The New Hampshire gazette — Portsmouth [N.H.], 1803-09-06 00:00:00, page 2

Late Forewgn Intefhgence.
_— ¢
NEW-YORK, August 25.
London papers to the 13th July.
inclusive, were last evening received at
the office of the Mercantile Advertif
er,thro’ the politeness of Capt. Hender
son, of the thip Caledonia from Liver
pool. We acknowledge our obliga
tions, also, to Capt. Sterling, of the
Mercury, for Rotierdam papersto*
gth July ; and to the captain of the
brig Sea-Nymp for Burdeaux papers
to-the B 477 G27s ¥O V 4
" These - papers™ contain very-litele
intelligence of moment. ‘
The expedition againtt England,it
is said; will consist of 500,000 men; in
five divilions,to be commanded by
Bonaparte, Moreau & Bournonville’;
of which it is calculated that 260,000
‘will be deffroyed in the attempr,
and that the‘remainder will be u force
fufficient to conquer theifland. < =
“"Robert Afilery, lave aflittarit to the
principal cathier 6f the Bank of kng
land, has had 'his trial o the~ Bth-fgr
‘embezzling properiy belanging to the
bank vo t_’hg a,t)‘nogﬁt of £ ibg,ggéi&rh
ing, and was acquitted without exam
ining the witnefles; on’ the ground
that the exchequer bills alledged to
have been toleny thad ‘wot been 'for
mallyfigned under the authorities éon
flituted in the:a@® by which they were
flfued. He was, however, remunded
4o prison for a “civil debt due to’ the
‘bank of upwards of £ 100,000.
> s s L ONDON; yuLy 1.
It is'not improbable that letters of
Mmarque and ‘reprifals will, in a thort
time; be ffued ‘againft Spain. Gov
“ernment has, wé aré affuerd, réceived
authentic information that the withes
expréfied by the court of Madrid to
Ppreferve a frict neutrality have ‘been
completely fruftrated by the positive
injun&ions of Bonaparte, who requires
-every poflible exertion on the part of
“Spain to co-operate in his views against
this country; by the afliftance of her
navy. In consequence of this requi
sition, officially communicated to the
‘Spanifh government, orders were sent
to the commandant of the marine at
Cadiz, to prepare ten f{ail of the line
for sea with all poflible dispatch, and
they are now a&ually equipping at the
Isle de Leon in the harbor. This
intelligence reached government on
the 25th ult and measures were im
‘mediately adopted by Earl St. Vin.
cent to strengthen our fleet in the
. Mediterranean. It was in consequence
of that determination, that the Malta
and ‘Canopus of 8o guns, and the
Sceptre and Conquzror, of 74, were
dispatched for the straits last ‘Tuefday
from the channel fleet. They will
probably put into the T'agus, or cruize
between Lisbon and Gibraltar until
teinforced by some other veflels from 1
England. The blockade of Cadiz and
Fertol does not seem very distant.
Notwithstanding thedeparture of thefe_
four thips, Admiral Cornwallis’s force‘f
is adequate to the accomplishment of .
every obje we have in view. His ]
squadron, which is now cruizing in |
different points before Brest, consists 1
‘of 16 fail of the line, and the port of
Rochefort is blockaded up by three ]
more under the command of Sir
Edward Pellew. l
In the eveint of invasion, the king it
is Rated, will take the field in person,
and will be affited in the conduét of
the war by a military council. His
majesty certainly will, in the course of
the autumn, review the different
camps near Lohdon. ‘
The following intelligence has been
received from Falmouth, which we
communicaté on no other authority
than the accoust itfelf affords. We
can only express our hope that more
authentic information may soon enable
us to confirm the truth of it. ¢ Tues
day last a pilot belonging to Helftone,
in Cornwall, boarded a Prussian gals
liot, from Alicant with salt, which
vessel had the morning before been
" boarded by some persons belonging to
a Guernsey privateer, returning from
4 cruize, which petfons said that ad
miral Cornwallis had taken the con
voy from .St. Demingo including the
men of war. 1
s ; Jory Ik
A cotrt of alderman was held yes
terday, at which it was resolved to
" arm in every ward all men between
theage of 18 and 45 and to embody
** all men above the age of 45, ina corps |
to serve as conffables. ‘
The negociation which has for some
weeks been carrying on through the
' mediation 'of Ruﬁga, for restoring
' peace between this country & France,
_ has been brought to a close—Ft has
. produced nothing : iftdeed hardly a
" ny one expe&ed it would. These.
