The American herald of liberty — Exeter, N.H., 1794-04-29 00:00:00, page 3

Just publijh^dandforfak at this
J Office,
Dr. Langdon’s Remarks
on the leading sentiments of the
Rev'A Dr. H OPKI N’s
System of DoFltines*
ertion will be made by them to Support
the genuine dignity and honor of their
country, against every power on earth
And that until the legitimate Reprefenta
lives of the Republic shall declare the
country in a state of war, they are bound
I>y their memorable declaration of Inde
pendence M to hold the government and
fubjeds of every nation, at enemies only
in war,but in peace, as friends.” The fub
jed of the Spoliations on our comtnmerce,
which have m too many instances been most
grossly flagrant and unjuftifiable; have, not
withflanding, given birth to myriads of
misrepresentations. To contradict them
in detail/ however necettary to public in
formation, would require more time and
space than a Newspaper could contain:
—They, however, carry with them the
feeds of their own dissolution ; for the ve
hicle of one day, frequently demon ft rates
to the attentive reader, the falfehood of
the p recced i ng.
Embargo Continued.
The Citizens of this town, on Monday
last, received, with much fatisfadion, the
following intelligence by express :—
RESOLVED By the Senate and House of
- Representatives of she United States of Amer
ica, in Congress afembled, That the prefect
Embargo be continued, and every regula
tion concerning the fame shall be in full
force until the twenty’fifth day of May
next.
Last Wednesday, Capt. Richard Smith,
arrived here from Antigua, in 22 days.
He was from Alexandria, bound to this
pert, with flour, lift winter; but was
blown off the coast, and carried into An
tigua, by a privatedr, where he was per
mitted to fell, and purchase a cargo.
Capt. Peters, of this place, arrived on
Wednesday evening. He was taken on his
homeward paifage from Gaudaloupe, and
carried into Antigua; and on examina
tion, his property being found to be Amer
ican, was released, in confluence of the
last Bntifh Inftru&ions. A vessel belong
ing to Philadelphia, was released, and
failed at the fame time. The Judge at
Antigua, ridiculed the idea of all the Isl
ands being blockaded; and said, that he
could fit in his chair, and as effectually
blockade any port whatever.
Resolved, That until the British govern
ment shall make compensation to the citi.
zens of the United States for the. fpolia.
tiohs on their commerce, for the negroes
carried away contrary to the treaty of
peace, and until the weftern polls shall be
delivered up—all 'commercial intercourse
shall cease between the fubjeds of Great-
Britain or the fubje&s of any other nation
and the citizens of the United States, so
far as the fame shall relate to articles of the
growth or manufactures of Great-Britain
or Ireland, provided, the fame shall not
take place before the day of
Yeas 61—Nays 13. The Resolution
-has not palled the House.
It is reported, at New-York, that a small
' French squadron had arrived at St* Do
mingo, having on board Mrffrs. Letombe,
Painere, Le Roy, and Pagafe, Commiflion
ers to replace and arrest Polverel and San
thonax—that M. Letombe had failed for
•* a swarm of pirates.*’
The Bririfh Minister, at Philadelphia has
written to the President, (hewing that the
Englilh Indruflions of the Bth Jan. 1794,
are agreeable to the Laws of Nations.
A mob of sailors paraded the streets of
Philadelphia, tha 14th inst—Their objea
we have not learnt. It it said they intuited
Congress.
This Resolution was approved and Jigned
the iSth inf.
By last nights* Mail, we learn, from Phi
ladelphia, that on the 14th inst. in Com
mittee of the House of Representatives, ii
was
Jeremie, and had taken the British fort
there, two frigates and three privateers.
Admiral Jarvis, in a letter,dated March
16, to General Bruce, of Dominico, de
nominates the British Weft-India prjvateers,
POSTSCRIPT.
BARR ERE, in the name of the committee
of Public Welfare—Citizens; the com
mittee expefis nevus, and the particulars re
fpeEHng the capture of Noirmoutier, which
•will probably come to band in the evening.
f ‘ Our colleague La Planche writes as
follows on the (sth inf.
“ I learn this moment the capture of Noir
moutier by the troops of the Republic. 1
leave my colleagues Prieur, of Marne, and
Thurieau to give you the de tai les.”
“ four Committee, Jaid Barrere, is con
stantly occupied with /applying the army ; it
ought to be fully provided in Spring all over
the Republic. Many military es efts and pat
riotic gifs are sent to the Commonalties : The
Republic is very liberal, yet the soldiers are
in want of every thing. Your committee is
of opinion that all those objects be sent to ihe
chief place of each di dr id, and an inventory
thereof tanfmitted to the committee of supplies,
which will forward the fame where they
Jhall be most wanted.” Decreed.
The committees of Public Safety informed
the Convention, that they had just received
dispatches from Gen. Hoche, Hating that the
troops of the Republic had made themselves
mailers of Worms, applauded.
