The New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1791-08-11 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.
An Escape from the BASTILE in France.
(Concluded from our last.)
THIS labour over, we wanted a wooden ladder of twenty feet, from the trench to reach the parapet, where the guards are posted, that way to enter the garden of the Governor. Every day they gave us wood for firing, from eighteen to twenty inches long. We still wanted blocks and many other things, and our two hinges were not fit for these two purposes, much less to saw billets. In a few hours, from an iron candlestick in our possession, with the other fragment of the steel, I made a most excellent saw, with which, in less than a quarter of an hour, I would have been able to cut asunder a log as thick as my leg. With the pen knife, the hinges, and the saw, we began to shape and smooth our billets, to make at each end a kind of joint or mortise, and tenons to fix in one another, with two holes, one to receive a round, and one a peg, to prevent their shaking; and as fast as we finished a part of our ladder, we concealed it between the two floors.
With these implements we made a pair of compasses, a square, a reel, blocks, steps, &c. &c.
As the officers and turnkeys often entered our apartment in the day time, when we least expected them, we were obliged not only to hide our tools, but the smallest chips and rubbish that we made, the least of which would have betrayed us. We had likewise given each of them a private name: For instance, we called the saw, Faunus; the reel, Anubis; the hinges, Tubal Cain; the drum, Polyphemus, in allusion to the fabulous grotto; the wooden ladder, Jacob; the steps, suckers; a rope, a dove, &c. &c. &c. When any person was coming in, he who was next the door said to the other, Tubal Cain, Faunus, Anubis, dove, &c. and the other taking the hint, threw his handkerchief or napkin over what was to be concealed, or removed it; for we were always on our guard.
Not having materials sufficient to form two sides to our wooden ladder, it had only one pole twenty feet long, in which we inserted twenty rounds, fifteen inches long, that projected from the pole six inches on each side, and every round with its peg was fastened with packthread, so that it was impossible for it to slip in using it by night. When this ladder was finished and proved, we hid it in Polyphemus, that is, in the hollow of the floor; we then set to work about the ropes of the great ladders, which was to be a hundred and eighty feet long. We unravelled our shirts, our napkins, our under stockings, our drawers, our silk stockings, and what not? As fast as we made a clew of a certain length, we hid it, to prevent detection, in Polyphemus; and when we had completed a sufficient number, in one night we twisted our capital rope. It was white as snow, and I will venture to say that no Spinner could have made a better. All round the Bastille, is an entablature, which projects three or four feet. We were convinced, that at every step of our descent, the ladder would vibrate from side to side, and at those intervals the steadiest head might be overpowered. To prevent either of us from being crushed by a fall, we made a second rope three hundred and sixty feet long, or twice the measure of the height of the tower. This rope was to pass through a block of our construction; that is to say, a kind of fixed pulley; that there might be no danger of its sticking between the sides and the iron box of the latter; and thus either of
us, whether above or below the tower, by means of this cord, might sustain his comrade in the air, and so prevent his descending faster than he could wish. Besides these we made shorter cords, to fasten our rope ladder and our block to a piece of cannon, and for other unforeseen exigencies.
When these cords were all ready, their measure was four hundred feet. We had still to make two hundred steps for the great ladder and the wooden one; and to prevent the steps of the rope ladder from rustling against the wall as we descended, we covered them with the linings of our bed-gowns, under waistcoats, &c. These preparations cost us eighteen months work, night and day.
You have seen the requisites we needed, to get through our chimney on the platform on the Bastille, to descend from thence into the trench, to get up the parapet, and enter the Governor's garden; to descend again, by means of our wooden ladder, or another, into the great trench by the gate of St. Anthony, the spot that was to bless us with our liberty. We needed besides a dark, stormy night: Yet a dreadful evil might intervene; it might happen to rain from five in the evening till nine or ten, and then the weather might become fair. In that case the centinels walking round the Bastille from one post to another, not only all our toils and preparations would be lost, but to increase the disaster, instead of our receiving consolation, we should be sent to the dungeon, and while the Marchioness continued in power, be watched with additional rigour. We were much alarmed with the apprehension of this danger; but by reflecting on it, I discovered the means of its removal. I informed d'Allegre, my companion in misfortune, that since the building of this wall, the Seine had overflowed at least three hundred times—that its waves must have dissolved the salts contained in the mortar, the depth of half an inch every time, and that consequently it would be easy for us to perforate a hole in it, by which we might escape with less hazard.—That we might obtain a gimblet, by drawing a screw out of our bedstead, to which we could fix a good cross handle; and with it might make some holes in the joining of the stones, to stick in them our iron bars, by which, between us, we might remove more than five tons weight with the purchase of the lever, and so might easily pierce the wall that separates the trench of the Bastille from that of St. Anthony's gate. There would be a thousand times less risk in issuing by this method, than by getting out on the parapet, and passing under the very noses of the centinels, &c. D'Allegre agreed to this, and said, that should we be foiled in this perforation, it would be still less hazardous to scale a corner of the wall, as we had heretofore intended, by the parapet; a resource that would be left us, should our other attempt be frustrated by insurmountable obstacles. Accordingly we made wrappers for our iron bars, we drew out the bed screw, and made a gimblet of it; in short, when our apparatus was ready, though the river had overflowed, and the water was three or four feet deep in each trench, we resolved to depart the next day, in the evening, the 15th February, 1756.
Besides my trunk, I had a large leather portmanteau; and not questioning that all the clothes on our backs would be soaked by crossing and working in the water, we filled this portmanteau with a complete suit, not omitting hats, stockings, shoes, and the
best of every article left us. Next day, as soon as we had dined, we fitted up our great ladder, with its numerous flight of steps, and then hid it under our beds, that it might not be discovered by the turnkey, when he brought our supper. [An Officer who came with him in the morning, had taken the liberty of searching us.] We next adjusted our wooden ladder, then made up the rest into several bundles, being free from the apprehension of any visit, 'till the usual hour of five. The two iron bars, for which we had occasion, were pulled down, and put into their wrappers, both to prevent a noise, and that we might handle them with effect more conveniently. We had provided ourselves with a bottle of usquebaugh, to keep us warm and recruit our strength, should we be obliged to work in the water. This proved a very necessary precaution; for without the assistance of that liquor, we should never have been able to stand up to the neck in water for six hours.
