The New Hampshire gazette — Portsmouth [N.H.], 1798-02-07 00:00:00, page 2

A Tittle ‘more- time wyc.;]l‘ probably
unfold to the people of this eduntry
forne new rhachinations of France to
divide/and conquer, or destroy us :—
Notwithflanding -the vigilance, pru
dence and justice of our government,
we are at this moment threatened with
‘hotftilities in our Southwestern Terri
tory by Indians, /nffigated by Spaniards,
awko reluliantly obey the absolute orders
of the French 3—the Spanish posts are
fiill withheld from us, and if the
French can poflibly place a force in
that country, we shall be obliged to
fight for it or give it up. 'The Span
it% ‘government and nation are proba
bly opposed to their designs, but dare
not resist them ; they dare not execute
their own treaty with us, because their
“mfters would then have no pretext
for poffefling our country, Such be
ing the state of things, it mult be ob
¥ious to every man, that the, United
States as well as odxer n:;_tmm ::
benefited by the success of those w
‘endea ‘vdurk{q confine_the French to
their bwn country. It was there the
dvreresringComarunicazion.
: 3 i
& The follorwsing rofletions on the present
crisss of American affairgy s from
the pen of an sndependent Ameriean,
diciated by a found head, and the most
extenfroe information. They clasm,and
wifl receive attention. [ Centinel.]
At 2 period so eventful as the pre
sent, apathy itfelf is alive to political
occurences, and has its hopes and its
fears—its desires and its abhorence.
All men wish for their own happiness,
and moßt men wish for the happiness
of their country ; but they greatly
differ as to the means of promoting
either :—With fociecties as with indi
viduals, however, the fafety’and tran
quility of each one is made todepend
in some decree on the temper and
condud of others, and hence it is that
the attention of nations and people is
{o generally engroiled at this moment
by the boundless proje@s of French
ambition. It has finally become mani
foft vo all, who are not blinded by
party-spirit, that France will if possible
eftablith her own ablolute despotism
~over every other nation, and such is
her progress in this daring design, that
it excites yniverfal alarm, a 5 it cught
2o produce universal preparation for re-
Siftance. Resistance or unconditional
submission is the only alternative left
tH any nation whom her arms can
geach. It certainly is the inclination
as well as the duty of the United States
to avoid all quarrels with the Euro
pean powers, but it is our duty also
to prepare for those which we cannot
prevent. It is in vain that we refofe
to quarrel with others, if, notwith
fanding our perfe® jultice and ex
treme forbearance toward them, they
wwill guarrel avith us. The plain lan
guage of France is, “submit to our
government quietly, or we will distress
you as far as in our power, and sub
jugate you at last if we can.” If this
{yltem which France has set up can be
tendered permanent, the world must
soon have no other inhabitants than
Tyrants, Slaves and Savages ; but
we may reaforably hope that the com
binations of the most unprincipled
men will not long endure, and that
the f{fame insatiable paflions which
have united them in schemes of de
firudtion, will soon make them the de-
Rroyers of each other. The peace of
the world is to be expeéted only from
a division or demglition of its enemies.
“Those persons who examine impar
tially the condu& of the United States
toward France, will find in it nothing
to give a colour of juitice .to the com
plamts of the latter :—The United:
States have fuifilled every obligation
with the most perfe&® good faithy—
but the real offence to France is, that
the United Btates could not be: drawn
and cannot be driven into the war - awith
England. Great Britain is the obita
cle which must be removed before
France can establish - that Universal
Dominion which is the end of her pur
suits, and as we cannot be brought to
take a part in her war, she unjustly
resolves to destroy our commerce in
order to injure the commerce of Lng
land, which is the support .of -the
Englith naval power. The annihila
tion of our trade with England has
always been a primacy obje&t of
French policy. The two reports of
Mr. Jerrerson, one on the fifheries
and ‘one on commerce, were well cal
culated for the fame purpose ; they
were artful and plausible enough to
mislead those who would not make
2 laborious investigation for them
selves, but they were incorre&t in prin.
eiple, reasoning and fa&ts 5 they fup
prefled some truths and disguised o
thers ; and they suggested some fal
tacies and some falthoods.. 'The fa
mous Resolutions of Mr. Madison
#night have many honest, though mis
taken advocates both in Congress and
among the people ; but their certain
effet must have been to frenchify our
trade firlt, and #ben our country ; they
would have been injurious to England,
but they. nweuld have Jucrificedsihe Wnited
States. ' o o 0 s
NEW-LONDON, Jan. 27.
