The New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1792-09-06 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.
Foreign Intelligence.
V I E N N A, May 26. THE government lately has made fresh contracts, relative to sending 50 pieces of cannon, 12, 18 and 24 pounders for the low countries at the rate of one thousand guilders a piece.
Independent of 40,000 men already on their march against France, ten more regiments of infantry, and two of cavalry, have received orders to keep themselves in readiness for marching. All the companies of the regiments in the low countries and the lower Austria, will be increased, every battalion to consist of 1500 men.
R A T I S B O N, June 1. In a few days there will pass by our city, six thousand Austrian troops, being a part of twenty-six thousand, which are destined for the low countries.
P A R I S, June 12. Address of the citizen-soldiers of the national guards of Paris.
Gentlemen,
The national guards of Paris have constantly fulfilled the duties of their institution. Composed of the same citizens, who first unfurled the banner of liberty under the sanction of the constituent assembly, they possess the same virtue and the same force. Legislators, they are distressed!
The minister of war has told you, "The brave national guards, consulting their zeal rather than their forces, have with eagerness undertaken a service, which doth them honor, but which is too severe for their circumstances."
In one point he saith true. The national guards did not wish to consult their forces. Had they done this, the malcontents he complains of, would have long since vanished before them. Without a doubt we have done no more our duty; but we have done it. We have of our own accord contracted great obligations and we have discharged them. We will not try to discover the motives of the minister. His proposition takes away the honor as well as the rights, which the constitution gives us. Did he think that the ideas of the federation would conceal from our eyes the more natural ideas, his plan has given rise to? They are afraid of plunderers! It is us, they are afraid of. Let them command us? The requisition of the law will silence the fright, which calls for assistance. Our arms are our own; our cannoniers are our brethren, their arms and ours form an indivisible band as our hearts.
Union, strength, respect for the law, assistance to the constituted authority, watchfulness, preservation of property, war to the factious of every kind; this we swear.
Legislators, we demand the report of the decree which the minister of war alone has occasioned.
Our brethren in arms, all the French, had confidence in us. Why would the minister raise the ideas, that we had lost it. Have we less merits, and don't our brethren in arms know, that our immense population is sufficient for our dangers, let them be what they will?
L O N D O N, May 24. MANIFESTO EXTRAORDINARY BY THE KINGS IN CONCERT.
WE call GOD and all nations to witness that we have no other intention in the concert we have formed, but to repress in every kingdom that wicked and outrageous spirit of Liberty, which, under the false but specious pretext of ameliorating the condition of men, strikes at the root of all Royal and Legitimate Government, and tends to annihilate the just influence and authori-
ty which, being derived immediately from God, is superior to all rights merely human. United for this useful purpose, we are sensible that every thinking and loyal heart will approve of the principle upon which we act, and that constituting ourselves the guardians and watchmen over the happiness of every people in Europe, we shall be supported in interfering in the internal proceedings of every Kingdom, and in directing, ordering, and commanding whatever we may judge to be necessary for their particular good government, peace and tranquility.
Animated by these salutary and wholesome principles, the Kings in Concert cannot see with indifference a measure taken up, and supported by the Minister of his Britannic Majesty (and which has received the concurrence of one of the three Estates of that kingdom) that proposes to extend the chimerical liberty, to which some of the white nations infolently aspire, even to the blacks of Africa. A measure so pregnant with danger to the ancient order of things, and which in its consequences would go to establish the romantic and diabolical notion of equality among men, their Majesties with the blessing of divine protection, must withstand and repress.—They have therefore given instructions to their respective Ministers at the court of His Britannic Majesty, to represent to their beloved brother their just alarms on the subject of the abolition of the slave trade.—Their confidence in his well known love of order, gives them the strongest assurances, that the happy understanding which now subsists between the court of Great-Britain, and the courts in Concert, will not hereby be interrupted, and that they shall not be obliged to employ the force which God has put into their hands, to prevent the overthrow of a trade, which they consider as indispensably essential to the maintenance of the dignity and power of the crowns, as well as of the prosperity and happiness of the people of Great-Britain and of Africa. It is for those great interests alone, that they have taken this step; and if a categorical answer shall not be given in twenty-four hours, they have directed their several Ministers to quit the said Court without taking leave. If they should be driven to this alternative (which God forbid) they have the utmost reliance in Divine Providence, in the justice of their cause, and in the good dispositions of the people of Great-Britain and of Africa, for whose interests alone they shall undertake the war.
Given at the Diet of Kings, this first day of May, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two.
June 9—10.
From FRANCE—June 1.
THE new regulations for the French army, in many particulars, are very severe. Whoever, within the reach of the enemy, speaks a word, or utters any exclamation contrary to order, is condemned to be put in irons for six years.—Marauding is rigorously punished; and also the harsh treatment of prisoners. Death is the punishment of any soldier, who cries out, "we are cut off" "we are betrayed," or any thing of similar tendency. No man in command, is to be afterwards questioned for acts of severity, which may become necessary during an engagement. This article is thought hard; but it is thought indispensable in the heat of action. Officers are subject to double the punishment incurred for any fault which they neglect to repress or any act of disobedience to which they give way.
It has been proposed to reinforce the
French armies with interior camps covering and supporting those which are advanced towards the enemy's frontier. This may be easily done; as France has now not less than four hundred thousand men in arms.
The French have much to hope from the jealousies of their enemies: The Austrians and the Prussians are not only dissident of each other, but decline acting with the emigrant princes and their troops. This faction prevails among the aristocrats as well as in the heart of the National Assembly.
Political, like religious institutions, flourish by persecution. Thus it is with the friends of the people, who augment daily in numbers.
The transactions of the French National Assembly have presented very little that is interesting for these few days past. The answer of his Britannic Majesty, asserting in the most positive terms the absolute neutrality of England, and the strict adherence of that court to the terms of the existing treaties was read in the Assembly, on Thursday last, and gave great and universal satisfaction.
