The New Hampshire gazette (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1799-07-30 00:00:00

THE New Hampshire Gazette.
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PORTSMOUTH: (NEW-HAMPSHIRE)—PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY BY JOHN MELCHER, PRINTER TO THE STATE, AT HIS OFFICE CORNER OF MARKET STREET, WHERE SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR THIS PAPER, ADVERTISEMENTS, AND ARTICLES OF INTELLIGENCE ARE THANKFULLY RECEIVED.
Vol. XLIII.—Numb. 2226.]
TUESDAY, JULY 30, 1799.
[One Dollar & half pr. Annum.]
On HUSBANDRY.
"To render service, and perfection give To this great art, by which all others live, To twine the laurel round the Farmer's brow, And learn to love, to venerate the plough."
BUCK-WHEAT.
THIS plant delights in a mellow sandy soil; but succeeds well in any dry loose heathy land, and moderately so in a free loamy stone brash. A stiff clay is its aversion and it is entirely labor lost to sow it in wet, poachy ground. The proper season for sowing is from the last week of May, or the beginning of June. It has been sown, however, so early as the beginning of April, and so late as the 22d of July, by way of experiment. In an experiment upon a small piece of ground, the grain of two different crops was brought to maturity in the summer of 1787. After spring feedings, a crop of turnip rooted cabbage, or vetches, there will be sufficient time to sow the land with buckwheat. Probably in hot dry summers, a crop of vetches might even be mown for hay early enough to introduce a crop of this grain after it.
In the year 1780, about seven acres of a sandy soil, having been first tolerably well cleaned from brambles, furze, &c. received one ploughing. To reduce the irregularities of the surface, it was rolled; and on the 9th of June of that year, two bushels and a half of buckwheat per acre sown, the ground rolled again without harrowing.
The vegetation appeared in five or six days, as is constantly the case, be the weather wet or dry. The growth was so rapid, that the fern, with which the land greatly abounded, was completely kept under.—About the middle of September the crop was mown, but by reason of a great deal of rain about that time, it was not secured until the beginning of October; hence a loss of great part of the grain by shedding, as well as some eaten by birds. However, there were saved about twenty four bushels per acre; and, notwithstanding its long exposure to the weather, received no sort of damage, only perhaps that the finest and most perfect grain was the first to fall from the plant. The ground, after this, had almost the appearance of a fallow, and was immediately ploughed.
When it had laid a moderate time to ameliorate, and to receive the influences of the atmosphere, it was harrowed, sown with wheat, and ploughed in under furrow, in a contrary direction to the first ploughing. Thus a piece of land, which, in the month of April, was altogether in a state of nature, in the following November was seen under a promising crop of what is well titled the best of grain, and this without the aid of manure, or of any very great degree of tillage. Nor was the harvest by any means deficient; for several persons conversant in such things, estimated the produce from 26 to 30 bushels per acre. As soon as the wheat crop was taken off, the ground had one ploughing, and on the first of September following, was sown with turnip seed. The turnips were not large, but of an herbage so abundant as in the following spring to support 12 ewes with their lambs, which were fed on it by folding four weeks. After this, it was manured with a composition of rotten dung and natural earth, about 20 cart loads per acre, and planted with potatoes. The crop sold for £138 besides a considerable number used in the family, and a quantity reserved, with which ten acres were planted the following season. The ensuing autumn it was again sown with wheat, and produced an excellent crop. In the spring of 1784, it was manured and planted with potatoes, as in the preceding instance: The crop (though tolerably good) by no means equal to the former, producing about 300 bushels per acre only. In the spring of 1785, the land was now for a third time under a crop of wheat, it being intended to try how far this mode of alternate cropping, one year with potatoes, and another with wheat may be carried.
From the success of the preceding and other experiments, it would seem that the culture of this plant ought in many cases to be adopted instead
of a summer fallow; for the crop produced appears not only to be so much clear gain in respect to such practice, but also affords a considerable quantity of straw for fodder and manure; besides that a summer fallow is far from being so advantageous a preparation for a succeeding crop.
Further extracts from the papers brought by Capt. Williams, arrived at Salem.
FRANCE.
COUNCIL OF FIVE HUNDRED.
Message from the Executive Directory to the Councils of Ancients and Five Hundred, on the 9th Floreal (May 5) respecting the Assassination of the Ambassadors, Bonnier and Roberjot.
"Citizens Representatives, THE Executive Directory transmits to you the recital of a new crime by the court of Vienna. For a long time they refused to give credit to it; but it is too true that the Ministers of the French Republic, at the Congress at Rastadt, have been assassinated: two perished, one only escaped by a kind of miracle.
"The details of this execrable catastrophe are contained in a letter from Jean Debry, which the Directory annex to this Message. Were they to recapitulate them, they would be fearful of weakening the afflicting impression, and the deep horror which the perusal of that letter will make upon your minds.
"Already, it is true, by the arrest of several of our civil or diplomatic agents, by their long and cruel captivity, had the Court of Vienna openly infringed the sacred rules of the rights of nations. They had recently transgressed them in a more signal manner by causing it to be announced that the presence of a Congress at Rastadt would be no protection to that city against the events of war: but between those outrages to that which has succeeded them, the space was still immense; it seemed that that court might be resolved to be guilty of all sorts of perfidy and treachery towards their allies as well as their enemies without however determining to disgrace their own soldiers by transforming them into public assassins, and by directing their blows against the sacred agents of treaties, the organs of the peace of nations, and the members of an assembly of European negotiators. The French Plenipotentiaries, far from entertaining any such apprehensions, repelled all that were attempted to be infused into them respecting their personal safety: penetrated with the maxims of loyalty and public faith which their nation professes, they were persuaded that those maxims could not fail of serving as a safeguard to them, after having so constantly served as their rule in the course of a laborious mission.
"Citizens Representatives, when we are seeking for the motives, and above all, for the hopes which might have led the Austrian Government to this last excess of fury, it is impossible not to feel how they reckoned upon the two efficacious manoeuvres by which they labour to perpetuate, in the bosom of the French Republic, agitation, penury and discord. Would they thus hold themselves up to the execration of all people and of all ages, if they did not flatter themselves with soon seeing the horror of their crimes covered and concealed by their successes? And upon what could Austria found this hope, but upon the progressive diminution of our pecuniary means; and, since it must be said, upon the errors of the French whom she misleads, upon the criminal concurrence of those who wish to serve her upon the unfortunate dispositions of those who desire to combat her?
"Certainly, whatever may have been within a few days, the military advantages which she has just crowned by so cowardly an outrage, experience has too well learnt her that such reverses would be for us but the prefaces of triumphs, if the restoration of our finances were fully to second the valour and attachment of our Republican phalanxes.
"It is because the Austrian knows, or rather because he exaggerates, the momentary distress of our finances, that he thinks he is strong enough to shew
himself ferocious, and that he celebrates his ephemeral victories by solemn assassinations.
"After so fatal a recital, one feels, Citizens Representatives, the necessity of directing our thoughts to acts of loyalty and virtue. You will see by the letter from Jean Debry, that that Minister owned his safety to the generous care of the Members of the Diplomatic Body, that they transmitted to the Austrian Colonel a formal act, signed by all of them, to declare him, in the name of their constituents, responsible for the crime and all its consequences; and that the inhabitants of Rastadt, after having loaded it with all the execration it merits, have almost unanimously announced the first opinion of Europe and posterity, by accusing the Austrian Government of having conceived, directed, and accomplished it.
"Citizens Representatives, the manes of our Plenipotentiaries, the indignation of the armies, the menacing voice of the French people, the unanimous voice of all people, of your allies, of your enemies themselves, the cry of all nations who wish for or will have peace, the common interest of Governments, whatever they may be, every thing calls out, every thing commands vengeance! The Executive Directory, in order to make it prompt and tremendous, will make use of all the means you have placed, of all that you shall place in their power. They cannot dissemble that circumstances require all the energy, as well as all the wisdom of Republican patriotism, the severe repression of robberies of all kinds, harmony between the Constituted Powers, concord between Citizens, and, above all, the restoration of public credit, by an equilibrium between the receipt and expenditure.
"Citizens Representatives, when by a sublime impulse the French people rose in a mass against the enemies of the Republic, then scarcely proclaimed, Austria had not yet run her career of perfidy and crime: she had not violated the most holy engagements, and the most sacred laws of nature; she had not massacred the negotiators of peace. Let then, this new impulse of the people be formidable; let their efforts and their sacrifices be generous, since they are to avenge at the same time the liberty of France, and the morality of all civilized nations.
(Signed) BARRAS, President."