We hear nothing lately of Paine,
the apostle of sedition and deism, who
'} in the rieryous language of one of our
- QWn poetsy Bl R S ,
’ “*Damn’d kis mean foul, to save his meaner
5 . J!ﬁ". :
| He complains in his letter to the il
| luftrious Wathington, that that dig
| niﬁed-;cﬁara&e; conspired with Pitt
and Robespierre, to with his destruc
tion. If true, who can blame them ?
’ pleasure in Pain! Boftin Fed. Gaz,
For what man in his senses could take
On Wednesday last as the south
ern stage was crofling Gunpowder
creek, the ice gave way, by which ac
cident Mr. \%’illiam Compton, of
Arch-street, was thrown into the
~water, and so suddenly carried under
the ice, by the force of the current,
“that the attemipts of his fellow travel
lers to save his life unhappily failed of
success.
monßers of ambition were engender
ed, and in their own dens they ought
£0 be kept until they are tamed; or
turn upon themselves and devoureach
other.. The tatk of keeping them
from the sea, falls naturally to the
English, and it is a task theyare able
and disposed to perform ;—they love
their country and its government, and
have lately proved in a “:ying crisis
that they would wvoluntarily defend
both to the last extremity. Btitain as
a {tate evidently combines in a most
remarkable manner, the advantages
of personal liberty and national force,
and unites the most productive private
industry with the most extensive public
spirit ; being au island, her charader
s commercial, and the theatre of her
military a&ion is the sea ; from these
causes have resulted the skill, courage,
perseverance and exhauftlefs resour
ces which she exhibits in war, and
from these may be fafely prognosti
cated a continuance of her efforts, un
til the fire which France has lighted
up to consume the civilized world,
shall be spent or extinguished.
LUCCA, O&. 21.
- The last fitting of our little senate
was particular turbulent and stormy ;
several of their excellencies were driv
en from their curule chair, and ‘the
aflembly could scarcely keep from
blows. A considerable party has dis
continued to recognize the legitima
cy of the present government, and we
are on the point of experiencing a re
volution which will probably destroy
within our walls the expiring remaigs
of our government.
DIED]—At Winchendon, Mr.
Benoni Bairbanks,.aged 92, formerly
of the town of Dedham (Mass.) This
man has served his country .against
his enemies, sometimes as .a private
soldier, and sometimes in commission,.
from the year 1745 umtil the year
1778 ;. and in some campaigns. has
had the fatisfaltion of commanding
five of his" own sons, which his a_njg
their country had called forth to-its
aid. When death knocked 'at his
door, he was discoursing with his fam.
ily as usual, but fell from his chair &
died instantly without -a struggle.
Thus dropt this good old man, like
fruit that is fully ripe, and has kfta
fuinerous offspring to follow. - -
| BOSTON, Jan. e
Latest from Europe.
. Since our last, the Ship Argo, Capt.
Smith, has arrived in the outer har
bour from Cadiz ; -which she left the
16th December ; ‘her letters were
brought to town last evening.—From
them, and from the verbal reports of
the Captain, we learn :— . -
- That letters from Paris, had been
received as €adiz, - as late as Novem
ber 24th, at which time our Extra..
Envoys were remaining in flatu'qus 3
and that those letters, which were
from both Amecricans and French
.. COPENHAGEN, oOa. 31.
