The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel — Hanover, N.H., 1796-07-11 00:00:00, page 2

Fro m the (London) Courier of Feb. §.
The YORKSHIRE PHENOMENON.,
Th? following letter, relative to this Pbe
nemmon, bat been written by 'Mr. TO
PHAM, to 4 friend.
The very Angular phrnonrinon which
took place near my hbufe i: Yoikthire,
on Sunday the hoth of December,
ilf, H*< Excited general curiosity.
Bingin London at that time, it was
impbffible for me to know more of it
than fomevague accounts on provin
,ci,l and London papers, and to be cer
tain from private letters, that such an
-tent had occured. On my return
& ., here I found that, for a (pace of nearly;
three weeks, thirty or forty'perrons
, e^c, day, hadcorce to fee a stone which
ha&fal^rf: tied I found likewise a
number pf letters, from different, parts.,
of the kingdom,-requeuing me to give
them an account of the circytnfance.
The following detail, which you are
welcome to make public, will be, I
hype, farisfaaory on the fubjffl.
The exa& weight of the stone which
fell, and which was weighed immedi
ardy p:fhei^g dug up, was by Merlin's
bALince, ihreeftone i 3/6. ,lt had buried
irfeif in twelve inches of foil, and after
that in fix inches of solid chalk rock,
from whence it was some little time in K
bring extracted. When taken up it,
was warm and smoked.
At the time it fell there wart laborer
within nine yards, and a carpenter and
groom of mine within seventy yards.
The laborer fine it coming down, at the
difta^e of abßut ten yards from the
gVOmU;J
Alit fell a number of explosions
weti heard by the three men, at Short
ifiervah, about'as loud a^ the report efa
, pitbl. The gone is hrcngly impregna
ted wick fulphur, and then fineh very
Brong. The general texture of the
stone is that of grey granite, of which,!
knomof none that maybe called " w
river of this country
What renders this eVent more extra
ordinary is, that the day was a mild
Lazy day ;^i fort of weather very fre
g^pf on,he : Wold bi& Qfn there
•mot any thhndOToFT@tnin me whole
day. ' .
It fill about three o'clock in the af
t^poon. focourfe, as fir as I can col,
kafrom different accounts, was from
the southwest.
At Bridlington, and nt different vil
lages, found 3 were heard in the air,
which the inhabitants took to be the
- nojfe ofgwns at sea ; but at two adjoin
ing villages, the noise was so diftin& of
fometting ftngular paging through the
air towards my habitation, that five fori
fix people came up to fee if any tiring
' extraordinary had happened to my
fofe or land, ~
Iritrorying itfelf in the earth, it
threw up a greater quantity of foil by
far, than a shell would have flung up, :
and toa much greater extent. When'
fe laborer bad recovered from the ex
tierne alarm into which the defeent of
such a flooe had thrown him, his firft
defcripriou l was, " that the clouds
opened as it fell, and he thought Hea
item arid Earth Were coming together."
* From the various persons who have
^ been to infped this^riofy, and who
''atfftill daily coming from different
parts, no fatitfa&ory conjecture has yet
Im hazarded, from whence it came.
W^'"^ °° '° c " *° ne '" ''" Country.
,where has not been any where in thefc
parts any eruption from the earth;
Froth its jagged and singular form, g
'cannot have come from any building,
jand as^ day was not tempestuous, it
cannot have been forced from any rocks,
the nearest of which are those of Fto
bororigh Head, a' difttnet of twelve
The particulars of this event are now
before the public,, 1 have tsken every
due care to examine the .accounts given
by the different perfoo! who all agree
^pon the fubjed ; and from what I
„are featbare no doubt of the vera-,
city of their relation. To account for
f, extraordinary an appearance, I leave
to the researches of the philosopher, ^ft
^U Ihavathe honor lo be, fir, &c;
EDWARD TOPHAM.
