The Mirror — Concord, N.H., 1798-01-16 00:00:00, page 2

ifter declared, the ratification of
them would be considered by
( England at a cessation of the alli
ance between them; as tanta
mount co a Declaration of war
against her gad that adual hos
tilities would be the consequence.
This occafioried the Queen to
pause ; and to ballance in her
mind which were the evil, most to
be feared —the hoftillity of the
English or French. Greatbritain
has an army of fix or eight thou
land men in Portugal, which is
in possession of the principal
strong hold! io the kingdom; &
a large fleet (Lord St. Vincent'*)
on its coast :—France also, after
its peace with the -Emperor, will
want employment for the numer
Out ironies; which policy would
J rather keepia aftate of activity,
than complaint-engendering re
pose. In either case Portugal
has much to fear.
[The following Arret it translated from
a Paris paper of Oft. 28.]
ARRET of Brumaire 5 (Oft. 26.)
The Executive' Directory re
solves, as follows:_
Art. i. That there ffiall be
assembled, without delay, on the
Sea Coast, an army, which £hail
Ite called the " Arm, cl Eng
land."
Art. 2. Citizen General Buon
aparte is named General in Chief
of this army. It shall be provi
sionally commanded by citizen
Defaix, General of Division, who,
shall repair immediately to Ren.
net, fin Britaany.]
Art. 3. The Minister of War
is charged with the execution of
the present Arret, which (hall be
inferred in the bulletin of the Laws;
oct. 29. It is said, that the
ratification of the treaty of face
With Portugal arrived a fhorrtime
after rhe Directory had made the
arret, pubiifhed yesterday.
Fifty-two conspirators have ar
rived from the departments of
Eure and Loire, and are confined
in the Temple.
PARIS, OCT. 30.
The court of Portugal will
expiate its strange blindness and
servile condefceofion to the de
clared enemy of the repose of Eu
' rope. Already an army 0130,000
is defined to attack her. The
general is designated who is to
command ; and io a few months,
perhaps, the Portuguese govern
ment will disappear Qom Europe,
or think itfelf top happy to fob
mit to conditions much more bur
dehfome than those it has refuted
toratify. _
BOURDEAUX, NOV. 11.
It is fade, fays the Redadeur,
that the cabinet; of London has
sent a Commissioner to the Execu
tive Directory.
FRANKFORT, OCT. 26.
^ The news of peace is spread
through Germany with loud and
general acclamations. It would be
impossible to paint, in all its traits,
the height of the public joy.—
Those especially who lived in the
neighbourhood of the theatre of
war, ire regenerated with new
hopes. Commerce and industry
will restore to the body politic of
Germany that vigour of which
an almost total ftagoation had fflM
!) prized it. Agriculture may hope :
to cause those fields to flourish a
gain, which the furies of Bellona
have so long blasted with fterlity.
Can the belligerent powers, iq
laying down their arms, refrain
from occupying themselves in dry
ing up the tears which the fcourg,
of war has caused to flow ? Can
they, scarred all over with wounds,
think ag^in of resuming their
arms, to trouble, with their strange
and incident quarrels, the tranquil
lity of Europe ? Had the famous
treaty of Pilnitz never exited, a
fix years war would not have des
olated every part of our globe.
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AMERICAN NEW*
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KINGSTON, N&V. 4.
BY the Guinea fopi, which
called at Barbadoes we learn,
that the crew of. the ship Thomas,
bound from Angola for this, (land,
was overpowered by she negroes)
near Barbsdoes, and that fourteen
hands, leaving the Captain and
the rest to maintain a very une
qual combat, betook chemfelves to
the boat, without an oar, provi
sions, or water. A'ter being out
32 days, the boat drifted to Bar
bados, when only four miserable
wretches were found alive, h
appears that their hunger becom
ingun supportable, they cast Io s,
io order to afeertain who fhouio
die for the tubfilterice of the re
mainder, when the lot fell on the
Dodot's mate, who was accor
dingly killed. The remainder
fell viaims to disease, arifiog from
,the extremity of their want, ;&,
of four who reached Barbadoes,
one died on thte beach, and two
were not expedite live.
NEWTORK.
•it./' _____
NEWYORK. DEC. 23.