" Several more ‘Danifh ships have
again been liberated at Gibralter,and
we have some well grounded hope
that no more will be carried into that
port by the British.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan, 22.
A Jamaica paper mentions, that
the French and brigands had been
repuifed in an attack on St. Marks.
It is also mentioned that the black
General Touiffant was making repa
ration to the Americans, for the plun
derings of the awhite robber Santho
nax. Several veflels have been giv
en up, after condemnation. There
is, however, no rcliance to be placed
on Weft-India reports. .
. A Philadelphia paper of the gth
inst. {ays a prize of Twenty Thousand
Dollars was, on the 27th ult, drawn
m the Canal Lottery, now drawing
in this city. The fortunate mor
tal is a Philadelphian, who was the
other day poor and old, but is now
rich and young ; for riches give youth
and beauty, and wit and virtue.
~ The report of the death of Capt.
Rea, of the ship Four Sifters, of Bever
ly, is unfounded. * ‘Leétters have been
received from Hinf, since his arrival at
Guadaloupe, where he was sent by
the privateer Which captured him.
' His vessel hgs had twe trials, in both
-of which’the wagacquitted. Another
trial was expe@ed, and what her fate
would then pe Was” uncertdin. As
.the richness of Rer.cargo seems to be
. the sole taufe ofther cagpmrc, perhaps
' Bucues may fihally take only half
of it, by'way of salvage. .
. Ship Ceres, (;£ :f,'.ﬁ-_’om Philad. for
Lisbon, has beeg ‘fo&at sea ; crew
- Part of the dargo; and rigging of
. the thip John, Folgier, has been landed
-at Phig‘dﬂphih.lﬁ;w UG
Capt. Benjemip Russel, lite of the
: f.chooger .§alﬂi*;‘ o‘? Salem, arrived here
: on Wednesday, from Nantz, where
. he was ca.rr‘ifgeigzby a pfivateer, and
condemned—sag bound o Vigo in
Spain._He camé in the brig Phebe,
Capt. Hackett, fellow paflenger with
four_other masters, and twenty-seven.
- of their crews, .whose vessels and car
goes have also been condemned, and
themselves robped-and plundered by
the barbarians ‘of every article of their:
own personal property that they could
gechaldon " " oo
Capt. Russell informs, that the A
mericans captured and carried into
‘Nantz aren a m'ﬂ‘ylde‘gorztble' fitua
-tion. They are ot only firipped of
men, represented -their profpedts of a
fuccefsful mission as gloomy. Not
withstanding this sombre afpe, a
great change had taken place in the
condu& of the French eruizers, which
now treat American veflels with re.
{pe@, when their, papers are regular.
Off Cape St. Vincents Capt. S. was
boarded by a French privateer, and
was treated politely. The fame priva
teer had the day before boarded the
ship Lydia,.of Boston, from Virginia,
bound to Cadiz, had cxamined her
papers, and permitted her to prose
cute her voyage : :
That Admiral Orde, with twenty
four fail of the line, and frigates, con
tinued to block the harbour of Cadiz;
while Admiral Lord St. Vincents was
in the Tagus refitting the remainder
Of his 'ﬂCEt. S— i
-~ That in consequence of the block
ade of the Spanish ports, and the de
crease of Spanish thipping, the
Court of Madrid, had granted per
mission of a free trade to South Ame.
rica for all neutrals laden with Span
ilh produce ; and that some Ame
rican Captains were prosecuting
voyages to that region of gold and
silver :—and :
That the- Peace lately broken be
tween France Jand . Portugal was re
concluded, and that the reports of an
invasion of that Kingdom, through
Spain, had ceased ;—though those of
an invasion of England, by the French
remained in circulation.
