The New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1791-09-29 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.
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Copy of a letter from Dr. Priestley, to the Inhabitants of the Town of Birmingham.
My late Townsmen and Neighbors,  AFTER living with you eleven years, in which you had uniform experience of my peaceful behavior, in my attention to the quiet studies of my profession, and those of philosophy, I was far from expecting the injuries which I and my friends have lately received from you. But you have been misled by hearing the Dissenters, and particularly the Unitarian Dissenters, continually railed at, as enemies of the Church and State. You have been led to consider any injury done to us as a meritorious thing; and not having been better informed, the means were not attended to. When the object was right, you thought the means could not be wrong. By the discourses of your teachers, and the exclamations of your superiors in general, drinking confusion and damnation to us (which is well known to have been their frequent practice) your bigotry has been excited to the highest pitch, and nothing having been said to you to moderate your passions, but every thing to enflame them; hence without any consideration on your part, or on theirs, who ought to have known and taught you better—you were prepared for every species of outrage; thinking that whatever you could do to spite and injure us, was for the support of Government, and especially the Church. In destroying us you have been led to think, you did God and your country the most substantial service.
Happily the minds of Englishmen have a horror of murder, and therefore you did not, I hope, think of that; though, by your clamorous demanding of me at the Hotel, it is probable, that, at that time, some of you intended me some personal injury. But what is the value of life, when every thing is done to make it wretched?
In many cases, there would be greater mercy in dispatching the inhabitants, than in burning their houses. However, I infinitely prefer what I feel from the spoiling of my goods, to the disposition of those who have misled you.
You have destroyed the most truly valuable apparatus of philosophical instruments, that perhaps any individual, in this or any other country was ever possessed of, in my use, which, I have annually spent large sums, with no pecuniary view whatever, but only in the advancement of science, for the benefit of my country and of mankind. You have destroyed a library corresponding to that apparatus, which no money can repurchase, except in a long course of time. But what I feel for more, you have destroyed manuscripts, which have been the laborious study of many years, and which I shall never be able to recompense; and this has been done to one who never did, or thought you any harm.
I know nothing more of the hand bill, which is said to have enraged you so much, than any of yourselves, and I disapprove of it as much; though it has been made the ostensible handle of doing infinitely more mischief than any thing of that nature could possibly have done. In the celebration of the French Revolution, at which I did not attend, the company assembled on the occasion only expressed their joy in the emancipation of a neighbouring nation from tyranny, without intimating a desire of any thing more than such an improvement of our own Constitution as all sober citizens, of every persuasion have long wished for. And though, in answer to the groce and unprovoked calumnies of Mr. Madan and others, I publicly vindicated my principles as a
Dissenter, it was only with plain and sober argument, and with perfect good humor. We are better instructed in the mild and forbearing spirit of Christianity, than ever to think of having recourse to VIOLENCE; and can you think such conduct as yours any recommendation of your religious principles, in preference to ours?
“You are still more mistaken, if you imagine that this conduct of yours has any tendency to serve your cause or to prejudice ours. It is nothing but reason and argument that can ever support any system of religion. Answer our arguments, and your business is done; but your having recourse to VIOLENCE, is only a proof that you have nothing better to produce. Should you destroy myself, as well as my house, library and apparatus, ten more persons of equal or superior spirit and ability would instantly rise up. If those ten were destroyed, an hundred would appear; and believe me that the Church of England, which you now think you are supporting, has received a greater blow by this conduct of yours, than I and all my friends have ever aimed at it.
“Besides, to abuse those who have no power of making resistance, is equally cowardly and brutal, peculiarly unworthy of Englishmen—to say nothing of Christianity which teaches us to do as we would be done by. In this business, we are the sheep, and you the wolves. We will preserve our character, and hope you will change yours.—At all events, we return you blessings for curses: and pray that you may soon return to that industry, and those sober manners, for which the inhabitants of Birmingham were formerly distinguished. I am,
Your sincere well-wisher, J. PRIESTLEY.
London, July 10, 1791.
P. S. The account of the first Toast at the Revolution Dinner in the Times of this Morning, can be nothing less than a malicious lie. To prove this, a list of the Toasts, with an account of all the proceedings of the day, will soon be published. The first of them was, The King and Constitution , and they were all such as the friends of Liberty, and the true principles of the Constitution, would approve.
DOCTOR PRIESTLEY.
The personal abuse and destruction of property which this gentleman, and the other Dissenters, have lately experienced at BIRMINGHAM, appear to be, and certainly are GREAT EVILS; but, like all other apparent evils, they will, in the course of events, most assuredly produce some GREATER GOOD. “Persecution has always been the means of promoting the persecuter Religion,— The blood of the Martyrs was the seed of the church. ”
The following Letter is extracted from the LIVERPOOL GENERAL ADVERTISER—as it may in some measure explain the cause of the fracas at Birmingham, it is inserted.
MR. PRINTER,
AS I find that many gross falsehoods have been circulated through the country, in order to inflame the minds of the people, concerning the meeting held last Thursday, to commemorate the French Revolution, I will beg leave to state what I myself have had occasion to know respecting the subject. Some gentlemen in Birmingham had proposed by an advertisement in the newspapers, to hold a meeting of the friends of liberty and of mankind, at the Hotel, to commemorate the French Revolution, in the same manner as was done
in London, and many other parts in the kingdom. Two days before the time appointed for this meeting, a very respectable gentleman called on me, and said he came to tell me that it was the general wish of those who intended to meet, that I should be their chairman on the occasion. I accepted the compliment and promised to come to Birmingham to attend; never conceiving that a peaceable meeting for the purpose of rejoicing that 26 millions of our fellow-creatures were rescued from despotism, and made as free and as happy as we Britons are, could be misinterpreted as being offensive to a government whose greatest boast is liberty, or to any who profess the Christian religion, which orders us to love our neighbours as ourselves . We accordingly met and dined with the greatest peace and harmony, and after drinking some toasts, expressive in the first place of our loyalty to our own king and constitution, and in the second place of our joy at the happiness which the French have acquired by their new Constitution, we dissolved the meeting entirely in the greatest order, between five and six in the evening, and quitted the Hotel, every man retiring separately to his home. The meeting in London was conducted with the same decorum, nor has there been an instance as far as I know, in the many meetings throughout England, of the least irregularity. Now as actions are the best interpreters, it is evident these meetings were not intended to disturb the peace and government of the country. I have heard that we drank disloyal toasts—The first was “the King and the Constitution.”—I do not know any words more expressive of loyalty.
