The New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1790-09-30 00:00:00

New - Hampshire Gazette, and the General Advertiser.
Containing the Laws, &amp;c. of the United States, as well as those of this State passed since 1787, with a variety of other matters both useful and entertaining.
PORTSMOUTH: Printed by JOHN MELCHER, at his Office in Market-Street, at nine shillings per Annum.
LAWS of the UNITED STATES.
CONGRESS of the UNITED STATES: AT THE SECOND SESSION.
Begun and held at the City of New-York, on Monday the 4th of January, 1790.
An ACT supplemental to the Act for establishing the Salaries of the Executive Officers of Government, with their Assistants and Clerks.
B E it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the more effectually to do and perform the duties in the department of State, the Secretary of the said department be, and is hereby authorised to appoint an additional clerk in his office, who shall be allowed an equal salary, to be paid in the same manner as is allowed by law to the chief Clerk.
FREDERICK A. MUHLENBERG, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United States, & President of the Senate. Approved, the 4th of June, 1790. GEORGE WASHINGTON, President of the United States. (True copy) THO'S JEFFERSON, Secretary of State.
CONGRESS of the UNITED STATES: AT THE SECOND SESSION.
Begun and held at the City of New-York, on Monday the 4th of January, 1790.
An ACT for finally adjusting and satisfying the claims of FREDERICK WILLIAM DE STEUBEN.
B E it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That in order to make full and adequate compensation to FREDERICK WILLIAM DE STEUBEN, for the sacrifices and eminent services made and rendered to the United States during the late war, there be paid to the said Frederick William de Steuben an annuity of two thousand five hundred dollars during life, to commence on the first day of January last, to be paid in quarterly payments at the Treasury of the United States; which said annuity shall be considered in full discharge of all claims and demands whatever of the said Frederick William de Steuben against the United States.
FREDERICK A. MUHLENBERG, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate. Approved June 4th, 1790 GEORGE WASHINGTON, President of the United States. (True copy) THOMAS JEFFERSON, Secretary of State.
CONGRESS of the UNITED STATES: AT THE SECOND SESSION.
Begun and held at the City of New-York, on Monday the 4th of January, 1790.
An ACT for giving effect to an Act intitled, "An Act to establish the Judicial Courts of the United States," within the State of North-Carolina.
B E it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the Act, intitled, "An Act to establish the Judicial Courts of the United States" shall have the like force and effect within the State of North-Carolina, as elsewhere within the United States.
And be it further enacted, That the said State shall be one district, to be called North-Carolina District; and there shall be a District Court therein, to consist of one Judge, who shall reside in the district, and be called a District Judge, and shall hold annually four sessions; the first to commence on the
first Monday in July next, and the other three sessions progressively on the like Monday of every third calendar month afterwards. The stated District Court shall be held at the town of Newbern.
And be it further enacted, That the said State district shall be, and the same is hereby annexed to the southern circuit. And there shall be held annually in the said district, two Circuit Courts; the first session of the Circuit Court shall commence on the eighteenth day of June next, the second session on the eighth day of November next, and the subsequent sessions on the like days of every June and November afterwards, except when any of the days shall happen on a Sunday, and the session shall commence the next day following: And the sessions of the said Circuit Courts shall be held at Newbern.
And be it further enacted, That there be allowed to the Judge of said district the yearly compensation of fifteen hundred dollars, to commence from his appointment, and to be paid at the Treasury of the United States, in quarterly payments,
FREDERICK A. MUHLENBERG, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United States, & President of the Senate. Approved, June the 4th, 1790. GEORGE WASHINGTON, President of the United States. (True copy) THO'S JEFFERSON, Secretary of State.
CONGRESS of the UNITED STATES: AT THE SECOND SESSION,
Begun and held at the City of New-York, on Monday the 4th of January, 1790.
An ACT for giving effect to an Act, intitled, "An Act to establish the Judicial Courts of the United States," within the State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations.
B E it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the act, intitled, "An act to establish the Judicial Courts of the United States," shall have the like force and effect within the State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations, as elsewhere within the United States.
And be it further enacted, That the said State shall be one district, to be called Rhode-Island district: And there shall be a district court therein, to consist of one Judge, who shall reside in the district, and be called a district Judge, and shall hold annually four sessions; the first to commence on the first Monday in August next, and the other three sessions progressively, on the like Monday of every third calendar month afterwards. The stated district Court shall be held alternately at the towns of Newport and Providence, beginning at the first.
And be it further enacted, That the said district shall, and the same is hereby annexed to the Eastern circuit: And there shall be held annually in the district, two circuit courts; the first session of the circuit court shall commence on the fourth day of December next, the second session on the fourth day of June, and the subsequent sessions on the like days of every December and June afterwards, except when any of the days shall happen on a Sunday, and then the session shall commence on the day following: And the sessions of the said circuit courts shall be held alternately at the said towns of Newport and Providence, beginning at the last.
And be it further enacted, That there shall be allowed to the judge of the said district, the yearly compensation of
eight hundred dollars, to commence from his appointment, and to be paid at the Treasury of the United States in quarterly payments.
FREDERICK A. MUHLENBERG, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United States, & President of the Senate. Approved, June the 23d, 1790. GEORGE WASHINGTON, President of the United States. (True copy) THO'S JEFFERSON, Secretary of State.
R ESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be requested to cause to be forthwith transmitted to the executives of the States of Virginia and North-Carolina, a complete list of the officers, non-commissioned and privates of the lines of those States respectively, who are entitled to receive arrears of pay due for services in the years one thousand seven hundred and eighty-two, and one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three, annexing the particular sum that is due to each individual, with a request to the executives of the said States, to make known to the claimants in the most effectual manner, that the said arrears are ready to be discharged on proper application.
