The New Hampshire gazette (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1798-10-31 00:00:00

THE New Hampshire Gazette.
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Vol. XLIII—Numb. 2187.]
WEDNESDAY, October 31, 1798.
[One Dollar & half pr. Annum.]
Late French Decree.
From the Journal de Bordeaux, dated the 21st Thermidor, An VI. (8th August 1798.)
Arrete of the Executive Directory.
THE Executive Directory, hearing the report of the Minister of Marine and of the Colonies; Considering that the news recently arrived from the French Colonies & from the continent of America, leaving no doubt but that the French, or cidevant French corsairs, have broken the laws of the republic in their cruizes and in their captures; Considering that strangers and pirates have abused the latitude given at Cayenne and the Antilles, to the armaments in course or in war and merchandise, to cover with the French flag their exactions and the violations of the respect due to the rights of nations, as well as to the persons and property of allies and of neutrals:
DEGREE;
A. 1. For the future there shall not be delivered in the French Colonies or America any letters of marque, authorizations or permissions to arm whether in course or in war and merchandise, but by the particular agents of the Executive Directory themselves, who shall not delegate this right to any one, and ought not to make use of it but in favor of those ship owners whose principles and property are well known to them, and shall besides be obliged to conform in every respect to the laws on cruizers and their prizes, and especially to that of the 1st October, 1793, O. S.
2. All the letters of marque, authorizations, or permissions granted in the colonies of America, by the particular agents of the Executive Directory or all other agents civil and military under their orders, to arm in course or in war and merchandise, shall be considered as null and void after the thirtieth, which shall follow the publication of the present arrete in the said colonies.
3. Every agent or every one delegated in neutral possessions to judge of the validity of prizes made by French cruizers, and who shall be suspected to have an interest, direct or indirect in the armaments in course or in war and merchandise, shall be immediately recalled.
4. The particular agents of the Executive Directory at Cayenne, St. Domingo and Guadaloupe, shall watch carefully that the interests and property of neutral and allied vessels be scrupulously respected, and in no case can they act with their cargoes but to the full and entire satisfaction of the two contracting parties.
5. The said particular agents of the Executive Directory, the commanders of all vessels of the Republic, the consuls, vice-consuls and all others invested with powers to this effect, shall cause to be arrested and punished, all those who shall infringe the dispositions of the present arrete, which shall be printed in the Bulletin of the Laws, and with the execution of which the Minister of Exterior Relations and of the Marine and Colonies are charged.
(Signed) MERLIN, President. LAGARD, Sec. Gen.
[Agreeable to promise, we now present the Apostate BISHOP of AULTON's Respond to Mr. GERRY's letter.]
Talleyrand's respond to Mr. GERRY's Answer to his Letter. Paris, 4 Thermidor, July 22.
PLEASE Sir, to permit me to lay particular stress on the two last paragraphs of your answer of the 2d instant to my letter of the 24th Messidor. Easy as it may be to rectify the preceding ones, to attempt it would be returning to no purpose into the circle of digressions.—It is but natural that I should feel what, under the existing circumstances, you imagine you may owe to your government, and this consideration would alone suffice to stop me, if I set a less value on the attainment of a conciliation.
You again observe to me, that the government of the United States has invariably been disposed to settle by arbitration the differences that subsist between the two Republics. This
new assurance, at a moment when it holds out the appearance of hostilities cannot but moderate their effects; but let sincere, loyal, and truly friendly acts speedily realize these dispositions. Though they are far from being very prominent in the answers of the President to the addresses that have been presented to him from the different parts of the United States, It is a pleasure to me to discover in these expressions nothing but political expediency.
I do not, however, augur less favourably of the real intentions which you profess in its name, and I would not have requested you to guarantee the success of the first proof which it shall be willing to give of these intentions, if the Executive Directory, that was ready to receive you, had not adopted a fixed resolution in that respect. A negotiation may be renewed at Paris, where I flatter myself, you experienced nothing but tokens of friendship, and where a friendly and honorable receipt always awaits an envoy who possesses your good qualities.
I am ignorant, moreover, Sir, why you should say that it is necessary to lop off from this negotiation every preliminary reference to a loan, and every explanation respecting the speech delivered by the President. Do but take the trouble to peruse anew the propositions which I transmitted to you on the 30th Prairial, they contain all the ideas of the French government, and you cannot discover a word in them that justifies your recurring to those two questions. An odious intrigue had got hold of the dignity of the business; the dignity of the Government could not brook this interference, nor would it suffer the purity of its views to be degraded by such an association.
As to the preliminary measures which you have suggested, Sir, the Government has already anticipated your wishes—information which they have lately received, acquaints them, it is true, that acts of violence have been committed against the commerce and the citizens of the United States in the Antilles and on the coast.—Do them but the justice to believe, that they need only to be informed of the facts in order to disavow all the proceedings that were contrary to the laws of the Republic, or to its decisions. These grievances are about to be redressed, and orders are going out to the islands, to reduce every thing to its legal limits till the moment arrives when a friendly arrangement between France and the United States, shall have respectively re-established the two countries in the enjoyment of their treaties.
This moment, Sir, cannot arrive too soon. I cannot cease to regret that you have been so reluctant to forward it, convinced as I always am, that you enjoy full powers to that effect.
Accept my best wishes for your happy voyage, and the assurance of my perfect consideration.
C. M. TALLEYRAND PERIGORD.
POLITICS.
[The following, every man in the United States, who dreads the introduction of Frenchmen and French principles among us, ought to read in the morning, meditate upon at noon, and lay under his pillow at night.]
SEVEN SENTENCES;
Addressed to many in GREAT BRITAIN.
1. THE men who planned the overturn of religion and governments, were to propagate universal benevolence; introduce liberty and equality; put the world in that happy state, where there could be no need for magistrates and laws: but this was all a pretence, for they knew, that the thing was impossible; that such a republic could not stand a single day; for, without magistrates and laws, no men could be safe, but, strong bodied men and knaves.
2. The real object was to plunder the rich and set up a military despotism, that is, a government of guns and swords, which was to have the disposal of property, liberty, life; exactly what is set up in France.
3. The same men saw, that the way to succeed was to banish religion, for if religion continued, the people also would continue to be good, loyal, sober, faithful: they saw that it was more impossible for their plans and religion to exist together, than for the French republic and the British government to exist together; they saw, that in place of the fear of God, they must lay, the fear of the gallows, for nothing else could restrain either themselves or those who would join them.
4. We are to judge of what the French will do, from what they have done; for we need not doubt but they will be consistent. All you, therefore, who propose, when the French invade us, to share in the spoil, will be disappointed; for they will come here, as every where else, to get a whole spoil themselves; and if any one of you, only with your little finger, attempt to touch a guinea, a shilling, or a sixpence, of your neighbours, you will be hunted by the French, like beasts, and put to death without mercy.
5. All you, who hope, if the French shall succeed, to share in the power, must take your lesson from France, where the first beginners in the revolution, and the first who got into power, would tell you, if they could, (for they are long since murdered and in their graves,) that your heads like theirs, would be the first cut off.
6. All you, who expect to share in the favour of the French, because you have not joined in the present voluntary contribution, (and not a few, and not unwealthy are you) will be set down by the French, as persons whom they cannot trust; for having turned your backs upon your own country, they will conclude, that you cannot prove true to theirs.
7. All you, who have been trumpeting a reform in government must be told, that the only reform which could do good, would be for men of all ranks to reform their lives, to be sincerely religious, to attend public worship; that if, from want of this destruction shall come, sooner or later, men may bewail their fate; but remember, they shall have no right to complain; for with their own hands, they shall have drawn down on themselves a destruction more fatal than the "FLOOD" which was in my days.
NOAH.
To the honorable the Justices of the Superior Court of Judicature, holden at Exeter, in the county of Rockingham, on the third Tuesday of September inst.
SHNEWS.
BENJAMIN MOULTON, of Kensington, in said county, husbandman, guardian unto Joseph Steele, of Exeter aforesaid, an adult person, adjudged to be non compos mentis; that upon a settlement of his account of guardianship of the said Joseph, made with the Judge of Probate for said county on the fifth day of September instant, there is a balance of one hundred and ninety-four dollars and sixty-nine cents, due to the said guardian; that the said Joseph is the owner of nine acres and one hundred and thirty rods of land, situate in Exeter aforesaid, which it is necessary should be sold in order to discharge the aforesaid balance, and the overplus, if any, to be appropriated towards the future support of the said Joseph.
