The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1791-02-26 00:00:00, page 2

ON Saturday last came on, in the
Court of this County, the trial of
Negro Moses, charged with the marJ*r
of Hezekiab William's, his Overseer. It
appeared in evidence that the deceased had
in many inftinces, treated with great se
verity the slaves under his authority, and
the prisoner in particular : That he had
confined him in chains several days and !
nights—that, on'the evening when the [
deed was committed he had cruelly i^, }
ged him, merely for having requeued ;
one of his felluw-flaves to give him a :
feat in his cart, to carry him to the over-;
fief's house, (where he was confined eve-!
ry hight) finding great difficulty in wa&ft
ing, by reason of his iron Ipancels—th#^
he Was confined by a staple drove into tl&
wall—that the overseer had threatened to
treat him the next morning in the man
ner he had done his brother Bob (who died
fool after his flogging, and, as had :
been fafpefted in consequence of it.j Un-I
der the intpreffion of these denunciations, I
and the terrors naturally excited by them.l
it appears that wtiilft the Overseer was |
asleep, in the fame room where the pri-1
footer was confined, the latter disengaged
himfelf from his hand-cuffs, drew the sta
ple, and, taking down the Overseer's gun,
which happened to be loaded, went out
as silently as possible ; determined', if he
could, to make his efeape i That the
Overseer, awaking, Went in perfiffcof hi'm
and found him near the hdufe, not having
been able to make much progre'fs on ac
count of his fpancels—that Moses cauti
oned him repeatedly tp find off, faying
hi fliouldnot take him,that he had a load
ed gun, and would shoot him, sooner
than let him take him—that Williams,
disregarded these warnings, pressed on
him with 3 dogs (said to be trained to Ne
gro.catching) till Williams almost touched
the muzzle of the gun, when the other
difeharged it, and lodged the whole con
tents in his body ; that, thereupon, Moss
w at immediately and furrepdered'himr
feff to his mailer. Being aked by his
master, why he had committed that defpe
,ate deed, he answered ; " Sir, the O-1
4r@er would have killed me, had [ 1
v ot killed him." It appeared frogs the;
nftimony of fcrcral witnesses, who had
Mr. Printer,
THE Paragraph in your paper under
the signature of Deteaor, last week,
is, I presume, far from being the pro
dadion of a man of sense. It mull have
been the compaction of some Ignorant
Puppy, otherwise he would have had more
judgment than to think I inferred the
piecrie alluded to, signed A Sailor, I
am not so greedy of "public applause"
(to use his burlesque expression) as to
publish any thing in praise of myfelf;
however it shows his ignorance. As to
the other piece upon the principles of uni
versal salvation, wherein he has taken
the liberty to frame a number of falihoods
—He fays I abftrafted it from Chantey,
upon " the Benevolence of the Deity;"
(1 fay C^^y, because he was the author
of it.) But Mr. .Deteadr has afferted.an
apparent fallhood, which every gentle
man knows that ever had the pleafare to
peruse it. Before he attempts to make
the public believe he. is a learned man,
and a great reader, I would advise him
to look over the books he pretends to
have read, otherwise, he will not effect
his purpbfe. The great learned man
who affects to know every thing; hap
pened to gacfs the title of a book of the
fame author's publiihing, (who he fays
is "how entomb'd in Bolton") but he
was much mistaken in his conjecture. I
suppose somebody was so obliging as to
inform him that the author beforemen
tioned, was of the fame principles ; o
therwise he would have had no ilea of
such a writer. For fear he should make
another notorious mistake in displaying
to the world his great learning ; [ will
inform him that I abdrafted it from the
worthy gentleman's publication " upon
the Salvation of all men" and not " im
pofelt upon the public for my own com
position." He fays I made that obtefta
tion 'to know the author of it. If [ ab-
For the Nbwhampshjre Gazetteer.
Drafted it from Cbarney's works (35 I
always affected) 4hy Ihould £ make that
request ? I would adyife that oblocutor,
to give the public no more of his vanib
quence. [ truA; they will give no cre
dit, to the mendaciloquent blackguard's
publication. Far “ A Lor is not to be
believed ahbeagb be f,eaks the truth."
SELF-DEFENCE.
AMERICAN ADVICES.
ALEXANDRIA, JAN. 2,.
Jan. 2'l. We hear from Newburgh
(Alfter county) that last Sunday aftetnon,
} 2 terrible & mournful (cene was exhibited.