The Minister Plenipotentiary of the French Republic to the Congress, to Citizen Talleyrand, Minister for Foreign Affairs.
Strauburgh, 12th Floreal, (May 1.)
"Citizen Minister,
"I endeavour to recollect myself, in order to dictate the details of the dreadful events of which the French Legation were the victims, on the 9th Floreal (April 28), and from which, wounded and mutilated, I have escaped by a miracle, of which I cannot give an account.
"Long before the 30th Germinal (19th April) the French legation perceived that means of all kinds were employed by the enemies of peace to produce the dissolution of the Congress; and we reckoned upon seeing it expire insensibly, by the successive retreat of those who composed it: but on that day (30th Germinal) the carrying off of the ferry men who served to transmit our correspondence by way of Seltz, informed us that our enemies would not undoubtedly have the patience which the French government shewed. We exclaimed against this violation of the rights of nations; the Deputation exclaimed on their side; and the result of these steps was a military letter, which announced to us that no tranquilizing declaration for the safety of the members of the Congress could be made. The deputation assembled anew, declared that they were no longer free; that, besides, the recall of several members rendered them, according to the terms of their instructions, unable to adopt any deliberation whatever. It was upon this conclusum , officially transmitted to us by the Directorial Minister, himself recalled, that we founded our note of the 6th Floreal (25th April), protesting against the violence exercised, and declaring that we should repair within three days to the com-
mune of Strauburgh, to continue the negotiations there. The next day, the 7th, (I gave you all these details from memory, because our papers were carried off, as you shall hear; but I do not think I am mistaken respecting the dates) citizen Lemaire, courier of the legation, was seized at Pitterdorf by an Austrian patrol, and sent to Gernsbach, the Colonel's head quarters. Informed of this outrage, unheard of till then, but which was soon to be surpassed, all the members of the diplomatic body, especially the minister of Baden, the Prussian legation, and the directorial minister, applied to the Colonel for reparation; they demanded from him particularly the assurance that we should be respected in returning to France. No answer was given. On the 9th (27th April) preparations were made for our departure: we might have gone without doubt with safety, had we stolen away on the 8th (26th April) when there were no Austrian patrols on the Rhine: but having once introduced the question of the right we had to return in safety, we should have thrown ourselves wanting to the dignity of our character had we not required some solution; and perhaps this sentiment facilitated the execution of the crime upon which I am about to enter.
"On the 9th Floreal (April 28) at half past seven in the evening, a Captain of Hussars of Szeklers stationed at Gegenbach, came on the part of his Colonel to declare verbally to Baron d'Albin, that we might quit Rastadt in safety; and afterwards came to signify to us an order to leave that city in 24 hours. Already had the hussars of Szekler taken possession of it, and occupied all the avenues: at eight o'clock we got into our carriages: when we arrived at the gate of Rastadt, we found a general prohibition to let no one enter or go out. An hour was spent in parleys. It appears that they stood in need of this delay, in order to organize the execrable execution that followed, and of which, I say it with conviction, all the details had been commanded and combined beforehand. At length the Austrian Commandant gave an order for the departure of the French legation only. We demanded an escort: it was refused, and the Commandant declared that we should be as safe as in our own rooms. In consequence of this we began our journey. We were not fifty paces from Rastadt, ourselves and the Ligurian legation, who did not quit us, and who participated our dangers with unequalled devotion, when a detachment of nearly 60 hussars of Szekler, in ambush upon the canal of la Murg, fell upon our carriages, and made them stop. mine was the first of them. Six men armed with drawn sabres, tear me out with violence—I am searched and robbed of all that I had. Another, who appeared to command this expedition, arrives on horseback, and asks for the minister Jean Debry; I thought he came to save me. It is I, I said, who am Jean Debry, Minister of France. Scarcely had I said so, when two cuts from a sabre stretched me upon the ground. I was immediately assailed on all sides by fresh blows. Tumbling into a ditch, I feigned to be dead; the banditti then quitted me to go to the other carriages. I availed myself of this instant, and escaped—wounded in different places, losing blood on all sides, and indebted for my life, perhaps, only to the thicknes of my clothes. Bonnier was killed in the same manner I was to have been, and Roberjot massacred almost in the arms of his wife.
"The same question was put to my ill-fated colleagues as to me: "Are you Bonnier? Are you Roberjot!" Our carriages were pillaged, every thing became the prey of the brigands; the papers of the legation were carried off, conveyed to the Austrian commandant, and claimed in vain. The Secretary of the Legation threw himself into a ditch, and by favour of the night, escaped the blows of the assassins. I crawled to an adjacent wood, hearing the yells of the cannibals, the screams of the victims, and particularly of their companions, of the wife of Roberjot, of my wife seven months gone with child, and of my two daughters calling out for their father; my private secretary, Citizen Belin, was held by six men, to be witness to all
these scenes of horror. My Valet was thrown into the river.
"I know that all the Members of the Diplomatic Corps made the greatest efforts to brake through the line of the assassins, and to come to the assistance of those to whom assistance might yet be administered. But it was not till one in the morning that the wife of Roberjot could get to M. de Jacob's, the Prussian Minister; and my wife and daughters to M. de Redon, Minister for Bremen and Hanover. I wandered about the wood during the whole of that dreadful night, fearful of the day, which might expose me to the Austrian patrols. About six in the morning, hearing them go about, and seeing that I could not avoid them, penetrated besides by the rain and the cold, and growing more and more enfeebled by the blood I lost, I took the desperate resolution of returning to Rastadt. I saw on the road the naked bodies of my two colleagues. The dreadful weather, and perhaps the weariness of the assassins, after the commission of such crimes, facilitated my journey, and I arrived at length, out of breath, and covered with blood, at the Count de Gortz's, the King of Prussia's Minister.
"It is out of my power to depict to you the torment, and relate to you the recitals of all the persons attached to the Legation, who were the witnesses of the objects of these execrable scenes; I will collect them when I have strength. Notwithstanding her virtuous courage, the wife of Roberjot is like a mad person with grief. I implore for her all the interest of the government. Fatigued with the recital which I have just made at two different times, I confine myself now to express to you how much gratitude each of the persons saved owes to the generous devotion of the Members of the Diplomatic Corps. I name none of them, because it would be necessary to name them all. Besides generous attentions and sweet consolations, we are indebted to them for our return here: a formal act, signed by them, was conveyed to the Austrian Colonel, declaring to him that their constituents made him responsible both for the crime and all its consequences. The Minister of the Margrave gave us an escort of his troops for our return. It was necessary to suffer it to be joined by the hussars of Szekler, who appeared to see that I had escaped with regret. The Prussian legation, prevented by them from accompanying us, charged their secretary, M. de Jordan not to quit us till we had embarked, My God! why was it that so much care could not prevent the fatal catastrophe of my two ill-fated colleagues!
"I should also add, that almost the whole of the inhabitants of Rastadt, shedding tears at the outrage, loaded it with merited execration, and did not dissemble, the opinion which attributes the atrocious conception, and all the direction of it to Austria; to Austria, whose minister, Lehrbach, now Commissary with the army of the Archduke, obtained, without the smallest difficulty, at his departure from Rastadt, all the passports he demanded from the French legation; to Austria, who dared to signify to us by the Count de Metternich, that that Imperial Commissioner could no longer remain at Rastadt, in consequence of the want of safety for his correspondence; to Austria, in short, who, according to every probability, gave the order for massacring three Ministers, carrying off their papers, and promised the plunder as the reward.
"There are many other approximations that might be made, but they will be felt. Pardon the disorder of my ideas; the horrible images which I have incessantly before my eyes do not leave me free reflection, and oppress me more than the pain I feel. My wounds are in a good state, and hitherto announce nothing dangerous. "Health and respect.
JEAN DEBRY."
MILAN, May 12. Proclamation of Fieldmarshal Suwarrows.
"Nations of Italy!
