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KINGSTON, (Jm.) Jan. 9.
? The strong measure which the British
government has found necefiary to inforce
again ft America, will place her in a fitua
« tion highly inimical to the views of those
rtfh partizans of the French mbbocracy,
whole intrigues have been so fatal to her
real interest. For America to hesitate one
moment in offering to join the Teague a
gainst the present rulers of France, would
’ be a species of political insanity without
example in the hiftory of nations.
Feb. 7. The force which defended Th
buron, is estimated at 600 ; those who es
caped from the fire of our troops, we learn,
are supposed to have gone to Aux Cays.
The men of war after rhe reduftion of the
place, proceeded to Cape-Nicola-Mole.
By this Day s Mail.
L O N D ON, Jan. 11.
GREAT-BRITAIN this instant furn
ifhes America, with the following
articles, cheaper than they can import them
from Holland, or elsewhere, viz* Buttons,
, buckles, and all kinds of Birmingham
wares, a variety of edge tools, hard-wares,
and iron-mongery, several coarse woollens,
ealimancoes, durants, tammies, {balloons,
and moll worded piece goods, checks, woff
ted, and yarn Hockings.
papers cF Saturday last : From them and
from verbal information, we learn, .that
the Senate of the United States, had patt
ed a bill, empowering the President to lay
an embargo—That the citizens of Phila
delphia had adopted several spirited resolu
tions on the fubjeft of British infuk—•That
the captains of detained vettels at Bour
deaux, have made several earnest com
plaints on their situation—That advices
from St. Lucia, mention, that the British
have complete potteHion of Marrinico.
That 32 fail of American vettels had been
condemned at St. Kitts: That the galleries
of the House of Repreientatives of the U
nited States, were fhuc, on account of some
indecent behaviour in the galleries t That
Cape Francois had been taken by the
Spaniards ; and Sat the Minister of the
French Republic had requeued an advance
of money.
following remarks on the abandonment
of Toulon, are taken from the Madrid
Gazette of Jan. J.
•* Amid the diverse pofrions of the fleet
during this night, either to be iefs expoled
to the Are of the enemy, or to facilitate
the embarkation of many families, who
came by droves, in boats, com pa flion and
pity seized the hardest heart; the mod in
human could notendure the cries of many
without yielding to their foliciiauons.—
On this occasion fathers called for their
children ; husbands for their wives ; and
each one for relations and friends. Several
plunged thcmfclves into the sea, to over
take the vettels which were getting under
way, a great number of whom werediown
ed— some of them in defp air, seized their
wives from their lying-in beds, to save
them from the vengeful knife of their ene
my. This afpeft forced cam pa flion even
before the hour of horrid conflagration had
arrived; all conduced with profound se
crecy, not one of these fuccours, which
could be produced for the unfortunate,
failed. They were all received on board;
and there they had the cor.folation of feeing
the rights of humanity, fulfilled in their re
fpeft.
“ To fee Toulon is to fee Troy; and the
comparison which such an afpeft causes,
cannot be mitigated except by reflediog,
that it is a punishment of God, fully merit
ed by the heinpufuels of their crimes.
** In fine, Toulon is loft—but it has not
been delivered to the enemy! nor will
they find it more, nor the forts on the fea*
Chores, which heretofore guarded theMedi
terraaean coasts, and environs—and thisan-»
fwers the fame purpose as if we still held
poffeflicn. ,, , . — > —
There is a profpeft that Congress will
have a long leflion. The political horizon
is clouded, and a storm appears to be gath
ering. In this situation, the pilot cannot
leave the helm of Rate.
The affairs of Europe are faft approach
ing to the crisis. The successes of France
sr.d her growing strength bode no pleasing
profpeft to the Combined Powers, and as
the parliament of Great Britain were to
meet in January, we may expeft important
intelligence from that country by the firft
arrivals.
Foreign Intelligence.
January io, 1794.
WE have the pleasure to hand you a
copy of frefh inftraftions, which have been
ifiued, in consequence of the representa
tions of the Committee ci American Mer
chants to his Majesty’s Ministers, which we
flatter oorfelves will give as much Satisfac
tion in America, as we experience, and
that it may tend to flrengthen the friend
fhip and good understanding between the
two countries, so eflen daily necefiary to
the prosperity of both. The delays arif
ihg in the Commons, do not rest with
Ministers, but with the Judge, who pre
sides in the Admiralty Court, and they
Ihew a disposition to redress this griev
ance, by removing him if it can be done.”
ExtaH of a letter from an officer at Niagara,
to a gentleman in this city, dated Feb. 2.
° council, (Indian) now holding
X at Buffalo Creek, will I hope tend
to reconcile the Indian and American inter
ests. I understand they are to meet to
morrow.”
PROVIDENCE, (R. 1) March 20.
