The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1789-10-17 00:00:00, page 3

BOSTON, SEPTEMBER 24.
A brilliant action was performed
yefteaday on board the Leopard, of
74 guns, belonging to the French
fleet, now in this harbour ; A cabin,
boy, belonging to the ship, unfor-
Innately fell into the water, and was
in the utmost danger of being drown
ed; the First-Lieut. Mr. Scotts,
happened at that moment, to be walk
ing on the quarter-deck, when he
was informed of the accident —the
calamity was urgent —and he accord
ingly, without waiting to undress,
instantly plunged into the sea, at the
difiance of at least 25 feet from the
furface of the water, and happily, at
the hazzard of his own life, preserv
ed that of the boy, who, in all pro.
bability would have otherwise perish
ed. This event does the highest
honor to the courage and sensibility
of the gentleman, who is intitled to
the thanks of every mend of human
ity, for this manly and intrepid exer
fa. r
OCTOBER 10.
English Newspaporials, ,
THE BASTILE,
from a person <who ova: present, and
•engaged.
We found fifteen persons only in
Sept. 6, 1789.
'' This day week the most diabo
lical design that ever was formed,
was discovered in Martinico ; —lt was
an infurredion of the negroes, who
were that night to have set fire to
the large and beautiful town of St.
Pierre ; while the white people were
all in confufion, and driving to es
cape the flames, they were to be
butchered indifcriminately—man,wo
man and child. The combustibles
were laid in upwards of 100 houses,
(confiding of hemp dipt in turpen
tine.) The plot was not disco.
vered until five o'clock in the
evening, when a negro belonging to
an old lady, stung with remorse on
thinking that he must murder the
woman who had brought him up from
child, difeovd red it to her.
The troops being thereupon as
sembled, 40 of the negros were taken
armed with a hanger and long knife ;
the instruments which were in a few
hours to have put a period to the ex
istence of upwards of 5000 people.
Al the inhabitants have been under
arms ever since, as they are afraid the
negroes will attempt to refeue the 40
who are in gaol ; but this week they
will all die on the rack."
We learn from Grenada, that the
Cotton crop has been equal to any
reaped for years past ; but among the
Islands dependent on the government
of St. Vincent, together with
Martinique, the caterpillars have
totally destroyed the promising ap
pearance the planters had before them.
In Tr inidada, the crop is utterly
ruined by theie pernicious vermin,
and the bark eater, off the trees.
Last Friday afternoon, as a child of
Mr. John Spencer of this tcwn, about
three years old, was -fitting by the
fire, while the family were absent for
a few minuses, the fire by some means
was communicated to the child's
eloathing, which burnt it in such a
Shocking manner that it expired next
day.
Extras of a letter, dated Dominico,
HARTFORD, OCTOBER $.
'KINGSTON, AUGUST 12.
PHILADELPHIA, OCT. 6.
American Advices.
" PennJylvania.
Maffacbufetts.
Connecticut.
Jamaica.
—%fr-
We brought him out and delivered
him to the populace, who carried
him away triumphantly on their
shoulders, He had been confined the
term of 37 years.
Another prisoner we brought out
who had been imprisoned 15 years :
He was medicating an escape: He
had made a very curious ladder of his
own cloaths, which was brought out
with him, together with a large bun
dle of papers, which he would not
part with. He said, " they had been
his only consolation." He was a
Frenchman.
We found various instruments of
punishment and chains of che most
massive kind.
A PHYSICIAN being lately hik
ed what he reckoned the belt food,
replied, " Unless you Jpecif, for what
kind of conflitution, you might as well
ajk which was the beji wind, without
faying whither you are bound."
TO the French Almanack for the
year 1787, is a Frontispiece, repre
fencing France seated on the Throne
of Royalty, and taking by the hand
the Genius of America, with the
following expressive motto :—"Hom
mage des Americains, a la France,
sous le regne de Louis XVI. Paci
ficateur des deux mondes !"
that horrid dungeon. When they
were firft brought oat,they appeared,
and a^ed, like men just born !
The Algerines have taken a Span
ish vessel with 5000 ducats on aboard
—Also eight vessels from the French,
The Swedes have taken a ship, load
ed with lead, from the Englilh,
Letters from Oftend, dated the 6th
inst. mention that the trade was bris
ker than ever was known, and that a
large American ship was arrived from
Philadelphia in great dift/efs, being
(hort of provisions, owing to their be
ing flopped and plundered by two Al
gerine frigates, who took almost all
their stores.
A strawberry was last August pull
ed off a vine in Bothwel-Cafle Gard
en, in Scotland, which me°fured five
inches in circumference.
AWilmington paper ofSept.l9,
mentioned a mariage to have been
celebrated in that place, the preced
ing Monday, of "Mr, Robert Pork,
merchant, to the amiable Miss Cath
arine Hogg."
One Mary Hall,of Chester county,
Delaware, lately, on her birth day,
when 100,years old, spun half a doz
en skeins of yarn, besides making her
bed, cleaning her room and cooking
victuals, and appears likely to live
many years longer,
I took out one man, whose beard
reached down nearly to his middle.
His gestures were those of a creature
wild with aftoniihment. He said
little and what he did fay was in
French.
THE following, we are assured, is
an authentick copy of the will of Mir.
Jackett, thirty years clerk to Mess.
Fuller and Vauchan, in Corn-
Kill. He died suddenly last week,
as brought in to be proved at Doftor%
Commons.
Or occasion the least of law racket,
wiih a solemn appeal f,
I confirm, sign and sea/,
The true aft & deed of Will. Jacket.