Wherefore the said Benjamin prays your honors would grant him licence to sell the aforesaid nine acres and one hundred and thirty rods of land,—that the proceeds thereof may be appropriated as aforesaid, agreeably to the provision by law in like cases provided, he as in duty bound, will ever pray.
BENJ. MOULTON. Exeter, Sept. 20, 1798.
Rockingham, ff.
Superior Court, September term, 1798. Ordered by the court, that the said Benjamin Moulton notify all persons concerned, to appear before the Justices of the Superior Court of Judicature, to be holden at Portsmouth, within and for said county of Rockingham, on the first Tuesday of February next, to show cause (if any they have) why the prayer of said petition should not be granted, by causing said petition and order of court thereon to be published three weeks successively, in the New-Hampshire Gazette, the last publication thereof to be six weeks before said term.
Attest, NATHL ADAMS, Clerk. Copy examined by NATHL ADAMS, Clerk.
FOR SALE An elegant FARM,
CONTAINING about seventy-three acres, sixty of which is in mowing and pasturing, there is about twenty tons of hay cut annually on said farm, the farm is exceeding good for tillage, and about 12 acres of interval on said farm joining Saco river, with a main road leading through the farm from Limbrick to Saco; it is a good stand for a trader or tradesman, and will be sold immediately, and the terms made easy to the purchaser.—Any person disposed to purchase said farm may have to accommodate them for this season, cheap for each only; for particulars inquire of
JOHN GORDON.
Well's, October 12, 1798.
State of New-Hampshire. County of Cheshire.
To Nathaniel Emerjon, Esq. one of the Justices of the Peace for said county.
THE undersigned owners of more than one sixteenth part of the township of Boyle, in said county and State, request that you notify and warn the proprietors and grantees owners of land in said township, to meet at the dwelling house of Capt. Samuel Seward, in said Boyle (now called Sullivan) on Wednesday the seventh day of November next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, to vote and act on the following articles, matters and things, viz.
1st. To choose a moderator to govern said meeting. 2d. To choose a proprietors clerk. 3d. To raise on each original right a sum of money to defray the expenses of the property. 4th. To pass all necessary votes respecting making pitches, and to direct how and in what manner they shall be made. 5th. To vote, choose and appoint assessors and a collector with necessary powers. 6th. To vote and agree on a method to call proprietors meetings in future. 7th. To choose any committee or committees, or agents, that may be thought necessary. 8th. To do and transact any other business which may be thought necessary for the interest of the proprietors.
FREDERIC FRENCH, NOAH LOVEWELL, JOSIAH DANFORTH, JOSEPH KIDDER, BENJAMIN PARKER, Isaiah Kidder [JOSEPH BLANCHARD, for JONATHAN COMBS.
State of New-Hampshire.—Cheshire ff.
Pursuant to the foregoing request I hereby notify and warn the proprietors and grantees owners of said Boyle, to meet at the time and place and for the purposes before mentioned. NATHL EMERSON, Justice of the Peace. Stoddard, October 1, 1798.
Treasury Department, June 27, 1798.
NOTICE is hereby given, That by virtue of an act, passed during the present session of Congress, so much of the act entitled "An act making further provision for the support of public credit, and for the redemption of the public debt"—passed the third day of March, 1795, as bars from settlement or allowance, Certificates, commonly called Loan Office and final settlement Certificates, and Indents of Interest, is suspended until the 1st day of June, which will be in the year 1799.
That on the liquidation and settlement of the said Certificates, and Indents of Interest, at the Treasury, the Creditors will be entitled to receive Certificates of funded Three Per Cent. Stock equal to the amount of the said Indents, and the arrearages of interest due on their said Certificates, prior to the first day of January, 1791.
That the principal sums of the said Loan Office and final settlement Certificates, with the interest thereon, since the 1st day of January, 1791, will be discharged after liquidation at the Treasury, by the payment of interest and reimbursement of principal, equal to the sums which would have been payable thereon, if the said Certificates had been subscribed, pursuant to the Acts making provision for the debts of the United States, contracted during the late war, and by the payment of other sums, equal to the market value of the remaining Stock, which would have been created by such subscriptions as aforesaid, which market value will be determined by the Comptroller of the Treasury.
OLIVER WOLCOTT, Secretary of the Treasury. June 28. [6 m.]
Philadelphia, June 30th, 1798. Public notice is hereby given,
PURSUANT to the act of Congress, passed on the 19th day of June 1798, entitled, "An act respecting Loan Office and final settlement certificates, Indents of interest, and the unfunded or registered debt credited in the books of the Treasury."
1st. That on the application of the creditors respectively, or their legal attorneys at any time after the last day of December in the present year, the principal sums of the unfunded or registered debt of the United States credited on the books of the treasury, or commissioners of Loans will be reimbursed at the treasury of the United States.
2d. That interest upon the unfunded or registered debts aforesaid will cease from and after the last day of December in the present year.
3d. That the creditors respectively will be entitled on requisition to receive from the proper officers of the treasury, certificates of funded three per cent Stock, equal to the arrearages of interest due on the debts aforesaid prior to the first day of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one. By order of the Board of Commissioners, of the Sinking Fund. EDWARD JONES, Secretary.
THE inhabitants of
the town of Portsmouth are hereby informed,—that the Selectmen of said town have appointed Capt. Geo: Wentworth, Collector of taxes, in the room of Col. Elisha Hill, deceased, by whose death and the late distressing calamity, the collection of taxes has been unavoidably postponed—and as the season of the year is far advanced, and the calls for money to support the poor, schools and other charges of the town be become pressing, it is hoped that the inhabitants will cheerfully and speedily discharge their taxes to the present Collector. Portsmouth, Oct. 22, 1798.
TO BE LET
A convenient Dwelling House, with a barn, small garden, &c. will accommodate two families, the whole or one half will be let to a family, for further particulars apply to Jeremiah Hill, Portsmouth. October 24.
Wanted Immediately,
IN a private family, a woman that understands cooking, her work will be only in the kitchen—Inquire of the printer. Portsmouth, Oct. 23
ALL persons who have any demands against the estate of Dea. Elisha Hill, late of Portsmouth, deceased, are requested to exhibit them without delay; all persons who are indebted either by Note or Account, are requested to make immediate payment to ELISHA HILL, jr. Executor.
ALL persons indebted to, or that have any demands against the estate of Israel Marden, late of long lane, so called, wheelwright, deceased, are requested to exhibit their accounts to the subscriber, Executor to his last will and testament. FRANCIS MARDEN. Portsmouth, Oct. 19, 1798.
ALL persons indebted to, or that have any demands against the estate of Nathaniel Ladd, late of Epping, taylor, deceased, are requested to exhibit the same for settlement to POLLY LADD, Administratrix of said estate Epping, October 9, 1798.
ALL those who have demands against either the old, or new revenue cutters Scammel, are requested to send in duplicate accounts thereof for settlement and payment to THO'S MARTIN, Agent for said Cutters.
The Custom-House is removed to the brick store on Spring-Hill, over Mr. Joseph Haven's store. Portsmouth, Oct. 15, 1798.
NOTICE is hereby given that the subscribers have been duly appointed Administrators to the estate of Moses Little, late of Campton, in the county of Grafton, Esquire, deceased, and have given bonds as the law directs.—All persons having demands on said estate, are required to exhibit the same, and all persons indebted to said estate are called upon to make immediate payment. EBENEZER LITTLE, JAMES LITTLE. Campton, October 8, 1798.
NOTICE is hereby given to the resident owners of land in Raby, who have not paid their taxes for the years 1785, and 1787, that unless the said taxes is paid to me the subscriber on or before the third Monday of November next, so much of their land as will pay the same together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue at the house of Samuel T. Boynton, in Raby, at one o'clock afternoon. Common land, North of the pond (so called) State. Specie. Indents. Certificates. Qty. l. s. d. l. s. d. l. s. d. l. s. d. 300 0 113 0 150 0 88 0 40 R. MCDONALD, Constable. Raby, Oct. 1, 1798.
A chance for 2000 dollars. WHOLE and QUARTER Tickets in the 5th Class of Dartmouth College Lottery, for sale at J. MELCHER's Printing-Office and Book-Store, corner of Market and Congress Streets, Portsmouth, where prizes drawn to the tickets purchased there will be paid.

FROM LATE GERMAN PAPERS.
