Republican gazette — Concord, N.H., 1801-10-15 00:00:00, page 2

Extraa fam tbe Pbiladelpbia Gazette, 24th Aug.
" Spanish Amity. In the course of the
left three weeks 12 captures by the Spaniards
have been announced. To-day we have to add
to the lift, the ship Pegasus of Newyork, feat
into a port near Lima. Not a murmur is heard
to escape the Jacobin Gazettes at this atrocious
condua of the Doni—no wonder— The Jacob
ins never complain of French captures, and they
might offend their French masters by complain
ing of the S,a*ijb. This is the real “ anti- rev
olutionary adherence to our enemies !" It is
the patriotism of the Jacobins, the passive Haves
to France & the free Republicans of America."
THE OTHER SIDS.
Extraa of a letter from Lima, teagentleman in tbis
rity, (Pbila.) dated the Btb of Feb. 1801.
" The (hip Pegasus, of Newyork, has been
captured on this coast whilst fmugflng, by a
roenue armed brig, and brought into Callao,
(the port of Lima) where it is supposed she will
be condemned, as the was found with only part
of her cargo pn board, and a considerable sum
in dollars, being the amount of that part ihe
had clandestinely disposed of on our coast, with
out having made an entry in any port in Peru."
Candour might have - induced an Editor to
mention the motives which caused the capture
of the Pegafur- Every nation reserves to itfelf
the right of regulating its own trade. Uwe.
vtarn, which b, its dippenfatians, press that it
delights is the bappinejsofman here, andtbrir great,
or os,pitta hereafter."
The onsiffion of this sentence was certainly
on the part of the Centinel as complete a con.
viaion of former guilt, as could possibly be
given, but it was not the conviaion that pro
duces contrition, but that kind of detailed and
fell condemning conviaion which plunges the
criminal into despair, and aauates from the
.consciousness of criminality to persist in further
crimes. The Centrad [the Centinel is not the
only one] had taken pains to impress upon the
people of New England that the President was
an Jtbeifr-The publication of the inaugural
address with the above sentence, would have
been to overthrow the fabric of falfhood which
the Centinel and many other papers had for a
long time been rearing.
Another inface. Among several articles of
foreign news received lately, there was one dat
ed Paris, July 17, as follows—
" O# the \tyb in,, will be celebrated in the tem
ple of Viaer,, af?,i<ual cenjecrated to the princi
ples of Theism and Toleration, tee propagated b,
Voltaire.”
This article was copied into the Philadelphia
Gazette, fad the federal papers in NewbampQzire]
but with the addition of the letter a to the word
theism, by which it was made Atbeifm. &
Nothing but Depravity could commit this
f"U')> or attempt to confound Tbeijm with a
theism. For. Chriftlanity is in fad Theifm—
which means the Belief in GOD.
It certainly can be of no confluence to the
people of America, what are the religious or ir
religious opinions of any other men. No man
is accountable for the opinions of another, any
more than one nation for those of another.—
The folly which could defeend to so pitiful a
forgery, cannot be considered, in any point of
view, as entitled to refpea or credit. The ar
tifice is so contemptible, and the end to be an
swered is so insignificant and inapplicable in
this country, that therein no mode of account
fog for the imposture upon any principle of
Morality. [Aurora.
From the Before Centinel, (# ri,l, to th Aurora.
THEISM. The sage Editor of the Aurora,
apologizing on this paragraph, fays, " Cbrift
ianity is in fad Theifro, which means the be
liefof God." He might with equal propriety
have said, that Poganlfm is Chriftiaoity. The
ism, as advocated by Voltaire, is, it is true, the
" belief of God But it is also, a denial of th
Divinity of Jefne Cbriff, and of th Hol, Script
art,. [ContineL
How happened it then, Mr. Centintl, that the
Miniftere of the Roman Catholic Church, did
eaualiy attend this Festival to YbtiJm ? Do the
Roman Catholics deny the Divinity of Christ,
or the Holy Scriptures? If so, why are the
Englifti, and the Anglo Americans, so fearful
of the downfall of the Popijb Religion ?
