The New Hampshire gazette — Portsmouth [N.H.], 1798-05-01 00:00:00, page 3

PHILADELPHIA, April zo.
Extrall of a letter from a gentleman in
Charleston, S. C. to a member of
. Congress in this city. .
Gen. Pinckney writes to his friend,
Col. Rutledge, under date of the 25th
Jan. ¢ There is not the least hopes of
an accommodation with this govern
ment—you shall be immediately in
formed what our destination is :—ln
the mean time take care of your
coasts—guard againtt emiflaries—and
prepare for every event.”
NEW-YORK, April 23.
Extractof a letter from Port-au-Prince,
toagentlemanin Norfolk,dated Marchs.
«“Before this arrives, you will pro
bably have heard dreadful accounts
of this place, as an alarm had been
circulated that we were od the point
of surrendering to the Brigands. It
is true we were given to believe that
an attack was meditated, but there
was never the smallest apprehensions
of danger entertained in it. In the
town we can muster upwards of 3000
men able ‘to carry arms, who, with
the fortifications on or near the lines
are more than will fuffice to keep oft
‘a_greater force than they can ever
potlibly bring against . us.—The bri
gands seemed determined to make a
general attack on all the posts in our
pofleflion at the fame time—They
were beat off at L’Archaye with con
siderable loss ; but at Mirabelais and
Grandebois, were more {fuccefsful,
‘thefe posts, and one called La Congo,
about 6 miles from hence, having
fallen into their hands. This ,laﬁ/
place was garrisoned by 100 men, 50
of whom were killed or wounded, in-
- LONDON, Feb. 6.
: e LOrTy : .
INSTRUCTIONS
To Commanders of [hips of avar, and
privatecrs that have or may have let
ters of marquz or veprifal azainf
France, Spain or the Unitzd States.
.Given at the court of St. Fames's,
the 24th day of Fan. 1768, in the
38th year of our reign.
Whereas by the former inftru&ions
to the commanders of our ships of
war and privateers, ‘dated the Bth
of January 1794, we fignified that
they fthould bring in, for lawful adju
dication all veflels, with their cargoes,
that are laden with goods, the pro
duce of 'French Weft India islands,
and coming dire&tly from any port in
Europe ; and likewise all ships with
their cargoes, that were loaded with
goods the produce of the said islands,
the property of which goods thould
belong to fubje&s of France, to what
ipever ports the fame might be bound ;
and that they should seize all' ships
that should be found attempting to
enter any port of the said islands, that
was or thould be Dblockaded by the
arms of his majesty or his allies, and
shall bring them in with . their.car
gees, for-adjudication ; and also all
veflels Jaden wholly or in part, with
naval or military stores, bound to
any port of the said islands, and thould
fend them into some convenient port
belonging to his majesty, in order that
their. .cargoes, might be proceeded
again{t according to the law of na
tions ; and whereas in consideration
of the present state of the commerce
of the country, as well as that of neu
tral countries it is. expedient to re
voke the said inftru&ions ; we are
pleased hereby to revoke the said in
firu&ted in lieu thereof,—we have
thought fit to issue these our instruc
tions to be observed from henceforth
By the commanders our thips of war
and privateers that have or may have
letters of marque against France,
Spain and the United Provinces.
That they shall bring in for lawful
adjudication, all thips, with their car
goes, that are'laden wich" goods, the
produce of any ™ island or fettle
mentsbelonging to France, Spain,orthe
United Provinces, and coming direct
ly from any port of the said islands
or {cttlements, to any port in Europe,
not being a port of this kingdom, nor
a port in that country, to which such
thips, being neutral thips thall belong.
“That they shall bring in for law
ful adjudication, all ships with their
cargoes, that are laden with goods,
the produce of the said islands or settle
ments, the property of which goods
ihall belong to fubje@s of France,
Spain ar the United Provinces, to
whatever ports the fame may be
bound. : -
“That they shall seize all ships that
shall e found attempting to enter
any port of the said Islands or settle
ments, the property of which goods
shall belong to fubje&s of France,
Spain, or the United Provinces, to
whatever ports the fame may be
bound. 4
“That they shall seize all vessels
laden wholly or in part with naval
or military stores, bound to any port
in the said islands or settlements, and
shall fend them into some convenient
port, belonging to his majesty, in or
der that they, together with their
cargoes, may be proceeded against,
according to the laws of nations.
By his majesty’s command.
PORTLAND.
