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BOSTON, JUNE &
Attatk bn Surinam..
Accounts from Dominica, to the llQMay, state,
that a landing of the British troops sent against the
Colony of Surrinam, having been found impractical
/ ble, a large detachment of seamen had been sent a
gainst Bram Point ; but were defeated with the loss
of between G and 700, including the two command^
ing officers, killed or taken prisoners.
A Philadelphia paper states, that since 1804 com
menced, one hundred and fifty three American ves
sels have been captured—lo 6 by the French, and 47
by the British. —=—
IMPORTANT.
More sqaully appearances in the Medi
terranean.
By the arrival at New-York, of the ship Vigilant,
from Naples, an extract of a letter from Commodore I
Preble, has been received, dated on board the Con
stitution, at Syracuse, March 19, 1804. The follow
ing is a copy of its important contents :—
" I have this moment received intelligence from
a gentleman just arrived from Tunis, that the Bey
> of that regency is equipping his whole naval force
with the utmost expedition ; and it is whispered that
his object is, the Amercan commerce. From various
circumstances, I believe there is much truth in the 4
conjecture. Three of their frigates from 24 and 32
guns, are now fitting out at Malta one frigate of 32
guns,and amumber of small vessels, and getting rea
, dy at Tunis."
, Commodore Preble farther observes, that he in
tends to collect all the forces of Tripoli, and proceed
off Tunis, to learn the cause.
I MASSACRE OF ALL THE WHITES AT CAPE
/ FRANCOIS.
,> —■—
L By the Pilot boat Grey Hound Capt. Sandford,
rrived at New-York, in 16 days from Capp Frart-
A cois, we have a confirmation of the massacre and
and pillage at that and other places of the Island by
Gen. Dessaline's troops, which commenced on the
19th of April, and was continued, without intermfs-I
don till the 14th of May.— All the French inhabit I
tants, including men, women and children, to tire|
number of between 2000 and 2500, were put to the
sword or bayonet at the Cape during the above pe-
Tiod. On the 14th of May after the work of destruc
tion was completed,Declines left tire Cape on his
way to his head quarters by the way of Port-de-Paix
and Gonaives.— On the 22d of April, Fort Dauphin
gras purged,&td aU the whites, to the number of
Foreign Intelligence.
• —t**^e <&*=—,
YARMOUTH, APRIL 10.
On the ,night of Tuesday last the boats of the
Beaver and Scorpion sloops of war. were manned
with Volunteers, accompanied by Officers, who sue.
seeded in cutting out and bringing away from the
Viie passage, a Dutch armed brig of 500 tons bur
then, fully manned and carrying 18 sixteen pound
ers besides small arms, without any loss on our part,
but a few wounded. The Captainof the Dutch yes*
sel which was boarded, was in the act of making a
stroke at one of our officers, but was prevented by
the timely interference of one of ours, who gave him
.a mortal blow with a cutlass.
• LONDON APRIL I*.
STONE EXPEDITION.
It is conjectured that the stone ladened ships were
sunk at the mouth of Boulogne harbour on Thursi
day night last. ——
Cofty of a Letter from Rear-Admiral Thornbort
ough to William Marsden Esq. dated on board
his Majesty's ship Defence off the Texel.
SIR—
> You' will be pleased to acquaint their Lordships,
'that I detained and have since liberated, the purser
pilot, and the Captain's servant, of the Dutch Na
tional brig Atalanta captured by the Scorpion a>d
Beaver sloops ; and that I charged the latter
with the effects of his master to be delivered to
Admiral Killkert, for the benefit of his relations ;
I availed myself of the opportunity of writing to the.
Admiral, a c6py of which letter I herewith inclose
for their Lordship's perusal and, which I trust will
meet their approbation, I am, &c.
(Signed) EDW. THORNBOROUGH.
