The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1790-01-09 00:00:00, page 1

ON Friday night left, the Coro,
ner'r Inquest met at the Blue
Folk, in Cock-street, and fat
on the body of Eleanor John
son, a beautiful young girl, only 17
years of age, who had that morning
poisoned herfelf at the house of her
niafter, Mr. Franfer, Optician, Old
Bond-street. —The circumstances at.
tending the unhappy fate of the young
woman being rather lingular, wefhail
lay them be^j our readers in the
authentic manner they were reported
to us by the foreman of the jury.——
It appeared in evidence that an inti
macy had fabfitted between the
deceased and a black man, named
Thomas Cate, a native of the East-
Indies, on whom the had fixed her at.
fedion; that on Thursday she had
received a letter from him, wherein
he accofes her of deceit ; but which
Ihe had burnt.— The contents of this
epistle produced her fatal resolution.
She wrote him a letter,' which ftie
meant to have forwarded by the penny
post ; and afterwards pdrehafed three
penny-worth of white mercury at an
apothecary's,under pretence of its be
ing to kill rats. Between twelve arid
one o'clock in the morning ffie exe
cuted her dreadful purpose, pre
viously mixed the poisonous drtig in
some liquid. She rang the bell vio
lently twice; tehich being answered
by a domeftick, she said, "'dill my
Iniftrefs diredly, for I am very ill.;"
but before her mistress coald reach her
apartment, (he was insensible, & ex.
pired in a few moments. When
befere the Jury, the Black appeared
so ignorant & illiterate, tha* nothing
could be colleded from his evidence ;
mor the purport of the letter he had
„ feat her be come at frbat when her
letter to him was read he wep most
bitterly. The Jury, after a very
umane and attentive confederation,
, wrought in their verdid, Lunacy.
The following is an exad copy of
ie letter feat to Cato by this unhap
py girl: &,/. 14, 17894
,\M,dt„ ttote Cata,
, THE letter I received this even
", ing makes me unhappy; to think
", you Ihoald expose me, and fa, I am
" deceitful, and forget my fond em
,•' braces so soon; no my dear, lam
•'npt deceitful, nor, did not intend to
„be -if Ihad, I should not have
" given my company to, one apt of my
“ own colour ; for, was you the fined
<<man that ever miteeyes beheld,af-
Hter using me in this manner, I
<< would not make you my hufoand:
"but Idid intend it, from my heart,
" even this hour—but lam f?rry to
) "fay, I never ffihll be married, nor
<fßever ffiaU enjoy any thing again.
"As for you, you never will make
“ use of your loving embraces with
"me any more—neither will it
#'be inyour power to fyeak -to me
? any more, tetra very fare, the
,immortality is drawing very near—
H caq;to?y>eart decay very faft
you could not make me recom
, fperafof the hurt you have done
r wish ypur.cruel letter, was you to
F die at my feet. ——One favor I beg
T" of you is, if not too much trouble,
I >c\o fee me after I am dead, as I (hall
"not liv&tobe maffied, or even fee
Y another day.—Let these few words
be printed in your heart, as 4 am
t%ot able to write any more —for my
tecs are flowing with tears—and my,
/heart fateh fol cannot ho d
Ifoei—but&Ryour sincere wellwifhv
Herejou may range the world from pole to pole, lucreaft your RfyU^aud delifavour foul; Travel all countries,and inform „,rfe,e^ T'tb safe andjafet, at a final! e,tnfe
hTURPAY, JAXVABY,, !,„.] THE[▼•£. IV.—Nutt l,9
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# OCTOBER 28.
