The New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1791-08-18 00:00:00

New - Hampshire Gazette, and the General Advertiser.
Containing the Laws, &amp;c. of the United States, as well as those of this State passed since 1787, with a variety of other matters both useful &amp; entertaining.
PORTSMOUTH: Printed by JOHN MELCHER, at his Office in Market-Street, at nine shillings per Annum.
Letters written in France, in the summer, of 1790, to a friend in England; containing various anecdotes, relative to the French Revolution; and memoirs of Mons. and Madame Du F— By HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS.
WOMEN have been allowed to possess, by a kind of prescription, the knack of epistolary writing; the talent of chatting on paper in that easy, unmethodical manner, which render letters dear to friends, and entertaining to strangers.—Who that has read Madame Sivigue's and Pope's letters, with an unprejudiced eye, can avoid giving the preference to the artless elegance of the former; on being interested by the eloquence of her heart, and the unstudied sallies of her imagination; whilst the florid periods of the latter appear like state robes, grand and cumbersome, and his tenderness vapid vanity.
The interesting, unaffected letters which this pleasing writer has presented to the public, revived these reflections, and gave new force to them, at the same time that they confirmed the very favorable opinion we have entertained of the goodness of the writer's heart.
Her reflections on the French Revolution are truly feminine, and such an air of sincerity runs through the descriptive part of her letters, as leads us to hope that they may tend to remove from some polite circles, a few of the childish prejudices that have the insigna of raw head and bloody-boans to sink them deeper in the vacant mind.
We shall select some passages to amuse our readers, and enable them to judge of the general tenor of the work.
"I promised to send to you a description of the federation: but it is not to be described! one must have been present, to form any judgment of a scene, the sublimity of which depended much less on its external magnificence, than on the effect it produced on the minds of the spectators." "The people, sure, the people were the sight!" I may tell you of pavilions, of triumphal arches, of alters on which the incense was burnt, of two hundred thousand men walking in procession; but how am I to give you an adequate idea of the behavior of spectators? How am I to point out the impetuous feelings of that immense, that exulting multitude? Half a million of people assembled at a spectacle, which furoished every image that can
elevate the mind of man; which connected the enthusiasm of moral sentiment with the solemn pomp of religious; which addressed itself at once to the imagination, the understanding and the heart:
"In the streets, at the windows, and on the roofs of the houses, the people transported with joy, shouted and wept as the procession passed. Old men were seen kneeling in the street, blessing God that they had lived to witness that happy moment. The people ran to the doors of their houses loaded with refreshments, which they offered the troops; and crowds of women surrounded the soldiers, and holding up their infants in their arms and melting into tears, promised to make their children imbibe, from their earliest age, an inviolable attachment to the principles of the new constitution."
As the destruction of the Bastile was an event that affected every heart—even hearts not accustomed to the melting mood—it was natural to suppose that it would particularly touch a tender one—and every page of Miss W's book tells us, in an unequivocal tone, that her's is true to every soft emotion. p. 22.
"Before I suffered my friends at Paris to conduct me through the usual routine of convents, churches; and palaces, I requested to visit the bastile; feeling a much stronger desire to contemplate the ruins of that building than the most perfect edifices of Paris. When we got into the carriage, our French servant called to the coachman with an air of triumph, " *A la Bastile—mais nous n'y resterons pas. " We drove under that porch which so many wretches have entered never to repass, and alighting from the carriage descended with difficulty into the dungeons, which were too low to admit of our standing upright, & so dark that we were obliged at noon day to visit them with the light of a candle.—We saw the hooks of those chains by which the prisoners were fastened round the neck to the walls of their cells; many of which being below the level of the water, are in a constant state of humidity; and a noxious vapor issuing from them, which more than once extinguished the candle, and was so insufferable that it required a strong spirit of curiosity to tempt one to enter.—Good God!—and to these regions of horror were human creatures dragged at the caprice of
despotic power! What a melancholy consideration, that
Man! proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, As makes the angels weep."
* To the Bastile—but we shall not remain there.
THE MONITOR.