Accounts from Congress mention, that the
most spirited measures will be immediately
entered into for putting our country in a re
/pt Hable fate of defence : All advices from
Europe indicating a determination on the part
of the belligerent powers that there fall be
no neutrals in thd pref ent canted.
Ext raft of Letters from Mess BIR D, SA V
AGE and BIRD, Merchants, in London
to their Correjp undent in this town, dat. d
as under.
January i, 1794.'
“ AMERICAN merchants, and tbs
gentlemen of Lloyd’s Coffe-Houfe have
experienced a great degree of alarm,
in consequence of Inftruftions, dated 6ti
Nov. but not iflued until the last of De
cember. The great ground of alarm wasa
misapprehension that the term ** flop aid
detain, and bring to legal adjudication/’
meant a condemnation. But the mer
chants have had a meeting about it: Arid
our Mr. H. M. Bird was of the Confmittee
who went to the Admiralty Proftar and
Mr. Dundas to require an explanation of
the Inftruftions—the result of which is that
the term " legal adjudication’* meths no
more than that such cargoes fhould’ be
brought to trial, to find out if they are
not French property ; but if they are found
to be American, they will be relcafed,
fubjeft only to charges,as there are grounds
of fefpicion fufficient to juftify the detention
arising from a difeovery having been made
that property is frequently mafeed. This
only relates to cargoes landed in and ship
ped from America. But the Committe,
under Mr. Dundas’s directions, are pre
paring a Petition, to Ministry of such a
modification as would relieve veflels laden
in America, on American accour.t, with
French colonial produce for Europe, if not
bound to France, and we hope to be
able to fend you a favourable answer from
Ministry, by our next. This information
you my deem authentic, and as it probably
may be of a different tenor from other let
ters from hence, it may be proper to make
it public.’*
The Britijh King, by an order dated Dec.
11, 1793, has permittidthe free importation
in American bottoms, into such forts of iht
if and of St. Domingo, as have J urrender id
to his arms, of proVifions, cattle, grain and
wood of every kind.
[The British Packet arrived at Hal ifax,
the 10th infl. with the January Mail. The
letters for ;he United States arrived here
on Thursday. By papers, and from let
ters, received by this conveyance, the fol
lowing Intelligence has been received ]
GEORGE REX. ?
InflruQion to the Commanders of our Ships
of War and Privateers that have or may
have Letters of Marque again (i France.
Given at our Court of St. James*s the
Eighth Day of Jan. 1794:
WHEREAS by our former TnftrulHons
to the Commanders of our Ships of Wat
and Privateers, dated 6th Noirember, 1793,
we! fignhied that they should flop and de
tain all ihips ioaden with goods the pro
American Intelligences
Interesting Intelligence.
NEW-YORK, March 12.
BOSTON, March 29.
duce of any colony belonging to France,
or carrying proyifions or other fupp’ies for
the use of any such Colony, and should
bring the fame with their cargoes to
legal adjudication, we are pleased to RE
VOKE the said Inftrudion, and in lieu
thereof we have thought fit to issue these
our inflrudions to be duly observed by the
Commanders of our ships of War and Pri
vateers that have or may have Letters of
Marque againtt France:
First, That they shall bring in for law
ful adjudication all vettels with their car
goes that we loaden with goods the pro
duce of the French Weft-India Islands,
and coming diredly from any port of the
said islands to any port in Europe.
zdly, That they shall bring in for lawful
adjudication all ships with their cargoes
that are loaden with goods the produce of
the said Islands, the property of which
goods shall belong to fubjefts of France, to
whatfoeyer ports the fame may be bound.
sdly. That they shall seize all ships
that shall be found attempting to enter
any ports of the said islands that*s or
shall be blockaded by the arms of his Ma
jesty or his Allies, and shall fend them
with their cargoes for adjudication, accord
ing to the terms of the former inftrufticns,
bearing date the Bth day of June, 1793.
4thly., That they shall seize all vcflels
laden wholly or in part with naval or
military stores, bound to any port of the
said Islands, and shall fend them into some
convenient port belonging to his Majesty
together with their cargoes, that they may
be proceeded agaioft according to the Rules
of the Laws of Nations. (Signed)
Henry dundas.
In the Packet.arrived on Thurfday,there
were dispatches from Mr. Pinkney our
Ambaflador at the Court of London ; and
Mr. Hammond, the English Minister;
We understand they have been feat on by
express.
By the packet we have received London
papers to the 13th January. They make
no mention either of the recapture of Val
enciennes, or the pulling down lord Hood’s
house. From appearances the Englilh pub
lic are heartily sick of the war. The gen
eral inquiry is, what is its objeft ?
Through various channels we learn, that
the inftruftions of the British King of the
Sth January, have been received in the
\yeft-Jndies—jo the great joy^of the Ame
rican Commanders, detained .there.
RESOLVED by the Senate and Houte
of Representatives of the United
States of America, in Congress ajfmbled.
