The New Hampshire gazette (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1799-10-08 00:00:00

THE New Hampshire Gazette.
— MY COUNTRY'S GOOD SHALL BE MY CONSTANT AIM —
PORTSMOUTH: (NEW-HAMPSHIRE)—PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY 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. XLIII.—Numb. 2236.]
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1799.
[One Dollar & half pr. Annum.]
WANTED for the Navy of the United States, the white oak Timber and Plank contained in the following schedule, to be delivered at Portsmouth, N. H. or at the head of Piscataqua river, as soon as practicable. Any person willing to furnish any part of the same will send his proposals in writing to the subscriber, before the 30th of October next, expressing what part he will furnish, the time of delivery, and price; security will be required for the faithful performance of the contract.
4 pieces 50 feet long, 21 by 21 inches, and as much deeper as possible.
8 55 feet 20 by 20
2 52 24 by 10
40 to average 55 feet 11 by 8 3/4
10 11 7
30 12 6
32 14 7
12 14 6
12 14 6
10 14 6
20 14 5 1/2
20 14 5
10 14 4
12 14 4 1/2
12 14 5
12 14 5 1/2
24 14 7 1/2
12 14 7 1/2
8 14 8
16 14 7
18 14 8
10 14 7 1/2
18 14 7
10 14 6
20 14 6
45 10 5
10 11 6
24 16 16
6 18 6
38,000 feet white oak plank 4 3/4 inches thick
30 to 60 feet long, clear of short crooks.
10,000 f. do. 9. 4 inch. do.
9,000 f. do. 3 3/4 inch. do.
3,000 f. do. 3 inch. do. [long.
10,000 f. do. 5 by 6 inch, 10 to 17 f.
8,000 f. do. 4 by 5 inch, do.
6,000 f. do. 6 by 9 inch, 10 to 19 f.
2,800 f. do. 5 by 6 inch, 10 to 17 f.
4,000 f. do. 9 by 9 inch, 16 to 17 feet.
1,200 f. do. 8 by 8 inch, 6 3/4 feet.
300 f. do. 7 by 8 inch, 6 3/4 feet.
9 pieces do. 5 by 21 inch, 21 feet long.
39. O. knees, bodies 20 f. arm 8 f. side 21 inch
4 18 f. - 5 f. - 14 inch
4 9 f. - 10 - 11 inch
The whole of the above mentioned Timber, Plank, &c. must be of the best White Oak.
Jacob Sheafe, Agent. September 30, 1799.
FARMS FOR SALE. THE subscriber being about to remove from New-Hampshire to the District of Maine—Now offers for sale all his real property in this State, consisting of a large convenient House, formerly the property of Col. Daniel Gilman, in Exeter, with a barn and out houses, with seven acres of excellent Land adjoining the house, twenty-five acres of mowing and pasturing within one mile, eighteen acres within about three quarters of a mile with a valuable quantity of timber, and a good pasture.—A good House Lot opposite the Academy in Exeter, of one acre.—Also sixty acres of land in Poplin, with a farm house, and a considerable of improvements.—Two farms in Raymond, within 4 miles of Chester meeting-house, one consisting of 100 acres of good mowing and pasturing, a new house, and a barn fifty feet long and thirty wide, an orchard that will this season make sixty barrels of cyder, with a good cyder-mill; the other farm consists of one hundred and thirty acres excellent pasturing and mowing, and a fine orchard that will this season make 80 barrels of cyder, a good house, and barn seventy feet long and thirty wide, also thirty acres within two miles, wood and pasturing.—One farm of about forty-five acres within six miles of Exeter, good new buildings and an orchard on the same—also several lots of land in different new towns in New-Hampshire.—Terms of payment for the whole will be made easy for the purchaser. BENJ'N PAGE. Exeter, Sept. 16, 1799.
TO BE SOLD, A FARM in Epping, CONTAINING about Fifty-six acres of good land, with a double House and a Barn and other buildings on the same, with 2 Orchards; lies on the main road from Newmarket to Nottingham, on the north river (so called) 1 mile and half from the Rev. Mr. Holt's and about half mile from Dr. Shepard's Meeting-houses, is well watered, and is an excellent stand for a tradesman;—apply to ELIPHAL LET PEASE, blacksmith, living on said farm. Epping, Sept. 12, '99.
By Order of the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Kennebec.
TO BE SOLD BY Public Auction, At the Bunch of Grapes Tavern, kept by Mr. Jacob Kendall, in State-Street, Boston, On Thursday, the seventh day of November next, at 11 o'clock, A.M.
Sundry valuable LOTS OF LAND, belonging to the Estate of JOHN NELSON, Esq. deceased, and situated as follows, viz. County of Kennebec. In the town of Vassalborough. Lot No. 12, in the 4th range containing 200 acres.
No. 39, 200 No. 26, in the 5th range, 200 No. 86, in two divisions, 400 No. 89, northerly half, 200 In the town of Harlem. Lot No. 10, containing 130 3/4 acres.
44, 200 87, 200 Said Lots No. 10 and 44, are situated near 12-mile Pond. In the town of Augusta. Lot No. 35, in two divisions, northerly half, containing 150 acres.
In the town of Sydney. Lot No. 53, in two divisions, containing 400 acres. No. 83, in two divisions 400 In the town of Pittston. Lot No. 16, containing 3200 acres.
In the town of Winslow. A tract of Land, in the south-east corner of said town, containing 1200 acres. In the town of Fairfield. A tract of Land, being part of Lot marked F. 1, containing 2192 ac's.
In the town of Norridgewock. A tract of Land, being part of Lot marked F. 1, containing 2956 ac's. In the town of Canaan. A tract of Land, being part of Lot marked F. 1, containing 492 acres.
In the town of Starks partly, and partly unincorporated. A tract of Land, being part of Lot marked F. 1, containing 3140 ac's. In the town of Clinton. Lot, marked M. 2, northerly half, containing 4500 acres.
County of Lincoln. In the town of New-Milford. Lot No. 21, marked V. V. containing 400 acres. No. 16, marked Q. 9. the southerly half, containing 200 acres. The particular conditions will be made known at the time and place of Sale.
BOSTON, August 29, 1799. [c. t. Nov. 7.]
INTERESTING LAW! An obliging friend, has furnished the following interesting act of the British Parliament, on the subject of Commerce.
An Act to permit Goods the Produce of any Foreign Colony in America, imported directly from thence in any ship or vessel belonging to the subjects of any country or place in amity with His Majesty, to be entered and landed without payment of the duty granted by an Act of the last session of Parliament, for the better protection of the trade of this Kingdom. [12th July, 1799.]
WHEREAS it is expedient that Goods, Wares, and Merchandise, being of the growth and produce of any foreign colony, island, or plantation in America, imported into this Kingdom directly from any such colony, island, or plantation, in ships belonging to the subjects of the United States of America, or of any other country or place in amity with His Majesty, under the authority of any order or orders of His Majesty in Council, should be permitted to be entered, landed, and warehoused, without payment of the Duty of Customs imposed by an act of the last session of Parliament, intitled, "An Act for the better protection of the trade of this kingdom; and for granting new and additional duties of customs on goods imported and exported and on the tonnage of certain ships entering outwards or inwards or from foreign
parts, until the signing the Preliminary Articles of Peace." May it therefore please your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the King's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same. That, from and after the fifth day of July one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, it shall and may be lawful for the officers of His Majesty's Customs to permit any Goods, Wares, or Merchandise, being of the growth and produce of any foreign colony, island, or plantation in America, and imported into this Kingdom directly from any such colony, island, or plantation, in any ship or vessel belonging to any of the subjects of the United States of America, or of any other country or place in amity with His Majesty, to be entered and landed in this Kingdom without payment of the Duty of Customs imposed by the said recited Act—provided such Goods, Wares, and Merchandise, shall be permitted to be landed and warehoused in this Kingdom by virtue and under the authority of any Order or Orders of His Majesty in Council.
II. And be it further enacted, That any such Goods, Wares, or Merchandise so imported, landed, and warehoused, shall and may be afterwards delivered from any such Warehouse for Exportation to foreign parts without payment of the Duty of Customs imposed by the said recited Act on the Exportation of any such Goods, Wares, or Merchandise: Provided always, That nothing in this Act shall extend, or shall be construed to extend to exempt Goods, Wares and Merchandise so imported as aforesaid, from the payment of any of the duties imposed by the said recited Act, in case any such Goods, Wares or Merchandise shall be taken out of any warehouse for the purpose of being used or consumed in this kingdom, or from the duties of customs granted by an Act of this present session of Parliament.
From the Salem Gazette.
Capt. Giles's Protest.
