The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1790-12-25 00:00:00, page 2

Orders were also issued to the magistrates ,
every county, to affilt the recruiting parties to ratio
men as expeJitioufly as possible. „
The three fitft battalions of the guard received
orders yesterday to be augmented to feventy-five
men each company, and to hold themselves in rea
cinefs for foreign service, to be attended by one
Field Officer. The officers are ordered to furnifh
themselves with small tents.—Their destination is
Yamaha; Government being under apprehensions
for the fafety of that Island. It is well known the
Spaniards have long had an eye towards it.
War is now inevitable. _.
We car, from undoubted authority, assure the
public, that a war with Spain is now fixed on, and
hostilities will commence immediately. ri.ty
new companies are immediately to be raised, and
memorials are this day and to-morrow to be given
in for the commissions.
We have authority further to add, that two
choufind of the Gurds, under the command of the
Duke of York, have received orders to prepare to
march at a day's notice ; and likewise that letters
of Marque are immediately to be granted,,
There are at present 71 fail of the Line in com
mission, iucludingHofpital &Receiving fhips^m—
Five of doo-Nine of 98— Two of go-One of 84.
—Two of 80 —Forty of 74 —Twelve of 64 Gear.
Vice..
The detachment of guards that served last war
in America, behaved upon ever, occasion with the
most diftinguiihed spirit. They jealouflr claimed
the post of danger, and maintained it with uncom
mon gallantry. *,,
The Weft-Indies will in all probability be the
grand theatre of war. From the vigorous.prepa
rations of Ministry, it would appear that they aim
at making it an offeniive one.•
An offensive War in fuels a country as the Weft
Indies must be a faccefsful one. The force of an
enemy is divided, and if one quarter is not found
fufficiently vulnerable, another will.
Complaints have been daily made for some time
pad, of the secrecy of government in ail its differ
ent departments. It surely cannot be well found
ed, tor immediately upon the return of the fleet,
we had the order of battle and of failing displayed
in a Morning Paper, for the benefit—of our Ene
mies. * ..
s The fire (hips for the grand naval armament have
barrels well Applied ; there is in each barrel about
izflo. of corned powder, 6jlb. of pitch, lolb. of
tallow, 401 b. of fulphur, 5010. of faltpetre, 6olb,
of rotin, and three pints of oil.
Orders were lent from the Admiralty late on
Wednesday night for Portsmouth, Plymouth and
Chatham, for every lhip ^ be furnitbed with fo
reign flags, which are never used but in tithe of
The men of war now fitting in the river Med
way, are all ordered roused to the Downs with as
much expedition as possible.
The Boyne, of 9$ gons, from Woolwich, is also
Ordered to the fame place. A fleet is to take that
flation for some weeks till dispatched on other
service. , , .
The combined fleets of France and Spain, if a
conjunction has been formed, as is generally fup
rded, consists of fifty sale of the line, fourteen
rench, and thirty-fix Spanish, befodes frigates.
Lord Howe takes with him forty mips of the liner
from Portsmouth, and ten from Plymouth ; so
that every man will only have his bird, if a meet
ing takes place, and a tolerable light meal it will
be ; for so excellently a conditional fleet, in point
of officers, men and ships, never left the Britilk
LONDON, OCTOBER 11.
HIS Royal Highaefs the Duke of York left
town on Saturday morning for Brighton.
On rhurfday morning the Lieutenant Colonels
of the three regiment# of guard# received mella
ges to attend the Duke of Glocerter. His Higa
mefs being commissioned to fettle the draught which
is to be made from those regiments for foreign fer-
LIVERPOOL, OCTOBER.
NOW h the time for England to hurl her thun
frhe Spaniards cannot have support from any
" a fatal blow may be vven them ; and
,*% French dare in their miserable state to
^ft a,, St. Domingo would be a, eaf,
declare ag ^ appearance ever, other ifl^d
'°''a ! h n'J°l famnarity of • British fleet. Me.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENT
The troops intended for immediate embarkation,
including ihofe to be Shipped from Ireland, will
amount to 6000 men, and tnefe conGdof Some of
the abieft veterans of the English army.
