The New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1791-11-16 00:00:00

New - Hampshire Gazette, and the General Advertiser.
Containing the Laws, &amp;c. of the United States, as well as those of this State passed since 1787, with a variety of other matters both useful &amp; entertaining.
PORTSMOUTH: Printed by JOHN MELCHER, at his Office in Market-Street, at nine shillings per Annum.
CONGRESS. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 26.
TREASURY ACCOUNTS.
MR. Speaker laid before the House a letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, accompanying his statement of accounts for the last year.
STATE LAWS.
A message was received from the President, accompanied with copies of certain acts of the state legislatures, transmitted to him during the recess, viz.—an act of the State of New Hampshire, ceding to the United States a Light-House, situate within their State; an act of the legislature of Pennsylvania, ratifying one of the proposed Amendments to the Constitution of the United States; and an act of the Legislature of North-Carolina, granting to the United States the use of the gaols within that State.
PRESIDENT'S SPEECH.
The House then resolved itself into a committee of the whole on the communications made yesterday by the President, to both Houses.
Mr. Vining moved a resolution, that an answer should be prepared, expressive of the intention of the House to take into consideration the several matters in the President's speech; of congratulation on the present happy state of America; and of approbation of the arrangements made by the President.
Mr. Lawrance thought that the House ought to be further informed of particulars, before they ventured to express their approbation. The President had promised them that information; and it would be improper to commit themselves before they received it. It was best to confine themselves to an assurance, that they would bestow on the different subjects as early an attention as possible. Such was the mode pursued on a former occasion, when the House cautiously avoided entering into particulars.
Mr. Vining neither wished, on the one hand, to pay undeserved compliments, nor, on the other, to commit the House: But he thought the resolution conveyed no such idea, and that they would not commit themselves by adopting it.
Mr. Sedgwick observed that he was not prepared for the motion. It approved the conduct of the executive as wise and prudent: He did not doubt that it was so, but the House had not yet received those official informations which were necessary, before they could venture to express an opinion. He wished the House should proceed with caution in this business;—and that a select committee should be appointed—to prepare an address in answer to the President.
Mr. Smith (S. C.) approved of the mode followed at the commencement of the last session, of confining themselves to a few words, and assuring the President that they would take the matters into consideration. He thought it would be imprudent, without examination, to approve measures, that were to be the objects of future consideration. Besides, whilst so many members were absent, it would be improper for those present, to express a decided opinion upon matters, which were afterwards to be considered by a full House.
He proposed that the answer should be simply expressive of assurances, that the House would bestow due attention on the various, and important matters submitted to their consideration.
Mr. Livermore approved of the original motion, except in two particulars. With respect to the administration of
the excise law, the house was yet in the dark, how the divisions were made, whether into districts or surveys; and how the officers were paid. Nor had they as yet received any information about the particulars of the western expedition. It would be improper to decide, before they received sufficient information. If these two points were glanced over he approved of the general tenor of the resolution.
Mr. Gerry moved to strike out all the latter part of the resolution.
Mr. Clark did not rise to find fault with what the President had done; he supposed he had in every thing acted wisely; but he wished to be acquainted with particulars before an approbation of his conduct was expressed. He hoped the motion for striking out would take place.
Mr. Thatcher thought a general congratulation on the prosperity of America, would be sufficient, without entering into a detail.
The question being put on the motion for striking it out, it passed in the affirmative.
A memorial was then read from the distillers of the town and vicinity of Boston, praying sundry amendments in the excise law.
A memorial was also read, from the Sheriff of the county of Suffolk, respecting the mode of keeping prisoners confined for debt, under the laws of the U. States.
On motion of Mr. Lawrance, ordered, That the Clerk of the House should cause each member to be furnished, during the session, with three newspapers, such as the members should respectively choose, and to be delivered at their lodgings.
THURSDAY, OCT. 27.
Mr. Madison, from the committee appointed for that purpose, reported an address in answer to the President's speech, which was read a first and second time; and on motion of Mr. Vining, the House resolved itself into a committee of the whole, Mr. Muhlenberg in the chair, to take into consideration the said address; after some time spent, the committee rose and reported the address without an amendment, which was accepted and agreed to by the House.
Whereupon resolved, That the Speaker attended by the members of the House, do present said address to the President of the United States: And that Mr. Madison, Mr. Lawrance, and Mr. Smith, wait on the President to know when and where he will receive said address.
The committee appointed to wait on the President of the United States, to know when and where he would receive the address of the House of Representatives in answer to his speech, reported, that they had waited on the President and received for answer that to morrow at twelve o'clock at his own house he would receive said address.
ELECTION COMMITTEE.
The House proceeded to the consideration of a motion laid on the table by Mr. Vining at the opening of the session, for the appointment of a committee, to report a proper mode of determining cases of contested elections of members of the House.
Mr. Livermore opposed the motion, as unnecessary, since the constitution had already pointed out the mode. Whenever such a case might occur, it would then be time enough to determine, according as particular circumstances might require. Every member of the house has a right to determine in such cases: The meanest of their constituents have a right to determine:
And they cannot be deprived of that right.
The House has not a right to delegate that power, any more than the power of legislation. It would be dangerous, he observed, to erect any other tribunal, than that pointed out by the constitution. The people had already legislated for them, and made their House the proper tribunal. Whenever and from whatever cause a dispute of a particular nature may occur, the House may then point out a particular mode. It is said, he continued, that if we now establish the mode before the case occurs, we will remove all appearance of unfairness in the mode; but we do not know that there will be any contested election in this, or the next Congress; and if there should, it will be then time enough to determine. He concluded by declaring his opposition to the appointment of a committee.
