The Mirror — Concord, N.H., 1798-08-28 00:00:00, page 3

'fortrifling. Tb# mduaof the faSioui hot
been &ndjbill cor.tir.ae to be critically cbferv
edand noticed. 1 haw other charges which
,ph ; n the proper occafon for them arrives,
foall not 6, withheld. The government, de
termined to proaa its own digcity, is firm,
vigilant and aaive ; tbs Spirit of the people
is at length roused; let the authors of our
misfortunes tremble. F *
MANLIUS.
[Mr. Gardner's reply to the above,
quilt appear next week ]
FRANCE
pTOULON, MAY 19.
AN immense number ot in
fantry, with artillery, vast
quantities of mortar#, howitzer#,
furnaces, bombi, grape and canis
ter (hot, and other amunition,
have been put on board ; men of
letters, Aftronomeri, Geometrici
ans, and Artists of every fort, have
also embarked. The convoy from
Genoa, conlifted of 38 fail, with
10000 men on board.
IRELAND.
DUBLIN, JUNE 2.
Every day brings to our know
ledge new ads of atrocity com
,mined by the Rebels. In the
county of Wexford, among many
ioftances of massacre, the follow
ing excites particular debellation
and horror :—
The Rev. Mr. Haydon, a Prot
estant Clergyman, much esteemed,
having had feme of his neighbors
to spend the evening with him, a
Min Clifford residing in his house,
whose beauty and whole virtues
made her the admiration of the
country, was requested to ling
" Croppies lie down,"-(he did
so, little thinking her complaisance
would have been the cause of her
death !— The next morning the
House was attacked by a party of
-insurgents, and the whole family
massacred, with circumstances of
the most horrid cruelty.— The ser
vant who attended the family at
fopper the preceding night, foatch
ed a pike from one of his brother
demons, and plunged it into the
beautiful bosom of Miss Clifford,
exclaiming at the fame time,—
66 There you d?d w=% take
that for your Croppy lie down II"
Four infants were not (pared, but
tossed in hellish (port, on the point
of the pikes, -, ^.. h"
The present is the third infante
of martial law being declared in
this country in the (pace of 108
years. The firft occurred +heo
James 11. Bed to Dublin, immedis
ately after the Boyne, when mili
tary execution was ordered to be
put in pradice against any perlon
found out of his house after eight
@ the evening, or before the fame
hour in the morning.— The second
was during the rebellion in Scot
land.c
American j%ws.
. —————————.—_
Pennsylvania.'
PHILAD. AUG; I I.
TN & reboot to, came
J pirfenger, a gentleman of thu
city, from the Weftiodiei, who in
forms, Thar provifio, were grow
ing very Scarce, the Bnufh crafera
being very numerous and the har
bo/bl^ed^ the people
were m daily rapeflauon of a war
between the United State# and
hot the
y~% iuii ^icu
#HBraW##dffitioh, ?;
Foreign Articles.
NEWTORK.
NEWYORK, AUG. 1).
On Friday week, a Delaware
pilot was chafed into 3 fathoms
water near Chincoteague, by a
schooner under French colour,
(hewing 10 or 12 guni!
Capt. Raymood, 18 days from
Jeremie, confirms the account of
Cape Nichola-Miele being besieg
ed by the French, with an army
of between 15 and 20,000 men ;
they were daily ereding fortifies#
tiooi and approaching the town.
AUG 16.
"WATER-MELLON FROLLCK !"
Capt. Fitch, io the febooner
Hunuefs, 5 days from Savannah,
informs, that the day previous to
his failing, a Spaailh brig came up
the river and anchored opposite
the town, Sufpicioo immediately
arose cf her being a privateer, and
upon examination their suspicious
were realized —lt appeared that
(he had tikeotwo American ves
sels belonging to Savannah, and
sent them into Sc. Augustine,
where they were condemned •=ta
that file was Ihort of provifioos,
had left her guns below, and went
up to the town for a fupply.—Oo
receiving this information, the citi
zens collected, and on the night
following her arrival, fa fire to her
and burnt her down to the water ;
the hinds on board, who were
pretty numerous, all got fafe a
fhere..\
Yesterday arrived here thej
brig Charlotte, Capt. Noble, |
from Liverpool. On the iith,
June, offthe harbour of Cork, |
spoke a British frigate from;
Cork, the officer of which in
formed that two or three
days before, a general en
gagement had taken place,
not far from Cork, between
the British and Irish Roy^l
troops, and the Irish rebels :;
that the a&ion was bloody,
and that the Royal troops ob-4
tained a complete victory
over their infatuated oppo
nents, 6boo of whom fell in
the battle.
