The New Hampshire gazette (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1796-07-09 00:00:00

THE New Hampshire Gazette.
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PORTSMOUTH: (NEW-HAMPSHIRE)—PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING BY JOHN MELCHER, PRINTER TO THE STATE, AT HIS OFFICE CORNER OF MARKET STREET, WHERE SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR THIS PAPER, ADVERTISEMENTS, AND ARTICLES OF INTELLIGENCE ARE THANKFULLY RECEIVED.
Vol. XL.—Numb. 2067.]
SATURDAY, July 9, 1796.
[9s. pr. Annum.]
MILLSFIELD.
WHEREAS application has been made to me the subscriber, as clerk of the proprietors of the township of Millsfield, in the county of Grafton and State of New-Hampshire, by Robert Foster, Jacob Ashton, William Vane, Jonathan Peele and Bartolomew Putnam, as proprietors of more than one sixteenth part of the township of Millsfield aforesaid, requesting me to notify and call a meeting of the proprietors of said township, to be held at the house of Mr. Nathaniel Kimball, innholder in Plaistow, in the county of Rockingham in said State, on Tuesday the second day of August next, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, for the following purposes, viz.
 1st. To choose a moderator, proprietors clerk, assessors, collector and treasurer.  2d. To raise the sum of four pounds thirteen shillings and eleven pence, for the payment of county taxes, assessed on said township, for the years 1786 and 1788, and also the sum of nine dollars for county taxes, assessed on said township, for the year 1794, together with such further sums as may by the proprietors be judged necessary to pay the charges attending the sale of said township, by the sheriff of said county of Grafton, on the ninth day of November last, for the payment of the taxes aforesaid, and for defraying any other charges which have arisen, or may hereafter arise on said township, and to do whatever may be thought proper to forward the settlement thereof. 
Salem, June 3, 1796.  In pursuance of the above request, and by virtue of the power vested in me by the proprietors of said township, I do hereby notify and warn a meeting of the proprietors of said township, at the time and place, and for the purposes abovenoted.  JOHN SAUNDERS, Jr. Prop's Clerk. New-York, June 11, 1796.
ERROL.
WHEREAS application has been made to me the subscriber as clerk of the proprietors of the township of Errol, in the county of Grafton and State of New-Hampshire, by Robert Foster, William Shillaber, Jacob Ashton, William Vane, and Jonathan Peele, as proprietors of more than one sixteenth part of the township of Errol aforesaid, requesting me to notify and call a meeting of the proprietors of said township to be held at the house of Mr. Nathaniel Kimball, innholder in Plaistow, in the county of Rockingham, in said State, on Tuesday the second day of August next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, for the following purposes, viz.
 1st. To choose a moderator, proprietors clerk, assessors, collector and treasurer.  2d. To raise the sum of eighteen pounds and nineteen shillings, for the payment of county taxes assessed on said township, for the years 1786, 1788, 1790 and 1791, and also the sum of nine dollars, for county taxes assessed on said township, for the year 1794, together with such further sums as may by the proprietors be judged necessary to pay the charges attending the sale of said township by the sheriff of said county of Grafton, on the ninth day of November last, for the payment of the taxes aforesaid, and for defraying any other charges which have arisen, or may hereafter arise on said township, and to do whatever may be thought proper to forward the settlement thereof. 
Salem, June 3, 1796.  In pursuance of which application and request, and by virtue of the power vested in me by the proprietors of said township, I do hereby notify and warn the proprietors of the township of Errol aforesaid, to meet at the time and place, and for the purposes mentioned in the aforesaid request.  JOHN SAUNDERS, Jr. Prop's Clerk. New-York, June 11, 1796.
State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the nonresident proprietors and owners of land in the town of Keafarge, in said State, that are delinquent in paying their State & County tax assessed thereon, from the year 1784 to 1795, inclusive, that unless they pay said tax to me the subscriber, in said town, on the 4th day of August next, so much of their lands will be sold at public vendue, as will pay said tax with incidental charges, at my dwelling-house in Keafarge, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon on said day.
   No. Dists. Cts. Cts. Cts.     Solly & March, 17 3 85 6   do. 47 2 54 4   do. 66 2 54 4   do. 63 1 27 2   do. 75 1 27 2   do. 84 1 40 4   Southerly part of No. 84, 110 acres paid, Caleb Kimball's Gore (so called) 50 acres, John Wentworth No. 84, all but 27 acres paid, 1 27 3 4   Theo. Atkinson, 80 2 54 4   Tho. Wallingford, 18 3 80 6   Oliver French, 10 3 80 6    JAMES WATKINS, Collector. Keafarge, June 9, 1796.
State of New-Hampshire.
Hillsborough, ss. To the hon. the Justices of the Superior Court of Judicature to be held at Hopkinton, within and for the county aforesaid, on the second Tuesday of May, 1796.
HANNAH POTTER of Raby, in the county aforesaid, that on the 24th day of August 1786 she was married to Stephen Potter to whom she hath always demeaned herself as a faithful and true wife—notwithstanding, which for more than three years last past, he, said Stephen without any reasonable or just cause hath wholly absented himself from your petitioner, and for that space hath been unknown & unheard of by her; wherefore she prays the bonds of matrimony betwixt them, may be dissolved, and as in duty bound shall ever pray.
HANNAH POTTER. Raby, April 26, 1796. Copy examined by NATH'L ADAMS, Clerk.
Hillsborough, ss.
Superior Court, May term 1796. Ordered by the Court that the said Hannah be heard on the foregoing petition before the Justices of the Superior Court of Judicature to be held at Amherst within and for the county of Hillsborough on the first Tuesday of October next, and that she notify the said Stephen to appear & show cause (if any he has) why the prayer of said petition should not be granted by casting said petition and order of Court thereon, to be published three weeks successively in the New-Hampshire Gazette, the last publication whereof to be two months at least before said term.
Attest, NATH'L ADAMS, Clerk.
JAQUES Mazier, be-
longing to M. Marfeilles, and Benjamin Boom, Carpenter, an Englishman, died aboard the Mercury at Demarara the 3d January last, their relations applying to THOMAS JOHNSTON, Esq. Street, may hear of their effects. Portsmouth, July 1, 1796.
Whereas my wife
Lydia behaves herself in a very indecent manner towards me, in wrongfully accusing me of cohabiting with other women, and every other way behaving herself so badly as to render the sacred bonds of matrimony between us a purgatory here on earth. I therefore forbid all persons from harboring or trusting her on any account, as I am determined to pay one farthing she may contract after the date hereof.
AARON HAYES. Nottingham, July 1, 1796.
ORANGE.
TO be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling house of Lieut. Sayer Bullock, in Orange, in the county of Grafton, & State of New-Hampshire, on the 13th day of July next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, so much of each original right & lot of land in said Orange, as will pay the State specific tax for 1795, and the certificate tax for deficiency of soldiers assessed in 1796, and all legal costs, unless the sales of said land are prevented by previous payment. The names of original grantees, and the taxes due on each right and lot of land are as follows, viz.
   No. Dists. Cts. Cts. Cts.     John Lartabee, 1 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   Joshua Dunlap, 2 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   Rev. Alex'r Miller, 2 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   William Ferriman, 3 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   Nath'l Rogers, Esq. 25 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   Daniel Payne, jr. 30 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   John Peirce, 40 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   James Bradford, 32 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   Rev. John Fuller, 48 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   Tho's Sumner, 50 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   Benjamin Cary, 27 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   John Williams, 60 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   S. Chandler, Esq. 22 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   E. Payne, Esq. 4 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   Hon. L. Dyer, Esq. 6 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   Ebenezer Childs, 1 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   Ebenezer Cobb, 38 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   Beija Spalding, 54 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   Samuel Adams, 3d. 37 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   Nath. Pierce, jr. 23 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   David Shepherd, 37 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   Nathan Waldo, 51 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   Icha'd Ormsby, 46 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   Sam'l Adams, jr. 55 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   David Payne, 61 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   James Brown, 53 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   John Green, 34 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   Thomas Stevens, 20 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   Perry Clark, 57 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   Eliza Perkins, 44 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   Jabez Ensworth, 21 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   Eph'm Spalding, 49 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   S. Chandler, jr. 50 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   Joseph Eaton, 42 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   Jacob Fellows, 38 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   Undivided of Wm Robinson, 1 132 7 0   Rozel Stevens, 23 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   Joseph Spalding, jr. 9 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   Isaac Fellows, 10 80 4 2   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   Ebenezer Craft, 11 80 4 2   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   Undivided of G. Hodges, 1 132 7 0   Oliver Spalding, 13 10 1 0   Joseph Shepherd, 12 100 5 3   Ebenezer Gray, 19 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   Theophilus Clark, 20 100 5 3  
State Tax.