That the President of the United States be requested to cause the Secretary of the Treasury to take the necessary steps for paying (within the said States respectively) the money appropriated by Congress, on the twenty-ninth day of September, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, for the discharging the arrears of pay due to the troops of the lines of the said States respectively.
That the Secretary of the Treasury, in cases where the payment has not been made to the original claimant in person, or to his representative, be directed to take order for making the payment to the original claimant, or to such person or persons only as shall produce a power of attorney, duly attested by two justices of the peace of the county in which such person or persons reside, authorizing him or them to receive a certain specified sum: Except where certificates or warrants have been issued under authority of the United States for any of the said arrears of pay, and the same shall be produced by the claimant or claimants.
FREDERICK A. MUHLENBERG, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United States and President of the Senate. Approved June 7th, 1790 GEORGE WASHINGTON, President of the United States. (True copy) THO'S JEFFERSON, Secretary of State.
R ESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all Treaties made, or which shall be made, and promulgated under the authority of the United States, shall from time to time be published, and annexed to their Code of Laws, by the Secretary of State.
FREDERICK A. MUHLENBERG, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United States, & President of the Senate. Approved, June the 14th, 1790 GEORGE WASHINGTON, President of the United States. (True copy) THO'S JEFFERSON, Secretary of State.
At the opening of the Supreme Judicial Court, the 14th inst. at Dover, the Hon. Judge PICKERING gave the following charge to the Grand Jury.
Gentlemen of the Grand Jury,
I N performing this branch of my duty, I shall endeavor to explain the nature and design of your office—to point out the objects of your attention—and some general rules by which your enquiries ought to be directed.
By the original contract of government, the price of protection by the united force of individuals, is obedience to the united will of the community, or in other words, the end of all rightful government, is the good of the governed: Whoever, therefore, wilfully attempts to defeat this end, aims a blow at the root of the tree, the very foundation of the social compact, and merits a punishment adequate to the malignity of the offence.
A power to punish offences against the being or well being of society, must be vested in every government; otherwise the aggregate body would have less power than the individuals of it; in a state of nature—be totally unable to protect themselves, or to guarantee to the virtuous obedient subject the unmolested enjoyment of his natural and civil rights. In a world like ours, it is necessary to punish the vicious in order to protect the virtuous. This power being common to every government, the principal difference between a free and despotic one, as to their code of criminal laws, consists in the mode of enquiry, evidence, trial and punishment of offences.
In some countries, the rack inquisition, and torture are the mode of enquiry, the confession of the culprit thus extorted, the evidence, and the accusers both judges and jury. After this solemn farce of a mock trial, a shocking apparatus of death and torment ensues, at the sight of which, all our better feelings would revolt! A celebrated writer in favor of the rights of humanity, treating of the impolicy and cruelty of such conduct, proposes this problem—the force of the muscles, and sensibility of the nerves of an innocent person being given, it is required to find the degree of pain necessary to make him confess himself guilty of a given offence. It is our felicity to live in a more enlightened country, and under a constitution which says no man shall be compelled to accuse or furnish evidence against himself;—nor shall he be held to answer for any crime, or offence until the same be fully and plainly, substantially and formally described to him.
The institution of a Grand Jury is the most effectual check to arbitrary power and oppression. The origin of this office lies deeply buried in the obscurity of antiquity, its vestages however, may be traced to the earliest ages of British jurisprudence; and the institution itself is perhaps co-eval with the first dawn of civil liberty. Tho' its rise be obscure, the necessity and wisdom of the institution are apparent. For what greater security could necessity invent, or wisdom contrive for the subject, than this—that he should not be convicted of any capital offence at the suit of government, unless by the unanimous voice of twenty-four of his equals, and neighbours; that is, in the first place, by twelve of the Grand Jury, at least assenting to the accusation, and afterwards by the whole Petit Jury or twelve more, finding him guilty on his trial. In order to secure this transcendant privilege agreeable to the spirit of our constitution; the Grand Jury ought to be thoroughly persuaded of the truth of a bill before they send it; and not to rest satisfied with remote probabilities—a doctrine which might

be applied to very oppressive purposes. This rule is not only warranted by the constitution, but enforced by your oath; the first part of which makes it your indispensable duty, diligently to enquire, and true presentment make, of all such matters and things as shall be given you in charge.
Now a diligent enquiry must imply a thorough investigation of the truth of the facts alledged, and a true presentment or indictment, that the same is founded on satisfactory evidence, not on remote probabilities or bare suspicion.
Whoever is not a stranger to the motions of his own heart, must have often experienced the powerful influence that prejudice or interest has on the mind in forming a judgment of men or things.—Therefore, to excite your vigilance to guard the avenues of the heart against these formidable foes to impartiality:—Your oath further requires that you should present no man for envy, hatred or malice; neither should you leave any unrepresented, for love, fear, favour, affection, or hope of reward;—but that you should present things truly as they come to your knowledge, according to the best of your understanding.
Secrecy being highly necessary to the proper discharge of your office, your oath enjoins it as a very important part of your duty—without which your enquiries in many cases would prove fruitless. Were you to reveal the state's secrets, or your own, it would afford an opportunity to offenders not apprehended, to flee from the hands of justice, and escape with impunity. In vain is the legal net spread in the sight of any such bird. Secrecy in your proceedings is not only necessary to detect the guilty, but to protect the innocent. If any malicious accusation should be exhibited to you, it ought to remain a perpetual secret in your breast; for a disclosure might fix an indelible stain on the character of the accused, by which means the innocent must be injured, and the satanic malice of the accuser partly gratified. Your oath is solemn—your task is arduous—but your duty plain.
