The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1791-04-09 00:00:00, page 2

Prelident of the United States.
Deported among the Rolls in the Office
of the Secretary of State.
THOMAS JEFFERSON,
Secretary of State.
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Spelling-Books
andWriting-Paper,exchanged
for clean Linen and Cotton
Rags at this Officer.
miking of the said difeoarits, to such
persons, under such agreements, and fub
jea to such regulations as they ihall deem
proper; not being contrary to law, or
to the conftitation cf the bank.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JOHN ADAMS, Vice-Prefidertt'of the
U. States, and President of the Senate.
Approved, Feb. zgth, 1791.
G. WASHINGTON,
And be it further enafled, That it shall
be lawful for the President of the Uni
ted States, at any timie or times, within
eighteen months after the firft day of
April next, to cause a subscription to be
made to the flock of the said corporation,
as a part of the aforefaid capital stock of
ten millions of dollars, on behalf of the
United States, to an amount not exceed
ing .two million 'of dollars ; to be paid
out of the monies which shall be borrow
ed by virtue of either of the ads, the one
entitled, " An aft making provision for
the debt of the United Stites ;" and the
oher intitled, "An ad making provision
for the reduction of the publick debt ;"
borrowing of the bank an equal sum, to
be applied to the purposes, for which the
said monies shall have been procured;
reimbursable in ten years, by equal an
nual installments ; or at any time sooner,
or in any greater proportions, that the
government may think fit.
And be it further enailel, That no o
ther bank shall be established by any fu
ture law of the United States, during
the continuance of the corporation here
by created ; for which the frith of the
United States is hereby pledged.
Frederick A. Muhlenberg,
XVI. The officer at the head of the
treasury department of the United States,
llrall be furnifhed, from time to time, as
often as he may require, not exceeding
once a week, with datements of the a
mount of the capital flock of the said cor
poration,and of the debts due to the fame;
of the monies deposited therein ; of the
notes in circulation, and of the ca(h in
hand ; and (hall have a right to infpe&
such general accounts in the books of the
bank, as (hall relate to the said (tatements:
Provided, That this (hall not be constru
ed to imply a right of infpeding the ac
count of any private individual or indi
viduals with the bank. e ,
And be it further enabled. That if the
said corporation, or any person or persons
for or to the use of the fame, (hall deal or
trade in buying or felling any goods,
wares, merchandize, or commodities
whatsoever, contrary to the provisions of
this aft,all and every person and persons,
by whom any order or direction; for so
dealing or trading (hall have been given,
and all and every person and persons
who (hall have been concerned as parties
or agents therein, (hall forfeit and lose
treble the value of the goods, wares,mer
chandizes,and commodities in which such
dealing and trade (hall have been; one
half thereof to the use of the informer,
and the other half thereof to the use of
the United States, to be recovered with
colls of suit.
And be it further enaded, That if the
said corporation (hall advance or lend
ariy sum, for the use or on account of the
government of the United States, to an
amount exceeding one hundred thdufand
dollars; or of any particular Rate to an
amount exceedirig fifty thousand dollars ;
or of any foreigri prince or Rate, (unlels
previously authorized thereto by a law of
the United States) all arid every person
and persons, by and with whose order,
agreement, consent, approbation, or con
nivance, such unlawful advance or loan,
shall have been made, upon convidiori
thereof, (hall forfeit and pay, for every
such offence, treble the value or amount
of the furti or sums which (hall have been
so unlawfully advanced or lent; one
fifth thereof to the use of the informer,
and the residue thereof to the use of the
United States; to be disposed of by law
and not othefwife.
And be it further enabled. That the bills
of notes of the said corporation, origi
nally made payable, or which (hall have
b^ome payable on demand, in gold ahd
ffPer coin, shall be receivable in all pay
ments of the United States.
Extract of a letter from Fort Trinity(Mar
tinique) dated February 8, 1791.
" Little else but havock and murder
is going on in this unhappy island, and
the inhabitants, from their conduCt, seem
determined to extirpate each other with
out mercy. Upon an average, for some
time past, it has been computed that 30
lives have been loft every day ; should
things thus continue, the mullattoes must
in the end remain matters of the country,
as they are at least 15 to one in number
more than the whites ; all our hopes are
now fixed on the efforts of the mother
country to restore peace ; for which pur
pose, several ships of war, and five or fix
thousand troops are hourly looked for
from Old France."
PHILADELPHIA, MARCH 17.
THURSDAY lad arrived here from
Cadiz, the (hip Harmony, N.
