The New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1791-01-08 00:00:00

New - Hampshire Gazette, and the General Advertiser.
Containing the Laws, &c. of the United States, as well as those of this State passed since 1787, with a variety of other matters both useful and entertaining.
PORTSMOUTH: Printed by JOHN MELCHER, at his Office in Market-Street, at nine shillings per Annum.
LAWS of the UNITED STATES.
CONGRESS of the UNITED STATES: AT THE SECOND SESSION.
Begun and held at the City of New-York, on Monday the 4th of January, 1790.
An ACT to provide more effectually for the COLLECTION of the DUTIES imposed by Law on Goods, Wares and Merchandize imported into the United States, and on the Tonnage of Ships or Vessels.
(Concluded.)
AND be it further enacted, That the officers of the said boats or cutters, shall be appointed by the President of the United States, and shall respectively be deemed officers of the customs, and shall have power and authority to go on board of every ship or vessel which shall arrive within the United States, or, within four leagues of the coast thereof, if bound for the United States, and to search and examine the same and every part thereof, and to demand, receive and certify the manifests herein before required to be on board of certain ships or vessels, and to affix and put proper fastenings on the hatches and other communications with the holds of ships or vessels, and to remain on board the said ships or vessels until they arrive at the places of their destination.
And be it further enacted, That the collectors of the respective districts may with the approbation of the Secretary of the Treasury, provide and employ such small open row and sail boats, in each district, together with the requisite number of persons to serve in them, as shall be necessary for the use of the surveyors and inspectors in going on board of ships and vessels and otherwise, for the better detection of frauds; the expense of which shall be defrayed out of the product of duties.
And be it further enacted, That if any officer of the customs shall directly or indirectly take or receive any bribe, reward or recompense for conniving, or shall connive at any false entry of any ship or vessel, or of any goods, wares or merchandize, and shall be thereof convicted, every such officer shall forfeit and pay a sum not less than two hundred, nor more than two thousand dollars for each offence; and any person giving or offering any bribe, recompense or reward for any such deception, collusion or fraud, shall forfeit and pay a sum not less than two hundred nor more than two thousand dollars for each offence. And in all cases where an oath is by this act required from a master or other person, having command of a ship or vessel, or from an owner or consignee of goods, wares or merchandize, his or her factor or agent, if the person so swearing shall swear falsely, such person shall on indictment and conviction thereof, be punished by fine or imprisonment, or both, in the discretion of the court, before whom the conviction shall be had, so as the fine shall not exceed one thousand dollars, and the term of imprisonment shall not exceed twelve months.
And be it further enacted, That all penalties accruing by any breach of this act, shall be sued for and recovered with costs of suit, in the name of the United States of America, in any court proper to try the same, and the trial of any fact which may be put in issue, shall be within the judicial district in which any such penalty shall have accrued, and the collector, within whose district the seizure shall be made, is hereby authorised and directed to cause suits for the same to be commenced and prosecuted to effect, and to receive, distribute and pay the sum or sums recovered, after first deducting all necessary
costs and charges, according to law. And that all ships or vessels, goods, wares or merchandize, which shall become forfeited by virtue of this act, shall be seized, libelled and prosecuted as aforesaid, in the proper court having cognizance thereof, which court shall cause fourteen days notice to be given of such seizure and libel, by causing the substance of such libel, with the order of the court thereon, setting forth the time and place appointed for trial, to be inserted in some newspaper, published near the place of seizure, and also by posting up the same in the most public manner for the space of fourteen days, at or near the place of trial, for which advertisement a sum not exceeding ten dollars shall be paid; and proclamation shall be made in such manner as the court shall direct; and if no person shall appear to claim such ship or vessel, goods, wares or merchandize, the same shall be adjudged to be forfeited; but if any person shall appear before such judgment of forfeiture, and claim any such ship or vessel, goods, wares or merchandize, and shall give bond to defend the prosecution thereof, and to respond the cost in case he shall not support his claim, the court shall proceed to hear and determine the cause according to law: And upon the prayer of any claimant to the court, that any ship or vessel, goods, wares or merchandize so seized and prosecuted, or any part thereof should be delivered to such claimant, it shall be lawful for the court to appoint three proper persons to appraise such ship or vessel, goods, wares or merchandize, who shall be sworn in open court for the faithful discharge of their duty; and such appraisement shall be made at the expence of the party on whose prayer it is granted, and on the return of such appraisement, if the claimant shall, with one or more sureties, to be approved of by the court, execute a bond in the usual form, to the United States, for the payment of a sum equal to the sum at which the ship or vessel, goods, wares or merchandize, so prayed to be delivered, be appraised, the court shall by rule order such ship or vessel, goods, wares or merchandize, to be delivered to the said claimant, and the said bond shall be lodged with the proper officer of the court; and if judgment shall pass in favour of the claimant, the court shall cause the said bond to be cancelled: but if judgment shall pass against the claimant, as to the whole or any part of such ship or vessel, goods, wares or merchandize, and the claimant shall not within twenty days thereafter, pay into the court the amount of the appraised value of such ship or vessel, goods, wares or merchandize so condemned, with the costs, the bond shall be put in suit. And when any prosecution shall be commenced on account of the seizure of any ship or vessel, goods, wares or merchandize, and judgment shall be given for the claimant or claimants; if it shall appear to the court before whom such prosecution shall be tried, that there was a reasonable cause of seizure, the same court shall cause a proper certificate or entry to be made thereof, and in such case the claimant shall not be entitled to costs, nor shall the person who made the seizure, or the prosecutor be liable to action, suit or judgment, on account of such seizure or prosecution. Provided, That the ship or vessel, goods, wares or merchandize, be after judgment, forthwith returned to such claimant or claimants, his, her, or their agents: And provided, That no action or prosecution shall be maintained in any case under this act, unless the same shall have been commenced, within three years next
after the penalty of forfeiture was incurred.