From all parts, patriotic contributions are coming for the support of the war. The city of Bordeaux has sent 77,000 livres, chiefly in specie: the 46th regt. of infantry, 2,608 livres in specie and 640 livres in assignats. In its address to the Assembly, this corps gallantly declare, that it deposits its silver on the altar of its country—its steel it reserves for the enemy.
The National Assembly, on Saturday, settled the future salaries of the Ministers. It was decreed, that the Minister for Foreign Affairs should have an appointment of 75,000 livres (about three thousand guineas) a year, the other Ministers 50,000. This though an ample allowance, does not exceed the emoluments of the chief clerks in the public offices of England.
In the course of this sitting, the War Minister laid before the Assembly, the plan of another Federation, to be formed in a camp to the northward of Paris. Each canton to send five men clothed and armed, to renew the oath to live free or die, one of these men to be a horseman, thus a national cavalry might be formed, and a camp of 20,000 men which would cover and protect Paris.
The French paper money is now at as great a discount as it has been at any period since the revolution; the patriots, however, have no cause to despond. It should be remembered that the paper money of the Americans was under a depreciation at least ten times greater; and they instead of failing of their purpose in two or three slight skirmishes, were beat in every successive engagement for two years together.
JUNE 13.
Very disagreeable accounts have been received with respect to the letterous effects of the climate of Sierra Leona. It is particularly uncongenial to European constitutions, and requires the utmost care and temperance to prevent the ill consequences which generally arise from a visit to those burning regions.
It is reported that Lord Hood is to be appointed Governor of Jamaica, with the command of the squadron.
Sir Richard King is to go to Portsmouth in a day or two, and will soon after sail for his station at Newfoundland.
L O R D R O D N E Y.
So dissolute had been the private life of this old marine servant of Great-Britain, who successfully fought many of her naval battles, and so extremely attached had he been all his lifetime
to gambling, that he died at last at an advanced age, with not property enough to redeem his lifeless corpse from the fangs of his creditors. As will appear by the following paragraphs.
"Many people effected by a Noble Lord's (Rodney) body being kept above ground by the sheriff's writ, exclaim against the cruelty of such a law; but, alas, say the prisoners in many of the gaols of England, let us only be free while we live, and you may arrest our bodies when dead, with all our hearts."
"The corpse of a peer may certainly be stopped by the laws of England for a debt. The body is no longer a peer, the son is the peer as soon as the father is dead, whether he be buried or not. —O, the pity of it, Immortal Rodney, O, the pity of it!
"A superb monument, it is reported, will be erected to the memory of the gallant Rodney, at the expence of the West-India merchants."
A N E C D O T E S.
TWO Tars, who knew and cherished the noble principles of friendship, chanced to be on board the Sandwich ninety gun ship, at the relief of Gibraltar, under the command of Lord Howe; one of them being killed, was carried on shore to be buried; his constant friend attended him to this last stage of human action; when the body was laid in the grave the survivor, struggling with all those many feelings that ornament the soul of a brave and honest man, articulated this short and fervent Prayer, in presence of sundry noblemen and other officers of the garrison: "O Lord God Almighty! here lies as good a Sailor as ever slept on shipboard; give him, O God, a birth in the main top in Heaven, a smooth sea, and full allowance, for Jesus' sake."
A FIELD Preacher in one of the villages in England, from the strength of his lungs and the length of his extempory harangues, being for some months attended by a more numerous congregation than the parson of the parish, began to think himself the more orthodox man. Fraught with this idea he one Sunday evening went to the vestry room; waited until the service was concluded, and very rudely attacked the clergyman, telling him he came to convince him, to confound him, and to convert him, by the word! This was followed by the recital of a thousand texts from various parts of the scriptures, so combined as to prove whatever he wished: and concluded by "this is all from the Bible, and by the Bible I desire to abide; answer me by the same book." The clergyman being a man of some humor, after hearing him with some patience, very coolly asked this labourer in the vineyard if he recollected a text in the Book of Kings, where it is written. "Then Achitopel set his house in order, and went and hanged himself." "Certainly," replied the man, "I know it to be scripture." "Good," added the divine; "Examine the gospel of St. Luke, and you will find it written, Go, and do thou likewise. This I earnestly recommend, and so farewell."
THE brave CRILLON, one of the greatest Captains of HENRY IV. was hearing a discourse upon the passion, and the preacher giving a pathetic description of the scourging of our Saviour, the warrior, moved even to tears, rose up, and laying his hand on his sword, exclaimed—Where waft thou Crillon? Where waft thou?

FRANCE.
NATIONAL LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
Monday, June 11.
A LETTER was read from the Minister at War, containing Intelligence, that the Col. and six Officers of the regiment of Neustrie, had demanded passports of the Municipality of Lyon, after having given in their resignation.—The Administrative Body furnished them with the Passports, remarking, that they had taken the opportunity to quit the service in a moment when the country was in danger. The regiment, however, had given the most unequivocal proof of their zeal and ardour, by renewing their oath to die for their country.
THE HEROIC MADAME D'EON.
An extract of a petition from Madame D'EON was read, setting forth, that although she had worn the dress of a woman for fifteen years, she had never forgotten that she was formerly a soldier; that since the Revolution she feels her military ardour revive, and demands, instead of her cap and petticoats, her helmet, her sabre, her horse, and the rank in the army to which her seniority, her services, and her wounds entitle her; and that she now requests permission to raise a legion of volunteers for the service of her country. Unconnected with any party, she has no desire of brandishing her sword in professions in the streets of Paris, and wishes for nothing but actual service, war nobly made and courageously supported. "In my eager impatience, adds she, I have sold every thing but my uniform and the sword I wore in the last war, which I wish again to wear in the present. Of my library nothing remains but the shelves, and the manuscripts of MARSHAL VAUBAN, which I have preserved as an offering to the National Assembly, for the glory of my country, and the instruction of the brave Generals employed in her defence. I have been the sport of nature, of fortune, of war and peace, of men and women, of the malice and intrigue of Courts. I have passed successively from the state of a girl to that of a boy; from the state of a man to that of a woman. I have experienced all the odd vicissitudes of human life. Soon, I hope, with arms in my hands, I shall fly on the wings of liberty and victory, to fight and die for the nation, the law and the King."
