The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1792-06-06 00:00:00, page 3

HOLL AND,
HAGU E, April 3.
You must already have been informed
of the dreadful event that has occurred
in Sweden. The firft news of this e
vent was brought hereby the courier dis
patched by Mr. Liston the British Am
bassador at Stockholm. The number of
v accomplices arretted amounts nearly to
40. But what is aloft important, there
is a talk of a Revolution, which :s on the
point of breaking out in the kingdom;
the major part of the Orders of the States
have,it is hid, already been gained over.
The King had alienated almost al! his
fubjeds by the manner in which he had
held arid conduced the Diet. In the
mean time we are allured that not the
smallest degree of credit is due to the ac
counts of the pretended tranquility with
which the Diet is terminated. On the
contrary,it is certain there never prevail
ed a greater ferment in Sweden.
Some of the persons taken into custo
dy resolutely declared that the King had
merited his fate, and that there were an
hundred persons eager to contend for the
honor of giving him the mortal blow, for
- the welfare of mankind.
This adion certainly cannot be jufti
hed, but it is, at the fame time, a flriking
and dreadful lesson to Sovereigns, Who
think to fan&ion tyranny by law, & re
lid " An aft to provide more effedu
ally for the collection of duties impo
sed by law on goods, wares and mer
chandize imported into the,United
States, and on the tonnage of thips or
vessels," and (hall and may bring and
maintain a suit upon the said bond, in
law or equity,in his, her or their own
name or names, for the recovery of
the monies which (hall have been paid
thereupon. And it is further declared,
Tnat the cases of infolvencyin the said
forty-fourth faction mentioned,(hall be
deemed to extend, as well to cases in
which a debtor, not having Efficient
property to pay all his or her debts,
shall have made a voluntary alignment
thereof for the benefit of his or her
creditors, or in which the estate and
effects of an absconding, concealed or
absent debtor (hall have been attached
by process of law, as to cases, in
which an ad of legal bankruptcy (hall
have been committed
And be it further enabled. That the
President of the United States be, and
hereby is authorized to appoint such
place within the diftrid of Vermont
to be the port of entry and delivery
within the said diftrid, as he may
deem expedient, any thing in the
aft, intituled " An ad giving effect
to the laws of the United States,
within the state of Vermont," to the
contrary notwithstanding.
Jonathan Trumbull. Speaker
of the House of Representative;.
RICHARD HENBY Lee, Prefdent
pro tempore of the Senate.
Approved — May the second, 1792.
George Washington,
PreJident of the United States.
Deposited among theßolls in theOffice
of the Secretary of State.
Thomas Jefferson
Secretary of State.
& N attrocious attempt was made on
the life of his Swedish Majesty, on
Friday last the i6^h inst. A person ap
proached the King and Queen at the 0
pera House, and difeharged the contents
of a pistol into hi; body,a little above the
hip. The charge appears to have pene
trated to a considerable depth—and the
surgeons have been hitherto able to ex
trad but aver, small part of it. His
Majesty slept little during the last night;
and the fever, which began yesterday,
encreafed this evening,fo that serious ap
prehensions are entertained for his Majef.
ty's life. The assassin was arrested early
next morning.
/^EUROPEAN ADVICES
Received from Liverpool, - ;
Per the Brigantine Hero, Capt. Edwards.
ASSASSINATION or THt
KING OF SWEDEN.
STOCKHOLM, March 18.
LO ND O t\, April 9.
Tuesday evening an express arrived at
the Secretary of State's office, fromßobert
Liflon, Esq. our Envoy at the Swedish
Court which brought the extraordinary
intelligence, that on the i6:h of March
his Majelty gave a grand masquerade, to
which all persons or diftindion were Yn
vited —and that daring the time of festi
vity, a gentleman of considerable rank
fired a large pistol at the King; and lodg
ed five flags i; his groin and the bottom
part of his belly.
The perpetrator of this horrid ad was
instantly seized j the account does not fay
whether or not he attempted to escape,
but adds that he refuted to assign any rea
son for what he had done.
