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Portsmouth,
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1803?'
INTERESTING NEWS
will be found in the Opposite page, 1
brought by the Blip Pigou, arrived at
Philadelphia.—The Gezette of the U
rated Statu, has brought us a valuable
summary, which is here extracted for
the gratification of our readers :
FOREIGN SUMMARY.
Nothing so much engages the atten
tion of the government and people of
Great-Britain,as the expected invasion.
A very interesting and spirited debate
was had in the House of Commons,
on the 20th and 2 Ift July, on a bill for
" arming the people for the general
defence of the country." —The discus-
Gon on this bill manifefts most strong
ly the fears which are entertained in
England on the proposed invasion.—
The bill gives the power to compel the
personal service of every individual.
Mr. Pitt has be^n most adive and stren
uous in support of the bill, and the pre
valent sentiment in Parliament,and thro'
the nation, appears to have been, that
the fafety of the country demanded,
that the bill thould bepaffed,as prompt
ly as possible. • Loud complaints are
indulged against ministers for not
bringing forward the bill at an earlier
day, and the reproches which the min
ihers received from Mr. Pitt, during
the difeuffion, were very pointed, and
uncommonly severe. His speech on the
occasion is said to have been one of the
most animated effufions of patriotic e
loquence that was ever heard in parlia
ment. " The sentiments," fays the
London editor, “ were of the most no
ble kind, conveyed in the mod glow
ing language, and delivered with such
impressive energy,as would have warm
ed the most torpid bread to a refinance
of Gallic ambition, ifit thould dare to
put an invading foot upon the shores
of Britain." Mr. Pitt represented the
people as having impatiently waited
for the last z months, to know the
withes and views of government, and
as making bud complaints, that those
withes and views were hot previously
known. He fiid, that as yet nothing
had been done in the country, because
ministers did nothing ; but lie was con
fident, " that now there will be not one
Englishman from one corner of the
kingdom to the other, who will think
$f offering an excuse after this solemn
admonition, after hearing the voice of
his country in an hour of peril calling
on him for assistance,"
It is faid,that government had receiv
ed certain intelligence, that the design
of the enemy was to attempt a defeent
Upon Jersey and Guernsey. In conse
quence of this intelligence the whole of
the regular force of the Isle of Wight
lias been ordered to proceed to Jersey;
:nd both Islands are said to be placed
in the meft formidable date of defence.
The merchants, underwriters, and
fubferibers at Lloyd's have set on foot
a general fobfeription on a very exten
lire icale for the relief of those who are
engaged for the defence of the country.
Voluntary associations are forming
in every part of the kingdom. The
young men of family and fathion in the
metropolis have let the examp'e, by
forming ihemfelves into an equeftrain
corps which will amount to one thou
sand, and are to hold ihemfelves in
xeadinefs t 3 set off at an hours notice,
mounted on the fineft horses in the
kingdom.
All the principal officers, and the
whole body of clerks belonging to the
cuttom house in London, from the age
of 18 to 45, have volunteered their let
vices to government, to serve in any
part of the metropolis, and their offer
has been accepted. The above gen
tlemen amount to above 500. And the
board of cuttoms have feleded 300 of
their inferior officers to mount a special
guard day & night at the custom house,
in case of any didurbance.
The lieutenancy and magistracy of
Greenwich have adopted a resolution
to form a voluntary corps ; as have the
inhabitants of the parish of St. George,
Hanover square. At Hastings a large
meeting has been held for enrolling the
names of fifhermen and feafairing men,
as sea fencibtes : At this meeting about
140 had voluntarily come directly for
,ward with the offer of their services,
and great numbers, who were absent
from the meeting, afterwards did the'
fame.l
Earl Kingston, has made anjofferto
government of railing within a given
time, on his estates in Ireland, a regi
ment of 1000 men, and after that (hall
have been completed, another of equal
force.
At Liverpool, a large society of in
dependent gentlemen have enrolled
ihemfelves into a body, to constitute a
company of rifle men. And all the boat
men, riggers and others to whom pro
tections have been granted, have come
forward with a tender of their services.
