The Republican ledger — Portsmouth, N.H., 1799-12-25 00:00:00, page 3

The felf.ftiled Federalilts in this country, after
preaching up for a longtime the Ilavifh and ab
surd doctrine of passive obedience and non-resist
ance, Prefidentail infallibility, &c. have at length
changed their tone, and now admit that the peo
ple (or to use their favorite term, “ th^Jwinifh
multitude," ) have a right on certain occaiions co
express their opinions on public measures, and are
likewise willing to^cknowleilge that the President
is as liable to err as other men. Thia change in
the political fentimetits of" thefriends of order and
good government , can only be attributed to the
lirinuefs which the President has displayed in fend
ing another embassy to the French Republic, in
opposition to the opinions of almost the whole of
the party : since that event has taken place the
molt virulent abuse has been poured forth from
: the prefies attached to this party. The infamous
Coobett has taken an active and decided part in
opposition to this meafore, and his Billingsgate
language has had the audacity to dictate to a go
vernment, which has so long permitted this foreign
• incendiary to rdcide amongst us : Fenno, altho' an
American, has not been ashamed to take this Bfit
jfh enamiflary for his guide, and, if possible, has
exceeded even Cobbett himfelf, in abuling the Pre ;
fident for adopting this measure. .Notwithstand
ing the violent opposition of the aristocratic and
British party to the fending of new Envoys to,
France, every reiz/American mud applaud the wifi
dom patrjotifm of the President in persever
ing by ^bnourable means to effed a reconcilation;
between the two republics. At no period since
'our l#te glorious revolution, has such an event been
The present arret shall be printed, addrefled to
• * the civil and military authority of the colony,
tranferibed upon the regilters of the adminidpative
and judiciary bodies, read, published and stuck
up.
From the New-York Gazette, of Dec. —l 3. —At
a. late hour laftnight, we met the ffiip Argus, capt.
Main, coming up, in 47 days from St. Seballians.
from our correfpoadent, we have received Paris
papers to the 16th of October. We lament that
we have only time to announce summarily their
important contents. These papers give the offi
cial details of Maffena's operations from the 25th
of Sept, to the Sth of Oct. by which it appears that
on the 25th of Sept, he palled the Lent at Dieti
kon, beat gen, Korfakoff, and Summoned Zurich
to surrender—the terms were not accepted, and
the town was taken by affault.—ln the meantime,
Suwarrov had advanced to act in concert with
the armies lately attacked by Maffena, but find
ing them defeated, avoided an a&ion by keeping
the mountains—Here he was however attacked,
left 2000 wounded, a part of his artillery, and al
most his whole baggage. In the mean time,Kor
fakoff, informed of Sawarrow's filiation, Hastily
assembled a corps, composed of the remnant of his
army and that of Hotze, the Bavarian contingent,
and that of Conde, attempted to march to the
Thur, and from thence to Zurich. Mafleaa at
tacked him, forced him to repafs the Rhine with
r loss. Maflena in these battles, states, that he has
' taken 18,000 prisoners, more than 100 cannon,
and 13 Hands of colours—that 4 Generals have
been taken, and 5 killed. Loss of the enemy in
Toto, mqre than 30,000 men. [Of this we shall
give a tranflation.],
Paris, oct. 14.
It is reported, that at the moment when the Di
tettory was writing a letter of felicitation to Buo
naparte, upon his lalt viftory, they learned that
he^d landed at Frijus. It is supposed, from this,
that his return was not expetted by the Direfto-
On Sunday evening last, a Ihip from Cork bound
to New-York put in here, after a passage of 51
days. She failed again early next morning. 4 A
Gentleman who was favored by the Capt. with a
perusal of the Cork papers up to the 24th Oft.
informs us that they contained the official dispatch
es of the Duke of York as published in the London
Gazette Extra.
ry.
'Moreau is here—Buonaparte is expected this
evening.
Franckfort, it is said, was taken by the French
~ on the sth Oft.
By which it appears, that there has been a gen,
eral and hard fought action since the one of the 2d
and 3 I of October, in which 500 English and 2000
Ruffians were killed and taken prisoners. In con
sequence of which, the Duke of York (with the
unanimous opinion of his Council of war) has tho't
it expedient to withdraw.