And be it further enacted, That all ships, vessels, goods, wares or merchandize, which shall be condemned by virtue of this act, shall be sold by the proper officer of the court in which such condemnation shall be had, to the highest bidder at public auction, by order of such court, and at such place as the court may appoint giving at least fifteen days notice (except in case of perishable goods) in one or more of the public newspapers of the place where such sale shall be, or if no paper is published in such place, in one or more of the papers published in the nearest place thereto, for which advertising a sum not exceeding five dollars shall be paid.
And be it further enacted, That all penalties, fines and forfeitures, recovered by virtue of this act (and not otherwise appropriated) shall, after deducting all proper costs and charges, be disposed of as follows: One moiety shall be for the use of the United States, and paid into the treasury thereof; the other moiety shall be divided into equal parts and paid to the collector and naval-officer of the district, and surveyor of the port wherein the same shall have incurred, or to such of the said officers as there may be in the said district; and in districts where only one of the aforesaid officers shall have been established, the said moiety shall be given to such officer: Provided nevertheless, That in all cases where such penalties, fines and forfeitures shall be recovered in pursuance of information given to such collector, or by any person other than the naval-officer or surveyor of the district, the one half of such moiety shall be given to the informer, and the remainder thereof shall be disposed of between the collector, naval-officer and surveyor or surveyors, in the manner aforesaid.
And be it further enacted, That no goods, wares or merchandize of foreign growth or manufacture, subject to the payment of duties, shall be brought into the U.S. from any foreign port or place in any other manner than by sea, nor in any ship or vessel of less than thirty tons burthen, except within the district of Louisville, nor shall be landed or unladed at any other place than is by this act directed, under the penalty of seizure and forfeiture of all such vessels, and of the goods, wares or merchandize brought in, landed or unladed, in any other manner. And all goods, wares and merchandize brought into the United States by land, contrary to this act, shall be forfeited, together with the carriages, horses and oxen that shall be employed in conveying the same; provided nothing herein shall be construed to extend to household furniture and cloathing, belonging to any person or persons actually removing into any part of the United States, for the purpose of becoming an inhabitant or inhabitants thereof.
And be it further enacted, That all matters by this act directed to be done to or by the collector of a district, shall and may be done to and by the person who in the cases specified in this act is or may be authorised to act in the place or stead of the said collector.
And be it further enacted, That whenever an oath is required by this act, persons conscientiously scrupulous shall be permitted to affirm.
And be it further enacted, That the master or person having the charge or command of a ship or vessel bound to a foreign port or place, shall deliver to the collector of the district from which such ship or vessel shall be about to depart, a manifest of the cargo on board the same, and shall make oath or affirmation to the truth thereof, whereupon the
said collector shall grant a clearance, for the said ship or vessel, and her cargo, but without specifying the particulars thereof, unless required by the said master or person having said charge or command. And if any ship or vessel bound to a foreign port or place, shall depart on her voyage to such foreign port or place without such clearance, the said master or person having the said charge or command, shall forfeit and pay the sum of two hundred dollars for such offence.
And be it further enacted, That after the first day of October next, the act intitled, "An act to regulate the collection of the duties imposed by law on the tonnage of ships or vessels, and on goods, wares & merchandizes imported into the United States," and also all other acts or parts of acts coming within the purview of this act, shall be repealed, and thenceforth cease to operate, except as to the continuance of the officers appointed in pursuance of the said act; except also as to the recovery and receipt of such duties on goods, wares and merchandize, and on the tonnage of ships or vessels, as shall have accrued, and as to the payment of drawbacks and allowances in lieu thereof, upon the exportation of goods, wares or merchandize which shall have been imported, and as to the recovery, and distributions of fines, penalties and forfeitures which shall have been incurred before or upon the said day, subject nevertheless to the alterations contained and expressed in this present act.
And whereas by the act, intitled, "An act to regulate the collection of the duties imposed by law on the tonnage of ships or vessels, and on goods, wares and merchandizes imported into the United States," it was declared that the ruble of Russia should be rated at one hundred cents; and by the act, intitled, "An act to explain and amend an act, intitled, "An act for registering and clearing vessels, regulating the coasting trade, and for other purposes," that part of the said first mentioned act which so rated the ruble of Russia was repealed and made null and void. And whereas it is doubted whether the said repeal can operate with respect to duties incurred prior thereto, as was intended by Congress.
Therefore be it enacted and declared, That the said repeal shall be deemed to operate in respect to all duties which may have arisen or accrued prior thereto.
FREDERICK A. MUHLENBERG, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate. Approved, August the fourth, 1790.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, President of the United States. (True copy)—THO'S JEFFERSON, Secretary of State.
CONGRESS.
THIRD SESSION.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. SATURDAY, DEC. 11.
A Letter from The President of the Commonality of Paris was read, informing, that the news of the death of that great philosopher, Franklin, had reached them, and that they had caused an Eulogium to be written, as a tribute justly due to his memory.
On motion of Mr. White, ordered, That two members be added to the committee, appointed to prepare and bring a bill in amendment to an Act intitled, "An Act to promote the progress of useful arts," and that Mr. Williamson and Mr. Sherman, be added to the said committee.

MONDAY, DEC. 13.
A letter from the Secretary of the Treasury was read, accompanied with a report from him, which on motion, was ordered to be printed for the consideration of the House.
On motion, Resolved , that the House shall, on Monday next, resolve itself into a committee of the whole, to take into consideration the report of the Secretary of the Treasury.
Mr. Smith wished to show some attention to the President and Commonality of Paris, for their marked politeness to the memory of one of our illustrious citizens; he, therefore, made the following motion. The house being highly sensible of the polite attention of the Commons of Paris, in directing copies of an Eulogium, lately pronounced before them, as a tribute to the distinguished merit of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, a citizen of the United States, to be transmitted to Congress.