Mr. Vining replied that he had in view a contested election from Georgia; that it would be necessary to bring a number of witnesses before the House; and that the length of time would alone be sufficient to render the decision unfair. It would moreover be a great expense to the nation, to have the whole House employed in a business which could be determined by a few members; the names of all the members might be put into a box and the appointed number drawn by chance. He thought it was not unconstitutional to delegate the power in question to a committee of their own body. Perhaps, however, some modification might be adopted, that the House should ratify the report of such committee, or correct and amend it, as the case might require.
Mr. White felt himself as little disposed to give up the privileges of the House as the gentleman from New-Hampshire: But thought that, without infringing the rights of any man, the House may limit the time and manner of determining contested elections. They may make regulations to have the evidence taken in the state where the case occurs, so as to have the whole on paper before the House, without waste of time. He wished that some measures might be taken to determine elections speedily and effectually. If this were not done, it was to no purpose, that the constitution had been formed; as it would be in the power of the returning officers of the different states, to determine who should sit in that House.
The Speaker laid before the House a letter from the Secretary of the library company of Philadelphia, making an offer of the books in said library for the use of both Houses of Congress, which was read.
FRIDAY, OCT. 28.
Pursuant to a resolution passed yesterday, Mr. Speaker, attended by the members, repaired to the President's House, and presented him the following address, in answer to his Speech to both Houses.
SIR,
IN receiving your address at the opening of the present session, the House of Representatives have taken an ample share in the feelings inspired by the actual prosperity and flattering prospects of our country: And whilst, with becoming gratitude to Heaven, we ascribe this happiness to the true source from which it flows, we behold with animating pleasure, the degree in which the Constitution and Laws of the United States have been instrumental in dispensing it.
It yields us particular satisfaction to learn the success with which the different important measures of the government have proceeded; as well those specially provided for at the last session, as those of preceding date.
The safety of our Western Frontiers, in which the lives and repose of so many of our fellow-citizens are involved, being peculiarly interesting, your communications on that subject are proportionally grateful to us.
The gallantry and good conduct of the militia, whose services were called for, is an honorable confirmation of the efficacy of that precious resource of a free state: And we anxiously wish, that the consequences of their successful enterprizes, and of the other proceedings to which you have referred, may leave the United States free to pursue the most benevolent policy towards the unhappy and deluded race of people in our neighbourhood.
The amount of population of the United States, determined by the returns of the census, is a source of the most pleasing reflections, whether it be viewed in relation to our national safety and respectability, or as a proof of that felicity in the situation of our country, which favours so unexampled a rapidity in its growth: Nor ought any to be insensible to the additional motives suggested by this important fact, to perpetuate the free government, established with a wise administration of it, to a portion of the earth which promises such an increase of the number which is to enjoy these blessings within the limits of the United States.
We shall proceed with all the respect due to your patriotic recommendations, and with a deep sense of the trust committed to us by our fellow-citizens, to take into consideration the various and important matters falling within the present session. And in discussing and deciding each, we shall feel every disposition whilst we are pursuing the public welfare, which must be the supreme object with all our constituents, to accommodate, as far as possible, the means of attaining it to the sentiments and wishes of every part of them.
Answer of the President to the foregoing Address.
GENTLEMEN,
THE pleasure I derive from an assurance of your attention to your attention to the objects I have recommended to you, is doubled by your concurrence, in the testimony I have borne to the prosperous condition of our public affairs.
Relying on the fancies of your enlightened judgment, and on your patriotic aid, I shall be the more encouraged in all my endeavours for the public weal; and particularly in those which may be required on my part for executing the salutary measures I anticipate from your present deliberations.
GEO. WASHINGTON.
Mr. Speaker and the members then returned to the House, where the President's reply was read.
A message was received from the President, accompanied with a copy of the returns of the enumeration of the inhabitants of the several states.
Mr. Smith (S. C.) observed, that as there appeared a deficiency in the return of the census from some of the states, it was necessary to take some order on the subject: The failure of a proper return from South-Carolina, arose, he said, from this circumstance, that, in one of the districts, nobody could be found, who was willing to undertake the business of enumeration for the compensation allowed by law; and that the person who had made the enumeration in another district, was gone away, and had carried off with him the account of the population.—He concluded, by moving, that the returns of the census should be referred to a select committee.
Mr. Sedgwick observed that the establishment of post-offices and post-roads, was a subject of the greatest importance; and called for the early attention of the House: Therefore he

moved for the appointment of a committee, to bring in a bill for that purpose. His motion being agreed to, a committee were appointed accordingly.
IN SENATE—MONDAY Oct. 31.
This day, at 12 o'clock the Vice-President of the United States with the members of the Senate, presented the following Address to the President of the U. States, in answer to his Speech, at the opening of the session :
To the President of the United States.
SIR,
The Senate of the United States have received with much satisfaction the assurances of public prosperity contained in your speech to both Houses: The multiplied blessings of Providence have not escaped our notice, or failed to excite our gratitude.
The benefits which flow from the restoration of public and private confidence, are conspicuous and important; and the pleasure with which we contemplate them is heightened by your assurance of those farther communications, which shall confirm their existence and indicate their source.
