The New Hampshire gazette (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1798-08-14 00:00:00

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[The following is taken from the CANNIBALS' PROGRESS, (just published and now selling by the printer hereof) after reciting the dreadful horrors of French Invasion, as displayed by the Republican officers and soldiers in their perfidy, rapacity, ferociousness and brutality, exercised towards the innocent inhabitants of Germany, which are shocking, beyond any thing we have ever heard of, was inserted as a concluding address.]
AMERICANS,
THUS have you seen the consequences, of French Invasion , from which you have also seen, that no compact, no convention, no treaty, no TRIBUTES , will preserve any country, in which these infernal monsters can, either by force or fraud, once get a sure footing. That they will leave nothing unattempted to get such a footing in these States is most certain; so that, you have only to determine, whether you will witness horrors such as you have read of, and perhaps still worse, or bravely resolve to keep off the contaminating, cut-throat crew, by the thunder of your cannon and the point of your bayonets.
Peace! peace! peace! —Ah! this is the soothing sound, by which you have been, and yet are, lulled and deluded. A corrupt and wicked faction, who are combined with the despot of France, and who are continually endeavouring to divide you and keep you disarmed, in order that you may fall an easier prey to themselves and their Gallic masters; this abominable faction, in spite of all your boasted knowledge and still more boasted love of liberty and independence, have contrived to hood-wink and delude you, and to make you submit, with seeming resignation, to injuries and insults unheard of; and all this has they done by a continual canting repetition of the single monosyllable, PEACE!
But, even suppose it possible to patch up a peace with the haughty Divan; suppose that your government and yourselves were to abandon every thought of preserving your national honour and independence, and basely knuckle down before the altar of Gallic despotism, bearing the demanded TRIBUTES in your enervated hands; and suppose, that, in consequence of this, the grovelling tyrants were to condescend to honour you with the supercilious grin of forgiveness? Suppose all this; would all this insure you your beloved peace , after which you hanker and pine with the fondness of the lover and the fretfulness of the child?—The answer to this question is best given in the fate of the degraded republics of Europe , to whom, on like conditions, France has already granted the blessings of PEACE .
Holland stands first in the catalogue of misery and dishonour. Holland, so lately the seat of freedom, commerce, industry, and affluence, having been pillaged by its dear ally the rapacious republic of France, and forced to declare war against Great Britain, by which it lost both its maritime importance and nearly all its foreign valuable possessions, presents at this moment, the sad spectacle of a country divided against itself, governed by the haughty mandates, and awed by the arms of France, destitute of commerce, its navy annihilated, defaced almost from amongst the nations of Europe, and reduced to a mere skeleton of that power, which once so nobly contended for real liberty, and which disputed with Great Britain the empire of the main.—If I ask you to what this mighty downfall is to be attributed, you will not hesitate to answer, that it was effected by the introduction of French principles, and by the united efforts of the crafty and the credulous; by the traitors who (as ours do) still cried peace with France , and by the silly people who listened to their deluding voice.
Genoa owes its ruin to a peace with France . Without the least excuse in the world, in the year 1792, the French marched an army against this little republic, and surrounded the city. The Genevese, having called in their neighbours, the Swiss to their assistance, were in a situation to defend themselves, and expressed their determination to do it. The convention (ever as base as it was bloody) finding this to be the case, wheedled them
into a negotiation. A treaty was made, according to which the Swiss were to be sent away, and the French army was to retire. The army did retire; but, when the Swiss were gone, the villains of the Convention annulled the treaty; their army advanced, entered the city, and were joined by numbers of traitors. All the blessings of a French revolution began. The rich were plundered, some of them put to death, others to flight; the poor little state became a province of France, and, from ease, opulence, and independence, fell to the lowest degree of misery and vassalage.
Genoa, by yielding to demand after demand, by paying tribute upon tribute, and by swallowing humiliation upon humiliation, thought to escape the general wreck: but no; a revolution has been effected, as at Geneva, and followed by similar consequences.
Hamburg, Bremen, and Lubeck, though so remote, have not been able to avoid the out-stretched arm of French rapacity and power; but have been compelled, as the price of peace, to pay a tribute of several millions, in return for which they are hourly threatened with final subversion and total ruin.
Venice made peace with the French, and thereby gave them an opportunity of displaying the treacherousness of their character in its fullest glare. After deluding the people of this state with the hopes of liberty, equality, and independence, they pillaged the city of its treasures, destroyed its most splendid institutions and costly ornaments, and levelled the pride of ages with the dust. They took possession of its most valuable islands, plundered it of its navy, beat and murdered hundreds of its inhabitants in mere whim and caprice, and finished their perfidious work by delivering up the miserable people to the government of a stranger and of a monarch, whom they had always affected to consider as one of the greatest enemies of liberty, and whom they had, in their decrees and proclamations, a thousand times stiled a despot .
Switzerland closes the awful lesson. This republic was, like the United States, a federative one. It had long been equally the admiration of the historian and the civilian, and not unfrequently the subject of the muse's praise. Yet, by peace with France this much admired republic has been torn up root and branch.—Switzerland, basely forgetting the murder of the King's guards on the 10th of August, officially came forward, the first state in Europe, to acknowledge the republic of France . The Swiss observed what they called a neutrality; but it was vilely insincere, always operating in favor of the French. When these latter had swallowed up the neighbouring countries, they quarrelled with the Swiss. They ordered them to send away the English Ambassador, which would have been done, had he not spared them the disgrace by retiring. They were next ordered to banish the emigrants; they negotiated and complied. Now there was no ground of quarrel left; an insurrection was therefore excited, and the generous French marched in their army to protect the poor oppressed insurgents!—In short the HELVETIC UNION was now told that they must change their constitution. They negotiated; but still the enemy approached. The legislators met; they offered to make some alterations.—Those would not do. They must receive a constitution from Paris. They refused, and collected their army; but still undecisive they ordered their army not to act. At last, while they were still debating, comes the French sans-culottes and disperses them at the point of the bayonet. The Swiss army was found; the people were brave and active; but what, with such governors, were they to do against ten times their force!—They rushed on the enemy's cannon; were blown to pieces by thousands. The women fought by the sides of their husbands; no less than eight hundred of them expired under the sabred under the bloody French. With these gallant females the liberty of Switzerland groaned out its last.
Thus, AMERICANS, have all the republics of Europe, for their endeavour-
ing to conciliate with France; for her tame submission to injury and insult; for their whining, cringing, and crawling for peace, been finally rewarded by the subversion of their governments, by the loss of their property, by the massacre of their people, by being reduced to the last degree of national wretchedness and disgrace, and by being rendered the scorn and contempt of the Universe.
But, the example is not complete without showing you what would have been the effect of an opposite conduct . This you must also learn by again turning your eyes on Europe. There you will perceive, that those who have fought the French with bravery, who have obstinately resisted the progress of their principles, and who have never yielded to their insolent demands, are still secure in the enjoyment of their commerce, their wealth, their liberty, and their religion.
Viewing the general desolation of Europe, the fallen state of all the countries that have submitted to the scourge of the republicans, and the calamitous, the brutal condition of these republicans themselves, what a grand and noble figure do the people of Great Britain exhibit to surrounding nations, standing, as they do, firm and erect amidst the storm, proudly determined not to submit to the will of the enemy, bravely resolved to sacrifice every comfort in support of their religion and their liberties, and still enjoying all those blessings, of which other countries have, in so short a period, been bereaved! Their trade and manufactures still flourish "through the state," and surpass the commercial enterprises and successes of all the other nations in the world. Agriculture, far from languishing during the war, has been pursued with unexampled vigour and prosperity; all their excellent institutions continue to thrive under the unremitting affinity of their governors, and the ceaseless generosity of the public; and the national benevolence has been most nobly displayed in the successive and ample subscriptions for the relief of persecuted foreigners, for that of their own wounded soldiers and sailors, and for the benefit of the widows and the orphans of those who have fallen in fighting the battles of their country. The intercourse between man and man is preferred unalloyed by suspicion; the charms of society remain uncontrouled by terror; their wives and daughters sleep without apprehension of being disturbed by the assassin; and their property is secured by mild and well dispensed laws against the public depredator, and the private aggressor. Their islands in the West-Indies have been secured, and augmented by those of the enemy; their possessions on this continent have continued un molested; their extensive and valuable territories in the East-Indies have enjoyed the most profound tranquillity; they have added conquest to conquest in Asia and Africa; the Cape of Good Hope is the guardian of their commerce to the East, and the rock of Gibraltar defies the power of Spain. In naval fame they have made a vast acquisition. In that part of the war which belongs to Britain, they have obtained successes which surpass the most brilliant examples of their ancestors: history abounds with the noble deeds of British tars, but it was reserved for GEORGE THE THIRD, after decisive and glorious victories successively gained over the fleets of France, Spain, and Holland, to see his navy ride triumphant at the same moment, at the mouths of Brest, Cadiz, and the Texel.
Such, AMERICANS, and so situated, is the nation from whom; generally speaking, you are defended. Compare her situation with that of the degraded peace-seeking republics of Europe, and then determine which example you shall follow. Independence, with all its attendant blessings, is yet within your power; but, as it was obtained by arms, for it must be maintained; and you have not a month, nay, not a day, left you to consider; whether you shall assume those arms, or basely bend your necks to the galling yoke of the insolent blood-thirsty tyrants of France.
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Communication.
QUITE enough has not yet been said about the British treaty. So many fools, whose judgment you would not take in the choice of a walking stick, are in the habit of calling it "that devilish thing," "that damned thing," &c. that when people consider what poor tools these same jacobins are themselves, they can hardly help thinking that somebody has told them so who really knew. For when you hear a man talking, fretting and swearing about the British treaty, who certainly could not read it even by the help of spelling, and would not know it, if he saw it, from a discourse upon horse racing, what can even charity itself suppose? Shall we set it down as they do in Turkey, that ideots are divinely inspired? Or shall we tell truth and shame the devil at once, that they are mere parrots, or rather your cuckoos, that go by clock work, and pop in and out as they are obliged to do by the machine? However, it is so new a thing to say at once as I do that the British treaty is an excellent thing for this country, and it is so little a while since the infamous influence of France would have taken my bread out of my mouth for that, that I shall give a few reasons for the insertion of such jacobins as know how to read their mother tongue.
