The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1793-05-13 00:00:00, page 3

Carriage from George's Creek tolpeople to support the government
tide Water, to 300 Yards, before under which they live."
the firft of January. Four hun- Exiraa of a letter from Londonder
^red Men are engaged in the ry, February tB.
Work, and it is expected they " There is great commotion in
Will be encreafed to 606. this country : the people are ap-
Cumberland is rising with more pointing delegates to draw up a
Rapidity perhaps than any inland petition to present to the King, to
Town io America, and the ca(h redress the grievances they conceive
Price of Wheat there, from 4s. to they labour under. They all with
4/3. (Dollars at 7/6,) is filling its a reform in Parliament."
weftern Neigbourhood with induf- ExlraH of a letter, dated Dublin,
trious Inhabitants. 20th February.
—-=-———— 3' As to affairs of state ; we (hall
Pennsylvania. only fay, we (hall soon want a
PHILADELPHIA, April 20. General Washington in this
Extrafl of a letter from a gentleman country."
in London to bis friend in the
United States.
" Before this reaches you I sup
pose you will be apprised of the
appointment of an Ambassador to
your Republic—Sir Guy Carle
ton is the personage spoken of.—
Great Britain withes to fafhion you
to her views, and, therefore, relax
es her severity and fends a politic
and popular charader among you.
But remember the French ! They
fought for you< —they bled for you,
and they now fuffer because they
have dared to imitate your noble
example. Surely no man in Ame
rica will be so much dazzled by
the cursed luster of stars and gar
ters, of toys and trinkets, as to
withhold his hearty echoof " Long
live the glorious revolution and in
dependence of the French!"
Extraa of a Letter from Dublin,
^' February 13.
" The people here are exceed
ingly difeonteoted with theirrep
refentation in Parliament, and the
weight of taxes they are obliged
to bear. Indeed there is now ap
peararice of matters coming to a
crisis—By the few papers I fend,
you may form some idea of the
Wounded both their Horses and took one
of the Men Prisoners.—Since the above
happened, there has been much sign of
Indians in that Quarter, ahd alfoin fef
ferfon.
The Week before last, a Company was
defeated, on their Way through the Wil
derness, near the Hazleoatch, two of which
were killed, two badly wounded and a
Child miffing.
An Indian has been killed by one of
the Soldiers near one of the out Posts,
lately.'
Virginia.
Alexandria, April to. —We have
good Authority to inform the Pub
lick, that Boats are daily patting on
Potowmack from Cumberland, and
the intermediate Space, to the
Great Falls and the Mouth of
Watt's Branch, with Flour and oth
er Produce ; there have already
been 4000 Barrels landed -at the
Great Falls, and 3000 Barrels at
Jeaft landed at Watt's Biancb, this
Season :——That William's Port
has become the Plate of Depofite
for great Part of the Andietera
add Connegochegue Settlements,
even into Penxf,lvania ; and that
it is calculated from 15 to 20,000
Barrels of Flour, besides Iron, To
bacco, Wheat, &c. will be brought
down the Potowmack, through its
improved Navigation in the Course
of the present Year. The Locks
at the Little Falls, will be finifhedr
in all September. There is a fair!
Profped that the Vigour with!
which the Potowmack Compapyft
are pursuing the Object of their[
Incorporation, will reduce the landfl
Extraa of a letter from a gentleman
in LiJbon, dled the sth March,
to a merchant in this city.
" This day's post brought posi
tive accounts of hostilities having
- commenced on the Spaniards by a
French privateer, that captured
one of their Ser Domingo (Hips;
bound to Barcelona, very near her
port ; out trade is hourly appre
hensive of the like bad news, this
court having refuted admittance to
the envoy from the convention, and
publick report affirms ^hat war is
to be declared in a very few days ;
appearances countenance the prob
ability of it."
