The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1790-08-13 00:00:00, page 3

_ KINGSTON, (JAMAICA) JULY fa
On Sunday last arrived the schooner Little Sa
rah, last from Cork. The day before the Little
Sarah failed, advice was received, that a British
packet was chaced nearly into Falmouth by a Spa
nish ship of force ; but one of our frigates appear
ing in fight, the Spaniard sheered off.
Yesterday evening a Spanish schooner of about
40 tons burthen, mounted with guns, lay off the
mouth of the channel for a considerable time, while
four or five of her hands came on shore, as is sup
posed, to gain intelligence concerning the diftur
b'ances between us and Spain ; in the evening,
when the men got on board, they very daringly
fired a gun, and then bore away towards Bluefields
until dark, when they about flhip and fleered for the
Weft-end, and continued firing until midnight.
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AMERICAN ADVICES.
N EW-YOR K, JULY jl.
Extraa of a letter from Philadelphia.
" So many, and such curious reports circulate
here refpeding the removal and residence of Con
gress, that we know not what to believe ; the Bos
tonians, we hear are for fixing their permanent feat
in Heaven; but the majority think the way thither
too intricate, the,paffage too confined, and the
journey hazardous :, Therefore this being negativ
ed, I think you cannot do better than to remove to
Philadelphia, where {he generous principle of Salva
tion for all men now prevails."
AUGUST 3.
", Thb following extract is taken from a letter
Which was received at Falmouth, by express, on
the I ith of June. .<
li/traa of a letter, dated gtb June, from London, to
a gentleman in this city.
" An express has been received from the Spa
nish Court, that they had agreed, to make fatisfac
tion, and indemnify the owners of the British
Jbips taken ; and to negociate on the other matters
in dispute between the two nations." [Our let
ters from Europe,,received by the Packet, and dated
%ne loth, at London; make no mention of the veraci
tyoftbe above : On the contrary the, fate, that the
preparations for wdr, overe carrying an with redoub
led aaivity.] 1
Last evening, agreeable to a late refolye of the
" st. Tammany Society; and Colombian Order, there
wa 's a complimentary conference held between them
and the Cre^s by their refpe^ive headnfen in pre
sence of the society and a number of fpe&ators.
This conference was honored^ the presence of the
him, whereupon he precipitately run away ; that
immediately after this the bloody mifereants mur
. dered Mrs.Newlon and the two children, and hav
ing scalped her and one of them, made off. Capt.
Newlon was reported to have 4 deal of money ;
his house is twenty miles in the settlement. It is
fufpeded there was a white man in company with
the savages.
WINCHESTER (VIRG.) JUNE 30#
MR. Nathaniel A/hby, wlfo arrived at Staunton
from the. Westward, a few days ago, reports,
That about the 6th inst. four Indians came to the
plantation of Capt. Ijaac Newlon, w_i thin fix miles
of Washington Court-House, in this state ; That
Capt. Newlon not being at home at that time, they
entered the house, and took his wife and two chil
dren prisoners ; they also broke open a chest, from
whence they took about 40 dollars in specie -
burnt some things, and carried off a great many
others ; That by about 10 o'clock on Sunday they
had travelled only 15 miles, the unfortunate Mrs.
Newlon being obliged to carry one of the children
on her back ; that file was seen in this truly piti
able situation by a white man belonging to the set
tlement, who not feeing the savages, they being
behind some bushes, and taking her to be his fon's
wife, called to her twice, but she paying no atten
tion to him ; that he,then attempted to go to her,
but an Indian came out of the bushes and fired at
PHILADELPHIA, JULY 26.
OUR Corporation have it in contemplation to
ereft proper buildings for the accommodation of
the President of the United States, of the Senate
find House of Rep'refentatives, on a plan equally
faperb and elegant with any that has hitherto been
accomplished in America. It is proposed to ereft
the proper buildings above the upper end of Mar
ket-Street, where they might hold their delibera
tions withodt being interrupted by the noise ever
attending To busy a city, as this.
A friend to humanity begs to inform, the pub
lick, that in the dangerous case of pins swallowed
by accident, swallowing one egg, undressed, and
in the course of one hour after another, is an in
fallible remedy for carrying off the pins, if done
immediately aftg they have been swallowed, i. e.
before the pins have worked themselves into the
coat of the stomach.
BOSTON-, AUGUST 7.
