The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1792-04-04 00:00:00, page 3

EARTHQUAKE at St. Paul's B a J-
Ebeutemens. &e. i" Canada.
When the latest advices came
from these places on Monday the
loth instant, the earthquake still con
tinued to the great alarm of the
inhabitants.—An ingenious corref
poodent on the spot has favoured ns
with a circumftancial account from
its commencement up to that date.
The following is an extrad ;
" All the different, (hocks were
felt from well to east, and did mdft
-damage within the breadth of two
leagues, comprehending in their
course (the length of which is yet un
known) the lower part of St. Paul s
Las, ftrikiog north and fouth, the
lower end of the Iftand of Coudre, and
the lower part of the EboAertchi,
"Within the above space 21
chimneys have been thrown down or
damaged. One done hotife almost
entirely demolished, :everd others
iplit, and many stoves and ovens
broke down, belites the damage done
to the church ofthtEbdulefrnr.
'• ft is remarkable that during the
firft days the shocks came on regular.
]y at the fame hour mowiing and e
vening—and since the 6:h until now
(the igth) we have had at least four
or five mocks every day.
ft the 17th, about half after -five
o'clock in the evening a globe of fice,
appearing to the eye of the size of a
48 pound cannon ball, was observed
coming from the southeast, striking
towards the north-east. and at the
heighth of about 140 toifes disappear
ed in its perpendicular defeent above
St. Paul's Bay, after burning with an
explofa. ~
. " Many old people remark that
for fevefral quarter-centbiies back,
earthquakes limilar to the present
' have happened;which lasted 4odays,&
find their return tolerable exadt every
J,„eah,to a year or two of variation,
and that the present is the third which
to their recolle&icn have taken place
in the fame season, within the differ
ence of a month or two;
" In the hiftory 'of Canada mention
is made of a more violent earthquake
in the month of July 1663 than any
felt since, having then lasted 'fit
, months, and began in the prece
ding January.
Dating frdm that period there
appear, to have happened one rega
, larjy every 2$ years— for since i6ty
to the present yea/, five quattericen
turies and three years have elapsed,
Previous to and ever finee the 6th
infant, the weather has been clouded
and gloomy, particularly *veft and 4
eafl, and whenever it cleared up
(which wa, very seldom) it always
began to darken from thence."
-Quebec Jan. 1792:
She following words are wrote over
the Pfifon at Ludgate, viz,
A prison is a house of care,
A grave for men alive,
A touch- stone for to tr, a friend,
And not a place for man to thrive-
WORCESTER, MARCH 22,
We are informed that the friends
of Lieutenant William Tafts who late
ly removed from Uxbridge, in this
county, to the state of New-York,,
have received the melancholy intelli
gence, that as he was passing, with
his team and family, up the river
Haifa, in company with nine other
teams, which ra'c moftiy or loa
ded with families, and some of them
from this Commonwealth, they all
fell through tne ice, and periled in
the water.—Mr. Taft's family con
fitted ofhimfelf, his wife, and five
children.—[77,„ account is as ex
traordinary as it is melancholy—lbe
probable cause of the magnitude of the
catastrophe we learn, ivas a bet toe
condition of which was, that the own
er of rhe team last over the river,
fold treat the ref— this induced them
all to. bur ,—[alas ! to a watry grave.]
- ENSIGNSb .
Charles Hyde, Nonning Pifcher,
fohn Pcibcmus, John Paine, William
Diven, Campbell Smith, William Pitt
f Getfawaj,Charles Wright, Aaron
Gregg, Peter Grayfen, Peter Marts,
[Samuel Davidfait. [TheLieutenaats &
Ensigns from the lame States as the
:Captains.]
^ . .• A,
BATTALIONor ARTILLERY.
M A,OR.COM°MA N D ANT.
Henry Burbeck, vice Far^ufob,
killed Nov. 4 ,
" CAPTAINS, y
John Peirce, vice Savage, re
signed : M?f Porter, vice Burbecte,
promoted. Daniel McLane, vice
Bradford, killed Nov. 4.