7co féll in the attack ; had. not am
munition given out, it is imagined the
garrison would have made a greater
resistance. Camp Fourmier, 7 miles
from hence, was attacked yesterday
evening by 3 or sooco Brigands :
Hitherto we have no accounts from
thence, but we suppose our troops
maintained their ground, s our co
lours are difcernable. »
“Gen. Neibitt, our new comman
der in chief, we shall now look for
almost daily—he brings out, it is re
ported, four thousand troops.”
' Arrir 25. ,
- IMPORTANT. -
Extra@t of a letter from a Gentleman in
Philadelphia, to his friend in this city,
received by yeflerday’s Mail—dated
April 23.
“On Friday the House of Repre
sentatives; by a majority, pafled a bill
to authorize the President to procure
and fit out twelve twenty gum ships
(and a clause not to use them in time
of peace as convoys, was rejected ) leav
ing to the President, of course, the
manner of their employ. = Thus we
have no hope that they will not be em
ployed, to prevent open war with the
~ French nation. As the partizans of
the Executive power fay that by the
Contftitution, he has thé sole power to
direé the service in which our naval
force is to be employed ; this being
their opinion, we cannot doubt what
opinion the Executive entertains on
this fubje& while 1t is insisted, that the
direction of the force is velted in the
~ Legislature. : :
“The committee of Ways and Means
} have, on Saturday, agreed to reporta
' bill for a LaNp tax of 2,000,000 of
dollars. : -
“The Senate will this day pass a
bill for an army of 20,000 men to be
raised, whenever the Executive shall
deem it expedient, while they, at the
{fame time, openly avow; that he will
embody them in the recess of Congress.
It is not doubted but that it will also
- be forced through the House of Repre
{entatives, by their afing and not de
[ liberating majority.
- “Thus the hopesof preserving peace
and happiness to the United States, as
well for the present as for the future,
depend on their ele&ions ; nothing
short of a majority can stop the mad
career of a partyfrom imposing on us
all the oppreflion and persecution of
the British government, with its at
tendant corruptions.” « -
BOSTON, April 28.
.. ANTICIPATION.
By several gentlemen who arrived
in town last evening from New-York,
we have been honored with papers of
that city, to Wednesday last. The
subsequent sketches portray their con
tents. ' ‘
- Numerous addrefles to the Presi
dent, and Congress are pouring in.
Congress were proceeding with
harmony and dispatch in defenfive
measures.
The thip Favourite has arrived at
New-York, from England. Left
Portsmouth 12th March, under con
voy. ‘No néws.
Accounts from Nantz, to March
6, state that the Direftory had in
formed our Envoys, that they would
attend to them when they had fettled
with England. »
- Merlin is President to the French
Dire&ory. S,
A revolution is rapidly advancing
in Switzerland ; the Cantons of Zu
rich, Bafle, Solothurn and Friburg,
have caught the French infedtion ;
- and the remaining cantons are not
expetted to escape the contagion. =
The triple crown of the defcendent
of St. Peter, has been topled down ;
and his Holiness is now no more than
the firft Bishop of theCatholic Chur¢h.
- The ill treatment of our Envoys
by the French, their exorbitant de
mands and infamous threats have u
nited all classes of people in this Coun
try, and roused the true American
Spleitof- g v ;
Throughout the United States, the
People are aflembling to address the
President in terms similar to those ex
prefled by the ever loyal inhabitants
of Boston. '
- Philadelphia, New-York, Balti
more, Providence, and many other
towns have declared their approba
tion of the measures of the Execu
tive relative to France, their deter
mination to resist all foreign influence,
and -their readiness to defend our
Country and its rights _at. every ha
zard of their lives- and fortunes—
Many towns is this Commonwealth
are in motion ;. Subscription Papers
" are now in circulation at Salem, and
“we are assured that the People of the
truly federal town of Gloucelter will
be ‘nearly unanimous in an Address
fraught ‘Wwith sentiments and declara
tions highly patriotic and spirited.,
e & ety
- The malignancy of some of the Ja
cobin faétion, still hinders- their join
ing the multitude of converts :—But
this spirit has never Thewn itfelf so di
abolic, as in the recent slurs cast ‘on
-our beloved and refpe@ed. President’s
Proclamation: for. a_ day of public
- Fafing, prayer and thanksgiving.—
When theprovincial Congress in 1775,
recommended a similar measure, the
Tories derided it with the fame sheers:
and we believe from the fame mo
tives. Our favorite poet,, Trumbull,
aptly portrays the conduét of the lat
ter :—We trust he will excuse our
modernizing a few words in the fol
lowing extra&. As those Jacobins
sometimes boast of their piety as well
as “exclusive patriotism ;’ let us ask
when they have displayed it?
“*Tawas then belike’> Honorious criedy:
“Wheti they the public fafts denied :
“Refuf’d to heav’n to put a pray’r,
“Because they’ve no connexions there :.
