The New Hampshire gazette (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1794-08-12 00:00:00

New Hampshire Gazette.
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FOR THE GAZETTE.
MR. PRINTER.
The original of the following address was sent by a friend, who observed in his letter, that a neighbor had lately brought it from Montreal. On the address was written, "Hundreds of these were found in Montreal market"—Should you think this translation worthy a place in your paper—publish it. A. M.
The free French people, to their brethren the Canadians.
WHILE we groaned under an arbitrary government, we could but pity your situation, and regret those ties which united us to you: and while we secretly murmured at the treachery of which you were the unfortunate victims, we did not dare any more than you to lift up our heads, depressed with the yoke of servitude: and a fruitless resentment at the criminal conduct of our Kings towards you, was the only homage we could render.
But now we are free, we have re-assumed our rights, our oppressors are punished, every branch of the administration of our government is regenerated, and confident in the justice of our cause, in our fortitude, and in our immense preparations for the destruction of all tyrants, it is in our power to avenge you, to make you free as ourselves—equally independent as your neighbours, the Americans of the United States.—Canadians, imitate their example and ours—the path is already delineated, one magnanimous enterprize may liberate you from the abject state of servitude in which you are plunged. It depends upon you to re-engrave upon your foreheads the primitive dignity of man, which nature gave, but which slavery has effaced.
Man is born free—by what fatality has he then become the slave of his fellow? What cause could produce such a strange overturning of sentiment, as to occasion whole nations voluntarily to surrender up their rights, and become the property of a single individual? It is by the ignorance, the luxury, the cowardice of the one, the ambition, the perfidy, the injustice of the other.
But now while whole nations from the abuse of a government become insupportable, have in opposing their oppressors, revealed the secret of their weakness, and developed the iniquity of their measures; how culpable must those nations be, who voluntarily wear the disgraceful chains, and who intimidated at the sacrifice of a few moments of repose, deliver themselves up to a shameful inactivity, and voluntarily remain in the shackles of slavery. Every thing around you invites to liberty; the country which you inhabit was conquered by your ancestors, it owes its prosperity to their cares and yours, it is yours of right, it ought to be independent. Break then with a government which is daily degenerating, and which has already become the most inimical to the liberties of the people. Every where you may remark the tyranny, the avarice, the cruelties of the King of England.—It is time to overturn a throne where hypocrisy and deceit have too long been seated, and that those vile courtiers who surround it, should be punished for their crimes: or that, being dispersed throughout the globe, the ignominy with which they shall be covered, may testify to the world, that a glorious, though tardy vengeance has at length taken place in favour of humanity.
This necessary revolution, this unavoidable punishment is rapidly preparing itself in England. The republican principles are there daily making new progress, and the friends of liberty and of France increase in a most sensible manner.—But do not wait the issue of this event, before you assert your rights—act for yourselves, for your own glory—fear nothing from George 3d, nor from his troops, they are too few in numbers to oppose your valour with success, his feeble army is retained around him at home, by the murmurs of the English, and the immense preparations of France; which prevent his increasing the number of your executioners. The moment is favorable, and
a revolution is for you the most sacred of duties, do not hesitate therefore, but recount the history of all your misfortunes to such as shall cowardly refuse their arms and assistance to so glorious an enterprize; the cruelties exercised by the English, to bring you in subjection to their authority. The insults you have endured by their agents, who have fattened themselves by your labours. Call to remembrance the odious names of Murray and Haldimand the victims of their cruelty. The shackles with which your commerce has been loaded. The odious monopoly which weakens its energy and prevents its aggrandizement. The hazardous business you pursue for the sole benefit of the English: Finally recollect, that being born Frenchmen, you will forever be envied and persecuted by the Kings of England, and that now more than ever, this title will occasion your being excluded from all employment.
Indeed the French will treat their fellow citizens as brethren, and will be less attentive to please the despot of England, than to do justice to the Canadians; they will never attach themselves to the service of Kings, but to that of their brethren; they will ever prefer the delightful satisfaction of being beloved and esteemed worthy of their origin, to all the sinecures of Royalty—they will oppose a vigorous resistance to the arbitrary decrees of the Court of London; of that perfidious Court which had not granted to Canada even the shadow of a Constitution, but through fear that the virtuous example of the French and Americans would be imitated by them, who in throwing off the yoke, have founded their government upon the imprescriptable rights of men.
Hitherto what advantages have you derived from that Constitution which has been given you, during the six months that your representatives have been assembled, have they presented you with one good law? Have they corrected one abuse? Have they had the power to liberate your commerce from its shackles? No, and why? Because in your elections, all the means of corruption are secretly and publickly employed, that the balance be ever in favour of the English. Canadians you have among yourselves every thing which can constitute your happiness, enlightened, courageous, industrious, the friends of justice, what need have you that the care of your government should be intrusted to a stupid tyrant, a simple King, whose caprice may fetter your deliberations, and leave you without law for years together. Is it not equally as ridiculous to intrust the care of your dearest interests to such a man, placed at the other extremity of the globe, as to see a Canadian planter remove himself to the sources of the Missouri, for the better direction of his plantation.
Men have a right to govern themselves; laws ought to be the expression of the will of the people, manifested by their Representatives—no one has a right to oppose their execution; nevertheless, the King of England has dared to impose upon you his odious Veto , which is only reserved to keep alive the abuses of your government, and to paralyze and weaken all your motions, behold this is the gift which the vile hirelings of Britain have dared to present you with as a monument of the beneficence of the English government. The Legislative power is very properly compared to the head of a man, which designs and directs, and the Executive power to the arms of the same man; if the arms refuse to execute what the head has judged to be necessary to the welfare of the whole body; deprived of this assistance, he quickly languishes and dies—Canadians, it is time to arouse yourselves from that lethargic slumber, in which you are plunged; arm yourselves, call to your assistance your indian friends, and rely upon the aid of your neighbors, and of the French—Swear never to quit your arms, till you shall be liberated from your enemies; call Heaven and your consciences to witness the justice of your resolutions, and you will obtain that which resolute men never demand in vain, Liberty and Independence,
Recapitulation of the Advantages which the Canadians will obtain by delivering themselves from the English government.
1st, Canada will be a free and independent State.
2d, They will form alliances with France and the United States.
3d, The Canadians will elect their own government, they will nominate from among themselves the members of their Legislative Body, and the Executive Power.
4th, The Veto will be abolished.
5th, Every person who shall have obtained the right of a Canadian citizen, may be nominated to any post of government.
6th, The Corvée will be abolished.
7th, Commerce will enjoy the most extended freedom.