But, first, every body remembers what the pitiful jacobins said Mr. Jay ought to have done—"He ought to have demanded satisfaction"—"He should have made a demand," said they. Now the jacobins are innocent of saying this with any meaning, because it can have no meaning where satisfaction was actually made, but in this, as in all the puppet-show conduct of these poor gentlemen, the observer may see the villainous finger of France prompting us to rush headlong upon destruction, to furnish a drop of the bucket or the dust of the balance to their unbounded views—I ask the poor jacobins why our envoys at Paris have not made a demand as they call it, and why they did not instantly come away on being slighted?—But no—I suppose we cannot wait two long upon these republican scoundrels the Dictionary of France, even when we get nothing by it but threats and most infamous intrigues; nor run away too soon from an excellent treaty with England!
No jacobin writer has ever pretended to assign a single particular wherein the British treaty was injurious to this country, and even the prince of jacobins, Samuel Adams, could only say in his vague and cunning manner, that it was "pregnant with evil." One would suppose the poor old man was pregnant himself, and had strange feelings; but the matter whatever it was, was never born.—The following considerations were never understood nor sought after one atom more than truth itself would have been by the jacobins.
 1. That the treaty of peace made in 1783 remained in many of its parts unexecuted, and a principal object of the treaty of 1795 was to provide for the amicable execution of it.  2. That Great-Britain and America are the most natural allies in the world, as we can best guarantee her American possessions, and she can best guarantee our trade and protect our coasts; while both together would be a balance for the whole world.  3. That if we had quarrelled with England, we could not have contended with her one moment at sea, and should have had a land war besides, without the possibility of having a single man or dollar from France.  4. That by the treaty the spoliations of our commerce, which took place in consequence of jacobinical precipitancy and folly in favor of France, are provided for and paid as fast as the decrees of condemnation are reversed.  5. That the western posts are delivered up, and consequently we have them as checks upon the Indians in addition to the good will of the English, who would otherwise incite them against us.  6. The true St. Croix is likely to be settled, by which it is expected that we shall gain several millions of acres of land, which otherwise would always have been contested, and possibly have occasioned a war.  7. That our commerce, in the room of being viewed with a jealous and unfriendly eye, is now protected by the British flag, and placed on more advantageous principles than that of any other nation, perhaps, in the world.  8. That we speak the same language and have the same habits with our mother-country, and so, our independence being safe, which it is ridiculous to doubt, are as well qualified to be friends as can be desired. 
Such are some of the advantages arising from this treaty against which these bellowing patriots have never offered a single reason, or shadow of a reason. This was the treaty which the Boston town meeting deprecated with hydrophobia agitation. This is the "damned thing" of jacobinic elocution.—I desire to know where we should have been before this time if the British treaty had not saved us? Every farthing of our resources would have been absorbed in French conquests, and exhausted in Europe. We should have been as poor, and miserable, and blind, and naked, as the other nations are who enjoy the distinction of French amity. Our slavery to France would have been exactly riveted by widening the breach between us and England, instead of healing it. And, instead of being that virtuous and high spirited people, which now we shall be, the very principle of our revolution
would have been abolished, our notions of government confounded, and our national character, by which I mean the national stamp on every man, obliterated forever. (To be continued.)
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Latest from Europe.
Since our last we have been favoured with London papers to June 9—about 18 days later than before received. They were brought by the British June packet.
Revolution in Ireland.
LONDON, MAY 22—TO JUNE 9. THE affairs of Ireland have at length arrived at the most alarming & melancholy pitch. After the capture of Lord Fitzgerald, and the consequent development of the plans of the United Irishmen, and other insurgents;—(one of which was to possess themselves of the city of Dublin and the castle) government was necessitated to declare the metropolis and other places in a state of rebellion. Hostilities immediately commenced. The rebel village of Lackan (17 houses) was destroyed. Several bloody frays took place even in the centre of Dublin. The Parliament addressed the Lord Lieutenant in terms of the most unshaken loyalty.—Several hundred rebels were killed at Saggard and Naas. In the counties of Dublin, Kildare and Meath, the rebellion was openly supported; and several severe actions have taken place, in which, although the rebels have fought well, they were defeated with immense slaughter. At Dunboyne a party has been dispersed. In most instances His Majesty's loyal troops have conquered. Five counties are now in a state of rebellion, viz. Dublin, Kildare, Meath, Wicklow and Carlow. In the two latter the rebels have lost, at Hacketstown and Balinglass, 500 men; besides many more at Clare, Ballinor, Barretstown, Lucan and Luik. Kilcullen and part of Garlow have been destroyed by the rebels;—at the latter place 400 of them "bit the dust;" whose casualties were left "to taint the wind." Kilkenny, Tipperary, Waterford and Cork, are perturbed; and the vicinity of the metropolis is threatened. LEDWICK, KEUGH, DR. EDMOND , leaders, and 18 other rebels have been executed at Dublin. The rebels have destroyed the bridge at Kilcullen, and taken possession of a few unimportant posts. The rebels have been defeated at Taragh-Hill, 10 miles from Dublin, by the Fencibles and Yeomanry—350 rebels killed, no quarters allowed. The loyal troops had about 30 killed and wounded. Four thousand rebels at Kildare have laid down their arms, and given up their leaders, who JUNE 4. will be hung. Sir JAMES DUFF has retaken Kildare, killed 240 rebels, besides wounded. The rebels are in force in Wexford, and have cut off a detachment of the 19th regiment commanded by Lt. Col. Colville. It is said 7000 insurgents possess Wexford. Col. Longfield has driven the rebels from Rathangan, in Wexford county, killing 50 odd of them. Gen. Fawcett with a detachment of the Meath regiment, has been surrounded near Duncannon fort, and defeated; but effected his retreat to the fort. Newtownbarry, has been taken by the rebels, but has been retaken by assault, by Col. I'Etang, 500 of the rebels were killed. A party of them has been defeated at Carlow.—The insurgent camp at Blackmore-hill, is broken up, 1000 rebels have been defeated by a 100 regulars. At Goree 140 of the rebels have been killed. At Ballycanew 200 have been slain; and at Rochfort, a party of them who were plundering, were defeated. The North of Ireland is affected; at Belfast martial law JUNE 6. has been declared by Major Gen. Sir Charles Aglionby. The rebellion still rages in Wicklow, Carlow, and JUNE 7. Wexford. Many of the insurgents are killed; and many inhabitants obliged to fly to Wales for refuge. The great body of the rebels is posted JUNE 8. on Wexford heighth, near the sea. They count 15,000, with 8 pieces of artillery, and a strong position. They swear to die in the last ditch, or throw themselves into the sea. The city of Wexford is retaken. The rebels lost 900, and the King's troops many from the 14-fet pikes of the insurgents, against which the bayonet was useless. A general action with the rebels is momentarily expected. An attack was in contemplation when the last accounts came away. In one instance the rebels have conquered.—Col. Walpole, with a detachment of 500 men, with artillery, proceeding to join the main army, commanded by Gens. Eustace, Fawcett and Johnston, and to co-operate with them in the general attack, was attacked in a defile, and defeated. The Col. and 300 more were killed, and the party left five pieces of artillery. The rebels live in tents, and nightly send out foraging parties to collect provisions. But as they have no arrangements, and but small finances, their complete subjugation may be expected;—and the arm of government made strong, by the measure. Martial law is declared at Limerick.
From the commencement of hostilities to the 6th June, the loss of the Irish yeomanry is 500—that of the rebels 5000:—A Mr. Bacon, a tailor, and a rebel Major-General, O'Coigley, a clergyman, Lt. Clinch of the infantry, and Sir Edward Crosbie, have been hung as rebels. Gen. Dundas has been centured for a parley with the insurgents, in which he promised them pardon, &c. He has demanded a Court-martial. As the rebels hold several sea ports, it is supposed, they must have received succours from France. The destination of Buonaparte is generally conceived to be the South west of Ireland. The main body of the rebels is surrounded, except towards the sea. The insurgents have been guilty of horrid excesses; murdering whole families, and sparing neither hoary age nor helpless infancy. Several instances of desertion in the Irish "loyal" troops have been discovered. At Rethorgan, a company instigated by the Li. murdered their Captain, and eight of their comrades, and fled to the insurgents.—The Dublin yeomanry corps has been disbanded, suspected of a league with the rebels. The person who discovered the plan of the insurgents has been pensioned, and is gone to England.—By the discovery, the deposit of the rebel arms; the great Seal for regenerating Ireland, and the drels of the to be Directors, were detected. A reinforcement of ten thousand men is to sail from England to Ireland.
LORD FITZGERALD
Died at Dublin of a mortification of his wounds, the 4th June. Capt. Ryan, one of his apprehenders, died of his wounds the 27th May. Fitzgerald, and 71 others, were to have been tried for high treason, the 11th June. Lady Fitzgerald on the news of the death of her husband, swooned, and became outrageous. She was in Dublin; and from her high connexions, and spirit, she has been ordered to leave the country; and is going to Hamburg.
Miscellaneous Articles.
"ARMY OF ENGLAND."
MAY 26. A squadron under Com. Strachan, has bombarded Havre, and destroyed several gun-boats. The French commander dare not accept Sir Richard's challenge of sending out an equal force to fight him. Ad. Gardiner has failed for Torbay with twelve sail of the line.
MAY 28. On Saturday a bill passed the House of Commons, for manning the navy, by suspending all protections. It was for conversation in the debate of this bill, that the duel between Mr. Pitt and Mr. Tierney took place.