It is further mentioned, that the Duke of York
would retire to the Helder, and secure and fortify
himfelf there, till the determination of the English
Cabinet was known as to the further prosecution
of the Campaign in Holland. It is also said that
a Cabinet Council was called on the 18th of OA.
when the Aid-de-Camp of the Duke of York, who
brought over the dispatches attended, and that it
was determined that Holland should be evacuated
without delay.
fart To Brit^ Culohis, and from thence coming
to St. Domingo —Decrees:
I. Ihe American schooner, the Nantucket, com
manded by capt. Winbow Lewis, dispatched from
Bolton to Martinique, in virtue of a sea letter
granted by the President of the .United States, un
der date of the 3d June lalt, and which c^me from
Martinique to Cape Francois, where the has alrea
d;afpofed of her cargo, (he Shall be obliged to
idepart it 12 days, without any excnfe, but may
nevertheless, carry with her the produce of her
files.
Ik Every American, or other neutral vessel
coming from English ports, either in Europe or
America, shall not be admitted into the ports of
St. Domiugo, under any pretext whatfoeyer, ex
cept in the case of the greatest necessity, legally
proved, and for the least time poflible. .
111. The English vMfels having the boldness or
father the folly to present themselves under what
ever flag Ihhll be seized and confifcated, two thirds
to go to the Republic, and one third to the captors.
IV. The Ordonateurs, in chief is required to
execute and cause to be executed the present ar
ret—Military diltritts, are invited and required to
put this measure in effect if they shall have occa
sion.
Done sc C. Fgncofs, the 13th Frußidor
(Aug. 30,) 7th year of the French
Republic, one and indivifiblc.
Signed at the Register of Deliberations.
ROUME, Particular agent of the Direflory,
L. BLANCHARD, See: Gen. to the agency.
- [True Copy.] L. BLANCHARD.
Cbe republican Ledger.
important ^ummarp.
Portsmouth, December 25, 1799.
LATE NIIVS FROM EUROPE.
NEWPORT, DEC. 17.
A new republican paper very ingenuously con
ducted, has been recently eftablilhed at Schenecta
dy in New-York date. The New Paper publish
ed at Boston, called the Constitutional Telegraphe,
has already displayed talents which indicate those
writers that formerly gave celebrity to the Chron
icle ; meanwhile the latter paper/thro' rivallhip,
admits a diffufion republican sentiments, so that
the Bostonians are bettered by the former change
of the Chronicle. Ihe republican paper, newly
established at Portfinouth, New-Hampfliire,is cone
'dusted with a temper and information highly
creditable to the country and the cause of liberty.
The Bee of New-London, like the fathers of old,
rises under persecution, and the wakened people of
Connecticut Rretch forth their hands for the truths
which it publishes, like travellers who had palled
the sand parched defarts for the CUP. —Meanwhile
the papers in that state which have been hitherto
the molt servile instruments of 'hypocrify and im
posture, feel a fenlible diminution of their deluded
followers.
In Deleware state a new republcan paper called
the Mirror ha^jail appeared. A beautifully prints
ed and well written paper has also recently, been
established at Eafton, Maryland. A new paper,
called “ the Democrat ," is about to appear at Pe
tersburg!), Virginia. Another called the “Fincafile
Herald," is about to be published in the course ot
a few days, at Fincallle, Bottetourt County, Vir
ginia ; this last eitablifhment merits particular at
tention, because that country has hitherto been
considered the molt hoftileto republicanism in that
state, and at the lalf election gave only five votes
to the republican candidate. At Raleigh,the feat of
the North Corolina government, an elegant and
ably conducted paper lias been established a few
weeks ago, by Mr. J. Gales, formerly of this city.,
whose t^ents and political principles are too well
known to doubt the advantage which the cause of
virtue and civil liberty muff derive from his la
bours. A new daily evening paper is about to be
eflablifhed in our own city, by J. Carey, who has
already established a reputation unsurpassed for a
bility and skill as an editor and printer—the occa
(ion'is favorable, and the public cannot fail to
stand forth in support of a man and an eßablifh
ment the merits of which are so well known, and
which mutt be so valuable in every point of view.
