The Mirror — Concord, N.H., 1798-02-13 00:00:00, page 2

affixed ; and if at the time
assigned ho objection is made,
or none in the judgment of
the said judge fufficient to
prevent it, he may grant li
cence, and impower the exe,
tutors or administrators of
such deceased person to make
and execute fucii conveyance
or conveyances to the person
orperfons contracted with as
aforefaid, as such deceased
person if living would be ob
liged to make and execute ;
which conveyance or convey
ances being duly executed and
recorded according to law,
shall be good and valid, and
the monies or totiflfoation
paid for fuel: el?ate, if not
paid to the deceased in his
~life trine, ffiall be alTetts in the
hands of fitch executors or
administrators, and be appor-'
tioned as other perfohal ef
rate.
And be it further enabled.
That any person conceiving
himfelf aggrieved by any ou;
der, sentence or decree made
by any judge of probate in
putfuance of this aft, may ap
peal from such order, sentence
or decree to the Superior
court of judicature, fubjeft to
the fame conditions and rc
ftrictions as appeals in other
cases from the judge of pro
bate arc, or hereafter' may by
law be allowed +
g Approved December if, 1,97.
AN AC rima^citien t< f,>,4 regulat
ing bas! in civil causes.
DE it endued by the Senate
~and H,uit rs Reprejehta
tives in Geri: Court convened,
That where s&il p given ty^
metne prot+Wm an, civil adion
comtoe^d before any joflice of
the, pe^ce/lor the appearance of
the patyio answer the fait, sod to
abide the order or judgment'of
eoGrt, chit (hall be given thereon, [
loch surety or forettei may at any '
time before the rendering judg
ment against the principal com
mit the principal to goal, and up
on such surety or iureties produce
ing to the said justice a certificate
from the prison keeper of such
cbmihitment, he br they ffiill be
discharged from said fuie, and the
principal shall be holden the fame
time, and in the fame manner at
though he had been committed
on such; mefoe procefi for want of
bail? ' '\ ; '
And be it farther ehaaid, That
if hid lutefyor' foretier as& fcite
facial brought, . amd before ffiife
judgment' be rendered against
him or them, commit the prfocr
pal 4Ggoal, and bring to the said,
justice a certified ot foch com
&ty&,. and move to be dis-j §
charged from such f°i<, the said
jaftite fha!l order fiid farecy or
toeta plying to the creator thi!
cofUth^c have accrued in such ac
tibn upon the fcire fcia§, and the
laid prifbQ keeper^ detain gff|
principal thirty days, unteb he
foil looser be difebarged by the
creditor,
ft AUWitfeth# typel Thai
if the surety or sureties in any fair
;sefoMneo:ioned, it the tisie of
'entering up . final judgment Q
gainft the principal, or at any
time before, bist the time of en
tering up final judgment agiinft
the surety or forget on the feire
facial, or at any rime before, (bail
bring life principal into court, and
offer to fur<ender him to the jof
rice; such surety or furetiee fhUI
not thereby be dfchuged, any
law, ufige or euftom to the eon-,
trarv notwithflardi g. ^?
Aid be it further enacted, That
illite <him*gera co?.:, recovered
in any a^lion before any juftiee of
the peace wherein bail was given,
typounr to m^re tya^ thirteen dol
lars and thirty three cents, the
pontiff is hereby impoweted to
case of the prircifa, avoidance,
& return of npneff inventus upon
the execution, to bring a fcire fa
cial egaihfttheTorety or forties
at any tim& within one veer, mxt
after entering up final judgemnt
agaipft the principal returtyb'fe to
(h.pccufc of common p;e^ in the
fimec any law, usage or
Vuftom to the contrary npt^ich
ferding.
Provided nroertbebfi, and bt it?<
further ma«d, Tha ifthe futey}
or fureries fhdlat any time aaer
entering up judgment agaieft the
principal, deliver up such princi
pal to the cffijtr having the ext-.
cution, so <h^ his body may be
taken thereby, such surety or lute.
ties (hall (hereby be discharged.
Approved December t§, 1797.;
Political Mijcellany.
Times which try Men's Souls, No. I.
(Extras/ from th: Nm„r< " Commercial
ri^vertyer," &j jar. 24]
AMERICA & FRANCE.
IN the ptefent state of out foreign rela
tions, is is very natural for as to in-,
quire, wtift will be our fhuari r n, if com
pelted to adopt meal,ires at felt defence
against French eapfures, which would
probably !&dto hoftilides. ;
^The foft inquiry is, would France, in
case of war, a^eiropt to throw hoops in
to the United Spates, with a view to di
vide then?, and thus bring the govern
ment to/cbmit to terms ofd@ iropof
ipg ; or in other words, purchase t^eir
departure anda temporary tranquility,
as the Old Britons bribed their Saxon
and Darufh invaders to [e^ve England.