A second report is, that Justice Charles was insulted and turned out of the room. He was not in the room.
A third that a seditious hand-bill had been distributed by the members of the meeting, on a preceding day. A seditious and truly infamous hand-bill had been distributed, but by whom written or distributed is not known. It is to be hoped the persons concerned will be discovered and punished. As soon as the gentlemen of Birmingham, who had concerted the Commemoration Meeting, saw this hand-bill, they perceived that the effect and perhaps the intention of it was to inflame the mob against them, and they immediately published in the Thursday’s Newspaper , an advertisement declaring their disavowal of this hand-bill, and their own loyal attachment to the KING, LORDS and COMMONS.* They also sent hand bills, with copies of this advertisement, all over Birmingham. It was not possible for them to do any thing more effectually to prevent any bad effects from this seditious paper, or to rescue themselves from the calumny of their being the authors of it.
The last false report that I have heard relative to that meeting, is concerning Dr. Priestley’s behaviour there.—To this I suppose it will be sufficient to answer, that Dr. Priestley was not present .
These are all the reports which I have heard, but I doubt not there may be many others, of the truth of which every man of common sense will judge from what I have said, of those which have come to my knowledge. Nevertheless, these false reports are all the pretences for the late horrible riots; but the event shews that they were only pretences, and that the Dissenters were the true object of the fury of the mob, as many of those gentlemen who have suffered from the riots, were not present. For the business of the Commemoration Meetings had nothing to do with religious distinctions, and were in other parts composed of churchmen,
catholics, dissenters, and quakers. It is true, that in Birmingham, the majority were dissenters, but it is evident that they did not wish to be distinguished as a party meeting, when they did me the honor to choose me as their chairman, who, it was evident must have conformed, in order to qualify myself for the commissions which I have held in the army, to all the formalities prescribed by the test act, and was never present in a dissenting meeting above once or twice in England; although I have the greatest regard for the dissenting individuals whom I know, among whom are several of the late unfortunate victims, men as peaceable, respectable, and as loyal as any in the kingdom.
But as the subject of the Commemoration Meeting was quite unknown to the ignorant part of the people, it gave an opportunity of raising any lies that were necessary to inflame the mob to execute their horrid purposes. But the proceedings of the meeting were innocent, peaceable and honorable, and also free from every subject relative to religious parties, I solemnly affirm.
JAMES KEIR.
West-Broomwich, 20th, July, 1791.
* Birmingham Commemoration of the French Revolution.—Several hand-bills having been circulated in the town, which can only be intended to create distrust concerning the intention of the meeting, to disturb its harmony and inflame the minds of the people, the Gentlemen who proposed it, think it necessary to declare their entire disapprobation of all such hand-bills, and their ignorance of the authors:—Sensible themselves of the advantages of a free government, they rejoice in the extension of liberty to their neighbors, at the same time avowing, in the most explicit manner, their attachment to the Constitution of their own country, as vested in the Three Estates of the King, Lords, and the Commons:—Surely no free-born Englishmen can refrain from exulting in this addition to the general mass of human happiness; it is the cause of humanity, it is the cause of the people.” “Birmingham, July 13, 1791.”
EXTRACT.
FORWARD men are the worst vermin in society; when once they get footing in your house ’tis harder to dislodge them than it is a colony of rats, and they become more troublesome than mice in your pantry, and as familiar as fleas in your chamber: Give a man of this character his Christmas dinner, and you will have the pleasure of his company the year round: He declares himself an enemy to compliments and ceremony, but a friend to good fellowship; the former leads him into impertinence, and the latter renders him proof against affronts, so that it is impossible to get rid of him, unless peradventure by introducing him to a more opulent acquaintance.
APHORISM.
IT is a certain sign of an ill heart to be inclined to defamation. They who are harmless and innocent can have no gratification that way; and it ever arises from a neglect of what is laudable in a man’s self, and an impatience of seeing it in another.
Apprentices.
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By the ship Charlotte , F. Mackay , master,—and the ship Neptune , James Scott, jun. master, both of whom arrived at Boston on Saturday, the former in 54, and the latter in 46 days from London, by whom papers were received to the 3d August, from which the following ad- vices are extracted:
PARIS, July 11.
Reception of Voltaire's Remains.
Yesterday, Sunday the 10th, a Deputation from the Municipality, went to receive the Corps of Voltaire, at the gate of Charenton. Here they found a number of Municipalities, and very numerous detachments of National Guards who had followed the Corps, and who accompanied it to the ground where the Bastille had stood, and which had been bordered with groves of green trees, disposed with art. In the middle of this ground were piled the ruins of this celebrated Castle, on which were to be read the following words:
“Receive, Voltaire, the honors which thy country renders thee, in this place where despotism held thee in chains.”
They who conducted the ceremony kept the coffin open a considerable time to gratify the curiosity of the public with a last look.
JULY 21.
We have remained in perfect tranquillity since Sunday night, and I may confidently assure you, that the violent spirits are completely vanquished. The firmness of the Assembly, the activity of the corporation of Paris, and the patriotism of the National Guards, have triumphed over the feeble, though turbulent efforts of those who were anxious that the Assembly should begin over again, and change the whole of their system into a Republic.