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,< /^ ^jb Vrl&fctafeQfltaQ
^ The PUBLIC REVENUE,
>At'the Revolution did not
B#^O^
At the death of Queen Anne, :^
Ait had incre rfrd to about 6,000,000
At the death of George I. it
fad increased to about 6,&oofooo
At the death of Geo. IL it
had increased to about £,6cQco
In the 31st year of j^vCign %.-R
of hu pref-nt;Mkje&y it
had increased to above j6,CQcfeeo
! The PEA^E TESTAE Uh
MEAT- <
At the Revolution, had not ft
'exceeded -, % - - £^,9oo,ccc
At the death of William / #°
II I. had increAfid <0 a
bout *-1,959,000
At the drain ot Q^cen AnneV
£ had incleafedtM abob 'z.cdooo
Atthedcath of Gep. I. had ,
Iferekfed 16 3Wot - - z,&x|,ooo'
'At the death ofGeo. 11. had sap
increased to about . - 2 s@,ooo
jln the 31st year of Geo. 111. I'
the British Eftablifhmen!.
had intreated to above f,dso,soo*
The NUMBER of STATUTES,
Fond necrffiiy t opreft rte the kee&m
and ItaNfadracitf Parltoent,%fc
'pilale Elcaiant, and to Prevent
Fraud, Bribed, &c.
At the Revolution amofrited 4 .'
only to - . -
At thedearhef Wm. I 11. they /
had increased to . : s%; r z 6
At the death of <Qieeh Atiite,
increased to ... -
At the death of George J. ',• £'&' '
creased to - # - ^ - ~^7
In the 31st year ofthe reign do'
Geo. 111. to - - - ~$ '§
'From the NeW-Yorx DQ^ty.
A few days since, a cirgumftance&occurrcd
in.this city, which no person can ffika on
without fenfitions of horror and difeftatiorr;
and while we blush for the depravity of one
of our fpeciesf cannot but regret chit he who
could commit such a dastardly atrffyage ac
tion, (hoald go uobuni&ed; •
^□^^^
power of hie herfe to draw, who exerted his
utmost Orength to move the enormous load
to no eifca. This so txafpcrated'the human
brute, that, after having goarded&cihfortun
ate animal till his patience was exhaled, he
killed him on the spot, by cutting life throat !
An instance of this kind happened some
time since in Boston, when the fek& men,
with a spirit of ju slice, and true benevolence
which does credit to the town, brought the
offender toa public trial, add put it out of his
power to repeat thd crime, by incapacitating
him from driving a cart thereafter. Why
an offence of this kind, for an ckenot it cer
tainly is against every law ofhumanrtyor jus
tice, flrould not be punched in this state as
well astethe^ is not e^j accounted for.
cram—at.
hi/b Crilicift
A lire writer upon the tine arts, in
observing upon the want bf durability
mthe colouring'of Sir jofhua iRe) nokis,
fays— tG
. " This is a defe& which in hit fete
productions is by no means equ,Hy ap
parent Il— This may very well be <the
case, confideriDg that an inteffa of
more than forty years has elapsed 'be
tween the early and later productions of
that inimitable artist."
On a similar scale of reafoping <id a
gentleman proceeds who giving^the
; preference to ancient Archiieaure^ over
the Jabous of the moderns, remarked—
'' The Egyptian pillars,, and other
monuments of antiquity have remaned,
without being materially impaired, for
' the space of three thousand years J and
upwards—Shew me any modern fruc
tute that has flood half the time !1^
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HiSTORTof NEWSP iPERS.