The critical moment now arrived. Our supper was scarcely brought up, when, in spite of a rheumatick pain in my left arm, I set about climbing up the chimney, and had a hard struggle to reach the top. I was almost smothered with the soot, not being aware that chimney sweepers arm their elbows with defensives, and put a sack over their heads to secure them from the dust. From my arms and legs the skin was entirely flayed. After a while I reached the top of the chimney, where I placed myself astride, and from thence unwound a ball of packthread that I had in my pocket, and to the end of which my companion had agreed to fasten the strongest rope that held my portmanteau: By this means I drew it up, and lowered it on the platform. I returned the rope, to which my companion tied the wooden ladder. I drew up, in the same manner, the two iron bars, and the rest of the parcels for which we had occasion. When I had these, I again let down the packthread to raise the rope ladder, drawing up to myself the superfluous length, that by the end my companion might mount the chimney with more facility than I had done; and at his signal I fastened it. He ascended with ease: We finished drawing up the remainder, and suspended the whole in such a manner across the chimney, that we descended both at once on the platform, serving for a counterpoise to each other.
Two horses would not have been able to remove all our luggage. We began with rolling up our rope ladder, which made a volume five feet high and a foot thick, and we wheeled this kind of mill-stone on that tower of the treasury, which we thought most favourable for our descent. We fastened this ladder securely to a piece of cannon, and then let it gently down into the trench. In the same manner we fastened our block, passing thro' it the rope three hundred and sixty feet long; and when we had moved aside all other parcels, I tied my thigh securely to the rope of the block, got on the ladder, and in proportion as I descended its steps, my comrade let out the rope of the block; but, notwithstanding this precaution, every time I moved, my body resembled a kite dancing in the air, so that, had this happened by day light, of a thousand persons who might have seen me reeling, not one but would have given me over for lost; yet I arrived safe and sound in the trench. Immediately my companion lowered to me my portmanteau, the iron bars, the wooden ladder, and all our equipment, which I placed in the dry, on a little rising above the surface of the water, at the foot of the tower. My com-
panion next fastened the rope of the block, at the other end, above his knee, and, when he had given me a signal of his being on the ladder, I performed the same manœuvre below, which he had done for me above, to sustain me in the air, and prevent a fall. I took the further precaution to place the last step under my thighs, by sitting on it, to spare him the disagreeable vibration which I had experienced. He got down to me, though during the whole, the centinel could not be above thirty feet from us, walking on the corridor, as it did not rain; which prevented our mounting thither, to get into the garden, according to our first plan. We were therefore obliged to make use of our iron bars: I took one of them, with the gimblet, on my shoulder, and my companion the other. Neither did I forget to pocket the bottle of usquebaugh: and we proceeded directly to the wall that parts the trench of the Bastille from that of St. Anthony's house. There was in this place a small trench, six feet wide, and about the same depth, which wetted us to the armpits.
At the moment that I began with my gimblet to bore a hole between two stones, to insert our levers, the Major's round passed us with the great lantern, but ten or twelve feet at most over our heads. To conceal ourselves, we stood up to the chin in water, and when it was gone, I soon made two or three small holes with my gimblet; and in a short time we got a large stone out. From that instant I pledged myself to d'Allegre for our success; drank a draught on the occasion; and made him take another; we then attacked a second and a third stone. The second watch passed us, and we again slipped into the water up to our chin. We were obliged to perform this ceremony regularly every half hour that we were disturbed by that cursed watch. Before midnight we had displaced two wheelbarrows of stones.
Hearing the approach of the centinel over our heads, the rubbish we had made about the breach in the wall, obliged us to stand a little more backward in the water. We fancied that he had made some discovery, and gave ourselves over for lost; but a moment afterwards he patrolled the extent of his guard exactly over me.
In a few hours we had made a handsome breach in the wall, which, by the Major's account, is four feet and a half thick. I immediately bade d'Allegre get out, and wait for me on the other side; and should I meet with any misfortune in fetching the portmanteau, to flee at the least noise. Thanks to heaven! I got it without any disaster; he drew it out, I followed, and gladly left the rest of our baggage behind us.
In the trench of St. Anthony's Gate, we thought ourselves out of danger; he held one end of my portmanteau, and I the other, taking the way to Battery. We had scarcely advanced fifty steps when we fell into the aqueduct in the middle of that great trench, with at least six feet water over our heads. My companion, instead of gaining the other side, for the aqueduct is not six feet wide, dropped the portmanteau, to hang on me. Thus dangerously entangled, with a jerk I made him let go his hold, clinging at the same moment to the opposite side, and plunging my arm in the water, drew him toward me by the hair of his head, and afterwards my portmanteau, which floated on the surface. We were not till now out of danger. Here ended the horrors of that dreadful night.
As the trench formed a declivity, thirteen paces from thence we were on dry ground. Then we embraced each

other, and fell on our knees to thank God for the great mercy which he had bestowed on us, that neither of us had not been dashed to pieces in the fall, and that he had restored us to liberty.
Our rope ladder was so exact, as not to be a foot too long, nor too short; every part was so well disposed, that not an inch was out of its place. All the clothes on our backs were thoroughly soaked, but we had provided for this inconvenience by those in my portmanteau, which being well covered at top with dirty linen, and carefully packed, were not injured by a drop of water.