It cannot be doubted that many of those who have
finned with Porcupine and are now sorry, will
support the man who,when the voice of the delud
ed was in his favor, flood manfully forward and
ekpofed him to that contempt and execration,
which all now allow that he merited. [Arora;
The compleat defeat of the anti-republicans in
the election of Thomas M'Kean, is in nothing
more strongly marked than in the progress of de
cay and final exit <4 Porcupine's Gazette ;he firft
suspended his daily paper, and issued his weekly
Iheet; his next step of degradation reduced his
whole publication w a duodecimo pamphlet, and
The President, from his speech to Congress, ap
pears to encertain an opinion, that the exiting
difference with Great-Britain, respecting the 6th
article of the Britilh treaty, Will be amicably ter
minated between the two governments. We sin
cerely hope the event may prove the justness of the
President's expectation, though we know of no
reofan which should induce us to believe that it
will. We are firmly convinced that Great-Brit
ain will never cease to oppress us, by all the means
in her power, until our government shall be goad
•ed into a resolution to cut off all commercial in
tercourse with her dominions, both at home and a
broad. It is now well known, the, if the embar
go, laid in General Walhington's Presidency, had
been continued for a short time longer, the result
would have been, complete fatisfaftion, without
recourse to the forms of a treaty, for the claims of
our merchants, now rendered more precarious
than ever by the suspension of the London and
Philadelphia boards oi commissioners—and the sub
sequent conduct of tret government towards us,
would have been more conformable than it has
been, if not (triply so, to the principles of justice,
and the refpeft due to an independent nation.
But since the President seems to think the claims,
above alluded to, which existed previous to the
treaty, will yet be amicably fettled, notwithftand
iug present appearances; we should be glad to
know what he thinks of the profpett of obtaining
fatisfaftion for the depredations committed since
the ratification ofthe Treaty. The individuals
who have fuffered, and the community at large
would be hghly gratified to hear from the Presi
dent, that such remonstrances had been made to
the Cabinet of England, on the (core of Britilh pi
racies flqce the Treaty, as in his opinion would
bring them to a sense ofjuftice, so as to fee the ne
cessity of indemnifying us for the past, and secur
ing our trade from similar depredations in future.
A remonstrance, on the part of our government,
is the lead dftteyt measure we have reason to ex
peft, considering the high tone of conduct which
they have manifefted in repelling French aggres
sors—-and such a measure is,nxioufly looked for by
every honed American, who knows to what an ex
tent the Britilh hlave recently carried their con
tempt of our Independence, and their disregard
to the solemn stipulations of a treaty which we have
adhered to with the most scrupulous refpe& for
our national faith. [Alb. Regifler.
more definable than at the present. The late suc
cess of the combined powers, are fufficient to ex
cite an alarm in the breads of all true republicans
—forfhould those poo ers succeed in re-ellablilhing
monarchy in France, may we not tremble for the
liberties of our own country ? The European mon
archs can never forget that we were the firft Do
nation who dared to proclaim the rights of man,
and do not believe that their thrones are secure as
long asa republican government exists in this coun
try ; and have we not reason to fear, Ihduld they
succeed in their present enterprise, that they will
next turn their arms against this country ? The
Britilh government would, no doubt, be glad to
improve so favorable an opportunity, to make a
nother attempt to recover her loft dominion over
this country. These are not idle chimeras ; such
were the opinions of feme of our molt enlightened
patriots several years ago. As a proof of it, 1
shall quote an extract of a letter from the cele
brated Dr. Ftanktin, during his residence in France,
to a friend of his in Botloil. Speaking of France,
he fays, “ This powerful monarchy continued its
friendship for the United States. It is a friend
fhip of the ufrnott importance to our security, and
should be carefully cultivated.—Britain has not yet
well dijefted the loss of its dominion over us, and
has at times flattering hopes of recovering it. Ac
cidents may increase those hopes, and encourage
dangerous attempts. A break between us and
France, would infallibly bring the Englijh again
upon our backs ; and yet we have some wild
beafls among onr countrymen, who are endeavor
ing to^ea^CT that connection.”
[Cent.<f Freedom.
The King of Denmark has published an edift to
defiroy the liberty of the press, under the fevered
penalties, * ——
The British parliament have voted Sixty Thou
(and pounds—fern, remplir des engagemens jecrets
am ta&ats Unis dUmerique ! ! .'Or sixty thou
fan{fflMs ilerling to fulfil secret engagements
wiffi the United States of America.
the British premier can talk of the necessity of
fopporting good order, religion and morality,
while like Belzebub he is seducing men from their
integrity and paying them the price of perfidy and
treachery. Thus is corruption of the blacked die
made use of to preserve Regular Government, Re
ligion, and fe forth. # . ~.