MR. CUSHING, By giving the following Protest a place in your useful paper, you will much oblige me. I should have published it immediately after an interview with the President, but he advised me not to do it until the business was in a proper train, and by that means it has been deferred to this late hour, even until Timothy Pickering, Esq. has represented it in the most unfavourable light, so much so as has even touched hard on my character; in the vindication of which I now think proper to send you a copy of my Protest, and Certificate of citizenship, which were forwarded to the Department of State, both being certified to by the Notary Public after due examination.
Your most humble servant, EBENEZER GILES. Beverly, Sept. 6, '99.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Essex, ss. BY this public instrument of Protest be it made known and manifest, that on this twenty-first day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, before me, Joseph Wood, Esq. Notary Public, by legal authority admitted and sworn, and practising in Beverly, in said county of Essex, personally came and appeared Ebenezer Giles, commander of the schr. Betsey, of said Beverly, and James Wilson mate, and Allen Stickland and Joseph Patch, seamen, belonging to said schr. who, after being severally sworn to declare the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, declared on oath, and averred for truth, that they were, on the twenty-seventh day of April, 1799, at the island of St. Vincent, at a place called Layou Bay, on board said schr. there waiting for his British Majesty's ship of war called the Daphne, to pass by, who was previously engaged to convoy a fleet of merchantmen from this island to St. Christopher's—and on Saturday the 27th day of April aforesaid, about 12 o'clock at noon, the convoy and fleet hove in sight, and at about 3 o'clock,
P. M. we came to sail, and stood out of the bay, and about twenty minutes past three, P. M. the ship Daphne stood athwart our stern, and hailed us, and requested to know if we had instructions from their ship, which we answered in the affirmative. They ordered the Betsey to bring to; we then being by the wind close hauled, hove the maintop sail to the mast, and put the helm a lee; the Daphne still continued her course, close to the land; the schr. Betsey layed until about half the fleet convoyed had passed by them, then made sail and stood on with the fleet; at about four o'clock, P. M. observed the Daphne's boat coming towards us; they called to us to heave the maintop sail to the mast, which was immediately done, and the boat came under our lee, stem on, forward of our main chains; we hove a rope to the boat, which they caught in mid-ship of her, which boat lay stem on to the schr. and neglecting to pass the rope into the bows to catch a turn to wind her, as Capt. Giles wished them to do in a polite and respectful manner, and after a short time they slant their hold and dropped astern—we then hove the foretop sail to the mast, and dropped the fore and main peaks, and let fly the jib sheets, to wait for the boat to come up with us, which she did in four or five minutes—as she came along side, Capt. Giles said to the officer on board the boat, My friend I was very sorry to have seen you drop astern. He answered, You damn'd rascal, do not call me your friend. The captain of the Betsey then told him that he hoped he should not find him to be his enemy, and particularly the ship Daphne—the officer then placed one of his men from the boat on board the schr. to the helm, and ordered all our sail set, which was immediately done, and stood for the Daphne, and continuing till to treat the capt. of the Betsey with insulting and abusive language, and demanded of said Giles his instructions which were received from the Daphne, which were immediately delivered up to him. As we came abreast of the ship the officer returned on board the ship, taking the said instructions with him. After a few minutes some person on board the ship informed us they should send their boat on board of us again. The boat soon came along side of us, and commanded captain Giles to go on board the ship immediately. He instantly complied, and went with the officer on board the boat to the ship. Immediately after he arrived on board, the said James Wilson, Allen Stickland and Joseph Patch on their oath testify and swear, that they saw two men on board said ship violently beating Capt. Giles, one of them with a large piece of rope, and the other with his fist, and continued so to do for the space of more than thirty minutes, to the best of their judgment, and sometimes by the violence of the blows received he was struck down; and they soon after sent Capt. Giles on board the Betsey, who when he came along side was not able to stand or walk, by reason of the barbarous treatment he had received on board said ship. And they further testify and say, that they took Capt. Giles on board his schr. into his cabin, and took off his jacket (as he was not able to take it off himself) and found it much stript and torn by force of the blows of the rope's end; also with great surprise saw blood issuing from his mouth and nose, occasioned by the force of the blows of the fist, or the falls on the said ship's deck (to them uncertain which) while he was on board; and on further examination found his back and arms unmercifully bruised and turned black with large wales on the same, occasioned by the cruel and most unnatural treatment he received on board said ship, and further say, that Capt. Giles was not able for the term of four days at least to come on deck, or do his duty, neither has he fully recovered his health as before enjoyed, to this day.
In further confirmation of the above written, we have hereunto set our names, after being first sworn to the truth of the foregoing Protest. EBENEZER GILES, Master, JAMES WILSON, Mate, JOSEPH PATCH, ALLEN STICKLAND. And the aforesaid deponent, Ebenezer Giles, at the above said time and
place, in addition to the foregoing, by himself further testifieth on oath, and doth declare, that he received his instructions from the ship Daphne on the twenty fifth day of April, 1799, and informed the commander of the ship that his schooner lay at a place called Layou Bay, about two leagues to leeward of the port of Kingstown, at which place the Daphne lay, and that on the twenty seventh day of the same month he joined the fleet as before expressed, and was commanded to go on board ship as aforesaid; and when he came along side of the said ship and was passing over the side, of the deponent on oath declares that the Captain of the said ship called to him and told him he would let him know what it was to pay a disrespect to a man of war, and immediately called for a Boatwain's mate; that he then asked the captain what he designed by his disrespect; the answer was, you damn'd rascal, not a word. He asked the said captain if he was not admitted to speak in his own behalf, which was answered, What, by you, a damn'd rascal! and much more abusive language; and ordered the boatwain's mate to take a rope's end to the damn'd rascal, who very readily began to beat him, the said deponent, with a rope of two and quarter inches (and the captain followed the same blows with his fist) until the rope was fagged out, about eight or nine inches in the length, then one other boatwain's mate was called by the captain, who immediately appeared, and the captain of the ship ordered him to find a rope that was pointed, and to lay it on well to the damn'd rascal, and then he began to beat the deponent accordingly, agreeable to his instructions from this inhuman commander. The deponent begged of the Captain not to murder him in that manner, in God's name; the return was a blow with the Captain's fist, which bro't the deponent down; the boatwain still continued to strike the deponent until he had received about forty-seven stripes and then he quitted the deponent, and the Captain of the ship ordered the officer who brought him on board, saying, Mr. Mittiney put this damn'd rascal on board of his vessel, and return with the boat immediately.—In further confirmation to the truth of the foregoing Protest, I do hereunto set my hand.
EBENEZER GILES, Master. The deponents do therefore Protest, and the said Notary Public at their instance and request do by these presents solemnly Protest, against the Captain of the said ship Daphne and the British Government, for the aforesaid cruel and barbarous treatment, and for all losses, costs, suits, expense, and damages, that have arisen or may arise therefrom.
In testimony whereof, I the said Notary have hereunto set my hand, seal, and affixed my Notary Seal, this twenty-first day of May, 1799. JOSEPH WOOD, Not. Pub.
NOTHING would be more unhappy, (said Dometrius) than a man who had never known affliction. The best need afflictions for the trial of their virtue: How can we exercise the grace of contentment, if all things succeed well? or, that of forgiveness, if we have no enemies?
If you are disquieted at any thing, you should consider with yourself. Is this thing of that worth, that for it I should so disturb myself, and lose my peace and tranquility?
Divine Providence always places the remedy near the evil; there is not any duty to which Providence has not annexed a blessing; nor any affliction for which virtue has not provided a remedy.
Sorrow, when it is excessive, takes away fervor from piety, vigor from action, health from the body, light from the reason, and repose from the conscience. Resignation to the Divine Will is a noble and needful lesson.
As Mr. Cunningham, the late pastoral poet, was fishing on a Sunday near Durham, he was observed by the Rev. and corpulent Mr. B. who austerely reproved him for thus profaning the Sabbath.—The poor Bard heard him with meekness, and then replied, "If your dinner was at the bottom of the river along with mine you would angle for it also."

Latest Intelligence.
By the Hannah, Capt. Barker, arrived at Marblehead, from Hamburg.
DATES SEVERAL DAYS THE LATEST
Capitulation of Alessandria. [One of the strongest citadels in Italy.]
VIENNA, JULY 31. THIS day's Court Gazette contains the following SUPPLEMENT EXTRAORDINARY.
The General of Cavalry, Melas has sent the pleasing intelligence from the head quarters of Alessandria, under date of the 22d inst. of the surrender of that citadel to the Imperial Royal troops.
"As mentioned in our last, the works from the second parallel had already been advanced towards the glacis, on the 19th; in the night between the 19th and 20th, the advancing of the said works took place in three different points, and ground was gained on the glacis to the extent of 30 yards against the covered way. The building of batteries being finished at the same time in the second parallel, and the artillery introduced, the fire was now continued with vigor from all our batteries.