[By the ship Fame, Capt. Davis, who
arrived at Boston on Thursday last from
Liverpool]
the entry into their fort of Jive rich prizes,
taken from the Eitglijb, and foretoldJiill more
news. This morning there arrived four more
vejfels richly laden. A large American Jhip
entered the road immediately after; the car
goes of the capturedJhips are warlike flares ;
and thus we ptay by and bye pay a ruifit to
England, drfed in their own clothes, armed
with their own (words, drinking their own
coffee, andfmoaking our pipes at their exfence
—and all this in their own jhips. This is
what the proverb calls Jurnijhing whips for
their own backs.'*
Jin. 22— There has entered into the port
of Brefit a prize taken by a French frigate,
of a Spanilh Corvette, value 788,000 piaf.
tert. For theft Jix weeks pad nearly 80
English vejjtls were brought into the above
ports at prizes.
SPAIN.
M A D R I D, Jm. t.
The Spani/b troops have attacked Port
Pendre, and carried its entrenchments—as
also Fort St. Telmo, the town of Collieure,
and 8010, killing a great number, and taking
500 prisoners. The artillery taken amount
to "jo pieces, and provisions for an army of
10000 men.
The French Convention have cen
{ured their troops in this quarter for per
mitting Spanilh slaves to overcome tree
men.]
GE R MANT.
FRANKFORT, Jan. i 6.
The Austrians finding it impossible to
preserve Fort Louis* have evacuated that
important Fortress, after havig demolished
the fortifications as completely as time
would permit: They have retreated into
Brifgaw, & destroyed the temporary bridge
which formed the communication between
that country and theifland.
The evacuation of Fort JLouis, v^hich
leaving at their disposal an army of 3°>
000 men which blockaded that Fortress
on the fide of Al face, will probably in
duce them to alter their plan of operations,
and form some grand attack on this fide
of the Rhine.
“ Port National (Cherbourg) Jan. 16:
My tail leteri announced to the Convention
FRANCE.
National Convention—fan. io, 1794-
UPPER RHINE, Jan. 18.
It was at last decided, that the Austrians
should abandon Fort Louis. In confe.
quence of which the garrisons have quit
ted that fortrefs yesterday at ten o’clock in
the evening, and in seven minutes after
wards the Fort Alsace, its bridge and the
whole town was seen on fire. The bas
tions and powder-magazines were blown up
into the air. No loss has taken place ex
cept a drunken soldier, and one or two sick
destroyed in the flames
SRU6SEtS, JAW. s4*
The action which took place on Wcd
By lajl Evening's Mail.
Capture of Noir moutier.
nefday last Seema to have been very bloody.
On Saturday 350 French, wounded and
prisoners, arrived here, and 28 waggon
loads of wounded Austrians.
Motion to Acknowledge the French Re
public.
.ford Stanhope, after a very lengthy f pitch
in which he took areview of the Hate and pro
ffefs of the war with France, moved as fol
lows
** That an humble address be presented to
his Majesty, humbly to represent to his
Majesty, that the French nation has ex
pressly recognized this Sacred principle
* That no country poffefles the right to
interfere with another independent nation;’
—to flatfe to his Majesty, that in the 108th
and 109 h articles of the Conftitution.they
have declared that the French people is the
friend and natural ally of every free peo
ple, and that it does not interfere in the
government of other nations—humbly
therefore to beseech his Majesty in his e«
quity and justice, to acknowledge the
French Republic, and thereby lay the
foundation of a speedy reconciliation and
a permanent peace.” Motion negatived.
My Lords, do the thing that is right
and just, and leave the rest to God.”
On the i 6th, a body of 8000 men of
Prince Cobourgs, army patted the Sambre,
near Maroilcs, and attacked the French in
their entrenchments, which were carried
byattauln The enemy .had 700 men
killed, and 500 taken prisoners. They
loft Seven pieces of cannon, and were pur
sued to Landrecy. The Austrians had
700 men killed and wounded.
ENGLAND.
BRITISH HOUSE OF PEERS.—] AN.23.
Letters from the Rhine, 'via Brunels,
slate that the French have taken Worms,
and Oppenheim ; That the inhabitants of
Mentx are in great confirmation, for the
French evince a determination to continue
their career, and to make an attack upon
that city.
Letters from Cologne slate, that an en
gagement had taken place on the- loth inst.
in She* environs of Oppenheim, between
the Duke of Brunswick & the French. The
action commenced at 1 o’clock in the af
ternoon, and was not concluded when the
letters were dispatched from Cologne,
It appears, by the returns which have
been made the Emperor, that the number
of Imperialists, including Austrians, and
Hungarians only killed between the ift
January, and the Ift December 1793, a
mounts to 69,000, besides 20,000 sick and
wounded in the Hospitals 1 ! 1
It is to be observed, that these returns
were made previously to the dreadful
(laughter which took place in the late en
gagements on the Rhine.
The Packet for New-York, was detained
until Saturday last, for the purpose of con
veying the late order of Council, revoking
the former order for flopping all American
(hips, laden with the produce of the French
colonies. According to regulation, the
packet ihould have failed in the preceding
week.