8th, There will be no longer any privileged company for the Fur-Trade, but the new government will encourage it.
9th, The duties of seigniorship, and the fines of alienation will be abolished; also the duties upon the mills, tolls, reservation of the timber, service for the Lord Proprietors, &c. &c. will be annihilated.
10th, All hereditary titles will be also abolished, and there will be neither Lords, Seigniors, nor Nobles any more.
11th, Every mode of worship will be free, the Catholic priests nominated by the people, as in the primitive church, will be respected in proportion to their usefulness.
12th, The tithes will be abolished.
Schools will be established in all the parishes and villages. The Priests will be encouraged, there will be institutions for the higher sciences, such as Medicine, Mathematics, &c. and there will be established such interpreters, who, recommended by their good manners, will be encouraged to civilize the savage nations, and by these means enlarge your commerce with them.
LATE
Foreign Intelligence.
By an arrival at Boston from Southampton, (England.)
BRITISH HOUSE OF LORDS, May 26.
AMERICA.
MARQUIS LANSDOWNE rose, and after taking a view of the conduct of Ministers at home, and of the situation of affairs on the frontier of France, drew the attention of their Lordships to the conduct of Ministers towards Neutral nations, or those powers of Europe, who had not confederated in the military crusade. Their conduct towards Genoa, was highly reprehensible and impolitic; it had alienated the affections of that Republic, and driven it into the arms of France. It becomes now in its turn a spectator of our defeat and losses at Corsica, the circumstances of which it is found expedient to conceal from the public eye. Their conduct towards Sweden and Denmark, is marked with no less foresight and policy. Those powers have already fitted out larger fleets, and should they once be brought to act in conjunction with the enemy, he did not know to what extent of war and misery we should be driven.
The Marquis having drawn the outline of our situation with respect to the war in Europe, the prospect of our success, and the darkness which rested on it, said, that what had prompted him chiefly to call upon and to interest the minds of their Lordships, was a matter, now of the highest magnitude and the widest concern. It was the relative situation of America to this country. America, he said, as a neutral nation, and, he believed, a wise one, had adopted that conduct which it behoved her to adopt. Nevertheless, as a neutral nation, America had a right to our attention and regard in point of justice and policy. Whatever differences of opinion had arisen between Great Britain and the European powers, the interests of America, and the friendship of America,
should be cultivated and revered. The peace which was made with America, in 1783, was such as was calculated not only to lay the foundation of an alliance, but of a lasting friendship: It marked out the boundaries of her dominion with a degree of liberality.—It gave her the ocean as the natural barrier on the east, and the Great Lakes as the natural limits on the North and West. The forts and out-ports which by treaty should have been ceded to her, have remained since in our hands (for what reason he did not now wish to discuss) and though repeated applications have been made to government, yet it had appeared from Mr. JEFFERSON's letter to the Minister Plenipotentiary for America (Mr. PINCKNEY) that no satisfactory answer can be obtained respecting them.
The Marquis then adverted to the order of council, of November, 1793, for the seizing and detaining all American vessels laden with wheat, flour, or grain, bound to any of the ports of France;—which order had been kept a secret for some time, and which, from the evil consequences that would accrue to Great-Britain in its commercial concerns, had called for a deputation of the merchants of the city of London, who deprecated any rupture with America, as one of the greatest calamities, which, in a political as well as commercial point of view, could happen to this country. This measure, the Marquis represented as ungenerous, provoking and impolitic; and then added, as matter of the highest aggravation, the conduct of Ministers, in the behaviour of the Consul at Algiers, towards the American trade to Portugal. It was matter of notoriety that the Portuguese had kept in the Mediterranean, a fleet ready to act at all times against the Algerine pirates, various reasons had been assigned for this armament. Some said it had been from the old superstitious grudge which the Portuguese had against the Barbary states. Others, for the purpose of exercising their marine, and keeping it in action. But here it served to protect the trade of America to Lisbon, and here it becomes an object of serious attention. It is alleged a fact—a fact he had good reason, he said, to believe, (but which he would wish to hear fairly denied and refused) that a truce had been made, under the influence of the English Consul, between the Dey of Algiers and the Portuguese; and that in consequence of this treaty the Americans, unapprehensive of the danger which arose, from the treachery of the States of Barbary, were seized, plundered and led into captivity, where many of them now groan under the oppression of those barbarians.
The noble Marquis then proceeded to state that part of the business on which he principally grounded his motion. He said that that which would fall most seriously feelingly to Ministers to explain, and which he deemed essentially necessary for their Lordships to be informed of, was, the recent conduct of Ministers in the person of Lord DORCHESTER, Governor-General of Quebec. He considered Lord DORCHESTER as a man too prudent to act of himself under circumstances so big with danger, so pregnant with calamity and ruin, had he not the express authority of Ministers for such a conduct—a conduct which, the Marquis said, went to open a scene of horror and devastation in the western world, by an open declaration of war between Great-Britain and America. Lord DORCHESTER had, he said, recently received a deputation from the Indians who inhabit to the north-west of the Ohio, announcing their wishes to unite with the English, and break the peace with the colonies. The noble Marquis here read the answer of Lord DORCHESTER to this deputation, which re-echoed every hostile sentiment breathed by them, affixing to each period the tender and paternal appellation, "Children."
The Marquis then said, that if a war with America was the object of their wishes; that if the peace of 1783 had now given dissatisfaction to those who then concluded it, they should come forward and declare their change of sentiment, and unfold the purposes of such a war.

The Americans, from their councils and public discussions, wished, by every means, to avert the calamities of such a state, and had given proofs of forbearance under insults and irritation; but he would nevertheless, from a consideration of the great importance that the trade of America is to this country, most sincerely advise Ministers, before they entered on a measure so impolitic, and on which a great part of the commerce of this island now depended, carefully to consider it in all its circumstances; and he hoped that they would fairly come forward, and give that information which their Lordships should know on the facts he had mentioned, and which he would be very happy to find fallacious. On these considerations he would move, "That an humble address be presented to his Majesty, requesting his Majesty, would be graciously pleased to order, that there be laid before this House such instructions as have been given, or ordered to be given, to Lord DORCHESTER, relative to the differences between the American States, and the Indians to the north-west of the Ohio, and Lord DORCHESTER's answer thereto."
