The Columbian informer, or, Cheshire journal — Keene, N.H., 1795-02-03 00:00:00, page 2

upon us,weintreatyou. Rife & redeem the
solitary captive. Fathers, hatbands, bre
thren, cry aloud to Americans, to fellow
countrymen, to chriftians. Can they lift
uj the voice of woe in vain ? Shall sup
plicating misery bending on the fattened
knee, be unheard in the dwelling place of
liberty? It is impossible.—A dawn of
hope .already lights the dungeon.—Even
at this moment, we behold our wives, our
infants, oar aged fires, and all the much
loved charities cf time, ciafping their
long-lamented,their oft regretted connex
ions to the throbbing bosom of gladdened
artctlions, and whiut the (keying tear
cf sensibility, descends on the ransomed
prifoaer ; the father, the husband, and
the friend rtflored, mingle the heart-felt
effuhons with kindred fouls, who taile the
luxury of joy, and feelingly emphasize in
thrlilent energy of bl:6 unspeakable, that
blefcd was the 19th day of February
779;. The Day which sow millions ofwor
fhippiog f^rits inscribed to Charity, the
Day which gave Life a fecor.d time, to
the dead, the twice dead, to themselves, to
th:ir country. And does your coemption
from ib^ faurge of foreign war, furnifa an
ample cause for national gratitude ?
Would to the God cf our fathers that we
could join in the fervent ascription cf
praise ! O wretched men that we are, who
flidl deliver us from this body of death ?
—lt has been our embittered let, to en
counter a more tremendous icene than
all the horrors cf foreign war, clothed in
jheir moil terrific forms. Thecaptive of
the belligerent European or American
hostile power, is the prisoner of Hope —
lie patiently waits fcr the arrivalcf the
emancipating cartel : He hourly antici
pates the exchange of Man, for fellow
M,r. To us, to us alone, the hope cf
return is denied. We are prisoners in the
prison of despair. We are captives be
youd the confines of Hope, unless that
Heaven born Charity wings her flight to
this palace of mammon, and by the all
potent energy cf gold diffoives the wrea.
then chains of slave y and a locks the
double locked gate of the awful dungeon.
Ibioca of both worlds, Legislators giving
-freedom to cur Universe, Speed the ce
kftial messenger we implore you, by the
mercies of the Eternal. Give to holy Ch -
ritv, the out-Belched pinions of the bird
cf Independence, and be it recorded by
the diamond of jrrat.it uda-on tka living ta
i^t oTche-grateful hearts the \tyb da, of
February 179f0 was a day never to be for
~ Urn in the annals,of philanthropy, was
a day worthy to be had in everlasting re
roembrance before God, for this was the
day which gave liberty, happiness, do
raaftic joys to ell the American Captives,
in slavery at Algiers.
Cam nerd us, we humbly beseech you, to
the ministers of the benevolent Jesus.
One word from so revered a character is
more than fufficient : Be that word the
fat of /Godlike beneficence ; Four mi'-
lions of our brethren, cur fitters, only
wait your plcafure : At the look cfs
Washington, their fee-will offerings
foil! heap the Altars of Benevolence ; end
that which is given for our redemption,
the seven-sold blessings of the Almighty
fnJI repay.
^M^ President of Free-Bern
Millions !
Seniors and Representatives of
a Happy-People !
What nation under Heaven, hath left her
framen in hopeless captivity? Whaf pow
er on the furface of th: Globe is ex
igent, who ha h not paid down the funis
demanded for release ? Is your treasury
drained of monies, by opposing savage
hordes on the frontiers ? Has a recent in
furreaion diminiftud the purse of the pub
lic ? Would you, if possible adopt means
to ransom us from slavery ? Yes, verily,
we know, that you would. Then fufter
vs, refpeftfully to invoke your aid, Sol
emnly toconjure youraffiftince, in giving
ener gy to the g°°" w '" °' a happy, thrice
happy people. Let all the monies which
are collected throughout America, on the
ityb da, of February 1795 be forwarded to
the Treafary of the Union, and it a Ha
milton still ferret his country, he will
faithfully register the uttermost farthing.
