of human nature? No, but we have in them a picture of what cruel ravages oppression can make upon the human mind .- How much better should we have been, trampled on, insulted, and oppressed by foreigners? Britain would have raised our rulers and our generals, our judges and principal ministers of justice .- To her all men must have re- sorted for their honours and rewards. And with these, at the distance of three thousand miles, all learning and genius would have abandoned my country-America would have been favoured to raise some dirty provincials to be the butt of foreign soldiers, and to do the drudgery of war for them-some clerks and scriveners to record the orders of our masters-and perhaps a few of us might have arrived at the honour of being constables, or even hangmen to his Majesty! What worthy motives to inflame a scholar's ambition ! How many years would it have been worth our while to have laboured in a college, to have mounted at last such a ladder of glory? Besides the want of reward, and of a great theatre in which to exercise the talents of the mind, our masters would have been jealous of our learning, lest we should be too sensible of our state, and too impatient of their yoke-their policy would have been equally to exhaust our purses, and to impoverish our minds. Americans would have been but poor labourers, rascals, and slaves to their most hon- ourable, most knowing, and most wealthy lords .- When these walls should have fallen into heaps of ruin-when these tapers of science that glimmer among us should have been utterly extinguished, the children of those who are now the first characters in America, with- out knowledge and without freedom, would have been forced to cringe to the humors, and shake at the frown of their insulting tyrants-My heart boils up with indignation at the thought-Could I behold the haughty villain strut before the trembling herds, and my sword not hew him from the earth ?- I would spurn his carcase, and throw myself upon my fate.
Cleander. Cleoron ! let us contend against them with the dignity of reason. Passion is apt to mislead the mind and to betray it into .
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a littleness that our soberer hours will not approve. I detest their crimes, and wish to throw them out of my remembrance, except as they are necessary to guard my country against the designs of treachery, and to make her prize more highly her liberty and inde- pendence. But may we not congratulate ourselves, and animate our hopes with the future prospects of the literary glory of America, without diverting our view, or suffering our minds to be inflamed with their villainies ?- As servitude cramps and degrades the soul, . liberty no less enlarges and exalts her powers. That grandeur and magnificence of thought which the consciousness of freedom inspires, and of subjection to no master but the laws of reason, which the citizens have marked out for their own conduct, favours the culti- vation and the progress of genius .- Where, every citizen considers himself as a lord and master of a great republiek, and as sharing in the government of a nation of men as noble as himself, he feels an independence and sublimity of soul, which is hardly known to the princes of other countries. Republicans are capable of industry and application ; and the number of competitors in every art produce an emulation that fans the fires of the genius, and makes human nature susceptible of improvements, of which the little and con- tracted minds in arbitrary states, form no conception .- Glory and. honor are the great rewards of noble minds-and to obtain these, what toils will they not endure? To what heights of improvement will they not ascend? In free nations they lie open to all who will aspire after them, and create an emulation and a generous ambition, that highly exalt and cultivate the powers of human nature .- Cleoron, not the false glory of commanding a tame and passive herd of slaves, but the real grandeur of governing by reason, a nation of freemen and of heroes -- Honours that do not depend upon the caprice of one man, perhaps the most ignorant and vicious of his kingdom, but upon the suffrage of a free people, who are equally led by a sense of their own interest, and by the admiration of exalted talents. What a field of glory ! What a school of perfection in every art? and especially in eloquence, the first of arts? On this theatre the mighty soul of Demosthenes took fire, and rivalled the force of whirlwinds, of lightenings, and of tempests. Here we allumined the milder flames of Tully's genius, which resembled the influence of the sun after a cloud in the fable, that made the traveller voluntarily resign what the storm attempted to tear from him in vain. And America will yet nurse in her free bosom, Orators, Legislators and Generals, that shall more than rival the Greek and Roman fame. The genius of our statesmen will gather strength in proportion to the vast extent of the empire they are to rule .- Then Nassau! thou shalt flourish in the glory of thy country. Then shalt thou give birth to the future Homers, and Platos and Xenophons; to the Aristides, the Cimons and the Epaminondas of America .- With such prospects before us, how much may we at ease contemn the pride of Britain, and triumph in our own felicity, without venting an in- decent passion against them !
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philosophy, by thoughts superior to the vulgar impulses of passion. And thou reasonest so as only to inflame my heart the more. When I look forward to what we are to be, O, cruel Britons! who attempt to rob us of such a glory !. Cruel! to destroy that foretaste of it to which we have attained already !- Cleoron, "I could weep that we were born so soon, just in the dawning of these mighty scenes !" When the radiant sun of science and of glory is but beginning to lift his beams upon us, which hereafter shall light up splendors in America, such as the world hath never seen before.
