The New Hampshire gazette (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1793-09-24 00:00:00

New Hampshire Gazette.
PORTSMOUTH: Printed by JOHN MELCHER, Printer to the Hon. GENERAL-COURT of the State of New Hampshire, at his Office in Market-Street, at nine shillings per Annum.
General DUMOURIER to the French Nation.
DUMOURIER first says, that his desertion was occasioned by his intention of delivering his countrymen from the sanguinary and criminal yoke of monarchy; but this intention failed, by the second proclamation which a superior authority exacted from the Prince de Cobourg and which, by the error of the army, and the disorganizing system of the National Convention caused the plans concerted with that General to miscarry. Reduced to pity his country, and unwilling to employ his talents in the dismemberment of it, he is determined to make use only of his pen to combat the Jacobins and the Anarchists; and to crush them with the club of public opinion.—Threatened by them with a thousand poignards, he hopes to enjoy his physical existence till he has morally destroyed them. "This," says he, "is the greatest service I can do to my nation, the greater part of which I know to be tired of the metaphysical deceptions of some, of the hideous plots of others, and of the crimes of all."
Dumourier admits that, subsequent to the tragical end of Louis XVI. the Convention had arrogated to itself an aristocracy of crimes, the only one which at present exists in France; that the moderate party of this Assembly, constrained, from the dread of being stabbed, to unite themselves with the Mountain, exclaim with the rest, "Long live the Republic!" and that thus they give a death blow to the social body, by sanctioning decrees at once criminal and absurd.
The Convention had submitted to the public an indigested plan for a constitution; but it removed to a distance the Primary Assemblies, to whom the project ought to have been submitted, and of which the uncorrupted and suffering part of the Convention entertained hopes of availing themselves for the purpose of becoming rescued from the slavery imposed upon them by Marat and his associates.
The Ex-General affirms, that whilst these tyrants were engaged in stripping the People of their sovereignty, he has also torn from them their Iron sceptre, by his Proclamations, and by his setting up against them the constitution of 1789, to which the people, as Sovereigns, consented. "But as to the rest," he adds that "a Government exercised by strokes of daggers can only be supported by a Constitution formed under the blows of hatchets."
"Thus it is, that instead of rallying the whole Nation, by
mild and wise laws, they will expose to all Europe the impure production of that Hydra with an hundred heads, which depopulates and lays waste the land of France. It is by the scum of the Nation that the Nation will be represented; and it is with this Arcopagus of furious maniacs, of scoundrels, of men equally weak and ignorant, that other States will have to treat; it is to their criminal hands that the fate of my unhappy country must be intrusted?—No! their mad projects shall recoil upon their guilty heads; they shall not even have time to work up their crimes to a consummation. Already stricken with that blindness which is the harbinger of their fall, whatsoever they execute tends to their own destruction."
Here the Ex-General represents the Administrator Cambon as busy in rendering the Convention hateful to other nations, by promoting the passing of decrees of plunder and theft, with which he flatters himself to cover the deficit of his intricate administration.
Since the month of September 1792, the period when Royalty was abolished and a Republic adopted by the Convention, it has decreed at least an hundred and thirty millions monthly for extraordinary expences; which sum being added to the twenty or thirty millions produced by imposts and taxes, exceeds one hundred and fifty millions per month.
It is certain, that the expences cannot amount to one hundred millions a month, both for the military and naval forces, and all the other charges of Government, since it is true—1st, that the land troops are neither armed, clothed, nor half completed;—2d, that there was not a single ship at sea at the end of last February, to protect the cruizers and the small remnants of our commerce, except the squadron ruined in the Mediterranean;—3d, that no repairs are made in the great roads;—4th, that the payment of all debts, even the most sacred, namely, the pay of worship, has been discontinued; and, 5th, that no public expence, whether of use or of luxury, is either incurred, encouraged or paid by Administration.
Consequently fifty millions should remain of the monthly receipt, supposing that the extravagant system adopted by the Convention costs one hundred millions per month, which is impossible. What becomes of these fifty millions? Here is my idea of their employment, into which the Nation, the dupe and victim of its Representatives, should examine.
Thirty millions are expended
in keeping in pay three or four hundred thousand partisans of the Disorganizing System; from fifteen to twenty thousand of whom reside in Paris; and the remainder are spread over the surface of the kingdom, and of Europe. Such is the real army of the friends of Marat, Pache, Orleans, &c. It is well paid, much caressed and well treated; whilst the armies on the frontiers are disgraced, neglected and ill-used.
"If the Rulers," observes Dumourier, "did not wish to follow a plan of disorganization, they might have finished the war in November last. They would not have precluded themselves from the possibility of avoiding an open contest with Great-Britain and Holland."
They would not have had to answer for the perfidy of declaring war, as sudden as it was imprudent, after having opened a negotiation with which he was entrusted. But their reign and their system of plunder would have been concluded by a peace; a peace would have made it necessary for them to give in their accounts, it would have terminated their labors, and they must have fled to their respective lurking holes, if the vengeance of the People should have permitted them to retire to their primitive obscurity.
Dumourier then takes notice of the conduct of the Jacobins. In the sittings of the 30th of March last, by the machinations of the Jacobins, it was decreed, that Mayence, the Netherlands, and the county of Nice and Savoy should be united. On the 2d of April they published my famous letter of the 12th of March, without adding to it the four accompanying Memorials. On the 4th of April they idly accused me with having betrayed the nation in the plains of Champagne, and of not having made the King of Prussia a prisoner: On the 6th of April the Convention offered a reward of 100,000 livres to those who would assassinate me, and those who had been under my command were ordered to be very narrowly watched; at the same time it was decreed, in violation of the laws of nations, that those German Princes should be arrested, who were at that time prisoners of war. On the 7th of April it was ordered that the rich should support the dearths of bread, in order that the poor should pay for it at a fixed rate, thereby arming the poor man against the rich. On the 10th of April, it confirmed some sentences of death pronounced by factious tribunals, made and supported by itself, and even those pronounced and executed by the People, whose fury it has constantly excited. On the 16th, in the midst of atrocities, accounts
of the most ridiculous triumphs were received; among others, the admission of the tri-coloured flag by one of the petty Sovereigns of Madagascar, who, for an ell of scarlet or a small quantity of brandy, would tread it under foot, at the request of the first foreign captain who might wish him to do so.