' His Majesty's shift Definee off the Texel, Aftril4.
t stb-
The chance of war having put into our possession
the Atalanta, Dutch National brig, and being desi
rous of paving every attention to the memory of
Captain Carp, her commander, who gallantly fell
at his post in tlie defence of the ship entrusted to
his care, I have sent his servant toyou with his ef
fects. The English not considering persons serving
' on board ships of war in civil capacities, as liable
to bemade prisoners, I have liberated and sent on
shore the purser and pilot, that were taken on
board the Atalanta, and have charged the former
with the delivery of this letter to you. I feel great
concern at having been under the necessity of send
ing the Surgeon and wounded men belonging to the
brig, to England ; the dictates of humanity would
i ft ive induced me to send them to the Helder, could
' I have been assured that rny flag of truce would have
been respected, and the officers permitted to return
which has ever been the custom with civilized pow
ers at war until the last summer when an English
officer, going to Helvoet under a flag of truce, was
detained and sent prisoner into France. Enclosed
I have sent an inventory of Captain Carp's effects.
. (Signed)
EDW. THORNBOROUGH,
pear. Admiral Killkert, Commander of the Bata
vian shifts in the TexeL
orders. Not being able to obtain security, and see-
L Inga. prison and what appeared to his mind, the
* most indelible disgrace, await him, he begged the
officer who had min in custody to id him go up to
his chamber for a few moments, where the report
of a pistol soon announced the object of his visit.
The ball entered his right ear in a direction down
ward; and though not dead when this was written,
he's gone, we're told, beyond redemption,'
BY THE "LATEST MAILS.
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BALTIMORE, MAY 25.
suicide. —A young man of genteel and fashion
able appearance, by the name of Thompson, we
blush for the frailty of human nature to say it, at
tempted, about 11 o'clock this morning, in his cham
ber at Mr. Bryden's, and with fatal success, the des
perate act bf suicide. Theft is some obscurity at
tending the supposed causes which led him to this
unexpiable libel' upon his Maker. Suffice it to say,
that we understand he wara native of Santa Croix,
where he once had a large and competent patrimr*
py, and whether he lost it through the villainy of
false friends, or by dissipation and vice we know
not, but he appears at all events to have been under
pecuniary embarrassments. He arrived a few days
since from Philadelphia, probably to fly from his
creditors, and was attested here yesterday by their
LEGISLATURE of NE WHAM^SHIRE.
A Gentleman who left Concord on Friday
last, informs that Mr. Langdon was chosen
Speakei of the House of Representatives, and Mr.
Nicholas Gilman, President of tte Senate ; Mr.
^Waldron was chosen to fill the vacancy in the
Senate. ; and His Excellency Governor Gilman
had beet declared re-elected by a majority of 150
votes..
The following beautiful paragraph is from the last
Charleston Courier.
By a variety of artful means little creditable to
those who practised or those who permitted them,
the body of men who had saved this country were
thrust out of power; and the democratic body origin
ally distinguished by the name of anti-federalists,
but invidiously and unjustly Usurping to themselves
the name of republicans, put in their place. Among
that body there were many men of talents and vir
tue, who blinded by indulgence in theories and spe
culative politics, conceived they were serving the
state when they were advancing democracy. Itdid
not occur to them that the checks of the constitution
would be taken away, and its vital principal extin
guished by their conduct. They had read history,
but they set the reveries of theorists against its au
thority ; flattered themselves that the human heart
could be made to change with circumstances, and
that it might in the seventeenth and eighteenth,
feel and act differently from what it had uniformly
done for sixteen centuries before.—They feel it
now, when too late, They have set that unwieldy
body without mind, the physical force of the coun
try, in motion, put it into the path of democracy,
and now it rolls down the hill in spite of them ;
j and leaves them behind to lament their inconsider-
; ate rashness. True to its nature, it will roll on till
: it reaches the bottom ; and we are much mistaken
if some of the greatest of those who now direct its
I progress, and accelerate its descent, will not soon
deleft behind in the lurch. Either human nature
is wholly changed, or this will happen. Those who
are now the lowest and meanest of the tools and
agents of the party, will by degrees shake off their
present superiors, patrons spa paymasters ; make
abdit ninety, men, women and children, were r<t
sacred, and a part of the town destroyed. A few
days after, the French inhabitants of St. Jago . nd
other parts of the interior, were escorted to the
Cape, and there destroyed in the most wanton man
ner.
