The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1790-05-28 00:00:00, page 1

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• NE WH A MPSHIRE GAZETTEE R.
?LONDON, MA|RCH If.
Mifynderftanding between Messieurs
r BURKE, SHERIDAN; and, FOX. ~
, P™ff—,HlS mifonderftandinglhas arisen on account
'' I ' °''"' R evo ' ut i° a i° Pfance. Ata private
( party,the sentiments cfMr. 3 VRK£jn favor
es the Ariftocracy,and their proceedings in France,
were firft discovered. Each took an occafiori in Par
liament to avow their sentiments openly.
THE reduction of th Army was in debate.
Mr. Bur ke, after a preface of some length,con
demned in part the various plans which had been
proposed, and approved of others. He ridiculed
the dread of a furprize. He was lorry that the Me
mbers of thatHoufe had been often treated like school
boys from college. With regard to confidence, it
was the firft time he had ever heard it declared,that
this was a Parliament of Confidence. The idea
of an invasion was absurd. Whence was it to
arise? By what operations? We could not surely
expert it from our Ally of Prussia ? Did we appre
hend it through the medium of Oftend? Or did we
think that the Empress of Russia would dispatch
troops against us from Cronftadt ? No. Spain was
too indolent and supine to make such an attempt,
and had always been more afraid of us than we ge
nerally imagined.
After enumerating a variety of other places in
a like manner, he then arrested the attention of the
House by the most extraordinary effort of elo
quence, and the most extraordinary political doc
trines which he had ever delivered.
[He then commenced his libelous philippics against
France, a Jkefch of which we inserted in this PAPER
of the 14/0 infant ;to which we beg leave to refer our
headers. After thus pouring forth the full phial of hit
frire asimad^rfon on our Alles, he turned his at
tention to England,]
Mr. Burke, after much declamation to that ef
fect, in which he insinuated that he was afraid it was
the intention of his Right Hon. Friend (we suppose
Mr. Fox), to imitate the leaders of the French Revo
lution, arid countenance the democratick interest of
this country. If such an event took place, he dread
ed the confequente; Dear as his Right Hon. Friend^
was to him, and no man, he believed possessed more
endearing qualities of the mind, distinguished in a
high degree by the milk of human kindness— he
would instantly abandon him,and exert e^eryfaculty
which he could command,to refill such an innovator.
He would not fit in filerice, and fee the rights of his
country invaded. He adored the ariftocfdtick inter
est ; and was convinced; that as loon as they were
overturned, there would be an erid of all our liber
ties. Although he ventured thus much, he still be
lieved that there was little or no foundation for what
he had advanced ; bat he thought he was bound to"
state his sentiments, left his countrymen and fel
low-citizens Should imagine that such design was
fanCtioned by his authority,
Mr. Fok observed, that he never in his life re
collected to rife with such pain and anxiety,—The
sentiments which his Right Hon. Friend had then
delivered, were so very foreign to those which
he himfelf had always entertained, that he was con
founded. He Shortly begged leave to deny, in the
most poffitive terms; that he had insinuated that he
would countenance such a measure; and he flat
tered himfelf, that the House would give him belief,
for his honour and Sincerity.
He condemned fuchaftep in the warmest manner;
and believed that his Right Hon. Friend mfl have
been hurried away by his warm and honest indigna
tion of the meafure,id reprobate the very idea of it.
In these sentiments he perfectly coincided.
He valued the friendship of the Right Hon. Ge
ntleman, as much as any man could that of another.
He had received from him his political sentiments,
and had fteadil, followed them through life ; and he
assured the House, that howevet he might be con
demned for falfe medefty, he would declare, that if
he held the scales in one hand, and could place the
knowledge which he had received by his Right
Hen. Friend's conversation in one, and that which
he had himfelf acquired from books in the other,
he could not tell which would predominate. Not
withstanding he valued him so very highly,he^ffured
the House, as a retort upon his Right Hon. Friend,
Qh#ifem he, who was so dear co him, were W
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Late FOREIGNINTELLIGENCE.