FLORENCE, JULY 5.
Letters from Leghorn, of the 3d July, state, that an English corvette, under Portuguese colours, met a vessel at sea, having on board dispatches from Admiral Nelson, for Tunis, and from thence to Tangiers, to be expedited for England.
FRANKEFORT, AUG. 18.
There is no certainty of the fate of the Toulon fleet; as the accounts from Constantinople and Leghorn, do not agree: but it is certain that Buonaparte has landed a part of his force at Alexandria; this was brought by an English courier from Constantinople, to Vienna. [Other accounts from Vienna, by the way of Constantinople, say that Buonaparte landed from 15, to 20,000 men at Alexandria, between the 7th and 8th July.]
Accounts from Vienna inform, that at Alexandria, and on the islands of the Archipelago,—magazines were formed by one Ferman, (for the purpose of providing necessaries for the French troops) which were discovered by the Russian and English residents at Constantinople. This circumstance makes it certain that an alliance between the Porte, Russia and England, had been formed. [This article accounts for the resistance which it is said Buonaparte met with at Alexandria.]
VIENNA, Aug. 18.
More intelligence has been received in Italy, by letters from Ragusa, confirming the account of the sea fight between the French and English fleets, in the waters of Candia, in which the English were victorious; but the British minister would not publish it, having received no official communications to justify him in an event of such magnitude, although he had besides, received two letters from the Minister at Naples and from two consuls in the Mediterranean advising of the same intelligence. He was asked by the court, whether he believed the accounts to be true; he replied yes; but lamented that nothing official on this important subject had arrived. If the victory is as great as reported, it will have a wonderful influence on the politics of all Europe.
HAMBURG, Aug. 25.
Extract of a letter from Copenhagen, Aug. 21.
“About 150 Holland fishermen have been chased by the English cruisers from the Norwegian banks to Fährfund, in Norway: they have petitioned the court of Denmark to be permitted to remain there; and pursue their occupation; and for a certain time, to be exempted from military duty, taxation, &c. As the fishery of Norway, by these people, might be considerably augmented and improved, there is no doubt but the Court will grant them their petition. [The Holland Herring fishery exceeds by far the Norwegian, by the excellent manner in which they cure it.]
LONDON, Sept. 10.
Manifesto to the People of Ireland,—which the French might have addressed to them.
The following MANIFESTO was transmitted to us from the County of Mayo, and said to be published there by the French General.
“Health and Fraternity to the People of Ireland.”
“The Great Nation has sent me to you with a band of Heroes, to deliver you from the hands of Tyrants. Fly to our Standards, and share with us the glory of subduing the world. We will teach you the Arts of War and to despise the low pursuits of Toil and Industry—You shall live on the spoils of war and the labours of others. The acquisition of wealth is the acquisition of military, and the enjoyment of ease is glorious: We have made all the Nations we have conquered happy, by arming their property; by applying it to the common cause and consecrating it to the Champions of Liberty! Property is a common right, belonging to the valour that seizes it. We have already destroyed the unspotted tranquility of Switzerland and the wealth, and the power, and the Bigotry of Italy are no more! If then the Justice of France has thus extended its reforming vengeance on unoffending nations, consider with how much more rigour will it visit you if you slight its benignity, fly to our Standards and we will free you from spiritual as well as temporal subjection; we will free you from the fetters of Religion and the frauds of Priestcraft. Religion is a bondage, intolerable to free minds; we have banished it from our own country, and put down the grand impostor, the Pope, whose wealth we have sacrificed on the Altar of Reason. Fly to our Standards, and we will break your connection with England; we will save you from the mortification of seeing yourselves under an invidious
Government, and exalt you in the rank of those countries which now enjoy the benefits of French Fraternity. Let not the ties of kindred, the seductions of ease, or the unmanly attachment to the comforts of life,—teach you to neglect this friendly call of your Country-men and Fellow-Citizens.
BRITISH NAVAL PROWESS.
Sir R. Strachan, whose zeal and enterprise are always conspicuous having discovered 47 gun boats moored in the inner road of Havre, from Cape la Heve round the Pier-head, and then half way across the river Seine towards Honfleur, on Sunday attacked them. A smart fire ensued, in which some of the enemy's vessels were sunk, and from the great confusion they betrayed, they are supposed to have lost a considerable number of men.—The Diamond was struck eight or ten times, but she had not a man hurt. One shot under water has given employment to the hand pumps. The Arethusa received one shot; but the Ripley Schooner had her commander, Lieutenant Bond, an officer of excellent abilities wounded in the thigh, a seaman wounded in three places, and another killed, all in consequence of a shot from one of the enemy's boats having struck a carronade, and split it into many pieces. She is returned to Portsmouth to land her wounded,—and shift her foremast, which was sprung in the chase.
OF AMERICA.
BOURDEAUX, AUG. 29.
Some of the Paris Journals give an account of the hostile preparations making by the American government—and add, that the Republican party in America, headed by Mr. Jefferson, willing to prevent a rupture between the two countries, (which would only be of an advantage to the English) have sent over an American, who is a friend to his own country, and grateful to France, and that this Messenger of Peace has had several conferences with the Minister of foreign affairs, M. Talleyrand. They also add, that he will be successful in his mission, and that there will be no war between the two Republics.
CHARLESTON, Sept. 28.
The Fort lately erected on Shute's Folly, opposite this city, being so far completed as to receive some of its cannon, yesterday at 12 o'clock the ceremony of naming it was performed. It is called Fort Pinckney, as a tribute of respect for Maj. Gen. PINCKNEY, our late Envoy to the Republic of France. A federal salute was fired from it, which was returned by Fort Johnson, Fort Mechanic, the armed brig Unanimity, and the British armed ship Bellona, Capt. M'Gruer.
Maj. Gen. Moultrie, Gen. Washington, Lieut. Col. Rutledge, and a number of other gentlemen were invited to assist at the ceremony, and afterwards partook of a genteel repast, provided for the occasion in the Fort.
PROVIDENCE, Oct. 20.
Capt. Wilson Jacobs is appointed First Lieut. of the George Washington Frigate, now fitting here, Capt. John Warner, second, and Capt. Zachariah Rhodes, third; Capt. Geo. Hallowell, Sailing Master. The frigate will be well officered, and volunteers to complete the crew are fast inlisting.
Address to Mr. Pinckney.
NEWARK, OCT. 16.
ON Saturday last arrived in this town, the Hon. CHARLES COTESWORTH PINCKNEY, Esq. one of the Ministers Extraordinary to the French Republic.—In the evening of the same day, a number of the inhabitants of the town waited on him, and presented him the following ADDRESS. To the Hon. CHARLES COTESWORTH PINCKNEY.
SIR, Permit us on the part of the inhabitants of the town of Newark, to congratulate you on your safe return to your native country.—We could not omit the occasion of your passing through our village, without availing ourselves of the opportunity of expressing the fullest approbation of your official conduct, on the late mission to France, and the interest we take in your personal welfare and happiness. However unavailing the result of your embassy has proved, and however disappointed the general expectations of your fellow citizens, in the conduct of the Directory of France, towards their Ministers Extraordinary; we console ourselves in the idea, that every thing has been done, on the part of these United States, consistent with the character of a free and independent people—on the part of France, the door has been closed against candid overtures, for an honourable explanation of existing causes of difference between the two republics. But we stand prepared, to meet with firmness and resolution, every possible alternative of disastrous fortune, rather than submit
to the overbearing dictates of haughty Directors. America is a world by itself, and we are determined to pay nothing to a foreign Potentate, for the free enjoyment and exercise of our national privileges.
Accept our warmest acknowledgements for your honorable discharge of the high and important trust confided to you—that you may in safety arrive to the bosom of your friends and family, and long live to participate of the blessings of national liberty, and a happy government, with every mark of distinction from a grateful people, is, Sir the cordial wish of your fellow citizens of Newark.
To which Mr. PINCKNEY returned the following Answer.
Gentlemen,
Accept my best thanks for your very polite congratulations, for the honorable approbation you are pleased to testify of my official conduct, while in Europe, and for your very kind wishes.—It gives me very great pleasure to find that you are prepared to meet with firmness and resolution, every possible alternative of disastrous fortune, rather than submit to pay any thing to a foreign Potentate, for the free enjoyment and exercise of our national privileges. But I am convinced if we are united, and act with decision and energy, we have nothing to fear from the hostility of France. It is on our disunion and want of firmness that she counts for success in her unjust pretensions—I have no doubt but that she will be disappointed.