Sow account of rfr origin and March of
tbefeM%ant vehicles ^ inJiru&uu pd
g ,„e, taming c&n^a&iow ,ft , hop^^
j will got be uninterefing t)& 1
• nade,&^ A =
)TH A T,frogreffiffi>pprority
which generally precedes human )tte
ventions, and that improvement which
fallows their eflablifhment, 'ss obftr
vable in the hiftory pf newfpaperi,
The^Chinefe, todg be fore lh&,£briffia#
.tera,;diffebiin<ied a lift of the Manfhb
tins who were appointed, to role in qft
„ province., l Venice,as early aa fob
year 1536, published a Gazette, Ind
^^ *^ ^fe&
: Ne*fopers :—they might with more
propriety be termed annual iegifters—
It must be acknowledged however, they
approached so near toa newspaper, that
they might be regarded as suggestions
for its infttintion. Mankind are in
debted to the wisdom of Elizabeth,and
the prudenceof ber -minifler Burleigh,
for the firh genuine Newspaper in Ea^
rope. At the epoch of the Spanffti At
mada (in t§s)) was published by autho
rity. “ lbe Eaglrfh Mercurie," to
dispel falfe ttpom faring ihofe mo-1
merits of general anxiety. Ih April
>6)l, Theophraft Rinaudet, a Phyfi
rian in Paris, obtained from Cardinal
Richelieu a,patent for " The Paris
Gazette." Ntewfpapets teem to have
[ been ^e«uta^ pubfiihed. or much
fought after, in 'England, till .he com
mencement of the civil wars-during
the whole of, this ftrjggkv thc impa
tience of a dillractd people fer infor-:,
mation, capped Many to be peobfhed,
and some conduced wih extraordinary
talent, Arid written with uncommon
courage. Then originated th# differ
ent publfaions of," News from Hull,",
—" Truths from York, &c. &co—
Not till then did rite authors of News-r
papers use arguments to convince, or
defeend rofochiftry-to delude, li is
remafkdte that the arms of Oliver
Cromwell cemmbifeated to Scotland
its fitft Newspaper. The necessity of"
the diffemidation of argument and in
formation was, during those wars, so
urgent, that each army was atcendedby
its Printers, and Cromwell placed
Charles Higgins at Leith, in 1652, to
publish the *' Nletcurius Politicos."
In 16S0, Charles !I. prohibited News
• papers by rural proclamation; but at
the Revolution ail prohibitions were
done away, and the press was set st
liberty. *
In 1,13 they become obje&s of taxation,
and it appeals from the motto on the ft±p;
(femper cadem, always the fame) that when
the dur, wo firft laid on, it was tiifl intended
not to be increased. It rauft create a risibil
ity in the features of our readers, when they
are told that no newfoaper can be published
without a falsehood, attached to it, for
though the ilamp has had at dirte different
periods,the word ", halfpenny" tacked to it,
y>t doesTheWffoW^
—Newspapers in their publication were 6rft
occasional, then hebdomedal ; afterwards
twice and tbyice in every week ; and lastly
daily. In London alone there #e printed
40 Newspapers; ^ofwhich are pub
lished every day, nine thrice, four
twice, and 13 once a week : —ln the
country are 75 weekly prints :—ln
Scotland 13; tour of which preprinted
three times a week, four twice, the rest
weekly :—ln Ireland 1„ one of these
is daily, eight thrive, twentytwo twice,
and two onceaweek. From the year
1775 to the present, they have been pro
;greffively increasing from the number
of iz to upwards of 20 millions annual
ly.. When ihefe periodical publica
tions are conduced with candor, im
partiality, independence arid ability,
they must tend much to the differoina
tion of learning and inftruflion of the
people, and mult, unquestionably be a
great national benefit; but when they
become fuferiient to party and vindic,
rive afperfio'n, they become highly inju
rous to the public, and di(graceful to
their authors.
\ —
Coutinted French faaeffes in Ita
ly—ArmiJlice —Probable Peace.
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OFFICIAL PAPERS.
,Rota I'lctaiß, MAY 9.
A tetter from Buonaparte, dated Che-I
rafco, April 27, mentions, that the en
ernyhaher the last battle in Italy, pat
fed the Sture, and took possession be
tween Cori and Cherafco. The French
crofted Ellero; and made hew bridges
icrofs the Pefio, arid soon after entered
the town of Bene.•
After a (host action, the etany evaci.
uated Foffano, and the French entered.•
The enetoy continued their Threat to;
Avirigton, to cover Turin, the Capital ,
df Sardinia, which latter plate was then
.within 9 leagues of the French head-'
quarters.;
T Italian Commander, wrote to
the French Generab that as he under
stood the King of Sardinia, had ferit
Plenipo's, to begociate a Peace, te
wifoed a fufpenffon of arms, to prevent
tteufele fs effufion of blo^. j\,
T^fercfehiGemaf replied, thtf he
believed the Rtepublique would grant the
Sardinians an honorable Peac, but he
coMd not agree to an Irmiftice; except
two oft' l * '^*^e : fo^reffes of'£prd,\
Aleffafidfpod Tortona, were given]
Colli,he,krdinian General, in ife
name of the King, coofented to surren
der Coni and Tortcna> to the French,
to fccure a fafpenfion of hostilities,
which accordingly took place.