"Gen Gardanne, the hostile commandant of the citadel finding danger approaching and probably not willing to stand an assault, sent on the 21st at half-past two o'clock, by his Adjutant-General Louis, a letter to F. M. Lt. Ct. Bellegarde, informing him: "That his answer to the first summons sent him, was such as it ought to be, and as F. M. Lt. Ct. Bellegarde would himself have sent, under the same predicament. But that now being able, without any reproach of conscience or fear of accusation, to listen to the call of humanity, he was not disinclined to enter into a negotiation for capitulation, provided it were founded on such terms as Frenchmen who knew how to make every sacrifice for honor, could accept."
"The bearer being unprovided with powers, he was sent back with the intimation, that he should fetch the necessary instructions and powers within two hours, and mention to the commandant, that he should be responsible for all loss that should arise from farther delay.
"At three o'clock at night the fire was silent on both sides, and the capitulation concluded; by virtue of which the garrison constituted prisoners of war, marched out at two o'clock in the afternoon of the 22d, laid down their arms on the glacis, and will be sent through Pavia, to the hereditary dominions.
"Gen. Melas reserves giving hereafter the capitulation, with an inventory of artillery, ammunition and other stores found in the citadel, as well as the return of our loss in this obstinate siege.
Yesterday arrived here Capt. Errel, of the Staff, with the articles of capitulation, and the six French standards. Not less than 107 pieces of cannon are said to have been found in Alessandria.
Official report of Gen. Melas, to Count Concafellis, the Imperial Commissioner at Milan.
"I have the honor to inform you that the citadel of Alessandria surrendered yesterday, July 21, at 7 o'clock in the evening, by capitulation.
"The garrison will march to-morrow at four o'clock, P. M. with military honors, lay down their arms on the glacis, and be escorted prisoners of war into the dominions of his Imperial Majesty.
"This happy and sudden success may justly be ascribed to the perseverance of our brave troops, and particularly to the skillful manoeuvres of Gen. Count Bellegarde, who directed the siege but above all to the terrible effect of our excellent artillery.
(Signed) MELAS. From the Head Quarters before Alessandria, July 29, 1799.
Surrender of Mantua. [A city celebrated in the wars of antient as well as modern times.]
LOWER ELBE, [Hamburg] AUG. 10. The day before yesterday we received a letter from Inspruck [a capital town of Tyrol, straight on the road from Mantua to Augsburg and Hamburg:] of the 31st ult. announcing the surrender of Mantua on the 27th. This news is the more probable, as the latest letters from Roveredo and Verona state, that Fieldmarshal Suwarow had made a short visit to the camp before it, and that since the 23d a terrible fire had been kept up from 11 batteries, by 443 heavy guns, besides mortars and howitzers. All the out-works were taken before the 26th. We expect to receive the confirmation by the letters from the Empire, this afternoon.
INSPRUCK, JULY 31. "Intoxicated with joy, I have to
announce the pleasing intelligence, that, this morning at 7 o'clock, the news of the surrender of Mantua, arrived here. Little credit, however was paid to it, till twelve at noon, when its real confirmation reached us. Four in the afternoon, trumpets and sledrums resounded from the steeples, to make known to the inhabitants of the town and the neighbouring villages this happy event."
AUGSBURG, AUGUST 2. "We this day received by an express from Inspruck, the news of the capitulation of Mantua, on the 27th ult. The courier was sent to His Serene Highness the Elector of Treves, resident here since yesterday. Our Italian letters of to-night are most anxiously expected. Farther confirmation may arrive, by the letters of the Empire, this afternoon.
Miscellaneous Articles.
IN ITALY. LOWER ELBE, Aug. 10. Gen. Macdonald's retreat by the road of mules, by Sazana, Sestri, and Spezzia, has cost him dear, being obliged to burn and to throw into the sea every utensil or implement of the least weight.
The Tuscan insurgent army, invading the Roman territory, have taken Viterbo and Tacti, and marched against Perugia. The forts Cecina and Bibbona, and the cities of Grosseto and Castiglione, with eight pieces of cannon, have also been taken, and the French garrisons made prisoners. All the precious effects taken at Florence, and which the Tuscan skippers were compelled to embark on the Arno for Leghorn, have been recovered by the peasants, who cut the French effort to pieces.
ROVEREDO, JULY 26. The siege of Tortona will now be carried on with redoubled vigour. Field-Marshal Suwarow went hither on the 23d, to accelerate the operations. This citadel being situated on a high and steep mountain, is very difficult of approach.
PIACENZA, JULY 20. The number of French under the command of Moreau and Macdonald, who occupy the chain of mountains from Leghorn to Genoa, is estimated at 30,000.—Moreau's head-quarters are now at Arena.
BOLOGNA, JULY 21. What was to be expected, has really happened: The French have entirely evacuated Leghorn, and Macdonald saw himself forced, for want of provisions, to retire from the Genoese mountains, which produce nothing but oranges, olives and mulberries, to Genoa, so that he is now actually united with Moreau.
VERONA, JULY 23. Since the month of April, the Austrians have taken Peschiera, Brescia, Pizzighettone, Milan, Turin, Ferara, and the citadel of Alessandria, which has all been effected by regular sieges. The French on the contrary, starved both Mantua and Luxemburgh, by blockading them, and obtained possession of some other fortresses by treachery.
VIENNA, JULY 31. Cardinal Ruffo, who took Naples by storm on the 13th inst. also took Fort St. Elmo, a few days after and made 300 prisoners. About forty Neapolitan Jacobins have already been hanged, among whom are General Count Moliterni and La Rocca.—By some accounts, the King has reached Naples, and sanctioned every thing done by Ruffo. The latter was marching against Rome, granting free departure to all the French garrisons in the fortresses, on condition of their delivering up all rebels, and threatening the severest punishment in case of refusal.
BERN, JULY 26. Yesterday we received certain intelligence that the French Gen. Hardi arrived, with eight battalions of infantry, and four companies of artillery-tymen, in the canton of Leman, and his troops are to be stationed between Lausanne and Gex, till farther orders. Provisions being scarce in the canton of Leman, the French Generals have applied to the Helvetic Directory for the support of the troops.
This day and yesterday strong detachments of troops passed through this place, some going through Eribourg into the Valais country, others through Thun into the Oberland. They all come from the interior of the Republic.
HANAU, AUG. 2. At Vevai, in the canton of Bern, some thousands of French troops are arrived, in their way to Valais, where Gen. Tureau's army is to be augmented to 20,000. French troops are continually marching to Geneva, to form a camp, which will be principally occupied by a part of the army of the Alps.
The head quarters of the great French army will, it is thought, be
removed to Aran. Gen. Massena is soon expected to make a grand attack from all quarters; if possible before the Russians arrive.
AUG. 3. The Hussars of Szekler have been reinforced by another division, coming from Raitat, under the command of Gen. Barbaczy, who is now arrived at Barmstadt. Gen. Szetarray's corps will soon advance to the Mein, and part of the Russian corps will be stationed near Heidelberg, etc.
FRANKFORT, AUG. 3. Upon a moderate calculation it appears, that the French have levied every year contributions and requisitions of every kind in Holland, the right bank of the Rhine, Switzerland, Piedmont, Genoa, Cisalpinia, Tuscany, Naples and Rome, to the amount of 300,000,000 of livres. The source is now for the best part drained by the success of the allied arms.
BY OTHER ARRIVALS.
PARIS, AUG. 4. This morning two Brigands, covered with crimes, were executed in the Place de Greve.—From the time they left the Conciergerie to that of reaching La Greve, they continued to exclaim, "Down with the Republic! Death to the scoundrels the Jacobins! Long live the King! Long live Louis XVIII." They occasionally mingled their exclamations with some couplets of the Reveil du Peuple, and then renewed them with increased fury. They mounted the scaffold with alertness, and their last cry was, "Long live the King! Death to the Jacobins!"
The regenerated Directory of France are no less accused of malconduct in the French papers, than the Ex Directory.
Jacobin Societies are reorganizing in almost all the great cities of France. Some of these societies advise the measure of seizing upon the property of the rich for public use.
Such is the confused situation of Paris, that it is impossible to tell what party has the ascendancy.
At Marseilles, on the opening of the Jacobin Club, the bust of Marat was exhibited in procession with songs. A few days after, a portrait of Barras (now President of the Directory) was dragged in the dirt; and at night the armed force was drawn out to prevent a determination which had been formed to murder the prisoners in fort St. Jean.
At Bordeaux, terror reigns: an armed force has appeared there, cannon are mounted at the hall, the execution of the laws entrusted to wretches who have been accustomed to brave it, and they breathe blood and vengeance!
All the sittings of the Jacobins in Lyons are concluded with singing the Marseillois.
HAGUE, JULY 26. The municipality of Amsterdam has declared itself permanent, on account of the pervailing ferment. The expectation of an external attack increases. The French Gen. Brune commands the Batavian troops.—Anonymous letters denounce the director Ermereus, as corresponding with England.
