The American herald of liberty — Exeter, N.H., 1793-12-03 00:00:00, page 3

The French L*y their conduit have
’ difgrajced a cause which originally
nad been a good one, and are regard
less of every principle of honour.—
We have seen in one of your pa
pers,a letter from Havre, which men-
cargoin an handfeme manner. To
• underceive your fellow citizens, be so
good in one of your early papers to
insert the following extract of a letter
frorp Mr. Gouvernour Morris to us,
dated nth Aug. 1793—“ f wife I
had good news to give you of the
Laurens, but the magnitude of the
cargo has enabled the captors to do
many things which for a small prize
they could not have attempted. At
present the determination will, I ima
gine, be in their favour, uhlefs. the
Convention repeal the decree former
ly granted on their felicitation in
1 breach of the treaty 'with the United
• States.”
NOV, 12.
Exlraft of a Utter from Eafton, io a
gentleman in this town.
0 Judge Pattbrson has delivered
I his opinion ift. That there is no
I Prize Court in exigence in the Uni
lied States. 2d. That if a Prize-
I Court did exjft, yet, that it could not
■ take cognizance of captures made by
■the authority and commiftion from
[other powers. 3d. That the instance
[court of the admiralty, has nothing to
[do with the question of prize. The
[judge then declared the law of na-
Itions to be, that thequeftion of prize
Iwas cognizable only by the admiral-
Icy courts of the nation, whose fubje&s
l^ere the captors.” '
I NEWYORK.
I n£w-york, Nov 19. On Friday
■ aft the suit in defamation by his Ex
l ellency George Clinton, Esq. Gover
lour of this State, Plaintiff, against
■William Cooper, Esq. firft Judge of
■he county of Otfego, Defendant,
Ivas brought to trial at the Circuit
tourr. The Plaintiff’s Declaration
■ontained counts, or charges against
■he defendant, that he had falfely and
fcalicioufly fpokc^ of the Plaintiff a#
I
■
I
an idle rumor, and that so diftrefling
.an event to both countries may be
ata very remote distance.
“ We do not like the spirit which
prevails too much among a certain
description of people with you—but
we hope the good sense of America
will prevail over these violent men.
WINCHESTER, NOV, I f .
ExtraEi of a lettsr^frcm the Cap:,
of an American ship al Havre de Grace,
to a gentleman of rejpect ability in this
town, dated the 27 tb of Sept. la(t.
“SINCE my hft of the 21st inst.
a Decree has patted the National Con
vention, prohibiting all Paips (except
proper French (hips) from carrying
freight from any port in France to
another,or from France to her iftands,
or colonies, or from the colonies to
France; neither can any (hip bring
into France any cargo, (except it is
the produce of the country) of the
colours (he is under 5 of course the
Americans here will be obliged to go
away in ballast—there are upwards
of 20 fail in this port.
MARYLAND.
BALTIMORE NOV. 1 I .
ExtraEi of a letter from London, dated
Sept. 4 . 1793.
“ All American (locks are very
heavy and are likely to fall, owing
to an apprehension that a rupture be
tween America and this country is
probable. We hope it will prove
tions the release of the Laurens & hes
By this Day’s Mail.
VIRGINIA.
It is not necessary to publish
other cpunts in the Declaration, the
Plaintiff’s counsel having insisted
that they did not alleviate the fup*
poled injury ; indeed the only object
in publishing what was essentially the
caufc of adtion, is to furnifh there
quifire information for an inference
from the verdidt.
Our neighbouring city is now said to
be through the divine ' blfflng, quite
free from. the. malignant fever—A pro
clamation was ifued byGever nor Mifflin
on the i^tb inJi. appointing Thurjday^
the 1 2th December next to be observed
throughout that Commonwealth,as a day
of general humiliation, Thankfgiving*
and prayer, onthis account.
On Saturday arrived the Jbip Can
ada, of and for London, from the Bay
of Hondurasfurthen ions deeplylai
den with Logwood, a prize to the French
Citizen if B our de aux of ^6 guns, The
fir ft gun the Frigate fired, burfi and
killed 14 of her. own men.
