The Mirror — Concord, N.H., 1799-05-06 00:00:00, page 1

COLUMBIAN INDEPENDENCE,
Lands for Sale.
FOR SALE,
ONE Hundred Acres of
I, LAND in Rumney, in Grafton
county, State of Newhimpihire, being
lot No. 15, & the fourth range ethno
dred acre lots, faulted oh ^,%±
joining Campton, and dc^ed.,
make an excellent A" 1 "#,;"" ff
under improvement, and ^^
wheat and rye, and within one mile of a
sawmill and gristmill fa-Nereis on fad
place a quantity of brick, boards and
timber, prepared for building#
' A " O)
fi acres of unimproved land,
in the fame town, being half of lot No.
it, in the third range ; titrated about
half a mile from the improvements on
the abovemeationed lot.
200 acres in the fame town,
& together, exclude of the undivid
ed Und belonging totwo rights, ~
The whole of me lots are well water
ed, and the foil of a good q,lky.
For particular terms, apply Two
Ra^by, in Romney, or to the fob
fcribers in Concord.
LEVI & ABEL HUTCHINS.,
Concord, fyril4j799___^^
FEATHERS^ "
FOR S4LE, I ;
by TIMOTHY DIX, jun.
ia Boscawen,
^BATHERS of various qualities,
f from is 6to 356 per lb.
April 27th, 1799.
MLR&QRAJr*^^ Ca#<ro>,
APRIL, 1799.
PROPOSAL V MOSES DAVIS.
For Printing by Subfcnption,
N A RRA T IVE
OF THE ^ 1
Indian Wars
NEWENGLAND,
From the frit Planting thereof in the
Year 1607, to the Year 1677*
CONTAINING
A Relation of the Occasion,
Rife & Progress of the War
with the INDIANS, in the
Southern, Weftern, Eastern
and Northern Parts of said
Country.
BY WILLIAM HUBBARD, a. M.
Mbi,ffVW wW
co N^TyTo NS.
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(Vol. VIL]
TWENTY THIRD YEAR.
Printed and publifoed every Monda, morning, by MOSES DAVIS, in CONCORD, Newhampshire.
The Horje GENET.
————#_■*■■■=_===_
To Cover, the ensuing Season,
at Mr. Caleb Stark's Stable,
in Dunbarton,
The Horse GENET.
HE is ^ hands high — four years old
"this summer ;—his colour is a beau
tiful dark bay, with a black mane and
tail. He is full-blooded : His Sire was
an imported Horse, called the Tkavel
ler, lately owned b, Doaor Craigie,
of Cambridge : His Grandam was fired
by the Horse called the Driver ; and
his Dam by the Horse formerly owned ,
by Lieut. Thomas Stickney, of this
town.—-Those Gentlemen who, mean
to bring or fend their Mares to the above
Horse, may rely on the greatest atten
tion being paid to them. The terms
will be very low, compared to the good
ness and value of the Horse—and will be
made known by the public's very hum
ble servant,
M'KINSTRY,,
Dunbarton, ,fri1i§,1799.7
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[OMITTED LAST WEEK.] ~
It it said, is about to remove
t^nx^H^
lie4{UCKfi Bog 10 me g, t( sqmu wop.
jump in jKobinifm with him, will
bear mtn company: AenrocKy
m$ be well watched, gait itthui
likely to become the rfcoui of
the feditiow.
proposal or
,OHN MCMILLEN & FERE ROYSE,
Os Fryebergh, Diftria of Maine,
For Printing, b, Sebfeription,
A NSW WORK, rai&b
A SYSTEM or
PRACTICAL ARITHMETIC,
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and good paper, in a handsome odavo
volume—# Under the Author's par
ticular lofpeaioa of the Preli.
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Dollar a volume, neatly bound and
lettered—To non-ftibfcribers 7/6.
Those who fubfertbe and pay for fix
books, Ihall have one, gratis. t
The usual allowance will be made to
New Method of Surveying,
' rtTWO PARTS.
