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H artfor d,oct 7. A Citizen of this town
observes nijh peculiar fatisfaftion the general
attendance of his fellow citizens on the public
prayers which are offered up daily in one of
the churches of this city, in behalf of their dif
ttreficd brethren of Philadelphia. In times
of extraordinary distress and calamity, there
is a peculiar propriety in croudiug the fandu.
hry and Calling" ourselves before the altars Os
ote Most High to intercede for his protec
tion and deliverance. The solemnity of the
scene arrests the minds of the thooghtlefs mul
titudes it reminds them of their connedion
with a Supreme Being, creates a dependance
on his superintending providence, and confi
dence in his mercy ; it awakens pious reflec
tions in the minds of good men ; it alarms the
indifferent; and calls into exercise’ the sym
pathies of our natures—those fprir ps of bene
volence and brotherly affection. Mty the u
nited prayers of all America be heard, and the
deflroying angel be commanded to flay his
hand 1
: MASSACHUSETTS.
BOSTON, 0? T. l 6
Interment of his late Excellency
The Governor of this Commonwealth.
Agreeable to previous Arrangement, on
Monday hft, the remains of hie late Excellen
cy JOHN HANCOCK, Esq. Governour
and Commander in Chief of this Common
wealth, were interred with every mark ofre
fped «nd honour, which affection andgratitude
Vuld inspire.
msde an agreement to go to the treaty ; this
futimer, Brothers, we have tried; long to
Duke peace, but-row we find we cannot, so
will never {peak to any of them again, as we
hate tried hard o make peace, but could not
do it. —
aattd Sept. ij, 1793.
•‘The gentlemen and militia are obliged
to mount guard constantly, and the troops of
borfe parade the ftrects by turns quite up to
the magazines, for there has been two letters
intercepted, in which it appears that the Ne
groes and mulattoes intended to serve us as
the people at the Cape have been ferv
cd I—-they had heard from theFrenchNegroes
much about it and about Liberty and Equal,
jtyjbgeiher with the people indiscreetly talk’
ing before them on those febjedt, that they
irvended to rife on the white people. The
day was fixed, and it was to have been cn the
15th of August. They were trying to get
arms and ammunition, and an attempt was
made on one of the magazine? ; and a letter
was intercepted by some person in N. Caro
lina, wherein they said these were 6000 ready
and only waited till they could get ammuni
tion, and asking the afliftance of those in N.
Carolina and Virginia ; but I hope there is a
flop to it now, for our people were so much a
larmed,that theyhave had a Arid search made,
and every thing of arms or ammunition had
been taken away from every person of colour
^nd a Arid guard kept constantly at the ma
gazines, and in and about town. I afTure
you we have been rather dull ; for this report
and the news about the Indians and Spaniards
at our backs made us fear dreadful things ^ill
one’day or other happen to us.”
F.-x.traS of a letter from a Gentleman in Philadelphia,
to his friend in this city, OS. 3.
•• It is well afeertained that the difordcr ra
ges mod violently and deftrudively in confined
places, and narrow alleys, and the vicinity, in
poor dirty houfes.and amongst in’.emparate, im
prudent people—and fad havoc is made among
sailors, women of bad characters, and those who
freqaent such places. Water-Street, Pewter-
Platter- Aliy, Coomr/Mdad; and other Alleys,
and neighbourhood are molt infected ; so that
it cannot be con fide red so contageous as is ap
prehended—but as-Providence, in all his dif
penfaiions makes use of means to promote his
ends, we can fee .that here the disorder moll
prevails; but why it Ihould continue so violent,
and to distress so many with alarms, as well as
thedifeafe, is among those secrets, that the as»
flidive dispensation will, before it ends, inform
many who have lived at ease, and without oth
er thoughts than how they should promote their
ease, honor, pleasure, interest and reputation.”
ixtrafl of a letter form Ch art est own, dated
August 25, 1793.
** This city has been for this week past in
nn uproar and alarm, ’tis much feared that
the Negroes who have come here, with the
French people, have said so much about the
info region at St. Domingo, that we have
every reason to apprehend one here ; we have
heard feme con ver fat ion among them, and an
attempt has been made to break open the
magazine—all the militia are out every night
and the light horse patrole the streets & roads
all night. We are in a dreadful alarm, tor
cur situation here is very alarming, and much
to be apprehended from the Indians, domes
tics and difaffeded people now among us.—?