PAVIA, JULY 16. The Government of Milan has declared null and void all the laws of the pretended Cisalpine Republic, not only in Lombardy, but in the provinces and cities of Crema, Bergamo and Brescia.
MILAN, JULY 15. In order to a due execration of the licentious Jresses which our government has forbidden, the executioner of this place, with his wife, appeared in the public walk. He was elegantly dressed, with his head a la Brutus ; a large cravat, which, concealing the chin, reached to the mouth; long pantaloons, hanging loose; and shoes, the points of which were a finger's length. His wife was quite a la guillotine —naked shoulders, neck, and arms.
JULY 20. We learn that the Austro-Russian forces have gained possession of Great Mount St. Bernard.
ROVEREDO, JULY 24. Gen. Moreau now occupies, in the Genoese, the same position which Buonaparte held at the opening of the campaign in 1796.
MILAN, JULY 11. On the 6th the French levied, at Leghorn, a contribution of 150,000 scudi, half of which sum was immediately paid, and the remainder promised them in a very short time.
The insurgents have seized, on the river Arno, some vessels loaded with artillery, muskets, ammunition, 17 chests with clothes and other effects
taken by the French from the Grand Duke's palaces.
BERN, JULY 20. The Directory has ordered the chambers of administration to give a list of the requisitions made for the French army since the late treaty of alliance, and to demand payment of the French government.
The want of provisions increases every day.
A certain neutral power has proposed that both armies shall evacuate Switzerland, which should remain neutral.
To save the sepulchral monument of the Helvetic bard Gessner, who lies buried on the banks of the Limmat, from protanation, the Archduke has placed a guard over it.
FRANKFORT, JULY 23. Letters from Vienna, mention that if the war is not terminated with the present year, the Emperor of Russia will march another force of 300,000 men to effect it. The French General and Ex-Prince of Salm, has been sent prisoner to Vienna.
COPENHAGEN, JULY 17. The complaints occasioned by the conduct of foreign privateers has occasioned a law, by which none are to remain in future in the harbours of Norway; which they are only permitted to enter in the greatest danger, which being over, they must put to sea again. If they bring prizes with them they must take them away again, and the selling and condemning of prizes will henceforth be no longer allowed in the harbours of Norway. This law will be put in force in 4 weeks from the date of its publication; but all prizes unfoled, can no longer be sold from this very moment.
LOWER ELBE, AUGUST 7. Since our last Number, no important military occurrence of any kind has taken place; except the surrender of the strong Episcopal town of Leo, in the Ecclesiastical State. The armies of Italy, viz. the Austro-Russians, seem to wait the fall of Mantua and the Castle of Alessandria, before they begin farther, offensive operations; and indeed the same reason also accounts, in a great measure, for the inactivity of the Archduke. If we might venture farther conjectures on the present position of affairs, we rather suspect that, even in Switzerland, nothing material will be undertaken by the Imperialists, till Italy is wholly secured by the surrender of the above-mentioned places, which will afford a reinforcement of between 40 and 50,000 men to the armies of Switzerland,—where, however, the obstacles to warfare seem daily to increase, from the want of provision both for man and horse; the country having been nearly exhausted before, every thing must be sent for from a distance. The army of General Massena, which is daily reinforcing, is in still greater want than that of the Archduke. For this reason, the Russian troops, marching through Swabia, seem to have made several days halt, and it is now thought Switzerland is not to be their destination; but some district lower down the Rhine, where great offensive operations may perhaps begin early in September; while the war in Italy may be conducted only on the defensive.
By the French letters, of the 30th ult. we gain some intelligence from Cadiz, which reached Paris on the 28th, stating that the French and Spanish fleets had appeared in those seas. The combined squadrons consisted of twenty Spanish and twenty-six French ships, and they were to be joined by some others from Cadiz, five from Rochefort, and five from Brest, making above fifty-six ships of the line, which were to unblock the Texel, to release twelve Dutch men of war, and by that means to render their number sixty-eight in all.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 24. Henry Pye Read, Esq. one of the Commissioners under the sixth article of the treaty of amity, commerce and navigation, between his Britannic Majesty and the United States, failed for England in the last Packet.
Burials for the 24 hours ending at 8 o'clock last evening, thirteen.
NEW-YORK, Sept. 23. There were fifteen deaths in the last 24 hours.
SEPT. 24. Deaths for the 24 hours ending this day at 12 o'clock, twelve.
SEPT. 25. There were nine deaths in the last 24 hours.
COMMERCIAL INFORMATION.
A letter from Savannah, of the 5th inst. mentions, "That the British, in order to prevent the French and Spaniards from facilitating their trade under neutral, and confining them to their own colours, and in order nearer to determine neutrals by their colors,
that from the 1st of October next, none but vessels built by the country the colours of which they bear, will be considered as neutrals, those vessels already under neutrals are exempted, but will be narrowly examined."
Friends' Yearly Meeting.
Extract from the Epistle from the Yearly Meeting held in London in May last.
THE accounts of sufferings brought up this year, from the various parts of this nation, amounts to 7478l. and those from Ireland, to 771l. chiefly for tythes, priest's demands, and those called church rates; also for various demands on account of the militia, and other warlike measures; with which, from a conviction that we ought not to be active in promoting the destruction of the precious, yea, invaluable, lives of mankind, we scruple to comply.
"We have this year received epistles from four only of the yearly meetings on the American continent, namely, the Carolinas &c. Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania. The last, having met at the usual time of its sitting, during the prevalence of a contagious and highly mortal fever, adjourned to the 12th month last. By this disease thousands, of the inhabitants of Philadelphia were quickly removed out of time. Let us, in reverence of soul, avoid too nice an inquiry into the moral causes of such dreadful calamities, but seek, with unremitting solicitude, an entrance, through the strait gate into that narrow but untrodden path, which alike leads to blessedness through every dispensation of the Lord's unerring providence.
"Friends, we in this land do not live ununsurrounded by manifold dangers; nor in an age in which we can dispense with any part of the whole armour of light. The increase of mortality in a country brings the body in jeopardy; but it often arouses the careless, and drives the awakened mind into closer communion with God. But it is the peculiar property of many of the contagious vices and vanities, with which these countries abound, that they lull to security the incautious, even though once aroused; and point their infection at the well being of the soul.
"By what means, then, shall we expect preservation? Our belief, dear friends, is, that it will depend on frequent recurrence to our first principal; even to the saving power of Christ Jesus our Lord, revealed in the heart. "This," said our Redeemer when personally on earth, "is life eternal, to know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent." But this, friends, is no trivial or momentary acquirement. Many of you know, that it must be waited for in singleness of heart; and that the important pursuit of this heavenly knowledge should regulate the tenor of our lives. Where then, judge ye, would any find leisure for those amusements, in which some in profession with us are reported to waste much of their time? This meeting has repeatedly testified against vain sports, and places of diversion, as so many allurements tending to draw the mind from its watch, and to lay it open to further temptation. The best recreation of a Christian is the relief of distress: and his chief delight, to promote the knowledge and to exalt the glory of his Heavenly Master; and this is most effectually done under his holy influence, by a life of faith, purity, and general benevolence. False principles, too, as well as wrong practices, may have their advocates for a time; but the unspotted lives of the faithful remain to be their best refutation.
"Let none then start aside at the magnitude of the object, nor be too much dismayed because of the little progress they seem to themselves to make in the way of holiness; but trusting in the Lord, who giveth power to the faint; let us all press after ability to comply with the apostolic advice, 'Be ye holy in all manner of conversation.'
"Finally, Friends, collected and individually, farewell! May all our meetings be held with weight, as in the immediate presence of the heavenly President. May the aged among us be examples of every christian virtue, and evince, by the calmness of their evening, that their day has been blest. May the middle aged not faint in their allotted stations; but, together with their elder and younger brethren, firmly support, yea exalt, their several testimonies which we are called to maintain. And Oh! may the beloved youth, the tender objects of our care and of our hope, bend early and cheerfully under the forming power of truth; that thus each standing in his allotment, the harmony of the building may be preserved, and we may truly grow up into an holy temple for the Lord."

[The following letter, translated for our paper, from the Leyden Gazette, contains an interesting and candid statement of the deplorable and precarious situation of the French forces in Italy:—it will also be seen in this letter, that the armies were not unconscious of their being abandoned by the government, and left without provision and without reinforcements, to fight their way back as well as they could, through an impoverished country, intersected in almost every direction by a triumphant enemy.]
[Com. Gazette.]
LEYDEN, AUG. 1.
Extract of a letter from the General Quarters of the Army of Italy.
Dated Genoa, 8th Messidor, (June 26.)