Two Sides to ever, Qutfion : Or,
An example of the veracity and candour of the
Tory Gazettes.
Cbe late! gnteUfyence.
A PLAIN QUESTION.
Suppose the Subjects of any nation, in amity
with the United States, mould attempt to carry
on a smuggling trade with our citizens, to save
She duties at the Cuftemhoufe, would not our
Revenue officers seize upon the vessel & goods
of those Smugglers & Certainly they would, or
else not perform the duty-required by law.—
And Shall we not allow others the fame justice
which we clalnr.— merely because they happen
to be Frenchmen or Spaniards ? JusTtca is
precisely the famp to a Turk as an Englishman ;
or a Spaniard ; ora Frenchman ; or an American ;
to a ,rw as to a Gentile. [R. Gt.
Washington, sept. 16.
CENSUSof Me United States,
complete, excepting Tenneffio, andpart e/ an al
lotment in Maryland.
Ne. of People.
Newhampihire, 183,858
Rhodeifland, 69,122
Massachusetts, 422,845
Maine, 151^9
Conneaicut, 251,002
Vermont, j 154465
Newyork, 586,141
Newjerfey, 211,149
Esftern Diftri& of Pennsylvania, 323,799
Weftern do. 274,566
Delaware, 64,273
Maryland, 309,704
Eastern Diftria of Virginie, "676,682
Weftern do. #02,268
North Carolina, 478,103
South Carolina, 345,591
Georgia, 162,686
Kentucky, 220,955
Miffifippi Territory,, 8,850
Territory North of the Ohio, 45,365
Indiana territory, 5,641
Columbia, South of Potomac, 5>949
Do. North of do. 8,144
Total, 5,166,877
t. The above document is, in many refpeas,
highly interesting. It demonstrates the grow
ing prosperity of our country, and shews the in
timate conneaion between moral principle and
national advancement. Whilst almost evgry
nation in Europe, from the dominion of un
sound political principles, and their invariable
concomitants of war, famine, luxury, and vice,
are lofiog the strength derived from numbers,
the United States, under the protedioo of true
political principles, with their concomitants of
peace, plenty, frugality, and virtue, are gain
ing numbers in a ratio unprecedented in the
annals of any other people, end even furpaffiog
the sanguine predictions of enthusiasts.
The total population of the United States,, as
taken in 1700, amounted to 3,929,326,
The present census amounts to
more than 5,166 877—which gives an increase
of upwards of a Million of inhabitants, in the
short period of ten years 1 .
The increase is at the rate of about 1 third
in io years, which will double any given num
ber in about 24 years.
R, th table predicated on th con,ne, it appears
tbat in 179,; the States according to their refpeata
numbers, jhedjbw:
1. Virginia, 9- Newjerfey,
a. Maffachufetti, 10. Newhampfhirr,
3. Pennsylvania, 11. Vermont,
4. Northcarolina, 12- Georgia,
5. Newyork, 13. Kentucky,
6. Maryland, 14. ,Rhodeifland,
7. Southcarolina, 15. Delaware.
8, Conneaicut,
It farther appears that, according to th census of
1800, th, now in pint of numbers sand that :
1. Virginis, 9. Kentucky,
2. Pennsylvania, 10. Newjerfey,
3. Newyork, 11. Newhampfhire,
New,orb,Sept.^3. Letters received in town
yegerday, from officers of the Ship Pegasus, of
this port, fate tty foe was captured on the zd
of January, at the island of Maffa Fuero, (i§o
leagues from the Spanish coaftj by a Spanish
Ship and brig—that the officers and men were
kept in irons until their arrival at Lima, which
was 60 days —that they were liberated on the
Sth of May—and that some of the crew had ta
ken their paffsge in the Ship Diana for Canton
and Boston ; and others in the Ship Asia for Phi
ladelphia. The Pegasus and cargo were con
demned ; but from her being captures so far
from the Spanilh coast, and some other circum
stances, there is yet a hope that the property
may be recovered.