Oa. 12. Orders were issued from the War-Of
fice on Saturday, to raise one hundred companies
The Spaniards, ; Ruffians, the Danes, even
the Swedes, it woui,appear and the French, have
combined against this country. Though it is un
doubtedly to be regretted; that jealousies ihould
have arisen between ui on the one part, and the
Ruffians and Danes, on the other ; and tho' a good
understanding might perhaps, have been maintain
ed with these powers by found policy, yet not a
little of that general difpoiition which pervades
the world to humble Great Britain, arilca
But of her prosperity.
tORK, (PENNS.) NOV. 1(7.
From Wrignt's ferry we learn, that about four
o'clock in the afternoon of the 3d inst. as a boat
was coming from the call fide, a most tremendous
storm arose when she was about half way over, by
means of which the was toon filled with water and
sank : There were fix paiTengers and the boatmen
in her, besides a small light woggon and three
horses, viz. a clergyman, the owner of the waggon,
with his wife and three children ; when the ilorm
came on, the woman and children took shelter in
the waggon, but it continued to hl'w with such
violence, that the waggon was torn out of the boat,
and tip body having by chance got loose from the
carriage, and being pretty tight, floored some dis
tance, till its progress was hepped by a rock ; the
huiband viewing the melancholy situation of his
wife and children, refclved to relieve or perilh
with them, and quitting the boat swam to the wag
gon, cut open the cover with his knife, and with
difficulty kept their heads above water till they
were relieved by a boat from the weft fide ; by inis
time the ferry-boat had entirely disappeared ; the
clergymanjuft :s he found the boat finking, mount
ed his horse, one of the boatment mounted on one
of the waggon horses, and by char means preserved
themselves till they were relieved by a boat ; the
other boatman of the name of fin Sullivan, de
pended on his fltill in swimming, got upon an oar,
but it is thought that he is drowned, as he has not
since been heard of ; the boat was found in the
falls, and one of the waggon horses that had been
given up for loft, was found next day some distance
below the falls with all his gears on, and does not
appear to have received the smallest injury#
gociatioa ought no longer to be continued with ho
nour 10 England :—a negoctation can serve only
to defer nobility until the Spaniard thinks himfelf
Efficiently fupoorted, and firing enough to put an
end to it :—We have at present a decided advan
tage we ought eagerly to seize, in remembrance of
the Greek adage, " That wnat is wcl begun, is
half fiaiihed."
The increafiag liberty of the French nation fete
an example to every other State of Europe, an uni
versal aamiffion of Prote^ants of all denominations
to public offices, is now decreed ; talents and vir
tues are to be the qualifications, and private opin
ions in matters of faith are to be reserved uncalled
for from the bread where they ought to lodge.
'' WHEREAS, on the event of war with Spain,
it may be found necessary to withdraw a consider
able part, or the whole of his Majesty's Troops
from this povmce ; in which case the Militia will
be called on for the defence and protection of it :
•' His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor
therefore, has thought fit hereby to require and
order the officers commanding the several corps
of Militia to prepare the officers and men under
them for service ; and to take care that they Shall
be provided with arms and ammunition, to be du
ly disciplined and trained as by law directed—
making choice in each corps of a certain number
of foch a&ivc men, as may be meft fit to march on
any sudden occasion ; or to aft in conjunction with
his Majesty's regular troops. If any Shall remain
in th. foe.,, R [ CHro BULKELEY,
BOSTON, DECEMBER Ila
The following order is copied from a Halifax
paper of the and ulc.
Th following article it copied from a lata London Pa.
A wheel to pump Ihips without menus' labour
has lately been invented in the North : its pro
perty it, to be driven with great force by the way
of the ship when in the water ; and it is applica
ble to every kind of pump without interruption of
the present mode of working them, and may be
put to, or removed in two minutes.— This wheel
will effectually prevent any damage to goods in the
hold of any vessel, and may be the me of far.
ing the lives of thousands of seamen.
Civil War, we learn, till rages in the French
Weft-India Iflandc ;-- that many lives are daily
left i—and befiarfsii at a fland.
"Secretary's office, Halifax, Oa. 11,
" To have fought and to have died by their fide
would, have been our moll sacred duty—-To pa,
their memory the last tribute of worth, is now the
moll anxious desire of our hearts and it is our molt
ardent with 10 raise to them a monument worthy
of themselves, and deeply expreffiveof our esteem !