Several encampments have been
formed on the eastern coast, and not a
spot in the kingdom appeared to be
without its apprehension, or negledful
of t';e means to secure its fafety and
.that of the country.l
The utmost attention is paid to the ;
rights of American seamen in London,
for though there is the greatest demand
for men, and the most rigorous press is
carried on in that place, so that even
landsmen are not spared, when they
can get hold of them, yet whenever an
American has been taken in the gene
ral sweep, and has afterwards produc
ed his protection, or made it appear by
other substantial pioof, that he is an A
merican citizen, he has been liberated.
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GILMAN's BLUES.
Gov. Gilman's Blues made their
appearance on Thursday last. The
ease and precision with which they ef
fected the principal military evolutions,
ensures this corps the character of ac
complished and valuable Soldiers.
FEVER AT NEW-YORK.
NEW CASES. DEATHS.
Wednesday, August 31, 16 1*
Thursday, Sept. 1, 23 Sf
*The Committee of Health add a
N. B. that 13 deaths of other disorders
were reported to the Health Commit
tee during this day. fThefe deaths
are, Sevinus Savage, 80, Greenwich
ftreet, John Stevenson, 43, Pine-Street;
Naomi Smith, Norfolk-Street ; Ste
phen Johnson, Bullock- Street, John
Sullivan, Cherry Street ; Wm. Quing
ley, Bellevue ; Elizabeth Tayler, 78,
Wall-Street ; John Vandeburgh, North
More-Street.
The last accounts from the city of
Philadelphia mention, that its citizens
enjoy unusual health ; and that the
quarantine regulations of the inter
course with New-York are executed
with ftridnefs.
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The revenue from hops in Great
Britain amounts to £600,000 pr. an
num.—The Hop Growers have carried
a petition up to the House of Commons
praying that it would prohibit the use
of Quaffia, an Indian Drug, as a sub
stitute in the brewing of Malt Liquors.
Ship Eliza Capt. Bell of this port,
bound to Norfolk, was plundered by a
Privateer, of one coil new rigging, best
Blocks, Leather, Junk, Spars, and sun
dry small articles, they assumed the
name of His Majesty's Cutter Venus.
arc FtateQm&ME.^tußflnreffltumffli
By this Morning's Mail.
F^m Gibraltar.
Capt. Vickery, at Norfolk,
from Gibraltar ^ failed July io.
He learnt that Ad. Nelson had
taken possession of the island of
Sicilly ; that Toulon was block
aded by 9 fail of the line ; and
that the Emperor of Morrocco
had demanded the Tripoline Chip
taken by an American frigate,
alledging that the Tripolines
were attempting to carry her to
Tripoli without the consent of
the Moors.
Capt. Knowles, frem Bourdeaux,ar
rived at Cape-Ann, Bates, that to,reff
merits of fcilors and soldiers for the ex
pedition to England, were making id
all the ports of France ; that these
"volunteer anti-mortarchijh" were lodged
in goal when taken to be kept ready
for service ; that British cruizers were
extremely numerous along the French
coast ; that he was boarded from sev
eral bdt fuffered no detention ; that no
French merchant vessel had arrived at
Bourdeaux for 50 days ; and that up
wards of 800 fail of French and Dutch
vessels had been taken and sent to En
gland.
We were favored with Paris Papers,
to the 18th of July inclusive, by the
above arrival. No new event of im
portance is stated in them.
A letter from London, dated July
22, mentions a report, that the French
had made an attempt on the island of
Jersey, and been defeated,with the lots
of 6000 men.
Mr. Munro, the American Envoy, arrived'
I in England, on the 17th of July, it does not
appear that he has been to Madrid.
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MARRIED) in this town, Mr John Badger
to the amiable Mrs Elizabeth Stanwood—Mr
George Lucy, to Mils Amelia Goodwine.
DIED] —Ac North-Hampton, N. H. on
Thursday last Gen. MOSES LEAVITT, in
; the 61st year of his age.
On Friday hisremains were refpc&fu^ in-
I terred; previous to his interment they were
' carried to the meeting house, preceded by capt.