"Take up arms; unite under banners which are fighting for God and the Faith; and you shall triumph over perfidious enemies. The army of

His Majesty our most exalted Empe- ror and King are fighting (provoked by the French) and shedding their blood in defence of our most holy re- ligion, for the recovery of your proper- ty, and the re-establishment of your former government. Do not the French demand every day immense sums of you! do not they demand un- common requisitions!—And all this under the chimerical name of liberty and equality, which are even so pain- ful to the heads of families, deprive them of their dear children, and force them to take up arms and fight against your lawful Sovereign, your loving father and most zealous defender? Nations, be of comfort! There is a God who protects, and armies who defend you. See the number of troops! See a new complete army sent by the allied Emperor of Russia; behold those prudent nations, every where full of enthusiasm, to terminate this bloody war in the most speedy man- ner. That faithful, numerous army, consisting of brave warriors, comes to deliver Italy. Fear nothing; where- soever the armies combating against the French republic shall come, you shall see the laws restored, religion exalted, and private and public tran- quility revived, which has been for these three years past under a heavy yoke. The faithful ministers of reli- gion, too, shall be reinstalled in their offices and property. But hear!— should there ever be found among you one so perfidious, that shall either take up arms against our Sovereign, or favour in any manner the enter- prises of the French republic—such a perfidious man shall immediately be shot, without regard to quality, birth, rank, office or condition; and his fam- ily, houses and property shall be per- secuted and destroyed. Your pru- dence, nations of Italy, gives hopes that being now convinced of the jus- tice of the cause, you will furnish no occasion of inflicting those rigorous measures and irremissible punishments, but that you will rather manifest proofs of your fidelity and attachment to- wards so beneficent and loving a so- vereign. Signed, L. SUWARROW."
BRESCIA
Was taken from the French, by the Imperial army, April 20. This place is situated on the route to Mi- lan, pursued by the Imperialists. The French garrison, consisting of 1900 men, surrendered prisoners of war. 40 pieces of artillery, 18 mortars, and a great quantity of small arms and ammunition were taken with it. The Austrians lost only one man.
MILAN
The capital of the late Cis-Alpine Republic, fell easily into the hands of the combined army, from the revol- ting spirit of the oppressed inhabitants, and the impetuosity of the attack. The Archbishop delivered the keys to the conquering General with the greatest exultation. The people croud- ed round the warriors, and grasped their hands in an ecstasy—incessantly shouting, as the troops passed, "Long live Religion! Long live the Empe- ror who restores her to us!"—At Night the whole city was illumina- ted.
The loss of the imperialists on the Adda, consisted of 246 men and 105 horses, killed; 786 men and 150 hor- ses, wounded; and 307 men and 28 horses, missing. 3 capt. 3 lieuts. and 21 other officers were among the wounded.
The Milanese intended to send a deputation to return thanks to the Emperor for their deliverance.
23,000 muskets were found in Mi- lan.
TURIN
The Capital of the dominions of the King of Sardina, whose throne was undermined by French intrigue, —it is said ranks high in order in Suwarrows list of places to be taken. It is 70 miles S. W. of Milan.
VIENNA, MAY 8. Suwarrows has entered the Piedmontese territory on his march towards Turin.
VERONA, MAY 8. It is said the French have already evacuated Tu- rin.
ROVEREDO, MAY 13. We have ac- counts that the Austrians and Rus- sians have taken Turin; that the French retired to the citadel, which, afterwards, also surrendered.
Arona, Mordora, Vercelli, and Iva- rea, on the road to Turin, across the Tessino, were certainly occupied by the combined armies, under Vukassov- vich. In Arona, were found 17 pie- ces of cannon, 5000 musket cartridges, 1180 sacks of oats. Ivrea is 25 Miles N. of Turin.
MANTUA
Is completely invested and vigour- ously besieged. Gen. Kray commands before it. The Fr. Commandant re- plied to a summons, that he should defend it; confidently expecting speedy relief. A sortie was made, which, from the numbers employed in it,
was designed to be very formidable. It was completely repulsed.
PIZZIGHETONE
Surrendered to Gen. Kaim, after a siege of 4 days. The prisoners made, are 30 officers and 600 men. There were found in it 95 pieces of cannon, ammunition sufficient for a 6 months siege, and provisions enough for 5000 men for 14 months.
NAPLES
Vienna, May 18. The English landed 2000 men at Salerno, 27 miles S. E. of Naples, (city). They march- ed against and took the capital; and formed a junction with a loyal army under Cardinal Ruffo. Meanwhile from 7 to 8000 men were landed op- posite to Salerno. The French retir- ed from Naples without making much resistance. Insurrection against the French prevailed throughout the Nea- politan territory. Pescara, 90 miles N. of Naples, on the Venetian Gulf, was also in possession of the Royalists. The King was preparing to return to Naples. The Archbishop of Otranto, with several thousand democrats, were taken prisoners by Cardinal Ruffo. Messina is garrisoned by the English.
May 20. Trowbridge has taken all the islands in the bay of Naples, and blockades all the ports on the S. W. coast of that kingdom. The Lazzaroni, in Naples, are loyal to a man. The democrats distrust their leaders and soldiers. Ruffo has 20,000 men under him, and advances nor- therly. An out-lawed priest, com- mands a body of loyalists, and is be- sieging Gaeta, 35 miles N. W. of Na- ples.
GENOA
Verona, May 13. The combined fleets have taken Genoa, the Allies are said to have taken 15000 men, which had just arrived from Toulon. Angereau lies sick at Perpignan.
THE VALTELINE
A country of the Grisons, the pass between Switzerland and Italy, is completely occupied by the Allied arms. The inhabitants are overjoyed at the event. In consequence of re- cent occurrences, the whole Grison country is considered as conquered. 32 pieces of cannon were taken in the Valtelina. Gen. Hotze took 1000 prisoners, 1 flag, and 7 pieces of can- non. The Archduke is promised as- sistance from the Imperial army in Italy, in furtherance of his views a- gainst Switzerland.
By an arrival at Boston from Bristol.
PARIS, 8 Prairial, May 27.
The news of a victory is just ar- rived, obtained by General Moreau in the environs of Frelinetto, by which he has made 3600 prisoners, and ta- ken six pieces of cannon.
Sieyes was chosen to the place of Rewbell, in the Directory, by a ma- jority of 15.
Debray is chosen President of the Council of 500.—He was chosen to deliver an oration on the death of his late colleagues; but he declined from indisposition. The Ex-President was then chosen.
It is reported Russia has declared war against Prussia.
Tours Municipal Officers are dis- missed for nonconformity in the poli- tics of the Government.
Championet, Mack, and the Pope are on their way to Valence [The Pope is not dead it seems.]
Letters from our army in Italy, say, that in case it should advance a- gain, large body's of troops must be sent to restrain Insurrection in its rear —otherwise very serious consequences may result. The French are very frequently assassinated. Gen. Clarke and St. Cyr, and Mufnier, cidevant Chief of Staff have lately fallen vic- tims.
Massena contemplates condensing his army into a solid column and ad- vancing. He is confident of success in this measure.
Colonial Switzerland.
LUCERNE, MAY 21.
In consequence of a Message from the Directory of the 17th, the Great Council has adopted the following res- olutions:
1. Until the present dangers are past, all Helveticia is converted into a camp.
2. All Citizens whose names are inscribed for service either in the chosen body, or in the corps reserve, are declared, from the present mo- ment, to belong to the piquet, for the service of the Interior, and placed at the disposition of the Directory, for the defence of the country.
3. All the Officers and Sub-Offi- cers are placed in requisition at the demand of the Directory, and bound to perform the service which it may order them.
4. All the magazines containing matter and effects applicable to the military service, are put in requisiti-
tion, as well as every thing which may relate to the same object.
5. The nation will indemnify, in the fullest manner, the Communes and Citizens who may suffer in their properties in support of the common cause.
DUBLIN, JUNE 1.
Yesterday the whole of the Yeoman- ry corps were put off permanent pay and duty. This circumstance augurs well for the peace of the coun- try.
Extract from the Lord Lieutenant's Speech, on the prorogation of the Irish Parliament, to July 16.
"I have his Majesty's particular commands to acquaint you that a joint Address of the two Houses of Parliament of Great Britain has been laid before his Majesty, accompanied by resolutions proposing and recom- mending a compleat and entire Union between Great Britain and Ireland, to be established by the mutual con- sent of the Parliament, founded on equal and liberal principles, on the similarity of Laws, Constitution, and Government, and on a sense of mu- tual interests and affections. His Ma- jesty will receive the greatest satisfac- tion in witnessing the accomplishment of a System, which by allaying the unhappy distractions too long preva- lent in Ireland, and by promoting the security, wealth and commerce of his respective Kingdoms, must afford them at all times, and especially in the present moment, the best means of jointly opposing an effectual resist- ance to the destructive projects of foreign and domestic enemies; and his Majesty, as the common father of his People, must look forward with earnest anxiety to the moment, when in conformity to the sentiments, wish- es, and real interests of his subjects in Great Britain and Ireland, they may all be inseparably united in the full enjoyment of the blessings of a free Constitution, in the support of the honor and dignity of his Majesty's Crown, and in the preservation and advancement of the welfare and prosper- ity of the whole British Empire."
Intercepted Letters.
PHILADELPHIA, JULY 15.