Though the mails from Flanders and
Boland, due yesterday, are not arrived, we
received this morning the Paris papers to
the 1 Sth instant. By these papers we are
informed, that the Genoefe have opened
their pprts to the French, whom they have
abundantly supplied with corn : That at
Toulon, five Ihips have already been equip
ped for sea: That Manheim has been set
fire to by the inceflant cannonade that has
been kept up against it: That the works
erected to blockade Landau, have been
destroyed; and that immense supplies of
dores and provisions have been obtained by
the French at Spirts, Frankenthal, and
Worms* The National Convention has
decreed the confiscation of the property of
the Farmers General. _
A serious disturbance tock place at Ed
inburgh on the day on which the trial of
Mr. Margaret took place. The summons
to the people to afletnble was the carrying
a white flag, on which wete printed these
words } LIBERTY,JUSTICE,REASON,
and TRUTH.
JANUARY 29.
Accounts were on Monday received ar
Lloyd’s, that 14 fail of Algerine veffeb,
anounced by the left Lisbon mail, at hav.
ing pafled the ftreights of Gibralterito
cruize against the American trade, have
been obliged by stress of weather, to re
turn to the Mediterranean.
The Faris papers mention, that Thom
London, Jan. 16,
'janVarV ij.
as Paine and Anacharsis Clootz,'
have been committed to the prison of Lux
embourg.
La Fayette, (who was reported to be
dead) and the other French prisoners, in
custody of the King of Pruflia, have been
transferred from Magdcbourg, to a fortrefs
in Selifia.
WE learn with pleasure, the recent ar
rival at Wrfcaffet, of eight fail of
vettels from the Weft-Indies, with valuable
cargoes. We are not of the number who
detail rumors of depredations on our com-*
merce with apparent exultations.
The people of England very universally
reprobate the idea of a war with the Unit
ed States—and for the Inflrudions of tbd
6:h Nov. the British King and Ministry
have been very Severely and very generally
censured. The merchants in almoll all
the seaports joined in the petition for their
revocation. In all the debates tn the Drit-
ilh parliament, which we have feeb, not
one word or intimation is made of a rup
ture with the United States-
The Speech of the President of the U
nited States was published in London, the
20th of Jan. and had an effed to lower the
price of Insurance materially.
From Portland, we learn, that the Brit-
the purpose of ascertaining he true Htust'oh
of our property captured by the Britiifi
privateers and afifting our Cc pt tins in the
defence of their rights, will fail in a fevSr
days.
ilh fleet, under Admiral M’Bride, con
flfling of 4 fail of the line, and 8 frigates,
had arrived at Halifax, [t is laid, they
were fitted cut to intercept the French
fleet, lately in the Chesapeake.
They write from Philadelphia, that Mr.
Higginfon, who is going out to the Weft-
Indies, in the Service of government, for
it is the earnest with of bis Britannic Ma
efty’s lubjefts* that a separate Treaty be
concluded between his Mtjcfiy and France.
■ The number who voted on the minority
on the answer to the British King’s Speech,
and confequen ly, were opposed to the
continuance of the war egainft France,
was 6f.
DIED very suddenly in this town,
Mrs. Nancy GidDinge, wife of
Maj. Nathaniel Giddinger# the 33d
year of her age —and has left a hus
band and five children to lament her
loss. \ , ..
We learn from Philadelphia, that the
Hon. JOHN JAY, Esq. is appointed En
voy Extraordinary to the Court of London,
for the demand of reflitution for spoliations
on our commerce.
( s.) TJE Remembered, that on
* fj the fourteenth day of April
in the eighteenth year of the Independence
of the United States of America Samuel
Langdon of the said Diftrift, hath depof>
ited in this Office the title of a Book the
right whereof he claims as Author in the
words following, to wit,
“ Remarks on the leading Sentiments
in the Rev’d Dr. Hopkins’ System of
Dcftrtnes,in a letter to a friend from Sam
uel Langdon, D. D?’ in conformity ta
the 'Ad of the Congreft of the United
Stites fancied, “ an Aft for the encourage
ment of learning* by securing the copies
of maps, charts and bocks, to the Authors
and proprietors of -futh copies during the
terms therein mentioned.”
JONATHAN STEEL, CM of fa
DiJlriSi of Nenv-Hartyjhirei *
X coty of Record.
Attest, JONATHAN STEEL.
Di flri Si of Nenv- Hamfjhire—to writ.
❖ - । ....
RAN away from the fa b
fcriber on the 23d. inst. in indent
ed boy, named John Chace. All per Tons
are forbid harbouring or trusting him on
fiiy credit, as they would avoid the pen
alty of the law.
Whoever will return him again dear of
expence, (hall receive the above reward,
and no thanks.
HENRY MARSHALL,
Brlntuood, Jpril 26, 1794.
We have received London intelligence
the 7th March, by which it appears that
Domestic Intelligence.
Creter,
WESDAr APRIL 29, 1794.’
One Farthing Rennard.
BOSTON, April 26.