The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1791-03-12 00:00:00, page 1

THE following extraordinary instan
ces of remarkable bravery, hap
pened during the continental war in 1758.
After the farrendcr of Breffau to the
Prussian troops, the Imperial garrison,
confining of above ten thousand, march
ed out with two pieces of cannon, drums,
colours, and other honors due to soldiers
who had made a gallant defence. As his
Majesty of Prussia was riding through
the town, he observed a man with his
back to a wall, endeavouring to defend
himfeif against thirty grenadiers, who
threatened every instant to run him
through the body if he did not submit.
The King, amazed at his valour, and
pitying his ralhnefs, cried out, Austrian,
why don't you surrender ? Are you made
of iron or marble, to withftadd the fury
of thirty armed men ? Please your Ma
jetty, laid the Austrian soldier, I was of
the former garrison, and being asleep at
the evacuation of the town, I could not
persuade myfelf that your Majesty had
any right to detain me as a prisoner of
war, being included in the general capi
tulation. True, replied the King you
cannot alone be a prisoner, when the
whole garrison harfe marched out. Your
grenadiers would have made me so, said
toe Austrian, if I had not resolved to
lose my life in defence of my liberty.
Brave ! but ralh man answered Frede
rick, give up thy arms and save thy
life ; then, call off these grenadiers, re
plied the Austrian. The King ordered
away the party, and going close to him,
alone, demanded his musket and bayo
net, faying, a man who has so high a
sense of honor, can never be guilty of
a base aft ; the less thou feemeft to value
thy own life in this case, the more thou
wilt regard mine. The Austrian fell on
his knees, delivered his firelock into the
King's own hands ; his Majesty bade him
rife, returned his arms, told him he was
free, and offered him a pair of colours in
his own service. I cannot accept your
favour, laid the Austrian, I have sworn
allegiance to Mary Teresa, and will not
fight against her, though to be made a
General.—llluftrioud soldier ! replied
the King, go thy way in peace, but not
without a few pieces to drink my health
with thy comrades. Not a penny an
swered the Austrian; I return your Ma
jesty my most sincere acknowledgements,
and vow to drink your good health,
with my Royal Miftrefs' money. So
faying, the Austrian saluted, the King,
and marched off to join his companions
Newhampfhire
An ACT to continue an A&,
intituled, " An Aft declaring the As
sent of Congress to certain Ads of the
States of Maryland, Georgia, and Rhoae-
IJland and Providence Plantations ;" so
far as the fame refpeds the States of
Georgia, and Rhode-Inland and Provi
dence Plantations.
CONGRESS fofo UNITED STATES:
BE it enabled by theSEN ATE and House
of Rep resentativesof the United
States of America in Congress assembled.
That the aft passed the last session of
Congress, intituled, " An ad declaring
the assent of Congress to certain ads of
the states of Maryland, Georgia, and
Rhode-Ifland and Providence Plantati
ons," fnall be continued, and is hereby
declared to be in full force, so far as the
fame refpeds the states of Georgia, and
Rhode-lfland and Providence Planta
tions, for the farther term of one year,
and from thence to the end of the then
next session of Congress, and no longer.
MAGNANIMITY of an AUSTRIAN
;SOLDIER.
U. States, and President of the Senate.
Approved, January 10th, 1791.
G. WASHINGTON.
President of the United States.
(True Copy):
SATURDAY, March 12, 1791.]"•
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the
Frederick A. Muhlenberg,
AT THE THIRD SESSION.
EXETE R, (New-HampJhire) Printed and Published by HENRY RANLET, at Nine Shillings per annum.
THOMAS JEFFERSON,
Secretary of State.
IKe ne'er should be to froiha?d children mild,
For if wefpare the rod, we fpoilthe child.
That hopeful youth of Jhallo^v talents vain,
IKould e'er he leave&the boy, affone the man.
THIS flatulent youth, after calling me
an ignorant puppy, &c. goes on to deny
the assertion of his being the writer of
the Sailor, and the better to cloak the
deception, fays he is not '' so greedy af
ter public applause as to insert any thing in
pratfe of himfelf." But if your, readers
will attend to the following fads, I be
lieve they will at once be convinced how
far his assertion deserves credit, and join
with me in a supposition, that he evi
dently toirfed after applause ; that he
wrote the Sailor, (not withstanding his
equivocation,) is as evident as that he
made the abftra& from Dr. Chauncy,
which he has frankly acknowledged, (af
ter being detected in his prosecution of
palming it on the public as his own pro
dadion) for I was informed by a credi
ble person who saw him write the piece,
read it afterwards in manufeript, saw him
inclofe it in a cover, and was privy to
his carrying or fending it to the letter
box ; which information was my only
inducement : to write the piece signed
Detedor, as I willed to check an impo
sition on the public of that nature, how
ever infignificant. , ,
I will do this young SALOMON the
justice to acknowledge (fir.ee he has
been so candid as to own he made
the abftraa from Chauney, that I was
really mistaken in the title of the Book
that he was indebted to for his tranfeient
glow of literary fame, with which he.
was for a while so intoxicated, for when
I firft saw the paper in which it was pub-,
lifted, I carelessly look'd over a few of
the paragraphs promifeuoufly, and being
coafeious I had before seen the ideas in
the works of tht Reverend Dr.Chauncy,.
