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^ time ^ve a client in future to Legislative inter
ference. UNITE then, Fellow-Citizens, in Mr,
GERRY, and the peace and happiuefs of our
country may be eltabliflied.
MASSACHUSETTS.
MR.'PARKER,
Arriving in Bolton harbor, I let run my anchor,
I heard the news of a legiflitive Caucus, I was
surprised, never hearing of such a thing or crea
ture, in any part of the world where I have failed,
being afraid it might fail my anchor, or strike
me adrift, or any other way to lose our bip ;
Should have a fad account to give my owners ; it
happened an old pilot came on board that never
intentionally deceived me, or any other, as prov
ed. He informed me during his dibrt time, that
certain influential characters collected in our sen
ate chamber, withdrawing from their colleagues,
by faying they were going to a new theatre, Ail
ing themselves leading members of the senate and
house, (hutting common sense out of doors, not
liking such politics, when and where being so as
sembled, the/ combined to make a governor, and
bound themselves by not more than a custom boule
oath perhaps, to use their influence with the peo
ple, to choose Caleb Strong, Esq. of North-Hamp
ton, Governor, thinking the people pretty ne
gle&ful of common sense, but I think if the people
through fear, idolatry, or any Other improper
motive elect Mr. Strong, they will neglect common
interest as well as common sense. lam told Mr.°
Strong is much esteemed by a distinguished num
ber, that he is to some as a great man, getting his
living in the practice of the law in a good part of
the country, that he enjoys his family and friends,
if so, he may have some objections to move one
hundred miles to Bolton, leave his present business,
bring his family into a more expensive way, of
living, strange company, &c. with all the con
commitant evils lately complained of, attend on
our late governors, for Want of Alary, &c.
It is unnecefTary to repeat names, the people
may easily difeover each member or senator of the
Caucus, for they will run down common sense,
and set up Mr. Strong fob governor.
I have heard ELBRIDGE GERRY, Esq. nomi
nated for governor, and common sense tells me
fre is the bell man, he knows every rope iri the
/hip, has got good cabin furniture for the voyage,
although he fpeaketh not, he knows all our domes
tic affairs, and will give fatisfaftion to his em
ployers. A SEAMAN.
SIR,
" I have not till the present had an opportuni
ty to acknowledge the receipt of your excellen
cy's favor, of the 13th Nov. which was delivered
me HQ the road to Tuckabachee, and I cannot re
ply to the whole as I could. The documents
herewith inclofed will exhibit to you some inter
filing proceedings in this quarter, and are an a
pology for the omlffion. -
The national council was convened at Tucka
batchee on the 24th November ; the meeting had
been a very interesting one ; I had much conver
fition with tlie chiefs, and felt that as an assent, I
pollened their confidence in a high degree. The
chiefs liave agreed, that all mjfqbief makers and
thieves of any country of white people, (hall be
under the government of the United States for<n
diaoaffairs.
Mr. Bowles is near the mouth of this river,
from whence he continues to pour forth his threats
against the officers of the United States in this de
partment, 4and I continue my arrangements to
punish all thieves and mifehief makers. We have
punished in an exemplary manner the leader of
the banditti, who infnlted the commissioners of
Spain and the United Spates, on the xyih Scptem
ber. He was cropped, whipped and his property
destroyed, and three of his associates whipped.
4 We have had one white man whipped for negro
ftealing, and one negroe (hot through the arm and
in the thigh, for refitting those who were sent to
apprehend him, and attempted to fire on a white
n=
1 have Cent down one negro belonging to Mr.
Winn, and have one in my possession belonging to
Mrs. MTntofh, one to Capt, Marcus, and one to
Charles Ingram ; this fellow is the one who is
wounded. These negroes will be delivered to the
order of their owner, or be sent down by the frtt
conveyance. - ^
I find it an arduous undertaking with a few af
filtints to make the impressions 1 wi/h on the minds
ofmy red charge, who are fettered over a wild
country of at least 300 miles square. Bowles and
other mifehief makers, are by every opportunity
poisoning the minds of the Indians with their a
bominable lies and misrepresentations. In the pre
fect conjecture I receive and reciprocate with pe
culiar pleasure, the assurance of future co-opera
tion on the-part of your excellency to promote
harmony and preserve peace.—The period may
be eventually a very interesting one for your fron
tiers." •
SOUTH-CAROLINA.
CHARLESTO;N, OCT. 10.
