The New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1792-08-30 00:00:00

New - Hampshire Gazette, and the General Advertiser.
Containing the Laws, &amp;c. of the United States, as well as those of this State passed since 1787, with a variety of other matters both useful &amp; entertaining.
PORTSMOUTH: Printed by JOHN MELCHER, at his Office in Market-Street, at nine shillings per Annum.
Important Intelligence,
Received by Capt. FERNALD, in 45 days from Poole, in Great-Britain—arrived 24th instant at Boston.
SOLEURE, May 30.
OUR Diet has declared itself permanent until the tranquillity of Europe will permit it to separate, and has resolved unanimously that the Swiss shall observe the strictest armed neutrality; in consequence of which orders have been sent to M. DE CUSTINE to evacuate the défilés of Porentrui, otherwise they will oblige him to evacuate them. It has also been resolved to listen to no proposition for the renewal of the agreements with France, until they can treat with the King himself.
From the Upper Rhine, June 6. The Elector of Bavaria has, in consequence of a long conference with the Imperial Minister, given up the plan of neutrality, and joined the league of Austria, Prussia, and Sardinia, against France; and it is intended to gain time until sufficient Austrian and Prussian troops arrive to protect the estates of the Palatine; these estates are fortifying towards the Rhine; the Rhine fortress at Manheim is furnishing with 200 pieces of cannon, and every exertion is using to put the place in a formidable state of defence.
PARIS, June 14.
Various are the reasons assigned for M. SERVAN's dismissal from the military department—but what seems most probable is, that the King could not, with propriety keep a Minister who had invaded the royal prerogative, by soliciting an increase of public force without his participation.
M. DUMOURIER, the new War Minister, entered on his functions yesterday, and commenced his career with a very distressing part of his duty: He read a letter from M. DE LA FAYETTE, detailing another unfortunate affair, attended with the irreparable loss of a brave and able General, M. DE GOUVION, whose death is a public calamity—he lived gloriously, and nobly fell in his country's cause.
The following is a copy of LA FAYETTE's dispatches:—It may be concluded that nothing decisive has taken place, when, as usual, on comparing it with the Austrian account, it is found that each claims the advantage:
“The Austrians have attacked our camp with superior forces, and have been repulsed, for we were informed of the projected attack. M. GOUVION began the battle, and he was bravely seconded by M. M. TRACY, NARBONNE and MAUBOURG. The enemy abandoned their ground, and suffered more than we; we pursued them a league beyond the field of battle. We should have only to rejoice in this affair, if unhappily it had not deprived the country of a brave defender, and all good citizens of a friend, M. GOUVION. His soldiers lament him; the Parisian National Guard lament him; all good citizens lament him. A cannon ball terminated his honorable life. We regret also M. CHAZOTTE, Lt. Col. of Cote D'Or. This is the exact recital of the affair, which has taken place. I speak of my own personal affliction. My friends, weep for me. M. GOUVION had been my friend for twenty years. We lost twenty-five men; the enemy more. We have made some prisoners; the enemy have made none.
(Signed) LA FAYETTE, General.” The new War Minister gives a sad account of the army;—40,000 men still
wanted—the Generals calling for arms, for ammunition, for camp equipage, there is also a vacuum of 10,000 horse.—Such was the report which M. Dumourier, in his “bonnet rouge,” made yesterday to the Assembly; he concluded with asking for twenty millions.
The second battalion of Walsh's Irish brigade is gone off to Coblenz. P. S. The King trembles for the life of the Queen. The unhappy Princess has friends every where, but among the mob, and the mob drag the reins of government. I am assured by one of the Ladies of honor, that the Royal Personages went last night and took the Sacrament, preparatory to the fatal moment.
June 16. The report of M. Dumourier, on the state of the War Department, seems to indicate a wish in the Royal party to dispose the nation to listen to a conciliating proposition from the powers in concert, as soon as their armies arrive on the Rhine. This is expected about the 4th of July.
The King has refused his sanction, yesterday at the Council, to the decree on the Priests, and to the establishment of a camp of 20,000 men near Paris.
L O N D O N, June 19. The following changes have taken place in the French Ministry:
M. Dumourier, late Minister for foreign affairs, is appointed War Minister, in the place of M. Servans; and M. Mourges is Minister of the Interior Department, instead of M. Rolland.—M. Claviere has left the office of Minister of public contributions, but his successor is not yet appointed. M. de Lallyac, the French Minister at the Court of Deux Ponts, succeeds M. Dumourier as Minister for foreign affairs.
The French King announced these alterations to the National Assembly, on Wednesday last, upon which a decree was passed, declaring that the Ministers carried with them from office, the regrets of the nation.
June 23. By private letters from Paris, we learn, that that capital is at present in extreme disorder. The late changes in the administration, and the firmness of the King's resistance to certain measures, have placed him in a situation of eminent danger.—The Queen, always the imputed origin of every obnoxious act, is virulently reviled, threatened and insulted. The Jacobins publicly talk of giving a very signal example to the world. May it be that of popular ascendancy, used with mildness and moderation!
A deputation of the citizens of the Section of Croix-Rouge appeared at the bar of the Assembly, on Sunday, and delivered their sentiments by the mouth of their orator, in the following terms:
“For the four last years the people have been assailed with plots, which seem to have been favored, seconded, nay even concerted by those who surrounded the Executive Power.
“What evil genius has been the adviser of Louis XVI.? Forgetting his perjuries, we have placed him upon the most brilliant throne in the Universe, and yet he hath forgotten his benefactors!
“You have enacted two most excellent Decrees, one against the Priesthood, another for forming a Camp of Reserve, and he hath refused to sanction them! You disbanded a guard audaciously aristocratic, and he hath returned thanks to it for its conduct, by means of a Proclamation! Most excellent Ministers formed his Council—he hath dismissed them!