On the 12th of May, Dessalines issued a procla
mation calling Upon the Spanish inhabitants of the
city of Santo Domingo to declare themselves for or.
against him, allowing them fifteen days to deter-'
mine.— -This proclamation was made in consequence
it was said, or his having received dispatches from
Port au Prince, informing hint of the arrival of a
reinforcement of French troops at Santo Domingo^
To enter into a full detail of the particulars of the
massacre and plunder of the Cape, would be apain
ful task, and afford no pleasure to our readers : but
we are assured that from the beginning to the end
of the hellish work, the most unparralelled cruel
ties Were inflicted upon the whites in a manner too
shocking to relate.
Men, women and children were hacked down with
swords and plunged with bayonets. Women with
children in their arms, were seen flying through the
streets to avoid their pursuers ; & being overtaken
by them, one thrust of the bayon'et tpierced both
mother and child !
After this dreadful massacre the dead lay in the
strectfyfor thre days, Ayhen the inhabitants were or
dered to remove those within a certain distance of
each drilling— which were afterwards dragged off
and thrown into a ditch at the foot of a mountain.
Previous to the massacre, certain? of the blacks
in order to obtain the property of the whites which
was secreted, called on them 'individually, and pro
mised to spare their lives if they would give it up ,
having obtained it, not one of then! was excepted
from the general massacre % The property" thus
perfidiously obtained, (consisting of gold jewels and
plate) was said to be immense. Gold Was brought
to the town in hats fall by the blacks, and offered in
exchange for silver for less than half its valuta ,
We are informed that Dessalines had decreed,
that any Frenchman henceforward who shall arrive
in St. Domingo shall be put to death.
To shew further the vindictive cruelty of the
blacks and their inveteracy against the whites, we
shall mention the following fact: Just before the
massacre took place, a Danish schooner belonging
to St. Thomas, having on board a number of French
passengers, after sailing was pursued by armed
boats, overtaken and brought back, and the Danish
captain, .rew and passengers were put to death.
The few Americans that where at the cape, re
mained unhurt. With the exception of the printer
and a few mechanics at the Cape, whose services
were too useful to be spared, not one Frenchman
survived the general destruction.
At the date of our advices,Dessalines was erecting
strong fortifications in the mountains. His force
consists of 60,000 men.
The Oracle.
•—=tftt-—
TUESDAY, JUNE, 12, 1804.
Ofthe white persons who escaped from the Island
almost by miracle, several have arrived at this port
in the Grey-hound ; 9 in the Almy which sailed for
New-York 6 days before the Greyhound viz. tarne
and da^ighther. Helen, Wife, and Son d^llbert
Astaiz, Gabareau and wife ; and in the Nancy, for
Charleston, Messrs. Oliver and Gershom.
"I am sorry to inform you of the loss of forty sail
of the West- India fleet. They sailed from Cork
on the 24th of March, destined for the West-Indies,
composed of a fleet of 71 sail, under convoy of the
Apollo and Caryfort frigates. The Apollo 'being
a-head of the fleet on the morning of the 2d inst. at
4 o'clock, struck on a Sand Beach about a mile from
the shore, and 15 leagues south of thjs port. Thirty
nine sail of merchant-ships also went on shore short
ly after, and were totally lost. From the best infor
mation I can get from the British Consul here, out of
the crew of the Apollo, consisting of 257 men, only
123 Were saved. Com. Dixon, her commander,
drowned himself. .About 400 dead bodies were
found on the shore { That Captain Dixon should
have ran his frigate ashore on the coast of Portugal,
with the wind S. W. is truly astonishing to naviga
tors. I have on board my ship a seaman who be
longed to the Peggy, of Glasgow, who says, 14 Glas
gow ships joined the above fleet 4 Cork, 12 of which
were lost.