" Let a Pyramid, in its ftrudure, but of a ma
jeftick appearance, be eretied to them at one of the
gates of Nancy.
'' Upon this Pyramid let there be an inferipti-
CT to this effect — Here rest the men <who died so ^
country—soldiers as <u;ell as citizens ! Tie ft.o^d
month of the second year of the liberties of Fra ce.
" Such, Gentlemen, is the monument we clam
for those generous Frenchmen, whom a ferfe !
their duty swayed upon this occasion. Their wives,
their children, their parents, of whom they were
the happiness and the flay, are witnesses to the
tears we now shed upon their ashes —be it ours, by
this latt ad of a tension; to perpetuate the remcm,
braace of their glory.'
THE following is a true copy of an advertise.
ment which was lately found polled up in a Ta,
Tern, in Warwick, k ;ode-lfland :—
" An lenemj to Gratt Salhri,
" I hearby offer mylelf a Candidate for a Re.
prefentative in Congress and uill fa:re for two
thirds of the wages and loge one third in the Gen,
Treasury of the State or take what the Affembl,
shall trunk rite.
On the iith of September lift, a petition, was
prefersted to the National Assembly of France, by
a committee from the National Guare atVerfailles,
through Mr. Bertier, their commas. at, refpe&-
ing the funeral honors due to chose who fell ia
quelling the infurredion at Nancy. Part of thia
memorial runs as follows : They Lave sealed with
their blood the oath which they tock but a few days
before, to devote their lives to he nation, to tho
support of the law,and to the fafuty of the King !
O Since the " offer” of Mr. Arnold, to serve as
a Federal Representative, ffox/rr than the prefect
pay, a correspondent has formed a scale of depre
ciation, which determines merit, and the value of
publick Services, and finds that, '' Mr. Arnold'.
pay, according to this Scale, would be fcmenhaC#
below five thirds of a cerr per day."
&n hear a trig <was taji COLL) uh the lack of th.
Caps, in the form of last week, Bradhrjs, Mafre
# 4xd Mate (brothers) outre both dr&iuntd.
Las Tburfaay night a febooner from Jamaica
i^id, ran on tho ecfl end cf Fifer's Ifaad.—q/tfi
and cargo arc said ts he left.
On Tuefday last the Legislature of New-Jerfe,
appointed the Hon. Philemon Dickenfon and the Hon.
John Rutherford, jun. Senators for that State in
Congress—the firft to Supply the place of Gover
nor Paterfa —the other to take his feat after the
expiration of Mr. Elmer's time.
SALEM, DECEMBER 7.
Captain Wallace arrived here, Since our fail,
from Biltoa, from whence he failed the zzd of Oct.
Immediately before his departure, his merchant
(who had before supposed that the Courts of En
gland and Spain had mutually agreed and fettled)
informed him, that the last mail brought intelli
gence, that England had rejected the terms pro
posed by Spain for an accommodation. And it
was expected, that the demands of Britain would
rife in proportion to the increase of their arma
ments ; and chat Spain would hazzard the event
ofa WAR, rather than fub'mit to them.
CAME into the inclofure of the -
Subscriber, the firft of Odober left— A red,
line-back, yearling STEAR, with two halfpennies
on the under fide of the right ear. The owner ma,
have him again— proving his property, and paying
charges, by applying to—
-6 JOSIAH FOLSOM, jun.
Exeter, Dec. 17th, 179 Q - __
4 STRAY PIG.
CTRAYED from a door in this
J town, on Tuefday left, a ,^ back, barres
PIG, weighing about 100 wt. Whoever will leave
Aid Pig with the prQ&[ hare' """ be P"' *4
for their trouble. &wi% Dec* afe
CADDLER's WORK, of all kinds,
'-'done at the Shop near Col. Ladd's, and fold
CHEAP for CASH and COUNTRY PRODUCE,
by . SHACKFORD S. BENNETT.
Exeter, Dec. 1790.
"STEPHEN ARNOLD
" Warwick Sept 13 1790'
CHEAPER THAN CHEAP!