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PORTSMOUTH, JUNE ri.
Q ANSWER
, From both branches of the Legifliture to
His Excellency, Addreis.
Sir,
AMONG the pleasing events that
have excited our joyous sensa
tions on chit anniversary occasion,
your re-eledion to the Office of Chief
Magistrate is particularly felt b, us—
the unanimity of the People in this
tranfadion must be conceived an ev
idence of their general approbation of
your past condua and the most une
quivocal proof of their confidence in
your abilities and virtue, qualification!
so highly effeotial in your important
ftatide.
Favored with a Constitution of
Government flowing from the true
source of power, the Will of the Peo
ple, in which the powers and dutto
of the different branches and Officers
of Government are in general clearly;
delineated, it is incumbent on their
Agents in every department whether
Legislative, Executive, or Judicial,
- carefully to maintain and exercise
those sowers, and if in any inftaoce
the Cooftitutioo be liable to doubt
ful conftruaion, it becomes the Min
ifies of the People to admit that
-which is most favorable to the just
rights and liberties of those from
whom the, derive their power till the
remedy of such defe&, provided for
in the Constitution itfelf,can be appli
ed.
We contemplate with pleasing fat
ithaion the unexampled blessings a-
Vifiog from our excellent system of
General Government, the restoration
of National Credit, confidence & en
ergy, untaiown previous to the adop
tion of the federal Constitution, and
, are deeply ifopreffed with the import
ance of guarding against unreason
able jealoufiei ; of examining with
Candor the Ads of thole in Office &
of giving the wife and prudent Ad
ministrators of Government our firm
Support.
No provision being made for rege
lating the Choice of Eledors in fu
ture, the fubjedt fall meet out let
fonable and particular attention.
Sensible of the importance of af
fording due time for deliberating on
all Bills and Resolves passed by the
Legifliture, your Eecellency may be
assured of our attention to your re
quest in that particular. )<
We participate with your Excel
lency in the agreeable profpea the
situation of our State affairs presents,
all future regulations neceffar, for
promoting the general prosperity and
'%ppinefi of the State will be duly
attended to by us, and it shall be our
particular endeavor that a due degree
of harmony between the different
branches of government be preferred,
to secure which, M (hall at all times
make the Constitution our guide; and
the interest and liberties of the Peo-
? g ° Uf ° ',
. B^^^ OF
3 most orobitious afoea iod seem to
promise only a speedy, but happy &
foccehful termination ,! favor of
Britain. Advices received yefterdav,
from the army under Sir Ralph A
bercrombie, enable us at length to
ft#re, that the expedition which fail
ed from hence on the 22d ultimo,
has invested the idand of&. Lucia,
Iwhere already the most brilliant fuc
-Iceffes have attended our arms. , The
following are the most authentic par
ticulars of their operations, which we
have been able to colled, of what has
as yet been received here. Having,
as above fisted, failed from hence till
22d uk. the fleet arrived at Su Ann's
bay, (Marinico,) on the 24th, where
his Majesty's (hip Minotaur unfortu
nately got aground, and altho' not
very materially injured, was unfit to
proceed with the fleet, when they af
terward failed ; and the (loop Adven
ture, with artillery stores, was totally
loft in going in. The fleet only re
mained here until Monday evening ;
the night previous to which, Sir John
Laforey, having resigned the com
mand to Admiral Christian, failed for
Antigua ; when they proceeded to
St. Lucia, and arrived off there onl
Tuefday morning ; upon which, the
Vengeance of 74 guns, Hebe frigate,
and Pelican brig, run into a bay to
the north of Pidgeon Iftand, where
they soon silenced a battery, & drove
the enemy from an adjoining petition
which they occupied, and thus ena
bled Lieutenant Colonel Malcomb to
land his black corps, who eminently
distinguished themselves in an attack
which they immediately made on a
party of the enemy. At the fame
time, Lieutenant Colonel M'Donald,
having landed with a detachment of
grenadiers, the whole of the fleet
came to io Cheque bay, from whence
the Hebe and Pelican had also previ
loufly driven the enemy; and the
next morning a general debarkation
took place, without the least oppofi,
tion. On Wedne(day night, Lieu
tenant Colonel Malcomb formed &
took Mount Chambeau, while Lieu
tenant Col. M'Donald also attacked
and carried Mount Chapeau, two ad
vantageous positions, which will fa
cilitate the operations against Morne
Fortune, which with Pidgeon idand,
were' the only fortifications, of any
strength, then remaining in possession
of the enemy. During almost the
whole time of the troops' landing,
Capt. Walker, by the most adive ex
ertions. scourged the coast with his
mortar boat, from which he brought
(hells to bear wherever the enemy ap.
peered, and made a severe havock a
mong them ; to this is attributed, in
a great mealure, the fife landing of
the troops ; and so apparent was the
annoyance of this boat to the enemy,
that their whole attention was occu
pied in attempting to destroy it, when
after continued efforts, they at length
threw a four and twenty pound (hot
through her, by which (he was much
injured. The loss of the enemy hat
been considerable ; and where ver our
troops appear thev Before them
I in dismay leaving arms ammunition
land accoutrements behind them to
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have been either killed or wounded ;
and from the rapid progress of ou 4
arms, scarce a doubt is entertained of
the inand at this timl*
..„... . ; > ^ MAY 21.