While we rejoice in the success of those military operations which have been directed against the hostile Indians, we lament with you the necessity that has produced them; and we participate the hope that the present prospect of a general peace, on terms of moderation and justice, may be brought into complete and permanent effect; and that the measures of government, for the security of our frontiers, may equally embrace the general interests of humanity. Our solicitude to obtain, will ensure our zealous attention to an object so warmly espoused by the dictates of benevolence, and so highly interesting to the honor and welfare of the nation.
The several subjects which you have particularly recommended, and those which remain of former sessions, will engage our early consideration. We are encouraged to prosecute them with alacrity and steadiness by the belief, that they will interest no passion, but that for the general welfare, by the assurance of concert and by a view of those arduous and important arrangements which have been already accomplished.
We observe, Sir, the constancy and activity of your zeal for the public good. The example will animate our efforts to promote the happiness of our country.
Signed by order and in behalf of the Senate,
JOHN ADAMS.
Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate.
The President's Answer.
GENTLEMEN,
THIS manifestation of your zeal for the honor and happiness of our country, derives its full value from the share which your deliberations have already had in promoting both.
I thank you for the favourable sentiments with which you view the part I have borne in the arduous trust committed to the Government of the United States; and desire you to be assured that all my zeal will continue to second those further efforts for the public good, which are ensured by the spirit in which you are entering on the present session.
G. WASHINGTON.
GREAT-BRITAIN.
BURMINGHAM RIOTS.
Wednesday August 24.
John Green, John Clifton, and Bartholomew Fisher, were indicted for that they, with one William Jones, at large, and others, to the number of fifty and more, did, on the 14th of July last, wilfully and unlawfully and riotously assemble, and with force and arms begin to pull down the dwelling house of Joseph Priestley, L. L. D.
Mr. Cooke, Counsel for the Prosecution, stated to the Jury, that they were about to be engaged in a business similar in its nature to that of yesterday. Neither did any occasion exist, in which their attention was more necessary. It was not his intention or his wish to arraign their conduct with respect to the acquittals of the other rioters, but to remind them of the consequences that would ensue, should they refrain from convicting those who were proved by
the evidence to be guilty.—The offence with which the present prisoners stood charged, was with beginning to demolish the house of Dr. Priestley, a man of most exemplary character, of consummate benevolence, and possessed of the love and esteem of all who knew him. There were many who differed with Dr. Priestley in their political sentiments. He confessed himself to be one; but yet that was no reason why he should be persecuted, or why he should not be entitled, as well as all the rest of his Majesty's subjects, to the protection of the law. Had he been at Birmingham, at the time of the riots, he should have lost his life in defending the house of that gentleman; and more willingly, on account of the difference of opinion existing between them. Persecution, he begged the gentlemen of the jury to remember, always increased any particular sect. The Dissenters were numerous; and if they were suffered to be oppressed with impunity, the consequences of such oppression might at a future period fall heavy on the authors of it. The sole cause of the Doctor's house being demolished, was, that he was a Dissenter. Was this to be borne? Would any jury choose that a hundred such men as those at the bar, should be suffered to remain unpunished, and that a person like Dr. Priestley should be burnt? And yet this consequence would certainly follow, if the jury did not convict the guilty, nor would this be the only evil that would result from such a mode of conduct. In the next century, in all probability, their grand children would feel the effects of it. Besides, he wished the jury to recollect, that another 14th of July would occur, and other public meetings to celebrate that day. These meetings he confessed, he disliked, though certainly no one could possess a right of preventing them: but the consequences would not be similar to those of the last 14th of July, if the present prisoners were properly punished. In conclusion, he begged leave to remind the jury that the eyes of Government, and of the whole kingdom, were fixed most attentively on them. What could be said, if they convicted not the guilty; what could the world say if they merited that reproach which was now cried about the streets of Warwick, viz. That they were determined to acquit all the rioters!
The Jury found Green and Fisher guilty.
LONDON, August 25.
Letters from Lisbon, dated July 16th represent the government there as under considerable uneasiness.—The people complain of oppression, and the Queen wishes to relieve them in many points, but dreads the beginning of innovation, and the opposition of those who have long considered the lower classes of their fellow subjects as made only for their use.
PARIS, August 25.
By a decree of the National Assembly, the King and the Prince Royal are to be disabled from ever commanding the army in person. They say here, that an ambitious and warlike King might easily, by virtue of his inviolability, and the popularity which he must necessarily enjoy in army commanded by him in person, attack their liberties, overturn their Constitution, dissolve the Assembly, or make them accept with the point of the bayonet, a Constitution of his making. They cite, and not inaptly, the example of the King of Sweden. Thus LouisXVI, will remain a King in fetters.
The papers from Germany and Flanders, all flatly contradict the design of the European Potentates joining against France, and assert, that such reports are the work of the Aristocrats, to see what effect they may have on the National Assembly.
APHORISM.
LET the unhappiness you feel at another's errors, and the happiness you enjoy in their perfections, be the measure of your progress in wisdom and virtue.
Domestic Intelligence.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 29.
Says a Correspondent—Public opinion governs every thing—and therefore every thing should be done to enlighten it. Newspapers have been stopped or have passed with considerable difficulty through the Post-Offices: This ought not to be so. Transmitting the Newspapers from one end of the Continent to the other, need not cost the public a farthing. A light charge upon the carriage would defray the expense, and insure the delivery. They ought to pass under the protection of law as safely as letters.
NEW-LONDON, Nov. 3.
A letter received from a gentleman at Cape-Francois, by the sloop Hebe, Capt. Rogers, dated October 6th, says, "The damage sustained in this province is moderately estimated at 500 millions currency, beside the coffee estates, the number of which cannot be estimated. Two hundred and twenty sugar plantations have been destroyed —We have now some hopes of an accommodation with the blacks on condition of a general amnesty."