~ cretarylof the Rufliun embufly, at Pa
-* #is,ismow in London. Hebrought che
s wfﬂtg&cs ‘which announced the fail
* wve of the negociation. R rematas o
*be seen what part the court of St. Pe
'iﬁ* rgh ﬁ%ﬁ in consequence.
« Tt.appears from the Bruflels papers,
e el el i oo
erament.—This has occasioned move
ments that may lead to consequences
which we shall not attempt to anticis
pate. et _
When the Firlt Consul entered
Dunkirk on the 14th July, citizen
-Emery, the mayor, at the head of all
the constituted -authorities, afembled
under a tent elegantly ornamented,
i waited for him at the firk exterior
" barrier, and addressed him in the fol
i, lowing terms :, ,
| “What happiness, citizen First
- Consul to poflefs you in this part of
{ the country. The public joy is com
| Aplcte.-—-t come to oﬂ'exj you, citizen
. Tirit Consul, the keys of the town. 1
i offer them with pride, tor I refufed
these keys when mayor of Dunkirk,
in 1793, to the Duke of York, whed
' he came to besiege us with 40,000
' men, and to ekpofe before our féeble
- ¥amparts, his military career. ~ The
| inhabitants, of Dupkirk, by their cours
. age, concurred to expel the Englith
| from these ‘{hores.—The inhabitants
- of Dunkirk have ndt degenerated : a
'~ brave peopl¥ ire the moré worthy of
' receiving ‘4 hefo. Our country and
| Napoleon Bonspatte are oitr {houts of
| ‘railying.—-—Receivc,- citizen Firtt Con
| ful the homage of our love'and our
| relpedtl’ e 5 e
| - Xbe ;P?;rln;Conful"‘repliéJ. that the
. keys of the town of Dankirk could
. not be. in better hands than in those
t of the diltingnifhed mayor who pre
| fented them ;—that the attachme t¢”
| the inhabitants was already knowi. w
him, and that he congratulated him.
felf on being among them.
PerersßucH, June 10.
Whatever may be the true object of
{ the equipment of the Ruffian feet,
} which at firt occasioned so much a
| larm, the time for the developement
| of this mystery seems to be at no great
distance. The beginning of this
month, the grand fleet left the port of
Revel ; arrived in the road of Cron
| Radt, and combined with a fleet lying
| there completely equipped. -
Sir J. Borlafs Warren, the Englith
ambaflsdor here, and admiral, is on
the point of returning to England.
He has solicited his recal, as withing
| to take an a&ive part in'the war which
| is now broken out between his coun
| try and France. 3
RorTerpam, jury 5.
On change to-day intelligence was
imparted, which came from London
' on the 3oth ult. that the English had
[ declared Hamburgh, Bremen and
- Embden, in a state of blockade ; a
-circumstance which will' doubtless
have a great influence on colonial
~ produ&@s. The importation of these
articles, the produ@s of the Britith
colonies, as well as all Englith manu
fattures, is to be prohibited in this
country ; gs well as, it is {aid, the ex
- portation of provisions to England ;
~all which is intended rigidly to be
¥ carried into effet.—The funds are a
- gain dull. Batavian refcriptions were
noted from 45 a 45 1-2 per cent.
! Kinesron, ( Famaica) July 30, 1803.
e A A et ooA B I
ESTERDAY arrived at Port-
Y Reyal his Majelty’s ship Van
guard, Capt. Walker, of 74 guus with
her prize La Dumeful, of 74 guns.
This man of war formed part of a
squadron of two fail of the line and
. one frigate, which left Cape Francnis
i the 25th July. Before the Vanguard
- loft fight of the squadron the Elephant
' of 74 guns, Capt. Dundas, was along
- fide, and engaging the French Ami
tal, in a 74 ;—the Thefus, Capt.
Bligh, of 74 guns, was nearly up-to
~ the {cene of a&ion, and several veflels
- were in chafe of the French frigate.
& An account from the Cape, of
- a late date, mentions, that the French
- ship chafed by the Elephant, had got .
~ into Port-de-Paix, in a crippled con
~ dition.
- Amongst the prizes lately sent in by
- his Majesty’s cruisers, isthe National
- btig Lodi, of 18 guns ; & the schooner
- L’Otfeau. The Lodi is the veflel in
- which Bonaparte escaped from Egypt,
| S
Interefling Communication.
Cuarcestown, (S. C.) avé. 16.
On Saturday evening last, John
Mason, well known by several persons
in this city to be a native citizen, born
in Philadelphia, of a reputable family,
was committed to the guard-house by
three gentlemen, one of whom is
krown to be a merchant of this place.