On the 16th. at ten o'clock in the
morning all' the British batteries (a
bout thirteen in number) were open
ed on the different posts of the ene
my, and a continued fire of 300 (hot
and (hells an hour, kept up untft
Toe Iday night, when a detachment
of 800 men under Lt. col. M'Don
ald attempted the Vigie by ftorra,
but were repulsed with (ome loss ow
i°g principally to the reparation of I,
the party from their guide's being;
killed at the onset, add an indifereet
fire from an advanced detach ment,
which apprized the chemy of the de-#
6 g o -I
f On the fame night the town of the
Caranage was fa fire to.and was still
burning when the above vessel left it,
which time about two thirds was con
sumed.
Although no visible impression ho
yet appeared from our fire on the
Mome, yet it being an often fortifica
tion without Casements, rendered
strong more from its eminence than
fortifications, there can be no doubt
of confiderat^e daughter being made
among the enemy, who are complete
ly hemmed up within its narraw lim
its and cut off from all communica
tion with the interior of the country,
,so that not the least (upply can reach
them. $ '
The Vigie had been twice previ
ous to the above night, fileneed, but
after wards renewed its annoyance to
our works which made it necessary to
destroy it all together, for which pur
pose the attack was then made but
not succeeding, was to be renewed
by an additional force and co-opera.
tian ° y '"' the following night.
STATE of KENTUCKY.
LEXINGTON MAY 3° '
An extraa of a letter from an Of
ficer now at Fort Hamilton to the
Editor, dated April 18, fays, “ We
are making the utmost exertions to
get forward the ordnance and Applies
for the army, to take possession of the
Weflern Posts; fix boats yesterday,
and five this day have proceeded to
the head of the navigation, and (ev
en more are expelled to proceed to
morrow.
RICHMOND, MAY 28.
Ao American captain lately be
ing called to the bar in the island of
Bermuda, to (wear concerning the
property on board hit veflel, desired
Judge Green to let him (wear onh
particular text.--He then laid hi, hand
upon the firft verse of the 42d Psalm
—" Judge me oh God, and plead
my cable againfl the ungodly nation :
^0! deliver me from an ungodly ,
man."—The cenfeientiom Judge,
stricken with the pertinency of the
point, reieafed hit v^
NORFOLK, MAY 3 0.,
# Yesterday arrived in Hampton
Roads Abound co Richmond^ the
schooner Violet, Captain Do wing
I Lee. it dmkQm the Bay of Hon-
[nuMBER 192.]
The following American vessels
"'^ b'ded at that lettlement since
the raracation of the treaty between
the United States and Greaebritain I
Ship General Lincoln, Law fence,
from and to New, elk.
Brig Flora, William-, trom and to do+
Sloop Hiram, M'Donald, do. do.
Sch'r Hampton, Hodges, do. do.
Brig E'izsbeth, Howiet, from Phi
ladelphia^
Sch'r Violet, Lee, from Norfolk to
Richmond.
Ship Speedwell, Tatrm, from & ro
Charleston,
Sch'r Nancy, Birch, do.' do.
PITTSBURGH, JURE 4.'
The week before last a murder was
committed near Morgain town, Vir
ginia . The following particular#
have been related to m, which, we
believe; may be relied on as authen
tic.
- A man, by the name of Donalds
son, of a bad character, having had
a difference with hit wife, a repara
tion took place-,they bad several
children, one of them a boy of 14
years of age who continued with his
father, but was charged by him as
having advised hit mother to leave
the house. His father threatened to
take revenge, and accordingly got a
rope, (ecreted it under the head of
the bed, and during the night fatten
ed it round the neck of his son,
while doing this, the boy awoke,
caught hold of the rope so asto pre
vent his being strangled, and jumped
out of bed—his father followed him,
and permitted him to stir the fire, afe
ter which the boy fat down on the
floor and supplicated forgivehefs, but
to no effea.—The father concluding
it was near day light, and chat he had
no time to lose, put his feet between
the boy, shoulders, and strangled
him. He was then at a loss where to
conceal the body, but having a large
pile of Bones near the boufe, he re
'moved some of them and crammed
the boy therein. In a few days the
boy was miffed by the neighbors, a
fufpicioo rafted on his father, who
was apprehended, a search made and
the body found—he then acknowl
edged bis guilt, and related these par
ticulars to a number of people, a
mong whom was our informant.
Extraa of a letter frra Gibraltar, to
dfa iQbof ityril.
"On the 4th iattant, a French
squadron of seven men of war, and
two frigates, came out of Cadiz,
where they passed the winter. The
feme day, Admiral Mann failed with
6 feveoty-fours and 3 frigates, hav
ing his flig on board the Windsor
Cafile, of 98 guns. Lift Sunday, a
bout 3 P. M. we heard heavy
firing, which continued till 2- %
A. M. but the confidence is .
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Mr. Grey gave notice, that
as the papers which he Lately
moved for were now before the