Mr, Pitt's satellites boast much of his great a
bilities, if they are to be estimated by the manner
in which he has increased the national debt, they
are of great use to his country indeed !
: Rumour still fends Peter Porcupine to New-
York, and even engages houses for him. The Poor
Corporafhas been in doleful dumps ever since the
termination of the late, election* Hisfelt-com
placence has been greatly diminished on finding
that his libels and calumnies produced a contrary
effect to,what he intended.z
“ An honest man, fays Junius, ' like the true re
ligion, appeals to the underfeeding, or modef|ly
Maffena, in bis letter to the Directory, fays, that
“ at the passage of the Lint, 200 swimmers, with
their febres in their teeth, and their pikes in their
hands, formed the advanced guard, put the ene
mies post to the sword, and thus prepared the suc
cess of the day."
Accounts from Ireland, of late dates, state, that
that country is in a very unsettled Rate—that per
fom are daily convicted and executed tor (what
they call) treasonable purposes.
Col. James Sheafe is ele&ed Representative
from tab date to the Congress of the United States.
The Hon. JAMES MUNROE, Esq. is elected
Governor of Virginia. He is said to be a Repub
lican. The Legiflaturi of that State have also
chosen Col. Wilson C. Nicholas, also a repub
lican, and a man of unblemished character, for a
Senator of the United States, vice Henry Taze
well, Esq. deceased.
From BilTmore, pEC.,.
Amoft unnatural Murder.
On the 3d instant a shocking murder was per-.
Strated near Elizabeth (Hager's) Town, by a
utch book-binder, near 50 years of age.-=lt is
supposed he mult have had the inhuman action in
contemplation feme time previous to its accom
plishment. On the morhing of the abbve men
tioned day he desired his wife to go out and cut
some final! wood for the stove ; and whilß she was
thus employed he planted himfelf at the door with
a tomahawk in his hand ; after taking this Ration
he called to his wife to come into the children ; in
conformity to the request she eamein, he knocked
her down, several times repeated his blows, think
ing, as it is. supposed, that she was dead ; after
which he went to his four children, gave them four
blows each, and then, to crown the.bloody deed,
cut his own throat from ear to ear, with a razor ,
having, when several medical gentlemen were call
ed in, this last mentioned instrument of death in
one hand and a large club in the other, which he
had grasped f® fall at the time of dying, that it
was with difficulty forced from his hand.—-The
wife and two eldest children recovered in some
measure ; but there are no hopes entertained of
their lives toeing preferred for any length of time.
The floor presented a horrid fpe&cle, covered
with brains and blood, and the mangled bodies of
the dead and those in a dying fituatiorn The cause
of this conduct in the old man has not yet been ac
counted for ; but we expert- on the reception of
the next Elizabeth-Town paper, to be enabled to
give a mote precise account of this affair, so terri
ble to the feelings of human nature.
A ledure is annually held and paid for at Cam
bridge in Malfachufetts, agreeably to the will of
govenor Dudley, which is filled with invectives a
gainst the Romifh church. Its design is to point
out the errors of popery.
Tire government of the college called a year
since upon the Rev. Dr. Walter, of the episcopal
church of Boilou, to deliver this orderly leisure.
He returned a modest answer declining the office,
by a letter which ought to be circuated throughout
the nation, as well for the liberality of sentiments
ir conveys, as the refpeft it .evinces for the laws
eftablifhiiig uhiverfal protection, candour and for
bearance to men of every faith. He recommended
it to the college, to solicit rhe fegiflature to ap
propriate the legacy of Govenor Dudley to some
noble purpose, rather than perpetuate rancours
and jealousies among men profeffing the.fame re
ligion, and worfhipping the fame God, but differ,
ing in some points of their opinions and church
discipline. Dr. Morse is one of the trustees of
Cambridge college.
