The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1792-04-25 00:00:00, page 3

Capt.Wellman,veto failed from Port
au- Prince the 23d of March, at even
j„g, informs that 1000 Militia & 500
Regulars marched out that morning,
laid to be on account of the insurrec
tion of theNegrocs on several planta
tions on the plain, who had drove
their matters into town —That they
were met & opposed by the Malattoes
whose head quarters were only 4 miles
from the town —That he saw numbers
of wounded brought into town while
he was on shore—That the battle con
tinued all day—and that its iltue was
unknown when he failed.
A detachment of the regular troops
'had been called for, by the Munici
pality, to go to Leogane, at the time
of the Negroes attacking that place,&
boats were prepared to transport them;
but the officers .refund to embark
as they said their orders were to de
fend the town of port-au-Prince—they
therefore could not answer for their
quitting their station, for the fame
reafon,they had also refufed to march
to the plains around Port-au-Prince.
But the clamors of the populace, and
of the private soldiers, being for ac
tion, the Municipality caused the of
ficers to be arrested, and font to the
Cape, in order to be carried to France.
After this, new officers being fabflitu
ted the troops marched out, as before
mentioned.-
FROM. CAPE-FRANCOIS.
Extraß of a letter from the House 0, Otis
and Mackay, at the Cape, dated
March 22.
'' The Troops begin to arrive, and
we are in hopes something decisive
will soon be done."
PHILADELPHIA, APRIL 4.
Exiraa of a let terfrom Columbia,dated
February 14.
<< /°\UR winter has been uncom^
monly severe. We have had
snow on the ground for upwards of
6 weeks, most of the time i 3 or 20
inches deep, and the river Ohio being
dosed, the ice at Cincinnati, for near
a fortnight, afforded a bridge to the
Kentucky ihore. Lieut. .Col. Wilkin
. yon,perhaps concluding business would
be to be done early in the spring, im
proved the advantage of the snow to
(ranfporc forage for the cavalry to
Fort-feffirfon, and engaged all the
teams and sleds that could be procur
ed in the different settlements, and
having determined upon an immedi
' ate enterprize, addrefed himfelf to
the militia at the different settlements
in the Hon. Judge Symes' purchafe—
and on the zo;h ult. yifited Columbia,
where he met the militia and Capt.
' Gano's. He made his appearance in
an old hunting frock. He harangued
them very feelingly, telling them he
had some tho'ts, if it ftrould be found
practicable, of visiting one of the In
dian towns—and noted to them, the
necessity of bringing the cannon from
the place of the fatal defeat of the 4th
. of November last, as there wa, a pro
bability that, unless that were done,
they might be brought against us the
approaching campaign—and dwelt a
little upon the melancholy theme of
their countrymen lying in the field of
brittle, calling upon them for the rights
-of fepulchre. These hints were fuffi
cient—they struck the fouls of the io
lid boys."
THE following message was deli
vered to the House of Representatives,
sth in ftant.
UNITED, STATES, Aprils, 1792-
Gentlemen of the House
of Retrefentatives,
I HAVE maturely considered the
„a& parted by the two Houses, entitled,
'« An aft for an apportionment of
Reprefentetives among the several
Bates, according to the firft enumera
tion ;" and I return it to your Houle,
'wherein it originated, with the fol
lowing objections :—
FromPO CTAU-PRINCE.
By the last MAIL.
ANTHONY WAYNE,Efq.MajGen.
Gen. Brooks, Massachusetts, ]
Col. Willet, News-Fork,
Gen. Morgan, Virginia,
Col. Wilkinson. Kcafafy, J:
Gen. Wayne is appointed—but
the Senate has not yet a&ed on the
other nominations.
We have received accounts from
New-York,of an almost total stagnation
of business there, owing to the recent
failures in that city,which for immence
sums, have taken place within
these few days. Some foppofed to
have been worth 100,000/. are among
the number. In many points of view
Ift. The Constitution has prescrib
ed, that Representatives shall be ap
portioned among the several states ac
cording to their refpedtive numbers;
and there is no one proportion or
visor which, applied to the refpeaive
numbers of the states, will yield the
number and allotment of Representa
tives proposed by the bill.
2d. The Confutation has also pro
vided, that the number of Represen
tatives shall not exceed one for every
30 000 ; which reftri&ion is, by rhe
context, and by fair and obvious con
ftruaion, to be applied to the separate
and refpetlive numbers of the Elates ;
and the bill has allotted to eight of
the states more than one for 30,000.