Governors of the federal States.
Remains there ought to be added to the
Proclamation ofa Washington ? It is
yours to fumm^s the Individual Repub
lics, to celebrate l^ ^b ' e ",,
General Thankfgiying, in una^:™"
lowfhip of Federal Communion ? Remem-
Patriots of Seventy Five,
ber, we earnestly pray you, that bone of
your bone, that fleth of your flefh, is in
forlorn captivity. Amid the Patriot ar
mies of the union our names have beenfa
rolled. Redore us, we befi^ch you to the
land cf oar Fathers and we their sons, as
yet unsubdued by slavery, ihall follow the
standard of Maffachufetts,if again it beais
on the weftern mountains ; or speed wlh
the unfurled Eagle of America, where fe
dacious rebellion lifts the insolent head/
Sick and in prison we are. Visit us, pe
beseech you, in the spirit and the potter
of pure and undefined religion. Come to
us, in the fullnefs of the blessings of the
gospel of charity. We are Fathers, fee
are Hulbands, we are your Brethren of the
Family of Man. Our wives have lon^
mourned far us as one mourns for the
dead. Children have wept their parents
torn from them in the morn of life. All
the meekelt charities have mingled their
unavailing tears in fdlowfhip of foul felt
misery. Be ye the humble increments
in the hand of your matter, to ranfem us
from the power of the grave. Save, huf
bauds, fathers, brethren from untimely
deaths; from Slavery ten fold wone than
bitte&eil death; from woes unfelt, un
known, except to us who drink the very,
dregs of wormwood and of gall. Reflore
us to our God and to yours, to our Coun
try, tjour Friends, to Ourselves. Minify
fers of the Gospel, Difciplescf a crucified
Savior—Believers in Jesus, redeem us
from the power of Infidels.
First in our affections, remembered in
Haver,, thought of in death, aid the no
ble work. Set the glorious example.—
Man mult obey when woman leads.—
Flock to the Altars of year God. Croud
his Temples on the \gtb da, of February,
1795 The fair Daughters cf Columbia
arc able to redeem us, flibuld fellow-mei
refofe. To Woman, the last, the finilh
-d work divine, our solemn heart-set, last
appeal is lodged.—Then be the glory
yours; and ours,, the mighty debt of
Praise.
For & in behalf of the Mnierican;
PriJoners in Slavery at Algiers^
§><, > o@o< o>o ^^>Q*x^o^x</0
Some particulars of the defeat
of the Poles.
From the Fiflula, Oil. 14.
(yENERAL KofJufko intended to at
tack the Ruffian General Ferfen, the
11th, to prevent the junction of this Ge
neral with General Suwarrow ; but Gene
ral Ferfen anticipated him, attacked him
on the loth, about ten leagues from War
saw, and entirely defeated him, after an
attack which was repeated three times.
The lad of these attacks, according to
the testimony of an eye-witness, was made
by the Ruffians in the the greatest order :
the soldiers being put in mind of the
treatment their countrymen had exper en
ced at Warsaw, displayed the greatest fu
ry, cutting all they met to pieces.—The
Poles, about 2 1,000 men strong, were in
trenched near the castle of Matfehiowit
fetzs and the Ruffians about 12,000. The
latter were informed of the intention of
the Poles to attack them, by an insurgent,
intercepted by the Caffacks, and had net
their thirst to avenge the treatment their
brethren experienced at Warsaw inspired
them, by their inferiority in number, it
would have been impossible to refill the
Poles, who repulsed them twice with the
greatest bravery. Out of 2,400 Poles,
who were in the outer part of their en
trenchments, not one escaped. Kofciuf
ko, covered with wounds, was carried
into the Ruffian camp. Besides him, three
other Polish generals, 130 officers, and
2000 privates, were made prisoners and
about 6000 killed. The Ruffians had a
bout 1000 men killed.