“This conduct hath given us the most lively alarm. We wish to carry terror to the hearts of the Conspirators, and to teach them that the Constitu-
tion shall never perish, as long as one of its Defenders remain alive.
“Permit the Assemblies of this Section to be permanent. Armed and devoted to your cause, we shall then be able to fly to your defence in a single moment.”
[After a short, but spirited debate, a decree passed, nem. con. for the appointment of a SPECIAL COMMISSION, to consider and report on the dangers that surround FRANCE.]
The Captain of a French Packet, which arrived on Wednesday night at Dover, brings intelligence that a general action has taken place between the French and Austrian armies, that it was a hard fought battle, attended with very great slaughter, the Austrians having 10,000 killed and wounded, and the French upwards of 5,000, but that the victory was greatly in favor of the French.
Menen and some other places are taken by the French, and they were besieging Mons, which they expected to carry.
PORTSMOUTH, (England) June 20.
A gentleman eminent for his knowledge of chronology, advertising a remedy so universally efficacious, that it must nearly ruin all the regular practitioners of physic, says, that it has saved many a life, merely by being in the house!
LORD PETERBOROUGH boasted that he had seen more Kings and Potillions than any man in Europe:—An old Gentleman, now residing in Yorkshire, offers to lay a wager of one hundred guineas, that he has taken more physic than any man in the world!—he may be classed, a living miracle.
The stile in which people of all ranks flock to the different watering places on the coast, has a striking similarity to the shoals of herrings which appear in countless numbers for a season—and then are seen no more.
That destructive insect, the Borer, which for 30 years has done much injury to the Barbadoes planters, has now extended its ravages to St. Kitt's. The quantity of sugar usually made there was from 15 to 18,000 hhds. This year they do not make more than 10,000.
The complaints made by the St. John's colonists against their governor, chief justice, and civil officers, have now been completely heard, and the decision of the Right Hon. the Lords of the privy council is expected to be reported to his Majesty early next week.
The principal merchants in Jersey and Guernsey have entered into a voluntary engagement with their neighbors of St. Maloes, not to be concerned in any privateers, and not to molest the French commerce, while their Sovereign is at peace with the French nation.
A ludicrous mistake was lately made by a country schoolmaster, employed to write a petition to a Magistrate who is a very fat man; it began thus, “To the Mare and boddy Corpulent.”
The live stock of Mr. Fowler of Little Rollright, near Chipping Norton, lately sold by auction, consisted of 184 lots and sold for 5,610l. 19s. Among the rest were, fifteen head of bulls and cows, which sold for 2,464l.
ANECDOTE.
Cardinal de RETZ tells us that in the administration of MAZARINE (almost as oppressive and wicked a Minister as has ever appeared) a peasant riding upon a lean and half starved mule, at every false step the poor beast made, cursed Cardinal MAZARINE: upon which he asked what connexion there
could possibly be between the stumbling of his mule and the Minister? “The Cardinal,” replied the fellow, “is the sole, the only cause of the jade stumbling; he has taxed barley—barley is my beast's provender; this tax makes me unable to feed it as before; want of good food makes it weak, and weakness produces stumbling; twenty thousand curses light on the Cardinal!”
FRANCE.
NATIONAL LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY.
FRIDAY, JUNE 15.—EVENING SITTING.
M. BERTIN, one of the Commissioners of the Department of the Rhone for the organization of the districts of Vaucluze and Louveze, was heard at the bar in justification of himself against the charges which had been preferred against him. The assembly ordered his memorial to be printed.
A deputation of the section of the Thuilleries, with M. Camus, the keeper of the Archives, at their head, appeared at the bar to demand a law to be passed to oblige all the citizens to do personal service in the National Guard. The proposal was applauded, and the deputation admitted to the honor of the sitting.
It was then decreed that the duties on cotton should be lowered during the present year to the manufacturers of muslin, at Tarare, in the department of the Rhone and Loire.
M. DUMAS gave a recital of a tumult that had taken place in the camp of Neuf Brisac, some of the soldiers having stopped four waggons on suspicion of their being loaded with warlike stores, and were proceeding to unload them, when they were prevented by M. d'ARLANDE, the Ajudant-General, who sent to apprise the Municipality of the circumstance. The Mayor, having been assured by the proper Clerk that the passports were regular, gave orders for them to depart, but this did not prevent the soldiers from unloading them, when they actually found them to contain various kinds of arms and warlike stores. This circumstance exasperated the soldiers, who immediately concluded M. d'ARLANDE and the Mayor to be accomplices in the business. They were only prevented from hanging them, by M. d'HERBIGNY causing the General to be beat, and the supposed culprits to be imprisoned, to rescue them from the fury of the soldiers.
The Department having examined the business, required the prisoners to be released, and M. Broglio ordered the grenadiers of the 30th regiment to accompany him for that purpose, and to escort the prisoners; but a cry having arisen on all sides—“they shall not depart—we will not permit it,” the grenadiers refused to march, and were only forced to do so by a party of Chasseurs, who advanced for the purpose, surrounded the grenadiers and the prisoners, and thus compelled them. The grenadiers, who had refused to march, were immediately conducted to Strasbourg, and lodged in the citadel.
The opinion of the committee was, to compel two battalions to point out the guilty persons, but the assembly ordered the plan of the decree to be previously printed.
The sitting terminated by a decree that 300,000 muskets should be delivered to the National Guards of the Kingdom, and that the Minister should be supplied with money for the purpose.
M. PASTORET made a report, in the name of the committee of public

Instruction, on the plan of M. Palloy, for raising a National monument on the ruins of the Bastile, and the Assembly decreed,
"That there shall be raised on the site of the Bastile, a Square to be named, THE SQUARE OF LIBERTY—There shall be raised a column supporting a statue of liberty—The first stone to be laid on 14th July next, by a deputation of the National Assembly."