THE DUEL.
Mr. Pitt, on the 23th May, in the British Parliament, proposed a bill for the better supplying the navy with men in the present exigency; and recommended the suspension of all exemptions and protections, for this purpose. Tierney opposed the measure, and reflected on Mr. Pitt as frequently infracting the liberties of British subjects. Mr. Pitt urged the adoption of the bill, commented on Mr. Tierney's Speech, and charged his opposition, "as proceeding from a wish to impede the service of the country." Mr. Tierney called to order. The Speaker said, if the words were designed as a personal reflection, they were unparliamentary and disorderly. Mr. Pitt was desired to explain. He refused to explain or retract. This was on Friday. On Saturday he received a challenge from Mr. Tierney, which he accepted. On Sunday they met with their seconds. An interchange of shot was made and the pistols re-loaded—when, after receiving Mr. T's second fire, Mr. P. discharged his ball in the air. The seconds then interposed, and insisted that as ample satisfaction had been given—the affair should be compromised.—No serious notice has been taken of this business in Parliament. Mr. Pitt's second was Mr. Ryder, and Mr. Tierney's Mr. Walpole.
MAY 30. Paris accounts states, that Gen. Grenier is shortly to sail from Dunkirk for England; and that the troops have marched from St. Omers, Bethune, Arras, &c. for the coast.
Of the Affair at Ostend.
JUNE 7. The French have, as usual, published a gasonade account of the capture of the troops at Ostend, under Gen. Cooie. They state our loss to be 1424, besides 150 killed and wounded; in the prisoners, they say, are included 2 Generals, 5 aids, 5 field-officers, 25 Captains, 23 Lieutenants, 1 sea Captain, 1200 rank and file, and 150 sailors.—The British prisoners, are at Brussels. The officers are on parole, and wear their swords. Gen. Cooie is recovering of his wounds. Col. Campbell has been buried with martial honors; and the prisoners are very well treated.
Gen. BUONAPARTE'S Expedition.
JUNE 9. An express from Lord St. Vincent's mentions his having advice from the Mediterranean, that the Toulon fleet, having Gen. Buonaparte on board, had eluded the vigilance of Sir Horatio Nelson; and had failed on the projected enterprise. In consequence, orders have been issued for fitting for sea, immediately, every ship of war, that can be put in commission; and a severe press has taken place in all the maritime towns, and on the river.
That Ireland is the object of Buonaparte, no question can remain. A correspondence between the insurgents and the French Directory has been long kept up.
Letters from Lisbon, say, that Admirals Nelson and Curtis, had joined St. Vincent's fleet;—which now consists of 33 sail of the line—He is to go in quest of the Toulon fleet, leaving the Spaniards to be watched by a small squadron.
Several English privateers, which had carried into Malta, a number of valuable prizes, have been blockaded by a French squadron. An English squadron afterwards arrived, to the assistance of the privateers; and immediately upon it, a second French force came on. Thus a series of blocking and being blockaded occurred at the same time. One object of Sir Horatio Nelson's squadron was to release the English, and capture these French ships.
RASTADT, May 12.
Letters from Paris say, that Citizen Bourgois will be appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs, in the room of Talleyrand, who is chosen a Member of the Council of Five Hundred.
It is now said that Citizen Tallien will go as French Minister to Vienna.
Amphibious Negotiation at Rastadt.
MAY 20. The deputation of the Empire, hath given an answer to the last note of the French Commissioners.—In this answer it refuses to France any possessions on the right bank of the Rhine. But animated by a desire for peace, it is willing to agree, that the centre of the Rhine shall be the boundary, and the islands in it, belong to that power, within whose half they lie; Ehrenbreitstein, [which is on the right bank] it says, cannot be destroyed, unless France gives an equivalent.
A new negotiation between England and France, has been proposed by Count Cobenzel, by direction of the Emperor.
His Prussian Majesty will not accede to the demands of the French.
FRANKFORT, MAY 19.
Russia has resolved to take the most active part in the war, should France refuse peace, and support England with all her power. This has been notified to the Emperor of Germany; who has in consequence
commissioned Count Cobenzel, to propose a new negotiation between France and England.
DUBLIN, May 31.
M'Conn, an Apothecary, is apprehended; and his apprentice deposes, that he has within a few days sold above a thousand ounces of arsenic to various persons, who were servants.
An old Lady, aged ninety-seven, has been murdered by the Insurgents at Ballymore.
In an attempt on Newtown Mount Kennedy, the rebels were defeated with the loss of 40.
At Nanenagh, two Roman Catholic Priests are ordered to be transported for treason.
The Rector of Kyle and his whole family, infants and all, have been butchered by the Rebels. The families of Mr. Booke, Mr. Barrington and others, have shared the same fate.
Certain Insurgents are encamped on the unassailable position of Glanelough. Here they will be starved to terms.
JUNE 2.
Among the rebels near Narramore, was an Amazonian leader. She fired two shot at the Col. of the Regular troops. She is taken; but the treason act cannot well be literally put in force against her.
JUNE 4.
All respectable families that can are embarking for England with all speed.
Inhabitants are ordered to put lights in their lower room windows in case of alarm.
News is just received of an action at Ballycanew, in which 200 rebels were slain.
Last night discharges of cannon were heard in the direction of Kilcock.
At Rochsburg, the Rebels were burning several houses, when troops approached. They attacked the advance party, routed them and killed their worthy leader Lt. Buckley mangling his body in the most shocking manner, at the coming up of the main body they fled.
WATERFORD, May 29.
Letters from Dublin state, that amongst the papers of one of the persons charged with treason, the intended revolutionary seal of Ireland has been found; it bears the effigy of Hibernia rising up, and striking the Crown from off the Harp: a dres for one of the intended Directors is likewise stated to have been discovered.
Four coffins full of pikes have been found in Werberg's Church-yard, Dublin, ten in the Hospital Fields, several thousand in St. Michael's Church-street, Denmark-street Chapel, and Lazor's-hill; and at a chandler's several hundred pikes in boxes, covered with tallow.
BALTIMORE, July 28
REMARKABLE INSTANCE OF HUMANITY.
One Reuben Rouzy, of Virginia, owed Gen. WASHINGTON about a thousand pounds. While the Gen. was President of the United States, one of his agents brought a suit for the money, judgment was obtained, and execution issued against the body of the defendant, who was taken to jail. He had a considerable landed property, but this kind of property cannot be sold in Virginia for debts, unless at the discretion of the person. He had a large family, and preferred lying in jail to selling his land, for the sake of his children. Some of his acquaintance hinted to him, that probably Gen. WASHINGTON did not know any thing of the proceeding, and it might be well to send him a petition, with a statement of the circumstances. He did so, and the very next post from Philadelphia, after his petition arrived, bro't him a releasement, with a severe reprimand on the agent for acting in such a cruel manner without consent. Poor Rouzy was in consequence restored to his family and happiness, who never lay down their heads at night without offering their prayers to heaven for our much BELOVED WASHINGTON.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 1.
Last evening arrived from Lancaster, the detachments which conducted the French prisoners to the prison of that place. They were received at the middle ferry by a number of their fellow soldiers, and a large concourse of citizens, who accompanied them to town.—In justice to the prisoners be it said, that they behaved with the utmost decorum and order, and are very grateful for the kind treatment they have received. La Croyable has been purchased by government for 7000 dollars. She will be ready for sea in the course of next week.
BOSTON, Aug. 7.
The prospects of a new Coalition against France brightens. The Swedes and Danes, whose commerce has been long despoiled by French piracies, must blush for their torpidity, when they find a remote power, who is only secondarily affected by the embarrassments of Navigation, sending a Naval force immediately before their ports to support their Commerce, which they have unmurmuringly suffered to be almost ruined.
Extract of a letter from Jeremie, dated June 21. "I am happy to inform you that we have the satisfaction to see arrived his majesty's ship Thunderer, and Leviathan, of 80 guns each. They have convoyed 100 transports with 10,000 troops on board, destined to complete the conquest of this island, and have every reason to think that it will be a very easy conquest as the whole island is blockaded completely, but more particularly since we all join the common cause, that of defending our lives and property. I have no doubts that my next will bring you the glorious tidings of our being in possession of all the south side of this island."
AUGUST 8.
FROM EUROPE—LATEST.
Two gentlemen arrived here, on Saturday last, from England;—They have favored us with London papers to June 9th.—Their contents we have collated, and arranged under our Foreign head.—By them it will be seen, that the affairs of Ireland, have arrived at a portentous crisis;—a crisis which must speedily decide the question, whether the arm of the English government, shall be nerved with ten-fold energy therein, or Ireland become an independent nation; or a French colony. The accounts in the English papers are mostly official, but the letters from England do not indicate a doubt of the final success of government over the insurgents.—We have ever been advocates of Irish liberty; but we lament, that at this time, the true-hearted sons of Hibernia should take any measures which would in the least degree embarrass operations against the parricidal French. The English papers contain numerous official letters from Lord Camden, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, to the Duke of Portland, narrating the various operations of the army against the insurgents. In all these his Lordship expresses full assurances of a speedy suppression of the rebellion.
FROM GUADALOUPE, July 19.
We learn, that information of the capture of La Croyable French privateer, by Capt. Decatur, had been received at Guadalupe, and that it was the general opinion there, our government dare not condemn her;—as they believed, in such an event, the Frenchmen and French friends in the United States, would massacre the Judges of the tribunal, and lay waste by fire, every mercantile town in the United States.—We do not learn, that spreading the yellow fever was added.
It was said in Guadalupe in June last, that a Revolution would take place in Ireland; and that Buonaparte had that island for his sole object.
Accounts from England testify to the good understanding subsisting between the United States and Great-Britain;—and, of the wishes of the government and people for our success against the rapacious aggressions of the French. A similar spirit prevails all the British colonies.