   No. Dists. Cts. Cts. Cts.     Undivided, 1 132 7 0   James M'Hurd, Esq. 32 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   Amos Payne, 31 80 4 2   Undivided, 1 100 5 3   Andrew Spalding, 12 80 4 2   Undivided, 1 100 5 3   Isaac Coit, Esq. 13 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   Daniel Foster, 15 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   William Darbee, 17 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   G. Wentworth, 18 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   Andrew Backus, 24 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   R. Saltenfall, Esq. 25 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   John Cady, undiv'd, 1 132 7 0   B. Whiting, Esq. 31 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   Wm Bourn, Esq. 39 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   Elkanah Cobb, jr. 41 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   Zadoc Spalding, 45 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   Rev. A. Leonard, 52 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   John Douglass, 56 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   J. Wendell, Esq. 59 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   Verney Fellows, 62 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   E. Spalding, jr. 8 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   Tim. Larrabee, 9 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   Mill Lot, owned by Capt. Perkins, 300 15 9 6   Samuel Payne, 34 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   William Farnam, 19 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   Rozel Morgan, 28 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   Jesse Spalding, 47 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   Nehe'h Stevens, 14 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   Rob't Washburne, 8 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   Jeremiah Cady, 29 50 0 1   West end, 1 32 0 1   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   Daniel Clark, 27 40 0 1   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   Ephraim Jones, 39 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   Isaac Morgan, 22 40 0 1   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   Richard Smith, 16 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   Aaron Cleaveland, 33 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   Ebenezer Brown, 16 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   John Bartholomew, 15 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   Thomas Baker, 24 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   Curtis Spalding, 5 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0   Hezekiah Spalding, 30 100 5 3   Undivided, 1 132 7 0    ELISHA BULLOCK, Collector. May 30th, 1796.
NOTICE is hereby given that a

Foreign Intelligence.
PARIS, 6 Floreal,
ARMISTICE.
Head-Quarters of the Piedmontese Army, 26th April, 1796.
Conditions of a Suspension of Arms agreed upon between the French and the Piedmontese armies; between BUONAPARTE, General in Chief of the French army in Italy, and Baron DE LA TOUR, Lieutenant-General of Horse in the Service of the King of Sardinia, and the Marquis COSTA, Colonel in Chief of the Staff, commissioned by the King of Sardinia, to treat with the General in Chief of the French Army.
Head-Quarters at Cheresco, the 9th Floreal, 4th year.
Art. I. All hostilities shall cease between the French army in Italy, and the army of the King of Sardinia, from the day that the undermentioned conditions shall be fulfilled until the expiration of five days after the end of the negotiations, which are to be set on foot to attain the conclusion of a treaty of peace between the two powers, viz.
The fortress of Coni, shall be occupied by the French on the 9th Floreal, or the 28th of April, of this present year; the fortresses of Alessandria, shall likewise be taken possession of by the French as soon as possible, and at the latest, the 11th Floreal, or 30th of April, until the fortresses of Tortona can be surrendered to them.
Art. II. The French army shall remain in possession of its conquests, that is to say, of all the country situated between the right banks of the Stura, and its confluence with the Tanaro, and from thence along the right banks of that river, as far as the point where it joins the river Po, as long as the French shall remain in the possession of Alessandria, but after this place shall have been restored to the King of Sardinia, in consequence of the fortresses of Tortona being occupied by the French, the boundaries shall extend farther from the confluence of the Stura and Tanaro, to the height of Ailly, on the right banks of the said river; from this point, the high road which leads to Nizza de la Paille, and from that place to Cassigno, is to serve as a line of demarcation; from thence crossing the Bormida under Cassigno, the French army shall remain in possession of the right banks of the Bormida to its discharge into the Tanaro, and from thence to the confluence of this river and the Po.
Art. III. The town and citadel of Coni, as well as the town and citadel of Tortona, shall be surrendered up to the French, together with the artillery, ammunition, and provisions existing in those places, of which an inventory is to be drawn up; the same shall be done with regard to the town and citadel of Alessandria, which are provisionally to be occupied by the French, until they shall be put in possession of the town and citadel of Tortona.
Art. IV. The French army shall be at liberty to cross the Po, under Valence.
Art. V. All extraordinary Couriers, Aides de Camp, or other Officers, whom the Commander in Chief may think fit to send to Paris, shall be allowed to pass and repass by the shortest way.
Art. VI. All the troops and officers in the pay of the King of Sardinia, who serve in the Austrian army in Italy, are to be comprised in the said suspension of hostilities.
Art. VII. The citadel of Ceva shall be surrendered, together with all its artillery, ammunition, and provisions, and its garrison is to retreat into Piedmont.
Art. VIII. In the fortresses of Coni and Tortona, as well as in that of Alessandria, inventories shall be drawn up of all the artillery, ammunition, and provisions, delivered up to the French troops, for which the French Republic shall remain answerable to the King of Sardinia by restoring the artillery, and paying the value of such part of the ammunition and provisions as shall have been consumed.
The same shall be done respecting the citadel.—The troops who occupy these places, shall withdraw into Piedmont with their arms, baggage, and all the honors of war.
(Signed in the minutes) Lieutenant Gen. DE LA TOUR. Col. COSTA & BUONAPARTE.
Extract of a letter from the General in Chief to the Executive Directory, 10th Floreal, (April 29).
"The town of Coni, is occupied by our troops; its garrison consisted of 5000 men.
"My columns are in full march; BEAULIEU is flying with all speed, but I hope to overtake him.
"The troops of the Republic enter this moment the citadel of Ceva; and I have received the King of Sardinia's orders, that the town and fortresses of Tortona shall be delivered up to us.
(Signed) "BUONAPARTE."
14 FLOREAL, MAY 3.
Our letters from the North announce, that the campaign will open immediately on the banks of the Rhine. On both sides the greatest preparations are making. Jourdan, and the Arch-Duke Charles, are visiting their respective advanced posts.—The German Princes make the Austrian army 220,000 strong. Ours is still more numerous.
LONDON, April 25.
SINGULAR CASE OF MURDER. A French officer, on the 3d inst. going in a vessel from the Hague to Rotterdam contracted an acquaintance with one of the passengers, a dealer in watches, who was
going from the latter city to Brabant. The watch maker was so well pleased with the patriotic effusions of his companion in the course of their passage, that, when the vessel arrived at its place of destination, both resolved to halt at the same inn, which is called the Kleine Schippere. Here they supped together, and afterwards amused themselves at cards till one in the morning, when they agreed to sleep in one room, and at length in one bed. Unfortunately, however, the tradesman had, either by accident or carelessness exhibited to his new acquaintance a purse richly stowed with ducats. The officer waiting till sleep had closed the unsuspicious traveller's eyes, stopped his mouth with a handkerchief, and almost instantly plunged a sword into his breast. The instrument missing the unfortunate man's heart, he awoke, and struggled violently, but was not able to give any alarm. The officer chagrined at the disappointment continued to hack the miserable victim till his intestines dropped out, till no signs of life appeared, when he dragged the body to a trunk, which belonged to the murdered person, in order thus to conceal the main evidence of this dreadful deed, and by cutting the joints of the thighs and arms, which were broke by that means to sell on the body, he at length succeeded; and again locked the trunk. Being unable, however, to wipe up all the blood which deluged the bed and the chamber, he stabbed himself in a part where no danger could result, and returned in tranquillity to his pillow, where he actually slept so long the next morning, that the chamber maid conceived it her duty to inform the gentlemen of the late hour; but obtaining no answer she peeped through the key hole; and seeing the floor covered with blood gave an instant alarm. The police officers attended, broke open the door and after a narrow search, discovered the horrible contents of the trunk. The Frenchman alleged, that what had happened was merely in his own defence, and shewed his wound as a demonstration of the intention of the deceased! He is, however, closely confined, but the ends of humanity, I suspect, that the m—er will escape his merited punishment. The mangled body was taken to a surgeon's hall at Rotterdam, and exposed to public inspection for several days, in order to discover the unfortunate tradesman's name and family.
Extract of a letter from on board the Lowoffe, dated Mahon Harbor, 28th of March.
"On the 19th of February we left Leghorn, in company with the fleet, and went off Toulon to offer the French battle. We stood in so near, that the enemy's shot from the forts passed over all our ships. Notwithstanding this daring insult the republicans kept close to their anchorage. For four or five days we remained with the fleet, when we parted in company with the Lively, to look into Toulon. On the 7th of March being close in with the French land, at 11 o'clock, A. M. came on heavy squalls of wind, attended with much thunder, lightning, hail and rain. At a quarter past 12 the lightning struck 3 men on the main mast, who fell down, and one of them was killed; the other two were much burned, and otherwise hurt, the shock being so great as to affect all upon deck, many of whom were knocked down by it. At half past 12 another shaft of lightning struck many on the different decks, rendering them motionless, and shivering the main top mast to splinters. A few minutes after, another flash set the ship on fire in several places about the masts and rigging, but it was speedily extinguished by the torrents of hail and rain. It nevertheless broke several hoops of the main mast, and shivered it to splinters; splitting the fore top-mast, and carrying away the fore topsail yard, at the same time knocking many men down into the top, one of whom was killed on the spot, and differently affecting the bodies of those on deck. The lightning entering between decks, made an explosion so as to affect all who were there, rendering the limbs and sides of some totally benumbed, and flying in different directions into every port below, saving in its course, most providentially the magazines. The main mast being in such a state, was cut away, to prevent its falling in any dangerous direction, or carrying away the other masts yet standing. We bore up for Minorca, and on the 11th anchored in Mahon harbor. On our arrival here it was found that the fore topsail too had received so much damage in the storm that it was necessary to remove it. We have been lying here, with only our mizen mast standing, fourteen days; the jury mainmast is now up, and the foremast in, so that I expect we shall sail for Ajaccio in Corsica, by Saturday next, where we shall remain at least six weeks for a new mainmast, for every thing attached to the old mast was lost."
