The American herald of liberty — Exeter, N.H., 1795-02-07 00:00:00, page 3

Scarcely a word has been pub*
lifted from the weftem army,
Owe the defeat of the Indians.—
After leaving a garrison of 200,
at Auglaize rivers the army pro
_ ceeded up the Miami river 48
miles, to the villages destroyed by
Gen.HAWMA a, 101790. These
villages, at the junction of Miami,
the bt. Joseph, and St. Many’s
rivers, are the key to the commit
nicarion between the (outhern and
weftern Indians* At this plade;
the land > carriage is buz eight ,
mites to the Wabaft river > whi^h
is aV the land carriage from De
troit to theGulph of Florida. A
strong fort was built here, and a
garrffort of Joo men left in it,with
6 months (tores, and the army,
by a circuitous march of 90 mites
ftturned to Grenville, into winter
quarters. The campaign lasted
ber tried, we have noticed but one
sentenced to death ; the accused
being principally acquitted, and
Vet at liberty, or if con v idled, de
tained in confinement.
A Pais paper of the M'h O6t.
fays, " A Spanilb Ambaflador
has arrived here* to demand Peace
in behalf of his court?’
extraordinary events which led to
the capitulation, other than have
Iranfpired with respect to the nu
merous other cities .which have
'experienced the like fate.
7 HE FRENCH PAPERS ;
Mentioned above, are full of
the details of the ti^ories which
we have before mentioned ; with
evidences of the decline of Jaco-
bin principles in France, and of
the triumph of Reason, Modera
. tion» and Humanity- Seven or
eight ot the lad official bulletins,
havefcarce an article in them, but
relate ro the accusation of the
Members and Commissioners of
the Revolutionary-Committe of
Natz^- The cruelties of which
were once so ofte n apologized for
in America.—*We have read fev
tral days proceedings of the Re
volutionary Tribunal, the latter
end of ()&ober, and beginning of
November, and of the great num-
As before mentioned, has capit
ulated to the French* Since our
laft* French papers have been re
ceived to Nov. <4.-*ln cßefe are
the official accounts of this cap
ture.—-The gattifon of which
was, ftrong-*-art not to aft
against the French during the
present war. The stores found
therein are immcnie t and the can
non about two hundred in num
ber. The detail of the siege is
unneceflary—nor were there any
Another report has been in cir
culation, that this important com
mercial city had been taken by
the French. We have traced cM
report, and find its origin, in art
arrival at New-York, from thd
Texet, which it left about the
middle of Novembei*. The ac
tual accounts by this arrival, state
merely, that the French were mar
ching for that city, and were with'
in forty miles of it. As there is
not a force in Holland* able to
oppose the French, if.the Austri
an army, as mentioned in our iaft
have, retrogaded into Germany,
the Fiench can take chiscity when,
ever they please.
MAESfRICHT,
Gen. WATNE's ARM?.
boston, fEb. 4.
AMSTERDAM.
[ efirei months. The time of en^
liftment of Gen. Wayne^s army*.
expire in aprii, May, and June
next 1 The Wyandocs have made
Overtures of Peace;
Things are restored td a (Ute of
I^erfeft tranquillity in the late
insurgent counties of Petihfylvanfiu
Nota trait of oppofuion to the
laws and confticuted authorities
rertiain.
’Governor Clinton, and L s;
Governor Van CoRLTLANDT*have
both declined being Candidates
for ibofe offices, at the next elec
tion in New York. The formed
on account of his declining healthy
and the latter of his declining
‘‘ Out news from this part of the
frontiers is become extremely alarm
ing ,* the lines formed and fortified on
an eminence on the other Ude of Fi*
guera have been forced, the greatest
part of the artillery lofl> and Gen.
Count CaUnion killed. Since that
misfortune., we now hear that up
wards of 9000 men who bad thrown
themselves into the Citadel of Figuera
have surrendered prisoners Without
firing a foot,
years. '
The famous David Reddick,
of Wafbington county, Pennfylva
4iia* has renounced his Jacobin
conoeftion,and recommended that
the club he belonged to, be dis
solved.
