The Republican ledger — Portsmouth, N.H., 1800-10-07 00:00:00, page 3

.* f f°l tn o'oje&, and -enabimg the charitable and
humane to bellow their favors on one who ha, no
prospect of ever being able to use those means for
obtaining a-livelyhood which others so happily en-
SPPT.27.
IMPORTANT.
. Lad evening came up the Pilot boat Perfever
-auce, on board of which was a pilot who brought
into the Quarantine Ground, *n English schooner
in a very ihort pillage from Martinique.
The Captain of this, schooner informed this Pi
lot of the rating of C^rracoa by the French.—This
was effected by troops which embarked on board
of 150 Tail of sloops and schooner, at Guadaloupe.
On their approaching the port of Curracoa,e
chain was tan across the harbor, which prevented
their entering, but they soon after effected a land-.
‘ ing 011 fume other part of the island, advanced to
the city, and after a bloody conflict, the French
.got poTeffion of the place.,
The Captain further dates, that the V. States
brig flickering was in the harbor at the tithe, and
joined with other Americans in defending the
place, againit the French, who when they conquer,
ed, mafocred every American in the place include
ing the Consul, Officers and crew of the Picker
ihg.
,- The Pilot further adds, that he was informed,
that the reason of this armament being fitted out
againit Curracoa, was, because the Governor of
Curracoa-would not receive Bills on the Got
• ernor of Guadeloupe for the expences incur
ted in repairing the Vengeance.
' The Pilot could not recolleft the names of the
above schooner, and captain, but fays it was told
to him as no ways doubtful—and that the captain
was anxious to come up to town himfelf to relate
the news as he edeemed it of the utinoll import
ance to America.
[This is the third br fourth time that Captain
Hellitr, (who commands the dickering) has been
killed by the French.]
Extras of a letter f^m^roy, to 0 Merchant in
thit city.
'« The Navigation between this village and
Lanlingburgb, will, when completed exceed any
thing of a limilar nature attempted in this part of
the country. Sloops can with little difficulty fail
to the docks as the latter place, and load without
the expense of carting, where 6 canoe could not
formerly float, out a Company, who contrasted
so complete the canal, having 12 months longer
tor its completion, have defered doing any more
this feafonthaii to admit boats of^ob bushels bnr
riten. These towns, particular, the-latter are in
debted to the cate for filch i>romi(ing profpefts of
future prosperity."
I HERTFORD, SEPT. 19. *
An armed French merchant vessel, the schooner
Peggy, captured by Capt. Jewet r, of the United
States' Ship of war Trumbull, lately brought into
New-London and libelled before the Diftritt
Court, was ty the Judge of the Dillrift acquitted.
On an appeal taken to the Circuit Court, after a
very fu^ bearing the decree of the Dirtrift Court
Was reverted and the Peggy declared a lawful
prize to the United States and the captors.
" /' NEM^LONDON, SEPT. 24.
On Friday last eighty-four French prifohers,
principally negroes and mulattoes, were landed
from the United States ffiip Trumbull, and set off
for Hartford escorted by the independent compa
ny under the command of "Capt. Simeon Smith.
About fifty of bothTexes, were also committed to
the prison in this city.
'BOSTON, OCT. t.
A^gehtleman who came passenger iu the (hip;
which arrived at Salem from Cadiz, brought with
him a letter, written by Mr. Mountflorence,
an American Agent at Paris to the American Con
fol at Cadiz, and dated July 31, in which he ob
fferves, " We are in great anxiety about the prin
ciple the Council of Prizes will adopt refpefting
our armed vessels. None have yet been tried.
Opinions arc divided and as our Negociaxions are
t& terminated, some think aH decisions on such
eaufeg will be postponed until a Treaty be made, :
er the Negotiation ultimately broken up. for
my part I have (till some Iwpes, that a.treaty will
teafefted. Fibers think our Envoys will return;
fa two or three weeks without tigping a Treaty,
ind-that a French Commissioner will be sent to,
Philadelphia, to fettlethe pointswlych now form,
rite greatest obstacles." He also-observes, that :
the Council of Prizes have cleared the American
&p Union, Capt. Lynde ; arid have condemned
the Ihip feßUblican and cargo, for irregularity
in her papers ; and the cargo of the Statira, with
pgt allowing freight.
The American Envoys were at Paris, on the
fzth of August ; and the,art report in London,
preview to thf Galen's departure, was, that the
Negotiation was received ; and it was so far be
lieved as to have affinedrhe premiums for infill
ance on American veflela..