After a brief recital of the atrocities and follies of the Convention, Dumourier adds, that long since the Moniteur seems to be the Journal of a Bicetre or Bedlam ; that the members call one another toads , scoundrels , factious ; that they threaten one another with pistols and swords; that the galleries take part in those indecent quarrels—Marat calls his colleagues dindons ( geese ) they proscribe, they detest, they despise each other; those even who are looked upon as the most clever, are absurd, foolish, and at all times unjust.
Alas! says he, liberty and happiness are proscribed from France: the whole nation sees the sword of Damocles hanging over its head by a thread; private properties are sacrificed to plunder, or the fatal waste of an internal and external war, provoked and conducted by absurd scoundrels; every Frenchman trembles under the despotism of crimes; Marat himself is a cowardly slave; the Parisian Jacobins are never free but when they are assembled in their infernal den. Beyond the limits of that tremendous Asylum, they fear the return of order and their own chastisement; they are mutually afraid of one another; the fall of the children of Cadmus is the symbol of their existence, and will prove that of their destruction. At the moment of the catastrophe they will turn against each other the weapon forged by licentiousness; crime then will revenge crime, unless the nation, speaking thro' the organ of the Departments, should purge the city of Paris of that den of thieves, who accumulate murder and infamy on that devoted metropolis; whose streets, palaces, and temples, call to remembrance some criminal events of our preposterous revolution; but in their attempts they have only adopted the ill-manners of the free-booters of Romulus, and their avarice, injustice and fanaticism. These are the men who have dishonoured France by the unheard of cruelties of the six first days of September; and who have had the barbarous cowardice to force with drawn daggers that debased Convention to sign the death warrant of the unfortunate Louis XVI.
Dumourier then declares, that the national convention is answerable for the calamities which result from this regicide. The mon-

ters that tyrannize in France, have found it, says he, necessary to make the whole nation an accomplice of their crimes: to deprive it of every means of conciliation; and to give it the fury of despair; and by reducing it to this cruel extremity, they imagined to have fixed their lawless power on a permanent foundation. But all the departments, the greater part of the army, and a great number of the members of the Convention itself, acknowledge the Machievallian atrocity of these bloody despots, and only wait for an opportunity to rise up against them.
This long and energetic lamentation concludes by an exhortation to the French "to renounce the chimera of a Republic, the licentiousness, injustice, and cruelty of which have destroyed the reality; that they should not wait for laws from beings as immoral as the majority of the Convention; but to recal the Constitution of 1789, 90, and 91, founded, says he, upon the sweetest and most sublime philosophy; that constitution, which, like a wonderful Talisman, so soon as the French shall adopt it, will disarm all their foreign enemies, and make domestic dissention cease."
He asserts, that the principal object of his journey to Paris last January was to save the King; but that his endeavours were rendered ineffectual by the dismay which prevailed in the capital; that he found neither energy nor good faith in the Deputies to whom he revealed his intentions; and that after fruitless attempts he was obliged to fly to the country, and withdraw himself from an abode of horror, where he was marked out as a proscribed person; and from that very moment he took an oath never to return to Paris, till he had destroyed the monster Anarchy, and re-establish the constitution of 1789.
Dumourier at length separating the virtuous part of the French people from the scoundrels who mislead them, predicts, that all their atrocious crimes will be punished, that the Jacobin name will be annihilated and delivered to opprobrium; that the culpable members of the National Convention will be too happy if their obscurity leaves them only remorse for punishment; that if, without generals, without armies, without money, without arms, without stores, without supplies, and, without government, the French nation, the dupe of senseless ruffians, chooses to resist all Europe, France will be dismembered; the frontier department and the colonies will become the prey of the Belligerent powers, whilst the interior of the kingdom will be a resort for ferocious beasts; where crime, devastation, and assassination will make dreadful ravages, where every social tie will be broken, and where life will be burthensome.
Interesting Paper.
Elector of COLOGNE's Letter to General DUMOURIER.
"I have received, Sir, your letter of the 12th, and am much surprised to find that you are still at Mergentheim. I had hoped that you would have been sensible of the attention which I had observed in the orders which I gave to my Stadtholder, to engage you to seek another place of abode. But it appears by your letter that you require a farther explanation of my sentiments, which I therefore make no delay in communicating to you.—France, torn, in its interior by different factions, without principle, inspired me at first with pity, which a faction of wicked wretches, has since by their crimes, converted into horror. I had considered what passed there as the effect of momentary madness; and although myself and the Teutonic Order which is committed to my direction, there suffered considerable losses, I regarded them simply as a misfortune; and I flattered myself with the hope of seeing a new order of things established, when the moment of repentance came. Every species of government and of order, was overturned in France; but the rest of the world was in peace, and it is to you alone, Sir, and to your administration, that the greater part of Europe is indebted for being drawn into the present unhappy circumstances. You first induced France to carry her arms into foreign countries, to attack her neighbours, and to endeavor to disseminate those evils to which she was herself a victim. The blood which is shed and the impositions and vexations occasioned by a war so general, and so disastrous to France, as well as to the whole universe, fall upon you as upon the author and origin of these calamities. The distinguished and brilliant manner in which you
commanded the armies, can neither excuse nor obliterate the memory of the evils which you have occasioned to humanity."
"I speak not of the manner in which you quitted the French army; my opinion, wholly directed, like that of a private person, by sentiments of loyalty, probity and honor, could by no means be agreeable to you; I am happy however, that you can have considered as a mark of esteem, the curiosity of the public to see the author of their misfortunes, and the object of their fears no longer capable of injuring them."
Your principles have not changed, but circumstances are altered; and if the principal powers think that you may be useful to them, or if you conceive that they owe you any obligation, I assure you that, as for myself, as a simple individual, charged with the administration of some countries, who thought proper to elect me for their chief, I cannot be of that opinion, nor can I enter into any relation with you; but on the other hand, I am bound to reiterate the orders given to my stadtholder, to accelerate your departure.