MIDDLETON, Nov. 5.
Thursday the Twenty-fourth day of November inst. is appointed to be observed as a day of PUBLIC THANKSGIVING in this State.
A letter from Capt. Absalom Pride, jun. to T. Allen, dated Newport, October 31st, says, "I arrived at this port 7 o'clock last evening, in the brig Charlotte, 51 days from Liverpool—30th ult. lat. 43, 45.—long. 41—spoke ship Lydia, of Wisecasset, Spencer Pinkham, master, 21 days from Liverpool, bound to Boston.—28th inst. in lat. 39, 35—long. 70—spoke brig Betsey, from Tobago, bound and belonging to Portsmouth, in New-Hampshire, Hiram Rollins, master, who, in lat. 25, 30—long. 66, 30.—2d inst. lost both masts, six or eight feet above deck, in a gale of wind—supplied him with what spars, sails, rigging, &c. I could spare, and left him in company with Schooner Jane, Wyatt, master, from Charleston, S. C. bound and belonging to Boston, who agreed to stay by and assist in getting the brig into port."
Arrived, brig Charlotte, A. Pride, 54 days from Liverpool.
PROVIDENCE, Nov. 5. Tuesday last, Capt. Wheaton arrived here from Cape-Francois.
Extract of a letter from a master of a vessel at Cape-Francois to his owners here, dated October 10, received by Capt. Wheaton.
"From a scene of tumult, noise and disorder, I have retired, to give you some information respecting your brig and cargo, which I greatly fear will go to destruction; the first by worms, the latter by the heat of the climate—and 'tis out of my power to prevent it. Were I to land my cargo, and proceed home with salt ballast, the vessel might be preserved; but I fear the cargo would perish; as several others have since my arrival. Should I remain here, both will be lost.—Every possible exertion on my part, assisted by Mr. _____, has been in vain used to get away from the port. As a last effort, we have drawn up a memorial to Mr. Bourne, our Consul, requesting him to throw in a spirited remonstrance to the Assembly, desiring them either to take our cargoes (as no one else will) or permit us to depart. This was done yesterday, but no answer has been given."
"The situation of the colony is more alarming now than ever. The negroes have advanced their camp within three miles of the French. We can see their colours displayed from our vessels, and they had the audacity to take three Grenadiers within half a mile of the French encampment, which is four miles from town. Vessels keep their sails bent, and some of the inhabitants send their families on board every night."
John Rounds, mate of sloop Polly, who piratically went off with said sloop from St. Eustatia, has been apprehended at Newbern, North-Carolina, and
committed to gaol.—He says that the sloop was cut adrift by a Spanish droger, and that after making many fruitless attempts to regain the island, he was forced to proceed for this port; but was driven on the Carolina coast, and anchored near the beach between Ocracoke and Cape-Lookout, where the sloop drove ashore.—The cargo is mostly saved, but the vessel and her materials were ordered for sale. 1200 dollars were taken from Rounds, and 80 from a negro who conducted him to Newbern—the money was lodged in the Collector's Office.—A tribute of just praise, on this occasion, ought not to be withheld from the Collector, and Mr. Guion, of Newbern, through whose vigilance and exertions a part of the property has been thus secured.—Rounds, it appears, is a notorious villain, and has passed by at least six different names.
ALBANY, Oct. 24.
MURDER.
Saturday last, CORNELIUS HOGABOOM, Esq. Sheriff of the County of Columbia, accompanied by two other gentlemen, went to the sale of some property legally advertised, in the town of Nobletown, expecting that his deputy had arrived there before him, and commenced the sale. When he came to the spot, he found his deputy had not been there—waited a considerable time—and deputy not arriving, adjourned the sale to a future day—and mounted with his companion. A pistol was immediately discharged—no notice taken of it by either of them—proceeded about 50 yards from the house—fifty (or thereabouts) armed men, disguised like Indians, started out of the bushes—fired a shot from the whole without effect:—Mr. Hogaboom said to his companion, "They only mean to frighten us"—A second charge was fired, when Mr. Hogaboom received a fatal shot, and had time only to say—"I AM A DEAD MAN," before he expired.
This, of all murders, within our knowledge, seems to be the most horrid!—A public officer, returning, not from the discharge of his duty, but before it had been executed, murdered by a cowardly set of assassins, who had taken upon them the appearance of savages, a badge, which even nature did not entitle them to; and under this garb, perpetrated a crime far below the means of savage brutality!
By order of the executive, the High Sheriff of Herkemer county, raised a posse of about sixty armed men, from the Vicinity of Whites-Town, who proceeded to the Cyaugua Reservation where they dispossessed all the intruders and burnt their dwellings, the two ferry-houses on the Cyaugua Lake excepted.
[Four of the murderers were pursued into Connecticut, where they were taken, and carried back to New-York, for trial.]
LITCHFIELD, Oct. 19.
NEW SPECULATION.
A Mr. SEELEY, of Middlebury, in Vermont, has, within a few months past, killed twenty-seven Bears, five Wolves, and a large number of Sables, Raccoons, and other Animals; which in bounties, skins, furs, grease, &c. are computed to be worth two hundred dollars.
Among the Revolutionists in Switzerland, on their celebration of the 14th July, the following was one of their Toasts—"To the happy and free nation of America."
BOSTON, November 9.
FEDERAL REGISTER.
