The New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1790-09-09 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 and entertaining.
PORTSMOUTH: Printed by JOHN MELCHER, at his Office in Market-Street, at nine shillings per Annum.
LAWS of the UNITED STATES.
CONGRESS of the UNITED STATES: AT THE SECOND SESSION,
Begun and held at the City of New-York, on Monday the 4th of January, 1790.
An ACT for the Punishment of certain Crimes against the UNITED STATES.
B E it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That if any person or persons, owing allegiance to the United States of America, shall levy war against them, or shall adhere to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, and shall be thereof convicted, on confession in open court, or on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act of the treason whereof he or they shall stand indicted, such person or persons shall be adjudged guilty of treason against the United States, and shall suffer death.
And be it enacted , That if any person or persons, having knowledge of the commission of any of the treasons aforesaid shall conceal, and not as soon as may be disclose and make known the same to the President of the United States, or some one of the Judges thereof, or to the President or Governor of a particular State, or some one of the Judges or Justices thereof, such person or persons on conviction shall be adjudged guilty of misprision of treason, and shall be imprisoned not exceeding seven years, and fined not exceeding one thousand dollars.
And be it enacted , That if any person or persons shall, within any fort, arsenal, dock-yard, magazine, or in any other place or district of country, under the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, commit the crime of wilful murder, such person or persons on being thereof convicted shall suffer death.
And be it also enacted , That the court before whom any person shall be convicted of the crime of murder, for which he or she shall be sentenced to suffer death, may at their discretion, add to the judgment, that the body of such offender shall be delivered to a surgeon for dissection; and the marshal who is to cause such sentence to be executed, shall accordingly deliver the body of such offender, after execution done, to such surgeon as the court shall direct, for the purpose aforesaid: Provided , that such surgeon, or some other person by him appointed for the purpose, shall attend to receive and take away the dead body at the time of the execution of such offender.
And be it further enacted , That if any person or persons shall, after such execution had, by force rescue or attempt to rescue the body of such offender out of the custody of the marshal or his officers, during the conveyance of such body to any place for dissection as aforesaid; or shall by force rescue or attempt to rescue such body from the house of any surgeon, where the same shall have been deposited in pursuance of this act: every person so offending, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, and an imprisonment not exceeding twelve months.
And be it enacted , That if any person or persons having knowledge of the actual commission of the crime of wilful murder or other felony, upon the high seas, or within any fort, arsenal, dock-yard, magazine, or other place or district of country, under the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, shall conceal, and not as soon as may be disclose and make known the same
to some one of the Judges or other persons in civil or military authority under the United States on conviction thereof, such person or persons shall be adjudged guilty of misprision of felony, and shall be imprisoned not exceeding three years, and fined not exceeding five hundred dollars.
And be it enacted , That if any person or persons shall within any fort, arsenal, dock-yard, magazine or other place or district of country, under the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, commit the crime of man-slaughter, and shall be thereof convicted, such person or persons shall be imprisoned not exceeding three years, and fined not exceeding one thousand dollars.
And be it enacted , That if any person or persons shall commit upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular State, murder or robbery, or any other offence, which if committed within the body of a county, would by the laws of the United States be punishable with death; or if any captain or mariner of any ship or other vessel, shall piratically and feloniously run away with such ship or vessel, or any goods or merchandise to the value of fifty dollars, or yield up such ship or vessel voluntarily to any pirate; or if any seaman shall lay violent hands upon his commander, thereby to hinder and prevent his fighting in defence of his ship or goods committed to his trust, or shall make a revolt in the ship—every such offender shall be deemed, taken and adjudged to be a pirate and felon, and being thereof convicted, shall suffer death. And the trial of crimes committed on the high seas, or in any place out of the jurisdiction of any particular State, shall be in the district where the offender is apprehended, or into which he may first be brought.
And be it enacted , That if any citizen shall commit any piracy or robbery aforesaid, or any act of hostility against the United States, or any citizen thereof, upon the high seas, under colour of any commission from any foreign prince or State, or on pretence of authority from any person, such offender shall, notwithstanding the pretence of any such authority, be deemed, adjudged and taken to be a pirate, felon and robber, and on being thereof convicted shall suffer death.
And be it enacted , That every person who shall, either upon the land or seas, knowingly and wittingly aid and assist, procure, command, counsel or advise any person or persons to do or commit any murder or robbery, or other piracy aforesaid, upon the seas, which shall effect the life of such person, and such person or persons shall thereupon do or commit any such piracy or robbery, then all and every such person so as aforesaid aiding, assisting, procuring, commanding, counselling or advising the same, either upon the land or the sea, shall be, and they are hereby declared, deemed and adjudged to be accessory to such piracies before the fact, and every person being thereof convicted shall suffer death.
And be it enacted , That after any murder, felony, robbery, or other piracy whatsoever aforesaid, is or shall be committed by any pirate or robber, every person who knowing that such pirate or robber has done or committed any such piracy or robbery, shall on the land or at sea receive, entertain or conceal any such pirate or robber, or receive or take into his custody any ship, vessel, goods, or chattels, which have been by any such pirate or robber piratically and feloniously taken, shall be, and are hereby declared, deemed and adjudged to be accessory to such piracy
or robbery, after the fact; and on conviction thereof, shall be imprisoned not exceeding three years, and fined not exceeding five hundred dollars.
And be it enacted , That if any seaman or other person shall commit man-slaughter upon the high seas, or confederate, or attempt or endeavor to corrupt any commander, master, officer or mariner, to yield up or to run away with any ship or vessel, or with any goods, wares or merchandise, or to turn pirate, or to go over to or confederate with pirates, or in any wise trade with any pirate, knowing him to be such, or shall furnish such pirate with any ammunition, stores or provisions of any kind, or shall fit out any vessel knowingly and with a design to trade with or supply or correspond with any pirate or robber upon the seas; or if any person or persons shall any ways consult, combine, confederate or correspond with any pirate or robber on the seas, knowing him to be guilty of any such piracy or robbery; or if any seaman shall confine the master of any ship or other vessel, or to endeavor to make a revolt in such ship;—such person or persons so offending, and being thereof convicted, shall be imprisoned not exceeding three years, and fined not exceeding one thousand dollars.