We bear from Braintree, that on Saturday lafl, Mr.
David Lienfield, jun. and four oxen, were instantane
ously frack dead, with lightning, and four other per-
Jons, who were in company with Mr. Lienfield, were
struck to the ground, and for a moment Jenfelefs ; but
they did not receive any considerable damage, excepting
one, the ball of whose foot the lightning entered, and
left in a benumbed state. The oxen were on two wag
gons, which flood near together—Two of the men fooa
by the sides of the forward waggon, and two at the
hinder end of the other. The unfortunate man, who
'Was killed, was one of the latter number. It is Jup
pofed that he was firft struck by the lightning, and
that it was inflantaneoujly-communicared to the tire of
the waggon, near which he flood, b, that conveyed to
the oxen, and from them to the ground. It was trac-,
ked on the ground, by a furrow whirls it made of cou-
Jiderable depth, for a numbe r of feet, until st met with
a chain ''which was fafened to the other waggon. By
this conduflor it was communicated to the Waggon, &
by that to the other oxen. The man whose foot was
injured, flood near to the chain abovementibned, and it
is probable, that bad not a kind providence placed that
conductor between him and the lightning, he would
likewise have fallen a viaim to its awful power. —
These are Juppofed to be the circumfances attending the
event, as nearly at can be determined.
Rbausy 11.
^The Marquis de la Fayette, we learn, has been
appointed by # the National Assembly of France,
grand Prevot of that Kiogdom^™__
FROM PHILADELPHIA JULY 24.
A fliip just arrived from Cadiz, which she left
the 4th of June, brings intelligence, that the Bri
*tifh Consul had ordered all the English vessels to
leave the port, and they had accordingly failed, in
ballast, within 24 hours of the notice —and that all
the Spaniffi fleet at Cadiz was ready for feat
A Lady not far from this town,afked her girl Bet
fe^ the cause of her dejeftion. Why ma'am, re
plied the girl, I now despair of ever going to Pro
vidence in the stage to fee my mother, for Jacob
tells me he overheard Mr. Brown fay that the stage
coaches are to have 51. a mile for carrying the
Public Males, and they indeed may afford to give
it and make money into the bargain, for Jacob fays
they have fix dollars for every hour's work, and
every body fays they have as much work as they
can turn their hands to, so that iff they are as in
dustrious as I am, they can make 20 dollars a day.
But Rop, Betsey, fays the miftrefs,what are you talk
ing about / What have the peblic mails to do with
private paffengcrs ? Why, dear Ma'am, interrup
ted Betsey, if they have 51. a mile for carrying the
Public Males or Congress men, or whatever you
call them; I suppose they will have at lead half
that for carrying private males, or common
females, and that will cost me more to get to
Providence than I can earn in all my life. I wish
the Public Males would do something for poor
girls as well as for themselves and every body else;
for my part I should be glad to partake of the
crumbs which fall from their Table. They have
committees, or chief cooks, to contrive Bills of
fare, and they make rich provision for them
selves and friends every day, and order the whole
to lie on the table. Yes, and Jacob fays
he saw aBiLL of fare last summer as long as his arm,
containing every good thing to eat and to drink
that the world affords, all cented up to the life
like a French frigazee, and the whole was ordered
to lie on the table. I dare fay the Public Males
will have the firft cut of every thing, and the last
glass of wine. I wish they wonld give 100 dollars
a year for iweeping their grand Hall, and I should
think it would be a grand Hall, indead for a
poor girl, thd' the work would be tcri times as hard
as it is to keep the door, and not half the wages
neither. Indeed I don't fee why a girl could
not Keep the door, with good strong hinges, as
well as a man; Jacob fays the Public Males
have Pointed Girls for Tidy waiters at New
york, and give good fatisfadion, but for my part I
am tired of hoping and hoping, and building cas
tles in the air ; the public males made a great
rout because Rhodeifland made money, and tender
laws, but they made-MONEY and tender laws for
themselves, and I don't care how tender they be
if other folks can be benefited by them, and all fare
alike-=but Jocob fays now they are going to Phi
ladelphia to fee the plays a&ed -Pray Betsey
flop your nonsense and wind up the Jack.
Secretary of State, the Secretary of War, the Chief
justice of the United States, the Governor of this
State, and the Mayor of the Corporation. A num
ber of- toasts were drank, a dance was performed
by the Creeks about nine, several songs were sung
by the members of the society, and about ten the
society adjourned. An apparent fatisfadion fat
upon the brows of all present.