The Negroes heve become very insolent ;
there are agreat many French people come here
in distress, and fubferiptions are continually
going about far them ; many gentlemen have
taken them in.”
"£xtra3 of another letter by tbe fame gentlemak.
CONNETICUT.
At ontro’clock, all theftorcs and shops were
shut, and numerous citizens, in their indivi
dual capacities, paid various marks of unfeign
ed refped to the deceased.
At an early hour thefeveral military corps
of this metropolis, met on their refpedive pa
rades, and being joined by several corps from
ths adjacent towns, formed a line in the Com
mon, at 12 o’clock.
*1
The Executive, Legislative, Judicial, Mil
itary, and Municipal Officers——the various
incorporated bodies, strangers, and citizens,
being met, at 2 o’clock, the FUNERAL
PROCESSION moved in the following Or
der. -■■■-
Com pany of Horse (from Stoughton) under
Capt. Crane. Company of Horse
(from Braintree, &C.)
under Capt. Thayer.
Company of Horse (from MidHeJex) under
Capt Fuller,who commanded the Horse.
A detachment from the Boston Artillery, un
der Capt. Br adlrb.—[With this detach
ment was the “ Hancock” piece of Artille
ry, reversed, with a pall of black velvet o
ver it.]
Artillery Mufick.
[ All the Drums in theProceffion were muffisd,
and covered with Crape. The Field Mu
fick played the dead march, and die Band
a folemu Dirge.]
At sunrise the bells in all the publick edi
fices 1 in this town, opened the feene, by toll
ing without deflation, an hour ; and the flags
in to*n, at the Caft’e, and on the mails of
the ftxipping in the harbour, were half hoist
ed.
Justices of the Peace,
Judges of various Courts,
Attorney-General and Treasurer,
Members of the House of Representatives,
Ihe Speaker of the House,
Members of the Senate,
President of the Senate,
Judges of jhe Supreme Judicial Court,
SherifFof Suffolk wirh his Wand,
Quar ter-Maßer. General ,& Adjutant'Gen era!,
Secretary cf the Commonwealth,
r COTINSF r T OR C
His Ha^tbe Lt. GOVERNOUR,
Pall Support <r., Pall Supporters,
Hon. Mr. Warren, Hon. Mr. Wendell,
Hon. Mr. Brooks, Hon. Mr. Durfee,
Hon. Mr/ Orne, Hon. Mr. Gill.
Relations ..
Col- Waters, MaHhall of the Proceftion,
following rhe Corpse.
VICE-PRESIDENT of the United
States.
Members of theHon.Senate and Hoofe of Re
prefeW-tcives of the United'States.
Judges of the United States Couits,
Secretary at War,
Gentlemen heretoforeCounfellors and Senators
of Maflachufetts,
The President, Profefibrs and’other Inftruddrs
of Harvard College,
Clergy of all Deficauiftttoj
The First Battalion of Infantry,
Composed of the Bellon Regiment, in com
plete uniform, commanded by
Col. Scollay ;
and preceded by Lieut. Col. Wood.
Mafic of the ift Battalion.
The Braintree Light L fantry, under
Capt. Baxter,
The Concord Light-Infantry, under
Capt, —■ •
The Weftown Light In fautry, under
Capt. ———
Ballon Independent Fusiliers, under Capt.
Laughton,
The Middhfsx Fusiliers, under Cspr.
Willington,
Independent Cadets,
under Major Elliot,
hlaflck.
[This Battalion commanded by Lt. Col.
BRADFORD.]
Brigadier General Hull,
The Second Battalion of Infan try,
Composed of the Med ord L'ght Infantry,un
der C-ipt. Hall,
Commanded the whole of the Military Parade.
Aids to Gen. Hull.
Col-Tyler, Marflialof the unarmed Pro
ceflion preceding the Corpse.
Platoon and Field-Officers, -of the Third Di
vision cf Militia.
Maj. Gen. Brooks, of the 3d division.
Aids to Gen. Brooks. ,
Platoon and Field-Officers of the 2d Division,
Maj. Gen. Fisk, and Aids.
