The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1790-07-09 00:00:00, page 2

gainft the Americans #
1 On the 3d of June an infarTcaion took place at
Martinique, among the Mulattoes and other peo
ple of coiojf, they attacked the fort in the town of
- St. Pierre, arid killed the Captain of the Guards:
in coßfegaence 61 which all the inhabitants flew
to arms, overpowered the Mulattoes and immedi
ately hung up between 40 and 50, and confined in
- jaol between ?o : and 100 others who were to be ex
ecuted the next day.—-Copt* Tucker set fail at 12
o'clock when preparations were making for their
execution.
• Extras? of a letter from Martinique, June 3, 1790.
''This day according to the Cuilomof the French
is a high holyday, and preparation was making
accordingly. When a plot was-difeovered that tur
' ned all their mirth. The Mulattoes had combined
together to murder every white person in the Iffand#
but by good fortune it was difeovered by a Mulatto
hid ! have just come from the shore, and Oh ! my
1 fuGhafceoel never fy> Many hung up
A few evenings ago some people were highly en
tertained on the Prefcot Road, with an Equestrian
Tournament, or duel on horseback, between two
young Gentlemen of Liverpool. Their weapons
were not lances (agreeable to the ancient mode of
tilting) but whips, which they exercised with ad
mirable dextery, till, rendering, cut for cut, each
&med perfectly content with the Share of fatis
faction he had received.— The above kind of du
elling we recommend (to all men ofhonour) in pre
ference to pistoling, fencing, or boxing, and with to
c^abli^i it as a law, that all duellifts or Pugillis,
agreeing to fight for profit or revenge, Shall do it
with whips, exchanging Stroke for Stroke ahernate-
Iy, tll the aggrieved person acknowledge himfelf
amply fatisfied with the courage and fortitudeof
his adversary ; and any person offending against the
aforefaid law, (ball in the estimation of mankind,
be deemed a lover of human blood.
THE ART OF ^PEAKING..
LORD Shaftfbury fpeakirig of verbal fluency,
term) it a di/eaze, and calls it the leprojy of eloquence;
and Davenant, writing on the fame fubjea, lays —
'' Both Prince and People are unfortunate, who de
pend on those Whole chief talent is the art of freak
ing."
Oliver, Cardinal Ximencs, the Duke de Sully,
Sir Thomas Moore, the Cecils Treasurer Buck
hurft, Walfingham, the Cardinals Richlieu and Ma
zarene, Secretary Thurlowe, Cornelius de Wit,and
tft Treasurer Southampton,with many others, were
not at all remarkable for this girt. Ine art is
^railh Anecdote. In a house near Leadenhal!-
ffreet where the Prieftlean controversy became the
topic of conversation, an Israelite, whole lungs
merely were much too strong for his antagonist, af
ter he had retired, was pluming himfelf upon his
prowess in defeating him, &c. and with an air of
eclat atked another ffraelite if he had not served
the Phililline right ? Most certainly you have,
reodied he ; and if ever 1 have an engagemnt with
any of them I Ihould be much obliged to you for
your jfaw bone.
Icus spirit of the people, the Engliffi then at that
^ort were invited into the town, aqjftrmitted to
explore the aqjacerit country, that they might be
hold, and report to the British fettiements, the dif
trelles which reigned there; But unfortunately for
our preservation, the settlements were compelled
to deny them that relief, which at any other time
humanity would afford and dilate.
The inhabitants living on the river, who are
prodigiously numerous, felt much less the effects of
this famine than in the country,the former having
a supply of filh, of which necessity obliged them to
tefufe the participation with their unhappy coun
trymen. —
NEW MODE OF DUELLING.
rather meretricious than meritorious.
England, like Athens, has had its wifuft councils
dissipated by the bueath of oritory.— The merit of
I'ox, Sheridan, and Burke, consists in words only.
BOSTON, JUNE 14.
Saturday WE arrived Capt. John Tucker, id
the Brig Diamond, from Martinique, and St. Eu
ffacios.—He left Martinique the 4th day of June,
at which time a report prevailing, that news had
foff arrived from France, and that all the Ports in
the French Weft-Indies were ordered to be (hut a-
• DANBURY, JULY I.
Last Monday as a young man, son of Mr. Peter
Callie, of this town aged 19, and his brother a
bout 10 yeras old, were at work in the field, they
were flruck by a Hath of lightning, which killed
the elder and deprived the vouriger of his senses for
federal hour's. The lad is likely to recover.