And be it enacted , That if any person or persons, within any of the places, upon the land under the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, or upon the high seas, in any vessel belonging to the United States, or to any citizen or citizens thereof, on purpose and of malice a forethought, shall unlawfully cut off the ear or ears, or cut out or disable the tongue, put out an eye, slit the nose, cut off the nose or a lip, or cut off or disable any limb or member of any person, with intention in so doing to maim or disfigure such person in any of the manners before-mentioned, then and in every such case the person or persons so offending, their counsellors, aiders and abettors (knowing of and privy to the offence aforesaid) shall on conviction, be imprisoned not exceeding seven years, and fined not exceeding one thousand dollars.
And be it enacted , That if any person or persons shall falsely make, alter, forge, or counterfeit, or cause or procure to be falsely made, altered, forged, or counterfeited, or willingly act or assist in the false making, altering, forging, or counterfeiting any certificate, indent, or other public security of the United States, or shall utter, put off, or offer, or cause to be uttered, put off, or offered in payment or for sale any such false, forged, altered, or counterfeited certificates, indent or other public security, with intention to defraud any person, knowing the same to be false, altered, forged, or counterfeited, and shall be thereof convicted, every such person shall suffer death.
And be it enacted , That if any person shall feloniously steal, take away, alter, falsify, or otherwise avoid any record, writ, process, or other proceedings in any of the courts of the United States, by means whereof any judgment shall be reversed, made void, or not take effect, or if any person shall acknowledge or procure to be acknowledged in any of the courts aforesaid, any recognizance, bail or judgment, in the name or names of any other person or persons not privy or consenting to the same, every such person or persons on conviction thereof, shall be fined not exceeding five thousand dollars, or be imprisoned not exceeding seven years, and whipped not exceeding thirty-nine stripes. Provided nevertheless , That this act shall not extend to the acknowledgement of any judgment or judg-
ments by any attorney or attorneys, duly admitted for any person or persons against whom any such judgment or judgments shall be had or given.
And be it enacted , That if any person within any of the places under the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, or upon the high seas, shall take and carry away, with an intent to steal or purloin the personal goods of another; or if any person or persons, having at any time hereafter the charge or custody of any arms, ordnance, ammunition, shot, powder, or habiliments of war belonging to the United States, or of any victuals provided for the victualling of any soldiers, gunners, mariners or pioneers, shall for any lucre or gain, or wittingly, advisedly and of purpose to hinder or impede the service of the United States, embezzle, purloin or convey away any of the said arms, ordnance, ammunition, shot or powder, habiliments of war, or victuals, that then and in every of the cases aforesaid, the person or persons so offending, their counsellors, aiders and abettors (knowing of and privy to the offences aforesaid) shall on conviction be fined not exceeding the fourfold value of the property so stolen, embezzled or purloined; the one moiety to be paid to the owner of the goods, or the United States, as the case may be, and the other moiety to the informer and prosecutor, and be publicly whipped, not exceeding thirty-nine stripes.
And be it further enacted , That if any person or persons within any part of the jurisdiction of the United States as aforesaid, shall receive or buy any goods or chattels that shall be feloniously taken or stolen from any other person, knowing the same to be stolen, or shall receive, harbor or conceal any felons, or thieves, knowing them to be so, he or they being of either of the said offences legally convicted, shall be liable to the like punishments as in the case of larceny before are prescribed.
And be it enacted , That if any person shall wilfully and corruptly commit perjury, or shall by any means procure any person to commit corrupt and wilful perjury, on his or her oath or affirmation in any suit, controversy, matter or cause depending in any of the courts of the United States, or in any deposition taken pursuant to the laws of the United States, every person so offending, and being thereof convicted, shall be imprisoned not exceeding three years, and fined not exceeding eight hundred dollars; and shall stand in the pillory for one hour, and be thereafter incapable of giving testimony in any of the courts of the United States, until such time as the judgment so given against the said offender shall be reversed.
And be it enacted , That in every presentment or indictment to be prosecuted against any person for wilful and corrupt perjury, it shall be sufficient to set forth the substance of the offence charged upon the defendant, and by what court, or before whom the oath or affirmation was taken (averring such court, or person or persons to have a competent authority to administer the same) together with the proper averment or averments to falsify the matter or matters wherein the perjury or perjuries is or are assigned; without setting forth the bill, answer, information, indictment, declaration, or any part of any record or proceeding, either in law or equity other than as aforesaid, and without setting forth the commission or authority of the court, or person or persons before whom the perjury was committed.
And be it further enacted , That in every presentment or indictment for

subordination of perjury, or for corrupt bargaining or contracting with others to commit wilful and corrupt perjury, it shall be sufficient to set forth the substance of the offence charged upon the defendant, without setting forth the bill, answer, information, indictment, declaration, or any part of any record or proceeding, either in law or equity, and without setting forth the commission or authority of the court, or person or persons before whom the perjury was committed, or was agreed or promised to be committed.
And be it enacted , That if any person shall, directly or indirectly, give any sum or sums of money, or any other bribe, present or reward, or any promise, contract, obligation or security, for the payment or delivery of any money, present or reward, or any other thing to obtain or procure the opinion, judgment or decree of any judge or judges of the United States, in any suit, controversy, matter or cause depending before him or them, and shall be thereof convicted, such person or persons so giving, promising, contracting or securing to be given, paid or delivered, any sum or sums of money, present, reward or other bribe as aforesaid, and the judge or judges who shall in any wise accept or receive the same, on conviction thereof shall be fined and imprisoned at the discretion of the court; and shall forever be disqualified to hold any office of honor, trust or profit under the United States.