Platoon and F;eld-Offieers of the iftDivifion.
Maj. Gen. Jackson, and Aids.
[All the above Officers were iu uniform,
with fide arms.
of the Bank of the United States, or Mr. Ross,
were dead—but that the Rev. Mr. Wink
house, and Rev. Mr. Fleming, had fallen
vi^ms to their benevolent exertions—That
Dr. Griffiths,and several other Physicians
wereflek. D. G. it is supposed cannot re
cover, That from the Hospital at Bufli Hill,
'3oin a day are burried—the number there av
eraging at 200. These are principally the la
, touring class, amongst whom the mortality
makes great ravages, which is imputed to
their deflation from labour, want.ol necefiaiics
and the stagnation of the air in the houses in
which they generally live.—That tome of the
city-committee have died, and others are indif
jofed—and that 4064 persons had been hur
ried in the city fence the 19 h of Auguft.”'
■ . FI.OM AUX CATES.
A corre/jpondent has favoured us with the
fo’lowing extract of a letter,from Aux Cayds,*
dated July zi, *795- “ Times here are ve
ry diilrefling— he white people are leaving
this place as fall as poflible. The 14th and
>s<h, we had a very heavy battle with the mu
hciccs and negroes. The mulattoes have got
m alters of the place. There were about 30
of the whites killd—ihe number of the black*
unknown. What will he the end of ihcle
commotions, God only knows.
The French Commissioner to S'.Domingo^
Polvetell, has publilhed a Proclamation, da
ted Aug. 2^ in which fee informs the
In the above order, the Proceflion moved
from the house of the deceased through the
town to the place of interment. The con
courfc of fpedators was greater than we ever
remember to have seen on any occasion ; not
w.thftanding which the greatest order and re
gularity was observed—the most solemn si
lence and attention pervaded every rank of
the multitude, and no accident intervened to
add to the sorrows of the day.
A general gloom was vifiblein every coun
tenance. The citizens who were fpedators,
appeared not less int prefled than those who
followed the corpse to the grave. It may
with Arid justice be said, in the language of
the moral Poet,
As the dead Patriot's honor'd relics pafs'd,
The pomp was dark'ntd,and the feene o'ercafi,
The world of pleasures pafs'd unheeded fy,
A..d tears of forrew flood in every eye.-—
. The military escorts, arrived at the place
of interment, opened column, and the pro
cession having palled ; the honours of the oc
casion were closed by three difeharges, by the
troops under arms.
last mails, on the whole, rather more favoura
ble than several proceeding— 3ut whether
the number of vi&ims being lefiened is owing
to the Itflened number of inhabitants, or to a
diminution of the disease, we are not able to
' aflert. From various letters (the last of which
are dated the 12) we have colleded the fol
lowing particulars .*
“That neither Mr. Willing, thePrefident
During the movement of the Proceflion,
minute guns were fired at the Castle, and
from a detachment of Capt. Bradlfe’s ar
tillery stationed on Beacon-Hill.
The Funeral closed by Captains of vefleh,
and Seamen, with flags furled.
Carriage.',
In the firft of which was the amiable Lady of
the deceased.
Salem, oct. 15. Capt. Knight, who
left that place the 6;h of Sept, arrived here
last week. He inform*, .that the place con
tinues to become more and more wretched f
that the government of the Whites is at an
end'; and that ihcfe of property who remain
there, are coming off with it, as faft as they
can,apprehending that the Negroes will short
ly poflefs what remains. There was no sale
for American pioduce ; the to'vn was glutted,
with flour particularly. The Commiflary
Polverel arrived at Port-au-Prince from
the Cape feme days before Capt. Knight fail
ed. His business was to make jegulations for
rhe colony. His sy stem was said to be to abo
lish slavery among the Blacks. Among other
arrangements, he was about publiihing a de
cree, thatad Negroes, who would join him in
arms, should be made free a certain term of
service.
Municipal Officers,
Members of the Ancient and Honourable
Artillery,in uniform,with their fide arms.
Citizens four and four.
About the middle of August, a body of
Spaniards attacked the French feulements
back of Gouaive, but were repulied by the
French with great slaughter.
INSURRECTION AT GUADELOUPE.
