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jiet, of additional evidence was Irer^ Introduced,
particularly on the part of Doane and Shepherd. It
was sworn by a number of persons; not admitted in
to the fecutbof Doane's business, but neighbors or
intimate acquaintance ; that in their opiuwn. at the
time us the commencement of the war with Great
britain, Col. Elifhi Doane had a large balance due
him, in ihe hands of Megis: Lane Son and Fraser,
in London,
Jut, Grenoughdepofed, that Ie lived with Col.
£llOl4 Doane, when he feft opened a co: reipondence :
with the now house of Lane Son and frafer, mer
chants in London ; which was about fourfemfer
fifteen years ago. That he then wrote for Colonel
Elisha Doane, and assisted him fa business; and Id
continued for four or five years after ; during which
fpaee, he knew, that Messrs, Lane Son and Frafa,
tere continually in Doane's debt; and in their an
nual account current, allowed him infertff for large
sums of money, which trofe from remittances 'he
made them. Since his engaging fa bufineG, fepa-7
rate from Qol. Doane> and, un,i| sh%year 1775, he «
has&eij acquainted in time meafore, with his cor
respondence with Lane Son afaFrafer ; anti with
the method of his doing business with them ; and
was in no doubt, but that annually theif debt to Col.
Doane increated.{That, being in London after
wards in Oct. 1775, Mr. Fraser, onepfffehobfeof
Lane Sen and Fraser, told him. that Col. Doane
had a very large interest in their hands, that he ask
ed Mr. Fraser, if a large quantity of Whalebone,
which he understood, had been shipped them two or
three years before by Col.Doane, was then on hand ;
he told him it was and not fold, as Col. Doane had
limited them to a certain price. And from the whole
of the conversation, he atSeveral times had with said
Fraser, he concluded, Col. Doane must have then
at least fix or seven thousand pounds sterling in their
hands, before the arrival of the brigantine Lufan
na." '• MyCf^
David Stoddard Grenough deposed that, the
time of the failing of the Lutnma, he lived with laid
Doane, and that the Aid merchants, Messrs. Lane
Son and Fraser, were indebted to said Doane, as ap
peared by the accounts current sent him from time
to time ; and as said Doane had whipped them, cop-,
fiderable quaintnies of whale bone some faort time
before the non exportation to Greatbrnain took
place, he had reason to think, that if said bone was
fold, they were indebted to him, fey cenfiJerable
sum, modi larger than ever before.
It also appeared, that except a part of the freight
of the Lufanna, onher outward bound voyage, be
longing to Melatiah Bourne ; the whole cargo was
put on baaed her as Doane's, and was on his ac>
With refpe& to Shearjaffibb Bourne, it was depos
ed by Nathaniel Freeman, Esq. that he believed, the
hid Bourne was esteemed by all that knew him, as a
friend to the interests of hi, country, 'till about a
year before he signed the address to ,Gov. Hutchin
son, or a little more ; arid t hat he, Freeman; knew
of no particular conduß of Bourne's that was inimi
cal in the interim, except Signing the said address ;
that on the 27th Sept. 1774, when the courts offaw,
in the county of Barnltible were flopped by the peo
ple attempted for that purpose ; the Aid Bourne
made and signed a declaration, that as he had fign
edan address to Governor foWinfon, which had
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declaration might be p.biilhed ^^^^
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that Bourne had pursued the profeffion of law had
never engaged in the buffefs of merchandize often
fihly. Arid th¥ it was ts, general opinion, mth^t
l^^rt^
England, and of the property freighted m the ft
ft that be was not ^CT"^,#^,^
the pcemv for refuge : as no attempt was radge uy
committees, or others, to meddle with his eßate,
Barnftable. /ft T s
Matthew Wood, commander, or jnepuianna,^-
rtrrnmftanres swears, that when
m^ng oiner
waft releafedon the condition; the said Bourne
should take a new register at Halifax, in hi%own
.he did, calling himfetf of Halifax, and the tad Cap- 1
tain pf Halifax, ^fd Bourne aste
had nothing to do wit , #6'Pl
ed their register ; or of some other place, in the Brit
ish dominions, not concerned in the revolution ; and.