He was delivered into the custody of
the gward in the namé and behalf of a
Capt. Higgs, as an absconding sea
man. , A | "
The tale which this man related of
himfelf was as follows :—That he
had signed articles to go to Jamaica
on board a vessel in the merchant ser
vice ; that after signing articles, it
~was privately intimated to him that
he was to be teken over the Bar on
pretence of a voyage to Jamaica, and
there to be put on board the Britith
~armed veflel now lying off our bar
bour ; that on difgovery of this infa.
- tendered a return of the money paid
make his escape, but was pursued
and put in confinement...—~-~By 2
Tuccefsful piece of ingenuity of one
of his friends, this man has escaped
from this unfortunate situation ; but
it is notorious that this veflel has fill
her agents in this place, endeavouring
to equip herfelf with men.
It is also understood & believed in.-
disputable, that a supply of great guns
_and ammiinition has been sent to her
from this city. So that although not
;actually lying within this port, the is
to all intents and purposes arming in
. our harbour against an ally. This
- fubje&t calls for the prompt attention
i of our federal officers, and must excite
| univerfdl indignation against those
| who are aiding 4nd_abetting her it
| commirting so grofsa violation of 4
reutrality at this time {o impdrtant to
our country. » |
. Capt. Eftefs, of the schooner Neg.
tune, arrived ‘on'Sunday from Cape-
Francols, ‘inferms, that about five or
lix miites fromthe port he was boarded
by one'of the Britith fleet cruising off
the Cape who informed him that two
Freich line of battle thips were cap
tured and {ent for Jamuica, and that
one of their fquadrod wids then in
chal® ot a French frigate. * Thete was
a report in the Cape the day before
Capt! E. failed that all the French
ports to windward wete blocked up.
Every thing was very peaceable in the
Cape when he failed. |
By the brig Flora Capt. Davis, 20
daysfrom Kingßon, arrived in Hamp
ton Roads on Wednefdav fen’night,
we learn that all Amcrican veflels
boend to any port of St. Domingo,
ar¢ sent to Jamaica without discrimi
nation. Gen. Morgan, together with
a number of officers, have been sent
to England in the Santa Margaretta
frigate. A great number of Ameri
can veflels have already arrived in
Kingston, but none from the port of
Notfolk.
Capt. Small, at Portland, informs
that on the gsth ultimo a British sloop
arrived at St. Croix from st. Chrifto
phers, with an account that admiral
Jarvis had fallen in with the French
fleet from St. Domingo, and captur
ed four fail of the line and five frig
ates.
By an arrival at Baltimore, we
learn that the French privateers out
of Martinique, hud captured seven
home¢ward bound Englith vessels from
Trinidad, richly laden with sugars,
and feut them into Curracoa.
BavrriMore, ave. 26.
Yesterday Citizen Jerome Bona
parte (brother of the Firfkt Consul of
France) with the Spanith Consul,
breakfafted on board the Spanish cor
vette at the Point. He was welcom
ed and adieued by a royal salute ; and
the corvette was beautifully drefled
with colours.
BosTon, serT. 1, 1803.
Yelterday the anniversary Com
- mencement at Cambridge was celebrated
- in the usual manner. His Excellency
- Governor Strong, His Honor Lt.
- Governor Rossins, and other civil
'~ overseers of Harvard University, were
escorted from this town to that feat of
' science, by the Roxbuty troop of light
' horse. —_—
' Names of the Graduatis—
Joseph Adams, Benjamin Ames, Eph
riagp Putoam Bradford, Benjamin Bufley,
{:}’ah Butler, Ray Clarke, Jacod Copgin,
filliam Draper, Asa Eaton, Joe! Eilis,
l Heory Fales, Joho Parrar, Jefle Fithes, Si
- mon Forrester, Abner Gardner, William
Hodges, Jonathan Homer, Daniel Jones,
~ David Tenny Kimball, Samuel Kirklard,
~ Daaiel Waldo Lincoln, Dantel Newcomb,
~ Nathan Parker, Thomas lvers Parker,
- Charles Parkman, Edward Paylon, Stephen
Peabody, William Popkin, Isaac Gardoer
Reed, Caleb Rice, Edward Russel), Win.
throp Sargent, James Savage, William
Bartletr Sewall, Lewis Strong, Fiedric Hal
dimand Sumner, Danie] Swan, ]nhn Man
Taylor, Acdréw Elliot Thayer, Jonathan
Thompson, Samuel Willard. -
By the mail from the weftard we
find that federalifm has nothing to
hope form that quarter—the Ken
tucky eleétion has just been held, and
in return for all the vastly kind soli
citude of the federalifts last winter for
its interests, in return for their excla
five kindness in recommending an in
furre&tion, every member fro.m that
state to the eighth congress will be a
republican. If such effeés result
from the efforts of federalifm, what
may not be expefted when our wes
tern frontiers are no longer open to
the inroads of jealous rivals or foreign
enemies, and this brought about by
the present republican administration ?
