The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1793-02-13 00:00:00, page 3

Co, of a Letter from an Officer of rank
in the late American Army, belonging
to this Commonwealth, to the Secreta
ry of the General Society of the Cin
. cinnati, dated , Jan. 18, 1793.
Sir,
WHEN all Europe have their eyes
fixed on France, and every one who
reveres the Rights of Man, is admiring
the magnanimous conduct of the
French—t was the other day most sen
sibly affeded on reading the account
of the condudof Gen. Dumourier, when
he presented himfeif before the Na
tional Convention, in the month of
Odober lass. This officer, whose mil
itary and Literary talents place him in
a most conspicuous light, and who can
not but possess the most refined senti
ments of honor, as well as exquisite
feelings for those merits of approba
tion which are conferred on distin
guished merit—than which nothing
can be dearer .to a soldier ; yet this
great and celebrated Citizen. General,
in the presence of that august assem
bly, took the Cross of St. Louis from
his bread, and made an offering of it
at the shrine of Liberty; thereby indi
catingthat he disdained td wear,among
a free and equal people, any mark of
diftin&ion, evidenced by an Order or
Devise, which could be construed,
repugnant to Libert, and Equality.
If the C&fs of St. Louis, long worn
ON Sunday, fan. 6. arrived at Nor
folk (Vir.) the brig William Pennoc,
Capt. Williams, who failed from
Point-Peter, Gaudaloupe, on the 15th
of December. Four days before Cap:.
Williams left the island, the frigate
La Felicite arrived at Dominica in
35 days from France, and brought
news of the defeat of the combined
forces, which set the whole island in a
fermentation; the inhabitants were all
quitting the island, in expectation of
a fleet coming from Frarice. Cap:.
Williams took in 20 passengers for St.
Euftatia, where he arrived on the 18th
and found five more American vessels
from different parts of the island, full
of French passengers, and a number
more momently expected. St. E^fta
tia was full of French people, and
scarce a house to be got on any terms.
At St. Martin's, on the 20th ult. like
wise found several more vessels from
Gaudaloupe, with 40, 50, and 60 pas
sengers on board ; also a vessel from
Martinico, with passengers, who in
formed him, that island was in the
fame situation as Gaudaloupe, which
was continually - under arms. A gen
tleman on board the vessel from Mar
tinico fays, 1700 of the inhabitants
had quitted the island, *and all kind of
business was at a (land ; nothing do
ing except fortifying the island, re
pairing the forts, and getting in order
to arm their negroes against the fleet,
which they expected to arrive from
France. In Gaudaloupe they purchas
ed 80,000 Hand of arms from the oth
er Islands ; and on the firft appearance
of the fleet the planters were deter
mined to arm their negroes to pro
ted the white flag. The frigate La
Felicite got # information of a French
frigate who wore the white flag, man
ned with mulatto's, which the La Fe
licite gave chace to — she run into
Back Staff, Gaudaloupe, under cover
of " e guns. The Captain of the La
Felicite wrote the governor of Gauda
loupe, if he caught any Aristocratic
flags in the Weriindies, he was deter
mined "to fink them —He bent his
Course to Dominica, as he could not
obtain [applies in the French islands.
Well may he exclaim with Brutus—
Virtue ! I pursued thee as a real good,
and 1 find thee but a man.
and captive—he can no where look
for consolation, but in that virtue and
magnanimity which preferred the ruin
of a finking cause, to the triumphant
security of a disingenuous discretion.
Viftrix caufa diis placuit, fed vida
C'atopi.
IMPORTANT NEWS
From the Weft- Indies.
TRUE BENEVOLENCE.
THE other Day, fays Ned to ,oe
(Near Bedlam's Confines groping)
Whene'er I hear the Cries of Woe,
My hand is alway open,
I own, fays Joe, that, tohhe Poor,
(You prove it every minute)
Your hand is open to be sure-
But then—thete's Nothing in it;
It is mentioned in Russell's (Concord)
paper, that the Report concerning Polly
Davis, as in our last, was falfe.
in France as an emblem of the diftin
guilhed merit of the wearer, is judged
by this great man as improper to be
worn in a Republic, how can I, a citi
zen of the renowned American Republic,
allow my name to stand affixed
to an Indication, or wear a Devise
which is construed by many of our fel
low citizens,the indication of anOrder
aid diftinaion, in Jociety. —Animated
by this recent example of the Gallic
Citizen General, I do hereby request,
that you will be pleased to cross m,
name fiom the institution of the Soci
ety of the Cincinnati ; as I do from
this moment, for myfelf, renounce the
Institution. At the fame time, I pray
you be assured, that an affedion and
esteem for every brother Officer of the
late American Army, will continue to
pofTefs a warm corner of my heart,
too deeply impressed to be effaced, or
to stand in need of the aid of any'De
vife or Infticution, as remembrancers.