The unanimity of the Assembly shews their wisdom. They divided 970 to 8, on the question of preserving the monarchical form of government.
You see that every Address from the Departments yet received, is full of approbation and confidence. They do not apprehend any serious opposition from any part of France, and surely after this temperate course, no foreign power will think it safe, honorable, or prudent, to attempt any thing against the new order of things.
The Assembly will finish their labors in one month from this time, unless any new delay shall intervene. Their assiduity is beyond the common rate of mechanic labor, although it daily manifests all the stretch of intellectual powers. I never saw fewer, than 900 Members in the Assembly, and all the Tribunals are constantly crowded.
JULY 22.
M. ALEXANDER LAMETH, having brought up a Report from the Military Committee, it was decreed that 70,000 National Guards should be sent to the Frontiers, besides the 27,000 which had been already ordered; that four millions of livres should be expended on the Fortifications; that 3000 Artillery Horses should be contracted for and that Commissioners should be chosen by the Assembly to superintend the execution of their Decree.
DUBLIN, July 15.
Yesterday being the anniversary of the Revolution that took place in France on the 14th July, 1789,—the same was observed as a day of peculiar festivity by the generous and enlightened citizens of this metropolis, who in select parties and societies, of various descriptions, dined together to celebrate an event so interesting to mankind. One of these was that of the natives of France, and descendants of the French, at present resident in Dublin, who dined at the Exhibition House, in William-street, where, amongst a number of appropriate and patriotic toasts, the following were given:
The King and Constitution of Ireland.
The Glorious Revolution of the 14th of July, 1789, that gave Liberty to France.
The National Assembly of France.
General de la Fayette and the National Guards of France.
M. de Bailly the patriotic Mayor of Paris.
The Memory of Mirabeau.
A number of distinguished persons made a part of this patriotic Meeting, such as M. le Baron de Rosbec, M. de la Lande, Sir Edward Newenham, &c.
About nine o'clock at night the different volunteer corps, under the command of colonel Tandy, proceeded from their several parades to Stephen's Green. They were preceded by an illuminated Lantern, on which were the following inscriptions:
Rights of Man.
October the 12th, 1779.
April the 16th, 1782.
July the 14th, 1789.
On the Lantern were also two circles, in one was the word America , from which rays proceeded to the other circle, in which was written France . The inscription, “The new world enlightening the old.”
And underneath,
We do not rejoice because we are Slaves, but we rejoice because of the French being free.
The day was spent with great good humour, and in the evening every thing was quiet.
WARSAW, July 16.
By an Effetette from Peterburgh, it appears that Peace between Russia and the Porte is likely to be concluded agreeable to the Empress's wishes, without the interference of Poland.
We look daily for news of importance from the Black Sea, the Russian Fleet having been out fourteen days.
BRANDENBURGH, July 23.
Our troops are to break up their encampments on the 28th of next month, and go into winter quarters, so that any attempts on Thorn or Dantzick is not likely to take place.
LONDON, July 19.
The following is a literal translation of a French letter, addressed by Mr. THOMAS PAINE, to ABBE SIEYES, and inserted on the 11th of this month, in the Patriote Francoise .
Paris, 8th July, 1791.
“AT the moment of my departure for England, I read in the Moniteur of Tuesday last, your letter in which you give the challenge, on the subject of government, and offer to defend what is called the monarchical opinion against the republican system.”
“I accept of your challenge with pleasure; and I place such a confidence in the superiority of the republican system over that nullity of system, called monarchy, that I engage not to exceed the extent of fifty pages; and to leave you the liberty of taking as much latitude as you may think proper.”
“The respect which I bear your moral and literary reputation, will be your security for my candour in the course of my discussion; but notwithstanding that I shall treat the subject seriously and sincerely, let me premise, that I consider myself at liberty to ridicule as they deserve monarchical absurdities, whenever the occasion shall present itself.”
“By republicanism, I do not understand what the name signifies in Holland, and in some parts of Italy. I understand simply a government by representation—a government founded upon the principles of the declaration of rights; principles to which several parts of the French constitution arise in contradiction. The declaration of the rights of France and America are but one and the same thing in principles, and almost in expressions; and this is the republicanism which I undertake to defend against what is called the Monarchy and Aristocracy.”
“I see with pleasure that in respect to one point, we are already agreed, and “that is the extreme danger of a Civil List of thirty millions.” I can discover no reason why one of the parts of the government should be supported
with so extravagant a profusion, whilst the other scarcely receives what is sufficient for its common wants.”
“This dangerous and dishonorable disproportion, at once supplies the one with the means of corrupting, and throws the other into the predicament of being corrupted. In America there is but little difference with regard to this point between the legislative and the executive part of our government; but the first is much better attended to than it is in France.”
“In whatsoever manner, Sir, I may treat the subject of which you have proposed the investigation, I hope that you will not doubt my entertaining for you the highest esteem. I must also add, that I am not the personal enemy of kings—Quite the contrary. No man more heartily wishes than myself to see them all in the happy and honorable state of private individuals; but I am the avowed and intrepid enemy of what is called monarchy; and I am such by principles which nothing can either alter nor corrupt—by my attachment to humanity; by the anxiety which I feel within for the dignity and the honor of the human race; by the disgust which I experience when I observe men directed by children, and governed by brutes; by the horror which all the evils that monarchy has spread over the earth excite within my breast; and by those sentiments which make me shudder at the calamities, the exactions, the wars, and the massacres with which monarchy has crushed mankind: In short, it is against all the hell of monarchy that I have declared war.”
(Signed) THOMAS PAINE.
JULY 27.
The Spanish navy consists, at present, of 73 vessels of the line, of which 10 are of 112 guns. The want of sailors, however, must render great part of them useless; and sailors they never will have, till a free constitution has given encouragement to commerce.