The following letters were seized on a noted horse-stealer, of the name of Sweeney, in Buck's county, Pennsylvania, and transmitted to the President.
(COPY.)
Philadel. 6th May, 1799.
SIR,
THE Government of the United States appears to be nearly in the same situation with regard to the Sha- wenees Indians, that that of Canada is with respect to the Mohawks. The Shawenees wish the United States to make some alteration of their limits as fixed by the treaty of Grenville; and at the same time to confirm the sales of lands they have already made, and authorise future alterations. The American ministers on the other hand are determined not to grant this fa- vour, and are embarrassed by the per- severing importunity of the Indians. Advises lately arrived from Fort Wayne, inform the administration, that the Shawenees intend this spring to call a general council of the nation (composed of representatives from se- veral tribes) with a view to take such measures as may be thought best cal- culated to obtain some modifications of the Grenville treaty. And the in- formation adds that this idea was first suggested by the late Colonel M'KEE, deputy superintendant of Indian af- fairs.
The Government consider this in- terference as unfriendly and injurious to their interests, and a complaint has been made to me on the subject by the Secretary of State, with a request that I would make such representation of the matter to you as might pro- duce a defeat of the project at present, and prevent all intervention of a simi- lar nature.
I informed the Secretary of State that I could scarcely bring myself to credit the report respecting Colonel M'KEE; that at all events I could not conceive that any thing unfavoura- ble to the United States could have been contemplated by a public officer in the ser- vice of Great Britain; but that I would of course make the representation re- quested; that I made no doubt of its having the desired effect, because I was confident that you were fincerely disposed to ward off every incident that could give just cause of misunder- standing between the two nations.
The situation of public affairs in this country continues the same as at the date of my last letters, unless it be that THE GOVERNMENT HAS GIVEN A NEW SUBJECT OF PROVO- CATION TO FRANCE, BY ENCOURAGING the Negro Chief Toussaint, in measures which appear ultimately to tend to a sepa- ration of the Island of St. Domingo from the mother country. Whether this AF- FRONT will be socketed by the DIRECTORY, I do not pretend to decide;
but I cannot persuade myself that it is probable!
I have the honour to be, With great truth and respect, Sir, Your most obedient, Humble servant, ROBERT LISTON. The Honourable President RUSSELL.
Philadelphia, 23d May, 1799.
SIR,
MY last having been entrusted to a person who was not going directly to Upper Canada, I am uncertain whether it may yet have reached your hands, and therefore take an oppor- tunity of transmitting a duplicate.
On public affairs I have scarcely any thing to add—ONE STEP FURTHER ON THE ROAD TO A FORMAL WAR BETWEEN FRANCE AND THE UNITED STATES has been taken by the Governor of Guadalupe, who in consequence of the cap- TURE OF THE INSURGENTE FRIGATE, has authorised French ships of war to capture all American vessels, whe- ther belonging to the government or to individuals. But the resolution of the Directory on the great question of peace or war is not yet known. Perhaps the new explosion on the Continent of Europe, may give them a degree of employment that may re- tard their decision.
In the interior of this country the declarations of the democratic faction on the constitutionality and nullity of certain acts of the Legislature, have mised a number of poor ignorant wretches into a resistance to the laws and a formal insurrection—This fri- volous rebellion has been quelled by a spirited effort of certain volunteer corps lately embodied, WHO DESERVE EVERY DEGREE OF PRAISE. But the conduct of these gentlemen having been shame- fully calumniated by some of the popular newspapers; they have ventured to take the laws in their own hands, and to pun- ish one or two of the Printers (by a smart flogging:) a circumstance which has given rise to much animosity, to threats, and to a commencement of armed aloca- tions, on the side of the democrats (particularly the United Irishmen) and some apprehend that the affairs may lead to a partial civil war! The por- tion however of the jacobinic party, who could carry matters to this ex- tremity, is but small: the government is on its guard, AND DETERMINED TO ACT WITH VIGOR: and I do not on the whole apprehend any serious danger.
I have the honour to be, With great truth and respect, Sir, Your most obedient, Humble servant, ROBERT LISTON.
BOSTON, JULY 23.
THE FLEETS.
Reports from Portugal are, 1st, That the French fleet has put into Majorca, with Earl St. Vincents at hand; 2d, That the French fleet has run into Toulon, and the Spanish into Cartha- gena, with damage. These reports are plausible.
The ship Herald, of this port, from Barcelona, bound home, which stop- ped at Gibraltar, and failed from thence June 6, was parted with 30 days since, in lat. 33, long. 27. A letter written at that time by a young gentleman on board, to a relation in this town, has been received. It informs, that the French fleet had sheltered itself in Toulon; that 12 Spanish ships of the line had got into Carthagena, in a very shattered condition, so that there is no ground for expecting they will be in readiness for any service for a long time. That the Herald fell in with some of the spars of the wind- beaten Spaniards, floating in the Me- diterranean; That the Algeziras pi- rates had been augmented in number and size, and failed in company to be the more certain of success in their piracies.
Capt. Prince, who arrived at Salem on Sunday, failed in company with the above ship, and brought this let- ter alluded to. He corroborates its statements; and adds, that the remain- ing 5 Spanish ships of the line, which composed the Cadiz fleet, and which are not accounted for in the letter, got into some port on the Barbary shore, much injured. Ad. Gardner's fleet of 12 sail, from England was hourly expected. In the Straights, Adm. Lord Nelson's fleet was upper- most—Earl St. Vincent's off Toulon, and Ad. Gardner's would be reasona- bly off Carthagena. So that the French and Spanish Navies have only suited the place of their confinement —and, it is the general opinion much for the worse. The object of their expedition is frustrated. And the French seamen are disappointed at that mighty quantity of Prize-Money, which the Directory talked of to them —And the disposition of which, was already systematized, in spite of the ancient injunction, not to "reckon chickens before they were hatched."
We understand, that Capt. Prince reports that Buonaparte was contriv- ing means to get to France again; that his officers and men were discon- tented with the hopeless and miserable duty assigned them; and that 12 officers had actually quitted their corps in Egypt, and arrived at Leghorn, on their return to France.
Deaths at Philadelphia, the 24 hours ending July 13, 12 o'clock, seven. Two of these were caused by old age, and one by accident.
There were seven burials at Phila- delphia, in the 24 hours ending July 16.
Letters have been received, stating the capture and condemnation of the sch. Martin, of four guns, off Cadiz, when 46 days from America. She was condemned on these saptent pre- texts, "She was commissioned to defend herself, had no roll d'equipage, and was bound to supply the British fleet off Cadiz." The letters add, that since the British ships of the line have raised the blockade of Cadiz, the French privateers have commen- ced it. They swarm to such a degree that there remains to American ves- sels little or no chance of getting in.
JEAN DEBRAY, one of the three French deputies at the late Congress at Ras- tadt, and the only one of them who escaped assassination in attempting to return into France, after the Congress had broken up, was member of the National Assembly in the year 1792, when he was principally distinguished as the author of this disgraceful and bloodthirsty motion "That a body of twelve hundred Volunteers should be levi- ed, whose business it should be to assassinate the Generals and Princes who command- ed the armies which attacked France." The fate of his colleagues and the smart of his own wounds which he received on that occasion, will, per- haps remind citizen Debray of the ser- vice he formerly intended these lead- ers and chieftains, and induce him at last to ponder, whether this be not a righteous re-action of that providence which he and his abandoned co-revolu- tionists effect to deny. *Moore's Journal.
COLUMBIAN NAVY.
Extract of a letter from a very respecta- ble Captain at Martinique, to the own- er of his vessel in this town, dated July 2, 1799.
"THE Captain of a vessel just ar- rived informs, that two days since he fell in with the Merrimack sloop of war, and was told, that the had, three days previously, taken the French Privateer sch. RETALIATION.— French privateers are more numerous than ever, from Guadalupe."
The Insurgent frigate, and Mary- land, sloop of war, were in Hampton Roads, 8 days since.
The Delaware, sloop of war, has failed from Philadelphia, on a cruise.
The Connecticut, sloop of war, is again afloat, and has received no da- mage from the recent accident.
Frigate Gen. Green, was spoken June 14, lat. 31, long. 67.
Frigate Geo. Washington, Captain Fletcher, was spoken on the 7th inst. in lat. 38, long. 73, 14.
On Tuesday the Constitution Fri- gate, Capt. Talbot, failed on a cruise, with a leading wind; and
Yesterday, the Boston Frigate of 32 guns, Capt. Little, failed on a cruise with a fine South Westerly breeze.
Frigate United States has failed from the Delaware on a cruise. She lost one anchor and part of a cable off Newmarket.