Tl^ probability of peace between France and
AitftrU continue, although the preliminary ar
rangements have experienced some difficulties,
and were not at the last dates, ratified. The new
Ruffian army, causes fears and hopes among all
the belligerent powers.—A new " Army of En
gland" appears to be forming in France ; and
great exertions are making to improve the Navy.
The Engjifh and Danes have not yet compro
mifeu there differences. Ari English Minister is
exerting himfelf to that purpose at Copenhagen,
and a strong English fleet is off Elfincur in readi
ness to operate, if the Court of Derimark should
appear disposed to hostilities. A French Minister
it employing his influence agaluft Great-Britain.
' Capt. Th<mpfon arrived at Philadelphia from
Lifoon, confirms our news of the demands made
by Buonaparte on tie Court of Portugal, and ac
companying menaces, and adds, that the Portu
guese Government were about to return a cat
egorical aufwer, ,
' concord, sept. 27.
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT!
On Saturday the 2Qth intt.'died, in this town,
, Sh/h fyfflfyed about 8 years, eldert daughter
of. Lt. Mm Swett. She went out to play with
her little brother about 2 years old, and finding
a cart-bpdy whiph had been set up against a,fence,'
nearly perpendicular, they both climed up, and
wheat half way to the top, their weight
tough: it over, and both were caught under it.
The tithe -toy. falling betweenthe fide and mid
&,«e,tf timber, was net %; bt^he ^
head was caught Under the middle-pieces which
ratift » so (hocking a mariner, that^er
pired in font two hours, to the great diflreft &
afflittiott of her affettiQuate parents.
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from a London Paper, dug. 4.
° C^
- Dr. Thornton having had a long and extensive
experience with the Cow-Pock, is happy to lay
before an enlighfeued and impartial Public the
following comparison.
small-puck. cow pock.
1. The pustule of the 1. The pustule of the
Small Pox forms a inoculated Cow Pock
well concocted mat- forms only a thin An
ter, which does not id, which very.rapid
greatly affeft the lan- idfy corrodes the lan.
cer. - 'cet.
2. Tifere is produced 2.' There is ' produced
' mbit frequently from from the Cow Pock
the Small Pox, a usually no action on
flropg action on the the constitution, or if
constitution, exciting an, so light, as to ex
great alarm, and this cite not the finalled
often very jurtly. degree of dneafinefs.
3. The Small Pox is 3. The Cow Pox, i, un
moft commonly at- attended with Pocky
tended with Pocky e- eruptions..
ruptions.
4. It the disorder is vi- 4. Nothing of this kind
olent, the features ' is ever Seen.—There
swell, the patient is is no Secondary fever#
blind, the. torture is No chance'of blind
horrid, and the fee- defs, or any disfigpra
ondary fever carries tian,
off the patient, or he
is blinded forever,
and his features are
all dreadfully disfig
ured.
5. The fetor of the 5. There is not the
Smallpox is very dis- fmallert fetor from
agreeable. the cow pock pustule.
6. The Small Pox is ve- 6. The Cow Pock can
ry contagious. not be communicated
bv intention.
7. Many die of the- 7. None die of the Cow
Small-Pox. Pox. -
Observation.
There is fowide a difference between the Small-
Pox and Cow- Pox, that no reasonable being would
hesitate a moment, which of the two diseases
Olould be preferred. That those who have had
thecow-pocks, are perfectly Secure from the con
tagion of the fmall-pox,has been evinced by innu
merable cases. I have had children who have had
the cow-pox inoculated with the Small-pox over
and over again, deep in the fame bed, play with
children laboring under a dreadful confluent
small-pox, touch in other cases every pustule, and
no disease be communicated. I have had also a
bondant proof that the cow-pock is not infecti
ous. I have inoculated children at the bread of
mothers, who have had neither disease, and have
gone regularly through the cow-pock,, without
communicating it. 1 have often inoculated one
child after another in a family, without reason
for apprehension, to convince the relatives of the
slightness ofthe cow-pock ; and it has never fail
ed to exceed the expectations even of the fondeft
parents, this disorder being so incomparably mild !
The cow-pock is an era in the annals of medicine,
and mud redound eternally to the honor of Dr.
Jenner, who was sent to detect and generally
apply this noble difeovery.
N. B. Inoculation for the cow-pock is peform
ed, every day. No preparation is required, or
any medicine given during, or after, this disease.
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From a late London Paper.
A VERY SHOCKING FACT..