The following prayer of VOLTAIRE is worthy of preservation and general reading, and is therefore inserted.
"NOT unto men, but unto thee, the God of all beings, of all worlds, and of all ages, do I address myself: If feeble creatures, lost in thy immensity, and imperceptible to the rest of thy Universe—may presume to ask of thee, who hast given all; of thee, whose decrees are unchangeable as they are eternal; condescend to look in pity on the errors that are inseparable from our nature; and let them not be to us the ground of calamities. Thou hast not given us hearts to hate one another, not hands to cut one another's throats; grant that we may mutually assist one another, to support the burthen of a painful and transitory life: Let not the little differences of the vestments that cover our feeble bodies, between our defective languages, between our ridiculous customs, between our many imperfect laws, between our many foolish opinions, between our several conditions, so unequal in our eyes and so equal in thine; let not the many little distinctions which denote the several classes of atoms called men, be signals of hatred and persecution. May those who light waxen tapers at noon-day to celebrate thee, bear with those who are content with the light of the sun thou hast placed in the firmament.—Let not those, who tell us we must love thee, and cover their robes with white linnen, hold in detestation those who tell us the same thing in a robe of black woollen. May it be the same to adore in a jargon formed from ancient language, as in a jargon more modern. May these whose vesture is rayed with red, or with purple, who rule over a small parcel of the small heaps of the mud of this earth, and who possess some rounded bits of a certain metal, enjoy without pride, what they call grandeur and riches; and may others behold them without envy; For thou knowest
that in these vanities there is nothing to be enjoyed, nothing to be proud of. May all men remember that they are brethren, may they abhor the tyranny that is exercised over the mind as by the execrate the violence that takes by force the fruit of their labor and peaceful industry. If the source of war be necessary, let us not hate, let us not devour one another in the midst of peace; but let us employ our momentary existence in blessing, equally in the thousand different languages from Siam to California, thy goodness which has given us this momentary existence."
ANECDOTES.
A PERSON lately having occasion to boil a number of cattles feet, threw the bones at the back of a Court-House.—A Lawyer at court inquiring what bones they were, a bystander observed, that he thought they were client's bones, as they appeared to be well picked .
Origin of the vulgar joke—See paddy from Cork with his Coat buttoned behind. —
WHEN the famous partizan O'Laughlin, was retreating from Clonakilly, before Lord BROGHILL, he suddenly halted, as the Inniskillings came in sight, on a large plain, and ordered his men to turn their coats round, and button them behind, to put on their wigs, the hind part before and to reverse their hats—"for then my lads" says he, "while we are running away, the enemy will stand still and think we are marching up to them."—His stratagem succeeded to a charm.
THE MORNING, BY HALLER.
THE moon retires—Nature's dark veil no more obscures the air and earth—the twinkling stars disappear—and the reviving warmth of the sun awakens all creatures.
Already are the heavens adorned with its purple hues and its sparkling sapphires; AURO-RA, fair harbinger of the day, graciously dispenses smiles; and the brightness of the roses which wreath her forehead, dissipates the mists of night.
The flaming light of the world advances from the eastern gate, triumphantly treading on the shining splendors of the milky-way; clouds, covered with heaven's rubies, oppose him with their lightning, and a flame of gold spreads itself around the horizon.
The roses open to salute the

sun with genial dews; and the lillies exhale delicious odors from their sat-in'd leaves.
The vigilant bird flies to the labor-giving field; he guides with careful pleasure the earth-perfing plough; in the mean time his ears are delighted by the lightsome band of minstreles, which sweeten the air and woods with their melodious notes. Thus doth benignant heaven lighten the heavy pressure of toilful industry.
O Creator; all that I see are the effects of thy power! thou art the soul of nature, and dost actuate every part! the stated periods and glittering appearances of yon orbs, and the unquenched fire of the revolving sun, proceed from thy hands, and boast thy impression!
Thou illumest the solemn moon to guide us amid darkness; thou dost lend wings to the unseen wind, and by night thou dost enrich the earth with fruitful dews.
From dust thou hast formed yon proud topt mountain; from sand hast thou produced metals; thou hast spread yon firmament, and thou hast clothed it with clouds, that it may remain unpolluted by the exploring eye of man.
