The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1793-02-11 00:00:00, page 2

A Gentleman of this State, who bis just re
turned from Fortavafeinton, informs, that
on the 24th of November, two Companies of
,he Nrwengland Troops, came into that Place
from one of the out Posts, he believed Fort St,
Clair. He observed that these Troops cut a
shocking Figure, and look more like a Band of
Beggars than federal Soldiers posted for the
Defence of our Frontiers—God help us if we
had no other Defenc§,thanfuch a Set of poor,
neglected, Taterdemalions.—Fallftaffs were
princely clad, when compared to these wretch
ed broken spirited Creatures—For they were
not only bare of Shirts, and bare headed, but
were without a single Pair of Shoes, and a Ma
jority of them were obliged to conceal their
Pofteriours with ragged Blankets !
This Gentleman asserts that this Report is
not exaggerated, and appeals to many Ken
tuckians who were Spectators with himfelf.
§ He has left hie Name to support it.—The fol
lowing Interrogatories naturally follow, viz.
, Ift. Did the Publick engage clothing to
these Men when they cnlifted?
2d. If this was the Case, has the Money
been advanced to purchase it ?
3d. If the Money has been advanced ; who
received it—when was it received—and hoW
hath it been appropriated?
4th. If it has been fairly appropriated, why
has not the chothing been fentout sooner ?
As the National Legiflatureis new in Ses
sion, it may not be improper for that august
Body to put these Question s —for it is strongly
„fufpeded by some, that either through Igno
, rance or Indolence or Roguery, or all, the na
tional Confidence is abused, and misused, and
the Rights of their Soldiery violated. It might
not be improper at the fame time for them to
enquire why "an+Army is kept drinking, gam
ing, fooling, and frolicking at PittJburgb,
whilst a Handful of Men arc constantly obhg-
FRANCE.
NATIONAL CONVENTION.
November,
NICE reunited to FRANCE.
DEPUTIES from Nice presented them-
Selves at the Assembly, and Spoke as
follows:
“ Legislators, the People of Nice, ever Since
. their Elevation to Liberty, have ever had one
great End in View—the being united to
France. Return, Frenchmen, said they to us
at parting, with a mild Menace, or do not re
turn at all. Legislators, accede to our wishes.
We will have no Kings. Our Opposition is
such, that we must be either Frenchmen or
Slaves."
M. David moved, that she President
Should give the Kiss of Fraternity to the two
Deputies, in the Name of the French Repub
lick. This Motion was adopted, and the two
Deputies walked up to the President, and re
ceived from him the Kiss of Fraternity, amid
'the Acclamations of the whole Assembly.
M. Uaquino moved, that the Reunion of
Nice with France, should be pronounced at the
Instant. This Motion was oppnfed, on- the
Principle that the Reunion of Nice could riot
be acknowledged by the Convention, until the
People of AfoShould express the With regu
larly, after having taken the Sense of all the
People in the primary Assemblies.
and immediately took out a Writ again M. de
Calonne, whom he had on Wednesday ar
rested. The Engagement having been im
mediately paid, the proceedings of course have
flopped ; but the Publick may judge from this
Circumstance, to what disagreeable Predica
ments this Minister has exposed himfelf, in his
zeal to maintain the cause of his King.
ENGLAND.
L OND ON, October 27.
A French Gentleman, who had last Year of
his own accord, lent to the Princes, Brothers
of the French King, 5,000!. Sterling, for
which M. de Calonne had become respon
sible, arrived in London a Day or two since,
By last Wednesday's MAIL.
KENTUCKY.
LEXINGTON, December 1.
DOMESTICK.
FOREIGN.
PENNSYLVANIA.
PHILADELPHIA, January 26.
Extraa frem Lin dsay's Norfolk Hotel Diary,
On Sunday last arrived here the Brig WiL
liam Pennock, Captain Williams, who
left Gate dalou,e the 15th of December. Four
Days before Captain Williams failed, the
Frigate Felicite arrived, in 35 Days from
France, at Dominie, and brought News of the
Defeat of the combined Forces. This Intel
ligence was very alarming to many of the In
habitants, who, apprehensive ofa Visit from
a French Fleet, were leaving th'e Inlands.
Captain Williams took 20 Passengers for
Saint Enflatius, where he found other Ameri
can Vessels full of French Passengers. Saint
Euftatius was full of French People, and scarce
a House to be got on any Terms. At Saint
Martins, found several Vessels with French
Passengers on board, from Gaudaloupe ; also a
Vessel from Martinico, with Passengers, who
informed, that the Inhabitants of that Island
were continually under Arms—that 1700 of
the Inhabitants had quitted the Island— all
kind of Business at a Stand, and nothing doing
except fortifying the Island, repairing the
Forts, and getting in order to arm their Ne
groes, (in case the expeded Fleet should Ar
rive) with a Determination to protest the
white Flag.
The Frigate La Felicite got Informa
tion of a French Frigate, who wore the white
Flag, which the La Falicite gave chafe to
—ffie run into Backftaffi Gaudaloupe, under
cover of the Guns. The Captain of the La
Felicite wrote the Governour of Gaada
lo^e, if he caught any aristocratic Flags in the
Weftindies, he was determined to fink them.
He bent his course to Dominica, as he could
not obtain any supplies in the French Islands.
