The Columbian informer, or, Cheshire journal — Keene, N.H., 1794-12-02 00:00:00, page 2

" a citizen" have passed ty on either
fide, grinning and growling at me, I
hope neither of them may be permitted to
return, before some good brother Citizen
of the World Shall find it in his way to take
care of me.
Messrs Printers,
CT-'HE CHRISTIAN CITIZEN has
I relieved my head in some measure;
but I do not find that the cause of my blind
neG is removed, though the pain is some
what abated. lam thinking that the peo
ple through the State who call themfekes
" the better fort" believe, or proses, t,
believe that these three, the Father, dnd
the Son, and the holy Spirit are one God.
The human mind is swayed immenfeiy by
education ; hence, perhaps it is, that I
cannot for my life fee why they Shield
with, and be so anxious to have two or
three names of the fame G^d in th, Stare
Proclamations for Thanksgivings and
Falls, anniversaries special. Pray what
is the difference between the drifts and the
calvinijb? They both profefr to believe
in one God, and the only difference that
I know of ie, the caluinifts have two names
for their God which the deifls will not al
bw. Let the CHRISTIAN CITIZEN
(peak for " the better fort of people
through the State," and by a fair plenary
explanation of iheirfa^ prepare the way
for us all to become of thac/cr/. Perhaps
foine may objert, ani fay, that a news
paper is a very improper vehicle of Such
sacred information, or divine knowledge.
But 1 am thinking, that there is nothing
unclean of itfelf ; but to him that eftecm
eth any thing to be unclean, to him it is
unclean. Prejudice originates, and e
ducation perpetuates the ijm of every thing.
De with an ism is understood to lignify de
nying of the Scriptures : But that all who
are called deists deny the scriptures is not
true Calvin with an ijm is held as mean
ing that Revelation is mystery, and that
nothing can fafely be denied, which can
not be understood ; and consequently a
fyflem that cannot be underload nor ex
plained in its molt essential dortrines may
fafely be adopted : but that all who are
called calvinilts adopt such a system is de
nied. Aad lam thinking that the better
fort of people through this State, through
all States, Kingdoms and tribes, upon
earth are they, qybo out of a good conwerfa
tion saw their qxorks with meekness of wij
dom, each ifearning other hotter than tbim
febves. For there it one God, and one medi
ator between God andmen, the man Chris
fefus : Who gavo himfelf a ransom for all,
to he tefofed in due time. Set down deitm,
calviuifm, and universalism ; fubtrart de,
ism from calvinifm, and there remains a
myltery of names. Suotrart universalism
from caivinifm, and there remains a sup
posed eternal decree, which predetermines
the everlasting deftrudion of the greater
part of the human race. Subtract them
all from Christianity and there remains the
gospel, even " good tidings of great
joy, which shall be to all people," and
was molt prominent in the late “ deftcal"
Proclamation for a public Thanks.
giving. ~
A CITIZEN of the WORLD.
Witnef
Christian Prudence.
IT apppearing necessary that the
General Court should be called together
sooner than the time to which it Hands ad
journrd—
I HAVE thought fit, and to hereby
with advice of Council, regueft a meet
ing of the General Cofiftat the Court
House in Concord, on Tuefday the fif
teenth day of December next, at threetf'
the clock P. M. on said day ; of which
all concerned are requeued to take notice.
Given at the Council Chamber in Exeter this
tvsenty-frf day of November, one thou
yand, /even hundred and ninety-four, and
of the independence if the United States
of America the nineteenth.^
J J/ T. GILMAN.
By His Excellency's command,
'with advice of Council.
JOSEPH PEARSON, Wry.
For the Columbian Informer, &c.
*"— A
BY HIS EXCELLENCY.
JOHN T. GILMAN.
Governor of the State of New-
Hamp/hire,
Proclamation.
A letter from a respectable merchant
in Philadelphia, dated the 12th instant,
fays, " I have now the pieafuie to con
gratulate you on the glorious news just
arrived here and brought by Mr, Morris,
who left London the 27th September
which is, that the British are immediately
to give up the western pods ; and full
indemnity is to be made for the captures
tin the Wert-Indies. Mr. M. has brought
/dispatches for government, ts this pur
iporf."' \
The most prominent articles by the
Jaft arrivals, are tbofe which relate to the
various hostile armies. The Duke of
York has abandoned his Situation near
Bois le Duc, and retreated over the river
Maefe, towards Amsterdam. The Aus
trian armies are recrossing the Rhine, and,
itis said, mean to attack the French at
Treves, tg effert a junction with the En
glish and Dutch armies. The French, on
the other fide of the Republic, have not
taken Bilboa, notwithstanding the re
ports; and the lengthy Norfolk article of
their having captured Bellegarde, is, at
least, a story some months old. Belle
garde is not in Spain, but is in the French
Department of Pyrenees. The affairs of
the Poles brighten. An inlurrertion in
S. Pruflia (as that par: of Poland parti
tioned off to Pruffia,is called) has diverted
Frederick William in his progress, and
obliged him to quit his designs on War
law. But Hill no profpertof Peace ap
pears.