~ Letters by the last Mail, from Phi
ladelphia, and from the:beft informed
citizens, agree, that the people of the
United -States’ must expe® foomn to
hear officially, that the American
Envoys will ngt be treated with, by
the French Directory,upen-any terms
short of such as will commit the /-
dependence, dignity, and dearest rights of
the United States. They add, that
unless the people, one and all, unite
to support their government and its
present adminiltration, a, baleful fac
tion {tands ready to profit by their
supineness, and: so prostrate the inde
pendence of their country to the Gal
lic Dire&ory. - o
The South Carolina House of Repre-
Jentatives has pailed a Resolution, that
their Representatives, in Congress “Je
inflrutted to endeavour -to procure from
the United States .a grant of 100,000
dollars, to be appropriated to purchasing
gallies, arms, ammunition, c¢.” Yeas
§2.—Noes 48. = The fame House has,
however, voted unanimously 60,000
dollars, for purchasing arms, &c.
- Several small vessels have lately got
from Chester to. Philadelphia, up the
Delaware. Floating ice is, however,
yet dangerous there. e,
Iv ez LEGISLATURE
Of this Commonwealth, the subject of
a tax on dogs has. arrested much at
tention. The deftruétive increase of
the canine species of late years, has
called for remedy. A bill on the
subject, from the Senate, has been con
sidered in the House, and was lat
evening committed for- the introducs
tion of amendment. - The leading
points of the bill are concurred in.
The tax on those who keep a single
dog, is one dollar ; to rife m increased
progreflion 6n those who keep more
than one. A great variety of general,
private, local business, daily occupies
attention. :
“Nantucket, Fan. 25. Mr. Rujfell,
The wreck of the brig Zyox; of Bolton,
has gone to pieces on our shore. - -
- Yol W. C.
- The Sollowing is re-printed from a pa
per of 1193, and, as four years has
- fince’elapfed, our readers avill fee hoaw
the prophecy has thus far been fulfilled
—and from thence what faith is due
2o the future :
INTEREsSTING PRoOPHECY.
“The following was handed us in print,
by a gentleman lately from London. It is
. presented to our readers as we received it,
. as a support of their faith ia the Millen
; nium, which, we hope, can be supported
i by Teripture reason, and the opinions of
| ptous men, thatit wirLL COME, and the
time sooN. (t Thefl, v. 20, 27.)
“Dear Sir,
“EVER fond, as I know you are, of
what is curious, I have sent you a copy of a
semarkable prophecy, lately found in Paus,
and transmitted from a gentleman there to
| his fricnd in London, who writcs that it
"wu engraven on a flag flone wo yaids
square, in Hebrew Charaflers, and very el
egantly inlaid with gold. Is is supposed to
bave lain near 600 years, under an old wall
taken down by the late King of France to
be rebuilt. On removing the rubbith from
‘the foundation this flone was discovered.
. “Permit me to assure you, that 1 heard
it from a man of very fin@ veracity and
honor, who s e:;ge"n at Hebrew, and on
whom I can rely for the truth of this cir
cumfiance. As it predifls a most glorious
and universal revolution in 1800, I congratu
late you on the welcomé news. Ido ex
- peét great changes will take place here.
The Millenvium will soon come, I have
~ been long fatisfied in my own mind ; may:
you and 1 prepare for it. O .may we live
to fee the really IllufiriousDefcendant 100 ;
- who, if this be true, must be now alive,
Paﬂ infancy, probably in Europe, perhaps
m England, is the sincere with of, fir, your
affe&ionate friend and servant, |
s s B. HAWES. -
. #ln the year 1790, there will be a re
bellion against the French King; and when
the present Pope dies, there -will be no o
- ther eiefled. = A
| ‘ﬂyg:, there will be a war amongst ma
ny of the European powers agajnft France.
" ““1792, more-of the Chnifliap powers en
g3ged in the war, ; i
SALEM, ]Jan. 300.
DD “
On the 27th ult. at Cape Nichola
Mole, Capt. Philip Saunders, of this
town, aged 24. Among some other
late instances of amiable persons who
have met an untimely grave, this
should be particularly mentioned.
By the suavity of his temper, disposi
tion and manners, he had endeared
himfelf to all his acquaintance, to a
‘degree perhaps almost: unequalled.