The election of a Governor, to the DAUPHIN will take place, on Saturday next, in the National Assembly of France.
When the new constitution of France is completed, it is to be hoped, that the National Assembly will take off all guards from the King. If he is disposed to quit the kingdom, let him go; and twenty six millions will then have to try, whether they cannot exist in peace and safety, by their own labor and care.
The frontier towns of France are said to be extremely defenceless. They may be so; but it is men, not towns, that are to defend a kingdom, and of the former, there are about four millions, devoted to the National Assembly, and whose late conduct shews that they will obey the LAW, and support it with their lives, whether they approve it or not. This LAW, however, is made for them, by their representatives.
The success of the new constitution in France will be dreadful to every arbitrary Monarch in Europe, and upon the question—“Whether it will succeed, or not?” depends their fate. It will be dreadful, that their subjects should have another nation to whom they may look up, where the lives, the property and the peace of millions are in their own keeping.
JULY 29.
On Sunday last, after a review of the National Guards of Paris, the volunteers, intended for the defence of the frontiers, formed three battalions, and encamped in the Plain of Fédération, where they wait for the order of their route. They were to be joined, in the course of the week, by two battalions of hired troops, and some companies of Chasseurs.
The number of rioters killed in the late affray, is not known. The detachment of National Guards, was, upon that occasion, followed by carts, into which the slain were immediately thrown, that the populace might not be irritated to further violence by a view of the dead bodies.
Some members of the Committee of Researches were present when the
cloaths of the deceased were examined, and the papers found were given up to their inspection. It is not yet known whether any discoveries were so produced.
Perfect peace prevailed in Paris on Monday at midnight, when our accounts came away.
In the evening sitting of the National Assembly of the 23d day of July, the Attorney General of the Sixth Division appeared at the bar, and informed the Assembly, that the Murderers of the two men found under the altar of the Champ de Mars, and the person who had attempted the life of M. la Fayette, were all in custody; and that criminal prosecutions were already commenced against them.
AUGUST 2.
His Majesty's Proclamation with respect to the Birmingham Riots, is highly satisfactory. Both sides of the question appear, and both parties equally pursued.
COUNTER REVOLUTION.—What rumour has long without sufficient likelihood affirmed, seems now to wear an aspect more serious. From the Frontiers, passengers assert that every day small parties of Austrian Troops arrive, 20, 40, and frequently 60 together, generally in disguise.—About 200 soldiers have deserted from the Regiments Berwick and Liegeois, to join the Royal Party.
The Troops of the Emperor which are now posted adjoining to, and on the banks of the Rhine, are said to amount to no less than 170,000 men.
AUGUST 3.
The Courts of VIENNA and MADRID are earnestly pursuing some concealed object of political moment. Couriers are continually passing with amazing expedition. This, however, touches us not.
The Letters of the KING and QUEEN of FRANCE to Vienna, can contain nothing confidential, for they are all avowedly examined by M. la FAYETTE and his Satellites. They are therefore fabricated for their inspection.
The return of the KING of SWEDEN from his political journey, indicates a suspension of the hostile projects against France, which rumour has so confidently attributed to the Continental Powers. For the Swedish Monarch has generally been considered as the probable General of the Confederates.
The spirit of revolt, the embers of which are still discernable in the Netherlands, will be a powerful restraint on the interposition of the EMPEROR in the projected Counter-Revolution in France. The National Assembly would without doubt stimulate, probably with success, the discontented Flemings to insurrection, and would give them effectual support.
DUBLIN, July 21.
By the Pearl, Capt. Stevenson, arrived at Hull, from Peterburgh, we learn “That warlike preparations continue with the greatest exertions in Russia; and that furnaces are ready to give the British fleet a warm reception, should they dare visit the coasts.”
PHILADELPHIA, July 19. Extract of a letter from Danville, Kentucky, via Richmond, dated August 22.
“An express from Gen. Wilkinson has this moment reached this place, informing of his success. He has destroyed a large Indian town situated on the Wabash; also a Kickapoo town, containing about 50 houses, and killed and taken 42 of the enemy. His loss, two men killed and one wounded. I have not yet heard where the express left him, but expect he has re-passed the Ohio before this time.”
We learn through various channels, that Colonel B. Harrison, who marched from Kentucky against the Indian towns on the Sciota, has returned — The Indians had abandoned their towns before he reached them, and he saw only one on the march, who was killed by some of his party.
HARTFORD, Sept. 19.
On Saturday last a powder-mill in East-Hartford, belonging to Mr. Elisha Pakin, jun. containing about a ton of

powder, accidentally took fire and blew up. Three persons, of the names of Evans, Corning and Brown, employed in making powder, were instantaneously killed; Mr. Jabez Norton was very dangerously burnt—one man had his arm broken, and several others slightly wounded, by this unfortunate explosion. The mill, and two adjacent buildings were entirely demolished, and property to a large amount destroyed.
By a letter from Capt. Tryon, dated Cape-Francois, August 26th, to his employers in this town, we learn, that there is a general revolt and insurrection of the Mulattoes and Negroes of that island. The insurgents began their ravages 2 leagues to the leeward of the Cape, and proceeded in different directions, burning dwelling-houses and sugar-houses, laying waste lands of cane and butchering the whites of all ages and both sexes in the most barbarous manner. The regular troops had been ordered with the militia, to march and oppose their progress, but were unable to withstand their fury. On the day this letter was written, the General ordered all the troops to repair to the town in order to defend it, in case of any attack which was expected. The American Captains and sailors mounted guard, and an embargo was laid on all vessels in the harbour. Numbers of the whites are collecting their effects on board the American vessels, determined to escape from the vengeance of the insurgents.
BOSTON, Sept. 26.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman at Cape-Francois to another in this town.