The Northern Irilh Volunteers
were met in convention at Dun
gannon on the 15th of February,
to deliberate on the emancipation
of the Roman Catholicks and a re
form in the Irilh -parliaments It
was expected one objeft of this
convention would be to declare the
fen fe of the nation against a war
with France, and another, to use
every possible means to preserve
internal tranquility. The govern
ment party, however, (hewed them
selves extremely inimical tothe con
vention, and watched its motions.
popular ferment ; and of the with
es of the people at large. If theft
withes are not complied with (which
I doubt) the consequence may be—
" Trade and business of ever,
kind are almost entirely put a flop
to. Banks and monied men are
afraid of a revolution, and will not
discount the very best bills which
are produced to them. The con
sequence is, that several very re
fpeftable houses have, and will be
obliged to flop payment. The
country people are making no re
mittances ; expecting, I suppose.
soon to pay their debts in an eaf,
manner. —Such, my friend, are the
Jamentable effects of a government
which rests for support, not on the
many, but the few ; a govern
ment, under which the great mafi
of the people have been long sub
jeded to every oppression and in
dignity that ariftocracic influence
could impose upon them. When
such a people are driven to the lafi
difperate resource of the wretched,
to burst their bands by force, how
horrible the consequences that muff
ensue ?
" Revenge of accumulated
wrong, cannot fail, on such occa
sions, to hurry an ignorant multi
tude far beyond those bounds with
in whicti, in the eye of reason and
moderation, they ought to confine
themselves. It is strange that men
in power will not forefee their con
sequences ; and guard against them,l
by making it the interest of the]
' his Departure, could procure no Papers
, Yours &c. I. H.
Mg 4— ll P. M. -
-PRIMES CAPTURED.
In a Liverpool Paper of March 25th.
; are Accounts of four Privateers, and fix,
I teen Merchantmen, taken by the Britift
and SpaniJb Ships of War, and carried in
to various Ports. The fame Paper con
tains Accounts of eighteen English Mer
chantmen being taken and carried into
France. These are all in one Paper.
We have seen a Leiter just received
from Paris, which mentions that the La
dy of that unfortunate Friend to America,
the Marquis de la Fayette, may be
soon expected to fail for the United States,
where (he will receive a cordial Welcome.
SALEM, April 30.—The latest Intelli
gence from Europe is by the Ship Hero,
Captain Blunt, which arrived at Boston,
on Sunday last, from Bristol, in 31 Days.
By these Accounts it appears, that the
French Arms had been attended with al
most uninterrupted Success in the Netber-\
lands, till the 18th of March, when, ac
cording to the Dutch and English Ac
counts, they met witha Check, and af
terwards with a complete Overthrow,
which refeued Holland from the Invasion
ofthefe new, fierce, and hitherto vidori-l
ous Republicans.—Should it prove trueJ
that the French have for once loft a Bat-1
tle, it so what ought to be expeaed, ini
the various Fortune, of War : but wel
doubt not, when we have their Accounts!
to compare with those of their Epemies,l
the latter will appear to have been exag-l
Igerated, in Proportion to the Novelty of
1 former loft about 300 Men ; and, that!
Dumourier was not in the Action.
This was all he learnt of the Defeatl
• which we have given a Detail of.
He further adds, That the French]
were still in Poffeflion of Breda ; Thatl
above 30 Sail of Privateers were fitted!
obt from Liverpool-, That a Privateer hadl
Upset in the Channel, and every Soul onl
board periled.
He had heard Nothing of the Bedford,!
of 74 Guns.•
May 4.—From the CENTiNEL.
Late last Night the Editor received the!
following Note: " Mr. Russell, Sir,l
I have this Moment received, by a Gen-1
tieman from Newburyport, the NeWs ofr
General Dumovrier's taking Amfler-l
dam, by a Vessel this Day arrived from!
Portsmouth, (Great britain) in 26 Days.l
The Captain fays, the News was credited! 1
in England, but as it had just arrived at
with an eye of the most fcrupu!ou
jealoafy; The people and the
parliament were directly oppofec
- to each other, the latter addressing
the king io favour of that measure
and the former declaring the fenft
:of the people against it. A com
pfete repeal of oppressive laws wa
demanded on the part of the peo
ple, and no temporizing patchwork
expedient—all or nothing was the
universal cry. It was remarkable,
however, that Flood, Grattan, anc
fom'e other flaming patriots had
become lukewarm and began to dis
cover signs of an interest again/
the people. r
April 27.—The French Frigate, 1' Am
buscade, has takenjeven Prizes on our Coa/t.
I they have sent into Charleston, I to New
york, and 2 they are bringing up here.
..L l .«amri».u..-.
Newark.
NEWYORK, April 27.—1 tis
laid that Letters were received last
Thursday in this City from Liver
pool, via Philadelphia, which state,
That Lord Lauderdale, Mr. Fox,
Mr. Grey, and Mr. Erfeine, are
committed elofe Prisoners to the
Tower of London.