A lefture is also held, founded by the fame per
son, in favor of the validity of preibyterian ordi
nation. This has always been improved to vent
rancour, spleen and malice againtt the epifcopal
ians. [Epit. of the Times.
even that copld not exist lender the accumulated
weight of indignation which it had incurred from
a whole people awakening to a Just "resentment ;
and we are now only cursed with the remembrance
of the vilest and mod abandoned publisher that e
ver disgraced literature or a nation ! From what
fount will the dupid members of tory junto have
recourse to now for arguments ? Who will ham
mer ideas into their heads ? No lodger does a
crowd of harpies receive from the poll-office win
dows their daily read of calumny, obfeenity and
dirty abuse ; the honest man's reputation is no
longer served up by this cormorant to gratify the
creatures of despotism. Thepe are many who al
ready deny that they ever took his paper ; others
burn their files ; some, veked with disappoint
ment, arfume a moderate petition and attempt to
couple Porcupine's Gazette with the Aurora, and
condemn them both together ; the comparison
will not beat ; the angels of lights and demons of
darkness are not more unlike. The Aurora, foun
ded upon the firm batis of truth and liberty, dis
seminates ufeful knowledge, and deteas and ex
poses the enemies of civil liberty ; it rises with e
very attempt to crush it ; its circulation continues
to extend, and its ufefulnefs is more and more
conspicuous—Not so the other :It originated in
the hot bed of slavery ; it germinated in the fun-
Ihjhe of despotism ; it was nourished by fallhood ;
corruption marked its progress, and it fell by the
weight of its own dilgraces Gets. of Lib.
TO BE-SOLD
At Public Au&ion,
On WEDNESDAY, January isl, 1800, at three
o'clock, p.m:
ONE third part of the Hull,.
Sails, Cables, Anchors, and Cabin Furni
ture, of the Schooner SPEEDWELL. of Kittery*;
now lying at the wharf of Jonathan Warner, Esq.
Portsmouth.
Said Schooner is, completely new,,not exceeding
two years. Sixty 'days credit will be given, with
good security. Sale to be at the wharf aforefaid.
Portsmouth, Dec. 25.
WANTED —As an attendant in a Jmall family,
A Girl between 12 and 15 years of
age, to whom generous encouragement will Iff
given, if well recommended—^F^ffgurther infyfy
mation inquire of the Printer. &ft¥
(^ The 29th infl. the second advance will become
due, (50 cents) agreeable to the conditions upon
which the Republican Ledger is publiJhed.s
Our patrons and friends will pleaje to attendto this.
In this town the carriers will call upon the fubferi'
bers for the purpoje of receiving their advance.
The crew of the boat further informed capt, P. that the
Pickering had loft three men in the action, and that the Grit
broad fide from he. killed ac o. the privateer's crew.
For the term of three years, and
to be entered upon by the frit day of Jan
uary next, the following STORES, on
Portsmouth Pier, viz. Nos. 2, 10, i 6, 17.
For terms apply to
THOs. MANNING,) ^
: MARTIN PARRY, H
or, GEORGE LONG. J
Portfm%uth, Dec. 25.
Philadelphia, Dec. 11.
Capt. Parker, who arrived here this morning from St. Kittr;
informs, that on his passage out, off the illand of Nevis, he was
boarded by a boat from the U. S. brig Pickering, thexrew of
which informed that the Pickering had, the fame afternoon, cap
tured a French privateer schooner of 18 nine and fix pounders,
which the had sent for St. Bartholomew's.
If any stockholders in the N. Hapihire Bank are members of
the Legislature, and voted on the report relative to that peti
tion, did they not legislate in their own cause?
If it should be found, that any of the abovementioned stock
holders are members of either house, and did vote on their own
petition, what notice should be taken Os it ?
It is faia, and to his honor be it spoken, that one member of
the Senate did excuse himfelf from ' voting on any question rela
tive to the Banks, on the ground of his being a Itockludder, Was
there no other member of that honorable body in the fame pre
dicament, and was he equally delicate ?-
Orn^anne Lffl, ,
ENTERED.
17th Brig Ranger, Abraham Shaw, from St. Kitted
CLEARED. .
19th brig Camillus, Drifeo, St. Vincent,^
aitt fch'r Adventure, Holmes, Martinico.
= (hip Fanny, Parlons, Tobago.
23d fch'r Indutlry, Trefethen, Jamaica.
24th brig Eagle, Rollins, Grenada.
1 . / '— &
Bdltimere, Dec. tg
Afrived here Schooner Eagle, Capt: Carter, it days from
Grenada ; rum, &z Woelpa and Sheppard. Ori parage dirt capt.