And be it enacted , That if any person or persons, shall knowingly and wilfully obstruct, resist or oppose any officer of the United States, in serving or attempting to serve or execute any mesne process, or warrant, or any rule or order of any of the courts of the United States or any other legal or judicial writ or process whatsoever, or shall assault, beat or wound any officer, or other person duly authorized, in serving or executing any writ, rule, order, process or warrant aforesaid, every person so knowingly or wilfully offending in the premises, shall, on conviction thereof, be imprisoned not exceeding twelve months, and fined not exceeding three hundred dollars.
And be it further enacted , That if any person or persons, shall by force set at liberty, or rescue any person who shall be found guilty of treason, murder, or any other capital crime, or rescue any person convicted of any of the said crimes, going to execution, or during execution, every person so offending, and being thereof convicted, shall suffer death: And if any person shall by force set at liberty, or rescue any person who before conviction shall stand committed for any of the capital offences aforesaid; or if any person or persons shall by force set at liberty, or rescue any person committed for or convicted of any other offence against the United States, every person so offending, shall on conviction, be fined not exceeding five hundred dollars, and imprisoned not exceeding one year.
Provided always and be it enacted , That no conviction or judgment for any of the offences aforesaid, shall work corruption of blood, or any forfeiture of estate.
And be it enacted , That if any writ or process shall at any time hereafter be sued forth or prosecuted by any person or persons, in any of the courts of the United States, or in any of the courts of a particular State, or by any judge or justice therein respectively, whereby the person of any ambassador or other public minister of any foreign prince or state, authorized and received as such by the President of the United States, or any domestic or domestic servant of any such ambassador or other public minister, may be arrested or imprisoned, or his or their goods or chattels be distrained, seized or attached, such writ or process shall be deemed and adjudged to be utterly null and void to all intents, construction and purposes whatsoever.
And be it enacted , That in case any person or persons shall sue forth or prosecute any such writ or process, such person or persons, and all attorneys or solicitors prosecuting or soliciting in
such case, and all officers executing any such writ or process, being thereof convicted, shall be deemed violators of the laws of nations, and disturbers of the public repose, and imprisoned not exceeding three years, and fined at the discretion of the court.
Provided nevertheless , That no citizen or inhabitant of the United States, who shall have contracted debts prior to his entering into the service of any ambassador or other public minister, which debts shall be still due and unpaid, shall have, take or receive any benefit of this act; nor shall any person be proceeded against by virtue of this act, for having arrested or sued any other domestic servant of any ambassador or other public minister, unless the name of such servant be first registered in the office of the Secretary of State and by such Secretary transmitted to the Marshal of the district in which Congress shall reside, who shall upon receipt thereof affix the same in some public place in his office, whereat all persons may resort and take copies without fee or reward.
And be it enacted , That if any person shall violate any safe conduct or passport duly obtained and issued under the authority of the United States, or shall assault, strike, wound, imprison, or in any other manner infract the law of nations, by offering violence to the person of an ambassador or other public minister, such person so offending, on conviction shall be imprisoned not exceeding three years, and fined at the discretion of the court.
And be it enacted , That any person who shall be accused and indicted of treason, shall have a copy of the indictment, and a list of the jury and witnesses to be produced on the trial for proving the said indictment, mentioning the names and places of abode of such witnesses and jurors, delivered unto him at least three entire days before he shall be tried for the same; and in other capital offences, shall have such copy of the indictment and list of the jury two entire days at least before the trial: And that every person so accused and indicted for any of the crimes aforesaid, shall also be allowed and admitted to make his full defence by counsel learned in the law; and the court before whom such person shall be tried, or some judge thereof, shall, and they are hereby authorised and required immediately upon his request to assign to such person such counsel, not exceeding two, as such person shall desire, to whom such counsel shall have free access at all seasonable hours; and every such person or persons accused or indicted of the crimes aforesaid, shall be allowed and admitted in his said defence to make any proof that he or they can produce, by lawful witness or witnesses, and shall have the like process of the court where he or they shall be tried, to compel his or their witnesses to appear at his or their trial, as is usually granted to compel witnesses to appear on the prosecution against them.
And be it further enacted , That if any person or persons be indicted of treason against the United States, and shall stand mute or refuse to plead, or shall challenge peremptorily above the number of thirty-five of the jury; or if any person or persons be indicted of any other of the offences herein before set forth, for which the punishment is declared to be death, if he or they shall also stand mute or will not answer to the indictment, or challenge peremptorily above the number of twenty persons of the jury; the court in any of the cases aforesaid, shall notwithstanding proceed to the trial of the person or persons so standing mute or challenging, as if he or they had pleaded not guilty, and render judgment thereon accordingly.
And be it further enacted , That the benefit of clergy shall not be used or allowed, upon conviction of any crime, for which by any statute of the United States, the punishment is or shall be declared to be death.
And be it further enacted , That no person or persons shall be prosecuted, tri-
ed, or punished for treason or other capital offence aforesaid, wilful murder or forgery excepted, unless the indictment for the same shall be found by a grand jury, within three years next after the treason or capital offence aforesaid shall be done or committed; nor shall any person be prosecuted, tried or punished for any offence not capital, nor for any fine or forfeiture under any penal statute, unless the indictment or information for the same shall be found or instituted within two years from the time of committing the offence, or incurring the fine or forfeiture aforesaid: Provided , That nothing herein contained shall extend to any person or persons fleeing from justice.
And be it further enacted , That the manner of inflicting the punishment of death, shall be by hanging the person convicted by the neck until dead.
FREDERICK A. MUHLENBERG, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United States, & President of the Senate. Approved, April the 30th, 1790. GEORGE WASHINGTON, President of the United States. (True copy) THO'S JEFFERSON, Secretary of State.
By late arrivals at New-York.
STOCKHOLM, May 25.