YOU have been by my last, that we had formed great hopes from the re-union, then almost certain, of the army of Moreau with that of Macdonald. The two Gen's had already obtained some advantage over the enemy. That of Moreau, especially before Alessandria, had been a signal one. But what a sudden change! the superiority of the enemy, and the reinforcements which he was continually receiving, have just forced Macdonald to retreat towards Tuscany, abandoning the cities of Parma, Reggio, and Modena. The division of Gen. Victor which had advanced to Piacenza, in order to unite on the river Po the armies of Moreau and Macdonald, by establishing a communication with both, has been also beaten, and suffered much in its retreat on the mountains of Liguria. The division of Gen. Lapoye has followed the same movement, retreating with haste and difficulty towards Bobbio. Lastly Moreau himself, who after beating the enemy completely before Alessandria (June 20) was already advancing towards Voghera and Pavia, is obliged to abandon this advantage, and to retreat towards Genoa, where he arrived this evening with his army.
It was not till after a bloody and obstinate engagement that Macdonald was forced to retreat. He fought four days with desperation. The Austrians and Russians yield to us in nothing; the same valour, the same fury. The principal engagement lasted six hours, when the arrival of Suwarow, at the head of 18,000 Russians, decided the victory. This is what we learn from different reports, but none of them official. For we have not yet any news from Gen. Macdonald, which does not contribute a little to increase our anxiety.
According to the same reports, the engagement must have been exceedingly bloody on both sides. Our loss is stated at 6,000 men, and that of the enemy at 8,000. But it is added, that the Polish General Dombrowski, with his regiment, are all made prisoners, which must be a great loss to us. For these brave men always fought like lions. It is affirmed besides that another General is mortally wounded, and that Macdonald himself has received three wounds of a fatal nature on the head.
The consequence of this defeat are incalculable. How can it be repaired? No reinforcements come to the army: they are not even talked of. How can government thus abandon so brave an army? one would think, seeing their conduct, that they mean to sacrifice it: they are publicly accused of it. The malcontent take occasion from these common discourses, whether grounded or not, to spread alarm, mistrust, and discouragement in every breast.
Mean time we have just learnt, not without indignation, that the citadel of Turin is fallen into the hands of the enemy. The consequence of this event, due no doubt either to cowardice or treason, is the loss of access to Italy through Switzerland, Mount Geneva, and Mount Cenis, and that from 15 to 20,000 men who were employed in that siege came by forced marches to reinforce the troops with whom we have to fight.
We know not what is become of our fleet, it was seen for an instant in this sea, and has immediately disappeared. We had been flattered with the agreeable news that it went to meet the English fleet, and had completely beaten it; but we have unhappily before our eyes the full refutation of this story. Genoa is in the greatest want of provisions. The army of Moreau during 10 or 15 days of stay, has devoured every thing. They are now obliged to come back, and the Genoese are much alarmed at it. The vicinity of the English fleet, cuts off every hope of being assisted by sea. Provisions were expected by land, only in case of success in Piedmont and Lombardy; but our retreat deprives us of this last hope. Moreau, indeed before abandoning his short-lived conquests, made a requisition of corn which comes with him under convoy to Genoa; but this resource cannot last long, and will probably be sufficient only for the army during its passage.
It seems that the defeat of Macdonald, and of the victors division preventing the junction of both armies, Moreau determined to bring his back to Genoa, in order to lead it into Tuscany by the Genoese's river. But even supposing that the junction takes place, I doubt whether the result will prove of any advantage to us. The enemy then will have had time of uniting all his forces together, which will amount to 80,000, whilst we shall hardly have 45,000 to oppose, a number too small by half.
If unhappily we are beaten, we have no other retreat than the river of Genoa, a road called la Corniche, practicable only for men and horses. The artillery cannot be carried but by sea, and will be much exposed. For there is no doubt but that the movements of the English fleet are combined with those of the enemy; and what is worse perhaps a retreat by land will be impossible, for a body of 80,000 Austrians is advancing towards Savone destined to prevent our passage; at least such is the report: and in this case we shall be in a cruel embarrassment, supporting a forced retreat.
RATISBON, July 15.
An Imperial Aulic Decree has been published here, by which the Empire is again declared in a state of War with France; and the payment of the Roman Months, as well as the Quintuple Contingent is demanded of the States of the Empire.
RALEIGH, (N. C.) SEPT. 17.
We learn that the Yellow Fever is in Newbern—a person direct from that
place informs us, that on Tuesday and Wednesday last, inclusive, 16 persons died—Mrs. Craddock has lost during last week, the whole of her children, 5 in number. The inhabitants are flying in every direction.
We hear also, that the same disease is raging violently in Washington.
BALTIMORE, SEPT. 27.
There have been two attempts within the last 8 or 10 days, to pass counterfeit checks at the office of Discount and Deposit, in this city; one of the persons who offered a check of that description, has been apprehended and is now in jail; he will probably be tried at the next criminal court, and as a late supplement to the law respecting forged bank notes or checks has made it felony; in either case, this deluded and unfortunate wretch will (if convicted) suffer death.
HARTFORD, Sept. 30.
On the 26th inst. the Circuit Court for the District of Connecticut, finished their session in this town.—Isaac Williams was tried before this Court on an indictment for having on the 27th of February 1797, at Guadalupe, accepted from the French Republic, a commission and instructions to commit acts of hostility and violence against the King of Great-Britain and his subjects, contrary to the twenty-first article of the treaty between the United States and Great-Britain. Williams confessed the fact, but alleged he had been commissioned by the French Consul General, as a Lieutenant of the Jupiter, and was afterwards naturalized in France. After a fair trial, the Jury found him guilty, on two indictments; for which he was sentenced to pay a fine of 2000 dollars, and suffer eight months imprisonment.
Mantua and Alessandria having capitulated, the only strong places of consequence held by the French, in Italy, are Tortona and Coni.
We can as yet say nothing certain as to the part Prussia will take.
"Have you learnt any thing of the Combined and English Fleets?" is the question. The answer is no—nothing direct; but many hours cannot transpire before we do. See Salem head.
It is supposed the Combined fleet, after exciting some alarm in England, much speculation in Europe, and more ink shed every where, will take up its winter-quarters at Brest, to furnish another article of accusation against the Ex-Directory, and its Ministers:—And another application of the worn-out couplet:—
"The grand armada of both France and Spain, Pass'd up the Gut, and then pass'd down again."
Citizen Talleyrand, has attempted to make his escape, from Paris; but has been prevented. Had he been successful, he would have pushed for the United States;—as he certainly would have expected, from the services he boasts of having rendered them, to be cordially received by the government and people.
The French prisoners, taken by the Montezuma, have been escorted to Fredericktown, Maryland.
LEXINGTON, Sept. 10.
The two murderers by the name of Harps, who killed Mr. Langford, last winter, in the wilderness, and were arrested and broke the Danville gaol—killed a family on Pond River, by the name of Staple, on the 22d day of August, and burnt the house; a party of men pursued and overtook them and their women; the Harps parted, Micajah Harp, took two of the women on with him, the men pursued him, and in riding about 10 or 12 miles caught him, having previously shot him. He confessed the killing of Mr. Stump on Big Barren; he also confessed of their killing 17 or 18 besides; they killed two men near Robertson's Lick, the day before they burnt Staple's house. They had with them 8 horses and a considerable quantity of plunder—seven pair of saddle bags, &c. They cut off his head; the women were taken to the Red banks. The above took place on Pond River in the county of Muhlenburg.
[Ken. Gaz.]
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 25.
Burials for the 24 hours ending at 8 o'clock last evening, twenty-four.
SEPT. 26.
Burials for the 24 hours ending at 8 o'clock, last evening, Nineteen.
SEPT. 27.
Burials for the 24 hours ending at 8 o'clock, last evening, Nineteen. In Hospital 72.
SEPT. 28.
Burials in the 24 hours ending last evening at 8 o'clock, Eleven. In Hospital 73.
NEW-YORK, Sept. 26.
Nine deaths have been reported at the Health office for the last 24 hours.
SEPT. 27.
Three deaths for the last 24 hours.
SEPT. 28.
Deaths for the last 24 hours, Nine.
BOSTON, Oct. 4.
Notwithstanding the re-election of the Lyon, to represent the creatures of a certain District in Vermont, his subjects in that State are few. Maugre all their fawning and roaring, the fur of their paws and the fire of their eyes, the People of Vermont have re-elected, by a large majority, their federal Governor, his Excellency Isaac Tichenor, and their federal Lieut. Governor, His Honor Paul Brigham.
On Monday last, the President of the United States set out from Quincy, for the Seat of Government.
OCTOBER 7.
So critical is the situation of the French forces in Italy, weakened by losses, in want of provisions, and neglected by the government, that no chance seems afforded them, either of opposing, successfully the enemy which surrounds them, or of getting off with safety. Thus circumstanced, the Directory, seemingly without regret, and without the least of affording them assistance, leave a brave army to be sacrificed. Towards Switzerland, the new military measures are directed; where a formidable army is daily gaining strength, and where the hopes of the French are now chiefly placed.