Lord GRENVILLE rose in reply to the Marquis of Lansdown, who, he said had introduced into his speech much extraneous matter, and which was no way relevant to the motion he had brought forward. He had set out with taking a view of the internal situation of this country, and had used expressions which indicated his utter dissent to the measures lately adopted by administration. He had said, government used measures of unmerited and unprecedented severity. This, his Lordship said, was quite foreign to the present motion; nevertheless, as the noble Marquis had thought proper to introduce it, he conceived it proper to notice it in reply. That government, so far from using undue severity, had, on the contrary, been almost criminally tardy, was a point to which he was sure the sense of the country would concede. They had waited until they found the ferment of opinion was ready to break out into action; and the consequences of such actions would be but a counterpart of those horrors which we saw passing before our eyes in another country. Let any man look at this country for these two years past, and then say if he can possibly deny the urgency and expediency of the measures which have been adopted. After the view which the noble Marquis had taken of our domestic situation, the subject of the neutral powers had engaged his attention. Lord GRENVILLE said he was ready at any time to justify the conduct of Great-Britain, in those parts in which it had been impeached, relative to its conduct towards neutral powers. He maintained that it had been much less rigorous than it was warranted by the law of nations.
It was a principle admitted, and indeed was incontestible, that you might prevent any power from supplying your enemy under the cloak and cover of an insidious neutrality. The Algerine truce was the next object that demanded his Lordship's attention. The Portuguese, he said, were always our natural friends, and ever ready to give amicable assistance; but from their situation with the Algerines they were prevented from rendering that assistance which otherwise they were inclined to give us. Thus conditioned they applied to the government of this country, to act the part of a mediator and to endeavour to effectuate a peace between them and the Algerines. His Majesty did accordingly dispatch a Consul who negotiated a truce, but he denied it was attended with any of that secrecy, and for those purposes which were stated by the noble Marquis. The order of council had also been introduced into the Marquis's speech of this evening. His Lordship asserted, that in respect to that measure this country would have been justified had it gone to even greater length: What did we do? We did not seize the coin, on the contrary, we merely brought their vessels into English ports and paid a fair price for their cargoes.—Surely the Americans could not be said to be ill treated. Were they not as well paid in English gold as they would have been in French assignats?
Another subject introduced was the boundary line. This, his Lordship said, was the first time that ever he had heard that article in the treaty of peace stated as an advantage to this country. He admitted that although it was not advantageous, yet the treaty should be observed; at the same time it was to be remembered, that it was mutually binding on both parties, and it was unfair to demand the execution of a treaty by one party, when it remained unfulfilled by the other. It was unjust to demand one party to relinquish their advantages without receiving
those benefits which they had stipulated for, by the very same treaty. He had voted for the treaty of peace, not because he thought it was the most desirable that could be procured; and further experience had convinced him he was right in his opinion of the article settling the boundary line of the American states.
He now came to the last part of the noble Marquis's speech, and on which he seemed most to rely. He should only say, that the paper which was produced from the pocket of the noble Lord, was one that never before came to his knowledge. He had received none such from Lord DORCHESTER;—and if any such really did exist, he should doubtless in due time hear of it, together with that noble person's reasons for his conduct. Until that time he thought it decent and decorous not to investigate the matter. He should therefore oppose the motion as unnecessary.
The Duke of Grafton deprecated the idea of a war with America, whom he thought should be united to us by a family compact. He wished Ministers had given a more explicit information upon the subject before the House, as certainly they well knew whether there was any thing in Lord DORCHESTER's instructions which would lead him to use such a speech as that which was supposed to be uttered by him to the Indians.
Lord SYDNEY said, that Lord DORCHESTER was a person of the highest prudence as well as abilities, and to which he added a particular regard for America; it would therefore be improper to discuss his conduct now, without being in possession of those facts which might influence his resolutions.
Lord STANHOPE said that the Noble Secretary had admitted possibly such a paper might exist.
[Here was a call of No! No! ] Lord STANHOPE insisted he had admitted that there might exist such a paper, and consequently the possibility of a war with America.
Lord GRENVILLE said, if any other Noble Lord had said what had just fallen from the Noble Lord, it had required an answer; as it was, it required none.
The House then divided. Contents, - - 9 Non Contents, - 69—Majority 60.
HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MAY 26. EMBARGO LAID ON FOREIGN SHIPS BY THE AMERICAN STATES.
Mr. SHERIDAN said, there was a paper which had created a general alarm, and on account of which the States of America had laid an Embargo on foreign ships. The paper he alluded to, purported to be an answer given by Lord DORCHESTER to the Indians of Lower Canada. In that paper his Lordship animadverted on the conduct of the American States, and said, that it was likely we should be at war with America before the end of the present year, &c. He thought it was of consequence that this paper should be laid before the house, and it was supposed to have been written in consequence of orders from this country, and therefore he moved for an Address similar to the Marquis of LANSDOWN's.
Mr. Secretary DUNDAS said, that was the first moment he had ever heard of such a paper, and he was certain that no orders had been sent from this country to Lord DORCHESTER to write such a letter.
Mr. Fox said, if that letter was a forgery, that circumstance could not be communicated too soon to the country. It had been considered as an authentic letter in America, where it had already produced some mischief. He was extremely happy to hear from the King's ministers, that it was all a fabrication. It had been said, no orders were sent to Lord DORCHESTER to write such a letter, but he wished to know whether any orders were sent to his Lordship that would authorize him to write such a letter? He knew that noble Lord was not a person who would write such a letter without authority.
Mr. Secretary DUNDAS firmly believed Lord DORCHESTER incapable of writing any paper that had the least tendency to involve this country in a war with America. He declared upon his honor as a gentleman, that he had never heard before of such a letter, and that it had not been written in consequence of any orders from this country. So little desirous were we of engaging with America in any species of hostilities, that the utmost endeavours of this country had been used for the purpose of suppressing hostilities between the Indians and the American States.
Sir FRANCIS BARING said, that whether that letter was or was not a forgery, it had been acted upon, and was one
circumstance, on account of which an embargo had been laid on ships on the 26th March.
Mr. WILBERFORCE said, since that letter was a forgery, instead of being productive of any rupture between this country and America, it would have a contrary effect, and produce between the two nations a stronger union.
Two observations arise from the above debate—first that it was the Portuguese government that solicited the intervention of Britain in making the truce with Algiers, and that the injury of the French was its sole object—second, that Lord DORCHESTER had no instructions from the British Ministry, to predicate his speech to the Indians, which now appears to be the weak child of his Lordship's dorage. The general appearance of the debate is favourable to peace; but our great complaint of spoliation in the West-Indies, has not been mentioned—The debate being 69 days since may occasion it.
Advantages gained by Combined Forces.
[Over Gen. JOURDAN's army.]
WHITEHALL, May 28. A dispatch, of which the following is a copy, dated Tournay, the 26th of May, was this day received from his royal highness the Duke of York, by the Right Honorable Henry Dundas, his Majesty's principal Secretary of State for the Home Department.