We have requested a circumstantial account of the King's expedition against the Russian gallies, in the road of Fredericksham. Beside the 38 vessels taken ten gun boats were sunk, the dock yards of Fredericksham destroyed, and all the wood and other materials for building, with 40 gun boats, and 50 transports with provisions burnt. The young Count de Goldenstople, an officer in the body guards, is arrived here with the trophies taken in the engagement.
PARIS, June 21.
For the great national day the most superb preparations are making. Those preparations, it is said, will cost a million. On the river there will be a bridge of boats facing the Champ de Mars. In a great temple, erected for the occasion, will be placed a statue of LIBERTY. Triumphal arches, and every possible decoration, will adorn the spot. On a rising scaffold on the right, richly adorned, will be placed a throne for the King and all his family.
The title of the King is now determined to be—Emperor of the French.
HORRID MURDER.
LONDON, June 12.
Accounts from Riga mention a horrid murder having been committed at that place. A man who kept a tavern without one of the gates of the city, and had also a wind-mill on his ground, having detected one of his men servants in several frauds, turned him away and retained his wages for some little indemnification. The fellow at his going away threatened his master he would make him repent detaining his wages; whereupon he went and associated himself with eleven more as bad as himself. Soon after this they went to the house in the middle of the night, and meeting one of the maid-servants going for water, they murdered her, and put her body under the ice; they then entered the house and stables, and murdered three other women and five men servants; at last they entered the landlord's apartments, and murdered his wife and three of his children before his face; the fourth, a boy of five years old, had hid himself in the confusion, below a bed unperceived; they then forced the landlord to open all his chests and drawers, and carried away whatever was portable and valuable out of the house; they then tied the landlord neck and heels to the foot of a large table, at which they sat down and regaled themselves with the best things the house afforded; here they made an end to their repast, putting hay and straw in all the apartments; and then set the house on fire,
that the villain of a landlord, as they called him, might be burnt alive, and which would also consume the murdered bodies, and prevent any possibility of a discovery; and, to make all sure, they brought the servant maid's body from under the ice, and laid it down by her living master: after this well laid plot, they set the house on fire, and fled with their booty. The little boy who was hid under the bed, was forced from thence by the smoke, and the father perceiving the child, called to him, and desiring him to take a knife out of his pocket, and cut the cord from off his hands, which the child did. The father being thus cleared, took his little son in his arms, and made his way through the flames, and immediately retired into the covered way of the town, for fear of being discovered by any of the villains who might be still lurking near the place. The house and out houses being all in flames, the governor ordered the gates to be opened, and sent out a party of men to try to save what they could from the fire; but, before they could get to the place all was burnt to the ground. The plot of those villains was so well laid, that if it had not been owing to the miraculous preservation of the child and his father, it might have forever remained a secret. The landlord discovering himself to the officer that was at the head of the detachment, intreated that he might be privately carried to the governor, to whom he discovered the whole of this dreadful scene, and who gave orders to secure and examine all persons who should enter the town that morning; by which caution the villains apprehending themselves secure from every possible discovery, as all evidence had perished in the fire, were, on their entering the town, every one taken, and soon after executed.
UNFORTUNATE JEWS.
By accounts from Gibraltar we learn the melancholy information, that since the death of the late Emperor of Morocco, the unfortunate Jews in every part of the Empire, have been most inhumanly plundered, and many of the principal merchants of that sect assassinated in a very barbarous manner.—That religion should be the cloak of crimes so enormous, is truly shocking.
NEW EMPEROR OF MOROCCO.
There is a report that the new Emperor of Morocco, in order to shew his respect for the English government, determined to hang the Spanish Consul. Our minister did every thing in his power to save him, and suggested the displeasure of the British King at such a sacrifice; this had no avail. He then begged that the poor man might be only hanged in effigy; but this was equally unavailing. The Emperor said he must give satisfactory proofs of his regard and friendship for his cousin in England.
A messenger may be daily expected from the Courts of Berlin, with advices that the King of Prussia has actually commenced hostilities against Austria. Our Court ground their expectation of such intelligence on the expected issue of certain plans which have been concerted with Prussia and Holland, to which, it is believed Austria will not accede.
The Government of this country is undoubtedly Monarchical , and the tenor of a certain Speech is therefore, in this respect, purely Constitutional, as "my People, my Crown, my Subjects, my Allies, my Dominions, &c." abundantly and properly testify.
JUNE 24.
On Tuesday last EARL HOWE received his commission from the admiralty, as commander in chief of the Channel fleet. At the same time Admiral Barrington was ordered to take twenty sail of the line under his command, and Admiral Sir John Jarvis was appointed the fleet captain.
The National Assembly of France have actually decreed the suppression of all titles and appendages of nobility; democratically put an end to Prince, Duke, Marquis, &c. Every one is to be known by his family name, and the

term CITIZEN, with the epithet GOOD, prefixed to it, is to be in future the most honorable distinction in France.
The Dutch fleet under Vice Admiral Kingsbergen, failed from the Texel the 17th instant.
N E W Y O R K, August 25. On Tuesday evening arrived the ship North-Carolina from Vigo, in Spain, one hundred and five miles distant from Madrid, by which we are informed that very great preparations are making to man their fleet; they had recourse to pressing and every other mode to raise a sufficient number of seamen, but the whole kingdom proves incompetent to the complete manning a large squadron such as they propose to act in concert with France, since they have dispatched a squadron to their West-India islands.
Aug. 31. On Saturday last the Governor, the Mayor of the city, and the Corporation, dined with the President of the United States.
We are informed, that on this occasion the President took an opportunity to express his great reluctance at leaving the city, and those citizens, who have taken so much pains to treat him, not only with dignified respect but with reverence and esteem, as the Father and Patron of the United States. Mrs. Washington, also, seemed hurt at the idea of bidding adieu to these hospitable shores.
We are told also, that the President took this occasion to inform the Corporation of his intention to leave the city on Monday, but expressed a wish, that it might not be noticed.