A letter was received by a gentleman ot this
city, on Saturday, from Port-Republic, dated the
24th January, which ftites, that a frigate had ar
rived at Cape-Francois from France, in 26 days
partage, which announced the change which had
lafflv taken place in the government of France,
and it was said had brought out a commission, ap
pointing the commander in chief (Touffaint) pro
confid for the Island of St. Domingo, with full
and absolute powers, and ordering Rigaud to re
turn to France. If this is so, adds the letter, it
will be favorable for the Island, the affairs of which
are now^n a very wretched way.
VIRGINIA.
NORFOLK, FEB. 10.
' We are informed that letters are in town,which
Bate; that on the ift of Dec. the United Stares
(hips of war General Greene and Bolton, captured
the Danish brig Flying-Fish, on her passage from
St. Domingo to Sr. Thomas, and after a detention
of 14 days ordered her for some port in the United
States for adjudication.
GEORGIA. &
SAVAN,A,PEB. 4.
A gentleman direct from Fort Wilkinson, men
tions that Col. Hawkins left there on the 24th ult.
for the Creek Nation.
Extrafl of a letter from Col. Hawkins, Cerent of
the United States for Indian affairs, to- Governor
Jackjon—dated,.
Cowetha Tallowhaffe, Dec. 20. .
From the Constitutional Telegraph.
Domestic Intelligence.
The papers of the brig it ^ laid, are perfectly,
cleat. The veflel and cargo are the property ot|
Mr. Goodman, a Dani(h fubje# and affirmed to
be such by four refpeftable merchants of Sr. rho
mbs—and the neutrality of his property admitted
in tfe admiralty courts of Tortola and Jamaica.
The reafbii aligned for capturing ber, was a sus
picion that flic belonged to Mr. Batonze, the Su
percargo. ,
NEW JERSEY.
/ ELIZABETH-TOWN, FER. 2g.
Extract of a letter from Londoh, dated Dec. 25, to
a gentleman in this touts.
« The oppressions of our country are still en
creafing. A formidable expedition to Holland,
composed of |he flower of English troops, atting_a
in concert with the lavage Ruffians, attended witu
immense expense, has failed. We took 7 fail ot
the line, with some other (hips from the Lexel
and a poor compensation for the loss of Ip,ooo
soldiers, britijh only ; and at last obliged topur
chafe permission from the enemy to leave the coun
try entirely unmolested. Our officers have Offer
ed in an unprecedented manner from the Dutch
riflemen, or (harp (hooters, who used to mark
them out during a^engagement. —The fleet is re
tained in the name of the ftadtholder, who eats and
deeps his life away midll the luxuries of London."
TRENTON, FEB. 25.
On Friday last the grist and saw-mills belonging
to the estate of the late Mr. Elias Phillips, situated
about three miles from this place, in the tenure of
Capt. Mott, accidentally took fire and were burnt
down.) It is supposed the fire was communicated
thro' a defect in the cbimney=-there were about
aoo bushels of grain consumed in the grid-mill.
On Tuefday the 18th inst. the Friends meeting
house at the Mount, in Springfield, Burlington
county, was consumed by fire ; it is supposed to
have caught from the dove pipe which went thro*
the top bt the house— there being no ladder, nor
any conveyance, to the roof, all exertions to save
the building proved fruitless.
NEW-YORK.
, NEW.YORK, FEB. 27.
This mbrning arrived the feb'r Anges capt. Mel
cher, 3 days from Petersburg, (Vir.) Offthe capes,
'fpoke a blip, who informed that the U. States fri
gate Constitution, was to the windward of them—
fed loft all her malts and bowsprit. Query —Ma,
not this frigate be the Constellation ? May not a
favorable change in the weather have induced her,
to stand for some port in the U. States to repair
the damage sustained in the late a&ion ? The cir
cumftance of her .being in a mattered condition,
juftifies a surmise of the kind.
BOSTON, MARCH 4.
Yesterday afternoon the President of the senate,
in the presence of that body, pronounced fentence'
on John Vinal, Esq. declaring him incapable pf a
gaip holding any office of trust or profit under the
Government of MaJJachufetts..
Yelterday morning, Jesse Joy and' Jam es Pack
nard, of Guilford, in the date of Vermont, were
prosecuted before justice Sherburne, by two mem
bers ot the board of Health, for having in their
possession, and offering for sale, one hundred Tur
kles in a putrid (late, and consequently prejudi
cial to the health of the inhabitants.—The fame
were thrown over Charles' River Bridge, and
Joy and Packnard fined ten dollars each with
cults.,
V 1 MARCH 6.,
Accounts have been current in town, Once
Monday, that a veflel in a short pafFage from
Charleston, S. C. had arrived at Providence—-the
Matter of which brought papers of that city, an
nouncing the entry there of a ffiip in a short pas
sage from England,brings news that the American
Envoys had arrived at Paris, and had been cordial
ly received.