This petition was interrupted by repeated bursts of applause, and ordered to be honorably mentioned in the minutes, and referred to the military committee.
POUGHKEEPSIE, August 15.
On Saturday night last, this place was visited with a very severe Thunder Storm, during which the barn of Major Henry G. Livingston was fired by the lightning, which, together with a barac of wheat containing about 200 bushels, were entirely consumed. There was nothing in the barn of consequence, except two or three chests of tools belonging to the carpenters who had been working for Mr. Livingston, which were also consumed. It is said the whole loss is about 300l. value.
A sloop belonging to Catskill, at anchor a few miles below this place, was also struck with the lightning, and received considerable damage.
William Willson, near the Stonyford bridge, Wallkill in Ulster county, having conceived a violent aversion to a young man in the neighborhood, an apprentice to a Mr. Agat, on account of his paying his addresses to an only daughter of Willson, on Friday last, as the young man was leaving his house, having been sent there on an errand by his master, most inhumanly, according to a previous declared intention, shot him instantly dead.—Not contented with thus having destroyed a fellow man, but farther to satiate his savage barbarity, with the butt end of the musket cruelly mutilated and bruised the face of the corpse. The murderer was immediately seized, and now in Kingf-
ton goal awaits his trial and fate; by which it is to be hoped the world will be delivered from so fell a monster.
On Tuesday the 17th instant John Bull, of Hamptonburgh near Blooming-Grove, having had some uneasiness with his wife at breakfast respecting a familiarity she suspected him to be guilty of with some neighboring woman, immediately after, with a halter, put a period to his own existence in his own orchard.
On the 3d inst the son of James Auger, of Goshen, was unfortunately killed by an horse running away with him, and dashing his head against a post.
WINCHESTER, August 13.
From the KENTUCKY GAZETTE, July 21.
An extract of a letter from a gentleman at Fort Washington, to his friend in this place, dated the 15th instant, mentions, that news has been received at St. Vincennes, by an Indian sent from Major Hamtramck to L'Augulle, (The village destroyed by General Wilkinson last August) that a party of Shawanese had fallen in with, and murdered a party of three or four men, not very distant from one of our fortifications; that these men bore a flag; that the Indians conveyed the papers found in their possession to some white men, who could read, that these papers turned out to contain a talk from a Big Capt. which made the Indians regret their conduct. From this report, it is probable, one of the flags sent out by General Wilkinson has been intercepted, and cut off—but which is uncertain.—There exists a strong presumption that Col. Harding was not of this party. There were three flags sent out—the first consisted of three men; the second Major Trueman's of the same number; and Col. Harding's, who was attended by one man only.
A letter from Paris (in the new French settlement) dated July 17, states, That intelligence had been received at Fort-Jefferson of the death of Major Trueman, Mr. Freeman, Debachi and Jarrat. That this information was brought by two prisoners, who were labouring in a corn field, and made their escape. The one made his escape at the time General Harmar was defeated—the other is William Duer, of Capt. Buchanan's company of Levies. They further inform, that on the 25th of June a party of Indians, took eight men prisoners, who were making hay near Fort-Jefferson; that when they had moved the prisoners some distance from the Fort, they divided them—four were given to the Chippewas, and four to the Shawanese: that the Shawanese burnt the four unfortunately assigned to them; that the Chippewas took theirs home, to the intent of making labourers of them; that the Indians are determined for war, and will not treat, but will kill every white person that attempts to go to them, either with or without a flag; that their present plan is to cut off the escorts of provisions destined to the out-ports and by that means oblige the troops stationed there to surrender; and that for this purpose they keep two spies constantly out.
Official accounts received from Fort-Washington, state, that, notwithstanding the pacific overtures of the United States, the Indians are for war; that Major Trueman and the first flag have been murdered at Glaice River: that Col. Harding's fate is doubtful, but hopes are entertained that he has escaped to Sandusky.
PHILADELPHIA, August 16.
Thursday morning the corpse of a young woman was found in one of the docks near Kensington; an inquest sat upon the body, their verdict is, wilful murder by persons unknown : We cannot refrain from communicating such intelligence as has come within the range of our enquiry. Her name is Elizabeth Reeves, about 17 years of age; handsome; apprentice to a mantua-maker, and courted by a young tradesman of the vicinity, to whom it was reported she was shortly to be espoused.
In the afternoon of Wednesday, after her day's work was at an end, she had
requested leave of her mistress to take a walk to market, to purchase some fruit, for which purpose, she had obtained liberty, and a small sum of money, from her mistress; who saw no more of her until yesterday; when, as it has been traced, a boy, being on the fatal wharf at a very early hour, observed a man heaving stones on something, which the boy soon discovered to be the dead body of a man or woman he could not tell which; that the instant the man saw the boy, he leaped into a batteau, and pushed off a few yards to a shallop, that lay convenient, to which he made fast the batteau, and then boarding the shallop the latter put off with the tide down the river which was favorable to the design at this moment.
The body of a female, with gold earrings, and some other marks of respectability, soon attracted the notice of the citizens; and the noise reaching the ears of her mistress and an uncle, (for the unfortunate girl was an orphan) her person was soon ascertained. A comb which she wore in her hair was found at some paces distant, lying in contact with a man's black cravat, which has been supposed to belong to —! humanity forbids our proceeding in this horrid recital; except to mention, that some officers belonging to the custom-house sent off a boat, as did several others, after the shallop before mentioned.
Professional persons of both sexes were brought to examine the body, and it was the opinion of the women that the unhappy girl had been ravished, and then murdered! from the marks of violence on her face and other parts.