The plans presented by M. PALLOY are referred to the executive power, which shall appoint the artists of the capital and the departments to assist in the execution of the present decree.
"The National Assembly wishing to give M. PALLOY a testimony of gratitude, grant him a portion of land on the site of the Bastile."
SUNDAY, JUNE 17.
The Assembly, after reading several petitions, decreed, that all citizens, the public functionaries, persons of sixty years of age, the infirm excepted, shall be bound to do service personally in the National Guard. The military committee was appointed to draw out a proper plan for carrying this decree into execution.
M. MARAN made a report of the dangers to which France is at this moment exposed by the inactivity of the constituted powers, and demanded that a new commission should examine the situation of the kingdom, and present their views on the means of improving it.
The assembly ordered the new commission to be chosen by scrutiny at meeting.
PARIS, June 17.
A considerable degree of ferment has prevailed here ever since the King removed his ministers, and refused to sanction the decrees relative to the banishment of the refractory clergy, and the formation of a federative camp.
The people assemble in crowds round the Common House, and the court have given orders that the gates of the Thuilleries be kept shut.
A successor has not yet been found to M. DURANTON, though the office has been offered to several.
Our Directory has published a letter in answer to that of M. ROLLAND on the present state of Paris. The Department describe with much justice the present situation of the capital.
AIX LA CHAPELLE.
JUNE 14.
The friends of the French revolution in this country have some hope that a change favorable to its interests will take place in the court of Berlin. This hope is founded on two incidents—the first, the march of the Russian troops into Poland; the other, the insincerity of the Prussian court, which at first appeared more earnest in the quarrel of Austria than at present.
The greatest part of the Prussian army is, however, at this time in motion. The Duke of Brunswick, who is commander in Chief, will repair to Coblenz, where every thing is prepared for his reception, at the latest on the 2d of July. The combined armies, it is expected, will be ready to act by the end of that month.
Domestic Intelligence.
MARTINSBURGH, (N. C.) Aug. 7.
By a gentleman who left Kentucky about four weeks ago, we learn, that 500 warriors of the Cherokee nation, with their squaws, horses, &c. had gone into Kentucky and joined the white inhabitants, with an intention of taking a part in the ensuing campaign.
INDIAN NEWS.
PITTSBURGH, August 4.
Extract of a letter dated Buffalo Creek, July 19, 1792.
"I left Fort-Franklin the 3d inst. and arrived here the 11th in the evening, at the house of Mr. Winny, who informs me that upwards of four thousand hostile Indians were now assembled
at the Miami villages, and that their number was daily increasing—Capt. Powell and several gentlemen of the British army dined with me yesterday, and from their conversation, I am fully convinced that the Indians are supported by the British in the war against us—indeed, Capt. Powell told me, that all the intentions of the Indians were well known to them, and that the Indians were their allies, and of course they must support them—he also informed me that ten scouts of hostile Indians were then out to strike on the frontiers, and that they would soon strike the Six Nations.—Some of the chiefs of the hostile Indians passed here about five days ago on their way to Canada, but what their business is I cannot learn."
We are informed, that a sergeant, corporal, and twelve men were lately killed near Fort Jefferson, by a party of Indians.
[We most sincerely lament (says the Editor of the Pittsburg Paper) the loss of such valuable men as Col. Harden, and Major Trueman, and would suggest the propriety of sending those members of Congress, who proposed, and so strenuously supported pacific measures to be adopted with the Indian nations at this time, with the next message or invitation for a treaty.]
The report respecting General Putnam being killed, is without foundation.
RICHMOND, (Virginia) August 10.
Last week arrived in this city, fourteen Indian warriors, belonging to the Catawba nation. It is said that their visit here, is to offer their services to the United States, to fight against the hostile tribes, which are now at war against us.
BALTIMORE, August 2.
GENERAL BUTLER.
A gentleman who passed through Frederick-town last week from the westward, informs, that he saw Capt. Butler (a brother of the unfortunate General Butler) a few days before, at Cumberland, who acquainted him, that he had been to Detroit, where he was assured by the British commander at that post, that the report lately circulated of the General being still living and a prisoner with the Indians, was not only without foundation, but related to him the following melancholly particulars of his death:—Soon after the retreat of our army, on the 4th of November last, from the bloody plains of Miami, the well noted and as infamous Simon Girtie, came up to the General who was then sitting; he knew him, and spoke to him;—the General, suffering under the most excruciating pain from his wounds, desired Girtie to put an end to his misery; but he declined to give the fatal stroke, turned and whispered to an Indian standing by, that the person he had just been speaking to was the Commander of the defeated army; upon which the Indian immediately sunk his tomahawk into his head, and he expired.—A number of Indians then surrounded and scalped him; but, what is the most shocking to relate, they opened his body, took out his heart, cut it into as many pieces as there were different tribes in the action, and divided it among them. Thus died the brave General BUTLER!
NORTHAMPTON, Aug. 15.
On Monday evening last, a transient person was unfortunately drowned, as he was attempting to ford the river at Lyman's Ferry, between this town and Hadley.—He appears to be between 30 and 40 years of age—he was heard to say he came from Westnoblestown.
PHILADELPHIA, August 11.
On Monday, the 6th inst. the Supreme court of the United States met, when all the judges were present. The Attorney General of the United States gave notice, that he should move the court, on the Wednesday following, for a mandamus to the Circuit Court of Pennsylvania, commanding them to proceed on the petition of William Hogburne, a claimant of a pension, in which they had refused to proceed, from a supposed nullity of the pension
law.—The motion was accordingly begun on Wednesday, when, after some prefatory remarks, the Attorney General was asked from the bench, whether he conceived it to be an official right to offer such a motion, as he had intimated to be such? He answered, that he did conceive it to be an official right. Upon which several observations were made, and the debate continued from day to day until Saturday last; the opinion of the judges being then taken, they were equally divided.