“And since with patriotic faces, ﬁ
“To French Genet they sent addreffe:,
“In him awho made those tories fecing,
| «“They live and move and have their being,
“They’re bumble prayers they would not
give "
“Topoaw’rs they venoacquaintanceawith.”
The Hon) Meflrs. Gordon, and
' Gilman, Federal Representatives of
- New-Hampthire passed through this
~ town yesterday, on their way home.
l There are nearly 400 towns in Mas
sachusetts, of which some dozen or
{o, have been left to “petition Con--
gefs on the fubje& of arming Mer
"chantmen ! But of these few: only
one we believe is 2 mercantile town ;
and that is our sister Roxbury—the
amount of whose navigation is well
known. ;
The French partizans fay, that the
county of Spotfylvania in Virginia,
has petitioned Congress on the fub
je& of arming. N. B. Spotfylvania
.~ contains §933 negro slaves—every §
of whom give their maftersthree votes!
Comment here, to New-Englandmen
would be useless. : '
COMMUNICATIONS.
~ Judge D. at the late meeting at
Cambridge, after delivering atrain of
faéts, and dealing in unanswerable de
monftrations,clofedhis excellent speech
by a few conjeures, which he desired
might be received as such—said a
mong other things #hat he dveuld ven
ture to predié? that they avould fee attempts
made by the French to divide us into tawo
republics, the one southward, awhere they
had many friends, and the other northern,
awere they had but very few. He believ
ed it, and had reason for believing it.
Such an opinion delivered by the
Chief Justice of Maflachufetts, and the
man too whom the President and the
public thought a proper person for a
Commissioner to France, must have
weight with any thinking people.
Some on the other fide, held up
the precious dotrine that our councils
avere divided : What ! divided in N.
England, when out of the whole num
ber of delegates there are but four who
dissent from the general voice of their
constituents. That we are divided
from the southern states in opinion, is
no strange matter, since the best in
formed believe that our enemies leave
no stone unturned to effe& this divi
sion, in order that they might play off
one part of the continent against the
other. The southern delegation is
compoféd of a great many foreigners,
whereas the N. England delegation
has but one, and heis a Jacobin. The
French should be told that we in N.
England are a wonderfully united
people ; that our votes for our firft
Magistrate were unanimous, and that
every state ‘has at its head a federal
Governor, and that we will maintain
our independences against French ty
rants with as much firmnefs as we did
againlt the British tyrants ; that al
though we wish for peace yet if we
are driven to draw the sword (which
heaven forbid) ‘we will give another
inftarice to the world of our love of
- liberty and independence, and rooted
hatred of despotism whether it be from
one King or from five.
Arrir 30. -
FOREIGN. '
Via New-York, April 24.
- Last evening the Friends, Bochanen,
arrived at this port from Nantes,
which port she left on the loth of
March. ¢ o gk
By this veflel we have been favour
ed with some papers, which are not
very prolific. Nantes papers state—
That the ministers of war has re
signed. That the minister of marine
had set out for Brest, but without
Buonaparte. AT
~All the Princes and estates of the
Empire have acknowledged the left
bank of the Rhine as the boundary,
on condition of indemnity.
. - VERBAL accounts by the veflel
state, that our Envoys remained as
they were, it was said, the Dire&ory
had told them that all their' powers
and attention were now bent towards
the momentous obje& of INvapiNG of
England, after which they would have
time to treat with them. ..
th;l‘heberbal inf&rma‘t}ion of some of
passengers is thus stated— g
That our commissioners have been re
ceivedand were treating at Paris.
:g::tﬁewmnfour to ‘tix:le_ mrl:cn:
a general peace would take place
by May. Thatthe ideaof awl;itl
PORTSMOUTH, May 1.
The following Patriotic Address is
now in circulation in this town. It
has already acquired a very refpea
ble number of signers.—Copies of it
are now deposited at Meflrs. Larkin’s,
Peirce’s & Melcher’s refpe@ive Book
stores, and at the Poft-Office—There
cannot be the least doubt but that e
very true AMERICAN will add his
name to the lift; ’
_ TO .
John Adams, President,
AND TO THE
Congress of the United States.