Resolved , That the Speaker do accordingly communicate the sense of the House thereon to The President of the Commons of Paris.
Mr. Vining observed, That as the motion stood, it appeared to relate rather to a living than a deceased person. He wished, therefore, to amend it, by striking out " distinguished merit ," and inserting " illustrious memory ,"
The amendment being made by the consent of the mover, the motion was laid on the table.
Mr. Lee took this opportunity of a leisure moment to move for the appointment of a committee to bring in a bill to direct the mode by which the evidences of the debt of the United States, which have been destroyed, may be renewed.
Ordered to lie on the table.
TUESDAY, DEC. 14.
NATIONAL BANK.
The Secretary of the Treasury communicated a report on the subject of a National Bank . Read and ordered to be printed.
MILITIA.
The committee appointed therefor, reported a bill to establish an uniform Militia throughout the United States. Read, the first and second time, and made the order of the day for Thursday next.
INDIAN EXPEDITION.
The President communicated the dispatches received from the commander of the troops on the expedition against the Indians.
LOST SECURITIES.
On motion of Mr. Lee , a Committee was raised to bring in a bill prescribing the mode in which the evidences of the public debt that have been, or may be lost, shall be renewed.
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 15.
The motion of Mr. Smith , which he laid on the table on Monday last, relative to answering the address of the President of the Commonality of Paris was adopted.
Messrs. Jackson, Ames and Sturgis were appointed to bring in a bill for extending a law of the last session, which expires in March next, relative to certain duties collected in Georgia, Maryland and Rhode-Island .
PRESIDENT'S SPEECH.
In committee of the whole on the President's Speech, the following Resolutions were agreed to, and reported:
Resolved , That it is the opinion of this committee, that immediate provision ought to be made for defraying the expense of the expedition against the Indians, northwest of the Ohio.
Resolved , as the opinion of this committee, that a committee be appointed to report a bill or bills for further encouragement of the navigation of the United States.
Resolved , That such part of the President's speech as relates to the Mediterranean Trade, be referred to the Secretary of State.
The foregoing resolutions being adopted by the house, the first was referred to the secretary of the treasury to report ways and means; the second to a committee of twelve members, one from each state; the third to Mr. Jefferson , secretary of state.
LAND-OFFICE.
The report of the Secretary of the Treasury , for disposing of vacant lands, and establishing a Land-Office for that purpose, was made the order of the day on Friday next, and ordered to be printed for the use of the members.
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
The report made by the Secretary of State , the last session, on the uniformity of Weights and Measures, was made the order of the day on Wednesday next.
THURSDAY, DEC. 16.
Mr. Fitzsimons presented the petition of John Churchman , requesting Congress to take further notice of his improvements and discoveries, relating to the magnetic variation of the needle.
The rest of the day the House in committee was engaged in the consideration of the Militia Bill .
FRIDAY, DEC. 17.
Several petitions were read, and disposed of. An address from sundry Quakers, praying exemption from militia duties, was read.
Read a second time, a Bill for continuing an Act respecting certain duties in Georgia, Maryland and Rhode-Island .
A Bill supplementary to an Act making provision for the debt of the U. S. came down from the Senate. Read a first time.
MILITIA.
The residue of the day, the House, in Committee, spent in discussing the Militia Bill .
MONDAY, DEC. 20.
Mr. Benson , from the committee appointed for that purpose, reported the following bills, viz.
A bill declaring the officer who, in case of the death, removal or disability of the President or Vice-President, shall exercise the office of President.
A bill for determining the respective times when the electors for a President and Vice-President shall be chosen, and the time when they shall give their votes.
A bill directing the mode in which the lists of the votes for President and Vice-President shall be transmitted to the seat of the government of the U. States; all which were read the first time.
In Committee of the whole on the Militia Bill .
Progress was made in the discussion as far as the 8th section.
TUESDAY, DEC. 21.
The three bills reported by Mr. Benson yesterday were read the second time, and made the order of the day for Monday next—100 copies of each of these bills were ordered to be printed for the use of the House.
A report from the commissioners appointed the last session to superintend the purchase of the public debt, was communicated to the House by the Speaker, by which it appears, that the Treasurer of the United States, pursuant to orders received from the commissioners, had purchased the sum of two hundred, seventy-eight thousand six hundred and eighty-seven dollars; for which, the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand two hundred and thirty-nine dollars, in specie, has been paid.
In committee of the whole on the Militia Bill .
The committee finished the discussion this day—and the chairman reported the same to the House with sundry amendments.
It was ordered that it should lie on the table.
Adjourned.
(To be continued.)
Foreign Intelligence.
STOCKHOLM, [Sweden] Sept. 3.
