The New Hampshire gazette — Portsmouth [N.H.], 1799-01-23 00:00:00, page 2

LONDON, Nov. 13._
Paris Journals to the 3d inst. con
firm the account of a very severe In
furretion having taken place in Bra
bant and Flanders. The following
Message was sent on the 31st ult. by
the French Executive Dire&ory, to
the Council of Five Hundred, on this
important subject : 54
: “Citizens Representatives,
“The Executive Directory received
_yelterday your meilage relative to the
rebellion which has broken out in a
part of the departments incorporated
with the, Republic, by the law of the
‘29th Vendemaire, 4th year. ,
“This rebellion bore at firft a very
serious appearance i the military con
{cription seems to have been but a
mere pretext. It is the effeét of the
fu’g;ge(}ions of England, and of fana
ticifm. ~ The authors of the rebellion,
are men formerly attached either to.
“the Government of the ci-devant Bel
§iixm, or to the party of the Stadthol
er; the Insurgents are pricfts, monks,
wagrants and foreigners. The trees
of liberty have been replaced by cros
ses ; onme part of the fattious wore the
Orange cockade, and the standards
of another were marked with the Im
perial eagle. © :
“The Executive Diretory has a
dopted the molt energetic and most
vigorous measures to suppress the re
volt, and entertains the most sanguine
hapes of their proving fuccefsful. It
will crufth the rebellion, and punifth
the guilty. - '
It is not yet able to fay, whether it
wl be.heceflary to resort to new Le
gillative measures -against refra&ory
prieits, requifitionaries, deserters and
citizens belonging to the military con
scription ; it waits for more ample in-
JSormation, to point out the wulterior
measures which it may judge necessa
ry to propose. = . ,
“But the Executive Dire&tory would
think itfelf deficicnt in the. perform
ance of onc of its most important du
ties,did it not inform you that, though
#® flatters_itfclf too crush the commo
tions which have broken out, it can
nothope to prevent their renewal, as
long as it has not at it disposal a fuf
ficient fund of secret service money,
for procuring the means of getting
early intelligence of all the manoeu
vres of the English, and of other ene
mies of the Republic. The sum of
1,500,000 livres Tournois is indispen
sably requilite. for this purpose; and
the Direftory invites you according
ly to“take this message into your most
{fpeedy and serious consideration.
(Signed) STreilbard, President.
R 4 - “Lagardey Sec. Gen.”
The sum demanded in this message
was granted by the Council of Five
Hundred in the fitting of “the 1f of
Novamle. - - " e
Capture of tawo Dutch F, rigates.
Sirius, Grinfby Roads, Nov. 1, '9B.
T have the honor to inform your
Lordfhip,shat in pursuance of orders
I received from “Vice Admiral Sir
Richard Onfloav, Bart. I parted com
pauy with the fleet on the evening of
the 23d infs to reconnoitre the force
of the enemy in the Texel. Ateight
A. M. on the following morning, the
Texel bearing S. by E. ten leagues, I
fell in with the two Dutch frigates
named in the margin*, at that time
about two miles distance of each o.
Pafling within gun shot of the lew
ard-moft of them, I stood on until I
<ould (upon tacking) nearly fetch the
weather-most (the Waakzaambeid,)
my obje& being to preyént their junc
tion ; and by this means, that being
* Waakzeambiaid 'Cap:éi’g; Neiarce,
enior Laptaing mounting 20 gunsy 24
A‘zinc M:gg ar the ':fﬂ-*tg #we fix
pounders on the. forecafile, having 100
Dutch Jeameny and 523 Fremch trogps,
(taal 322)0n brard also 2000 flands of
aruus, besides other ordmance floves. .
- Fuyie, Capt. Pletz of 36 guns, 24
#aelvecpoundery on the deck, and ten fix
pownders on ber quiarter-deck and fir:-
i“‘ﬁé 0% ﬁd’ armis besides other
g Lo L oy LG R
A dcclaration of war has been made
by our’ Court’ againkt the Ligurian
and Roman Republics. redg
The Portehas offered to assist the
Raguzan Republic, in repelling ‘the
unjust aggreflions and demands of the
SORC e A
~ Warlike “preparations are making
in all the circles of Germany.,
Three per cent socks are at §6,to 57.
Forewgn Intelligence,
CExtrafted fror: Lindon papers received
Yy tte Minerva, Capts Turner, from
s England.} »
VIENNA, O&. 27.