“On the 23d August the negro slaves erected the standard of revolt in the country, and have destroyed all the plantations between Port Margot and Limonade—massacred the whites—plundered and burnt every thing. The distance of country now laid waste and in ashes, is sixty miles in length, and eighteen miles wide. The 26th,* the negroes are continuing their ravages,—every precaution is taken to secure the city—as many sailors as could be spared from the shipping are on shore doing duty.—All the slaves in the city are confined in the Church.”
* The day this vessel left the Cape.
Extract of a letter from a citizen of the United States, at Madeira, to a gentleman in Philadelphia, dated July 19.
“The anniversary of our political birth-day was celebrated here at the house of the Consul, J. M. PINTARD, Esq. with due respect; at sunrise an elegant silk flag of the United States was displayed in front of the house; at three o'clock the masters of all the American vessels in port, nine in number partook of an entertainment provided by the Consul—a band of musick played during the time of dining, and fifteen toasts adapted to the occasion were drank, attended by the discharge of cannon; at sunset the company moved to the green in front of the house, when the colours were struck under a discharge of fifteen guns.”
“The Consul's House is situated on an eminence in full view of the whole town—the celebration was therefore a very conspicuous object—the natives of the island in general are very well disposed towards the people of the United States—and I am firmly persuaded that if our country continues to support her character and credit she will have the worthy of all countries, for friends; as to the envious and contracted of any nation, their friendship cannot be considered as an acquisition. Our Consul here possesses the genuine spirit of an American; the great events, that led to empire and independence, such as the brilliant stroke at Trenton, the capture of Burgoyne, Cornwallis, &c. are always noticed by him; and whenever any of our countrymen are in port, they are always invited to unite with him in the joy of the day—if none happen to be here—he hoists his flag and celebrates with his own family—in short
his countrymen are always welcome to his house, and he never appears so happy as when he has the pleasure of their company.—M. Pintard is now established in business at this island, under his own firm; this circumstance, I was not acquainted with previous to my leaving the States, or I should have applied to him; you may be assured that the commands of yourself, or any of your friends at this island entrusted to him, will be executed with fidelity, ability and dispatch.”
A great fermentation appears to exist in France—the King and Queen continue confined.—The King of Spain has written to the National Assembly, respecting the King, advising conciliatory measures.—The Assembly voted this answer, “That as the French nation does not intend to meddle with the affairs of foreign powers, so foreign powers have no business to meddle with the affairs of the French nation.”
The President of the United States has been pleased to appoint JOHN BROOKS, Esq. Marshal of Massachusetts district, vice JONATHAN JACKSON, Esq. appointed inspector.
So fashionable has become the wearing of VEILS, that the three LADIES who were publicly whipp'd on Wednesday last, were adorned with them.
Thursday six men, agreeable to their sentence, set on the Gallows one hour; after which five of them underwent the Lash, in company with five others.
We hear a subscription is open in London for the purpose of building a large and elegant CHAPEL for the Rev. Dr. PRIESTLEY.
MULTUM IN PARVO.
To detail the articles of Foreign Intelligence, with the variety of superfluous conjectures and rumours thereon, which the European papers contain, would be tedious and useless. In a few words, then, we inform of what we have collected from them—and say,
That the Avignon army continue to commit great devastation in that country—That CARPENTRAS is yet besieged—That an earthquake has been felt at ROCHELLE in France—That hostilities have recommenced between the Turks and Austrians—That favourable accounts have been received by the British from India; that no fleet was to sail for the Baltic this season; That Vienna and Hungary exhibited nothing but an appearance of war; that the Russians made an attempt to surprize Brahilow, but without effect—And that the Captain PACHA had failed in search of the Russian fleet on the Black Sea—That her Imperial Majesty remains unalterably determined not to listen to any terms of peace short of those she originally proposed, viz. that she should retain possession of Oczakow, and its district—That on the 15th of June, Gen. Katusow, near Babada, had attacked and defeated a body of 23,000 Turks and Tartarians.
MARINE JOURNAL.
By Capt. DUNHAM, of the brig Nancy, arrived at Philadelphia from Corrunna, we have letters of the 13th of July. Information is received that the Spaniards were sitting out four sail of the line in that port with great expedition, that the object was quite uncertain, but was conjectured to be in consequence of the British fleet being seen on the coast of France. The letters add, that the Russian preparations still go on with great vigour, and that a general war was thought to be inevitable.
Arrived on Monday the 19th inst. dismasted, the Ship Nancy, James Dods, commander, from St. Eustatia—which met with the disaster of losing her masts, in a heavy gale of wind, in lat. 34. long. 66. 49. Sept. 9—in lat. 36. long. 68. Capt. Dods fell in with the wreck of the Brig South-Carolina, Elisha Marshal, master, from New-York, bound to St. Martins; the crew of which had been on the wreck four days, when Capt. Dods took them on board his ship, they arrived with him
here, and are six in number—one of the crew was lost.
Capt Dods saw several vessels which had been dismasted in the above gale.
Arrived from Liverpool, snow Adventure, C. Hammond, Master. Aug. 11. lat. 45. 30: long. 29: spoke ship Triumph, John Tillen, master, of and from Baltimore, 18 days, bound for Cork.—Aug. 25, lat. 41, 21: long. 49. 40, spoke brig Cincinnatus, of Alexandria, William Coates, master, from Havre de Grace, bound for New-York, who on the 23d spoke ship Sally, of and bound to Boston, from London, 41 days.—Same day spoke brig Friendship, Seth Macy, master, from New-York, 22 days, and bound for Liverpool.—Sept. 3d, lat. 41, 16: long. 61, spoke brig Katy, of and from Boston, 5 days.
TRIBUTE OF THANKS.