„two hours After pnblick worship Was en
' ded, thd Prefbytefian churchy in—that
p'lac, wv difeovered to hr oq fire, by the
smoke issuing from it. f^ neighbours
immediately collated atfd,burft open one
• of the door§, to difeover ia what part the
iAre waifbuc to their great surprise a tor-
Icent of flame and f.rihke immediately if
[ tied out and in a fev minutes, the whole
I edifice was wrapped in flames, and con
sumed to allies. It is supposed to have
been'dcc'afibaed by ffre dropping from a
Hove before the congregation dispersed.
Sunday night )aQ was loss in the snow
storm on Eaton's Neck Reef near Hun
tington, Long-Idand, Brig, Safy,
Capt. Benjamin Kzeler, belonging to
Stamford, Connecticut, laden with molaf
fes—hreffel, cargo and people' all loft;
Four dead bodies have been found, the
Capt. was found drifted on- (hort entan
gled in the main top. There were either
ten or eleleven persons o"n bohrd the brig>.
quarterdeck drif^donroLoyd's neck.
ALBANY, JAN. gl.
The following was communicated by
a worthy correspondent, in the Indian
country.—'• Many of the Indians, in the
late engagement with Gen. Harmar, or
rather the brave, but unfortunate, Maj.
%%, fought on horse-back, and with a
dexterity that would not have difgr&ced
well &feip4ined dragoons. Their hor
ses were quipped with a bunch of bells
hanging down the left cheek, and two
narrow ttrips of d%b, red and white ;
and th: Indians, were painted red and
becn along time acquainted with the pri
soner, that he had always deen uncom
monly fubmiffi^to those in authority o
ver him ; that l^eing able .to read and
write, he had been emoloyoG, by his for
mer mailer as an overseer for ip years,
during which time he had been entrusted
with the faleof corn and other articles,
of which he had always rendered tris maf
tey afoft and true account. ,
It was urged by the Connfel for the
prisoner—that a miler's authority over
the Have was limited — That, cfen by the
laws of this country, he had no right to
deprive his Have ?f life or members —
That,a Have, no^tx^frliog his.degra
ded station, still retiinel some natural
rights, particularly that of felf-prefer ra
tion, which could pot b; n';ei from him
by human I.ys, as he.J/rived them from
a foirce infinitely i'rjrrior to all human
kuthority-^dfr, wh:n a miler infli-ls
on his (lave cruel and fevers punish nen^
which endangers the 1 fe or members of
his ilave, he cfahgrefe? rhe limits of his
authority, and trespasses on the retained
natural rights of th: Have ; anJ in that
case the flare hit the firne right to de
fend those rights that a freemlo.has—•
that from the character of Williams, his
threats, and the cruel treatment he had
received fro ft him, he had Ts'iicUnc rea
foh to believe <ha- hi; life wis in enmi
nent danger —an] to prevent that danger
he difeharged his gui it him ; in doing
fohe was prompted b/jfelf-preOrvation ;
a principle wired actuates the meaner
reptile in the aninal creitioq, ~
In taking cheopiriioa of the Court, ft
was found thito6y were not unanimous
The priloltr wis of COurG acquitted.
Extras of letter from London,dated No U>2|.
By these inclosed papers you will fee
that the so much talked of revolution of
theßelgic Provinces his come to nothing.
Every effort has been made to oppose
the Emperor, but to no purpose. The
defection of the Belgic army is abnoft
universal ; and the coadernation occasion
ed bya conviction of the utterimpoflipility
of refining troops so infinitely superior in
difipline and coghge to their own. has
obliged the people to yield to irrefiftable
necefiity. So it would have been with yon
in your conted with this country had not
the wide Atlantic an I some other circum
stances iacerpofed to save you. —As to oar
felves, we are congrata'ating each other
Ori certain imaginary advantages gained
in our negociation with Spain, such as
the right of tithing for whales in the mid
dle of the South Seas, and erecting for
treffes in a Barron cointty at the extremi
ties of the Globe, which even by our own
accounts is not worth possessing, except
oh accountof an article of commerce which
triud soon be exhausted.
A femarkabe circumttance happened oh
Sunday the -16th in'L at Cheefeqtrak<;
three miles below Amboy. A While of
about 40 feet long ran on diore so as not
to be able co get off aoain.