It is our duty as JournaUfts tp mention, a child
of Mrs. Dandy, of Rptherhith-wall, near Dock
head, being some days ago engaged with play fel
lows at a neighbour's house, the grandmother Cud-,
deniy took it home, and gave charge to the Serv
ant maid to put it to bed. The girl, agreeable to
her orders, went to the kitchen and was undreff
inj the child, wh en it began to cry vehemently,
expressing a strong delire to return to its compa
nions. The. fervent, impaflioned at the child's ob-
Qinacy, threatened to put it into the copper ket
tle, unless it contented to go quietly, to bed. Per
suasion and regiunftrance being m vain, the Serv
ant suspended the infant, not three years of age,
over the place of terror, when dreadful to relate !
it dipped from her arms, and funk at once to the
bottom of the boiling water.
Imagination may paint what the powers of lan
guage cannot express. The mother, confounded ;
by fenlibility and horror, and all the tender emo
tions which mutt naturally agitate a parent, heard
the piercing cries of her periling infant, with the
mprtconvulGve apprehension and fear. In the
plenitude of her anxiety and madness, (lie ran
down flairs, but arrived, alas I top late to save
the darling of her heart- if died immediately in
a raort flocking date, the very (kin coming off
With the eloathes when taken out of the copper !
The Jury fat the next day, and, after a very
minute investigation, returned the following ver
idid, “ Feloniously killing and flaying, by putting;
the Child in the Copper, but not with cm intent to
kill !": ,
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-— PoqmMotmfyPcroteEkf,, 1800;
During our late war.with England, a Gentle
man alked a lady, whether (he was not alarmed
by the roaring of the Britith Lion ? No, (he re
plied ; fur (he had learned from natural hittory
that that bead always roared loudert when mod
frlgbtened.tMay we not put the fame conrtruc
tioo on the prelent bitter bowlings and yelpings
of some ofthe whi:lrsinthis couutry?
[Mirror.]
Remedy 'for the alarming scarcity of Brains.
A woman at laworth in England was lately de,
livered of a child with two leads. % .
Tlfe following melauclioly event occurred in
Brattleborough, a few weeks since. As Mr. Isaac
Higgens was driving his cattle with a cart, in
,which fix of his Small children .were permitted to
; ride a final! dirtance from hpme—while defend-,
ing a small hill, one wheel Wasnifed over a.Hump
and by the Sudden jolt it occasioned, one of the
children, Ruth, fell on the wheel, which preeipi-.
tated her from the cart to the ground, and the
wheel passed dire&ly over her preaft and bowels^
She jfflrieajately fat upright, but in much agony/
telling her father &, wys kihed! he ran back,
arid observing by the change of her conn tenant):
that fte was feuds by death, Seized her in his arms
. and ran to his huufe. Atfoon as (he was laid on
the bed, (he complained of sickness at the stomach,
and after attempting to puke, her jaw became
set and the expired without a (igh pr a groan.
: The Paris papers have copied from a Bourdeaux
paper, an account of the present (fate of the ne
gooiation commenced between the French and A
merican ministers at Paris. It is not true, how
ever, that the negociotions are broken off, as the
authors of that article date, nor that they ever
have been interrupted. The details of that arti
cle are -betides v,ry inaccurate, even with reipeft
to the citations and dates of treaties.
'Journal de Paris.
-<«^h„>.
In equal balance, justice weighs the cauJe,
dud wields tire Jword to vindicate hey laws.
. A Spectator in court at the last term, observing
the above motto fufpeiided directly over the judg
es feat, was led to the following enquiry.:
Whether the anglo-federalirts and republicans
are weighed in one Scale—and if so, whether the
former has no£ a preponderance ? As he had seen
a creature of the federal party, on an indiament
for an inhuman affult and buttery, fined but fifty
cents:-—At the last term a poor man was convict,
ed of an affauh only, for (baking (as witness ex
pressly fwo(e) Ins fifl in one hand, and a (tick in
the other, at a federalilt, at the diflance of fix
feet, he was fined by the fame Judge thirty dol
lars. [Centinel of Freedom.
, A FEDERAL TOAST.
The following loalt, fays ti>e Mirror (a paper
printed in Wilmington Delaware) was drank at
the wble of Mr. Charles Anderson, an exclusive
federaliff; —“ A speedy annihilation to liberty &
equality in America." This man is said to be a
,arm friend to Mr. Adams 'administration, and
approves of Alien and Sedition Laws, and like
wise a Sending' Army to keep down the people,
“ the JwiniJh multitude !”