The news of Kofciulko's defeat, caused
Madalinfki's immediate retreat from Weft
Pruflia. His corps is said to be furround
'ed. We exped daily to hear of the arri
val of the Ruffians before Warsaw. The
Prussians ^wife directing ^ir march
BY THE NANCY,. ARRIVFp AT BOS
TON, FROM LIMINGTON.
(^rc^eatt ^/oitellicence.
By Yefterddy's Boston Pofl.
Minifers of Immanuel.
Daughters of Columbia,
The following account of the adion be
tween the Ruffians and Poles near Brzefc,
have now reached us : On the 18th of
Sept. General Suwarrow crossed the Bog
in the morning, about a mile distance
from the left wing of the Poles, whom he
attacked with the greatest fury. They
refilled him, ten different times with the
greatest bravery, but were at last obliged
to give way, and even on their retreat
they Rill fought desperately. The battle
lifted eight hours, and the Poles were to
tally defeated. Out of 16,500 of the best
[ Polifh troops, confiding of old established
regiments, not to reckon the armed pqa
fants, only §oo were made prisoners, as
they would not accept of pardon, and the
rest, all but 700 men who escaped, were
cut to pieces, so that the field of battle for
some miles, was covered with their dead.
The whole of the Polish artillery, consis
ting of two mortars, and 24 pieces of can
non, fell into the hands of the Ruffians,
who had only ab^ut 200 killed and wound
ed. General Suwarrow, after this pursu
ed his march towards Warlaw, whither
likewise the Ruffian corps under Generals
Deirfolden and Czizieno are advancing,
followed by the Prince de Gallitzin, in
three columns from Ccurland. In Nief
wiecz, Prince Repnin is pofled, in Mied
zibor on the Bog, General Sultikow, &
behind Kiow, General Romarzow, from
which corps, in case of necefity, more
troops may advance. ,
LONDON, November 16.
Mr. JAY,
Civic Eloquence. — Mr. Jay, the Ambas
sador and Plenipotentiary from the Uni
ted States of America to this Country,
dined on Monday last with the Lord May
or at Guildhall ; bar nonhaviog been reg
ularly introduced to his Lordship, he was
placid obscurely in the smaller room. A
Gentleman, however, who knew him, sent
an intimation to the Lord Mayor, and in
consequence a deputation of aubite noandea
gentlemen, by older, of his Lordship,
waited upon Mr. Jay, to desire he would
join the company in the Grand Hall. The
following was pretty nearly the Addref:
made to Mr. Jay by the nubite vanned
And aubi/e-gloved deputation ; "Ml. Jay,
1 am ordered by his Worshipful Highneft
my Lord Mayor,, to tell you, that he
wants you to come and fit among the great
gentle-folks in the-big roem, feeing as
how, his Worlhipful Higlknefy ja inform
ed that you are a plenitentiary from Imire.
kee; and he desires that you will come
*.nd pick a bit with him at the cross table.
His Lordship said something about you
and the courje plum*ti,c which was, I fup
pefe, a,dig,, because the two firft cowrfrs
lare done up, and, so the plumatic moil
needrbe the defart " Mr. JAY fecmed 1
to be at a loss to comprehend or to answer
this oratorical harrangne, but very polite
ly thanked the speakers, (for three orfoer
poke at a time) and followed them to the
Great Room, where he was placed in a
situation suitable to his high official char
after.
The letters from Leyden and
Hamburgh affirm, that peace
was a&ually signed between
Prussia and France on the 12th
ult. that Spain has a minifterat
Paris ; that Baron Dahlberg,the
Coadjutor of the Elector of
Mentz, and General Thempfon
in the service of the Elede/
Palatine were on their way
thither to negociate for the Ger
manic Body; that the Danish
Minister at the Diet of Ratifbon
was set out for Awis as a medi
ator ; and Q^rthe Emperor
himfelf had.refolved to Nego
tiate. The accounts, both at
Leyden and Hamburgh, rest on
the credit of letters from Neuf
chatel and Bafle. ,
Another conspiracy has been
dilcovercd at Rome, upwards
of 1200 persons has been con
cerned in it; Jo of them have
been apprehended. It i§ added
that their obje& was to Sanfcu
lottize the Government, A
PEACE.