ELISABETHTOWN, FEB. 2;
A WHALE !
NEWYORK, JAN. tB.
•On the evening of the 6th inst. Jon
rdu^G, travelling westward on foot,
through Kennebunk, was overtaken by
two sailors, knocked down and robbed of
four or five dollars. The villains, thro'
fear of adding the guilt of murder to rob
bery, called at the next house in great
agitation to inform the people that there
was a man dying back in the roa'd.
There was only a woman in the house :
(he a%ed them sharply why they did not
bring him up ? They made no reply :
but fan off in great hade. The men
, wore blue jackets, long trowfers, Griped
with red and white. One of them ap
peared to be about twenty years of age,
five feet high ; and was foul in speech,
The other was of a midling size, about
thirty years of age, and talked broken
English. -
IBOSTON, FEB. 16.
PENNSYLVANIA !=t RE modest
HUZZA! &
(t has long been fufpe&ed, that this
pretended " Arbitress of the Union"
would claim a decent (hare of influence
io the Councils of the Nation ; but it was
not thought (he would endeavour to dic
tate to that honorable body. Fads prove
the contrary.
The lower House of that State's Affembl,
has modeftl, voted to fignify tbiheic Se
nators in Congress their desire, that no
"Excise" "might be levied, Which Should
be subversive to the „&pldi liberties?'
• Benevolent solicitude !—But if a cor.
* stance of the whole is, that a body of
fl-poo men mircheJ ten miles a day into
stie .viidernefs, found cne fr a g^ n g j^
. ■ djan and too; aim p^ifoner, that they loft
pa number of baggage horf^, some thro,'
I/°o u ':? a °d fomeftolen 6, she Indians in
; the 4i„t through the negligence of the fa
§ tinels (a good dory for a d)(cißlinarian to
I tell ;)thit they came to the Miami town
I and found it deferred and burnt by the
;Indians Ihemfrlues ; that they Began their
imarch bac< ; but as the Indians kept their
distance from the main body, the Gener
al fear, in he course of the enterprize,
Twofmall detachments of mba, beyohd
/porting dij&e, to huntup the Indians ;
which detachments were just Efficient
for the Indians to cut to pieces feperately;
and that the lad detachment in particular
mign: Have a little fighting, it was sent
back to thedeferted town, where the main
body had just before burnt the corn of the
Indian, (0 encounter the whole bod^jof
exasperated favAges. g Does this exhibit
g?neral:h;p ? ; Will not the continuance
o ' f/Gh a man. at the head pf troops,
W-u^p our confidence in appointments?
[Oriv.il men enlist under an officer who
is capable of making (uch a puerile com
;manicdtion to the publick ? #
brick, and in ftic'l 1 meaner is to repre
sent the infernal spirits, perhaps much
more than the human Species. .The most
hideous and terijfick appearance, added
to the noffe of the bells and the flapping
of the pendant drips of cloth, rendered
them truly formidable to the militia horse,
which thrunk back at the very fight, and
it was with the greatest difficulty any
could be brought to the charge."
HARTFORD, JAN. 24.
A correspondent remarks, that Gen.
Harmer's letter to the Secretary of War,
and his orders to his troops, during, the
late expedition in.o the Indian territo
ries are a Jugular literary.display of mill
fry manoeuvres. He is certain no pre
cedent of the kind is on record. The sub-
STOCKBRIDGE, FEB. 8. _
We hear from Sandisfield, that on
Tuefday evening laftj the house of, Capt.
Solomon Rabbins of. that town, was con
sumed by fire, together,with every arti^
cle of his houfhold furniture; and, it is
said, to the amount of thirteen hundred
pounds worth, of goods, which Capt.
Robbins lately obtained, fell, a facrafice
to the devouring element. A man who
slept in the third loft of the house, we al
so hear, periled in the flames.
The pruffan government has lately
published a circumrtantial relation of the
success which has attended the use of
Earth Baths, in restoring persons aparent
1, killed by lightning. -The process is
as follows : F
The person (buck must be immediate
ly undressed, laid at length in a bed of
foft earth, covered with a layer of three
or four inches of earth, and from time to
time gently sprinkled with water.
(Experience has proved that this pro
cels is infallible, and that three hours is
fuincient time to restore annimation to
those unfortanate persons to whom the
lightning had solely caused a suspension
so th? puife. -——
PORTLAND, Jan. 27.