I threw the paper aside and thought no
more of it till i heard the circumstan
ces ,of its being published, and was
informed who was the Author of
Mr. RANLET, , }
JT is with diffidence I trouble your
readers with my puerility, for I con
fefs myfelf as ignorant and as little ac
quainted with letters, as the learned Self-
Defence seems to imagine ; but as he has
with an effrontary congenial to his na
ture, accused me of fallhood, I must beg
the indulgence of your candid readers,
while I attempt a few remarks in reply
to the piece in your Paper of the
twenty.firth ult; least the young Pug
fhoald vainly conjhdure that I am too
ignorant to juftify myfelf in what 1 have
alferted.,
MORAL.
This fable, doubtless, plainly shows,
That Jackdaws are compar'd with beaus,
Whole empty falls and fenlelefs pates,
For wisdom, brains and learning waits.
The world will know, he's one, 1 fancy,
Who cull'd that piece from Dr. Chauncy,
Z.
TW,AGKDAW and PEACOCKS.
A FABLE.
AChatt'riog Jackdaw full of pride,
To thine like Peacocks vainly try'd ;
Some feathers found which they had loft,
He rigs himfelfwith little cost ;
Fop-like he marches round the world.
His head tofs'd up, his tail he twirld;
Spreads it to meet the Solar rays,
Thinking to gain the public praise.
While he thus falfly was array'd,
'Twas not his beauty he difplay'd^
Big with himfelf he struts about
But soon the Peacocks found him out ;
'I hey ftrip'd this pratt'ling haughty beau
Os all his borrow'd gaudy show,
And left him naked as he was,
Hi> empty head without applause. ,
His tail, the bandfomeft part about him,
They took, and lug'd it off without him.
with his firelock on his shoulder, and
three pence halfpenny in his pocket,
leaving the King and all who heard him,
astonished at hrs courage, probity, and
true greatness of mind.;
For /&? Newhampsh i rl Gazetteer.
THE
;The Report of the Secretary of the
Tf^fury, relative to an eftabliffiment of
a Mint, was laid before the House, and
200 copies ordered to be printed.
The Bill for erecting the Diftria of
Kentucky into a separate State, was taken
up,in Committee of the whole, who, after
some time spent, im the consideration of
the fame, rose, and reported it, without
amendment : Whereupon, it was resolved,
the said Bill do pass.
A feleft Committee was appointed, to
bring in a Bill, to alter the time of the
annual meeting of Congress.
;Monday, jan. 31. ;
An engrossed Bill, declaring the assent
of Congress, to a certain Aft of the State
of Mar,tad, was read a third time and
passed.
^A committee was chosen to bring in a
Bill relative to increasing the penalty for
copying maps and charts,„
THURSDAY, JAN. 27.
A MESSAGE was .received from
the President of the United States
accompanied cwith sundry letters from
Kentucky, of the Sth inst. giving an ac
count of 47 persons lately murdered by
the Indians North-weft of the Ohio, 3
taken prisoners and some few miffing; who
are supposed to have been either killed
or taken. These letters were referred, to
the committee to whom were referred the
secret papers read yesterday,
the Sailor, neither did I peruse the
piece attentively till after Detector was
ioferted, when I was convinced of my
miftake^; for I then recognized the work
upon rhe " Universal salvation of all
men" which I had not read for some time
before. But no person was ever so g^od
as" to tell me he was of the /ame^rfwi
pto' of our renowned Scholar.-—*=*
^This modern Cicero of mate Wisdom,
has had the modesty to deny that he e
ver tried to impose the suggestions allud
ed to, on the public as his own producti
on, when there are several in this town
can teftify to the contrary ; he lays he al
ways asserted that he abflraAed it from
Chauncy," if so why did he carry papers
to N y and shew them about among
his friends with a positive assurance that
his own unaccountable repository of hu
man wisdom produced the ideas it con
tained ? or why did he write the Sailor
and there mcdelUy enquire whether the
author was T. or-D.—These are fads,
Mr. Pri nter, that tan speak for them
selves, without the ajd of a great fund
of learning to give them a colour of pro
bability.
