The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1790-09-10 00:00:00, page 3

PHILADELPHIA, AUGUST 21.
Pktraß of a letter from Case Francois, fug. 6.
« Y7ESTERD A Y arrived several veffels^romßal
timore.Wilmington ^Philadelphia,in which
were upwards of three thousand barrels of flour.
Before these arrivals, we were well supplied : we
had as much io ffore, as will serve the consumpti
on as long as it will keep good.
" We have now a civil war throughout this
Island: citizens are fighting against citizens,
and trade is entirely at a stand, and unfafe: it is
a very critical time, and unfafe to have debts out.
Produce has got exceeding high and scarce : A
great part of the people's time is taken up with
the present disturbances, so that they.cannot at
tend to the plantations. Molasses is not to be ob
tained at any price."-
For the information of the public, a correspon
dent has favoured us with an account of the cause
of the disturbances in Hispaniola, which he collect
ed from his letters an^ intelligence received of
perlons from that Island.
Some time ago, the citizens of the Island assem
bled, and chose delegates from each Diftrid, to
meet at St. Mark's in assembly, with authority to
make laws for the government of the Island. They
met and made a number of Laws : these laws were
approved of by the inhabitants of the north, and
disapproved of by the fouth fide of the Island ; but
the Assembly attempted to inforce them, and en
listed all the King's troops, at eight dollars per
month, and a bit a day, wages—seized upon a
French 74 gun-ship, and a frigate which lay in
the harbour, and manned them : they also enrolled
all the inhabitants of the north, and draft them
by turns. Any perfori who is drafted and does not
turn out to enforce the assembly's laws, is put into
confinement. Any person drafted is free from ar
^reft for debt while in service, or in going to or
coming from head quarters, or for -fifteen days af
ter their return. In consequence of this law a num
ber of 'People have purchased goods from mer
chants and masters of vessels ; and taken protection
& joining the troops.
The inhabitants of the forth armed and affem-
bled in great bodies, and were preparing to attack
St. Mark's ; they had got a frigate and some other
vessels of force with troops on board, which failed
on th, -d ^R.ffbr St. Mark's, to endeavour to dis
perse the affemhiy and troops.
Whig and tory disputes are carried to a great
height, and in ^rr^ parts of the Island. these dif
,t'- e- ^ , # c2 -^ bloodshed, and from appear
lincc will be very feriousr
NEWYORK, AUGUST 2,.
in the business of making pearlafhes, there will
probably soon be^revolution, if granting an ex
clusive right to the improvement has not prevent
ed—it is now pretty *ll known ts some of our
manufacturers,that fire will make pearl allies out of
wood allies without drawing and boiling the lye.
This has long been known in the north of Europe.
The sloop Experiment Capt Boyd, from Alba
ny, has brought to this port. 40 hoglhheads of
MAPLE SUGAR made at Cooper's-town, on
Orfego lake. Mr. William Cooper is the propri
etor of this valuable specimen ; which, in a certi
ficate in the Albany Register, signed by u number
of the most referable characters in that quar
ter, ladies and g&lemen who had used it, is de
clared to be fnperior to the belt Mufcovado sugar.
Rumours of wars continue —but neither the Weft
india or Englilh paragraphic, the journals or log
books of seamen, or the hopes or fears of interceded
individuals, furnifh a single instance of the Spani
ards and Englilh coming to loggerheads :=lt is
the wilh of humanity they never may. The fub
iftance of all the marine intelligence ort the fubjed
is, that a vessel spoke a vessel, which had seen a
vessel, that law a frigate that run the gantlet thro'
the Spaifh fleet.—Any person that can give any
account of the Englilh messenger to the court of
Spain—or of the Spanish fleet, or of the Englilh
fleet, that has failed on afecret expedition to South
America will please to call on the public. &
It is Ihrewdly fufpe&ed by some politicians that
there will be a general war in Europe, by sea and
land : They fay uhiverfal Phlebotomy is the on
ly remedy for the French influenza, which is spread
ing all over the Eastern hemisphere, even the Pon
tificate is infected —Catharine of Russia has her
fears on the fubjed—and this circumstance it is
thought has induced her lately to insist on terms of
pacification that are monstrously extravagant.
