The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1792-08-31 00:00:00, page 3

and (hewed ail the courge that could
have been expetted from veterans.
1 brought here yellerday evening a
body of reserve, composed of lonie
companies of grenadiers and squad
rons, under the command of Camp
Marshal Maubourg. The armies
have not renewed the attack, but
have withdrawn.
(Signed) FAYETTE.
National Legijlatroe Aftnufy,
MAY 26.
Two letters were received from the
Minitirr of War : One gave a jut of
the names of the officers, of Royal Al
leoand, Berchiny, and Saxe, who had
deferred and the other vas expreifed
in the following terms : —
" Monsieur Le PreJident,
"f this morning received dispatches
from M. de la Fayette. I haiten to
communicate them to you. The Na
tional Assembly will perceive with
pleasure, that the French soldiers have
acquitted themfelv-s with courage,
notwithstanding what their detractors
are pleased continually to fay agaiytt
them.
" P.S. We had 24 killed, of whom
" three are officers —and 93 wounded of
whom five are officers."
they preferred lilence, coolness, and
all the coarge of the raoß experienced
Soldiers."
" I have reinforced the detachment
of M. Goavion — The enemy have not
appeared again. I have the honor to
be, &c.
(Signed) LA FAYETTE."
"lam, &c.
(Signed) " SERVANTS."
The letter enclosed a letter fromM,
de la Fayette, containing an account
of the action at Florenncs. M. de la
Fayette dates the number of the ene
my to have been double of the French
,—that within two hours after the ac
tion the French were in pofl'effion of
the field of battle ; and concludes—
" [ cannot pay too high encomiums
to M.de Gouvion, Grillon, Lalleman
de, Defmottes, De Gaufe Gizytte,
Victor, De la roarmenbourg, Blan
dean, Charapelloa, de Maicourt, and
oar other officers, fabaherns and fol
diets. For five hours chat the action
laded not one man fitted the rank -
RICHMOND, [Vrg.] Augoft io. -
I AST week arrived in this city,"
_y fourteen Indian warriors,belong
ing to the Catawba nation. Itis said
that their visit here, is to offer their
Services to the United States, to fight
avainft the hostile tribes, which are
now at war again* us.
BALT[MLRE, August 2.
General Butler.
A gentleman who pats-d through
Frederick-town la* week, from the
westward, informs, that he A, Gapt.
Butler (a brother of the unfortunate
General Butler) a few days before, at
Cumberland, who acquainted him,
that he had been to Detroit, where
he was affared by the British comman
der at that poll, that the report lately
circulated of the General being still
living and a prisoner with the Indins,
was not only without foundation. But
related to him the following melan
cholly particulars of his death ? —Soon
after the retreat of our arm,, on the
4th of November last, from the bloody
plains of Miami, the well noted and
as infamous Simon Girthie, came up
to the General who was then fitting ;
he knew him, and spoke to him ; —
the general, (offering under the most
excruciating pain from his wound,,
'defired Girthie to put an end to his
misery ; but he declined to give the
fatal flroke, turned and whispered to
an Indian landing by, that the person
he haftjuft been speaking to was the
Commander of the defeated army ;
upon which the Indian immediately
funk his tomahawk into his head, and
he expired.—A number of Indians;
then surrounded and scalped him ; but,j
American Advices.
Q^d came to the window, where Col.
r Totefi,love Hood himfelf to receive her
"- — totalled to her and d;fire I her to
foirp jit and he would catco her •
r^= fl tries by this time were to gene
ral in the upper part of the hoiG, the
child frightened and fcarceiy awake,
could not be prevailed upon, to take
the leap, and therefore periled in the
flames. He then proceeded to save
some of his effe&s, but the conflazra
tion was „so general, and little or no
a distance had arrived, he could save
but 5 or 6 chairs, and a few other ar
tides of little value in endeavouring
^'fo, the cioaths, he had worn the
prea@iog'day, which lay on a chair
w in the room where he lodged, he was
>A good deal tinged, and narrowly ef
cajed tyith his life. Mrs. Young.
Ilove is much fcortched and burned ^
:the eloathing saved by the whole family
]is trifling ; fewor none of them have
; a change The lots is very consider
able and the family much distressed.
, H'ARTFORD, August 20.
Afew days face the wife of Mr. Luke
Alim, of print onbury, qvas delivered of
three children at a.birth, and all in a
fair vua, to do ^ell, .„
I NEW-L O N DON, August 9.