MAY 5. Mr. Gray's motion for an impeachment of his Majesty's Ministers, was yesterday put, and negatived by an immense majority.
MAY 6. Arrangements are now making for importing from Great-Britain the whole of the copper to be used in the copper coinage of the United States.—It is to be completely prepared here, and only to receive the stroke of the die in America.
MAY 9. When the old King of Prussia sent a present of his portrait in miniature on an elegant snuff-box to Gen. WASHINGTON, he wrote on the envelope, "From the OLDEST General in the civilized world to the BEST."
ITALY. VERONA, April 21. On the 13th, the Marquis Charlotte, a Venetian nobleman gave notice, on the part of the Senate of Venice, to the Count de Provence (Louis XVIII) that he was
requested to remove as soon as possible from the Venetian territories. To this unexpected notification, for which he had not been in the least prepared, he replied, "I will go, but under two conditions,
"1. Let the Golden Book be brought me, in which the names of my family are inscribed, that I may strike mine out, with my own hand.
"2. Let the armour be delivered to me, which my ancestor Henry IV. presented to the Republic, as a token of friendship."
This answer appears to have displeased the Venetian Noble Pringly, Podesta, or Governor of Verona, who the next day sent the same Nobleman to the Count, with his propositions: the latter answered, "What I have demanded is a duty I owe to myself, and I do not forget that I am King of France." The Count immediately set off for the Condeanarmy.
DENMARK.
COPENHAGEN, April 30. We learn that the differences between Russia and Sweden have been amicably settled, and that a beginning has already been made to withdraw the troops. It is said that the marriage of the King of Sweden has been delayed for the present.
LEXINGTON, (Kentucky) May 3.
Extract of a letter from an officer now at Fort Hamilton to the Editor, dated April 18.
"We are making the utmost exertions to get forward the ordnance and supplies for the army, to take possession of the Western Posts; 6 boats yesterday and 5 this day, have proceeded to the head of the navigation and seven more are expected to-morrow.
BALTIMORE, June 20.
Again, the expletives of citizen Paris, in his Flying Fish, have spread such an alarm at Philadelphia, that underwriters refuse to insure, unless at intolerable premiums, vessels from that port to Britain, because it is extremely probable, as we remarked in last Saturday's paper, that five hundred other French privateers now have the same orders as the Flying Fish, which has, it seems, captured a second vessel, name unknown.
COOPERSTOWN, June 16.
Unhappy accident.
On Monday last night as two men were felling timber for Mr. Gideon Chamberlain of Unadilla, a tree in its fall unfortunately struck a son of Mr. Chamberlain (between 7 and 8 years of age) on his head, which fractured his skull in a shocking manner—almost the whole of the parietal bone was so much fractured as to be entirely detached from the surrounding bones, and consequently was obliged to be extracted—an extensive fracture of os frontis, extending quite to the orbit of the eye. The coronal suture divided from the point where it is met by the sagittal to the os temporis, which last mentioned bone was much fractured. The right parietal bone was so much fractured that it was necessary to remove nearly all the sagittal suture—In order to remove the different detached pieces of bones, nine applications of the trepan became necessary. Three large pieces of bone were extracted, which together measured something more than 3 inches in length, and nearly 3 in breadth; together with several smaller pieces. Several fragments of the bone were forced quite through the dura and pia mater, into the substance of the brain. The unhappy patient remained in this mangled condition from Monday till the following Thursday, without any surgical assistance, when Dr. White, of Cherry Valley, 50 miles distant arrived, who performed the above described operation with so skill full a hand as entitles him to great honor. After the operation the boy appeared comfortable, called for food, ate well, and had his senses perfectly. The Editor has seen the different pieces of the skull which were extracted, together with the nine circular pieces, which were cut out by as many perforations of the trepan.
Exitus in audio est.
THE FIRE AT CHARLESTON.
CHARLESTON, June 15. Again has this city been visited with the dreadful calamity of fire. On Monday last, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, a room in Lodge-alley was discovered to be on fire, which in a few minutes communicated to the neighbouring buildings. The citizens soon assembled; but their exertions could not stop the devouring flames till 3 o'clock on Tuesday morning, and until a very considerable part of the city was destroyed. At this moment, owing to the confusion occasioned by the disaster, it is not in our power to give an exact account of the loss, or of the number of buildings destroyed; but those acquainted with the city will conceive the damages done, on being told that every house in Queen-street, from the Bay to the corner of Church street; all Union street continued; two thirds of Union street; Church street, from Broad-street to St. Philip's church, with only two exceptions; Chalmers and Berresford's alleys; Kinloch's court; and the north side of Broad-street, from the State-house to Mr. Jack's, four doors below Church-street; and five houses on the Bay, from the corner of Queen-street, were burnt to the ground.
The public buildings destroyed are, the French Church and the upper or Beef Market. St. Philip's Church was on fire several times, and ultimately must have been destroyed if a spirited negro man had not ascended to the top of the cupola, next to the vane, and tore off the shingles.
The private buildings destroyed, and the property they contained, are of immense amount.
Five hundred chimneys, it is said, have been counted, from which the buildings are burnt; and 150,000 sterling, is supposed to be a sum far short of the value of
these buildings. The goods and furniture destroyed are probably nearly equal to this sum.
Early in the fire a white man, whose name we have not yet learnt, was killed by a pipe of wine falling on him; and three or four negroes were killed at other periods.
Mr. Charles Barka had his leg very much hurt. Mr. Laurence Campbell, Mr. Henry Lancelter, and Mr. Joseph Verrice, were considerably hurt while exerting themselves to blow up a house in Broad-street. We are happy to add, their wounds are not thought dangerous.
These are all the accidents we have yet heard of, and we have no reason but to believe that there are others which will be attended with many fatal effects.
The distressed situation to which upwards of two hundred families are reduced, by this disaster, is easier to be described; or what numbers of them will be able to obtain places to shelter themselves from the vicissitudes of the seasons, is hard to say. Still it is to be hoped that the citizens, whose houses have escaped the flames, will exert themselves, as they have heretofore done, when like calamities have visited the city in providing for them such accommodation, as may be in their power to afford.
Whether this misfortune be the effect of design or accident is not yet, and perhaps never will be known; from the examination made on the spot, where it was said to have first begun, and the Intendant, there is reason to suppose it was the work of some incendiary, but no proof is yet offered that will fix the crime on any person.
JUNE 16. Yesterday, in speaking of the fire, we mentioned that upwards of two hundred families were distressed thereby; a gentleman has since informed us, that he has enumerated 253 lots, from which the buildings were burnt; and as many of the lots were covered by more than one tenable dwelling, it is probable at least three hundred families were rendered homeless.
JUNE 17. In the course of yesterday forenoon attempts were made to set fire to a house in Trade-street; and an out building in Archdale-street; in consequence of which the Intendant issued a proclamation. Happily in each instance the discovery was made before any damage was done.
PHILADELPHIA, June 28.
AUTHENTIC.
We are informed that orders have been transmitted by Lord DORCHESTER to the officers commanding at the several British forts within the limits of the United States for their evacuation; and that duplicates thereof were delivered to Capt. LEWIS, who arrived in this city yesterday evening from Quebec.
This morning arrived the ship Raven, Capt. CASSIN, 56 days from Cadiz, from whence he took his departure May 2d, at which time Admiral RICHARD'S fleet lay in port, preparing for a destination unknown; and Admiral MAN'S cruising off Cadiz. About fifty sail of Spanish men of war lay there, out of which three 74's and three frigates were almost ready to proceed to the Havana; on board of this squadron, the Counsellors of Regla, together with some other persons of quality, intend to embark. There was great activity on board the Spanish fleet; for an equipment, but no visible appearance of a rupture with any nation.
The Schooner Eliza, Capt. GRAVES, of Boston, was boarded in the Mediterranean, on the French coast, by a vessel under national colours, which plundered her of a number of articles, and the specie which her outward cargo sold for, and which was to purchase a cargo of Brandy in Cetté; Capt. GRAVES was wounded in attempting to defend the property; a Mr. RAND who was also on board, and wrote an account of the transaction to Mr. SIMPSON, the American consul at Gibraltar, received no personal injury.
The American captives in Algiers were not released when Capt. PELOR left Gibraltar; the money to redeem them had not yet been paid.
The following is a list of the British fleet lying in Cadiz:
 Windor Castle, Admiral Mann 98 guns.  Terrible Captain Campbell 74  Cumberland Rowley 74  Defiance Wells 74  Saturn Douglass 74  Audacious Gould 74  Blonde Rempport 32  Torridge Bower 32  Dido Northern 32  Caster Ballant 32  A float of war of 16 guns, and a cutter of 16 guns. 