In consequence of this division, it was improper for the Attorney General to move the subject officially: He then appeared as council for the invalid, and the motion, after being accompanied with the reasons which influenced him to believe that the inferior court had erred, was postponed for a final decision until the next court.
The important question, "whether a state can be sued," is also set for the first day of the next term.
To the colonists of St. Domingo, now residing in the United States of America.
MY DEAR COUNTRYMEN,
THE advice which the Consul General of France caused to be inserted in the Gazette the 13th of this month, must necessarily, if not suspend, at least retard, the armaments of the continent intended for St. Domingo. This delay may produce misfortunes of the most serious nature to that colony, deprived as it is at present of the usual productions of its soil. We ought, my dear countrymen, to fly to the assistance of our brethren, and do every thing for them that our weak resources may permit—therefore, I call upon you to deposit, each according to his abilities, a pecuniary contribution, in the hands of the Consul of France, residing in the town which you inhabit, or the nearest to the place of your abode, requesting him to transmit what he shall have received, as soon as possible, to the Consuls of France residing in New-York, Philadelphia, and Charleston, according to his distance from each of these three cities, who will remit the monies so collected, to him, among you, whom you shall have chosen in each of these three cities, for the purpose of dispatching vessels, loaded with provisions, for St. Domingo; and that every part of the colony, may receive an equal proportion of the assistance, it would be proper that the monies sent to New-York, should be appropriated to send assistance to the Cape, from whence some may be sent to the northern province.
What is collected at Philadelphia will be appropriated for Port-au-Prince, from whence the western part may be supplied; and what is collected at Charleston, will be appropriated for Les Cayes, from which place assistance will be distributed to the southern part. If on the arrival of the vessels, the places for which they shall be sent are sufficiently provided for, they shall be sent from thence to the parts of the island which suffer the most.
Such, my dear countrymen, are the reflections which my love for my brethren has inspired me with, and I am well persuaded that you will approve of the means which I have pointed out to give effect to a sentiment which is engraven on the heart of every one of us.
LOMBART.
P. S. I cannot sufficiently recommend expedition to you in depositing your contribution, so that the assistance may arrive before the winter, a time in which the most pressing wants are felt. Point out also the person whom you charge with the negotiation, so that those who may be judged the most proper, may begin without loss of time to provide the intended supplies.
On Thursday morning was witnessed a melancholly event at Mr. Henry Kizer's Powder-mill, in the lower Merion township, Montgomery county, between the hours of nine and ten.—There was a large quantity of powder in the mill, which by accident took fire and blew up with great explosion, which was heard at Schuylkill ferry, and was there supposed to be an earthquake.
Mr. Kizer, and three others, who were in the mill, were blown to pieces; and a Mr. Henry Fraily, a co-partner of Mr. Kizer, was so wounded that his life is despaired of. A young woman, who happened to be near the mill at the time it blew up, had both her legs broken, and was otherwise very much injured, by one of the rafters, which was carried from the building by the violence of the explosion.
On the 18th ult. the powder mill in Springfield was blown up, by which unfortunate accident, Mr. NATHAN KENNEDY, the only workman then in the mill, was so burnt and bruised, as to survive the misfortune but two hours. This is the second instance of the kind which has happened in that place in the course of thirteen years: Two active young men were killed on the same spot, when the first explosion took place.
NEW-LONDON, August 9.
A gentleman belonging to this city, now at Aux Cayes, in a letter dated July 1st, thus writes, "The white people and mulattoes have made peace in this quarter, and the planters are going on to their plantations, and will soon make Molasses, there being but few Americans here, the price must fall."
STOCKBRIDGE, Aug. 14.
At the Ball on the King of England's birth-night, the Queen of that Monarch wore a dress, the diamonds alone on which, cost, One Hundred Thousand Pounds sterling!
BOSTON, August 25.
The Western Inland Lock Navigation, in the State of New-York, is in active operation. Gen. SCHUYLER is President of the corporation for this valuable purpose.
Great uneasiness in many of the British West-India islands has been excited by the decision of the British Parliament, respecting the slave trade.—Revolutions and Independence are loudly spoken of.
In addition to the Foreign Intelligence we can briefly add, That Paris continued in great ferment—That the King dared not appear in public—That vast numbers were daily leaving France—That the change in the French administration as proceeding solely from the king was deemed the most important event that could ever have taken place; the issue is expected to be either a counter-revolution, or the assassination of the King:—That the King of Hungary was not dead, but was very ill;—and that the British government had equipped for sea a fleet of Observation, under Lord Hood.
The brig Bailli de Suffrein , which was taken up at sea some time ago, with only a woman on board, and carried into Norfolk, Virginia, has had her case tried in the Virginia court of admiralty. The brig and cargo were valued at three thousand pounds, one third of which was adjudged to the captain and crew that picked her up.
We hear that JOHN BROWN and JOHN EDWARDS, Esqrs are chosen to represent the State of Kentucky in the Senate of the United States.
Accounts are received in London from the new colony of Blacks at Sierra Leona, dated March 26; they are proceeding with the utmost diligence in clearing the land and building of houses—Some have been sick, and some have died—Mr. Clarkson the superintendant had been sick, but was recovering.—The climate is described as being more salubrious than had been expected. The united consent of all the neighboring chiefs has been obtained to establish the settlement—and the dispositions of King Naimbanna have appeared throughout to be extremely friendly.
A warrant has received the signature of the King of Great-Britain for a grant of £13,592 for the transportation of Blacks from Nova-Scotia to the above settlement.

August 29. DIRECT FROM FRANCE.
