The American herald of liberty — Exeter, N.H., 1794-04-22 00:00:00, page 4

PHILADELPHIA, March 20.
The following letters from Captain
faylor, in Algiers to bis owners
in the United States, ought to ex
cite the pity and call forth the
- immediate exertoins of every citi
zen-, so that our countrymen in
captivity may find relief.
Algiers, Nov. 3, 1793.
Hon. Sirs,
FTpHIS will acquaint you with
I tire loss of the George, and
what I am fore is worse to your
own feelings, a cruel (lavery ; we
were taken' it leagues from the
rock of Lisbon.-—The fnuation of
us is trudy (hocking, if you can do
any thing to interest our country
men in America to help the few
that may be left after the warm
weather comes on, which under
God is our only hope. The pay
or allowances was ftopt Fast month,
other nations have yet some provi
sion to alleviate the miseries of this
place, but Americans are destitute.-
They are fitting out every thing
that can carry guns—“ God only
knows what they will do in the
iftands next futurner. 1 beg gen
tlemen you will do your endeavors
to get our country to order some
thing to them that foaU be alive,
to get them vi&uals and help un
der painful fufferihgs—Relying on
our country for afllftance and re
demption. I am &c.
JAMES TAYLOR.
Algiers, Nov. y, 1793.
Hou. Sirs,
I acquaint you now with our
Preached at the EXECUTION
of MOSES PAUL, an Indian,
who was Executed at Newha
ven, on the 2d of September,
1772, for the MURDER of
Mr. MOSES COOK, late of
Waterbury, on the 7th of De
cember^ 1771 — -From
ROMANS, Vl. 2
for the wages of fin is death, but
the gift of GOD is eternal life,
through Jes us Cbrijl our Lord-.
By Samson Occorin,
Minister of the Gospel, and MiL
fionary to the Indians.
'CONDITIONS.
I. The work shall be printed
on good paper, with a new Type.
IL It will contain between
Thirty and Forty large oftavo
pages.
111. The price to fubferibers
shall be only Nine Pence.
IV. The work will be put to
press as loon as 200 copies shall
be fubferibed for ; although the
intended publishers flatter them
lelves that the fame of the Au
thor, the occafiOn on which the
Sermon was preached, and the
very low price at which it is af
forded, will ensure them four
times that number.
V. Those who subscribe for fix
shall have a seventh gratis.
SERMON,
Herald Printing-Office, Exet#, April 14
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We find by accounts from Eu
rope and the Weft Indies that the
present war is afiuming a most
ferocious afpeft. The inveterate
hatred that subsists between-the
beligerent nations is calling forth
every malignant paflion, and bar
barism marks the progress of the
contefE The unparralleled depre
dations on commerce by theßritifh
nation has provoked universal in
dignation : and the mysterious de
tention of neutral veflels io the
fufferings in this my second letter,
God only knows when I shall ever
fend another, wc have been here
but three days, and two captains
and one mate are ill the, hospital (if
it can be callad One)—lf we have
ever so heavy a burthen and ever
so far to carry it< flopping occa
sions a certain beating, even if it
arises from the inability of one man
—I leave you to judge our bur
then, there is only tight men to
carry a hoglhead of iugar upon
poles near a quarter of a mile.
At ptefent there is not a penny al
lowed to Amcileans, other nations
have a pension—every time there
comes in an armed veflel, we are
loaded with chains, and work the
fame as without them, we are muf
tertd to work before day, and are
respited in common about so’clock.
Bread and water is our living, this
might do if our work and usage
was not so hard.—Fridays are all
the days of rest for us. We are
yoked to a fled and draw (tones
from the hills to the marine. We
that are alive should be glad of the
fmallcft trifle—our freedom I hope
some may fee, but never more than
half of us can expert it if we should
be redeemed soon, as the summer
and plague sweeps off slaves by
hundreds—my mate and crew are
at Stirrings, 1 am, tho’ in Algiers,
Your obliged servant,
JAMES TAYLOY.
Algiers, Nov. 11, 1793.
THIS my third letter, fearing
my others may miscarry, advises
that we are in a condition that
language cannot express, our re
demption is so high that I Ihould
not write, if I was not Ture of writ
ing to men of feeling, and that the
humanity of my country men would
be excited towards us who are in
chains. 1 beg gentlemen you will
use yous endeavours to induce our
country to redeem those who shall
be left alive, a3 no peace I am a
fraid can be made at present—out
of 21 Americans captured former
ly &or 10 remain—fix of them
died the last summer with the
plague and in the mad houfe—
what must a man feel to make a
mm mad ?* There are i 2 matters
and crews here at present; but what
number there may be here in a
fortnight God only knows, as the
cruisers are out. Our people are
fuffering with me at present, what
will be our situation this winter
and next summer 1 leave you to
judge. I saw yesterday two cap
tains and (even mates get a beat
ing, they make no difference be
tween us and other nations they
are at war with—being fatigued
and dark, I must end.
