The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel — Hanover, N.H., 1797-10-23 00:00:00, page 2

confaerable tofaioher fall; by 'bit time
her cries had reached her father-in-law'*
family, who immediately ran to her assistance
and the negro made bit escape. He has since
been taken, and was tried vefterday week by
x three justices, who ordered him to reci'eve 39
laches, which teas put in immediate execution.
M± Van |rwagen, we are happy to fay is
ina fait way of recovery. '
[After this encouragement, it is probable
the fellow will proceed in his infarnal Con
dpa ; in whichcafe it is to be hoped hi, next
experiment will be made on the three humane
jnfticcs, that they may be excited by some
other principle to do what they would not
sos the fake of juftice.]
=—.
PHILADELPHIA, SEPT. 29.
[The followrog was handed to the publfar
by agentlemaft ofth-ff refpeaability,}
IMPORTANT.\
& a banish brig from Marseilles
which left Cobralrer, July 22, informa
tion is bro't that the (hip Jupiter, Olaf
Schales maftp from, this port hodod to
Algie^, had &#n taken by a French
privateer and carried intoa Spanish port
oppbfiie to Gibralter, (hefe are the
words of the captain of the vessel from
Marftilles.) Likcwife at the above time
an account had arrived, that ode third
of Cadiz had been burnt or destroyed,
half the inhabitants had removed, and *
the Spanish fleet had retired as far into
the inner harbour as it could go. It
was expected mat the next account
would inform of the whole ofifaid
fleet's having alfobcen burnt.
N. B. The fliip Jupiter was <ht ref
fel which brought hither the late Amer
ican captives in Algiers, and was load
ed for that place by the governttant,
bath, AUG. 3.-
4 gent lemon of the firftrfpeAabiticy wbo
arrived here on the 20th uh. front Ni
agara hasfrvoured us with the folic wi*g
intere^iu^ intelligence :
That great part ofthe American gar
rison ar Niagara had failed for Detroit,
to reinforce th© garrifops in the'North
Weftern Territory, where furious ap
prehentions had bee.fr entertained of
their being attacked by the Weftern
Indians, influenced by the Spanish and
French..
Cfy, Guion with two companies,
who had been sent down the Miffifippi
to occupy the posts to be delivered up
by the Spaniards by treaty instead of
being _allowed to proceed or return
another detachment had met with the
fame fate.
The # garrison of Niagara expe& an
immediate reinforcement from Weft?
Point. - .
The British are not without appre-1
henfions of an attempt on Canada by,
the French and Spaniards; but exped a
ftrpng body of troops from England.—
They had received orders in Upper
Canada, to build immediate!, three
twenty gun.(hips on Lake Ontario.
The British troopsof Upper Canada,
consist ofa new regiment of volunteers
and the Queen's Rangers, which are in .
good order.
NEWFIELD, OCT. 11.
It appears from a caution in the Boston
Mercuty, issued by the Cashiers ofthe Mas
sachusetts Bank, that the Five and Ten dol
lar Notes of Gid Banks, have been counter
feited and circulated. The five dollar bills
ofthe Massachusetts Bank :are so badly exe
cuted, that deteaion is easy, the paper being
very thin and ordinary. The ten dollar bills
or & Union Bank, apparently by the fame
engraver, are, in every particular, badly
executed. A man who called himfelf Cald
breth or Galbreth, bought a herfe at Gor
ham for 100 dollars,and paid it all in counter
feits. , A reward of qco dollars is offered for
apprehending any parfen concerned in
making the above bills, ^)
Robert Odin and Alexander Crawford,
appremied uLnca&r, (Penn.) hA June for
passing counterfeit dollars, have.received fen.
tencefrone to fuffer 12, the other 16 years im
prisonment at bard labor I :
A man of the name of Perry, known to
have been guilty of piratical depredations on
the commerce of the United States in the
Weft Indies was seized, on Saturday the 23d
ult. in Alexandria, and narrowly escaped
the non-commMlioned officer,, Tar and Fea
there —he was examined before a magistrate
and committed to prison.
LONDON, AUGUST 11.
Yesterday a Court of Directors was
held at rhe East India House, whetohe
v^gnariop ofMarquis Cornwallis, as
Governor General, was accepted. Ad-
Burned till Wednesday next.