Our hands were galled by drawing out the stones to form a breach; and what may be thought surprizing is, that we were less cold up to the neck in the water, than on dry ground, when an universal tremor seized us, and we almost lost the use of our hands. I was obliged to be my friend's valet de chambre, and he in return mine. As we mounted the slope, it struck four o'clock. We took the first hackney coach, and went to the house of Mr. Silhouette, Chancellor of the Duke of Orleans.
Foreign Intelligence.
VIENNA, (Germany) April 9.
The last accounts from Petersburg mention, that the Empress of Russia is resolved to wait and see what the allied powers will do, to oblige her to make peace with the Turks. In the mean time the greatest exertions are making throughout the Russian empire, to put both their land and sea forces upon a respectable footing, to enable them, in case of need, to repel force by force.
April 13. Last night a declaration arrived here from the English Court, that as the Empress of Russia had refused to conclude a peace with the Turks upon the principle of Statu quo , the Court of Great-Britain has resolved, in conjunction with her allies, to use her utmost endeavors to oblige Russia to agree to a pacification upon the before-mentioned conditions.
CONSTANTINOPLE, March 29.
The preparations here for the continuance of war are really immense. The army is to be commanded by the Grand Vizir in person. All Governors of Provinces have received orders to furnish their quota of men, under pain of death. The pay of the army is augmented double: This increase of pay is at the expense of Jews and Christians.
LONDON, June 12.
A gentleman of rank, who arrived in town yesterday from Vienna, says, it was confidently asserted there, that the Emperor had resolved to declare war against Prussia the moment this country shall act hostily against the Empress.
A few days before this gentleman left Vienna, a Courier had arrived from Petersburg, who brought the final determination of the Empress not to recede from the terms she had offered to the Turks, and upon no condition to give up Oczakow, or consent to its demolition.
Arrived yesterday his Majesty's sloop of war Rattlesnake from a cruise.
This day Rear Admiral Cosby hoisted his flag on board the St. George , of 98 guns, and saluted the Port Admiral on the occasion with 15 guns who returned 13.
This morning orders were received in the Dock Yard, for all the gun-boats to be got ready for immediate service.
This day the Acteon of 44 guns, Captain Hanwell; Dromedary store-ship, Captain Hulk; and the expeditionary cutter, Lieutenant Younghusband, came into harbour from Spithead.
The Aquilon frigate is re-commissioned, and the command given to the Hon. Captain Stopford.
This day the St. George , of 98 guns, bent her sails, and will go out of the harbour to-morrow.
FREDERICK-TOWN, (Virg.) July 12.
The following tragical circumstance (communicated to the Printer by a gentleman of veracity) took place on Tuesday last, at Charleston (Virginia) 28 miles from this town:—A Mr. Abraham Vanhorne , an inhabitant of that neighbourhood, who kept and drove a team for several years past, had just returned from a journey—his horses being fatigued, they were turned loose in order to give them an opportunity, to recreate themselves. In a few minutes afterwards, two of them broke into a wheat field belonging to a Mr. John Crane , and, without doubt, did some damage to the proprietor. Mr. Crane having received intelligence that the horses were in his field, immediately repaired thither—cut out the horses' eyes—tied a bunch of straw to each of their tails, set it on fire, and drove them away. Had the scene ended here, happy would it have been for Mr. Crane! whose ungovernable disposition, heated by passion and resentment, knew no bounds, but pressed on with eagle swiftness, the heart it surrounded, to obtain a further satisfaction of the inoffensive owner of the beasts. Mr. Vanhorne, on hearing of the fate of his horses, went to Crane, and remonstrated with him on the impropriety of treating his property in the manner above mentioned—high words arose, and the consequence was, that Mr. Vanhorne received a wound in the lower part of his belly, given him by his adversary with a knife, which let out his bowels, and he died immediately. Crane was shortly after taken up, and committed to Martinsburg gaol.
Thus perished, in the bloom of life, a young and useful member of society, particularly distinguished among his neighbours, as a peaceable, inoffensive man, and lamented by all those with whom he was acquainted.
WINCHESTER, July 16.
Friday, the 8th instant, a Coroner's Inquest was taken on the body of Abraham Vanhorne , who died of a wound (as mentioned above.) The jury's verdict was wilful murder .
In consequence of the above mentioned verdict, John Crane remained in Martinsburg prison until yesterday, when a call-court was convened, to investigate into the affair. After a full hearing of the evidence on both sides, it was determined to transmit him to the district gaol in this town, preparatory to his trial at the assize court, to be holden in September next, on suspicion of his being the perpetrator of said murder. He arrived here this day, escorted by a strong guard, and is safely lodged in the unwelcome repository assigned him.
A person in the vicinity of Liverpool has invented a machine for sawing timber, the construction of which is very simple, and can be erected at a very trifling expence: two boys, when erected will be able to do as much work as 25 men, and that with the most critical exactness.
MONTEGO BAY, June 25.
Information is received from the Masters of some wreckers, of three French frigates, with a considerable number of troops on board, having arrived at Cape Francois the latter end of April last. The Commanders of the vessels not being permitted, by the inhabitants, to land any of the men, they immediately departed in order to return to Old France, and on the 10th of May one of the frigates was wrecked on the reef of rocks off Heneago on which the ship Simon Taylor was lost. The people were all saved by the wreckers, and conveyed to Cape Francois.
A discovery has lately been made in the Mountains of Port Royal, of a peculiar kind of White Marl which vitrifies, is not ponderous, and take every appearance of China. Those who have been in the East Indies declare, that it very much resembles the Porcelain Stone from which China is manufactured.
PHILADELPHIA, July 21.