While we are celebrating in high
feftivity, the condud and successes of
our French friends, let us, if not alrea
dy pricing, imitate such of their
examples as appear evidently marked
with propriety, and calculated to ef
tablilh those principles,which form the
permanent basis of a genuine Republic.
With jentiments ofrejpea, 1 am &e.
Hon. Henry Knox, Efq. l
Secretary to the General >
Society of the Cincinnati. J
Last WednJday the PreJident and
Council convened at the Council Chamber
in this town —but their deliberations we
have not been able to obtain.
" We are now (fays a letter from
London of a late date) persuaded that
the French have got their independ
ence, as the Austrian mod Prussian
troops have b^en obliged to evacuate
the country. We believe all the pow
ers in Europe, cannot re-establish the
old government, or any other than a
republican, agreeable to the general
sense of the nation."
On the 13th of September last, a
fire broke out in Constantinople, the
capital of Turky, which consumed
6oc'o houses, 5 mofqnes, 6000 shops,
and 109 noble buildings,the residence
of the principal officers of the Porte.
A person asking what the hiflorian
will fay hereafter,concerning the duke
of Brunswick's campaign against the
French ? was anfwpred,
" Great Brunfwick'sduke with 80,600
WHEN the Ox-proceffioh
was moving thro' Mark"
borough-ltreet, Boston, on the
late Civic-Feftivai, an honest
Dutchman, who was standing
as a fpedator, with gaping
mouth and gazing eyes, lud
denly turning round to a friend
exclaimed, Ah, Mynheer ! now
we fee the Revelations fulfilled^
All nations following the beast.
By an arrival at Providence, we
learn, that the small Pox has lately
made great ravages in the IJIe of
France : ten thousand of the inhabitants
having been fweptoff by thediftemper.
+ss<,sos,s,o<,s, ss*
EXETER, February 13.
men,,
"March'd into France,& then march'd
out again."
ORIGINAL ANECDOTE.
tries,
"My friend, my guardian, m, Orefts
Accept, dear fade,from friendfeip, true,
the mite.
Ere Angels waft thee to.the realms of
I,gbt.
—At Lee, very' suddenly, Mr.
HALE STEVENS, aged about 28.
.— - In this town, Mr. DANIEL
ROBIN SON, who being alone
accidentally fell into the fire, which
burnt him in such a.manner that he
lived but a few hours after, aged about
80.
Mr. Printer,
THERE Teems to be a great
bustle in the papers, Who
ffiall be Governor at the next
election. For my part, lam wil
ling to do any thing that is not
wrong. Some fay they will have
this and that man to reign over
them ; but they differ vastly from
me —I am, with every other well
wifoer to the State, highly in fa
vor of His Excellency PreJident
BARTLET T— l am confi
dent he is the most deserving the
office—and fare am I, that he will
be most for the general welfare
and pr Jperily of the State, and
the kappine/s of every individual
in it. A word to the wife is fuffi
clent. I will not, like many of
my fallow-eleftors, be ungrateful.
Hefoell have my vote cheerfully.
FAIR PLAY.
IF worth deserves a tributary tear,
That worth demands it evidently here; —
To tooth the widow's ^ the orphan'sftgb,
To grant affiflante when difrefs was ngb
o!virtuous LA ng! 'twas thine th, dar
ling atm.
Tofeek lorn objects, and affifl the fame :
E'en virtue's)elf, with hair difoevell'd,
AS a country Gentleman in Lon
don was reading a Newspaper in
a Coffee-houfe, he said to a Friend
who fat next to him, [ have been look
ing lome time to fee what the Minidry
are about, but I cannot find where
those Articles are put, not being used
id the London Papers.— Look among
the Robberies, replied the other.
DIED] ——At Philadelphia, Mr.
THOMAS LAN G, Printer—At
whose grave the following lines were
composed by a Member of the Feank
lin Society, to which he belonged :—
AS Tom was one day in deep chat with
his Friend,
He gravely advis'd him his Manners to
mend:
That his Morals were bad,lie had heard
it from many—
They lie, replied Tom, I never had any.
your remarkably pooi my word, Ma'm, hearing 's 'Pon "
ear-killing fife, abominable drum But that and "
endure,) Mary, (wife Qooth Gch foftnefs could"never
my field, bear, made for the can't life.' were I on Which "
good dancing SAYS Tabby, foul, the "Os music's
inspires spirit life, Love, it thro' the whole : and "
EPIGRAM. AN
ORIGINAL.
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EXETER, FEB'RY 12, 1793°
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Exeter., Feb. 12, 1793.
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