"These are the sentiments with which I am, &c. &c."
FROM THE DAILY ADVERTISER.
Messrs. Childs & Swain, The notice in yesterday's paper, for the non-commissioned officers and privates to meet last evening, has excited some alarm.—Please to insert the following, which was drafted and unanimously agreed upon.
NEW-YORK, AUG. 30, 1793. May it please your Excellency, THE non-commissioned officers and privates of the New-York line, late American Army, beg leave most respectfully to address your Excellency, on the subject of our sufferings during the late war, and the mode in which they have been paid; that, having completed the Revolution, we retired to private life, to mix with our fellow citizens, with assurances from your Excellency, that we had served our country faithfully, and that our country would perform all they had promised; but from the weakness of government at that time, and their resources being conducted by a financier, we were obliged to take due-bills for our wages, when our distress was extreme, and compelled to alienate those due-bills in the payment of public taxes, and all other private debts at 2/6 in the pound; and made tributary to our assigns by the funding act in a nett profit of 12/6 in the pound; and also, in the sum of 13,250 dollars annually, for offices of transfer, to accommodate the dealers in our due-bills.
That as there remains in the hands of government, a small balance of the wages we so painfully earned, which we conceive may be paid to the original creditor without interfering with any system heretofore adopted, and the documents necessary to ascertain the amount of our wages, and the sum government have paid by the funding act, and the balance that remains due, are now in existence.
Therefore, Sir, relying on your wisdom at the head of government, as we did on your ability in the field, with a remembrance of the confidence placed in your honor during our servitude, and at the dissolution of the army, that a country rescued from impending ruin, will not leave the debt of gratitude unpaid, nor so many of our companions, worn by fatigue and hard fighting, to solicit in the eve of life, the cold hand of charity in a country their valor saved; and as the labors of the gentlemen, Mr. Madison, seconded by Mr. Jackson, who were disinterested, and induced by principles of Justice, in advocating the cause of an army, who had done and suffered more than any army ever did for the freedom of the human race, proved unsuccessful. We solicit your Excellency's advice and assistance at the next meeting of Congress, to obtain the remnant that remains unpaid on our certificates. And in the mean time, subscribe ourselves, with affection and esteem, Your humble servants.
His Excellency, G. WASHINGTON. To be presented by serjeant John Clark. Signed, &c.
PARIS, June 7. The Executive Council have sent orders to all the sea ports of the Republic, to suffer all American ships to pass and repass without examining either the whole or any part of their crews or cargoes.
LONDON, July 13. Fifteen hundred of the patriots who had been taken prisoners by the Royal-
ists at Samur, were completely stripped naked, and discharged, upon swearing never to bear arms against LOUIS XVII. and the catholic religion.
COPENHAGEN, June 1. News from all quarters announces the speedy arrival in our road of a numerous Russian fleet, with 10,000 land forces on board, on their way to one of the ports of Great-Britain.
This important intelligence is confirmed from Elsinore, that the fleet, with the troops, in three divisions, was to leave Cornstadt on the 17th of May.
Domestic Intelligence.
SAVANNAH, August 22. The Creeks keep up the old custom of pilfering on the frontiers. In the night of the 8th instant, a party, said to belong to the Euchee town, attempted to steal some horses from Capt. WILLIAM's station, at St. Savilla. The vigilant officer was prepared for them, and one of the Indians must have dearly paid for his temerity; he was seen to fall, and in the place where he fell, near a pint of blood was found, with his bag of paint, scalping knife and other war implements. The fellow, however, whether killed or wounded, was borne off by his companions. Advices received to the westward mention that one of the Indians Capt. Williams fired at in a former attempt had arrived in the Nation desperately wounded.
We are informed that several horses have been stolen by the Creeks lately on the frontier of Greene and Washington.
Aug. 29.—On the 14th instant a party of Indians (supposed to be ten in number) stole seven horses from Colerain, in Camden county. Lieut. M'Gillis, with seven men, went in quest of the thieves; they got to the burnt Fort, where they made a raft, on which the Lieutenant and five of his men crossed Settilla river at 4 o'clock in the afternoon; they followed the track of the Indians until night, and next morning, after marching two miles, came upon their camp; the savages on finding themselves discovered ran off, leaving six of the horses, (the other they had shot) their slaps, leggins, kettles, knives, tomahawks, &c. behind them. The ground where they had encamped was so bad and swampy as to render every attempt of Lieut. M'Gillis to come up with them fruitless, so that he was obliged to content himself with what he had got, and return home.
WINCHESTER, Sept. 2. Extract of a letter from a correspondent of veracity, to the editor hereof, dated German Creek, Territory South of the Ohio, Aug. 16.
"On the 4th inst. Col. Daugberty, of Jefferson county with 180 men, crossed the Tennessee, to the valley Indian towns, killed nine fellows and two squaws, took and brought in seven prisoners, burnt twenty towns and villages, and destroyed vast quantities of vegetables. The whites had five men wounded. The inhabitants on the frontiers are in close forts, expecting a visit from the Indians, when the volunteers are tired of harassing them. Indeed the spirit of volunteering seems to be on the decline; only 40 men paraded on a signal for an expedition, a few days ago; though I think a large company might be raised, under the sanction of government; and it is absolutely necessary to give them a severe flogging, in order to bring them to a sense of their duty, and teach them to pay some respect to treaties."