.4 letter from Lifan, dated the 12th ts
fol), slates. that although the rest of the
fyadron remainedpcrfcaly kfyal, and under
fhemji complete discipline, a mutiny bad
begun to fait itfelfon board the St. George,
of9B £*"'' csmmaa&d by cafl, Arf,d,but,
by the f,irit,d exe,ttomif the officers, bail
been discovered and entirely Juppr^d before
it was carried into execution. Abe trial of
th Ringleaders occupied the whole of Frit
day^ Saturday, the 7b ^ &b, whe^A
after a mos impartial hearing, 4of theJft
were condemned, and executed rhe next artel
ning. The following judicious order neat
give?qout by the Admiral on Saturday night.
" Every flap in the fleet is to fend ± boats
with an officer in each, and two marines or
foldiets property armed in each boat, on
board bis. Majed,'s Jbip the St. George, at
half past 7 to morrow morning,to attend th
panfofot. The /entente is lobe carried
into execution by the crew of the Si. George
alone ; and no other foips, as is usual on sim
ilar occasions, are to affiji in this painful
service, in order to mark the high sense ibe
Commander in Chief entertains of loyally^
fidelity, and Subordination of the rest oftbe
feet, which he wll not fail,, make .ty^i
to the Lords Commiffimers ofthe Adm «ahy,
and request of their Lord/hif to lay it&farc
the King, This memorandum, to be read
to thefoip's company. l
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BOSTON, SETT. 16.
Capt PHifbury who arrived yester
day from Grttlaloupe, informs us, that
Hagues treats Americans whd come
there to thde in apolite manner : and
is punQual to his contras with then?, ,
SEPTEMBER 2s. , .
We understand, a fchonerwas seized
yesterday, by the Cuftam-boufe officers,
for a breach ofthe laws of the Revenue.
It is said (he has on board upwards of
50 calks of Sugar, entered jn her Mani
;teft as Rice; (he is from 'North Ca
rolina.
PITTSBURGH, SEPT. 2s.
Extraß ofa letter received by the command
ing officer of Fort Fayette, from the com
mandant at Prefa'lfle, dated. iSih inf.
" Last evening gnffgn Callender
arrived here with dispatches from the
commander in chief. It appears that,
the inhabitants at the Natchez ar/n
open rebellion, and have difpllyed
the French colors—a detachment from'
the army are now on their way tothat
quarter. A small plundering party of
Indians have endeavoured to make
themselves maftersof Fort Recovery—
they were driven out of the Fort with
the loss of one Indian killed, and one
wounded.".
PARIS, JULYJ.
Buonaparte's jifter tas been just mar
ried to Adjutant General Le Clere, who
received a fortune of 500,000 livres
with her. ~
/ Genoa, JUNE ig.
A large party of hair dressers and
clerks have begun to take down the
coats of arms on the houses of Noble
men here, but fever'll of the latter have
thought proper to remove them
selves, as they were apprehensive of
having their property plundered, under
pretence of executing this democratic
measure. The Doge's throne was bro
ken in pieces in his palace, and as
federal parts of it were comppfed off
gold, they were carried off by the mob,
who also secreted several other valuable
articles.
NEW.LONDON. OCT, 2.
Arrived, fchr. Lucy Brewster, from
Guadaloupe, 14 days. On the 25th
Capt. B. was spoken by the French pri
vateer. sloop Barcola, of Guadaloupe,
which on the 191 b in lac. 38^ long. 70,
had taken the schooner. Lucy, belong
ging to Mr. Shadon, of New-York,
loaded with rum; they put on board
Capt. B. Messrs. Carr and Reside, two
passengers taken out of the above prized
Tlie privateer failed tr@^^^
in August, and refitted ii XVi'lminfeto^^
from whence (he failed but four day,
before capturing the Lucy, which wag,
the 7th prize the had captured since
leaving Guadaloope—^z of them were
Americans^ and one a Bermudian.
SALEM, OCT, 10.
A Hartford paper mentions,that such
is the race for pfpalmody, that a man,'
difeovered some night, since under a
bridge, was, by his own account, only
catching a little cold, that he might be
the better able to fieg ba, on the en
suing Sunday..,
Balzac, in bis Ariftippus, gives an
account of a judge of one of the par.;
liaments, who was of true-Robefpier
rean principles, and condemned to de
capitation every one who Was unfortu
nate enough to fall under bis ja'dica->
tore. Having drop: asleep one day,
the president awakened him to all his
opinion.—Cut off bis head," said the
drowsy lawyer. ''His bead !" said
the president ; "you mistake; the.