Loverings' company under arms. After a
prayer by the Rev. Dr. Macclintock of Green
land, a difeourfe was delivered by Mr. French
and closed with prayer by Rev. Mr Appleton,
of Hampton. The proeeffion then moved to
the grave where his remains were interred with
military honors. A long train of mourners,
followed by the inhabitants of his native town,
and many others who assembled to pay their
last tribute of refped to his memory, preceded
by a military corps with their arms reversed,
moving slowly to martial instruments, perform
ing funeral thought, rendered the feene inex
prtffibly folemnand affeding. Hian* erous
family and connexions are left to mourn t loss
of a kind hutband, a fond father aoJat^ ^ n
ate brother— And his ccuntr to lament the
exit of an officer and statesman, who fy<nr hr
whole life with activity and zeal, iu ':!!,;).
tary and civil departments.
At Weare, Mr. Thomas Hr 1 de
parted this life, with a bri 4 . .. • .
of Heaven.
From a late London paper.
EIRE AT WESTMINS'IER ABBEY.
Saturday,between one and two o'clock
a most alarming fire broke out on the roof
of the tower on the centre of Weftjnin
ftef Abbey. The accident, we under.
Hand, arose from the Icandalous negli
gence of the journeymen plumbers em
ployed at present on the necetLry repairs
of the roof who left their melting pot j a
an improper ffatc. The catastrophe like
ly to be the result of such a conflagration
occasioned a sensation in the public rrind
which every one may readily conceive.—
The Abbey is the depositary of the re
mains of many of our sovereigns and of
many of our most illustrious and celebra
ted countrymen and country women ; as
well as of the chief d'oeuvres of our na
tional (kill in the art of Sculpture ; endear
ed to the public mind by so many valu
able and exalted considerations,it became
the object of universal anxiety. As in too
many other cases so here, water could
not be had for nearly two hours after the
fire commenced,in any quantity fu fficient
for the working of the engines. But
when it was procured in abundance,after
the utter exhiuflion of all the water tubs
&cisterns in the neighbourhoodjt was u
sed with great effeft and before fix o'clock
all danger entirely disappeared. We
were extremely happy, on infpeaing the
state of the Cathedral carefully, after the
flames were extinguished to find so little
injury fuftathed. What damage was
done in the interior was occasioned by the
burning the roof of the tower (which com
municates to the grand arches of wood
work which, appear to support it from
thejnfide)the fail of which by its violence
and by the communication of the flames,
destroyed a considerable portion of the
feats and ornaments of the c^oir. —It has
been generally supposed that the whole
roofing of the arches of the church was
of masonry ; but our readers will recollect
that the church was greatly repaired about
a century ago, under the direction of the
great firC. Wren, when a considerable part
of the roof was replaced in carpentry, to
save the expences. This tower was then
intended as the basement of a magnificent
spire, with which that archited had de.
signed to decorate this noble & august tem
ple of British valour & wisdom. The ex
ertions of every description of persons
emphatically demand the unqualified
praise ofa Britifli Journalist. Every one
seemed to feel the fire in Wtftminfler
Abbey as a common, a public concern.
The soldiers in the neighbourhood, the
Westminster scholars, the clergy,tbe vol
unteers, the lowest classes, vied together
l in the earnestness of their efforts to flop
the progress of devaflation. The corps
of St, Margaret and St. John maintained
the mofl perfea order ant regularity both
within and without the Abbey during the
whole of this most serious affair. We
were extremely happy to fee some of the
moftdiftinguifhed members of parliament
taking the lead and Glaring all the dangers
and difficulties of the firemen in their en
deavours ; among them Mr. Windham
was peculiarly conspicuous. Nothing
escaped him ; and his activity was such
that one could hardly distinguish his cloths
from those of a common labourer after
the buttle was over, in contequence of
his exertions.
Lord Weftmoreland, tbe Lord Chan
cellor, and the Dukes of Gloucester and
Norfolk, likewise attended.
We must conclude this account by
congratulating the public on the speedy
termination of a calamity, which had it
happened at night, would not only have
consumed the choir and organ, but like
wise all the valuable antiquites of a com
bustible nature in the Abbey ; and have
effaced the faireft produaions of our
science and (kill as well as have infliaed
the keenest wounds on the feelings of
the relations of all the brave and great
who are there commemorated. The
damage sustained may perhaps, be efti
rrated at four or five thouiand pounds.
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