The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1791-06-24 00:00:00, page 3

weapon of defence, IhoclJthey peril in
, boarding, which the Indies per-ci/iag,
and, as is fappofed, their am nmicioa
being expended, they retreated, without
accomplishing their object. Thafe in
human mongers, previous tj their attach
ing the lad mentioned boat, pieced the
tvo young ladies in the font of their
canoes,in which litnation they were both
killed. A few days after this traufaki
on, they fired at another boat, and kill
ed one young man—in Ihor: every bolt
that has gone down the river lately, his
been fired at, except oars; we saw no
Indians ; the places where the above
depredations happened we puffed in the
night."
Two gentlemen, arrived here from
Kentucky, relate, that general Sco:c,
with 1)00 chosen milicit, had marched
✓ from Fort Washington previous to their
departure.
Recent accounts from Monongahela
county state, that a final! party of Ma
rauding Indians have lately murdered
one or two persons and can aided Tone
other depredations in a fcttleme.it called
Buchanaon, in that county.
PHILADELPHIA, JUNE Ile
THE Decree of the National Affim
bly cf France, on the fabjett of Fobicco,
has a tendency to prohibit the carriage
of that article in American bottoms to
France, and is therefore of serious con
fequeace to our Navigation and Com
merce—our rulers will do well to nave
an eye on the operations of the European
governments, which one after another
seem to aim at clipping the wings of our
riling trade in proportion as they eadei
vour to protest their own—the coafe
quences of these meafares cannot but be
felt in this country by and by, if nut
timely noticed and prevented.
From a perusal of the laced English
papers it appears, that the political af
fairs of Europe are in a very "critical h
tuation. Kings and fovereigo princes
are Hill playing the old giae — The
people pay the cards—not wichoit mur
muriug, however. In England taxes are
heavy co prepare for war—a war to pre
serve the balanceof ?, irope, a war, mere
contrivance to turn the thoughts of the
fubjecb fron coat pfoae Ltberty—
draw their attention to a name, uni roafe
their enthuiafm, to Support the dignity
2nd honor of the British flag, and p;k
ferve their character as Makers of the
ocean. But dill that monger cam non
foife has made so ne impreiion on buh
lich opinion. Tnechinge in fbme places
has produced visible effects inSardinia,
the Netherlands, Sec. In Ireland alto its
voice is littered to ; # --indeed it is every
where heard, and the tinejs at no great
didance when its dictates will beuniver
fully attended to ;---t\znfoverei ,nty will
redde in the people now called fahjeds,
and then those who now bear the name
o Sovereign, if they have talents and a
biiicies, will be exalted into Ser vents of
the Pullic/c : Tnea will the balance of
power cause no more wars and blood
shed ;---as that power will no longer de-,
pend on the ideas and caprices of Mon
archs. Millions will no longer be squan
dered, be converted into fmoak for a
kingdom in the moon, a name, or to gra
tify the vanity or whim of a monarch,---
^hey will be (pent in promoting the real
gcod of the people, and in securing a
preponderancy in the balance of happi
ness. -—
NEW-HAVEN, JUNE I.
Extraa of a letter from a yo^g Lady in
Rhode-Inland, to her brother, in this
fate, dated May 24, 1791.
'' I was ever averse, my brother, to
your engaging in the African tade. : and
a recent instance of cruelty makes my
heart sicken at the idea. Let me entreat
you never to be allured by the profpeft
of worldly interest, so far as to discard
the feelings of humanity from your bread:
listen not to the specious excuses made
for a practice abhorent to reason, and
every better principle ,of the foul.
" A most Shocking affair, if true, has
lately happened : Capt. has just ar
rived from Africa; on his passage, one
of his female slaves broke out with the
small-pox : Left (he should give it to the
others, and to his hands he had a chair
fixed on the topmast, and the poor crea
ture placed in it :—For five days the
cooper (who had previously the disorder)
attended her ; but the Captain's cruel,
impatient spirit would not fuffer him to
PENNSYLVANIA..