This being a court of supreme criminal, as well as civil jurisdiction, has cognizance of all offences against the constitution and laws of the state; but your enquiries are confined to offences committed within the body of this county—such as treason, petty treason, misprision of treason, murder, manslaughter, arson, rape, robbery, burglary, theft, riot, routs, unlawful assemblies and breaches of the peace; the not repairing high ways, the not providing for the support of public schools as the law requires; in short all crimes misdemeanors and breaches of the peace committed within the county.—The reason given by Solon for not providing a law against parricide, might be assigned for not compelling a free and enlightened people to keep schools, namely that he thought it impossible any could be guilty of so unnatural a barbarity. One would conceive it equally necessary to make a law requiring a parent to love his children; for tho' some affection duly regulated, would prompt him to provide for their instruction, this is a duty every parent owes to his offspring—every citizen to his country—and every man to his God. If a child should be bro't up without a common education, it is more than probable he must drudge through life, become the servant to all—the dupe and sport of the crafty and designing. Though knowledge alone, may better the head more than the heart, yet without it the heart cannot be good. An early and good education is the most probable means to preserve a child from the devious paths of vice, and lead it in those of rectitude—Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
Having glanced at the natural and moral consequences of this cruel neglect, let us for a moment advert to the political. If knowledge and learning ge-
nerally diffused thro' a community, be essential to the preservation of a free government, then the want of these must inevitably prove its destruction. Where ignorance prevails, tyranny triumphs; for the truth of which, we have the concurrent testimony of ancient and modern history confirmed by our own observation. Can we then neglect the education of the rising generation, the hope of our land, when their and our all, so greatly depends upon it! Let us rouse from our supineness, and emulate each other in promoting the means, and cherishing the interest of literature. Did America ever need men of learning and knowledge more than at the present juncture? or will the period shortly arrive when she will no longer want such characters to fill the various departments in the national or state government? Let it never more be said that New-Hampshire, who has distinguished herself for her bravery, will soon lose her weight in the political scale, and with it, her liberty through her inattention to this momentous object—the education of her rising offspring!
Having gained a rank among the nations of the earth, and purchased our liberty at an immense expence of blood and treasure, let us exert our selves to transmit both unimpaired to a well informed posterity, with a rational prospect, that they will bequeath the same, as an inestimable pearl to theirs, and to generations yet unborn. Gentlemen you will now retire, and, I trust, under a serious sense of the importance of your office, and with a fixed resolution faithfully to discharge the duties of it. If in the performance of your duty, any difficulties should occur, the court will endeavour to remove them.
JOHN PICKERING.
ANSWER:
Strafford, ss. To the Hon. JOHN PICKERING, Esquire, Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Judicature for the state of New-Hampshire.
THE Grand Jury for the body of the county of Strafford, beg leave to congratulate your honor upon your appointment of Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Judicature within this state.
The addition of a gentleman to the bench, whose legal and political abilities—whose Justice and impartiality are so universally known and allowed, cannot fail of exciting joy in the breast of every citizen.
The Grand Jury would take this opportunity of returning you their sincere thanks for the learned, and elegant charge you have been pleased to deliver them, in which the nature and design of their office is so fully displayed, and the necessary directions for regulating their enquiries so clearly delineated—they wish to assure your honor, and the court, that according to the best of their understanding they shall strictly adhere to the solemn oath they have taken, and discharge the arduous trust reposed in them, with diligence and fidelity.
They would beg leave to assure you, of their warmest wishes for your restoration to health, and their most ardent desires that you may long continue as great an ornament to the bench, as you have heretofore been at the bar.
By order, and in behalf of the Grand Jury, THOMAS SHANNON, Foreman.
REPLY.
Gentlemen of the Grand Jury.
YOUR kind felicitation on my appointment to the office of Chief Justice, and benevolent wishes for the restoration of my health, demand my most unfeigned thanks.
I am happy to find my charge approved by so very respectable an inquest—I shall be more so, if it affords you any assistance in the performance of your duty, which was the great object I had in view.
JOHN PICKERING.
State of New-Hampshire. In the year of our Lord, 1790.
AN ACT
To empower the Superior Court of Judicature for the County of Rockingham, to be holden at Portsmouth on the fourth Tuesday of April, 1791, to take cognizance of, and give judgment in an action wherein WILLIAM JAMES, of Bristol, in the County of Bristol, and Kingdom of Great-Britain, Merchant, was an appellant against George Meserve, of Portsmouth, in the Province of New-Hampshire, Merchant, appellee.
Whereas James Sheafe, Administrator of the estate of said George Meserve, deceased, and George Wentworth, Supply Clap and others, Creditors to said estate, have petitioned the General-Court of this State setting forth, that in the year 1768, George Meserve, Esq. now deceased, being then greatly embarrassed in his affairs, conveyed his estate to Daniel Pierce, William Parker and William Torrey in trust, in order that it might be by them equally divided among his Creditors; Two of the said Trustees have since died, and the other, a refugee, is now a resident in England, by which events, the conveyance, if ever valid, is now become inoperative and the design of the said Meserve frustrated.