Extract of a letter from Oftorto, dated .foil 12,
1804.
"Yesterday We had the best advices from Vigo,
which state, that the Spanish government has posi*
tivefy prohibited the French from carrying in priz
es, selling or condemning them in Spanish ports—
and that the French had demanded a large sum of
money from the 'Spanish government, which they
have peremptorily refused to grant."<
RICHARD SALTER.
Portfa&h Ma, tg, 1804.
For Sa/^,
{r^THE faft failing sloop Morn.
W ' '"° Star, now lying at Ports
^^^^moQth Pier, a faft failing Delaware
built vessel, 'has tolerable good ac
commodations, burthen about 50 tons. For
terms apply to Joseph {STORER, Efg. or to
Thomas Bacon on board laid sloop.
TAKEN up adrift by Edmund Pen
dergaft/and Timothy Murray, a large
Whale Boat, about three miles this fide of the
shoals, dmoft full of water, with four Oars, t
Sail, Rudder and Tiller, Grabble and Road, the
owner may have hc» again by paying charges
and applying to DANTMELCHER.
httfmouth, June %
them on some pretext the object of popular dislike
and suspicion, and take that power ouc of their
hands which their machinations and wicked do
ings have been the means of placing there,
Who is there that in the year 1789, would have
believed that the enemies and calumniators of Was-
INGTON would have been the highest in this country
in popularity and power ? Who is there that in
1801 would have believed that in New-York a Burr
in Pennslyvgnia a M'Man, in Maryland a Mer
ger, and in South-Carolina a -Butler, would be
Compelled by honour and honesty to abandon the
projects of the p irty and be helcfby them in abhor
rence for obeying tlie mandates of duty integrity and
principle . Who would have be ieved then, that a
fair, honourable and patriotic letter from the han.
Pierce Butler to his constituents thro' their gov*
erflor, would have been treated with marked indig
nity, because the writer had tlie boldness in this free
country, this country of free debate, of free exercise
of opinion of free press of free every thing in sound,to
declare his o,ini& as in duty botind for the advice
and direction of his constituents ? Who would
have believed all this in 1801?
, ^,@^
Extract ofa tetter from Demarara, dated May 11.
Certain accounts were received this morn of the
taking of Surrnam by storm from the English fleet
and Army.*
THE members of "Gilman's Blues"
will assemble this day at t o'clock P. M.
with arms and accoutrements, and in complete
uniform. As the Gentlemen Selectmen have
very,olitel, refuted the company the use of the
Market Hall, they are requeued to attemble on
the Parade, in front of the North meeting-house.
order the Captain.
S. NUTTING, O S.
Portfaduth, June 9, 1804. ______
A— FRIENDLY caution to all Persons that
have made a practice of passing through
my land in Barnftead, to Mr. James Tibbets*
House. The firft person that takes such liberty
after this, in defiance of the Law in such cases,
I am determined to treat with a trip to Do
ver, as the Law directs.
, . F ° R THE Oracle.
HOW pkasmg,to the swain's delighted eye, * —
To view returning lovely May;
How grateful to his ear the melody,
Wafted from each surrounding spray. -
How light of care his heart, while with his team
All day he traverses the fields;
And when at eve be slow betakes him hc& ;
How pure the jjys, his cottage yields.
0, had ambition never fired my heart,
I had lived a himble, happy swain,
Nor e'er been picked by that relentless dart,
Which now affords me ceaseless pain.
In science paths mt youthful feet would stray ;
I left my native lowly cot,
L.-....'s school spent mahy a studious day,
Gained learning's lore, but wealth had not,
Young Mira's charms my bosom fired with lore,
A maid of every charm possess'd;
But her nor vows, nor prayers avail to move,
Or melt to pity her cold breast.
Sick of the world, I quit the busy throng,
In loneliness the hours beguile,
Where old Piscataqua gently glides along,
Oft slow wandering many a mile. R.