Sendomir, OAohr 9-
new disturbance is said to have
broke out in Sicily.<
AFRICAN INTELLIGENCE.
[From the Gazette of Guinea.]
WHIDAW, Nov. 24, 1793.
Cato Mango, who lately arrivea in this
city from the United States of America)
where he has been kept in slavery lor up
wards of twenty years, has given us a
long and melancholy account of the treat
ment of the pSor Africans in that land of
cruelty. This recount would far exceed
the limits of a news-paper, we ihall there
fore puolilh it in a pamphlet, as icon as
poffibie, that the people here may be in
formed of the miserable Rate of their bre
thren, who have been so unfortunate as tj
fall into the hands of the Americans ; ana
that they may fee the necessity of feme
measures being taken for the redemption
of such of our brethren as it would be in
our power to restore to their families and
connexions, and to alleviate as much as is
possible the (offerings of thole, who being
kidnapped while young from their native
country, have 101 l the remembrance of
their parents and relations.
Mr. Mango informs us, that several of
the royal family of this kingdom, are now
actually doing drudgery in the kitenens es
the United States ! ! ! !
N^oOOgx
MASSACHUSETTS.
NOR CHAMPION, JANUARY 21.
Canandarqua, Dwc 24,1794.
Mr. Butler,
I am desired to request you to give the
following melancholy event, which hap
pened in thia toon, on the xo:h inst. a
place in your payer :—Two men were
iaftantly killed by the falling of a tree
which turned up by the toots, as they
were traveling 00 horseback, near the
court-haute in this town —the tree was ob=
served to fall by a min Handing at about
eighty yards diilapt,he did not lee the un
fortunate perlons pals,- but within a em
ote or two observed a horse ftiiviug to
get up, and ran to the place, when to hie
surprise found the two men, and one horse
dead and the other horse wounded. An
inquest was immediately iummoned co tv
mine the bodies of the men, which were
ohiroteWA todbw^ onepresent, hot from
the papers found with them; ano from in
formation afterwards received from Mr.
John Morgan, and Dr. Stiles, of this
county, we find that the names of the per
forms were Trinas Migheils, of Conway,
and Cyrus Everitt, formerly ol Fexbo
rough, Mass. and that Mr, Migkells, had
that day fee cut to return t? hrs <amil}, a
wife and nine chifores —and that Mr.
Everitt had been living about ih^e yetis
in Niagara—and wascehri way to Fox
borough, where he feppofej bis parents
were living- Mr. MigbeUs received a
blow on his bead which broke bis ikull,
and his brains were thrown out upon hi#
herfes Dealt—his thigh broken in two
places, aad his bed, very much bruited.
Mr. Everitt had hi a back broken ?n two
places—amdhis fheuldar badly broken —-
their remains were decently intstredin
the burying ground in Canundarqua, co
the zzd, ind.
An Inventory was taken by the Jurors,
of the effects found with Mr. M : ghells
and Mr. Everitt, and the property, of
^hich are fame valuable papers, depefited
with Phinchas Bates. Esq. cf Canandar
qua, where the surviving friends of these
unfortunate fefferers may apply for the
fame.
The schooner Sally from
Guadaloupe bound to Boston,
Samuel Toplift, Master, was
cast away on the night of the
16th inst. about 12 o'clock in a
Snow Storm, at Point Judith,
near Coon's Rocks, afmall part
of the cargo is laved, the re
mainder, and the Ichooner are
supposed to be entirely loft.
In Lat 36. 0, he Ipoke Capt.
Thomas Potter, of this town,
on his passage from St. Eufta
tia, to New-York, all well.
Capt. Taplift had 24 Days
passage from Guadaloupe, and
informs, that before he failed.
^Oemeatw 3^tell^ C11G&.
Fron Newport, Jan.no.
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