Yesterday morning the President of the United States, with his family, set off from this city for his seat at Mount Vernon, in Virginia, where we understand he will reside, until his presence is necessary at Philadelphia.
He was accompanied to his barge by the Governor of this State, the principal officers of government, the Mayor and Corporation, Officers of the city, and a number of the citizens who bade him a most affectionate farewell. The parting scene was solemn and affecting. All was quietness, save the report of the cannon that were fired on his embarkation—the countenance of the citizen visibly expressed the emotion of the mind on the departure of him whom all hold so dear—the heart was full—the tear dropped from the eye; it was not to be restrained; it was seen; and the President appeared sensibly moved by this last mark of esteem for his character and affection for his person.
B O S T O N, Sept. 8.
By a gentleman lately arrived at New-York, from Baltimore, we are informed, that English accounts to the first of July had been there received by way of Barbadoes; it was reported, that France had joined Spain against Great-Britain, where very unusual exertions and armaments were preparing, and that a frigate would be dispatched to the United States of America with a person of Rank, to request a signification of their intentions in such a conjuncture, as there exists an alliance offensive and defensive between his Most Christian Majesty and the United States.
The British Islands are in such a state of military preparation, as if war had been declared—and all the American Colonies, yet adhering to that power are in such a state of fermentation, as plainly indicates their expectation of immediate hostilities. But among all their governors, Lord Dorchester appears the most serious and energetic. By letters, received at Philadelphia, as late as the 25th of last month, from Quebec, there was not a second opinion in the province, relative to the rupture with Spain, and the tumultuary parade of arms every where prevailed.
S A L E M, September 7.
Last Saturday Capt. Ropes arrived here from Port-au-Prince, which he left on the 13th of July, at which time the commotions in that island appeared to be subsiding. But on his passage Capt. Ropes spoke with Capt. Bradbury of Portland, who failed three days after
him, and informed him, that when he failed the people were assembling in arms at Leogane and the other out ports, apparently with a design of attacking Port-au-Prince, the principal inhabitants of which were adherents to the old government, and had taken up arms to act in conjunction with the standing troops in support of it. The town being thus in possession of the anti-revolutionists, great numbers of families in the popular interest had quitted it: but, in consequence of the expected attack, the troops took possession of the different passes, to prevent any further migrations: the place was put in a state of defence; and 3 armed brigs anchored before the harbour, to co-operate with the troops. Such were the hostile appearances then, the event of which we have not heard.
The immediate cause of these commotions, was the convening of an Assembly at St. Mark's to legislate for the island. This Assembly had dispersed, in consequence of the disturbances; and the leading members, it was supposed, had gone on board a 74 gun ship and frigate, and sailed for France, to make a representation to the National Assembly.—The Captain of the 74 gun ship being unfavourable to the popular cause, he had before been sent on shore at Port-au-Prince, and the first Lieut. took the command.
T R A N Q U I L I T Y.
On Sunday the brig Leopard, Capt. Woodbury, arrived here in 42 days from Bilboa; and on the authority of a letter from Mr. GARDOQUI to a merchant in town, received by her, we are enabled to say, that the dispute between Great-Britain and Spain, which has caused such formidable armaments, and kept expectation so long upon the stretch, is at length amicably settled by negotiation. This letter is dated the 22d of July.
P O R T S M O U T H, September 9.
The votes given in for Representatives to Congress stand as follow.
NEWINGTON.   John S. Sherburne, 25  Samuel Livermore, 21  Nicholas Gilman, 19  James Sheafe, 5 
STRATHAM.   Jeremiah Smith, 34  John S. Sherburne, 31  Nathaniel Peabody, 20  Nicholas Gilman, 9  James Sheafe, 7 
CONCORD.   Samuel Livermore, 95  Nathaniel Peabody, 82  Jeremiah Smith, 50  Abiel Foster, 40  John Samuel Sherburne, 37  James Sheafe, 20 
CLAREMONT.   Samuel Livermore, 70  John S. Sherburne, 49  Jeremiah Smith, 37  Nathaniel Peabody, 55  William Page, 15 
PLYMOUTH.   Samuel Livermore, 30  John S. Sherburne, 30  Nathaniel Peabody, 30 
LOUDON.   John S. Sherburne, 34  Jeremiah Smith, 31  Nathaniel Peabody, 24  Joshua Atherton, 28  Samuel Livermore, 15 
WEARE.   Samuel Livermore, 91  John S. Sherburne, 91  Jeremiah Smith, 91 
BOSCAWEN.   John S. Sherburne, 46  Samuel Livermore, 44  Nathaniel Peabody, 42  Abiel Foster, 40  Benjamin Bellows, 30 
HOPKINTON.   Samuel Livermore, 56 
L O N D O N D E R R Y.   John S. Sherburne, 56  Nathaniel Peabody, 56 
C H E S T E R.   Jeremiah Smith, 27  Nicholas Gilman, 18  Nathaniel Peabody, 18  Samuel Livermore, 13  John S. Sherburne, 11 
P E T E R B O R O U G H.   Nicholas Gilman, 30  Jeremiah Smith, 25  Nathaniel Peabody, 18 
The votes in this town were for Jeremiah Smith, General Dow, and Samuel Livermore.
D O V E R.   Samuel Livermore 92  Nicholas Gilman, 88  John Samuel Sherburne, 48  James Sheafe, 48  Thomas Cogswell, 1 
We have hitherto been able to collect the votes from only 25 towns, but they shall be published in the GAZETTE as they come to hand; those already received stand as follows:
 Samuel Livermore, 1208  John S. Sherburne, 944  Nicholas Gilman, 716  James Sheafe, 529  Nathaniel Peabody, 528  Jeremiah Smith, 513 
Last Friday night the dwelling-house of Mr. Ebenezer Chadwick of this town was broken open, and sundry articles of wearing apparel, &c. stolen.—One Thomas Mount and wife have since been taken up and committed to Gaol on suspicion of their being guilty of said crime.
