The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1791-06-17 00:00:00, page 2

To the Editors of the Literary Ma
gazine.
Gentlemen,
ASON of mine, now in his seventh
year was born with a stone in his
bladder, attended with all the fymtoms
of that dreadful disorder. Tn vain were
the mod eminent of the faculty, and the
most effimaSle solvents, tried :In his
hopeless situation a friend recommended
<he following recipe, which was ftriftly
adheared to for five weeks before relief
appeared; the stone then dissolved, and
gradually discharged itfelf, accompanied
with alarge quantity of mucilaginous
matter ; when in about fix weeks more
the cure was perfected. For the benefit
of mankind in general, I submit this
case for their perusal, that the afflicted
may receive the advantage of so effica
tioas a remedy. And enquiries will be
chearfully answered, by
Your humble servant, J. C. S.
No. 66, Market Lane.
Jan; 7, 1790.
4 certain CURE for the STONE or
, CT GRAVEL.
Take a large handful of the fibres or
roots of garden leeks, put thereto two
quarts of foft water ; let them be close
covered, and simmer gently over the
fire till reduced to one, then pour it off,
and drink a pint in the course of the
day, divided morning, noon and even
ing ; this is a fufficient quantity for an
adult. ~
We ought, not to condemn a remedy
from its mere simplicity, acknowleging,
however, that the one annexed to the
above letter is not fach as we (hould have
conceived as efficacious as there defcrib
ed.-cWe infers it 00 account of the fair
refs with which the proposer offers ic to
the world.
Reflexions in a Btrying-Ground.
HERE is the last flage of life's jour
ney : Here is the coliedive ren
dezvous of fu ffering mortals : Here is
2 fafe retreat from the barbed Shafts of
malice, from pointed perils, and from
misery's rod,—Here, after noble and ig
noble views—after every ardent wifh-=
after pursuing every flattering objed,
we find the issue of them all. - Here,
from servile bondage, and oppreflion's
iron hand, rests the wretched negro,
whom chance has made a Gave : Here
he forgets his galling state, and with his
lordly tyrant sleeps equally accommoda
ted.. Here the oppressor, and the injur
ed, moulder together.—Here sleep the
meanly saving, and the riotous profufe.
Here, prostrate in dust, lie the de
graded relicks of soaring mortals! Ought
we not, then, to remember the transient
vision of terrestrial greatness, and aQ so
as to be prepared to pay the momenta
ry loan of Heaven's great Lender !
AP O 6R Monster peasant, with
scarce a rag to his back, the other
day saw a reverend prelate pa's him by
in his carriage, with two elegant well
drefled, and well pampered footmen be
hind, on which the wretched being
stamped his bare foot in a paroxysm o(
madness on the flinty stones, exclaiming,
•' Gracious Being,who art every where,
and knows every thing, is it not enough
that those lazy fellows are well fed and
well eloathed, but their mailer the Ri
ffiop must provide them with a leather
cushion, to (land upon, left their tender
feet fhoqld be incommoded with the
boards,whilft your wretched half familhed
creature is obliged to dig, delve, and
labour barefooted, naked, hungry, and
broken-hearted? Oh !it is too much!
it is not endurable !" After which the
unfortunate man fat down to wa(h the
blood from his excoriated foot, ,which he
cut in his frenzy, on feeing the fervanfs
standing upon a foft cushion, .whilst he
himfelf had neither shoe or Rooking ;
and to add to the poignancy of his dtf
trefs, just as he had., wafted his foot and
food up, he was furprized by the ap
pearance of his emaciated wife, and fe-
Qn naked children who were crying,
and running almost wild after the hearth
monev man and;coriftable, who had Seiz
ed the only pot they had to boil their
potatoes with, for the hearth-money ;
the prelate saw the tranfadion with the
The folio-wing paragraph is copied from a
Dublin ph,er of the 1, OXober.
RECTP E.
utmost fans froid, however providence
directed the steps of a' strolling player to
the miserable scene, who, though all
his stock amounted to but fourßritilh (hil
lings, paid the unfeeling hearth-money
man two (hillings and sixpence, (two
(hillings the odious tax, and fix pence
the detraining fee,) and had the pot re
stored to this family of misery, who had
altogether offered up their prayers to
heaven for his prosperity and happiness.
' The above relation may be relied on ;
the scene lay within a mile of Cloyne,
on the Cork road, when the players
were travelling down to Cork.
On Saturday about 12 o'clock, the
flat Sutton, John Pickering matter, from
Pile Fowdry for this port, grounded on
a bank,ahd filled with water, near Form
by, when he and his two people, Fran
cis Belmor and William Parkinfon,(who
have five small children) lashed them
felvcs to the head of the vessel's mast, in
which situation they remained until a
bout 4 o'clock in the afternoon, when
they were fortunately perceived by a
clergyman of this town,Who happened to
be riding near the sea fhbre there, and
caused a boat to go off to them, which
brought them fafe to fhbre : the two
latter men, it is thought, could not have
survived above an hour, or at most, two
hours longer.