BALTIMORE, Sept. 7. This afternoon a melancholy circumstance happened in Market near Light-street in this town. A little boy playing in a back yard, in which was a well that had been lately covered for the purpose of cleaning out, dropped his hat into it—a young lad attempted to go down for it, but on descending 10 or 12 feet, he was suffocated—Mr. Gaulter Hornby, jun. son of Gaulter Hornby, Cabinet-maker, in going down to bring the lad up, met the same untimely fate—and a negro lad who was let down after them, was very near being deprived of life before he got to the bottom, and when brought up was to all appearance dead. Let this serve as a caution to people in future, never to attempt going into Wells, or Vaults, before the foul air is dispersed by burning of gun-powder, nitre or some other alkaline substances.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 4. Yesterday arrived here the ship La Ville de l'Orient, Capt. Malin, in 105 days from Bengal, with a valuable cargo of silks and muslins, valued at £500,000 sterling. Capt. Malin did not hear of the war until informed by some American Captains off the Western Islands, to whom he acknowledges himself to be particularly indebted, for by following their
advice he shunned and escaped the British cruisers in the Atlantic ocean. To Capt. Coffin of Boston, he is more particularly indebted. By the intelligence of a Delaware pilot he avoided falling into the power of the Orion man of war in Chesapeake bay, as he intended for Norfolk, after which he steered for and arrived safe in this port.
A large Dutch ship, from Eustatia, bound to Amsterdam, has been carried into an Irish port by a London letter of marque ship. She had been previously captured by the French privateer l'Egalite, who took out of her nine chests of gold dust, 200 tons of ivory and every other article of value.
September 14.
According to a list published of the births and deaths in the several religious societies of Philadelphia, It appears that from August 1, 1792, to August 1, 1793, the Births amounted to 2511, and the Deaths to 1497.
The British Packet, Queen Charlotte, arrived at New-York the 10th inst. She left Falmouth the 10th July—and has therefore bro't nothing new.
NEW-YORK, September 13. Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Ireland, to his son in Philadelphia, dated Port, near Killybegs, 2d July 1793.
"This country is plunged into an abyss of misery by the war which we are drawn into against France, as it has put a stop to every kind of commerce; towards Dublin, and in the interior parts of the Island, manufacturers who lived in the greatest opulence, are reduced to a state of beggary, as the productions of their labour, which used to be bought up with avidity and exported to other countries are now left on hand, and no one to ask the price of them. Above 100 of the first rate mercantile houses in Dublin have failed, and in London-derry, and in other places, there are bankruptcies every day. The government have ordered all the regular forces abroad to the French frontiers, and we shall not have 200 soldiers left in the country; its protection is now to be entrusted to a new system of militia, the County of Donegal are to raise 600, and every other county in proportion to its extent and ability; this militia is to receive pay and clothing the same as the army, and not to leave their own country, but in case of urgent necessity. How easy for ministry to form an excuse of necessity? they need only say a Frenchmen looked cross at the king's picture. This militia is perhaps one of the most alarming, as well as impolitic measure that ever was imagined; but it seems as if Providence was suffering ambition to fall into its own snares."
Extract of a letter from London, July 27.
"The indiscriminate effects of our impress is likely to raise a serious question between this country and the United States. Impressions are granted to American sailors upon affidavit of the Captain, that they are natives of the said States. In many instances, however, Americans have been pressed, and in two instances have been detained prisoners even after a writ of habeas corpus was issued for bringing them before a Judge. Two Americans were pressed a month ago at Wapping. The Captain with whom they had sailed, had made oath before the Lord Mayor of their being natives of the United States, and protection had been granted them. The same writ was granted three days after, by Sir Nash Groce, to bring their bodies before him, to ascertain the fact of their being Americans or not, but the writ has not been obeyed, and they are still kept on board. I am informed, that proofs of these facts have been transmitted to America; and the cases of false imprisonment are to be brought in the mean time before a jury. There is something very singular in the sort of protection from being pressed, that is now granted to the American seaman of American ships trading to the port of London. I was a few days ago on board an American vessel, now in the Thames, and was told by the chief mate, that his protection (though he has a certificate from an American Secretary of State, declaring that he is a native of that country) did not protect him in any other place than the vessel of which he was on board; and that he was obliged to send for a taylor to measure him for a suit of cloths on board; because he was in danger of being pressed if he went on shore; and yet this mate had property on board to the amount of many thousand pounds, and will probably be appointed to the command of a vessel in less than six months."
By late accounts from the East-Indies we hear, that all the Indian Princes were again about to join Tippoo, in a combination against the British forces.

From St. John's, (Porto-Rico) August 13 "A French schooner of 18 guns and a sloop of 14 have entered a small port, the west end of Porto-Rico and took out 17 sail of Spanish vessels, and afterwards demanded and obtained a ransom from the town of 14000 dollars. These two vessels then sailed around the south and east side and picked up all the vessels they could find."
Yesterday arrived here the ship Active, Capt. Seaman, in 41 days from Liverpool:—She brings no later papers or news, than we have had lately by Capt. Harvey, and others from London.—Passengers arrived in the Active: Mr. James Renwick of this city Merchant. Mr. Black, of Liverpool. Mr. Brierly, of Manchester. Mr. Gray, of Glasgow, And about 40 other passengers, mechanics &c. men women and children.
The passengers informs us, that the failures are in a great measure stopped, and that trade is going on with usual facility and industry.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Philadelphia, to his friend in this town.
"Will you have in New-York sufficient energy to guard against the introduction and spreading of the yellow fever, which has depopulated, and which is still depopulating this city?—This invincible, but deadly enemy, has spread more terror than an army of ten thousand enemies, and perhaps will kill as many as such an army would do in a campaign. Perhaps it might have been stopped by a certain degree of vigour, and rigid police in the first instance."
The corporation, at the request of the citizens of New-York, have come to a resolution absolutely to prevent all intercourse between this city and the city of Philadelphia;—and for this purpose guards are set at the different landings, with orders to send back every person coming from Philadelphia to this city; and if any person shall be discovered to have arrived in this city, after this date, it is the resolution of the citizens immediately to send them back.
BOSTON, September 18.
FROM DUBLIN, JUNE 12.
"Great efforts are making to suppress the French principles of Liberty and Equality; and the business is nearly effected. There are thirty-eight thousand militia raising to quell any propagation of those principles. The regular regiments are also recruiting—each troop of Light-Horse, is to consist of 76 privates, 4 serjeants, and 6 corporals, each troop. Bad proceedings are made against the country people, as they oppose the raising of the militia—the army is in continual motion to quell them and the jails are full of prisoners."
FROM GIBRALTAR, AUG. 2.