That exhibition of Scholastic ingenu
ity, which shines so conspicuously in
the close of his last piece, is truly
praiseworthy, and reflects on him the
higher honor as a writer, and at once
evinces us that he-is a great friend to his
Dictionary.—" Mandaciloquent Black
guard !"-— lmmortal Don Quixote ! I had
like to exclaimed with Squire Sancho,
—what ware names these are Mr. Prin
ter :—However, to let him know I have
seen a Didionary and can call names as
well as he, you may tell him he is a great
Importantijimus, Ignoramus, Nincompoopus.
\ DETECTOR.
To steal ! indeed 'twas mighty bad ;
To Real such ftuff! 'twas mighty dull:
Say, cri'ics in the stealing trade,
Is Codrus more a knave or fool ?
;RRIDAY, JAN; 28.5; ,
The Consul and Kice-Conful Bill was
read a firft and second time, and ordered
to be printed.
Several local and private petitions were
read and committed.
CODRUS refolv'd by hook or crook
An author's envied praise to gain,
Pilfers from that mos gracious book,
The spawn of doting Ch y's brain.
KOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
CONGRES S.
A PROBLEM.
Gazetteer.
[Numb. 32. of Volume —5.
[ A Bill making appropriations for the
,support of government, for 1791, was read
the firft time-.•
NATIONAL BANK.
The House, in Committe of the whole,
took into consideration, the Bill.to ella
blilh a National Bank, and after sometime
spent therein reported the fame, with-
O^amendmenf..
POST-OFFICE BILL
In Committee of the whole, this Bill
was taken into confide: at ion, who after
some time spent therein, role, and repor
ted progress, , ^.
The 1791 Appropriation Bill was
read a second time, and ordered to be
engrossed. :
NATIONAL BANK.
The engrossed Bill was read a third
time,when a motion was made to recoin
mit it. A lengthy debate succeeded, and
the question of re-commitment, passed in
the, negative— TEAS 23 — NATS 33.
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 2.
The 1791 Appreciation Bill, was read
a third time and passed.
Sundry petitions, severally praying com
pensation for services, were read and
referred. - %>• • ^
NATIONAL BANK. <
The Bill making this establishment was
again taken up in the House, in order to
its being passed. A lengthy and interefU
ing debate took place, when the further
consideration of the . bill was postponed.
THURSDAY, FEB. 3.
A large number of petitions were read
and referred, or other* ife difpo'ed of.
Mr. Clymer presented the petition of
sundry Widows, creditors of the United
States, praying that the whole of their
debts may be funded at 6 per rent-
A committee was railed to bring in a
Bill making provision for the Clerks and
other officers of the Federal Courts, as also
compensations to the jurors.
, 4 NATIONAL BANK.
The bill was again taken up, in the
House, in order to its being paffed —a
motion was again made for recommitting
the firft fedion—which was again nega^
tived, Yeas 21, Nays 38, a lengthy debate
then ensued refpefting the Conftitutional
ity.of the bilk—which continued until the
House adjourned,,
FRIDAY, FEB. 4.
Mr. Heister preiented the petition of
Andrew Holmes : Referred to the Secre
tary of the Treasury.
The petitions of John Hollins was read
praying an abatement of the additional
duties on imposts, which took place the
firft of January last, arising on a cargo,
which, though it had arrived before, could
not be entered 'till subsequent to that pe
riod. Referred to the Secretary of State-
A report of the Secretary of State, on
the fubjed of the fisheries, was laid be
fore the House by the speaker, and read
by the Clerk—and on motion, it was vo
ted, that this Report, with a letter from
the French Charge des Affairs, which
accompanied the fame, be sent to the
Senate.,-
The order of the day was called for—
which being the Bank-Bill, the Speaker
proposed the following question ; Shall
this bill pass ?
A lengthy debate then ensued on the
general principles of the bill—which con
tinued until the time of adjournment.
SATURDAY, FEB. 5.
The petition of James Norris late lieu
tenant in Col. Broder's regiment, was
read and referred to the Secretary at Wars
Mr. Lawrance presented the memorial
and. petition of Abraham Skinner, late
cemmiffary of prisoners, praying repay
ment of monies advanced, and compen
sation for services, which was read and
referred td the Secretary of the Treasury.
Also the petition ofifaac Vincent, pray
ing the benefit of a pension, was read
and referred to the Secretary at War.
A committee was appointed to bring
in a bill to continue in force an A&, en
titled, an Act to regulate processes in the
Federal Courts, and Messrs. Sedgwick,
Starges, and Con tee, appointed.
TUESDAY, FEB. I.