^ This tie fa* verbal, is int&to
attentio*. It will be recollfaed, that our la^
dam from lrfcdwere,raoQ which
ti^e it was officially announced to the Britft
Cabinet, that a general attack &as to be made
on the infurgQ, on that, or the facrisding
day ;—aid that th royal arm, was frongl,
reinforced, Cork is dot far from the centre
of aaion.
4^^^^
the rebel army 1 §,OOO strong; and, pro
^roi^^
By Capt. Hopkins, arrived
since our last from ^Leghorn/
we have received advices of
the progress ofthe French'
armament,under the com
mand of Gen. 'Buonaparte,
wh:ch has excited some in°
The current reports at St. Mar
tins, when the Betsey failed, were,
that there had been confiderable'
diflurbaoces at Guadeloupe, the
people being much diffamfrd with
Victor Hugues, and that accounts
bad been received of the failing of
a considerable fleet from France,
whose destination was unknown,
tho' fappofed to be for America.
BOSTON, AUG. 18.
NEWS from IRELAND.
MASSACHUSETTS, &
The Toulon Fleet.
The mail of yesterday fur
nifhed a roundabout account
jfoGeneral BuonapartA
fleet, from Toulon. A brig
has arrived at Philadelphia
from Madeira, which The left
the 12th of July ; that day a
veffcl arrived at Madeira from
Lisbon, from which she de
parted the sth of July ; the
information she brought was,
that the Toulon fleet, with
Buonaparte on board, had
fallen in with the squadron
undor the command of Sir
Horatio Nelson; that the
latter had chafed die French
into Corsica, with the loss of
one frigate, taken or destroy
ed. That the French were
blocked in the port of Corfi
, by an inferior %^h
Ta^^ ^^
fed dispatched a dogate to
Lord St. Vincents, off Cadiz,
for a reinforcement / when
it was supposed he would at
tempt to destroy them in port.
'TUESDAY, August 28, 1798.
In a few Ihort weeks, the
affsy towards so Americin na
vy, will embrace Nine large fri
gates —some of them equal to
European ships of the 4th rate :
Twelve Coops of war, from 20 to
24 guns: Six from 16 to 18, a
bout 10 cutters, and as many gal"
lies, making in all Fort, Eight
(hips of war. No ioconfiderable
force this—for a nation which,
three months ago, bad not an arm
ed vefftl afloat !— And all this,
beside the tiont frigates, &c. build
ing io the feverai States, to be
losned to government.
tereft in the United States
Ca pt. H. informs, that on the
sth of June he faw'the Tou
lon fleet pass Leghorn bound
up the Mediterranean ; and
counted about i 80 fail, fix of
whom appeared, to be of the
line ; other persons ascertain
ed the number co be 240, &
the line of battle ships to be
twelve. A few days aftei
Capt. H. spoke an 18 gur
English cutter, which was it
quest of^r Horatio Nelfon'^
fleet, which bad been seer
between Toulon and Corsica
They have had intelli
gence of the equipment 0
the Toulon fleer, in the W
Indies ; and the Hugues's
have buoyed up the spirits of
their factious, flarving myr
midons, with assurances that
it is bound to America.
The Wooden Walls of America,
a r e railing in every quarter. Scarce
a port on our i6oo miles coast,
but is furnifhing quotas to render
it an invulnerable bulwark against
all the minor maritime powers of
the world.—ln friendship' with
the Directors of the floating cat
tles Ok Old England, we may soon
" 4off the world aside, or bid it
bale
Centinel—Bofton, Aug. 22.
NAVAL MATTERS.
Obadiah Carrigain,
Aug. 2 5° Clerk. \
RUN^^Bor.
RAN away from me the
Subscriber, on Sunday, the 29th of
July, an apprentice Boy, named
JOHN PORTER,
18 years old—about 5 feet 11 inches
high—strait dark brown hair, dark com
plexion, Aim built, clumsy gait, and ap
pears very flovenilh.
All perlons are forbid trusting
said bo, on my account ; and they are
likewise forbid harboring or employing
him, as I will prosecute any one who
may do it.
Whoever will take tip said run
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Elias Porrxß.
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