A gentleman belonging r o this ci
ty, now at Aux-Cay.es, in a letter
Idated July ift, thus writes, '< The
white people and mulattoes have
; made peace in this quarter, and 'he
planters are going on to their planta
!tions, and will soon make Molasses,
;there being but few Americans hciC,
I the price must fall."
" in the night 3d inftaut, about 11
o'clock, cue h nf= of 'john foungloye,
Est or Cambridge, was difeovered by
himfelf co be on fire. Himfelr and
family had been in bed and asleep for
some time what awakened him he
does not Know, but on,is coming per
fect!/ co himfelf he conceived that all
vis not right —he leaped out of the
bed in bis (hire, and through the back
room to (he kitchen, wbici.be found
all oa ire ; in his fright he forgot to
(hut the door leading into the house,
which would have flopped the progress
of the flames fame time from pursuing
him into the house. His firft care
was to awaken and save hit wife and
children, which with difficulty he ef
fected. • iis own children, togeth
er with a female child of a Mr. Turn
er, of Shaftlbary, about 9 years old,
were in the chamber. In an adjoin
ing apartment two poung men lodg
ed, who being alarmed by the cry of
fire, awakened the children and hur
ried them down flairs. The flames
increasing, and one of the young men
difeovering that the child ofMr. Turn
er was in rat chamber, flew to her re
lief—found her ftilfin bed, took her
in his arms, and was making to the
itairs, but was met by the flames,hip
poling in his own retreat cut. off; in
his fright dropped the child, and at
the fame infant difeovering a window
mid, towards it, calling m the child
to follow him ne leaped out, the
what is the most Locking to relate,
they opened his body, took out his
heart, cut it into as many pieces as
there were different tribes in the act
ion, and divided it among them. Thus
died the brave General Butler !
On Monday evening a Wcilchcfter
peuyaugre, 01 her return home, upset
near the (hip-yards with two men and
two women passengers on board. —
Tne men caught hold of the vessel and
got upon her bottom, but the women
were in rhe cabin under water. —Se
veral boats wen: to their affiance,
ani cut a hole in the bottom of the
ve,Tl, by which the lives of the two
women were lived, who were found
ciafped in each other's arms.
Extras of a letter from a gentleman in
H>fa, to the printer hereof, titled
^f''^ '•
A L B A N,Y Anguft 13.
N F, W YOR K, A^uft 1
Exeter, August 31.
Votes for Federal Rtprejeniaeiwes at
the town meetings, hoiden for that
purpose on Monday last, viz.
EXETER.
Nicholas Gilman 196
Jeremiah Smith 143
Nathaniel Peabody 117
John $. Sherburne lot
Samuel Hale 60
James Sheafe 25
PORTSMOUTH.
John S. Sherburne 112
Timothy Walker 74
James Sheafe 72
Nathaniel Peabody 62
Abiel Foster 60
Philips White 54
Jeremiah Smith . 26
Nicholas Gilman 24
Samuel Hale 5
NOTTINGHAM.
John S. Sherborne 56
Jeremiah Smith 55
Nicholas Gilman 54
Nathaniel Peabody 54
STRATHAM.
Paine Wingate 40
John S. Sheiburne 29
Nicholas Gilman 23
Nathaniel Pebody 20
Jeremiah Smith 19
James Sheafe 7
NEWMARKET.
James Sheafe 45
John S. Sherburne 39
leremiah Smith ' 38
Paine Wingate 26
Nicholas Gilman 23
ATKINSON.
Nathaniel Peabed, 44
Nicholas Gilman 43
feremiah Smith 43
John S. Sherburne ' 36
BOSTON, Aeguft 25.
The Wettern Inland Lock Naviga
tion, in the State of New-York, is in
a&ive operation. Cen. Schuyler
is President of the corporation for this
valuable purpefe.
Great unealinrfs in many of the
British Weft- India islands has been
excited by the decificn of the Brush
Parliament, refpt&ing the slave trace.
Revolutions and Independence are
loudly ipoken cf.
In addition to the Foreign Intelli
gence we can briefly add, Thati aris
continued in great ferment—That the
King dared not appear in public —
That vast numbers were daily leaving
France — That the change in the
French adminiflration-as proceeding
solely from the king was ceemed the
most important event that could ever
have taken place ; the iSue is cx|c&_
ed to be cither a counter-re volution,
or the a ffafiination of the Kirg :—
That rhe King of Hungary was rot
dead, but was very ill ; — and that the
British government had equipped 'or
sea a flee: of Observation, under Lend
Hood.