Surely the earth and sea combined could not hide a villain of so deep a die as he who has committed a crime like this—let him take refuge in the hollows of the mountains, or in the bottom of the deep abyss—he must and will be vomited up again to appease the justice of the virtuous living.
[The Governor of Pennsylvania, by Proclamation, has offered a Reward of three hundred dollars, for detecting the infamous murderer.]
AUGUST 22.
Capt. Boys of the Ship Perseverance, arrived here on Sunday afternoon from Havre-de-Grace, which place he left on the 19th June, and brings intelligence, which corroborates in part the report of the success of Gen. Fayette's army; and if not fully confirmed by the accounts now received, they prove it to have been not without foundation, as will appear from the following extract of a letter from an American house in Havre to their correspondent in this city.
"With respect to our markets, but little alterations have taken place since our last; but our exchanges with all foreign places have taken considerable favour—that on London has risen from 14 to 19, and is still on the rise.
"News is just received [the letter is dated the 17th] in town by private letters, and by this day's paper, that on the 12th inst. a general engagement took place between the Austrians and the French army under General la Fayette, in which the Austrians were beaten, with a loss of two thousand men left on the field of battle, besides some prisoners taken by the French with eighteen pieces of cannon."
An Indian chief of the Onondago tribe, was inhumanly murdered near the Oswego Falls, the 27th July last; one Jacob Valentine is charged with the crime; and he having absconded the Governor of the State of New-York offers 500 dollars reward for apprehending him.
SPRINGFIELD, August 29.
We hear from Dalton, that on Wednesday the 8th ult. Mr. Asa Selvey of that place went out to chop some trees down, in the afternoon, and was seen to be at the business near sun-set—He did not return home that evening, a circumstance which occasioned uncomfortable apprehensions in the breast of his wife, but as he had a father-in-law, and brother-in-law, near the place where he was at work, she made herself
as easy as she could with the hope he was with them—in the morning she went to her father's and being informed her husband had not been there, she concluded he was dead. Search was immediately made and he was found a corpse, and a shocking spectacle, at the place where he had been at work the preceding evening. The facts appeared to have been as follows: He had fallen a beech tree, which in its course struck a dry limb of a maple about thirty feet long, and broke it off in part, but not so that it fell; Selvey cut up his tree to the top, which brought him near the maple—whilst cutting the limbs of the beech, the wind was high and probably broke off the dry limb of the maple so that he did not hear it—It fell, and the little end struck in the ground, the butt end poised over in a direction which brought it on the back part of Selvey's head, broke his skull, pitched him forward over a log in a direction which brought his forehead on a sharp stub which fractured his head on that part, and probably killed him in an instant, for there was no appearance of his having struggled after he fell; the position in which he was found was this—his body lay bent over a log, the middle of it considerably raised, and the head on the ground, where the most of his blood had discharged itself—a humble posture! a striking instance also of human frailty and the uncertainty of life! Who knows the time of his departure? Happy, if this awful providence should prove an awakening and useful lecture to the living. Mr. Selvey (who had supported the character of a worthy citizen) has left a disconsolate and amiable widow, with three small children, to mourn his untimely and shocking end.
NORWICH, August 30.
The celebrated WARREN HASTINGS', trial is said to be nearly at an end, and that he will come off with flying colors. The expence incurred by the solicitors on the occasion amounts to £ 36,960 29 sterl.
GENUINE
Extract of a letter from a French gentleman in America to his friend in France.
"In America it seems as though every man was born a politician:—From their very infancy they become acquainted, not only with the politics of their own country, but also with foreign; so that the most ignorant amongst them are as well acquainted with the checks and balances of power, as the most sapient European politician—and it is very necessary that they should possess this knowledge, as all of them are eligible to a seat in the legislature: in which you will not find, as in an English House of Lords, "some who cannot write, and others who cannot read," as is asserted by one of their poets of the strictest veracity. They are very great newsmongers—and on the least hint of any extraordinary matter, the merchant leaves debtor and creditor—the lawyer his fees—the taylor quits stay tape and buckram, and jumps from his board—the blacksmith throws by his sledge—and the barber leaves his customers half shaved, and all gather round the person who brought the intelligence—Those who can crowd near him, keep incessantly interrogating him, while others, who remain outside, with hats off, and ears and mouths open, catch every thing that is said. I remember one time, upon the arrival of some very important news, seeing a poor laboring man, with some meat in his hand, who doubtless must have been very much interested in the intelligence, ran his head into the throng, and listened with as much attention as if his eternal salvation depended on it—whilst a large dog was, with the greatest composure, devouring his meat; but so entirely engaged was the poor newsmonger in hearing the report, that he never perceived his meat was gone, 'till the dog began to gnaw his knuckles.—When he discovered the disaster, he did not, like his uncle John Bull—fall into a passion, and call the dog hard names, but turning to those about him, said with the greatest sang froid, Well, I'll

go buy some more—every thing ought to be pleased at such good news; and so Mr. son-of-a-bitch you are welcome to my meat.
These newsmongers bring to my mind a passage in a play of the inimitable Shakespeare, which I remember to have seen performed while I was in England—
"I saw a smith stand with his hammer thus, The while his iron did on th' anvil cool, With open mouth swallowing a taylor's news;
"Who, with his shears and measure in his hand,
"Standing on slippers, which his nimble haste
"Had falsely thrust upon contrary feet, Told of many a thousand warlike French, &c."
Adieu for the present.
Particular and affecting account of the late Hurricane in the West-Indies.
BASSETTERRE, Aug. 3.
On Wednesday last the weather looking gloomy, the wind blowing from the Northward, every thing indicated an approaching gale. In the morning the wind shifted suddenly to the westward, varying to the southward, from whence it blew with prodigious violence, accompanied by a most tremendous swell. The vessels in the road made every effort to get to sea:—Two of them succeeded, the Ship Susannah , Capt. Shelton , for London, and Brig Hope , Capt. M'Millan , for Glasgow. The Ship Britannia , Capt. Woodyear , after using every method in the power of the Capt. and crew to get her out, and parting four anchors, at last struck on the Bar; opposite Mr. Priddie's Yard near the pond, about eight o'clock yesterday morning, and in two hours went to pieces.—The passengers and crew, amounted to 33, 9 only live to relate the melancholly tale. This morning presented a dreadful scene indeed; the beach being covered with dead bodies that had been cast on shore in the night, and others floating near the shore—22 bodies have been picked up.
