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In order therefore to counteract the said artifices of the enemy, and to evince to the whole world the most spirited determination of the legislature of this state, to receive or listen to no negociation whatsoever, that may be proposed by the court or ministry of Great- Britain, or by their commissioner or commissioners, or by any other person or persons whatever under their authority, except only thro the intervention of Congress, and to manifest in the clearest manner our firm and unalterable attachment to the independence of this country, and our inviolable regard to the faith which we have pledged to each other and to our allies ;
Resolved unanimously, That the legislature of this state is de- termined to exert the power of the state to enable Congress to support the national independence of America, and that whoever shall attempt to effect any pacification between these States and Great-Britain, expressing or implying the least subordination or de- pendance of these United States to or upon Great-Britain, or shall presume to make any separation, or partial convention, or agree- ment with the King of Great-Britain, or with any person or persons acting under the crown of Great-Britain, by what name or title soever, ought to be treated as an open and avowed enemy of the United States of America.
Resolved unanimously, That the delegates of the United States of America in Congress assembled, are vested with the exclusive au- thority to treat with the King of Great-Britain, or commissioners by him duly appointed, to negotiate a peace between the two countries.
Resolved unanimously, That altho' peace upon honourable terms is an object truly desirable, yet that war with all the calamities usually attending it, is incomparably preferable to national dishonour and vassalage, and that no event, however disasterous, ought to in- duce us to violate in the least degree our connection with our great and generous ally, and that no peace or Aruce can be made by these States with Great Britain, consistent with good faith, gratitude or
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safety but in connection with; and by the consent of our great and good ally first had and obtained.
Resolved unanimously, That the legislature will maintain, support and defend the sovereignty and independence of this state with their lives and fortunes, and will exert the power thereof to enable Con- gress to prosecute the war until Great-Britain shall renounce all claim of sovereignty over the United States, or any part thereof, and until their independence shall be formally or tacitly assured by a treaty with Great-Britain, France and the United States, which alone can terminate the war.
By order of the House,
JOIN MEHELM, Speaker.
Concurred in by Council unanimously, May 27, 1782.
WIL. LIVINGSTON, President.
| Horse St. Patrick-Hopewell-John P. Hunt.]
To BE SOLD at Publick Vendue, On Thursday the 6th of June next,
A Lot of about four acres of land, pleasantly situated in Bordentown ; whereon is erected a genteel and convenient brick house, two stories high, with two rooms and a large entry on the lower floor, three on the upper, with a garret, a large kitchen, and a good well of water near the door; there is also on the premises, an orchard of ex- cellent fruit of various kinds. At the same time will be sold, a valuable Lot of marsh near said town, containing 5 or 6 acres, well situated on Crosswiek's creek.
The Vendue will begin at two o'clock, when the conditions will be made known, and attendance given, by Amariah Farnsworth.
Bordentown, May 25, 1782.
WHEREAS the subscriber, of Maidenhead. Hunterdon county, state of New-Jersey, has removed to Philadelphia, in race-street, near the corner of third-street, and has opened a house of publick enter- tainment, and intends to keep a house to entertain travellers and others in the best manner, and give the greatest satisfaction possible ; and he hopes his former customers will oblige him as usual.
PETER COVENHOVEN.
Wanted immediately,
IN a small family, a servant girl who can do all kind of house- work .- One who can be recommended, will meet with good encourage- ment, by applying to the Printer.
CAME to the plantation of the subscriber at the drawbridge, in Burlington county, on the 11th inst. a bay stallion colt, rising three years old, a small star, very thin in flesh: The owner is desired to prove his property, pay charges, and take him away.
May 23, 1782.
WILLIAM NUTT.
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FOUR DOLLARS REWARD.
STRAYED or stolen from the subscriber Friday night last, a mare of an iron grey colour, about fifteen hands high, six years old, paces and trots, but mostly the former, has a large bushy tail, and shod before: Whoever will bring her to the subscriber, or to Captain Sherer at Spotswood, shall receive Four Spanish Dollars reward, and reasonable charges, by JOHN RATTOON.
South Amboy, May 21, 1782.
State of New-Jersey to wit. To all whom it may concern.