Thou hast wonderfully formed the veins of that fish which causes rivers to overflow, and which makes whirlpools, and spreads devastation with the flapping of his tail. Thou hast built the elephant, and thou hast animated its enormous bulk, that it resembles a moving mountain.
Thou supportest yon splendid arches of the heavens upon the vast void; and with thy word thou hast produced from chaos this wondrous universe—filling it with order, and giving it no other limits than its own grandeur.
Great God! created spirits are too insignificant to raise the glory of thy works! We lose ourselves in their immensity. To tell them, one must resemble thyself in infinity.
Humbly contented, I remain in my own prescribed circle. Incomprehensible Being! thy resplendent glories blind the presuming eye of man! and He, from whom the earth receives its being, needs not the praises of a single worm!
Scale of Ages of the Animal Creation.
THE following scale of the average duration of animal life, is collected from Linnæus, Buffon, and other celebrated writers of natural history:
 A hare will live 10 years  A cat 10  A goat 8  An ass 30  A sheep 10  A dog from 14 to 20, sometimes more  A bull 15  An ox (a curious fact) 20  Swine 25  A peacock 25  A horse from 20 to 30  A pigeon 8  A turtle dove 25  A partridge 25  A raven 100  An eagle 100 
Of the goose, the following may be depended upon as a fact:—There is a family living in Scotland, who are able to ascertain that a goose had been kept in the family 70 years—they know it must be still older, but they fix this period as being able to prove it incontrovertibly.
Foreign Intelligence.
WARSAW, May 7.
We have received accounts that the grand Vizier, after reinforcing Brailow, with ten thousand men, detached some corps against the Russians, which were distributed in different parts, and obliged them to raise the blockade at Zackanali, with the loss of seven hundred men, and thirty-six officers killed, besides many prisoners, and 19 pieces of cannon. The Turks destroyed or took all the vessels loaded with provisions, which the Russians had assembled at Zackanali.
MAY 14.
We are assured that in case of a war in the North, Sweden will oppose the entrance of the English fleet into the Baltic.
VIENNA, APRIL 20.
Our ally, the generous and immortal Catharine is so much beloved here, that it is affirmed by some, that in case of a war with Prussia, we shall not only furnish the stipulated succours, but employ the whole force of the empire for her protection.
The late message of his Britannic Majesty to the two Houses of Parliament, intimating the probability of hostilities with Russia, has offended many of the inhabitants of this capital who think that the expression of "giving peace to Europe," by means of an armament of thirty or forty sail of the line, was rather too haughty and presumptuous, and never before used—even by those who had the fate of Europe in their hands.
MAY 11.
The Grand Vizier, notwithstanding his late success, [see Warsaw head] still continues his conferences with M. Lasfcarow, the Charge des Affairs of Russia, for the purpose of bringing about a peace; but he leaves nothing undone that can promote his success, should the negotiations fail—for he has dispatched thirty thousand men to cover the fortress of Varna and his army, which already amounts to eighty thousand men, receives daily reinforcements of new troops.
FRANKFORT, MAY 14.
Letters received here state, that the Elector of Bavaria has been requested to permit the passage of twelve thousand Austrian troops through his dominions, on their way to the frontiers of Alsace.—[This if true, will probably cut out work for the French patriots.]
LEYDEN, May 29.
We have received in a letter from Warsaw, the important news, that all regulations wanting to complete the Revolution had been agreed to unanimously; and that they had also settled the future organization of the Diet.—The present king, agreeable to the Passa Conventa , appoints the number of Senators, but future Kings are only to choose them out of two candidates, which are to be chosen for every vacancy.
LONDON, JUNE 17.
State of EUROPE as given by SWEDEN.
In Spain, no news is suffered to transpire that makes mention of what is passing in France.
In Prussia, nothing is read which is not printed by authority of the several inquisitions.
In Holland, the Gazettes dare no longer speak of the French constitution, unless it be to calumniate it.
In Russia, they have no other notions but that of converting the Mussulmen.