GEORGE GREEN, Mate, in behalf of himself, and the crew of the Brig South-Carolina, present their most grateful thanks to Capt. JAMES DODS, Dr. ISAAC RAND, and the mate of the British ship Nancy, for the great humanity and kind attention they paid to them, after they were taken from the wreck of the said Brig—on which they had been four days exposed to and enduring the utmost distress, without any thing but their own urine to exist on:—And particularly for the generous care they paid to alleviate the pains and restore their mangled limbs to their use.
Sept. 15.—Arrived the Ship George: Silas Daggett, master, from Ostend, after a passage of 46 days. Capt. Daggett, left at Ostend, the following American vessels,—the Ship Charlestown, Hunter, from Charlestown, S. C. the brig Rambler, of N. York, Keaquick, and Brig Two-Brothers, of Salem, Carpenter.
The Schooner Fisher, Stephen Webb, master, from Point Peter, Gaudaloupe, on the 4th September, in lat. 39. 30. N. long. 67. 14. W. fell in with the Ship Marquis de la Fayette, Francis Grice, master, 42 days from London, bound for Philadelphia, having 11 feet water in the hold, which obliged Capt. Webb, to take the crew on board, which crew has arrived at Salem, all well.
Arrived Lady Schimmelman, Captain Grinnel, from St. Thomas's, 15 days.—Left there, sloop Sun, Capt. Tupper, of this port. Spoke Brig Swallow, Capt. Snoden, about 40 leagues S. of Nantucket. Capt. C. Fellows had sailed from St. Thomas's, for the Havannah, with “persons held to service.”
SALEM, Sept. 27. On the 2d Aug. lat. 44, 50—long. 24, 26, was spoke the ship United States, Sheffield, of Rhode-Island, from the Cape of Good-Hope, bound to a market, with 1100 barrels of oil, and 1500 lbs. whalebone.
Arrived, at Cape-Ann, the 15th inst. ship Cato, Capt. Rice, and ship Dispatch, Capt. Coffin, from Havre-de-Grace, 45 days.
The capital town of Cape-Francois, which by the late accounts was in eminent danger of destruction, is large, elegant, and very opulent. It is said to contain upwards of 6000 houses, and between 50 and 60,000 inhabitants, three quarters of which are negroes—a circumstance highly unfavorable in the present juncture.
NEWBURY-PORT, September 28.
Last Friday Capt. Joseph Tappan of this town arrived here in a brig from the West-Indies. Out of nine persons, only two lived 'till the brig reached this harbour, six of the number died of a Fever and one was washed overboard.
ROYAL PUN. —When the French King was on his journey to VERENNES, he frequently stopped to take a little of the “good creature.” Against this the Queen objected, observing that he was not aware what such frequent delays would cost him.” Oh! my dear, replied Louis smiling, and tipping a glass, “ let us drink on, for the most it can cost is a crown. ”
PORTSMOUTH, Sept. 29.
Extract of a letter from a French gentleman, at New-London, to his friend in Providence, dated September 14, 1791.
“Here I am, in New-London, with my wife and family. I left the Cape the 26th ult. in the Brigantine Three Brothers, being appointed by the Assembly to come with one of the members to ask assistance of Congress, for our poor distressed Colony, which I left in the most horrid situation.—All the slaves of the planters have revolted, and they have burnt in the course of three days about 50 plantations, and killed every person they could catch.—Every plantation and landing place from Port Malligo to Liminard are totally destroyed:—It was supposed the same effect took place at Port-au-Prince and Aux-Cayes; as some of the Negroes taken by our troops say, it was to take place the same day throughout the Colony.”
“The gentleman who came with me is gone this afternoon for New-York, from there he will go to Philadelphia, and apply to the Charge des Affairs of the Court of France. An embargo has taken place at the Cape, and all the Americans are on duty;—when we shall have further news God only knows.”
ENTRIES at the CUSTOM-HOUSE of this district.
ENTERED FROM Brig Tryall, Wingate, St. Eustatia. Brig Lucretia, Martin, Gaudaloupe.
CLEARED FOR Brig Olive, Furnas, West-Indies.
TO THE PUBLIC.
THE subscriber on account of support being withdrawn from some of the branches of instruction in PORTSMOUTH ACADEMY and given to rival institutions, is obliged to discontinue said Academy, from the 1st of October next, notwithstanding its success was an object so near his heart as induced him to be at so great expense for its establishment: He nevertheless begs the parents who so liberally supported his department of instruction to accept his hearty thanks, and his recommendation of Mr. WEARE COFFIN as instructor therein, with whose ability, industry and integrity Mr. DEARBORN is so well acquainted as with the utmost assurance to recommend him in every branch which he undertakes to teach. A commodious House in Boston is taken by the subscriber for instituting an Academy for the instruction of young Ladies, where they will be boarded, and taught all the branches of useful and polite education.
BENJAMIN DEARBORN.
N. B. Mr. Dearborn's outstanding accounts will be settled by Mr. Coffin. September 26, 1791.
THE Subscriber offers his best exertions for instructing both Sexes in the several branches of the WRITING SCHOOL, on the terms already affixed by Mr. DEARBORN, and at the Room lately occupied by him.
WEARE COFFIN.
Portsmouth, September 26, 1791.
LATELY RECEIVED, AND NOW READY FOR SALE By JAMES DIMAN, At his SHOP in PORTSMOUTH, Opposite the SPINNING-WHEEL.
A GREAT Variety of Chintzes, Calicoes, Crapes, Camblets, Cambleteens, Poplins, Russell, Florentines, Lastings, Callimancoes, Tammies, Durants, Cambrick, Linens, Whalebone, Corded Dimity, Modes, Sarfnetts, Persian, Tiffanies, Linen, lawn and muslin Handkerchiefs, Shawls, women's and men's Leather Gloves, Gauzes, Ribbons, Muslins, men's worsted and cotton Hose, Coarse Broad-Cloths, Shalloons, Buckram, Forrest Cloths, Lambkin, English Mustard, &c. &c.