THE fub{cribers, inhabitants of the
town of Portsmouth, State of New-
Hampthire,conceiving the present mo
ment to be one of those critical pe
riods, when political neceflity, calls a
loud for the public voice to advocate
the measures of its own government,
‘& cheerfully to offer the SUPREME
EXECUTIVE, & the CONGRESS
of the UNION, the most determined
and unequivocal suppoßT,in maintain
ing measures that have been, or may
be adopted sot the INTEREST,
HONOUR and INDEPENDENCE
of the UNITED STATES. They
therefore beg leave to express their
high sense and approbation of the
Wifdom' and Probity which have
chara&erifed the various efforts of our
.Executive, for effe®ing a permanent
reconciliation with France ; and find
ing that the Dire&ory has endeavour
ed to impose such terms as cannot be
accepted without the vilest prostration
of National Interefl, Honour and Inde
pendence : They, therefore, offer their
Property to Support, and their LIVES
to DEFEND, those Dear-Bought, Sa
cred and Inalienable Rights ; being
fully resolved to rally round the banners
of their Country, and follow the Stand
ard of Government, making every
poflible effort to ConvincE THE
WORLD, and more. especially the
unfriendly Powers of Europe, that they
are NOT the Divided People they have
been Represented to be, neither will
they be the SLAVES nor DUPES
of any nation upon the Face of the
GLOBE ! s :
Portsmouth, N. H. April 28, 1798.
Moses Young of ®hiladelphia, is
appointed Consul for Madrid. Capt.
E. Prebble Ift and Capt. J. B. Cordis,
~2d Liecutenant of the frigate Consti
tution. e
The peculiar qualities of Porcu
pine’s paper, and the operation of his
pungent satire upon the wincing ja
cobins, are well described in the fol
lowing lines, from one of the satires
of Biéop Hall, of Exeter.
S e et That Povespine,
Who shoots sharp Zuz’/[s outin eack angry line,
And wounds the blushing cheek and ficry eye
Of him that hears and readeth, guiltily.”
A witty Barber in New-York prison,
has written over the door of his apart
ment—* Plaintiffs thaved gratis.”
The Grand Jury of the United
States for the diftri&t of Pennsylvania
have addrefled a letter of approba
tion and thanks to the President of
the United States, on the subject of
his late disclosures of inftru&ions and
documents—to which the President
returned a very polite answer.
A meeting of citizens at Dunwoo
dy’s, in Philadelphia, have addrefled
the President, Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States
on this fame fubje&, and in the fame
stile. e
DlED]—dr Concord, Hazen Weft,
£ An t%:': town, a fbx’ld of Capt. Samuel
on of Fobn Wefl, aged 7 years.
e e 7,
““When {pring appears, when vi’lets blow,
And shed a rich perfume ;
How soon the fiagrance breathes its last |
‘How short ws is the bloom A
- PIKE's PORTSMOUTH
Marine Lif for April, 1798.
~_Aptil 6th. Arrived fthip ‘Mermaid, Til
ton, Martinico. ;
" _gth. Sailed brig Olive, Stoodly, Guada
loupe. - ' :
do failed brig Little Chérub, Shackford,
Havanna. i
14th. Arrived ship Pomona, Lander,
Calcutta. : , 5
18th. Sailed ship Mentor, Flagg, Surri
- ogd. Arrived brig Abigail, Smith, N.
Carolina. - - : ‘
do arrived brig ¢ Friends, Merril, Ham
bm’gh. AP ; R
do arrived schooner ¢ Brothers, Hawes,
Viegigll.d "0 P 3 98T e
do failed brig Bloflom, Moor, Georgia.
26th. Arrived brig Mar’ip, “Watts, St.
B b A
. arrived lloop .UUnver, Clark, Yaila
mﬁgbdd} L esPG ST T
27th. Arrived brig Rebecea, Moulton,
Demarara, he b T AR TS
America did not prevail. That it
was expected that Barras would go
out of the Directory and Buonaparte
be ele@ed in his place. That it was
reported several Americans were im
prisoned for the purpose of determin:
ing, if they were really Americans or
Englith. That all the privateers were
ftop’d for the purpose of afliting in
the determined invasion of England
unless peace should arrest them.
. goth, Sailed bng Polly, Furnace, Wel-
Indies,
- o failed schooner Indufify, Trefethern,
Curracoa,
e e e e )
Wednesday and Thur(day nekt
At 10 o’clock, A. M. will be fold at
Abraham Isaac’s
. Aution-Rooin, »
A GREAT variety of crockérv and
' glals ware, consisting of wine, glafl
es and double flint tumbiers, salt cellass,
tea pots, bowls—pint, quart and half pih¢
mugs, pitchers, falis, creams, &c. Frying
pans, flone jugs, pickle pots, sealing-wax,
tar bruthes, curry combs, coat buttons, au
gurs, gilt watch chains, indigo, salt petre,
fur hats, .ladies Morocco thread cases, vio
lins, chaise whips, felt hats, alfpice, firip’d
linen and woolen plush, shoes, boots, flarch,
fouchong tea, 8 by 10 crown glass, 8 by 6
do. wool cards. ¥
Bedfteds, Andirons, Looking Gtafles,
Wa aiters, Cloathing, Hadley’s Quadrant,
Charts, Warches, 1 dozen yellow painted
Boston fan back Chairs, &c. &c.