VERMONT—SENATORS. Hon. MOSES ROBINSON and STEPHEN R. BRADLEY, Esq. After an arduous contest.
Representatives. Hon. NATHANIEL NILES, and ISRAEL SMITH, Esq.
The GREAT OX.
So much talked of, raised by Mr. RICH, of Brookfield, was publicly exhibited in State Street yesterday. He

is said to be the largest ever raised in America—and to be equal to any Europe can boast of. His weight at Worcester was 2520lb.
A TURNIP FOR THE GREAT OX.
Mr. WARD, of Shrewsbury , in Worcester county, has a turnip which grew in his garden which weighed with the top 16lb. and without the top 13lb. the bottom of it was three feet and one inch in circumference, and five inches thick.
FASHION.
The Ladies' Neckerchief begin to open as the weather grows cooler, as if they kindly meant by the warmth of their charms to counteract the influence of the season.
NOVEMBER 14.
"The following gentlemen are appointed to the several offices affixed to their names, in the National Bank of the United States, with their salaries, viz.
 John Kean, Cashier 2700 dol.  George Simpson, 1st Teller 1500  Gustan M'Evers, 2d do. 1000  Wm. Lawrence, 1st book-ke'r 1000  John Rudd, 2d do. 800  Philip Enk, Discount-Clerk 750  Edward Stow, jun. Ass't. Cler. 600  Gust. Rubey, Runner 600  Committee appointed to report upon Branches of the National Bank, as soon as may be. 
Mr. Smith, South-Carolina Mr. Wadsworth, Connecticut Mr. Watson, New-York Mr. Mason, Massachusetts Mr. Bingham, Pennsylvania."
Late accounts from Cape Francois mention, That an engagement had taken place between the whites and the negroes; and that after a very bloody contest, the negroes were driven out of their entrenchments.
The negroes made a stand of about ten minutes and then gave way; the number of killed on the one side was inconsiderable, but very great amongst the negroes. Some of the planters, as well as they could, one in particular, assisted by about 50 armed men, defended his plantation effectually from an attack by 200 blacks, the greater part of whom he beat off; but some of them retreated into a cane patch, to whom he set fire in all quarters, except at one passage, through which alone the enemy could pass, and at this guns were pointed to them as they ran out, the consequence was, that many remained in the flames and chose rather to be burned than venture before the shot of the planter and his party.
The Printing-Offices are all shut at the Cape, having no support since their principal patrons the planters have been reduced to such distress.
On the 2d of October attack was made on the habitation of M. Gallist, which terminated in the negroes being entirely routed with considerable loss, there were only 11 white people killed and wounded in the affair, which lasted three and one half hours.
On the 14th, M. de Blaucheland received a letter from the negro King (Francois) in which he requests some person may be sent to form a treaty with them, the basis of which shall be their emancipation.
The same day an embargo was laid on all vessels in the port, owing to strong suspicion of their furnishing the negroes with ammunition.
His Excellency WILLIAM PATTERSON, Esq. is unanimously re-elected Governor of the State of New-Jersey.
THOMAS CHITTENDON, Esq. is elected Governor of the State of Vermont for the year ensuing.
CENTINEL MARINE JOURNAL.
Arrived—Brig Barbara, Capt. J. Ripley, 50 days from Liverpool. Left there ship Commerce, Doble, Boston; ship Janus, Molton, Newbury-Port; ship —, Holbrook, Kennebeck; brig Rookby, Parker, Portsmouth. The above vessels were nearly ready for sea. Capt. Molton, in the Janus, had been
out once, and was obliged, by contrary winds, to put back, with the loss of his small bower.
SEMI-ANNUAL LOTTERY.
Yesterday the Managers of the State Lottery, prepared the wheels for the drawing the second Class of this Lottery—which will certainly take place the 24th instant.
NEWBURY-PORT, Nov. 9.
Capt. Stone of this town, arrived from Guadaloup in the brig Industry, informs, that on the 23d of September, in lat. 35.—long. 65, 30, he spoke with Capt. Stove, in a brig from New-London, bound to the West-Indies, who, in a gale, had lost his mate, one man, his main-mast and nearly all his deck-load.
By order of Sir JOHN TEMPLE, Baronet, His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General throughout the United States of AMERICA:
INFORMATION is hereby given for the government of all Masters or Commanders of British vessels, who may arrive at the ports of the said United States, that an act of Parliament of the eleventh and twelfth of WILLIAM the third, [ made perpetual by the act of the 9th of GEORGE the first ] enacts, "that if any Master of a merchant ship, shall, during his being abroad, force any man on shore, or wilfully leave him behind, in any of His Majesty's plantations, or elsewhere, shall, being thereof legally convicted, suffer three months imprisonment, without bail or mainprize."
New-York, October 21, 1791.
PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 17.
Since our last arrived here from Cape-Francoise, in Hispaniola , the Snow Eliza, Capt. JACKSON—has brought back his cargo of lumber which he carried from this port.
By Capt. Jackson we learn, that the white inhabitants are in a most deplorable situation—The whites do not consist of more than 3000 strong, exclusive of Americans and others detained there by the embargo. The negroes consist of more than 30,000, and it was daily expected that they would attack the town.
Provisions of all kinds were very plenty and cheap. About 50 sail of American vessels were at the Cape when the Eliza sailed; and those whose cargoes were perishable, going to destruction.
Cape Francoise and the country for 30 miles around, now exhibits a scene shocking to humanity! The negroes perpetrate the most unheard of, and barbarous deeds: no one who is so unfortunate as to fall into their hands, escapes their cruelty.