Maffachujetts.
WORCESTER, May 2.—A Man at
Rutland, in this County, (whose Name
has been accidentally mislaid) lately
weighed 416 ft).
BOSTON, May 1. Captain Ed
wards, who arrived Yesterday in 32
Days from Liverpool, fays, That there
|had been a Skirmish, between the French
[and the combined Army, in which the
William D. Doak
I Begs leave to acquaint the Publick he has
opened a SHOP in Haverhill,
IWhere he has for SALE, a large and
. fresh Assortment of
DRUGS and MEDICINES;
ALSO
DYE STUFFS, viz.
ALLUM, -" ■"!— Barwood,
Copperas, __— Nicaragua,
ILogwood, aqua Fortis,
ißedwood, Ifnglafs,
\FuJtick, Cream Tartar,
\Cocbineal, Gum Arabic,
Oil Vitriol, Virdigreafe,
I Roman ditto. Argall,
Ground Camwood, Spirits Vitriol,
Redwood, French and SpaniJb
Sauhders, Jlota Indigo.
———Madder,,
With a general Assortment
of PAINTS and GROCER IES.
The above Articles will be
fold as low as at any Store in Boston.
Conf ant Attendance given,
and every Favour gratefully acknowledged.
Pot and Pearl AJbes, Bees
Wax, Beef, Tallow, Flax Seed, Oak Boards,
Ox Horns and Tips received in Payment.
Haverbill, May S, 4793. 29|81|
1, the Event. Be this as it may, will,
French are able to continue the Sa°
the War in their Enemies's Country
" thereby preserve to their own the bleffil
g of Tranquillity, their Arms must be cA
>fidered as fuccefsful. And should thl
' even be driven back into their own Cou, 1
c try to the very Plains of Champagnel
|b they will only be where they last Year be 1
gan the difgraceful Route of the Duke 1
of Brunswick —and will doubtless be able
to do she fame Business over again. Men
inspirited by the Principles of Liberty,;
will never despair; and when they ap
, pear to be driven to the greatest Straits,
they call forth new and unexpected Re
sources, and, routing all-their Energy,
hurl Deftru&ion on their Foes^ and
- " fcratter them to air."
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The Mirrour.
: — concord,'
Monday; M, 13, 1793. ~
PRESIDENT WASHINGTON has
issued bis Proclamation, dated at Phi
ladelphia, April 2zd, declaring the Difpofi
tfn of the United States to adopt and purjue,
with Sincerity and good Faith, a Conduct im
partial and friendly towards the belligerent
Powers of Europe, viz. Prussia, Sardinia,
Greatbritain and the United Netherlands,
on the one Part, and France on the other.
On the ftb of March, .the National Con
vention ofFrance declared War againfSpain.
t. In this Day's Mirrour we have en
deavoured faithfully to detail the Foreign In
telligence, brought by the last Arrivals on the
Continent—Our Readers may north chdofe/^r
themselves—The Variety is great.
From Boston —Ma, 6.
Avffil arrived in Newburyport the 3d
Inst. in 26 Days from Plymouth, in Eng.
The Capt.fays it was currently reported and
believed, that Gen. Dumourier bad got
Puffin y Amfterdam. The Capt.jays that
the above News was not received from any Au-
vbority, but considered in general as the News
lof the Day. However, he thinks it certain,
I tbe Freheb have beenfucceftful. Hefurt her
l informs that the French and Eng life Fleets bad
Ifailed, & it wasfuppofedfor the Wefii^dies.
\And affo, that the French had captured three
l Eafindiamen._
I The National Convention have decreed that
\all Frenchmen from the Age of 1% to 40 Years
unmarried, arid those witbin the fame Ages,
Iwho are married, dad have no Children, Jball
\be fubjea to be called to march to the Army at
\the Dijeretion of the executive Council and the
Generals ; arid that 300,000 Men Jbould be
raijed for the Army in Addition to those alrea
dy in the Field.
FRENCH FEMALE SOLDIERS;
In Gen. Cuftine's army are said to be
more than 1000 women, 'in the dress of
men. This explains an article in the
Frankfort Gazette, which states, that
one of the French officers taken at Hoc
heim, was soon after delivered of a fine
boy.