The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1790-09-24 00:00:00, page 2

From the Massachusetts 'Magazine, for
JULY, 1790.
A SENTIMENTAL PICTURE.
HE has gone and left me, cried
Delia, as she fat under an oak,
and I know not where ; he has left
me to weep, and languish out my life
in misery. Oh that I knew where to
find his grave, there would I lay me
down, and expire upon the humble
sod. Alas ! perhaps he was denied
the common rites of burial—he may
have been mangled to death by a mer
ciless banditti, who had rather leave
his body above the ground to be de
voured by voracious animals, than to
wrap it in a covering, and fuffer it to
moulder in the silent tomb.
For whom art thou mourning,pret
ty maid? said a stranger, who had
been gazing, undifeovered, at the
weeping fair, during her plaintive
soliloquy.
My dear Armine, announced she,
darting with surprise; he was taken
by the Indians in the late war, and I
have not heard from him since. He
was all friendfhip—we both loved—
here is a token of his affection, (pull
ing a beautiful miniature from her
bosom, and tenderly killing it) here
is a pledge of the sincerity of his
heart; it shall be buried with mein
the fame grave.
Here she paused—her tears preven
ted utterance —her tumultuous pas
sions and tender feelings, were too
tygnant to admit the power of speech.
body was enfeebled, and her
senses, at times, were somewhat im
paired. After a few moments inter
val, she again proceeded :
My dear Armine and I had but
one heart, we contracted an intimacy
in our childhood, and it did not fail
to increase as we grew up toyears of
diferetion. My papa disapproved of
our connexion, because Armine was
poor. We parted, but our attach
ment was too great to fuffer a total
Separation. We resolved to endure
poverty, that we might be happy,
rather chafing to live amid the diffi
culties,of a tempestuous world, and
enjoy the sweets of contented minds,
than to roll in affluence, and eat the
bread of affliction. But heaven has
taken him away, and I am left alone|
to perish; my vindictive father will,
not receive me —the cold earth is my
bed—and the canopy of the iky my
covering. I long to be going, I wish
I was with him, and then
Ah pitiful maid ! interrupted the
compassionate stranger, with some
emotion —would the fight of thine
Armine make thee happy? '1
. Yes, cried she, sighing, it would—
becaufe he loved me, he told me so ;
he was incapable of deceiving me.—
But alas ! he is dead, or I should have
heard from him before now. Since
the fates have decreed the unavoida
ble misfortune, and firice it is the will
of providence to cut us off in the midst
of our youthful days, I must acquiesce,
and fay, the will of the Lord be done.
—Nevertheless, the few moments I
have to live, shall be devoted in shed
ding tears of forrowful friendfhip,
and in wreathing a tablet of flowers,
which may ere long be placed upon
the urn that contains the precious
dust of Armine !
" The flranger flood confefi'd' —he
clafpt her in his arms, and thus ex
claimed, I am thine Armine, who
was loft, but now lives to hush the
rising sighs of his lovely Delia. Par
don my silence, I little thought of
finding thee under an humble oak,
clad in the robes of despair. Forgive
me heaven! I live to make my Delia
happy.
The bosom is painted at the view of
this tender feene. It is enough to
remark, that the instantaneous fhocl,
the sudden transition from a state ofl
melancholy woe to the most exalted,
joy, and the powerful conflict of con-j
tending pafl^ns, rushing like an im-1
petuous torrent through the foul,|
subdued every faculty—they fainted
in each others arms, but they recov-;
ed, they are happy !
PUNCTILIO.
FOR THE GAZETTEER.
ON A PIPE OF TOBACCO.
PRETTY tube of might, power,
Charter of an idle hour ;
Object of my hot desire,
Lip of wax, and eye of fire :
And thy fnor, taper waste,
With my finger gently brac'd :
And thy lovely dwelling crest.
With my bended stopper preft :
And the sweetest blits of blisses,
Breathing from rhy balmy kiffet. }
Happy thrice and thrice again,
Happiest he of happy men !
Who, when again the night returns,
When again the taper burns;
When again the crickets cry
(Little crkketf full of play)
Can afford his tube to feed,
With the. fragment Indian weed;,
Pleasure for a nefe divine, ,
Inccnfe of the god of wine!
Happy thrice and thrice again,
Happiest he of happy men !
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
LONDON, JUNE 11. x
A SHORT time since a journeyman carpenter
in the Borough fold a woman that he had
cohabited with for five years to a brother chip for
Haifa guinea and a gallon of Porter. The man
Ifet off with his purchase, which turned out to be
la very fortunate one, as the woman a few davs
1 after had a legacy left her of 15001. by a deceased
I relation in Shropshire. They were married lad
Tuefday. '.
BLOODY ENGAGEMENT.
„,,, I l ■l■»t
JULY 10.