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We hear from Suficx county
(Niw-yerfey) that a negro trench
beloning to a M-- Warren lately
attempted the deftrudion of the
whole family by paifon ! Our in?
formant fayi that three are dead*
& the titres of the remainder (four
in number) doubtful.
On charging her with the fa6l
flic eohfefied, that* ffie had put
rats been into the coffee; but not
* with, intention to kill—-that it wm
given her by a neighboring wench,
who told her that it would only
make them Pick for a While gnH
SPINGFIELD, JAN. T.
The people grumble because they are
in great want of small coin, and. cannot,
get cents from the mint. The officers of
the mint complain that they cannot get
their cents into circulaticn, rhe 6 is no body
to take them 1 An Irilhman once com-'
plained to a friend* of his wife * he said
(he would neither go nor stay, move or
fland ftill—/he would not do one thing or
Mother thing—but file is all the time asbufy
as the d—*l about nothing at ail at *ll.
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Last Sunday, Capt. BROWN* in the Brig
Diana, arrived at Marblehead* in 45 days
from Lilban, who bring? the following :
Extraft of a letter, dated Barce'Ona, Dec.
3, 1794, to John But k-lt, Esq. met 4
chant in Liffion. .
i ''-' - tefttet,
. SATURDJT, FEBRU^Rr 7,179 J.
The Dablid paragraphifts complain bits,
tcrly of the rentlilfaefs of the Britilh admi
ralty in not protecting the trade of the na
tion— they state melancholy accounts of
the fnccefs of feypral fatal! squadrons of
French frigates daring the last rummer, off
Cape Clear, Gape-Finiftere, North Seas,
and even in the mid ft of the Britiih Ghan
ad which had taken above NINE HUN
DRED and SIXTY fail, while admiral
M’Bride, &c. were uselessly employed,
in port I
The Idbjeft which nd# engages
the artefition of Congress, is the
importent one of Reducing the pub
lic debt. The debates on the lub
jeft form the touch stone of patri
orifm.
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FRO.Xi LISBON.
stockbridgb, Jan. Sy.
t-^
c r;. ?
sfRATHAM, F£fi. 4*
Saturday lad, departed this life, after
t (bort illness, Mrt. Hannah TiltO#, in
the 39th year of bet age, wife of Mr. Abra
ham Tilton and on Monday* Mrs. Pon-
L¥ STofitkßfD&B, in thte 3Jd year of her
•ge, wife of Mr. Johrt Stockbridge of this
town. \ # ■,
Five eivOnted have died ill this towh since
Dec ii t all of them under j; years of
age, four of theth were married, and have
left seventeen chiMMbi, the oldest hot ex
ckedifig t 2 years df^ge*
v • ■ -rh *i J —
1 « Monitor, No. j( t* .