The Roman Senate very fuccefsfully employed
,this artifice for ages, to keep the people quiet un
.der their oppressions : Whenever they began to
grumble they immediately had their attention di
verted by a quarrel, to support the honor of the
Roman name: thus they forged chains for them
selves by conquering their enemies.
AMERICAN ADVICES;
l^rbe publijber hereof has prepared
a LETTER-BOX at the entrance of his office,for the
reception offuch food as merit the attention of our Po
litical, Sentimental, or Poetical readers. He proffirs
hit bes thanks to all ctrrefpondents, for favours be bus
already received from them—requejis a continuance of
their services —and solicits the affiance of the ingeni
ous and literati— as on tbeje depend the prosperity and
merit of all periodical publications.
. K^ A Lift of Prizes in tbe Second
Divfan of tbe second Clajs of NEW-CASTLE
BRIDGE LOTTERY may be fan at this office.
augu-st 31.
Yesterday morning The President of the
United States, with his family, set off from this
city for his feat at Mount Vernon, in Virginia,
where we understand he will reside, until his pre
sence is necessary at Philadelphia.
He was accompanied to his barge by the Govern
our of this State, the principal Officers of govern
ment, the Mayor and Corporation, Officers of the
City, and a number of the citizens who bade hid a
most affectionate farewell.—The parting scene was
foletn and affecting. All was quietness, save the
report of the cannon that were fired on his embarka
tion—the countenance of the citizen visibly express
ed the emotion of the mind on the departure of him
whom al! held so dear—the heart was full—the tear
dropped from the eye; it was not to be restrained : It
was seen ; & The President appeared sensibly moved
by this last mark of esteem for his charader and
affedion for his person.
On apprehenfons of a fcarcityof flour and grain,
the importation of those articles into Grenada in
British bottoms, from foreign Weflindia iilands,
is permitted by a proclamation of Governor Mat
thews.
The town of Nottingham have made choice of
Major Bradbury Cillby, to represent them
in the General Court of this state, vice the Hon.
Thomas Bartlet, Esq. appointed one of the
Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the
county of Rockingham.
——^
We hear from Lee, that some time last week, a
son of Col. John Folsom of that place acciden
tally fell from a load of hay, and broke the peth
of his neck—which accident he survived but a few
days. —
ELECTIONEERING.
VOTES— For Federal Representatives—
Newmarket. J, Sheafe,3
James Sheafe, 66
Jeremiah Smith, 52 Peterborough.
Phillips Whites 42 The votes in this town
S. Livermore, 26 were for Jere. Smith,
Nich. Gilman, 13 Gen. Dow, and Samuel
Wood. Langdon, 2 Livermore.
Nath'i. peabody, 1
Abiel Foster, 1 Durham.
— J. S. Sherburne^ 29
Greenland^ J. Sheafe, 28
S. Livermore, 30 S. Livermore, ' 28
j.S. Sherburne, 29 N. Gilman, ' 10
James Iheafe, 22 N. Peabody. to
N. Peabody, 8 J. Smith, - 10
Nich. Gilman, 2 -
;—. Lee.'
Rye. S. Liverjmore, 18
J. S. Sherburne, 78 J, S. Sherburne, 16
S. Livermore, 63 J. Smith, 14
N. Gilman, 42 Tho's Cogfwell; 3
P. White, 14 N. Gilman, 2
N. Peabodys , 5 J. Sheafe, 2
The donations of the city of Paris to the nation,
amount to 40,600 000 livres A noble offer on
the altar of freedom.
Died suddenly, at Lemfyer in this fate, Mr. Wil
liam Way, blackfmitb, late from New-London, Conn,
aged 24.
Mr. Moses Barnum, of this town, has, since the
month of August 17^9 —fulled no less than Five
Thousand Three Hundred and Ten Yards of Cloth—
and of thin Cloth, dressed Three Thousand Two
Hundred—in all Eight Thousand Five Hundred and
TenTards. —The foregoing affords a pleasing speci
men of the progress of Manufacture in this part of
the Country.
DEPARTURE OF THE PRESIDENT.
EXETER, (Friday,) Sept. 10.
PROGRESS OF MANUFACTUREI
STOCKBRIDGE AUGUST 24.