NOTICE is hereby given that a court of admiralty will be held at the court-house in Burlington, on Tuesday the 25th of June next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon of that day, to try the truth of the facts alledged in the bill of Hope Willets, who as well, &c. against a certain sloop called the William and John, her tackle, apparel, furniture and cargo, lately taken by the enemy in the Chesapeake, and retaken off the coast of New-Jersey, on her passage to New- York, by the armed boat Luck and Fortune, commanded by the said Ilope Willets ; to the end that the owner or owners of the said sloop, or any other person or persons interested therein, may appear and shew cause, if any they have, why the said sloop, with her said tackle, apparel, furniture and cargo, should not be condemned to the captors, and a decree thereon pass pursuant to the prayer of the said bill.
By order of the Judge, JOS. BLOOMFIELD, Reg.
Burlington, May 22, 1782.
Raritan Landing, May 23, 1782. To whom it may concern.
State of New- 1 NOTICE is hereby given, that a court of admiralty
Jersey. will be held on Thursday, the 20th of June, at the dwelling-house of Captain James Green, in Monmouth, then and there to try the truth of the facts in the alledged bill of Captain Adam ITyler, against the schooner Speedwell, burthen about twenty- two tons, together with her tackle, apparel, furniture and cargo, late the property of Messrs. Moore, and Stratton, commanded by Capt. Moore, and captured by the British schooner Sukey, Captain John Dimsey, master, near Chesapeake-Bay, and re-captured by said Captain Adam Hyler, and now lies at Toms River; to the true intent that the former proprietors, or any other person or persons claiming the same, may shew cause, if any they have, why the said vessel, her tackle, apparel, furniture and cargo, shall not be condemned to the captors, according to the prayer of the said bill.
R. HUDE, J. BRAY, Agents.
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WILL BE SOLD,
ON Saturday the first of June next, at the house of John Cape, at the arms of France, in Trenton, nine likely negro men, lately cap- tured by Captain Adam Hyler, and legally condemned in a court of admiralty .- The vendue to begin at 10 o'clock.
JAMES M'COMB, Marshal.
WILL BE SOLD).
The fourth day of June next, at Chestnut-Neck, Little Egg-Harbour, State of New-Jersey,
THIE brigantine or vessel called the Betsey, with her tackle, apparel, furniture and cargo ; consisting of tobacco, salt, coffe, mustard, china and queen's ware, with sundry other articles, lately captured by Capt. Thomas Quigley in the boat Lively. Sale to begin precisely at ten o'clock.
By order of the Admiralty, JAMES M'COMB, Marshal.
Princeton, May 28, 1782.
TO BE SOLD at Publick Vendue,
At the German Parsonage, in the township of Amwell, in the vicinity of Flemington, on Tuesday the 4th of June next, at ten o'clock in the morning, A Pair of elegant horses, the noted breeding-mare Flora, with a colt at her side, a yearling filley, remarkably stout and hand- some, the best of milch cows, wheat, oats, and flax in the ground, a pleasure sleigh, waggon, gears, hogsheads and barrels, wooden, earthen, and iron vessels; also, a variety of valuable furniture. A generous credit will be given, and the conditions of sale made known by the subscriber.
JOHN NEVELING. May 27, 1781.
From the New Jersey Gazette, Vol. V., No. 232, June 5, 1782.
TRENTON, June 5.
We hear from Monmouth, that on the morning of the 1st inst. one Davenport, a refugee landed with about 40 whites and 40 blacks, at Forked-River, and burnt Samuel Brown's salt-works, and plun- dered him; they then proceeded Southward towards Barnegat, for the purpose of burning the salt-works along shore between those places. Thus are they conciliating the affections of the Americans !
. The intelligence of the sea engagement in the West-Indies between Count de Grasse and Admiral Rodney, on the 12th ult. being so various and contradictory, we decline communicating anything further
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on the subject until we shall be enabled to hand to our readers the publick letter from one or other of those Admirals. We are, however, fearful that the event has proved unfavourable to His Most Christian Majesty's arms in that quarter.
The evening of the 25th inst. Capt. Hyler, with his armed boats, being in Shrewsbury-River, a party of British troops, consisting of 25 men, under the command of Captain Schaak, of the 57th regiment, were detached to intercept him in passing through the gut: As soon as Captain Hyler discovered them, he landed 13 of his men with orders to charge, in doing which 4 of the enemy were killed and wounded, and the Captain and S others were made prisoners ; and, by the firing of the gun-boat, it is supposed, several others were killed, as a number were seen to fall. Captain Hyler, previous to this rencounter, accidently met with a hurt, otherwise, it is probable. he would not have let a man escape.