Smyrna, Ma, 21. Intelligence has been re
lieved here that the Ruffian Iqundron failed on the
I§th instant from Zia, leaving behind on the Iffand
all the Albanefe troops to ake care of the works,
I that on the 16th they fell in with the Turkish fleet,
'between the Cape d'Oro and the Iflaud of Andros :
Major Laubro, the Ruffian commander, began the
adion with nine veffcls against eighteen of the
Turks ; that on the ißth, the latter were joined
by seven Algerine xebecs, who with great courage
attacked the Ruffians, killed a great number of
, them, funk two or three of their veffeli, and obli
ged two to run aground on the Ifcd of Andros,
where the Ruffians set fire to th?m, in Order that
they might, not fall into the han^ cf the enemy ;
that Major Lambro took to hi: ^cat, with all his
officers, and set fire to his frigate ; that the Ma
jor who „4s wounded in the adi .n, then embarked
on a fma'd vessel of his fquadroa, passed by Micone
where he raid three hours, a # d proceeded after
wards to Cirigo ; and that two ether firfall vessels
of the Ruffian squadron also made their escape.
Ertral of a later fren S rckbAm, f%?iß T 9.
" Late at night an express arrived to govern
ment with letters dated from Blorklaod the 7th
instant, containing an account that the Sweedilh
and Ruffian fleets had engaged four different times
in 48 hours, on the 3d and 4th of June, between
Sefka and Cronftadi. Nothing decisive, however
~has taken place, as the Ruffians avoided a
close and general engagement, always veering to
wards Cronfladr. Two of the Ruffian fleet were fa
much disabled as to be taken in tow, in order to
avoid being captured by the Sweedifh gun boats#"
Further particulars of the late o.aicn in the Baltic he
tween the Speeds and Ruffians.
Early on the 3d of June,the Ruffian Vice-Admi
ral Kruse was informed of the approach of the
Sweedifh fleet under the command of the Duke of
Sudermania, confining of 25 line of battle (hips.
Upon this information Vice-admiral Krofe gave
orders to his fleet, confining of 17 line of battle
fllips, to prepare immediately to meet the enemy.
I About two o'clock P. M. they met the Sweedifh
1 fleet near Krafna Gorka, about sixteen leagues on
this fide of Crondadt. The engagement commen
-1 ced immediately and laded till seven o'clock. A
,bout this time the firing ceased on both sides, and
;cha Swedes retired to Seafkar. In this engage
;men: the Ruffian Vice-Admiral Seuchotin had his
I leg (hot off.
Vice Admiral Krufo, haying refitted his ships,,
gave orders to pursue the enemy, and on the 4th
inst. they had a second severe engagement ; after
; which the enemy retired again to Summer's Island.
The Ruffian Admiral gave orders again to chafe
the enemy, and to engage them ; when all of a
sudden the enemy teuld their wind, and declined
the adioq. Vice Admiral Kruse gave orders to
putfue, when a little time after he saw twoSweedilh
frigates coming with crowded fails from the Island
of Hog land to their fleet ; and a little after Vice
Admiral Kruse perceived another Ruffian squadron
consisting of.eleven line of battle ships, under the
command of Tebitchagaff from Revel failing to
wards the enemy. Our intelligence ends here.
The Sweedifh fleet is left at prefect between two
fires. By the fame dispatches we learn, that the
Sweedifh cerpfe, consisting of betwe $ 4 and 5000
men, commanded by Gen. Armfeldc, attacked the
Gen. Chrootfehow, near Seraitopol in Finland,
who being polled advantageously withal 400 men
under his command, gave the enemy so very warm
a reception, that the Swedes in the engagement
had 400 men killed on the spot, and loft three
cannon and 30 men prifeners. The loss on the
Ruffian fide was very considerable.
AMERICAN ADVICES.
ST. BUSTATIUS, AUGUST 4.
NATAL ENGAGEMENT between the FLEETS
of ENGLAND and SPAIN.
Extruß of a letter from a gentleman in London to hi,
I friend in this ifand datea in July.
" IV' '" i°" received intelligence of a
most obstinate and well fought a&ion hav
ing taken place on the 28th of last month between
the fleets of England and Spain, off Cape St. Vin
cent—the former commanded in chief by Earl
HOWE, and the latter by Don JOSEPH SOLLE
RADO, Vice admiral of Spain, and a grandee
of that kingdom, by birth of the firft class. The
English fleet consisted of 17 fail of the line, with
4 frigates and 3 forty-fours, which were several
times, during the engagement, drawn into the line
of battle. The Spanish squadron consisted df 18
line of battle ships, the smallest of which do not
carry less th^n 84 guns, with metal of an enormous
weight, fix sixty-sours, and 8 fifties, besides frigates,
xebecs, &c. The engagement began at 10 A. M.
and continued until the setting fun. The flying
reports, as they arein circulation, are as follow :
That Lord Howe immediately upon perceiving
the enemy, threw out a signal for a general chace,
which was obeyed with the utmost alacrity by our
fleet ; and by ten they came up with the Dons,
who on their part, shewed no disinclination to the
conflid. —The order of battle was a cable's length
asunder.— —The Bellona to lead the van, and the
Bellerophon to bring up the.rear.—After the bat.
de had continued about eight hours, during which
time the greatest gallantry, and the utmost profi-