By the Philanthropist, Capt. Prince, arrived at Marblehead, since our last, from Bilboa, 44 days, we learn, that the French and Spanish fleets, after a pleasant excursion, have escaped the British squadrons; and are safely moored in Brest waters.—This information was reported at Bilboa, Aug. 20th. Off Cape Ortugal, Capt. Prince fell in with the English frigate Fishguard, who also informed him, that the fleets had safely arrived at Brest.—Capt. P. also mentions the taking of Mantua.
On Friday arrived ship Mercury, Capt. Pearson, from Embden, 48 days.—By which we learn, that 35,000 Prussians were marching to augment the expedition against Holland; and that the hereditary Prince of Orange, and two Prussian General Officers, had arrived at Embden to examine the coast, and ascertain a proper place for the disembarkation of the troops.
Same evening arrived, private armed ship Camilla, Capt. Seward, 71 days from Amsterdam. On passing the town, she manned yards and shrouds and gave three cheers, which were returned from her prize, the Little John, from the Herald sloop of war; from the Orion and from the citizens of Long and Hancock's wharves.
Capt. Seward took dispatches from Mr. Murray, for our Government, with written directions to destroy them in case he met with any cruiser; which Capt. S. did on falling in with the Andromeda British frigate.
When Capt. S. was at Norway, the Danes and Swedes were embargoed, in expectation of a war with France. French privateers were not allowed to tarry longer than 24 hours in Norway.
The buoys in the Texel were all taken up, in expectation of a visit from the British.
CONGRESS.
The sixth Congress of the United States is to meet in a short time. The federal majority will be much stronger than in the 5th Congress.—With this increase of strength, we expect an increase of energy, decision and federalism. The will of the majority of the People of the United States, ought to be expressed by the majority in Congress.—That will is to crush all opposition to the government of their choice;—and to rid the country of every seditious alien, or rebellious citizen. The first act of Congress will be the election of a Speaker.—Much depends on the choice of a man of found federalism—of quick discernment, and unshaken firmness.—Such qualities will be found in the Hon. Mr. Sedgwick, who, we learn, is a candidate.—But unless the federal members are punctual in their attendance on the first day of the session, the minority may dictate to the majority who shall be the organ of the House for two years.
Of the FEVER.
In Philadelphia, the Reports, are, Sept. 27, eleven deaths; Sept. 28 and 29, twenty seven; Sept. 30 eight; Oct. 1, thirteen.
In New-York, Sept. 27, nine, Sept. 29 and 30, ten; Oct. 1, seven.
Arrived this day, schr. Lydia, Wheelwright, Cape Francois, 31 days, via. Vineyard. Left at the Cape from 120 to 130 sail of Americans, a number of which had just arrived; all kinds of American produce very low.
SALEM, Oct. 1.
AMERICAN CANNALTRY.
The brig Hind, Capt. Dan'l Ropes, arrived here on Saturday last, from Cadiz. On the passage he fell in with
a vessel from Gibraltar, by which he received information of the arrival at that place of the ship Mount Vernon, Capt. E. H. Derby, of this place; that Capt. Derby passed the combined French and Spanish fleets, on his passage; that a frigate and a sloop of war were sent after him, and that he out-sailed the frigate and beat off the sloop of war: That afterwards, in the Straits mouth; Capt. Derby was attacked by several privateers, which he beat off, and one of which struck to him, but that he did not take the trouble to carry her in. In these rencounters, Capt. Derby received no injury.—Capt. Ropes was also informed, through the same channel, that a Boston schooner had sunk a privateer in the Straits, after having received an 18 pound shot from her, without material damage.
Capt. Ropes was also informed by this vessel, that the combined fleet was off Ferrol on the evening of the 3d of August, and the British fleet in the same place the next morning—their distance about 40 miles apart.
Yesterday the Frigate Essex, of 32 guns, was launched from the stocks, in this town. She went into the water with the most easy and graceful motion, amidst the acclamations of thousands of spectators, and a federal salute from her guns on the hill, returned by an armed ship in the harbour, commanded by Capt. Thomas Williams. The committee acting for the subscribers, Col. Hackett, the superintendent, and Mr. Briggs, the master builder, have thus the satisfaction of producing to their country as fine a ship, of her size, as graces the American Navy. It is not yet known who will command her; but it is on all hands agreed that she is well calculated to do the essential service to her country.
PORTSMOUTH, OCTOBER 8.
From EUROPE.
Capt. Crocker, arrived at Boston from Hamburg, a few leagues east of the Grand Bank, fell in with the ship Castor and Pollux, Capt. Spence, who sailed from the same city, 8 days after Capt. C.—Mr. T. Geyer, went on board, read some of the latest papers, and made a memorandum of the news, from which the following is extracted.
Hamburg Paper of Aug. 14.
Vienna. Mantua has surrendered to the Imperial troops.
Hamburg. The French Minister at Copenhagen has complained of the Danish Edict against the privateers of his nation.
A Hamburg paper of Aug. 8, says, "The Barbary Powers, Tunis and Tripoli, have declared war against the Danes and Swedes." This is not official.
Robert Lindet declines the appointment to the Department of Finance; but the Directory are endeavouring to press it upon him. [Mercury.]
At the annual Commencement at Princeton (N. J.) College, on the 25th ultimo, the Degree of L. L. D. was conferred on the Hon. OLIVER WOLCOT, Secretary of the Treasury, and the Hon. THEODORE SEDGWICK, Member of Congress from Massachusetts.
The U. S. brig Scammel, Capt. Fernald, has arrived at N. Y. from Surinam. She conveyed from Surinam, brig Orlando, Castle, of Boston, and some southern vessels. The Diamond, from Boston, and Union, from Newburyport, had arrived at Surinam.
The Little George, of Boston, taken by the French, on her passage from Martinique, and retaken by the Ganges, has arrived at Philadelphia.
ENTRIES at the CUSTOM-HOUSE. Ship Two Brothers, Turner, Hamburg. C L E A R E D. Brig Ranger, Shaw, St. Vincent.
MARRIED]—At Exeter, on Thursday evening last, by the Rev. Mr. Milmore of Statham, George Sullivan, Esq. attorney at law, to Miss Clarissa Lamson, both of Exeter.
At Lee, Mr. Thomas Morton, of this town, to Miss Nancy Moses, of the former place.
At Concord, Mr. Thomas Popkin, of Boston, to Miss Mary Harris.
DIED]—At Berwick, on Wednesday evening the 2d inst. master Frederick Lord, a promising son of Mr. Mark Lord, aged 7 years: His death should be a warning to teamsters who indulge children in riding on their carts:—He fell from the tongue of a loaded one, and the wheel went over the side of his head—which, in about three hours, terminated his existence.
In this town, Mrs. Elizabeth M'Kannon, aged 31—Miss Mary Seavey, aged 27—Miss Polly Scott—And a Mr. Ballard.
The Winter Establishment of the Mails.
Commences on the 15th inst. and continues to the 15th of October, as follows,
The Southern Mail
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The GAZETTE
Will be published on
WEDNESDAY next,
and will continue to be published on that day, as usual during the winter establishment of the Mails.
The very extensive circulation the New-Hampshire Gazette has, makes the weekly impression heavy, and renders it necessary to put it to press at an early hour, to complete the impression in season; therefore our advertising friends who wish to reap the benefit of advertising in the Gazette, which has, and always has had by far the greatest circulation of any paper printed in this State, not only throughout the State, but in the neighbouring States, will please to send their advertisements the day before publication, and they will be conspicuously inserted on the most moderate terms.
Subscriptions for the Gazette are received at the Printing Office, at the very low price of one dollar and fifty cents pr. year, one quarter at entrance, the remainder at the close of the year.
Printing of every kind executed expeditiously on very moderate terms.
Oct. 8.
INSTRUCTION.
A FEW applications will induce the subscriber to open an EVENING SCHOOL about the middle of November.
AMOS TAPPAN.
Portsmouth, October 8, 1799.
TO BE LET,
By the subscriber, on reasonable terms, THAT well situated and convenient HOUSE on Market-street, which he now occupies, and one Shop adjoining the same.—Also two STORES on Fore-street, Spring-Hill, directly opposite Mr. Samuel Hill's store.—The house will be ready to receive a tenant in one month, as the subscriber expects to move within that time.—Said house is in complete repair, and accommodated with water from the Aqueduct, and as convenient as any house in town, and will be let with or without the Stable and Garden. SAM'L STORER. Portsmouth, Oct. 7, 1799.
FOR SALE,
At the Store near the Hotel, lower end Buck-street, Sign Golden Ball, Occupied by
Richard Champney,
3d proof RUM per hhd.