The loss of this ship must be very great, as we are informed the had on board 630 hhds. of Sugar, besides rum and cotton.
The Ship Isabella , Capt. Carnegie , who was to sail in a few days for Glasgow, is on shore at the head of the Bay, with 2 masts cut away. The Brig George and Margaret , Capt. Ashington , has lost both masts and is on shore by the side of Messrs. Clifton, King and Co's. Sloop Indian Castle , Capt. Balden , the Schooner Friends , Capt. Leford is almost broke to pieces; and the Convert , Capt. Pawson , the property of Mr. Waddy , is also on shore.
It is supposed that the Ship Brothers , Capt. Loran , and Nancy , Capt. Dodds , would have been on shore, if the gale and swell had continued much longer, the former having thrown out a signal of distress for sometime.
The Brig —, Capt. Satterthwaite , with a load of cedar posts, is a shore at Old Read, and happily only one man was drowned.
The Ship Sarah and Anne , Capt. Chivers , run on shore at Nevis on Wednesday night and lost two men—both ship and cargo are lost. The sloop Sisters , belong to Mr. Jeremiah Neal , is also on shore there, but it is expected she will get off with little damage.
From Dominica , we hear that a Ship and several small vessels were on shore at that island.
Extract of a letter from a Gentleman in St. Bartholomew's, to his Friend in Nevis.
"On the first instant, the Wind blew strong from the North all day, and the sky had every ominous appearance; about 10 o'clock at night, the Wind increased, and continued to do so from the same point, 'till four the next morning—a short Calm succeeded, when the Wind blew from the South with redoubled force, and I expected that every moment would be our last—but through the Mercy of God my House stood unmoved, amidst the general Wreck.
"When day light permitted me to creep out, Oh God! Oh God! Who can tell how I felt?—Every Vessel in the Harbour to the amount of Ten were driven on shore: not one escaped, but Col. Gumb's Boat from Anguilla —Not a house scarce to be seen up the Bay, except Dawes , and one or two more.
"Poor Frank Savage , and his niece Polly Crawford , were knocked into the sea, and killed immediately, both buried yesterday morning: little Polly Savage has her thigh broken and is very ill. Old Mr. Neale's brig foundered in the Public Bay—he was taken up dead yesterday, and buried in the evening—several of his negroes are dead, but found. There are about seventeen blacks and whites who are lost—there are fifty-six houses blown down in this town—Mr. Blyden's spacious house is half down, the other half remaining—your House is saved.—In the country, there are not more than seven houses standing.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in St. Martin's, to a very respectable Gentleman in St. Eustatius, August 3, 1792.
"On the first of August at 11 to the clock at night a severe gale of wind from the North East commenced and continued till day light, then the wind changed to the S. E. with heavy showers of rain till ten o'clock in the morning.
"In Great Bay there are about thirty houses totally destroyed, there is no building which has not received some damage, the light is dreadful, the streets are covered with boards, shingles and furniture, several boiling houses, and dwelling-houses, in the country are damaged, and several negro houses are blown away.
"The cause-way between the salt and fresh ponds is broken down, and the salt pond has received two feet of water, which has melted a considerable quantity of salt; there lay in the road three ships and a very large snow, which was unloaded and ready to take in salt the next day; the Capt's name Chadwell , and had his wife on board, she has been driven out to sea, and has not since been heard of.
The Brig —, Capt. Sander from St. Thomas , to Antigua is on shore.
The Oyster Pond has likewise received much damage, a Sloop belonging to Capt. Mitchel , is turned bottom up and a negro man drowned.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 25.
Capt. Egar of the Molly , arrived last Thursday from Cape Francois , in 12 days, with 22 passengers. The disturbances at the Cape have little appearance of ceasing. The commander in Chief had given great disgust by sending back the troops to Old France, which were sent out for the defence of the islands. The Mulattoes are in the full enjoyment of liberty, but will not act against the negroes, who continue as turbulent as ever. They made a very desperate attack on Fort Dauphin , about 2 or 3 days prior to Capt. Egar's departure from the island, but were repulsed with very inconsiderable loss on the part of the garrison, although the slaughter of the blacks could not have been under four or five hundred. This fort, which is situate between the Cape and Fort Crispin is of such consequence, that, had it been taken, the Cape must have inevitably fallen next. The Negro Camp is so near the Cape , that the noise of their firing is heard every night. All the plantations, except one or two, are destroyed by the Negroes, and on these they are constantly making repeated attempts.
BOSTON, August 30. CAPTURE of SERINGAPATAM, AND PEACE with TIPPOO SULTAN.
BASSETTERRE [ St. Christopher's ] July 19.