ERRATUM : In the first resolution of the Legislature of this state, published in our last, for the word 'separation,' read separate.
Extract from the rules established by the Superintendant of Fi- nance, February 12, 1782, for carrying into effect the act of Congress of November 2, 1781.
"THIE receivers of continental taxes in the several states shall, at the end of every month, make out on exact account of the monies received by them respectively during such month, specifying therein the names of the persons from whom the same shall have been re- ceived, the dates and sums; which account they shall respectively cause to be published in one of the newspapers of the state: to the end that every citizen may know how much of the monies collected from him in taxes is transmitted to the treasury of the United States, for support of the war: and also that it may be known what monies have been at. the order of the Superintendant of Finance : it being proper and necessary that in a free country, the people should be as fully informed of the administration of their affairs as the nature of things will admit."
Pursuant to the foregoing, the subscriber makes known, that he has received of the quota of this state, for the current year, from the state-treasurer, as follows :
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W. C. Houston, receiver of continental taxes in the state of New- Jersey.
(To be continued monthly.)
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To whom it may concern.
State of New-Jersey, to wit.
NOTICE is hereby given, that a court of admiralty will be held at the house of James Esdall, in Burlington, on Wednesday the 26th day of June next, at the hour of ten in the forenoon of the same Gay, then and there to try the truth of the facts alledged in the bill of Hope Willets, commander of the armed boat Black Joke; and Joseph Edwards, commander of the armed boat Luck and Fortune, who as well, &c. against a certain sloop or vessel called the Nancy, which lately sailed from Maurice River in said state, laden with lumber and tar, was captured at sea by the Fair American, a British cruizer, commanded by William Nelson ; and afterwards re- captured by the said Captains, Willets and Edwards, together with her tackle, apparel, furniture and cargo, and two Negro slaves, named Obadiah Gale, and Edward Carter; to the end and intent, that the owner or owners of the said vessel, or any other person or persons interested therein may appear and shew cause, if any they have, why the said vessel, with her tackle, apparel, furniture, cargo and said Negro slaves, should not be condemmed to the captors thereof, and a decree thereon pass, pursuant to the prayer of the said bill.
By order of the Judge, JOSEPH BLOOMFIELD, Reg.
Burlington, May 29, 1782.
CAME to the plantation of the subscriber near Princeton, on Friday the seventeenth instant, a black roan mare, about 14 hands and a half high, a star in her forehead, two hind feet white, is shod before: The owner is desired to come and prove his property, pay charges, and take her away.
JAMES FREEMAN.
WILL BE SOLD,
ON Saturday the Sth day of June next, at the house of James Willets, on Cape-May, the sloop Nancy, with her apparel and fur- niture, and her cargo, consisting of 80 barrels of tar, a quantity of shingles, and thirty-five thousand feet of excellent pine and cedar boards and scantling, lately captured by the Captains Willets and Edwards, and sold by order of the judge of admiralty. The vendue to begin at ten o'clock on said day.
JAMES M'COMB, Marshal.
Cape-May, May 31, 1782.
THIS is to give notice, that the partnership of Moses Yamans and William and Christian Butts is dissolved : All persons having accounts to settle with said company, are requested to call upon said Butts, at Mount-Pleasant forge, in Bucks county Pennsylvania ; or on the subscriber, at Brooklyn forge, Morris county, New-Jersey.
MOSES YAMANS.
June 4, 1782.
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To whom it may concern.
Notice is hereby given, that a court of admiralty will be held at the courthouse in Burlington, on Tuesday the 25th day of June next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, to try the truth of the facts alledged in the bill of Thomas Quigley, commander of the armed boat Lively, who as well &c. against the brigantine or vessel called the Betsey, her tackle, apparel, furniture and cargo, Henry Bogart, master, captured near to Sandy-Hook, destined on a voyage from New-York to Halifax, and brought into Little Egg-Harbour in this state: To the intent that the owner or owners, or any other person or persons interested therein, may appear and shew cause, if any they have, why the said vessel. her tackle, apparel, furniture and cargo, should not be condemned and forfeited to the use of the captors and others concerned, pursuant to the prayer of the libellants.
By order of the judge. JOS. BLOOMFIELD, Reg.