All which will be sold as low, and many of them lower than can be purchased at any Store in the town of Portsmouth, without exception.
Portsmouth, Sept. 28, 1791.

Parnassian SPRING.
CONTENT—A PASTORAL.
O'ER moorlands and mountains, Rude, barren, and bare, As wilder'd and wearied I roam, A gentle young shepherdess sees my despair, And leads me o'er lawns to her home: Yellow sheafs from rich Ceres her cottage had crown'd, Green rushes were strew'd on her floor. Her casement sweet woodbines crept wantonly round, And deck'd the sod seats of her door.
II. We sat ourselves down to a cooling repast, Fresh fruits! and she cull'd me the best: Whilst thrown from my guard by some glances she cast, Love sly stole into my breast, I told my soft wishes, she sweetly reply'd (Ye virgins her voice was divine!) I've rich ones resisted, and great ones deny'd, Yet take me fond shepherd, I'm thine.
III. Her air was so modest, her aspect so meek, So simple, yet sweet was her charms, I kiss'd the ripe roses that glow'd on her cheek, And lock'd the lov'd maid in my arms. Now jocund together we tend a few sheep; And if, on the banks by the stream, Reclin'd on her bosom, I sink into sleep, Her image still softens my dream.
IV. Together we range o'er the flow rising hills, Delighted with pastoral views, And rest on the rock where the stream- let distills, And mark out new themes for my muse. To pomp or proud titles she ne'er did aspire, The damsel's of humble descent! The cottager PEACE is well known for her fire, And shepherds have nam'd her CONTENT.
PHILOSOPHICAL EXPERIMENT.
FRESH water may be extracted from salt water, by the following simple process: the experiment has very lately been made with success by a Mr. Allen, of Newhaven, in America.
A common hoghead is provided with a false bottom, about three or four inches above the lower head. The false bottom is perforated with a number of holes, and over them a filter of flannel. The barrel is then nearly filled with the finest sand, beat down very hard; a tube communicating with the space between the two bottoms, is extended to a convenient height above the top of the barrel. The sea water is poured into this tube, and pressing every way according to its altitudes, it endeavors to force its way through the sand and the top of the barrel, from whence, by this mode of filtration, it is drawn off fresh, and fit for use. Any other filter will do equally as well as flannel, which will stop the sand, and admit the water. The saline particles being heavier, and perhaps differently formed, meet with obstructions from the sand, and are left behind.—The experiment is so easy, that it promises to be of great utility.
DILWORTH'S SPELLING BOOK
TOWN and country Shop-keepers may be supplied with DILWORTH'S much approved SPELLING BOOK, elegantly printed with a beautiful large new type, on good paper, in large or small quantities, at J. MELCHER'S Printing-Office in Market-Street, Portsmouth, on very low terms, for cash or country produce.
AUCTION,
By licence of Judge of Probate. TO be sold at public auction, on Tuesday 4th of October next, 10 o'clock, A. M. at Col. Brewster's tavern, in Portsmouth, sundry valuable tracts of land, belonging to the estate of Jonathan Moulton, late of Hampton, Esq. deceased, viz.
About 3600 acres in Orford—about 50 rights in Tamworth—about 2000 acres in Newhampton;—also, lands in Moultonborough—Canaan—Dorchester—Burton—Chatham—Northfield—and other towns;—also, a tract of land with the buildings in Tamworth, part of the farm, called the interval farm, containing about 200 acres.—A farm in Concord and Canterbury, 100 acres, late in possession of and belonging to Joseph Smith—about 40 acres cultivated land in Candia—about 10 acres interval land in Plymouth, under cultivation.
Also—the reversion in the following parcels of land, set off to the widow of said deceased, as her dower, viz.
The elegant mansion house of said deceased, with about 100 acres of land in Hampton.—A valuable farm and buildings in Newmarket, containing 120 acres—the Great Hill farm, so called, in Tamworth, containing 640 acres with the buildings—the farm in Newhampton, nigh Center Harbour, so called, about 100 acres, with the buildings—about 60 acres under cultivation in Newhampton—about 800 acres of unimproved land in said Newhampton—about 1500 acres wild land in Moultonborough, and sundry small parcels in said town—and also, all the lands which have heretofore been bid off at any vendue of estate of said deceased, and conditions of sale not complied with.
Conditions of sale known at time & place. THOMAS LEAVITT, Executor of (Will of said deceased). North-Hampton, August 30, 1791.
TO BE SOLD,
By PUBLIC VENDUE,
At the House of Col. William Brewster , Innholder in Portsmouth, On THURSDAY the 27th of October next, at three o'clock, P. M.
THE following lots of Land, belonging to the first parish in said Portsmouth, pursuant to a vote of said parish, viz.—
A Lot called the Glebe PASTURE, containing 38 3/4 acres, to be sold in three or four Divisions as may be thought most convenient.—
Another Lot called the MOWING FIELD, adjoining the Land on which the Workhouse stands, containing 250 feet in width, on Pitt-Street, and 254 feet in length—to be sold in three equal divisions. Further particulars and terms of payment may be known at the time and place of sale.
GEORGE GAINS, } Wardens. ELISHA HILL, } JOHN GODDARD. } SAMUEL CUTTS, } Excesses. SAMUEL HILL, } Portsmouth, Sept. 3, 1791.
THE subscribers appointed commissioners to receive and examine the claims of the several creditors to the estate of Mr. Mark Langdon, late of Portsmouth, joiner, deceased, represented insolvent, hereby give notice that they shall attend that service, at the Post-Office in Portsmouth, on the first Thursday of this and the five following months, from 3 to 6 o'clock, P. M.
JOHN PARKER, JAMES SHEAFE, DANIEL R. ROGERS. Portsmouth, August 2, 1791.