CONNECTICUT.
Hoover variagated the crimes of his
former, a striking uniformity marked
every hoar of the last four or live days of
his life,:?—Having fpeat the whole of the
lift night he was in Newport gaol in,
prayer —about fix next morning, in the'
examining room, he aded his part well,
in one of the ranff affeding feenes the
fpeftators had ever beheld —when on
beaded knees and in each other's en
;braces, Mr. Reed and he mutually for
igave each other with firing cries and
i tears, and the kiss of charity, prepara
-Itory to his receiving the facrameuc of
baptism.—Passing over many things re
lative to his behaviour while in the prison
at Little-Rest, and during the interval
of his leaving the prison, and going to
the place of execution, fuffice it to be
remarked, that, firm to the laft,hismind
averted from sublunary things and fted
faftly fixed bn God, afeended up to
'Heaven in holy extacy of prayer, he de-'
clared his willingness to be offered up a
' facrifa?. to diline and human juftice—befor
' gave all men in hopes of finding forgivenejs
qoith God —and after he was turned off
;—he was diftindly heard_to breathe his
• last prayer< —'' Lord have mercy upon me
—Lord have mercy upon me—Lord" —here
Ihe was fuffocated, and quicly after this
—no triumph over his melancholy end
disgraced the feelings of humanity—for
the space of a quarter of an hour, nothings
was to be heard but prayers, intermixed
with sighs and groans,—Every face dis
played the signs of being affeded with
the solemnities of his death, and, the'
per nit the poor wretch to live, (altho'
he hri before deprived her of every pri
viledge except breathing) ari ordered
his men to throw her o/couard, which
tiny refofed: Finding his orders dii,u<
ted, he went no, bound a hinkerciief
round her mouth co orev.it her fcrean
iag, ^ll threw her overb/ird hknif'. Is
it ,>i)N chit a ha nan being could he
gnicy of in premeditated a murder'.
vVoild not any suppose her fruition
would hive excited c>noah,i in the
mil hardened bread? —Torn fron her
tendered connexions —her native laid;
and every idea o' biiG whici cheers a
mind until ,t (to look beyo id this febnm
for natyarG) forever bladed -icr i na
ginatioirdidrafted by a unrfnd fairs,
and to co nolete tier wretched ufs, de
prived of health, aid placed in tie mod
unco nfortable and terrifying fauition.
Wien 1 refled upon it, 1 hardly know
which to been the greatest crime, to
c.iife fach .wretchedaefs or to ^d it.
An exce five and ungovernable levity
of mind feens to have been the leading
clarafteriftic cf this unfortuuae man.
—Endowed with uncommon agility of
body, aid a large (hare of greatness, of
mind and ftrentgh of memory, he was
certainly designed by the Sovereign
Creator to fill some ufeiA Nation in life.
During his imprifoament under sentence
of death, twice did he attempt to escape,
and his lait —ffort^was 6 well plaui^d,
and so near taking effect, that it failed
rather from an unaccountable absence of
mind at the critical moment, than thro'
any defeft in the contrivance; which
induced him (a few hours after the de
telion) co lay to the Rev. Gentleman
who attenled him and others, " 1 have
broke every prison in which hitherto I
have been confined, but defeated twice
—ln this 1 fee the Hand of God." —
Oi the 27ch alt. was executed at
Little-Rest, \Va hington Couicy, ac
cardiag to hL denu^ce, for Burglary,
THDHIS MJUNf, in the 27th year
of his age. —^
" This dory is at prefect the public
theme, but £ sincerely o,ne dipt 9
may clear himfelf. So ne lav the people
were irritated by oad Rage to H, the re
port. A man's reputation o? ,t ever to
be treated with ccoderuJs; aid I hould
not have mentioned tnis, uniefs it had
been uhfohel, proved, had I not vuhM
my brother to i reprove it as a earning
not only to avoid-engaging ia atre.He
which hardens mil's uric aguit
his fellow min, but also not co ale that
authority which he any have over his
fellow creatures with unfeeling severity,
to provoke them in revenge to afperfe
his chamber."
his foul prepared to forfake that body
which by being so long the feat of fin,
had fallen under the curse of the law.
his whole frame became convulsed—and
Multitudes mourned and bewailed him
RH3DEISLAND.