The Griffons tired of French -
berty, have solicited Gen. Bellegarde
to take poffeflion of the important
ﬁorts of Coire'and Richenau j—which
e has done. - ;
accomplished, I had the fatisfa&ion to
cut off the latter, and bring her to a
bout nine o’clock, when the hauled
down her colours and fired a gun to
‘Yeward ; as soon asthe prisoners were
exchanged, I made fail after the other,
and although nearly out of fight, I
had the good fortune before five P. M.
to bring her to a kind of running ac
tion, wiich continued about half an
hour, within mufquet shot at times,
during which she kept up a smart but
ill-dire@ted discharge of cannon and
mufquetry, when l%e‘ struck to his Ma
jesty’s ship ; she is called the ¥urie,
and under the orders of the Captain.of
the Waakzaambeid, and had the Com
mandant of the Troops and 2 number
of Officers on'board. I.am happy to
add, there was only one man wound
ed by a musket-ball and that his Ma
jesty’s ship fuffered but litile,. one shot
through her bow-{prit, her rigging, &c.
but little cut.” The loss on board the
Furie was eight men killed and four
teen wounded : her hull, malts, &c.
have fuffered much. . ;
_This expedition has been: waiting
an opportunity offailing since the 21t
of July last. They left the Texel at
eleven o’clock the preceding night.
« 4 have the bonor te be, &c. Rich. King.
It is our with to.do jultice to
others, but it is our fixed determina
tion to have justice done-to ourselves.
And as the President observes, we will
not rely on profeflions that are con
tradi&ted by actions. ‘'What are fuf
ficient evidence of a disposition to do
juitice we tfhall determine for our
selves, and until we fee those evidén
ces, we shall lay aside negociation for
the sword. 54 - Gaz, U. 8.
o SRR T - L
There are two errors or prejudices
(fays doctor' Franklin) ‘on the fubje&'
of ‘government in America, which
lead to the most- dangerous conse
quences, -~ 1 iR :
It is often said, that * the sovereign
and all other power,is seated in the peo
ple”. 'They poflefs‘it6nly‘on the day
of their elections, '~ After this, itis the
‘property of their rulers<snor can tley
-exercise or resume it, unless it is’ a
bused. It is of importiance to circu
late this'idea, as it leads to order and
good government. '
The people of America have mif
‘taken the meaning of the-word fov
reignty : hence each slate pretends to
be sovereign. In Europe, ‘it is ap
| fliéd only to these slates which pof
efs the power of making war and
f’m—of forming treaties, and the
, ike. As this pGWCrbdongsonly ‘to
Congress, they are the only sovereign
power in the United States, .
"~ We commit a similar ‘miftake in
our ideas of the word independent.
No individuial Rate, as such, has any
elaim to independence. She:is Inde
‘pendent only in a' union - with her
Aifker ftaves in Congress.—Fed. Gaz.
~ BROOKFIELD, January 8.
- On Friday c_vcning‘,of'the%nk
a melancholy fray took place at: Brim
© “NEW-YORK, Dec. 29..
b 2 COMMUNICATION. -
The character of the President is
daily rising in dignity and greatness..
His last address to Congress is full of
wisdom and virtue. It discovers a
fixed determination to maintain the
honor of his country, and opposes
calm dignity to the empty threats, and
vile accusations of the French re
gents.—What a contrat does the
condué& of the American and French
Executives exhibit to the world—the
historian will speak of the mildness,
the virtue, and the forbearance of the
one ; and of the avarice, the rapacity;
and the meanness of the other. But
let it not be supposed that the foft
language which the American gov--
ernment {o long employed proceeded
from pusillanimity .or fear. No.
It wasthe consequence of the diftra&- -
ed state of the public mind, of the vi-:
olent opposition to strong measures
in the House of Representatives, of a
virtuous resolution in the Chief Mag--
iltrate to exhautt all the sources of con
ciliation before an appeal should- be
made to the sword. The French
rulers have, at length, violated the last
principles of decency, and the Ameri
can government no longer uses the
language of affettion and friendfhip.
Let that language be discarded until
the miserable people of France are
relieved from the tyranny under
which they groan, and are governed
by honest men. - The only obje@ of
the Dire&ory is to deceive and destroy.-
—They may vary their means, but
their end is always the fame.
_The President gives it as his solemn
opinion that vigorous preparations
for war are indifpenfible ; and this
opinion’he founds, in a great measure,
on the perfidy which France has dis
played in her condu& towards the
nations’of Europe. At the fame time
he fays that the sacred rights of em
bafly shall be ‘refpected, and. that .a
disposition on the part of France to
make reparation for past injuries, and
to do justice in future will remove
every obfticle to a friendly intercourse
between the two countries. _
Extrallfrom theé reports of the London
' Humane Society.