CHARLES C. PINCKNEY.
BOSTON, Oct. 24.
From BOURDEAUX.
Gloucester, Oct. 23, 1798.
MR. RUSSELL,
The following extract from a letter from Bourdeaux, which I received by the arrival of Gen. Pinckney, will serve to confirm the verbal accounts by the Franklin, as mentioned in Saturday's Centinel; and also confirms a part of Talleyrand's (which I think wants confirmation) response to Mr. Gerry's answer to his letter.
Yours, &c.
THE EXTRACT.
The following may be relied upon, as coming from an American, and a true friend to our government.
“Bourdeaux, Aug. 27, 1798.
“I think every thing will still be settled, as this government seems disposed to accommodate matters.
“We have news here from America, to the 15th of July, and I think nothing more will take place until news arrives here from what Mr. Gerry carried out.—All the privateers in the West-Indies, are absolutely to be called in, as no doubt you will see by the arrest of the Directory—and orders are gone out for that purpose. The high Cassation Court at Paris, have lately cleared 2 or 3 Americans, which I think will stop their taking those who have proper papers. Those vessels had been condemned in two Courts before.
“There have been condemned 2 or 3 here which I think will be cleared at Paris. A wonderful change! There is one under trial, whose papers are in order, except a certificate that the fugar is not English produce.—Brokers are appointed to examine it, and if they report favourably, I think she will be cleared.”
PLEASING INTELLIGENCE.
A letter received by a merchant of this town, from Mr. Cabot, gives important information to those who have similar concerns,
London, July 27.
“SIR,
“I have the satisfaction to inform you, that this day the Court of Appeals reversed the sentence of condemnation in the case of the sch. Peacock and cargo. S. CABOT.”
“The Peacock, Planey, master, was of the first list of American vessels condemned at Montserrat, upon Lord Mansfield's reason, of enjoying a trade not known to neutrals before the French Revolution, and therefore to be considered as adopted French vessels.
The sending Dr. Logan as an Envoy to the French Directory, from the Jacobin Faction, is but one scene in that vast Tragedy of Treason, which they have been preparing in the United States.
JOHN ADAMS, President of the United States, is a descendant of one of the first families of Massachusetts Bay, who founded the Colony in the year 1630. He was born at Braintree, in this State, October 19, (O. S.) 1735, which, according to the modern calendar, is the 30th October.
The elections at the southward are not stated with that accuracy which will warrant an affirmation.—One thing is, however certain, that a majority of the next House of Repre-
sentatives of the United States, will be decided JOHN ADAMS,—and GEORGE WASHINGTON, Federalists.
It must be a pleasing consolation to our worthy and beloved President which the WORLD cannot give, or take away, that GEORGE WASHINGTON, is a sincere approver, and will, with his life, be a defender, of all his conduct towards that ferocious violator of every just and honorable rational principle; the self-nominated French Republic.
October 25.
A gentleman from off Cape Ann, informs, that the sch. Sukey, of Boston, had gone on shore on Sandy bay; and that five bodies had floated from her. On whom a Coroner's inquest has set.
The sch. Cherub, Capt. Atkins, has arrived at Duxbury, from Nantz, in France, which place she left the 16th Sept. A gentleman from that place who has seen Capt. A. reports, that she brings DISPATCHES FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTORY OF FRANCE TO OUR GOVERNMENT, accompanied with orders that she should not be stopped or detained by the French forts, or vessels of war; that the conduct of the French government towards the United States had totally changed; and an apparent desire to open an amicable negotiation immediately, was visible among them; and that Duplicates of the Dispatches had been sent in the Cyrus, Capt. Tyler, who failed in company under the care of Joseph Woodward, Esq. a passenger.
These Dispatches will develop new measures to entrap the honest credulity of our countrymen; but let them be on their guard; Talleyrand in one of his letters to Mr. Gerry, says, “let an act of frankness, generosity, and real friendship on the part of the U. States prove that they are disposed to cultivate peace with France.” It is suspected Talleyrand wants from the United States such an act of frankness and generosity as the Fox requested from the Cock, when he wished to draw him from the top of a tree into his clutches.—
Come down, my friend, says the Fox, let us take a social walk together—you are for peace—so am I, says the Fox—all I want is, that you, Mr. Cock, by coming down, should, as Talleyrand says, exhibit an act of frankness, generosity and real friendship, to prove the truth of your disposition. The Cock clapped his wings and crew.—Reynard finding himself understood sneaked off; and so will Talleyrand, if the people of the United States discover a disposition to support that old game cock, JOHN ADAMS, the President of the United States.
[Russell's Gaz.]
SALEM, October 23.
Extract of a letter from an American gentleman abroad, to his friend in this country, dated
“LISBON, AUG. 30, 1798.
We have no certain news of BUONAPARTE's and NELSON's fleets in the Mediterranean. It is pretty certain, however, that BUONAPARTE's destination is Egypt. What is he to do there? You know just as well as I do, that is nothing about it.—A report has been in circulation for some time that there has been an engagement between the two fleets, in which NELSON was victorious; but this is doubted; it is not however wholly disbelieved. God grant it may prove true. It would be a heavy blow for the French. We must wait a long time before we have authentic information from NELSON himself, on account of the winds prevalent at this season.
“We have Philadelphia papers to the 16th July. These, together with my letters, give me every information I could wish. Your politicians must endeavor to keep alive that enthusiasm which I see is so general. The French will try to destroy it by all Jacobinic means in their power. You will soon receive an invidious decree that has lately passed in order to lull our people. The disorganizers will make it an occasion for trumpeting forth that the French privateers are to be recalled; but it is no such thing. The unauthorized privateers, which are very few, are to be called in; no doubt in order to receive commissions; and the rest are to be made to conform strictly to the LAWS relative to captures. A great comfort this, when those laws are the very things we complain of! What an opinion must they have of us to try to impose upon us in this manner! And besides, this decree says nothing of their privateers on the coasts of Europe; it relates to those in the West-Indies only.”
“SEPT. 3.
“I have lately seen some Paris papers, which contain a charming dose for the Jacobins. If any were capable of doing it, this is one that will stop their mouths, or at least stick in their throats a little while.
“Jourdan (de la Haute Vienne) reported to one of the Councils a plan
for furnishing the government with a standing army of a million of men! He says the Republic being surrounded by Kings, who keep large armies; it becomes necessary for the French government to keep one also, in order to defend the liberties of the people against external violence.
“In one paper the Editor [mark this, the Editor of a paper] inculcates the necessity of severe restrictions on the press, in order to prevent the licentiousness, which now so much prevails.
“Thirdly. A member of one of the Councils, (Bailleur) concludes, after a long harrangue, that a public debt is a public blessing. It appears by the statement of Citizen Bailleur that the Republic is in a fair way of enjoying that blessing; for he says that during ten months (from Sept. 1797) the receipts of the government did not amount to more than one third the expenditure for the same period!
“The reason of these things is obvious. The people must be prepared for new severities. We shall soon hear that this standing army is organized; that the press is more restrained (if possible) than at present; and that new taxes are imposed. These three have been standing topics in the declarations of the Jacobins against our government; I suppose they will in turn form three articles of the creed.”
WALPOLE, Sept. 24.
New Bridge at Bellows's Falls.
On Thursday, the 20th current, a masterly, convenient, and well finished Bridge was opened at Bellows's Falls for the public convenience. This useful structure, built of firm and durable materials, and completely executed by workmen of approved skill and fidelity, consists of two arches, and is 365 feet in length and 26 in breadth.—The mechanism is in a very superior style, and finished with the neatness of cabinet work. The bridge is remarkably firm and solid, and all its materials are of the first quality. Too much praise cannot be given to Messrs. Mills and Greene, the architects, or to the constant combination of industry and ingenuity which they have displayed. We earnestly hope that the enterprising and public spirited proprietor, Frederick W. Ceyer, Esq. will ultimately have the double benefit of ministering to the public good, and realising a compensation for the trouble and expense to which he has been exposed.
Rich'd Evans
Has opened part of his Fall and Winter Goods,
CONSISTING of a good assortment of such as are necessary for the seasons. He has a large assortment of INDIA COTTONS, which admit of an excellent choice, at his store opposite the Printing-Office, Market-street.
Portsmouth, Oct. 30, 1798.