without swearing to them. Though two Captains
feofe they never knew a register taken out without
its being sworn to It was also sworn by some
^plains, that upon their obtaining registers as a
torefaid, they Reared out for some other port in pof
feffion'of th©Bfitifh, andon their voyage put into
a port in pof^ffion of the Americans : the obje& be
ing to return to America, without danger from Brit
ilh cruisers. Capt. Matthew Wood further swore,
that before the brig was advertised for freight to the
Mediterranean ; the said Bourne told him, on the
c^w in London, that he could have great wages I
for her, I# the franfport service ; but said he would
fink her, rather than she ihould go. And to the
question, whether the said brig was to his (the Cap
tain's) knowledge in the King's service, as a trans
port, he answered ; no. And the Captain further
said, that the whole voyages, and all the business
refpe&ing them, he expeßed finally to fettle with
Doane. And he always foppofed the property of
the vtffel was in him the whole of the time. That
the cargo, on the voyage from London to Halifax,
was not to his knowledge, nor did he suppose, it was
to be delivered to any of the King's array or navy at
Halifax, or intended for their use.
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lASt WEEK'S OMISSIONS.
CHARACTER of Tyomas Paine.
WbWhJaid to have died at Paris.
.^WILMINGTON, (Del.) JAN. IZ.
Mr. CorAM—l have hastily tran^ribed the fol
lowing; it ufelets, you need not be informed how
easily paper burns. I condole with you on the death
of poor Painß The abfeefs of which he died, was
the consequence of a fever which he had whiles pri
soner in the Luxembourg. Mr. Munroe's kind at
tention to and care of him, must endear his charac
ter to every friend of liberty and humanity.
As some of your readers may be curious to know
the charader which the lateMr PAINE had acquir
ed in France, I fend you a flight sketch made by
Madame Roland, the wife of the minister of that
name, so famous for his letter to the King of the
French prior to the toth of Augoft. 1792. It is ta
ken from the second part of her historic notes, pub
lished in Paris by Louvet. ^."J ' % -
“ Among the persons whom I occasionally receiv
ed at my house, wusThom as Painb. He had re
ceived the right of citizenship in France, as one of
those celebrated strangers whom the French Repub
lic ought to hasten to call to its bosom. He was well
known by those writings which had been so service
able to the public cause in the American revolu
tion ; as also for others which might in all proba
bility cause a similar revolution to take place in,En
gland. I wili not permit myfelf to form an ab&
lute judgment of his talents, because he understood
the French language but little, and did not speak
it at all. Iwas atout an equal mistress of the En
glilh tongue. My opinion was formed more by bf,
tening to his conversation with others, than by any
which he held with me The boldness of his tho'ts,
the originality of his Ryle, those blunt- truths which
he daringly threw out even before those to whom
they would be the most offenfive, must have been at
tended by great effe^. W IShould suppose him
more calculated to sow, if I may be allowed the ex
preffion,the foarks of combustion, than to difeufs
the basis, or prepare the model, of a fee gov,:
ment.—PAiAwfe more fitted to strike the light of
revolution, than to assist in the formation of icqn
riitution. He seizes upon and establishes grfit P" n *.
ciples, in the expultion © tehich he renders them
evident to the meanest capacities. He would enchant
his hearer at a patriotic club, or render enthusiastic
the libations of a popular dinner : bu \ ifoff^
difeuffions of a committee, or the regulated labors
of a legifl iture, he was not equal to bis countryman
David Williams, who had also been received a
French citizen, but had not been eleaed to the con
yention. The % v ," men ^,°m^
foXV^fering^^ feiniftratiow and the
leading 'members of the conventton. Os a founds
iinriprOonfiino a benevolent mind, he leemeo to
understanding, or a oenevu forces of hap
be as capable or comoining j '
r^^^R^fffark SPAINS
PHIL f d"extraa of a
Iwhich ids expe^ed is accomplished.