In Captain Eaton's dep^fition
of S pt. 6th, among the papers rel
ative to Blount's conspiracy, we
find the following paragraph:
" At the time Mr. Ripley and
myfelt were remarking the liber
ties foreigners among us were fuf
fered to take with impunity, io
subversion of our internal tran
quility, and the audacity which
this tolerance invited, he informed
me—" That there is now in this
city er Baltimore, a French engi
neer, who has made the tour of
the United States ; has taken
plans of every co,bounding pofi
lion of our fee-board, and other
frontiers ; & is about to traofmit a
copy, if he has not already done it
ter the national Directory.",
This information I immediately
communicated verbatim, to the
Secretary of State."/
On perusing this, it naturally
occurs to enquire, with what view
the engineer could have been at
the pains of travelling through the
United States and taking plans of
the most commanding pofitioni,
&c.( In the temper to which our
citizens have been wrought by the
inimical conduct of that nation,
we are apt and indeed warranted,
to (ufpeft every measure they c
dopt with regard to this country.
—Let every man indulge hi, own
conjed ures— There is no room
for inciting any thing favorable ;
4md time must develops the inten
tion of this and many other equal
ly inexplicable steps lately taken
by our quondam friends, but now
iterate enemies.
dec, 27. Yeflerday morning,
about 10 o'clock, Dr. Romavue,
accompanied by J. Bronson, E'q.
called on Benjamin Winthrop,
Broker, of this city, to demand
from him an explanation refped
ing certain expressions imputed to
him, in a letter figoed William
i Eaton, and addressed to Mr. Sit
greaver, Chairman of a committee
of Coogrefs, as published in M'-
Lean and Lang's paper of the 23d
inst. when Mr. Winthrop denied
that he had ever heard such ex
preffions from Dr. Romayne.—
Allthe accusations are of aver,
curious nature ; and there was
reason to believe that Winthrop
had wfed expreffioni, which at
least, led to the formation of those
published; Dr r Romayne de
manded from him a certificate,
that he might contradia, as ear
I, at possible, declarations so much
(0 bit prejudice— Mr. W. was
not dilpofed to grant him a denial,
without some delay, and warm
^ords enfui g, on going out of
the house, Di Romayne took Mr.
W. by the collar, drew him down
flairs, and kicked him in the gut
ter ; after which, the Dr. waited
on the Mayor of the city, to in
form him what had palled, and
that he was ready to abide the
laws of the country. About!
o'clock, the Dr. having some bu
siness with a gentleman whom he
expeded to find at the Coffeehoufe
called there ; but not feeing him,
left the' house immediately —on
going out he was called back by
several voices, but proceeded—&
having got about half way be
tween the Coffee-houfe and Mr.
Wainright's (hop, he was perfued
by faveral perlons, faying they bad
sent far Mr. Bleecker. Dr. R.
then turned about, and said he
would fee Mr. Bleecker at his
own house, but that he was not
disposed to fly from bis fellow cit
iz^ns, and if it were their desire,
that he Should have a public in
terview in their presence, with
Mr. Bleecker, he would not de
cline it,—
The Dr. was furrotioded by a
crowd ; and after remaining in
the rain io or 15 minutes, wynt
into the house. Some time aft
ter, Mr. Bleecker was announced,
when the Dr. advancing to (peak
to him, there was a cry from fed
eral perlons to beat, kick and
throw him down. The Dr. fee
ing the treatment be was to re
ceive, endeavoured to' get out of
the house ; be received several
blows, but defended himfelf with
re solution against his numerous
affailants.'
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, United States Legislature.
FIFTH CONGRESS-Second Session.
HOUSE, &c.—-dec. 18.
MR. Wardfworth moved the order
®f the day on the bill authoriz
ing the President of the United States to
pdftpane the meeting of Congress in cer
tain cases. The House accordingly went
into a committee of the whole on the
so bjc&,and after making a verbal amend
ment, the committee rose, and the house
agreed to it ; when
Mr. Gallatin moved a provision to the
ft Mowing effea : ^ Provided that the day
to which the meeting (hall be postponed,
ihall not exceed thirtydays from the day
to which Cohgrefs Rood adjourned."%
The qaeftion upon the amendment
was put, and negatived, 45 to 44. J
The queftibn on engrossing was put,
and negatived, 58 to 32. Os course the
bill was loft>
Mr. A. Fijjjfyftd for the order of
the day cn th^ report of the Committee
of Claims, on the petition of E iw^d St.
