The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1792-04-25 00:00:00, page 2

"SIR,
" ON my arrival here, I found the
two letters you did me the honour to
address to me. They were accom
panied by the form of the new oath,
which you propose to me, and which
lown Ido not think that there is any
occasion for me to take, after the ob
ligation which Ihave fulfiled thro'my
whole life. . .. .-
<< With this view, Sir, it it, that I
now renew it to you b Y the enclosed
Declarations. ~ „
“I have the honor to be,&c.
Declaration of MarJhal de Mailly.
". ATTACHED to the service of
the King and the Natioa, whom I con-
on, according to the liquidated va
lue, at the fame rate as other non.
fabfcribing creditors of the United
States without being obliged to
exchange such certificates."
The 4th refolutioA was also agreed
to, as follows :
" Refolded .... The terms for
receiving on loan part of the debts of
of the individual dates, assumed by
the United Spates, yet unfubfckibed,
be extended to the firft day of'
next, on the fame terms as provided
by the a& making provision for the
publick debt."
The fifth resolution was under
difeuffion,when the Committee rose,
reported progrefs,and had leave to fit
again.,
A message was received from the
Senate, notifying, that they had pas
sed the militia bill, with fandry a
meDdmeuts, in which they requeued
the concurrence es the House.
" If the King of the French has
causes of complaint against particular
states ofthe Empire, free sovereigns,
like myfelf, by virtue of the Germany
Constitution, let him address himfelf
immediately to them, and bring his
remonstrances to such issue as he shall
think proper."
King of PRUSSIAN Afof.
" LOUIS the XVI having accepted
the New Conftitation, prevents my
ading ; but if the National Assembly,
or the prevailing party,forget the ob
ligations which they have contraded
towards the King, Prussia is ready to
aft with all its forces in favour of his
Most Cbrifiun Majefly."
^izz/wertfZ^'E MPERQR?ZGERMANY'
to the French King's Letter.
60 NO doubts can be entertained
of my manner of thinking on the af
fairs of France. My last declaration,
and the orders I have caused to be
given by my government at Brussels,
to the Agent of the French emigrants,
prove, I confider my Brother-in-law
as free, and that it is not my intention
to interfere in the affair of his king
dom, as long as the French shall leave
him'in possession of the power which
they have voluntarily secured to him,
and has voluntarily accepted by the
New Constitutional Contraa. But
this is all that ought to be required
of me.
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY— JAN. 26.
A LETTER was reld from the de
partment of the Lower Pirennes,
stating that all the officers of the 7th
regiment,except two,had quitted their
colours. The soldiers had maintained
the most exa& discipline, and were so
much afraid of being accused of irre
gularity, that since the departure of
their officer, they had scrupulously
fubjeded themselves to a most rigo
rous discharge of their duty. Refer
red to the Executive Power.
LETTER
From the Marjhal D^ Maillys M.
DE Narbonne, Minister at War.
" Paris, Dec. iz, 1791.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
STATE PAPERS.
FRANCE.
KING WILLIAM, our gloria deli
merer, bis Wars;
The cayfe—forfooth, to reduce the
power of France.
The effect—to reduce the power of
England.
For he increased the National Debt
£.15,730,439.
QUEEN ANNE—no left glorious—her
Wars. .
The cause—to get a Barrier for the
Dutch, and to dethrone Phillip of
Spain,
The effe&—no gain but to the Duke
of Marlborough and Co.—thirty /even
millions.'
More loss !—added to the National
Debt £37,750 661. 3
GEORGE I,—His Wars.
The cause—the possession of Verden
and Breman, Duchies of use perhaps
to Hanover—not to England—
To guarantee the Emperor's lands
in Italy ! !
The effea 13 Millions more;
£.13,730, o^
GEORGE II.—&„ Wars;
The cause —two ears cut off in the
New World-
How reajon frowns on War's unequal
[game,
Where wafted nations,raife ajingle name 1
Where mortgaged States their grandfire's
[wreaths regret !
From age to age—in ever lasting debt !
SINCE THE REVOLUTION.
THEIR CAUSES AND EFFECTS.
There are hopes that the celebrated
circum navigator, able officer, & hu
mane man Count de la Pejroufe, is not
loft. It is said, that Admiral de Bou
gainville, has received tidings of him.
