The Columbian informer, or, Cheshire journal — Keene, N.H., 1793-10-16 00:00:00, page 3

'Vplence.
? But if we explore the hearts of the in
indigent and dittreffed —the Widow—and
the Orphan —we ihdl there fee those live
ly emotions —which emphatically fay,—
Our friend and our fapporter is gone.
The pen of the ready writer will do
honor to his services, and to his memory.
But the sorrow, visible in the counten
ances of every defcriptioa of citizens, is a
better testimony to his exalted character,
than the sublimest effufions of the most pol
yk&^frtr.
. corn the Philadelphia Federal Gazette of
Sept. 30.
It gives the Editor great pleasure, in
being able, after a very careful and adive
enquiry, to inform the public, that the
sickness in that city, is considerably aba
ted.
We hear from Brookfield,that on Wed
nesday last, there were detected in that
place,(nd in Spencer, a company of Gen-
Tiemtn Money Coiners. When our informant
left there,they were under an examination
before Mr. Justice Reed of Brookfield.
One of the Company confeffed, that they
had palled 300 dollars of their own manu
fadure. Some of them which were ex
amined in Court, were made of clear pew
ter—others were covered with a :h'n sil
ver plate—and very neatly executed.
We hope to hear of their having been un
der marching Orders for Worcefer Garrison
before this period.
If we ascend into the Senate of the Un
ion, we there find his name frff on that
MAGNA CHARTA, which afeertained,
vindicated, and declared the Indepen
dence of AMERICA—and the repeated
fuffrages ofhii febow-citizens to {attain
the important office of Firfl Magistrate of
this Commonwealth, show how highly he
was eftecmed as capable to guard their
rights in the Cabinet of Maffachufats.
If we search the Municipal Records,
we often fee him sustaining with hon
our the molt important and arduous
Rations.
For the left twenty-four hours,the deaths
have not been by any means so numerous
as formerly ; and the physicians very ge
nerally agree, that the disorder has lately
put on a more favorable appearance.
Look we into the Temples dedicated
to the Most High, we shall there view
numerous marks of his charity and bene-
Through the favor of heaven we are
yet in the land of the living. My family
are all well—l have been sick with a
flight fever, which confined me 7 or 8
days—it t^ left 3 but lam yet weak—
My complaint was rather alarming, but
I think it was not the epidemic complaint.
As to the disorder here, I hope it is on
the decline—^..d i am fare it is ; the
BOSTON, Oa. 9.
Yesterday departed this life,
HIS EXCELLENCY
JOHN HANCOCK, Efrir„
Governor and commander in Chief of
this Commonwealth—after 55 years of
a life naively devoted to the cause of Lib
erty and Humanity—and the Happiness
and Improvement ofhis fellow-men.
To record, with precision, the virtues
ofhis mind—the philanthropy of his heart
—lns patriotfro, or his utefulnefs, were
toinfuit the judgment of every Ameri
1^ 1
The London paragraphifts had predict
ed the most complete iucceh to the above
fleets, on their sailing—observing, that
there was no hostile force in the Mediter
ranean in a capacity to oppefe them— but
forgetting that they might be opposed by
a more powerful arm than tha:cf fLih.
Last Saturday Captain Slewman, of the
the brig St. John, arrived here from Ca
diz, after a passage of 48 days. By him
we learn, that the fpanifh fleet, 24 fail
of the line, arrived at Cadiz from the
Mediterranean on the Bth of Auguft,with
out having attempted any thing against the
French, being obliged to return on ac
count of a raging sickness, in the fleet, of
which there were from 6 to 8000 sick and
dead ; they were several days in landing
their sick atCadiz. They left the British
fleet,with which they had been combined,
failing up to the Straits,after being with
them little more than one day.
MASSACHUSETTS.
LATEST NEWS FROM SPAIN.
SALEM, Od. 8.
SPRINGFIELD, oa. 2,
Money Makers deteaed.
From Philadelphia, OR. I.