Loe Livermore, which, being agreed to,
the House went into a committee of the
whole on the fubjj^&te&h
It appears tbaUtgre'firgo'^r fi na
tion of the Judfltyni^Diftria of N^w
hampfhire, on the 3d of April, 1794.
Congress were induced to pass an ^t,
whereby rhe duties enjoined the D&ia
Judges, by the ad " to regular the
claims to invalid pebfions," sere trans
ferred, as fir as related to the Ddticref
Newhampfhire, to the Attorney of the
said dilirid, whose duty it was thereby
made to perform the tame. The ohj &
of this petition is to obtain comnenfation
for the difeharge of the said duties, and as
duties have been required and performed
under the Laws of tub United States, by
the petitioner, the committee conceived
he was entitled to a reasonable compensa
tion, and submitted a resolution to the
House, authorizing the accounting cffi
cers ot the treasury to fettle his account.
* This report occifioned some debate.
It was supp rted as re for able, by Meffs.
D. and A. Foster, Gordon and Brookes,
arid opposed by M ffrs. Nichols & Coit,
on the ground, that no expense was ever
contemplated to be incurred by the bufi.
nefs in question, and that if they allowed
a compensation in this case, they might
expta application from all the officers of
the United States, whenever any new du.
ty was laid upon them by laws subsequent
- to their appointment.
The icport was negatived, 43 to 31,
and the house concurred in the votes.
Mr. Sitgreaves said, the House had
made a fubjed the order of the day 4er
to morrow, upon which he did not think
they had fufficient information ; he
meant the bill relative to Foreign Coins.
, The last report which had been received , 3
from the Dire&or of the Mint, was in
1796,2nd all the calculations which had
been made in the course of the late de
bate, were founded upon that report, and
not upon the prefect adual fate of that
establishment. He should therefore, pro- *
pose a resolution to the following effed :
" Resolved, that the Director of the
mint be direded to report to this House
a statement of all the Bullion deppfited -
in the Mint flace his last report, and an
account of Gold and Silver Coin iffuedt
from the Mint in the fame period ; dis.
tinguifhing in the statement of depofi%
the Foreign Coin from the Bullion."—
Agreed.
On motion of Mr. Sitgreaves, the res
olution referring that part of the Presi
dent's speech <which has a reference to a
provision for the expenses of carrying in
to cfca the 6th article of the treaty with
Greatbritain to a committee, was refer
red to the committee of ways and means.
dec. 19.
The House passed a Resolution, divid
ing the chief officer of the Mint to ren
der an account of the Bullion deposited,
and of the gold and silver issued find th,
last report.
This report states, that it is not deem
ed prudent to take into the mint more
bullion than can be worked in one mass,
when it comes froip any of the banks in
the city, from whence it may be had ip
a very short time when wanted ; that de
posits are now waiting, till such as art
now io hand are finished ; that it is ex
peded the banks of this city and of New
york, will raake deposits for about
300,00© dollars in French ctowns, but
that these deposits are kept back until
prior ones are paid off; that when there
tis fufficicn, bullion in the mint to keep
one pref; striking, this will be done at
the rate of from 18 to 30,000 dollars
weekly. The gold coin increases in a
mount, according to its additional value.
It reflated that the gold bullion deposit
ed in the Mint, fine, the 29th of Nov.
1796 (the time at which the last report
was made) to the 18th inst. was 5997 oz.
I§dwts. 9 gr. value 106,622 dollars and
9§ cents. The quantity of silver bullion
deposited, during the fame period, has
taken 42,151 oz. 8 gr. value 48,635 dol
lars, 7§ cents, 5 mills. The quantity of
filter coin issued since the last report, it
stated to have been 12,546 dollars, 3,91$
half dollars, 252 quarter dollars, 25,261
difmes, 44,527 half difmes— amounting
in the whole to 19,320 dollars, 4c cents.
That there were nearly ready for delivery
in the mint, 34,000 dollars in silver coins.
It is also ffated, that the quantity of gold
coin issued during the fame period, has
been 6i77Eagles, 6406 halt-eagles, 1756
qr. eagles ; equal to the value of 1 zß,fyo
dollars. ,
Several Bills went through their firft
and second readings. t..
The Committee of Claims were direct
ed to report on the laws refpeaing inva
lid pensions. . • $ '>