The Peace which was signed at Verelæ on the 11th ult. not being proclaimed for some days afterwards, the 18th was near producing one of the most obstinate battles at Swenska Sound , that ever was fought on that memorable spot. The Prince of Nassau having fixed on that day to attack his Majesty's fleet, advanced in order of battle, and continued so to do, notwithstanding every representation that could be made to him, as well by his own officers, as by repeated flags of truce from the Swedish fleet. He returned for answer, that he had as yet received no orders from the Empress to suspend hostilities: Things were in this situation; the two fleets in order of battle, at a very little distance out of gun shot, and the Russian fleet advancing, when the courier arrived from Peterburgh. Prince Nassau acknowledged the receipt of it by a flag of truce; and thus, those, who, a few minutes before, were on the eve of a most serious conflict, became friends in an instant, and mutually congratulated each other on the event. The King, landed in the Royal Barge, accompanied by the officers of the fleet, and being arrived at the camp, the two armies were drawn up opposite to each other, and fired a Feu de joy . After this the Russian General IGELSTROM came to pay his compliments to his Majesty, and had the honor of presenting General Bergman , the Cossack General Denisow , Prince Kergis of the Chinese Tartars, volunteer in the army, and all the superior Russian officers, (Prince Nassau was not observed to be among them) Te Deum was then sung, and the two armies returned public thanks to God for restoring the blessings of Peace, each according to their respective mode of worship. After which his majesty, in a most gracious and manly speech, thanked his army for their exertions during the war, their loyalty to him, and fidelity to their country. He then produced and read a list of promotions; at the head of which were generals Platten, Pauli, Meyerfelt, Pollet, Stodding, &c. His Majesty concluded by observing, that the English Colonel Sidney Smith , having originally refused the first commission in the coasting fleet, out of respect to his Sovereign's Proclamation, forbidding his officers to serve in foreign service, could not receive promotion at his hands; but as he had accompanied both fleets, as a volunteer, through this most arduous campaign, encountering the greatest dangers with cheerfulness, and evincing on all occasions the greatest courage, activity, and presence of mind, he had thought proper to name his Commander of the Order of the Sword. Several other promotions took place, after which the victorious standards of Charles the Twelfth (many of which still exist in the old regiments) were furled, never to be again displayed until war shall call them forth. His Majesty then conducted the Russian officers to the Royal Pavilion, where a splendid entertainment was prepared; the Empress of Russias' health was drank under the discharge of artillery; the Russian officers returning the compliment by drinking his Swedish Majesty's health, with the same accompaniments. During this time the dreary appearance of trenches and outworks between the two camps, was agreeably changed into a most regular garden; the soldiers having transplanted large trees, for that purpose, from the neighboring woods; these were illuminated at night, and the names of CATHARINE and GUSTAVUS shone conspicuously on every branch. The soldiers of both armies promiscuously partook of the refreshment the King's bounty had ordered for them. The various dresses of the Cossacks and Tartars on the one side, and the Laplanders and Dalecarlians on the other, giving the whole the appearance of a Masquerade. The illumination was, in the end, rendered complete by the combustion of the artificial forest, in one general blaze;
and the evening concluded with the greatest harmony and decency.
RICHMOND, [Virg.] Dec. 11.
Extract of a letter dated Danville, Nov. 9.
"I have heard from our campaigns, and the Intelligence is very unfavorable; those that went to the Westward did nothing except looting nearly all their horses, they marched as far as the Vermillion Town, which they found evacuated and then retreated. Those in the North-Western division have had several skirmishes with the Indians, and considerably to our disadvantage, the Indians fought desperately, and contrary to their usual practice, engaged our men on horseback, armed with swords. Our loss is not yet ascertained with precision, but some sensible men who seem tolerably well informed, say, that the loss of the Federal troops is 76, and that of the militia 108, many were left wounded and alive, and Gen. HARMAR most inhumanly refused them any assistance, but left them to be butchered by the savages.
"The names of the officers slain that have come to hand are, Maj. WILLIS Lieutenant FROTHINGHAM of the Federal troops, Maj. FONTAINE who acted aid to Gen. HARMAR , Capt. M'MURTRY , of Mercer, Capt. SCOTT (son of the General) and Capt. STRUCKER from Woodford, Capt. M'CLURE from Lincoln, all behaved very bravely. We have lost several hundred horses, and I think nearly suffered a defeat. The Indians are rather more troublesome than formerly, they attacked a company in the Wilderness, killed one, took one prisoner, and but for the bravery of a Capt. CARNTH and two others, would have butchered the whole. Seventy men are now scouring the trace.
"N. B. But nine scalps were taken from the enemy, and perhaps not more than thirty slain. I hear that Major FONTAINE was left alive. Twenty-five wounded militia and five regulars are come in."
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 22.
APPOINTMENTS.
THE PRESIDENT of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, has been pleased to make the following appointments.
ROBERT MORRIS, to be Judge of the District of New-Jersey, in place of David Brearly , deceased.
JOHN HETH, of Virginia, Ensign in the troops of the United States, in place of Richard Archer , who has declined his appointment.
JOHN SITGREAVES, Judge of the District of North-Carolina, in place of John Stokes , deceased.
WILLIAM HILL, Attorney for the United States in the District of North-Carolina, in the place of John Sitgreaves .
Yesterday between the hours of Twelve and one, His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN was proclaimed Governor of this Commonwealth, with the usual ceremonies.
M. DUFERNE has been appointed Ordonnateur du Tresor Public , or, Director of the public Treasury of France, in the room of M. NECKER .
"The Secretary of the Treasury, in obedience to the orders of the House, has laid before them two reports; one for making Provision for the Assumed Debt by additional duties on distilled spirits imported, and an excise on those manufactured in the United States—the other, a plan for the establishment of a National Bank ; the leading features of which, as well as we can recollect, are as follows:—The amount of stock to be 10,000,000 dollars, in shares of 400 dollars each; three quarters of which to be subscribed in the funded debt bearing 6 per cent.—the other quarter in specie; the Government to be proprietor in the stock, not exceeding 2,000,000 dollars; and the government of the bank to be in a President and Directors, chosen by the proprietors; the bank paper to be receivable in duties, &c. and it is probable the bank of this city will conform to the plan proposed, and constitute the National Bank ."

EXTRACT FROM THE Abstract of Politicks, &c. FOR DECEMBER, 1790. JAN. 1, 1791.
DOMESTIC ABSTRACT.
SECOND CONGRESS.
IN our last Abstract , we mentioned that the time of Hon. Mr. Hawkins, Senator for North-Carolina , would expire in March next—This was a mistake, Mr. H. drew the lot for six years.
SENATORS, elected since our last Abstract —The Hon. Messrs. Dickenson and Rutherford , for New-Jersey , vice, Hon. Messrs. Patterson and Elmer .—Hon. Charles Carrol , re-elected for Maryland .