A 74 gun ship is to be built at the Navy Yard, Gosport.
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
JULY 19. Arrived, sch. Mary and Eliza, Thomas Rice, 15 days from St. Thomas. The Polly, Cutter, of Bos- ton, had been taken by the French, and retaken by two Anguilla boats and sent into Tortola, where the vessel and cargo was condemned to pay salvage. Left at St. Thomas, sch. Ca- millus, Driscoll of Portsmouth; An- thony, Knap, Newbury-Port; sch. Nowell, do.; brig. Whitehouse, do. Sailed in co. ship Rebecca, Sieven, Portland; Four Sifters, Shillabe, Sa- lem; Swallow, Odell, do. The day after leaving port, fell in with the windward fleet of about 200 sail, and the same day spoke sloop Hannah, Puffe, of Nantucket. Capt. Shillabe and Odell kept with the fleet.
A private armed brig belonging to New-York, called the Genius, com- manded by Capt. Cable, arrived at N. London, the 14th inst. from Tortola. On her passage home, she captured the French letter of marque ship Co- lumbus, of 300 tons, copper-bottomed —Her cargo consisted of 3 or 400 hds. of rum, sugar and molasses. She formerly belonged to the British. It was said at N. London, that the Ge- nius had captured 3 other prizes.

PHILADELPHIA, July 17.
PROGRESS OF CREDULITY!
"What great effects from little causes spring!"
We are authorised in giving the following, as the genuine origin of the late report respecting an engagement between the U. S. ship Washington and the British Boston frigate:
A captain arrived at New-York, reported that in a certain latitude, off the east end of Long-Island, as if at a considerable distance, an uncommon succession of severe thunder, resembling very much the rapid discharge of artillery. The person to whom this was told, informed the next that a very brisk cannonade had been heard off the Hook, and that an engagement must have taken place between two large vessels. The third person, in relating the information, added, that as the Boston had but lately sailed from New-York, she must undoubtedly was one of the ships engaged. A fourth (a well wishing Jacobin) knew of no French vessel being off the coast therefore, some United States' ship must have been the other party. A fifth had heard of the sailing of the George Washington, Capt. Fletcher, and she was doubtless the antagonist of the Boston. A sixth could account for this rupture no other way, than by supposing that the British, as has often been the case, attempted to examine the crew of the George Washington, which Captain Fletcher opposed. A seventh conjectured, that the Boston would persist in this purpose, by sending their boat, with an officer, to examine the crew. The eighth concluded, that Capt. Fletcher's spirit would not endure this indignity; therefore if the boat approached too nigh he would surely sink her. It naturally followed that the Boston would pour in a broadside; that the George Washington would reciprocate the salute; that they would contend for two hours and upwards; and finally that the Boston would strike; To complete the story, not less than 60 of the British must of course have been killed, and near 30 of the Americans—with other little incidental embellishments, such as the "first shot of the George Washington having taken away the main-mast of the Boston," &c. &c. &c. [See the TRUE American of this morning for further particulars.]
July 22.
An Express arrived in town this morning, from Baltimore announcing the arrival of 2 brigs in the Chesapeake, from the Havannah, it is therefore supposed the late embargo has been raised.
NEW-YORK, July 18.
The article from St. Kitts, announcing the capture of the Harlequin French privateer and another schooner, by the Ganges, is we are sorry to state, entitled to no credit. Capt. Tinsley's letter to the Secretary of the Navy, and a letter from one of his officers dated the 28th June, three days later than the article from St. Kitts, do not mention any capture except that of the Vainqueur.
July 23.
The commissioners of the city of Washington, we understand, are about commencing another range of executive officers, west of the President's House.
The exterior work of the capital is entirely finished, and a number of the rooms completed. The whole building, it is expected, can be ready, for the accommodation of Congress, if necessary by the winter. A number of elegant buildings for General Washington, Mr. Law, Mr. Carroll, &c. are progressing in its neighborhood.
As Commerce is the basis of a navy, which is to be our great bulwark, it gives us pleasure to observe the augmentation of our shipping. The following is the amount of tonnage which entered the ports of the United States in the respective years:
Table with 4 columns: In foreign trade, In coasting trade, Fishing, British. It lists tonnage for years 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1795, 1796.
Observation 1st. The first column shows that the tonnage entering our ports has been almost doubled in 7 years.
2d. The second column shows that our coasting tonnage has been almost doubled in the same period.
3d. The third column exhibits a state of the fisheries, fluctuating.
4th. The fourth column manifests the beneficial operation of our laws relative to trade under the present national government. In 1790, almost two thirds of all the shipping entering our ports, was British. In 1796, not a thirty-third of it was British. We ask our Jacobins to look at that column, and give our government credit for the amount of the increase of American shipping.
The following tables show the amount of tonnage entered in the respective ports mentioned:
Table with 2 columns: In 1796, In 1797. It lists tonnage for Boston, New-York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Norfolk, Charleston.
The whole tonnage employed in foreign trade, and belonging to the United States at close of 1797, was, 597,777.
Whole tonnage of the coasting trade, 237,402. In the fisheries, 41,738. Total, 876,911.
The number of seamen is between 40 and 50,000. This statement affords a gratifying prospect of American prosperity, and should reach us to know and value our own strength.
BOSTON, July 26.
Foreign News Abridged.
In the French Council of 500, on the receipt of the Directory's Message, relative to the assassination of the Ministers returning from the Congress, a number of passionate speeches were delivered. It seems to be thought that the salvation of the Republic depends on inspiring the minds of the soldiery and citizens with desperation at this event. Sherlock proposed, that couriers should be despatched to all powers to acquaint them with the atrocious transaction—That there should be a high tribunal established, of judges from all powers—That officers should wear crape.—That the black standard should be displayed in every commune—and that these should not be removed till vengeance should be satisfied.—These propositions were ordered to be printed. Duplantier moved an Address to the French people. His speech was ordered to the Press. Balleuil said; that only France and her Allies, ought, at that moment, to be classed among civilized People; that the assassination had shut the door to all conciliation. [Plaudits.] He exclaimed, "Let us purge France of all the enemies she still holds in her bosom—Of those heterogeneous elements which check and oppose her happiness—which rejoice at what desolates us—and conspire with the enemies without. Yes, unworthy Frenchmen! ye are the prime cause of all the ills that afflict us." He moved, that a Manifesto be addressed on the occasion to France, Europe and posterity—That a funeral fete be celebrated in all the communes, in which all the citizens should pronounce the oath of hatred to royalty; and the Austrian government be devoted to public execration—That standards analogous to the occasion be sent to the armies—That a monument be erected in every department to perpetuate the remembrance of the outrage. Printing ordered. Poulain Grandpre, said, the Republic must be deified from our tribunals. Europe must know, that we will not lay down our arms till this outrage has been avenged. He proposed that the President of the Two Councils should pronounce funeral orations, and that the Directory should be furnished with the means of developing the National Energy. The Message was committed to Grandpre, Berkes, Duplantier, Bailleul, Talot, Boulay, Paty, and Francois.
The Paris papers complain that many citizens are incredulous to the opinion of government, that the Austrian officers were privy to the assassination.
Archduke Charles, has officially declared, that his orders relative to the personal safety of the French Ministers "were precise and reiterated;" that he had caused the commander of the advance post to be arrested, and appointed a commission to make the strictest enquiries relative to the murders; that in case his advance guards should be found in any degree culpable he would exact signal satisfaction of them. He expresses deep regret at the transaction.
The French Consul has withdrawn from Hamburg.
Paris papers say, the Brest fleet, excepting the Censeur, entered Toulon, before the 18th of May.
London papers contain a letter from a French officer on board the fleet at Toulon, May 16. He says they were bound to Cadiz first, and wanted to fight the English fleet; but were forced from both by bad winds. He adds, they shall not stay long at Toulon.
Intercourse with St. Domingo.
For the arrangements for opening certain ports of St. Domingo to American and English vessels, it was understood that those Ports would be opened by the 1st of August. And this appears to have been the opinion of Gen. Maitland, Mr. Lison, and of the American Government. Dr. Stevens, the American Consul General at St. Domingo, has since conceived that vessels were not to be suffered to clear out from the United States till after the 1st day of August—Consequently
has made no arrangements for opening the ports but for the accommodation of vessels that might sail after that time. This is known to the English cruisers; and both English and American vessels bound to St. Domingo, which may have failed or shall fail before August, are exposed to detention; except the measures which have been taken with all possible promptitude are successful. The British Minister has despatched advice of the misconception to Ad. Parker; and requested him to use his exertions in concert with those of Dr. Stevens and the Governor of Jamaica, to have the Ports opened with the least possible delay; and to give such orders to the captains of his squadron, as will insure to the American vessels, at sea, and bound thither, every necessary attention and good treatment.