TOURNAY, May 26.
Sir, I HAVE the pleasure to inform you that his Imperial Majesty has received, this morning, intelligence from General Count KAUNITZ, that, on the 24th inst. he attacked the French army which had taken a position its left to Rouveray and its right to Fontaine l'Eveque; and that he had completely defeated them, and obliged them to retreat in great confusion over the river, which he intended to pass with his army to day in pursuit of them.
The enemy has lost near fifty pieces of cannon, and above 5000 men, 3000 of whom are prisoners. The loss of the Austrians has been very inconsiderable, as they in a manner surprised them.
Accounts were likewise received to-day, that the enemy has made an inroad into the Duchy of Luxemburg, with an army of 40,000 men, and has taken possession of Arlon, which has obliged General BEAULIEU (who had moved forward with the troops under his command, and had taken the town of Bouillon by storm) to retire, and to fall back on Marche, in order to cover Namur. I am, &c.
(Signed) FREDERICK. Right Hon. Henry Dundas, &c. &c. [Gen. JOURDAN's letter to the Convention, which mentions his intentions to engage the enemy, is dated May 22.]
[Over Gen. PICHEGRU's army.]
CAMP NEAR TOURNAY, MAY 23. The combined armies were yesterday morning attacked by the whole force that the enemy could bring against them: The action commenced at six in the morning, and finished about half an hour past nine at night. This has been by far the severest action that has yet taken place; but it gives me much pleasure to add, the enemy were repulsed with a very serious loss. They commenced their attack as usual, and a very heavy fire from their artillery; forced our posts at Pick, Templeuve, &c. and drove the Austrians and Hanoverians, with an immense loss, back upon Tournay. They were indeed at one time in the village of Froinnes, about half a league distant, and were very plainly perceived from the ramparts of the town. The time they were in the village above spoken of, they kept up the heaviest fire of musketry ever remembered. But our batteries on the Scheldt and light artillery, on the Chaussee, keeping up a very heavy fire on them, they found it impossible to advance; but still they maintained their ground with much obstinacy, notwithstanding the very severe loss they suffered, until about five o'clock, when they retreated to Ramegnies, where they made a determined stand; their object being to keep open a communication with the Scheldt. Our Austrian and Hanoverian artillery at this time were advancing on the Chaussee, having a fine plain for the cavalry (Hanoverian and Dutch) who covered them. On the approach to the village of Ramegnies, the enemy kept up a heavy fire with grape and musketry, which obliged them to retreat in some confusion; but fortunately for us, at this period General Fox arrived with the remains of his brigade of
infantry of the line. Seeing the confusion that was taking place, he instantly formed them within 300 yards of the village, and under cover of the fire of his only two field pieces remaining, advanced and took it by storm. The Carmagnols retreated in the utmost confusion, both from the village, and from a post where they had established themselves on the banks of the Scheldt. Their loss here is hardly credible, and ours was also severe; so much so, that this brigade is not now above two thirds the strength of a single regiment. After taking this village, the enemy were pursued (having now begun to retreat in all directions) to the left towards Templeuve, and along the Chaussee towards Peck; which pursuit was continued until some time after dark, when the troops were ordered to rest on their arms. Our loss on this occasion I have not as yet been able to learn. The enemy's is computed at 6,000—that of the Austrians at 1,000—the Hanoverians about 500, and the British about 150; but, it is to be observed, that only the brigade of the line of the latter were engaged with two field pieces, which lost more than half their men in killed and wounded.
As a testimony of the gallantry shewn by our troops in the action of the 22d, the Duke of York next day issued the following
GENERAL ORDERS.—May 23. "His Royal Highness the commander in chief, desires to express his most particular thanks to Maj. Gen. Fox, to the 14th, 37th, and 53d regiments, and the detachment of artillery, for their great display of intrepidity and good conduct, which reflects the greatest honor upon themselves, at the same time that it was so highly instrumental in deciding the important victory of the 22d. His Royal Highness much laments the loss they sustained, but flatters himself they feel it in some measure compensated by the credit they have gained."
LONDON, May 28. Letters from the army give various details of the late desperate action. Pichegru commanded in person. He advanced in great force as far as Turin, a small village, not a league from Tournay, on the road to Courtray. The position was very favorable to the French, both their wings and rear being covered by a wood, so that they could not be turned or attacked by cavalry. Pichegru's front was likewise in a great degree sheltered by the wood. About sun-set the French were driven from the field of battle, and pursued to some distance. Night alone put an end to the pursuit.
The French accounts do not greatly disagree in noticing this battle. The French Representative Chodieu, and Gen. Pichegru, in their letters to the Convention, dated May 24, state, that the battle lasted 15 hours, was well fought, that success attended the French arms, until towards evening, and that then "they were driven back."
MAY 29. It was yesterday reported, on the authority of the master of a foreign vessel arrived from India, that the settlement of Bencoolen had fallen into the hands of the French.
A letter (of which the following is an extract) was this day received by Mr. Secretary Dundas from Vice-Admiral Lord Hood, dated Victroy, off Bastia, April 25, 1794.
"Bastia still holds out, although our batteries have had a powerful effect. A Surgeon, who came out of the town, reports the enemy to have lost a great number of men, and that there were in the hospital near 300. Our loss has been inconsiderable."
BRUSSELS, May 22.
A Messenger has just brought an account, that General Baron de Beaulieu, having marched into the Duchy of Bouillon on the 18th inst. defeated a considerable body of French who covered that Canton, and having killed twelve hundred, taken between two and three hundred prisoners, six pieces of cannon, and several caissons, he took possession of the town Bouillon, and summoned the Citadel to surrender, which was refused. The inhabitants having fired upon the Austrians, the town was given up to be pillaged.
Domestic Intelligence.
NORFOLK, July 23.
On Monday arrived the brig Defiance, of Charleston. Capt. Stevens, in 80 days from Copenhagen. In lat. 32, long. 63 spoke the ship Benjamin, of Salem, 68 days from the isle of France, who informed Capt. Stevens that three of the East

India Company ships, and one Portuguese from Mozambique, had been taken by the French and carried into the isle of France, and that a new embargo had taken place in the isle of France.
BALTIMORE, July 25. A letter, of a late date, from St. Domingo, to a gentleman in this town, says, "The negroes, amounting to 2000, are constantly harassing the English troops at Port-au-Prince. The English marched out against them, but were totally defeated, and lost 8 field pieces."