THE sloop betfey and Mary,
Capt. Lace, laden with pigs to
this port, left Newry on Tuefday last ;
about 4 o'clock on the following after
noon, the vessel grounded upon the
North Bank, and was left dry, yet with
out any apprehensions of danger by. the
crew or passengers ; but as the tide of
flood came on, the wind rose high, and
about ten o'clock, when the vessel began
to float, (he thump'd so very hard, that
in about three quarters of an hour (he
went to pieces and the whole of the peo
ple on board, 47 in number, viz, the
matter, 4 seamen, 4 female and 38 male
passengers (one only excepted) unfortu
nately Were drowned ; the perfoo whose
life is saved is nam'd John Bovd, be
longing to the firft battallion. of artille
ry, who luckilv caught hold of a part of
the wreck, from which he was taken the
next day at one o'clock. Eleven of the
fufferers have been decently interred.
The above melancholy cirCumftance
points out, in the strongest manner the
necessity of every vessel being provided
with materials for making signals of dis
tress, in cases of danger, for had this,
vessel had a swivel-gun and powder on
board, in all probability the whole of
the people had been saved, as federal
velTeh were within a few miles, and no
doubt viewed their Situation ; ^ut none
feeing or hearing anv finials of dtbth,
had no intimation of their danger.
A party of the 44th regiment, con
fitting of a corporal and eleven privates,
were ordered from Fort Auguftos, to
Stirling, Scotland; on the sixth inflant.
The day they set out, a very heavy fall
of snow, attended with a high wind,
coming on as they passed over one of the
hills, they with great difficulty reached
a hut, where they halted. After arrival
there, they found one of the women apd
a child miffing; it was impossible for
the husband and party to return, being
extremely exhausted, nor could they
trace the road, from the very great fall
of snow. However, they agreed to sub
scribe fix pence each out of their small
pittance of pay, which amounted to fix
(hillings • for this sum they got a High
lander to go in search of the poor woman,
with directions to proceed to Fort Au
gustus, and inform the governor, gene
ral Trapaud, who much to his honor;
immediately got a. few stout men to go
and endeavour to find the woman. They
proved more fortunate than the High
lander; but too late, the woman had pe
riled, and the child, only nine months
old, was found lying close to her breast,
and, what is almost incredible, in per
fect health, though twenty-two hours
from the time the woman was miffed.
The firoog impulse of maternal affedion
LIVERPOOL, MARCH 28.
DREADFUL SHIPWRECK.
Foreign Intelligence.
ENGLAND.
which this woman had for her child, in
duced her to strip herfelf, and wrap it
in her clothes. This saved its life.
Accident has produced a very ufeful
difeovery ; for-, by the late inundations
of the sea, it was observed, that, as far
as the tide extended, it brought all the
worms from their holes, and killed
them.
ON Friday or Saturday, the 29th or
30th of April, a party of Indians
penetrated the country near to Clarkf
burgh, where they took two people pri
soners, and considerable plunder of hors
es and other property. —Three of them
made their appearance at a farm-houfe,
and fired on a man at his door,who fell ;
they ran towards him, and on one of
them stooping to scalp him, he was salu
ted by the man's wife, with a ftreke from
a large hatchet in his back, which went
so completely into his body, that at three
different efforts (he could not disengage
it, and the Indian made off with it kick
ing in him ; a second Indian also made
an attempt, when (he by a well direded
stroke with a stick (he had got, laid
him on the ground ; the third then ran,
and the other; as soon as he had reco
vered his feet followed his example ; on
which the woman took her husband in
her arms and carried him into the house,
and when a magistrate of Ohio county,
from whom I had this relation, 'left that
place, the min was in a fairway of re
covering. The Indians were pursued to
Kenhawa river,and difperfed,their plun
der. but not the prisoners, were reco-'
vere'd,;
[The Pittfhurgh Gazette contains ac
counts of depreda ions and murders com
mitted by the savages in various other
places.]
This experiment has been since tried
with the sea-water in several gardens,
and has answered the desired effect be
yond expectation.
We arelefc,by the latest foreign prints
to wander in the wilds of conjeaure as
to European news and politics. It seems
rhe Grand Seignior has sworn that he
will not make peace with Catharine,
till she has expiated for her cruelties at
Ifmail ; we do not learn whether his
fiibjeds have sworn to fopport the oath
taken by Achmet ; feme accounts wear
a different appearance —so that as to
peace between Russia and the Porte, we
are just at ;he point we fat out from
months ago-^uncertain. @ :
Ic seems to be very problematical,
what part Great-Britain means to take
in this war—whether coercive, media
torial,or n f utral ;it is probable that Ca
tharine will purfoe her object without
cortfulting any of the other powers —
meantime the dock-jobbers must have
something to form the basis of fpeculati
cn, and whether G eut-Britain jhallfn
terfere or not ? appears the mod obvious
question for the moment —this being the
case, nothing but poffitive fads can be
depended upon in all that we read upon
the fubjea.