IN copfeqaence of the above mes
sage, it became neceffar,. to take the
sense of the House on the fubjed.—
Notwithflanding the negative of the
Prefidenl, if two thirds of each House
agree to the bill, it becomes a law.—
However, on putting the question in
the House of Reprefentatives,the yeas
and nays were,
For the bill, 28.
Against it, 33.
rietta, March 13.
" Such has been the severity ofout
Winter, that the Ohio and Mufkingum
rivers have been passable upon their
furfaces with teams ; a circuraftance
very unusual in this country,
"To this inclemency we may how
ever ascribe, in a great degree the
pacific deportment of the neighbour
ing Indians—they having been con
fined by the rigour of the season to
their rcfpeQive towns,in consequence
of which we have been at leisure to
ereft an additional blockhouse, and
otherwise strengthen our works.
" The garrison having been rein
forced by the arrival of Lieut. Hoove,
and thirty men from PittJburgm are
now in a situation to afford these bi
peds of the foreft,a very warm recep
tion, should they possess the temerity
to provoke it.
" The Settlement has not been mo
lested since the aftion, nor do we ap
prehend any thing serious from an Ef
calade. Fam much pleated to hear
of the spirited exertions for the next
Campaign,which I flatter myfelf will
enable us to render a more favourable
account of the enemy, among whom
no small diffatisfadion prevails, in
consequence of the partial distribution
of their, late booty. The Indians in
habiting theWertern extremity of the
Lake were highly diftinguilhed with
the cendu& of the Miamis, and told
them in refentirient that infuture they
might fight their ran battle/. The ac
count adds,that the Indian Warriors,
in the aftion of the 4th of November,
amounted to 1500."
PROVIDENCE, APRIL 14.
Extraß of a letter from an Officer of
the 2d United States Regiment, to a
Gentleman in this to u;n, dated Ma-
His Excellency Gen. St. Clair,
has resigned his commission as Major-
General.
The President of the United States
has been pleased to nominate,
From Philadelphia.
G. WASHINGTON.
BOSTON, APRIL 20.
Mr. John Robin'on, who has been a
prisoner in Algiers, lince June 13#
-7^s' has lately arrived at New lork,
from captivity.— The ransom of him
felf and Charles Coflin, was about 7001
sterling. He left 12 Americans in
slavery—whose conditions were the
most deplorable ; being compelled to
work, frequently in chains, with very
poor and icanty provisions ! !
By the Ship America, lately arrived
at New-York, from Canton, we learn,
that the Brig Hope, Capt. Ingraham,
and Brig Hancock,Capt. Crowell,both
cf this port, were arrived in or near
the river of Canton from the Weft
Coast of America ; -which voyagethey
effected, from Boklon, in about 14
months. The Hope fpeke the Ship Co
lumbia, Capt. Gray,on the coast, who
informed Capt. Ingraham that his 2d.
officer Mr ,oihua Cafweh, with seve
ral of the Columbia's men, had been
massacred by the Natives. We are
sorry to add the death of Mr. Crafts,
an officer in the Hope, and only son ot
Thomas Crafts, Esq. of this town.
Col. Platt fays in an advertisement
of Monday last, that " owing to the
many late failures in Newyoik, .he
thinks it his duty to flop payments,
&c." °
Col. Richard Platt, we learn, pre
vious ia his failure, remitted to Phi
ladelphia, for the benefit of the com
pany, all the monies in hi^ hands, as
Treasurer of the Ohio company; a
mounting to near half a million of
dollars !
It is said that a reward of sool. has
been offered for apprehending Mr.
W. one of the arch (peculators, late
ly absconded from Newyork.
A pilot boat, it is said, has been
difpaiched from Newyork, for Fal
mouth, to flop payment of certain
bills drawn on England, by several
of the Stockbrokers who have failed.
It is said Mr. M— -b of New
york, has failed for 1 500,000 dol
lars—9oo,ooo on his own account—
and 600,000 by endorceme nts.
this information mod be cofidered as
extremely melancholy. Confidence has
fled from the Exchange, and baneful
Jealous, taken its place. The effeds
are dreaded, whatever apparent plea
fare the event may give to many de
scriptions of people.
The question for Assuming the Re
sidue ofjthe State Debts, once obtain
ed, was afterwards, by the accidental
absence of some of its friends, nega
tived, in Committee of the nibble ; but
the issue is very doubtful.
Since Mail—via Newport.
A GENTLEMAN on hearing of
A a late failure, observed, that he
thought it would be against his inter
est to Pay the principal, and against
his principle to pay the intereJi.