Capt. Odell arrived last week from
Guadaloupe. While he was there, the Ne
groes on the plantations rose and embodied,
and on the 25th of Augult marched against
the town of St. Ann’s—But the inhabitants
went out and attacked them, beat them eff,
and killed a number.
October 19.
FROM PHILADELPHIA.
The accounts from this devoted city, by the
PROM PORT-AU-PRINCE.
Died in this t,wn since cur la fl, Mk Jo&EPH
LamS3N 4th, aged (.bout 23.
—At Amefiury, (MaQ) Mrs. Cotß Y —
fuppojtd to have been dead three days before her
body was found, having livid J mt time al cm—
Some of her neighbours entered the hou(e and
found her on the Ji. or near the bed, partly sue
drrjfed. ; •
' ~ ' 111
Notice is hereby given
—That some years past 1 did consti
tute and appoint George Lewis Haines
of Epping, in the County of Rock
ingham, to do business for me by a
power of attorney—Now 1 do hereby
revoke (aid power, and do forbid his
acting or doing any business for me,
by virtue of the fame^ as I (hall rpc
allow any business done by him after
the date hereof. ' James Haines,
Sanbonton, Q Sober I Ji, 1793. < *
Acted, Simeon Haines.
LOST, from a Cart, between Euttin~Hill
and this office, a
Stocking,, Shoe and Buckle.~
f^hotvtr will leave them at this cjjicejhall receive
the Owners grate/nl thanks and obeifantt, vsbo
has nothing eife to promise as a reward.
oct. i». Yeflerday arrived in th's port#
Brig Elizabeth Coates, Jonathan Young,
Mailer, from Aux-Cayes but last from Jamai
ca. ; who informs, that three days before he
Lft Aux Cayes, the mulattoes rose upon the
whites, and after little or no opposition, made
themselves matters of the town.
Saves, “that a sew order of things will arise
and their former Servitude will disappear ;
but that they mu fl not think that the liberty
they are to enjoy will be a Gate of idhmefs.’*
They are to work for given wages, but can
not hire themfdves for a longer period
than three mouths ; at the end of which they
can Demand their wages, The pooifhment
of the whip is abolished »s it refpeds the peo
ple of colour.
The Britiih island of Grenada, is opened to
the-free importation of American produce io
American bottoms.
The Republic of Trance contains one hun
dred and elev.n fortified towns, which fuppof
i'ng ore should be taken every mouth, it would
be ten years before the who’e would be taken.
Dr. Franklin being in England in 1775
was asked by a nobleman, what would fatisty
the Americans ? he answered, that it might be
comprised in a few Re's, which he immediate
ly wrote on a piece of paper, thus—
THE worst idea that can be aff?cia‘ed wi H
government to render it odious, arifocracy, iS
perpetually exhibited in the fore-ground of all
the declamations against the Constitution and
Government of the United States. If the peo«
pie Hlencly and cbearfully submit to the Jegif
laiive proceedings of Congress—they areaddref
fed as the supine and passive dupes of ariftocra*
cy —if they are roused, by open and daring at*
tacks on their sovereignty, [on the charaders of
their freely eleded civil rulers, and on the
measures of their government from which they
derive the moll foHd blessings—is they'prefume,
under these circumftanccs, to express their in
dignation against the difturbersof their peace,
and to fay that their country is hippy—happy
in the er joy meet of the blcffings of government,
laws and freedom—we are told that inch dec
larations, are produced by the “ wild and fav«
age appetite of aristocracy ”
Hh Excellency the Governor^ with
advice of the Council, has appointed
Thursday, the 21st day of November
next,to be observed as a day of Public
THANKSGIVING throughout this
State.
Meflrs. Johnson and Reals, of Boston, are
now painting 8t Stmdards for the Militia cf
the State of Ncw-Hampfhire, furnifhed the
Regiments out of the public Treafury*
"-call your forces,
fto e Castle William.
-pair the d amages done to Boftofi,
peal your unConftitutional ads,
nouuce your precenfions to taxation,
-fund the duties you have extorted i
Re After this,
-quire sr.d
■ ceive payment for the dcft-cyed tea
with the voluntary grants of the Col*
onies, and then
•joice in a happy
conciliation,
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21.
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