Am Sirs, Your obliged servant,
JAMES TAYLOR.
NE W -YORK, March 22.
Two memorials' and remon
strances were read in the Houfeof
Representatives of the United
States last Monday, on the depre
dations and spoliations on the A
merican commerce, by Britilh
cruizers—One from the merchants
and traders of Charleston (S. fl.)
presented by Mr. W. Smith—the
other from Salem (Mattachufetts)
presented by Mr. Goodhue. The
last stated, that nineteen fail of vef
fels belonging to that town, had
been carried in apd condemned in
the Bridfh Islands. —The estimat
ed value of which is about 230,
000 dollars. They were read and
referred to the committee of the
whole on the state of the Union.
WARREN, (R. l) APRIL 5.
We hear from Newport, that a
schooner belonging to St. John’s,
upon hearing of the Embargo,
got her anchor a trip and was go
ing to proceed to sea, on which
a number of patriotic inhabitants
This day a number of men in
this place, went out for the pur
pose of extirpating and destroying
a den of snakes, which burrowed
in the ground. They dug a piece
of ground 15 feet long and 8 feet
wide, and from one to two feet
deep, from which they took out 80
of those reptiles ;on the 16th,• 30
more were taken out, and on the
17th, 13 more were taken but a
mounting in the whole, to 125
black snakes, from J to 5 feet and
upwards in length, and many Os
them very large. On the iflchinft.
more than too persons went to
view those reptiles, all kill’d, and
lying in one heap—frightful to
behold !
A gentlejnan who left Martinico
the 5 th of March, informs—That
Fort Bourbon was not then taken,
nor was there any probability of
its being captured, as they de
stroy all the works of the besieg
ers, as faft as they are thrown up,
and kill from 50 to 60 a day.—
They have killed Gen Prescott,
and shot off the arm of Gen. Dun
das. They have stores of every
kind in garrison for three years,
and 2500 choice troops. Gen.
Rochambeau refufed any terms
of capitulation,* and the enemy
despair of forcing him. Sickness
rages violently in their fleet and
army. They have seized 50 fail
of Americans, and put their of
ficers and men on board a prifon
fhip.
French ports,and theviolent seizure
and (ale of their cargoes, at half the
firft cost, by thecommiflibners,is a
proceeding, not to be accounted
for on any principle of policy. Ohe
would think that the nations at war
are detbrminedi in venting their
fury at each other, to commence
pirates and plunder all nations.
Indeed what is their conduct but
universal piracy! It seems as though
they were treading back the steps
of civilisation and flattening to the
favagc state of the 9th and 10th
centuries, when the sea was cover
ed with roving corsairs from Nor
way and the Baltic;
HARTFORD, March
east tv Ilford, March 15,1794.
MIDDLETON, APRIL 5.
From G AIPER in London, to BLY BEN
HAYTON, bis friend in Cinftantiho.
pie j giving an account of the wonder
ful work of God upon his foul.
A work worthy the perusal of all who are
enquiring the way to Zion.
For particulars enquire of
CHARLES SMART of New
markett; April 2,17^2.
ONE Hundred acres of good
mowing, tillage and pasture
land situate in Parfonsfield, in the
county of York, adjoining the high
road from Wakefield to Province
pond.
By virtue of licence front the Hon.
Judge of Probate for the county of Rock,
ingham, will befold at Public Vendue, on
Wednesday the 2^d day of April inf. at
the dwelling house of Sarah Wallis,’ in
Exeter—
A Barn and Two Acr6^ 6f
LAND, in (aid Exeter, being part
of the Real Eflate of Spencer Wallis, laic
of said Extier, deceafed— Like^fe
Soriie Houfhold Furniture.
6^ Conditions of Sale will be made
known at time and place.
SARAH WALLIS.
Exeter, April 7, 1’794.
ONCE more requests those Os his Caf
tomers indebted to him for Newspa
pers prior to Jan. 1794, to make payment
in caih by the ift. of May next; as fie i*
called on by Mr. Ranlet, other wife it
will put him under the neceflity of celling
on them byway of a Justice, as he ctfhnoc
wait on them any longer.
He likewise informs them that He Ihall
cease riding the last of June next.
Dr. WATTS’
Psalms Hymns,
Merrill’s Arithmetic,
WEBSTER’S
Spelling-Book,
AND THE
Youth’s Inftru&or,
May be had at this Office.
Writing-Paper and Writ. |
ing-Books of a very good quali
ty may be had at this Office,
jumped on board of several boats*
seized the schooner, hauled her up,
and took off her ruddbr and fails.
The Captain complaining that
“ he lad no money io bedr his expenc
es to St. John's,” was answered,
“ he was then in the fame Jit nation
of a great number of our brethren
in the Weft- IndiesP
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Sheep’s Wool.
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