The Massacre of the French Ministers.
In any point of view, is a violent outrage upon the laws of nations, and humanity. The French are labouring hard, and it is presumed in vain, to throw the odium of the crime on the Cabinet of Germany. Laying aside every principle of honor and justice, it is scarcely conceivable, that the Emperor, or the Arch Duke Charles, would descend to be accessories to this deed, in the perpetration of which, there was nothing to be gained, but much to be lost from the general odium and resentment it must excite should the least suspicion rest upon them. The crime was probably committed by high way robbers, for the sake of booty, or by some injured husband or brother, to obtain a just revenge, and inflict that punishment from which the victims were screened by the sanction of their diplomatic characters.
As evidence of the malignance of the yellow fever at Havannah, there died at Port Cavello, of the crew of the ship William of Salem, eleven persons, from the 27th May, to the 12th June last.
SALEM, July 23.
The ship Martha, Capt. Prince, arrived here last Saturday from Barcelona and Gibraltar.—Sailed from the coast of Catalonia the 24th of May. He informs, that the French fleet, of 24 sail of the line, passed the Streights of Gibraltar the 4th May:—Capt. P. received a letter from Barcelona of the 21st May, mentioning they had arrived at Toulon. The English fleet of 16 sail of the line, sailed from Gibraltar the 14th of May in pursuit of them. Five sail of the line from England, passed the Streights the 21st (without stopping at Gibraltar) to join the fleet. —May 18, the Spanish fleet of 17 sail of the line passed Gibraltar, in a fog; and, after encountering very bad weather, in which many of them were dismasted, part arrived at Carthagena, and five sail got into Oran, on the coast of Barbary where the plague rages very severely, as well as on the whole coast.
July 26.
Every article of intelligence from the North of Germany, says a Paris paper, confirms the report that Paul I. is determined to harass the King of Prussia, and the States of the Empire, who have abandoned Austria, and are on amicable terms with France.
Private accounts via Hamburg, assure us that the Prussian Monarch is completely prepared for any event having formed a coalition with the neutral Princes of Germany, whereby they have in complete readiness an army of 200,000 men to act as occasion may require—what lead to this event, was the march of the Russian troops through Germany.
NEWBURY-PORT, July 26.
Alarming, exaggerated reports of the existence of a malignant, or yellow fever in this town, having created great uneasiness in the minds of many people, we deem it our duty to make the following statement, which we pledge ourselves to be generally correct, to lessen the anxiety of those at a distance for the safety of their friends in this place.
That a disease, fatal and alarming, has deprived us of several useful and respectable characters, is a truth too feelingly lamented to be concealed. But, whatever report may say to the contrary, no death has occurred in this town since the 1st inst. which has not been published in this paper—And the public are assured that a true account of the health of the town may be constantly known thro' this medium.
It is believed few persons doubt that the disease was introduced by the ship Salty, Capt. Gunnison, which arrived here the 29th ult. from St. Thomas's—Altho' from the deposition published in our last, no blame can be attached to Capt. Gunnison. No person has been attacked with it who was not on board the above-mentioned vessel, or did not reside or visit in the vicinity of the lower long wharf, where the vessel was unladen—Another bad case of such a fever occurred until 5 or 6 days after her arrival, except that of a lad who came from sea in her. Since which 11 persons have died in this town—two in Salisbury, and one in Newbury, who labored on board her.—Nine, who have evidently had the
fame sickness, have recovered, and five, as appears by the report of the health committee last evening, are in a state of convalescence. No new case having occurred this week, we flatter ourselves that the disorder is checked, and that health will speedily again visit our habitations.
PORTSMOUTH, July 30.
From PHILAD. July 19.
"Our city was never healthier than at present; and I feel sanguine, under Providence, and the care of the Board of Health, we shall continue so, during the season. The alarm which prevailed for a few days past, has now totally subsided, and business goes on with its usual alacrity."
How pitiful! how contemptible the malice of the Jacobins!! The foolish lie propagated by their brethren relative to the pretended engagement between the American and British frigates, proving so illusory and vain, they are resolved to seek their revenge upon the Federalists, by midnight attacks and assassin like libels. This boyish business is all of a piece with Jacobin doings; and the capacities and genius of the leaders, are exactly competent to this kind of play. Indeed, it seems almost impossible for a Jacobin to stir, though he endeavors ever so much to disguise, but that he may be easily traced, and his doings seen through.
The Editor has received sundry communications from correspondents, which (tho' reluctantly) he gives a place in his paper to the following:—
MR. MELCHER,
I wish you would inform the pimping Doctor, that if ever he follows young gentlemen about town again, in the manner he did the other evening, he shall have a coat of tar and feathers, and be cobbled into the bargain.
Yours, A TRUE SON—
MR. PRINTER,
I will thank you to communicate to the pimping Doctor, that if he ever pokes his nose into people's back yards, and peeps into their windows, as he has lately done, he shall be scalded.
MR. PRINTER,
The pimping Doctor has been round again, he is determined to stand pimp for a certain GREAT MAN, I wish he may be told, he shall have his bones broken, and the gentleman shall not save him.
Though the Editor does not pretend to understand the enigmatical meaning of the foregoing scraps, he has no doubt, there are people who do; he therefore can only recommend that they profit by the hints, and that the public, or himself may not again be troubled with similar.
Sunday arrived brig Orion, Capt. Parker, 56 days from Lisbon. June 25, was boarded by a 24 gun frigate under English colours, (but supposed her to be a Frenchman) at the person who boarded spoke French) said she was the Tory, 3 months from Martinico, examined the brig's papers, behaved civil and bid us proceed on the voyage. July 4, spoke ship Fame, of New-York, 39 days from London.
An arrival at Portland, spoke in lat. 41, long. 66, brig Hiram, Capt. Appleton, out 4 days from this port, for Barbadoes—all well.
ENTRIES at the CUSTOM-HOUSE.
Brig Orion, Parker, Lisbon. CLEARED. Brig Betsey, Wentworth, Barbadoes. Brig Friendship, Lake, Tobago. Brig Polly, Moore, Trinidad. Scl'r Lark, Damerell, Martinico. Brig Drake, Tredick, St. Vincent.
MARRIED—In this town, Edmund Toppan, Esq. Attorney at law, of Hampton, to Miss Mary Chase, daughter of Stephen Chase, Esq. of this town.
DIED—At Exeter, Miss Francis Bourn Peabody, aged 15, an amiable daughter of the Hon. Oliver Peabody, Esq. of Exeter.
At Dover, Mrs. Waldron, the consort of Col. John Waldron.
At Rye, Miss Betty Jennens, aged 16, daughter of Simon Jennens, Esq. late of Rye, deceased.
In this town, Mr. Joseph Leach, aged 82.—A child of Capt. Wardrobe. A child of Mr. Titus Folsom, (a black.)
On Wednesday the 7th day of August next, will be sold at ABRAHAM ISAAC'S Auction Office, the following, viz.
177 PIECES Superfine
India Cotton, 1 yard wide.
Several boxes India China Tea Sets; 1 set in each box completed
1 four wheel Carriage, with harness, for 2 horses in good order.
A handsome Cow, in good order, 4 years old, gives plenty of milk.
An elegant Mahogany Book Case.
A new Marble Slab, lately imported from Italy; a number dozen fine Cotton Cards; Broad Cloths.
Silver Watches; 2 Feather Beds; Black Lasting, &c. &c.
N. B. The above will be sold without any reserve—Vendue as usual
kept every Wednesday.
MEDICAL.
AT the Theatre in Dartmouth College, the MEDICAL LECTURES commence the first of October; on ANATOMY and SURGERY; CHEMISTRY and MATERIA MEDICA; and THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF PHYSIC.
Good Chance for a Printer.
TO BE SOLD on reasonable terms,
If applied for immediately,
A PRINTING OFFICE,
CONSISTING of a sufficiency of Types for printing Books or Newspaper, with a handsome building, and every apparatus necessary for a newspaper, situated near the centre of this State, where upwards of 600 papers are printed weekly.—For further information apply to the printer hereof. July 30.
SEGARS forbidden to be smoked.
THE Citizens of this town, as well as strangers resident here, are notified not to smoke Segars in the streets or on the wharves, at any time, there having been several large fires, occasioned by this means, at the southward. The Police of this town, are determined to prosecute, to the utmost rigor of the law, every such offence after this notice. Portsmouth, July 27, '99.
TAKE NOTICE!