In the year 1769, William James, of Great-Britain on a demand against Samuel Moffatt and Company, recovered Judgment at the Inferior Court by default for upwards of £1500 Sterling, and levied his execution on the estate of the said George Meserve, who was at that time out of the country; immediately on his return he reviewed his action at the Inferior Court, and there reversed the Judgment, and be recovered also at the Superior Court, and at the then Court of appeals, before the Governor and Council, from which Judgment the said James appealed to the King in Council, in Great-Britain, which appeal was never prosecuted to final Judgment;—said Meserve being all this time in possession of the said estate, neglected to take out Execution at the Court of appeals and levying it on the estate of the said James, took from him by his execution, from which omission and from the conveyance in trust, it now remains doubtful whether said estate can be sold as said George Meserve's property—Wherefore they prayed that the said Administrator may be enabled by an act of this Court to make sale of the estate of the said Meserve, agreeably to a licence he has received from the Judge of Probate, & to give a good title of the same to the purchaser, in order that the estate may be jetted and the Creditors may be paid their just demands, or relieve said petitioners in such other way as said General-Court may think fit, which prayer appearing reasonable,
Therefore—
BE it enacted by the Senate, and House of Representatives in General-Court convened, That the legal Representatives of the said William James have leave to enter and prosecute said appeal made to the King of Great-Britain in Council, at the Superior Court of Judicature, to be holden at Portsmouth, in and for the county of Rockingham, on the fourth Tuesday of April next, on or before the third day of the Court sitting, and upon failure or neglect, on the part of the legal representatives of the said appellant to enter and prosecute said action, that the administrator of the said George Meserve, be, and hereby is impowered to file a complaint at said Court, and have affirmation of the last former judgment for reversal, with additional damages and costs, and that the said Superior Court be, and hereby is empowered and directed to take cognizance of said action, and give judgment and issue execution thereon in the same way and manner as though said action had regularly come before said Court, upon action of review in the ordinary course of law.
Provided nevertheless, That said Petitioners cause this act to be published in the New-Hampshire Gazette three weeks successively, six months prior to the sitting of said Superior Court in April next.
State of New-Hampshire. In the House of Representatives, June 12th, 1790.
THE foregoing bill having been read a third time, passed to be enacted.—Sent up for concurrence.
THO'S BARTLETT, Speaker.
In Senate, June 15th, 1790.
THIS bill having been read a third time, voted that the same be enacted.
JOSIAH BARTLETT, President. A true copy.
Attest, J. PEARSON, Sec'y.
PEACE
Between England and Spain.
LONDON, Saturday, August 7, 1790. Whitehall, August 5.
THIS morning one of his Majesty's Messengers arrived from Madrid, at the office of his Grace the Duke of Leeds, His Majesty's principal Secretary of State for foreign affairs, with dispatches from the Right Honourable Alleyne Fitz Herbert, his Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at that Court; containing an account of the following Declaration and Counter-Declaration having been signed and exchanged, on the 24th of July last, by his Excellency on the part of his Majesty, and by his Excellency Count Florida-Blanca, his Catholick Majesty's Minister and Principal Secretary of State, on the part of the Catholick King.
DECLARATION.
His Britannick Majesty having complained of the capture of certain vessels belonging to his subjects in the port of Nootka, situated on the north-west coast of America, by an officer in the service of the King; the undersigned Counsellor and Principal Secretary of State to his Majesty, being thereto duly authorized, declares, in the name, and by the order of his said Majesty, that he is willing to give satisfaction to his Britannick Majesty for the injury of which he has complained, fully persuaded that his said Britannick Majesty would act in the same manner towards the King, under similar circumstances; and his Majesty further engages to make full restitution of all the British vessels which were captured at Nootka, and to indemnify the parties interested in those vessels for the losses which they shall have sustained, as soon as the amount thereof shall have been ascertained.
It being understood that this Declaration is not to preclude or prejudice the ulterior discussion of any right which his Majesty may claim to form an exclusive establishment at the Port of Nootka.
In Witness whereof I have signed this declaration, and sealed it with the Seal of my Arms, at Madrid, the 24th of July, 1790.
Signed
(L.S.) LE COMTE DE FLORIDA BLANCA
COUNTER-DECLARATION.
His Catholick Majesty having declared that he was willing to give satisfaction for the injury done to the King, by the capture of certain vessels belonging to his subjects, in the Bay of Nootka, and the Count de FLORIDA BLANCA having signed, in the name and by the order of his Catholick Majesty, a declaration to this effect; and by which his said Majesty, likewise engages to make full restitution of the vessels so captured, and to indemnify the parties interested in those vessels for the losses they shall have sustained; the undersigned Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of his Majesty to the Catholick King, being thereto duly and expressly authorized accepts the said declaration in the name of the King; and declares that his Majesty will consider this declaration, together with the performance of the engagements contained therein as a full and entire satisfaction for the injury of which his Majesty has complained.
The undersigned declares at the same time that is to be understood, that

neither the said declaration, signed by Count Florida Blanca, nor the acceptance thereof by the under-signed in the name of the King, is to preclude or prejudice, in any respect, the right which his Majesty may claim to any establishment which his subjects may have formed or should be desirous of forming in future, at the said Bay of Nootka.
In witness whereof I have signed this counter declaration, and sealed it with the seal of my arms. At Madrid, the 24th of July, 1790.
(L. S.) Signed, ALLEYNE FITZ HERBERT.
Aug. 7. Yesterday a Board of Admiralty was held at the Admiralty-office, Charingcross, which broke up at three o'clock when the Lords Commissioners dispatched Messengers with the purport of the Message from Spain, to the different Dock-yards in England.
Yesterday afternoon the Duke of Leeds dispatched one of his Messengers in waiting, with letters to the Right Hon. Earl Gower, his Majesty's Ambassador at the Court of France.
Sherness, July 11. Yesterday Capt. Blanket, of the Leopard , received his orders to proceed with the Thames frigate to Nootka Sound.
PARIS, July 10.
GRAND NATIONAL FETE, IN COMMEMORATION OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY—JULY 9. Mr. TARGET proposed the following Decree.
1. The KING shall be requested to take the command of the National Guards, and the troops sent to the General Federation of the 14th July, and to name the Officers who shall exercise the command in his name, and under his directions.