ALBANY, NOVEMBER 1 8. With the
deepest regret we mention, that about half
past ten o'clock, last evening, a most tremen
dous fire broke out in this city, in some out
house near the centre of the block fortoed by
the juodion of Market and State-Streets, Muz
den and Middle Lane. Who owned the place
in which it originated, or in what manner it
was conveyed, the general confufion that enfu*
ed, and the rapidity of its communication to
the farrounding houses, (lores, &c. renders it
difficult for us at prefentxo determine ,j espe
cially ’a? reports, conjectures, &c. are various-
When it firft broke out but alight breeze
blew from the northward,.yet, for some time,
it fpiead with irrefiftable fury in all direct
tions. It laid waste that part of the weft fide
of Market-Street, from the dwelling.houfe
and floreof Mr. David Waters, northerly
to the house and store of Maley and Cuy-
Ler, merchants*-?In this place were destroy
ed 26 dwelling-houses, a great number of
stores, fhojs, and manufadories, together
with the printing office and’ to k bindery of
McfTrs. Websters,, in which was three
Printing-presses. '
To describe the emotions of the philanthro
pic mind, while contemplating this feeneot.
difolation, would perhaps beggar the facul
ties- of the most sublime delineator. Still
more gloomy wculd eqw have been our fttua.
lion had, not Providence graciously conde
scended in the mid ft of our calamity, to visit
us with a heavy fall Os fleet ; never were tld'
refrefhing dews of heaven more acceptable
to the 1 biroy earth ; than was this providen
tial affiftahcc to the fufferfng citizens of Al
bany ; but for which nearly our whole city
most inevitably have been consumed, as the
wind had considerably rifeo. It is impossible
at present to afeeftain the ambunt'of the los
ses occasioned by this dreadful calamity ;
m«ny suppose in (he aggregate it will exceed
too.oool.
BOSTON, NOV. 30.
& INTELLIGENCE .
Cf the firft moment, may be daily looked
fdr—from Europe-v*from this aflembrled Coun
cils of cur conntry*-and from the army
marching to ch’aftife a foe, tvhom no treaties
can bind, or favours restrains To ail thtfc
directions attention shall be paid* and the
earlie# accounts ?n»ource<L * f
follow^, vi& u Govi Clinton is a
robber, for he has robbed the state of
some millions of money'in the faits of
the lands belonging to this state. He
has robbed the state of five millions
of money, and put in his own pockcu
- The proceedings of Gov. Clin
ton has been more injurious to the
state in felling the unappropriated
lands of this state to : Alexander M r
Comb, than Gen. Arnold’s would
have been had he carried his plot a
gainst Weft-Point into its fulleft ex
tent ; and he is in combination with
the British in the sales of the unap
propriated lands belonging to this
state; and he dares not walk the
streets of New-York publicly.’
The Plaintifi proved .thtfe and ev
ery other charge in his Declaration,
except one to which no proof was
ottered, owing, as it was suggested,
to the accidental absence of the wit
ntfs. The plea was foot guilty. A
special Jury gave the Plaintiff four
hundred pounds idamages ; a fiftieth
part of the sum demanded by this
Declaration.
Jonathan C. Hill’s
TJ'VENING-SCHOOL is now o
j pen for the benefit of those who
with to improve in Writing and Arith
metic. Dec. 4.
^Juft Publijbed,
KtiJ) TO BE SOLD BY HENRY RANLET, WHOLE.
SALE Oft RET«tLj CHEAP FOR CAStlf’'
Dr. Watts W.
Psalms and Hymns,
Dandfomely Bound, or in Sheets.
Loft, in October laji, between
Stephen Bathtlder's and Mosts Stephans', in
De erf eldA Calf-Skin and L rat her Apron—
Whoever wilt leave tbem at either of the above
places /ball be r ewar if or their trouble.
JOEL CRAM.
December 2 f 1793.
1--
j/^LL the good and e^il of our lives is in
dependant of ourselves and not to be prevent
ed : Let Us live, therefore," after the deiires
pf oar hearts* and submit ourselves to that
destiny which we cannot avoid ; for all the
events of human life were determined in hea
ven from eternity—And all the fins, thb
wrath, anger, and rpalic^ of mankind ; and
all the commotions that jar the moral world,
will redound to i,he praise and glory of
God-1 1 !
IND I Aft WAR.
The current report oFSaturdaywa?, that
Gen Wayne’s army had been attacked by
the Indians, and that, after a bloody engage
ment, the Indians were defeated, with the
loss of 600 killed and wounded^—Gen Wayne
looting soq. In tracing this report to its
fdorce, We find it originated in Kentucky, Snd
has since appeared in tire Virginia and New-.
York papers. Coming through the famer
channel as the intelligence both of the" defeat
of Generals Harmar and Sc. Clair, it had
fopre appearance of truth : Bat the Editor
has seen a letter from the Secretary at War,
at Philadelphia, dated the 20th November—
the UR intelligence frotn that city—in which
no mention is made of the event ; and which
would certainly have been mentioned, had
intelligence of it arrived. We presume there
fore, the whole to be a fabrication. We may
however, speedily expteft interesting events
ffOm that quarter; as at the date of our left
accounts the army was on full march for the
Miami towns, and the Indians were in large
numbers at the Ox Glaze, on the Miami of
the lake* determined to ibeet our army on its
route, A letter from an officer of the army,
dated Sept. 22, fays, •* The Indians are ela
ted with their former IticceHes ; they are tc^
fentful, determinate, and laugh at the idea of
our approaching their towns ; these circum
fiances concur to make them less contemptible
as an enepy. That they will fight with des
peration we expeft ; and Gon grant they may
haVe enough of it. We are well difetpiined,
and well reconciled to the expedition ; and
whatever may be our success, I venture to as
sure you, that we (hall not fly.”