The dwelling house of Mr. James Lenox, of Newbury, was broken open last Thursday, and sundry articles stolen.
The degree of Doctor of Laws , was conferred, at the late commencement at Providence, on GEORGE WASHINGTON, President of the United States:—And the degree of Doctor of Divinity on the Rev. SAMUEL HOPKINS, of Newport, and the Rev. SAMUEL DEAN, of Portland.
Hasting's impeachment was still going on, in England, at the date of our accounts—nor do the managers appear to flag either in perseverance or fancy—Burke still entertains with his iron imagination . In one of his last speeches, speaking of the great delinquent, he says, "the East-India company, under Mr. HASTINGS, presented a strange vision—an establishment on the verge of Bankruptcy, from one series of enormities, recruiting itself by others—Corruption the Jackall of Tyranny—The Lion's skin patched and eked out by the Fox's Tail! a Treasury of Bribes—where Extortion was the Assessor—Fraud the Accountant—Peculation the Cash-Keeper—Oblivion the Remembrancer!"
Extract of a letter from Lisbon, July 15. "We are anxiously expecting the Determination of a matter of no small consequence to the interest of the United States, namely, the Commencement of hostilities between the English, assisted by the Dutch; and the Spaniards assisted by the French.—The latter continue arming; the Spanish Fleet is entirely fit for sea, if not already sailed; and it is here confidently reported that the English and Dutch fleets have formed a junction off St. Vincent.—It is needless to add, that all this bears no very peaceable appearance."
The British Parliament was dissolved on the 11th of June, and proclamation issued for calling a new one to meet on the 10th of August.
Impost and tonnage at the port of Philadelphia, from 1st January, 1790, to 30th June following. Dols. Cts.
 Impost 215,087 92  Tonnage 14,783 3 
 Total, 229,870 95 
E X P O R T S. The EXPORTS from the port of Georgetown, on the Potowmac, from the 1st of October 1789, to the 1st of
July, 1790, amount to TWO HUNDRED and SIXTY THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED and SIXTY-FIVE DOLLARS.
BENJAMIN BOURN, Esq. is chosen a Federal Representative for Rhode-Island.
ENTRIES at the CUSTOM-HOUSE of this district.
C L E A R E D FOR Brig Polly, Gerrish, West-Indies. Schooner Sukey, Chapman, St. Peters. Brig George, Sherburne, England Brig Tryall, Wingate, West-Indies.
E N T E R E D FROM Snow Salter, Sands, Barbados. Sloop Sally, Jones, N. Carolina. Brig Keeling, English, Grenada. Schooner Industry, Miller, Shelburne. Sloop Nancy, Branscomb, Philadelphia. Brig Betsey, Salter, Cape-Francois.
For the GAZETTE.
Mr. MELCHER, As this Town has for some months past, been very much imposed on by a set of idle stragglers, in attempting to set fire to the town, and breaking open houses, &c. I would beg leave, through the channel of your useful paper, to offer the inhabitants of Portsmouth, a plan for a watch, which undoubtedly will be acceptable.—This town is supposed to contain 5000 inhabitants, or thereabouts, and allowing one male to every seven persons, that is capable of being a watch, there will be left 714; and four persons to watch each night, would be but a little more than for one set to take their turn twice in a year.
We now find by experience, that it is absolutely necessary to have a watch; I don't mean a sleeping watch, as has heretofore been, but one that can be depended on. Some have suggested that a watch would be too expensive, but if the above plan be adopted, the difficulty will be removed—as no expence will accrue therefrom except a little fuel. Now, Mr. Printer, I think that those who hold real estates cannot object to this proposal. I own no real estate—consequently have nothing to fear from fire; but I think it stands us in hand, all and every one, whether he owns real property or not, to use his endeavors to have a watch, whether a regular stated one, or the one I have proposed.
AN INHABITANT. Portsmouth, Sept. 7, 1790.
William Boyd HAS IMPORTED
In the last vessels from London, and has now open'd, and ready
FOR SALE, At his Store in Market-street,
P O R T S M O U T H,
A neat & general Assortment
Of Fall and Winter
G O O D S,
Which he is determined to sell by Wholesale and Retail, at the lowest Advance for CASH:
Among which are,
A FEW Ladies elegant Leghorn Chips, with painted crowns and borders—A handsome variety of Ladies and Gentlemens Hosiery—Cotton, Thread, Hempt and Worsted Socks—Fringes, Tassels and Line Assorted suitable for Copperplate furniture—Men's and Boy's castor Hats—A few bolts of Bridport Canvas of a superior quality, from N o 1 to N o 8—Sewing Twine, and Sail Needles—7 by 9 and 8 by 10 London and Bristol Crown Glass—Cutlery and Hard Ware—and a number of other new and fashionable articles, too many to enumerate.
Also, a large brass Kettle containing 40 gallons, fit for immediate use—Tea, Coffee, Chocolate, and West-India Goods.
N. B.—Cash and the highest prices given for flax-feed, Pot and Pearl Ashes. Portsmouth, Sept. 7, 1790.

Parnassian SPRING.
The DEPLOING DAMSEL.
T WAS when the seas were roaring, With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploing, All on a rock reclind; Wide o'er the foaming billows She cast a wishful look; Her head was crown'd with willows, That trembled o'er the brook.
Twelve months are gone and over, And nine long tedious days, Why didst thou, vent'rous lover, Why didst thou trust the seas? Cease, cease thou rolling ocean, And let my lover rest! Ah! what's thy troubled motion, To that within my breast?
The merchant robb'd of pleasure, Views tempests with despair; But what's the loss of treasure To the loosing of my dear? Should you some coast be laid on, Where gold and diamonds grow, You'd find a richer maiden, But none that loves you so.
How can they say that nature Has nothing made in vain? Why then, beneath the water, Do hideous rocks remain? No eyes those rocks discover, That lurk beneath the deep, To wreck the wand'ring lover, And leave the maid to weep.