A very interesting and important treaty is now holding at Newtown, on
the Tioga, by Col. Pickering, with a large body of Indians—600 of whom arrived there on the 29th ult. On the 3d instant the business was opened by a conciliatory speech from Col. Pickering. The treaty appears so far to be strongly marked with traits of peace and friendship, which leads to a hope that it will terminate very favourably on both sides.—The following judicious remarks occur in a speech of one of the Sachems:—
“In the last war, when we heard that brothers were going to fight against brothers, we thought it strange—we could hardly believe that people of the same blood would rise up and destroy one another—we saw that they could not fetch a clear stroke, because they could scarcely distinguish between friends and enemies.—If we had had our senses about us, we should not have taken up the tomahawk on either side—we ought to have let you alone, until you became brothers again, and then joined you as friends.”
JULY 30.
A correspondent informs that the treaty, lately held under commission from the President of the United States, by Timothy Pickering, Esq. of Wilkes-barre, with those Indian tribes commonly called the Six Nations, at Newtown-Point, on the north-west branch of the Susquehanna, in the State of New-York, was concluded on the 18th inst. to the satisfaction of all parties, by a recapitulatory speech from the Commissioner. The principal object of this treaty was, to confirm the peace that has subsisted between us, ever since the treaty of Fort Stanwix, in 1784, and prevent the Five Nations from joining the Western Indians, now at war. This desirable purpose has been fully answered for the present, though it is impossible to answer for the neutrality of the Five Nations, in case they should still meet with repeated injuries from those unprincipled inhabitants of the frontiers who have never yet learned to distinguish friends from foes, under the undistinguishing appellation of Indians, or savages. The Five Nations, and some other tribes, came down armed to the number of ten or eleven hundred men, women and children, as their manner is; but so slowly that the treaty, appointed for the fifteenth ult. was not opened until the second instant. On the 27th, P. M. the customary present, consisting of a large quantity of substantial cloathing, some of husbandry, and a little powder and shot, was distributed to the different tribes; and the next day the commissioner, and the main body of Indians left the ground. A few days before, letters had been received from the Seneca warriors at Buffalo Creek, complaining of hostilities committed by the Western Indians, and pressing the Chiefs in Council to join the army of the U. States in reducing them to terms; but little credit was given to the accounts, and no answer returned, as they had determined to preserve a strict neutrality.
Amer. Dai. Adv.
Extract of a letter from an officer at Fort-Washington, dated June 15.
“I have lately made a tour to Post St. Vincennes, and returned the 8th inst. without having noticed an Indian, although they are seen committing depredations in all places. They have killed one man in the rear of Fort Washington, and taken several horses, amongst which are General Harmar's. I am in great hopes they will soon be routed from all quarters of the Western Territory. There is every exertion made for a vigorous campaign. Troops are arriving daily: Captains Armstrong and Kirkwood's companies arrived here the 13th instant.”
We are informed that WILLIAM SMITH, Esq. has declined the appointment of Auditor of the Treasury of the United States.
An Alligator only 4 feet and an half long, lately drowned a boy belonging to a vessel, in Neuse River, North Carolina. The people in endeavouring to save the boy, caught the animal; and, from a motive of benevolence, in favour of the mother of the hapless boy
exhibited the monster in Baltimore at the moderate price of one eighth of a dollar each person.
Capt. Beaks, from Cape Francois, the 12th inst. informs, that when he sailed the colony was in a posture of defence—not a national cockade to be seen: and coming out, that he met a ship with French troops on board, bound for the Cape. The Commodore stationed at the Cape, was detained, by the Colonists.
In the Ship Ann , Captain A. Miller junior, arrived yesterday from London-derry, came 368 passengers, all in perfect health, meaning to settle in America, having paid their passage money before they embarked. The conduct of Capt. Miller was so highly meritorious, that several of the passengers who went on shore, testified their approbation by actually chearing him at New-Castle.
A Return of the CONSULS and VICE-CONSULS of the UNITED STATES of AMERICA.
Joseph Fenwick, Consul, Bordeaux. Burrel Carnes, Consul, Nantz. Nathaniel Barrett, Consul, Rouen. Sylvanus Bourne, Consul, Hispaniola.* Fulwar Skipwith, Consul, Martinique. The Sieur Etien- Vice-Consul, Mare- ne Cathalan, filles. The Sieur de la Vice-Consul, Havre- Motte, de-Grace.
Joshua Johnson, Consul, London. James Maury, Consul, Liverpool. Thomas Auldjo, Vice consul, Pool.† William Knox, Consul, Dublin. Edward Church, Consul, Bilboa. John M. Pintard, Consul, Maderia. Ebenezer Brush, Consul, Surinam. James Yard, Consul, St. Croix.
The jurisdictions of these Consuls and Vice Consuls extend to all places within the same allegiance, which are nearer to them than to the residence of any other Consul or Vice Consul.
* Resident at Cape-Francois.
† Resident at Cowes.
GEORGETOWN, July 23.
We have been credibly informed, that a gang of robbers now infest the high road between this town and Alexandria, and secret themselves in the swamp adjoining the road. They have made several fruitless attempts upon travellers, and one with success the last week—A countryman on his way to market, was robbed of between 20 and 30 dollars in cash, and most of all his market truck. It is said that this gang is composed of deserters from the new raised troops and runaway negroes.
A negro woman, Monday last, on her way from broad Creek to this town was stopped by two fellows, a white and a black; and robbed of her money to the amount of three or four shillings, and were then proceeding to take her clothes, but on perceiving some persons come in sight, they took to the woods without fully accomplishing their purpose.—Not long before she was robbed, she had met a girl, of her colour, with both her ears cut off, and then fresh bleeding:—She informed that she had been stopped by two fellows (probably the same as mentioned above) who, in finding she had no money, or any thing else of value, through revenge treated her in this barbarous manner.
NEW-YORK, July 26.
We hear from Philadelphia that the President of the United States has appointed Major JACKSON, Post-master-general of the United States, in the room of Samuel Osgood, Esq. who has resigned.