Old SPIRIT, of an agreeable flavor.
4th proof BRANDY; GIN. SUGAR of different qualities, per bbl.
MOLASSES.
Bohea and Souchong TEAS. COFFEE per bag.
20 barrels Fresh Superfine FLOUR.
The above GOODS being on commission, will be sold wholesale and retail, Cheap for Cash.—Goods of any kind received for sale, on moderate terms.
Portsmouth, Oct. 8, 1799.
Piscataqua Bridge.
THE Proprietors are requested to call at the Custom-House, between the hours of 9 o'clock A. M. and 1 P. M. where they may receive the eleventh dividend of the tole made this day—they are likewise notified that their annual meeting is on the second Wednesday of November, at the State House, at three o'clock, P. M.
THO'S MARTIN, Treas'r.
Evening School, For young Men & Women, at the North School house, BY
J. P. Payson,
At 2 dollars per quarter.
Admittance until the 1st of Jan. School from 6 to 9 o'clock.
School to commence on Monday the 14th instant. Oct. 3.

The two first Stanzas of the following beautiful Poem, were written by Shakespeare; the two last by Sir John Suckling.
ONE of her hands one of her cheeks lay under, Coz'ning the pillow of a lawful kiss; Which, therefore, swell'd, and seem'd to part asunder, As angry to be robb'd of such a bliss, The one look'd pale, and for revenge did long, While t'other blush'd—cause it had done the wrong!  Out of the bed the other fair hand was, On a green satin quilt, whose perfect white Look'd like a dazie in a field of grass. And they'd like unmet know unto the fight; There lay this pretty perdu, safe to keep The rest o' th' body, that lay fast asleep.
[By Sir John Suckling.] Her eyes (and therefore it was night) close laid, Strove to imprison beauty till the morn; But yet the doors were of such fine stuff made, That it broke thro', and shew'd itself in corn, Throwing a kind of light about the place, Which turn'd to smiles still as it came near her face.  Her beams (which some dull men call'd hair) divided: Part with her cheeks, part with her lips did sport; But these, as rude, her breath put by still; some Wiselyer downwards sought, but falling short, Car'd back in rings, and seem'd to turn agen— To bite the parts unkindly held them in.
State of New-Hampshire. NOTICE is hereby given to the proprietors and owners of land in the town of Brookfield, who have not paid their county and highway taxes for the year 1799—that so much of their land as will pay said taxes with incidental charges will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling house of Moses Perkins, in said Brookfield, on the 10th day of December next, at 1 o'clock, P. M. unless prevented by previous payment.
MOSES PERKINS, Jr. Collector. Brookfield, Sept. 28, 1799.     No. Acres. D. C. C.    Samuel Hall, 42 140 0 68 4  Henry Wiggin, 46 70 0 34 2  Matthias Hanes, 53 40 0 50 3  Samuel Varney, 49 140 0 46 3  Love Roberts, 62 105 0 75 4  Law Lot, 61 140 1 0  David Copp, Esq. 51 35 0 24 1  William Horne, 58 90 0 68 4  Ephraim Hanson, 56 70 0 50 3  Tho's Wallingford 43 140 0 68 4  Reuben Libbey, 9 70 0 13 1  50 70 0 64 4  
To Moses Nichols, Esq. one of the justices of the Peace in and for the County of Grafton, in the State of New-Hampshire, and Clerk of the Proprietors of the town of Thornton, in said County.
THE subscribers proprietors of more than one sixteenth part of the township of Thornton, in the county of Grafton and State of New-Hampshire, as granted by his Excellency J. Wentworth, Esq. upon the 21st day of October, 1768; hereby make application to you to grant a warrant, to call a meeting of the proprietors of said township, to meet at the dwelling house of Capt. Edmund Elliot, in said Thornton, on Thursday the 7th day of November next at one o'clock P. M. for the following purposes, viz.
1st. To choose a moderator, proprietors clerk, assessors, treasurer and a collector. 2d. To choose an agent or agents, to see what method shall be taken with those persons that have encroached upon any of the lands in said town, and to invest said agent or agents with such power, as shall then and there be thought proper by said proprietors. 3d. To see if the proprietors will agree to raise a tax on each right, any sum or sums of money to be appropriated to any purpose or purposes which they may think proper. 4th. To rectify any mistake, (if any shall appear) that may have injured any particular proprietor. 5th. To agree upon a method of calling future meetings of said proprietors.
M. THORNTON, JAMES THORNTON, JOHN PEIRCE. Sept. 19, 1799.
State of New-Hampshire. Grafton, ff. Sept. 19, 1799. Pursuant to the foregoing application, I do hereby notify and warn the proprietors of said Thornton, to meet at the time and place aforesaid, for the purposes aforesaid.
MOSES NICHOLS, Justice Peace and clerk of the proprietors of said Thornton.
TO BE LET, A CONVENIENT Tanyard, at the North part of the town, with necessary buildings for carrying on the business.—Inquire of the Printer.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of Tamworth, who have not paid their highway and county taxes for the year 1799, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber, on or before the 25th day of December next, that so much of their lands as will pay the same together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at my dwelling house in Tamworth, at ten of the clock in the forenoon on said day, unless prevented by settlement.
   No. Acres. D. C. C.    Thomas Stickney, 3 6 100 3 50  do. do. north end of 3 south 100 3 50  Joseph Hall, jr. long lots on Conway ridge, 5 6 100 3 50  Daniel Stickney, 6 6 100 3 50  do. do. 2 8 100 3 50  John Cochran, 3 5 100 3 50  do. do. 5 5 100 3 50  Stephen Helland, 8 7 100 3 50  do. do. 3 3 100 3 50  Jonathan Cochran, 2 6 100 3 50  James Wallace, 2 5 100 3 50  do. do. 3 8 100 3 50  Isaac Cochran, 1 5 100 3 50  do. west end, 22 7 50 2 25  Jonathan Morison, 4 5 100 3 50  do. do. 20 7 100 3 50  James Head, w. end of 21 do. long lots on Conway ridge, 7 50 2 25  do. west end of north end, 7 50 2 25  George Abbot, 7 5 100 3 50  Israel Gilman, 4 1 100 3 50  do. do. 1 8 100 3 50  Jacob Fowler, 9 1 100 3 50  do. do. 5 7 100 3 50  Tho's Cogswell, Esq. 4 6 100 3 50  Tho's Cogswell, Esq. 4 8 100 3 50  do. Strip commons north end, 20 8 30 1 15  do. do. adjoining the north end of James Cochran, 12 3 4 8 50 2 25  do. do. 13 5 100 3 50  William Rogers, 8 5 100 3 50  A. M'Nellan, 57 39 8 50 2 25  Samuel Osgood, 15 6 100 3 50  James Osgood, 16 6 100 3 50  do. do. 6 1 100 3 50  John Webster, jr. 9 5 100 3 50  Jonathan Stickney, 17 6 100 3 50  do. do. 19 50 ac. 50 2 25  do. Danforth lot west of Fields, 0 0 50 2 25  Isaiah Mills, 3 1 100 3 50  do. do. 1 1 100 3 50  Jonathan Merrill, 10 5 100 3 50  Joseph Emery, n. end, 10 4 50 2 25  do. east side of north end of 5 & 6 south 11 3 50 2 25  Timothy Walker, jr. 7 4 100 3 50  W. Bryant, jr. Esq. 34 36 50 ac. 100 3 50  do. do. 11 5 100 3 50  Robert Fulton, 8 4 100 3 25  Robert Barnet s. end 12 3 50 2 25  do. north end of 2 2 50 2 25  do. do. 2 2 50 2 25  James Dwyer, 8 3 100 3 50  do. do. 4 4 100 3 50  Lt. Col. Barr, 9 10 50 ac. 100 3 50  do. do. 3 4 100 3 50  
ISRAEL GILMAN, Collector. Tamworth, Sept. 19, 1799.
ORANGE. State of New Hampshire. County of Grafton.
To be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling house of Mr. Samuel Bagley, in Orange aforesaid, on the 30th day of October next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, so much of the following non-resident improved lands in said Orange, as will pay the following taxes assessed thereon and all lawful costs, unless payment of said taxes and costs, be made prior to the time of sale, viz.
   Owners. Acres. D. C. C.    Tho's & Ephraim Elliot, 16 66 55 7 50 0 0  Maj. William Duncan, 25 acres of land b. longing to the farm formerly owned by Elihu Corliss, under the occupancy of Gideon Haynes, belonging to the original right of Isaac Fellows. 25 40 5 39 2  
ELISHA BULLOCK, Collector. Orange, Aug. 16, 1799.
State of New-Hampshire. Rockingham, ff. To be sold at Public Vendue at the Town Clerk's office in Portsmouth, on Wednesday the 6th day of November next ensuing, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon.