The First Part being an Easy and Con
cise ARITHMETIC, containing the
, Fundamental Rules necessary fur Busi
ness ; together with several curious
Rules never before published—among
which is a new, short and exaa Rule
for Lifting Interest, agreeably to the
Solar System, without losing a frac
, tion ; the whole arranged upon a New
Plan, more plain and easy than any
other— Designed for the ofc of Schools,
and those who wist to acquire an accu
rate knowledge of Figures without an
Inftroaoi.
The Second Part containing a New Me
thod of Surveying, different from any
the Author has ever seen, by which
the exaa Contents of a piece of Land
are ascertained, without the trouble of
Planning, bring performed entirely by
Calculation, without the assistance of
Tables annexed.
Booksellers.
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< and Royfe, or to the Printer at Frye
burgh, by the last of May next, or
sooner, if con venient.
Fryeburgh, Jin. 1799.
p SUBSCRIPTIONS forth YIM
art relived nt th Mirror. Office.
by FERE ROYSE, Mathematician
CONCO RD, MONDAY, May 6, 1799.
American Publication.
CONDITIONS.
The Mirror.
AMD
SOUTHCAROLINA.
CHARLESTON, MARCH 12.
BHon.8 Hon. Mr. Harper has ad
ffed to his conftiruents a letter
ith much information, and ju
emark. His expofirion of the
d Sedition laws # modelled on
fs of the Minority of the Legif-
Virginia,—which has ahead,
been widely disseminated. The details
of information he gives are accurate,
and toenfive.—Some of them follow :—
Extras of a Letter
FROM ROBERT G. HARPER, to lip
CON STITU ENTS.
#==
Pbitoelpbia, FA. 10, 1799.
" CONGRESS has, as yet, resolved
on no important measures except the in
crease of the navy, and the continuation,
for one year longer, of the suspension of
commercial intercourse with France.—
The navel armament let on foot purloant
to the a& palled previous to the prefer t
fetfion, consisted of fix frigates of 44 guns
each, two of 36 guns, end one of 32 ;
eighteen sloops of war, of from 18 to 24
guns each ; four galleys ; and eight cut
ters, of from 8 to 14 guns each ; in all
39 veflels of war. Os this number have
been completed, and are now at fee, two
frigates of 44 guns, and oneof 36 ; three
sloops of 18, three of 20, and three of
24 guns each ; right revenue cutters,
and three galleys. The rest are on the
flocks ; and it is foppofed that the whole
number will be at sea by the middle of
this year. It is found from experience
that failure are plenty and readily en
gaged.
" By returns up to the 10th of left
month, it appears, that fioce private
ships were permitted to arm, which i^
about , or 8 months ago, 263 armed
mereQ^Ate tadf hen pad from foe
ports only, viz. Baltimore, Philadelphia,
Newyork, Boston and Salem. Making
a proportional allowance for other ports,
and for the vessels armed since the date
of the returns, we may fafely compute
the whole number at 350, irith 7 or&
guns each on an average ; winch makes
the whole number of guns amount to
2625. This, of itfelf, is a very formi-|
dable and efficacious force, for the del
fence of trade.l
" The teppieft effs& has been already
experienced from these public and private
exertions. The privateers have whollJ
disappeared from our crafts. Their num]
ber has greatly decreased in the WeftinJ
dies. Captures are comparatively few|
And the price of inference on vessels an#
cargoes has fallen one half. The faring^
ot insurance alone, is at the rate of nine
millions of dollars annually : Which is
more than twice as much as the whole
maritime preparations bave cost. The
pecuniary embarrassments of the mer
chants arena longer heard of; commer
cialfpirit and enterprise, which were so
greatly depressed, have sprung up anew ;
and the price of produce is again on the
rife. Such have been the erases of the
measures adopted far the proteaion of
commerce and the defence of the conn
try.