ThefoUoanngioetic effusion has its faults see ac
knowledge,but there is an ingeniousness discov?
teed which will credit the writer's heart if &
his head, . _,...-
THE fubferiber will attends to the
settlement of his accounts from time to time
until the first week in July, as he passes on his rout,
particularly on Saturday the 16th inst. at Mr. M.
Fitts in Candida, from 10 o'clock A. M. to 4 o'clock
P. M. ; oh Wednesday the 20th at Amherst, from
4 o'clock P. M. 'till evening ; on Thursday the
21st at Mr. Isaac Riddle's, from 10 o'clock A. M.
'till 1 P. M.and at the store lately occupied by Rid
dle and Aikin from 2 o'clock 'till evening ; Satur
day 23d at Isaac Thom's,Esq. from 10 o'clock A.M.
'till 1 o'clock P. M. ; at Major Miltimore's from. 2
P. M. 'till 4 ; Saturday, June 30, at Capt. Richard
son's in Chester. 1 OZIAS SILSBY.
(^ht^er, June 12, 1804.
riscataqua Bridge Lottery.
FRIENDS Take Notice—purchase
your Tickets before the sift inst. when
they will advance in price to five dollars and fifty
cents and when the drawing commences (19th
July) to fix dollars, fubferibers are desired to
apply for their Tickets on or before the sixth
July -. . , ,
g^Pifeutaqua Bridge Tickets for sale
at Treadwells book-Shop . June 9.
"Just received and FOR SALE by
Ebenezer Chadwick,
At his store head of Buck-street.
FLORENCE, Lisbon, and Spermaceti Oil ;
L fresh Turkey Figs per box ; Muscadel and
Bloom Raisins per do. ; Casks Raisins ; Lisbon
and Sherry Wine ; 4th proof Cogniac and common
Brandy ; Lemons and Oranges ; Cotton ; first
quality Fig Tobacco per cask ; Spanish Segars ;
Warranted Scythes, and Scythe Sniths; Mackarel
per bbl.
A general assortment of TEAS ; #
Together with a general assortment of
GROCERIES as. usual.
ATTENTION /
Notice !
''auctions. '"
This day, at S. LITTLE'S Office.
7 pieces Plad Chintz. 8 do. mill'd Cotton.
4 (10. Gingham. 20 pieces Nankihett.
3 do. Cambrick. 10 do. elegant spriged
.. —ALSO— [Muslin.
A quantity of Hard-Ware, such as English
Nalls, Brads, Card Tacks, Knives and Forks. &c.
At 12 o'clock precisely,
15 boxes Brown Soap, at 60 days credit for notes
witl^approved endorsers.
To be fold at Public Auction,
On Saturday the 16th instapt, at 11 o'clock, A. M,
the Building, now occupied as the New-Hampshire#
Bank : The Purchaser to remove such part of toe
Building as may be required, within ten days from
the sale ; and the remainder when requested.—
Conditions and other Circumstances will be
made known at the sale ; which will be on ths
premises, Portsmouth, June 1804.
- TO BE SOLD,-
A LOT of LAND, Wharf, Graving Beach and
water privilege, situated, on the northerly
.side of Liberty Bridge, between land owned by
•Woodbury Tucker and the Creek, for particular
apply to JOHN PEIRCE.
ALL Rerfons indebted to or having demands
against the estate of $
SAMUEL FRENCH
late of Epping, in the county of Rockingham,
husbandman deceased, are requested to prefen:
the fame for settlement to
Dearborn French, Exec^ta.
Epping, June „ 1804.
READ THIS! ‘
THE Person who came to the Book-Store ^ r
the fubferiber on Monday last (the 4th inst)
and purchased Whitefield's ten Sermons ara
Bunyan's Water of Life, is requested to c^ll rod
rectify a mittake, and receive something he left ??
said ftnre, in his estimation very valuable.