Bi the Article# ofthe Armistice, it is
intended to continue til! five days after
the edd ofthe negociarioos for Peace.
Buonaparte writes, under April 29,
" That his columns were in fall msteh
—Beaulieu, tl< Austrian General, was
A.i»g full speed—but he wa, in hopes
r^fovertakieg him."
PART 3, may 9.
?h a {W^ich appears moG certain, is
that we save defeada; the advanced
guardof Beaulieu, and that we have ,
taken from him a considerable quantity
of arnllety. Such is the position of our
army in Italy, that the part of the Au
ft tiaa army still remaining on the Ter
ritory p^Genoa, aridity has not yen—~^
rep^ffed the &files of <he,.cbet{a, mrift
neceffariby become prisoner, of war.
There arrived, with great expedition,
.last night, in^Paris an ?,gent from rhe
king of Sardinia, who comes to con
jure the Director, to grant a peace to
rhe King, his matter, He offers it is
f*id, ^renounce for ever, Savoy and
the County of Nice, to make with the ,
Republic an alliance off nfive and d&
fenfive againtt the House of Auftriri, and
^deliver provisionally many strong
places, as a security forhis fincetiiy.4
^Of.Hoflitities on 4te.Rbirie,'•
HAGUE, APRIL 30.
We are assured that the French have
aftually given notice that the armistice
is terminated.
BRUSSELS, APRIL XI
A courier from Paris has pafTeJ
through thisci% who, it is said, car
ries orders from the Dire&ory to Gene
taiJourdan, to discontinue the armif
cice, and to recommence hostilities. A
part of our numerous army is ordered
to march to the rirmy on the Rhine.
^^-<Q~~ t ~r} ^__^flo, • -^ „_ro% w
Paris 15 Floreal May 4.
The fafpention of arms is broken iri ,
the North. The campaign was to be
opened onthe zd of May."
28 Floreal, May 7
We are assured that a battle ha& al- R
ready taken place in the North, in
which we have been fuccefsful.
30 Floreal, May 9.
The report is circulated of our hav-^
i n g gained a vidory over the Austrians
in die North,, and that we have taken
60 pieces of cannon. If this news is
true, it will be officially announced —
this day to the Councils.
London, MAY 14.
This day a mail arrived from Ham
burgh. The letters from Brussels and
the Hague feemto confirm the fad an
nounced in the French papers, that the
armistice on the Rhine has terminated.l
Another circumstance, which gives far
ther corroboration to the statement, is
the non arrival of any of the Rhine
tiewfpapers. This looks as if public
business had been by some means inter-_
ropted.
Peace in La Vendee. , °
PARIS, MAY 9.
, A tetter from the Directory to the ''
Miniver of the Interior, confirms thel
report of the re-establishment of Race ,
In La Vendee,l
ANGERS, A>R!l . 24.1
At length La Vendee, so long defc
lated by civil war is restored to peaeq rt
and tranquility. This peaceful change
is attributed in a great measure to the |
proclamation circulated by General
HoGhe, granting an amnesty to the de
ferrets who were in La Vendee, and of
which almost every one has profited.
They Have presented themselves at the
different cantonments, and taken charts, ,
of the rout for joining the armies on
Jbelfrontiers, ' ' ' 4 M
The emigrants, thus abandoned,
have passed the Loire, and united them- ,
selves to thrfhouan*. -1
The Chiefs of La Vendee, defosir, &
have fubmittea to the laws of the Re- |
public. Melirox de Jalais, o^^^
and m@ny others, have just laid down
their tririi. ,^^^fff!m
f,he farmers and pe,6n#y are very q