NEW YORK, July 1.
A letter dated at Cape Francois, June 10, to a merchant in Philadelphia, contains the following article:
"It must be of importance for you and the public to know, that to-morrow the French begin by Fort Dauphin, to take possession of the Spanish part of the Island.
PORTLAND, July 4.
ACCIDENTS.
Thursday morning last the body of Mr. Edward Butler of North-Yarmouth was found dead, on this deck of a vessel in Falmouth, on board of which he had been working—the jury gave their verdict, accident Death by a fall.
Thursday evening last, the body of Mr. Peleg Trip, was found dead at the entrance of this town, supposed to have died by a fall from his horse.
NEWBURY-PORT, July 2.
TENERIFFE, March 22, 1796.
Extract of a letter from Capt. Wyatt St. Barbe, of this town, commander of the ship Enterprise of 150 tons, to the Marine Society of this town.
"I chartered my ship to Mr. Soren, of the house of Holyoke and Son of Boston, for a voyage from Hamburg to Surinam and back to Hamburg, and left the river Elbe on the 5th of February last, and on
the 23th following, being in lat. 44. 1. N. long. 18. 33. W. at 2 P. M. saw a large ship in the S. W. quarter, appearing to be in distress—made immediately for her, and at 4 P. M. spoke her, she proved to be a British transport with troops on board, from Cork, bound to the West-Indies in a leaky and dilreft situation—both pumps constantly going. She was called the Iffabel, of Liverpool, Charles Potter, commander—Capt. Potter immediately came on board my ship and informed me of his situation, and requested that I should see him safe into Cadiz or Lisbon. I told him my ship was chartered at a very high freight, and that my voyage would be very much injured by going back to either of those places—but that I was willing to see him safe into the western Islands—Madeira, or the Canaries, and to render him every other service in my power, that I was willing to accommodate as many of the Gentlemen Officers, as I conveniently could, and land them in any of the aforesaid islands. With this Potter seemed satisfied, and laid he believed that would do—that he would send to the commander of the troops for his approbation—but instead thereof, he felt an information that my ship and cargo was French and Dutch property and of course a good and legal prize, and requested immediate assistance, which he was soon supplied with, by an armed party who then drove Mr. Soren, my supercargo, and my chief mate, with eight of my sailors into his boat at the point of the bayonet and sent them on board the Iffabel prisoners, all this was done before Potter had seen any of my papers! My ship then being manned from the Iffabel with an addition of fourteen soldiers, two officers and a doctor, on the next day, Potter thought it proper to inform me, that the ship Enterprise was his, and that he should, after arriving at Lisbon dispatch us for Barbadoes—for he was positively sure the ship had a double set of papers, and that the cargo was Dutch and French property—after examining all my papers both public and private, taking from me my invoice, bills of lading, shipping paper, clearance from Hamburg, and several others, which he thought proper to keep—He then went into the hold and broke open several cales and boxes—taking out from each what he thought proper and carried them off with him; all this was done in retaliation for my kindness and humanity to him—after our arrival at this port, Potter detained Mr. S. and my chief mate prisoners two days on board the Iffabel—and also endeavored to detain me a prisoner on board the Enterprise until the British consul who was then at the Grand Canary should arrive, Potter taking the liberty to load the Enterprise with baggage, stores and soldiers from his old ship Iffabel—which is now condemned for being rotten and in danger of sinking in this road; he is determined to take us to Barbadoes, and there to condemn my ship and cargo, he has taken every means to corrupt my sailors in order to make them swear that the ship is either Dutch or French property, no matter on shore allowance of bread and water, and has kept my carpenter several days in irons. I have had the pleasing satisfaction since our arrival, to have been in company with every one of the British officers, who have declared not only to me but to many of the principal merchants in this place, that when Potter boarded my ship, he sent his boat back and demanded immediate assistance, informing that the ship & cargo was a lawful prize. When as I before related, he had not seen one of my papers. I cannot say too much in praise of the commander and officers of the British troops, for their kind, polite and genteel behavior, to Mr. S. and my chief mate, they speak very highly of the civilities received from those Gentlemen during their stay on board the Iffabel. Potter told Mr. S. that I was positively a Frenchman and that the cargo was also French property, and also that I was one of the greatest Rascals on Earth, and that he had papers sufficient to hang me in England (a fine reward indeed for saving the lives of near 300 of his Britannic Majesty's subjects) at the same time told Mr. S. that he did not think he could condemn his property, only part of the Cheque as being Dutch—Mr. S. quite sure here, and intends for England, by whom I shall find my protect against Potter; now Gentlemen, I am confident if justice takes place on our arrival at Barbadoes I shall be acquitted with honor, being conscious of not having a single paper or any thing else on board of my ship, that can gain say or contradict what I have always profest myself to be, & what you have always known me to be a citizen of the United States of America—I shall write you from Barbadoes, as soon after my arrival there as I know my fate—it is peculiarly aggravating to me, to know that most of my cargo will be ruined, before a decision takes place.
N. B. The owners of the Iffabel are Messrs. Tartan and Blackhouse, of Liverpool.
Extract of a letter from Capt. John Meulton, to his owner in this town, dated off Dover, April 28, 1796.
"On the 7th April in lat. 46. North, and long. 31. 30. West, I fell in with the wreck of the ship Elizabeth, of and from Wisbecket bound to Liverpool, James Blackston, master, the having on the 4th April in a severe gale of wind Supra ice which carried away her fore and mizen masts, stove in her stern and quarter deck and washed two of her crew overboard & filled immediately with water, she being loaded with lumber prevented her sinking. I took from on board of her the captain, mate and two of her crew, (viz. Wm. Lake and Joseph Piercy) the only surviving persons on board, three of her crew having perished from the time of her commencing a wreck until I fell in with her. It being near night and a large sea going could save nothing."

PHILADELPHIA, June 22. The history of our late treaty with Algiers, and of the financial operations connected with it; exhibits as much folly and imbecility as any transaction that has disgraced the "six years glorious administration." The outlines of this history should be traced to refresh the memory of the American people, and enable them to judge how far the conduct of their servants has justified their choice.
Several American citizens had for years languished in cruel captivity in Algiers; many had fallen victims to their sufferings. Some had survived the multiplied hardships of excessive labour, cruel punishments, and want of the necessaries of life. The situation of these unfortunate men, called forth the compassion of their fellow citizens; and not a little pity or a fruitless tear; but the Continent from one end to the other, by one generous impulse of virtuous sensibility determined their deliverance, and collections were making to effect the noble purpose. Government however, stayed the hand of generosity, and undertook themselves the task of liberating the American captives as an act of justice. Congress passed a vote of credit of one million of dollars to enable the Executive to effect the desirable object.
The banks of the United States were applied to for a loan of 800,000 dollars of this sum; 200,000 dollars were obtained from other sources, and we believe, remitted to Algiers. The bank could give the United States no cash, but were willing to lend the sum in six per cents, provided the Government would take them at par, though the market price was considerably under par. The government accepted the loan upon these terms, and sent their six per cents from this country to England, where they found a worse market, and where they were disposed of at a loss of about 90,000 dollars to the United States, besides commissions and instrumentality.
The question is, whether even the seven hundred and ten thousand dollars, or thereabouts have ever reached Algiers; if they have, it seems that sum is not sufficient, as Mr. Pickering warns the merchants and other citizens of the United States not to venture near the Mediterranean: If this has not, where does it stick; why has it travelled so slowly to its place of destination? It is impossible that the delay has been occasioned by the time taken in turning an honest penny by any of those agents thro' whose hands it must have passed. In a word, must there not have been most egregious mismanagement, or a strange fatality attending the transaction, that fourteen or fifteen months time, and the sacrifice of 90 or 100,000 dollars have not been found sufficient to transmit eight hundred thousand dollars from the United States to Algiers?
But this is not all: after borrowing at a loss of upwards of ten per cent, the United States are to repay the loan, at above double that loss. The bank were willing to give 6 per cent at par, when the market price was under par; but while they remain under par in the market, they do not choose to receive them back, except at the market price, though in payment for the very paper borrowed. They are willing to part with the public paper as cash, but receive it only as paper, and the guardians of the public purse and public credit, have agreed to this scandalous bargain.
Thus to recapitulate this brilliant financial transaction: 800,000 dollars are borrowed of the bank to obtain a peace with Algiers. Fifteen or eighteen months are spent to accomplish it; the object is not attained, though at the loss of 90,000 dollars.
On the loan, 90,000 On the reimbursement, 160,000 Interest, say 18 months, 72,000 Total, instrumentality } 322,000 not included, 322,000 322,000 dollars squandered in eighteen months, and no valuable object obtained, at least to the public; this sum, to be sure, is not lost—no doubt it has or will fall in good hands; the public it is true, lose it; but there are so many to bear the burden of the tax that must replace it, that it will hardly be felt; besides as this will be done by indirect taxation, no body will be the worse for it, and some folks will be the better.