July 26. Yesterday arrived in this port Capt. Dot, of the privateer Sans Culotte de Marceilles, of ten guns, in 19 days from St. Bartholomew, where he had certain intelligence that the French forces at Point-a-Petre were sufficiently respectable to repel the attacks of Admiral Jervis. Capt. Dot informs, that a high price can be obtained for all sorts of provisions at Point-a-Petre, where large quantities of West-India produce and cash are collected, and that as the hurricane months will force the English to withdraw with their fleet to Fort Royal, American vessels may enter that port with safety.
On his passage, Capt. Dot fell in with a Spanish fleet of 17 sail, from La Guayra, bound to Cadiz, and made the following prizes: The Polacre, Noftra, Signora, del Remedios, Capt. Jean Pedro Ferres; and the brig Begoyna, Capt. Don Lewis Conexo; loaded with cocoa and indigo. More of the fleet would have shared the same fate had not the want of hands rendered the manning impracticable.
PHILADELPHIA, July 26. Capt. Mease of the Brig Betsey from Martinico, in 16 days, informs, that the attempts of the English on the fort which protects the town of Point-a-Petre, Guadalupe, have been fruitless; that he saw 150 wounded landed from the Roebuck at Martinique from an expedition against that fort, that the killed were numerous, and finally that the British land forces were now too weak to attempt retaking Guadalupe, for which fresh troops would be necessary. Numbers of the speculators who purchased property at the British sales had joined the British forces to protect or take it, and many of these had also been killed or wounded. Admiral Jervis was riding at anchor off the port which he cannot enter until land forces first obtain possession of the fort. Arnold had, as we on a former occasion communicated, been made prisoner at Guadalupe and was actually confined, but found means to escape, and by means of a raft, made of a few boards drifted to the fleet.
July 30. According to our last accounts the British appeared preparing to leave Port-au-Prince. They have been incessantly harassed by a considerable body of negroes.
NEW-YORK, August 6. IMPORTANT NEWS. FROM THE WEST-INDIES.
On the first inst. arrived at Wilmington Delaware, the brig Isabella and Ann, Wm. Hampton master, 19 days from St. Kitts and St. Eustatius—by whom we are informed, that on the 2d of July, the British army under the command of Gen. Simms, made a fierce attack on the French Republican troops at Point a Petre, having previously demanded a surrender of the fort and batteries; assuring them, that in case of resistance, they should receive no quarter, but that every soul should be put to the bayonet. The brave Sans Culottes, regardless of British threats, returned for answer—that they wished to meet them—that their motto impressed on their hearts and their colours was Conquer or Die—that their standard would be relinquished but with their lives; therefore, would not accept of, nor give quarter. Whereupon a council was called, which determined, that all the volunteers from the different colonies, and even the officers and seamen from the fleet should be collected, to participate in the expected glory of the day; and that every man should unscrew the flint from his musket, and depend entirely on the bayonet. In the mean time the French were not idle; they had sunk a mine that extended under the only passage by which the enemy could approach, and appearing in a large body under cover of their guns, the van guard of the British, consisting chiefly of the 6th regt. and all the picked men, vainly approached them under a steady charge; but the French appearing panic struck, made a feint retreat, by which the entire column of the British was so far decoyed on the fatal spot, as on a
signal given, to be totally destroyed—being precipitated into the air, like as many wild geese—legs, arms and heads flying in every direction! not a soul of 800 men and 28 officers escaped. The remainder were drove off the island to their shipping, and the French are now in complete possession of Grand Terre. The French women were under arms during the attack, and stood their ground with firmness.
It is further said, that Gen. Simms, is under arrest on board the Boyne for some alleged misconduct—that Sir John Jervis and Charles Grey are likely to lose all the credit which they gained at Martinique—that the business is almost at a stand in the Windward Islands, and it is supposed that if the British do not receive large reinforcements from Europe, the French will re-take all their possessions in the course of the hurricane season—that Arnold had arrived at Point a Petre but a short time before, and was captured with the rest; but, mistaking his person, had put Mr. Anthorp Summerfall, of St. Kitts in irons, who, it is supposed, cannot survive the ill treatment, if not already dead—that Arnold secreted himself until the day of action, when he made his escape on a plank across the river Sal, to the British, where he is now a volunteer without any command—and that on the 12th July last, the Resolute English frigate, had arrived off Eustatius from the windward, and confirmed the Duke of York's defeat, and the account of the naval engagement between the French and English fleets.
BOSTON, August 6. Gen. Scott has joined Gen. Wayne's army with 2000 volunteer Kentucky cavalry.—The most perfect understanding subsists between these officers.
PIGOU INDIAMAN. We are sorry to be the vehicle of that disagreeable information of the Pigou Indian and cargo being condemned at Halifax the 28th of the last month, after a trial of 2 days. She is said to be deeply insured in this town. Several vessels have been lately condemned at Bermuda; one of them belonged to a worthy citizen in this town, who has also suffered much in the late fire. Another was in hourly expectation of the same fate; and yet Lord Grenville has said that the British have been culpable for their lenity, while their Islands affect still to speak of their amicable disposition to this country. We also fear for the fate of another Indianman carried into Barbadoes, belonging to a gentleman in this town.
Extract of a letter from a person on board the Concorde frigate, to his friend, dated Boston August 5, P. M.
"The Concorde got under way the 13th ult. in company with 4 sloops of war, viz. La Perdrix, Le Lascasas, Le Prompt, and the Cornelia, serving as a convoy to near 30 sail of French and American merchantmen, loaded with flour, &c.
"We were but just out of the Delaware Bay, and had hardly lost sight of land, when next day, the 14th, early in the morning, we discovered on our larboard tack, no less than 5 ships, which we soon knew by their manoeuvres to be two of the enemy's line of battle ships, and three frigates: We soon after spied on our starboard tack one more line of battle ship and two frigates, all trying to intercept the convoy, and chasing us under full sail. As there was no making any resistance against a force so superior to us we immediately hoisted a signal to disperse, crowded all the sails we could carry, and abandoning our convoy and fleet to their own exertions, we endeavored to save ourselves. Thanks to our swift sailing, we soon lost sight of the enemy, and in company with the Perdrix, we turned about to fetch up the Lascasas. In doing this, about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, we fell in with the sternmost part of the enemy's squadron, about 4 leagues from their main body, which we had not yet perceived. Thinking that they were but two frigates and a merchantman separated from the rest, we made up to them, with the intention to engage and cut them off, but when we came up to them and within shot of a 36 pounder, we discovered our error, and found that if we engaged we should have to deal with a 74 and two frigates, one of them small. We however hoisted our national colours, fired a gun and then made off under full sail, whilst the British ships, who had the wind in their favor, and who were much superior to us, were silly enough to let us pass undisturbed, and congratulating ourselves for escaping so narrowly a handsome trimming, or perhaps being carried prisoners into Halifax.