Above thirty Irish gentlemen of abilities have resided in Paris, for several years past, and have kept up a correspondence with the fashion of Ireland.
The account of Talleyrand's displacement, in favour of Bourgoing, cannot be accurate. Dates contradic it.
THE REPUTED FEVER.
Such is the happy state of health enjoyed by the inhabitants of this town, that the Selectmen have not thought it necessary to make any statement on the subject.—The town never was healthier in August, than it now is. Laus Deo!
Extract of a letter from a Gentleman in Vermont.
"You ask, if we are federal in this state?—I answer that we are now truly so—Lyon and his politics are deserted, and the people are at length convinced that he is no more the "noble animal" he has been taken for, but that in reality he is an offspring of the "five headed monster." The tributary demand by the French has made more proselytes to the federal cause, than all the newspaper argument made use of."
FRENCH PIRACY.
Extract of a letter from Capt. John Crufft, late master of the brig Sally, of this port, dated Baltimore, July 30.
"I have again experienced a fate similar to that of my last voyage, being captured by the French frigate La Decade, and sent into Cayenne, there condemned both vessel and cargo, in the most unjustifiable manner, and myself and crew turned ashore without a farthing. In this situation I made application to both the commander of the frigate, and the commissary of the port, for a small part of my adventure to support me, or even part of my cabin stores, that were left, but was by them treated with an eye of contempt, and refused even to a biscuit. This treatment might only be expected from the most uncivilized, and savage nation, but at present, I compute the French to be no better, as they certainly are possessed with neither the principles of men, nor the feelings of humanity. Liberty, which they first contended for, is now changed into greater slavery than in the reign of any of their Kings, as never was there a monarch yet ever reigned, that was invested with so much power, as the Directory's agent in Cayenne,
he has both the military and civil power in his hands, and can put to death whom he pleases, without any trial; several instances, which had happened just before my arrival, by his ordering several black soldiers that for only complaining of their allowance of provisions not being sufficient to support them.—Americans were treated with disdain, and those of the inhabitants that were any ways disposed well towards them, were forbidden connecting themselves with them."
"Reasons assigned for condemnation:—1st, being bound to Surinam and a market, as expressed by the clearance.—2d, Role d'Equipage not in order, as by being expressed on the back of it, being given by request of merchants and Captains, and not acknowledged by Congress.—3d, it not being witnessed (as they lay) of the Notary's signing it, when he did."
Capt. Smith, of the schooner Clara, arrived at Baltimore, from Guadalupe, left there the 16th July, informs, that the ship Hunter, (late Smith) was condemned. Capt. Smith dead—the passenger, Bradlee, it was said there, was thrown overboard;—and the crew, except the chief mate, sent to France. He brings an account of above 20 vessels condemned, in about three weeks—among which are brig —, Clark, of Bolton; and Capt. Atwood, in a vessel owned by Mr. Makepeace.
AUGUST 11.
NEWS FROM RUSSIA.
Capt. Albert Smith, arrived here since our last, from Russia, brings important news.—He informs that PETER I. Emperor of all the Russias, was making great preparations for war against the French;—for this purpose, that he had ordered 100,000 of his standing troops to be in readiness to march through civevant Poland, to join the armies of his friend the King of Prussia;—that 200,000 more were ordered to leave their cantonments, and encamp; that fifteen sail of the line, and six frigates were ordered to leave Kronstadt, the 25th May; which, after being joined by five new ships of the line, and frigates, from Archangel, were to proceed to join the English fleet. Besides this force, 300 galleys were getting in readiness to proceed to sea, to be commanded by Vice-Admiral TATE. This gentleman is a native of Massachusetts, and has relatives now alive, near Portland. He was a favorite of the late Empress, and is an active, intelligent and brave officer. He paid a visit to this State about eight years since.
The Emperor PAUL, Capt. S. says, is personally employed in disciplining his armies, and his Ministers, in augmenting and methodizing the revenues of his vast empire.
Capt. Smith was at Copenhagen 30th May.—The King of Denmark has refused to pay the tributary loan demanded by the French; who to make sure work of it have captured and condemned near 40 sail of rich Danish vessels. [We have known a long time that Danish and all other neutral vessels have been taken and condemned by the French.]—The French Ambassador has demanded that the Sound should be shut against all the enemies of France, but on the 30th of May no answer had been given by the Danish cabinet, and the Ambassador was preparing to leave Copenhagen. Capt. S. further says, that the Danes were not without their fears of a visit from the French armies. [A long distance, for a visit.]
The French privateers on the coast of Norway and Sweden, makes many captures;—near 40, between the 10th and 30th of May. [An offset to this, is, that the British retake the principal part:—A frigate lately convoyed twelve recaptures to England.]
FROM PHILADELPHIA.
"General Smith told the PRESIDENT at his own table, that he wished our envoys had given the French the money they demanded—that it would have been cheaper than war. The President answered, that he would not give the value of the duty on a pound of tea! for the principle was every thing with us.—Upon the matter being pressed, he said he had hoped and believed, that no virtuous American would have entertained such sentiments!! and so the conversation ended." SMITH is a trimmer.
"The Captain of the French privateer, taken a few days ago, seemed astonished when he went on board of Capt. DECATUR's sloop of war, at his being taken by an American vessel, and said he knew of no war between the two republics. DECATUR observed that the French had been making war upon us for a long time and it was now necessary for us to take care of ourselves. The Frenchman seemed to be vastly mortified at seeing his colours hauled down, and wished he had been sunk. DECATUR told him he should have been gratified if he had laid on board his vessel and fought her!"
SALEM, August 7.
We are informed, that a very respectable Military Corps is formed in Marblehead, of those gentlemen exempted by a law from militia service.
In this town, a Company of Exempts is forming.
PORTLAND, August 6.
PIRATES ON OUR COAST.
Last evening arrived here Capt. Drinkwater 8 days from Philad.—was twice spoke by two different vessels which he supposed to be French privateers. It is a trick with these pirates to skulk on our coast, and conceal themselves, with the appearance of American coasters. Look out Americans, and do not let them deceive you.
FOR SALE BY
John Salter,
At his Store in Washington-Street;
HEMP of the first quality
per ton.
Cordage per hundred, of different sizes.
7 by 9 and 8 by 10 Window-Glass per box.
Glass Ware.
Surnam Molasses per hoghead.
Coffee per hundred or less, intitled to the drawback.
Portsmouth, Aug. 13, 1798.

MR. MELCHER, Your well known impartiality, candour and firm attachment to the Federal Government, and your expressed determination at all times to assist in aiding and supporting its measures and officers, has induced me to inclose you the piece signed MANLIUS, and wish you to give the same a place in your next Gazette. A. B.
To William Gardner, Esq. Late Commissioner of Loans for the State of New-Hampshire.
SILENCE was recommended and you promised obedience. But passion overcame prudence; and you again obtrude your name on the public, and weakly attempt a refutation of my well founded just charges. — If the allusion to the usual practice of common felons wounds your feelings; to your own conduct the blame must be attributed. Manlius pointed out, but did not create the likeness.
Like an ancient querulous maiden of blasted reputation and contaminated fame, fondly recounting the gay fowlers of her youth; you industriously persevere in the vain attempt to place yourself in the company of honest men, who before the loss of your character, thought themselves not disgraced in affording you their countenance and support. Again you mention the names and claim the acquaintance of worthy and honest men. Those whom you attempt directly to abuse, are in no danger of injury. The most ardent censure and abuse of factious democrats has for a long time operated as the highest praise in their power to bestow. Their encomiums alone are to be feared. You pretend that you once possessed the friendship of our excellent Governor; and that thro' his influence and assistance you was made treasurer. Here may be seen an instance of artful, crafty management of which you are not often guilty. Wishing to injure a man whose reputation you dare not openly and directly attack; you subtly attempt his disgrace, by bringing him into your own company, and representing him as your friend. But the character of this man is far above the reach of the utmost exertion of your malice. It will be long remembered to his honor, that high in office and influence, he was the first boldly and manfully to oppose the wicked and traitorous designs of your faction. And to his wife, steady and firm conduct must in a great degree be attributed the present happy unanimity in this state. His friendship for you, if it ever existed, lasted as long as your conduct was upright, and ceased when he discovered your change. That he ever needed or meanly condescended to solicit your assistance for his election to the office of Treasurer, will be believed by none who know his worth and your insignificance. His reputation in that office was untarnished and his honest and well earned popularity unequalled. In the utmost derangement of our fiscal concerns, he accepted the office. And when he took upon him an employment under the United States, which was expected to be of only short duration, you with much difficulty and great exertion, procured the appointment, and was considered as a convenient, humble holdfasts of the office, until he should again be at leisure to resume his former place. It was the public confidence in his talents and integrity which produced the unanimous voice of the legislature for his re-appointment. — Your assistance or opposition would have been equally unavailing. Your pompous letter of resignation of an office already expired, and not in your power to retain, you say was written with a design to procure his election. But fortunately for him you forgot your own design, and in the letter have not once mentioned the subject contemplated. Altho' you would have felt no degradation in meanly soliciting votes, as you represent; his honest pride and delicate sense of propriety would have repelled and despised the base means with indignation.
At the time you was made Commissioner of Loans, your talents were unknown to your townsmen and present patron in the senate of the U. States. He then knew not what a humble tool, and convenient cat's paw of mischief he could make of you. He consequently opposed your appointment, and thereby subjected himself to your open violent resentment and abuse. Those who remember the frays which this occasioned between you, will not readily credit your assertion, that you never solicited, and unwillingly accepted the office. — After repeated solicitations on your part, the man you mention, seeing the impossibility of your retaining the office of Treasurer, in compassion of your distress, procured you this appointment. — And in your abuse, he now experiences the customary reward of democratic friendship.