Burlington, May 29, 1782. JOHN DIXON
. Has for sale, at the house lately occupied by David Pinkerton, in Trenton :
PERSIAN Mode, Sarsenet, White and black ganze, Lawn, Muslin, Cambrick, Silk and linen handkerchiefs, Silk and cotton hose, Wide and marron ribbands, Chintzes, Calicoes, Marseilles quilting, Womens' mits, Fans, Humhums, Bullian bands, Laces, Moreen, Shaloon, Rati- net, Corduroy, Cotton denim, Jeans, Fustian, Jacket patterns, Crating, Gilt and mohair buttons, Striped Holland, Check, Millinet, Sewing silk and thread, Twist, Brittanias, Black wire pins. Flannel, Knives and forks, Jack and pen-knives, Shoe-buckles ; Knee do. Files, Chest and padlocks, Thimbles and needles, Writing-paper, Testaments, Spelling-books, Primers, Ivory and horn combs, Scissors, Rum, Sugar, Coffee, Tea, Pepper, Indigo, Brimstone, Allom, Salt, Powder, Shot, An assortment of brushes, Whale-bone, Queen's ware cups and saucers. An assortment of carthen ware, Bar-iron, Nails, Bees wax, Wool cards, Log and red-wood, Lead pencils.
THIE subscriber requests all persons that have any just demand against him to bring in their accounts properly authenticated, that they may be settled and paid by himself; (as there have been some unjust demands made of Jacob Benjamin who I intrusted to collect some vendue accounts) and as I propose going to sea in about one month from this date, hope those that have any thing due will call at my lodgings in Market Street, Elbow Lane, at the sign of the white horse, Philadelphia, and all those who are indebted are re- quested to make payment either to myself or to the said Jacob Ben- jamin, in Trenton. HIUGH SMITH.
May 29, 1782.
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Raritan Landing, June 1, 1782. To whom it may concern.
State of New- 1 NOTICE is hereby given, that a court of admiralty
Jersey 1 will be held on Thursday the 27th of this instant, at the dwellinghouse of Ishmael Shippey, at Raritan landing; then and there to try the truth of the facts alledged in the bill of Captain Adam Hyler, against a Negro man named John Jeffrey, taken the 24th ult. from on board a schooner near the fishing-banks, name and Captain unknown, together with the sails and rigging of several vessels taken at the same time; near same place also, a whale-boat, and two trading boats, with 15 stand arms, and some dry goods, taken in Shrewsbury river and off the Hook; the whale-boat com- manded by captain J. Schaak: To the true intent that the former proprietors, or any other person or persons concerned therein, may shew cause, if any they have, why the said negro man, together with the other articles, should not be condemned to the captors, according to the prayer of the said bill.
R. HUDE, ? J. BRAY Agents.
EXCELLENT WEST-INDIA RUM, to be sold at the Printing-Office.
From the New Jersey Gazette, Vol. V., No. 233, June 12, 1782. To SIR GUY CARLETON.
IT is the nature of compassion to associate with misfortune; and I address this to you in behalf even of an enemy, a Captain in the British service now on his way to the head-quarters of the American army, and unfortunately doomed to death for a crime not his own.
A sentence so extraordinary, an execution so repugnant to every human sensation, ought never to be told without the circumstances which produced it: and as the destined victim is yet in existence, and in your hands rest his life or death, I shall briefly state the case and the meloncholy consequence.
Captain Iluddy, of the Jersey militia was attacked in a small fort on Tom's river, by a party of refugees in the British pay and service, was made prisoner together with his company, carried to New-York and lodged in the provost of that city; about three weeks after which, he was taken out of the provost down to the water-side, put into a boat and brought again upon the Jersey shore, and there, contrary to the practice of all nations but savages, was hung upon a tree, and left hanging until found by our people who took him down and buried him.
The inhabitants of that part of the country where the murder was committed, sent a deputation to General Washington with a full and certified state of the facts. Struck, as every human breast must be. with such brutish outrage, and determined both to punish and pro- vent it for the future, the General represented the case to General
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Clinton, who then commanded and demanded that the refugee officer who ordered and attended the execution, and whos name is Lip- pineut, should be delivered up as a murderer ; and in case of refusal, that the' person of some British officer should suffer in his stead. The demand, though not refused, has not been complied with; and the melancholy lot, (not by selection, but by lots) has fallen upon Captain Asgil, one of the guards, who, as I have already mentioned, is on his way from Lancaster to camp, a martyr to the general wickedness of the cause he engaged in, and the ingratitude of those he has served.