On Sunday evening arrived here, the ship George of Boston, Silas Daggett, master, from Gibraltar, who informs;
That the British fleet, under Lord Hood, which went into the Mediterranean, at the date of the last accounts, were off Barcelona; and that a junction with the Spanish fleet had not been effected, the latter having gone into Carthagena, occasioned by the sickness of the crews:
That it was reported at Gibraltar, that it was the intention of the fleets, when combined, to have gone against Toulon; but, that the most thinking people suppose the English will have more prudence than to attempt it:
That a number of prizes were selling in Gibraltar, mostly Spanish vessels, taken by the French, and retaken by the English:
That the ship General Washington, a French privateer, had been sent in there:
That the inhabitants of Gibraltar expected daily to hear, that the English had declared war against America, for supplying the French with provisions, although they seem to wish the contrary:
And that the Spaniards expected a very severe attack from the French after the northern armies had retired to winter quarters.
Agreeably to the Proclamation of his Excellency the Governor, the General Court will meet in this town; to take into consideration, the subject of the inability of States before the Federal Judiciary.
We understand that the action of Vassal against the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, has not been entered on the docket of the Supreme Court of the United States.
We are authorised to say, that the two schooners, lately captured by the Roland, said to be a French privateer, are to be delivered up to their original owners, by order of the Supreme executive of the United States.
Capt. Downes, arrived at New-London, from the Havannah, learnt there, that 5000 troops, with a number of ships of war, had sailed, on an expedition against the French part of St. Domingo.
On Monday four male and four female culprits, of various complexions, sat on the gallows, and received the discipline of the post, for various thefts of which they were convicted, at the late term of the Superior Court.
The exports from Alexandria to foreign ports, for a year, ended in June last, were in value, at the time of exportation, 272,248 dollars.
Tuesday evening arrived in this port the ship Neptune, taken some time since by the Marailles, loaded with bread and flour.
September 23.
By the arrival of Capt. Lewis, in the brig Westpoint, in 50 days from Liverpool, papers are received to the 27th of July. They contain nothing of any consequence, respecting the combined forces and our Gallic Allies. Valenciennes had not surrendered at the date of the accounts received. On the 13th agreeably to articles of surrender, the garrison of Conde marched out of the town and laid down their arms. It consisted of 4008 men. They had been living for some time, on 11 ounces of bread, and two of horse-flesh, with some rice, per day. A considerable quantity of rice was still remaining; but bread very much failed. They carried out with them about 100 horses in good condition.
On Wednesday last a vessel arrived at Marblehead, from Bilboa, the Captain of which says, that previous to his sailing, a vessel had arrived there, with the intelligence, that a battle had been fought in the province of Navarre, between the French and Spaniards, in which the latter was totally defeated—their loss 600 men.
Infection in Philadelphia.
The letters and papers from the southward are filled with the most distressing accounts of the mortality of the malignant infection which has lately severely scourged the city of Philadelphia. The particulars thereof are shocking to humanity; and if we may judge from the rigorous precautions taking by the government and citizens of the States adjoining to Pennsylvania, to prevent its introduction therein, they are not greatly exaggerated. From letters received from thence, we have extracted the following particulars:—
SEPTEMBER 9.
"I steal a moment to inform you of the dreadful situation of this city—visited by a disorder very little different from the plague: Soon after its appearance here, there was a consultation among the faculty, when a Dr. Ross, who had lived in Constantinople, at a time when that disorder swept off more than an hundred thousand persons, gave it as his opinion, that it would be proper to adopt measures similar to those adopted in European countries on such occasions, viz. That every body who could, should quit the city—that the houses where the infection was, should be marked—that all business should be suspended—that as little connection as possible should be had with the sick—that the dead should be buried at night, or as privately as possible, &c. You may, perhaps, have seen how far this opinion was adopted—the marking of the houses has been omitted—but necessity has compelled to bury the dead in carriages; and I assure you they bury from morning till night, and frequently in the night."
"The disorder was at first confined to a particular part of the city; but now there is no part free from it—it has extended itself from North to South, from East to West; according to the best account I could collect this day, yesterday there were nearly fifty buried."
"BUCHAN in his description of the worst kind of putrid fevers, gives a pretty accurate account of the disorder now here—though in most cases it is attended with additional circumstances of horror: I have made diligent enquiry, and find in almost every case, the persons who have died, have caught the disorder from others who have died with it.—Originally, I am fully persuaded it was imported from the West-Indies; some facts have come to my knowledge, which leave no doubt of this on my own mind."
"The city is now in a manner depopulated; almost every person who could
quit it, is gone—I should judge by appearances, that full one half of the people are gone; business is in a great degree stagnated; and I suppose from this day the public offices will not be opened—I went to the Treasury-Offices this day, and found all deserted, except by one or two of the Clerks, who informed me they were on the wing."
"Mr. HAMILTON was taken with this terrible disorder last Saturday night—his attack was extremely violent—a vomiting which continued so long and so forcible, as almost to deprive him of life before it could be stopped. He is about five miles out of town; but I have heard from him once or twice every day. This afternoon, about 3 o'clock, I heard that his symptoms were highly alarming; and I shall not be surprised to hear of his death by to-morrow. He caught the disorder by going into a house on business, where there was a person sick with it—which circumstance he was ignorant of."
"You see by the foregoing, that tho' Dr. Ross's opinion was not explicitly adopted, it has been really practised upon in part—and if it had been in respect to designating infected houses, it is possible the Secretary might have escaped."
"You will doubtless conclude, that the people here are thrown into a great consternation—this is the fact, and the consequences are, and have been shocking: Numbers have been left to perish in a most wretched manner—for fear, has taken possession of almost every mind; several of the Physicians have been seized; and two of them are dead, viz.—Doctor James Hutchinson and Doctor Morris. The victims are commonly carried off in four or five days—I have seen and conversed with persons, who were buried before the week came round. It has been remarked, that intemperate persons stand very little chance of their lives when attacked."
"Tuesday morning—I have heard that the Secretary was much better last evening; expect to hear shortly how he was this morning."
"Ten o'clock—I have just heard that the Secretary continues better. I hope therefore that he will be spared."