LIEUTENANTS.
George Demlar, vice Speab, kil
led Nov. 4 promoted from an Eti
fign in 2d, Regime, to rankfrom
sth March 1792. Joseph Elliot, vice
Peirce, promoted", S. C- Purc, Pope,
vice Porter, promoted Virginia. Ebt
nezer Massey, viceM'Lane,promoted
Maryland. , •_
The PRESIDENT has also orgah
ized , battallion of Riffemeo, to con
sist of 12 companies, 6 of which aTe to
be raifediin thbaclc parts of Penn/yl
vdnid) and therother fix, in the hack
William Eaton, Vermont, Isaac
Guin, New-York, Zebulon Pike, New-
Jerfry, Jacob Slough, Pennsylvania,
James Wells,' Delaware, Henry C*r
berry, William Bachannan, William
Lewis, Maryland, Nicholas Hannah,
Jofepb Brock, John Heth, Virginia,
Joseph Kerr, North-Carolinia.
lieutenants.
James Underhill,Robert Cockran,John
Read, Robert' L homfon ;Maxwell Bines,
Benjamin Price, Henry De Butts; Jo
fepb Gough, William M'Kea, Henry
B. Towles, Samuel TinJley, Thofaas
E. Sumner.
Leonard Codington, Maryland. Tar
leton Flemming, Virginia, Solomon
Tan Renffalear, Nedr-York/ James
Tayler Pcnnfylvania.
BOSTON, MARCR 30.
Extract of a letter from Aux-Cajes,dated
Feb. 11.
'' The 2t& of January while I lay
at Jacmel, the Garrison was attacked
by thirteen thoufand,Malaxes and
Negroes, in the most undaunted man
ner, at four bclock io the afternoon,
the fort and town were surrounded, so
that no person could get in or out —
in half an hour after they began
the attack from their , artillery,, in
a few minutes after they , boldly
marched up to the fort within p:ftdl
that,and continued the fight 'till half
after five o'clock the n-.vt morning,
only at times retreating Irom the fort
to the town, to burn their dead, and
those that were dangeroufl/,wounded;
they retreated in great diforde,, and
most have loft a number of men, the
garrison had eleven hundred and fifty
men only, to fopport the attack, four
hundred of which were Negroes, that
are faithful to their owners. It has
never yet transpired from either party
what number of men were killed.."
Twelve 'COMPANIES of INFAN
TRY. fr
CAPTAINS..
John Watts, Vir. John Craig,
Pena, Laurence Manning, S. C.
John Starkes, N. Y.
Tie President of the United States,
with Confentof the fr^/i has ap
pointed the following Officers of the
Squadron of Cavalry, agreeably to a
late aft of Cohgreft :—
Michal Rudulpb, at present Captain
in the firft Regiment.
Lieutenants.
Robert M Campbell, S. C. William
Winston, N^^ William A. Lee, do,
Williams wavidfon, Maryl.
MILITARY APPOINTMENT.
Captains.
'CORNSTS.
Major.
parts of Kirgizia. They are now
railing;
We have not received the papers
which contain the promotions and
appointments in the four regular Re
giments of infantry, which are mqde
without doubt. As soon as we receive
them, we shall communicate them to
the public.
The Legislature of the State ofNorth
Carolina have recently palled an Ad
to prevent the " wilful and malicious
killing of Slaves" —also an Aft to
jupprefs " exceffue Gaming."
OLD Frederick, king of
Prussia, had a great opinion
of the utility of experience.
• —A very young officer pre
fehted a petition,requesting
his Majesty would appoint
hint a supreme General.
The king wrote under his
petition—" turn to your
bible, and in the loth
chapter and sth verse of
the 2d book or Samuel you
will find it thus written—
Tarry at tyericko until th,
beard is grown, and then
come again."
The (peculation mania is not confi
ned to capital towns —it pervades all
parts of the country —a wit, at Stock
bridge lately added to a Notification
for a Town-Meeting, the following
article—" To fee if the town will
move to New York,and enter into the
bulinefs of /peculation."