He was cheerful, manly and gene
rous, wigh a fair chara®er, and the
faireft ‘profpe®s. This loss to the
public, doubly so to his family, is ren
_der¢d.more diftrefling by this being a
-repeated instance in a short time of
an amiable and beloved child being
snatched from his worthy parents.
If a knowledge that he died univer-
Aally esteemed, and universally regret
ted, can afford them any consolation
at this moment, they have the most
ample proofs of these public tributes
to his merit and memory.
Fratlis the slate of visionary man, '
His pleasures transient, and his life a fban :
At morn ke blooms, with conscious p-ide lat: |
At eve he j’l rinks, and dreads impending fute.
So the gay _};los:’r. that decks the woodland
> ikl ’ .
Is doom’d ﬁ) bl>ffom, and is doom’d to fade.
their property,.but their ears are as
sailed as they pass the streets, with the
rudest insults, and most bitter curses,
against themftlves and their govern
ment. The American flag is fre
quently ‘hoifted, by way of insult,
underneath every other. The few
friends the Americans have there,
dare not fay a word in their favour.
The crews of the vessels are turned
athore without the means of subsist
ence ; and as there is no other business
than privateering carried on there,
many of them are obliged to enter
into that business, and take up arms
against their countrymen to save
themselves from starving. Mr. Doree,
the American Consul, placed as he is
in a den of privateerfmen, could do
nothing sos the relief of his fellow
citizens ; they were therefore induced
to {fend on a memorial to Mr. Skip
with, at Paris, desiring his advice and
afliltance. 'The memorial {tates, that
they are captured under various pre.
tences, particularly for not having a
paper, which the French term a role
of equipage, but which they are en
tirely unacquainted with.—That they
had every paper which wis conceived
to be necessary, among which were
certificates from the French, Spanith
and Britifth Consuls—That many of
their people are tempted with
bribes to swear that their property is
enemy’s—That they have no oppor
tunity to counterad such things in
their courts—That their number turn
ed ashore and out of employment was
160—and that the men would be
obliged, unless some provision was
made for them, to enter on board the
French privateers, or starve.
Capt. Russell “further fays, that
there are evidently great numbers of
the French discontented with the pre
sent order of things—but are obliged
to thout Vive la Republigue—That the
country is full of brigands, and that
new explosions must again convulse
the nation.
1793, the war increafesthroughou; Eu
rope.
1‘)‘1794. there will be few or no forms of
religion observed in France. 20l
‘17954 there will be a deftru&live difu.
nion among the powers of Europe.
11796, there will be a great {laughter
and much blood faed, by {2 and land.
1797, there will appear a Gog and Ma
gog,* that will make war against all nations
in the world. ; .
¢ 1798, there will be a great deftruélion
%at will thin the inhabitants of the edvth.
Wiee 3299, there will come a Delcendant
of David, who will perform such ABs of
Grace, from the power derived from Al
mighty GOD; as to destroy Gog and Ma
gog——and will cause, n
** 1800, the remnant of all nations to be,,
of one religion, and no more wars among ™
men, who will be for ever after in bonds
of friead(hip, equality, and unfeigned love
towards Gon aud one another.
*By Gog and Magog, I apprekend we
may und:7/‘and the open and Jicret ememies
of cvangeical Libérty and cquality, or of
genuine Chrifiianaty, :
e Rttt e
Fromthe FARMER'S WEERLY MUSEUM.
The following is pafled within the top of a
bex helonging 10 2 friend of mine, who
1s immoderatly fond of fnoff —Tlheother
day as he held the box oner. 1 had a view
~ long enough to purloin his Euicgium, 1
with you to place it in your ** Mufewm,"
for the perusal or encouragement of all
thole who are yet novices in the praétice
~ of inufflaking, - -
TRIFLE,
SVVEF. I pineh offnuff! thy magick powes
1+ Can foften every dismal hour.