Dr. RUSH has published in the Philadelphia papers, that after several unsuccessful attempts to prescribe a remedy for the infectious disease now there, he had found, that large doses of Mercury, combined with jalap, had been attended with "wonderful efficacy." And concludes by saying, that "I have had so many unequivocal proofs of the success of the short and simple mode which I have adopted, of treating this disorder, that I am now satisfied, that under more favorable circumstances of attendance upon the sick, the disease would yield to the power of medicine, with as much certainty as a common intermitting fever."
In the proceedings of the town of Charlestown, in Maryland, to prevent the spread of the infectious disorder from Philadelphia, it is said, "that the said disorder had extended itself from Philadelphia, to Trenton, Princeton, Woodbridge, and Elizabethtown, on the Post-road to New-York."
Letters by the Alexandria (at Philadelphia) in 42 days from Kelleybigs, mention great disturbances in the west and north of Ireland. The volunteers will not lay down their arms, and it was thought, that the Catholics and Presbyterians would join them.
PORTSMOUTH, Septem'r 24.
Last Saturday night, a fishing schooner coming into this harbour, ran on Boon-Island rock, bilged, and immediately sunk with her sails all standing, the people had only just notice enough to escape in the boat.—She belonged to Great-Island, and was owned by a Mr. Mazene of that place, and Mr. Samuel Wallace of this town, two very industrious men,—their loss is supposed to be near three hundred pounds, L. M. which they acquired by honest industry.
Died since our last, a Child of Mr. Samuel Tappan of this town.
TO BE SOLD
A large Dutch STOVE, WITH FUNNEL COMPLETE.
Inquire of the Printer.
Portsmouth, Sept. 21, 1793.
OZIAS SILSBY informs
his friends who have favored him with their custom, that their accounts will be ready for settlement, by the first of October next.—He flatters himself that a hint to the wife will be sufficient without urging the necessity of a speedy settlement. Sept. 24, 1793.
MR. MELCHER,
The following letter was received from the Hon. THOMAS JEFFERSON, Esq. Secretary of State, addressed to the Merchants of this town, you will please to publish the same in your Gazette, for the information of all concerned.
PHILADELPHIA, AUG. 27.
Gentlemen,
COMPLAINT having been made to the Government of the United States, of some instances of unjustifiable vexation and spoliation, committed on our merchant vessels by the Privateers of the Powers at War, and it being possible that other instances may have happened, of which no information has been given to the Government, I have it in charge from the President to assure the merchants of the United States, concerned in foreign commerce or navigation, that due attention will be paid to any injuries they may suffer on the high seas, or in foreign countries, contrary to the law of nations, or to existing treaties; and that on their forwarding hither well authenticated evidence of the same, proper proceedings will be adopted for their relief. The just and friendly dispositions of the several belligerent powers afford well founded expectation that they will not hesitate to take effectual measures for restraining their armed vessels from committing aggressions and vexations on our citizens or their property.
There being no particular portion or description of the mercantile body pointed out by the laws for receiving communications of this nature, I take the liberty of addressing it to the merchants of Portsmouth, for the State of New-Hampshire, and of requesting that through them it may be made known to all those of their State whom it may concern. Information will be freely received, either from the individuals aggrieved, or from any associations of merchants who will be pleased to take the trouble of giving it in a case so interesting to themselves and their country.
I have the honor to be, with great respect, Gentlemen, Your most obedient servant, TH: JEFFERSON.
The Merchants of Portsmouth.
Sixteen Dollars Reward.
RANAWAY from the subscriber, on the 18th instant, a NEGRO MAN, named JEAN PAUL, a well made fellow, about five feet seven inches high, his face very black, nose flat, looks stern, sometimes wears earings, and quiews his wool, wears a red handkerchief for most part of the time either on his head or in his pocket; had on when he ran away a blue outside jacket, striped waistcoat, with white metal buttons, blue striped overalls, wears a large buckle in his shoe, and sometimes wears half boots, speaks broken English, and French Creole.—Whoever will apprehend said Negro, and return him to his master, shall have the above reward, and all necessary charges paid by JEAN FOURAIGNAN, planter at Martinique, now resident at Portsmouth New-Hampshire.
N. B. As the above Negro had no cause of absconding, if he will return to his master, he will be treated with that tenderness he ever has been. September 24.
State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the proprietors and owners of land in the township of Morristown, situate in the county of Grafton in the State of New-Hampshire; that a tax of three pounds on each and every of the twenty-eight equal original grantees rights of land in said township of Morristown; and the same proportionable sum on each of the other grantees rights of land in said township, is assessed and committed to me to collect, for the purpose of paying the expence of petitioning the General Court, and other proprietary expences, agreeable to the vote of the proprietors of May 8th, 1793:—If said taxes is not paid to me, at my dwelling-house in Concord, in the county of Middlesex, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on or before the 28th day of October next ensuing—the same will be levied by sale of the interest or property of the proprietor or owner, who shall be delinquent in payment fourteen days after the third and last weeks of the advertisement, and the delinquents land will be advertised for sale accordingly.
NATHAN BARRETT, Collector for the [Proprietors of Morristown aforesaid. Concord, Sept. 20, 1793.

TRANSLATION Of a fragment of OLON , preserved in PLUTARCH . SHINING heaps of massy plate, All the gewgaws men prefer, Gilded roofs and beds of state, Cannot real wealth confer. The man that's honest, wise and brave, In body found and spirit free, If he possess what nature craves, Is in truth as rich as he. Join a wife and boys to this (Whose infant leaping shake the floor) Lord of so much solid bliss, Kings themselves to him were poor. While wealth abroad we seek to find, Eager in wish, in vain intent, The treasure lies within our mind, And he's most rich who's most content.
A HUMOROUS TALE.