With regard to efpouling the cause of the French
in a former debate,he had only bestowed upon them
the common compliments of humanity—Hehad re
joiced that in such a great event, the foidiers had
become citizens, aid the citizens,- foidiers. He
could not conceive why such an exertion Should a
rouse the spirit of jealousy or alard.
[Mr. Fox was very much agitated, and felt frong
l, for the unaccountable attach of Mr, Burke.
Mr. Sheri dan very warmly condemned the pre
cipitation of his Right Hon. Friend (Mr. Burke)
in bringing forward such an idle insinuation. He
confeffed, that he had never fuffered a greater per
turbation of mind on any occasion whatever; and
flattered himfelf, that he had been led into the un
accountable mistake, by the warmth of his honeftl
and manly indignation at the very idea of such a
measure. He took the liberty to censure Mt. Burke
for his picture of France ; and affirming that he had
aeu.-cd a label againA lh A NaUfo? Affemhlv : the ;
leaders of whom la Fayette^ndßai ley, were
men of the firft talents and integrity. The case
was very different from what he had represented.
Despotism had reached to such a degree of intol
erance, that the People w^re compelled to assert
their rights and dignity in feciety. The Go
vernment who destroyed private property, who'in
flided all the horrors of punishment of the Baftile,
could certainly not be termed remarkable for
humanity..
As to the English Revolution, his Right Hon.
Friend, who was perfectly conversant in every part
of the Hiftory, must certainly admit, that it had
been productive of much greater effects than the
removal of one man and the substitution of another.
It was a complete renunciation of Despotism, and
a complete confirmation of British Liberty. He
again warmly censured the harsh expressions used of
the National Assembly. Calling them " a cruel,
bloody, 'and Serious Democracy," was certainly not
dictated either by the principles of politeness or
humanity. He concluded by wifiing, that by the
reftoratioh of Liberty the French might become a
wife, and better people.
- Mr. Burke rose with great iridignation. "I
now (said he) publickly declare, that I, have fepe
rated in politicks from the Hon. Gentleman —(mea
ning, we suppose Mr.SHERID A.x)forever ! I regret
the great propensity that I have lately discovered,
of certain people attempting to imitate the Baftile
defttoyers.
"If he thinks I am guilty, why not attack me
as the Enemy of my Country ? If he Should ever
make such an accusation, 1 predict that all the ap
plause of Clubs will not be adequate to the difgrace^
You mean to abuse the NationalAffembly fays he —
What's the National Assembly to us? I thought I
would have been applauded, instead of censured for
my canQpur."
With regard to "the English and French Revolu
tions, he differed widely from his right Hon. Friend.
Both had produced the happie' cifequences to
mankind. He alto differed fror:^m to the Arif
tocratick Power. He did rot I ypucitly bow to
that high c^horitY. H? ^J- A,]he o,fQ?
< :e:& a t;'w7,, nad formed such a haypy mixture ui
monarchy, ariftberacy and democracy. He could
not tell, as a private individual, to which he should
give the preference; but as a Member of Parlia-,
ment, the feryant of the people he had no scruple
in faying, that the democratick was the molt valua
ble branch of our Constitution. It was thence all
power originated; and although he confeffed the
greatest veneration for the other branches, without
Which the other could not exist, yet he did but bare
justice when he said, that he for his part thought
the democratick the most valuable.
countenance or prononce such at obnoxious and
criminal measure, he would immediately renounce
him and exert every endeavour to repel the inva
der.
march 18.—A very curious discovery in natu
ral hlftory has taken place at Blackwall lately. Mr.