NEWPORT, JUNE 2.
The General Court at their
late Sefton, among other
things,paffed the following
A&s and Resolves, viz:—
AN aft prescribing the duty and differ
ing the mode of thoofing Remitters of
Dcc-jf, and County Treasurers.
An adhering the time of holding the
annual meeting in the town of Pro
tedwahh. @ ,
Au aft authorizing the Commissioners
formerly appointed to receive and ex
amine the claims against the estate of
Breed Bachelder, an abfen=ee,to reconsi
der Gid report and make such report
as juttice and equity may require,-
An ad for recording proceedings before
Justices of the Peace and preserving
fceh records. ^
An aft regulating the Office of Coroner.
An aft to enable the Judge of Probate
for the County of Cheshire, to grant
license to fell the whole of the real ef
flate of Daniel Adams, late of Fitz
william, deceased.
An ad regulating licenced Houses. -
An a& incorporating a certain place by
the name of Greenfield.
An aft to prevent fraud in Cordwood
exposed to sale.
An ad,o incorporate the firft or North
Pariffi id the town of Portsmouth.
An ad to regulate the exportation of Beef
and Pork.
An ad regulating Swine.
An ad direding the mode of calling a
convention, to revise she Constitution
of this State.-, ; • ~ -
An ad declaring the limits and bounda
ries of the several Counties in this
‘ State.
mid tender fy apathies of woe trickled
dovnalmod every check. —The body
put into a ciliug with much brotierly
conpnfri, wis departed, with these
worts pronounced over the grave —
" Vith bra voice the law proclaimeth,
cafi is ever, one thit bateto on a tree ;
—out tie voice of the Gospel with words
°f.7~ r " and truth co nfoketh man by
/>:1 timing, "so wb believeth in Jefes,
thrrfo he die yet bill he live again."
Fne deceased profeffed this faith and this
hope —and aceviing to his repentance,
charity, faith aid hooe, in Jesus, be it
onto him. —c Cnerefore we commit his
body to the earth, daft to del, earth to
earth, a'hes to a has—hoping that the
Lord niy have Mercy on him.'"—
"Ifre is morejoy in the pre fence of a ngeb
°: "l''over ONI SINNER, this repeat
eth than over NINE tr and NINE just
persons, who need no repentance."
Last Friday the Gen. Court
of this State finish'd their ses
sion at Concord,and adjourn'd
to the last Wednesday in No-
MASS ACJJSErrs.
^BOSTON, JUN E 22.
Phe Frtpfefs ofßafi, notwithstanding
th. hostile menances of the English,
Ditch aid Fr^fan Courts, appears still
uphold ah im>rroas tone--" Persuaded"
the 11,3, " that he (hall find those Courts
woin ffi^considers as her friends as much
ditooied co ^Deration, as she is herfelf
--that that is the only rivabhip to which
her near: will open ; it will be inicceJible
on every to^ag of force and powr."
vember next, to meet at
Portfnouth.
EXE FER,(Friday) June 24.
Dr. Franklin, at Paris, being in
comoany with an Italian Nobleman, the
converfauon turned on Religion, which
the Nobleman spoke very lightly of---
' Ho v comes it,' fays the Dodor, " that
the Italics, who are born in the very
fountain of Religion,fhould possess so lit
tle of it."--- 6 ' That's eafil, anfwerei,
replied the Nobleman—" In Italy we
manafadire, it is true, a quantity of
Religion, but, like other manufaaurers,
it is all for Exportation"
Rhe two Mr. Choates, who were cap
ture! January lift, by the Delaware In
dians, at Fir Bottom have returned to
their friends at Leicefier, in IForceJier
county — They owe their liberty to the
generosity of rhe British commanding
officer at Detroit.