This Algerine business presents other features of deformity too prominent to escape notice. First, the precipitancy with which the treaty was concluded, and the want of a guarantee for its execution. Secondly, the frigate-building frolic; the time wasted; the keels were scarcely laid by the period fixed for the first cruise within the Straights: the waste of money in the unmeaning attention to their construction, and the folly in giving commissions and pay to the Captains before their ships were in the water. These items would swell the sum of Algerine expenses to a formidable sum, and Timothy Pickering warns us, that so far, the object is unattained.
NEWPORT, June 23. Extract of a letter from Capt. JAMES TAYLOR, of this town, a prisoner at Algiers, dated April 6, 1796.
"This will inform you that we are still in Algiers, and God only knows when we shall get out of it. We were informed when the peace was made, the money to pay for it was in Lisbon; since in London—not being to get there—the Dey being out of patience, the 4th inst. ordered Messrs. DONALDSON and BARLOW, to leave this place on the ports being opened, which is expected hourly. I leave you to judge of what we have undergone in mind since, as we are certain should this fall through, we shall see liberty never again—but by exerting themselves they have got liberty for Mr. BARLOW to stay. Mr. DONALDSON goes to Leghorn to day; an American brig that came here from Marseilles, also sails to-day for Al-
geria, with dispatches—they have three months given them to get the money here; if it is not here in that time, we are sold for life."
BOSTON, July 4. Extract of a letter dated Cayenne, June 7, received by the brig Nymph, Capt. Sullivan, arrived at Philadelphia.
"The Brigands have adopted a new mode of warfare, which from its destructive consequences on our part, bids fair to be successful on theirs. This is, to penetrate to our inhabitants avoiding the roads, and bye-paths, and consequently all our formidable posts and camps, and thus dash in among us, when lulled in security, we are in the arms of sleep, and when alas, that sleep is our death. Several inhabitants in their beds have been murdered, their houses robbed, and their strong healthy negroes driven away: to recently as three days since, a gentleman whose custom it was to sleep late, was murdered at table, by a bayonet plunged into his breast; and what is wonderful, his wife and infant, just returned from Baltimore, escaped in the woods. We are in continual alarm; at present there are parties out every day, and at night the Planters rendezvous at one place to repose."
CASUALTY. —On Saturday last, Mr. Benjamin Nash, Mr. Leatherbee, and a lad about 15 years of age, named Hayden, all belonging to Weymouth, being in a boat fishing off Marshfield, they discovered the boat leaking very fast, and attempted to make sail for shore; when between Georges' Island and Nantasket, she leaked so fast, that before Mr. Nash could be awakened in the cabin, whether he had retired, being sick, the boat filled and sunk; and Mr. Nash, and the boy were drowned. Mr. Leatherbee fortunately caught hold of the small boat, and remained in this situation, until he was picked up by Mr. Dill, (who saw the boat sink, and came to its assistance,) and carried him to Nantasket.
From CAYENNE. Capt. HOVEY, from Cayenne, informs of the arrival of new Officers for the Government of the Colony, from France, with three frigates and several cutters. A Dutch fleet of six 64's had been there from Holland, but had failed for Surinam. They failed from the Texel, with a much larger fleet for the West-Indies, but were separated in a gale of wind. Their orders were to rendezvous at Cayenne; but the whole squadron had not reached the place when Captain Hovey failed.
From LISBON. By Capt. Collins, in 30 days, we have little News. No certain accounts of the Algerines being out were known there. A strong Portuguese Squadron was cruising in the mouth of the Straights.
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
On Tuesday arrived brig Resolution, Capt. Charles Rockwell, 16 days from Bermuda. Mr. G. H. Apthorp, passenger.—Capt. Rockwell was on a voyage from Surinam to Amsterdam, and was taken in lat. 30, long 60, by the British ships of war the Resolution and Cleopatra, and sent into Bermuda, and after a detention of eight weeks having gone through a trial in the Court of Admiralty the vessel and cargo was liberated, he being condemned to pay all charges. Capt. Rockwell and Mr. Apthorp speak favorably of the personal treatment they experienced from the commanders and officers of the ships by which they were detained; but add, that all means are put in practice in Bermuda in order to condemn American property sent into that port, and that it is almost a general rule to charge captured vessels with all costs, whether condemned or acquitted.
The ship Harmony, owned by Captain George Blankenship of Rochester, was run foul of by a Whale, on the Brazil coast, in March last, stove and sunk; vessel and cargo lost; crew saved.
Arrived ship Eliza, Gibaut, 70 days from Canton: April 22, spoke ship Friendship, 23 days from Bourbon, bound to Charleston, S. C. lat. 34, long 80, S. long. 18, E. April 24, spoke brig Rose, 23 days from Ile de France, bound to Philadelphia, lat. 32, long 80, S. long 6, E. May 1, lat. 22, long 80, S. long 1, 30, W. saw a fleet of nine large ships steering N. W. o. N. which supposed to be the homeward bound English Indiamen. May 15, lat. 28, 12, N. long. 67, W. boarded by a ship (mounting 10 Iron, and a number of wooden guns) 15 days from Martinique, commanded by a person who called himself Capt. Lavy, and bound to Liverpool.—After a very short examination he left us and went on board his vessel, afterwards he kept us lying to under his lee, for some time threatening to fire upon us if we offered to make sail, (altho' satisfied with respect to our papers.) He afterwards let down his quarter cloths, bro't his weather guns over to leeward, and stationed his men to their quarters, we every moment expected a salutation from him, but this heroic commander thinking it perhaps best to let us alone, told us we might make sail, and wished us a pleasant passage. Their pumps were going continually, altho' he told us he did not leak.
From their appearance we did not know but the vessel was taken by them in a clandestine manner, for it would have puzzled the oldest seaman to have distinguished the Capt. from the foreman's hands; their appeared no kind of order on board.
N. B. After telling us his longitude, he was told that we were in 62, W. by a lunar Observation, taken by the Sun and Moon, upon which he observed that the Americans had found out a new method, for he did not know that the Moon was ever to be seen in the day time! June 22, lat. 34, long. 80, S. long. 60, W. spoke the scho. Virginia (out 9 days from Philadelphia), Capt. Christopher Lee, bound to Port au Prince, June 3, lat. 26, 6, N. long. 68, W. spoke ship Friend-
ship out 6 days from Charleston, S. C. bound to Hamburg, June 29, lat. 40, N. long. 69, W. was boarded by a boat from the Thetis frigate (another frigate being in company which formerly belonged to the French) commanded by the Hon. Capt. Cockran, both frigates hoisted French colors, the officer that came on board was in French uniform and endeavored to speak broken English, he requested us to go on board with the Log book and papers; on our arrival, the Capt. and officers received us with that attentive politeness we little expected; the Capt. invited us below where we were very agreeably entertained, while taking an excellent dish of tea, he regaled us with several tunes from his band of music.—Capt. C. said it was not his wish, or intention to injure fair neutral traders; but such only as were suspicious and had French property on board their vessels, he was in duty bound to send into port.—After a short examination and Capt. C. wishing us a pleasant passage and happy reception we departed. He having first sent on board our ship some refreshments—knowing we had been out some time.
Capt. West informs, that he left the Havana on the 13th inst. in the brig Hope, of Philadelphia; that on the 16th, in a squall, the brig struck on a reef near Cape Florida, and soon bilged and filled with water; about noon the same day he was taken off by the ship Louisa, of Bath, Kennebec, John Clark, Master, from Jamaica; and Capt. West being very sick with a fever, after getting out most of her provisions, clothes, papers, &c. went on board the ship, and left his boat for the people to come off to the ship; but by some reason or other, they tarried on board the wreck till near sun down, when we saw them leave the wreck; but the wind beginning to blow on a lee shore, and night coming on, we lost sight of them, and was obliged to make sail with the ship for her preservation, and cannot tell whether they returned to the wreck or not.
Capt. West returns his most sincere thanks to Capt. John Clark, not only for his attention in getting him on board his ship, but for his kindness while on board. List of men left in the boat.
Nicholas Nicholas, Mate; Samuel Bond, Cooper; Michael Ogden, Sailor; William Hains, do; John Peterson, do, who was sick with the fever; Thomas Smith, do; Enoch ——, a Boy, Abraham, a black Man; Joseph Jackson, Cook, a black Man. WM. WEST.
Capt. Taylor, in the Betsy, arrived at Boston, on Wednesday last from England brings the following news.
Important Intelligence.
Conspiracy at Paris, AUTHENTIC MINUTE.
COUNCIL OF FIVE HUNDRED. MAY 10.
Goddard, in the name of a Commission, proposed to the Council to authorise the Members of the Central Bureau of each of the Cantons of Paris, Bourdeaux, Lyons, and Marseilles, to decree mandates of arrest, and to interrogate persons under accusation within twenty-four hours. This examination to be afterwards transmitted, together with the accused to the Magistrates.
Favard considered this plan as unconstitutional, and accordingly demanded the Order of the Day.