Soni- from the ft rand ed velFel force tHejr way,
yFearful of fate, they meet it in the fca: ;
Some who escape the fury of
, Sicken on earth, and fink into a grave. ’
In journeys or at Home, in yirar or peace
By hardlhips many, nfany fall by case;
Each changing season does its poison bring*
Rheum? chiilthe winter, ague* bldft the fprinas
Wet, dry* cold* hot at the appointed hour,
All aft subservient ta the tyrant’s power *
w®ep oM ie "t nature kno^s his wdl ;
A fly, a grape (tone, or a hair can kdL
‘ P^OR
THE miseries to which humsn rstnre
1* liable hive often beea the fubjeft
of contemplation—Viewing t&e gloomyj
DIED on Friday the olt; at his
feat in Durham, the Hon. John Sulli
van, Esq. *Et. 54. As the who e life cf
the decea fed was a series of eminent ferrites
to his country, to omit rendering a tribute
of refped to his memory, would be' highly
criminal -, Being one of the firftto embark
in the cause of American Liberty an.d In
dependence, it Was in a great degree owing
to hfs adfiviry and pattiotifni, that the-A
merican miliria were /applied with am
munition to defend the entrenchments on
B'eed’ssHill—Gen* Sullivan having*
in Dec. 1774,faved about 100 ’barrels
gun-powder, ahd a considerable quanti y
of mHirary stores and cannon, from a fort
in the vicinity of Portfthouth, which the
British Governor was then abpuk to remote
to Boston. His fervice’, which raifcd Him
to the rank of Major-General* are well
known to every American, and the recor
ding page of.hiftory wilt tratifmil them to
the world, and to pofterity* in gldwtng
colours. The free fuffrages of his felldW
citizens, ip twice railing him to the PrHl
dency of his native State, are eminent at*
reflations of his civic worth. In his
office of Chief Magi (Irate, bis talents id
organizing and disciplining that bulwark
of Liberty/a welh rgguh tech Mi itu, were
conspicuous * as were his wisdom end
efficiency in fupprtfflng* in a day, and
without bloodshed, a daring in&rrecrion.
His Judicial abilities preferiied him to the
President of the United" State!, as qualified
to preside io ttys Diftrift Co-jrt of New*
Hamplhire, in which office he died—la
mented by every pitriot, and fridnd b the
rights of mankind. '
At Rye, Colonel Jerbmlah Lock,
aged 64.
in.Montferat, (Weft-Indies) 9th Dec.
Mr. Joseph Mailsh, of Portsmouth, maf
rer of the brig Betsey.
At Portfmonth, Mrs. Mart Tdois^soX,
aged 3s, wife of Mr. Same Thomplon.
Stockbridge. deC. 30.
&e bear from fFilliamfto^bn,that
the following melancholy ruent occur
red there on Thursday lafi. A young
man by the name of Daniel Phelps,
agedaboat i« years \ flood by thefire
fide with a loaded gun, incdutioufly
resting bis chin upon the muzzle of
it \ a lad, who was near, fifth bold
of the trigger, the gun was not cock
ed, but instantly difeharged iti con
tents into the bead of Mr ... Phelps;
immediate death was the consequence.
Worceßir, Jan. 14.
The folledrfd^ very melancholy acci
dedts hivfe happened ia this town. Oo
Monday morning, as Deacon Thomas
Wheeler, aged 66, was driving a team
•loaded with ftdne; down S' hill, his feet
flipped, and hi fell Infuch a nianrier as. to
bring his headdire&ly before one of the
runners of the fled, which, palling over it,
.crushed it td pieedi, and ihflintly put a
period to his life.
On Thursday evening left* Mils Rebec;
ca Duncan, of this td#n, in the absence
of the family with which file reGdcs, was
seized with a Gt, fell intd the fire, ind
wMi burnt, from her head down to her
ftomech, in the most ihocking manner.
She is yet alive ; but the prospect of het re:
covery is very final I.
afford her ftin.—They are both
lodged in jail. .
That we may Have a peaceful and happy
exit, when we are called to tjdit this mor
tal feene, it becorries us to renounce tbe
pur felt's and indulgence of viefe and error*
and to Walk i n the paths of virtue* which
al orfe lead to the true felicity,
Boast not thyfell* of (o-morroW, for
thou knbwpd net rihSt a day may bring
forth.”
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ENTRIES at the CUSTOM-HOUSE .
Diftridof Poß'TsMoutri, th H.
-
Cteaßso ‘ ■ For
Schooner Polly* Wiggin* Wcft-IndiefJ»
Ship Friendlhip, MogltOn, dit 0.
Brig Lucretia, Tiltdn, ditto;
Schooner Nandfcsj Lunt, dittos
A LL Pcrfons indebted to*
/jL or that havd any demands on the
ehate of JOSEPH LAWRENCE, late of
Exeter, deceiv’d, arc requested to tihibic
them for fettle men t, to
David Fifield of Brdntwpd, and
Josiah Leavitt cfExeter,
ddhtiniftrataFt in fbxd ’
iyeM J* 1 1^.^- v- 7.