A courier from Petersburg, with dispatches for Count Woronzow, the Russian Minister at our court, came within a few hours after Basilico, the messenger from Berlin, whose arrival caused the cabinet to sit several hours on Wednesday last. The dispatches brought by both couriers announce the determination of the court of Petersburg, in regard to the terms proposed by the allied courts for making a general peace: The result of this answer is as follows:
The Empress of Russia expresses herself much surprised at the king's message to both houses of parliament, and the armaments that were ordered in consequence of it; but she is not intimidated. She affirms that she will not deviate from the plan she has proposed to the Turks for making peace; and she expresses that she does not dread the mischief that threatens her from her coast being attacked by an English fleet, should it sail, as it could do her no very material injury. Her Imperial majesty is nevertheless preparing for a very resolute defence, as if she did apprehend mischief from it, and is arming, as well as fortifying her
ports and coasts as strongly as the service and the time will admit.
Remittances to a considerable amount arrived by the packet on Thursday from AMERICA. They consist of bills drawn in the name of the United States, on their Agent at Amsterdam.
The American bills are printed in a peculiar way, on square strips of very fine paper. They are all at ten days sight, and in general for five or six thousand guilders.
Accounts were received yesterday at the Secretary of State's Office by way of France, that the plague rages with dreadful havoc in that part of Turkey nearest to the Mediterranean, inasmuch that in a small district a thousand persons have died in a day.
According to the latest accounts the Russian forces consisted of 537,898 men.
THE SHAVER.
The barbers at Seville, they say are so slow, That while they shave one side the other will grow— Now something like this, Sirs, has happen'd of late, In the most consequential affairs of the state; For while our young shaver was trimming of Spain, The bristles of Russia were sprouting again.— I fancy good friends we shall all be a-ground, Before he has trimm'd half his customers round.
The fashionable belles of Paris now wear the hair divided on the middle of the forehead, and combed smoothly down, without the least friz, on each side of the face.
CAPE-FRANCOIS, July 7.
The black and white cockades will not take; it seems that those which appeared on Tuesday last at the Theatre were only put on for an experiment.
Some citizens in the gallery of the Provincial Assembly moved to send back to Bourdeaux the first cargoes of Negroes which should enter into this port from thence: A number of other motions were made which appeared dictated by despair.
The President represented in the name of the Assembly that the Colony alone had a right to express the people's sense of the measure. He informed them that notice had been sent to all the parishes of the decree of the 15th of May.
Some Members moved addresses to the National Assembly, but nothing was deliberated upon.
The white and black Cockades have disappeared, but the greatest part of the citizens have laid by the National Cockade.
The free people of colour are quiet. The order of the board of Police against disturbers of the public peace, has eased the minds of those who were the most alarmed, and the greatest circumspection has taken with them the place of their former terror.
There is now at the Cape, and in many other parishes of the Province of the North but one party. The citizens who respected the decrees of the national Assembly, and those who executed them after their own manner, have united against the decree of the 15th of May. The Governor, who in the eyes of many persons was considered as an Aristocrat, has pleased every one by manifesting in his letter to the Minister has sentiments respecting the National Laws concerning the colonies.
It is very difficult to recover debts; people's heads are in a great ferment.
JULY 14.
The embargo, laid on the 6th inst. will be taken off this morning. Of 48 Deputies elected for the Cape to the Colonial Assembly, 17 or 18 have declined.
The people of colour continue quiet. The protestation of the Spaniard de la Torre is the only one that we know of.
The obnoxious decree of the Nation-
al Assembly of the 15th of May, is literally translated as follows:
"The National Assembly decrees,— "That they never will be deliberate respecting the condition of people of colour who were not born of free parents, without the previous, free and spontaneous request of the colonies; that the Colonial Assemblies now existing shall continue to subsist; but that people of colour born of a free father and mother shall be admitted into future parochial and Colonial Assemblies, if they have the other necessary qualifications."
PITTSBURG (Penn) July 23.