2. In the ceremony of the Federation, the President of the National Assembly shall be placed immediately at the right hand of the KING. The Deputies shall be arranged immediately on the right hand of the President, and on the left of the KING; and his MAJESTY shall be requested to order his family to take their places accordingly.
3. After the oath, which, shall be taken by the Deputies of the National Guards, and the other troops of the Kingdom, the President of the National Assembly shall repeat the oath taken on the 4th of February last; after which, every Member of the Assembly, with his hands lifted up, shall pronounce these words, 'I SWEAR, &c.'
4. The Oath, which the KING shall then pronounce, shall be expressed in these words: "I, King of the French, swear to the Nation to employ all the power, which is delegated to Me by the Constitutional Law of the State, to maintain the form of Government decreed by the national Assembly and accepted by Me, and to enforce the execution of the Laws."
PREPARATIONS Relative to the CHAMP DE MARS. Monday, July 12.
The bustle and the crowd in Paris is immense. The Palace Royal is scarcely accessible to those without, and those within can scarce get out at all. The way to the Champ de Mars yesterday, was one entire line of crowd all day long. The people who work at the preparations there, go in bodies, and so return, by beat of drum, and colours flying, &c.
The 60,000 work-people who have been employed, having been found insufficient for the preparations in the Champ de Mars , a proclamation was issued, requesting all good citizens to assist, and, in consequence, 200,000, of all descriptions, including many women, and some of quality and fashion, have since then been working daily!
There will on Wednesday be in the field 100,000 Men in Arms! and not one Soldier among them—all Citizens! There are in the Kingdom upwards of 400,000 of the like description; and most parts of the kingdom will, according to their size and consequence, ex-
ert their endeavours at the same time, to celebrate the grand object.
There are fixed places marked, for different descriptions of people within side the embarkment in the Champ de Mars , for upwards of three hundred and thirty thousand persons. The numbers, exclusive of those, are incredible.
The works in the Champ de Mars have been carried on with such rapidity, that the ramparts are entirely finished; the labourers were on Saturday discharged, in order to make room for the carpenters and painters. A temporary bridge is thrown over the Seine, so that the procession, instead of passing through the narrow streets of Paris, will go along the Quai, from the Thuilleries to Chaillot, cross the bridge, and enter through the Triumphal Arch, directly into the field. The number of persons who are already arrived, either as assistants or spectators of this solemnity, is astonishing. The streets of Paris, from morning until night, appear like a fair. The Play-houses, hackney-coaches, and young ladies of the Palace Royal are making their fortunes. The latter, like physicians of great practice, keep lists of their patients.
On the 7th, there were 300,000 persons at work, in the Champ de Mars . July 11. On Friday His MAJESTY went to view the works at the Campus Martius , and, like the Emperor of China , lent a hand, not indeed to the plough, but to the shovel. He filed a wheel-barrow, and would have wheeled away the load, had not one of his attendants prevented.
The Children of Orleans were on Saturday at the works, and each of them was very active in clearing away the rubbish, about half an hour.
The Deputies from Bretagne, to the number of from 2 to 300, arrived, drums beating, and colours flying, on Saturday evening; they halted before the Louvre , and cried Vive la Roi! His Majesty appeared for a moment at the window of his apartment; after which the Deputies continued their march into the city.—They had a very martial appearance, and looked as much like soldiers as any of the regular troops.
THE AMERICANS.
The famous JOHN PAUL JONES, at the head of the Americans, resident in Paris, applied for permission to do homage to the Assembly at the Bar, and was admitted; and after having delivered their discourse, the President replied, "LIBERTY, Gentlemen, has its supporters and friends in the EAST and in the WEST:—Her THRONE, is erected on the two WORLDS."
PROVIDENCE, Sept. 8. From Lindsay's Hotel Diary, Norfolk, August 8.
This morning arrived the sloop Portsmouth , W. Truck, master, in 17 days from Port-au-Prince, consigned to Mr. George Lynham, who gives the following intelligence: That about two of the clock in the morning of the 30th of July, a Party of the militia fell in with a small detachment of the King's troops, near the centre of the town; the militia immediately fired on the regulars, who returned it, which alarmed the main guard, and they joined their detachment, obliging the militia to retreat. The King's troops had seven men killed, and the militia four. The occasion of this quarrel had arose from a new commander being appointed, who had acted in an arbitrary stile, which alarmed the militia for their liberties.
The next day the Commodore of the Leopard , a 74 gun ship, had orders from Government to put to sea immediately; the crew unmoored the ship, but refused to get under way; on this the Commodore went ashore to inform Government of the mutiny: The Boatswain took command of the ship, clapped springs on their cables, and brought their guns to bear on the town; they continued in that position, ready to attack the forts or Government, had they offered to annoy; the Crew were in favour of the People against the Troops. That Night the Leopard put to Sea, leaving the Commodore ashore.
On the 2d of August Capt. Truck fell in with the Leopard , lying to, six Leagues off St. Mark's and from the general Conversation at Port-au-Prince it was believed she was waiting there to take off the committee of St. Mark's, to join those of Port-au-Prince against the King's troops.
Every thing in that island seemed in the greatest confusion. Several vessels had arrived from Philadelphia, but did not choose to trust their cargoes on shore. Flour was from 9 to 10 Dollars.
On the 10th, Lat. 33, Long. 74: 10, fell in with 4 sail of Spanish merchantmen, under convoy of a 40 gun ship—one ship appeared equal in size to a 74, which Capt. Truck believes to be a registered ship from Vera Cruz for Old Spain.