That an EMBARGO be laid on all ships
and veflels in the ports of the United
States, whether already cleared outer not,
bound to apy foreign port or place, for the
term of thirty days'; and that no clearances
be furnifhed, during that time to any ship
or vessel bound to such foreign port or
place, except ships or veflels, under the im
mediate direftions of the President of the
United States; and that the Prefidentof the
United States be authorized to give such
inftruftions to the revenue officers of the
United States, as shall appear belt adapted
for carrying the said resolution into full
effeft*
Frederick A. Muhlenberg,
Speaker of the House of Refrefentatives.
John Adams, Vice-President of the
United States and PreJident of the Senate.
Approved—March 26, 1794.
Extrafl of a letter from an Officer in the Ar
my of tbe*United States, to his friend in
this town, Aefted Cantonment,, Greenville,
Jan. 18, 1744. '
“ THE late Embafly from the Dela
ware Indians will produce a general peace
with the confidence Tribes, who are
heartily fidr, I believe, of the war.
*
i *
r A THS. FOLLOWING
< Important Resolve,
Is communicated by hij excellency Gov
br» r, BARTLETT ; which he receiv
ed i Express in four days from Phi
laj jhja.
yv j ■■
In CONGRESS, March 26, 1794.
€;rter,
; TGESDjir JPRIL 1,1794.
j EMBARGO.
GEO: WASHINGTON,
Prefsdent of the United States
Muy be hod at this Office, The >
Loft & Undone Son of Perdition $
Or f£eßinh,L»ife& Character of
VOTES at STRATHAM.
Governor,
Hon. John T-. Gilman, Esq. ixr
Counfcllor.
Jeremiah Libbey, Esq. 85
CHriftopher Toppan Esq.
Senator, Dis, No. L
Andrew Wiggin, hfq. 66
Deft. John Goddard S
County ^reafurer,
Oliver Peabody, Esq. 84
Josiah Adams, Eiq- 6
Recorded of Deeds, •
Josiah Adams, Esq 86
Samuel Brooks, Esq. 5
Represent alive.
Mr. Stephen Piper.
VOTES at PORTSMOUTH*
Governor.
Hon. John Langdon, Esq. 66
John T. Giiman, Esq. 52
Senator.
Christopher Toppan, Esq. 2S
Phillips White, Esq. 4
Oliver Peabody, Esq. 3
Col. James Sheafe, z
, Counfellor,
Jeremiah Libbey, Esq. 4a
Christopher Tcppan, Efq* 5
Phillips White, Esq. 5
County Treafuret.
Oliver Peabony, Elq. 24
Re ’gifer of Deeds,
Mr. Joseph Smith Gilman, 20
Josiah Adams, E q. 15
Samuel Brooks, Esq. $
“ We are most advantageously, as well
as charmingly ficuated : the ground we oc
cupy is a moderate oak ridge, environed
on three sides by Pararies or Meadows,
which are slmoft boundless, and would
supply the army of Xerxes with forage for
a century : they are said to extend to the
Lakes, and are covered with the most lux
uriant growth of grals ever seen. The
pararies, as far as eye could ken, afforded
the most pifturefqe fight the last evening,
I ever beheld.——The fealon has been re
markably fine here, and the grais is pcr
feftly dry-Some rambling fa v ages set fii®
to it, perhaps 20 miles from this place,
and about 7 in the evening, a column of
fire, three hundred yards front, which ap
proached the Cantonment at the speed of
ten miles an hour, exhibited a fpeftade
truly grand and sublime.”
« We beat up their hunting camps, Real
away their Squaws from the Villages, and
keep the poor d-—ls in constant alarm*
so that the Delaware Plerdpo extraordinary
has fiipulated to bring in, to Puft Recoviry
(a new garrison established on Sc. Clair’s
old 4th Nov. bactle ground) all the white
prisoners in their aftu al petteflion, prelim
inary to any further fleps. In the mean
time a ceffaticn pt hostilities is agreed on,
until the end of this month,. vohich time
the condition is to be pemixed cn the
part of the said Plenipo, or yhe old bull*
nefs commences airdh.
William Brooks,
HAS for sale at his store in Brintwood
a general aflortm^nt of English and
Weft-India GOODS—-Iron by the ton-
Iron ware—Scale fifh— lod. nails by the
case, &c. &c. Wanted fifty thousand white
ash barrel ftaves, with ten thoufand^whitc:
alh heading, delivered at said Brooks? in
Brintwood,
Leiters remaining in the Post •Office
at Exeter, April I ft. 1794.
/ . ...
Deft. Joseph Tilton* J
Samuel Philbrick > Exeter}
William. Terry j
Moses L. Nesi Esq; 1
Robert Folsom 2 > Londonderry}
Nacmi Archibald J.
David Wilson, New-Holdernefsf
John Hogg Esq. hamp He ad.
Gideon George, Hawke*
Abner Eastman, Kensington. -
John W. Gilman, Pof-Mafter'.
JUDAS ISCARIOT
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