At Pintard and Bleecher's sales last evening, Finals sold at 19 3/4 on the principal, and 11 9 on the interest:—And a lot of Six per Cents ( an hundred thousand dollars ) sold at 19 10 1/2 cash.
BENNINGTON, July 18.
With pleasure we inform our readers that a military spirit prevails among the members of Dartmouth College. After the last vacation they considered themselves as a regiment, elected their officers, who have since received their commissions, arms for the privates, &c. from the government of Newhampshire.

They turn out by battalions for exercise once a week, and by squads more frequently.
PHILADELPHIA, July 30. Abstract of a letter from a gentleman in Cape-Francois, to his friend in this city, dated July 9, 1791.
"A vessel is just arrived here, from Bourdeaux: The Captain informs, that 4 deputies, and 10,000 men, are to be immediately sent to superintend, and if necessary, to enforce the execution of the decree of the National Assembly, which gives to negroes and people of colour, the same rights, and the same weight in government, as belong to the white colonists. The cities of Paris and Bourdeaux, have been foremost in activity to obtain this decree, and have offered extraordinary assistance to enforce the execution of it.
"The colonists, as soon as they heard of the decree, almost unanimously resolved to oppose it. They have taken some steps towards the organization of a government for themselves. The vessels with negroes from Africa, are to be sent directly to Bourdeaux, where it is supposed the National Assembly will treat them with civility, and grant them the rights of citizens, after they have resided there the time required.
"The national cockade has been trampled under foot, and the English generally worn. Some talk of craving the protection of the English. All is in confusion. No laws enforced. The creditor entirely dependent on the will of the debtor.
"The activity of the colonists is conspicuous, in their exertions to put the fortifications in a state of defence, in order effectually to oppose the 10,000 men who are now daily expected. It is not probable, that calm will be restored, before blood is shed.
"Twenty-four persons are to be sent to Leogane, the middle of the French coast, as a committee, to see that a free communication be kept up from every corner of the Island.
"On the 7th, a great number of volunteers turned out to form a battery, and already cannons are fixed.
"On the 8th, we heard that a number of Negroes at Goave, had mutinied;—there were some mulattoes and a few whites killed. Some of the Negroes have been taken, are now confined at Port-au-Prince, and are to be burnt alive: we expect soon to hear the number taken.
"The Mulattoes at Grange, have had a meeting, determined not to consent to the execution of the decree, and shew a great aversion to be put upon a footing with the Negroes. All the mulattoes have not however taken a decided part in the fatal divisions which now torment, and must prove hurtful to the Colony.
"Flour, 5 and 5 1/2 dollars."
PROVIDENCE, August 6. On Wednesday last arrived here 30 fine recruits from New-Hampshire, under the command of Ensign Tilton, they failed the next day for Elizabethtown, from whence they are to march by land for the western territory.
BOSTON, August 6. Extract of a letter from a young gentleman belonging to the Western Army, to his Uncle in Frederick-Town, dated near Fort-Pitt, June the 27th, 1791.
"Since our arrival here, we have been joined by 500 Indians, who offered their assistance to serve us as pilots. They bring us the agreeable information, that the hostile Indians are willing to make a General Peace. I send you this intelligence, and should be glad you would communicate it to the public."
The federal troops which left Springfield on the 23d ult. under the command of Lieut. Sobier were on the Saturday following joined by 36 recruits at Middletown, at which place they embarked for New-Brunswick, commanded by Capt. Buel.
Captain Hills, the gentleman who has been for some time past surveying the country between the Connecticut and Charles River, in order to open a canal communication between them,
has completed the business. His report we have not learnt—we understand however, that he thinks a canal practicable.
Statement of the Military Expence in FRANCE. Livres per Annum.
  Each National Regiment of foot cost 105,770   Each Foreign Regiment 168,550   Dragoons 70,200   Hussars 85,000   Light Infantry 82,000 
  FRENCH NAVY   At present consists of   Ships of the line, - - - 74   Ditto on the stocks, - - - 10   Frigates, - - - 62   Ditto on the stocks, - - - 6   Ships of the line in commission, - 21   Frigates, do. - - - 28   Cervettes, - - - 8   Brigs, - - - 11   Flutes, - - - 5   Total number of seaman, - 25,129 
MARINE INTELLIGENCE. Capt. Marrenar, arrived at Philadelphia from Curracoa, says, that while he was at that port on the 27th June, arrived the sloop Polly, Capt. Little, of and from N. York, the mate of the sloop Polly informed him, that 8 days previous to their arrival, Capt. Little, about 12 o'clock called all his crew on deck, asked each of them, if he had ever injured any of them? and if he had done so, sincerely asked forgiveness, as he was sure to die that day; the crew not being impressed as if Capt. Little was sincere in his declaration, passed it over unnoticed—at 4 o'clock, P. M. he jumped from the stern of the vessel, the sea then running high, and was drowned—every attempt of the sloop's crew to the contrary, notwithstanding: was afterwards seen floating at some distance on the waves, dead; thus ended the melancholy scene!
ARRIVALS AT THIS PORT. Aug. 5—Schooner Industry, Crawford, Turk's Island, 18 days, laden with salt. 6—Schooner Hercules, Matthews, St. John's, 10 days, with fish. 7—Sloop Ranger, Ellwell, St. Martins, 24 days. Brig Hope, Burroughs, Cape-Francois, 17 days. Left there, schooner Peace and Plenty, Pillsbury, and Capt. Hunter, of this port.
SALEM, August 9. Captain Richard Derby arrived here on Sunday in Seventy days from Gotenburg. He brings no particular accounts of the northern war—It was said there, that the Empress of Russia is much influenced by Prince Potemkin, in rejecting the mediatorial proposals for accommodation with the Turks—that Prince being determined to plant the Russian standard within the walls of Constantinople. It was not expected in that quarter, however, that England would take any part in the war. Mr. Pitt, on account of his interference so far, was the object of every Englishman's curses he met with. The measure was very unpopular in England. Sweden, it was expected, would continue to pursue her best interest in preserving peace: her navy, however, was putting into the most respectable order, that she might not be insulted with impunity.