'' My mind at this moment, is too intent
on other objeds, to fay much of the prefat
commotions in Europe ;no very momentous e.
vents have lately taken place ; the contending
parties fam to pursue the objeas with vigor ,
but the combined powers have more difficulties
to encounter in subduing France, than they
at firft were aware of. 'Tis true France has
man, internal evils ; too great a number of
unprincipled men,have at present the reins of
government ; almost all their appointments,
both civil and military, have been injudiciouf
l, made, and the natural conferences have
followed ; but they seem entbufaficall, nr.
ted in a determination to be free ; their canary
at this moment abounds with a degree ts plenty
of all the necessaries of life,unknown to an, beher
fate in Europe. The combined armies have
taken Valenciennes at left ; but at an im
mense expence ; and very little more willpro
bably be done till spring ; but the Combined
Armies must be fed and clad at an amaz g
expence ; while the French arm, is in its own
territory, in the midst of a plentiful country.
All things taken into view, I think France
has ever, thing to hope for, and nothing to fear
=the Princes pretend their sole objed is to re
fore a government to France of fab a nature,
THE author of a Pamphlet threat
ened with a smutting in the Cheshire
Journal of the 9th inst. finds it expe
dient to inform the public, that he has of
fered no indignity to any Author, ancient
or modern; but only delineated some
plain truths, and proposed matter of fad
as a substitute for groundless tradition.—
The smut of that Eulogist as it lies on the
Journal marks him for one of the vulgar
crew, and evinceth that he hath not read
the Pamphlet. His piece is the scum of
envy, and the fcaldir.gs of difappoin-ment,
fall of dark hints which have no meaning
but detraaion. And no: the signature X.
but crooked S. and his gang is justly def
criptive of this bulh Savage.
Extra& of a letter from a Gentleman in
London, to his friend in Boston.
For the Columbian Informer, %.
P. S. The disease bears a much milder
afped at present, than it did some weeks
ago.
The Hon. Thomas Willing, and
John Ross, Esquires, have fallen vic
tims to the prevailing distemper.
Yesterday the Sheriff of this county,
publickly proclaimed his Honour Samu
el Adams, Esq. Lieutenant Governor,
and commander in chief of this Common
wealth.
ALL the Physicians engaged in pra&ice
at present in the city, agree with Dr.
Rush, that bloodletting and copious
purging, arc rtquifite in the cure of the
prevailing epidemic, in every case where
inflammatory symptoms are evident; and
that the dispute has hitherto been about
the name of the disease rather than the
proper mode of treatment.
Yours, &c. Wm. Currie,
" Though we have had the disorder the
next door, in which one has died, and fix
out of eight who have had it in our neigh
borhood have been taken cff; yet thro'
the mercy of God we are spared ; our si
tuation is open and airy, and I hope we
fh.ll continue to be preserved.
number of the dead h:s diminished i half
within a few days, fay from 40 to 50, the
No. ten days ago,to about 2; to 30 a day.
Since the firft of August. about 2000 per
sons died according to the best information
I can obtain ; of these about 1500, of the
epidemic, this flatement may be exagger
ated, though not much. It appears to me
that 25,000, or one half of the people have
left the City. Bufimefs is at a stand ; the!
banks are open but nothing is done ia the,
offices. “ You will fee by the papers
that a great many refpedable characters
are taken off ; there are many others who
are not mentioned, and which I have not
time or strength to mention; among oth-|
ers, the Hon. Samuel Powell, Prelident
of the Senate of this state, was buried last
Sunday.
POSTSCRIPT. By last Night's mails.
FVFeraraQrcQQSw^aaa^^ raw -rare
NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
j'Ceene, October ,6,
Messrs. Editors,
Mr. Brown,
PHILADELPHIA, OCT. 2s
as mill make them happy. Bal 'viewing she
: condua of tbe Empress of Ruffa towards Po
land, in a very recent infonce, and the ac
quiejeence of most of tbi courts of Europe in
her abominable condua, mbat have me to
conclude —but that, not only the liberties of
France, but tbofe of all Europe are invol
ved in the decifans of the present fruggle."
I The Hen. General Lincoln has returned to
Bejion in good health, from the proposed treaty
•with the boftle Indians at Sandufkv.
Allhopes of efraing a peace with the bef
tile tribes of Indians, being now given up,
| great preparations are making at Fort Wafb
।ington for a campaign. General Wayne's
l army at present confijis of 3000 regular troops,
riflemen, artillery, and infantry, besides one
regiment of horse, of about 400 men. The
volunteers from Kentucky mill confft of 1500
mounted infantry, to be commanded by General
Scott. The army are in excellent spirits, and
faidto be in a fi&e of superior discipline.