Out door sale between 13 and 1 o’clock.
Brandy pipes, bags, tables, thairs, an
excellent feather bed, &c. &c. - °
N. B. Vendue kept cvery Wednelday.
e i s
The Young Traveller.
THE’full blooded milk white horse call
ed the Young Traveller, which cov
ered at the stable of Col. David Webster,
in Plymouth, for two seasons past, will fland
for covering the ensuing season at the Rable
of Capt. David Webflerin Moultonboreugh.
Terms 15/ a leap, 27/. the season, and 42/,
to warrant a foal.
Also, the hoife called the Young Fox
Hunter, only 4 years old, seven eighths
blooded, 154 hands high, brought last sea
son from Hartford, will fland the ensuing
season at the above flable, terms g/. a leap,
18/. the season and go/. to warrant a foal,
Wm., WEBSTER & Co.
Moultonborough, April, 1798.
N. B. Good pasturing for Mares at a
réaflonable price. :
A eeS bt
‘ N JHEREAS Molly Packer of Green-.
land, in the county of Rockingham,
and State of New-Hampthire, widow, as
Administratrix of the last will'and testament
of Thomas Packer,. late of Portsmouth, in
said county, gentleman, decealed. intéftate,
hath petitioned the Judge of Probate for
said county, setting forth, “that the said
Thomas in his life time, did, by his Attor
ney, agree with one Belknap, and one
Wright, to convey to them all his lands in
Marlborough, in the county of Cheshire and
State aforefaid, and praying that the might
be empowered 10 make a deed of {aid lands
to the said Belknap and Wright. This is
to notify all persons concerned to appear
before the said Court of Probate, to be
holden at Portsmouth oo the gd Wednes
day of June next, and to thew cause (if any
they have) why the prayer of said petition
should not be granted.
By Order of the Fudge,
WILLIAM PARKER, Regifler.
State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE~ is hereby given, that
2 Asa Eastman and others, in
habitants of Chatham, have petitioned
the General Court of said State, pray
ing that a tax of two and an half cents
per acre upon all the lands in said
Chatham, may be granted them for
the purpose of making roads in said
town, and that a committee be ap
pointed to fee the fame effeced. .
Upon which petition it is ordered,
That the petitioners be heard before
the General Court on the second Wed
nesday of the next feflion, and that in
the mean time the petitioners cause
that the substance of the petition and
Order of Court thereon, be publithed
three weeks fucceflively in the New-
Hampthire Gazette, commencing fix
weeks prior to said day of hearing;
that any person may then appear and
shew cause (if any they have) why the
prayer thereof may not be granted.
Attest, -
NATH’I PARKER, Dep’y Sec’y.
Dec. 14, 1797.
WHEREAS application hath been
made to me the fublcriber by more
thao one sixteenth part of the proprictors
and owners of Piercy, in the county of
Grafton, to’call a meeting of said propric
tors, to meet at the house of Mr. Elitha
Blake in said Piercy, on the 96th day of
May next, at 1 o’clock, P. M. for the fol
lowing purposes : : e
ift. To choole a moderator, proprietors
clerk, afleflors and colle&or.
ed. Toappoint a committee to examine
the claims any of the settlers may have to
any lands in said Piercy, agreeably to any
former votes of the proprietors, and to give
deeds to such as are entitled thereto, which
have not received them.
3d. To fee if the proprietors will agree
to lay out the town into lots & agree on some
method of pitchingordrawing the fame ; and
if agreed to, to appointa commattee 10 agree
with a suitable person to compleat the sur
vey, and return a plan thereof ; and torife
money by a tax to pay the expence thercof.
4th. To fee if the proprietors will tax
themselves three cents on cach acre of land
in {aid town, for making a road iaid out
leading from Stratford to Shelburne, -ud
other repairs on roads, and pention the C -~
neral-Court of this State to suspend an it
afled 1795, as tar as refpefls the iown of
‘gicrcy. forone year, and to tranfaét 2uy
other maiters that may be thought proper
when met. e e
Accordingly the said proprietors are here
by notificd 10 meet at ime and place for
the forementionéd purposes.
- ABNER CLARK, jiftice Peace.
- Piercy, March gO, 1798.
B AR SARE BY G G s
__ Fhomas Sheafe,
-~ At his Store; N rth End, =
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