'To rill attempts of this kind, the otean
and the diftatice interpofc almod insur
mountable obftades. No attempt would
be made to conquer the thrived Spates, in
tote, by force of auns. This would be
itopoffibie ; for irwould be ridiculous to
m?ke the,ttempt wi.h a iefs army than
100-000 land forces ; and it is not in
the power of France, Spain and Holland
united, to furnish the nectffsry Flipping
toriraofydft such a body cl men with
their provifi^n, ammunition, cannon and
campequipage. It was a great effort in
Greatbn^in, iq pur late war, to tdrnlh
tranf,ots for abc/ut one third of that
number. Any pr<j;a of that kind is
too ridiculous even tor the French gov
ernment to attempt.
The only mode of wounding the U.
States by a land force, would be by fend
ing .a body of troops, from five to ten
thousand, into the fonthern ft ares, to ex
cite infurreaion among the blacks and
put arms info their hands ; or by land
ing ^n „my^t the moyth of the Miffi
fippi, to fall upon our frontier fettle
nients.'
But to these prejeas also infuptrablt
difficulties prefers thercfelves. Is woulo
be extremely difficult, it not impoftiblt
,0 lab# such a body of men, even if nc
inarihe force was to interfere; a,d if
landed, the army would be too incenfife
rable to mrinrain its ftatidn on land. No
force of this kind cgul&efcapeiuin for
one m^nth. The adual number of
fighting men in our couirry/ is doubled
since pgr late war ; and when our Wealth,
rerouted, and union under an efficient...
government are tfcn into the account,
our fhength may be ceifidered as fcn
tityes greater, than when „ were con r l
tending with the British arafa. ~
w'&^rf^^
'
; There is /here'",© not he 'r ft dng
^to our independence frm a cmeil wit
, a„, or all rhe' powers.dfEoiope.-Tb^
j armies of France, numerous and warlike
las they are, wold, m this country, foe
; dily waste away infpiteof all human ef
lforts, Nothing bodes serious h^rm ,0
Ithe United States, provided the people
land the government *8 in. concert, wiily
I one mind, de^rmhud in he free ar, to.
iDependent—and of this we can have opt
Ithetfeaft doubt.
nxra,i» ■ maw wJr? ißMatcmßrgmw. Jr,?,url —amain
United States Le^tfature.
FIFTH CONGRESS—-Second Sente,.
HOUSE, &.•.— JAN. 24.
AFTER fume private bufi>cfs was ar
tended to, the Hdfe refoived it
felf into a committed of the whole, on
the fubj^a of the artn^mtnt of' Ms.
Nicholas, for Offering the political wr.
eigh connexions of the United States.
Mr. Craik fyoke agaift rhe amend
ment, and Mr. Claiborne, of Feon ff e,
in favor of it. The committee rose
wibout taking the question, and had
i/ leave to fit Bg, in. .
^ <. JAN.SI.
Breach of Decorum.
From the journal of yesterday's pro
, ceeriingg of CphgtetL it appears that rhe
bofimefs which took price after the doors
q were cb f.-d, was as follows : —
The House being cleared, Mr. Sewall
Rated thithe had been informed, in a
manner whith left no doubt cf the t?u:h
of the: fit.l, that, in the presence of the
Hufe whim fitting, Mathew Lyon, a
member horn the 3<are of Vermont, did
this day commit a violent attack and
grofi indecency upon the person of Rog-,
er GVifwold, another^ member of the
H:nfe; and, inorder to biingthe b^fi
nefs before the Huufe, that he had pre
pared a Refolbtion, whidh fid read in his
place) arid delivered in at the Clerk's t^
bb. A question was then taken in the
fallowing wards ; +
" Does the matter so communicated
reg:re secrecy i"
'1 his motion passed tfnanimeufly in the
negative, and the galleries were opened.
The Hdu fe then proceeded to confider
the morion made by the member ffom
Mafibchufetts, which was read as fol
lows :
" Refolded, that Matthew Lyon, a
member of this Hoirfe,* for a violent at
tack and gross indecency committed up
on tteperfon of Roger Grifwold,another
member, in the presence of this House,
whilst fitting, be, for this disorderly be
haviour, expelled therefrom."
It was moved that this Resolution be
referred to a committee, to be denom
inated "A Committee of Privileges,
with infouaions to inquire into the
,whole matter of the said Resolution,'and
to report the fame with their opinion
thereon t 0 the House."
The Yeas and Nays were taken on this
qutthan, and were, 49 yeas—44 nays.
Ordered, that Mettes. Pinckney, Ven
able, Kittera, I. Parker, R. Williams;
Cochran and Dent, be a Committee for
the purpose.
A motion was then made that the
Houft come to the following Revolutions
'• Refoivcd, that this Hbufewiil con
fider it a high breach of privilege if oth
er of the members (ball enter into any
perfohal contest until a decision of the
House fhdl be had thereof." 1
A notion was made to add the follow
li°gli°g wer.ls to the end thereof :
" And that the said Matthew Lyon
M ctMetered in the custody of the Ser
jeant at Arms, until the further order of
the House." Negatived.