You complain of being wrongfully accused of making false representations respecting your salaries. Having brought this charge against you, I consider myself bound to support it, or candidly acknowledge a mistake. Your assertion is, that your salary as Commissioner of Loans never exceeded 650 dollars per annum; and in your first address you clearly intimated that for all the hard drudgery and severe labour, which had ruined your poor constitution, and impoverished your fortune, you had received no greater compensation. Detected in this, you now attempt a subterfuge in farther misrepresentation, and pretend to make a distinction, difficult to be comprehended, in the nature of your salary. — You say that the addition of 350 dollars was granted for clerk hire; and altho' you received it yourself for your personal services, yet it makes no addition to your compensation. But prone to err, you mistake facts, even when it can do you no service. The act which created the office, fixed the salary at 650 dollars, which is expressly declared to be "in full compensation for all services and expenses." No clerk was allowed. By an act in 1796, which has been continued to this time, the addition is made in these words, "That there be allowed for the year aforesaid, in lieu of clerk hire to the commissioner of loans for the State of New-Hampshire, 350 dollars." By the same act, to other offices where clerks were supposed to be necessary, a certain number are allowed at certain fixed salaries. Now, Sir, I say, this is a direct, positive addition to your compensation; and as such you received it. It was granted to silence your complaints and importunities. The whole business of the office cannot fur-
nish employment to a single person, one sixth part of the time. And since the passing of this act, no clerk has been employed by you. If it had been allowed for a clerk, or for clerk hire, as you state, you could not have received it without employing a clerk. By the same act an additional allowance of 4,000 dollars, is made for clerks to be employed by the Secretary of the Treasury. — Could he, finding additional clerks unnecessary and omitting to employ them, receive that sum to his own use? It now fully appears that you have not only attempted to "impose a falsehood on the public" but that in order to cover and support the wicked attempt, you have falsely recited an act of Congress. A man who is compelled to use such means in his defence, must expect little charity. An honest cause always admits of an honest defence. But this attempt will lead you into unforeseen difficulty. You say that before the making of the act granting the addition of salary, you always obtained an allowance of 30 dollars per month for a clerk. If so, you committed a fraud on the treasury of the United States. — No clerk was necessary, no provision by law was made for one; and for a great portion of the time, none was employed. If you have obtained such an allowance from the treasury of the United States, it must have been done by false representations; into which enquiry ought and shall be made, and you compelled to refund. — With equal propriety might you have demanded an allowance for your particular and very convenient marketing-friend.
Your arithmetical calculation of your salary as Treasurer, on which you seem greatly to plume yourself, is equally weak and delusive. The salary allowed you in the year of your pretended resignation was only £240. You have taken the £260, the salary of the preceding year, and added to it the unprecedented, enormous and extortionate charge for extents issued in that year, and then transferred the aggregate to a subsequent year, to make out your calculation. And did you expect my little man of figures, that this imposition would pass on the public, unnoticed? Such attempts produce the most embarrassing dilemmas. In this instance, wishing to increase the appearance of your salary, you have brought into the amount, and exposed to public view, a scene of wicked extortion. The issuing of extents rests greatly in the discretion of the treasurer. The first year you was in office you issued 180. The number of towns in the state at that time being less than 200 it seems very few escaped you. You was obliged to pitch on the first year; for in the next, the collectors, taught by cruel experience, were careful to secure themselves from your grasp. The man, who is capable of adopting such measures to extort small sums of money, could never have resisted the proffer of a larger sum to wink at a fraud on the Treasury of the State. Your talents are well adapted, and appear to have been successfully exerted in procuring for your own use, small sums of public money. After you was out of office, you completed the mortification of your friends, by pitifully supplicating the legislature for a grant of a small sum for pretended extraordinary services; and procured its allowance in your usual manner, by "going round among the members." From such conduct may be discovered the true source of the suspicion and mean jealousy, universally entertained by Democrats, of the honesty and integrity of government, and men in office. Like wicked and corrupt men who judge others by the feelings of their own hearts; they recollected their own conduct in office, and thence infer the impossibility that any public officers can be honest.
With wit and elegance peculiar to yourself, you have attempted a laborious answer to my numerous charges. The evidence of those charges rests in public knowledge. I have brought no charge against you of a private nature. The public opinion must determine your innocence or guilt. But in my opinion you have confessed yourself guilty. You confess that you frequent the temple of sedition, and mix with the factious votaries; but idly pretend that you harbour no base design. It is a place of mischief; and it remains for you to point out some honest object which can so often draw you thither. And although you deny being personally present at the time when the vote passed to displace the President; yet you do not and dare not deny that such a resolve was made by your associates. And as you mention personal traitors in disputation to representatives; at that meeting you undoubtedly acted by proxy. The most consequential charges are too notoriously just to be doubted. You even confess that you have publicly defended and advocated the base measures of the five headed tri-coloured monsters of France, in opposition to our own government. You have in the face of the public audaciously assumed the vile name and carnivorous character of a Jacobin; a term which in itself combines every trait of baseness and infamy of which human nature is capable. Had you not acquired an accidental consequence, by being held up as the suffering martyr and leader of your faction, and wantonly attacked men, whose fame, the vile breath of calumny must not touch with impunity; you might have sunk into quiet oblivion, and I should not again have troubled myself, or the public with this farther examination of your conduct and character. My well intended and wholesome advice to you has been lost.
With all the temerity of a more hardened offender you still challenge accusation, and boldly demand the evidence of your guilt and the name of your accuser. — Commiserating your unhappy situation, I again repeat that admonition to silence, which you have so imprudently disregarded — what I first recommended, I now command. If you continue to court inquiry into your conduct, the Scrutiny shall be marked with such features of severity, that you will too late perceive all I have hitherto said has been lenity and compassion. Be assured you shall not long have cause to complain. Charges drawn with legal precision and formality shall soon be exhibited in a manner sufficiently public. If the voice of clamour and wanton abuse against our government, its measures, and measures be longer heard, MANLIUS pledges himself that he will drop his fictitious, assume his real name, and try on you and your associates the full force of that object of your terror the sedition act. When our lives and the very existence of our government is endangered by
the wicked machinations of an internal faction, there is no time for trifling. The conduct of the factious has been and shall continue to be critically observed and noticed. I have other charges which when the proper occasion for them arrives, shall not be withheld. The government, determined to protect its own dignity, is firm, vigilant and active; the spirit of the people is at length roused; let the authors of our misfortunes tremble. MANLIUS.
[To the above Mr. Gardner comes forward and makes the following reply.]
To the Candid Public.
HAD the villainous scribler, MANLIUS, in his last infamous production, confined himself to my political character, I should not have thought him worthy my further notice; but not being content with his scurrilous catalogue of fallacies on that ground, he has the audacity to insinuate that I have been guilty of unwarrantable conduct in my official capacity, in order to wound my moral character; and threatens to disclose atrocities committed by me, if I shall dare to be otherwise than silent. Charges of such magnitude should not be concealed. The public therefore ought to be made acquainted with all the enormities of their servants, that the most exemplary punishment might be inflicted: I do accordingly, invite the Bullyissimo MANLIUS, and all his vile accomplices (or clients) to exhibit forthwith, in an open, manly manner, every thing that can be construed criminal, or even improper, respecting me; at the same time, shall expect substantial documents to be produced in support thereof, in order that it be ascertained whether the vile allegations or insinuations be well founded or not, as I do not wish to survive the loss of my character. But being conscious of not having done any thing (either official or political) that I ought to be ashamed of — buoys me above a fear of the strictest scrutiny: of course, defy the whole phalanx of my implacable enemies.
Knowing pretty well the SOURCE from whence the dirty author alluded to has derived his information, shall, after the public are informed of what I have done (which am far from wishing to conceal) in my turn, let it be known WHAT I DID NOT DO!!! in order that matters may be properly understood.
I have not designedly offended any one, but acted altogether on the defensive; in attempting which, have adduced plain, simple facts; the consequence has been, to encounter a mighty host of Furies, surpassed by none in the service of His Infern. Majesty; it having become a system to cry-down all who shall dare to have an opinion of their own. Such being the case, the judicious part of the community will make up their judgment accordingly. Popularity is what I never courted; to do my duty has always been my aim, and have the vanity to suppose I have so far succeeded; but that being no security against persecution — Let him who thinks he standeth take heed lest he fall.
Not being disposed to enlarge at present, shall subscribe with being very respectfully, the public's most obedient servant, WILLIAM GARDNER. Portsmouth, August 14, 1798.
FOR THE GAZETTE.
MR. PRINTER, THE present crisis of our national affairs, and our approaching election of Representatives to Congress, demand our severest attention; high-toned Federalism, general information and unceasing exertions, to inform and rouse his fellow-citizens, should designate the character destined for the next mission to Philadelphia; these traits are eminently conspicuous in the character of JOSEPH DENNIE, Esq. he has long successfully espoused the cause of justice, and of our Federal Government; and we find with pleasure his name announced as a candidate, in all the western papers in this State; it is firmly believed that the citizens in the eastern part will not be backward in rewarding his merit. The following names appear to compose, by general consent, our Federal ticket.
William Gordon, Peleg Sprague, Jonathan Freeman, Joseph Dennie. FEDERALISM.
BOSTON, August 11.
EUROPEAN OUT-LINES.
We continue to receive confirmatory accounts of the formation of a coalition in Europe, to set bounds to the mad ambition of the French rulers. The Paris papers speak frequently of its embryo-existence; and the snail-like progress of the Rastadt negotiations are indicative of the infrequency in which they are continued. The last advices from Russia, add certainty to probability; and more than counterbalance the apparently alarming accounts from Ireland. The peace and happiness of the world, require such a coalition; and the wishes of every lover of general tranquility and American prosperity, will be for its success. Universal Dominion is the avowed determination of the French Directory. They treat all Europe with contempt, and commit insults on the world with as much sang froid, as Victor Hughes does on his vessels, at Guadalupe.