Next day (the 15th,) we took the St. George Schooner, bound from Jamaica,
to St. John's (New-Brunswick) loaded with rum and other materials proper to make punch for us Sans Culottes. The 16th we captured the ship Columbus, from James' River to Glasgow, loaded with tobacco and staves; however, these two small prizes are but poor amends for the loss of our fleet, and unfortunately we must for the present content ourselves with trusting to time for a favourable opportunity of procuring ourselves a more ample compensation."
CONCORDE FRIGATE, &c.
On Tuesday evening arrived in this port, the Concorde French frigate, of 44 guns, Citizen Mahe, commander, and the Perdrix sloop of war. They are part of the convoy of the Delaware Provision fleet, which was lately dispersed by Admiral Murray's squadron. None of the vessels, late under their convoy, came in with them.
A letter from New-York, says, that they have not heard of the arrival, at any of the southern ports, of but seven of the late convoyed fleets.
A letter from Philadelphia, dated the 29th ult. mentions, that the only correct account of the captures made by Admiral Murray's British squadron, is, that the Resolution took one, L'Oiseau five, Africa one, Thetis five, and Argonaut four.
AUGUST 9. Extract of a letter from Portland, Aug. 5, 1794. "A vessel has arrived here in 49 days from Rotterdam, brings an English paper, containing Lord Howe's official account of the engagement on the 28th, 29th and 30th May with the French fleet, took seven sail of the line, and sunk two or three of them."
An embargo has taken place at Halifax, on all vessels bound to the United States. An expedition from that place is conjectured as the cause.
AUGUST 11. Particulars of the late Grand SEA FIGHT.
[Collected from various Sources, but none of official.]
ENGLISH ACCOUNT. Translated from a Dutch paper, brought by a vessel from Rotterdam.
LONDON, June 13. The two preceding days have been very remarkable, as therein we received the news of two victories gained by the arms of Great-Britain. One over the enemy in the island of Corsica, by Lord Hood; the other over the French fleet, by Lord Howe, both which accounts have been made public in the London Gazette.
On Tuesday at 9 o'clock, Mr. Curtis, Capt. of the ship Queen Charlotte, arrived at the Admiralty, with the important intelligence, that the two fleets, from the 28th of May to the 1st of June, were every day engaged with each other; and that on the last day, the battle was the most severe; when the French Admiral, surrounded on every side, endeavored by every means to retire, leading off ten or twelve of his shipping—our fleet being damaged and scattered, occasioned their escaping. However, seven of their line of battle ships fell into our hands. The Vengue struck, and at the same moment sunk. Another ship of the line sunk during the battle. The names of the ships taken, are—Le Juste of 80, Sans Parallele of 80, L'Amerique 74, L'Achilles 74, Northumberland 74, and L'Impetueux. It is not known what has become of the Revolutionnaire of 120, which was engaged with the Audacious: nor of the Brunswick, one of our 74's, which had her mast shattered, and was obliged to leave the line.
We are not yet informed of the loss sustained by our fleet; but so much we can relate, that Capt. Montague, brother of the Admiral of that name is the only officer of rank killed; Admirals Bowyer, Parsley, and Graves, are wounded—as also Capt. Hull of the Queen; who has lost 100 of his crew.
The English fleet contained 25, and the French 26 line of battle ships.
As soon as the news reached the Admiralty, and the king and ministry advised of it, the intelligence was sent to the Theatres where it occasioned the loudest expressions of joy.
Wednesday the Park and Tower guns were fired and all the bells rung. In the evening the town was illuminated.
Yesterday dispatches were received from Admiral Montague, dated in Brest waters; he informs that there was no ships of force therein; and on this account it is expected, he will not quit the station, and
that some of the disabled ships, and some of the fleet from America, will fall into his hands.
The Brunswick arrived at Portsmouth, the 12th June, dismasted.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT. More favorable for our Allies—from a different quarter.
NEW-YORK, AUG. 6.
Capt. Pierce of the Hawke, arrived here the 4th, from l'Orient and Crofio, relates the following particulars:
JUNE 1, failed from Crofio; four days after fell in with the French frigate Antona, mounting 28 12 pounders, and 12 fixes; at half past four P. M. the frigate's boat came on board, and ordered me with my papers, and three passengers, which I had on board, into the boat, which I immediately complied with, they leaving a guard on board my vessel. While on board the frigate, a French 74 hove in sight, having in tow a ship of 120 guns, with all her masts, spars and rigging cut clear from the deck. The Captain of the frigate went on board the 74, and was informed by her captain, that on Sunday, the 1st of June, the French and British fleets, each consisting of near 40 sail of the line, came to action at 2 o'clock P. M. in lat. 48. 5. N. long. 11. 13. W. which continued until 7 P. M. when both fleets sheered off: on the second June at 8 A. M. both fleets again came to action; which was fought with great desperation for five hours, when both fleets separated a second time, not a ship having been taken on either side; but many crippled; the above mentioned ship of 120 guns being one of the number; having besides lost 500 men killed and wounded, including the commander, and almost all her officers, so that the captain of the frigate and one of his officers, were ordered by the commander of the 74 to take command of her, and assist in getting her into port.
Capt. Pierce, while on board the frigate Altona, saw and conversed with Capt. Smith of the British cutter Alert, who had been taken a few days before on his passage from Plymouth to Halifax, being 6 days out of port.
ADDITIONAL.
A gentleman from Salem yesterday morning, brings the following interesting intelligence:
That Capt. Dimond arrived there on Saturday evening, from Ireland, who fell in with the English fleet of men of war, frigates, cutters, fire ships, and tenders, in all about 50, bound up the channel to Portsmouth. Capt. D. says that he saw 11 of their ships of the line, dismasted and in tow, and the rest of the ships in a very shattered condition.
Capt. Dimond also fell in with and spoke a ship bound to Jamaica, who parted with the above fleet in the English channel, the Captain of which confirmed the above—and added, that the British fleet had been most horribly mauled, and one of their 74 gun ships was sunk with all her crew."
A letter of the 13th, from a merchant of varacity in Holland to his friend in Boston, mentions the capture of eighty vessels and two frigates by the French, which were carried safely into port; half these were Dutch and the other half British. He speaks of the French being very successful in Flanders, and of a general consternation prevailing among the unhappy Belgians, who are distressed on all hands.
Rotterdam is the centre of aristocratic politics—every thing from that quarter may therefore be depended on, when it is for the French.