Gardner, master, which port he left the
2nd of February. By the above ship we
learn, that the whole kingdom of Spain
(except the Court party and the Clergy)
are ripe for the fame revolution as has
lately taken place with their neighbours
the French. The people speak their sen
timents more freely than ever was known
in that kingdom before. It was report
ed in Cadiz, before the (hip left that
place, that hostilities hid already com
menced in the province of Biscay ; and
that the people had cat off the heads of
several Governours who were too much
attached to the arbitrary power of the
King. In December last his Majesty
passed a decree, that all (hopkeepers
Should pay a tax often per cent, upon
their merchandize throughout the king
dom : Upon which the dealers immedi
ately (hut up all their (hops; and at last
his Majesty thought proper to repeal the
decree. In January last the Minister of
State received a letter from an unknown
hand, setting forth the grievances of the
fubjeds, arid threatning withal what he
had to depend upon soon, if better laws
were not made for the godd of the whole:
The letter was compared with other let
ters in Madrid—at length a hand was
found which left no doubt of the author,
who was a merchant in Cadiz ; a guard
of the King's officers and men were dis.
patched to Cadiz with orders to take him
and every man about his house into
confinement. They accordingly came to
Cadiz, the last of January, and produced
the letter to the merchant, who immedi
ately confeffed that he was the auhor,
and at the fame time informed the guard,
he would be one of the rirft who was wil
ling to fuffer for his country in hopes it
would epen the eyes cf his countrymen.
The consequence was that they seized
him and his clerks, and put them in a
place where they may wait the affidance
of their countrymen to relieve them.
The poftoffice is watched at Cadiz as
if the salvation of their nation was wholly
depending upon every mail that comes
in from the northward : —There is not a
letter that contains more than a common
sheet of writing paper but what is imme
diately broke open and the consents ex
posed to every king's officer who has a
mind to peruse it. Letters sent by the
post to merchants with bills of exchange,
have their seals broke open.—lt is trarif
portation to the mines for any master of
a vessel, or other person to be caught with
a letter in his pocket going through the
gates—while the punishment for murder
is only to make the criminal ride on a
mule with his face towards the bead's
tail, while the mob pelt mud at him.
By letters from Capefrancois of the
27th of February, we are informed that
Oje and Crevin, the two mullattoes the
most active in the disturbances at St. Do
mingo, were broke alive on the wheel,
and that near two hundred of their ac
complices were shortly to be executed. ~
Extract of a letter from Dublin, dated No
vember 5.
'' The son of an eminent Banker in
this city (a quaker, and who is remark
able for his accumulated fortune, acquir
ed by his integrity and industry, and for
those amiable qualities which character,
ize that description of people to which,
he belongs; as peaceable citizens arid
ufeful members of the community) is now !
an apprentice to a weaver, to learn thel
mystery of the linen trade; io order to be
enabled, by following it, to increase the
ample fortune which he will possess, and
thereby add to the opulence of the Bate.
AMERICAN ADVICES.
NEWYORK, MARCH 17.
DANBURY, MARCH Is.
MARCH 22.
This is an example worthy the imitation
of all opulent traders and merchants in
this kingdom.
" Here it is too generally the practice
for every man possessed of fool, .proper
ty, to make his son a lawyer, a physici
an, or to have him educated for the
church. But, what is the consequence ?
Many young men,, who, in trading or
manufa&uring linens, might have culti
vated their own interests, and at the
fame time essentially advance the gene
ral interest of the nation—being thus
forced upon a profeffion or faculty for
which nature never deligned them, are
doomed to poverty or distress during their
lives—and even oftentimes thole who
may be favoured by nature with abili
ties for the prose ffional line into which
they have been so thrown, yet, wanting
the interest of refpedable connexions,
mast languish out a miserable exiftance,
more intolerable thin that of the poorest
working mechanic, because the latter are
more accustomed to hardihip, and can
live much more moderately, both as to
apparel and every article than the former,
who mull keep up a genteel appearance,
though they fuffer the most pinching dis
tress in other refpeds.
" What gave rife to the great body of
opulent traders, manufacturers and me
chanicks in the filter kingdom, by this
method of bringing up their children to
butinefs, and thereby increasing a capital
acquired by trade and industry ?—ln En
gland 10,0001. is put in as a capital to
begin the butinefs of a merchant, a brew
er, a hatter, a grocer, a corn dealer, &c.
&C, In Jrelagd a trader, on finding
himfelf podeded of this fum,would retire
from business, and think his fortune made.
To this mistaken policy may, in a great
meafare, be attributed the flow progress
in this kingdom towards improvement
in our various trades and manufactures."
In the above ftbrm an incredible num
ber of vessels were loft— the crews of
many of which perished : The Charle
mont Packet from Liverpool for Dublin
was wrecked, and of 110 passengers, 19
only escaped— A tender, having on board
upwards of 400 men, was loft off Liver
pool, and almost every fperfon on board
perished. The Alert, cutter, Capt.
Dean, was. also wrecked on the Chapel
rocks, in Budden Bay, and every foul on
board loft. "This storm extended almost
all over England; the lightning and
thunder were the severest almost ever
known, and the wind blew a perfect hur
ricane. The papers give a long detail
of the difafterous confequentes.
FROM PHILADELPHIA,
f MARCH 28, 1791.„
YOU will perceive by the a& for ad
ding another regiment to the Military Ef
tabli/hment, for the protection of the fron
tiers, that several field and ftaff-officers
are to be appointed :—
His Excellency Arthur St. Clair,
is appointed Major-General.
It is said .that General Morganls the
Brigadier-General; but I cannot vouch
for it.
Samuel Hodgdon, Esq. is appointed
Quarter-Mafler. a
Hon.*WlLLI AMBARRYGROVES,Efq.
is elected a Federal Representative for
North- Carolina.