If the powers, whom it is known fear as well as hate France, should combine with sincerity; if the whole German Empire, united to the powerful force which could be sent with safety and ease from Russia, and Southern Prussia, could be brought to act with but ordinary efficiency — if the neutral States of Denmark and Sweden, disposed to resent the insults and robberies they have for years experienced; should with Russia form a combined armada to act in conjunction with the navy of Old
England; or block up the Texel, or the harbor of Brest; if such a coalition, and it is no difficult matter, could be effected; and the United States could furnish ample supplies of provision and naval stores; it cannot be doubted, that a salutary check would be put to that daring spirit which now threatens to prostrate the old and the new worlds. We think, too, they would find some indemnification for their expense, in the division of the French, Dutch and Spanish possessions, in the West-Indies, and in South-America. — An event we need not fear, as we never can have worse neighbors, than such as have any connexion with the French.
We learn nothing further from Ireland. We hope we have seen the most sombre part of the picture.
FRIGATE CONSTITUTION.
We yesterday received a note from an officer on board the Constitution, off Newport, 30 fathom water, it says, I am happy to inform you, that the frigate answers every expectation, and fails, in the opinion of every officer, superior to any ship they ever saw. — She is an excellent sea-boat, our crew all well and happy. — Cheerfulness and discipline, are the "order of the day;" — and we with only for an opportunity to defend the Constitution." Dated Aug. 6.
"HUZZA FOR THE CONSTITUTION."
The New-London paper of Wednesday, mentions, that the frigate was spoken on Monday afternoon, by the Sally, between Point Judith and Newport light-house. A heavy cannonading was heard on Tuesday afternoon, the south-side of Long-Island. A gentleman who arrived yesterday, heard in the Sound on Tuesday evening the cannonade mentioned above, and the report was that the Constitution had had an engagement.
From GUADALOUPE — LATE.
Mr. JOHNSON, arrived at New-London from Guadalupe, says, the merchants and respectable people there, expect a rupture between France and the United States, from which they apprehend the most serious consequences to themselves.
Fifteen Danish and Swedish vessels were condemned in one day, lately, at Guadalupe! Vive la Briganade!
The Danes, Swedes, and British send convoys from the Sound; — under protection of which, American vessels and produce go in safety.
From PHILADELPHIA, August 7.
ARRETE, Containing the dispositions relative to neutral vessels destined for the French ports of St. Domingo.
Extract from the Register of the deliberations of the Agency of the Executive Directory to St. Domingo.
THE agents of the Executive Directory decree —
1st That neutral vessels, and consequently American vessels, loaded with provisions or dry goods, shall continue to be admitted into the French ports of St. Domingo.
2d. There shall be taken on account of the administration only a part of the provisions, which shall be paid for immediately at the current price of colonial produce, and in compensation of the duties of import and export.
The owners shall have the free sale of the dry goods.
3d. The vessels shall not be seized by the ships of war and privateers of the republic, if their destination shall evidently be for one of the French ports of St. Domingo, remaining faithful to the republic, even in case of hostilities between the republic and the present neutral powers.
The present decree shall be printed, &c.
Done at the Cape, 18th July, 1798.
Signed, &c.
T. HEDOUVILLE.
GAUTHIER, Sec. Gen. of the agency.
True Copy, GAUTHIER. Necessity, and not a change in the principles of the colonial administration, is evidently the occasion of the foregoing decree. It will however have no effect. The islands, unsupported by the commerce of the United States, must either perish, or alienate themselves from the Republic. It is more than probable that when they shall have heard of the subsisting relations between France and her dependencies and the United States, they will recur to the only apparent, mean by which to avert a state of famine.
From NEW-YORK, August 8.
On Monday the keel of a 44 gun frigate was laid at the ship yard, which is 156 feet in length, to be built by the ingenious Mr. Cheesman, and to be commanded by Capt. Talbot.
We have before noticed, that the one of 32 guns, now building by Mr. Jackson, is to be commanded by the brave Capt. Morris.
It is with pleasure we add, that the keel of a 36 gun frigate is nearly ready, and in a few days will be laid by Messrs. Peck and Carpenter: they are employed to build her for the merchants, who are to loan her to government.
Thus progresses the WOODEN WALLS OF AMERICA, which in a few years will be formidable enough to withstand the naval strength of the nation now her worst enemy.
On Monday failed from this port on a cruise, the United States Cutter, GOVERNOR JAY, Capt. Leonard. She is a handsome vessel, and carries 14 guns, 8 swivels, and 70 men.
The dispatches brought by Mr. Bromfield, from France, some time since announced, were duplicates of those brought by Gen. Marshall, which have been published.
A man was found dead yesterday, near the dock. The depositions before the Coroner, lay, he must have been dead from six to ten days. The overseers ordered him to be buried on Bird Island. — While a Mr. James Dill, and four others, were digging the grave, and Dill was bringing a large
stone to place on the coffin, a sudden explosion of thunder was heard, and sharp lightning seen, but without any rain; when Dill was killed instantly, and Mr. Luddon, the taxton knocked down, and did not recover until three quarters of an hour after.
The heavy rains at the southward have retarded the progress of the mails.
PORTSMOUTH, August 14.
We are credibly informed that only three or four persons are now sick in this town, that they are recovering very fast, their complaints being no way dangerous; their sickness we suppose to be occasioned in a great measure by the extreme hot weather which we have experienced for the last three weeks past, but we are happy to find it now begins to be quite cool and comfortable.
With pleasure we notice in the papers of the western part of the State, the name of JOSEPH DENNIE announced to the public among the candidates, at the ensuing election, for a seat in the House of Representatives of the U. States. Judging from his elegant, correct and highly moral writings, we think his talents would be a valuable acquisition to our representation. In the western counties we are informed he will have a very general suffrage: If genius and very extensive political information, directed by a steady and persevering attachment to government are sufficient to recommend to public notice, Mr. DENNIE may expect a successful election.
The President of the United States arrived at his seat in Quinsey on the 8th instant, he was welcomed by all classes of citizens, with that honor and respect which is due to the Chief Magistrate of a free and enlightened people.
The Revenue Cutter for this District, commanded by Capt. JOHN ADAMS, was launched on Saturday.
Extract from the President's Answer to a Federal Address from the Field Officers of the District of Salisbury, N. Carolina.
"My opinion of the conduct of our government from the beginning, and of the conduct of the French government towards us, has been so often expressed, that it is unnecessary to repeat it. I know not whether history can furnish an example of such moderation and forbearance, as has been shewn by the American government towards the republic of France. The rejection and contempt of our Ambassadors, is the most wanton, the most insulting, and the most injurious of all their conduct. Depredations and cruelties might be committed from error, necessity, or passion — But this is a cool, deliberate, studied affair; intended to be so understood, by all France, all Europe, and all the people of America. Satisfaction must be had for this insult. There can be no reconciliation with France, till the Sovereign of that country shall have received our Ambassador, assured him of the prerogatives of the law of nations attached to his sacred character and functions, and commissioned another to treat with him on equal terms."
SACRED TRUTHS.
The President of the United States, in his answer to an Address from St. Mary's county, Maryland, says, "There is no higher affront, that can be offered to a nation or a government, than contempt and insult to its Messengers of Peace. There can be no safety for any nation that will not be jealous of the honor, maintain the dignity, assert and vindicate the privileges and prerogatives of its Ambassadors. Plunder of property of individuals at sea, and even the swindling intrigues of venality, are weaker indications of an hostile disposition."
Federalism flourishes on the banks of the Ohio.
In Georgia and South-Carolina, scarce a Jacobin can be found. The French are now as much detested there, as they were before adored. If the French should attack our Federal snake at the tail, they will find 30,000 men in Georgia, a good proportion of them, mounted riflemen, ready to receive them with welcomes of weight.
MARRIED,
At Hambourgh, Monf. La Fayette, jun. to Mademoiselle La Tour Maugbourg.
DIED — At Philadelphia, JOHN SWANWICK, Esq. Member of Congress, Et. 39.
In this town, Mrs. Elizabeth Weeks, aged 59; Mrs. Mehetabel White, aged 25; Mr. John White, aged 30; Mrs. Ann Meferve, aged 35; Mr. William Plummer, aged 24; Master Thomas Sheafe, aged 14; a child of Mr. Peter Wilson; a child of Mr. John Smallcorn; a child of Capt. Peter Coues, and a child of Mr. William Currier. — At Statham, Mr. Nathaniel Stevens, aged 52.
Razors ground in the
Best manner, by JOSHUA PIKE, at his shop lower end of Buck-street. August 9, 1798.
To-Morrow
At Public Auction,
Will be Sold at
Abraham Isaac's Auction-Room,
FROM 10 to 12 o'clock, a great variety
of BOOKS; and from 12 to 1 o'clock
a quantity of SILVER PLATE. August 14.

SONG.
Tune—Rule Britannia.
WHEN our great Sires this land ex- plor'd, A shelter from tyrannic wrong! Led on by heav'n's Almighty Lord, They sung—and as'd well the song, Rise united! dare be freed! Our sons shall vindicate the deed.
An Emetic for Jacobins!
Just Published By J. Melcher, AND FOR SALE At his Printing-Office and Book-Store, cor- ner of Market and Congress-Streets, PORTSMOUTH. Price only 10 cents single—7 for half a dollar—and five dollars per hundred.
The Cannibal's Progress, Or the dreadful horrors of French Invasion,
As displayed by the Republican offi- cers and soldiers, in their perfidy, ra- pacity, ferociousness & brutality, exercised towards the innocent inhabitants of Germany. Translated from the German, By ANTHONY AUFRER, Esquire. They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless. Psalm. They say; come, let us lay wait for blood, we shall find all precious substance; we shall fill our houses with spoil. Prov.