As many as 300 Sugar Plantations are destroyed, which makes it almost impossible to procure that article.
Capt. Jackson left there Capt. Perkins of Kennebunk, Captains Knapp, Couch, and Balch of Newbury-Port—Captain Buchmore and several others, belonging to Salem, several belonging to Cape-Ann and other ports, all in a most disagreeable and ruinous situation. Not permitted to land their cargoes; and those who had landed previous to the prohibition, not in the least probable way of getting any thing for them.
THE WESTERN ARMY,
Under Gen. ST. CLAIR, moved from their head-quarters, at Licking, on the 15th of October, for the Indian country. So important information from that quarter may be daily expected.
Extract of a letter from George-Town, dated the 21st ult.
"The public sale of lots in the Federal City, ended on Wednesday evening; but the private sales still continue and probably will all the week. In the whole there have been at least, twelve hundred lots sold.—The average of public sales is something upwards of £100, for a lot of 40 feet front and 130 or 140 deep.—The sales made by individuals, I suspect, were at a lower rate,—Indeed they have sold; in many
parts of the city, and the public sales were confined to that part which lies between the President's square and Georgetown, which, it is imagined, will be first improved, being so convenient to the present seat of trade.—Tell your friend——, that it is not yet too late to make good speculations;—but that, if he means to do any thing to the purpose, he must not delay it too long."
Accounts from Port-au-Prince say, that upwards of 20,000 Negroes have risen and are encamped in that quarter. The price of flour is limited to 8 dollars. Provisions plenty.
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES.
At a meeting of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , Aug. 24, 1791, the following gentlemen were elected Fellows:—
CHARLES BULFINCH, Esq. of Boston.
Col. JOHN TRUMBULL, of Lebanon, Connecticut.
Mr. NATHAN READ, of Salem.
Mr. BENJAMIN WEST, of London, Historic Painter to the King of Great-Britain.
Mr. JOHN SINGLETON COPLEY, of London, R. A.
JOHN TRUMBULL, Esq. of Hartford, Connecticut.
Hon. INCREASE SUMNER, Esq. of Roxbury.
Hon. SAMUEL DEXTER, Esq. of Weston.
JOHN CRANCH, Esq. of London.
Hon. JOHN PICKERING, Esq. of Portsmouth, N. Hampshire.
Dr. WILLIAM PAINE, of Salem.
Dr. SAMUEL TENNY, of Exeter, N. Hampshire.
Hon. ALEXANDER HAMILTON, Esq. Secretary of the Treasury of the United States.
MEMBERS of the Second CONGRESS. SENATE.
New-Hampshire , Hon. John Langdon, Paine Wingate.
Massachusetts , Caleb Strong, George Cabot.
Rhode-Island , Theodore Foster, Joseph Stanton, jun.
Connecticut , Roger Sherman, Oliver Ellsworth.
New-York , Rufus King, Aaron Burr.
New-Jersey , Philemon Dickinson, J. Rutherford.
Pennsylvania , Robert Morris.
Delaware , Richard Bassatt, George Read.
Maryland , John Henry, Charles Carroll.
Virginia , Richard Henry Lee, James Munroe.
North-Carolina , Samuel Johnston, Benjamin Hawkins.
South-Carolina , Pierce Butler, Ralph Izard.
Georgia , William Few, James Gunn.
Vermont , Stephen R. Bradley, Moses Robinson.
HOUSE of REPRESENTATIVES.
New-Hampshire . Hon. Samuel Livermore, Nicholas Gilman, Jeremiah Smith.*
Massachusetts , Fisher Ames, Elbridge Gerry, Benjamin Goodhue, Theodore Sedgwick. George Thatcher, Artemas Ward,* Shearjashub Bourne.*
Rhode-Island , Benjamin Bourne.
Connecticut , Jonathan Trumbull, Jeremiah Wadsworth, James A. Hillhouse,* Jonathan Sturges, Amsa Learned.*
New-York , John Lawrance, Egbert Benson, Peter Sylvester, James Gordon, a Thomas Treadwell, a Cornelius C. Schoonmaker.a
New-Jersey , Abraham Clark, a Jonathan Dayton, a Elias Boudinot, Aaron Kitchell.
Pennsylvania , F. A. Muhlenburgh, Thomas Eitzsimons, Daniel Heister, Israel Jacobs, a Jonathan W. Kettera, a Thomas Hartley, William Findley, a
Delaware , John Vining.
Maryland , Joshua Seney, Samuel Sterrer, a Upton Sheredine, a Phillip Key, a William Vans Murray.
Virginia , John Brown, William B. Giles, Samuel Griffin, Richard Bland Lee, James Madison, Andrew Moore, John Page, Alexander White, Josiah Parker, Abraham Venable, a
North-Carolina , John Baptist Ashe, John Steele, Huge Williamson, William Barry Groves, a Nathan Macon.
South-Carolina , Daniel Huger, William Smith, Thomas Sumpter, Thomas Tudor Tucker, Robert Barnwell, a
Georgia , Abraham Baldwin, Francis Willis, a Anthony Wayne.
Vermont , Nath. Niles, Israel Smith.
[Kentucky will be admitted into the union in June, 1792.]
Those with these marks (* a) were not members of the first Congress.
ENTRIES at the CUSTOM-HOUSE of this district.
C L E A R E D FOR
Ship Mary, Tibbets, West-Indies. Brig Betsey, Flagg, ditto.