On Wednesday the 25th nlt. writ celebrated, ^
Dartmouth College, the Anqiverfary Commence
ment. At II o'clock A. M. the Board of Truf
ees,the Inftrudors of College, ano the Students of
theJeveral classes, with a large numb,? cf Clergy
men and other refpeftable characters proceeded
from the President's house to the ch-are? —The
President then addressed the throne of grace in a
prayer cue// adapted to the occasion — After' yldch
the Salutatory Oration was pronounced by—S^^
Moody.
• Then followed a Syllogistic disputation, upon
this question " An aboriginum majores America.A
unquam feientiis exculti fuerint ?"—By Richard C.
Evirer, Timothy Call, cleatban Keyes, GAon Ry
tber and Zenas Payne.
An English Dialogue—By Nathaniel Hall and
Simon Griffin Morrifox,
A Forensic Disputation, upon the following ques
tion—'' Is the unreflrained Ebert, of the Press bene
ficial to a Nation ?"—By Elihu Dwight, Charles
Ingalls, Samuel Porter, "Jeremiah Nelfou, jacob
Smith and Pelatiah Mills Olcott.
A Greektf)ratior. —By William White. —
The expreifes of the forenoon were concluded
with mufic.=The procession then returned to the
President's. \
Having returned to the chapel at 3 o'clock P. M.
—A Philosophic Oration was pronounced—By Asa
Lyon. 4
A Latin Dialogue—By Joseph Lamfon and Stephen
Patten.
An Englilh conference on the African Slave-
Trade —By William Jackson and William Eaton.
A Hebrew Oration—By Ethan Smith.
The degree of Bachelor of Arts Was then confer
red on,
Titus Theodore Bartort, Nathan Lakeman,
Stephen Burton, Joseph Lamfon,
Timothy Call, Asa Lyon,
Uriel Chopin; Ichabod Marfal,
Elihu Dwight, Samuel Moody,
William Eaton,. Elifoa Moseley,
Richard Clair Everett; Simon Griffn Morrifen,
Holloway Fife, Jeremiah Nelson,
David Forbes, Felatiah Mills Olcott,
Nathaniel Hall, Stephen Patten,
Perley How, Zenas Payne,
Charles Ingalls, Samuel Porter,
William Jeckjon; Gideon Ryther,
Elnatban Keyes, Naphtali Shaw,
Jacob Smith, Ethan Smith.
William White;
The Degree of Master of Arts on
Abifhai Alden, Elijah Lyman,
Jonathan Atkinson, Asa Miles,
Oliver Gallop, Thomas Moore,
JonatQfln,Grout, James Orton,
WalterAHarrh, - John Porter,
Aaron Kidman, _ Pierson Thurflort.
The Degree of Mafler of Arts was also confer
red 6n Aaron Hutchinson, Esq. Rev. Isaac Manf
field and Samuel Bass, Esq. of Harvard College.
The honorary Degree of Arts, was conferred on
Mr. Jonathan Robinjon.
The honorary degree of Master of Arts was con
ferred on—Jofah Bartlett, Esq. President of the
state of Newhampfhire, Moses Robinfort, Esq. Go
vernor of the State of Vermont, and Peter Olcott,
The Degree, of Doctor in Phtfc on Elihu Tudor.
The Degree of Dodor of Laws on Alexander
Hamilton, Esq. Secretary of the Tielfury of the
United States. . ~
The Degree bfpo&or of Laws On Ralph Grif
fith, Esq. of London.',
Then followed the Validi&ory Oration in En
glilh— By David Forbes-——After this was a per
formance in Music— The President then closed the
solemnities with prayer, and the procession return
ed to his house.
The^wfiole was condu&ed with propriety and de
corum.
Last Saturday the boule of Mr. Sam
uel Maxfield of Gibnantown, acciden
tally took fire while be and bis wife
were absent, and before any affiance
could be. bad it fell to the ground. But
what is moft'Jbocking, tbeir only child,
about two and a balj years old, fell a'
facrifice to tbdt merciless element—fire !
fy No-Southern Mail arrived when this paper
went to prejs.
An English Dialogue —By Holloway Fife and Per
ley Hew.
A Forensic Disputation upon this queftion—
'' Does moral Yeßitude originate in the will of Deity?"
—By Naphtali Shaw, Elifea Mosley, Uriel Chapin,
Ichabod Marfoal, Titus Theodore Parton and Nathan
Lakeman.