We hear, that previous to the late ac
tion with the favagee. General Wayne
narrowly escaped being killed, by the
(fill of a tree in the night, against which
a fire had been kindled and carelelsly left
burning. The tree fell on the General!
cent, and ciufhed it to the ground : He,
however, had recovered so far from the
i: jury he received, as„to be ex remely ac
tive in the artiun. Phtlad. Pa,er.
DUKE of YORK RETREATING.
MAKES the event of but trifling
teoniequence, After the French, on the
14th, had attacked and driven in his &t
polls, which, he fays, could not be de
fended against such great defparity Os
numbers, he thought it more prudent to
retreat,' thin & rife the issue of a general
engagemen,: He informs of having tak
en a portion on the Meafe, near Grave,
and that ihe Ibfs on the 14th, fell princi
pally on the Hessians, and the newly raif
cd foreign troops. The following con
tains more particulars.
LONDON, SEPT. 24.
At a late hour last night, Mr. Hunter,
a King's^ Messenger, arrived at the Horse
Guards, with dispatches from his Ro,al
Higbnefs the'Duke of York, whose head
quarters he left on Friday night last. The
head quarters were then at Wychen, a
village about half way between Grave and
Nimeguih, fix or eight railed from the
latter place: .
The army under the command of the
Duke of York; covered for dgreet ex
teht tiie patfte,bf tfie Metfe, which it
would be bfffiffor the enemy to at
tempt in the presence of hit army.
Is totally laid aside in France; and
those me^fures which have often been con
demaed in America as arts of barbarism
and tyranny, and for which the ear-wigs
of Roberfpierre have denounced the au
thors as Ariftocrets, and being under
British influence, are now the theme of
universal execration. Any thing which
appears like Robcifperian severity is his
sed; while, on the other hand, fuftice
and Humanity are the orders of the day.
Rtftat Saiurnia regnum !
The. French corvette Le Spartiatte,
Captain Garre, has arrived at Baltimore,
from Rochfort, 41 days. She must have
failed about the ill Oaober; and, as it
is said, she brought difpatche, from M.
Fauchet, we may expert feme freSh intel
tyence. Ths cisiefebjert of the dispatch
es, it is fuppofec, is to inform the Gov
ernment of the United States of the re
ception of Mr. Munroe. The news by
her, generally, is, that the French are
univcifally victorious.
THE DUkE's OFFICIAL LETTER,
MASSACHUSETTS.
BOSTON, November 22.
OF EUROPEAN AFFAIRS.
MR. jAFf MISSION.
THE GUILLOTINE,
FROM FRANCE.
The French had not appeared before
Grave when the dispatches came away,
but were about nine miles from it.
It was reported in the army to be
the intention of his Royal Highness to
march to Venlo, and form a junction
with the Austrians, who cap not advance
while the enemy remain in peffeffion of
Treves;
The French, we underhand, took two
pieces of cannon in the affair of the 14th
instant.
The Dutch Mail due last Monday, ar
rived this morning, and brings the follow
ing particulars of the Baton between his
Royal Highness the Duke of York and
the French :
N E IF -7 OR K.
WHITESTOWN, Nov. 5
A gentleman dirertly from Canandar
quie, informs, that 1600 Indians had
came in to the treatyon Monday fe'en
night—and also, that W'm. Johnson. e
British Indian agent, and a Mr. Street,
the Indian interpreter, from Niagara,
were also there ; and had found means to
called 26 chiefs in a bye place, and were
harranguing of them in the melt eloquent
and flattering manner, when discovered by
the inhabitants ; they were tiling the most
persuasive arts, together with offers of large
presents, to induce the Indians to turn
their arms against the United States.—
The meeting broke up in a disorderly
manner. '1 he inhabitants were greatly
exasperated at this insolent condurt of the
British agents ; and it is said they gave
out, that if Col. Pickering did not cause
their arrelt, they would infiirt upon them
the Yankee punishment of tar and feath
ers.
We are informed, that all the various
points with which Mr. Jay was charged,
have been brought into difcuffiin with the
British Miciftry, and have made a corfi
derable advance towards a fettlemcnr.
What the final issue may be, on the at
tempt to embrace the whole of the great
business in one general conclusion,jio man
acquainted with the nature of negotiations,
can undertake to pronounce.
But' a disposition towards a candid and
happy termination of ourdifpute?, appears
to continue' in the British Minifiry ; and
there is reason to expert that definitive
arrangements will be received before the
rising of CongrefS.' &
We have the pleasure to inform the
public (from good authority) that greater
'part of the army will be on the return from
the westward to-morrow and Monday next.
November, i,.
Extrall of a letter from an Officer in General
Wayne's Army, dated
“ Grand Glaize, Sefet, 11, 1794
" Since my last (written from this place)
no occurrence worthy of remark has trans
pired.—We have been delayed thus long,
for the purpose of putting) Fort Defiance
in such a state of defence as to repel the
efforts of British "forc^ mould it h'a^peri
that a war with Great Britain takes place.