MARINE INTELLIGENCE. On Friday last the brig Hope, Jonathan Lambert, master, arrived here from Cape of Good Hope, which he left the 29th of May. Left there, Captain Babcock, in a ship belonging to Boston, 71 days from Ostend bound to India, all well, April 14, Capt. Henry Clarke, of this port, arrived at the Cape, and sailed from there on the 5th of May for St. Helena, all well. On the 30th of May, in lat. 00, 57 N. long. by reckoning, 27, 30, Capt. Lambert saw an island of rocks about 3 miles in circumference, about 50 feet high, very much broken, and appeared very dangerous; he was within about two miles of it, but there was no appearance of coloured water: the
above island, which is not laid down in the drafts, Capt. Lambert saw on his first voyage to the Cape, 6 years ago. In lat. 40, 43. long. 67, spoke ship Ann & Susan, George Duplex, master, belonging to New-York, 67 days out from Londonderry, bound to Philadelphia, with 450 passengers.
CONCORD, July 20. We hear from Warner, that on Thursday last, a barn belonging to Jonathan Straw, was taken up by a whirlwind, from the Sills, and torn to pieces. There was a yoke of oxen in the barn at the time, but they were left standing, without injury.
PORTSMOUTH, AUGUST 11. Last Monday the inhabitants of this town, agreeably to notification assembled at the State-House, and made choice of the Hon. Chief Justice Pickering, Daniel Humphreys and Edward S. Livermore, Esquires, as delegates to represent them in Convention, to be held in September next, for revising the Constitution of this State.
Advices received by way of Philadelphia, from Londonderry, Ireland, state that the bridge built over Lough Foyle, or Londonderry river, by Mr. Cox, of Boston, is completely finished, to the satisfaction of the people there, and is thought to be a very capital piece of architecture. The workmen who went from America with Mr. Cox, he has taken passages for, in order to send them home again.—Mr. Cox's son remains in Ireland, and has undertaken to raise the ship Happy Return, formerly commanded by Capt. Ewers, which was cast away last winter on the strand of Magiligin.
A correspondent observes, that if any mode could be devised to set in motion the amazing number of private notes now in the hands of individuals of this State (of which there are sufficient to make a currency) in a few months thousands of pounds might be discounted, without the interference of one Dollar; they now lay, like the movements of a machine which only wants the main spring wound up to set them in motion. If benevolence and urbanity to one another were more prevalent, we should soon experience more liberal sentiments, and if but little pains were exercised, we should soon see the smiles of contentment and friendship sit upon the brows of thousand of our fellow citizens, instead of despondency and despair together with the aggravating circumstances attending vexatious and expensive lawsuits, which only enrich a few individuals.
A correspondent observes, that as that tract of land on the western side of Connecticut river is now erected into a separate State, and acknowledged by Congress as a new State, by the name of the State of Vermont, and received by that name into the union, it is expected that the present legislature of this new State will supervise and correct the rigour of those laws which have been put in execution against the properties of the subjects of the other States, who have been hitherto forbid by Congress to acknowledge their jurisdiction, especially such acts as have subjected their lands to the payment of taxes, in which they have not been represented.—Some of their leading men have reaped grand harvests—An act, passed to re-survey the out-lines of every town in this new State, although most of them were as well known as the public roads—Yet the Surveyor-General had power to collect taxes from each town to pay this expence, and in default of payment, to sell so much land as would pay the same, with contingent charges, by which power whole rights have been sold belonging to non-residents in the eastern States, without giving them any other notice than by a circumscribed newspaper, published in that State, while those non-residents lived at a great distance, and have never heard of the act—and it is well known that the Surveyor-General has made a nobleman's fortune from these sales, if he is allowed to retain his ill-gotten property. He has fallen under some censure, and some gentleman chosen in
his place—and he now sets all at defiance, as he supposed himself justified by the laws made, before we were allowed to acknowledge their jurisdiction.—What adds to the imposition, is, that the proprietors have already paid large proprietary taxes for laying out said towns and dividing them into locations, ranges and divisions; and all the lots now sold, only for running and re-marking the out-lines. Every step has been taken to deprive the non-residents of their title and lands, by quieting acts, and acts for laying road taxes, building meeting-houses, town-houses, and many other matters, on purpose to collect small taxes, so as to sell the non-residents lands there, before they can possibly get notice by their circumscribed advertisements.
The eyes of the people are upon Congress to procure some relief for the injured subjects of the union, who have left their lands, while this new State was in an unsettled situation, and only a few men had the influence to monopolize, near the whole of the non-residents lands, by virtue of laws which they themselves were most interested in procuring.
  ENTRIES at the CUSTOM-HOUSE of this district.   ENTERED FROM   Schooner Nancy, York, Hispaniola.   Schooner Dolphin, Currier, Ditto.   Brig Nancy, Frost, Cape Francois.   Schooner Mary, Tredick, St. Martins.   Brig Two Sisters, Fernald, St. Bar-   [tholomew.   Brig Mary Ann, Thompson, Cape-   [Francois.   Brig Polly, Smith, St. Martins.   Schooner Aurora, Noble, Ditto.   CLEARED FOR   Brig George, Sherburne, Liverpool.   Schooner Blossom, Brown, West-Indies. 
Now in the PRESS, THE Revised Laws OF THE STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE, AND WILL BE PRINTED BY JOHN MELCHER, AND READY FOR DELIVERY ON OR BEFORE NOVEMBER NEXT.