All melancholy lying, Thus wail'd she for her dear, Repaid each blast with sighing, Each billow with a tear: When o'er the white waves stooping, His floating corpse she spy'd; Then like a lilly drooping, She bow'd her head—and dy'd.
A N E C D O T E S.
A GENTLEMAN remarkable for his aversion to revealed religion, some time ago, in a large company, among whom was Dr. Franklin, indulged himself in a number of remarks dishonorable to the christian faith, and warmly opposed all who defended it: when, turning to the Doctor, he appealed to him for the truth of his assertions. That good old man made this laconic wise reply: "It is safest to believe." This declaration, considered as the mature decision of one of the most enlightened sages, after upwards of four score years experience in the learned and active world, is of no little weight in the scale of human opinion, on the most important question in the universe.
A PERSON in the hearing of an Hibernian, the other day, saying that the stocks were falling:—"I am glad to hear it," replied a paddy, "for I was held by the leg in a pair of them for two hours, as I was going to London."
From the STRAFFORD RECORDER.
S OME time last spring a Gentleman belonging to Portland, Massachusetts, being dangerously ill—the sexton enquired of one of his neighbours how the gentleman did; upon being answered, there was no hopes of his recovery, and that the family where the gentleman boarded, expected he was dying—The sexton, with joy in his countenance exclaimed 'thank GOD, that will be six dollars in my pocket!' And immediately went to a certain shop in town and reported the gentleman was dead—upon the credit of which the trader trusted the sexton to the amount of three or four dollars—but the day following, to the great surprise and disappointment of both sexton and trader, the news was, that the gentleman was greatly recovered, and in a short time perfectly restored to health. The foregoing relation I received from the gentleman himself, on whom I can rely for the truth.
Just Published and ready for sale by the Printer hereof, The Elements of English Grammar, methodically arranged for the assistance of young persons who study the English Language Gramatically, to which is added A concise Treatise of Rhetoric. By G. Neville Ussher. (A work well worthy the attention of both teacher and pupil.)
P E R C Y.
State of New-Hampshire.
N OTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of Percy, who have not paid their taxes for the years 1787 and 1789, that unless they pay said taxes to one of the subscribers, on or before the 27th day of September, so much of their land as will pay the same, together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the house of Mr. Daniel Symms, in Portsmouth, at 10 o'clock A. M. on said day.
   1787. £. s. d. q.    Benjamin Currier 15 15 — — —  James Paul 15 15 — — —  David Paul 15 15 — — —  Joseph Peverly 15 15 — — —  Daniel Spaldwin 15 15 — — —  Stephen Weills 15 15 — — —  Caleb Marshall 15 15 — — —  Abner Osgood 15 15 — — —  Caleb Toppan 15 15 — — —  Nathaniel Healy 15 15 — — —  George Walton, jr. 15 15 — — —  Thomas M'Donough 15 15 — — —  William L. Perkins 15 15 — — —  William Blunt 15 15 — — —  Stephen Sumner 15 15 — — —  Jesse Johnson 15 15 — — —  Joseph Holbrook 15 15 — — —  John Melcher 15 15 — — —  Moses Davis 15 15 — — —  Jesse Johnson, jr. 15 15 — — —  Jeremiah Eames 15 15 — — —  Caleb Johnson 15 15 — — —  Jonathan M. Sewall 15 15 — — —  John Hurd 15 15 — — —  Caleb Marshall 5 5 — — —  
   1789. £. s. d. q.    Benjamin Currier 12 12 — — —  James Paul 12 12 — — —  Thomas Burnside 16 16 — — —  David Paul 12 12 — — —  Abner Osgood 12 12 — — —  William Moulton 12 12 — — —  Arthur Worster 12 12 — — —  Jacob Tilton 12 12 — — —  Joseph Moulton 12 12 — — —  Caleb Toppan 12 12 — — —  Nathaniel Healy 12 12 — — —  George Walton, jr. 12 12 — — —  Thomas M'Donough 12 12 — — —  William L. Perkins 12 12 — — —  Mark Sanborn 12 12 — — —  Joseph Bishop 12 12 — — —  William Blunt 12 12 — — —  Stephen Sumner 12 12 — — —  Joseph Peverly 12 12 — — —  Daniel Spaldwin 12 12 — — —  John Sanborn 12 12 — — —  William Marshall 12 12 — — —  Caleb Marshall 12 12 — — —  Silas Marshall 12 12 — — —  Elishalet Day 12 12 — — —  Moses Davis 12 12 — — —  Moses Marshall 12 12 — — —  Jesse Johnson 12 12 — — —  Stephen Wells 12 12 — — —  Jesse Johnson, jr. 12 12 — — —  Moses Bartlett 12 12 — — —  Jeremiah Eames 12 12 — — —  Caleb Johnson 12 12 — — —  Edmund Morse 12 12 — — —  Reuben Hamman 12 12 — — —  Jacob Walden 12 12 — — —  John Hurd 12 12 — — —  Joseph Holbrook 12 12 — — —  John Melcher 12 12 — — —  Jonathan M. Sewall 12 12 — — —  John Hodgdon 12 12 — — —    JOSEPH PEVERLY, DANIEL R. ROGERS, } Collectors. Portsmouth, Sept. 2, 1790.
B LANKS of all sorts printed on good paper, may be had at J. Melcher's Printing-Office in Market-Street
S T R A T F O R D. State of New-Hampshire.