Our continuance here will be ofie~day lon
ger, when the army will take up the line
of march for the old Miami towns, where
General Harmar engaged the savages in
oa. 1790. There it is intended, to es
tablish a strong fort. which will be corifid
ered as the Grand Deposit. This poll will
be regular and well garrisoned. When 'a
fort is erased so near the villages of the
!Indians, there is not the smallest doubt but
Ithey will flock in to til Indeed, fined' the
Letters from Leyden, of the 18th inst.
state that on the 14th in the evening, a
smart engagement rook place near Box
tel, not far from Bois le Duc, between
the British army encamped behind the
Dommel, and the French forces who ad
vanced to the Maire. The fire, which
was vere bri&, lasted until a late hour of
(he night, when the English fell back to
Gheflel.
In this latter place they were again at
tacked at five o'clock next morning. The
artion was most obstinately fought, and
the loss very considerable on both lides.
The difeharge of mafquetry and artillery
lasted until noon on the 15th, when the
British was obliged to quit their position,
and to fall back towards Schyndet.
The British army having concentrated
itfelf seemed to be resolved to maintain
ts posts at Dinier, and its environs ; and
it was thought that a third artion would
take place.
By I'efter day's Boston Post
PENNSTLVANIA.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 12.
defeat we gave them on the 20th till we
have neither seen or heard from them.—
Their wives and children, have been, I
fappofe, their firft care ; to support them
they have been obliged to hunt in final!
parties."
MARYLAN D.
BALTIMORE, Nov. 14.
A gentleman of considerable political
information, was so kind as to extrr& for
us the following paragraph, from a letter,
which he has received from Bourdeaux, %
dated Sept. 19 —" An attempt has been
made to affaflinate the famous Tallien.—
He received three wounds—none of which
are mortal. He is in a fairway of recov
ery. Barrere was also Struck by the aim
of an aiTaffin. His wound is but flight."
Extrafi of a letter received 1, the Samson,
Capt, Smith, from a house of the firft ref
peaability in London.
" We are happy to inform you, that
in a late conversation, the American com
mittee had with Mr. Pitt, they were giv-1
en to uncerftand, that all matters between ,
Ministry and Mr. Jay, were for advanced
in settlement, and would soon be finally
arranged. Mr. Jay will no doubt, by the
Simfon, officially acquaint your Executive
of the success flf his mission, and we hope
the Olive Branch will be hailed by Amer
ica with the fame cordiality and heart felt
fatisfaaion that it is by all ranks in this
country."
A letter from Philadelphia states, that
Mr. Morris, of that city, has arrived from,
'London with dispatches from Mr. Jay—
and that Mr. Trumbull, his secretary, in-'J
formed Mr. Morris, the Weftern Posts were
to be given up and full indemnification
made to Americans for their losses—a
treaty being nearly concluded.
. SALEM, Nov. 25.
IMPORTANT^ AUTHENTIC NEWS.
Received by the Ketch Eliza, Captain
Ph 1 Llps,; which arrived on Sunday
from Bourdeaux, in 36 days.
Extras of a letter from a gentleman of the ar.
my at the Hlftward, to his friend in this
, city.
>" We expert to be in Philadelphia in
the CGurie of eight days. Seven hundred
foot, and four troop of horse, are enlisted
for nine months—to be Stationed at or
near Pittsburgh. The rest of the arm,
will return : immediately to their respec
tive homes."
The committee who had waited on the
President, reported, that they had execu
ted the business aligned them—and in
formed the house, that the President had
appointed To-morrow at 12 o'clock, to
meet both branches of the Legislature, in
the hall of the House of Representatives.
The report of the committee of the
whole, on the case of James White, was
taken up by the house, and finally agreed
to—in confrquence of which, Mr. White
takes his feat ts a representative in Con
gress from the territory of the U. States
fouth weft of the river Ohio.
Congrefs
of the UNITED STATES. ]
HOUSE of REPRESENTATIVES,
Thursday, nov. 18.
A MESSAGE was received from
the Senate by Mr. Otis, their Secretary,
by which the house was informed, that a
quorum of the Senate was assembled, and
had appointed a committee, confiding of
Messrs. Izard and Larigdon, to join a com
mittee of the house, to wait on the Presi
dent of the United States, and inform him,
that a quorum of both houses were assem
bled for the dispatch of public business, and )
are ready to receive such c@mmunications
as he may have to lay before them.
The house took the message into con
sideration, concurred with the Senate,and
appointed a committee on their part, con
fiding of Messrs. Boudinot, Gilman and
Dearborn.
ON the 17th September by bis sere,
to the Convention# General J or.
dan announced his attack of u,oo^ ^la
trians entrenched at Emeux, m^ Sp ; ^^
He took 700 prisoners, 26 pityes cf ca
nori, 3 flags, and found on the frk zcj
killed and wounded, and 100 horses; &g.
I French Victorious.,
NEW-YORK, Nov. 18.