NORWICH, (conn.) JULY 16.
• Yefferday the Senate lent down the bill, intitu
led, " An Ad making further provision for the
debt of the United States," and with it an estimate
of the sum necessary to be raised this year, viz.
2,660,861 dollars, and 40 cents —and the ways and
means for railing it viz. New duties on Wines,
spirits, Tea, Coffee, Sugar, Pepper, Pimenta,Salt,
Molafes, and an increase in advalorum rates.
-AN ENGLISH TRICK.
TWO young gentlemen who are studying the
law, and who have chambers in Lincoln's
Inn, took a particular fancy the other day to a young
woman who frequented the garden with a child in
her arms. They laid various stratagems to entice
the mother to come into their chambers ; but she
saw the intent, and studiously avoided a vifitofthat
kind, —At last they thought they hit upon a scheme
that must effedually bring her in. Oneof the gen
tlemen took the baby in his arms, and, after killing
it, brought it home to his apartment. The other
student followed, and both now imagined that the
Woman must naturally come for her child; but, as
the faying is, "she bit the biter" for she left the
child to their protection, and made the best of her
way home ; and has taken care to conceal that home
from them. They are persons of good fortune, and
have sent the child to nurse. The public may rely
qnour assertion, that this is a fad. [Lon. ,afol
As a child of Mr. Andrew Watson of Lee, about
five years .old, was playing by ibe watirjide accident
tally fell in and was drowned.
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: frROM MARTINIQUE.
We learn that the disturbances, which have
long agitated that Island, have not yet ceased—and
that at the date of our last recounts, there were rea
sons for supposing that nothing would quell them
but a coercive exertioti cf the forces of his Molt
Christian Majesty. _
Ignatius Paliart, Esq. is appointed by
her Most Faithful Majesty, Consul-General, from
Portugal to the United States of America.
SALEM, AUGUST 10. 1
Should a general war take place in Europe, the
United States will be the granary from which the
contending nations will be sustained.
So much grain was never raised in the United
States, in one year, as the present season promises
—Accounts from all quarters authorize the afTer*
tion.~-
Mr.RANLET,^'.
BY accounts from various parts of the state, it
appears that the Hon. NICHOLAS GILMAN,
Esq. Col. JAMES SHEAVE, and JEREMIAH
SMITH, Esq. will next represent the State of
Newham pfhireinCongrefL PERITAS ^
MT. PRINTER,
Pleaje to give this a place in your paper and you'll
gratify many of your Customers.
PERHAPS there never was a day that demand,
ed greater abilities in our national Congress than
the present—and as the Election of new Members
for Congress is approaching, it is to be hoped that
all parties will unite in chufing such men as arc
possessed of known abilities adequate to the im
portant trust to be fepbfed in them by their Con
itituents——it is wished therefore by many that
fofaa Atherton, Esq. Gen. Peabody, and John Sa,
muel ± Sherburne, Esq. may be elected, not doubting,
but that their conduct in Congress will be produc
tive of happiness to their constituents and honour
to themselves. -
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EXETER, (Fr%)AuGUST 13.
The Hot. Nicholas Gilman, James Sheafs
and Jeremiah Smith, Ejquires, Jays a correfpon-'
dent, seem to fland fairef, in the public eye, to b^
chojen, at the enjuing election, to reprejent thie state
in Congress.
[—DIED—],
At Richmond (Pirg.) Capt. Thomas Simons,
Salem, long known as an a&ive, enterprising IS &s- §
luable master of a vtfl,^ . J
^—^ Albany, Mr. Nathan Van Verts, age/ 124.
— Eaf-Haddam, (Conn.) Mr. Weeks Williams,
aged lox, and upwards.
— Boston, Mr. Thomas Richardson, aged 51.
— Cheferf#ld, Mrs^ Hannah King, aged 58,.
; Cornife, Mr. Samuel Chafe,jgn. aged 66.
ALL perlons indebted to, or that
= A have demands on the estate of TIMOTHY
CHAMBERLAIN,Iate ofExeter, Baker, deceased,
are required to fettle with the fubferiber, Exeeu
trix to the last Will and Testament of the deceafecr
ESTHER CHAMBERLAIN.
Exeter, August gtto, i,go<
FROM NEWYORK —AUGUST 4.