Yesterday the Hon. Superior Court,
commenced its session in this town.
ExtraQ of a letter from a French gentleman
in New-York, to his friend in Boson.
“ The Executive power of the United
States has prohibited the consuls from con
demning prizes.—That however did not
appear to them, clearly exprefled in the
treaties between France and America. I
am told a negociation is on foot, to adjust
those matters. The relult of the prohi
bition is, that the captors mast take up
on themselves a management of their
prizes, and the sale, which as far as it ref
pea@ the cargoes, will be attended with no
difficulty— But those who would parchafe
the v,%lswill not cafily take them with
out a previous condemnation, recourse
must be had I think, to the nearest French
settlement.".
FROM GIBRALTAR Aug. 3 .
The English fleet at prefect are oft*
Toulon, and are to continue there till the
Spanilh fleet (who are gone in to water)
join them. The Berwick parted from the
fleet on the 21 alt. off Toulon in a gale
ofw:nd and arrived here yefteday, hav
ing Iprung her bowsprit, fore and mizen
mails of the main croft trees. The Leda
frigate has been roughly handled by three
french frigates, the illuftnous was in com
pany &• it is said an enquiry is to be made
into the conduct of her Captain for net as
sisting. We have had no late account:
from England, but expert from thence,
every hour, the Montague. The French
have 16 fail of the line in Toulon, and the
Spaniards are in daily expectation of the
surrender of Piedmont.
Extraa of a letter from Citizen Genet, to
she k'sce-Conjul of Beflon.
'' Perfil tin your protestation against
whatever might in the least degree, affect
the rights of the French nation, and the.
character with which you are invested ;
afterwards, give yourfelf up wholly and
without reserve to the moral force of the
Judicial Power of the United States ; and
confine yourfelf to presenting to that Au
thority, which is independent of the Exe
cutive powers and its decifijns, in one
hand, oar treaties of commerce and alli
ance, which should be for them laws most
sacred, in the other the hiftory of the im.
mortal revolution in America. The lat
ter ought to be for just and grateful men,
the only commentary on the national corn
pads. If you are absolved, more than
ever, bless and adore those free govern
ments, where man is sheltered from the
fatal Itrokes of despotism, so long as his
conduft is justifiable in the eye of the law.
—lfyou are found guilty, leave to the
tovereigh people of France and America,
to decide, through the organ of their re
prefentat;ves, whether our bands of union
are to be strengthened or wholly broken
at a time, when all the courts have sworn
the ruins of those republics, which are
founded upon the rights of man ; at a
time, mhen their perfidious policy has di
re&ed all its efforts to a disunion among
them, that they may afterwards with more
fafety operate their effectual destruc
tion."
DIED, At Portsmouth, Mr. Israel
True, ^Et. 81 ; Mr. William Seward,
jEt. ^ ; Mrs. Sarah Sewards, Ait. 63';
Mr. Joseph Welch, JEt. 4.1. At Wo
burn, Mrs Edghill, who being at a dance
with a large company, fell dead in the
midftof it.
At Philadelphia, of the epidemic dif
temprr, Mr. Washington Woodhoufe,
printer; Mr. John Stokei ; Mr. Isaac
happy to wait on those who will please to
encourage him, in the line of his profef
fion ; but expe&s such favors no further
than he may be found by his assiduity and
moderate prices to merit. He has for file
Gentlemen's and Ladies falfe hair—Sha
ving boxes and soap—Razors and cases—
Powder, powder-bags and puffs—Hair-
Ribbon, &c. &c.
Keene, O&. 16, 1793°
N. B. He would be happy to wait on
those Gentlemen attending Court at this
time.
Case given for human Hair.
STRAYED or stolen from the lubferi
ber, about four weeks since, a large
light red STAG, with a white spot on hie
rump, a hole bored thro' bis off horn, and
some white on his near hip. It is fuppefed
he was drove off by some person driving
cattle through this town. Whoever will
return said STAG, or give information of
him, shall be handfomcly rewarded, and
all necessary charges paid by
WILLIAM W. BLAKE.
Keene, Oa. 16, 1793.
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