NEWYORK.
POUGHKEEPSIE, January 9 .
On Saturday last a most Shocking Murder
was committed on the Body of Mr. Jacob
Horton,Miller, ofFiJbHU by Ezra Mead,
a Cooper. , ,
It seems Mead had feme difference with a
Sifterin Law of Horton, who he abused at
Horton's house on Saturday evening.—Hor
ton was diffatisfied at the Abuse, and told
him to desist, or he would turn him out Doors.
He tapped Horton on his shoulder, and desir
ed him to walk to the Door, and be would tell
him how the Woman had used him, and at the
fame Time exprefled the good Terms they
were on (himfelf arid Horton) and hoped
they would not differ. Horton followed
him to the Door —it being feme what Slip
pery, Mead would have Fallen had nat Hor
ton have catched, at the fame Time telling
him to be careful. Without any Conversation
, taking place, and atthe Moment of his pre
venting the Monster's hurting himfelf by a
Fall, he. received from Mead a Stab of a
Knife in his Belly—on which the horrid Per
petrator made off. Horton immediately
called Murder, and feme Persons running out,
found him standing, holding up his Bowels,
which had fallen out by Reason of the Wound
received. He languiftiedlill Monday, when
he expired,
The Murderer is fafely lodged in Jan.
ed to pad the Hoof from Fort Washington to
Fort Jefferfon, fubjed to be flogged, beaten
and destroyed? whenever Gitty or M'Kee
gives the Word.j
These Inquiries are nefeffary to juftify the
very great Confidence which the Nation, par
ticularly the weftern People, have in a bright
Secretary at War, and a brilliant Cammander
in Chief. . >' ^ ^ — •'
,RHODEISLAND.
PROVIDENCE, January 12.
At a Court of common Pleas, hold
en for the County of Middlejex, in the
State of Cameaicui, in November last,
an A&ion was commenced on the Sta
tute of that State for preventing the
Slave Trade.—Elisha Mather,of
tyrook; in said County, Physician,
to Am, Complainant, against Newell,
Wbi^dPr^ 'hat County, Nt
groflealers, for taking thirty Negroes
ftom Africa, & felling them as Slaves
in Hiftaniel^ The Penalties of the Law
are £.500 for the Vessel, mid. footy )
Head for the Negroes, amounting in £
the whole to £2OOO one half to the &
State, and the other to the Complain-]
ant ; who proposes, it is said, to apply l
the Proceeds .towards liberating the
identical Perfons,^ to be found, or oth- 1
ers, as far as the Money will go. The
A&ion is continued to the next Term ^
of said Court, and, from the Fullness
of the Evidence, as well as the Spirit 4
of the People at large, and the Integri- 1
, of the Guri, a Convidion will un
doubtedly take Place.
A young Woman by the Name
of Molley Culeigh, alias
Cooley, who now resides at Sar
atoga Springs, was stolen by the I
Indians, 11 Years since, in feme
Part of the United States, where
she does not know; The Print
ers on the weftern Frontiers will
oblige the unfortunante Female,
by giving this a Place in their Pa
pers that her Relations may know >
where to find her, [pm/ %%.]
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" During the late Seflions of the Le
gislature of this State, a Bill was bro't
before the House of Repfrfentatives,
for prohibiting the further Importation
of Slaves from J/ricu, the Weflindiu,
and elsewhere, for the Term of two
Years. A Question of such Importance
was entitled to the most argumentative
Difeuffon, and in no Instance has the
Energy of Language been more pow
erfully displayed. But, in taking the
Sense of the House, there appeared a
decided Majority of Votes in Support
of the Bill. In this Situation it went dp
to the Senate, where it was canvassed
with an Obstinacy still more pointed ;
and after exhauflirg every Topick 01,
MASSACHUSETTS.
SPRINGFIELD; January 22.
We hear from Hatfield, in the upper Part of
this County, that a very serious Circumstance
occurred there, on Thursday evening last.,
In the Afternoon of said Day, one Antho
ny Jarvis, a mulatto Man, in Company
with three Negroes, all fellow Comrades,
made a Visit over the river to Oldbadlg, where
they tarried until late in the Evening and then
set out towards Home. They were Heard,
when they came upon the Bank of the River,
by a Woman upon the opposite fide of the
Bank, quarrelling very violently. They pro
ceeded on their way, and were heard no mbre
of that Night. Early on Friday Morning,
Jarvis was found DEAD in the Meadows, a
small Distance from the River.
CONCORD,
r Monday, February 11, 1793.
,—, From Paris— Oaober 20.
I HE National Convention of Savoy, assem
bled at Cranberry, has declared that the
KING OF SARDINIA HAS FORFEIT ED
HIS TITLE TO THAT LUTCHY. and
that it is the with of the Nation that it Should
be united to France.
We learn (fays a late Virginia Paper) that
all hopes of accomplishing a Peace with the
weftern Indians is given up : The only Terms
on which they will Treat being, that the Riv
er Ohio Shall be the boundary Line; therefore,,
as it would include all the Nroengland and
Symms's Purchases, as well as the Lands
granted to the Officers of the Virginia Line, in
the late continental Army, it is reasonable to
suppose those Terms will never be agreed to.
^ MIRROUR.