C. was taken in lat. 9 N. long. 57 1 a W. by a privateer under
Spanilh colors, which plundered him of every thing valuable ; th#
pirate put on hoard 20 men, armed with mulkets, and took capfo;
C. and crew on board the privateer, where they confined them
all in id irons for the term of 14 hours. After which they run
the Eagle ashore on a bank, and then returned the crew on board,
to take their chance in getting her off, or perishing with her
Capt. C. demanded his regilter and papers, which the pirate
would not return ; but detained them on board his vessel or d,-
ftroyed them. About 4 o'clock the next morning, the Eagle was
got off, with the loss of her fuddsr,ahd capt, C. for fear of being
taken without papers, bote away for the firft port, and in 3 days
after made Grenada.
A few days before the Eagle was taken, the above privateer
took the lhip Patty, of Bristol, (R. L; capt. Babcock, bound to
Demarara. After plundering the capt- aud crew, they put them
into an open boat, and fct them adrift, but fight of land ; but
the next day, the boat and privateer fell in again, when they
took them again on board, and put them all in irons. There
prisoners were on board, when capt, Cartec was taken ; but were
confined in the hold ; covered over with old fails, and a guard
placed over them with drawn fpardoes, to assassinate any of them
who might speak so loud as to be heard by the prisoners on deck-
About nine days after, capt C. arrived at Grenada, c^pt. Babcock
and his ftipercargo, came in ; they informed that the pirate had
set them adrift a second time, and after being some days in th#
boat, were taken up and brought in by a schooner to Tobago.
' The Pirate above noticed, is a schooner mounting fix guns $
feventy-five men, has a white bottom, her bends iheathed with
2 inch plahk, ahd manned entirely with Indians under Spanith
officers ; —one of which the ad lieutenant laid he had failed out
of Alexandria.
Left at Grenada, ship ——, Cartey, of Salem, had been to
Surrinam, but could not fell. Sch. Hazard, Hartly, for Wifcalfct#
BoJlon, Dec. 1,.
On Monday left, the ship Britannia, from Jamaica, com
manded uy capt. Eben. Norwood, and owned by Samuel Smith,
of this town, was wrecked on Cohaffet rocks. We hear the ship
and cargo are loft, but are happy the people are all saved.
Capt Williamson, of the ship Perseverance of Philadelphia^
has paid' an honorable tribute to the justice, poiitenefs and hospi
tality of the English Governor of St. Helena, in the case of the
seizure of his' ship at that Island.
The brig Fly, from Cuba, bound to Baltimore, is carried into
Newpr evidence, by the Brurifwick.bf 74 guns.
Baltimore, Dec. 10.
By the arrival of capt Foster, from St. Jago, in so days, we
are favored with the following. On the fth Nov. the Boston
frigate, Capt Little, chafed on thore a French (hip called the
Egyptian, mounting 40 brass guns, and carrying ago men, and
on the 7th took a final! lugger, with swivels arid mulkets, carry
ing 30 men.
Let those it Juits wear it.
cattery.=\V&s not ever, flockholder of the New-Hapfhire Bank
a party to the petition lately profcred to the Legislature in be
half of the directors and stockholders of that bank, for the def
trudion of the Union Bank?'
Norfolk, Dec. 3,
Yesterday, at halfpaft one o'clock, in the presence of a great
concourse of people, was fafely launched into her element, the
V. S. frigate, Ghejapeak of 44 guns, commanded by Samuel Bar
ron, Esq. The Chesapeake's keel was laid on the loth day of
December last; two hundred and fixty-five working days have
been taken to complete her, and the number of carpenters who
received full pay has never exceeded twenty.
confides in the internal evidence of his confeieh#.
An impeller employs force iidle^d bf argument,
impoje fleece* where he cannot convince, and
propagates his character by the Jword." '
# Alluding to prosecutions against printers'
The total value of Dwelling*Houfes in Alafa.
chufetts is 25,003,215 dollars, 79 cents. One house
only (in the 3d division) is valued at 37,500 dol
lars.
Cae of each Os the fix seventy fours will be built at the fol
lowing towns, Norfolk, Washington (new city,) Baltimore, 'Phi
ladelphia, Bolton, and Rortfmouth. „
Capt. Burroughs from St. Kitts informs us, that the brig
Pickering, in chafing a French prirareer lately fptung her forc
maft arid carried away her main-topmast.
NAVAL AFFAIRS.
TO BE LET