‘ WO of his Sicilian Majelty’s
T gillies being on a cruize, pursu
ed and took an ‘Algerine veflel of 20
‘guns and 100 men. Thé prize was
sent to Naples, and whilst lying under
a guard at the Mole, a young gentle
man ‘then bathing, was seized with
the cramp, and immediately funk, in
the presence of numbers who did not
attempt any thing for his relief. One
of the-Algerine éilors who was ftand
/ing .on the gunwale of blﬁlp‘rize, in
stantly jumped into the Wwater, and
having laid hold of the body in its
rife, tied one end of an _handkerchief
round the shoulder, the -other end of
which he faftened t 6 his own, and
swam with it to the {liore. The
~drowned person was recovered by pro
per application 5 and the Marquis de
- Pallachi, whose son was thus preferv
‘ed, being introduced to the ‘King,
threw himfelf'on his'knees, and re
‘quefted the liberty of the gallant Al
‘gerine. His Sicilian majesty’s reply
“was truly noble,—“Your request, Sir,
(said he) is both reasonable and hu-
Jmane ; the Moor is your’s-and you
‘may dispose of him as you please.
The remainder of the crew are mire,
and by the laws of war perpetual
slaves : but they are free from this
moment. Ten righteous men would
have saved Sodom from the wrath of
the Almighty, and fhail not one gal
lant and humane man, who has risked
his life for.an enemy, and restored to
me so valuable a fubje&, merit the
pardon “of 2 few ¢companions ? Next
day an order was published for their
release, and they departed amidst the
acclamations of the people.
.. CONGRESS.
_HOUSE OF REPRESENT ATIVES.
. 'TusspAy,. Jan, 1. s
P HE Speaker informed the House
T"tha‘?"c‘géﬁnﬁiﬁihed business which
wasdirft in order, was the report of 2
{ele& committee on the representation
and remonftrancy of the legislature of
Georgias: +=, + 18 0 {5
- Mr. Otis{aid, he did not observe
the gentleman from Georgia .in' his
place 3 but he understood, when the’
consideration of the bankrupt law was
yelterday postponed, in order to take
up this fubje&t, it was withed only
to bring -it up for consideration,
leaving a decision mpon it to a future
day. He therefore moved that this
business be poltponed till the 16th of
January.—Carried,
. .'The house then resolved itfelf into
a committee 6f the whole, on the bill
pr_c,zviding_.a}!mifqm {yftem of bank
ruptcy thronghout the United States;
and the amendments proposed by Mr.
‘Otis, when the ﬁﬂj&gwashﬁ ‘under
consideration, relative to' the sale of
barikrupts estates and effedts, were ta.
ken g;iamﬂ after some objedtions by
Mr. I m.;fb!b@ firft, it was nega
tived, therg-being only 21 io&%or :
it, and Mr. O®s withdrew the Sther.
field, between Nathaniel Hartley and
a son of his of about 24 years of age ;
in which the latter received a stab in
his right fide, by his father, with a
large butcher kuife. -In the course of
the night, three physicians were called,
and they, with those who atteided
him, supposed “him past recovery.
They were apprehensive that he would
dic in a few hours : But we are hap
pily disappointed in finding remedies
which the physicians applied, opera
ting favourably for his recovery. His
father was immediately apprehended,
confined, and committed to keepers.
Hartley is naturally of a good dispo
sition, and very fond of his wife and
children : But having that evening
indulged himfelf to excess in the use
of {pirituous liquor, hesbecame cross,
ill natured,and exceedingly malignant,
even to hisownfamily.” Intoxication
commonly affeéts himrin this manner.’
On account of a most trivial affair,
the controversy ~began ‘between 'the
father and fenss which terminated in
the mauner described. It is a matter of -
great surprise, considering the manner
in.which the father used -the - knife,
and ‘the usurpation of his-paflions over
reason and humanity, that he did not
instantly kill his son on the {pot. ®This
{hould be a solemn warning - to him,
and-to ail persons accustomed to use
inebriating liquors to excess, especially
when they tend to make them ma
lignant and ferocicus like wild beasts,
to r¢ain from such a fhameful and
awful pra&ice. Continuing in the
pradice, destroys the conflitution,
imptirs the faculties of the mind, ren
dersiperfons disreputable, dangerous
and pernicious to society, and finally
prows their immediate ruin. ;
- AUGUSTA, Jan. 12.