With refpe& to French affairs, the
English papers give accounts of various
infurreaions in the provinces—but they
appear to be merely local and tempora
ry .and have no important afped on the
revolution —so far from this, it does not
appear that there has ever been in con
templation, any serious plan of a coun
ter-revolution—and perhaps to this hour
all the opposition that has been made to
the decrees of the National Assembly,
has not been more than was necessary to
keep alive the fire of patriotism. This
was remarkably the case in the United
States at the commencement of the con
test with Great Britain—ln some states
was a greater proportion of difaffedion
to the cause of liberty, than in others,
but the whole quantum produced and
kept alive, a watchful, vigorous and an
nim^ted oppofition,which finally carried
us to the conformation of oar wishes.
Jt is the prayer of all good men, and of
Americans in particular, that the cause
of freedom in France may obtain a com
pleat and glorious triumph, ahd that the
eftablifhmcnc of a free and equal con
Columbian Intelligence.
PENNSYLVANIA.
PHILADELPHIA, MAY 28.
VIRGINIA.
PITTSBURG, MAY 14.
NEWYORK, MAY 30.
Accounts from the Ohio country;
mention, that on the firft of May ig
persons were killed upon the head wa
ters of Big Wheeling, and Gravecreekz
The house of Capt. Kirkwood, at the
mouth of Wheeling, weft of the Ohio,
was attacked next day, in which were
Ensign Brigs and twelve men. The
aflailaots, thirty in number, after set
ting fire to the house, were bravely re
pulsed; four of the besieged men were
wounded, one since dead.
" Though Mr. Montmorin has in
formed the Assembly of rhe pacifick dis
position of our neighbours, the comple
ment of our regular troops is to be of
250,000 men, the enlisted militia a
mounts to about 300,000 men more, and
the rest of the militia may be compu
ted at three millions. You fee that we
are prepared to receive a Conde, or^even.
the whole army of the sacred Roman
Catholick and Apoffolick Empire. The
best informed among us believe that
none will care to attack us. As to the
Pope, we heartily with he may refufe to
consecrate our new Bishops ; it would
give us a good opportunity to bid him a
lading farewell. Our minds are prepar
ed for this iaft triumph of rcafon and
liberty."
Extras of a letter from Paris, March 10.
"OUR Assembly has at last decreed
the duties which are to be paid upon
foreign importations. The following
article is the only one that can interelt
you : ''The importation of oil from
any country, bet the United States of A
merica, (hall be prohibited. The oil
imported from the United States of Ame
rica in French or American ves
sels, (hall pay a duty of twelve livres
per quintal."
" In order to give a new encourage
ment to the Frenctyfiffieries, the Assem
bly has voted an auchicnal premium of
three livres per barrel of dried fifh im
ported in the kingdom, or Weftindies.
" The great and important labours of
the Assembly draw to a conclusion.
From all appearances wemay expeft the
fitting of thefrjf Legifature towards the
end of May. The Electors have given
great fatisfa&icn in the choice they have
made for the Department-Assemblies,
and as the fame men are to eleft the
members to the Legislature, we have no
doubt but it will be the mod perfed col
lesion of men that can be made in this
extensive empire. The tumultuous and
indecent party of Ariflocrates that now
disgrace the National Assembly being
thrown out, we have every reason to
hope that our Legislature will have that
grave deportment and dignity, which,
until new, have been incompatible with
the passions of an enraged minority.
" The Assembly has completed the
organization of the Executive Depart
ments. Independent of the Treasury,
which is to be entrufled to three infpe&-
or>, appointed by the King, there will
be fix Ministers ; one for juflice—one
for inferiour affairs—one for the Colo
nies—one for the war—one for Foreign
Affairs. They will be all appointed by
the King, and receive each of them
20,000 dollars per annum, the Minister
for Foreign Affairs excepted, who. will
receive 30,000 dollars.—The whole or
ganization of these departments, too
long to be inserted here, is considered as
a mafler-piece, and meets with geneal
applause.
^'" About 30 millions of Affignats have
been burnt by the commissioners, and
as the sale of the national land has an
aftoniffiing fcccefs, we may expe& that
in a few weeks 30 other millions will
be comniitted to the flames.
ftitution in that great empire may for
ever blast the hopes cf despotism both
in church and Rate.
On Thursday laft,this city was honor,
ed with the presence of Mr. jeflerfon.
Secretary of state, accompanied by the
Charles Fex of America, the celebrated
Mudijon. We are informed they intend
going north as far as Lake Champlain,
and from thence acrafs the fifteenth Con,
(foliation, east to ConneHicut River.
i ' aJUNE 4.
Important and authentick
FRENCH NEWS.
NEW-YORK.
ALBANY, MAY SO.