I question relates to a meadow." " Why
phen mtw it," replied the; Judge,
[discovery.
'ln fat. 16, 45. N. long. 169. 38. W.
from London f on my paffagt from the
Sandwich Islands to China, the 2d of
Sept. 2796, at midnight, in company
with the sch. Prince William Henty,
William Wake;, matter, of London,
tee both ran ashore on the North fide of
a reef of Coral fock# 2nd sand, where
we continued until next day noon—at
which timethe weather bring very clear,
we saw two small Iflanda of Sand,
bearing W. by N. 4 or 5 miles distant;
and from our topgallant mafl=head, we
saw the shoal extending E. £ & fonih
etly found to W. S. W.—but how far
we were not able tO 'deregminA Kerp
the fat. 17, N. and thi> shoal will not be
seen.„
,JOSEPH PIERPONT.
Since bus last theftps Galen, Capt. Mackay
and Minerva, capt. Turner, have ar
rived at Rofton, from London. By the
latter <we received an Engli/b paper of
August 2 if. . Extraas thetefrom follow.
Some interesting.—-
. VIEN ^A, JULY 26.'
THE Marquis de Gallo, has this moment
arrived here from Uding. The nego
tiations foe peace in Italy, meet with great
difficulties. The French require that Man
tua (hall be united with the Cifalpine Repub
lic, though it was at firft flipulated to be given
to Austria. On the part of the French, it is
said, that the Emperor having given his con
sent to the establishment of a new Republic
in Italy, its very exigence depended on hav;
ing Mantua for a frontier fortrefs ;jhe Em
peror therefore roust tacitly accede to the cef
lion of Mantua, for which he receives a fuf
ficient indemnification in Iftria and Dalmatia.
As these and many other difficulties have a
rifon, and the hoefe of Austria cannot be ex
pe&ed easily to abandon its great intesefts in
Italy, we are not without our fears that hof
tilitics may again commence.
Gen. Maek, who has been sent with strong
reinforcements to the Italian army; is already
arrived at Gartz.
DREADFUL CONFLICT.
CIVITA VECCHIA, JUNE 30.
-The begining of this month, a most
terrible battle was fought about 12
leagues from the Point of Meffiga, be
,#,een an Algerine cruiser of 18 guns,
fyll of men, and a (hip of 26 nine and
"hi pounders, belonging to the King of
the Two, Sicilies '; the conflict began
|at seven in the morning and lifted till
[near thfceito the afternoon. The Al
gerine received the firft broad fide,
which carried away the starboard main
chains, and much damaged, the (land
ing rigging ; the salute was immedi
ately returned, and the fight commenc
ed with the utmost resolution ; each
party seemed determined to conquer or
die ; the pirate hoisted the bloody flag,
and run long fide the frigate, in a fitua
tion ready for boarding and had near
!y grapled her, but (he kept up such a
constant and well direded fire in to the
Rover, that entirely fruftrated their in
tention, and killed avast number of
their men ; yet this fuecefs did not
prevent the barbarian making another
attempt which also failed with great
loss : this obliged them to sheer off for
a ffiort time, but they soon renewed the
combat, when a molt tremendous can
nonade began on both sides, which
Rafted upwards of two hours withoutin
termiffion; unfortunately the frigate's
fore mast was carried away close to the
board and fell upon the deck, which
did a considerable deal of damage, be
sides killing and wounding a number
of men.
NQt&ithHanding this unfortunate
cirtumftance tfe brave Chtiftianb,
whofe^ courage was not in the least
damped, kept fighting on, fully deter
mined co fink the' robbers. During
this time a (loop of war of 16 guns, and
a cutter of 12, who had departed com
pany from the above ship two days be
fore, lucklily came up, and played their
parts so well, that in a (hurt time the
pirate was all in Hames, but by the ex
ertions of the crew the fire was got un
der.
Notwithstanding the cri pled state and
dangerous filiation the pirate was in,
yet those ruffians fought with such an
uncommon degree of desperation that
was aftonilhing, and almost beyond des
cription ; at this junftare the frigate
was fa much (battered both in hell and
rigging *hat (he could be hardly kept
above water, and was obliged to be
towed out of the adion.