NEW-YORK, Sept. 22. On Tuesday, the 14th August, there was a violent hurricane at the island of Tobago, which did great damage; among many other vessels drove on shore, are the brig Olive Branch , Capt. Brown of Portsmouth, and sloop Dispatch , Capt. Wyatt, of Boston—It is feared none of the vessels will ever be got off.
BOSTON, September 27. Capt. Barnes, who arrived here on Wednesday last in 36 days from Ferrol, in Spain, informs, that the British Consul there, communicated a letter to him, which he had received from the British Ambassador at the Court of Madrid, in which was mentioned the concession the Spanish Court had agreed to, viz, to make restitution for the property captured in Nootka. The Ambassador mentioned, that he was doubtful, whether this concession would effectuate a reconciliation, between the two Courts. Capt. Barnes further informs, that at the time he left Ferrol there was very great preparations making for war—and that every thing in fact wore the appearance of an immediate rupture.
Yesterday arrived the ship Mary , Capt. Gremardi, in 39 days from Gibraltar.—The English are not satisfied with the terms of the present Peace with Spain.—A probability of War in the ensuing Spring.
This day sailed from this port, the ship COLUMBIA , Capt. ROBERT GRAY, on a circum-navigatory voyage to the North-West Coast of America.—This is the second voyage the COLUMBIA has made to that coast—too much praise cannot be given to the gentlemen, owners of the ship, for their exertions in extending the commerce of America. The native of Ogyhee has returned to the place of his nativity.
SALEM, Sept. 28. Last Tuesday night, as six young men were coming on shore from a schooner in Marblehead harbor, the boat overset, and two of them were drowned: their names, Robert Quill and Michael Witrong, about 19 years old.
A violent gale of wind happened at Curraoa in the night of the 11th of August. It began at 12 o'clock, and continued till about 8 the next day, commencing with great violence at N. E. but suddenly shifting to S. E. did considerable damage, chiefly to the buildings near the water on the south side of the island; many of them were undermined by the water, and fell; a new fort, east of the town, is nearly destroyed; 4 vessels were blown from their moorings, 3 of them received but little damage, the other will probably be lost.
PORTSMOUTH, Sept. 30.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Kentucky, to his friend in Philadelphia.
"An attempt was made by an Indian, to set fire to the barn of Mr. Jackson, of this neighbourhood. It was about the hour of ten, and the night exceeding dark, when Mr. Jackson, according to custom taking his gun, went to see if all was well with his cattle, as the wolves have lately been very mischievous. On his approaching the barn, he heard the strokes of a flint and steel, and on proceeding further, he discov-
ered an Indian preparing to set fire to a quantity of straw, which was lying in a corner of the barn; Mr. Jackson, through the darkness of the night, was obliged to direct his shot for the fire, as he could not clearly see the Indian. On the discharge of the piece the Indian ran, and Mr. Jackson fearing he might, with some of his companions make a more mischievous attempt that night, kept a strict watch with some of his neighbours till morning. When day light approached they discovered the tinder box, &c. and a quantity of blood, which they followed about two hundred yards, when they found the savage who had apparently expired but a very few moments before their discovering him."
ACCOUNT CURRENT.
The knowing ones in 'Change Alley, London, say that the principal object of the present negotiation is to oblige the Spaniards to pay some outstanding debts to this nation—and that Mr. PITT has made out the following Bill:—
CHARLES IV.
Dr. to GEORGE III.
   £.     To the Manille Ransom 2,000,000   Losses at Nootka Sound 500,000   Preparations for war (as per account) 1,500,000  
4,000,000 Rec'd. the above in full of all demands, William Pitt, for
GEORGE III.
Nothing short of this will satisfy the nation.—[If so, it seems from past events, that Don SOLANO and Lord HOWE must be the arbitrators who will settle the account.]
ENTRIES at the CUSTOM-HOUSE of this district.
CLEARED FOR Schooner Mary , Tredick, W. Indies. Schooner Dove , Tredick, Martinique. ENTERED FROM Brig Elizabeth , Hooper, England.
Tickets in the Semiannual State Lottery, and a few in the fifth class of the Massachusetts Monthly State Lottery for sale either whole or in quarters and halves, by
B. DEARBORN.
September 30.
State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of Loudon, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1790, that unless they pay said taxes to me the subscriber, on or before the 21st day of October, so much of their land as will pay the same, together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the house of the subscriber, in said town, at 10 o'clock, A. M. on said day.
First Division of 100 acre lots:
   No. S. tax. C. tax   s. d. d.     Joseph Mason, 74 0 5 2   Joseph Hussey, 75 0 5 2   William Jenkins, 79 0 7 3   Sam'l Smith, 95 acres, 99 0 7 3   William Glines, 128 0 7 3   Thomas Willey, 134 0 6 2   Jonathan Woodman, 135 0 6 2   Abraham Matthews, 136 0 7 3  
Second Division of 100 acre lots.
   John Hayes, 119 1 9 6   Elias Critchett, 129 0 11 4   Ichabod Chesley, 130 0 7 3   Joseph Davis, jun. 131 0 7 3   Joseph Tibbetts, 133 0 7 3   Paul Wentworth, 2d 156 0 4 2   Joseph Chesley, 162 0 7 3   Ebenezer Stevens, 166 0 5 2   Joseph Eastes, 167 0 7 3   Abraham Matthews, 169 1 0 5   Joseph Perkins, 179 0 4 2   Daniel Davis, 183 0 5 2   Archib. M'Fedris, 191 0 7 3   Lt. Edmund Leavitt, 201 0 6 2  
JOSEPH SMITH, Constable.
Loudon, Sept. 24, 1790.