If the world fhou’d use me rongh,
I fmilc. and take 2 pinch of fauff, L
If 1u love, I meet rebuff,
Mv ‘olace is a pinch of {nuff.- ‘
A ifaucy child, wouid get a cuff,
For laughing at mv pinch of fruff.
If fortune frowns, I'm never biuff,
But more than ever love my fruff.
Virginia’s weed, I fometinies puff,
But much prefer my pinch of (nus,
Some folks fay lifes road is rough,
They never took a pinch of fnuff,
For I'm content,—l’ve joys enough;
If I can have my pinch of fouff.-
A ————
State of New-Liamplbire, e
N,(’TICE is hereby given to Amos
| Coffin, proprietor or owner of the
twelfth lot or right of land in the town of
New:Hampton, it being the 12th lot in the
firlt range, that so. much of said lot will be
fold at poblic vendue agreeable to the laws
of the Srate, as will pay the taxes aflclt on
said Coffin, in the town of New-Hampton,
for the year 177, at the dwelling houle of
) Jeremiah Maifton, in said town, on Maon
day the od day of April next, as will pay
the fame with incidental charges, unle(s
prevented by previous payment,
: School tax. Town tax. County tax,
Doils. Cemts. Cents. Cemts. Milis.
1 -G 54 15§
EBENEZER INGALLS, Coliccior.
New-Hampton, Jan. gl, 1798. .
Rockingham, I.
70 BE SOLD
At Public Vendue,
By order of the Hen. Samuel Tenmey,
Esq. judge of the probate of willy, (5.
Jor said county, at the boufe of Me.
James Peavy, innbolder in N cwingtony
on the 28th day 8f February, at w 3
o’clock, A. M. "
A PART of the real estate of Richard
Downing, late of said Newingron,
E(gquire, deceased :—t.
That valuable tra& of land in said New
ington, called Downing’s plain, now in good
order for producing a crop of Indian cora
the ensuing year, called 100 acres he the
fame more or less, whole orin quarter lots,
as shall best suit the purchasers ; also that
valuable piece of pasture and nllage land
well watered, in said Newington, lying be
tween the Rev. Joseph Langdon’s and Mr,
Joseph Colbath’s, called 50 acres, be the
fame more or less, on Yhe eaflerly fide of
the road leading from Pifeataqua bridge to
Greenland ; also some articles of household
furnitare. = _ R
~Bartuou'w Dawning, | Adminifs
_Ricnarp D. Harr, = Jtrators,
Newington, Eeb. 6, 1798. e b
e OROTRE SORD
The HOUSE ...
On Portsmouth Plains, .
| COMMONLY called the globe tavern,
together with about ' 40 acr=s of land
adjoining, and a barn, and excelient well of
water on the premises. - This as a very eli
gible fitnation for a gentleman’s feat, ora
Tavern, for the latter of which patpofes it
has been occupied a great numbéer of years.
- Ay perion withing to purchase the pre
mises will make apphcation for terms, &c.
to DANIEL WALDRON.
Portsmouth, Feb. g, 1798. :
e o St sSI - ST S R ERT AT
State of New~Hampthire. °
NOTICE ishereby given to the non
resident proprietors, owners of land in
the town of New-Hampton, who are delin
quent in paving their highway and county
taxes for the vear 1797, that so much of
their land will be fold at public vendae, at
the dwelling house of Jeremizh Marfion, ia
New-Hampton, on Monday the 16th day
of April next, as will pay the {ame with
incidental charges, unless prevented by pre.
vious payment. < 2
=¥y Fens
~ \
R E PSR E
PR D .cts.c.m.
James Wallingford, 13 1 701400 3¢ 21
William Simpson, 62250200138 75
JohnWentworth,Ef.3 5 150 225062 36
Daniel Meloon, Fgeoo4ool 1002
Common land, 15 50 7502108
Do. L 310015004223
EBENEZER INGALLS, CotieQor.
New-Hampton, Jan. 31, 1798,