We are affined from the firft autho
rity, that the following is atrue date
meat of a late tranfadion in Paris :
So very anxious are the Queen's
party to destroy the influence which
the Duke of Orleans has over the
minds of the people; that his enemies
even accuse him of an intention to
poison the Queen, arid to dethrone
the King ,'riud, to give credit to the
report, they arrest and examine all
his friends and seize all their papers^
b/d, W, among the rest, was arretety
in the middle of the night, and car
ried by 500 armed men, to the Hotel
de Ville, to answer interrogations,and
to (hew all her letters & papers,: She
became fafpeded of knowing his pol
itics, because he visited her, and that
the had gone into the country to the
Dutches of Orlean's; with his After
and brother. They sent a party of
Soldiers to search for her at theDutch
efs's House ; but they having return
ed to Paris that day, (he was taken at
her own house ; without any fear
although amidst affaQins and blood
hounds, surrounded by guards; (he
went before les Etat Geriejeau*. The
police and army assembled, tho' three
in the muring ; (he aofwered in such
a manner to their interrogations, as
refuted all their base accufatioas a
gainst the Duke. Except some (craps
or poetry, no papers were found, not
evdna billet-deux; and with' a spirit
and composure which alionithed and
charmed Monsieur de la Fayette, (he
reprobated their conduct; infixed on
fatisfadion, which they gave her by
the most ample apologies' and with
every mak of refpea ; die was con
du€led home, after an examination of
7 houH. l
No less than 200,000 families are
said to have quittedFrance on account
of her present defrayed state; and as
the exiles in general were those pos
sessed of the greatest property, they
are calculated to have drained the na
tion of sixty millions of money.
A lock of hair has recently been
imported from Armenia, by an emi
neut dealer in that article, at the weft
end of the town. It is of a most beau
tiful colour, and is above five feet in
length, and is valued at the moderate
sum of eighty guineas!
One of the French Jburrials asserts,
that the flame" of liberty has burst
out in Spain :—that amob of armed
men demanded thehead of fix ln.q uif
itors, who prevented the publication
of patriotic writings: and that 6000
troops were ordered to quell the tu.
mulu,zooo~ of which cameover to
the people, |nd the rest would not
ad. We deliver this on the testi
mony of the Journal, but we know
nothing of the truth of it, &
4Pa#.=Two of the Tier Etat
lately converting qpon the danger of
the popular frenzy in France, one of
fc^rte, .fy^ VQ _?r. (ft
them observed, that it was wonderful
that the King had escaped without a
broken head, "Escaped ! said the
other, they have cracked his crown,
and that is partly the fame thing."
The crime of the poor Baker, who
was murdered by the mob at Paris,
was by his having concealed, a few
loaves of*the prior days bakings The
unhappy wife who knew nothing of
the murder till the dead corpse was
'brought home,and very abruptly tum
bled into the (hop, fainted away at
the fight, and expired in a few min.
@tes.-;
fr.r.. .ItoVIMIU^ ^V'
;When the Emperor yesterday, was
lattending the Te Deum, an ex,refs
I arrived with the news of another vie,
The poor Turks, if we may believe
the Austrians and Ruffians, are beaten
trail places —had yet like Twine every
where run their npfes, to the no small
annoyance and difquietode of their
conquerors !—lt would seem they are
of an incorrigible cast ! They will
neither lead nor drive, nor give out
when beaten— but always return to the
charge, as if nothing had happened,
Troublesome enemies they must be.
Pa itts, oct. 8. ON the evening
of the 6th, the bodies of those who
had been killed the day before in the
conteß between the Parisians and the
ilfliitary, were buried in the church
of our Lady at Versailles. These vic
tims were 17 in number; of which ,
had belonged to the life guards, 6 to
Verfailes militia, 1 woman & 4 other
persons not "belonging to any military
corps. Melancholy as was the fune
ral procession, and (hocking as were
the refleaions which it occasioned in
every mind alive to humanity & pat
riotism, ^ill there was a circumstance
which afforded some consolation. in as
much as it had prevented the number
of viflims from being infinitely great
er. The circumstance was thus:
A bdy of women, whom the voice
of reason could not [Hi£^n „xujhedLriA
SlbiMFlhTfrßoman'armies, to prevent
the effafion of kindred blood) but for
the purpose of"falling with their own
hands, on the' Life Guards, This
fury of the women was the preserva
tion of the Life Guards ageinft whom
it was directed. For just at that mo
ment, the Parisian militia had drawn,
up their artillery, loaded with grape
(hot, aud pointed it against their ene
raies. And just as they were prepaid
&g to fire,the women rushed between
so that the militia could not fire with
out killing them. This fayed the
Itory.ltory. Lieutant General Prince Ho.
henfohe, who commands.in Tran fyi
v_uia, on the fame day of the capture
of Belgrade, beat a detachment of the
enemy near Perenzeay, and on the
morrow (O&ober g) Ml the Ottoman
corps, of ten thoufaad men, with five
ennons, under the command of the
Pacha Gara ^uftapha, who approach
cd to attack. Cata MuAkpHa, it is
said, killed himfelf, and 1500 of his
men followed the fpririted example.