Messrs. Renard & Barbet
With pleasure inform their friends and the public, that they will again open their
Dancing School,
At the Assembly-Room, on Friday next, at half past two o'clock, they will keep on Saturday, at the same hour.
N. B. A subscription paper is left with the printer hereof, for those who wish to attend an evening school.
Portsmouth, Oct. 31, 1798.
NOTICE.
AS the AQUEDUCT is nearly brought into the town of Portsmouth, the course for this year being through Congress and Daniel streets.
This is to inform any persons living in said streets who wish to take water from the Aqueduct, for the use of their families, that they now have an opportunity to furnish themselves, by applying to the subscriber's store, N o . 3 Portsmouth Pier, who will inform the terms. GEO: LONG.
Portsmouth, Oct. 29, 1798.
ALL persons indebted to, or that have any demands against the estate of Lieut. ABRAHAM SANBORN, late of Exeter, deceased, are requested to exhibit their accounts to the subscribers, executors to his last will and testament. MARY SANBORN, BENJ. SHAW. Exeter, Oct. 26, 1798.
ALL persons having demands against the estate of Nathaniel Stevens, late of Stratham, deceased, are requested to exhibit the same as soon as may be; also all persons indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment to SIMON STEVENS, Executor. Stratham, Oct. 26, 1798.
WANTED in a small family, where the work is easy, a person capable of sewing and cooking, honest and cleanly, to whom good wages will be given.—Inquire of the printer. Oct. 29.

SAVANNAH, Oct. 2. Launched on Saturday last, one of the galleys built by the United States, for the defence of this State, she is called the Savannah.
TRENTON, October 17. OFFICIAL.
The following extract of a letter from Mr. Walsh at Barcelona, was received this day by the Secretary of State, in a letter from Col. Humphreys, dated at Madrid the 31st of August.
Extract of a letter from Mr. Dennis Walsh at Barcelona, dated 25th August, 1798.
An Ottoman Captain arrived yesterday, in 34 days from the island of Idra in the Morea, brings advice of General Buonaparte's having landed after a short and fruitless opposition on the part of the inhabitants, at Alexandria in Egypt. This news was received at Idra by a vessel from Alexandria. I can answer for the Captain having made the report, and the truth of its purport is believed by the best informed people here. The Ottoman adds, that several vessels had arrived at Idra from Alexandria, all concurred in the French having landed at the latter place. They met with the English fleet, 23 sail of the line and seven frigates, in the channel between the island of Rhodes and Alexandria, steering for the French fleet. It would appear that the landing took place about the 8th or 10th of July.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 17.
Extract of a letter from S. Bourne, Esq. Consul-General of the United States at Amsterdam, dated July 29, 1798, to the Secretary of State.
"Prior to the departure of the last American vessel in our port, I beg leave to inclose you a transcript from a Dutch Gazette, of this day, containing a late arrest of the Emperor of Russia, relative to French property.
The transcript above referred to.
"His Russian Majesty has, according to official accounts, given the following law, under date of the 11th of June:
"Being informed that the French have laid attachment on all vessels loaded with Russian goods, even laying in neutral ports; in consequence of which, we order, that in all Russian ports, an attachment will be laid on all French merchandise, without taking notice in what vessels they may be loaded, or to whom the said merchandise belongs."
Upon which Mr. Bourne remarks, "That the arrest of the French government, which has given rise to the above order, and to which it refers, does not recollect to have seen: But that the transcript seems to bear the mark of authenticity."
BOSTON, Oct. 27.
Fire of the Flint!
The ship Clothier, Capt. Gardner, has arrived at Liverpool, after having a severe action with a French privateer of superior force. The last Philadelphia accounts state, that the privateer struck to the American.
Major Rice, of Hingham, we are informed, is appointed a Colonel in the U. S. army.
October 29.
From France.
On Saturday, the brig Cyrus, Capt. Edward Tyler, reached this port from Nantz; having passports of protection from the forts and privateers of the Republic. Joseph Woodward, Esq. who came passenger in the Cyrus, is the bearer of dispatches from the French Government; which were immediately sent on to the Secretary of State.
Mr. Woodward, furnishes the following Note, accompanied with the protective passports.
Extract of a letter of the Members of the Marine, and the Colonies, to the principal Commissioners, dated 24th Thermidor, 6th year.
"I remark Citizens, by the Correspondence of the greater part of the administrators of the forts, that the Embargo, recently laid on the American vessels, has occasioned the detention of their crews. The intentions of the government must have been badly understood to have occasioned the adoption of a measure that appears to put us in an hostile attitude towards the United States, whilst its acts indicate, on the contrary, that it desires to maintain good intelligence between the two Republics. I recommend to you therefore, Citizens, to ordain as soon as you shall receive the present, the liberation of all the Americans who may have been considered as prisoners of war, in consequence of the Embargo laid upon their vessels.
(Signed) E. BRUIX.
Mr. W. has also handed us the following particulars:—the public be-
ing already acquainted with the situation of our affairs in France, at the time of Mr. Gerry's departure from that country, it is only necessary to mention what has taken place since.
Mr. Dupont, late French Consul at Philadelphia, presented to the Directory a detailed memorial of the depredations of the French W. I. privateers, on the American Commerce, (about the time that Mr. Gerry left Paris,) which appeared to make some impression on the minds of its members, who pretended to have been ignorant of it, until that moment—but still the Embargo was not taken off, nor our Seamen then in prison, released from their confinement.
A few days after the sailing of Mr. Gerry, a large number of New-York papers reached Paris, by way of Bourdeaux, containing a great number of Addresses to the President of the U. States, with sundry Acts, and Debates of Congress, which bespoke, so much Union of the people, wisdom and firmness of the Government, that the long entertain'd hope of separating a free and happy people from the Government of its own deliberate choice, was then given up. About this time Doctor Logan, of Philadelphia, arrived in Paris, by the way of Hamburg, who found his way directly to some of the members of the Directory, and it appears by his MEMORIAL, that he confirm'd what had but just began to be believed, that France had now but very few friends left in America. A few days produced a release of the American Shipping and Seamen, with an order to all the ports in the Republic to treat all the Americans well that might arrive there; these measures were communicated to Mr. Skipwith, our Consul General in Paris, requesting that they might be communicated to the government of the United States, as soon as possible, and at his request, a letter of safe conduct or protection was granted for the brig Cyrus, to carry Dispatches for the Secretary of State, of the U. States.
[We hope the above will convince the few yet doubting Americans of the necessity of national defence. A government will never have it, in its power to preserve peace with honor, until it has it in its power to carry on war with vigor.—We warn our readers, however, not to trust to the tears of the Crocodile; from dear experience we have learnt that the French are not to be believed; we well know that their promises and their pycruft are alike made to be broken: and that the most solemn oaths of a nation which has abjured its GOD, must necessarily be composed of more slimy stuff, "than dreams are made of." If the Directory are sincere in their advances towards a reconciliation, let them evince it by immediately indemnifying our merchants for the depredations of those pirates whom they have commissioned, and with whom they have shared the booty.—Let them also apologise for their influence in rejecting our ambassadors. Let them do this and we will then say, that the present government of France, amid the multitude of its crimes, has performed ONE just & honorable action. Yet even this one, like Lot in Sodom, will not be able to save them from destruction. Other nations will revenge, though we should forgive; and we are assured by a very respectable character, who has lately travelled thro' the interior of France, that two thirds even of the French themselves are in favour of the restoration of monarchy. Such alas! has been the despotism of liberty.]
We mentioned in our last, that the trial of Thomas Adams, for seditious publications was assigned for this day. On Saturday Mr. Edwards renewed the motion for a continuance, grounding it on the importance of the cause, and the difficulty of procuring Counsel to manage the Defence without further time for preparation. A continuance was granted, the Defendant to be under recognizance for his appearance at the next term and in the mean time to be of the peace and good behavior.
[Russell's Gaz.]
From PROVIDENCE, Oct. 27. The Hon. Board of Commissioners, which had been sitting for some time past in this town to ascertain the river St. Croix, which is an Eastern Boundary of the United States, rose last Thursday.
It is said that their unanimous result is, a boundary which will assign a large portion of the disputed lands to each party, and quiet all the actual possessions and claims of Individuals.
Entire harmony is said to have subsisted during this lengthy and laborious trial, as well between the agents as the commissioners. This is the first experiment of compromising national disputes in this summary way, which
*The papers in this case are said to constitute 8 vol. in folio.
has been carried into complete effect.
