The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1792-11-14 00:00:00, page 2

A SPRUCE Maccaroni, whose hair
and whose cloaths
Were the envy of Fops, and the pat
tern of Beaus ;
Look'd with scorn on aßutcher in pass
ing the street,
And turn'd up his nose at the fight of
the meat.
Says the Botcher, you Pug, if you'd
eat such as that,
You'd credit your Country, and grow
plump and fat.
" Greasy brute," cry'd the Fop ! then
the Butcher enrag'd,
Snatch'd a knife, and to punish the
coxcomb engag'd.
Then seizing poor Mac. who began
to look pale,
He dock'd his fool's nqddle, and cutoff
his tail.
" Now, now," cryd the Butcher, "the
people may flare
Ataflull without brains, and a bead
without bair."
Wifely anxious for the pre
servation of his immortal
foul, the important mean
was put within his power
that ads as a chief instru
ment by which he may gain
the peaceful haven of bliss,
which God has promised to
such as walk in his ways, &
abide by hiscommandments-
A retrolpeaive glance at
former ages, will soon ex
pose the clouds of darkness
and bigotry, which over fha.
dowed the whole world :—
The disadvantages that the
ancients labored under, will
obviously appear even to a
common observer; but when
the Press arofe,like the Sun
after a thick fog, the dark
miffs vanished from before
it, and by degrees the whole
world became illuminated
by its splendor.
Under the ifluence of print
ing, religion reared its sacred
head ; and, by its means has
become widely extended. —-
The Pr ess may be very pro
perly stiled, " The Nurle of
Protestantism ;" for without
its aid, it could never have
been established. The Bible,
that library of Divine know
ledge, would have been of
little use, and few, very few
indeed, would have ever be
come the possessors of the
inestimable treasure if the
Press had not lent her aid.
Laws receive strength from
its power-; but, by its
ence they are rendered less
THE Divine Ruler of the
Universe evinced his
affection for man in a par
ticular manner, when he
led him to the thoughts of
that noble invention, the
PRINTING PRESS.
Docking the Maccaroni ;
OR THE
Butcher's, R evenge.
PRINTING.
Liberty (so dearly bought
by our tore-fathers) has
been established by thePRESs
on a more solid basis, and
that without blood shed : —
Favor return for favor, and
let us (with one heart and
voice) fully establish. the
Liberty of the Press.
The Inflruffion we derive
from the production of the
ufeful engine, forms anoth
er very weighty instance of
its utility ; it is the nurse of
arts, the parent of learning,
the friend of all good men,
poor or rich ; and one of
the choicest blessings we en
joy below.
Books and New/papers, are
other benefits we enjoy by
its establishment ; the for
mer are chiefly confined to
particular fubjeas, but the
latter exhibit, at one view,
the various essential tranf
aaions of the whole world.
They are looked after with
avidity, for " They Jhew the
times, their very form and
pressure," and are as necessa
ry to tome as fuel to the
fire.
Navigation, Commerce,
and every other ufeful un
dertaking, might be men
tioned as deriving benefits
from the Press; but, Ifind
I am loftin enumerating its
ufefulnefs, thefore I decline
the boundless talk.
necessary. Virtue extolled,
and vice degraded, havecon,
tributed in no small degree,
to the general reformation
of mankind.
SHould the pruffian and
Austrian troops march
beyond the Frontiers into
France the desertions of the
french armies will soon thin
their ranks. The auftrians
on all occasions have mani
fefted their partiality for the.
cause of the french, and the
pruffian soldiers are such
slaves, that they will be
happy to join the banners
of freedom; where they (hall
be fuffered to aft and think
like men, and enjoy the
blessings of free citizens.
The pruffian army are so
encumbered and the men
are so averse to fight against
the french that if they meet
with no impediment 'from
the enemy, they will require
leveral weeks before they
Foreign Intelligence.
August, 1792,
LONDON, Aug. 20.