E N T E R E D FROM
Brig Commerce, Orn, Liverpool. Snow, Eliza, Jackson, West-Indies. Schooner Blossom, Brown, Jacquemel.
C O C K E R M O U T H.
State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in Cockermouth, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1789, that unless they pay said taxes to me the subscriber on or before the 22d day of December 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 William Cuming, innholder in said town, at ten o'clock, A. M. on said day.
  Div. N. R. Ac. d. q. d. q.    S. Powers, und. 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 2  Jona. Lovejoy, 1 6 4 50 2 1 5 0  Mart. Thomson, 2 1 4 32 1 2 3 0  3 4 1 10 1 0 2 2  Jam. M'Lelling, 1 3 5 85 1 0 3 0  3 4 7 50 2 1 5 0  3 3 8 50 2 1 5 0  Samuel B. More 1 13 3 50 2 1 5 0  Jona. Eastman, 2 3 2 50 2 1 5 0  3 3 5 100 4 2 10 1  3 16 13 100 4 2 10 1  A. Eastman, j'r. undivided, 1 0 2 2  James Taylor, 2 13 2 50 2 1 5 0  3 7 1 100 4 2 10 2  Will'm Teney, 2 4 3 20 3 3 2 2  Samuel Cutt, 2 8 3 13 1 0 2 0  3 13 3 100 4 2 10 2  3 5 4 100 4 2 10 2  Tho's Peverly, 2 1 5 50 2 1 5 0  Jo. Marsh, int. 0 5 0 10 1 0 2 2  3 2 13 100 4 2 10 2  James Hoit, 2 3 3 20 0 3 2 2  Hall Jackson, 2 4 2 25 1 0 3 0  3 1 5 100 4 2 10 2  3 1 6 100 4 2 10 2  Joseph Welsh, 2 3 4 25 1 0 3 0  3 14 2 100 4 2 10 2  Samuel Parly, 3 6 1 100 4 2 10 2  3 13 13 100 4 2 10 2  Isaac Williams, 3 10 100 4 2 10 2  3 4 10 100 4 2 10 2  John Braid, und. 1 0 2 2  WILLIAM POWERS, j'r. Collector. Cockermouth, October 28, 1791.  
State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of lands in the following towns, viz. Jaffrey 1786; Raby 1787 and 1789; Bedford, New-Boston, Peterborough-slip and Pembroke 1788; Hollis, Fitzwilliam, Canterbury, Wendell and Sullivan 1789; Northfield, Pittsfield, Moultonborough and Dearing 1789 and 1790; Wolfeborough, Andover, Hanover, New-London, Wakefield, Deerfield, Hancock, Packersfield, Marlborough and New-Chester 1790; Cockermouth and Bridgewater 1790 & 1791; Northwood and Wentworth 1791 and Fitzwilliam road tax for 1791; that unless they pay their taxes for said years either to the collectors or the subscriber, within eight weeks from the first publishing this advertisement, their lands will be advertised for sale for the payment of the same.
NATH'L PARKER, Receiver of Non Resident taxes. Exeter, November 10, 1791.

Parnassian Spring
O C T O B E R.
AH me! how fast the summer flies, And leaves the hapless shore; While we, beneath the low'ring skies, Her absence must deplore. See hostile autumn robs the land, And strips the drooping trees; Lo! how they moulder from her hand, And fall at ev'ry breeze. Stern hoary winter will prevail, And drag her fleeces on; Hark! how the swains the summer wail, And mourn the season gone. No more the morn shall blushing rise, And pearly dews exhale; No more shall gild the eastern skies, Nor chear the bleating vale; But mucky, gloomy, low'ring, black, Reluctant drop along; Ah! turn departing summer back, Restore the rural song. But hence vain wish, false hope away! Will she obey the swain? She flies to hear some nobler lay, On some more happy plain. Or wherefore murmurs' cause she flies, Or pine at her depart? Soon the again more bright shall rise, And cheer each rural heart."
NOTICE is hereby given, that the Right No. 36, in the town of Conway—original proprietor William Ladd, is taxed in a tax list committed to me, as proprietor's collector, in Conway, aforesaid, in the year, A. D. 1785.
Table with 5 columns: lots, House, Amm-nation to int'le lots, Hund-red lots, Com-mon & undi'd land. It lists tax information for William Ladd.
JOSHUA HEATH, Collector. Conway, October 24, 1791. PROBATE-OFFICE, Octo. 18, 1791.
SARAH HUTCHINSON, administratrix of the estate of John Hutchinson, late of Lyndeborough, deceased, intestate, having exhibited her administration account of said estate for allowance, and having taken out a citation to the heirs of said John Hutchinson, to hear said account at the probate office in Amherst on the third Tuesday in December next, it was ordered by the Judge that the notify said heirs thereof, by causing the substance of said citation to be inserted in one of the New-Hampshire public papers, three weeks prior to said day of hearing, the said heirs living in places remote from said Amherst. Attest WILL' M GORDON, Register.
Public Auction. Rockingham ss. BY Licence of the Hon. the Judge of Probate for said county will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of Joseph Patterson, late of Newington, deceased, on Wednesday the 7th of December next, at ten o'clock, A. M.—The personal estate of said deceased, consisting of two good Cows, a good Cyder Press, and a horse Cart, some Household Furniture, &c.—also the Real Estate under the incumbrance of the Widow's thirds.—Conditions of sale to be made known at time and place. TEMPERANCE PATTERSON, Admin'r. Newington, Nov. 5, 1791.
MARLBOROUGH. State of New-Hampshire.