For the credit of human nature it is hoped that it may prove an useful lesson to the Europeans now at war, and lead to the establishment of a system of perpetual amity among all civilized nations.
MELANCHOLLY.
The sch. Savannah, Capt. Daniel Jamison, was found on Saturday morning, the 20th inst. between Holly-boat Point and Sandy Bay, (Cape Ann) wreck'd to pieces; she sailed from Penobscot on the Wednesday previous, bound to Boston, and is supposed to have struck on a rock, many leagues from shore, overset, and filled in the bay, her stern post and rudder not being found, and her foremast appearing to have been cut away; from the trunk, cloaths, and papers, which have been picked up, it is supposed there were twenty persons on board, who have probably all perished; nine days having elapsed since the ship's wreck, and no accounts of the deliverance of any of them been received; no part of the boat or oars were discovered with the wreck; though it is probable had they been taken to the boat, the gale must have proved destructive to them—the sea running very high, and the weather thick. The following articles were washed on shore, viz. cloaths marked S. H.—H. P.—O. D.—R. T.—B.—Umbrellas, R. Hall; D. Jamison; a Gun Stock, W. Cordwell; a Hat, R. Hall; a Chest of cloaths supposed to belong to Mr. S. Noble, Jr. another chest of cloaths of Mr. B. Clap, and a box marked Joshua Bangs. The chests went on shore some hours after the vessel; this circumstance strengthens the opinion that the vessel was overset some considerable distance from shore.
Philadelphia—Deaths, Oct. 18, by the fever, 25. Oct. 19, 34 deaths, and 17 new cases.
New-York—Deaths, Oct. 16, nineteen. Oct. 17, thirteen. Oct. 18, eleven of the fever. Oct. 19, thirteen, 10 of the fever.
Federal Register.
[Members chosen for the next Congress.]
Maryland—Messrs. Baer, Craik, Dent, and Seney. This State sends 3 Representatives.
Pennsylvania—William Brown, Peter Muhlenburg, Joseph Heister, and John W. Heister.
New-Jersey—Dr. Condit, Aaron Kitchel and James Lynn, Esqrs.
Connecticut Representatives.—John Allen, Chauncey Goodrich, Samuel W. Dana, William Edmond, Roger Griswold, Jonathan Brace and John Davenport, jun. Esqrs. Mr. Griswold had 4279 votes.
Marine Intelligence.
Ship Little Mary, owned at Providence, is ashore at Halifax, and cannot be got off; cargo considerably damaged—Brig Free Mason, owned at Boston, is on shore, but will be got off.—A Schooner owned in Boston, or Newbury-Port, is ashore, and broke her keel, lost her bowsprit, anchors and cables.
PORTSMOUTH, October 31.
Sunday arrived here Capt. Joseph Brown, late master of the brig Sterling of this port, came passenger with several other Americans in the ship Benjamin Franklin, Capt. Loyd Jones arrived at New Castle, R. I. 35 days from Bordeaux; Capt. Brown says he was captured on the 26th of May last by the French privateer Mercury, and carried into Bordeaux, and on his arrival was conducted with another American Captain and two of his sailors who was in irons through the city to prison, and there detained four days, and then released by the same officers who committed them, they then applied for passports to leave the country, but was always denied, and told there was no American allowed to leave the country; not satisfied with this, they drew up a petition, and inclosed the same in a letter to the Consul General at Paris, to be presented to the Directory; at last they pretended not to know any thing of their wanting to leave the country, nor of their imprisonment and said there was no person to hinder them from going, that it was only necessary, for them as it was required of all Americans to sign the Roll d'Equipage on their leaving the country.—Capt. Loyd Jones used every exertion in his power to obtain their release, and to get them away, Capt. Brown says, had it not been for the spirited exertions of our Government it is his opinion, they would have remained in prison 'till this time,—it struck them like a thunder bolt. He wishes all his countrymen that says that the Frenchmen are doing right in plundering all powers that are not at war with them, no other harm than to go to France and there live until they are of the age of Methuselah, and enjoy the French Liberty,—he thinks then their eyes would be opened, he is convinced they can know nothing about them unless
they have been there,—there is no tongue can inform them the situation of that country, though no doubt there are some good people there, but they are oppressed to death by their Government.—Captain Brown feels himself under great obligations to Capt. Jones for his extraordinary exertions in his favor, and for his politeness to him after his release, as well as for his great kindness in furnishing him with provision enough to bring him home to his family.
The Hitty and Jane, from Cadiz for Portsmouth N. H. is carried into Guadalupe, condemned, and her crew thrown into prison.
The ship Adelph,—Mr. Peter Billings, supercargo, from Surinam, to Portsmouth, is sent into Barbadoes.
Never perhaps, since the existence of the United States, as a nation, have they been exposed to more imminent danger than at the present moment. Threatened with ruin, by the insidious intrigues of a nation—who, devil-like, does not hesitate to stoop to hellish designs, it behoves every good citizen—every honest man, to stand firm to his post, at this trying crisis, and with inflexible fortitude, prepare to resist the shock which is meditated against his unoffending country.—The eyes of the devouring monster are upon us, it watches with fiend-like vigilance, our every moment, and should we be stupid enough, to be seduced by the snares, her late mild conduct has laid for us, we are gone forever. The fate of our elections will be the criterion, by which she will judge of the strength of her party; but we have every reason to think that the majority of those called Jacobins, or in other words, Partisans of France, possess so much virtue and patriotism, as to act contrary to the diabolical wishes of those who have supposed them base enough to contribute to the destruction of their native country.
Several of the newly elected members to Congress, whose Jacobinism or opposition to energetic measures against France, has been strangely calculated upon, we know to a certainty will disappoint the base expectations of those, whose aim is to lay their country, bound hand and foot, at the feet of the despots of Paris. We trust that such a spirit of UNION, ENERGY and AMERICANISM, will show itself at the next session of Congress, as will confound the dark designs of our enemies, and arrest the admiration of our friends throughout the world. [New-York Paper.]
Thursday, the twenty-ninth day of November next, is appointed to be observed as a day of public Thanksgiving throughout the State of Connecticut.
An arrival at N. York, from Bourdeaux brings papers to Sept. 12, which state, that no account of the fate of Buonaparte had been received; that the noted Logan had failed for America, bearing triplicates of the French Ministers propositions to this government; that he had actually carried with him passports signed by the Vice President of the United States, Jefferson, and Judge M c Kean; and was the bearer of letters from Mr. Jefferson, to Merlin, President of the Directory, and Talleyrand Perigord; that the Arrest, raising an embargo on American vessels, was ordered by the Directory not to be printed; that the young men in France are again held in a state of requisition, and were ordered to join their respective corps immediately, for defending the Republic against the Emperor; as hostilities were said to be recommenced.
An Italian paper says, that the French Directory, some time ago, demanded of Mustapha Pacha, the Dey of Algiers, a restitution of the contributions which, during the last six centuries, have been paid to his predecessors by France!
In the year 1793, the commerce of the Danish dominions employed 2,776 vessels, 154,255 tons, and manned by 22,191 sailors. The free-booters of France have taken into safe keeping a pretty handsome proportion of it during the year 1798.
SALEM PATRIOTISM.
A frigate of 32 guns is to be built at Salem, by the late subscription money. She is to be loaned to Government. A Committee, consisting of William Gray, jun. John Norris and Jacob Ashton, Esqrs. Captains Benjamin Hodges and Ichabod Nichols, were chosen, to put the business into immediate effect.
The fort on Governor's Island, in New-York, is finished, and has assumed the name of fort Jay; it will be commanded by Capt. Frye.
THE YELLOW FEVER.
Bilious Fevers are unusually numerous and obstinate in many parts of the country; and in several inte-
rior towns very fatal. At New-Milford, great sickness prevails, and the fever has the essential symptoms of Yellow Fever. At Royalton, on White River, in Vermont, and on the Grand Isles in Lake Champlain, the Yellow Fever prevails with considerable mortality. The disease has the characteristic symptoms of the Genuine Yellow Fever, and terminates fatally in about six days. Royalton is situated on a bend of White River, on a dry gravelly soil, but enclosed by very high mountains, which really make the position of the town, a deep valley.