The western states already afford such
support to the friends of the constitu
tion on the shores of the Atlantic,
their influence is encreafing so much
moré rapidly than that of domgﬂnc
attachment to foreign forms of gov
_ernment aifd,éd_sys%aféizﬁ influence,
_that there is every hope of preserving
our republican institution, from the
machinations as well as the {words of
‘*i%‘ I“ﬂ ¥ i MI !"I ||||
.earn the rewards of their perfidy, can
have but little regard for'the happi
tiefs of polterity, when they aim at
subverting the government of this re
public. Qur moftinveterate enemies,
poflefling the leatt spark of honesty,
cannot on mature reflection, but fe.
cretly applaud the measures of the
present ' administration. While in
England husbands are torn from their
~wives—fathers from-their children—
children from their parents ; the in
habitants of this favouréd country re
pose in peace and security. While,
to refine on and accumulate taxation,
is the fidy of that goveinmeént, here
the reduction of the people’s burthens
is alone consulted. There while the
hand of labor is thackled with taxa
tion-—here it theets every encourge
ment. That government, from its
opprefllon of the people, can find se
curity alone in War—here Peace is
the constant ffudy of administration.
There a bankrupt nation paying in
dividends, and that by encreafing
their debt—here, curtailing the debt
by fair and honourable piyment. In
short, lnok to the government that
the Tories of America would impose
on us, and compare it to that we now
etjoy—how ‘great the contrast, and
how miuch in favour of our happy
country. dAmer. Patriot, -
~ What a wonderful alteration has a
few months made in the sentiments
and condu of the federal party in
this countty ! Scarcely two ‘years
Have pafled away, since the republi
can writers on the libeity of the press
were a f&t of theoretical enthufiafls,
and their do&trines were fophiliry,
rant and bombalt, worthy of notice
only for the ridicule & reprobation of
the reasonable part of the community.
But now for the astonishing effe@ of
a change of administration upon these
sage politicians, they tell us of Sidney,
Godwin, and other republican wri
ters and quote the opinions of M;.
Madison, Tonnis Wortman, &c. as
orthodox do&rine and flandard au
thority. 'This phenomenon is as sur
prising as the condu& of the federal
lawyer in the table, whose bull had
gored the ox of a republican farmer.
When the farmer tgld him that his
bull had gored his worfhp’s ox, “O
very well,” fays his honour ; nothing
is more reasonable or just than that
you should pay me for the ox.”’—But,
on the farmer’s replying-tifat he bhad
made a miflake, it was the lawyer’s
bull that had gored his ox : ¢ O, re
plies he, that alters the case, 1 must
take time and confider on it.”
It is just so with the federal newf
writers. When the faderal admini
stration felt themselves gored by the
republicans, nothing was more reason
able and just than that the offenders
should be punifked. But now the
federalifts have taken upon themselves
to abuse a republican administration,
that alters the case ; they want time,
and time after time, to confider upon
it. They would tut illy relish the con
du& of a judge Chafe in directing a
grand-jury to a particular new(paper
and infiting upon their searching it
fer actionable matter.— Bee.
300,000 soldiers are to be ta
ken from the loom, the plough, and
the anvil, to defendthe trade and
manufacures of England.— The pres
ent war, at this rate, will undoubtedly
promote the commercial interests of
that ill-starred nation! If alf are sol
diers, who are to work ? It is said al
ready that thousands of manufa&urers
are without employment, and that
times in England were never more
diftrefsful.
In the year ’sss, while England
was threatened with invasion, an army
in the Mediterranean actually took
Minorca, and poor Byng was shot to
save the heads of the ministry of that
time. In the last war, under the
famc pretence, Egypt was taken, while
Fobnny Bull was homly expe@ing the
flat-bottomed boazts in' England.—llt
appears, from every quarter, that the
French have the fulleft confidence in
their government, and that Buona
parte has always been fuccefsful. —We |
must wait a little to know the will of
the Northern Powers. There is
“ much speculation” in the' event of
their measures. » i
When a country is invaded the as- |
failaints have every advantage. The
experience of our late revolutionary
war ts a prooef in point. Could the
people of Falmouth, New Bedford, or |
New London, have known of the ex- i
pedition before hand, will any person
believe that these places would have
been sacked and burnt by the Britith
troops ! When Howe landed at the
head of Elk; General Wathington was l
defeated at Brandywine, because he l
had other points to defend. Three |
hundred thousand men can oppose but i
a fecbleddm:f%ewar assailable
point,on an extenfivefea-coalt. Before
the fencibles of Scotland could cross.
the Tweed, Moreau and Maffena,
—.__ Pottsmouth.