WHEREAS at a legal meeting of the proprietors of the township of Marlborough, in the State of New-Hampshire, in the county of Cheshire, on the first day of February, 1786, did grant a tax of one penny on the acre, on each proprietor's right liable to be taxed; and whereas a number of said lots are delinquent in paying said taxes:—This is therefore to notify all the proprietors or owners of such delinquent lots, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber, on or before the 15th day of December 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 Col. Aaron Emes, innholder in said Marlborough, at ten o'clock, A. M. on said day.
Table with 5 columns: Name, No., R., s., d. It lists tax information for various proprietors in Marlborough, including Henry Neal, James Lyons, William Gilmore, Robert Wilson, John Wilson, Hilbert Morrison, Andrew Armer, Isaac Cockran, Samuel Alerfon, Archibald Dunlap, Jonathan Gilmore, Samuel Steel, Robert Allen, James Moore, Thomas M'Clary, James Wilson, John Morrison, Samuel Mitchel, Samuel Cockran, James Morrison, Robert Moore, Samuel Wilson, Thomas Morrison, David Morrison, Robert Clark, John Cockran, Samuel Alerfon, and DANIEL CUTTING.
Prime Goods.
WILLIAM SCOTT,
At the sign of the SPINNING-WHEEL, In DANIEL-STREET, PORTSMOUTH, Has IMPORTED in the CHARLOTTE, Capt. MACKAY, FROM LONDON, A large and general assortment OF Fall and Winter GOODS, Which will be sold Wholesale and Retail.
BARGAINS! worthy the attention of his customers and others, at the lowest Boston prices. viz.—
Table with 2 columns: Item, Price. It lists various goods and their prices, including Broad-Cloths, Kilmarnock and mock velvet Caps, Ladies delicate white Kid and colo'd Gloves, Marseilles Quilting, plain and bordered, Black, white and blue Tiffany, Book, jacconet, Mull-mull, striped and Tam-bem work'd Mullins, Book and jacconet muslin Handkerchiefs, Muslinetts, Cambrick and clear Lawn, Spotted & long Lawns, Striped & flowered bordered lawn Handkerchiefs, Mens best coloured beaver Gloves, Lawn, muslin, and gauze Aprons, Table-Cloths, Huckabuck, Clouting Diaper Bed-Ticking, Waistcoat Patterns, A pleasing variety of Chintzes exceeding low, Black, slate, pink and changeable coloured Lute-string, Black, white & Dove coloured Sattin, with furr trimmings, Black & white Modes, White, pink, blue, green & scarlet Sarfnet, Black fring'd & coloured Silk Handkerchiefs, Sewing Silk, all colours, Black Silk Mitts and Gloves, Purple & white and Patch coloured Shawls, very cheap, Irish Linnens, all prices, Cotton & Worsted Hosiery, Worsted Gloves and Mitts, Black & white Chip Hatts, with deep crowns, and natural colour.
Table with 2 columns: Item, Price. It lists various goods and their prices, including Dutch Laces, all numbers, Russells, Thread Edgings, Black Laces, Silk Galloon & Ferrets, Buckram, Brown Holland, Scarf Twift, all colours, Mens and boys black Hatts, Black, white & grey Feathers, Italian Head Flowers, London Pewter Dishes, Knives & Forks, Penknives, Jack knives, Scissars, Shoe-Buckles, Imperial and death-head Buttons, White and yellow figured Coat do., Matthewman do 1/2 y'd. and 3/4 En-glish Carpeting, Writing-Paper, Bibles, Playing-Cards and Wool do., Patent Blacking Cakes for shoes, boots and leather bottom chairs, Poland Starch, French Indigo and choice Tea per dozen or single pound.
N. B.—CASH given for POT-ASHES, TALLOW IN CASKS, BEES-WAX & OLD SILVER. The most ignorant will meet with no deception, the lowest price being always ask'd and no abatement made. Constant attendance, and the smallest favors duly noticed.
W A R R E N. State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors or owners of land in Warren, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1790, that unless they pay said taxes to me the subscriber, on or before the 29th day of December 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 Jonathan Clement, innholder in said town, at 10 o'clock, A. M. on said day.
Table with 7 columns: Name, 1st div., 2d. Un., 1st di., 2d. Un., d.q., d.q., d.q. It lists tax information for various proprietors in Warren, including Reub. True, Ebe. Morrill, Truw. Ladd, Ben. French, Silas Newell, Jose. Tilton, S. Graves, James Graves, Abr. Morrill, Tho's Pierce, Nat. Barrell, Benning Wentworth, and WILLIAM WHITEMAN, Jr. Collector.
W O L F B O R O U G H. State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors & owners of land in the town of Wolfborough, who have not paid their penny tax, in said town for the present year, that unless they pay said tax to me the subscriber, on or before the 15th day of December 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 James Lucas, jr. in said town, at 10 o'clock, A. M. on said day.
Table with 4 columns: Name, No., Ac's, s., d. It lists tax information for various proprietors in Wolfborough, including Mark H. Wentworth, Esq., Rich'd Wibird, Esq., Tho's Wallingsford, Mason & Thomlinson, Blanchard & Meserve, Theo. Atkinson, Esq., George Jaffrey, Esq., Solley and March, John Moffatt, Jotham Odiorne, Daniel Rindge, Esq., David Copp, Col. Stephen Evans, James Stoodley, George King, Pickering, and STEPHEN W. HORNE, Collector.
Blankets of all Sorts may, on the shortest notice, be had at JOHN MELCHER'S Printing-Office.