Doulcet supported the plan. He spoke of the necessity of compressing the factious and of giving to the police the means of apprehending them. He protested by this occasion to speak with warmth against the new plots set on foot by the anarchois, at the moment when an endeavour was made to tell the public opinion with respect to the perils with which France was menaced. He pointed out the partisans of Robespierre, raising their heads with more audacity than ever, and proposing murder, pillage, and fire. He called on the Council to pronounce forcibly against every description of conspirators, and not to suffer the Constitution to be overturned, under the mask of patriotism.
ROyer proceeded to lay before the Council a detail of the crimes with which the terrorists menaced Paris. He urged the necessity of adopting the speediest measures to prevent the renewal of the crimes of the month of Prairial. He proposed to the Council to augment the armed force stationed without the hall, and to compose it of one battalion of grenadiers, one battalion of infantry, two squadrons of cavalry, and a company of gunners. This force to receive its orders from the President of the Council. This proposition excited murmurs. When
A MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTORY, informed the Council of the discovery of A NEW CONSPIRACY.
"Citizens Legislators.—A horrible plot was intended to be executed to-morrow at day break. Its object was to overturn the French Constitution, to murder the Legislative Body, all the Members of the Government, the Officers composing the Staff of the Army of the Interior, and the Constituted Authorities at Paris. That great commotion was to be delivered up to a general pillage, and to the most horrid massacres."
The Executive Directory, informed of the place where the chiefs of this terrible conspiracy were assembled, and where they held their Committee of revolt, gave orders for their apprehension. Several of them have been taken up, and it is with pain we announce, that among them was found one of our colleagues, Citizen Drouet, taken in the very act of conspiracy.
The Executive Directory calls upon you, Citizens Legislators, to have the goodness to point out the plan of conduct it ought to follow on this occasion. If you judge that the Executive Directory ought to put seals on Drouet's papers, it prays
you to declare your intention on that point. (Signed.)
"CARNOT, President."
Theilhard demanded that the Council should, by a resolution, authorise the putting of seals on Drouet's papers.
Defermont observed, that this mode of procedure would be too slow. Impetuous circumstances command that this measure should be instantly executed. He demanded therefore that the Council should pass to the order of the day on this ground, th. the mandate of arrest justified in itself the placing of seals on the papers.—Adopted.
LONDON, May 14. An American house in the city has stopped payment for a very large sum, in consequence of speculations in corn and rice from America, which have turned out unfavourably. The deficiency is stated at 150,000.
PHILADELPHIA, June 30.
John Steele, of North Carolina, is appointed Comptroller of the Treasury, vice John Davis, of Massachusetts resigned. The United States brig Sophia, failed a few days ago from this port to Europe—She is to touch at Lisbon, for a short time, and from thence proceed to Algiers. We learn that the Sophia has on board the means of fulfilling the terms of our treaty with the Dey and Regency of Algiers, for which purpose she was dispatched by the Executive with Capt. O'Brien on board.
On Friday last arrived at Carlisle, major general Anthony Wayne—we understand that the General is on his way to the Westward, to take possession of the Posts which are to be given up agreeably to treaty.
BOSTON, July 7. The following intelligence is furnished by Capt. Pelor, from Gibraltar:
About the middle of April positive accounts were received at Gibraltar, from different parts of the Mediterranean, that the Dey of Algiers had declared war against the king of Denmark; that his cruisers were out, and had taken and sent to Algiers eight sail of Danish merchantmen.
NEWBURY-PORT, July 7.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Philadelphia, to his friend in this town, received by Capt. Lowell, arrived here yesterday, in eight days from the above place.
"The campaign on the continent of Europe appears to have opened with great carnage—The account of a late engagement upon the Rhine, states the loss of the French at 14,000 and the Austrians 16,000—neither party made any advances in respect to position. A truce of 4 days was agreed on to bury their dead."
[Tight Work!] (We have a Philadelphia paper of June 20, which mentions nothing of the above)
E. Chadwick
Has for sale at his store, No. 3, Jaffrey's Row, Bow-Street,
ONE hundred quintals old Pollock Fish; 100 bushels White Beans.
A general assortment of West-India Goods.
Lisbon, Sherry, Port and Malaga Wines; Loaf Sugars; genuine French Brandy; Gin; Nails; Tea of the first quality; Coffee; Rice; Flour; Pepper; Chocolate
A few boxes dip'd Candles; Boots & Shoes as usual.
A good assortment of Boot-Legs; Ladies', Misses' and Childrens' red and black Morocco Slippers of the best kind, together with sundry other articles, all of which will be sold by large or small quantities, as cheap as can be bought in town.
Portsmouth, July 3, 1796.
Joseph Haven
HAS JUST RECEIVED
A large and general assortment of
European GOODS,
Suitable to all seasons,
which will be sold at the lowest rate. t.b.c.
Portsmouth Library.
IN pursuance of an Act of Incorporation; the proprietors of the Portsmouth Library are hereby notified to meet at the east chamber in the Court House, at Portsmouth, on Monday the 25th day of July instant, at 10 o'clock, A. M. To agree upon a method of calling meetings in future, to choose all officers that may be necessary to transact their business, to assess any taxes they may see fit, to pass any by-laws for the due government and regulation of said society, and to do & transact any other matter or thing which may be thought beneficial for said proprietors.
NATH! ADAMS. Portsmouth, July 2, 1796.
To be sold, or let, A very convenient House in High-Street, NOW occupied by Capt. Benjamin Clark, who is this day going to move; inquire of STEPHEN HARDY. Portsmouth, July 9, 1796.
European Goods.
Luther Ellis,
North End Market-Street. RESPECTFULLY informs his customers and others that he has now ready for sale a large assortment of European Goods,
directly from the manufactories, which will be sold by wholesale and retail, on reasonable terms. As the assortment is general thinks it unnecessary to particularize the articles.
—ALSO— A quantity of Sheathing Paper. Portsmouth July 9, 1796. [t.b.c]
New Books.
Just received and for sale by S. Larkin,
AT THE Portsmouth Book-Store, Market-Street, An assortment of New BOOKS,
Among which are, The wonderful Magazine, & marvellous Chronicle.
A new and general Biographical Dictionary, containing the lives and writings of the most eminent persons in every nation in the world; Travels through the interior parts of America; Edwards's history of the West Indies; Goodwin's principles of political justice; Young's travels in France; Guthrie's Geography improved, quarto.
Lord Chatham's life; Shakespeare's Dramatic works, 8 vols. octavo, with plates; history of Pamela; adventures of Gil Blas; Don Quixote; history of Sir Charles Grandison; Plutarch's lives; Riley's historical Pocket Library; the Polite Repository; practice of Piety; Fathers' Instructions; wonderful Story Teller; Parental Monitor; Democrat, or the adventures of Jean Le Noir; Culpepper's English Physician; Palace of Enchantment; the Ghost Seer or apparitionist; Pleasing Companion; Fairy Tales; Johnson's lives of the Poets; Blackstone's Commentaries; Tales of the Castle; Edward De Courcy, an ancient Fragment; Cicely or the Rose of Raby; Traditions, a Legendary Tale; Plain Sense, a novel, &c. &c.
—LIKEWISE—
JUST OPENED. A complete assortment of WRITING PAPER, Dutch Quills, Sealing Wax, Wafers, black and red Ink-Powder, &c.
A general assortment of Books and Stationary
AS USUAL. Portsmouth, July 9, 1796.
Samuel Sparhawk, jr. Has received at his shop in Daniel-Street,
SILK Shawls of va-
rious colors, Muslin do; color'd and plain Nankreens; Waistcoat Patterns; plain and figured Muslins; Linens.
A variety of handsome Ribbons; a few pair Stuff Shoes; Needles of all sizes, and a variety of other articles.
Silk, Chip and Willow Hats and Bonnets as usual; Beaver Hats; Lockets; Necklaces; Hat Cakes & Bathing Caps. July 9.
THE Invalids in the
State of New-Hampshire who have been placed upon the Pension list, pursuant to an act of Congress passed the 20th of April 1796. are requested to call on the commissioner of Loans in Portsmouth, and receive payment to the 4th of March last July 8, 1796. [6w.f]
TAKEN up on Ger-
rish's Island (so called) on the 4th day of July inst. going aferry, a large flock of tame GEESE, the owner is requested to call on Richard Sowards, on said island, pay costs and take them home. July 6, 1796.