THE Committee lately appointed by the Honourable GENERAL-COURT, to Revise and Arrange all the LAWS of this State, having completed the same, and laid them before the Court for their inspection, who, after having minutely inspected the same, ordered them to be prefaced with the DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, the TREATY OF PEACE, between Great-Britain and America, with the CONSTITUTION of New-Hampshire, and the CONSTITUTION of the UNITED-STATES, and to be immediately Printed and distributed among the people;—they are now by authority committed to the Press. As this will be a complete system of all the Laws of the State, it will be highly requisite for every Justice of the Peace, as well as every person in public business to furnish himself with a book.—The expence attending the printing will be so great, that the Printer fears he shall not be able to strike off more books than are engaged before hand; he therefore requests every gentleman who wishes to have a book, to leave his name with him seasonably, by which means he will secure one.
FOR SALE By AUCTION, On THURSDAY the 25th instant, 12 o'clock, At Dearborn's AUCTION-ROOM, THREE hundred Acres of LAND in the town of BURTON, clear of all incumbrance by tax or otherwise. August 6.

Parnassian SPRING.
THE SUICIDE.
ADDRESSED TO THE LADIES.
SCENES of mirth and joy farewell! Sadly let the muse complain; Hear her piteous story tell; Render not her efforts vain.
Ye who tender passions know— Ye whose breasts with pity burn; Listen to this tale of woe; Drop a tear on Damon's urn.
And you ye fair, example take From this affecting story; Nor still persist the hearts to break Of lovers who adore ye.
Who to your charms shall make pretence, And with addresses tease you, If virtue, beauty, wit, and sense, In vain combine to please you?
Let Damon's fate your pity move; Long sought he Chloe's heart to gain; But Chloe, cruel, cruel fair, Return'd his passion with disdain.
Lo! at her feet he sues for grace; Sighs, more than words, his flame discover; With swift trickling down his beauteous face, The big, round drops confess the lover!
In vain his tears, in vain his sighs, For Chloe, frowning, bid him leave her: "Yes, I'll obey her," Damon cries, "And rather die than ever grieve her." He draws his sword in wild despair; (Poor Clue trembled, wept and blubber'd) Three times he flourish'd it in air, Then plung'd it in, plung'd it in—the seaboard.
THE NEIGHBOUR.
A STICH in time will save nine," said my grandmother, when she observed a small hole in my stocking, and took her needle and drew it up. I have always thanked the old lady for this lesson of prudence, for it taught me to do things in season, and pointed out the inconveniences which attend delays. Were a person of a squeamish stomach, who sickens at the mention of an old proverb, to inculcate the same lesson, he would, perhaps, tell us, that "procrastination is the thief of time." But I think my grandmother's adage equally as good—as well calculated to make an impression upon the mind.
The inconveniences which accompany deferring until to-morrow, what may as well be done to-day, are too numerous to be mentioned. It not only gives time for the hole in the stocking to grow larger, but likewise brings the business of two days into one, which necessarily introduces haste, disorder and confusion. The business of each individual, if taken in season, may be accomplished with ease; but if put off until the last moment, until necessity obliges him to procrastinate no longer, it is passed over in a hurry, and consequently done at the halves. It is observed by a certain author, that "whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well;" and to do a thing well we must, to use another saying of my grandmother's, "take time by the foretop." The same author says, that "the foundation, or first principles, of all scientific knowledge, must be imbibed previous to the age of eighteen." I think I may with as much truth affirm, that the person who could perform a large day's work, must begin before ten in the morning; or the farmer, who would defend his inclosures from the ravages of his neighbour's cattle, and see the year crowned with a plentiful harvest, must prepare his fencing stuff before it is time to be planting his corn.—My neighbour Dozy sleeps away the Spring and never thinks of repairing his fences, until his neighbours are sowing their grain. He then tackles them up just so as will do for the present. The season advances
so fast upon him, that he is obliged to sow his grain before the earth is half prepared to receive it, and his corn is planted late. He is called from his business almost every day to drive his own, or his neighbour's cattle out of his mowing ground, and half an hour at least is spent in mending the fence. His hoeing and haying crowd upon him at once, and one or the other must be neglected. Before either can be accomplished his grain is ripe for the sickle. His business of every kind is done out of season—his corn is not hoed, until it is overrun with weeds—his grain is shelled out, and devoured by the birds—his grass is not cut, until it is almost dried up in the field—his potatoes lie in the ground, until they are spoiled by the frost, and his corn is half covered with snow, before it is gathered. The consequence is, that his crops of every kind are very small, quite insufficient to support his family; and, notwithstanding he had a handsome patrimony left him by his father, poor Dozy must in a few years more become a town charge. Whereas if he would attend to the instruction of my grandmother, take time by the foretop, and draw up the hole in his stocking in season, he might become a wealthy man and a useful citizen.
AGRICULTURE.
From the NEWPORT MERCURY.
MR. BARBER,
Please to publish the following, as useful and beneficial instruction to the farmers of this and the neighboring states, who have not read Mr. Dean's or any other treatise on agriculture on the subject of raising an additional supply of forage in case of scarcity, as it is probable there will be this year.
EVERY farmer knows by this time whether he has, upon a reasonable computation, forage enough to supply the stock of cattle he intends to keep through the winter. If he finds he has not, he may plow up, in the month of July or August, three, four or five acres, more or less, of pasture land, and sow it with oats and indian corn mixed together, and sow at the same time a sufficient quantity of hay seed, and harrow or drag the ground level and smooth again. In the month of September or October when the oats are of a full growth, just before the spindle shoots out for seed, mow them down, and cure them as the judgment of the farmer will direct.
In this way it is in the power of every farmer to make what addition he pleases to the quantum of his forage; and by feeding his ground well, his pasture will be rather benefited, than injured, for the next year.
This method is practised in various parts of the world, and might with great advantage be adopted by the farmers of the northern states.
TIPOO SAIB.
[There has been much said of late of TIPOO SAIB, the enemy of the English in INDIA—a description of his person, &c. may, at least be amusing:]
Description of TIPOO SAIB's Person.