Fhor{day last a petition was present
ed by Charles Webber, of Vaflalbo
rougl, to the Hon. Court of Seflions,
&c. nyw fitting in this town, for a
Licen¢e to keep a house of public en
tertainment, which (to the honor of
the ‘Beach) was unanimously rejeét
ed.———Bo much far Sedition Poles, and
being az enemy te your country, Charley.
* After some other amﬂléments had
beén proposed and agreed to,
" Mr. Dayton (the Speaker) moved
that the committee might rife, as it
did not appear to him that so much
attention was paid to chis bill, as its
importance demanded. o
The motion was put and carried,
and the House being resumed. -
Mr. Otis called for the resolution
- which he yefteday laid upon the table,
relative to the impreflment of Ameri
can seamen by a Britith vessel of war.
Mr. Dent, thotasfolittle attentionhad
been paid & the {ubjedt which had just
been difpoled of, it might be prefam
ed as little would be. paid to any o
ther, and this being the firlt day of
the year, he would move that the
House adjourn. ——
: WEDNESDAY, Jan. 2.
' Mr. Otis’s resolution, relative to
the impreflment of ' American sea
men by the Britith, was taken B
Mr. Gordon wished the matter
might rest with ‘the’ Execative, as he.
. was {atisfied every necessary step would
| ‘be taken, without the interference of
“the House. e .
- Col. Josiah Parker moved an a
mendment, and expatiating on the
outrage in queltion, stated the follow
ing particulars of it from an authentic’
source—He had no doubt that the
President of the United States would
feel this indignity as severely as any
one ; but he nevertheless thought it
proper to pals this resolution. The
Baltimore, he understood, was convoy
ing 2 number of our veflels to the
Havannah,when three of the squadron
.were cut off by the Britith force.
Capt. Phillips, the commander of the
Baltimore, enquired the reason for
this ? Capt. Loring, the British com
mander, sent an officer on board our
ship, who said “ that Capt. L. awould
Lake out every man from his fhip,who was
a British fubjetyand could not produce his
protettion ;3 Capt. P. very properly
answered, that the American fag was
a fufficient proteciion.® 'This, however,
was not deemed {fufficient, and this
officer tooke fifty-five men’from the
-Baltimore, and detained them on
board the Britith ship some time.
Supposing, however, (it is presumed)
that he had done wrong, Capt. Lor
ing informed Capt. Phillips, ¢ #hat
e might come on board bis ship, and
take back such of his ‘men as avere A
mericans.” Capt. P. replied, ¢ the
men were in his power, and he might
do with them what he pleased.”
Capt. L. afterwards set two of the
veflels at liberty which he had cut off,
{aying, I keep the other bevaufe the
Captain has been insolent,” and-returned
fifty of the men, keeping - five. Mr.
P. thought Capt. Phillips ought not
to have fuffered a treatment so fla
- grant, without firing upon the Britith
ship, and nothing, except, perhaps, his
inferiority of force, could plead his
apology for not having done so. It
.1s useless, said Mr, P. to guard against
the injury and insult of cne nation, if
we are to receive them with impunity
from another. He had no doubt,
however, that the President would fee
.the neceflity of irongly remonftratin
with the British fovemment ngaing
this. condu&, and of demanding re
paration for the injury fuflained ; nor
ought, in his opinion, a small repara
tion, to be accepted.
The resolution was put and carried
without a division ; and Messrs. Otis
.and Josiah . Parker were appointed a
- Committee to wait on the President
“therewith. .. _
: . - BANKRUPTCY.
The bill on this fubje® was again
. considered, and amendments proposed
and discussed. The Committee had
leave to fit again. '
L e L E INAVY,. « .
. A report of the. Secretary of the
navy, was ordered to be printed.
b h STAMP ACT.
.- Several medifications-and amend
_ments of this aét were debated.. The
. stamp on foreign. bills of exchange
was lowered to 20 cents. A motion
to firike out Bank Checks from:the
_exceptions, was loft. 43 to 33, The
. debate on this fubjest was ' lengthy ;
~and in it Mr. Otis took an able and
- conipicuous part. ' :
i 3 U S THURSDAY, Jam g, . %
~ FRENCH INTERCOURSE.
- .M. Otis reported 2 bill to suspend
- the® ‘commercial intercourse - with
France, and its dependencies. Made
the order of the day for. Mondaih“ 5
BLOUNT’s IMPEACHMENT.