It appears, by a letter from the
Treasury of the United States, read
in the House of Representatives the
29th ult. that there is a balance in
favour of the United States in his
hands, and in the banks of Phila
delphia, New York, Providence, &c.
of upwards of one million and forty
thousand dollars.
Congress now confilh of 67 mem
bers of whom 50 are speakers ! what
must be their progress in buiinefs,
when the number (hall be doubled ns
it soon will ?
Arrived at Portsmouth the fektoner
Jane. Capt. York, in 25 days from
Port-au-Prince, he informs that the
mulattoes and blacks would make
peace with t±4 wEi^es—-and that the
whites will not unless they give up all
the white people they have with them
which they ftfgmatize as rebels, and
could they once lay bands on them,
.they would be treated as fuch,this the
Negroe^rtfufe. ' C)pt. York further
informs that there was no fighting
When he left the Cape. & -
Capt. York, happy in being pof
feffe d with the powers of Tympathy,
and touched with ;hg tender feelings
of the humane heart,has bought home
the remains of Mr. Pirkins, one of
his people, who died the 14th inft
after a lingering sickness. ^ How
different a conduft is this, from ti
..Lli^ .. V 7 J % ~ ^ 4 N^•. , '„
In a laterew-Haven paper a Book
was adyertifed for sale, at the price
of two Dollars in Boards ; an honest
inhabitant of a neighbouring town,
pleased with the contents,applied to
the Bookseller, to know what kind
of Boards would be received in pay
ment, as he was very defiroys of being
in possession of so valuable a Work.
EXETER, April 4.
ANECDOTE.
SHIP NEWS.
late instance, ✓ youth only twenty
leagues from Pordmouth harbour
thrown into the lea, in eight hour)
after his death ! !!
ELECTIONEERING.
The votes for Pre6dent,amd Sena
tors, &c. were he follows, viz.
PORTSMOUTH.
For PRESIDENT.
HisExceliency Jofiahßartlett,Efq. 190
SENATORS. <
Abiel Foster, 26g
James Sheafe, 236
Chriflopher Toppan, 228
William Plumer, 221
Phillips White,. 46;
' -Nathaniel Peabody, 152
Nathaniel Gifman,ss
Jeftph Cilley, 46
Jonathan Warper, 44
George Gains,7
John Peirce, ! Representatives.
John S. Sherburne; j
NOT! INGHAM,
( For PRESIDENT.
HisKxcellencv Josiah Bartlett,Efql „
Hon. John T Gilman, Esq. 34
SENATORS.
Joseph Cilley, 68
Nathaniel Gilman, 67
Nathaniel Peabody 67
Jonathan Warner, 62
John Prentice, fy
William Plumer, 6
Christopher Toppan, 5
John S. Sherburne, 3
Jonathan Cilley, Representative.
^ARRIEDJ-fn England Mr
Wm. Grace MifsM.LANGfhaw
His father is hi s brother, and her mo
ther is his filler! However flange
the above eirctimftance may appear,
it is all brought about by the wonder
ful effect of matrimony.
— Ac Portsmouth, Capt.Gilbekt
HornV, of Pool, to Mist Theodora
Heacock, of Cork, in Ireland.
DIED]— A:Cia p cmont,of the (mill
pox .he natural way, the Hon. Sa
muel &Wtv,Efq. one of the Judges
of the Inferior Court far the county
of Chelhire.
—ln this town, Mrs. NANCY
Randel, wife of Mr. Jacob Randef,
& 25.
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t&THE perlon who
borrowed Morje's Geography, and 'uo
walking Canes, from the fubferiber,
(without leave) is desired to return
them immediately.
John Hopkinson^
Exeter^ April 4 1792.
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SERMON
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UNITY of the CHURCH
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Exeter, April 4, 1792.
WANTED -
RY the printer hereof, a
few Tanned Sheepskins, lui a
ble for binding, for which good pay
will be made. April 4.