''~^°f fe enemy's cannon, amuhi
d&gfrrm 40 to 50 cobur;, a quan
tity of arms, the camp, the magazine
of Vadony, is well as that of Tyr
gufchyl, have fallen into the hzrids of
our troops, who have made a .ofider
able booty particularly of cattle. Our
loss is trivial; but the prince Hohen
lohe, has received a contusion on his
right t^igh. He declares, that at the
coeclufion of the present campaign,
the signal advantages gained, succeed
one another with a rapidity which is
not less gloriqus than allonilhing.
By a letter from Paris, dated 24th
of Oflober, eleven o'clock's we are
informed, that a little after one that
morning, the Life of Monsieur de la
Fayette was attempted, on his return
from a visit to Mons. Neckar, by an
dffaffn, who pluriged a bayonet in his
carriage;,
When the Adfrlans took possession
of Belgrade, they found iz§o of the
garrison dead, who had oeen killed in
the course of the three preceding days,
but whom the garrison had not time
to bury. ——During the fame period
1703 of the Ottomans were wounded.
Such are th, triumphs, 0 Jofepbl
between the militia & the life guards
(not with the fame laudable motive
which prompted the Sabine woman,
whom the Romons had forcibly mar
ried, to throw themselves between the
THE third ciafs are planted down
in the dark, difQal valley, at
the foot of mount opulence ; where
fogs and damp vapours invelope them
in perpetual oofcurity and indigence t_
they live chiefly on the fruits of the
mountain, washed down from the in
acceffibie heights into the final! rirfd.
lets of charity—these rivulets are
tometimes almost dry :—The half
built houses are no barriers against
the fierce northerly winds. The de
fending cold rains have free access to
every achrtrnent which by the way
are too numerous— if by chance you
call in at their habitation, your
eyes are not called with shining fur*
nit ure, but darkened with wooden
windows ; are you fatigued by , long
walk to visit them, and fainting for
want of refrefhmerit when you arrive
there, a cup of cold water and a piece
of course bread are all their graticule
can set before you. Their children,
though numerous, are clad in .tags,
and endeavour to hide themselves
when you approach, left Iheir naked
ness should appear. Poverty is to be
seen in all they possess; view their
bedding in a cold Winter's evening,
bless me !, how would a rich man's
children lleep under inch flight cover
ing ? view their table when set with
their best dishes, hew would the lieart
of a well fed map ache to be obliged
to take up with such fare ?
'THE Commissioners api
= pointed to receive ant examine
the claims of the several creditors of
the estate of JOHN GIDDINGE,
Uteof Exier, Esq. deceased, give
notice, that 4 further time of fix
months is allowed by, (he Judge of
Probate, &c. for said county, for
that puipofe—and that they will at,,
tend that service at the late dwe'/jßgi
house of said deceased, on the (fl
Tuefday of this and the five follow,
ing months, from two to fix o'clock
in the afternoon of said days.
Exeter, Dec. 9th, 1789.
/ >ATELIA
Almanack,;
for 179°,
MAY BE HAD ATTHIS QFFi,„>
Life Guards; for had the fire with
grape once began,it would have been
dlmoft morally impossible that any one
of these gallant fellows Ihould escape
death.
Therevolution in BrufTels is car,
ried on with the fame efforts as that
of (his kingdom—reti ßance to the po<
polar fury is vain.
At Liege, the patriots carry all be
fore them—but how long this will
lift is uncertain—the Prullian Mo
narch having marched a large body
of forces to qu: 11 them. Lil; is
making waft flrides towards perj^^t,
and quill, probably, ere long,fpreaa its
heavenly buffings throughout the world,
“ The heart that melts at other's
, woes. [left ;
" Shall find each felfiilh {birows
" The mind, that happiness be
stows,
"Refleded happiness <ha T l bless,"
MISCELLANY.
The POOR MAN'S LOT.
Notice !