Cleoron .- Nay, my Eugenius, rather rejoice that we are born so soon, and that we come upon the stage in time to lay the founda- tions of this mighty fabric-Our glory shall not perish !- What, though our sons be destined to a fame that shall eclipse whatever can be boasted of the Asian or European worlds? We lay its basis -we support their glory-We shall share half their praise, and hold our own sole and without a partner .- And, say what is our glory, I protest by all my hopes, and all the honours of this day, that I would not exchange with them, whatever theirs may be. To break the chains of tyranny-to plunge a dagger to a tyrant's heart -- to save an infant world from ruin-to repel those formidable arms that have shaken terror over half the globe-to raise millions of mankind from the fears of abject servitude, to the prerogatives of human nature .- These are exploits worthy of the fathers of history to record-exploits that will not suffer our names, if with proper zeal we do our parts, to sink into oblivion .- When the Cæsars had carried the Roman eagle to the extremities of the earth, what names were more famous than the Brutuses, the Cincinnatuses, the Fabri- ciuses, or the Poplicolas of the first commonwealth? Nay, by the sacred flame of liberty ! and by all those noble spirits that have fallen at her shrine, in this contest! I had rather be a woman-I had rather be Lucretia, that glorious woman, than all the Cæsars that ever wore the imperial purple .- Science! thou hast already demonstrated thy sacred and powerful influence in my loved country ! Thou hast already inspired the most ardent love of liberty, into every class of men, by the examples of Greek and Roman! Did not the .men of genius first detect the insidious claims of tyranny? Did not they first light up the flame that, like a conflagration, hath spread and involved the continent in its splendors ?- Harvard ! Yale ! and Nassau, are not your sons the first upon the mighty stage, giving an example to future ages of virtue, of the love of liberty, and of the glorious fruits of science? And when history shall record the future grandeurs of this great republic, she shall seize our names, and marking them in characters of blood, set them the fore- most in the lists of fame.
Cleander .- Thou hast a soul of fire, Cleoron ! And every expression is ardent in the extreme-Yet I must confess much truth and reason lies beneath that fervor which virtue solely guides. - - - But, Eugenius, my hopes of the rise of science, and of this rifled and violated daughter of the muses, still rest upon a just foundation. -- - - Cleoron admires, to enthusiasm, the assertors of
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the freedom of their country. - - - Let us admire them with him - - let us list ourselves of their number, and spare neither our toils nor our life, that we may set her in safety from her enemies, and establish her in eternal honours. I confess that our fame shall rival that of those who may live in the brightest period of our story. Not that we shall be equal in science and in arts, but because with our moderate improvements, we have fallen into circumstances the most fortunate to give them lustre. But should posterity advance no higher in arts, they must in fame and reputation be infinitely the inferiors of the present age. To rival our glory with all the advantages which we enjoy, from being the heroes of publick liberty, they must far transcend us in the glory of letters - - - and when genius shall have attained her finest polish, and the laurels of Par- nassus shall fade, when compared with the boys of Nassau-Hall, the highest merit of her greatest scholars shall we have acted.
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Eugenius. --- "Tis true, Cleander, and no mean merit shall accrue to him who shall justly celebrate the virtue of our ladies, or the sufferings of virgin and of matron innocence. Shall not their admira- tion of military virtue; shall not their generous contributions to relieve the wants of the defenders of their country, supply a column, to emulate the Roman ladies, stripped of their jewels, when the publick necessities demanded them? What honours shall be con- ferred on him who shall weep, in the most moving strains, over the violated innocence of the daughters of New-Jersey, and melt into tears the sympathetic theatre? - - - And when a writer shall burn with glory at the name of Washington, he shall be sensible that it will not be his smallest praise to erect an urn to the memory of the chaste, the amiable, and the virtuous Caldwell .*
Cleoron. - - - "Tis justly said, Eugenius! Most justly said, Cle- ander! Let the thoughts of our future glory, and of our present injuries, fire our minds. - - - Here let us plight our hands with our hearts to each other, and to our insulted country, that we will labour, and bleed, and if necessary, die in her defence. - - - My ensign shall be, "an arm surrounded with a glory, and stained with the blood of a prostrate Briton." - - - And whether 'we are called to deliberate in the senate, or to act in the field, let us remember, in order to add vigour to our genius, and force to our descending swords, that we are avenging the cause of virgin innocence - - - that we are erecting an eternal monument to fame, and laying the basis of the last greatest empire of freedom, of science, and of religion in the world!
* The Rev. Mr. Caldwell's lady, killed by the enemy in their excursion to Springfield, in June.
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POUGHKEEPSIE, Oct. 2.
Andre was taken by three young men of the militia, of Westchester county, Messrs. Pawling, Deane and Van- Weert-he offered them for his liberty, his gold watch, one thousand guineas, and as large a quantity of goods as they would choose to bring from New-York, which with republican virtue, they refused, informing Andre that they were Americans, and were not to be purchased.
FISH-KILL, October 5.
We learn from Head-Quarters, that Major Andre, Ad- jutant-General of the British army, received the reward of his dear earned labours, the gallows, on last Monday. His unhappy fate was much regretted; though his life was justly forfeited by the law of nations. From his be- havour, it cannot be said, but that, if he did not die a good Christian, he died like a brave soldier .- Thus died, in the bloom of life, Major Andre, the pride of the British army, the friend and confidant of Sir Henry Clinton.
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