CHICHESTER. — State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the proprietors or owners of the lots of land in the several divisions in said township, that the amount of the sum set down against each lot in each of the divisions hereafter mentioned, being a tax of eight shillings, L. M. on each lot in the first, second and third divisions, and four shillings and six pence on each lot in the fourth division of lots in said township, being a tax agreed upon, granted and voted by the proprietors and other legal voters at their meeting holden at Hampton by adjournment, January 25th, 1786, and ratified and confirmed at a meeting holden by adjournment, November 14th, 1787, in order to pay the money borrowed to carry on the lawsuit against Barnstead and other debts of the proprietors, the same being committed to the subscriber with a warrant to collect the same, therefore unless the same is paid to me the subscriber, so much of each proprietors right or share will be sold at public vendue at the dwelling house of John Cram, Esq. in Pittsfield, on the 2d day of November next, at ten o'clock, A. M. as will pay the same with incidental charges unless prevented by previous payment.
Orig'l proprietors. [Lots in 1st division.
   No. R. s.    Samuel Marston 4 1 8  Owner unknown 2 1 8  Theodore Atkinson 26 1 8  Jonathan Philbrick 28 1 8  John Frost 30 1 8  William Peperill 34 1 8  Capt. J. Gilman 1 2 8  Stephen Sanborn 3 2 8  Joseph Taylor 5 2 8  Jotham Odiorne 7 2 8  John Prescott 9 2 8  Thomas Pierce 11 2 8  Minister Whipple 13 2 8  Jonathan Cushing 17 2 8  Ebenezer Stevens 19 2 8  William Staniford 25 2 8  Owner unknown 27 2 8  Winthrop Hilton 29 2 8  Jonathan Garland 33 2 8  Peter Weare 1 3 8  Hezekiah Jenness 2 3 8  Richard Waldron 3 3 8  Owner unknown 4 3 8  Joseph Dearborn 6 3 8  Owner unknown 9 3 8  George Jaffrey 10 3 8  Owner unknown 11 3 8  Ditto 13 3 8  John Redman 14 3 8  Ditto 15 3 8  Joseph Frost 16 3 8  Benjamin Thomas 1 4 8  Ephraim Dennet 3 4 8  James Davis 4 4 8  Thomas Cram 6 4 8  Joseph Taylor 8 4 8  John Redman 11 4 8  Nathaniel Lock 12 4 8  Hunking Wentworth 13 4 8  Jarvis Ring 14 4 8  Benjamin Sandborn 15 4 8  Charles Stuart 16 4 8  John Dearborn, jr. 17 4 8  George Jaffrey 2 5 8  Charles Treadwell 4 5 8  6 5 8  Jethro Tilton 8 5 8  John Plaisted 10 5 8  Nathaniel Healey 12 5 8  14 5 8  18 5 8  Nathaniel Drake 24 5 8  Peter Weare, jr. 26 5 8  28 5 8  Richard Wibird 3 6 8  Capt. Paul Gerrish 9 6 8  John Sherburne 11 6 8  Joshua Wingate 13 6 8  Ebenezer Weare 15 6 8  Jabez Smith 17 6 8  Benjamin Lampery 19 6 8  John Batchelder 21 6 8  Nathaniel Gookin 23 6 8  Benjamin Perkins 2 7 8  John Tuck 4 7 8  Josiah Moulton 6 7 8  Andrew Wiggin 8 7 8  John Jenness 10 7 8  
   N. R. s.    James Leavitt 12 7 8  Col. Shadrick Walton 16 7 8  John Wentworth 18 7 8  Owner unknown 22 7 8  Ditto 24 7 8  Moses Blake 26 7 8  Benjamin Cram 28 7 8  Christopher Page 3 8 8  Peter Gilman 5 8 8  Archibald M'Fadriss 7 8 8  Cyprian Jaffrey 9 8 8  John Webster 11 8 8  Benjamin Gamblin 13 8 8  John Gilman, Esq. 15 8 8  John Downing 17 8 8  Nicholas Gilman 21 8 8  George Frost 23 8 8  Nathaniel Weare 27 8 8  
Lots in 2d division.
  Owner unknown 2 1 8  Nathaniel Gookin 3 1 8  Capt. John Gilman 5 1 8  Charles Stuart 6 1 8  Jonathan Cushing 8 1 8  Joseph Redman 10 1 8  Ebenezer Stevens 11 1 8  Winthrop Hilton 12 1 8  Ebenezer Weare 14 1 8  Nathan Longfellow 15 1 8  Abraham Drake 19 1 8  John Sherburne 20 1 8  Jabez Smith 21 2 8  Christopher Page 22 2 4  Jarvis Ring 28 2 8  Shubael Sandborn 32 2 8  Jethro Tilton 33 2 8  George Jaffrey 34 2 8  John Prescott 35 2 8  Theodore Atkinson 36 2 8  Nathaniel Lock 39 2 8  William Staniford 44 3 8  William Odiorne 46 3 8  Hunking Wentworth 52 3 8  Nathaniel Drake 55 3 8  Josiah Moulton 69 4 8  John Frost 70 4 8  Samuel Thing 73 4 8  Charles Treadwell 88 4 8  Cyprian Jaffrey 88 4 8  Nathaniel Weare 90 5 4  Ephraim Dennett 92 5 8  John Downing 93 5 8  Benjamin Gamblin 98 5 8  Capt. Currier 99 5 8  Benjamin Sanborn 101 5 8  John Gerrish 108 5 4  Bradstreet Wiggin 111 5 8  112 5 8  John Batchelder 113 6 8  Benjamin Thomas 116 6 8  Jonathan Philbrick 117 6 8  Col. Tho's Westbrook 123 6 8  Samuel Palmer 124 6 8  Benjamin Perkins 125 6 8  John Cushing 126 6 8  Minister Whipple 127 6 8  Benjamin Thomas 128 6 8  John Batchelder 131 7 8  John Robinson 132 7 8  
   N. R. s.    Thomas Webster 133 7 8  Bradstreet Wiggin 134 7 8  William Odiorne 135 7 8  John Sweet 136 7 8  George Jaffrey 137 7 8  
The above lots are below the River, and the following list is the lots lying above the River.