[This work contains a circumstantial ac- count of the excelses committed by the French army in Suabia, in 1796. At the present period, when our own country is in danger of being overrun by the same nation, our people ought to be prepared for those things, which they must expect, in case such an event should happen. The pamphlet should be owned by every man, and read in every family. They will there find, from an authentic source, that the consequences of being conquered by France, or even sub- jected to their government are more dread- ful than the heart of man can conceive.— Murder, robbery, burning of towns, and the violation of female chastity, in forms too dreadful to relate, in instances too numerous to be recounted, are among them. Five thousand copies of this work were sold in Philadelphia, in a few days, and an- other edition of ten thousand is now in the press in that city. One large edition at Hartford and another at Newbury-Port have been printed and sold very rapidly.] July 31.
Public Auction.
To be sold at Public Auction, on Wednesday the 15th day of August next, at 12 o'clock, M. A lot of land and store STANDING thereon, situate in the center of the town of Portsmouth, bounded thirty-seven feet nine inches on the parade, and is 103 feet deep on the westerly end, by the estate of Mrs. Nelson; the northerly side is 74 feet wide in jogs by the buildings adjoin- ing; together with the privilege of a way of 12 feet wide to be in common from said land to and from Market-Street. A plan of which may be seen by applying to the printer. Conditions will be made known at time and place of sale, which will be on the premises. JACOB WALDEN, Auctioneer. Portsmouth, July 30.
Hard-Ware.
H. & B. PENHALLOW, Have for sale, at their Store in Mar- ket-Street, A large and general assortment of HARD-WARE, Among which are the following arti- cles, viz.
CLOCK FACES; bras Kettles. Pewter and block-tin Ware. Bar and sheet Lead; Shot and Flints. Soldiers guns, pistols, hangers and hanger blades. Frying-Pans; Warming-Pans; cop- per Tea-Kettles. Sadlery; Cutlery; Desk-Brasses. Anvils; Vices; Screw-Plates; Files. Screw and Pod-Augers; bras and iron Wire. Mill-Saws; Crosscut, Pitt, Tennon and Hand-Saws. Church Plate. Seamen's Quadrants; Time-Glasses. Carpenters, Carvers, Coopers & Shoe- makers Tools. Curriers Knives; cow and sheep Bells. Locks, Hinges, Latches and Screws; Window-Glass. Black-Lead Potts; Crucibles; Emery. Pumice-Stone; Grain-Tin. Shovels and Tongs; bras and iron Candlesticks. A large assortment of Mahogany and Gilt Frame Looking-Glasses. Sad-Irons; English and American Shovels. Nail, Spike and Deck-Nail Gimblets. Deck-Nails, Spikes, Brads, Tacks, and Nails of all sizes. Tar and Paint Brushes. Mackerell and small Fish-Hooks.
ALSO— A large quantity of Cart, Chaise and Waggon Boxes, of all sizes; Phi- ladelphia and Russia Bar-Iron; Nail and Spike Rods; Iron Hollow-Ware; White Lead, dry and ground in oil; Spruce-Yellow; German, English, Blistered and Cast Steel; Codlines; Twine; Marline, &c. &c. CASH, and a generous price, will be given at the above Store, for Old Pewter, Copper and Brass. Portsmouth, Aug. 7, 1798.
Public notice is hereby given, PURSUANT to the act of Congress, passed on the 18th day of June 1798, entitled, "an act respecting Loan Office and final settlement certificates, Indents of interest, and the unfunded or registered debt credited in the books of the Treasury." 1st. That on the application of the cre- ditors respectively, or their legal attorneys at any time after the last day of December in the present year, the principal sums of the unfunded or registered debt of the United States credited on the books of the treas- ury, or commissioners of Loans will be re- imbursed at the treasury of the United States. 2d. That interest upon the unfunded or registered debts aforesaid will cease from and after the last day of December in the pre- sent year. 3d. That the creditors respectively will be entitled on requisition to receive from the proper officers of the treasury, certifi- cates of funded three per cent stock, equal to the arrearages of interest due on the debts aforesaid prior to the first day of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one. By order of the Board of Commissioners, of the Sinking Fund. EDWARD JONES, Secretary.
Treasury Department,
June 27, 1798. NOTICE is hereby given, That by virtue of an act, passed during the present ses- sion of Congress, so much of the act entitled "An act making further provision for the support of public credit, and for the redemption of the public debt"—passed the third day of March, 1795, as bars from settlement or allowance, Certificates, com- monly called Loan Office and final settle- ment Certificates, and Indents of Interest, is suspended until the 18th day of June, which will be in the year 1799. That on the liquidation and settlement of the said Certificates, and Indents of Interest, at the Treasury, the Creditors will be enti- tled to receive Certificates of funded Three Per Cent. Stock equal to the amount of the said Indents, and the arrearages of in- terest due on their said Certificates, prior to the first day of January, 1791. That the principal sums of the said Loan Office and final settlement Certificates, with the interest thereon, since the 18th day of Ja- nuary, 1791, will be discharged after liqui- dation at the Treasury, by the payment of interest and reimbursement of principal, e- qual to the sums which would have been pay- able thereon, if the said Certificates had been subscribed, pursuant to the Acts making provision for the debts of the United States, contracted during the late war, and by the payment of other sums, equal to the market value of the remaining Stock, which would have been created by such subscriptions as aforesaid, which market value will be deter- mined by the Comptroller of the Treasury. OLIVER WOLCOTT, Secretary of the Treasury. June 28. [6 m.]
THE Fellows of the New Hamp- shire Medical Society, are noti- fied that the meeting of the society stands adjourned to the first Wednes- day in September next, to meet at Chester at the house of JOHN S. DEARBORN, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon; 'tis expected most of the Fellows will punctually attend. Per order of the PRESIDENT, LEVI BARTLETT, Rec'd Sec'y. Exeter, May 16, 1798. The Editor of the Dartmouth Eagle is desired to insert this three weeks prior to said meeting.
Public Auction.
To be sold by virtue of a licence from the honorable Judge of probate of wills, &c. for the county of Strafford, on Thursday the 16th day of August next, at 11 o'clock be- fore noon, at the house of John Shute, innholder in Newmarket,
A lot of LAND, thirty feet wide, and about one hun- dred feet deep, fronting on the river, with a wharf thereon; it being part of the estate of Benjamin Dean, late of Dover, deceased, and is well situated for business. ELIZABETH DEAN, Admin'x. Portsmouth; July 27.
Public notice is hereby given,
THAT proposals will be received at the office of the Secretary of the Treasury for supplying the United States with a number not exceeding forty thousand stands of arms, on the following conditions: 1st. The arms shall be manufactur- ed in the United States, conformable to the Charleville pattern; the bar- rels shall be proved, and the muzzles inspected agreeable to the rules now practised and required by the United States:—the Locks shall be duly har- dened; the Ramrods and Bayonets shall be tempered and the mountings, stocks, and every other particular shall be finished in a workman-like manner. 2d. The proposals must specify the number which the party is willing to furnish and the time or times of deli- very—One fourth of the proposed number must be delivered in six months, one fourth in twelve months, and the remainder in eighteen months from the time of signing the contracts; the public will not be considered as bound to receive any arms, which are not ready for delivery within the times proposed. 3d. For every stand of arms, with Bayonet and Ramrod complete as a- foresaid, the United States will allow thirteen dollars and forty cents. 4th. When practicable and consist- ent with existing arrangements, fea- soned stocks will be delivered from the public stores in Philadelphia to contractors, at the rate of twenty-five cents each. 5th. The arms will be received in the respective states at places to be hereafter designated—The United States shall not be bound to prove less than five hundred barrels at one time, unless the barrels are transported to some public factory or deposit of arms, in which case any number not less than one hundred will be proved. 6th. The parties contracting will be required to give bonds with sure- ties for fulfilling their engagements; No money will be advanced unless in- disputable testimonials of skill and a- bility to execute the proposed contracts are produced, nor in cases where pro- posals are made for a less number than one thousand stands of arms; the right of judging of the expediency of making the advances of money is ab- solutely reserved. 7th. Until contracts are made for supplying forty thousand stands of arms, the sum of thirteen dollars and forty cents will be paid at the Treas- ury for every complete stand of arms manufactured in the United States and which may be delivered in parcels of not less than twenty into the pub- lic arsenals, already or hereafter to be established. Those who propose to deliver arms must however indicate their intentions seasonably to the of- fice of the Secretary of the Treasury. OLIVER WOLCOTT, Secretary of the Treasury.
Treasury Department, June 22d, 1798. N. B. The proposals are to be trans- mitted under cover to the Secretary of the treasury at Philadelphia. [1st Se.]
WE the subscribers
being appointed a committee by the honorable Samuel Tenney, Esq. judge of the probate of wills, &c. for the county of Rockingham, to receive, examine and adjust all the claims of the creditors to the estate of John Hogg, late of Hampstead, Esquire, deceased, represented insolvent, do hereby give notice that we will attend said business, at the House of Col. Caleb Johnson, innholder in said Hampstead on the first Monday in each of the six follow- ing months, from four to six of the clock in the afternoon of each of said days. JOHN CALFE, } THO'S MUZZEY, } Committee. JOHN TRUE, } Hampstead, July 19, 1798.
ALL persons that are indebted by notes or accounts to the subscriber, are re- quested to call and settle the same on or before the first day of October next; other- wise their notes and accounts will be put in suite without further notice. JOSIAH FOLSOM. Portsmouth, Aug. 6, 1798.
Stamped Paper,
For Notes of hand, Bills of lading and Bills of Exchange, and every other description of stamped pa- per sold at J. MELCHER'S Printing- Office, at the same price as at the Supervi- sor's Office.
State of New-Hampshire. ss.
To the honorable Simeon Olcott, Esq. chief justice of the Superior Court of Judica- ture for the State of New-Hampshire, Or to the honorable Timothy Farrar, Esq. one other justice of said Court.