Our readers , ill contrast ons federal toast with
the toast drank by " King" Bu< naparte, on the
14th July, which was the celebration of the inde
pendence of the French Republic, viz. “ The
PEOPLE of France our Sovereign." [Boflon Tel.
The dyfentary continues to carry off great n^m^|
bers in the interior Country, A benevolent cor;
refpendent has communicated the following re-fl
cipe, which has flood the test of experience :—■
“ Two ounces conferee of rose buus ; twenty.
five drops oil of mint; two drops oil of cinna-^
mon ; two drachms Venns treacle, well mixed ■
together. Take about the bi^nefs of a nutmeg,■
ogee, twice, three or four timesa day, as occasion ■
may require." e 1
DEATHS.—At Baltimore, of the fever, Sept.
22, twenty-five. Sept, 24th, twenty-five. Sept.
26th, twenty -seven.
We are happv to learn the rapid di(appearance
of the fever at Providence. The town is now free
from infection.,
Extraß of a letter from Dr. Lettsom of London,
to a friend in Boflon, dated Aug. 20, 1800.
66 The greaieft revolution of the present day, in
our department is the inoculation of the Cow-
Pox ; which spreads rapidly throughout Europe ;
we have had about 16,000 fuccefsful cases, with
out any facility, and in 3004 trials, where the
common Small Pox has been applied after the
vaccine inoculation, not one has taken the dis-r
eafe^fo that the character of the Cow-Pox, is so
firmly eftablifbed here, as must soon annihilate the
old irioulatiun. It teems a glorious refleftioh, on
the prefervatioD of human victims, perhaps in
London alone 2,000 die annually of the Small-
Pox. Imagine how many mull be saved to the
community in half a century, if we calculate these
annually, and the-successive generations resulting
from them ! Sufficient to remedy the carnage en-'
tailed upon mankind by the lull, ambition and
tolly of war."
^P^ cto ^
Arrived here the (hip Wonolanfet,Capt. Reub
en S. Randall, in 66 days from St. Peterfburgh.
Experienced several heavy gales, but received no
damage.
Arrived here the brig Olive, Capt. Stoodly, in
£2 days from st. Thomas' ;—failed under convoy
of the Maryland, Capt. Rogers, and Eagle, Capt.
Campbell. Sept. 3J there was a heavy gale and
great Tea at St.'Thomas, in which one vessel from
Baltimore arid one from Carolina, were totally
loft; the captain of the Baltimore vessel was loft
with his yefEL One English ffiip loft her for emaft
and bowfprif. and was much damaged in her ca
bles, &C.,
Capt. Rogers was very attentive m affixing
such vert'els asr particularly needed his aid ; the (hip
JefferfiMi, captain N. Cutter, having sprung his
forematt, he was taken in tow for several days,
Cipt. Gould 'in the ship Sally of Kennebunk, left
the fleet for Turks-lfland, S^pt. it, in latitude
20, 30. Capt. March in the brig Minerva, of
Newburyport, left the,fleet for Havannah, Sept.
; 15, latitude 24, o. Capt. Alien of Kennebec, left
the fleet, Sept. 17, lat. 28, 10.
Left tit St. Kitts, AuguU 31, brig Refe, captain
I Giftpatrick of Kennebunk; to fail in a few days for
homey; . • ''. • > '.
1- , tt < .<4|fo>fr
! Ors Thursday last, arrived ship Mercury,, Capt.
; Treadwell, in 24 days from St. Bartholemew§,
! under cdrivoy of the Baltimore, Hoop of war.--
On the i^h Sept. Mr. John Noyes, of Charlertowu,
Maffa. myiuer, died after 7 days illness. On the
17th Sept, at 5 A. M. discovered a MT«k to lee
ward; which proved to be the (hip Hope, com
manded by Elisha Dotte, of New-Bedford, from
Wilmington, N. C. bound to Jamaica, who in lat
26, Long 69, Was, difmatted and difmautled in a
hurricane, and fhartly atter the sea forced out her
pOTt§, she 'irumediateiy tilled with water. Captain
Treadwell boarded her, and took off the captain
, and crew, who were in a very feeble date, having
! been without provisions for 10 days. On the joth,
was boarded by a French privateer, who finding
the cargo of.littie value, and another fail heaving
in fight, plundered them of several articles and
difmiffedthem.s...'.-
The ship Pacific, Oapt.'ftrkta'Safter this
port, was captured on the 7th ulti by the French
frigate Franchise, of. 40 guns—and after plunder
ing her, set her on fire. The (hip was valued at
15,000 dollar._
#v"^ <*& >uc.te' *
On Sunday arrived bis Majetty's (hip Ao'droma
che,^f 32 guns, capt. Laurie, who tent iu&woA
merican vellels with contraband cargoes, a itoop
boued from New-Toric to Havanas, and a fchor
ner from Boston to Cuba, both prizes.