At Windsor, in Vermont, a similar fever prevails. This is on Connecticut river, the banks of which are high in that neighborhood, and make little or no marsh, but the town is almost surrounded by mountains. In such positions, there is a great accumulation of heat, from the reverberated rays of the sun in hot weather; and in all such situations, the human race are more exposed to autumnal fevers and dysentery, than on hills which overlook the surrounding country.
[Com. 242.]
A late Richmond paper says, "that one sixth of the usual number of inhabitants residing at City-Point, Virginia, have been swept off in the course of 20 odd days"—"that the fatal malady was spread by the ship Nestor, of Portland, Capt. Wait, which vessel arrived at City-Point from Philadelphia on the 24th of Aug. having thrown four dead hands overboard on her passage. Being without hands to load with Tobacco, Negroes were called upon, and out of eleven thus employed, ten have died. Almost every case can be traced to this vessel."
Thursday the 29th day of November next, is appointed as a day of Thanksgiving throughout the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
DIED —At Norfolk, (Virg.) Mr. Thomas Rice, aged 21, eldest son of Capt. Samuel Rice, of this town, and mate of the brig Orion, Capt. Sam l Parker, of this port.
At Elk, on his way home from Maryland, Mr. S. Claypoole, one of the Editors of the Philadelphia American Daily Advertiser.
In this town, Mr. Mark Ham, aged 26; a child of Mr. John Trudfall.
New Goods.
Oliver Briard Has just received a general assortment of Fall and Winter Goods, Which are now opened and ready for sale, at his shop in Market-Street, cheap for cash. Portsmouth, Oct. 31, 1798.
New Insurance Office.
THE subscriber most respectfully informs the public, that a NEW INSURANCE OFFICE is established in this town, on very liberal principles, where such persons as may have occasion to secure their VESSELS or MERCHANDIZE, from the many risks that attend navigation, are invited to call on him, who will promptly attend to the business.
N. B. The Company of Underwriters meet at the Hotel on Tuesday and Friday evenings, at 7 o'clock.
Wm. Gardner, Broker. Portsmouth, Oct. 29, 1798.
TO BE LET, A convenient Dwelling House in Washington-street; for further particulars, apply to JOHN SALTER. Portsmouth, Oct. 30.
TO BE SOLD, (If applied for soon) Two House Lots, On the fourth side of Deer-street.—Inquire of JOHN NOBLE, near the ferry. Portsmouth, Oct. 30, 1798.
THE person who took on the 11th day of October, inst. between 6 and 7 o'clock, P. M. an ENSIGN, (almost new, the red part very bright) from on board the ship Betsey, is requested to send the same to the subscriber's store in Washington-street, and no questions will be asked. Oct. 30. J. SALTER.
NOTICE is hereby given to any gentlemen who may wish to join the Artillery Company in this town, that said company will meet at the Court House on Friday next, at 3 o'clock, when and where they are desired to attend and give in their names. N. B. It will be expected by the Officers, that all who join said company, will uniform and equip themselves immediately, as the law directs. EBEN r CHADWICK, Cap. Oct. 30, 1798.

Though the language of poetry has often been made the medium of fable:— in the following stanzas the invincibility of TRUTH is united with the fascination of PLEASING NUMBERS.
FROM THE CENTINEL.
PHILADELPHIA. AN ELEGY.
IMPERIAL daughter of the West, Why thus in widowed weeds recline! With every gift of nature blest, The empire of a World was thine.  Late brighter than the star that beams When the lost morning carol flows; Now mournful as the Maniac's dreams, When melancholy veils his woes.  What foe with more than Gallic ire Has thinn'd thy city's thronging way! Bid the Twixt breath of youth expire, And manhood's powerful pulse decay!  No Gallic foe's ferocious hand, Fearsome as fate, as death severe; But the destroying Angel's hand, With hotter rage, with fiercer fear.  I saw thee in thy prime of days In glory rich, in beauty fair, When MORA a, partner of thy praise, Sustain'd thee with a patron's care.  Have hail'd that hospitable dome, Where all the culter'd Virtues grew; Fortune and fashion's graceful home, Warm-hearted love, and friendship true.  Columbia's Genius reil thy brow, Guardian of Freedom, hither bend— The prayer of mercy meets thee now— With healing energy descend.  Chase the hot fiend whose tepid tread, Consumes the fairest flower that blows; Bends the sweet lily's bashful head, And fades the blushes of the rose.  Ere now his omen'd birds of prey Through the unpeopling mansions rove; Drench'd is that eye's inspiring ray And lost that breezy lip of love.  Yet guard the Friends, who wandering near Haunts which the loitering Schuykill laves, Bestows the tributary tear, Or fans with sighs the drowsy waves.  And while his mercy dealing hand Feds many a famished child of care; Wave round his brow thy laving wand, And breathe thy sweetest through the air.  Till borne on Health's elastic wing, Alot the rapid whirlwind flies; The coldest gale of Zembia bring And brace with frost the dripping fringes.  Where swelling to the heated coast, Along the dusty pile* ascends; Some new ALCIDES —Freedom's boast— His Heaven-assisted arm extends.  Beneath his firm-collected blow Despoil'd the crashing ruin lies— The Dryads bring the leafy bough And bid their green plantations rise,  The flippant Poplar's tapering form, The Oak its building branches rears; The Elm that braces the cleaving storm, The fragrant Pine's prolific tears.  Each leaf expands its fanning shade, Beneath whole breeze contagion dies; The whispering youth and listening maid Gaze grateful with enchanted eyes.  He, who the loy'd Alylum gave, Ere thus, the immortal Founder said— Low wasted from the heaving grave, Ah heed the mandate of the dead.  Yet bid the Nereids bring their urns Haste and the marble fount unclos'd; Through Breece where Syrian summer burns, 'Till all the cool libation flows.  Cool as the brook that bathes the heath When noon unfolds his silent hours— Refreshing as the morning's breath Adown the cleansing stream let pours.  From waves the heavenly Venus grew— Thy waves to mortal beauty kind, The flush of fragrant health renew, And brace the nerve-ensfeebled mind.  IMPERIAL DAUGHTER OF THE WEST No rival wins thy wreath away; In all the wealth of nature drest Again thy foreign charms display.  See all thy setting glories rise. Again thy thronging streets appear; Thy mast a hundred ports supplies, Thy harvells feed the circling year.  COLUMBIA.
* Water-Street, intended by the founder of the City, to have been planted with trees.—The Feat, it is said, has always originated in this spot.
WE the subscribers being appointed Commissioners by the Hon. Judge of Probate for the county of Rockingham, State of New-Hampshire, to receive and examine and adjust the claims of the creditors to the estate of Nathaniel Bachelder, late of London, innholder, deceased, recommended to us, hereby give notice that we will attend on said business at the house of Anna Bachelder, widow of said deceased, on the last Monday of this and the second Monday of the four following months, from nine o'clock A. M. to six o'clock P. M. on each day.  SAMUEL PIPER. MOSES CHAMBERLAIN, } Commis's. JOSEPH CLOUGH. London, Oct. 23. 1798.
Rockingham, ss. NOTICE is hereby given that the subscriber Executor of the last will and testament of Stephen Pease, late of Amherst, in the county of Essex, and commonwealth of Massachusetts, yeoman, deceased, has produced to the Judge of Probate, for the county of Rockingham, a copy of the said Will, with a copy of the probate thereof, and petitioned him that the same may be filed and recorded in the Probate office for said county, whereupon the said Judge has assigned the first Monday of December next, at eleven of the clock before noon, at the Probate office in Exeter, for taking the same into consideration. By order of the said Judge.  EZEKIEL JONES Jr. Exeter, Oct. 23. 1798.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of Effingham, in the county of Strafford, and State of New Hampshire, that have not paid their State and highway tax for the year 1798; that so much of their land will be sold at public vendue on the second Monday of January next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon on said day, at the dwelling house of Isaac Lord, in said town, as will pay said taxes with incidental charges, if not prevented by previous payment.  No. div. q'ty. h'wy Rate. cts. cts. cts.