DIRECT FROM FRAACE.
ted on the approach <f the French
army, and that a great quantity of mi
litary Hores were round therein :—
That Mobs were very frequent in ail
parts ot France— one of wlrch, of a
bont 15,c00, lately entered Paris, and
demanded tie King and Dauphin,
whom they crewned ith the Civic
Diadem, and after parading .he Dau
phin among the m for a short time,they
dispersed ; and that the occasion of
this measure was the difmiften of the
King's Ministers.
Capt. Hawes, ci the Blip Nero, rr
rived at Bedford,from L'Urient,which
he left the firft cf July, confirms <he
account of the affair betweenjhe Gen.
Fayette's army, and the Aufirians,
and of the execution cf the muideiers
of Gen. Dillon.— He further adds,
That the French armies were in hi£ h
spirits : That Mons had been ev?cun-
NO T1Ch is hereby given, that
JOHN ADAMS' has appealed
from a Decree of the Judge of Probatefor
k faid count,, denying him partition of that
part of the Real E,ate of the Eon.PETER.
Gilman, late of Exeter, Ejp. decea/ed,
that cut as set off to the heirs oj Ablg A I L
Odlin, late of J aid Exeter, widow, de
cea/fd, agreeably to his Petition, whi< h
appeal will be prolecuted at the next Su
perior Court of Judicature to be holders al
l Exeter cfcrefaid, on the third luejda, of
September next.
Nathaniel Parker, Xtt'y tofaid
[j.Aaaros.
Exeter, Avguft 27th, 1 792.
ALL persons indebted to, or
hate demands on the efface
of Feter Folsom, late of Exe°
ter, boutewright; deceased, are
tequefted to exhibit the lame to
the lubferibers for immediate fet^
tlemenr. '.
Jonathan Folsom, I ^g m
JaMes Folsom, jr.|
Exeter, AuguU 31 1792.
By the Pittfburg Gazette of the 11th
inf, we learn that iniormation had been
received at that place, that two parties of
Indians were approaching towards the
frontiers of Wettmorelandlcounty —and
that Major Culcy and C>pt. Guthrie
were out with a party intending to tall
in with'them if possible.
A detachment of troops from New.
J er ' e y, under the command ot Ensign
Hunter, had arrived at Pittfburg.
" A superb monument, it is reported,
will be ere&cd to the memory of the
gallant Rodney, at the expence of the
Weft.lndia merchants.
m e Philadelphia General Ac'vertfr
fer of August 14, lays— "By a courier
arrived at Bavic-de- Grace, just as 3n
American vessel was about to fail for
New-Yoik, and which had but 27 days
passage, the intelligence was received,
that the army of M. la Fayette had
taken the citadel of Namur, after hav
"g cannonaded and bombarded it(or
40 hours lucce (lively, with a formidable
train of artillery, and then earned i:
by assault as ibon as the breaches were
fe fficienet to render it practicable.
The French killed ^oco men, mace
15°° prisoners, ana only, 101 l ^co men
in tie action. After the capture of
the citacri, the French entered the
town,where the inhabitants were d:cfl
ed in the national cockade, ano where
tie three coictred flag was unfurled
and ornamented by the cap of liberty.
" The citizens offered retre fhments
to the French treeps, who accepted
but paic tor what they tcok.
" Detachments 01M. La Fayette's
arroy surprised. and tock Mens and
Cbarlercy, where they made j~ s o
pfifoncis."
'' 1 he cerpfe of a Peer may certainly
be flopped by the laws of England lcr 4
debt, Ihe body is no longer a Peer
1 he son is the Peer as fcon as the father
is dead, whether he be buried pr not. -
O, the pity of it, immortal Rodney, O'
the pity ot it !
So difolute had been the private life
of this old rrarire fervent of GreatTri
uin, who luccdslußy fought niary of
ler naval battles, and s o extremely at.
tached had been all hit life time to g?mb.
bug, that he died at lalt at an advanced
age, with not property enough to redeem
his iHelefs corpse f rc m the fangs of hia
ciedi.ors !—- Ihe .following paragraphs
cn this lubjelt eccur in a late London
paper.
" Many people affeded bv a noble
Lore's (Rodney) bedy beirg kept above
ground by the fner^'s writ, exclaim a.
gainß the cruelty of loch a law—But
alas, lay the prisoners in many of the jails
°] England, let us only be free while we
live, and you may .aneft cur bodies when
dead, with all our hearts.
ROCKINGHAM—ff.
IORD RODNEY.
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