Fresh Goods JUST IMPORTED. Peter Coffin Has just received by the ship Wiscasset , from England, A fresh supply of Summer GOODS , Which are now opening for sale, By Wholesale & Retail, viz. BEST superfine, mid- dling and low priced Broad Cloths; plain, printed and mixed Cassimeres. Fashionable fancy Vest Shapes; Jeans; Fustians; Cordu- lures; Denims; strip'd, mix'd, and ilk Blankets; Chinizes, a great assortment of entire new patterns; fashionable Ginghams; elegant Chintz and Copperplate Furniture. Sprig'd, Book, Jaconet, Dec- ca, clouded and check'd Muslins; Mullin Handkerchiefs and Aprons; Silk, Muslin, purple and Chintz Shawls; Cravats; Tambor'd Neck Handkerchiefs; Lawns; Cambrics; Long Lawns; Irish Linens; Brown Holland; Sheetings; Diapers; Ta- ble Cloths, all sizes; Muslinets; Dimities; Marquises Quilting. Lutestring; Satins; Modes; Sarsnets; Tiffanies; Gauzes; fa- shionable sash and other Ribbons; black and white silk Laces and Edg- ings; Thread Laces and Edgings; Silk and Thread Fringes; willow, vellum and wove straw Hats and Bonnets; black and color'd Beaver Hats; Misses' and Childrens' Hats. Morocco and Kid Sandals; Morocco Slippers; Childrens Shoes; Russel and Florentine Shoes & Slip- pers; white and color'd Kid Gloves; Mens' common and Beaver Gloves; Mens' fashionable Beaver Hats; Ho- sery of every description; Worsted and silk Gloves and Mitts; Brunsch and India Cottons. Tammies; Shaloon; Du- rants; Calamancos; Russels; Lastings; Satinets; Florentines; gilt, plated, pearl and Italian But- tons; Necklaces; Ear-Drops; Bracelets. Gold and Silver Epaulets; Morocco Pocket Books, silver Thread; Watch Chains; Seals and Keys; Patent elastic Shoe Buckles; Satin Hair Cloth for chair Bottoms; white and color'd Threads all numbers; Carpets and Carpeting, &c. &c. &c. The greater part of the above Goods are imported directly from the manufac- tories, and will be sold at a moderate ad- vance. Portsmouth, June 23, 1796.
William Greenough, HAS FOR SALE At his Store in Bow-Street, near the Spring, On the most reasonable terms for Cash. By wholesale or retail. WEST-India Rum. Salt-Petre. New-England do. English Mustard Brandy. Nutmegs. Ginn. Cinnamon. Molasses. Ginger. Best London Por- Cloves. ter. Allspice. Florence Oil. Capers. Loaf and Brown Felt Hats. Sugars. Cotton-Wool. Hylon, Cotton and Wool Souchong, Cards. and Bohea 7 by 9 Window- Coffee. Glaz. Chocolate. 10d. Nails. Fresh Currants. Powder & Shot. Raisins and Figs. Hair Powder. Candles. Starch. Crown Soap. Paints, ground in Brown do. oil, of all kinds. Butter. Dry Spaniards Hogs Fat. Brown, &c. &c. An Assortment of Crockery WARE. Portsmouth, June 15, 1796.
Wanted at the a- bove Store a smart active LAD, from 14 to 16 years of age, that can be well recommended, to whom good encouragement will be given. One Hundred Hogsheds Stone Lime Newly burnt, warranted of the first quality, FOR sale at N. & B. HAM's kiln, & at the Store of Mark Rogers, bottom of Daniel Street; likewise a few hogsheds best white wash pr. hogsheds or less quantity. Portsmouth, July 1.
H. & B. Penhallow Have just imported in the Polly from Liver- pool, and the Orion from Bristol, and have now ready for sale at their Store in Market-Street, A large & general assortment of Hard Ware Goods , Consisting of almost every article usually imported in that line, which are too numerous to particularize in an advertisement. Among which are the following articles, viz. BAR & sheet Large and small Lead. Crucibles, black Shot. Lead Pots. Thick and thin Common and Pa- Sheet Iron. tent Time Glaz- Brass Kettles. es. Sheet Brass. 6 by 8, 7 by 9, 8 Copper Tea Ket- by 10, 10 by 12 tles. & 12 by 14 Crown Smiths' Anvils & Glaz. Vices. Church Plate. Screw Plates of all Bed & Chair Pans, sizes. Hinges, Locks & Goldsmiths' takes Screws of almost Pumice Stone. every description Emery, Grain tin. Clock Faces. Pewter. Clock and com- Joiners', Shipcar- mon Files. penters' & Car- Ivory Combs, vers' tools. Nails, Brads and Hand, Cross-Cut Tacks of all sizes. and Whip-Saws. Lines, Twine & Mill Saws of a su- Hooks. perior quality. Deep Sea, Hand Sheathing, and and Log Lines. Drawing Nails, Flatirons, Sciccles, and Spikes. Coffin Furniture, Common and best consisting of Tin Plates. letters, figures A general assort- plates, lace & ment of Sadlary. handles.
White-Lead, dry, & ground in oil, Red Lead, Spruce Yellow, Black-Lead for stoves, Prus- sian Blue, Gold-Leaf, White Vitriol and Verdigrise, Paint and Tar Brushes of all sizes, Scythes; En- glish, German and Cast Steel, Screw Augers, Cow and Sheep Bells, Iron Hollow Ware. A large assortment of Paper Hangings, from 2s. to 15s. pr. roll, &c. &c. Cash given for Old Pewter, Copper and Brass. Portsmouth, June 29, 1796. [6 w.]
FOR SALE BY John Man, Opposite the State House, SWEDES Iron of well assorted bars. English, blistered and Ger- man Steel. 4d and 6d Cut Nails pr. cask or thousand. 10d and 20d inspected do pr. cask or thousand. A few tons of Iron Hollow Ware by the ton or retail. Genuine French and com- mon Brandy; 4d and 4th proof West-India Rum, and Brown Sugars pr. barrel or smaller quantity. 7 by 9 and 8 by 10 Win- dow Glass pr. box; Iron Shovels; Flat Irons; Frying Pans. Gun Powder; Cake Soap pr. gross; Pepper and Allspice pr. dozen. Rice pr. hundred, with many other articles in the West India Goods, And Grocery line. Portsmouth, June 16, 1796.
TAKE NOTICE. The subscriber hav- ing been duly appointed, and having accepted of the office of Offi- cer of Police, for the town of Port- mouth; takes this method most re- spectfully to address the inhabitants, and would inform them, that he is fully determined to execute the im- portant trust reposed in him, with the most scrupulous attention and ex- actness, without favor, affection, or partiality. Should his exertions meet the pleasing approbation of the good citizens of the town in general, he shall be regardless of the censures, or re- flections of those who blinded to their own interest, and regardless to the public welfare, put him to the pain- ful necessity of prosecuting them. As the hot season is approaching, it will be his indispensable duty, to see the Bye Laws of the town fully complied with; and every person must be con- vinced that it cannot be any pleasure for him to prosecute those who trans- gress them; and hopes, they will take this as a sufficient hint. The Bye Laws are to be had at the prin- ters. Ignorance, therefore, cannot be ad- mitted as an apology for those who trans- gress them. EDWARD HART. Portsmouth, June 30, 1796.
Strong Beer. FOR SALE A few casks of excellent BEER warranted good, apply to JAMES FOSTER. Portsmouth, July 1, 1796. Wholesale. Lang, Brierley & Co. Have received by the latest arrivals from Europe, A general assortment of Silk, Linen, Cotton, and Woolen GOODS , Suitable for the present season, with an assortment of Cutlery and Hard Ware, Which they are selling at a very low advance by Wholesale only, for cash or approved credit. LINENS. They have likewise a few boxes well assorted IRISH LINENS, calcula- ted for the West-India Market, on which the drawback may be obtained. Portsmouth, July 1, 1796.
New-Store. For Cash only. Richard Evans Has opened at the Store lately occupied by Mr. Daniel Warner, and next door to the Printing-Office, Market-Street, A fashionable assortment of Summer Goods, which he will sell at the lowest advance, a- mong which are the following, viz.
A LARGE variety of Ca- licoos and Chintzes from 1/9 to 6/6 pr. yard; red and purple Copperplates; 1/2, 3/4, 1 and 1 1/4 Muslin; Chintz and purple Shawls; Book, Jaconet, Mull and Tambor'd Muslins; Muslin and Lawn Hand- kerchiefs; Muslinets and Dimities; India Cottons at all prices; Nan- kins; silk strip'd, and plain Nanki- nets; Jeans and Fustians; Linen & Cotton Checks; strip'd Cottons; color'd India Cotton for Childrens' wear; 1/2 and 3/4 Irish Linens; Cam- brics; English and India Silk Hand- kerchiefs; fine and common Pocket Handkerchiefs. Black Modes; colored Sars- nets; spotted and plain Gauzes; Shaloon; Durant; Tammies; Calamancos; Russels and Floren- tines; Mullinet and Cassinet Waist- coating; Mens' Silk, plain and ribb'd Cotton, and Silk and Cotton Hose; Ladies' do. An assortment of Cloth Shoes and Slippers; a few pair La- dies figured Kid and Morocco San- dals and Slippers. A fashionable assortment of Ladies' Beaver Hats from 13/6 to 27/6, with gold and silver Cords; Ladies' London plated Straw Hats; Mens' Beaver and common Hats; Ladies' long and habit color'd Gloves, Mis- ses do; black Silk Gloves and Mitts; common and Satin Sash and narrow Ribbands; Dutch Hair Ribbands pr. piece; Galooms and hair Tapes; Fans; Chip Hats; Silks and Twists; best Italian Sewing Silks of all colors; white and color'd Thread by the pound; Buttons; Buckles; Knives and Forks; Pen and Jack-Knives; Table and Teatable Spoons; Pewter; Block Tin Teapots, &c. &c. &c.