Tusspar, Sert. 6, 1803.
SUMMARY-—-FOREIGN.
FAccounTs of a few days later
than those brought by the John Ad
ams, have been received at New-York,
from London. They contain nothing
immediately interesting. The result
of the negociations tefpe&ting the
Hanfe towns, on the Elbe, and the
places in poffeflion of the French, is
not known, It appears that they have
met with but little interruption in their
domestic affirs, and id their govern.
ment. The French troops are not
permitted to interrupt Hamburg, and
are un.'er great reftri@ions, as to the
other towns. The expe@ations in
England, from Russia, becomé less
and less, and no hopes of a mediation,
agreeably to their ‘withes, remained.—
The Danes adopt ‘every precaution
to avoid loss to their nation, and the
calamities of war. They have-iffied
orders that none of their vessels thould
go to any blockaded port, and that,
when nor under convoy, they il’muld.
communicate all ship papers. They
are taking meafures.for encreaiing
‘their armies, fitting their fleers, and.
- putting their country in a state of de
~fence. ' These measures indicate some
serious apprehensions on the part of
their government, of impending dan--
& oy e
Various reports. are in circulation
refpeéting the operations of the Briti(h
in the Welt Indies. There cannot re
main the smallest doußt of their being
in pofleflion soon of most of the French
islands and Dutch colonies, which are
in no fitwation to mzke fuccefsful re
fitance. ~ Bt. Domingo is in a mofk
deplorable condition— Want of provi
sions, which will soon be experienced,
and the great mortality of the French,
will most likely put that island, ere
long, in pofleflion of the blacks.
The French are afliduous and inde.
fatigable in their exertions at home,
and in the Batavian republic, to pre
vent the connetion betwixt England
and the contiment. They. are con
templating and uvnremitting in their
preparations for an invasion. ‘The
present crisis of affairs forbids any af
firmations of what will, or will not
be done. However, though the at
tempt is one of the greatest ever con
templated by man, we are apt to be
lieve that it will take place. Tt is not
likely that BonaeartTe will content
himfelf with carrying on a nominal
war ; and luch it would be, unless the
grand object of the conquest of Great-
Britain is carried into execution. Eng-~
land no longer in pofleflion of any
territory upon the continent, and sole
ly opposed to France, becomes their
only obje& of contention. We repeat
it, however perilous the attempt may
be, the enterprising {pirit of the First
Consul, and the actu:l state of affairs,
render it more than probable that the
blow will be given. In England ac.
tive {teps are taking for repelling the
unpending danger. The neceflity of
the moment has extinguithed all po.
litical diltinGtions, and the support
given to measures, now adopted, is
truly chara&eriftic. It is said that
England does not merely intend to
a& oY the defenfive but on the offen
five also—that whillt the natiom, ez
maffe, will turn out for the defence of
the country, the standing a&ual army
will be employed in continental fer.
vice. For ourselves we do not hefis
tate to fay, that this is unlikely. Eng.
land has witnefled too often the de
feat of her continental armies, to risk
anew her fame and the life of her fub
je&s, in expeditions, which have prov
ed so fatz! to both. — Emigrations (ill
continue from the Britith deminions.
Some emigrants from the north of
Scotland, and Lewis island, have ar«
rived in this country. S
London dates of the 16th July, afc
fert, that the King of Prussia has dif*
misled and disgraced his Prime Minifs
ter (Havewirz)for having concealed
from his Majelty, dispatches from the
cabinet of Great-Britain; in which he
was invited to occupy the EleQorate
of Hanover, before the arrival of the
French, and to indemnify himfelf by
appropriating the revenues of that
country to his own use. The King
‘was not informed of this until too late
to avail himfelf of it. It appearsalfo,
from the fame accounts, that the Em«
peror of Russia is highly displeased at
the French having poffefled Hanover ;
that orders were issued for the rein
forcement of the Ruffian Baltic fleet ;
and that unless the mouth of the Elbe
and Wefer were soon abandoned by
the French, it is thought more than
probable; that a considerable Ruffian
fleet, with troops on board, would
soon make its appearance at Lubec.
These accounts need confirmation: "
~ No period in history ever afforded
so interesting and important an epoch’
as the present. Europe—the world
at large, -are attentive and in silent
and anzious' expedtation of the fial
stfeoisbe dresiha sl shistrwil,