REPRESENTATIVES, re-elected, Hon. Messrs. Livermore , Ames , Gerry , Goodhue , Sedgwick , Sherman , Sturges , Trumbull , Bourn , Benson , Lawrance , Sylvester , Vining , Seney , Brown , Giles , Grisf. , Lee , Madison , Page , Parker , White , Smith , Huger , Sumpter , and Tucker . New Members, Hon. Messrs. Ward and Bourne , Mass. Hillhouse , Conn. Gordon and Schoonmaker , New-York, Venable , Virg. Strett , Key , Pinkney , Murray and Sheredine , Maryl. Barnawell , S. Carol.
THE THIRD SESSION
Of Congress commenced the 4th of the last month—Its deliberations has been confined to the following interesting objects:—The President's Speech —The Mutua Bill —The Bill supplementary to an Act making provision for the Debts of the United States — Bill to amend the Act for the encouragement of useful arts — Post-Office Bill — Several Bills for regulating and ascertaining the choice of President and Vice-President —Besides, the Report of the Secretary of the State, on Coins, Weights and Measures —The Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, on the National Bank, and for the support of Public Credit —and the Report of the Secretary at War, on the subject of the Western Expedition :—And they have been proceeded on, with all the dispatch which the magnitude of all, and the difficulty of some of them, has allowed.
OF THE PUBLIC DEBT.
It appears that there has been purchased by the Commissioners appointed for that purpose, 278,687 dollars—for which 150,239 dollars, in specie, have been paid.
PUBLIC CREDIT
Has within the last month past rapidly appreciated.—Public Securities are now at a very respectable height—a circumstance which, we hope, will prevent, in a measure, their falling into the hands of foreigners—and thereby much money be prevented being sent out of the country.
THE WESTERN EXPEDITION
Has arrested much of the public attention for some time past—and in the general opinion, the issue has been extremely unfavorable. The commanding officer has not escaped censure—he has been charged of sporting with the lives of his troops, and his order wherein he declares that he could afford to lose two men for one Indian , is adduced in support of the charge. He has also been accused of ill-conduct in not succouring the corps engaged—and in not attempting to bring off the wounded—whom the savages afterwards scalped. Our loss is 183 killed and 31 wounded—among the former were twelve brave Officers—whose deaths, and those of the privates are universally lamented—Five or six Indian towns were burnt—and 20,000 bushels of corn, &c. destroyed—which circumstances, we hope, by rendering their distresses more severe, will convince the savages “that it is their interest to merit by a peaceable behaviour, the friendship and humanity which the United States are always ready to extend to them.”—The General's conduct will undoubtedly be scrutinized—and if his conduct has been bad, he will suffer for his demerits.
BOSTON, January 1. Commercial Intelligence.
[By Capt. BRIDGES, in the brig Ruby , who arrived here yesterday, we have received the following AUTHENTIC INFORMATION.]
From the LONDON GAZETTE, of October 9.
At the COURT AT ST. JAMES's, Oct. 6.
PRESENT, The KING's Most Excellent MAJESTY, IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by virtue of an Act, passed in the last session of Parliament, intitled, an Act to continue the Laws now in force for regulating the trade between the subjects of his Majesty's Dominions and the inhabitants of the Territories belonging to the United States of America, so far as the same relate to the Trade and Commerce carried on between this kingdom and the inhabitants of the countries belonging to the said United States,” his Majesty by the advice of his Privy Council, did, by an order in Council, made on the 1st day of April, 1790, amongst other things declare, That unmanufactured goods and merchandizes, the importation of which into this Kingdom is not prohibited by law (except fish-oil, blubber, whale-fins and spermaceti) and any pig-iron, bar-iron, pitch, tar, turpentine, rosin, pot-ash, pearl-ash, indigo, masts, yards, and bowsprits, being the growth or production of any of the territories of the United States of America, and no other goods or merchandizes, might (until further order) be imported directly from thence into any of the ports of this kingdom, either in British built ships, owned by his Majesty's subjects, and navigated according to law, or in ships built in the countries belonging to the United States of America, or of any of them, and owned by the subjects of the said U. States, or any of them, and whereof the master and three-fourths of the mariners at least are subjects of the United States, or any of them, and may be entered and landed in any port in this Kingdom, upon payment of the same duties as the like sort of goods or merchandize are or might be subject and liable to, if imported in British-built ships owned by his Majesty's subjects and navigated according to law, from any British island or plantation in America; notwithstanding such goods or merchandize, or the ships in which the same may be brought, might not be accompanied with the certificates or other documents heretofore required by law.
And whereas doubts have arisen upon the true intent and meaning of that part of his Majesty's order in council, herein before mentioned, which respects the importation of fish-oil, blubber, whale-fins and spermaceti, and such other goods and merchandize, being of the growth, production or manufacture of the said United States, as are not herein enumerated or described: His Majesty by the advice of his council, doth hereby order and declare, That oil made from fish or creatures living in the sea, and blubber, whale-fins, and spermaceti, and all other goods and merchandize, the importation of which into this kingdom is not prohibited by law, being the growth, production, or manufacture of any of the territories of the United States of America, and not enumerated or described in the said order, may be imported from thence into this kingdom in British or American ships, owned and navigated as by the said order is required, upon payment of such duties of customs and excise as are payable on the like goods or merchandize, upon their importation into this kingdom, from countries not under the dominion of his Majesty, according to the tables marked A. D. and F. annexed to an act, passed in the twenty-seventh year of his present Majesty's reign, intitled, “An Act for repeal-
ing the several Duties of Customs and Excise, and granting other duties in lieu thereof, &c. &c.” or by any other laws in force, passed subsequent to the said Act for that purpose; and in cases where different duties are herein imposed upon the like goods imported from different countries, not under the dominion of his Majesty, then upon the payment of the lowest of such duties; and such goods and merchandize shall be intitled to the same drawbacks as are allowed upon the exportation of the like goods and merchandize from this Kingdom, according to the before mentioned tables, or by any other laws in force, passed subsequent to the said act, for that purpose; and shall be liable to the same rules, regulations, and restrictions, as the like goods and merchandize are liable to upon importation into any port of this kingdom, by any laws in force for that purpose.