   No. Range. Q'ty. State tax, 1797. State tax, 1798. Highway tax, 1797. Highway tax, 1798.   Cents Mills Cents Mills Cents Mills Cents Mills     J. W. Waldron, 4th div. 18 0 160 5 6 9 7   Joseph Smith, 2 2 100 4 2 0 0   Howard Henderson, 4th div. 35 0 160 7 0 12 5   Samuel Wentworth, 4th div. 20 0 160 7 0 11 1   Clement March, 4th div. 54 0 160 7 0 11 1   Joseph Newmarch, 7 2 100 4 2 7 0   4th div. 48 0 160 11 3 20 9   Peter Levius, 5 3 100 4 2 7 0   4th div. 57 0 160 6 0 3 3   Charles Paxton, 7 3 100 7 0 9 7   4th div. 52 0 160 8 3 12 5   Maj. John Wentworth, 10 3 100 7 0 12 5   4th div. 49 0 160 12 5 22 3   Robert Auchmory, 4th div. 34 0 160 8 3 13 9   Zebulon Giddings, 2 4 100 2 8 12 9   4th div. 13 0 160 11 8 16 7   Nathan Whiting, 3 4 100 4 2 7 0   4th div. 40 0 160 7 3 12 5   Christopher Toppan, 9 4 100 5 8 11 8   Robert Temple, 4th div. 41 0 160 7 0 12 5   house lot 33 1 45 2 8 5 6   William Parker, half 3 5 50 2 1 3 6   4th div. do. 27 0 80 3 6 4 7   Henry Sherburn, 4th div. 25 0 160 7 4 12 5   Messiah Weare, 5 6 100 8 7 15 3   4th div. 1 0 160 9 9 16 7   Andrew Wiggins, 6 4 100 8 3 15 3   THOMAS RUSSELL, Jr. Collector. Piermont, Sept. 24, 1798.  
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of Tamworth, who have not paid their highway and state taxes for the year 1798, that unless they pay said taxes to me the subscriber, on or before the 26th day of December next, so much of their land as will pay the same together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling house of Simon Gilman, in said town at 10 o'clock A.M. on said day.
THE subscribers owners of more than one sixteenth part of the original rights or shares of land in the township of Concord, county of Grafton, request you as proprietors clerk for said proprietors, and agreeable to a vote of said proprietors for that purpose; to call a meeting of said proprietors, to be held at the dwelling house of Maj. Samuel Young, innholder in said Concord, on the twenty third day of November next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon of said day, to vote and act on the following articles, viz.   1st. To choose a moderator for said meeting.  2d. To make such lawful grant or grants to any settler or settlers in said Concord, that they may think just and reasonable.  3d. To see if said proprietors will agree to make division of their lands in said town agreeable to allotments already made, or proceed to allot anew and divide the same as may be agreed on.  4th. To choose a committee to examine the bills of charge against said proprietors, and make report.  5th. To raise such sum or sums of money for defraying charges as they may think best.  6th. To choose all necessary officers to carry the aforesaid articles into effect.   Thomas Dodge, for Leonard Whiting, Stephen H. Whiting, for Lea'd Whiting, Samuel Young.
Pursuant to the foregoing request, I hereby notify and warn the proprietors of Concord, to meet at the time and place and for the purposes therein expressed.  JOSIAH LITTLE, Clerk of said Prop's. Newbury, October 19. 1798.
FOR SALE. ABOUT 4000 acres of excellent land, lying in the town of Parsonsfield, in the county of York, within fifty miles of Portsmouth, which land will be disposed of altogether to any one person—or in 100 acre lots, as will best suit the purchaser, the terms may be known by applying to the subscriber at Parsonsfield. David Hobbs. Oct. 23.
State of New-Hampshire. NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of Piermont, in the county of Grafton, State aforesaid, who are delinquent in paying their county tax for the year 1797—and their State and highway taxes for the year 1798—that unless they pay the said several taxes to me the subscriber on or before the seventh day of February 1799, so much of their land as will pay the same with incidental charges, will be sold on said day at public vendue at the dwelling house of Thomas Russell, Esq. in Piermont at ten o'clock, A. M. unless prevented by previous payment.
   No. Range. Q'ty. State tax, 1797. State tax, 1798. Highway tax, 1797. Highway tax, 1798.   Cents Mills Cents Mills Cents Mills Cents Mills     J. W. Waldron, 4th div. 18 0 160 5 6 9 7   Joseph Smith, 2 2 100 4 2 0 0   Howard Henderson, 4th div. 35 0 160 7 0 12 5   Samuel Wentworth, 4th div. 20 0 160 7 0 11 1   Clement March, 4th div. 54 0 160 7 0 11 1   Joseph Newmarch, 7 2 100 4 2 7 0   4th div. 48 0 160 11 3 20 9   Peter Levius, 5 3 100 4 2 7 0   4th div. 57 0 160 6 0 3 3   Charles Paxton, 7 3 100 7 0 9 7   4th div. 52 0 160 8 3 12 5   Maj. John Wentworth, 10 3 100 7 0 12 5   4th div. 49 0 160 12 5 22 3   Robert Auchmory, 4th div. 34 0 160 8 3 13 9   Zebulon Giddings, 2 4 100 2 8 12 9   4th div. 13 0 160 11 8 16 7   Nathan Whiting, 3 4 100 4 2 7 0   4th div. 40 0 160 7 3 12 5   Christopher Toppan, 9 4 100 5 8 11 8   Robert Temple, 4th div. 41 0 160 7 0 12 5   house lot 33 1 45 2 8 5 6   William Parker, half 3 5 50 2 1 3 6   4th div. do. 27 0 80 3 6 4 7   Henry Sherburn, 4th div. 25 0 160 7 4 12 5   Messiah Weare, 5 6 100 8 7 15 3   4th div. 1 0 160 9 9 16 7   Andrew Wiggins, 6 4 100 8 3 15 3   THOMAS RUSSELL, Jr. Collector. Piermont, Sept. 24, 1798.  
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of Tamworth, who have not paid their highway and state taxes for the year 1798, that unless they pay said taxes to me the subscriber, on or before the 26th day of December next, so much of their land as will pay the same together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling house of Simon Gilman, in said town at 10 o'clock A.M. on said day.
   No. Range. Q'ty. State tax, 1797. State tax, 1798. Highway tax, 1797. Highway tax, 1798.   Cents Mills Cents Mills Cents Mills Cents Mills     T. Stickney, S. part of 3 6 100 28 7   do nor't end, south part 3 0 100 28 7   Joseph Hall, jr. east 5 6 100 28 7   range, long lots 10 6 100 28 7   do long lots, corway ridge 11 8 50 14 4   Daniel Stickney, 6 6 100 28 7   do. 2 8 100 28 7   John Cochran, 8 5 100 28 7   do. 2 8 100 28 7   Stephen Holland, 2 8 100 28 7   do. 2 8 100 28 7   Jonathan Cochran, 2 6 100 28 7   James Wallace, 2 8 100 28 7   do. 2 8 100 28 7   Isaac Cochran, 2 5 100 28 7   do. north end of 2 7 50 14 4   Jonathan Morrison, 4 3 100 28 7   do. 2 8 100 28 7   James Read, S. end of 21 7 50 14 4   do. west range long 7 W 100 28 7   lots on corway, 8 W 100 28 7   do. ridge, 7 5 100 28 7   George Abbot, 7 5 100 28 7   Israel Gilman, 1 1 100 28 7   do. 1 8 100 28 7   Jacob Fowler, 1 1 100 28 7   do. 4 7 100 28 7   Thomas Cogswell, 4 6 100 28 7   do. 4 7 100 28 7   do. 10 6 100 28 7   do. 20 8 100 28 7   do. birch intervals, 21 8 92 7 100 28 7   nor'th ends of 8 7 30 12 3   do. strip com's, N. end of 8 7 30 12 3   do. north ends of 1, 2, 3 & 4 8 5 100 28 7   Lt. John Webster, 12 5 100 28 7   James Cochran, 13 5 100 28 7   James Cochran, jr. 15 5 100 28 7   do. 2 4 100 28 7   William Rogers, 8 5 100 28 7   Andrew M c Millan, 1 1 100 28 7   do. ran. 50 acre lots, 97 & 98 1 1 100 28 7   Samuel Osgood, 15 6 100 28 7   James Osgood, 16 6 100 28 7   do. 1 1 100 28 7   Jonathan Stickney, 17 6 100 28 7   do. 19 0 50 14 4   do. west Danford lot, 50 14 4   west of Fields,   Josiah Miles, 3 1 100 28 7   do. 7 1 100 28 7   John Webster, Esq. 105 45 13 3   mill priv. deducted, 46 22 24 159 42 11   Samuel Cochran, 3 100 28 7   Alexander Lesley, in 50 38 3 49 100 28 7   acre lots, 4 50 24 4   Joseph Emery, N. end of 5 8 100 28 7   do. east side of 11 5