A ship from China touched at the isle
of Bourbon, and gave there an ac
count of the place where he was to be
found. He, and such of his men as
are still alive,are said to have fuffered
dreadfully from the feurvy,which had
occasioned the loss of their hair and
their teeth. The report fays, that a
vessel was to be dispatched from the
Isle of Bourbon, to bring them home,
- For the succeeding birth day,obvi
oufly so important, the Duchess of
York is to have among other trifles, a
Diamond Shoe ! The shoe aforefaid,
and the diamond aforefaid, are to cost
a thousand Guineas !
LONDON, JAN. 10.
A melancholy event lately took
place at Mervill, near Bridgenorth.
A gentleman's servant having had
his mind impressed with gloomy and
mistaken notions of religion, hanged
himfelf. He was pronounced by the
Coroner's inquett, fe h de fe, and was
buried in the high way. Previous to
his unnatural death, he fancied him
felf cast off by the Almighty, excluded
from the covenant of grace, and pre
destined to eyerlafting deftruaion.
It is laid he had imbibed these noti
on) from feme unguarded and illiterate
preachers, who, going About under
pretence of being inspired to preach
the Gospel too often lead their hear
ers (especially those of weak minds)
into the most dangerous errors.
sider as one and the fame, from the firft
hour of my life:"
" Having unceasingly devoted to it
almost seventy years of my life :
“ Having Sacrificed my whole for
tune in the armies, and the establish
ments of public utility irf the Pro
vince, the command, of which has
been confided to me for twenty-five
years :
“ And, having attained the highest
military rank, can I give to myKing
add my country assurances of attach
ment more sacred than those of the
whole course of my life ?\. ,
''That assurance shall cease only
with the last hour of my life ; and it is
the most binding oath that my honor
can require., (Signed)
'' The Marfeal DE MAILLY,
WARS,
The Turkish Ambassador said to the
Austrian Priests, "I commend myfelf to
jour prayer : We all have the famtGod."
—This is thought by some people to
be very Singular, and little to be ex
pe&ed from a Mahometan. This
Turk is hot likely .to have entered
minutely into the learning of our ca
techisms and liturgies : But the Ma
hometan religion being partly found
ed on the do&rines of the gospel, he
has known the prayer given by Christ,
and must have meant that compre
hensive prayer, of which he expresses
his approbation, It was as Moses
taught,as Christ taught, and as Maho
met taught, that we should pray to our
Father who art inHeaven—the "fame
God." There can in truth be no other
than one Supreme Being ; and he must
be God—" the fame" God who made
the jews, the Chrifians, and the Ma^
bom-tans. To some uninformed, or
misinformed people, it also may ap
pear surprising and singular, that a
Mahometan should have any sentiments
of mercy and goodneG.
In the funeral service of the Turks,
whilst dirt is sprinkled on the interred
corpse, the MabometanMinifler solemn
ly fays of the deceased, "if whilst you
lived, yon were benevolent,yog are
happy: If otherwise, (devoutly rais
ing his hands and eyes towards Hea
ven, during a long paufe)—tbe mercy
of God exceedetb all things !•
The frequency of the game of haz
ard at Vienna, nothwithflanding the
penalty of 300 ducats, being , com
plained of at Court;the Emperor said,
" That so long as Lotteries existed; they
could not fine perfonsfor playing at games
of chance."
CAPT. CASS, of the 2d United
States regiment, marched from
this place on Tuefday last, with a de
tachment of men for Fort Franklin—
this detachment will augment that
garrison to 120 men, and of which
Capt. Cass is to take the command.
Capt. Hughes with a fine com
pany of men, arrived here on Satur
day last from the eastward.
" Amongst the affignants which
have fallen into my hands, I find to
the amount of fifteen thousand livres
to be forged. I fend them back
to you, as perhaps you may have
means to get them off I confefs
t dare not attempt it. Permit
me to express to you the necessity
of being more circumfpea in receiv
ing these bills, as the fabricators of
counterfeit affignats are considerably
encreafed of late, both in number and
(kill ; so indeed are all description
of thieves."
(The words are the King: of P^ffi^s)
Effects—above an Hundred Millions
more Debts, viz. £.103 .449,693.
GEORGE lll.—wbomGod long pre.
ferve — His Wars.