Capt. Hawes, of the ship Nero, arrived at Bedford, from L'Orient, which he left the first of July, confirms the account of the affair between the Gen. Fayette's army, and the Austrians, and of the execution of the murderers of Gen. Dillon.—He further adds, That the French armies were in high spirits: That Mons had been evacuated on the approach of the French army, and that a great quantity of military stores were found therein:—That Mobs were very frequent in all parts of France—one of which, of about 15,000, lately entered Paris, and demanded the King and Dauphin, whom they crowned with the Civic Diadem, and after parading the Dauphin among them for a short time, they dispersed; and that the occasion of this measure was, the dismissal of the King's Ministers.
We have heretofore mentioned the resignations of Generals Rochambeau and Noailles. But their particular motives therefore have not been explained, until an obliging correspondent furnished us with the following account
FROM PARIS:—
M. LOUIS DE NOAILLES has published the cause of his resignation. He charges the Ministers with all the disorders of the army; which he said was ordered, when consisting of no more than 10,000 unexperienced men, to make an attack on the Low Countries, on the ridiculous hope of defection in the Hungarian army, and the assistance of the Brabancors. "I wrote, says he, to M. BIRON, forewarning him of the events which have ensued; and pointing out to him the hazard the troops run of being beaten, if they depended upon the insurrection of the people for success of the war." He had predicted, from the want of discipline in the army, its bad composition, and the disproportion of its different parts, that the soldiery would complain of Treason, that in their delirium the General would be pronounced guilty, and fall a sacrifice to their rage, when the guilt would be imputable solely to the National Assembly, and the Ministers, the insufficiency of their knowledge, and the cowardice of the soldiery."
LETTER OF M. NOAILLES, TO THE MINISTER OF WAR.
"I HAVE been one of the unfortunate witnesses of the unjustifiable crimes, committed against the officers, and of the murder of the Austrian prisoners. I see daily my fellow citizens oppressed, and their property laid waste—I hear the generosity of our enemies praised—and contrasted by the devastations of our troops—who, with their title of Patriots, believe they are permitted to perpetrate every crime. I know not of any means to prevent these disorders—my conscience, therefore, commands me to place my resignation in the hands of the King. I therefore beg you to transmit it to his Majesty."
M. ROCHAMBEAU'S LETTER.
"SIRE,
"I KEEP minutes of the letters of your Ministers, especially those of the the Minister of Foreign Affairs. They will prove that my representations have been useless, and that although I wrote to them, that I did not perceive any disposition in the Austrian troops to join our cause, they thought proper to depend on letters from individuals, which have been circulated amongst them. M. Biron, has not seen in his army, either deserters, or brabancors!
"If your Ministers, Sire, are determined to move all the men of the Chess-Board, and make me but a passive piece, when your Majesty has given me the conducting of the game, I must humbly beg your Majesty to accept my resignation. I am, &c.
"P. S. I beg your Majesty to order my letter to be published. Its publicity appears to me very necessary for the service of the state, and your Majesty. I have never before seen the things which I daily see, and I hope
your Majesty will exempt me from holding them longer."
That our countrymen are not allowed to sell their Furs in China, is certain; and its equally certain it is not as has been said, through the British influence, as we find they equally suffer. In the London Price Current of the 20th of April, the General Coote, Captain Baldwin, from China, entered fifteen cases of Sea-Otter Skins, bro't from Canton.
SHIP NEWS.
We are sorry to inform the public, that the RAFT SHIP, which sailed from this port, was on Thursday last week, quitted at sea, being full of water.—The crew took to their boats, and four of them arrived here in a Schooner from Liverpool, yesterday.
The following account is transmitted by a Correspondent, at Sanford, in the district of Maine. Captain William Brown, of Hudson, in the State of N. York, just arrived here, informs me of the following particulars, viz.—That on the 17th July, at 2 P. M. in latt. 23, 5, long. 64, 37, being in the brig True Blue, from St. Kitts, bound to New-York, was struck with lightning, and set on fire; the blow was so severe as that Capt. Brown, his Mate, and six hands, a cabin boy, with three passengers, all on deck, except two of the latter, were knocked down, and so stunned, that it was concluded by Capt. Smith, who lay near her, in a Schooner belonging to Mount Desert, they remained motionless for 12 or 15 minutes. On recovering, they found themselves surrounded with flames, and had scarcely time sufficient to throw off their cloaths, ere they were forced into the sea—fortunately they could all swim. Captain Brown judges they were not more than 200 yards from the brig when she sunk. Captain Smith seeing the disaster, with all possible speed got his boat out and came to their relief; Capt. Devereaux, in a ship from Norfolk, in Virginia, bound to Martinico, though at two leagues distance, got out his boat, rowed her with four oars, himself taking a fifth, unshipping the rudder, and skulling for the greater dispatch, came up some time after Capt. Smith's boat had returned to the Schooner—The exertions of this aged Captain, about 66, were great upon the occasion; and having provisions on board his ship, offered them freely for the relief of the distressed; but Capt. Smith, having plenty on board, had not occasion for any. Capt. Smith arrived at Mount Desert on the 27th July, and landed Capt. Brown and his company. On the 28th Capt. Brown, one hand and the cabin boy left Mount Desert, on their way to Hudson.—The extraordinary exertions, the humane disposition, and friendly attention of the Captains Smith and Devereaux, are gratefully acknowledged by Capt. Brown and his company.
PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 30.
Votes for Federal REPRESENTATIVES at the town meetings, holden for that purpose on Monday last, viz.
PORTSMOUTH.
 John Samuel Sherburne 112  Timothy Walker 74  James Sheafe 72  Nathaniel Peabody 62  Abiel Foster 60  Philips White 54  Jeremiah Smith 26  Nicholas Gilman 24  Samuel Hale 5 
EXETER.
 Nicholas Gilman 196  Jeremiah Smith 143  Nathaniel Peabody 117  John Samuel Sherburne 101  Samuel Hale 60  James Sheafe 25 
NOTTINGHAM.
