The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1791-10-28 00:00:00, page 3

Litter flora the Prefdent of the General
Affimbly, to the Governor of Jamaica,
Cape Francois;A 4 guJl 31, f79'°
SIR,
-.. SNCE (had the honour of writing to
" your Excellency, in the name of the Ge
neral Assembly of the Representatives
of &± Domingo, our condition has not al-
Leied for tie better :Oa the contrary;
every day exposes us to her misfortune's :
And we are unable to put arms even
into the hands of thofe,who present thern
felv.es to assist os. This has induced our
Afibmbly to pdfs a decree, authorising
roe to request your Excellency to grant
us as great asap ply of mtfots, fibres,
and pistols, as you pbffibly can. Fifteen
ihpufaad muskets would not be too
,n^ny. Ah, fir, how flaw that affiftince
is, in coming, which we req veiled of
you ! Oar melancholy situation will not
a [low u, to meafurcdiftance : Uareafon
able (and mco.in. affi^orf are ever so)
we tax you with want of humanity ! as
if jt, were poffiolc to flepover the space
which divides us, with as great rapidity,
as the fldtges; devour our pofcffions !
every day oar eyes are fixed upon 'the
fares, iri hops, Os feeing your (hips
and your armies emerging from the ho-,
rizon. —~ — »What a death blow to Stir
hopes, if, after whole days of expecta
tion, we Ltd oqrfelvej at leagdi aban
doned !
I have the honour to ±e,with the most
cordial and fraternal afeffon, fir, your
moftobedient, hum ble, ferveat,
(Signed) Pl. DE Canused, Pr^bi/
top of the walls. It is of polifntd mar
ble. both outside and in, the pillars are
of one piece, fifty feet high, the bate and
capitals of f^id silver; but the greatest
curiosity t)f all is the wooden box, con
ftrt&d in a particular manner. All the
Eitprefs' buildings are in the fameim-'
menfe fc^le. The Great Dake's dog.
house has 1500 windows; and the Au
dience Chamber,'in which the En\prefs
recede foreign AmSaffadogts, 'fa lined*
with polished silver.—Such is the mag
nificence of her imperial Majesty.
f^ngHjb F.aperf\
LcUA fax thePreltot of theGi&At
rtfalbl) to ths Mso&rtof tbs®
Iwxbbat ,4m.ai<&- °
CaftFrjnKibd^tf^^ l ^'':
& Cjit^mee,- " r r'" " 'l™ ^^.
WB hope you bate' 6k yburfelv,
* ingrafted in our mis', "tun^s. Each day
we ex,eft the arrival of ,s?fe fuccojr,,
which we.hire 4±qttt& ©f^^oq ; nnT
each day we fear they will arrive toslg:e.
W£&nd,-indeed, lent some p^ffons, who
prefentthemfelves -to defend as ; and we
hope that others will do the fame, when
our neighbour, are acquainted With our
diftfeffes : But we are in . grant of arms.
This circumftaoce h^s induced the Aft
feebly to ptf; a .decree, authorizing me
to entreat you, gen,lentup, to endeavour
to procure them for us. Fifteen thou
faad Q/kcts would not be too many.
Come to our afliftance ; and, by year
protection preserve this be,ocifal coun
try from being kid .entirely waste with
fire and (word. Th,iphabiu>nts of&^
Domingo expefl every thing from you, as
from brethren.; ; „
I have the honour, to;bd, wiffi the most
cordial and brotherly i a&aidn# grade-'
pen, your meft obedient and humble
Servant,. ; | (Signed);
Pl. ni Cap^ch, Preface K
The Spaniards qfSt, Domingo, so Far
from giving affi^ance to their distressed
neighbors seem difyofed to cut of all com
munication befree, theirpwnfeltlementr
and ihofc of the Preach./' You @& af
finance (fay xhev) in.the , fanfe of your
; King ; and you; have delpoftd him ;-=',
the pameoftoly religion ;and you have
long been ^eidtf all r^igjQu !" &p, x -.