AMERICAN MATTERS.
and ftabed in fifty different places, others Shot down
dead in the Streets, the fame as wild beast, then
ftabed and trampled upon. All this have I seen not
ten minutes since ; every man is under Arms : no
sooner a Mulatto is discovered, than he is (hot or
hung without any trial.".
On Capt. Tucker's'arrival at St.Euftatia, he saw
the Ordinance of France published in the Gazette
of the Ifland,which forbid the Idmiffion of our Flag
in the French Ports.
Those who have any doubts on their minds,
(fays a correspondent as to the pension granted by
Congress to the Baton de Steuben, are referred to
the speech of Mr. Gerry, inserted in the Centind of
May Bth, last—where are faithfully Shewn the fa
crifices, lervices and merits of that abb defcriplia
rian, and veteran friend to America—and where
too, they will fee, that the faith of the United
States was pledged by Congress to him, that he
Should receive adequate compensation for the fa
crifices he had made in Europe—and the amount
of those facrifices regulated the sum he is to receive.
The Baron is now in the vale of years—and it
would have reflected disgrace on our county.
Advices from England fay, that the Parliament
has granted to his Britannick Majefy, two Milli
ons Sterling, and 16,000 men to carry on the pre
parations for a Spanish war.
It is said, that the great objeft of England in
arming, is not to resent the injury done her Hag at
Nootka Sound; but to be prepared for an exigence,
which the pell mell havock and confufon, now pre
vailing in Europe, may occasion.
It is said in a London < aper, of mat 8, that
Spain has formed a Treaty of alliance with Aus
tria—and that a Strong coun-er-league is making
against it in which Great-Britain, Piuffia, and
Holland are concerned,
" My employment in this country is cenfider/ble,
exclusive of my nalf pay ; notwithstanding, ! would
cheerfully quit it, as it has by no meaw anfwefed
my expectations, having funk all my money in
building houses and improving land, and have loft
all my time. The country has turned out fb in
differently, that the inhabitant's are going away by
every vessel that fails for any other post; conse
quently this place will be depopulated in a short
time, and property not worth a farthing, every body
wishing to fell and no person to buy. Sergeant
G.——has made the following lines, which he lings
occasionally for his own and other people's amuse
ment.
M'Gillivrafe the famous Creek Chief, and fe
deral other headmen of the fame nation, we learn,
fat out from their homes on their way to the Great
Council Fire of America, at Newyo k, about a month
fined.
FROM NEWYORK —JUE 27.
As to the present state of Politicks, its almoft'
impossible to deferibe it. Assumption and Resi
dence clog the wheels, and make the Funding-Bill
jag:,—When the Residence borines is finifhed, I
A letter from a gentleman in Southampton, Long-Iflana
dated the 28th ult. to the printers of the Conneaicut
Gazette, Jays
- " Inclofed is an infeription that was taken off a
stone which was dug up in this town last week.
The circumstances attending he affair are these: —
the young man belonging here dug up he Hone,and
under it he faith wast a pot full of dollars.—He di
vulged the secret to two more young men, who last
Monday night took, as we conclude one i f not two
pots of money,—The stone and the inscription on
it I have seen: tit appears to b? a ballast stone,
and the engraving on it much blured. We
think it was berried by Robert Kid the pirate. —If
any further difeovery ismade resetting the money,
&c. I will give you information. The stone and
infeription is a curiofcy—-It was dug up within a
quarter of a mile of our fouth lho<e, on a fiat piece
of ground. The person whoerigraved the inscrip
tion on the stone appears to have been a very illite
rate charater.
Extrafl of a letter from Nova-Scotia, (Shelburne.)
Like Belifarius, had the world been told,
We left him raked, wretched, poor and old.
Tofeek a refuge in the silent grave,
Or beg hit bread in realms he fought to save.
Tis hard to live on lobster claws,
But that must be our lot—
Since Boston all our money draws'
And leaves us scarce a groat,"
O wretched Nova-Scotians !
No wonder that you sigh,
Here (Jonathan fends notions,
Or else we all fliouid die.
„ JULY 3.
AARON DE STEUBEN.