FECUNDITY OF A SHEEP.
A Mr. Prescott of Deerfield, has a
Sheep three years old this spring, that
has brought ten living lambs in twen
ty three months, in the following or
der —before Ihe was one year old ihe
brought three—before ihe was two
years old, three—and before she was
three years old (which is now,) she
brought four, all full grown lambs.
From a Dublin paper, of Nov. 23.
By permission of the Rt. Hon. the Lord
Mayor.
To be seen at N°°„, College green,
near the Poft-Office. from lain
the morning 'till 9 o'clock in the e
vening, an extraordinary lufus nature;
lately arrived from the Glaciers, in
the grand mountains of Chamouni,the
Sixty-four dwelling-houses be
sides out-houses, tables, &c. were
built in Philadelphia last year.
EXETER, April 25.
DIED] — At Tuam, Ireland, Tho
mas Wirrs, aged 117 ; he fought at
the feige of Londonderry, in 1691.
On his voyage to India, Capt. N.
Draft of Charleston,in Maffachufetis.
At Nicobar Islands, by shipwreck,
Mr. W. St. Barb, only son of Capt.
St. Barb, of Newbury-Port ; an ami
able young gentleman. Drowned at
sea, Mr. W. Stickney, 3d. of Newbu
ry-Pott.
At Marblehead, Isaac Mansfield.
Esq. aged 72 ; a gentleman, eminent
for his piety and ufefuluefs.
On the MILLENIUM.
THE glorious Millenium, or the
thousand years wh<b Christ will
reign on earth, is thought by meft
Divines to be nigh at hand; peflibiy
the present generation may not pass
away before the happy period arrives!
It cannot, however, fays the bed cal
culators on the lubjea, exceed the
6000th year from the creation of the
world—when Satan, that enemy and
destroyer of mankind, (who has so uni
versally and that with great power
ruled and reigned in the hearts of the
children of men,) ft)all be taken and
bound a thousand years, that he de
ceive no more—whenChrift flhall take
to himfelf the rule, and extend his do
minion from the rivers to the ends of
the earth—establish at the mount at
Jerusalem, a temple, where all the
nations of the earth who are left flhall
go up yearly to worship the King and
keep the feaft of tabernacles. What
happy times will there then be, when
all thole numberless fedaries of reli
gion, which now prevail in the world,
shall harmonize and unite in one—
each go hand in hand the path way of
life! Beautiful indeed, to behold
Christians, whole lives have been
devoted to the cause of truth, embra
cing one faith, one Lord,and me wor-
Ihip ! to fee Judah the troobler of
Ephraim, and Ephraim of Judah, no
longer at variance—but each one fay
ing to his neighbor and brother, come
let us go up and worship the Lord
Jehovah, and inquire into the majefly
and beauty of his Temple.
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A LL perlons indebted to,
or who have any demands on
the estate of THOMAS LEAVITT,
late of Hampton, cordwainer, deceas
ed, are requested to exhibit their ac
counts for settlement, to
DANIEL PHILBRICK.
Hampton, April 24, 1792.
two Wonderful Brothers, called the^rf/-
binoj of Europe, known and described
by Mons. Sauffue, in his voyages to
Cham< ni, published in the Encyclo
paedia Bn^nnica, and may be had in
a pamphlet as above, the one twenty
four, and the other twenty-one years
of age. They had the honor to be
presented to Sir Joseph Banks Presi
dent of the Royal Society in London,
who was plepfeti toexprefs his sur
prise and admiration, and at the fame
time, with other gentlemen, learned
in natural hiftory, propounced them
a perfea and new variety of men,and
the greatest and most pJeafing natural
curiefity ever seen in England. They
are allowed by gentlemen of the firft
feience to be the most curious pheno
menon cf Nature's pronu&ions. The
hair on their heads is as white as (now,
and as Rrong as horse-hair, it flows
over their shoulders, and has a most
beautiful appearance. Their eye
lashes and beards are also perfe&ly
white. The skin on their heads is of
a fine pink colour, their eyes of a
pale red, .with a continual motion,
like the pendulum of a clock. They
can hardly fee by day, but have the
advantage of feeing by night. They
are remarkably fair and ruddy, and
of a pleasant countenance, their man
ners, fwect, and have a common'edu
cation. Dr. Munro, Profeffor of Ana
tomy at Edinburgh, has minutely in
fpefted these men, and allows them to"
be real natural curiosities,and worthy
the attention of the curious.
From the NORWICH PACKET.