The express was lent off a few hours
after the event, at which time the King
was alive, but it had beeri pronounced
impoHible for him to recover.
Information of so wonderful a circunY-'
stance instantly spread over Stockholm,or.
there were many hundreds present when
the fad was committed. All ranks were
in the greatest consternation—some as
cribing the affaflination toFrenctiPplitics,
and others to the malcontents oftheDiet,
at the late proceedings,and at the general
conduct and designs of the King—but
from good authority we can declare, that
neither of these was the case. The Au
thor of this remarkable event is a native
of Sweden, and it is luppofed he was Si
mulated to it by disappointment, having
served long in the army without being
rewarded so liberally as he conceived his
merits deserved.
Swedish Monarch's life, fays,
The King, a few days after his return
from the Diet at Gefle, on the 16th of
March, gave a grand entertainment of a
Jupper and mafauea ball on the occa son, to
which all persons of diflinAion at tbeSwe
ijh Court, includingffee foreign Diplo
matic characters, were invited. During
ihe feflival,a perfan of the name Inglefrom,
a native of Sweden,who had formerly been
an Enfgn in the guards, but bad been dis
missed the Service by bis Majef, for mis.
conduct, approached the King, and draw.
*"g a piftolfrom under bi; domino, fired
at bis Majesty, and lodged the Contents of
it in his body.
His Majesty- immediately fell ; and the
confufon which folio wed was, as may ea
sily be imagined very great.
A circumstance of a very lin
gular nature has happened in
the neighbourhood of this town
—On the evening of Wednes
day last, the ground in a mea
dow, part of the farm, or estate
of Stanley, the property of the
Rt. Hon. the Earl of Lonfdale,
suddenly funk to the depth of
some feet, making a circular
break on the lurface. Imme
diately after, a torrent of water
was heard, which appeared to
rush out from various parts of
the broken foil ; and falling, as
it was conjectured, into a re
ceptacle which could not at
that time be perceived, occasi
oned a moss tremendous noise;
whilst the finking was evident
ly increasing upon the furface.
In the morning, this extraor
dinary spot was visited by num^
bers of people. The apperture
then exhibited the appearance
of an immense funnel : it was
yet enlarging—consequently no
admeafurement could be made:
but the computation generally
agreed to, was from 60 to 70
yards in diameter, and 30 yards
in depth to the Vortex, the
diameter of which appeared to
be about 6 or 7 yards.
gard the rest of men as a vile herd, whom
they may dispose of at their plealure.
Another account of the attack on the
WHITEHAVEN, MARCH 6,
During thhtime, large heaps
of earth were filling from the
fides,and were g&hing out in an
amazing abundance ; the water
also was sometimes forced up a
considerable height above the
vortex, or gulph; as if from a
jette d'eau ; the whole prefeno
iog to the eye a feene ot the
moftawfutand horrible gran
deur, whilst the ear was filled
with founds the most terrify
ing and alarming ; often re
sembling distant thunder, as the
deluge poured into the fubter
raneous workings of Scalegall
colliery,which, it is said, is now
rendered useless.
] The ground, thus almost ifr
;ft¥|rtlnequfly]bft,i s one acre,one
rood, and twenty-four perches.
$3 The wife of Mr. Nathaft
Weft, of said town, having oc
casion to go into apaftere near
her house, in order to bring
home her Cheep, to secure them
from the ravages of wild beaft<,
Tpied a large Bear in full pur
suit after one of the Lambs of
her flock: Upon which she im
mediately called to her favour
ite dog for assistance. The faith
ful animal, ever open to the
calls of his mistress, obeye^the
command and eagerly leaped
offeto secure from deftrueftion,
the innocent bleating vi^im. —
He, Immediately engaged with
the bear, and threw him upon
the ground—in which situation
he held him, until his mistress,
with that degree of fortitude &
refotation, not peculiar to her
sex, came up—when, grasping
with one hand a leg of the bear,
and with the other, a club, the
made such application of the
latter to his pate, as almost in
stantaneously put a flop to all
further appetite or inclination in
him for mutton food— -foe sap
ped that evening upon theflefo of
the bear /=-*, Whoever findeth
facba Wife—findeth a GOOD
THING.