NEW^YQRK,, OCTOBER 2^
•DREADFUL FIRE. 1^
ON the %Bth nit. nearly a third part
of the books in the late flourishing town
pf Neswbera, in North-Carolina, fell a
facrifice to Fire. The exertions oftbe
■ inhabitants, in-ehdeayouiing to ftop„th&.
■ progress ofthjs deftraaive element,were
I truely confyicaoes,bat ^fortunately they
I were unprovided wfehlire engines.-The
I win 4 was also high ; and had the fifties
' continued but^ aVlhprt fp,ce lon±er, not
a single Saildfog would have escaped.
EFFECTING LETTERS.
HARTFORD, OCtJifr'
So determined are they in England to
put a flop (if poffibie) to tok-pad rob
befies/thar on the fth of July two boys
of.abv the ageofi, years, were rt
cdted for that offence, coin mitred with
a boy nearly at the fame age; they took
for him ^j&jn^^jp^ce..
The S/^Ea/iaf?^ Gizate oftb/l^b
alt. contains flee fiUo^iag ad^ertifomem._-
" Laft^ghowis run away wittynhe
Sloop Polly, oLPepviface, Rb^-lfand,
by her mate naffied William Round, and
ayoung Man called Sam, She had Qh
board zobog&Mds and fix barrels Su
gar; 21 cases Gra, 30 barrels Beef, and
in thecaptain's theft between 1400 and
1,00 Dylars. fßdund, is about § feet
6 inches high?a ftput well, made fellow,
and SAm^ii efoaf $ feet 3 inches high,
a dull -heavy fylow% ;The limp isa
Urge black Ne,v-E,gland built: ve(Tel.
'AjarHundred Dollars Reward is offered
by Hardiman and Ciarkfon, of St. Eu'-
ftatia, for recovering the vessel anid &.
Curing & Pishes, N. B. The captain
cf the sloop is )tymf L,w.
A genera! coofte/natfon, as it may well
beAuppofed,took place ; at length it was
fu^gefled to have recourfe'to an expe
dient, perhaps never before practifed in
this part of the world. A considerable
number of barrels of gunpowder were
placed in a b6ufe, and by being blown
up, infored the fefety of the rest. By the
mere heat of the fire, which raged at
distance of So,feet, flames were kin#fd
in wooden tenement'.; and Qius the ruin
of che town would, have been complete,
had fife not been used fo| the purpose of
extinguifhir.g fire,
The'damage, in the above event If
imm^nfc. - .?
,ept emBE R to, 1791,
284 Plantations burnt.
94 Ditto totally defrayed.;
169 Dittoof Coffer burnt.
154 Men.kiUed. ^ , ^ ?• '
• 48 Women.killed. ..
18 Children murdered.
6 Plantations: belonging to the
Gailifat family destroyed /
6 Ditto at Limbee.
36000 Negroes revolted,# : ;
4000 Dixo returned.. • " •' #
8000 killed or otherwise deftroyed.'
LOOSES IN HISPANIOLA.
The following intelligence wehave
received by the Brig Harmony,Captain
Rogers, from Port-au Pri/.ce-—
-tv t . ^
,„ BOSTON, COT. 22, ?
'Yethrday arrived sere from Franc t;
&U S.T& BIRRELL CARNES Esq,
Confal of the United Spates, , for the<
port of Nan% When this gentleman left.
Fru^the King had not afl:nted.:o the
ConfijwidA. •
s ? 1 ? 1 I l ’*
, < federal register.
REPRESENTATIVES' —P%„va
nia.. Hon. Frederick 4u gustus
Mutf^NfrE R.G, and Thomas Fi tzu
mCns, Efimretre-ele^ed.'