" The House adgg:mg'd for an hour,
'to permit the Managers to attend
before the Htgb Coart. iR
T Ay TN v L
' Mr. Sewall, from the committee of
_commerce, said he was directed, in
the absence of the Chairman of that
- committee, to_afk leave of the House
- to have ptinted such bill as the com-:
mittée m,fhf- 331: eflt necessary to
frame on the fubjec of a new arrange
_ment of tbahwgor t;mmsuhﬁ:f ‘
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TuEespay, Jan. 8.
UNITED STATES axo FRANCE.
After some preliminary observa
tions, Mr. Gallatin laid on the table
a Resolution, requesting The Presi
dent to communicate to the House in
formation refpeding the course of
transactions between the United States
and France.
PRESIDENT’s MESSAGE.
A meflage, accompanied by sun
dry papers relative to the impreffiment
of American Seamen, from on board
the Baltimore, by a veflel of war be
longing to Great Britain,in pursuance
of a resolution of the House of the 24
instant. The message was as follows .
Gentlemenof the Houfeof Representative,
In compliance with your desire,
exprefled in your Resolution of the
'2d of this month, T lay before you an
extrat of a letter from - George C.
Morton, a&ing Consul of the U. S.
at the Havanna, dated the 13th of
November, 1798, to the Secretary of
State, with a copy of a letter from
him to L. Trefevant and William
Simmons, Esquires, with their answer,
Although your request exteads no
further, than such information as has
been received, yet it may be a fatis.
fa&tion to you to know, that as soon
as this intelligence was communicated
to me, circular orders were given by
my diréction to all the commanders of
our veflels of war, a copy of which is
also herewith tranfinitted. I also di
reCted this intelligence and these or
ders to be communicated to his Bri
tannic Majesty’s Envoy Extraordina
ry and Minister Plenipotentiary to the
United States, and to our Minister
Plenipotentiary to the Court of Great
Britain, with inftru®ions to him to
make the proper representation to
that government upon this fubje.
It is but justice to fay, this is the
firft instance of mifbehaviour of any
of the Britith officers towards our vef.
fels of war, that has come to myknew
ledge. According to all the repre
sentations that I have seen, the flag of
the United States and their officers
and men have been treated by the
civil and military authority of the
British nation, in Nova-Scotia, the
Weft India Islands and on the Ocean,
with uniform civility, politeness and
friendfhip. I haveno doubt that this
firk instance of mifcondu@ will be
readily corre@ted. JOHN ADAMS.
i (CIRCULAR.)
To the Commanders of armed vessels i
the service of the United States, given
_at the Navy Department, December
29th, 17g8. - i
O e
It is the positive command of the
President, that on no pretence wg,}t
ever, you permit th& public vessel of
War under your cammand to be de
tained, or searched ; nor any of the
officers or men belonging to her, to
be taken from her by the thips or vel:
fels of any foreign nation, .fo_long as
you are'in a cagachy to repel such
dumr%‘: on the bonor of the Ameri.
can Flag. °lf force should be exerted
to compel K)‘OM submission, you are ta
reﬁß;tha!t‘d Pclf tOﬂle!ﬁmOﬁai your -
power, and when overpowered by fu
gtﬁé!.'.. force, you are to strike your
lag, and thus yield your vessel as well
without your vessel. ~ "~ =
b YO&WW;’:”*A ‘however, that
If to the vessels and aﬁna
tions in amity with the United States ;..
commiflion of, as the fubmiflion to,
adjourned, on which account he mo.
ved that the House udjourn. |
Moxoay, Jan. 7.
BRITISH IMPRESSMFENT.
Mr. Otis reperted, that the Presi
dent would take the {ubjec of the im.
preflment of th: Americans by the:
Britith iato consideration.
- A bill for consolidating the several
acts respecting duties on domestic Jdif
tilled spirits, anid Rills, was read.
SPURIOUS AGENTS.
A bill was reported, ¢ for the pre
vention of certain crimes thergin {pe
cified.” Read twice, and committed.
STAMP ACT.
This bill underwent 2 long discus
sion. . |
[HIGH COURT. -
The Senate resumed the trial of
Wm. Blount, when Mr. Ingerfol, in
a neat and eloquent speech of two
hours, finithed the defence m support
of the plea against the jurifdiion of
the Court :——After which Mr. Har
per, with his usual ability, made 2 re.-
ply of two hours, against the plea,
and in support of the juri{diction of -
the Senate. The Court adjourned to.
Monday morning, when, it is expe@-
ed, if judgment thould be against the
jurifdi&tion of the Senate, the whole
‘bufinefs will, of course, fall to the
ground ; but if the judgment of the
Court be against the plea, and in’ fa
vor of the jurifdi&ion, then the trial,
it is presumed, will proceed on the
articles of impeachment.]