Onr exudations, therefore, from the Provi
dence papers were raised : but were difappoinied
by their containing ohlyfhe subsequent paragraph,
on the fWfeCL
Providence, March I.
Verterday arrived a veflel from Charleston; and
we are informed, brings a late paper of that city,
announcing that the American Envoys have been
well received in France, and that orders had in
consequence been issued to their cruizers to desist
from capturing American veflels.”—The Provi
dence Editor fays he could not procure a fight of
the Charleston paper.
' MAINE.
HALLOWELL, march i.
On the night of the Bth ult. Capt. Isaac Lawrence
of Westport, after having been miffing about five
hours, was found about midnight, suspended from
a tree; with a rope round his ueck, within half a
miletf his houfe.—lt was supposed that he had
'been dead but a short time, when found ; and the
circumstances attending this melancholy occur
rence were such, as to leave no doubt but he per
petrated the deed with his own hands.—Captain
Lawrence for about a year pill had been rather
deranged in his mind.—lt is but justice to his
memory to fay that he honorably difeharged the
duties of an husband, a parent, and a frieud,
STONINGTON, MARCH 4.
The following are the particulars of a Blocking
murder committed in the' town of Preston, on
Saturday the 22d Feb. by a woman of the name of
Marcy Bump, a pauper, on the body of Mr.Jofeph
Leonard's child, aged about 18 months.
The family of Mr. Leonard were preparing to
go to meeting, when Marcy came in on pretence
of feeing the child, being familiar at the house ;
therefore they left it in her tharge and a boy's who
lived with Mr. L. She told the boy that he might
go to his work, and she would get the child to
sleep ; he accordingly retired, but soon returned,
and was informed that the child was asleep.—He
again went out, and in a few minutes after observ
ed Marcy walking from the house ; he enquired
for the child, die told him that it was asleep and
would not awake for some time.—He went and
searched in vain for the infant, being alarmed, he
called to a lad at a short distance, and informed
him of the circumstance ;—the boy having seen
this woman just before go to .the well, ran and
looked therein, where, shocking to relate, he dis
covered the child ; the family being called, it was
taken out dead ; Marcy was Sent for and examin-;
ed, who, after a little equivocation, acknowledg-:
ed that the firft killed it by pinching its throat,
and then threw it into the well.
Ou the Monday following the was conducted to
Norwich gaol, where she probably will remain
until the fitting of the Superior Court in that
town the present month.
MASSACHUSETTS.
CONNECTICUT.
the worfl of thanklets children. When I look to
America, 1 diflinguifli the crime but not its utili
ty ; I fee every thing but the profit of ingratitude.
Is she happier, or greater, since she ceased to be a
part of Britain ? Are her taxes lighter ? Is her
commerce protested better? Is her government
more refpefted or secure ? While she belonging to
England, what firanger dared oppress her ? Who
plundered her merchants, or insulted her flag, or
suborned her people? What Frenchman dictated to
her councils ? What impositions did die lay upon
her land ? What disunion—wliat diflolution
threatened her ? Did she live or linger then by the
care of a declining hand ? Did the frail tenure of an
old man's life sustain and compress her provinces
together ? Did she hold the empire wot by her
flrength, but the approach of her weakness, and
the expectation of a better opportunity to d vide
and dismember her? Oh, but she is independent I
she enjoys the sovereign rights and supreme abit
rement of empire ; fh'e fends ambassadors ; she le
vies armies ; she prepares fleets; and decides on
peace and war. For these advantages, he is a fee
ble statesman indeed, who will not pardon a little
ingratitude—Prove then that these are advantages,
I fee her ambassadors insulted or unheard, expel
led or radfomed ; I fee taxes raised to pay forces
but they are 10 contain her own revolts : so de
feat, iro,t the armies but the plots of foreigners. J
fee fleets, but she dares not employ them. 1 fee
taxes and arms, but neither war nor peace- 1 fee
treaties, but it is with England, whom she aban
doned and abjured. 1 fee the tutelary alliance,
that material flag, protect the commerce for
which America facrificed every moral duty,and so
many political advantages. I fee this cruel pa
rent, whom she deferred arid betrayed, maintain
her among the nations, and uphold her perishable
Bate amidst the factious that prey upon her vitals.