And the Right Honorable the Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury, and the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty are to give the necessary directions herein, as to them may respectively appertain.
W. FAWKENER.
Notwithstanding the late appearances of an EUROPEAN WAR, we are assured, by good authority, that a vessel has arrived at Newbury-Port, in a short passage from Ireland, the Captain of which was informed, the day before he failed, by persons of veracity, that the dispute with Spain was fully accommodated, and that orders had been received in Ireland to disband the regiments newly raised in that Kingdom. The date of those accounts, are Nov. 7, several days later than hath been before received.
Some persons undertake to blame the conduct of Gen. HARMAR, in the Indian Expedition. Though it is to be lamented that our loss was so considerable as it was—yet it must be remembered that the total loss was not in one single action but in the whole expedition—and for the General's personal bravery, many instances in the late war can be produced to attest to it.
JANUARY 5.
PEACE!
By Capt. HIGGINSON, who arrived here yesterday from England, and who sailed from Milford-Haven the 21st of November, we have a confirmation of the news of the RECONCILIATION between Great Britain and Spain, announced in the last CENTINEL. Capt. H. saw at Milford-Haven, a London paper of the 13th of November, which contained the ARTICLES OF CONVENTION, signed by Count FLORIDA BLANCHA, and Mr. FITZHERBERT—in which, in addition to the Declarations signed in June last, his Catholic Majesty agrees to permit on certain conditions, English vessels to trade at Nootka-Sound—and to participate in the southern Fisheries, provided the English vessels do not approach within a certain number of leagues of the Main of the Spanish Dominions. No mention is made, in the articles, of any restitution for armaments, &c. nor of the payment of the Manilla ransom. This circumstance has exasperated the people of Great-Britain, who had been led to expect, from the immense preparations made—and which had cost the nation near Five Millions sterling—that Spain would have been compelled either to fight or in addition to a compliance with the demands of Great-Britain to reimburse all the expenses of the British armaments. They say, the right to participate in the southern Fisheries is not of a guinea's importance—as the vessels of all nations have long enjoyed that privilege—and the trade to Nootka, they contend, is too inconsiderable an object to incur a thousandth part of the money it hath cost. All the pressgangs had been paid off, and discharged, previous to Capt. H's. sailing—Expresses had been sent to Ireland, and other parts, to countermand the or-
ders for the embarkation of troops—and every thing wore the aspect of settled peace. The above may be relied on—as authentic. But whether we can congratulate the American public on the event, we acknowledge we are in doubt.
PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 8.
The Right Rev. Bishops CARROL, and MADISON, have arrived at Baltimore from London.
The Cincinnati of New-York State, has ordered, that mourning be worn by the members thereof, 21 days in memory of the brave Major WILLIS, and Lieutenant FROTHINGHAM.
From an English Paper.
A most extraordinary bridge has been built over the river Foyle , at Londonderry which is about 900 feet wide, and 40 feet deep at high water: This bridge joins the city and county. This immense pile was constructed by Mr. Cox, an American of Boston, who, with twenty of his countrymen, and a few laborers, completed this bridge, consisting of 56 arches, all American oak, in five months—not a log of this wood having been imported before the first of May last—N. B. The river was surveyed by the late Mr. Milne last summer, who, declared that a bridge there was impracticable. The cost was 15,000l.
EXTRACT.
“IF I might advise a young man how he might rise to honor, one of my first lessons would be, cultivate a modest opinion of yourself. There is not a more despicable character than an arrogant conceited youth.—If you assume airs of self importance, you may be assured of universal contempt. If in all companies you engross the conversation, obtrude your own opinion on those who are wiser than you, and treat theirs with neglect; if you make yourself the subject of your discourse, and repeat with self applause, what you have said on such an occasion, how solidly you once confuted such a man, and how wittily you answered another, you may be pleased with the display of your talents, but you will pass with others only for an impertinent coxcomb.
ENTRIES at the CUSTOM-HOUSE of this district.
C L E A R E D FOR Brig Triumph, Lathrop, W. Indies. Schooner Favorite, Prescott, Virginia. Brig Polly, Gerrish, West-Indies. Brig Triall, Wingate, Ditto.
E N T E R E D FROM Brig Elizabeth, Salter, Ireland. Brig Nancy, Frost, West-Indies.
T A M W O R T H. State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non resident owners of land in the town of Tamworth, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1790, that unless they pay said taxes to me the subscriber, on or before the 11th of February next, so much of their land as will pay the same, together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of Samuel Gilman, Esq. in said town, at 10 of the clock, A. M. on said day.
Highway. sp. or. sp
No. Q'ty. s. d. d. d.
  Enock Quimby  6  50  2  1  1  1    N. Remick, 1st R.  0  92  4  2      Common Rights.    George Jaffery, Esq.   10  5       Daniel Rindge   10  5  4  2     Jonathan Warner   10  5     
JACOB GILMAN, Constable. Tamworth, December 28, 1790.
LOST on the evening of the 20th inst. between Portsmouth and Stratham Meeting-House, a small silver Watch with a China face and steel chain, with a brass key and seal,—whoever has found the same and will leave it with the printer hereof, shall be handsomely rewarded for their trouble. December 21, 1790.

Parnassian SPRING.
A HYMN FOR NEW-YEAR'S DAY, 1791.