ANECDOTE.
A Genteel, Fullwelted
SADDLE,
To be exchanged for CLAP
BOARDS. Enquire of the
Printer. • Exeter, June 24.
CAS H, .
AND a generous price giv
en for LAMBSKINS,
with the wool on, at the Shop
of William Aelley, near
the Academy.
Exeter, June 23, 1791.
57 rams, 5 and 51- do. each.
'' Previous to Mr. Fowler's death, he
was offered 1000 guineas for one of the
Bulls and 3 cows, which he refuted.
" The horned cattle and Iheep, were
from the breed of Mr. Bakewell, who
/hewed at the sale, the carcase of the
fhee? which measured 2z| inches over
the back when the skin was off."
GAILY I liv'd,as safe and nature taught ;
And J, ent my little life without a tbauglt ;
And am amaz'd.tha* dea h,tbatfra 1 grim
Should think of me, who never ths't of him.
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4 do. I do. 145, 150, 200, & 200 do.
6 cow calves, 19 and 42 guineas cache
Scows 105 and 260 do. each
Bdo. 50 and 80 do. each.
Bdo. 30 and 45 do. each.
A % aft to impower WalterGe^i to review -
an adion.
An act to enable the Seleamen of th
town of Thornton, to affds the fom o
one penny per acre on the hrs civilion
Lors in laid Thornton, and fxteep
(hikings and eight pence on each fe
cood division Lot that hath been laid
cut or may be laid cut in said town
within fix 'months from the date of
this act and if not so laid cut on the
common land belonging ta each right
for three years next enfiing.
Ana 9 for the limitation cf a?rio3s, and
for preventing vexations faits.
An ar't to enable the Selectmen of Camp
ton to aflefs, one penny per acre annu
° ally for two years, on all the unim
proved lands in said Campton.
An a& in addition to and explanation of
an aft inricled, "an ad for granting
a lo.tery for rebuilding a Bride over
little harbour River, to New-Callie,
made and palled the 12th of January,
Anno Domini, 1700."
An ad to restore Alexander Evens to his
law.
An aft to authorize the Seleamen cf
New-Durham, to levy a tux of ons
penny per acre on the lands in said
town, for repairing highways.
An aft to enable Alexander Craige, and
others. Selectmen of Rumney, to levy
and assess a tax of two pence per acre
upon all the lands that have been laid
out in lots for repairing highways and
bridges therein.,
An aft suspending 'the operation cf sun
dry acks therein enumerated,and refer
red to until a certain time.
An aft to enable the Selectmen of New-
Hampton, to assess the fam of one pen
ny p.r acre for the term cf three years
from the paffisg of this aft.
A Resolve that the Regitiers cf Deeds in
the several Counties of thi> State, arc
directed to make out a General Index
—The Faxdex shall centainjwo lifts—
The other all the names of the Grant
ors to the Grantees—The other all
the names cf the Grantees, fiom the
A BHI § years old, fold for 205 guineas^
2 ditto 2 do. 205 and 200 do.
A London paper of April 8, fays
" last week was fold the live flock cf Mr 3
Robert Fowler, of Little Rollwrighfy
(one of the people called Quakers)
when
Grantors, &c.
A resolve that all the invalids who have
not been infoeaed,immediately apply
to Dr. Tenney, and Dr. Parker, cf
Exeter, for examination, &c.
A Resolve that His Excellency, and the
Treasurer, be and are impewered to
fubferibe in behalf of this State, for tho
fo.ock of the Bank o'the United States,
one hundred and fifty shares.
EPITAPH,
FROM THE FRENCH,