A late writer recommends the intro
duction of Newspapers into schools—
These being compiled of various matter,
and always of something attaching to
young minds, will not only lead them to
read well, but from the variety of their
contents, to read each fubjed with pro
per cadence ; and also enlighten them,
in some degree, in the hiftory of the
world, and the manners of mankind.
Late Englilh newspapers give an ac
count of a most tremendous Thunder
Storm, which passed over London on the
morning of the 23d December last : The
win'd, rain and hail, were extremely vio
lent ; gr^t damage was sustained by ma
ny buildings, and the (hipping in the ri
ver.
TRANSLATED for the CENTINEL.
[We are happy in being able to lay
before our readers, the information con
tained in the following. More especially
as we think it to be authentick,and as it
effedually contradids certain publications
which have recently appeared in the pa
pers, on the fate of affairs, in France.)
STOCKBRIDGE, MARCH Is.
WORCESTER, MARCH gO.
BOSTON, APRIL 2.
[An obliging correffeondent has favour
ed us with an Englijb paper, which con
tains, immediately from Londonderry,
Jeveral particulars of the event which here
has interefed the public mind. ^em
brace with avidity the earheft opportunity
of laying it before our readers.]
FROM the day that the communicati
on was opened, by means of the bridge?
between this city and the country,an idea
prevailed among the lower orders of the
people, that the passage was to be entire
ly free, and that no toll whatever could
be lawfully exacted, noiwithftanc'ng it
must have been obvious, that a vahfam
of money had been expended in the crew
ing of the bridge, and that it was the
property of the Cerebration, by every
title of legal right, and. confirmed by a
recent and very explicit Aa oj Parliament,
For the firft week, during the novelty
of the communication, the Corporation
did not think it necessary to effect their
right, and accordingly permitted a free
passage over the bridge for eight or nine
days ; unfortunately this indulgence was
mifeonftrued, and the populace seemed
to be confirmed in the opinion, that there
was no power any where to oblige them
to pay the toll.
Under this erroneous idea, upon Wed
nesday morning last, when a gate was
ereCted for the purpose of collecting the
toll, agreeable to the schedule, symptoms
of discontent appeared among the people
as they came into the market; and to
wards the afternoon, when the multitude
became greater, and many of them heat
ed with liquor, they refuted to pay any
t 011.,,
The Mayor, Sheriff Shoals, and seve
ral of the Magistrates attended, and en
deavoured, by every mode of reasoning,
to persuade them to refrain from their il
legal opposition ; all friendly remonstran
ces, however were in vain, for increas
ing in numbers, they boldly proceeded
down the Toll-gate in spite of the Magis
trates who were now obliged to call for,
a guard of soldiers ; but the violence of
the rioters continuing to increase, it be
came necessary to bring to their support
nearly the whole of the 40th regiment
now quartered here.
The millitary charging their bayonets,
drove the rioters across the bridge to the
water-fide ; but they had no sooner got
upon the freer, than they turned about
and gave battle to the millitary with re
peated vollies of Hories and brick-bats.
Again the Magistrates entreated the
rioters to disperse, and warned them of
the fatal ccnfequences of their outrages;
but in vain; they continued their attack.
At firft the millitary were directed to
fire in the air, then at the tops of the
houses ; but the deration of the meb
increafng, the soldiers were ordered to
level their ftufkets, when two men were
" The Revolution in Brabant, is at art
end. Tne Emperour, it is said uses the
^rabanters very generously: But he is
supposed to have some evil intention
towards the French Revolution- —of which
they are suspicious, and have marched
several bodies cf troops towards their
frontiers, under the orders of the Ge
nerals Rochambeau, Bouille, and D'Affr,."
Extras of a letter frem Aa,erdam, dated
, JAN. 31, 1791.
" IN France, every thing goes on ver,
well. The Affignats have rifei to 115 a
116 per cent, above par. They have
been enabled to commence the difenarge
of their debts by the sale of the lands of
the Clergy, which are, on an average,
fold at one third higher than the apprifal.
"The Rugfans have finally taken the
town of Ifnu'. —-which they stormed, 011
the zzd of December, (word in hand, losing
from 4, to 5000 men, amongit whom were
four Generals. Os the Turkish Garrifoo,
which confided of 16,000 men, 14,000
are (lain, the rest made prisoners. Tae
a(fault laded from five o'clock in the
morning until the afternoon. Fhis vic
tory has rendered the Empress lefe inclin
ed to peace —and Ilie has,in consequence,
refufed the mediation of England, Prugfa
and Holland ; and has given orders to
General Potemkin to pulh his conquest
even to the gates Os C^oahsinople. rhe
furkifo army has retired to the adjacent
hills," where they are furrourided by the
Ruffian General. The refusal of the me
diation by the Empress, will cause the
mediators to arm, and affirt trie Turks;
and it is already spoken of, that a deer
of 18 fail, will be joined by an English
fleet, which is to fail in the spring, for
the Baltic.
RIOT at LONDONDERRY, (Ireland.)
LONDONDERRY, NOV. go.