JOSHUA ATHERTON Attorney Ge- neral for the State of New-Hampshire, complainant on behalf of said State, against Matthew Thornton, and others, grantees hereafter named of a certain township situ- ate in New-Hampshire; to wit, in the county of Grafton and State aforesaid called Thornton; that on the sixteenth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty-three, the supreme executive power of New-Hampshire, to wit, Benning Wentworth, Esq. the Governor of New-Hampshire, (otherwise called the province of New-Hampshire) with advice of the then council of said New-Hampshire, by charter or grant, did charter, convey and grant said township under the seal of said New-Hampshire, in common form du- ly executed and recorded in the records of said New-Hampshire; subscribed by the proper hand of the said Benning Went- worth Governor as aforesaid, upon the rea- sons and the conditions in the said charter mentioned, unto Matthew Thornton, Wil- iam Wallace, John Doak, Robert M'Neil, John Moore, John Gillmore, James Gill- more, Thomas Christy, Andrew Jack, John M'Lean, Samuel Morrison, Joseph Morri- son, James Cochran, David Anderson, Alexander Walker, Matthew Clark, Tho's Morrison, Jonathan Gillmore, Samuel Steel, Robert Clinidin, Andrew Clinidin, David Clinidin, Archibald Clinidin, Andrew Clinidin, jr. Samuel Morrison, David Steel, David Craige, Hugh Ramsay, Hugh Montgomery, David Montgomery, John M'Clench, Samuel Gregg, Nathaniel Holmes, Thomas Gregg, Thomas Camp- bell, John Campbell, John M'Cartney, John Alexander, James Alexander, John Wilson, James Doak, Jesse Christy, Ro- bert Gillmore, Jonathan Morrison, John Taggart, James Taggart, John Swan, Wil- iam M'Neal, Joseph Caldwell, Patrick White, Fitch Pool, William Taylor, Thomas Walley, Isaac Thomas, Hugh Gilliu, Richard Wier, Thomas Davis, William Alld, William Howard, Hon. John Temple, Esq. Hon. Theodore At- kinson, Esq. Hon. Mark Hunking Went- worth, Esq. Hon. Theodore Atkinson, Esq. jr. Col. Joseph Smith, Joseph Blan- chard, Esq. Col. John Goffe, His Excel- lency Benning Wentworth, Esq. a tract of land to contain five hundred acres as mark- ed B. W. in the plan (annexed to or en- tered on said grant) which is to be account- ed two of the shares hereafter mentioned; one whole share aforesaid, in said town- ship, for the incorporated society for the propagation, (meaning for the propagation of the gospel) in foreign parts; one share for a glebe for the church of England as by law established, one share for the first settled minister of the gospel, and one share for the benefit of a school in said town, grantees aforesaid of said township whose names are entered on said grant, their heirs and assigns, which grant or charter is as fol- lows, to wit:
Province of New-Hampshire.
George the third, by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, defender of the faith, &c.
To all persons to whom these presents shall come. Greeting. Know ye, that we of our special grace, certain knowledge and mere motion, for the due encouragement of settling a new plan- tation within our said province, by and with the advice of our truly and well beloved Benning Wentworth, Esq. our Governor and commander in chief of our said pro- vince of New-Hampshire, in New En- gland; and of our council of said Province, have upon the condition and reservations herein after made, given and granted, and by these presents, for us, our heirs and succes- sors, do give and grant in equal shares, unto our loving subjects, inhabitants of our said province of New-Hampshire and our other governments, and to their heirs and assigns forever, whose names are entered on this grant, to be divided to and amongst them into seventy-three equal shares, all that tract or parcel of land, situate, lying and being within our said province of New-Hamp- shire, containing by admeasurement, twenty- three thousand & forty acres, which tract is to contain six miles square and no more, out of which an allowance is to be made for highways and unimprovable lands by rocks, ponds, mountains and rivers, one thousand and forty acres free, according to a plan and survey thereof made by our said Governor's order, and returned into the Secretary's office and hereunto annexed, buted and bounded as follows, viz.—Be- ginning at the north-east corner of Camp- ton, from thence running westerly by the north line of said Campton, about six miles to the north-west corner thereof, which is the north-east corner of Rumney, from thence north thirty degrees, east twelve miles, from thence south about twelve miles to the first bounds mentioned; And that the same be and hereby is incorporated into a township by the name of Thornton; and the inhabitants that do or shall hereafter in- habit said township, are hereby declared to be enfranchised with and intitled to all and every, the privileges and immunities that other towns within our province by law ex- ercise and enjoy; and further that the said town as soon as there shall be fifty families resident and settled thereon, shall have the liberty of holding two fairs, one of which shall be held on the and the other on the annually, which fairs are not to continue longer than the respective fol- lowing the said and that as soon as the said town shall consist of fifty families, a market may be opened and kept one or more days in each week, as may be thought most advantageous to the inhabitants.—Also that the first meeting for the choice of town officers, agreeable to the laws of our said province, shall be held on the last Monday in July inst. which said meeting shall be notified by Matthew Thornton, Esq. who is hereby also appointed the moderator of the said first meeting, which he is to notify and govern agreeable to the laws and cus- toms of our said province; and that the an- nual meeting forever hereafter for the choice of such officers for the said town, shall be on the second Tuesday of March annually,
to have and to hold the said tract of land as above expressed, together with all privileges and appurtenances, to them and their re- spective heirs and assigns forever, upon the following conditions, viz. 1st. That every grantee, his heirs or as- signs shall plant and cultivate five acres of land within the term of five years for every fifty acres contained in his or their share, or portion of land in said township, and continue to improve and settle the same by the forfeiture of his grant or share in the said township, and of its reverting to us, our heirs and successors to be by us or them re- granted to such of our subjects as shall ef- fectually settle and cultivate the same. 2d. That all white and other pine trees within the said township, fit for masting our royal navy, be carefully preserved for that use, and none to be cut or felled without our special licence for so doing first had and obtained, upon the penalty of the for- feiture of the right of such grantee, his heirs and assigns, to us, our heirs and succes- sors, as well as being subject to the penalty of any act or acts of parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be enacted. 3d. That before any division of the land be made to and among the grantees, a tract of land as near the center of said town- ship as the land will admit of, shall be re- served and marked for town lots, one of which shall be allotted to each grantee of the contents of one acre. 4th. Yielding and paying therefor to us our heirs and successors for the space of ten years, to be computed from the date hereof, the rent of one ear of indian corn only, on the twenty-fifth day of December an- nually, if lawfully demanded, the first pay- ment to be made on the twenty-fifth day of December, 1763. 5th. Every proprietor, settler or inha- bitant shall yield and pay unto us, our heirs and successors yearly and every year forev- er, from and after the expiration of ten years from the above said twenty-fifth day of December, namely, on the twenty-fifth day of December, which will be in the year of our Lord, 1773, one shilling proclama- tion money, for every hundred acres he to owns, settles or possesses, and so in propor- tion for a greater or lesser tract of the said land, which money shall be paid by the re- spective persons aforesaid, their heirs or as- signs, in our council chamber in Port- mouth, or to such officer or officers as shall be appointed to receive the same; and this to be in lieu of all other rents and services whatsoever. In testimony whereof, we have caused the seal of our said province to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benning Wentworth, Esq. our Governor and commander in chief of our said province, the sixth day of July, in the year of our Lord Christ, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-three, and in the third year of our reign. B. WENTWORTH. By his excellency's command with advice of council. T. ATKINSON, jr. Sec'y.
Now the Attorney-General aforesaid, in fact complains and says that the grantees a- foresaid, of the township aforesaid, did not keep and perform the conditions aforesaid, according to the spirit and meaning of said conditions, nor has either of them, their heirs or assigns, or any person claiming title from, by or under them, kept and perform- ed said conditions or any part thereof, but ever have and still do neglect and refuse to perform the same, by reason of which non- performance of said conditions the said grant- ees, and all persons claiming title by, from or under them, have forfeited said granted premises, and every part thereof, to the use of said State, & the said State ought now to be in actual possession of the same. Wherefore, pursuant to the laws of said State in such case made and provided, the said Attorney- General prays process against the said grant- ees, as well as against all persons claiming title to said township, or any part thereof, from, by or under said grantees; and that they be ordered to appear at the next Superi- or Court of Judicature, to be holden at Haverhill within and for the county of Grafton, on the first Tuesday of November next, to answer to the foregoing complaint, further to do and receive that which the said Superior Court of Judicature shall then and there consider. JOSHUA ATHERTON, Attorney Gene- ral aforesaid. June 22, 1798.
State of New-Hampshire. ss. The foregoing complaint having been made this twenty second day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hun- dred and ninety eight. Ordered, that the grantees aforesaid of the township of Thorn- ton aforesaid, and all persons claiming title to said township, or any part thereof, from by or under said grantees, appear at the Su- perior Court of Judicature, next to be hold- en at Haverhill within and for the county of Grafton, on the first Tuesday of No- vember next, then and there to answer to said complaint, and that Nathaniel Adams Esq. clerk of said Superior Court, cause the substance of this said complaint together with a copy of this order to be published as the laws of said State, in such case made and provided, do order and direct. TIMOTHY FARRAR, Justice of said Superior Court. Copy examined by NATHANIEL ADAMS, Clerk.
WANTED,
TWO Apprentices to the Taylor's business; Inquire of Wm. B. Hardy, Portsmouth.
FOR SALE,
ONE new Chaife, with harness com- plete. 1 second hand ditto. 10 thousand range timber. 13 thousand good laying shingles. 6 thousand seasoned clear boards. Apply to ELISHA HILL, Coach-Maker.
A chance for 2000 dollars.
WHOLE and QUARTER Tickets in the 5th Class of Dartmouth College Lottery, for sale at J. MELCHER'S Print- ing-Office and Book-Store, corner of Mar- ket and Congress Streets, Portsmouth, where prizes drawn to the tickets purchased there will be paid.