The Causes—a rafh,untenable pro
jefe of taxing America, with a three
penny Tea Tax.
The effects—a gain to Great Bri
tain of fixt, seven pounds five /hillings
fl erling !\ +
A lass to Great-Britain of above an
Hundred and ten millions Sterling
;£.110,2/4,341.
The total of these enormous losses
may be made by any one who is in
sensible enough to fed such mifchief
with patience !
A Banker at Paris was lately plun
dered in the night, and a chest, con
taining 25 000 livers in paper, chan
ged its matter ; he was however in
finitely surprised to receive a letter
by penny-post soon after containing
affignats to the value of 15,000 livres,
with the following billet.
AMERICAN ADVICES.
PITTSBURG, MARCH 24.
" SIR,
POLMENESS.
Mr. Boiler's loss is estimated at
iooo£. —Mrs. Giles, a widow, loft a
comfortable dwelling-honfe,almoft all
her furniture, and is in great distress.
The other buildings burnt were not
very valuable.
FIRE AT MARBLEHEAD.
Marblehead,April i^, 1792..
Early in the evening of last Wed
' nefday, a very alarming fire begau in
the dwelling.houfe of Mr.jafftaß,w
--° ler, and entirely confirmed it, 4 other
dwelling-houses afid fever^l Ihops find
barns.—The melancholy event has
occasioned by a child of <Ar. Bowler's,
who had, unobserved, taken a lighted
candle in the clofei of an upper cham
ber, and there by some means caufrht
a bundle or laths on fire. The Child
frightened at the mifchief, ihuc the
doors of the closet and chamber, und
r.an below; but, two young to be a
ware of the conferences, and n
fraid of correction as he has since coh
feffed, concealed the circumftaDce^
and it was sometime after he had coLe
down, that a neighbor, who had fern
the fire spreading through the the up
per part of the house, informed ffia
family of their danger. Mr. Bowlers
dwelUnghoufe, and a bake^houfe, 1,-
dcr [be fame roof, were very foibi
wholly involved in the flame—arid
with the most timely affillance, thdt
could be afforded him he was able ip
save only a part of his furniture ark
goods, and fuffered the additional Jefe
of many valuable articles, and papers
The fire, spreading at fiifi in the dfo
region of the wind, caught a dwell
inghou'e near to Mr. Bowler's —-and
very soon after, three other dwelling
boules oppofne to bis buildings, ar,u
separated only by a very narrow Rrcc:l
The burning flakes flying from th#
houses on fire, and continually falling
upon a long range of wooden bri!c>
ings, and to a great distance, excited
the most diffracting apprehensions a^
mong the people assembled, and oblio
ged many of them, for the preferva^
tion of their own goods, to withdraw 1
their help from immediate fufferersi
A brick warehouse, Landing upon t
wharf, at the foot ofa rocky defeen
from Mr. Boiler's, and the woodet
reef of which was contiguous to hit
houfe,alfo took fire— and a number of
large warehouses on the fame wharfs
were thought to be in great danger]
The inhabitants had been very early -
assembled with the three engines be
longing 10 the town—but the men
were comparatively few in number, a
great proportion of the inhabitants
being at sea. The wells of the neigh
borhood were soon exhausted of water
—and the tide being out, much time
and labour were required to supply
the engines from the harbor, Many
women, with uncommon strength and
fortitude, lent their affiltance in this
work—and in this extremity, it was
igladly accepted.—But the utmost ef
forts of the inhabitants; thus divided
in the objects of their attention, and
weakened by their fears, appeared to
be unequal to the occasion. Their re
lief, however was at hand:—a great
number of worthy inhabitant cfSalem,
on the firft notice by the appearances
of the fire, and the ringing of the
bells, set off from there with three en
gines,and in less than an hour arrived
with them at Marblehead: Their or
der, readiness and vigor, had the de
sired success—and by about an hour's
uaremitted exertions^ Wiffthe favour
of a fall of rain, several dwelling
houfes in the most imminent danger
were preferved,and the further spread
ing of the fire prevented. This time
ly and generous assistance from Salem,
in all human probability, fared the
town of Marblehead from {offering, in
in addition to its other late misfor
tunes,a very extensive ravage by fire.
The important fe/vice, will be very
gratefully remembered by the inha
bitants.
SALEM, APRIL i"