 John Samuel Sherburne 56  Jeremiah Smith 55  Nicholas Gilman 54  Nathaniel Peabody 54 
STRATHAM.
 Paine Wingate 40  John Samuel Sherburne 29  Nicholas Gilman 23  Nathaniel Peabody 20  Jeremiah Smith 19  James Sheafe 7 
NEW MARKET.
 James Sheafe 45  John Samuel Sherburne 39  Jeremiah Smith 38  Paine Wingate 26  Nicholas Gilman 23 
ATKINSON.
 Nathaniel Peabody 44  Nicholas Gilman 43  Jeremiah Smith 43  John Samuel Sherburne 30 
The military policy of General Fayette seems in every respect to be copied from the conduct of the American FABIUS at the beginning of the war with Great-Britain. By skirmishes with the enemy on the frontiers, he will teach his soldiers the absolute necessity of discipline, and will give them the habit of war, without venturing a decisive action with troops, who have been taught from their infancy, to look upon themselves as mere machines, and are as absolutely such, in the military line, as the cannon and mortars that attend them.
Extract of a letter from a patriotic and distinguished literary character, near London, to his correspondent in this state, dated May 2, 1792.
It gives me the most sincere pleasure to hear, as I frequently do, of the growing prosperity of the United States. Long may that prosperity continue; and long may your respectable seminary of learning, with every similar institution, in North America, continue to participate in the general welfare of that country, to which I have ever been a most ardent well wisher.
"Let me not close this letter without congratulating you, as a friend to the best interests of mankind, on the great step that hath been taken in France toward the diffusion of general freedom over every habitable part of the globe. May no unfortunate turn of affairs, no injurious blight, prevent this glorious blossom of the sacred tree of liberty from perfecting its choicest fruit!
"It pains me, however, to add, that I am not without some apprehensions, from the powerful union of the neighboring Despots, who are breathing out threatenings and slaughter against a brave people, who are struggling for the maintenance of those blessings, to which all men have an undoubted natural, and unalienable right:—In asserting which, America set them so noble an example!"
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It is mentioned in a Boston paper, as an extraordinary article, that the deaths, within a few weeks past, of Mr. STEPHEN SEXTON, of Somers, in Conn. Æt. 57, and Mr. JAMES DEVEREAUX, of Marblehead, Æt. 21—were both of the lock-jaw; both occasioned by running nails into their feet; and both of whose deaths were in about 9 days after the accident.—In addition to these, died, in this town, on Saturday last, a young man by the name of SMITH, of Dover, with the same disorder—occasioned by running a small bone into the bottom of one of his feet, about 9 days before his death.—Also on Sunday last, was drowned in the river, a young man by the name of BUTLER, son of Captain Butler, formerly of this town.
ENTRIES at the CUSTOM-HOUSE.
ENTERED FROM
 Ship Trufty, Hall, Barbadoes.  Sch'r Industry, Tibbetts, Tobago.  Brig Nancy, Brown, Ditto.  Sch'r Sukey, Chapman, Philadelphia. 
CLEARED FOR
 Sch'r Dove, Clark, Martinico.  Brig Mary, Jones, Ditto. 
*** THE THIRD volume of the History of New-Hampshire, by the Rev. JEREMY BELKNAP, are ready to be delivered to the subscribers, and others at the Post-Office.
Portsmouth, August 25, 1792.
QUERIES.
Historical, Philosophical, and Philological: WHY were Shepherds an abomination to the Egyptians?
What is the reason, that if any thing approach to hurt or terrify us, we make use of the interjection Oh! And this is not confined to nation or language?
Whether is disappointed ambition, or disappointment in love, the more insupportable?
What cause can be assigned for the long continuance of bright tracts, on the surface of the sea, that ships make when they sail?
Is there any difference in the weight of bodies at different places of the earth; if so, where is their weight a maximum?
From what cause arises the separation in milk and butter in the act of churning?
What reason can be given, that in hard frosts, some springs never freeze, and boiling water, exposed to the air to cool, will sooner freeze than cold water from some of those springs?
WILLIAM BOYD
HAS FOR SALE,
At his Store in MARKET-STREET,
English and India
GOODS,
Which he will dispose of
Very low for Cash, or approved Credit.
ALSO,
RUSSIA Duck—7 by 9 and 8 by 10 Bristol Crown Glass—West-India Rum per Hhd.—Molasses per ditto—a few barrels Boston-made N. England Rum—Sugars, &c.
N. B.—POT and PEARL ASHES, FISH, BEEF & LUMBER will be receiv'd in payment for any of the above Goods, at the market prices.
Portsmouth, August 27, 1792.
THE subscriber takes this method to inform his friends and customers, that he continues carrying on the Tobacco Manufactory in its various branches, at the lower end of Buck-Street, near Col. Sherburne's Wharf—Where may be had for the future, Pigtail, Leaf and Smoking Tobacco, of the best quality, on the lowest terms, viz. Pigtail per roll, 8d. per lb. and all lesser quantities in the same proportion.
The subscriber's motive in reducing the price of Tobacco, is to prevent Tobacco pedlars coming into this town, and carrying away money out of the place, to the damage of our own manufactures.—The subscriber would be much oblig'd to his customers, if his Tobacco should not prove satisfactory, for them to make known the fault, that he may be enabled to rectify the same.—He returns his most hearty thanks to his customers for all their past favors, and hopes that they will still continue to favour him with their custom.
THALES G. YEATON.
Portsmouth, August 29, 1792.
TO be sold at public vendue (by virtue of a licence from the Hon. Judge of Probate for the county of Rockingham) on Thursday the 20th day of September next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, at the dwelling-house of Captain Coleby, innholder in Sanborntown, in the county of Strafford, the following lots or parcels of land in said Sanborntown, late the estate of Michael Shute, of Newmarket, shipwright, deceased, viz. one half of two hundred acre lot No. 46, in the second division in common and undivided—Also the onehalf of one hundred acre lot No. 5, in the first division; and likewise 20 acres of land, being part of the lot No. 29, in the second division.—Conditions to be made known at time and place.