MT. PRINTER,
The publication of the following in your
paper, quill perhaps be of some fer
©ice to the people of this State.
BY what I have heard- of the pro
ceedings of many towns with
refpeft to the amendments of the Con
ftitutiofy proposed by the Convention,
it w very probable the amendment in
the sixth Article of the Bill of Rights,
will be rejected. I am very sorry that,
after so much time (pent in the Con
vention on that Article, the amend
ment does not answer the expectati
ons of the people. The old Article
may certainly be altered much for the
better, and made more confident with
itfelf in the several parts : and when
I firft saw the proposed amendment,
tho' it did not intirely agree with my
ideas, I was ready to hope it might
be preferable to the Article ,s it
stands ; but upon farther attention I
found it liable to some great objections,
especially the three following, viz:
I. That it has too much the appear
ance of an Ad of a Legislative Body
rather than of a Convention, for it
enters minutely into particulars, in
By a gentleman from Ver
fhire, in this state, we have the
following singular account of
FEMALE GREATNESS.
WINDSOR, MAY J 5.
stead of securing religious liberty on
such general principles as must always
be acknowleged just and reasonable in
all variations of particular circum
ilances,& which might serve for a ge
neral direction toLegi flavors in making
laws adapted to any particular cases.
2. That the amendment fee ms ei
ther still to hold up the necessity of
prose ffing to be of another denomina
tion in order to be exempt from the
Contrast of the Town, Parish, &c. —
or else it gives numbers of people op
portunity, from time to time, of free
ing themselves from all obligations to
contribute for the support of any pub
lic Teachers, or to attend on any re
ligions inftrudiou : for it is not made
a condition of their exemption, that
they declare themselves conceded
with any other religious Society what
ever ; & so the design of Government
in providing for the public inftrudion
of the people is plainly defeated.
3. That according to the proposed
Amendment, no Town, Parish, or
Religions Society, can at any time
fafely proceed to call, contrad with,&
fettle any Minifler; because numbers
of the very persons who appeared 10 ad
with them, or to acquiesce in their
proceedings,may at any time previous
to the ordination,change their minds,
and dissent from paying or contribut
ing.oeir P art towards the support of
such Minifler.
1 cannot but persuade myfelf, that •
if the Convention would reconsider
that Article,they might easily alter it
in some more general form, greatly
to the fatisfadion of all the Towns.
It is very probable the people would
readily agree to an amendment of such
a tenor as the following, viz:
— But that fall liberty of confidence
may be enjoyed by all persons of
whatever religious persuasion, fed, or
denomination, as in a manner confid
ent with the important design of con
tinuing public,religious and moral in
ftrudion among all the people of this
State; if any Ferfon, not already un
der the obligation of a contrad made
with a Minister by the town, parish,
or religious society where be "has his
residence, or previous to the call and
settlement of any Minister, shall pro
fefs himfelf to be, or that he purpefes
to be a member of some other religious
society, tho' not of another denomina
tion, where he can & will attend,there
to enjoy the advantages of public wor
ship and inftrudion, he shall be con-
Tidered as belonging to that particular
religious Society, and there pay or
contribute his part in supporting pub
lic religion : and so long as he con
tinues to be thus connected with that
Society, he shall be exempt from all
obligations to any other, and shall be
considered as having no connexion
with the inhabitants of the Town or
Parish in which he relides, as to any
matters relating to the public Ministry
of the Gospel.
A friend to Knowlege and Liberty.
QUST OPENED AND READY FORSALE'^
foaniel Tilton & Sop,
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& June 4, 1792.%
MARRIED—At Newmarket, Mr^
Henry Tilton to Miss Olive
Rogers.