So much of the house and land now in the occupation of Mr. James Griffin; formerly the estate of Col. Pierce Long, deceased, as will pay the taxes assessed thereon, and all lawful costs, unless payment of said taxes and costs be made, prior to the time of sale, viz. D. C. State, County and Town tax for '98, 4 55 GEO. WENTWORTH, Collector. Portsmouth, Sept. 23, 1799.
GENTLE BOARDING, FOR three or four Gentlemen, in a small family in Market-Street—For further particulars apply to the printer hereof. Sept. 10.
State of New-Hampshire. NOTICE is hereby given to the proprietors and owners of land in the town of Wolfborough, who have not paid their County and Highway taxes for the year 1799—that so much of their land as will pay said taxes with incidental charges will be sold at public vendue at the dwelling house of William Rogers, in said town, on the 26th day of November next, at 10 o'clock, A. M. unless prevented by previous payment.
   No. Acres. D. C. C.    Mark H. Wentworth, 2 200 18 1 80  Richard Wibird, 3 300 27 9 70  Caleb Hodgdon, 4 300 34 3 60  Mason & Thomlinson, 5 50 6 0 60  Benjamin Nudd, ditto 50 9 0 75  Theodore Atkinson, 10 300 27 9 70  George Jaffey, 12 120 11 1 80  Jotham Odiorne, 16 150 14 1 35  John Peirce, 0 478 35 4 5  Daniel Rindge, 8 128 10 0 77  Stephen Evans, 7 280 11 1 8  Joseph Stackpole, 0 100 9 0 90  Blanchard & Merserey, 8 950 18 1 88  
JAMES CONNOR, Collector. Wolfborough, Sept. 17, 1799.
State of New-Hampshire. Grafton ff.
To Peter Carleton, Esq. one of the Justices of the Peace within and for said county of Grafton.
THE subscribers proprietors and owners of more than one sixteenth part of the township of Landaff, in said county, request that you notify and warn the proprietors and owners of said township, to meet at the dwelling house of Jonathan Noyes, Esq. in said Landaff, on Tuesday the fifth day of November next, at one o'clock afternoon, to act on the following articles, viz.
1st. To choose a moderator to govern said meeting. 2d. To choose a clerk, assessors, treasurer and collector. 3d. To see if the proprietors will pitch or draw their undivided rights or shares of land in said township. 4th. To see if the proprietors will choose a committee to examine into and make report of the pitches already made in said township. 5th. To see if the proprietors will reconsider a vote passed at the last meeting of said proprietors, for raising twenty-five dollars upon each right or share in said Landaff; and whether they will in lieu thereof raise another sum for making and repairing roads, and other expenditures. 6th. To see if the proprietors will choose a committee to call upon and settle with their former committee for the avails of the lands sold to claimants under the new charter of said Landaff. 7th. To see if the proprietors will adopt some plan to lot out the several gores in said town. 8th. To see what measures shall be adopted respecting the mill lot (so called) in said Landaff, granted by said proprietors to Messrs. Nathaniel Webber and Ebenezer Eaton, and to see if the conditions of said grant have been complied with, and if not whether a further time shall be allowed them for that purpose.
Moses Knight, Benjamin Knight, James Snow, Benjamin Moody, Jonathan Blake, Ebenezer Eaton, Nathaniel Noyes, Ezra Chandler, Simeon Eastman, Jonathan Noyes, Stephen P. Webster, Nath'l Webber, Bemsey Edwards. Landaff, September 5, 1799.
State of New-Hampshire. County of Grafton. Landaff, September 7, 1799.
Agreeable to the within request these are to notify and warn the proprietors and land owners of said town of Landaff, to meet at the within mentioned time and place, and for the within mentioned purposes. PETER CARLETON, Jus'e Peace.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of lands in the town of Springfield, who have not paid their county and highway taxes for the year 1799, that so much of their land as will pay said taxes with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue at the dwelling house of Samuel Clay, innholder in said town, on Monday the second day of December next, at two of the clock in the afternoon, unless prevented by previous payment.
   No. Acres. D. C. C.    Capt. Dan'l Livermore, 9 75 19 5  Joseph Lunt, 20 200 50 13  
NATH'L PRENTICE, Collector. Springfield, September 4, 1799.
WANTED,
A BOY from 9 to 12 years of age, to serve in a family, till old enough to go to a trade—Apply to the Printer hereof. September 21.
A BARGAIN.
WANTED for the Navy of the United States, the Timber and Plank contained in the following Schedule. Any person wishing to contract for a part or whole, will send his proposals in writing, mentioning what part he will furnish, and the terms, to STEPHEN HIGGINSON & Co. No. 10, Foster's Wharf, before the 15th of October next. Security will be required for the just performance of the contract; and the timber to be cut and delivered as soon as practicable.
  Keel,—3 pieces to make up 186 feet, allowing 12 ft. for the scarf; but if it be in 4 pieces, add 12 feet more for another scarf, fided 21 inches, and as much deeper the other way as can be had.  Keelsons—8 ps. 20 by 20 inches, not less than 55 feet long.  Midship deadwood, 2 ps. 24 by 10 in. 52 ft.  Main wales, 40 8 3/4 11 1/2 56  Black fleaks, 10 7 11  Channel wales, 30 6 12  Thick stuff under the wales, 12 7 14  Outside bilge fleaks, 12 6 14  12 5 14  20 5 14  10 4 14  Drifts and strings, 12 4 14  12 5 14  Limber fleaks, 12 8 14  Inside bilge fleaks, 24 8 14  Inside thick fleaks on first futtock heads, 8 7 14  Lower deck clamps, 18 8 14  Upper gun deck clamps, 13 7 14  Upper deck clamps, 10 7 14  Thick stuff on deck, 20 4 14  Spikings, 50 6 10  Waterways, 40 6 11  Plank shears, 6 6 18  bottom and ceiling plank—32,000 feet white oak, 4 3/4 inches thick, 40 to 60 feet long, no short crooks, but there may be long ones.  Decks, &c. 10,000 ft. w. o. 4 in. do.  Filling up, &c. 9,000 3 3/4  Upper deck, &c. 8,000 3  Ledges, 10,000 5 by 6 in. 10, 19 to 27 2,000 4 5 (ft. long.  Carlings, 6,000 6 9 10, 14 to 19 2,000 5 6 10, 19 to 27 4,000 9 9 16 to 17  Pillars, 1,200 8 8 6 3/4 800 7 8 6 3/4  False keel, 9 ps. 5 21 11  Stem and stern knees on the deck—3 ps. the body to reach the fore and mizen masts, arm from the back part 3 feet and fided 16 inches.  Cable bitt knees—4 ps. 16 to 18 feet body, arm 5 ft. to side 14 inches.  Knees for cheeks—4 ps. body 9 feet, arm 10 feet, to side 11 inches.  White oak logs—800 ps. 30 to 60 feet long, and of large size.  Decks, 20,000 ft. 4 in. heart pine plank. 9,000 3 : 9,000 3 3/4 : 19,000 2 common pine. 8,000 ft. 4 in. boards, cedar or white pine.  Joiner's work, 30,000 1 pine. 16,000 1 1/2 : 6,000 2 :  
REMARKS.
All the stuff contained in the estimate from the word Keel to Plank shears, inclusively, is reduced to inch board measure. This stuff should all work clear of wane, and of all defects. However, if the keels and keelsons should not have more than two inches wane in places, it will not injure them, provided they are good in every other respect. The keels to be got as straight as possible; the keelsons, some strait and others a little hang. The other stuff to be either straight, or with a little fair hang, or fair sweep. It is not necessary for the keels to be more than 21 by 23 inches, 12 feet from the top. Though they should side 21 inches all the way, if they will not hold more than 12 by 21 at the top end where they are to scarf, it will answer; as it will allow the pieces to cut much longer. The plank mentioned is superficial measure, the length being multiplied by the width only for the product. The plank to be fawed with the taper of the log, and not less than 9 inches wide at the top end. None of the stuff is to have short turns or crooks, either side or edge ways. It must be either strait, fair hang, or fair sweep and hang, or fag, or what may be called crooking two ways, the edge like the letter S. The 300 logs to average 30 to 60 feet long, and of size sufficient to square 15 to 24 inches at top, and of any shape. The carlings, ledges, pillars, reduced to inch board measure by multiplying the length, breadth, and depth, for product,—All to be strait and of good stuff. Boston, Sept. 25.
FLAX-SEED.
Cash and the highest price given for FLAX-SEED, BY William & Charles Neil.
BARLEY,
A Quantity of Barley wanted for which cash and the highest price will be given if delivered within fifteen days. Apply to MOSES WOODWARD, jr. Portsmouth, Sept. 27, 1799.
THE Subscriber finds it is enough with many of his good friends, to