I give and bequeath
(When I'm laid underneath)
To my two loving fitters mod dear*,
The whole of my Hore,
Were it twice as much more,
Which God's goodness has granted
me here.-
And that none may prevent
This my will & intent,
FRENCH INSCRIPTION.
# Elizabeth & Anne.
t In the name of God, &c,
NEWBURYPORT, OCT. 7.
NOTES.
Mathematical Question, &c.
Genuine Anecdote of M. de Voltaire.
Monsieur de Maupertius and
Voltaire had a quarrel, and what
the King of Pru ffia had begun in a
political jest, had near ended in a seri
ous manner. To return—Matters were
carried so high, that Maupertius sept
a challenge to Voltaire, then sick a
bed. The exaft words of his invita
tion to the field of battle I never saw,
buthis answer was^almoft these words:
'' Mons. de Maupertius,
'' Sir,=l had the honour of your
challeigc, which I gladly would have'
accepted,had you given me the choce
of my own weapons ; being ill abed,
a fringe would have been the most
proper instrument ; and that, from
your known humanity, I do exped to
receive from your Wilful hands. But
I must also observe to you, that a pis
tol ball will kill me, but can have no
effe& on you ; lead will affimulate
with your brain; and therefore we
are not on an equal footing.
" I am, with all refped,
" VOLTAIRE."
The qurrel,foy these means, ended.
It became a party affair of the most
laughable kind ; so that the very boys
of Berlin upbraided Maupertius, for
not fending a Squirt to Voltaire, in
stead of a challenge with ball and
pistol.
DIED] —At New. York, Adjutant
John Loudon, Printer. His death
was while on duty at a review, where,
through the carelessness of one of the
soldiery, he was (hot with a ball, and
expired on the field. He was an ami.
able character, in the prime of life.—
The next day he wa{ buried with
military and mafonick honours.
When a person dies in defence of
a just cause, in the defence of his
country or the protection of the rights
of mankind; we may apply the ex
pression used by the author of Cato,
How beautiful is death <wben earn'd 6,
virtue : But when a person so truly
and justly esteemed falls a facrifice in
a trifling way and on an unnecessary.
occasion, how ghastly ! how (hocking!
how terrible is death!
At Harland, Vermont, Hon, Paul
Spooner, Esq. one of the Justices of
the Supreme Court of that state.—
At Lenox suddenly, Mrs. Sarah
Walker, wife of William Walker,
Esq.—At Marblehead, Mrs. Grace
Prentiss, wife of Mr. John Prentiss.
merchant, aged 46—At Boston, Mas
ter James P. Hubbard, aged ict.
Exeter, Saturday, Oar. 17.
and will he fpeedil, Publifeed,
The President of the United
States has aligned Thursday the
Twenty-sixth day of November next,
foraGENERAL THANKSGIVING
throughout the United States,
nefs ! ,'
Where hanger reign'd, there we have
found relief,
And seen the wonders of a chine of
Spoken extonpore by a neighbouring Gen
tleman, at the table of a Miser. who,
once in bis life made a sumptuous. En
tertainment.
Thanks for this miracle ; for 'tis no
left
Thin to eat Manna in the wilder-
beef,
Chimnies have fmoak'd, that never
fmoak'd before,
And we have eat where we Ihall eat
no more.
Now in the Press,
Grace after Meat,
THE
TO BE SOLD,
AT Public Vendue, on
A Tuefday the Third Day
of November next, at the
house of Mr. yeremia^&a
vitt, in Exeter, two o'clock
P. M. a HOUSE and about
three quarters of an acre of
Land. Conditions of sale
may be known at time and
place of sale; Exetfr,Oa.i6.
State of Newbampjbire.
PUBLIC NOTICE
IS hereby given—That a
A Petition hath been presen—
ted to the General Court by
the Selectmen of Effingham,
praying that a tax of one
penny per acre may be levied
upon all unimproved lands
in said town, to be appropri
ated for the use of making
and maintaining roads there
in.—Upon which petition
the General Court ordered,
that they may be heard there
on befere them, on the se
cond Friday of their next
feflion, and that in the mean
time they cause the substance
of said petition and order of
Court thereon, to be pub
lished three weeks success
ively, prior to the fitting of
said Court, in one of the
Newhampfliire Newspapers.
that any person may then
appear and shew cause, if
any theyhave,why the prayer
thereof may not be granted.
Attefl: J.Pearson, Sec'ry.
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Linseed-Oil and Snuff, '|>
f EXCHANGED FOR
IFLAX-SEED, f
Boardman & Son,|
EXETER. OCT. 1789.
^ qy^lyGl^'^^^^^^Gr^G^tri {^^fl^ I ,^
BY H. RANLET, AND TO BE SOLD,
At bis Office opposite Maj.Mc Clure's,
Bythe Groce, Dozen or Single,
(CHEAP FOR CASH)
Weatherwises genuiO
ALMANACK,
• For 1790.
Containing, befdethe common calculations,
A valuable Interest Table,
Receipt for a Whooping Cough.
Story of Perrin and Lucelta.
Dijlance of the Roads from Portfmoutb
(with the most noted Houses of En
tertainment)toNewyork— Pew?;al
borough and Northumberland, and
from Exeter to Dartmouth College b
Executive Officers of this State, &c.
fufices of the Superior court.
Civil Officers in the several counties
in tb-s Sta'e,
Courts of judicature in Newhamp-
Attornies who practice at the Inferior
Aetornies who praAice at the Superior
court.
Friends,early Meeting in Neweng-
cou^t.
SHARE.
LAND.
Just Publifoed,