JOHN SHUTE, Executor.
Newmarket, August 25, 1792.

Parnassian Spring.
THE POOR PILGRIM.
WRITTEN UNDER A FIGURE DRAWN BY GUERCINO.*
S TAY, Passenger! who'er thou art, Compassion in thy breast may glow; And if thou canst not alms impart, From pity some relief may flow.
If wayward fortune thou hast prov'd, List to my tale, and feel for me; And if thou e'er hast fondly lov'd, Let loose my vindication be.
An outcast from an affluent home, Where peace her downy wings display'd, Mournful and pennyless I roam— My all within this basket laid.
Forsaken by the man I lov'd, The man I foolishly believ'd, I wail my fate, while he, unmov'd, Forgets the wretch whom he deceiv'd.
Discarded by parental scorn, Betray'd by him whom I adore, A Pilgrim, weary and forlorn, Relief from strangers I implore.
If you, to whom I lowly kneel, Can pity to the frail extend; If you for those who err can feel, When spurn'd by ev'ry former friend; Assist a Pilgrim on her way, Whose flock of bread is stale and low: Cold blows the wind—no cheering ray Warms my faint heart, or melts the snow Nor long will this unhappy form, Nor long this breaking heart offend: I sink beneath Affliction's storm, And soon my shame and grief will end.
For sharper than the northern blast, Are the repentant pangs I prove: Hard is my fate, to mourn and fast; But harder still to die of love!
* The figure is kneeling, in a supplicating posture, and resting her basket on the ground.
EXTRACT.
ADVICE.
W HEN really good counsel is given, we ought not to decline following it, although the example of the counsellor militate against his own precepts. St. Augustin is well known to have compared a priest, whose life disagreed with his doctrines, to a directing way post. "Would not a traveller," asks he, "deserve to be reckoned insane, who should refuse to follow the advice written on that post, because forsooth, it stirs not a foot towards the place it directs him to?"—How absurd would it be to undervalue the excellent persuasions of patience and fortitude which have been left us by Seneca, because that great man, in his epistles, after most pathetically exclaiming "Quid non potest mihi persuaderi, cui persuasum est, ut navigarem?" confesses, that during a short passage of a few miles, he actually flung himself headlong into the waves, merely from an inability to support the harassing sensations of sea sickness, and the dread of an impending squall?
In the writings of Hippocrates, we read the following piece of grave advice, which, notwithstanding the great name of the counsellor, will hardly have many followers.
In a fracture of the thigh, "the extension ought to be particularly great, the muscles being so strong, that notwithstanding the effect of the bandages, their contraction is apt to shorten the limb. This is a deformity so deplorable, that when there is reason to apprehend it, I would advise the patient to suffer the other thigh to be broken also, in order to have them both of one length." Ignatius Loyola, who to preserve the shape of his boot, had a considerable part of his leg bone sawed
off, would have been a docile patient to the sage Hippocrates.
The hint given to Thales, the philosopher, was a strong one, and well intended, though roughly executed. A girl seeing him gazing at the heavens, as he walked along, and perhaps piqued at his not casting an eye at her attractions, put a stool in his path, over which he tumbled and broke his shins. The excuse she made was that she meant to teach him to look at home, before he indulged himself in star-gazing.
*** What may I not be persuaded to do, since I have actually been persuaded to go on the sea?***
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
An act for adjusting Accounts and collecting sundry debts Due to this State prior to the Year 1784.
Whereas sundry persons are indebted to this State on Bonds, Notes, Accounts, Receipts, and for Monies furnished, Arms, Ammunition and other articles supplied prior to June, 1784, which demands ought to be adjusted and the sums due collected—
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened, That JOHN TAYLOR GILMAN and NATHANIEL ROGERS, Esq's, be, and hereby are appointed a Committee in behalf of this State, with full power to settle all Accounts, Bonds Notes of hand, Receipts, and all other debts due to the State prior to June, 1784, whether for monies supplied, or any other Articles upon such principles and in such manner as they shall judge equitable on consideration of the circumstances attending the same, and to give regular discharge therefor on receiving payment, or such security as they may judge proper.
And be it further enacted, That said Committee be, and hereby are empowered to call on any public officer, of this State, (or any other person in whose care they may be) for all such Accounts, Obligations and other Books or papers as are necessary to adjust and ascertain such demands—And such public officers, or other persons are hereby respectively directed to deliver over to said committee all such Books and papers as are in their custody, and which said committee shall judge necessary for the adjustment of said accounts, debts, &c.
And be it further enacted, That the Committee aforesaid, be and hereby are empowered (if it is found necessary) to cause any suit or suits to be commenced in the Courts of Law on behalf and in the name of this State, against any person or persons who had Accounts open with, or were indebted to this State prior to June, 1784, and whose debts or Accounts are not otherwise settled and paid, and the same to pursue to final judgment and execution.
And be it further enacted, That said Committee shall have full power and authority to appoint and substitute one or more attorneys under them, as to them shall appear necessary, with full power and authority to settle with or prosecute any person indebted as aforesaid, as to said Attorney or Attorneys shall appear most reasonable, and that said Committee shall, as soon as may be, render an Account to the General Court of their proceedings.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE. In the House of REPRESENTATIVES December 31, 1791.
The foregoing Bill having been read a third time, passed to be enacted.
Sent up for concurrence.
WM. PLUMER, Speaker.
IN SENATE, January 2, 1792. This Bill having been read a third time, voted that the same be enacted.
JOSIAH BARTLETT, President.
A true copy—Attest:
JOSEPH PEARSON, Secretary.