P UBLIC Notice is hereby given to the proprietors of the township of Stratford, in the county of Grafton, and State aforesaid, that a Warrant has been issued to me the subscriber to collect a tax voted by said proprietors on 18th December, 1789, for the purpose of paying the expenditures which have arisen on locating and lotting out said town, for cutting, digging and bridging a Road through the same, and such other proprietary charges as has been heretofore advertised, the whole assessment being seven hundred and forty-two pounds L. M.—These are therefore to give notice that there will be sold at public vendue, at the house of Jeremiah Eames, Esq. in Northumberland, on the 28th day of October next, at ten o'clock, A. M. on said day, so much of each delinquent proprietors right, lot or lots of land as will pay said tax and legal cost unless prevented by previous payment, said vendue is to be continued by adjournment 'till all is sold.—The names of the delinquent proprietors or owners, the numbers of the lots with the sum due on each right is as follows—The first division lots contain fifty acres, the second, third and fourth divisions contain two hundred acres each.
   1st. div. 2d. div. 3d. div. 4th. div. Sum due.   £. s. d. q. £. s. d. q.    Hon. William S. Johnson 43 144 127 75 7 2 7 2  Joshua Wentworth, Esq. — — — — 7 12 8 2  William Gardner — — — — 7 12 8 2  Joseph Seward — — — — 7 12 8 2  John Wendell, Esquire 67 106 186 160 7 12 7 2  Rev. Izraiah Wetmore 29 147 113 24 5 6 7 2  Agur Thomlinson, Esquire 4 143 73 19 1 8 2 0  Col. Benjamin Hinman 0 146 70 166 7 2 7 2  Aaron Hinman 0 140 128 74 7 2 7 2  Capt. Moses Averill 0 53 101 136 5 6 7 2  Capt. Agur Judson 6 142 3 151 7 2 7 0  50 acres of the right of Agur Judson jun'r 7 32 100 196 0 14 0 0  David Judson 42 66 157 23 7 2 7 2  50 acres of the right of Elisha Mills 8 140 40 155 0 14 0 0  Abner Judson 5 90 71 78 7 2 7 2  Capt. Josiah Brown 13 173 169 2 7 2 7 2  50 acres of the right of Stiles Judson 32 88 81 50 0 19 0 0  Capt. Samuel Beers 1 16 191 151 5 6 7 2  Col. Josiah Willard 11 62 80 105 8 10 8 2  Joseph Holbrook 50 119 97 26 8 10 8 2  Joseph Holbrook, jun'r 17 200 178 188 8 10 8 2  Samuel Sherburne 0 51 18 38 8 10 8 2  Daniel Fowle, Esquire 51 183 — — 8 10 8 2  William Ring 42 181 — — 10 10 8 2  George Boyd 37 52 — — 8 10 8 2  George Crage 38 110 — — 7 2 7 2  Benjamin Parker 49 68 — — 8 10 8 2  Jacob Sheafe, jun'r 12 174 — — 8 10 8 2  Sum due.  £. s. d. q.  Thomas Towsey 0 0 0 0 7 12 0 0  William Thompson 3 16 3 2 5 6 8 0  Samuel Curtis 7 2 7 0 7 8 8 0  Capt. Moses Little 10 10 8 2 6 4 8 0  Thomas Wooster, jun'r 7 12 8 0 8 0 8 0  Ebenezer Wooster 7 0 8 2 8 0 7 0  Joseph Wooster 7 12 8 2 8 14 8 0  Moses Welckton 7 12 8 2 8 14 8 0  Capt. Jos. Thomlinson 5 6 7 0 8 14 8 0  Stephen Thomlinson 7 2 7 0 5 10 8 0  Beach Thomlinson 5 9 8 2 7 2 8 0  Daniel Judson, jun'r 8 10 8 2    EBEN W. JUDD, Collector. Northumberland, Sept. 28, 1790.
NORTHUMBERLAND.
State of New-Hampshire.
N OTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors & owners of land in the town of Northumberland, who have not paid their taxes for the years 1787 and 1789, that unless they pay said taxes to one of the subscribers, on or before the 27th day of September, so much of their land as will pay the same together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue at the house of Mr. Daniel Symms in Portsmouth, at 3 o'clock, P. M. on said day.
   1787. £. s. d.    Edmund Morse 1 7 0 0  Peter Morse 1 7 0 0  Antipas Marshall 2 0 0 0  Benjamin Currier 1 7 0 0  Jeremiah Eames 1 10 0 0  Caleb Marshall 2 17 0 0  Abel Bennet 0 5 6 0    1789.    Peter Morse 2 0 0 0  Antipas Marshall 2 3 0 0  Benjamin Currier 2 2 0 0  John White 3 5 0 0  Abel Bennet 1 1 0 0  Jonathan Duston 1 1 0 0  Jonathan Duston 2 2 0 0  James Paul 2 2 0 0  Samuel Burnside 2 2 0 0    JOSEPH PEVERLY, DANIEL R. ROGERS, } Collectors. Portsmouth, Sept. 2, 1790.
W A N T E D,
A Lad about 14 years of age to tend a store in this town.—Enquire of the Printer.
A C C O W O R T H. State of New-Hampshire. N OTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in Acworth, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1788, that unless they pay said taxes to me the subscriber on or before the 30th day of September, 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 Eliphalet Silby, in said town, at 10 o'clock, A. M. on said day. Certificates indents county, S. Sparre's No. R. Q. s. d. q. s. d. q. d. q. d. q. d. q. Sam'l Fitch 17 1 100 1 50 1 03 1 2 33 33 33 Ditto 18 1 100 1 50 1 03 1 2 33 33 33 Alex'r Clark 1 2 70 0 11 3 0 8 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 Sam'l Fitch 18 2 100 1 50 1 03 1 2 33 33 33 Acworth, June 25, 1790. WALTER HIMES, Collector.
To be Sold or Let, on good terms.
A Printing-Office
C ONSISTING of a Printing-Press, Chaces, Frisks, Types, Cases, Composing-Sticks, &c. &c. being an Office lately improved in Exeter. For terms apply to the Printer hereof.
T O B E S O L D
A Farm in Chester,
C ONTAINING sixty-five acres, being the farm formerly occupied by James Hearn.—Conditions of sale will be made easy to the purchaser. Enquire of the Printer hereof. Portsmouth, August 26, 1790.