Whereas the late Partnership of
Leigh & Bowles
HAS been dissolved for upwards of twelve months, and a number of accounts still remains unadjusted, notwithstanding every pains has been taken to settle the same. Notice is hereby given, that all accounts that remain unsettled after the 1st of September next ensuing, will be put into an Attorneys hands.—Constant attendance given for settlement at the store of the subscriber in High-Street. WILLIAM LEIGH. Portsmouth, July 29, '99.
STRAYED from the pasture of Col. Samuel Sherburne, in the course of the last week, a young Horse about 14 hands high, light brown, with dark mane, tail and legs—whoever finds the same and will send word to the subscriber shall be handsomely rewarded. W. LEIGH.
FOR SALE, THE SCHOONER HOPE,
Of 90 tons burthen. APPLY TO CLARK and CONNOR, Fore-Street, Where may be had, Cheap for CASH, Tobago Rum, Cotton, Corn, Sugar, Tea, &c. &c. Portsmouth, July 26, 1799.
For Charleston, (S. C.)
THE Sloop Harmony,
to sail in 8 or 10 days for freight or passage apply to the Captain on board, now lying at Long Wharf. Daniel Prows. Portsmouth, July 29, 1799.
JUST RECEIVED
AND FOR SALE By J. Melcher, At his Printing-office & Book-store, corner of Market and Congress-streets;
SHEATHING Paper.
Writing Paper, of all prices, from 12s. to 60s. pr. ream. Printing Paper of every size and price. Cannon and Musket Cartridge Paper. Log Book Paper. Stout Wrapping Paper. Ink Powder, warranted of the first quality. Waters pr. lb. or box. Trunks of all sizes and prices. Spelling Books of all kinds. Account Books, made of good paper. Playing Cards. Morfe's Geography. Webster's 2d and 3d parts. Piatteis. Bibles of various prices. Testaments. Spelling Books of all kinds. Children's picture books of all sizes, pr. gross, dozen, or single. With a general assortment of School-Books and Stationary, and a large collection of other books, too tedious to enumerate in an advertisement, may be had at the above place on the lowest terms. Printing executed expeditiously on very moderate terms, and Blanks of every kind kept for sale as usual.

Edward J. Long Has for sale at his Store in Market-street, A general assortment of West-India Goods and GROCERIES, Which will be sold very cheap for Cash; —VIZ—
OLD Coniac Brandy at 16s. per gallon; Bourdeaux Brandy, very good flavoured.
W. I. Rum; Holland Gin; Aux-Cays Molasses; Sherry, Lisbon, Redport and Malaga WINES.
Hylon, Souchong and Bohea TEAS.
Philadelphia Loaf SUGAR, East and West-India SUGARS.
Superfine FLOUR pr. barrel or retail; Oatmeal; Poland Starch; Rice.
Coffee; Sweetener's No 1 & 2 Chocolate; 12 casks fresh Raisins, excellent box ditto; Figs; Currants; Mustard per pound and bottles; Al- monds; Cloves; Mace; Cinnamon; Cassia; Nutmegs; Ginger; Pepper; Allspice; Cayenne in bottles; double refined Salt Petre; Soap; mould and dip Candles; Table Salt in baskets.
Sweet Oil; Spanish Indigo; Gun-Powder; Tobacco; Snuff; Rock Salt; Chalk; Tumblers; Wine Glasses; Writing Paper per Ream, Wrapping do; Window Glass per box; Bar Iron; Gin Casks; Logwood; Copperas; and many other articles in the grocery line, which will be sold as cheap as can be purchased in this town. Portsmouth, July 12, 1799.
Hiram Lebunfine, HAS FOR SALE,
This Store in Buck-street (oppo- site Captain Martin Parry's dwelling-house,)
A general assortment of W. I. Goods & Groceries, Which will be sold cheap for cash or Country produce.
He is in hourly expectation of receiving A very extensive assortment of English Dry Goods.
N. B. Cash, or part cash, and any of the above Goods, will be given in payment for Pot and Pearl Albes, Cheese, Butter, Flax Seed, &c. &c.
Said LEBUNFINE being well acquainted with the European Mar- kets, offers his services to the Public in the line of
Commission & Brokerage, He will buy Good Notes , &c. at a rea- sonable Discount— Honor and Secrecy will be strictly observed, by him, and may be depended on by all who choose to deal with him. Portsmouth, July 11.
William Neil,
TAKES the liberty to inform his Friends and the Public, that he has entered into partnership with his son CHARLES NEIL , and that the busi- ness in his store, will in future be carried on in the name of
William & Charles Neil, His customers and others may depend on the strictest attention to their orders and the greatest care in the choice of the GOODS.
They have at present for Sale,
Bohea, } TEAS. Souchong, } Hylon and } Gunpowder }
RUM. BRANDY. GIN.
Malaga, } Sherry, } Lisbon, } Red Port } WINES.
COTTON per bag. CROCKERY per crate. SUGAR per hhd. or barrel. LOAF SUGAR.
With a general assortment of GROCERY GOODS. On the most reasonable terms, all pos- sible encouragement given to those who buy to sell again.
ALSO—A cargo of VERY NICE CORN. Portsmouth, July 5, '99.
FOR SALE, 900 bushels of CORN, and a few bbls. of PORK; FLOUR; SHIP BREAD, and spirits of TUR- PENTINE. —ALSO—
The Sloop Harmony, —for further particulars apply to the subscriber on board, now lying at long wharf.
Daniel Prows. Portsmouth, July 15, 1799.
B A R N S T E A D.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
NOTICE is hereby given to the delinquent proprietors and owners of land in the town of Barnstead, who have not paid their proprietary taxes for the years 1796 and 1797, that unless they pay the same together with incidental charges to me the subscriber, on or before the 13th day of August 1799, so much of their lands as will pay the same will then be sold at public vendue, at 10 o'clock A. M. at my dwelling house in said town, as by an act passed in the year 1792.
   Proprietors names. No. of 60 acre lots. Quantity, 1796. Cents. Quantity, 1797. Cents. No. of 100 acre lots. Quantity. Dls. Cts.    Rev. Joseph Adams, 24 12 35 35 0 0 0 0 0  John Downing, jr. 0 0 0 0 0 63 100 1 38  John Walker, 74 60 84 84 0 0 0 0 0  Richard Downing, 0 0 0 0 0 73 22 0 62  James Nutter, 72 60 84 84 0 56 60 0 84  Henry Nutter, 0 0 0 0 0 36 30 0 42  Lemuel Bickford, 0 0 0 0 0 116 100 1 38  George Walton, 0 0 0 0 0 45 28 0 38  Samuel Walton, 0 0 0 0 0 74 85 1 19  Jonathan Downing, 0 0 0 0 0 24 25 0 35  Moses Furbur, 0 0 0 0 0 71 25 0 35  John Decker, 65 60 84 84 0 0 0 0 0  John Knight, 0 0 0 0 0 59 64 0 86  Andrew Peters, 46 22 20 20 0 0 0 0 0  Samuel Thompson, 73 60 84 84 0 0 0 0 0  John Thompson, 47 60 84 84 0 0 0 0 0  Harrison Downing, 0 0 0 0 0 102 4 0 6  Thomas Leighton, 0 0 0 0 0 67 46 0 64  John Downing, 55 30 42 42 0 0 0 0 0  Samuel Huntriss, 21 60 84 84 0 72 86 1 20  John Fabens, 0 0 0 0 0 77 100 1 38  John Shackford, 0 0 0 0 0 112 43 0 60  Hunking Wentworth, 6 18 25 25 0 0 0 0 0  Robert Achmood, 0 0 0 0 0 57 64 0 89  Nathaniel Morrell, 0 0 0 0 0 96 100 1 38  Timothy Gerrish, 117 30 42 42 0 0 0 0 0  John Gilman, 54 37 39 39 0 16 0 0 23  Paul Gerrish, 77 60 84 84 0 0 0 0 0  Richard Jennens, 0 0 0 0 0 40 50 0 69  Gilbert M'Federic, 90 60 84 84 0 38 75 1 4  Ebenezer Wentworth, 4 60 84 84 0 0 0 0 0  John Wentworth, jr. 0 0 0 0 0 95 47 0 66  George Jeffrey, 0 0 0 0 0 97 100 1 38  Archable M'Federic, 93 60 84 84 0 0 0 0 0  John Frost, 81 60 84 84 0 0 0 0 0  Jotham Odiorne, 0 0 0 0 0 82 4 0 5  John Redman, 0 0 0 0 0 107 44 0 60  Richard Waldron, jr. 0 0 0 0 0 83 5 0 7  Nathaniel Shoers, 97 30 42 42 0 0 0 0 0  Benjamin Downing, 0 0 0 0 0 91 0 1 38  Richard Sincler, Commons, — — — — 10 0 0 14  Joseph Gilman, ditto. — — — — 27 0 0 38  Thomas Snell, ditto. — — — — 20 0 0 28  
CHARLES HODGDON, Collector.