ROBBERY!
DIED} — ln this to c wn, in the 37th, far
of hr age; Mrs. Deborah Gilman,
confat of John T. Gilman; Efq&ire, and
daughter of the late honorable Nathaniel
Folsom, E/quirei—lt belongs to those alorie,
nbbo lave been bereaved of an amiable and
beloved wife, a tender mother, and an aft
feaionateffter, in the. meridian of life and
ufehlnef, full, to estimate the loss and
enter into the feelings of her deefy-afyaed
relatives.'
±s<C d><,<>O<^oC>§<^>§<,§
<+
T^KE NOTICE!
WHEREAS Levi Towle,
of Eppin,, has in his pcffeffon,
a promissory Note of Hand, signed b,
Edw^bd Sanborn— This is to cau
tiop all persons not to purchase said Note,
as I am determined not to pay it.
EDWARD SANBORN.
Efting, Jan. it, 17,1.
respondent m'ghr h^^d* gedn affem n g
a little of this Pmf Iranian rcedfo, he
would prefume.jhat the " People of th
United States ," are perfectly willing to
trull 'heir "liberties," so far as an ExciJ'e
Aa will operate on thereto their legiti
mate REPRESENTATIVES in Congry;
whole Afis, approved by their boo^d
President, they think need not the
officious, monitorial cautions of even a Penn-
Jjhania Heu,e of AfemS!;. if not, CONl
gress had better deiolve. and let the
PennJjlvar.ia Afrahlj legiilaie for the
Union !
The President by and with advice of
hjs Council has appointed the 7th day of
April nex*. to be religicuflv observed as a
day of FASTINGand PRAYER,through,
our this Sfae.
The Senate have concurred with the
House of Representatives to meet the firlt
Wedne&y in June next, at Concord,
where th* Eledion will again he held.
Feb. II. —Congress will most affurod
ly rife the 2d of March. As several of
the states have not yet cQpfen Represen
tatives. the firft|feffion of'the second Con
gress will not be until November next..
EXETER,(Saturday )Feb.26.
The grog and dram drinkers of the Uni
ted States, ?, is said, intend aciding their
petition to the above Resolution ; and it
is presumed that the noilinefs and obitir
nacy will ailtinguilh + he application, and
give it success !
His Excellency the Governor,with the
adviee of :he Hon.Council,has appointed
Thorfday the 3ift day of March next, for
a day of FASTING and PRAYER,
throughout this Cammonweahh.
4.70,000, we are told, is the total num
ber of Inhabitants in th s Common
wealth according to the census lately
taken. Os course, at the next eleaion of
Federal Representatives, Massachusetts
will have a right to fend FIFTEEN
M EMBERS to Congrefc.
We learn that 'h^ Indins at the west
ward, are determined early in the spring
to turn out for war, and commit depreda
tions on the frontiers ; that they ate great
ly elevated with the issue of the late
campaign, and (when speaking of it) fay
that they are more than men.
Extras of a letter from London.
"Mr. Elliot, late resident at the Court
of Sweden, from this country, is named
Ambaffadour to the United States of
America. He is a gentleman of the firft
family in this country, and is much at
tached to yours. In this appointment
Ministry have adopted a principle of re#
gard for the promotion of the ir.tercourfe
and liberal trade between the two na
tions., The American credit is rapidly
appreciating in this country —and the
refpeft for the far; and flripes is increas
ing throughout all Europe."
FROM PHILADELPHIA—^. 17.
With refeea to news, the lateil ofa for
eign kind,, is from your quarter —The
Excise, as ix is called, begins to occafiori
some squibbing. in the papers here—But
1 :think you may calculate on its passing
by a great majori y.
/The Bill for elbtlifhing the Naticndl
Bank, is nearly through the Senate ; more
than shree quarters are decidedly in fa
vour of it :-4The principles are agreea
ab!e to; the Secretary's Report —-the char
ter is to be for 20 years—a,d Govern
ment are not to be concerned any fur#
thef in its management thaA-ia any other
corporation—that is, it is to be as ingle*
pendent of rhe government, as .the-b#hks
now in exigence—this [think will be
right. In the House I anticipate oppo
sition — But not from any efficient charac
ters.—The feeders cf popularity and
personal consequence are at this time, a
little busy in feme of the States—But £
think you may reckon on the utmofe
firmnefs in the administration of the
Government. .-•