—LIKEWISE— Superfine & common Broad Cloths; Forest Cloths; Elastic; and a handsome assortment of plain and figured Kerseymere. Portsmouth, June 17, 1796.
THE subscribers being appointed by the Hon. Samuel Tenney, Esq. Judge of the Probate of Wills, &c. for the county of Rockingham, and State of New-Hampshire, a com- mittee to receive, examine and ad- just all the claims of the creditors to the estate of MICHAEL WENT- WORTH, late of Portsmouth, in said county, Esq. deceased, represent- ing insolvent, under the administra- tion of MARTHA WENTWORTH, six months time from the fifteenth inst. being allowed the creditors to bring in and support their claims; do hereby give notice that we shall attend that business at the Post-Office in Portsmouth aforesaid, on the last Thursday of this and the five follow- ing months, and also on Thursday the 14th December next. SUPPLY CLAP. ISAAC RINDGE. JEREMIAH LIBBEY. Portsmouth, June 20, 1796.
State of New-Hampshire. In the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six.
An act in addition to, an amendment of an act, entitled, "an act to establish an equitable method of making rates and taxes, and for collecting such as are now due from, or may hereafter be assessed on such towns and places, as are or may be incapable of choosing town- officers." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court convened, That the Treasurer of this State is hereby authorized and directed to re- deem with any monies now in the treasury, all f. h. townships or locations as have been sold pursuant to warrants issued, ei- ther for State or County taxes, agreeably to the directions hereafter mentioned, ex- cepting those that have already been, or shall be redeemed prior to the time fixed in this act for redemption by the State, viz. That previous to any redemption by him made, he is hereby directed to give public notice to all persons concerned by publishing an advertisement in the New- Hampshire Gazette, the Eagle, printed at Hanover, and the Boston Mercury, in which advertisement shall be inferred, the substance of this act, also that it shall be his duty to attend said business from the first to the tenth day of August next, in- clusive, at Exeter, and that he shall pro- ceed to redeem such townships and loca- tions as have been sold by virtue of said act, where the purchaser or purchasers shall neglect to appear and give bonds within said time to the Sheriff who sold the same, with sureties, conditioned, that he or they will relinquish his or their claim to any lot, right or tract of land, where the owner, proprietor or claimant shall pay his or their proportion of the sum for which such township or location was sold, with interest thereon, on or before the ex- piration of one year from the day of sale; and the said Sheriff or Sheriffs, on receiv- ing indemnification, may, and it shall be his, or their duty to receive of any person or persons claiming any lot or tract of land sold as aforesaid their proportion of the sum for which said land was sold, ac- cording to their interest therein, together with interest therefor, which proportion shall be made according to the number of acres, without regard to the quality of said land; and the said Sheriffs shall except the proportion any claimant shall redeem, in the deed he shall make to the purchaser or purchasers of any township or town- ships, or locations; and the Treasurer is hereby directed to call on any Sheriff or Sheriffs who have sold lands as aforesaid, whose duty it shall be to attend from the said first to the tenth day of August next at Exeter accordingly; and if the Sheriff or Sheriffs shall neglect to attend on said business as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the Treasurer to redeem the lands as herein directed.
And be it further enacted, That in all cases where the tax of any township or location is assessed in one sum by the Treas- urer, either for State or County taxes, and such townships not sold, the said Sheriff or Sheriffs are hereby authorized and directed to receive from any owner, proprietor or claimant (when tendered) his proportion of the assessment and cost, if any, according to his interest therein, the proportion to be made according to the number of acres as aforesaid, and after any sale shall be made by virtue of the act to which this is an addition; any proprietor, owner, or claimant may redeem his share of the same according to his interest therein, paying his proportion as aforesaid, and the Sheriff shall make the exceptions in his deed to the purchaser or purchasers as herein pointed out, where townships have been sold, and the Treasurer is hereby au- thorized to proceed in the collection thereof, any resolve to the contrary notwith- standing.
Treasury-Office, New-Hampshire, June 20th, 1796. PURSUANT to the authority and di- rections given to the Treasurer in the above act, he hereby gives notice to all persons concerned, that he will attend at his office in Exeter, from the first to the tenth day of August next, inclusive, and that he shall proceed to redeem all such townships and locations, as by said act he is directed to redeem, unless the purchaser or purchasers shall, on or before said tenth day of August next, give such bond to the Sheriff or Sheriffs as said law requires. OLIVER PEABODY, Treasurer.
THE subscribers being appoint- ed commissioners by the Judge of Probate, to receive, examine and adjust the claims of the several cre- ditors to the estate of Daniel Pick- ering, late of Portsmouth, mariner, deceased, represented insolvent, here- by give notice that they shall attend said service at the Town Clerk's of- fice in said Portsmouth, on the last Wednesday in June and the five fol- lowing months, from 4 to 6 of the clock, P. M. GEORGE WENTWORTH, NATHANIEL MARSHALL, SAMUEL HUTCHENS. Portsmouth, June 20, 1796.
WHEREAS Phoebe (a black wo- man) wife of the subscriber has eloped from my bed and board, and refuses any longer to live with me, without any just provocation, as I have always treated her well; this is therefore to caution all persons from harbouring, trusting or trading, with her on my account, as I will not pay any debts she may contract. PAUL TONG (a black man) North-Hampton, June 11, 1796.
Public Vendue. Hindsdale Non-Resident Lands.
State of New-Hampshire. Cheshire, ff. To be sold at public vendue, by me the subscriber, at the house of Capt. Cyrus Shattuck, in Hind- dale, on Monday the first day of Au- gust next, at one o'clock, P. M. so much of the nonresident land, taxed to Samuel Hancock and William Bows, as will pay the following taxes, together with all necessary charges, viz.    Soldier Tax,  1  2  11  0    Certificate—State do.  0  5  5  0    County do.  0  0  10  1    New Emission do.  0  7  9  3    Specie do.  0  0  5  3    Also, land taxed to William Dodge,        Soldier Tax,  0  3  9  0    New Emission do.  0  1  3  0    Specie do.  0  0  1  2    Certificate—State do.  0  0  11  2    County do.  0  0  0  3    do. do.  0  0  1  2    NATH. SANGER, Jr. Administrator to JOHN DELANO, deceased, Constable for the year 1785. Hindsdale, June 9, 1796.
State of New-Hampshire. Cheshire, ff. To be sold at public vendue, by me the subscriber, at the house of Capt. Cyrus Shattuck, in Hind- dale, on Monday the first day of Au- gust next, at 1 o'clock, P. M. so much of the nonresident land taxed to Samuel Hancock or William Bows as will pay the following taxes toge- ther with all necessary charges, viz.    County tax,  0  5  1    State tax, certificate,  4  1  1    Domestic tax, indents,  4  1  1    Specie tax,  5  4  0    State tax, hard money,  0  8  1    BENJAMIN SANGER, Constable for the year 1787. Hindsdale, June 9, 1796.
State of New-Hampshire. Cheshire, ff. To be sold at public vendue, by me the subscriber, at the house of Capt. Cyrus Shattuck, in Hind- dale, on Monday the first day of Au- gust next, at 1 o'clock, P. M. so much of the nonresident land taxed to Samuel Hancock or William Bows, as will pay the following taxes, toge- ther with all necessary charges, viz.    State tax, indents,  1  10  0    Specie tax,  0  6  1    Also, land taxed to Solomon Willard,       State tax, indents,  1  2  1    Specie, State tax,  0  4  0    JOHN EVANS, Constable for the year 1789. Hindsdale, June 9, 1796.
State of New-Hampshire. WHEREAS an act of the Ge- neral Court of said State, passed at their session in June 1796, laying a tax upon all the lands in Concord, in the county of Grafton, except public lands of three cents pr. acre for the purpose of making and repairing roads and bridges therein, as mentioned in said act, & by which the nonresident owners and proprie- tors are allowed to pay their propor- tion thereof in work, at six cents an hour, finding their own tools and diet.—These are to inform all con- cerned that the selectmen of said Concord for the time being, under whose direction the work is to be done, will be ready to employ any and all the nonresident owners and proprietors for that purpose at any time between the 29th day of August and the last day of September next. SAMUEL YOUNG, } Selectmen of BENJ. WHITCOMB, } said Con- JESSE YOUNG, } cord. Concord, June 15, 1796.
State of New-Hampshire. Cheshire, ff. WHEREAS application has been made to me the subscriber, one of the Justices of the Peace for the county of Cheshire, by the pro- prietors of more than one sixth part of the rights or shares of land in the town of Swanzy in said county, to call a meeting of said proprietors, to meet at the meeting house in said town, on Monday the 25th day of July next, at 2 of the clock in the afternoon, to act on the following articles, viz. 1st. To choose a moderator to regulate said meeting. 2d. To choose a proprietors clerk. 3d. To transact any other pro- prietary business they may think proper. These are therefore to notify and warn the proprietors of Swanzy aforesaid, to meet at the time and place and for the purposes above- mentioned. Dated at Swanzy aforesaid the 30th day of May 1796. CALVIN FRINK, Justice Peace.