Barnstead, June 28, 1799.
Edward J. Long, Has the following articles for Sale very cheap,—(they being a con- signment.)
26 bolts Russia Duck. 9 ps. Russia Sheeting. 21 bags India Sugar. 2 tons IRON.
And a large assortment of PAPER HANGINGS. Portsmouth, July 8, 1799.
William Stanwood, jr.
Market-street, next door to the printing office,
HAS JUST RECEIVED
By the latest Arrivals
A GREAT variety of Sum- mer and other GOODS, which he now offers for sale at a very low advance for cash or short credit. The smallest favors will be gratefully received, and every attention paid.
PAULSBURG.
WHEREAS the proprietors and owners of the township of Paulsborg, in the county of Grafton, and State of New-Hampshire, at their meeting held at Deerfield, in the county of Rockingham, in said State, on the 21st day of March, 1799, voted to raise the sum of twenty-two dollars on each original right in said town- ship of Paulsborg, for the purpose of cutting, clearing, and making passable the road through said town, and for defraying other proprietary charges; and whereas the assessors of said town- ship did on the same day, make an as- sessment of said tax, and committed it to me to collect, and the sum of three dollars and fourteen cents only, has been paid on each of said rights.— Notice is hereby given, that unless the delinquent proprietors and owners of the following rights, viz. Sir William Mayne, baronet; Robert Mayne, Esq. John Graham, Esq. Walter Kennedy, Esq. William Botts, Esq. Paul Went- worth, Esq. John Nelson, Esq. John Ward, Esq. Colin Mackenzie, Esq. Thomas Mayne, Esq. Edward Mayne, Esq. William Serwens, Esq. Hon. Robt Needham; Sam'l Smith, Esq. Thomas Evans, Esq. William Wentworth, of Barbadoes, Esq. George Gray, Esq. Robert Graham, Esq. David Scrymgeour, Esq. shall pay me eighteen dollars eighty-six cents, (being the balance of said taxes now unpaid on each of said rights) and incidental charges, so much of said delinquents land as will pay said taxes now unpaid, and the legal charges, will be sold at public auction on Tuesday the first day of October next, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, at the dwelling house of Daniel Watson, innholder in Epping, in said county of Rockingham.
WILLIAM PLUMER, Collector. Epping, July 3, 1799.
State of New-Hampshire.
Grafton, ff.
WHEREAS Peter Davis by his attorney Thomas Peverly, jr. Hezekiah Smith, and David Burnside, have preferred a petition to me the subscriber, a justice of the peace and of the quorum, in and throughout the State of New-Hampshire.
Setting Forth,
THAT they are owners of more than one sixteenth part of the town- ship of Percy, in said county, and re- questing that a meeting of the pro- prietors and grantees owners of lands in said township of Percy, might be notified and warned to be holden at the dwelling house of Mrs. Betsey Car- gill, innholder in Northumberland, county aforesaid, on the fifteenth day of August next, at two o'clock in the afternoon, to vote and act on the fol- lowing articles, viz.
1st. To choose a moderator for said meeting.
2d. To choose proprietors assessors,
collector, and treasurer.
3d. To see if the said proprietors will vote such a sum on each right or share in said Percy, as shall be thought sufficient to defray the cost of laying out the settlers lots.
4th. To see if the proprietors will agree to allot and make division of their lands in said Percy.
5th. To see if the proprietors will agree to raise money by a tax on each right, to cut and make the road through said Percy, leading to Shel- burne.
6th. To act on any other matter or matters that may appear necessary.
Dated at Northumberland, July 1, 1799,
and signed, PETER DAVIS, by his attorney THOMAS PEVERLY, jr. HEZEKIAH SMITH, DAVID BURNSIDE.
Therefore, pursuant to said request, and the laws of the State of New-Hampshire in such case made and provided, the pro- prietors and grantees, owners of lands in said township of Percy, are hereby notified and warned to meet at the time and place, and for the purposes set forth and mentioned in the before recited appli- cation.
(L. S.) Given under my hand and seal, at Northumberland, the second day of July, 1799.
JEREMIAH EAMES, Justice Peace and Quorum.
WANTED—In a Family,
A YOUNG Woman, who understands Cooking, and the usual work of a family; if suitably recommended, the highest wages will be given. Inquire of the Printer. July 23.
Books, Blanks and Station- ery for sale at J. Melcher's Printing- Office and Book-store, corner of Mar- ket-street Portsmouth.
State of New-Hampshire.
To the honorable John S. Sherburne, Esq. one of the Justices assigned to keep the Peace throughout the State aforesaid.
THE subscribers being owners of more than one sixteenth part of the township of Franconia, in the county of Grafton and State of New- Hampshire; hereby request you to call or notify a meeting of the proprietors of said township, to be held at the house of Zebedee Applebee, innholder in the said township of Franconia, on the 25th day of October next, at 10 o'clock A. M. then and there to act on the following articles and mat- ters hereafter mentioned:
1st. To choose a moderator for said meeting.
2d. To choose a proprietors clerk.
3d. To choose assessors, a collector, a treasurer and other necessary officers, for conducting the business respecting said township, as the proprietors may judge expedient.
4th. To see in what method the prorietors will discharge the arrears of public taxes and requisitions due from said township.
5th. To agree on and vote such sum or sums of money to be raised on the right or share of each original grantee, as will pay their respective proportion of said taxes and requisitions, and for the expenditure of said prorietors, that hath or may arise in bringing forward the settlement of said township.
6th. To see how far the proprie- tors will ratify and confirm any or all their former votes.
7th. To see what effectual method the proprietors will take to settle all disputes respecting different claimants to said lands, and make such grant or grants, deed or deeds by themselves, or agent or their committee as may be thought necessary for the purpose, or for any purpose.
8th. To receive, examine and allow accounts brought against said pro- prietors, or act thereon as may be thought proper.
9th. To see what further steps are necessary to be taken respecting the boundaries of said township.
10th. To raise such sum or sums of money for making and repairing highways, and to pay the cost of the survey and other expenditures as may be thought necessary.
11th. To settle the pay for their agent or committee who have or shall serve them.
12th. To act themselves, or by a agent or committee, upon all other matters which may be thought neces- sary.
13th. To agree on some method of calling proprietors meetings in future.
JONAS MINOT, ABRAHAM MUNROE, DANIEL FISK, Wm M'FARLAND, jr. JOSEPH NIXON.
State of New-Hampshire.
Rockingham, ff.
Pursuant to the foregoing application, I hereby notify and warn the proprietors of Franconia aforesaid, to meet at the time and place and for the purposes a- foresaid—Given under my hand and seal at Portsmouth, in said county, this 19th day of July, A. D. 1799.
JOHN S. SHERBURNE, Jus- tice of the Peace throughout said State.
TERRITORY NORTHWEST OF THE OHIO RIVER.
INFORMATION is hereby given to all proprietors of wild land ly- ing in the county of Washington and territory aforesaid, that agreeably to a law adopted by the Legislature of said territory in the year 1798,— "subjecting all unimproved tracts of land to a tax," there has been a tax laid—all proprietors as aforesaid are requested and required to come for- ward by themselves or agents, enter their land in the proper office, and pay the tax by the first of December next, or the penalty of the law will fall up- on them.
WILLIAM RUFUS PUTNAM, for and in behalf of the Collectors of taxes for the county of Washington. Marietta, June 3, 1799.
N. B. The Ohio Company's purchase lies in the county of Washington.
One Cent Reward.
RAN AWAY from me the sub- scriber, on Friday the 28th June, an apprentice boy by the name of JOHN SPINNEY, about five feet eight inches high, a stout thick set fellow, long dark coloured hair; had on when he went away a round hat, dark color'd jacket and trousers. Whoever will apprehend said runaway and re- turn him to his master in Londonderry, shall receive the above reward and no charges paid.
WILLIAM DANFORTH.
N. B. All persons are hereby caution- ed against trusting, harbouring, con- cealing or employing said runaway, as they would avoid the penalty of the law.
Londonderry, June 29, 1799.
From Philadelphia.
The subscriber has imported in the Sloop Amity, the following articles which will be Sold on moderate terms, at his Store on Long Wharf,
1000 bushels of Corn,
6 kegs best manufactured James
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