Mr. Jay had arrived, and all things it is said, are to be "amicably adjusted, with our true friends the British." Still, however, our Insurance offices groan under the friendly adjudications of the Courts of Admiralty in Bermuda, Halifax, and elsewhere.
The cargo of the Pigou alone was worth 200,000 dollars, and is condemned.
There is now 240 American prisoners in Halifax, most of whom are amicably dispersed on board the King's ships, not in a state of impartial neutrality.
ENTRIES at the CUSTOM-HOUSE of this district.
ENTERED FROM Ship Apollo, Jones, Liverpool. CLEARED FOR Brig Tryall, Shackford, Dominica.

SONG—ANNA.
WHEN billowy Care's rude storms assail, And murky glooms lour all around; When woe's wild whelming waves prevail, And war's far echoing clarions found—
EPITAPH.
Here lies Leigh, who, west with a shrewd Wife, To rain his Quiet, parted with his Life. But for the Spite: she that had always cross'd Him living, dies, and means to haunt his Ghost.
REFLECTION.
A DULL season is apt to produce drowsy reflections; but in heat or cold, winter or summer, when the actions of a neighbour are upon the carpet, we generally are so aerostatic, as to have all our wits about us, and find out every failure and infirmity, without once reflecting—HOW STANDS THE ACCOUNT WITH OURSELVES.
SUNDRY QUERIES.
To the Ladies. WHAT might be the true reason why virgins possess more modesty, and less bashfulness, than youths; and when they become women, less modesty and more bashfulness than men? A satisfactory answer to this will be an interesting subject. To the Beau. 2d. If you, as you pretend, possess fancy, taste, &c. what is the cause that the tie of the Beau on your shoe, or the cut of your coat, with which before you was delighted, and proud of, should at the appearance of a brother, who ties his knot an inch lower, or has his coat cut in a different manner, appear disagreeable when in his company; or that the manner you deemed most graceful in kissing a lady's hand, should appear clownish upon seeing another kiss your favorite's hand in a different manner, especially if she seems pleased? Your answer to this will probably discover the truth of that old observation, "That beaux and monkies are apt companions." To Theologians. 3d. Was sin created substantially, or an unavoidable consequence, proceeding from those good works which "were all very good?" To Doctors. 4th. If you restore a man to health, who without your assistance would have died, and he afterwards robs and murders another, can you account yourself wholly innocent? I desire those, who admit of the sins of ignorance, to answer me this. To Lawyers. 5th. And what is your feelings at the sight of a child wandering in beggary, whose father's cause you have rejected because he was poor; or whose father you have been instrumental in depriving of his estate, because a wealthy villain was your client? To Traders. 6th. Is he merely honest, who buys as cheap as he can, and sells as dear as necessity and the turn of the times will permit; that is, which of these two maxims are his rule of conduct, viz. "Do as you would be done by," or, "Do as you are done by?" Observator Temporis.
Paper-Hangings. JUST RECEIVED, AND FOR SALE AT James Rundlet's, Cheap Variety-Store, Market-Street, An Elegant assortment of American Manufactured Paper-Hangings, from 1/10 to 7/ per Roll, Portsmouth, July 26, 1794.
State of New-Hampshire. Hillborough, ss. AT the Court of General Sessions of the Peace holden at Amherst within and for our county of Hillborough, on the last Monday in September, A. D. 1793, by adjournment. WHEREAS a road hath been laid out, returned to, and accepted by this court, through the unincorporated tracts of land, called Campbell's-Gore and Society land, and the owners thereof neglecting to make the same passable.—It is therefore ordered that the proprietors of said Campbell's Gore and Society land, be, and they here by are required to make the same passable, within six months from the first Wednes day in June next. (4.w.) Published by order of Court. Attest, ROBERT FLETCHER, Clerk
FOR SALE The Hull of a SCHOONER, Newly launched, of about 60 Tons burthen, BUILT of White-Oak, Masts, Spars, Iron-work, Joiners work and Block makers work complete, for terms apply to Joseph Tucker of York, where said vessel may be viewed. York, July 21, 1794.
WHEREAS Reuben Kidder and Isaiah Kidder, Administrators on the estate of Reuben Kidder, Esquire, late of New-Ipswich in the county of Hillborough, deceased, presented a petition to the General-Court of the State of New-Hampshire, in June, A. D. 1794, praying the same court to authorize and empower them to execute deeds in all cases, where the deceased gave bonds and agreements in writing, for deeds of land on certain conditions, which conditions have since been performed on the part of the obligees, the prayer of which petition was granted, and a bill corresponding with the prayer of the same petition by the liberty of the court, was brought in and read, and postponed to the next session of the General-Court, for the purpose of giving an opportunity to all or any of the creditors or heirs to the estate of the deceased, to appear, and they hereby are notified accordingly, to appear at the next session of the General-Court to be holden in Concord on the second Tuesday of December, A. D. 1794, and shew cause (if any they have) why the said bill should not pass into a law. REUBEN KIDDER, } Administrators. ISAIAH KIDDER. New-Ipswich, July 19, 1794.
SUCCESS. State of New-Hampshire. NOTICE is hereby given, that so much of each original right of land in the township of Success, situate in the county of Grafton, in the State of New-Hampshire, viz. the rights of Benjamin Mackey, Jonathan Shillaber, John Sherburne, jun. Ephraim Ham, Thomas Bickford, Joseph Walton, Joseph Walker, Samuel Ham, John Langdon, 3d. Stephen Weeks, Humphrey Fernald, Benjamin Mackey, jun. Joseph Hammond, Mathew S. Parker, Henry Rust, Otis Baker and John Lowell, Esq. will be sold to the highest bidder, on the 19th day of August next, ensuing, at 11 o'clock in the morning, at the dwelling-house of Col. William Brewster, innholder, in Portsmouth, in the county of Rockingham and State aforesaid, as will pay thirty six shillings lawful money on each of said rights, with incidental charges, if payment be not previously made, which sum was voted by said proprietors, at their meeting on the 4th day of December, 1792, for the uses and purposes mentioned in said vote, and duly assessed and committed to me to collect, and duly notified for payment, and still unpaid. SAM'L SHERBURNE, Collector. Portsmouth, July 22.
JUST RECEIVED, AND FOR SALE BY Abra'm Isaacs, AT HIS SHOP IN BUCK-STREET, Excellent new Sea-fowl & Geese FEATHERS, which will be sold cheap for cash. Portsmouth, August 5.