The pei son said his name was Fernald, and
that he lived at Rochester. Any one that car
give information of any person of any name, who
purchased such books as above mentioned, on
said day, will greatly oblige the fubferiber and
others. CHARLES PEIRCE.
PortfmoUth, June 7, 1804.
A new and handsome Chaise
for Sale reasonable, inquire of
C. PEIRCE.
- WHO HAS FOR SALE,
Excellent Philadelphia Writing Paper;
Blue and Blossom Paper demi size;
Cartridge, Log. Cook, and Bonnet Papers;
Wrapping & Sheathing Papers;
Engiifh, Elephant, Drawing, Medium, Demi,
folio and quarto Toft, Foolscap, Pot and Let
ter Papers of various qualities and prices.
Hanging Papers and Borderings of 52 different
figures & qualities -Apply to the Brickßook-
Store, Danielftreet, Portsmouth.
Tweeters ; ivory, steel, and filverTags ; silver,
Glver-plated, and brass shoe Clasps ; Tooth
brushes; a few pieces Hait-Ribbons ; ladies'
Pocket-Books ; Thretd-tafes and Pttrfes, force
very handsome ; gentlemen's Pocket-Books and.
Note-Books ; silver-plated, Caridlefticks ; Cadie
fhells ; Segar Cases , • white and blue cut-glass
Smelling-Bottles; common do. Graters ; ladies'
Measures, &c. &c. &c. alft may be bad
Silver table and tea Spoohs ; sauce-spoons ;
ipap-fpoons ; mustard and fait Spoons ; sugar
Tongs; Knee-Buckles; gold Necklaces and
gold Ear-knobs and Rings warranted good.
5,000 yds. good Tow Cloth;
wanted. Portsmouth, June S,Ao|
THE fubfcrlber being duly appoint^ Etee- ,
utot to the last Will ahd Testament of
WILLIAM BOARDMAN,
late of Newmarket, yeoman, deceased, has taken
upon him that trust, by proving the said Will,
and giving bonds as the law direds. He there
fore requests all Persons who are indebted to the
estate of the said deceased, to make immediate
payment, and those who have any demands
thereon to exhibit the fame for settlement to
William Boardman, .
Drirhum, Jone ft *B%,
frv<w¥ r
AT HIS SHOP IN BUCK-STREET,
GOLD Handkerchief Bns, with glafles for
hair ; do. plain gold Broaches ; fiarge af
forcment of gold Knobs; hoops and ringt
for the ear ; gold finger Rings with glades set
hair ; plain, diamond, cut, seal and beaded
Rings; a large affortmeat of gilt Pins and
Broaches ; gilt Rings and Hat Buckles; hand*
some engraved, plain and fillegree silver Thim
bles; common do, silver Pencil and Pen cases;
do. tooth-pick and pencil Cases; do. Pencil Cas
es ; silver, plated, pen and pencil Cases ; do. pen.
cil Cases ; silver tooth and ear Picks ; black lead
Pencils and Pencil Tops ; silver, Giver.plated
morocco and paper ScifforCafes ; silver, placed &
commonSciffor chains; - Fruit-Knives; Penknives;
Razors and Scissors ; final! knives and scissors for
pocket-books; silver-plated Sugar Tongs; a
large assortment of china, japann'd, paper and
brittania Snuff Bates ; silver plated and ftel
Knee Buckles ; japan'd, britannia and polic'd
steel Snuffer Trays ; white and yellow Spangles ;
black Bugles; garnet, ruby,and cutGlafs Beads ;
silver-plated Fish-knives; silver-plated pearl and
bone Salt-Spoons; Marrow-spoons ; silver bells
and coral ; silver Garnifhers; gold and coral
Necklaces ; silver, silver plated, conkffiell, pearl,
gilt and brass Sleeve-Buttons; silver plated and
iron Tea-spoons; large Spoons; paste, tortoise
shell, ivory, and horn Combs.
Jewelry & other Fancy Goods,
HAS JUST RECEIVED A VARIETY OF
Stephen Hardy,