JuJl Recievedi J ,
and to be (hid at this Office, the
Fifth Edition df the IF or ci fief
. ColleSlion of Sacred Harmony
—ALSO—
Chejlerfield s Principles of 'P^
iitene/s.
\ ; V i '' 1 ' 1-
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fide df the qusdion.the feelings of a benrv
blent heart ire apt to be exceedingly agita
ted.
M*.n is born unto trouble as the (ptrfsGv
upward—he comerh forth lite a flower and
is but down—hfe fluuri&etti in helch and
Vigw-sabdt todcinbeih not—his days piss
like s ihsdb* and he is gone—fie eateih
in darknefs.hith Much sorrow and returneth
tb tils original deft and nd further retnemb^
rance .of him. remains.
Death is the lat^ of odr nature, the debt
ivhich-all must psy.and there isrtodifeharg^
in that war. The works of naibte wai
old and decay—^the Idhicft mchumenti of
human irr, pyramids, cities, flares and etn
pired have tneif periods, beyond which
they will not hndute—ail things have A
tendency cd change } and shin aihbng the
red of the creation, when balled by previ«
dence, niuft fubdsic to part with the life
which was given hiin^-Ttie great arid the
gbod. the wife and the prudent, the learn,
ed and the ighorant, the renouned and the -
oblcure, the prince and the pedfant, are
all traveling the xcid which leads td the
grave;
Tht time of ofir departure is totted/
uncertain, Sc the accidents which may de
prive Us of life are innumerable:—An ed
expeded bruise) ad. undeGgned blow; 4
fall from a horfei the scratch of d bin, the '
pairing of a nail, or the dull of a Wall,
trisy be made the iefinimetorsof immediate
death—thus Aniertin, the Peet, was choak
ed with a grapeflone— Pabiin, The Roman
Senator, was fuftbea ed with a tingle half
in a draught of mi'k—Pope Alexandr with
a fly which flevb accidcotaUyinto his mouth
—Hcnter died df grief— Scfhiclts wiih eX
cefs of joy— Dyonifut with the good new!
of a Vitlaty he had obtained—dhd dUrcliA
nil ih the midst of a dance.
DifeafCs and deaths, fays ah ihgehioill
author, are secretly lurking every where —-
they are in. pur besoms, in obr bowels* io
every thing we taste, in every thing we eri
joy—we have death dwelling hrith 0! id
our hodles* ivalkipg with iis in the fields*
lying ddwn with us ih our beds, and wrap
ped abodt us in dnr very clothgsi always
ready, at the diVine command to give the
fats! b ow. If heaven petmiti Binh^iai
it fluin in bis bed, and Ammcy at hit table—
Beljhaz.%er in his cups—the Fgyp tian frit
born in their flgcp— Sant in the field—Ch x
Jar in the Senate, Cat gut a in the theitfe—
^ntioebui in his coach— Zecbtriab in the
temple—and Pdpe Vitior at the faetriienti
To exclude from our thoughts that which
cannot be avoided, betokens a weaknel^
and timidity, which a prudent man* Whd
desires co ad his part with propriety, Wdlid
not indulge; Medititibn on death, which
terminates every fsene of iheihort period
of exiftince allotted to man in this ttanfi*
tory ftsre, though gloomy, is intereftihg and
may be rightly beneficial; itiriducesos to
inquire wherefore we ^ere ihade— id as
certain the duties incumbent upon us, and
to a lerioiu ahd attentive pradice of them; ■
No even t is nibre solemn and important
thari that which Is to dose the connedion!
of life—to prepare fbf this left hour is M
momentous otyed - to be able to meet it
with a rational composure and dignity*
calmness and fortitude, (hould be the earn
ed desire, and engross the principal atten
tion of man. , »