It has become quite falhionible in the
tingle papers, to abuse, the good Ally qf
, the Urffy#.d7aw£OUlS XVir But tire
abuse t,ejng retailed" in ^be draziian pa
pers, affords a striking infth^ce of ingra
titude, aiid^ ought to be diftooraged by
all wherenfid^ the ItylefcenQnce of th€
U@4 d &am,. , political bluffing. ''&
roericans may rejoice with ' propriety,
that TWENTY,,!v& MILLIONS are lire
ly to partake of the busings offa Free
fynftitamn; but w^ ought not to freak
out inri&tempyrite* language, against a
personage to whom we are so much in
debted—and whom W# bare long com
plimentetyas thq^EßrlENWr^ MAN
COUNTER REFOL^r^it
-Notwithflanding all the threats of M.
BoUllle—Notwithstanding thei#enr- :
bly of ci-foty Nobles under the Prince
de CoN,DE=yotwjthftaridi^^j&er
view bl & EmferouW, the Kihg °'
PRUSSIA3^ >ele^or ^5 Abkfc, the
Prince de NAssAu-and other Persona
ges onthe fubjed—Nofawitliftanding all
the menace, which Frdfiemtf,efeßCCfr,irt
is generally conjeaured that nothing ner
,w will be ventured upon j@ effed a
Counter*Rte volition in Fraw& by the
European Monarchs. They, know the'
Revolution fewer is e,mimical: They
Liberty to all citizens of affemblirg
peaceably ^ arid without arms, complying
with the laws of Police.
Liberty of addressing to all conflituted
authorities,petitions individually fignect
ftA, liberty cetrfi fts burin the power of
doing,#'hatever neither injures the rights
of aacthef. nor the publick fafety, the
law may eftablilh penalties against fads,
which attacking either _the rights of
others, or the pubNfk fafety, would be
rinjurigus to foeiety, ' ' :
TaeCoufticution guarantees the invio
lability of property, of a just and previ
fo indemnity for that, of which publicly
fecefoy, -legally proved, shall require
the facrifce. •
„ E&ds that were formerly defined to'
services of publick utility belong to the
nation ; those which were appropriated
to the expence of worlhip arc at the dif
pofrf of th'e'natfon. :
4 general 'egablifhmeht of publick
succours shall be created and organi
zed for the relief of the infirm poor,and
tof the poor not infirm who want work.,
A publick inftrudion shall be crtfc
ed and organized,tommbn to aircitizens
gratuitous with regard to those parts of
which the eftablifhmentfhall $? gradu?
ally distributed iri a proportion combin
ed with ,the division ofvhe kingdom,
re-= —•— — — — —Q — _____ — . — b— , — .
7 The President and Council
fave : made choice of General
George Reid,as High-She
riff for the county of Rock
ingham, vice Mr. Parker
deceased;,
;Thc ransoms demanded by the Dey
^tAtyefy;for the American p,ifoucrs
&:aine4 there, amount to 34,792 deU
lars. <
■ - ; ^ .... , . _.^
^MARRIED]— At New-York, Mr.
T&oma's G.reenl EAtiPrinter, to Mils
Nancy cQacke^ bos.'
.—&At Philadelphia, Mr. DaviO C.
Cbaypole, Printer, ,o Miss Peggy
Britton.
DIED]* Litchfield, Dr, Jonathan
PARKER, in the tyb far of hit dge-=
Agetrtlemanfail'd in ibrart^f Pk,Jick@
an accompfifad Pbffeian, and an excellent
In its general and fundamental princi
ple, bears a great analogy to the Con-
Itiiution of the United States and of this
Commonwealth. The principal diffimi
hrity is it; the enaction and execution
of the laws. A hereditary Monarch
prefixes at the head of the Executive—
Ahd<he.Legill4tOTe ctyfifts of one branch
only. The following declaration of the
Rights of Men, and of Citizens, pro
faces this great Charter :-—
Fundamental Df^fitions guaranteed by the
/: . Confitution.
L That all citizens are admissible to
EXETER, (Friday) 0^.28.
.places and employments without any dif
ti^&ica, bat that of ability and virtue.
, 14, &ka§ 611 contributions .(hffl be di
vided equally ,&mong all th) citizens, in
proper,top to their means. -
[lLTha^the famecrime shall be fab
je& to the fame punidimeri s, without any
diftincticn of persons. •'•
The Coaftitution in like mariner gua-
Zntees, ^s.natbral and civil rights.