Yesterday the brig Admiral Duncan, capt. Gra
ham, capt. G- on bis return captured a brig with
a valuable cargo of cotton and cofo, bound from
Port-au-Prince to America.
Yerterday a report prevailed in town, that the
Jamaica squadron had taken eleven fait of vefleQ
with contraband cargoes, out of a fleet of 24 fail 1
under American convoy.
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VEIT-YORK, ter. 1.
The ship Sally, Bunker, in 48 days from Hull,
in the North Sea, was boarded by the Englilh
(loop of war, Jealous, who pressed two seamen,
one of whom was an Americ.an
Cample of tymat.
Through every age that waits our scenes below. ,
rheanfflous cares the content ills of life ;
No balm can case the throbs of aching woe.
Like the endearing sweetness of a wife.
/U4RR/ED]—At Roxbury, Mr. Henry H, Wil
liams, jun. to Miss Sally Williams.
At Brookline, Mr. Samuel Gore, of ;Roxbury,
to Mils Abigail White, of the former place.
At Charteltown, Mr. Peter Burr to Mil's Nancy
Goodwin.
At Bo fton, Ebenezer Haffman, Esq. to Miss Eli
zabeth Oliver. Capt. John Lovett, of St; Johns,
N. S. to Mils Margaret FroU, of Borton.
BtßßraCTmmcfo
^ortalitp,
Where weeping yews and nodding cypreftwave,
In awful gloom, sound the mlfy grave,
Let nymphs and shepherds yearly tribute bring,
And strew the earliest vto ets of the spring.
DIED}*- At Charleston, Mr. Wm. Sawers, na
tive of Dublin— Mr. Wm. Axon, aged 65 —Mr.
John Elliot, aged 24./ ;
At Savannah, Capt. Wm. John Ton—Mr. A, C.
Higbam. y
At Providence, Mr. Thomas S^
At Boflon, Mr, Wm, Billijl|^a||^^^£cel;
I^^ntrim, N. H. Mrs. Mary Duncan, aged 64.
Robert Knights, killed in falling a tree—by which
accident his brother Benjamin was so wounded,
that his death is expected. Two years since a
fitter was killed near the fame place by a (imitar
accident.
In England, Hon. Ad. Barrington.
At Philadelphia, George Moore—Samuel Scot,
student of Medicine.
At Northumberland, Lt. Caleb Marffiall, aged'
s°. '-
At Weare, Jabez Morrij, aged 55..
;Ac Exeter, Mrs, Dorothy Smith, aged 61. Mr.
IJohn Lovering, aged 25.
Our refpedable patrons in
the country, who are in arrears for the last
year's Ledger, are requeued to call and dis
charge the fame, and receive the, thanks of
the Printers.
KINE POX.
— ==3
Dr. William Cutter,
Informs his friends and the public
in general, that he intends to inoculate with
the Kine Pox within a ihort period/
017. 6, 180a. .;
Removed."
ROBERT=MENDUM,
Refpedtfully informs his friends
and the public, that he has removed to Jes.
frey's-Row, Spring-bill, ' '" '
WHERE HE CARRIES ON THE "
Boot & Shoe-Making business.
In all its branches, with neatness and
dispatch. s
'Portjinauth, 0&. 6, 1800.
NTOTICE is hereby given, that
X v the fubferiber has been uuly appointed id
miniftrator of tlie ettate ot -
OBED STEARNS,
^ late of Hampton, i% the Coynty qf Rockinghanh
<:«^tys^ pjmfcjjm^ .
And. all persons that have any de
; maids on hid Estate are desired to exhibit
them, and all that are indebted to faid-eflate
are requested to make speedy payment to
ISAAC STEARNS, adminiftrauir of fail
estate, or to JAMI£S LEAVITT, of Aid
Hampton, Attorney to the Administrator.
ISAAC STEARNS.
Hamura, Sept. 25, \B% <.J'
;*** Subjerifitions ax received rt
tbis office for the Conftituti&ial Tel
egrapbe, printed at BaJlon, by ,ebn
S. Lillie,