“ America, however, driven her savages be
hind her frontiers ; she had conquered and repel
led the wild barbarian whom she could not civil
ize. By the impolitic peace of 1763, we had deli
vered her from the neighborhood and holliiity of
France, and she demanded to be foris-famiiiated,
like a prosperous child who has corrupted his
heart. Has our settlement ip Ireland even this ex
cuse? Is there any thing iu compgu between the
of ungrate prosperity, that I should now be sur
prised at the power of the example and the repe
tition of the crime. But that the Bern rugged
nurse should breath the fame poisonous counsels as
the painted bawd ; that wholesome adversity and
flattering successes should give the fame treacher
ous advice.—l confefs it confounds the very facul
ties and uses of the mind.
Clje ^Republican LeV^
Portsmouth, March 12, 18061
VOTES M^r^ERNOR,
lu the following towns.
M'Clary, Walkef, Gilman,
At Exetei, 3. 190
Ollipee ,70 '26'
Bofcawen, ,96 56
Hopkinton, 150.76°
Bedford, 2 'BS
Concord, 124° 104'
Wakefield, #56 51
Amherst, 'BO 120
Pembioke, 50 58" «2o
Kingstown, 'BO 2
80w,,47,22
Henniker, 8623/
Warner, 100 9
Goffstown, .Mfo 23.
Moultonboro', '6O #42
Epping, 1 44' 100
Londonderry, 7 200
Nottingham, 59" 9"~
Southampton, 2 0 <22
Wolfborough, tig 2 5
The Lieut. Governor returned last Monday, ve
ry disconsolate and dejefted, from his electioneer
ing visit at Barrington—He complained that since
the people of th; t extenfivh town had began to
grow rich, and ableto pay their debts—they were
not so much afraid of Hale-ttorms, as they used
to be— That Abraham had forfaken him, and
IJaac feenred to kiiow him not—And that the rest
of his old friends icemed in g're^t danger of being
Frofi-bitten, before the approaching election.—and
was much afraid that if the new Bhrik fnould fiiial-
I, be established, the people would become so in
dependent thro' the date, as to aft in future for
iheinfelves.
tempt their pretended friends speak ot this coun
try, and let them observe What we have often re
peated, that the British government has not forgot
ten nor forgiven the loss of those States, but that
the depends upon her infiduons and corruptive
arts, to deprive us of the benefits of Independence.
It will be also seen how pleated they are in
poutraying onr imbecility,and what fatisfaaion
they feel on cur filing for the protection of the
maternal flag.
“ Had this been the case, and I could have heard
a language like this, I have not so read the lesson
bf America that V should now be aitonifhed or as-
fefted by them : I have not so Studied the hiftory
We have extracted the following from a
pamphlet written under the direction of the Brit
ish ministry, on the fubjeft of the intended union,
aid we offer it to the perusal of those Americans,
who once were whigs, but who are now warped b)
British influence,and are facrificing the belt interests
of America, the pride and independence Ok her
character, to the ambitious and monopolizing
views of Britain. Let them read with what con-
Had our Ififh colony been as happy and prosper
ous as our America—had die enjoyed the fame
good fortune, and become as capable of independ
ence,l bill do not fee that with the experience of
that event, it would have been wife and deferable
for her to Have travelled in tile fame steps ; and 1
think it very material to dwell a little upon this
observation, because there can be no matter of
doubt but that this Single att of national gratitude,
has proved the signal of the dissolution of the
civilized world, that it has shaken every date and
l every form of government to its centre, and loos
ened the foundation of society itfelf. Unhappy
England ! There Was no Cordelia amongst all her
daughters ; Regan turned her from the door to the
rude pelting of the pitiless florin, and Gonerill de
nies her hundred knights.
^ But it is not England that it is necessary to
confider; she has triumphed, hitherto, over all
her enemies and all her traitors, and over ail
1 state dt these tyo colonies? th Ireland, the na
tive prowls unc^ quered aud untamed, confined
with no pale, and forced behind nb barrier
V ft door and in her chamber}
w , hll e file bellows •'independence,'' (he is a prey
of miseries unknown and unheard of by the rest of
men ; of crimes for which the names are uni,
rented of which the knowledge mutt be buried
iif dark eternal faience, where no found is heard
nor e,^ may penetrate, sealed by disgust and hor-'
ror, aC d £%ded by the wounded dignity of hit
manity .
“ Amerii~ d {„ appears to me, 1 ovbhj fa hap
py and refpeft.Ye,Was fortunate and secure, when
(he began tier crii,e; & pffefied her independence.