Wilmot.
are not too impetuous, it is
probable that they will have
the power of making their
own terms, though the ene
my (hould invade their
country. If their generals
agree to fight on the defen
five, they must harrafs the
army of exprinces and their
allies, more than people in
general are aware of.
Copy of a letter from M. La
Fayette to the Municipal
Officers, Sedan, dated Bou
ilion, August 19.
" Gentlemen,
" IF the last drop of my
blood serve the community
Sedon, it has a right to the
facrifice ; & this would cost
me less, than that which I
now make ; but at the mo
ment when I forefee by rea
sons that will not elcape
you, that my presence with
you would tend only in a
few days to bring you into
danger, I ought to spare the
city of Sedan, the misfor
tunes of which I should be
the cause ; and I think the
best means of serving it, is,
by removing from it a man
whom all the enemies of
liberty have proscribed; who
will never bow to any des
potism, and who penetrated
with grief,at being ho long
er able at present to be ufe
ful to his country,feels con
solation, only, in the vows
he puts up, that that sacred
cause of liberty and equali
ty, whose holy name is pro
faned, if that be possible by
the crimes of a faction, may
not at least be held long in
fubjeaion, and in the oath
which he renews before a
community truly patriotic,
to be faithful to the princi
ples that have animated his
whole life.
(Signed) "LaFAYETTE."
can reach Paris. Ifthe french
BY a letter from Kentuc
ky dated the fourth of
August, we learn, that about
a fortnight preceding, sixty
indians had crossed the big
river (Ohio)on a predatory
expedition ; on information
of which, thirty men in
stantly turned out, and
went in °queft of their trail
—and on the evening of the
second day they came in
fight of twelve of the enemy
crossing the Rolling Fork ;
PHILADELPHIA, Oft 20.
Indian Intelligence.
American Intelligence.
—it being then late, it was
judged prudent to wait un
til morning to attack them.
—Before, daybreak the
commanding officer sent
forward fix of his men to
commence the action, while
the remainder followed elofe
in the rear—the van loon
came up with the indians,
andafmart skirmish ensued,
which continued until the
main body of the Kentucky
men came up; on which
the indians fled, with the
loss of four killed and two
badly wounded, who re
mained on the field—the
whites loft one man and
had two slightly wounded.
Yeftei day was brought to
town, and lodged in goal,
Jacob Valentine, the perlon
charged with the murder of
an indian chief, some time
since, at the Otfwego falls
•—and for whose apprehen
sion the supreme executive
of this state had, by procla
mation, offered a reward of
500 dollars. He denies his
having murdered thelndian,
but fays he. killed him in
his own defence—and that,
at the time he was appre
hended, he was on his way
to deliver himfelf for trial.
He was taken in the state of
Vermont, by Mr. Jonathan
Russell of Herkemercounty,
whither he had pursued him
from Upper to Lower Can
ada, and across the Lakes.
Mr. Russell, when in Upper
Canada, applied to Govern
our Simcoe for permission
to apprehend the said V. if
in that province which was
readily granted.
We are informed, by a letter from
Amsterdam of the 23d of August last,
that an additional duty has taken place
of one half per cent, ad valorem on ail
goods exported from the United Neth
erlands to the United States of Ameri
ca—and one per cent on all goods im
ported into said Netherlands from the
United States.
By late papers received from Lisbon,
several frigates and cutters had failed
for Gibraltar, to keep the Algerines
within the Streights. Four frigates and
fix cutters had also failed for the Bra
zils, to cruize on that flation, in order
to intercept any illicit traders, as they
have lately been very frequent there.
Extrad of a letter from Martinico,dated
Sept. 18, 1792.
"ON the 15th inst. at 5 o'clock.
P. M. a fleet was difeovered from the
hights, bearing in through the channel
of St. Lucia. Immediately M. Du Boe
de Rivery and M. de Santer sent in
telligence of the event to the Govern
or, and to the Chevalier du Buc, pre
sident of the Colonial Committee, in
Fortßoyal. This fleet it was fufpe&
ALBANY, Oft 18.
BOSTO Nov. 3.
TRANSLATION.
NEW-YORK, oa, 27.