Perry, the ship builder, is now planning and mak
ing one of the most extensive private wet docks in
the kingdom ; for which great undertaking he has
appropriated seven acres of land ; in diggingrthe
ground, regular strata of sand, clay," &c. have been
found affording materials for bricks; and at the
depth of 12 or 14 feet from the furface, under the
above strata, numbers of ver, large trees have been
NATURAL HISTORY;
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, Mr. [onatha'f F^^^'t# n of Vyir? at the v:!^^
^ aiuQuUgt, I.Cai >):uagriirt3£„ 1 OTKintlL, hi.i
attained to the amazing age of 1„ years, having
been born in 1653. His father and mother died of
the plague at their house in Minoricks, in 1666—
^nd he perfe&ly remembers the great fire in Lon
don. He is Short in stature, has been married five
times, and has now alive feveri children, 26 grand
children, 74 great grand children, and 140 great
great grand children. He can read without fpe&a
cles, and plays ht cribbage with perfect recollecti
on:—Laft Christmas day he walked nine miles to
dine with one of his grandchildren. He remembers
Charles the (Id. perfectly well, and once travelled
from London to York with the facetious Killigrew.
He eats but little, and drinks nothing but mi^K; he
enjoys also an uninterrupted flow of spirits. The
third wife of this extraordinary old man was illegi
timate daughter of Oliver Cromwell, who gave
with her a portion amounting to about five hundred
pounds. He has in his poiteffion a fine portrait of
the Usurper by Cooper, for which the late Mr. Hol
lis offered him 3001. but was refufed. Mr. Hartop
lent the great Milton gel. soon after the restora
tion, which the bard returned him with honor, tho'
not without much difficulty, as his circumstances
were very low. Mr. Hartop would have declined
receiving it again, but the pride of the poet was
equal to his genius, and he sent the money with an
angry letter which is extant among the curious pof
fellions of this venerable man.
THERE is now living in Tralee, Ireland, a wc
rcan of the name of Joan Conway, who is at
present in the 121st year of her age. What is very
extraordinary,(he has never worn a Shoe or Stocking,
ncr has She, to her recollection, ever experienced an
hour's indisposition. She remembers the arrival of
King Wiliiam 111, in that kingdom ; She knits and
spins as well and expeditiously as any young woman
in her neighbourhood, but cannot confine herfelf to
industry as close as She had formerly done.
discovered, and what is most remarkable, @ huzle
nut hedge, with confide^ble quantities of nuts as
'hey grew on the trees. What inundation, or con
vulsion of nature has thus funk the original farface
of the earth, and covered it with such regular strata
to so considerable a depth mulb be left to the cor
jectarcs and information of the learned.
Two thirds of the town of Jonkoping,in Sweden,
was consumed by fire on the fifth and sixth ultimo.
NEWYORK MAY J.
Ertraa of a letter from St. Pierre, Martinique.
" My lalt informed you cf the sentence paired on
the 36 negroes sent from this to Fort Royal to be
tried for being concerned in the infurredion, which
ferttence I saw put in execution.—A drummer went
round the town commanding all negroes, under
pain of 50 lashes, not to be in the streets from three
to seven o'clock in the evening, and ordered out all
the militia to guard the streets and avenues leading
into town; as it was feared the country negroes would
attempt a rescue; the guard consisting of all the
regular troops in garrison, about 1500, and 1000
fee mulattoes, besides the militia abovementicned-
About four o'clock all the prisoners were ordered
out, dressed in white, and attended by the prieftsof
the White Friary ; the seven which were to be,hung,
went firft with three priests, singing the Litanies,
and after them came Mark, the ringleader, attend
ed by one priest (this fellow was whipper to the jail,
and fid apportioned out the place of Intendant,
with 4000 joes, and the beautiful Miss , for
his wife)— Indeed they had all made choice of white
wives. The Com rtiiffary's wife was tohave been ho
nored by afellow by the nameof Gabriel ; buthe was
disappointed in his expectations, for his bride pro
ved the gallows. After Mark, came 14 with theit
hands tied behind ; these Were to be whipped and
burned ; and th^n followed 14 others, for^he gal
lies for life.' When Mark came to the place of ex
ecution, and looked at the rack, his courage failed
him, and he told the priest he had something to
communicate in private, which he revealed to the
judge; but what it was, has not yet tranfpiied;
after which he shook hands with the seven that were
to be hanged, who cried out—o Mark! it was you ^
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