This motion being negatived, the sense
of the House was then taken upon the
.main qu-ftion, as originally <ffred, and
it was carried. The House adjourned
about 8 o'clock in the evening.
The Speaker dtfired members to pre
pare their,ballot for the election of the
three managers of the impeachment a
giihft William Blount, which remained
tb be eleded. f
'The House then proceeded to the elec
tion of the thr©e managers, and the voces
being colleaed, (the whole number of
which was 90—46 making a choice)
M,r Dennis had 61, Mr. Evens 61, arid
Mr. I.rita, 60, had wwe titled.-~g? ity
the above was extracted ftom papers an
ticipated by the arrival ot 4 gentleman
later than the mail, we have not le@,Qt
whothe other managers werl (Cent )
Melfa, CLAypoEE, J h
A mifreprefentarion cfthe tranfiaion
which happened ytfterday, in the House
of Reprefeutatipes, between Mr. Lyon
' Arid Mr. < Fiftvo! 1; having teen pub ^
•cd thh morning in the Aurora, the fol 1
I lowing mre .0: <a ftoem€pt ts the
fatt is h^uditt to you to prevent the n>.
j„ which that mifrepreferrtatiun teems
defigoed ro do the chazaturof an injur,
edman.
Y.tf^d?,, in the Uufc cf Repr&n
>natives, while the 'numbers were b^lot
iug fur Mniagti! to cmi,U,& she :m- \
peuchmcoi of Willi 1H Btoimi, Mr. Ly
on, ft Hiding by the bar ufthe ILife, and
uddreffing hi nfe't to a circle, of which
Mr. G i^ Li was one, made the billow
ing cbfevtion—" That ihe kept ftn
farives in ~ Congress from the State of
ConneaiQUt. were condu&tog in the
Miufe in dire&pppofi i m to the wishes
of their constituents—that they were
purfuieg their own interest, and cared
no bing about the public—th^r object
being to obtain offices, for thimfeives ;
and that it mattered hot whether the of
fice was worth one rhouf rd or hire
thous rid dollars ; tl*t the ReprefeOta
lives of that Stare were administering
opb m to their coyfiituents, to lull them
-asleep, and thurif he fhoulJ go into thar
State and t^ke on himtclf the manage
ment of a prining pref so fix or twelve
months, he could efta 2 revolution,
change the whole politics of the State,
and t rlcu the ptefentJtyrtfeatatives-
On which Mr. Grifw<re%plitd to Mr.
Ly\n, that he was much miftsken ; for
he corid jot produce, the effea if be
mould go into Connecticut, or change
the opinion of 'he ohcaneft huffier^-
Mi. Lyon fiij he knew the temper of'
the people of Cunnfiaicut, he had to
fight them in his own diftria, whenever
they came there. Mr. G'&pld Mked
Fun whether he fought with a
wooden Lore ; upon which Mr. Lyon
foa fin Mr. Grifwool's face.
Mr. Grif&old from rtfpe& to the House,
and being iulbndyc^utione^by f>me of
his friends, rvpreftd his indqfation.
The motion to take up the futyairf
tht House, was m^de without ihe previ
ous knowledge of Mr. Grilwold.
Philadelphia, Feb. I.
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I.ATEST
AMERICAN, NEWS.
VIRGINIA.^'.
W INCHEST HR.jAN.g'
A GENTLEMAN drived rt
Lexington, Kettetlih from.
the Natchez, which place he Irft
the ift of Nov. reports that Mr.
E licotc. Cap!. Pope, and the men
under their command,were in good
health, that the best harmony pre
vailed between them and the Span
i(h officers, but chat there was not
the least cxpe&ation entertained of
the boundary line being run dur
ieg the present winter.
PENN^rtVANIA.
philad. Jan. 29.
A Gentleman of this city, just
arrived from Charlffton, informs
that he there saw a letter addressed -
to citizen Godard, iaie chincel?
lor of the French Consulate in that
city, by ci<z j n Marigourir, dated
Parii, Nov. 9. In this letter cit
izen Mangouric informs citizen
Godvd, that he is appointed Mio*
ifter/ Plenipotentiary at the French
Republic to the United Statea, and
only waiti the termination of the
conference! with the American
Commiffionert, to fa out for the
place of hit deftinarioD. He also
icqaefta ci izen Godard to pro
ceed to Philadelphia, and there
wait his arrival.
NEM'roAK.
NEWYORK, JAN. Jr.
FARING ROBBERIES. ]
A dating robbery and burglary
were committed fefterdiy moro
iig< between 12 and 1 o'clock, a?
the house of Greenville Temple,
E'q. o'l the Greenwich Road, oft
which fh< Woving are the pir
ticulati, as nearly as we have been ,
.'able to coiled :
{Abot/t rheVimeAbo^
e&ra of the Levant women im-