TWO English noblemen, on their travels, arriving at Paris, put up at a house in which a German Count had died and laid a corpse. In the middle of the night, one of the two not being able to sleep, and growing weary of his bed, arose, in order to amuse himself in the kitchen, where he heard some people talking. He had diverted himself there for some time, when being willing to return from whence he came, he again went up stairs; but, instead of entering his own chamber, went into that of the deceased Count, over whose face they had only thrown a cloth. There is not so much ceremony used in France in the management of their dead as in England and Germany; for they are there satisfied with shewing their affection to the living. The Englishman, having put out his candle, laid down boldly by the defunct:—when, creeping as close to him as possible, in order to warm himself, and finding his bed-fellow colder than he, began to mutter—What the devil's the matter, my friend? said he, you are as cold as ice. I'll lay a wager, numb as you are, you would have been warm enough if you had but seen the pretty girl that is below stairs. Come, come, you may take my word for it, added he, and pulling him by the arm—come, zounds, sir, I'll engage you shall have her for a guinea.—While he was holding this fine conversation with the dead, who (detached from the things of this world) did not give himself the trouble of making a reply; his chamber door was opened, which made him raise his head from the pillow to see who was coming in: but judge what must be his surprise when he saw a servant lighting in a joiner, who carried a coffin on his shoulders! He tho't at first he had been in a dream; but looking about him, and seeing the visage of one who had not spoken a word, a visage overspread with a mortal paleness, he made but one jump from the bed into the middle of the chamber. The joiner and maid, immediately persuaded that it was the corpse, who being unwilling to be shut up in the coffin, was now playing its gambols, their legs were unable to move with swiftness proportionable to their fear, and the joiner, maid, coffin and candlestick rolled one over another, from the top of the stairs down into the kitchen. Zoons, what are you all about? cried the landlord; Is the devil flying away with the dead man? Mercy on us! cried the maid, quite chapfallen, it is rather the dead man that would run away with us. I'll be hang'd, said the joiner, if that dead fellow there has any more occasion for a coffin than I have; why he has got into the middle of the room, and has just struck up a hornpipe. He has! cried the landlord—taking a light, faith we'll soon see that.
While all the family were trembling and getting ready to follow the master of the house, the English nobleman, who had again found his chamber, had slipt into bed, quite out of breath; and his friend having asked him where he had been, he told him that he had just been lying with a dead body. 'Sblood! a dead body! it had perhaps the plague, cried he, jumping in his turn, out of bed, and running to the door to call for a light—The landlord, the landlady and servants, who were passing through the gallery, no sooner saw him than they imagined that it was the dead who appeared again, and down they came much faster than they went up, head over heels from top to bottom, with the candlesticks rolling after them: at this confusion, join'd with their shrieks and clamours, the Englishman terrified at the hideous noise, soon made for his room, and slipt into bed to his companion, without the least fear of catching the plague. In the mean time an
honest country priest, who lodged in the inn, got up and appeared, armed with holy water, and a long broom instead of a little brush; he made his aspersions, and the conjurations prescribed by the Romish church, and conducted by the way of procession, the terrified trembling people into the chamber of the defunct, who, thinking no harm, lay quietly in bed. The priest was instantly regarded as a saint; and they all cried up the miracle of the holy water, which bound the corpse to its good behaviour, and prevented its being refractory.
ACCOUNT OF THE RUSSIAN LAMB.
THE most extraordinary of the curiosities of Little Tartary is, the lamb of Muscovy, which grows between those two great rivers, Eon and Walga. This plant is remarkable for possessing a great portion of the animal nature. It is for this reason called animal plant; as also Zoapetes, and in the Russian language Bannarets.
The fruit is the size of a gourd, or melon; it has the figure of a sheep, all the limbs of which are discoverable. It is fastened to the earth by the navel, upon a stalk of two feet in length. It always leans towards the grass and the plants that grow round it, and changes its place as much as the stump will suffer.
When the fruit comes to maturity, its stalk is covered with a hairy skin, frizzled like that of a lamb just yeaned, and this skin serves it as a fur to defend it from the cold.
It is further observed, that this plant never dies till it can no longer find grass to nourish it. The fruit yields a juice like blood, when it is taken from the stalk and has the taste of mutton.
The wolf is fond of this plant, as of real mutton; and the Muscovites make use of it in order to surprise these animals.
YORICK'S DEATH.
A FEW hours before Yorick breathed his last, Eugenius stept in, with an intent to take his last sight and farewel of him. Upon his drawing Yorick's curtain, and asking how he felt himself, Yorick, looking up in his face, took hold of his hand, and, after thanking him for the many tokens of his friendship to him, for which, he said, if it was their fate to meet hereafter, he would thank him again and again; he told him, he was within a few hours of giving his enemies the slip forever.—I hope not, answered Eugenius, with tears trickling down his cheeks, and with the tenderest tone that ever man spoke,—I hope not, Yorick, said he.—Yorick replied, with a look up, and a gentle squeeze of Eugenius's hand,—and that was all,—but it cut Eugenius to his heart.—Come, come, Yorick, quoth Eugenius, wiping his eyes, and summoning up the man within him,—my dear lad, be comforted,—let not all thy spirits and fortitude forsake thee at this crisis when thou most wantest them;—who knows what resources are in store, and what the power of God may yet do for thee?—Yorick laid his hand upon his heart, and gently shook his head; for my part, continued Eugenius, crying bitterly as he uttered the words,—I declare, I know not, Yorick, how to part with thee; and would gladly flatter my hopes, added Eugenius, chearing up his voice, that there is still enough of thee left to make a bishop,—and that I may live to see it.—I beseech thee, Eugenius, quoth Yorick, taking off his night-cap as well as he could with his left hand,—his right being still grasped close in that of Eugenius,—I beseech thee to take a view of my head.—I see nothing that ails it, replied Eugenius. Then, alas! my friend, said Yorick, let me tell you, that it is so bruised and mis-shapen with the blows which have been so unhandsomely given me in the dark, that I might say with Sancho Panca, that should I recover, and "mires thereupon be suffered to rain down from heaven as thick as hail, not one of them would fit it."—Yorick's last breath was hanging upon his trembling lips, ready to depart as he uttered this; yet still it was uttered with something of a Cervantic tone,—and as he spoke it, Eugenius could perceive a stream of lambent fire lighted up for a moment in his eyes;—faint picture of those flashes of his spirit, which (as Shakespeare said of his ancestor) were wont to set the table in a roar!