Third division.
  Richard Wibird 1 1 8  Owner unknown 2 1 8  Shadrick Walton 3 1 8  John Cram 6 1 8  A. M'Fadriss 14 1 8  William Wentworth 15 1 8  Benjamin Cram 17 2 8  Edward West 18 2 8  Jabez Smith 19 2 8  Owner unknown 20 2 8  Ditto 21 2 8  Hezekiah Jenness 24 2 2  William Staniford 25 2 8  John Sweet 26 2 8  John Downing 27 2 8  Winthrop Hilton 28 2 8  Jethro Tilton 29 2 8  William Peperill 30 2 8  Peter Weare 31 2 2  James Leavitt 34 3 8  John Sherburne 35 3 8  John Tuck 36 3 8  Jonathan Eaton 37 3 8  Richard Waldron, jr. 38 3 8  William Fellows 39 3 8  Joseph Dearborn 40 3 8  John Jenness 42 3 4  George Jaffrey, jr. 43 3 8  Thomas Pierce 44 3 8  Pain Wingate 48 4 8  James Jaffrey, jr. 49 4 8  James Jaffrey 50 4 8  James Davis 51 4 8  Nathan Longfellow 52 4 8  Hunking Wentworth 53 4 8  Jotham Odiorne 54 4 8  George Frost 55 4 8  John Redman 63 5 8  John Wentworth 64 5 8  John Gilman, Esq. 67 5 8  Jacob Fruse 68 5 8  Nathaniel Gookin 69 5 8  Benjamin Gamblin 70 5 8  Daniel Weare 71 5 8  Ebenezer Weare 73 5 8  Benjamin Lampery 74 5 8  Benning Wentworth 77 5 4  Samuel Gilman 79 6 4  Jarvis Ring 81 6 8  Jeremiah Sanborn 82 6 8  Samuel Tibbetts 84 6 8  John Frost, Esq. 85 6 8  Joshua Wingate 86 6 8  Theodore Atkinson 87 6 8  John Dearborn 88 6 8  John Webster 89 6 8  Thomas Cram 90 6 8  Samuel Thing 91 6 8  Capt. Currier 92 6 8  Cyprian Jaffrey 93 6 8  
List of three lots drawn in stead of lots in third division: The names of the original proprietors are as follow—
   No. R. s.    Christopher Page 17 0 8  Jonathan Garland 18 0 8  John Prescott 19 0 8  
Lots in 4th division.
   No. R. s d.    Zebulon Hilliard 59 9 4 6  Zebulon Hilliard 60 9 4 6  Owner unknown 61 9 4 6  Ditto 62 9 4 6  Ditto 63 9 4 6  Ditto 65 9 4 6  Zebulon Hilliard 58 10 4 6  Zebulon Hilliard 59 10 4 6  Owner unknown 61 10 4 6  Ditto 62 10 4 6  Ditto 63 10 4 6  Ditto 64 10 4 6  Ditto 65 10 4 6  Ditto 66 10 4 6  Ditto 68 11 4 6  Ditto 69 11 4 6  Ditto 70 11 4 6  Ditto 71 11 4 6  Ditto 72 11 4 6  Ditto 74 11 4 6  Ditto 77 12 4 6  Ditto 78 12 4 6  Ditto 79 12 4 6  Ditto 80 12 4 6  Owner unknown 81 12 4 6  
These lots lie on the southwesterly side of the 1st division.
  Owner unknown 3 1 4 6  Ditto 7 1 4 6  Ditto 8 1 4 6  Ditto 9 1 4 6  Ditto 10 1 4 6  Ditto 12 1 4 6  Ditto 13 1 4 6  Ditto 14 1 4 6  Ditto 16 1 4 6  Ditto 17 1 4 6  Ditto 18 1 4 6  Ditto 19 1 4 6  Ditto 20 1 4 6  Ditto 21 1 4 6  Ditto 22 1 4 6  Ditto 23 1 4 6  Ditto 24 1 4 6  
The two following lots lie on the westerly side of Morrill's
  Owner unknown 23 3 4 6  Ditto 24 3 4 6  Two lots lying one above and the other below the Great-Suncook River.  James Garland 0 0 4 6  Hook 82 0 4 6  139 0 7 8  
   P. Morrill's land equal to five lots in the 1st division } 21.   Governor Shute's 500 acres of land equal to ten lots  
31. 9s. 6d.
THOMAS JOHNSON, Collector.
Chichester, August 30, 1790.
TO BE SOLD ON REASONABLE TERMS,
A valuable F A R M, PLEASANTLY situated in Stratham nine miles from Portsmouth, containing 130 acres of arable, mowing, pasture-land and salt marsh, well watered and wooded, and chiefly fenced with stone wall; for further particulars apply to JAMES DIMAN of Newbury-Port.
Wanted a Man-Servant
or a Boy of sixteen or eighteen years of age to serve in a family, and occasionally on out-door business; any one that can be recommended will hear of a place by applying to the Printer hereof.
THE subscribers being appointed commissioners, by the hon. Judge of Probate, to receive and examine the claims against the estate of Captain Edmund Roberts, late of Portsmouth, mariner, deceased, represented insolvent, give notice that they shall attend at the Post-Office for that purpose on the second Monday of this and the five following months from 3 to 8 o'clock, P. M. on said days.