Her independence toe was real and effectual, ft
-was perfect in all its pa'fU/ (he abused our crown
as well as our legislature, and (he became a sove
reign by her ingratitude. Yet if I look at this
foreign date, and all her dangers and divisions '
If I contemplate the peculiar evils of her tonftitu
tion, admired I think by none of the wife and
provident, and commenced only by the fpeculilt
and jacobin as examples of revolution and impu
nity : if 1 confider her present state, and the cir
cumflances upon which die advances, 1 am Scarce
ly to be retrained from affirming that there is no
thing but union—this very measure of union and
incorruption, of all her Provinces—-that tan save
and defend her ; or extricate her from the dan
gers or perplexities of that federal independence
which has neither defended Holland, nor Switzer,
land, nor the empire of Germany."
&V. r. Journal.
" e '"'' national debt which has been inctfc
red in conlequence of the measures pursued Pre
paratory to a war eilablifhment ; The Revenue it
appears by a report of the committee of ways and
means fall short of the expenditures nearly 3 mil
ions apQa half of dollars, and likewise it may be
presumed the great profpea there is of an adjuft
men. of the differences between France and this
country ; have not these considerations, inquires a
correspondent, operated on the minds of the com
mittee of ways and means, and induced them, at
present, to-recede from their former determina
tion of building the fix 74 gun (hips. Exclusive of
building.the fix 74 s, which are estimated to cost
6000,00 p dollars, The committee of ways and
means, recommend that the Prehdent be empow
ered to borrow, the fom of three millions and a
half of dollars, at such rates as he may find molt
for the interest of the United States.
The public are cautioned against receiving Ame
rican counterfeit Dollars at present in circulation
—the milling is very badly executed, but in other
relpefts difficult to deleft ; they are altogether
,we believe, made of pewter and may be discover
ed by ringing them.
Osborne's Marine Lift.
ENTERED.
March 6, Sch'r Funny, Riley, Martinico.
CLEARED.
March 6, Ship Murdoch, Stevens, Mozambique.
Brig Resolution, Keene, Nartmico.
10 Ship Harmony, Coffin, Jamaica.
POTATOES; %foA ,
Wanted, Three hundred bushels
POTATOES, for which Cath will be giv
en. —They must be delivered in eight days.
For further particulars inquire of the print
er. Portsmouth, March 12, 1800.
COFFEE-HOUSE?
Mrs. TAUNZAN,%
D Efpedfully informs her Cuf
timers and Grangers, that the has Re
moved her Coffee- House, from Daniel-flreet
to Ladd-ftreet, where she keeps entertain
ment as usual for Gentlemen—And infoira,
the families of the town that she makes all
kinds of the belt Cakes, for company. *
F&rtJmoiqh, JtaA u, t%o.
If a public debt is a public blessing, (as out high
toned tedefaiitts contend it is,) we are most affiir*
edly rapidly approaching a Bate of Bottitude, Un
paralleled perhaps by any nation in the world, and
shall also have the pleating fatisfaction to intail this
blessing op posterity. Can it be possible that the
finances ot a country, (so flourilhing as this coun=
try has been represented to be) should be so ex
hausted, had the scripture injunctions been facrediy
attended to, which advises to set down and count
the cott, before we commence building, and like
wile to calculate before we go to war, whether
with ten thousand we be able to engage an ene
my with twenty thousand, we presume, had this
been the mode of proceedure, we should on'y at
present have to regret the m aht of so great a pub
lic bleffing,as the friends of order and o, g 4 )% gov
ernment allure cs an enormous public deb: to ne.
[Ccnjt.'l cl.
The following is give.-, In a late I MAren
paper as an autl;etic account of the luLinwee
'' o'"' 'P eec " ° Buonaparte to the bankers
of l aris whe armtled relpetling and advance
to the government : there are some firiking pas
sages in it. "Every thing," said he, “ Simulates
you tu the molt noble efforts. The great object
now in view is to maintain our armies on a re
(peccable footing, and to give to our negociations
the imposing character they ought never to have
'°" Let us all unite, let us draw, Band firm toge
ther, and we shall not be under the necessity of 0-
peuing a new compaign in the Spring, & 100,000
ot our fellow citizens will not be compelled to go
and perilh in foreign lands. If your fortune and
your credit have been compromised under the go
vernment which ha§ been overthrown, the cause
is ealily to be found. It was because none of the
measures pursued tended either to tranquility ac
home nor to peace abroad ; neither to liberty nor
to public happiness.
Now, therefore, those who step forward to as
sist the government will have the honour of hav
ing obtained that peace fo,much desired, and hav
ing secured the general hanpinefs. I fay the hon
our—that principle so powerful in the mipd of a
Frenchman. Yes, they will be honored both in
France and in foreign countries for having aided a
revolution which tends so evidenty to put an end
to that social disorganization, that scourge of hu
manity, and to that war which has arisen from