Eugenius was convinced from this, that the heart of his friend was broke; he squeezed his hand,—and then walked softly out of the room, weeping as he walked. Yorick followed Eugenius with his eyes to the door,—he then closed them—and never opened them more.
He lies buried in a corner of his church-yard, under a plain marble slab, which his friend Eugenius, by leave of his executors, laid upon his grave, with no more than these three words of inscription, serving both for his epitaph and elegy—
Alas, poor YORICK!
Ten times a day has Yorick's ghost the consolation to hear his monumental inscription read over with such a variety of plaintive tones, as denote a general pity and esteem for him;—a foot way crossing the church-yard close by his grave,—not a passenger goes by, without stopping to cast a look upon it,—and sighing as he walks on,
Alas, poor YORICK! STERNE.
STOP THIEF! Twenty Dollars Reward.
STOLEN from the subscriber, last night, a HORSE, SADDLE and BRIDLE, by one AUGUSTUS WARD, as he called his name; had been employed by the subscriber for this fortnight past.—The Horse is about 13 1/2 hands high, of a dun colour, short tail, with a white streak in his forehead, trots chiefly, the saddle half worn, and the housing torn, he had on when he went away a light coloured coat, striped jacket and shirt, old worsted rib'd stockings, about 5 feet 10 inches high, very slim, with short black curl'd hair.—Whoever will apprehend said thief so that he may be brought to Justice, and the horse &c. recovered to the owner, shall have twenty dollars reward, or for either thief or horse ten dollars and all charges paid by
BENJAMIN BIGGELOW. Portsmouth, September 14, 1793.
TO BE SOLD, AT JACOB SHEAFE'S Store, 32 Hogheads high proof Tobago RUM. 20 Ditto ditto Grenada ditto. 6 Pipes excellent 4th proof Brandy. 2 Pipes old Maderia Wine. 6 Casks Spanish Brown,
ALSO, A Consignment of low priced CLOTHS, and a few pieces CAMBRICK.
Portsmouth, September 14, 1793.
TO BE SOLD, By private Sale, A VERY eligible HOUSE and LOT, on the north side of Buck-street, nearly opposite Water-Street, and in perfect repair, with Garden, Coach-House, Stabling, &c. at present occupied by John Samuel Sherburne, Esq.—Also, the House and Lots adjoining the west side of the above premises fronting on Buck-street;—Four other Lots in Water-street, and one in Bow-street, to be likewise disposed of;—the whole of the above Lots may be purchased together or separately.—Terms and further particulars known by application to
JACOB SHEAFE. Portsmouth, September 2, 1793.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the further time of six months, reckoning from the twentieth day of June last, is allowed by the Judge of Probate, for the county of Hillsborough, for receiving and examining, &c. claims against the estate of JOHN HALE, late of Hollis, Esquire, deceased. The Commissioners for that purpose, will attend at the house of the Widow Eastman, in said Hollis, on the second Tuesday in the months of September, October, November and December following, upon the aforesaid business, from 2 o'clock, P. M. until 6 o'clock on said days.
LEONARD WHITING, } Com- WILLIAM PRESCOTT, } miss' Hollis, August 20, 1793.
WANTED, A LIKELY young MAN, who is a TANNER, and capable of taking the whole charge of a Tanyard for the season; to whom good encouragement will be given by
WILLIAM BLODGETT. Goffstown, August 29, 1793.
FARMS To be Sold in Epsom.
THE first containing about 175 acres of good land, under good improvement, consisting of mowing, pasturing, tillage, orcharding and woodland, pleasantly situated near the meeting house; and will serve for two small farms, having heretofore been improved as such, and has on it two houses, three barns and out houses, and is well situated for a trader, tradesman or innholder.
A second containing about 100 acres, chiefly under improvement, with a house, barn, orchard, &c. thereon.
A third containing about 90 acres, under some improvement, with a house and barn on the same, and a good privilege for saw and grist mills.
Also,
A mill for grinding Scythes in a good place for a blacksmith, where he may have a good run of business.
AND
Several other small pieces land, all of which will be sold together, or divided and subdivided, as will best suit the purchaser. For further particulars
Inquire of AMOS MORRILL, Epsom, August 28, 1793.
EXETER.
State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the following non-resident tax for the town of Exeter, for 1787, remains yet unpaid, and that if it is not paid to the subscriber on or before Thursday the 3d day of October next, so much of said land will be sold at public vendue, as will pay said tax with incidental charges, at the house of Benjamin Lamson, in said town, at 10 o'clock, in the forenoon, on said day.
State Town Indents. Pari. s. s. s. d. s. d.
Levi Chapman, 5 5 3 1 5 10 JOSEPH LAMSON, Collector. Exeter, August 30, 1793.
FARM to LET.
A VERY good FARM, pleasantly situated in Rye, with the whole, or part of the stock now on the same. The Farm contains about one hundred and forty acres of as good land as any in the parish of Rye, and is now occupied by Col. JEREMIAH LOCK.—For further particulars apply to the Printer hereof. September 9, 1793.
MONEY WANTED.
WANTED on LOAN, about EIGHT HUNDRED POUNDS, £. M. for which ample security in real estate will be given, and the interest paid quarterly, if desired;—any person having the same, may dispose of it advantageously, by applying to the Printer hereof. September 9, 1793.
For SALE,
A VERY convenient DWELLING-HOUSE, in good repair, with a large GARDEN, BARN, and other necessary conveniences thereto belonging, situated in Washington-Street, Portsmouth.—Time and mode of payment will be made convenient to the purchaser: For further particulars apply to the Printer hereof. September 9, 1793.
FOR SALE By J. MELCHER, PRINTER & BOOKSELLER, At his Printing-Office, Market-Street, Portsmouth, SKETCHES
FROM NATURE; TAKEN, AND COLOURED, IN A JOURNEY TO MARGATE. PUBLISHED FROM THE ORIGINAL DESIGNS, By George Keate, Esq.
Sundry Houses for Sale.
SEVERAL HOUSES in the town of Portsmouth to be disposed of, upon good terms:—Apply to the Printer hereof. September 9, 1793.