The first reflection which arises on this black business is, what sort of men must Englishmen be, and what sort of order and dis- cipline do they preserve in their army, when, in the immediate place of their head-quarters, and under the eye and nose of their com- mander in chief, a prisoner can be taken at pleasure from his con- finement, and his death made a matter of sport.
The history of the most savage Indians does not produce instances exactly of this kind. They, at least, have a formality in their punishments. With them it is the horridness of revenge, but with your army it is the still greater crime, the horridness of diversion.
The British Generals who have succeeded each other, from the time of General Gage to yourself, have all affected to speak in language they have no right to. In their proclamations, their ad- dresses, their letters to General Washington, and their supplications to Congress (for they deserve no other name) they talk of British honour, British generosity, British clemency, as if those things were matters of fact; whereas we, whose eyes are open, who speak the same language with yourselves, many of whom were born on the same spot with you, and who can no more be mistaken in your words than in your actions, can declare to all the world, that as far as our knowledge goes there is not a more detestable character, nor a meaner or more barbarous enemy than the present British one. With us you have forfeited all pretension to reputation, and it is only by holding you like a wild beast, afraid of our keepers, that you can be made manageable .- But to return to the point in question.
Though I can think no man innocent who has lent his hand to destroy the country which he did not plant, and to ruin those he could not enslave ; yet abstracted from all ideas of right or wrong on the original question, Captain Asgil, in the present case, is not the guilty man. The villain and the victim are here separated characters. You hold the one and we hold the other. You disown or effect to disown and reprobate the conduct of Lippincut, yet you give him sanctuary ; and by so doing you as effectually become the executioner of Asgil, as if you put the rope round his neck and dismissed him from the world.
Whatever your feelings on this extraordinary ease may be are best known to yourself. Within the grave of your own mind lies bucried the fate of Asgil. He becomes the corpse of your will, or the sur- vivor of your justice. Deliver up the one and you save the other ; withhold the one and the other dies by your choice.
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On our part the case is exceeding plain ; an officer has been taken from his confinement and murdered, and the murderer is within your lines. Your army have been guilty of a thousand instances of equal cruelty, but they have been rendered equivocal, and sheltered from personal detection. Here the crime is fixt; and is one of those ordinary cases which can neither be denied nor paliated, and to which the custom of war does not apply; for it never could be supposed that such a brutal outrage would ever be committed. It is an original in the history of civilized barbarians, and is truly British.
On your part, you are accountable to us for the personal safety of the prisoners within your walls. Ilere can be no mistake; they can neither be spies nor suspected as such; your security is not endangered, nor your operations subjected to miscarriage, by men immured within a dungeon. They differ in every circumstance from men in the field, and leave no pretence for severity or punishment. But if to the dismal condition of captivity with you, must be added the constant apprehensions of death ; if to be imprisoned is so nearly to be entombed; and, if after all the murderers are to be protected, and thereby the crime encouraged, wherein do you differ from Indians either in conduet or character.
We can have no idea of your honour, or your justice in any future transaction, of what nature it may be, while you shelter within your lines an outrageous murderer, and sacrifice in his stead an officer of your own. If you have no regard to us, at least spare the blood which it is your duty to save. Whether the punishment will be greater on he, who, in this case, innocently dies; or on he whom sad necessity forces to retaliate, is, in the nicety of sensation, an undecided question? It rests with you to prevent the sufferings of both. You have nothing to do but to give up the murderer, and the matter ends.
But to protect him, be he who he may, is to patronize his crime. and to trifle it off by frivolous and unmeaning enquiries, is to pro- mote it. There is no declaration you can make, no promise you can give, that will obtain credit. It is the man and not the apology that is demanded.
You see yourself pressed on all sides to spare the life of your own officer, for die he will if you withhold justice. The murder of Captain Huddy is an offence not to be borne with, and there is no security we can have that such actions or similar ones shall not be repeated, but by making the punishment fall upon yourselves, To destroy the last security of captivity, and to take the unarmed, the unresisting prisoner to private and sportive execution, is carrying barbarity too high for silence. The evil must be put an end to; and the choice of persons rests with you. But if your attachment to the guilty is stronger than to the innocent, you invent a crime that must destroy your character; and if the cause of your King needs to be so supported, forever cease, Sir, to torture our remembrance with the wretched phrases of British honour, British generosity, British clemency.
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