JUST PUBLISHED By J. Melcher, AND FOR SALE AT HIS OFFICE Corner of Market-Street, PORTSMOUTH, (Bound, stitched in blue and in sheets) Baron Stuben's Regulations for the Order and Discipline of the troops of the United States, being the regulations for the militia, agreeable to an Act of Congress, Ornamented with Eight elegant Copperplate Engravings. TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED, The Laws & Regulations for Governing and Disciplining the militia of the United States, AND The Laws for Forming and Regulating the militia of the State of New-Hampshire.
JAPAN'D Quarts and Pints; Ship Bread, and best sweet scented Oronoke Tobacco by wholesale and Retail, WHICH WILL BE SOLD VERY CHEAP BY William Stanwood, jr. At his SHOP in Market-Street. —LIKEWISE— European & West-India GOODS, at the lowest advance for cash or country produce. Portsmouth, July 29, 1794.
FOR SALE ON EASY TERMS, A LOT of land situated on the lower end of Atkinson Street, adjoining the Dock; there are on the premises a House with a good garden, a large Shop, now improved by a Boat-builder, and a water privilege on the Dock; for further particulars enquire of the Printer. Portsmouth, July, 1794. Bunyan's Holy War is put to Press On a beautiful large Type, By J. MELCHER, at his Printing-Office in Market-Street, Portsmouth, And will be published with all convenient speed, Booksellers who apply seasonably, will be supplied on moderate terms, in sheets. August, 1794. District of New-Hampshire. SUPERVISOR'S OFFICE, July 21, 1794. Notice. Duty on carriages for the conveyance of persons. ALL persons within the county of Rockingham in said District, having or keeping a carriage or carriages, are hereby notified, that entry, and payment of the duties on carriages will be received agreeable to law at the office of Inspection. Duty on Licenses for retailing Wines or foreign distilled spirituous liquors. All persons within the county of Rockingham in said District, who are retailers of either the articles above named—are hereby notified, that licenses will be granted agreeable to law, at the office of inspection—those persons applying for license must produce the approbation of the Selectmen of the town where they dwell, for retailing conformable to the law of the State of New-Hampshire. Licenses for Auctioneers. Notice is hereby given, that licenses will be granted at the office of inspection, authorizing persons to sell at Auction, agreeable to law, within the county of Rockingham in said District. Attendance at the office of inspection in Portsmouth every day in the month of September next, (Sundays excepted) from 9 to 12 o'clock, A. M. and from 3 to 6 o'clock, P. M. for the purposes abovementioned. By an Act of Congress, all snuff and refined sugar, is charged with a duty after the thirtieth day of September next—therefore, those persons within this District who are concerned in either the manufactures of those articles, are desired to comport with the law, to avoid the forfeitures. JOSHUA WENTWORTH, Supervisor.
Joseph Haven Advertises the public, that he hath received AN EXTENSIVE ASSORTMENT OF European and India GOODS, which he will sell very cheap, wholesale & retail At his Store, UNDER THE GOLDEN BALL, Market-Street, Portsmouth, —VIZ—
SUPERFINE, midling and low priced Broad-Cloths, Kersymeres, strip'd Elastics, Serges, Forest Cloths, Ratteens, Flannels and Baizes; printed Linens, Calicoes and painted Muslins; Book, Mull, Jaconet and Conjeversam Muslins; Muslin Handkerchiefs, Aprons and Cravaths plain and embroidered; Irish Linens and Sheetings, India and Manchester Cottons for Shirting, Checks, Silesias and British Linens; Lawns, Cambricks, long Lawns, Lawn Handkerchiefs and Aprons; Shawls, Muslins and Dimothies; Lutestrings, Taffeties, Sattins, Persians, Modes and Sarsnets, Men's Sattin of best quality; Gauzes, Crapes, Tiffanies and Cypres; Jeans, Jeannets, Nankenees, Nankenees, Thicksets, Fustians, Fancy Cord, plain and printed Cotton Sattines, Delures, Corduroys, Velvets and twill'd Velvets; Shalloons, Anteloons, Calamances, Mor-eans, Joans, Crapes, Poplins, Lustres, Camblets, Wildbores, Tammies, Durants, Florentines, Lastings, Sattines, Russells and Russellets; Silk, Silk and Cotton, Cotton, Worsted, Silk & Worsted, white, black & fancy Hosiery; Toilets, Velvet, Jean, Muslinet and Kersymere Vest Shapes; Silk, Worsted and Leather Gloves; Chinese, Mode, Sattin and Velum Ribbons; Gold and Silver Cord, Fans, Laces and Edgings; Bandanna, Spirafelds, Romals and printed Handkerchiefs; Buttons, Buckles, Clasps, Knives and Forks, Penknives, Scissors, Table and Tea-Spoons, Razors, Cloak Pins, Spectacles, Brushes, Japanned Waiters, Candlesticks and Cannisters; Dutch Glasses, best Snuff in casks and in bottles; Lynn made Shoes; Spanish, French and Carolina Indigo; Shaving Boxes, Silk, Twift, Thread, Tape and Bobbin, Ivory, Horn and Iron Combs, Paper-Hangings, &c. Portsmouth, August 5.
State of New Hampshire. To Josiah Moulton, Esq. Clerk of the proprietors of Tamworth. WHERE the subscribers owners of more than one eighth part of the common rights in the township of Tamworth, request you to call a meeting of the proprietors of said township, to be held at the house of Jacob Gale, innholder in Gilmantown, on Thursday the twenty-first day of August next, at ten o'clock, A. M. for the following purposes. 1st. To choose a moderator. 2d. To choose a proprietors clerk. 3d. To choose a treasurer. 4th. To receive the report or advice of the agents or committee what is best to be done, relative to the settling of the line and boundaries of said town, or to pass any votes respecting the claims or boundaries of said town, as they shall think proper. 5th. To choose a committee or agents to run the lines and fix the bounds of said town, to lay out all the common land in such lots as they may think proper, to sell or dispose of the same, or any part thereof, as they shall think most for the benefit of the proprietors; to prosecute any person or persons who has or hereafter may trespass on the same, and to establish any settler in the lot or lots he has settled on, and to settle and fix the lines of any lots already laid out, or to run the same anew and generally to do and perform any business relative thereto, that may be thought most conducive to the interest of said proprietors. 6th. To raise such sum of money as the proprietors may see fit to defray the charges that have arisen or may arise; and choose the officers for collecting the same. THOMAS LEAVITT, BRADBURY CILLEY, JOHN HALE, NATH'L A. HAVEN, JOHN S. SHERBURNE. Portsmouth, July 14, 1794.
PURSUANT to the aforesaid application, I do hereby notify the proprietors of Tamworth aforesaid, to meet at the place and time, and for the purposes herein requested. JOSIAH MOULTON, Prop'rs Clerk. Hampton, July 18, 1794.