Halifax, Sept. 22. A letter from St. John's
Newfoundland, to an officer in this garrison,
mentions, that a person in a dreadful nt of in
sanity, having possessed himfelf of a hatchet,
went to the house of a poor woman, in which
were three children, and split their skulls in a
most shocking manner. The mother hearing
the cries of her children, ran to their assistance,
and shared the fame fate. The unhappy man
was at length disarmed ; but not antill he had
dangerously wounded nine per font, 6 of whom
were since dead.
Counterfeit BILLS. Greenfield, Sept. 21.
James Roberts and Jonathan Holbrooks, who
were some time finee committed for having in
their poffcffion plates for counterfeiting 5 dol.
bills of the Hartford, and 10 do. of the Man
batten Bank, were sentenced by the Supreme
Court, left week, to fine and imprisonment.
They had a large amount of counterfeit bills
of the Bank of the U. States, viz.€
zo dol. bills of the U. S. Bank—) dole, of
the fame bank, issued at their office of deposit
in Newyork, and 5 dols. deposit at Boston ;—
Those of 20 dols. are dated July a, r 799, and
made payable to I. Todd, the 5 dpls. of the N.
York branch bear date Jan. 30th, 1800, and
those of the Boston branch Feb. 19th, 1800.
4. Massachusetts, 12. Georgia,
5. Northcarolina, 13. Vermont,
6. Southcarolioa, 14. Rhodeifland,
7. Maryland, 15. Delaware.
8. Conneaicut,
$1,1.23. Capt. S. Talbot has tefigned
his commission. We understand that
this measure has proceeded from a
wish to do away difficulties which in
his apprehehfion, resulted from the
contested point of rank between him
and Capt. Truxton. Both of the navy.
The Bank of the U. States bat determined to ej
tablijh a Branch Bank in this citj.
REMARKABLE, Alexandria, Sept. 25.
I think it was in the summer of 1795, that 1 ac
cidentally got into my possession a Lujus Nature
—A negro man, going over a Small Stream of
water which originates in the mountain,known
b, the name of the Bull Rua Mountain, saw,
and caught a fraall turtle, (or what is more ge
nerally known there by the name of fkillpot)
of a very extraordinary conftruaion. On ex
amination, there issued from the fame Shell two
separate and diftina necks and heads, with two
pair of eyes, two mouths, and in Short, to every
appearance, the heads and necks of two differ
ent turtles. I kept it in a bafon of water several
days,during which time, when flies were caught
and put into the bafon, as food for it, each head
appeared equally anxious to devour them, and
often both were seen feeding at the fame time.
But what appeared most extraordinary to every
beholder, was, each head seemed to be aduated
by withes and desires of itsown ; for at times,
one head would endeavor to proceed in one di
reaion, and the other in another. In every o
ther refpea it appeared to be a Single turtle,
having only 4 legs, one body and 1 tail. This
you may rely on as a just representation, there
are many refpeaable people in that place who
can teftify the truth ofit. Wm. POWEL.
A MURDER. Newyork, Sept. 30.
Extraa of a letter from ayoung gentleman in fa,re
county, Kentucky, ,uly 1, 1801, to bis father.
" A few days since, a horrid murder was perpe
trated in this neighborhood. Joseph Dotson
murdered his son io-law, Wm. Wermfly, with
a club, and funk bimin Cumberland River,
with a stone in bis bosom. 8 days afterwards,
he was found floating. N Wm. a son of the mur
derer, being near where' the body was found,
hastened home and informed bis father, who
immediately quitted his house, telling his fami
ly he would never be taken alive. I made one
of a company that waylaid his house. He came
back in the night time, and we ordered him to
furredder, which he refufed, but fought with a
club. We fired on him ; be ran and plunged
into the river. We pursued, and fired two guns
at him while in the water ; which, we conjec
ture, so affrighted him,that be prefen'ly drown
ed ; for his body being found a few days after,
and examined, no wound appeared on him—
Young Dotson, who seems to have been accef
fary to the mhrder, was tried by an examining
court, committed, and ordered to a further trial
in August next, at Danville."
HORRIBLE!