A vessel bound from England to Dominica , fell in with a ship dispatched by Lord Cornwallis from the East-Indies , with the glorious news of the defeat of Tippoo , and the surrender of his capital. The Capt. of the Indian man hailed the above vessel, and desired her commander to come on board which he
did, and found there, Lord Cornwallis's Aid-de-camp, who wrote a short letter to Governor Orde , and enclosed him the Madras Gazette with the particulars. A gentleman whose veracity may be depended on, has arrived here from Dominica .—He saw the Gazette , which mention, "That Lord Cornwallis pushed on the siege with the greatest vigor—The alacrity of the army in general, and the alertness with which the approaches were carried on by General Meadows , was such, that notwithstanding every inch of ground was bravely and vigorously defended by Tippoo , who commanded in person every post of danger, the enemy were drove from their out works, and the Sultan and garrison were confined to the citadel, from whence he offered to accede to any terms of peace Lord Cornwallis might dictate. Seringapatam surrendered by capitulation. Tippoo gave up half his dominions, and upwards of three millions of pounds sterling.—The day after the treaty was signed, the Sultan , with his two sons, one of 11 years old, and the other 7, marched through the British army, which was drawn up to receive him—he had a melancholly but soldierly look—he went up to Lord Cornwallis , and delivering his two sons to his Lordship as hostages for the performances of the treaty, said, he hoped his Lordship would be a father to them. In the general orders the day after the treaty, his Lordship, after the usual thanks to the army, mentions Tippoo's gallantry in defending his capital in very honorable terms. A day or two after the surrender of Seringapatam , Lord Cornwallis visited the two Indian Princes, and presented one of them with an elegant Fuzee , and the other with a case of pistols, with which they seemed highly pleased.— Seringapatam with all the Mysore country, is to be restored to Tippoo ; but all the extensive and luxuriant country between the Ghauts and the British settlements, remain with the English—the Allies are to have the provinces bordering on their dominions. All the petty Princes are restored to their former rights."
Extract of a letter, dated Macao, 13th December, 1791, to a gentleman in this town.
Captain Kendrick had his vessel attack'd on the coast, and the natives got possession of his deck; however, after killing about forty natives, they recovered her; the natives had so far possession, that they handed over into their canoes, iron, copper, guns, &c. without leave or licence.—I forgot in my last to mention to you I discovered seven islands in the south seas, which I am sure from an examination of the different voyages from the year 1400 to the present date, all my charts and globes of modern date, were never discovered before; they are between the Marquesa's and the Sandwich isles. My journals being on board, puts it out of my power to transmit you by the present conveyance their particular Latitude and Longitude. However, the French ship I mentioned to you in my last, arrived here from the N. W. saw three of them, and claim'd them as a new discovery; but on examining my journals, the isles they had seen were the same we had seen a month before them."
We further learn,
That after the natives of the N. W. got possession of the Brig Washington , Capt. Kendrick , killed sixty of them before he could recover his vessel—and that the two seamen of the Columbia , Capt. Grey , who were massacred on that coast, did belong to Nantucket , by the names of Folgier and Barnes .
We learn that the six Indians (lately mentioned in the papers) who were lurking in and about Walpole in pursuit of a Mr. Brown , have at last satisfied their vindictive passion by killing him; in the contest however, Mr. Brown dispatched two of them.
We learn from St. Christopher's that the planters there have peremptorily refused to pay the duty of 4 1 2 upon the exportation of fugars, and that suits had been brought in the com-
mon law courts there, to discuss the propriety of that impost continuing to be levied.
FROM ST. DOMINGO, JUNE 30.
A letter received by a gentleman in this town, from Cape Francois , of the above date, informs, That Gen. BLANCHELAND , Commandant of the Island, had received a letter from the Generalissimo of the Insurgent Blacks, in which he expresses his inclination to enter into a Treaty of general Amnesty, on condition that the Blacks be treated with, as a free and independent people, and not otherwise.—The blacks conceiving the tenure on which the whites have heretofore held them in servitude, to be unjust, and are determined in future never to submit to it.
The proprietors of the Locks and Canals on Merrimack River , we are happy to learn, are in the spirited prosecution of their laudable enterprize,
SEPTEMBER 5.
A loan of 1,200,000 dollars, at four per cent. interest, has been obtained in Holland, on account of the United States.—The object—to redeem debts which bear higher rates of interest.
PORTSMOUTH, SEP. 6.
A pardon has been granted by the Supreme Executive of Massachusetts , to Joshua Abbot , lately convicted of Murder in the county of York .
Letters from France mention, that great numbers of patriotic new-married ladies have waited on the National Assembly , and took a formal oath to be true to the nation and faithful to their husbands while absent on the frontiers in defence of their country. They have also, according to their ability, presented pecuniary offerings for carrying on the war.—The assembly's hall re-echoed with applauses.
A decree has been reported in the National Assembly of France , authorizing the executive power to treat with the United States of America , for provisions to the amount of four millions of livres, to be delivered at St. Domingo .
There is no country in the world in which there is a greater field for agricultural improvement than America . In several of the States agricultural societies are established; a mutual intercourse and communication of observations, experiments and discoveries, will be highly conducive to the promoting this one of the first of all human concerns.
There were distilled in Providence, Con. from foreign and domestic materials, in three months next preceding the 1st of July last, 168,528 1/2 gallons of spirits:—The duties on the spirits delivered, from the several distilleries, during that time, amount to 19,395 dollars 7 cents 2 1/2 mills.
ENTRIES at the CUSTOM-HOUSE.
ENTERED FROM Sch'r Aurora , Noble , St. Eustatius . CLEARED FOR Sloop Sally , Fernald , Philadelphia . Brig Betsey , Garvin , Martinico .
TO be sold at public vendue, on Thursday the 13th day of September next, at 10 o'clock, A. M. at the dwelling-house of the late Mr. WILLIAM COTTON , of Portsmouth . Tanner , deceased, the Personal estate of said deceased—Consisting of Chairs, Tables, one Feather-Bed, and some Tanner's Tools :—Also, as much of the real estate as will raise the sum of one hundred and thirty-six pounds, by virtue of an order of the Judge of Probate.—The real estate consists of the TANYARD , lately improved by the deceased, and about 20 acres of land lying at Sagamore Creek (so called.)—Conditions of sale will be made known at time and place of sale.
Portsmouth, August 28, 1792.

Parnassian Spring.
No BEAUTY without VIRTUE.
"Flatter not a CHILD of EARTH, that she has BEAUTY without VIR- TUE—No—not though VENUS herself should own a RIVAL."
H OW unhappy the lady, whose charms
Depend on a beautiful skin— Who dotes on the cast of her eyes, Regardless of graces within!
The rose on her cheek will soon fade, And languish the love sparkling eye; No longer the Flatterer smiles— The Lover then ceases to sigh.
