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

ROCKINGHAM—ff.
; NOVEMBER 19^,1791.'
UPON reading and consi
dering the above Petition, it is ordered
that the Petitioners, be heard thereon,
at the Probate-Office in Exeter, on
Monday, the 19th day of December
next,at to o'clock in the forenoon—and
that the substance of this petition, with
the order thereon, be published in one
of the Newhampfhire Newspapers three
weeks successively before said day, that
'any perfonsfinterefled may then appear
and shew cause, if an, they have, why
the prayer thereof mould not be granted.
I OLIVER PEABODY,
[7^4' °f Probate.
/Almanacks for
179 2
'To be Sold at this office, by
A very general assortment of
Drugs and Medicines,
of the firft quality,
Just arrived from London,
and are now ready for faie—and
will be fold as low as can be purchased
in Boston- —by -
PAGE & SARGEANT.
Chefler, 28/A Nov. 1791.
To the Hon. Oliver Peabody,
Esq. Judge of the Prolate of Wills,
^'c. for said Count,, jhezu the fab.
scribern — t.^^
''[HAT they with others,
4 ? heirs of Sam ußL GiLM an,
Esq. late o Exeter, in said county, de-
Ceased, are tenants in common of about
forty-eight acres of LAND,
in said Exeter, with the buildings there
ort, which was set off to the Widow of
said deceased as her thirds in his estate
•—That to ) our petitioners belong seven
eighteenths thereof, which they, are de
sirous to occupy in severalty—but sun
dry minors being interested therein they
cannot make partition by deeds, they
therefore pray your honor to cause their
refpeaive parts thereof to be fevered
and set off to them agreeably to the law
in such cases provided, and as bound
Ihall pray, &c. ';
JOSIAH GILMAN,
JOSIAH GILMAN, Jun.
TRUEWORTHY OILMAN
BENJAMIN C. GILMAN,
Exeter, Nou. 19, 1791.
Newhampfhire
Just imported, and to be Sold by \
ELIPHALET LADD,
At his Store in Exeter, on the very
huoeft terms forCafo,a variety of 1
WOOLENS, crown Gluts
VV of all kinds, Oil, Painters Colours
and other Goods suitable for the season.
Country Produce of all kinds
taken at the above Store.
(^ Wanted a quantity of
large white oak
Timber & Knees
and a few merchantable
Pitch-pine 2t inch Plank.
Exeter. Nov. 18, 1791.
SATURDAY, December 3, 1791.] , /^
Drugs & Medicines.
ROCKINGHAM—fs.
the Groce or Dozen.
EXETER, (New-Hamp/bire) Printed and Published by HENRY RANLET, at Nine.SbiMngs per annum.
In the war which France afterwards
engaged in, it is very well known that
the nation appeared to be beforehand
with the French rainiftry. Each of
them had its view, but those views
were direded to different objects ; the
one fought liberty, and the other reta
liation on England.. The French of
ficers and soldiers who after this went
to America, were eventually placed in
the school of Freedom, and learned the
pradice as Rell as the principles of it
by heart.
As it was impossible to separate the
military events which took place in A
merica from the principles of the Ame
rican revolution,the publication of these
events in France neccffarily conceded
themselves with the principles that pro
duced them. Many of the fads were
in ihemfelves principles ; such as the
declaration of American; independence,
and the treaty of alliance betwenFrance
and America, which recognifed the na
tural right of man, and juftified refin
ance to bppreflion.
The then minister of France,' Count
Vergennes, was not the friend of Ame
rica ; and it is both justice and grati
tude to fay, that it was the Queen of;
Fiance who gave the cause of America
a fafhion at the French' Co^rt. Count
Vergennes was the perfonai and social
friend of Dr. Franklin ; and the Doftor
ha'd obtained, by his sensible graccful
nefs a fort of influence over him; but
with refped to principles. Count Ver-,
gennes was a despot.
The situation of Dr.„Franklin as
Minister from America to France should
be taken into *he chain of circumflan.
ces. The diplomatic thara&r is of it
felf the narrowest sphere bf society that
man can a&in. It forbids intercourse
by a reciprocity of fufpicioh ; and the
BUT all there writing, and many o
thers had their weight ; and by the
different manner in which they treated
the tubjea of government, Montesquieu
by his judgment and knowledge of laws,
Voltaire by his wit, Roaffeau and Ray
nal by (heir animation, and Qiifne and
Turgot by their moral maxims and
f, Items of economy, readers of every
class met with something to their taste,
and a f?irit of political inquiry began
to diffafe itfelf through the nation at
the time the dispute between England
and the then colonies of America broke
out..
Being an ANSWER to Mr.
Burke's ATTACK on the
FRENCH^ EVOLUTION.
ByThomas Paine,
Secretary for Foreign Affairs to Congress
in the American War, and Author of
the Work entitlcd'C^amo^ Senft
OUT of the
field of the sub
scriber, on the zgth
[inft. a large black
MARE, 12 years
^^z^tr+r- old, — part of one
hind foot white, about 15 hands high
trots and paces. Whoever will take up
said Mare, and return her to me, shall
be handsomely rewarded for their trou
ble, and all neteffary charges paid by
JESSE TUCKE.
Ktnfington, Nov. 26, 179''
BLANKS, of various kinds
for sale at this Office.
RIGHTS or MAN:
Strayed or Stolen,
[fc tohtinudtion.]
THE
M. Necker was displaced in May,
I^l ; and by the ill management- of
the finances afterwards, and particular
ly during the extravagant adminillrati
on of M.Calocne, the revenue ofFrance,
which was nearly twenty four millions
ftearling per year, was become unequal
to the expenditures, not cecaufe the re
venue had decreased, but because the
expenses had increased ; and this was
the cireumttance which the nation laid
hold of to bring forward a revolution.