Liberty to all meu ofgoing;ftaying, or
departing without beihg arrefted,accufed
would not wifli their fubjeds to catch
the inferior. —and they must think that
should they once enter France, their
fobjeAs cannot avoid taking it. This is
the age,of Revolutions
“there ferns an ardent fpirit,to my mind.
or, rf::&a«d,ex£ept in cases determined
by the law, and according to the. forms
preferred by it.
r, &b ; ertyMrall men of fptakng,writing
and printing their thoughts, and of exer
cifih^Hb religious worship to which they
are ^attached.
OCTOBER 26.-
Th{fRENCH CONSII7U7ION,
4 Resolution spirit, 'mongft mankind):
A J,ark. will now jet kingdoms in a
• blaze,•
That, would not fire a barn in former
So lately turn'd to touch-wood is each
State—=
So wbimfcal indeed the ways of fate."
Divine hymns—or,
SPIRITUAL SONGS;
For, the life of Religions families and
v@te CiiMftiaar—fem, a collodion by
Joshua Smith—and others?
: "\e Third Exeter Edition corre&ec-—
with an Addition of THIRFT^WQ
;HfMNS— containing j n the whole, 14/.
.Hymns of various metres.
Printed and .Sold.at the Printing.Of
fice in Exeter, by, wbolefale or. mai^
.Sold aUab, Mr.&muel Sleeper, at
™ Odober y.
' ' . Tore SOLD •
△ LOT of LAND in
1 Effingham, N° # 41 in che f,^d^
/*uDivifion*-— for
StocktyLumbe^.
Said Lot is.,wi&r half a mile of E;
Drake's Mills, lying on the main fhi-V
Enquire of— THOMAS SAVAG?
i Denfeld, Oa, 1791.
GILMAN&IAMSbN,
A; t^eir ,STORE, rir E-teter, have
for Sale, a Variety - of
E^glifo. & India
GOO D S;
New-England RUM,
•IRON,—STEEL,
NAILS,—GLASS ;
Iron Hollojv WARE,^c,c%
^ AS they have a Genera!
Andi tment, they think it for#
their INTEREST to fell CHEAP;
!fc. They give a, generous °
"price for Country
.PRODUCE,
: FLAX-SEED,
SHIPPING-FUR^
TOWand LINEN CLOTH,
(^ Those who want to
purchase are invited to their
Store. Exeter, October 20.
l*'s Henris.
M"R. THOMAS of Wor
ce^er, Mafirheferts, most re
fpeaf^lly informs the Publick, that he
has this day completed the Old and New
Teffamenfs oflhis Royal Quarto Editi
on pf the HOLY BIBLE./fhe Apoc
rypha and Index, &c. will.tdfiniffied
with all. ihe difpach the nature of the
Worl; mil admit.,
Such Gentlemen's hold SUBSCRIP
TION PAPERS, he. Begs will return
them to him acW%cester, or 10
him and Company at Boston, by the
lad.day of November next Rod as much
sooner as they conveniently can. ..
He is happy to inform die publick,
that the work has been examined by
mady ^enfl?men, clergymen and others,
and has met with their highest appro
bation ; both as co fe execution of the
printing, its torre&ri,fi,:and ii; cheap
nefi compared ' with Eengli[h copies of
the feme size and q^eiij. .
As thifverb laborious and exceod
izgl, expensive undertaking is carried
on solely at his own soft, he is led to
hope that all thefts who wilh to possess a
large Fartiily Bible, Will fb far eacou
r,ge this laudable undertaking of their
ConotrymaM, at to add their names to
tW subscription. .;
Chirurgeon. His death was very JzddA:
and offering to bis bereaved Confer:, with
fx Sons and four Daughter, and bis nu
merous Relatives and Friends, who expe
rienced bj, ifefulnejs in an beu* ef nat ore's
difficult,,
Rosy Bible.
.ROYAL WA R TO.
.• - ISAIAH THOMAS.
Worofr; September 29, 1791.