A letter receive! by a gentleman at Stock
bridge, dared Oneida, Oft. 2J, lays, ft Ac
counts arrived in mis village last evening
from the Miami, which are much more favor
able than when the Commitiiopers left that
quarter. Only three of the Indian nations
remain holtile ; all tie others have declared
for peace or neutrality, and reqcell another
treaty next fpring*
The Commiflioners : receiving their final
aufwer at the late treaty, wh'th put an end
to the negociation, immediately left Detroit
—their sudden departure exhiutedfuch spirit
aid determined resolution, as made a very fa
vourable impreflion on the minds of the In-
' LIE ER AL DONATION— Mr. Horton,
lately deceased, Philadelphia, has left by
will, 5533 dollars, fix per cent, flock of the
United States ? the interest of which to be
appropriated, forever, towards the education
of pious youths.
Os such a modern preacher, may we not
exclaim with the ancient and fablime Poet:
* a
His Gob cries bavoch, and lets fly
His dogs of war !- —— ;
Port-Antonio, in the island of Jamaica, and
the port of Sr. yohn'jfa theplland of Antigud,
are by alate aft of the British Parliament,
intitled to the privilege ot free farts.
dianr.
Tbt following lately occurred in a neigbb tiring
to^wn ; <which wat handed io ui for infection,
by one of the hiarert.
' . EXETER,
TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER J.
HAI ufon Truch.-^Qr, Modern Preaching,
by Virtue of licence. from the Hon, Jedge cf
. Piobate/st theWoufe of the subscriber, on
Tucfday the 31st day of December next, at
>• o’clock, P. M.
Two Fifty acre Lots of Land/
lying in Chichefter, No. 9 and 10, in the nt
Ran^e, and 4' h Division, being part of the
real eflatfe of Thomas Leavitt, dec?afed.
Conditions cf file made known at time ah^
place aforefaid.
RACHAEL LEAVITT, Adm*x<
Hampton, Nov- 27,
—
CZ<AME into the
, inclofure of the fubferiber,
- “irFV 5^ ® e P L
MES^B dark.brindleHeifer,
2 years old last Spring, marked with a top off
the right ear ; a fwaHowS tail in the left ear
with a halfpenny the under fidpof the fame.
The right owner may have het, by proving
property and paying charges, by applying ft?.
■ _ - Joseph Watfofi,
Ixetcr, Dee. 2d, 1793*.
rTpHE fubferibers sos Mer-
JL kilCs PLAN of the
Town of Stratham, are requeued t*
Till on him and receive them.
Strath am. December 3, 1793,
» :
Gilman &
UaVE just received a frelh.zffort*
men: of FALL andWrNTER
GOODS,
Which they are felling at the lowest
’ prices, for
Ca(h) Tow-Cloth, or court*
try Produces
ALSO,
Weft’lndia Goods,Crockery
Warej &c.
given Jar Salts vs Afhes^
EXETER, DEC. 2, 1793. A
Stephen Jofcph
Lamfon,
InFORM their Friendj, arid
the people at large, that they have jreetived,
and are now felling, at a very low rite.
An Assortment of
G O O D S,
Suitable for the season, .at the
STORE owned by Dr. Til'ton. '
LIKEWISE, L
Weft-India Goods—
and an Assortment of CROCKERY.
Exeter, Dec. 2, 1793.
Ward Gilman,
Informs his Friends and the
public, that he carries on the
Founder’s Business,
in its various branches ; who has on hand
a few pair of elegant
ANDIRONS, of different iizes,
Tongs, Shovels and Chimney-
Hooks.
Candlesticks of the newest fdfhicns
very cheap.
An Afortment of Harness Trim
njings, Black Lead for cleaning
Iron-Sicwi, Fire-Places, &c. of an excel
lent quality.
These, with m-any other arti
cles in the lined his bufmeis, may be haTas
cheap (and warranted as good) as tan be ppr
chaled elsewhere. — —
An Apprentice Wanted,
Exeter,-Dec. 2. 1793. ,
T t - _ r r r .
i Obe Sold at PublicVenduej
WANTED
A good Milch Cow,
For which the CASH will be given—
Enquire of the Printer. Dec. 2. 1793.
Public Vendue-