THE Committee named in the foregoing Act, will attend at the Treasurer's Office in Exeter, from the Tenth to the Thirtieth day of September next, (exclusive of Sabbath days) for the purpose of executing the trust reposed in them, and request that all persons concerned will call and settle their respective Accounts, or other demands referred to in the foregoing Act within the above limited time.
JOHN T. GILMAN, NATH: ROGERS.
Exeter July 20, 1792.
The several Printers throughout this State are requested to insert the foregoing in their respective Newpapers for three weeks.
State of New-Hampshire. To JONATHAN WARNER, Esq. a Justice of the Peace and of the Quorum throughout said State.
W E the proprietors of more than one sixteenth part of a certain Tract of land within the township of Success, containing eight thousand acres, granted by a vote of the proprietors of said township, at their meeting, August 3, 1773, to us and others, for certain purposes expressed in said vote—request you to warn a meeting of the proprietors of the said tract of eight thousand acres, at the house of Mr. John Greenleaf, inn-holder in Portsmouth, on Monday the 10th day of September next, at 3 o'clock, P. M.—then and there to act on the following particulars, viz.
1st. To choose a Moderator, Clerk and other officers. 2d. To vote for raising money to defray the expences of said proprietary, and to transact any other business that may be judged necessary.
SAMUEL HAVEN, jun. JOHN NOBLE, SAMUEL HILL, RICHARD HART, HUGH HENDERSON, ELISHA HILL.
State of New-Hampshire.
Rockingham ss.
PURSUANT to the foregoing request the proprietors aforesaid are hereby notified and warned to meet at the time and place, and for the purposes above mentioned.
JONATHAN WARNER, Justice of [Peace throughout said State. Portsmouth, August 13, 1792.
At a meeting of the Proprietors of Newmarket and Stratham Bridge, held at Newmarket at the house of Gen. James Hill, on Monday the 6th day of August 1792—The following votes were passed, viz.
W HEREAS some people are dissatisfied with the late act of the Honorable General Court, vesting the property of Newmarket and Stratham Bridge in certain individuals:
Voted that the proprietors will not avail themselves of the privilege given them by said act, provided any man or men, or body of men will give sufficient bonds to the speaker of the Honorable House of Representatives, to be lodged in the Treasurer's office, that said bridge shall be repaired and supported agreeably to said act, for the term therein mentioned, and pay the proprietors for their trouble and expence—Provided also, that the same be done on or before the 5th day of September next.
Voted that the preceding vote be published in the New-Hampshire Gazette as soon as may be.
A true extract from the minutes. Attest, ELIPH'T SMITH, Prop's Clerk.
Strayed Geese!
T AKEN up by the subscriber, in Rye, on the 14th day of August, instant, a number of tame GEESE;—The owner, by applying to the subscriber, and paying necessary charges, may have them again.
JEREMIAH LOCK. Rye, August 25.
State of New-Hampshire.
P UBLIC notice is hereby given, that so much of the original rights of land in the township of Stewardstown, in the county of Grafton, in this State, namely, the rights of Sir James Cockburn, baronet, Sir George Colebrook, baronet, John Stewart, Esq. and John Nelson, Esq. will be sold to the highest bidder, on the 12th day of September next, at ten o'clock in the morning, at the dwelling-house of Mr. BENJAMIN FRENCH, innholder in Dunstable, in said State, as will pay the sum of thirty pounds on each of said rights, with incidental charges, if payment be not previously made; which sum was voted by the said proprietors, on the 4th of April, 1792, at their legal meeting for the uses and purposes mentioned in said vote, and duly assessed and committed to me to collect.
JOSIAH MELVIN, Collector for said (Proprietors.)
Packersfield, July 25, 1792.
N OTICE is hereby given to the proprietors of Amoskeag Bridge, that a special meeting of said proprietors will be holden at the house of Robert Macgregor, Esq. of Goffstown, on Friday the 7th day of September next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon—To agree upon and assess a further sum of money, to be raised by the proprietors for building said Bridge, and contingent expenses—To agree upon such alterations in the By-laws as may be thought necessary, especially relative to the more speedy collection of the money assessed—And to make any new By-laws that may be thought necessary.
By order of the directors.
JAMES REID, Proprietor's Clerk. Goffstown, August 21, 1792.
VENDUE—
This Afternoon.
T O be sold at public Auction, on Thursday the 30th inst. the Dwelling-House and Land, under the improvement, and belonging to Mr. JACOB WALDEN, in this town,—Conditions to be made known at time and place of sale.—Sale to be precisely at 3 o'clock, in the afternoon, on the premises.
GEO. WENTWORTH, Auctioneer. Portsmouth, August 30, 1792.
One Penny Reward.
R UN AWAY from the subscriber, on Sunday the 29th day of July last, an apprentice Boy, named Nathaniel Marston, about eighteen years of age—had on when he went away a light colored Coat and Breeches, and a blue Waist-coat—wore his own hair:—Whoever will take up said apprentice, and return him, shall have one penny reward.—All persons are hereby cautioned against harboring or trusting said apprentice on my account.
SAMUEL SMITH.
Newmarket, August 3, 1792.
A LL persons having any demands on the estate of Robert Bamford, Jun. late of Barrington, yeoman, deceased, are desired to bring in their demands to Sarah Bamford, Administratrix of said estate,—and those indebted to said estate are desired to make immediate payment.
SARAH BAMFORD Administratrix. Barrington, August 6, 1792.
A LL persons indebted to, or that have any demands against the estate of Capt. Mark Fernald, late of Portsmouth, mariner, deceased, are requested to exhibit the same immediately for settlement, to
MARY FERNALD, Administratrix. Portsmouth, July 11.
BARLEY.
C ASH given for clean BARLEY, by the subscriber, at his Store at Portsmouth, Dover or Rochester—for which a generous price will be given for any quantity that may be offered.
SAMUEL STORER.
Portsmouth, August 6, 1792.