“ Encouraged by ihefe happy confe
quence^ and convinced that a nary is
the belt, the cheapest, and the most effi
cacious defence for this country, Con
grefs, during the prefeat falion, have
palled an aft for building, in addition to
our prefect maritime force, fix .(hips of
the line to carry not left than 74 guns
each, and fix sloops of war of not lefr
than 18 guns each. The, are all to be
prepared and feot to lea as soon as possi
ble.
ff Provision to Ob been made for
eftablilhing Citable dockyards for tl,
navy ; and two hunted thousand dol
to have been appropriated for the par
chafe of fltip timber, and of land con
taining it. This will enable us to secure ,
filch valuable timber as is not yet want
ed ; and when the timber is cut, the land
may be fokffor the benefit oftheP^P;
my wh^ww ™tel3''''to?^
expense, by forbearing to bring it into
the field sooner than it may he wanted.
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT,
It will be raised, I believe, with great
ease.
" Our meafores have not only had a
very happy effea in proteaing and re
viving our trade ; but have also produc
ed a change in the condua of France ,
not a change in her measures, or her fyl.
tern ; for her decrees againd our com
merce ere all continued in force, and her
privateers ftiW take as many of our veffele
as they can catch ; but in her behavior,
which instead of beihg iofoleot and over
bearing as heretofore, has become com
plaisant and moderate. In short, having
difeovered that we should not be fright
ened, she is now trying to coax us. Af
ter fending away Gen. Pinckney and
Gen. Marshall, whom she found too
firm and too enlightened to be either in
timidated or deceived, she did all in her
power to draw Mr. Gerry, of whom she
had better hopes, into a fcparate nego
tiation ; which it was evidently her de
sign, from the propositions which she
made, to spin out to an endless length,
while she might keep us unarmed, and
proceed, io the mean time, to destroy
our commerce and our resources, and to
raise up a party among us against the
government. Being defeated in this
teheme, by the recal of Mr. Gerry, she
has lately lignified, through our Minister
in Holland, that (be is read, to receive a
Minister from us, in a proper manner,
and to renew the negotiation on the
terms which our Commissioners offered
in vain. It is the President's intention
to meet this advance, and to omit no
opportunity that may offer cf fettling the
dispute on fy& and taorata tirau: But
CongreG taking warning stem the per
fidious condua of France towards other
countries, has resolved not to be the dupe
of her artifices on this occasion, nor to
relax, in any degree, from its meafuret
of defence, till justice is done for the past.
and a fair profpe& afforded of fecurit,
(for the future. Whilst we persist in this
„ifep&^u|ty^^tf^^^
« St: Pt, foti_,
^ Sbip Cierro, M6rch,i,gg.
" I have bees here, in this ship about
ten days, as prize-matter. She belongs
to Liverpool, was captured by the French
privateer schooner Democrat, and recap
tured by the United States frigate, and
, lent in here. Her cargo consists princi
pally of live ftodtyltfcb as oxen, jack
asses, horses, &c. and is valued at 3© oco
dollars, of which I suppose one eighth
will fall to as. She is# fine ship of 450
tons, mounts 20 nine pounders, food
carries go men, or rather 3$ men, and
i, boys. The privateer mounts i t nine
pounders and be, loomen. The, fought
two hours and an half, and after the
French had torded ter, fought on deck
three quarters. Out ^SO hands, the
motel I^MB&b mbmmz
captain
26 wounded,— Could I but give pa
delcriptton of the fcane this (hi, pre
fentsdj when we firft took pofefim of
her. it would make your heart thuddUL
Never were mm more inhuman!, wang
led, and much of it done too, after they
bad given up. A little boy, who was a
favorite of the captain, was ordered by
the Frenchman to go aloft, and hand
"■rc,ra4M"!4!l^ """' BUG 1110 ne
could not, whidrwas the faa. AFrench
man immediately up with his curials and
cut hit arm almost off, and orherwife
graded him in several places. The
Muglilhmeß, there can be no doubt,
fought like men ; every thir g on board
It The French had been in BOf
i^,Wwow aaay ##0043— affray™
ELEVENTH TEAR.
[No. 340.]