The English Minister, Mr. Pitt, has
frequently alluded to the slate of the
French finances in his budgets, without
understanding the fabje&. Had the
French Parliaments been as ready to
register edicts for new taxes as an En
glish parliament is to grant them, there
had been no derangement in the finan
ces, nor yet any revolution ; but this
will better explain itfelf as I proceed.
It will be necessary here to shew how
taxes were formerly raised in France.
The King, or rather the Court or Min
istry anting under the use of that name,
framed the edids for taxes at their own
diferetion, and sent them to the Parlia
ments to be regiflered ; for until they
were regiftCred by the Parliaments,
they were not operative. Disputes had
long existed between the Court and the
Parliament with refpeff to the ex
tent of the Parliament's authority on
this head. .The Court insisted that the
authority of Parliament went no further
than to femonftrate or ffiew reasons a
gainh the tax, reserving to itfelf the
right of determining whether the rea
sons were well or ill founded ; and in
consequence thereof, either to withdraw
the edid as a matter of choice, or 10
order it to be enrtyftered as a matter
of authority. The Parliaments on their
part infixed, that they had not only a
right to remonstrate, but to reject ; and
on this ground they were always fop
ported by the nation.
But to return to the order of my nari
tive —M.Calonne wanted money ; and
When the war closed, avast rein
forcement to .he cause of Liberty spread
itfelf over France, by the return of the
French officers and soldiers. A know
ledge of the practice was then joined to
the theory ; and all that was wanting to
give it real exifteace, was opportunity.
Man cannot, properly speaking, make
circumftanccs for his purpose, bat he
always has it io his power to improve
them when they occur ; and this was
the case in France. . ..
Count Vergennes refilled for a confi
dcrable time the publication of the A
merican constitutions, in France, trans
lated into the French language ; but
even in this he was obliged to give way
to public opinion, and a fort of pro
priety in admitting to appear what he
had undertaken to defend. The Ame
rican constitutions were to liberty, What
a grammar is to language : they define
its parts of speech, and practically con
fruftthem into syntax. )
The peculiar filiation of the then
Marquis de la Fayette is another link
in that great chain. 'He served in A
merica as an American officer under a
commission of Congress, and by the
universality of his aeqaintarice, was in
close friendffiip with the civil govern
ment of America, as well as with the
military line. He spoke the language
of the country, entered into the difeuf
fions on the principles of government,
and was always a welcome friend at ap.y
eledion.'
diplomatic is a fort of unconnected atom,
continually repelling & repelled. But
this was not the case with Dr. Franklin;
he was not the diplomatic of a Court,
but cf MA,t His character as a phi
losopher had been long tftablifhed, and
his circle of society in France was uni
verfal,'
- [Numb. 22 of Volume 6—
Gazetteer.
as he knew the fturdey difpofi ion of the
Parliaments with refpefl to new taxes,
he ingeniously fought either to approach
them by a more gentle means than that
of dired authority, or to get over their
heads by a manoeuvre : and, for this
purpose, he revived the proje& of as.
fembling a body of men from the seve
ral provinces, under the file of an "As
sembly of the Notables," or Men of
Note, who met in 1787, and who were
either to recommend taxes to the Par-,
liaments or to ad a, ^Parliament them
selves. An Affiembly under this name
had been called in 1617. -
As we are to view this as the firft
practical step towards the revolution, it
will be proper to enter into font par- .
ticulars refpeding it. The Assembly
of the Notables has in some places been
mistaken for the States General, but
was wholly a different body ; the
States General being always by ele&i
on, The persons who com posed the
humbly cf the Notables were all no
minated by the K ; ng, and consisted of
one hundred and forty members. But
as M. Calonne could not depend upca
a majority of this Assembly in his fa
vour, he very ingeniously arranged
them in such a manner as to make for
ty four a majority of one hundred and .
forty : to afifed this, he disposed of them
into seven separate commitees, of twen
ty members each. Every general
question was to be decided, not by a
majority of persons, but by a majority
of commmittees ; and as eleven votes
PARIS,
Tuefday Morning, September 14.
TH E CONSTITUTIONAL
CHART has at length been ac
cepted by the King. The Minister of
Justice prefep.ted himfelf yesterday in
the National Assembly, and delivered
into the hands of the President a write
ten meffag^ from his Majesty, contain
ing his full and voluntary ratifica.iod
of the terms on which he is again to
resume the cxercife of the Royal Autno*
rity.
Here follows an axa& Copy of the No
tification, as it was read am'dft the plau
dits of the audience, all of whom, the
patriots ef/ecialiy,feemed to rejoice at this
auspicious circumfance.
''Gentlemen,
clude, that as forty four would deter
mine any general question, he could not
be out voted. Ba: all his plans decei-
overthrow..
ved him, and in the event beca me his
Received per the lafl Ships from London.
would -make a majority in a committee;
and four.. =mmittees a majority of seven,
M, Calonne had good reason tj con-
" I have attentively examined the
Constitutional Ad, which you have pre
sented for my acceptance. I accept it,
and I ffiall cause it to be executed —
This declaration alone might have been
thought Efficient at any other period ;
but I owe it, at the present moment, to
the intertfls of the nation, and I owe
it to myfelf, to disclose my motives.
" From the commencement of my
reign c have been desirous to reform
every kind of abuse, and, in all the zAs
of m y government, I have been ambi
tious to take the public opinion as the
rule of my tonduft. Divers abuses, a
mong the number of which may be rec
koned the situation of the Finances on
my coming to the throne, and the ifr
French Gjnftitution,
by the KING.
R ATIFICATIO N
[To he Continued J
OF THE