'Tis Virtue alone makes us blest, Its charms true enjoyment impart: Such as converse, and friendship, and love, And pleasures which flow from the heart.
These—these are increasing with time, Such joys will not fail with the night; But rise like the SUN from the east, And beam more ineffably bright!
Oh! happy—thrice happy—the Fair, Where VIRTUE and BEAUTY are join'd; With this—how she pleases the eye— With that—she enraptures the Mind.
CURE FOR HARD TIMES.
W HEN the good Governor TAL- cor presided over Connecticut, a poor simple man came to him one day, complaining very bitterly of the hardness of the times, and the scarcity of money, and that he was unable to get any, and wondered they did not make money, and would have him use his influence to have a bank made.
After hearing the good man through, he turns to him, and asked him if he had any pork or beef to sell? No. Any wheat or grain of any kind? No. Any butter, cheese, wool or flax? For says the Governor, if you have, I will give you money for them. Why no, he had not any thing to sell. Then, says the Governor, suppose we should make a bank of paper money, how do you expect to get it? Why, truly he did not know.
Let us run in debt less, spend less, and pay more, be frugal and industrious, and we shall soon find our affairs mend- ing; our debts both public and private lessening, and money becoming plenty. For the scarcity of money is a disease that will work its own remedy, and a plenty, as in other merchandise. But it must be in a way of industry and frug- ality—and whenever money becomes plenty in any other way, it does more hurt than good, as it creates idleness and wickedness among the people, of which we have already too much.
A Shop for Sale.
A LARGE, two story SHOP, near adjoining the west end of Colonel GAINS's dwelling-house, which may be made convenient for various uses— will be sold at public sale, on Friday the 14th inst. at 12 o'clock at noon, on the spot, and must very soon after be removed from the premises—unless be- fore sold at private sale, by application to THOMAS MARTIN. September 4, 1792.
New-Hampshire Bank.
N OTICE is hereby given, that charge will be taken at the New-Hampshire Bank, of all Notes of Hand, or other Securities for Specie, payable in Portsmouth, and the money collected, free of charge, and when so collected shall be paid to the order of the owner on sight.
By order of the Directors, JOHN PEIRCE, Cashier. Portsmouth, August 22, 1792.
WILLIAM BOYD HAS FOR SALE, At his Store in MARKET-STREET, English and India G O O D S, Which he will dispose of Very low for Cash , or approved Credit . ALSO,
RUSSIA Duck—7 by 9 and 8 by 10 Bristol Crown Gias— West-India Rum per Hhd.—Molasses per ditto—a few barrels Boston made N. England Rum—Sugars, &c.
N. B.—POT and PEARL ASHES, FISH, BEEF & LUM- BER will be receiv'd in pay- ment for any of the above Goods, at the market prices. Portsmouth, August 27, 1792.
State of New-Hampshire. P UBLIC notice is hereby given, that a petition has been preferred to the General-Court, by Samuel Leavitt , of Stratham, setting forth, that John Thurston , of said Stratham, sold and conveyed to him by his deed, a certain tract of land lying in Stratham afore- said, containing twenty-five acres and three quarters, on the 9th day of July, 1784.
That on the third day of the same July, Jonathan Leavitt , of said Strat- ham, sold and conveyed by his deed of that date, to the said John Thurston ten acres of land in said Stratham.—That the above-mentioned ten acres of land, are part of, and included in the bound- aries of the above-mentioned twenty-five acres and three quarters.—That the deed of the above-mentioned ten acres of land from the said Jonathan Leavitt to the said John Thurston is lost, and has never been recorded—by means of which he has no title to the said ten acres, and is li- able to be ejected by the said Jonathan Leavitt ; Wherefore he prayed that the title to the above-mentioned ten acres of land might be confirmed and established in him, his heirs and assigns.
Upon which petition the General- Court ordered, an hearing thereon before them on the third Wednesday of the next session, and that in the mean time the petitioner cause that the substance of the petition and order of court thereon, be published three weeks successively, in the New-Hampshire Ga- zette, six weeks prior to the said day of hearing, that any person or persons may then appear, and shew cause, if any they have, why the prayer thereof may not be granted.
ATTEST, JOSEPH PEARSON, Sec'yry. Secretary's Office, August 30, 1792.
State of New-Hampshire. To the Hon. JOHN PICKERING, Esq. a Justice of the Peace and of the quo- rum throughout the State.
I THE subscriber being a proprietor and owner of more than a sixteenth part of the township of Chatham, in the county of Grafton, in the State a- foresaid, request you, agreeably to law, to warn a meeting of said proprietors, to be holden at the dwelling-house of Col. Cogswell, in Dover, in the county of Strafford, on Tuesday the 23rd day of October, 1792, at three o'clock in the afternoon, then and there to vote and act on the following particulars:
1st, To choose a Moderator and Pro- prietors' Clerk.
2d, To consider and determine what the proprietors will do about the loca- tion granted to Samuel Sherburne, Da- niel Sherburne and Temple Knight.
JONATHAN WARNER. State of New-Hampshire. Rockingham ss.
THE Proprietors of the township of Chatham aforesaid, are hereby notified and warned to meet at the time and place, and for the purposes above men- tioned.
JOHN PICKERING, Justice of the Peace and of the Quorum through- out said State. August 31, 1792.