S ING to the great Jehovah's praise, All praise to him belongs; Who kindly lengthens out our days, Demands our choicest songs, Whose providence hath brought us through Another varying year: We all with vows, and anthems new, Before our God appear. Father thy mercies past we own, Thy still continued care; To the presenting, thro' thy son, Whate'er we have or are: Our lips and lives shall gladly shew, The wonders of thy love, While on in JESUS' steps we go, To seek thy face above. Our residue of days and hours, Thine, wholly thine shall be, And all our consecrated powers, A sacrifice to thee. 'Till JESUS in the clouds appear, To saints on earth forgiven, And bring the grand Sabbatic year, The Jubilee of Heaven.
MONITORIAL FRAGMENT.
BUT 'tis in vain—old Time disdains to rest, And moment after moment flits along, Each with a sting to pierce the idler's breast; And vindicate its predecessor's wrong.
The Drunkard's Looking-Glass.
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.
DRUNKENNESS makes a man unfit for good; drowns and infatuates the senses; depraves the reason; besots the understanding; causes error in judgment; defiles the conscience; hardens and steals away the heart; brings a spiritual lethargy; it is a work of darkness; an annoyance to modesty; a gate to every kind of debauchery; a discoverer of secrets; a betrayer of trust; a depriver of honesty; a forerunner of misery; it cracks men's credit; empties their purses; consumes their estates; violates the rules of temperance; perverts the order of nature; causes profane and cursed speeches, vaunting, swearing and blasphemy—quarrelling, fighting, and murder; it is the mother of mischief; vice and pride; the nurse of riot and fury; the school of lying and slander; a discoverer of folly; an oppressor of nature; an impairer of health; it deforms the visage; corrupts the breath; stupifies the spirits; intoxicates the brain; decays the memory; inflames the blood; begets unnatural thirst; causeth stammering of speech; reeling and staggering; filthy and loathsome vomiting; dropsies, surfeits, &c. It is a voluntary madness; a deceiver of fools; a bewitching poison; an invited enemy; a flattering devil. It causes forgetfulness of God; is a provoker of his judgments; hastens, and often brings untimely death; and at last destroys the soul.
Secondly, Some particular characters of a DRUNKARD.
A Drunkard in that state is indisposed to virtue; is a licentious person; makes his belly his god; a companion of riot and revelling; a game and sport to profane people; a ridiculous object; his own sorrow, woe and shame; his wife's grief; his children's disgrace; his neighbors' contempt and derision; his family's ruin; a thief to himself; a scandal to christianity; a dishonor to God, and an abuser of his mercies; a loser of his time; a destroyer of his reputation, parts and credit; is subject to many dangers; a slave to the devil and his own lusts; a traveller to destruction; a transgressor of the laws of God and man (against whom dreadful woes are pronounced); he is his own soul's enemy; a human monster; and
at last will be excluded God's kingdom. And you, tavern keepers, retailers, and others who are concerned in giving, selling to, or causing any to drink to excess, either wine or other strong drink, are also guilty; and against whom a woe is pronounced: Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink, that putteth the bottle to him and maketh him drunken.
It may not be amiss to add to the foregoing, an extract, taken from the Moral and Physical Thermometer of Dr. Benjamin Rush, of Philadelphia; of the vices, diseases and punishments, which naturally result from intemperance; which may serve as a magnifying-glass to those who will not be reclaimed by the looking-glass.
The vices it produces are—Idleness, peevishness, quarrelling, fighting, lying, swearing, obscenity, fraud, anarchy, hatred of just government, murder and suicide.
The diseases are—gout, sickness, puking, tremors of the hands in the morning, bloatedness, inflamed eyes, red nose and face, sore and swelled legs, jaundice, pain in the limbs, and burning in the hands and feet, dropsy, epilepsy, melancholy, idiotism, madness, palsy, apoplexy, death.
The punishments are—debt, black eyes, rage, hunger, alms-house, goal, whipping-post, stocks, Newgate, gallows. And unless repentance should prevent, they will share in the punishment prepared for the devil and his angels.
From a London Paper.
IN a church a few miles from London, the P— was repeating that part of the Litany which offers up prayers "for all those who travel by land or by water," &c.—the Clerk suddenly exclaimed, "Except my wife, who eloped from me two days ago."
NORTHWOOD.
State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in the town of Northwood, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1790, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber, on or before the 15th day of February next, so much of their land as will pay the same, together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of Jonathan Clark, Esq. in said town, at ten o'clock, A. M. on said day.
State. C.
   R. No. Ac rs . s. d.     William Cleserton 7 10 42 0 3   Col. Richard Kent 0 12 118 0 5   Thomas Mosely 0 13 156 0 6   William Langdon, 0 14 156 0 6   Cuting Morris 0 16 130 0 6   Thomas Pierce 0 20 156 0 9   John Weight 0 21 156 0 9   Col. Gilman 9 25 78 0 6   John Tusk 0 4 156 1 8   William Briggs 10 70 78 0 6   Fann Clements 0 11 130 0 6   Samuel Whitwell 0 14 96 2 0  
JOSHUA FURBUR, Constable.
Northwood, Dec. 4, 1790.
CHICHESTER.
State of New-Hampshire.
WHEREAS the proprietors of Chichester in the State of New-Hampshire have been legally assessed for a sum of money to discharge the demands against said proprietors of which they have been duly notified, and their lands advertised for sale the 2d day of November last, to raise money for the purpose aforesaid, but the same being not completed at that time, the vendue was adjourned to the first Tuesday in February next, at ten o'clock, A. M. at the dwelling-house of John Cram, Esq. in Pittsfield, when and where so much of each delinquent proprietor's land will be sold at public vendue as will raise the same unless prevented by previous payment to the subscriber in Chichester.
THOMAS JOHNSON, Collector. Chichester, Dec. 24, 1790.
BLANKS of all sorts printed on good paper, may be had at J. Melcher's Printing-Office in Market-Street.