JULY 6.
nova-sco ri a.
believe the Assumption will take plxe, the Fund-
Bill pass, and the Adjournment followed immedi
ately,—Mean time ochers less important, though
essential business, is picked up and dispatched.
We hear tke bill to determine the permanent'
and temporary feat of government of the United
States, had a Second reading in the senate yeherday
—when New-York, Piladelphia, and Baltimore
were negatived, as the temporary residence, and the
Potowmac hands in the bill as the permanent feat
of Government, after ten years have elapsed. The
whole fubiea is still open to difeuffion.
ANDOPER.—SaIe of Nonresident lands in Ando«
,er,fir 1788, yb August next— bo^s of
William Blake, Colleao,.
TAMWORTH—for 1788 & 1789, z\ft July infl.
—boufe Samuel Gilman, Esq. insaid Tamwortb.
Izrael Gilman & Thomas Mudget, Coll'tors.
, NORI hWOOD- for 1789, z6tb inf.—boufe of
Jonalban Clark, Esq. in faia Northwood.
Thomas 1; nohon, Constable.
GRAFTON—from 1775 to 1787,^ Tburfday in
August next —boufe of Hezekiah Bullock, in said Graf
ton. Jabez B. Barney, Profrs Colleßor.
CROYDON—fop 1789, 22d inf. —boufe of Abijah
Hall, in Jaid Croydon.
Samuel R. Hall, Conftabh.
BARRINGTON—for 1786 and 1787, 2,6th Jul,
idfl.—houfe of Mr. Isaac Waldron, in said Barrington
,Colle&or, Jul, %tb, 179 Q.
Last Firday was executed in this town Thomae
Bird, who at the diftrift Court held the firft inst.
was convicted of the murder of Capt. John Con
ner on board the Mary, on the coast of Africa.
The number of fpe&ators was judged to be not
less than three or four thousand, who generally paid
a decent attention to the solemn reEgiou^ exer
cises of the day. This is supposed to be the firft
infance of capital punishment under the new nati
onal government.
We are informed, that in the Senate yesterday,
that that honourable body proceeded in the cci fi
deration of the bill for fixing the permanent frat of
government, and that it was agreed to establish it
on die banks of the Potowtriack. It was further a
greed, that in the mean time the government of
the United States should remain in Newyork allow
ing ten years to ere& the necessary public build
ings at the refore mentioned plate.
Ihe question for Newyork, was carried by a
majority of one.
We hear from Bradford, that last Thursday fen
night, as one Mr. Carlton was affixing in Singling
the Meetinghouse in that town, he fell from the
roof, and was bruised in such a manner that he ex
pired about one o'clock on Sunday morning.
At Newcheller, in this State on the 29th ult.
about 9 o'clock in the morning, Mr. Ebenezer
Ferrin having loaded a gun very deep, with a
musket bail and fix large cut shot in order to fire
at some eagles by the fade of Newfoundpend —id
discharging the conte ts, he gun burst, and a piece
of the barrel entered his temple, and about an inch
arid an half deep, to the brains: he was alive the
next morning, but his Fie was, despaired of— he is
about 35 years of age, and has a wife and four
children.,.
A GENTLEMAN of a loose and gay turn of
mind happening some few weeks since, to be
in company with,a religious man, was ridiculing
things of a serious nature in very profligate lan
guage ; upon which the good man said you put me
in m ; nd fir, of a deaf man ridiculing the charms of^
music and a blind man (peaking contemptibly of
the beauty of colours.
(h. To Nonresident Proprietors of land.
AS ATLOR belonging to a mam of war having
been for his good behavor promoted, from a
forematt man to a boatswain, was ordered onshore
by his Captain, to receive his commission at the
Admiralty office. Jack went accordingly, and
thus humonrohfly describes his reception: " I bore
away large," fays he, " for the amiralty office ; and
on entering the harbour I espied a dozen or twoquil!
drivers ; f hailed them ; the devil a word fays they.
Halloo! again faysl ; the devil a word fays they!
shiver my top fails, but what can flis rrtean, fays I.
Then I takes a guinea troth m? pocket, and holding
it up to my peeper, Halloo! again fays I. "Oh,
halloo," quoth they. " Oh, the devil !" cries I,
" you are like Balaam's ass are you ? you could not
fpeak until you saw the angel?'
Permanent residence of Congress.
ANECDOTES.
PORTLAND. JUNE 28,
CONCORD, JULY 6.