ALL persons indebted to said estate are desired to make immediate payment to JEREMIAH LIBBEY, Administr'r. Portsmouth, Sept. 1.
WHEREAS a petition has been preferred to the Court of General Sessions of the peace for the county of Grafton, shewing the want of a public highway from Landaff in said county, through Lincoln and Goff's Location (so called) to Thornton, and praying that measures may be taken for laying out a road in manner aforesaid.—Therefore—
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to the proprietors and owners of the unincorporated lands aforesaid, that they appear at the court of general sessions of the peace to be holden at PLYMOUTH, in and for said county, on the 2d Tuesday of October next, by adjournment; and shew cause, if any they have, wherefore a highway thro' said lands should not be laid out.
By order of said court. G. W. LIVERMORE, Clerk. Plymouth, Sept. 10, 1791.
R I N D G E.
State of New-Hampshire. NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors or owners of land in Rindge, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1790, that unless they pay said taxes to me the subscriber, on or before the nineteenth day of October next, so much of their land as will pay the same, together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of Capt. Solomon Cutler, innholder in said town, at 10 o'clock, A. M. on said day.
   N. R. Q'ty. d. d. q.     John White, 1 4 100 4 2 3   ditto 2 4 100 5 2 3   Heirs of Col. Brad. Smith, 20 4 20 3 1 3   part of   HENRY SMITH, Constable.   Rindge, June 20, 1791.  
M A S O N.
State of New-Hampshire. NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in Mason, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1787, that unless they pay said taxes to me the subscriber, on or before the 6th day of October next, so much of their land as will pay the same, together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the house of Benjamin Man, Esq. innholder in said town, at two o'clock in the afternoon on said day.
   State. Cou'y N. Q. s. s. d. q.     South Slip.   Capt. Jonas Minot 1 0 2 3 3 0 2   3 0 3 9 3 1 0   8 0 3 3 3 0 3   9 0 2 6 3 0 2   10 0 2 5 3 0 2   11 0 2 5 3 0 2   13 0 1 7 0 0 2   14 0 2 7 3 0 2   16 0 2 7 3 0 2   Josiah Brown 6 40 0 8 2 0 1   Joseph Blodget 9 9 0 9 1 0 1   Robert Fletcher 10 7 0 2 2 0 1   Thomas Packer 11 10 0 2 2 0 1   The remainder of the slip 0 6 11 1 1 2   Capt. J. Minot   JOHN ADAMS, Constable.   Mason, August 25, 1791.  
USSHER'S GRAMMAR.
THE ELEMENTS of ENGLISH GRAMMAR, methodically arranged, with a concise Treatise of RHETORIC, annexed; by J. NEVILLE USSHER.—For Sale at J. MELCHER'S Printing-Office in Market-Street, Portsmouth.
Stephen Frothingham, TALLOW CHANDLER,
RESPECTFULLY informs the public, that he now carries on his business at the lower end of DANIEL-STREET, Portsmouth, where may be had Mould and Dipt CANDLES, also hard and soft SOAP.—Cash given for TALLOW, or CANDLES in exchange.
A COW—STRAYED.
STRAYED from the Subscriber on the 21st inst. a small BROWN COW, short horns, about five years old; whoever will return her, or will give information that she may be recovered, shall be generously rewarded, by N. A. HAVEN. Portsmouth, Sept. 28, 1791.
A SHOP In Market-Street to be LET.
THE SHOP now occupied by Mr. NATHANIEL DEAN, in Market-Street, is to be LET, and entered the 28th day of October next, For further particulars apply to JOHN MELCHER, Printer.
Drugs & Medicines.
Nat. A. Haven
Has now for sale, at his Store in Market-Street, at the sign of the Hydra and Hercules , a large and full assortment of Fresh Drugs and Medicines , which he will sell by wholesale or retail, as cheap as can be purchased in Boston—Also a large variety of Patent Medicines, warranted genuine—among which are, Anderson's Pills, Stoughton's Elixir Hooper's female do. Essence of Peppermint Locyer's do. Turl. Balsam of life, Dr. Walker's celebrated Jesuits Drops. Bateman's Drops, Kennedy's celebrated Corn Plaister, Dr. Hill's Balsam of Honey. British Oil, Ladies Smelling-Bottles, Teeth-Brushes, London Court-Plaister, Phials by the gross or smaller quantity, Oil of Vitriol, Blue Vitriol, and Dye-Stuffs in general—Also, Madeira, Sherry, Lisbon, White Port, Malaga and Teneriffe Wines, Spices, Groceries, Painters Oil and colours,—and West-India GOODS as usual. (9w)
Now in the PRESS, THE Revised Laws OF THE STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE,
AND WILL BE PRINTED BY JOHN MELCHER, AND READY FOR DELIVERY ON OR BEFORE NOVEMBER NEXT.
THE Committee lately appointed by the Honourable GENERAL-COURT, to Revise and Arrange all the LAWS of this State, having completed the same, and laid them before the Court for their inspection, who, after having minutely inspected the same, ordered them to be prefaced with the DECLARATION of INDEPENDENCE, the TREATY of PEACE, between Great-Britain and America, with the CONSTITUTION of New-Hampshire, and the CONSTITUTION of the UNITED-STATES, and to be immediately Printed and distributed among the people;—they are now by authority committed to the Press. As this will be a complete system of all the Laws of the State, it will be highly requisite for every Justice of the Peace, as well as every person in public business to furnish himself with a book.—The expence attending the printing will be so great, that the Printer fears he shall not be able to strike off more books than are engaged before hand; he therefore requests every gentleman who wishes to have a book, to leave his name with him seasonably, by which means he will secure one.
BLANKS of all Sorts may, on the shortest notice, be had at JOHN MELCHER'S Printing-Office.