''l '' e "'" "°' '^ doop aid cut
ter kept up such an incessant ,nd well
directed fire into the Rover till-(he was
.totally disabled, her mast,, ~yards, and
rigging utterly dedroyed, her guns dis
mounted, and her port holes knocked
three and four in one; neverthelefe this
desperate crew disdained to strike, kept
a ,nftant;s re with small arms, from
which many of the balls,were chewed;
atwhen they found the, could not
the king , force any longer, they
fire to the magazines nd blew them
' together with a number of
Cbnttian captives the, had on board
who all periled with rhe infidels;
P. S. The serrate was command dby Sidi
Bdcr, a fellow of invincible courage very
od and during ;this man was a great ter^
ror to the Spaniards in their date war with
T^—be has not only funk and fore#
feveral fbipqjjhich were fn^d<Q
LW " '"" bids, but w»ldrften/dnd u < m '
their coast in open dajw^ hi, c „to
f,te of all r@nce. carry off the ifox
n*%a\d ravage whde v&ges,
> «?"°l r ; SEPT, if,
Yesterday arrived the schooner Mar
gEreta, Capt, S. Barron, From a
gpn<lema% pa&nger, we have received
the following:
Extraa Os a letterfo St. Bar&mfysf
,dated August 29.
A faffel from Neris informs ns, that ,
there is an embargo at St. Kittas, in
confluence ofaplot having b
ard.regiment of
coloured militia, to f e r that ifodin a
state of infurteaioo, and to make them,
selves matters of Brimstone-Hill.
The above plot was difeovered by
means of one of the negroes belonging
to the regiment, who informed an offi.
r:?V he r in !^tio% and placed him
be ,\ nd , ,° ttle where he overheard the
whole fchem,. It |feems that o n the
enfurog parade, they were to havepro
vided; themselves with ball cartridges
and when drawn up in fr ont &
white regiment,(as was customary) they
^^ ^ke,^, and each man level .
object before him. The confluence .
of this ditcovcry was, that upwards of
!°? f .Reader# Were apprehen
ded/ and immediately executed. The
massacre Was to have taken place about
the 20th August.
passenger in the
«Dam(h (hip Christian Haven, Capt.
Patrick Corran, arrived yefter&y in
43 days from Tetoiffe, we have re.
ceived the following „ » *
Defeat of the Brit,fa at rfnerffi.
On the morning the zzd July, the
town of Santa Cruz was alarmed at the
appearance of 7 British (hips lying off,
and 36 armed boats that ranged across
the harbor. It seemed evidently,their
intention to have landed in town before
day, but failing in that attempt, they
returned to the (hipping. At ido'clock,
about 1200 men were landed, and
posted themselves upon the summit of a
second ridge of mountains on N. E.
while the Spaniards were Rationed on
the firft ridge, which commanded the
entrance into the town by a narrow
pass a ge. Some trifling firing ensued,
without loss on either fide. At night
the Fnglilh re-embarked, and the (hips
flood off and on until the evening of
the 24th, when they all came to anchor.
A bomb ftetch commenced a partial
a fire on a distant fort, byway of attrac
ting the attention of the Spaniards,
which was warmly returned. Between
one and two o'clock, the town was
alarmed by the approach of boats, and
the forts instantly commenced a heavy
and incessant fire upon them. The„
darkness of the night favoured the
views of the Englith, and between 8 '
and 900 landed in two panto anpeh
fidL of the castle. One small party of
fomen commanded by admiral Nel
son, and captain Bowen landed on the
Mole ; the firft loft his right arm, and
immediately returned on board. Capt.
Bowen, with most of his little party
was killed advancing to, the charge.
The other party, penetrated into the
town, affatilted the castle, were rppulfed
and at last took refuge in a convent.
Thither they were purfoed by the Span
iards, who by this time, had placed'
cannon in the Greets and avenues leading
to it. The English finding themselves
surrounded ob every fide, offered tern's
to the general, in which they proposed
to march out, without doiog injury to
the town, upon condition of being de
livered the money in the public treasury,
and the cargo of a Manilla (hipin the
harbour, whij:h they erroneously fitfef;
pffld worth to Os 15 minions