One cause of the delay in the negotiation ofthe
treaty with Spain, has been the boundary tihe of the
United States—for when treaty of peace was fettled
in 1783, it was Uncertain whether any part of the -;
Mill fippi extends far enough north, to be interfed- ।
erf by a due weft line from the Lake of the Woods.v
Toadjuft this, foas to prevent any cause for future
difference, has no doubt been an obje& of Mr. Pink
ney, in this treaty, as it was Mr. Jay's, in the treatyf
with Greatbiitain.
„WESTERN POSTS.
ALBANY, JAN. 11.
Official letter! have been received by the
President, that the British ministry have
given orders to Lord Dorchester, 10 furrea
der the Weftern Pofti to the American gov
ernment, agreeable to and at the time ftip
elated by the treaty.
It is worthy of remark , that on the evening of the
Bth Jan. the river Hudson was free from ice.
A petition is handing about in thiscity, addressed
to the legislature, and pfafing them to ereft in this
city, a house of corredicn, on the plan of that eftab
li(h{d at Philadelphia, where criminals may be con
fined ; and praying that confinement at hard labor,
&c. may be substituted instead of capital punishment
in certain cases.
DOVER, JAN. 26.
BEWARE of COUNTERFEITS.
Yesterday was apprehended in this town, a man
who calls himfelf johnfon* for passing counterfeit
money—he told in confidence to one who pre,ended
to be a friend, that he was one of the fourteen who
. were taken at Coos—he walhed feveralcounterfeit
dollars in his presence, federal pieces of base money
in imitation of gold coin were found upon him, with
the viols containing ingredients for the purpose— he
said he had a partner who has a large quantity of
metal with him gone on in a sleigh—a further ex
amination is to be had this day. He came from
Rochester, b ~„-
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fr^<;'' PORTLAND, J A*T. 21.
MELANCHOLY OCCIDENT,
^ On Friday the firft in(t a number of persons as
sembled at the house of Mr. Ataph Brown at Water
ford, for the purpose of diverting thtmfelves, by
shooting at marks, when the gun of Mr. Jonathan
Whitney, loaded with a slug, was accidently dil
charged, and the contents', puffing obliquely into -
the iroufe, entered the body of Mr Abraham Conant
just below the ihoulder blade, and lodged in some
part of the trunk. He continued in extreme pain
till the next Friday, when he expired. He has left a
disconsolate widow to lament the untimely death of 4
a tender companion.:
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^ CONCORD, feb. 16, 1796. <
Wi bear from Hmerbill, Cott, that bit Wedtydayldft
th foiling @ of CapL ^tyl, innWdff in fatft,
v>as contend byJirt—
Last Monday feanight, died at Anddor, Meftebufoffi, j^
Samuel Philips,^. jEt. 15.,t0p, fa of th
Hon.Samucl Philips. Ejq.nf tbat Qfrfoft&g
„atb. LIFE !fo fat!— Death ! to,
Tis said that no news is good news!
Our paper is full of it this week— -rot,\
The posts ceme tiring on, /#'% we , t -
And not a man of them brings-—Ai
^ - • ;..' . mil.. ... V
NEWYORK, JAN. 28.
Capt. Austin. of the Julia from fames °
off the ^ft end of the idand, cock up ,
fa, a mulatto man, who had been deafly
14 hour, in the water, and w as 6 league,
from land. The man informs that beo ,
in a schooner, bound to the Spanish fan
from Port Royal—The schooner wai taken
byte French privateer, from Aux-Cayei,
Xch afterwards put into Salt River,©
cuc outan Englift^ -
f Art retools the fhio&fiiih&oafye few
foot at the French ptivate'er and passing her.
Iwhite 'prifonCT,]wete maff^rd WQ|
I over board and remained i&ti^ water from ^
I rAtif-'
I tin wafhailed by him and took'him up.-