TO be sold at public vendue, at the house of John Atwill, in Hollis, in the county of Hillsborough and State of New-Hampshire, on the 18th day of January next, at one o'clock, P. M. the following lots or parcels of land in the township of Cockermouth, in the county of Grafton and State aforesaid, or so much of each lot as will be sufficient to pay the taxes due thereon with incidental charges.
   No. R. D. S. d     Benj. Abbott, 1772, 1775 7 2 1 13 2   Ben. Wentworth, 1771, 1772, 1773 & 1775, 16 3 2 11 3   Joseph Lefley, 1775, 17 3 2 4 2   A. Eastman, 1772, int le , 39 9   Ditto for 1772 & 1775, 2 3 1 13 2   Ditto for 1772 & 1775, 6 1 2 13 2   A. Eastman, jr. 1772, int er le g 9 9   Ditto, 1772, 9 3 1 9 0   Ditto, 1772, 6 6 2 9 0   Ditto, 1772, 3 14 3 18 0   Ditto, 1772, 4 14 3 18 0   S. Hart, jr. 1772, intervale, 12 9   Ditto, 1772, 10 2 1 9 0   A. Fisk, 1772, 1773 & 1775, 8 1 1 18 2   Step. Ames, 1775, int er le g , 43 4   Ditto, 1775, 11 4 1 4 2   Ditto, 1775, 16 2 2 4 2   Ditto, 1775, 11 1 3 8 3   Ditto, 1775, 14 3 3 8 3   Jonas Lasley, 1772 & 1773, 14 3 2 14 0   S. Powers, 1772, 1773 & 1775, 6 11.0   Ditto, 1772, 1773 & 1775, 4 1 2 18 2   Daniel Lovejoy, 1775, 2 3 2 4 2   Amos Phillips, 1775, 3 7 3 8 3   John Briard, 1775, 12 1 1 4 2   Jacob Foster, 1775, 1 vend. lot 6 1   J. Green, N o . 2, R. 6 D. 1 8   do. No. 2, Range 6. Div. 1 4  
1769 and 1771, JOHN ATWILL, Collector. Hollis, Dec. 10, 1790.
ALL Persons indebted to the estate of Capt. EDMUND ROBERTS, late of Portsmouth, mariner, deceased, are once more requested to pay the same to the subscriber (and save expence) as all who neglect must expect to have their notes and accounts sued without further notice.
MOSES WOODWARD. Portsmouth, Dec. 27, 1790.
State of New-Hampshire.
PUBLIC notice is hereby given to all the proprietors and owners of land in the township of Franconia, in the county of Grafton and State of New-Hampshire, that the proprietors of said Franconia, at their meeting held by adjournment, on the 10th of November, 1790, at the house of Capt. Benjamin French, innholder in Dunstable, in the county of Hillsborough and State aforesaid,—Voted a tax of seven shillings on each original Right in said township, for making and repairing Highways, which being duly assessed and committed to me to collect, which if not paid to me at my dwelling-house in Waltham, in the county of Middlesex in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, before the 27th day of January next, the delinquent rights will be advertised for sale as the law directs, by
JOSEPH NIXON, } Collector for the Proprietors of Franconia. Waltham, November 12, 1790.
At Auction,
BY License from the Judge of Probate, will be sold at Mr. Benjamin Dearborn's Auction-Room, on Thursday the 20th January, at 3 o'clock, P. M.—Four acres good Land, about one mile from town, adjoining Land of John Penhallow and Nathaniel Adams, Esquires, being the property of the late ELIZABETH BUTTLER, deceased. THOMAS SHEAFE, Administrator. Portsmouth, Dec. 24, 1790.
Newcastle-Bridge-Lottery
The Managers have fixed on MONDAY, the thirty-first this instant, JANUARY, for drawing the third Class.
ALL persons who have any demands on the estate of JOSEPH PATTINSON, late of Newington, Yeoman, deceased, are requested to present their accounts for adjustment—And all indebted to said estate are desired to make immediate payment to the subscriber, as a speedy settlement of said estate is intended. TEMPERANCE PATTINSON, Admin x . Newington, December 24, 1790.
Rockingham, ff. THE subscribers being appointed commissioners by the Hon. Judge of Probate, to receive and examine the claims against the estate of JOSEPH PATTINSON, late of Newington, Yeoman, deceased, represented insolvent, give notice that they will attend at the late dwelling-house of the deceased for that purpose, on the second Monday of January next, and on the second Monday of the three following months, from one to five o'clock, P. M. on said days. TIMOTHY DAME, RICHARD PICKERING. Newington, December 24, 1790.
State of New-Hampshire. PURSUANT to an Act of the General Court of the State of New-Hampshire, passed in June, 1790, empowering the Selectmen to tax all the lands belonging to non-residents and resident owners of land in the town of Protectworth, at the rate of two pence per acre,—I the subscriber being chosen Collector of the same, do hereby give notice, that unless said tax is paid in labour or money agreeable to said Act, within one year from this date, their land will be advertised for sale, and those who are disposed to pay said tax in labour, may apply to the selectmen or subscriber who will attend said business on the last week in May next, the first week in June, July, August and September following. NATHANIEL CLARK, Collector. Protectworth, November 6, 1790.
THE subscribers being appointed commissioners by the Hon. Judge of Probate, to receive and examine the claims against the estate of Simon Randall late of Lee, husbandman, deceased, represented insolvent, give notice that a further time of six months from the date hereof is allowed them by the Hon. Judge of Probate, to receive the claims against said estate, that they shall attend on said business at the dwelling-house of Simon Randall, in said town, the last Monday of this and the five following months from 2 to 6 o'clock, P. M. on said days. SMITH EMERSON, JOHN SNELL, Lee, July 15, 1790.
ALL persons who have any demands on the estate of GEORGE LANG, late of Greenland, deceased, are requested to present their accounts for adjustment—And all indebted to said estate are desired to make immediate payment to the subscriber. SARAH LANG, Administratrix. Greenland, January 1, 1791.
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