L E B A N O N. W HEREAS at a legal meeting, held by the proprietors and land owners, by adjournment, at the meet- ing-house in Lebanon, on Thursday the first day of December, 1791, voted to raise a tax of ten shillings on each original right of land in said town, to be collected on the twenty acre lots, or last division in said town, to be paid by the first day of March then next, with incidental charges; and a tax-bill be- ing committed to me the subscriber, to collect said sum, with incidental charges, this is to give notice, That so much of the following proprietors' lands, in the said twenty acre division, will be sold at public auction, on Tuesday the 9th day of October next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, at the dwelling-house of Elisha Hyde, Esq. in said Lebanon, as will pay said sum of ten shillings on each right, with incidental charges, as the law directs, unless said taxes are discharged before said day of sale.— The names of the delinquent proprie- tors are,
Tho's Barrows, jun. Jonathan Yeomans, Joseph Dana, Jonathan Woolcot, Obadiah Loomis, Jabez Barrows, John Swift, Nathaniel Hall, Elijah Huntington, Jonathan Murdock, John Baldwin, David Turner, Nathan Arnold, John Birchard, Richard Salter, Joseph Martin, Levi Hyde, Daniel Blodget, Const. Southworth, Robert Martin, Hubbard Estabrook, Edw. G. Lutwick, Benjamin Davis, Jedediah Dana, Lemuel Clark, William Dana, Daniel Blodget, Mark Wentworth. Joseph Wood, James Nevins, Josiah Storrs, Jonathan Blanchard Jonathan Martin, Oniel Lamant, Samuel Storrs, Hugh H. Wentworth Joshua Blodget,
JAMES JONES, Collector. Lebanon, August 13, 1792.
T HE subscriber takes this method to inform his friends and cus- tomers, that he continues carrying on the Tobacco Manufactory in its various branches, at the lower end of Buck- Street, near Col. Sherburne's Wharf— Where may be had for the future, Pig- tail, Leaf and Smoaking Tobacco, of the best quality, on the lowest terms, viz. Pigtail per roll, 8d per lb. and all lesser quantities in the same propor- tion.
The subscriber's motive in reducing the price of Tobacco, is to prevent To- bacco pedlars coming into this town, and carrying away money out of the place, to the damage of our own manu- factories.—The subscriber would be much oblig'd to his customers, if his Tobacco should not prove satisfactory, for them to make known the fault, that he may be enabled to rectify the same.—He returns his most hearty thanks to his customers for all their past favors, and hopes that they will still continue to favour him with their cus- tom. THALES G. YEATON. Portsmouth, August 29, 1792.
T O be sold at public vendue (by virtue of a licence from the Hon. Judge of Probate for the county of Rockingham) on Thursday the 20th day of September next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, at the dwelling-house of Captain Coleby, innholder in San- borntown, in the county of Strafford, the following lots or parcels of land in said Sanborntown, late the estate of Michael Shute, of Newmarket, ship- wright, deceased, viz. one half of two hundred acre lot No. 46. in the second di- vision in common and undivided—Also the onehalf of one hundred acre lot No. 5, in the first division; and likewise 20 acres of land, being part of the lot No. 29, in the second division.— Conditions to be made known at time and place.
JOHN SHUTE, Executor. Newmarket, August 25, 1792.
*** THE THIRD volume of the History of New-Hampshire, by the Rev. JEREMY BELKNAP, are ready to be delivered to the subscribers, and others at the Post-Office. Portsmouth, August 25, 1792.
Take Notice.
W HEREAS the proprietors of the township of Thornton, in the county of Grafton and State of New- Hampshire, at a legal meeting holden on the first Wednesday in July, at Portsmouth, in said State, then and there voted and assessed seventeen shil- lings L. M. on each original right; and at the same time appointed the subscriber collector. The following gentlemen being original proprietors are hereby notified, that unless they pay the same by the first Wednesday in Oc- tober, so much of their land as will pay the same, with incidental charges, will be notified for sale according to law. The Hon. Robert Temple, William Pynchon, Esq. John Temple, George Brindley, Robert Dows, Esquires, Jo- nathan Sewall.
N. B. Said tax is to pay the surveyor and assistants, for laying out the se- cond divisions in said town. MATTHEW THORNTON, Collector. Thornton, August 11, 1792.
State of New-Hampshire. Strafford ss. N OTICE is hereby given that there is a tax of fifteen shillings on each original right in the township of Chatham, in the county of Grafton, and State aforesaid, and committed to me to collect, and unless said tax is paid to me at my dwelling-house in Bar- rington, in the county of Strafford, on or before the last day of this instant September, so much of their land will be advertised for sale, as will pay said tax with incidental charges.
JOSHUA FOSS, Collector. Barrington, September 1, 1792.
P I E R M O N T. State of New-Hampshire.
N OTICE is hereby given to the proprietors of the township of Piermont, in said State, that a tax of two pounds ten shillings and ten pence, on each original proprietor's right or share in said town, was com- mitted to me the subscriber to col- lect, in pursuance of votes of said pro- prietors, at a legal meeting held at Portsmouth, December 11, 1787, for raising the sum of one hundred and fifty pounds, lawful money; and ap- pointed a collector and assessors there- of. And if the same is not paid to me at my dwelling house in Rye, on or be- fore the 11th day of October next, the rights of the delinquent proprietors will be advertised for sale as the law directs. SIMON JENNESS. Rye, August 31, 1792.
COURT OF PROBATE.
Rockingham ss. N OTICE is hereby given, that Thomas Roach of Portsmouth, in said county, Mariner, has petitioned the Judge of Probate for said county, setting forth that he is tenant in com- mon with the heirs of Thomas Wal- lingford, late of Somersworth, Esq. de- ceased, in a certain island situate in Pisca- taqua river, known by the name of Wal- lingford's Island; that to him belongs one acre thereof, and to the said heirs the remainder, and praying said Judge to cause partition thereof to be made, agreeably to the law in such case made and provided.
Whereupon it is ordered that he be heard at the probate court, to be held at the dwelling-house of John Green- leaf, inn-holder in said Portsmouth, on the third Wednesday of October next, at 10 o'clock before noon, when any persons interested may shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof should not be granted.
By order of the Judge. W. PARKER, Reg. Exeter, August 29, 1792.
A LL persons having any demands on the estate of Robert Bamford, Jun. late of Barrington, yeoman, de- ceased, are desired to bring in their de- mands to Sarah Bamford, Administrat- rix of said estate,—and those indebted to said estate are desired to make im- mediate payment.
SARAH BAMFORD Administratix. Barrington, August 6, 1792.