TIPOO SULTAN is a strong, active, robust man, above the middle stature, rather given to corpulency, complexion tawny, neck and visage long, features regular, eyes large and penetrating, strong black whiskers, but little beard, about forty years old, was educated with great care, and is of considerable talents, but tyrannical and avaricious, in deportment commanding and severe, wants liberality of character, and that open and manly address which distinguished his father, in general disliked by the Moosulmans of rank in service, not being sufficiently liberal, and shewing a preference to the Brahmins, and Raypoutes, who are promoted to the first places of trust and confidence about his person. He has six children, two sons and four daughters; the eldest boy is a promising youth, about 17, called HYDER SAHILL after
his grandfather. His revenue is said to amount to five crores, 70 lacks of rupees, about five millions, seven hundred thousand pounds sterling. His treasures in money and jewels is said to amount to nine millions.—The present RAJAH of Mysore (a state prisoner) is a youth about 20 years of age, not yet married—He is shewn to the people in great splendour, during nine days of the Hindoo feast in September, on which occasion TIPOO attends with his whole court, to do him a kind of mock homage.
JUST PUBLISHED, By Eliphalet Ladd, AT DOVER, AND FOR SALE By the Printer hereof, An ORATION, Delivered at DOVER, On the 4th of JULY, 1791. Being the 15th Anniversary of American Independence: By William Atkinson.
State of New-Hampshire.
PUBLIC notice is hereby given, that a petition hath been presented to the General-Court, by the selectmen of the town of Ossipee, setting forth, that the greatest part of the land in said town is owned by gentlemen living out of town, and but few inhabitants, and the roads so extensive as to put it beyond the power of the inhabitants to support them:—Therefore they pray that a tax of one penny per acre, may be laid on all non-residents land in said town for the term of two years, for the purpose of making and repairing said roads.
Upon which petition the General-Court ordered an hearing on the second Wednesday of their next session, and that in the mean time the petitioners cause that the substance of the petition and order of court thereon, be published in the New-Hampshire Gazette three weeks successively, six weeks prior to the sitting of said court, that any person or persons may then appear and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof may not be granted.
Attest, JOS. PEARSON, Sec'ry. Concord, June 6, 1791.
Fresh Goods.
Just received by Peter Coffin, A FRESH ASSORTMENT OF European Goods, Among which are a great variety of Chintzes, Mullins and Lutestrings.
Market-Street, Portsm o . August 4.
State of New-Hampshire.
Grafton ss.
WHEREAS the General-Court of said State hath passed an act that a tax of two pence per acre upon all the loted lands in the township of Rumney (public lands excepted) be granted for the use and purpose of making and repairing highways and bridges in said town.—We the subscribers being appointed a committee to direct where and in what manner said tax shall be laid out; give notice that we will attend on the business of our appointment one week from the first Mondays in September, October and November next, that those that are disposed to pay said tax in labour may work it out agreeable to said act.
ALEXANDER CRAIG, } JOSIAH SANBORN, } Committee. WILLIAM PRESSON, } Rumney, June 27, 1791.
Drugs & Medicines. Nat. A. Haven
Has now for sale, at his Store in Market-Street, at the sign of the Hydra and Hercules , a large and full assortment of Fresh Drugs and Medicines , which he will sell by wholesale or retail, as cheap as can be purchased in Boston—Also a large variety of Patent Medicines, warranted genuine—among which are,
 Anderson's Pills.  Stoughton's Elixir  Hooper's female do.  Effence of Pepper  Loeuyer's do.  Turl. Balsam of life.  Dr. Walker's celebrated Jesuits Drops.  Bateman's Drops.  Kennedy's celebrated Corn Plaister.  Dr. Hill's Balsam of Honey.  British Oil.  Ladies Smelling Bottles.  Teeth-Brushes.  London Court-Plaister.  Phials by the gross or smaller quantity.  Oil of Vitriol.  Blue Vitriol.  Dye-Stuffs in general.  Also, Madeira, Sherry, Lisbon, White Port, Malaga and Teneriffe Wines.  Spices, Groceries, Painters Oil and colours,—and West-India GOODS as usual. (9w) 
Portsmouth, June 30, 1791.
District of New-Hampshire. } Be it remembered,
THAT on the 15th day of July, in the fifteenth year of the Independence of the United States of America, SAMUEL LANGDON, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit: "Observations on the revelation of Jesus Christ to St. John, which comprehend the most approved sentiments of the celebrated Mr. Mede, Mr. Lowman, Bishop Newton, and other noted writers on this book; and cast much additional light on the more obscure prophecies; especially those which point out the time of the rise and fall of Antichrist—In two parts—Containing,
PART I,
General observations on prophecy—The form, order and style of the revelation—The monitory vision.
PART II.
The prophetic visions; which are distinguished into five prophecies, each of which is subdivided into several scenes—By SAMUEL LANGDON, D. D. minister of Hampton-falls, in the State of New-Hampshire.—"Blessed is he that readeth and they that hear the words of this prophecy and keep those things which are written therein, for the time is at hand," Rev. Chap. 1, Verse 3,—in conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, intitled, "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned."
JONATHAN STEELE, Clerk of the District of New-Hampshire.
A true copy of Record.
Attest, JONATHAN STEELE, Clerk
Grafton ss.
WHEREAS the General-Court of said State hath passed an act that a tax of two pence per acre upon all the loted lands in the township of Rumney (public lands excepted) be granted for the use and purpose of making and repairing highways and bridges in said town.—I the subscriber being appointed collector, hereby give notice, that unless said tax is paid to me at my dwelling-house in said Rumney, by the 10th day of June next, either in money or work'd out on the highways agreeable to said act, so much of the delinquents lands will be exposed for sale as will pay said tax with incidental charges.
JOHN DOE, Collector.
Rumney, June 27, 1791.
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