We have the pleasure to inform the public from authority, that on Sunday the 10th inst. Capt. Shaylor, with a fine company of the 2d United States regiment, sailed for the protection of the Muskingum settlements, and on the 12th a well appointed detachment, under the command of Major Gaither, consisting of two battalions of the United States Levies, a body of cavalry to be mounted with their equipments complete, forage, military and other stores and provisions, sailed for Headquarters; also, a company of Major Butler's battalion of Levies, under the command of Capt. Powers, for the protection of the French settlement at Gallipolis; and from the favourable state of the river, we have reason to hope their voyage will be both pleasant and expeditious. The number of boats employed in this service and that went under convoy of the troops, amounted to twenty-four.
PHILADELPHIA, August 4.
On Monday last, the Mayor of this city, accompanied by two Aldermen, two county Magistrates, two county Commissioners, and one of the gaol Inspectors, met at the gaol in this city, in order to lay out the ground for erecting solitary cells, agreeably to the late penal law of this state, for the purpose of confining those criminals who cannot be reclaimed simply by hard labor. The success which has attended similar institutions in other countries, gives us the utmost reason to expect the most beneficial effects from the proposed penitentiary building. There is no human creature so hardened by vice, as to be able wholly to silence the clamours of conscience when the avenues to the senses are shut up by confinement and solitude. It is to be hoped, the conduct of Pennsylvania towards those neglected or deluded part of their fellow men, who disturb the peace, or violate the laws of society, will be followed by her sister states. It becomes them to recollect, that all their penal laws are copied from a country which we now consider as corrupted and enslaved, and that they all partake of the cruel and absurd spirit of monarchy and aristocracy. To punish crimes by death is a proof of ignorance, weakness or indolence in governments. Nor is this all: It is giving a sanction to murder, for in the eyes of heaven, it can be of little consequence, whether death be inflicted upon a criminal by an angry or injured individual, or by an angry and bloody minded law. The gratification and establishment of the principle of revenge, are nearly the same in both cases—but worst in the last. The injured individual transfers his resentment to the laws of his country—but these murder, not suddenly and in a passion, but deliberately and in cold blood.
Aug. 8.—We hear that Governor Blount, under the auspices and by the direction of the President of the United States, on the second of July concluded a treaty with the Cherokee nation of Indians.—This nation consists of about 2500 warriors, who are situated principally upon the waters of the beautiful river Tennessee.
They have been greatly agitated since the treaty of Hopewell, in November 1785, by the encroachment of the whites upon their lands; but are now entirely satisfied by the liberality and justice of the United States.
The number of vessels making ready

to sail from Ireland, with passengers, is astonishing, and shews that this country is daily encreasing in the opinion of the old world.
ELIZABETH-TOWN, August 3. A Mr. Lawrence, at Dobbs's ferry, who had been exercised in mind for some time past, mistaking the literal for the true meaning of that text of scripture which saith, "If thy right hand offend thee, cut it off," proceeded agreeably to said injunction, to the desperate deed with a pen-knife; and in a shocking manner lacerated his wrist with the composure of a stoic; but fortunately not so as to destroy all the leaders, and there is yet hope, notwithstanding he rejects every overture of medical assistance, that he may, in some measure, be restored. He appears to be reduced to a mere skeleton, and insists that it is unlawful for him to take any nourishment whatever.
Last Sunday in the Presbyterian church of this town, was a melancholy scene, which extorted sympathy from a numerous audience. Miss Rachel Barnet, daughter of Mr. Joseph Barnet, in the bloom of youth, that day being the 17th anniversary of her birth, was introduced as a lifeless corpse for the last obsequies to be paid to her memory. The scene was further heightened, by its being the day appointed for the celebration of her nuptials; and the Rev. Mr. Austin, who preached her funeral sermon, was to have united her in the marriage bands, to a deserving young man.
NEW-YORK, August 6. Capt. Conway, who lately arrived at Norfolk from Cadiz, informs, that during the time he was there a French East-Indian arrived from France on her passage to India; some of the officers, and two ladies, passengers, came on shore, and walked the almanac or public parade, with the National Cockade; an order came from the officers of government for them to return immediately on board or take the Cockade from their hats; they chose the former, and the ship proceeded on her voyage. He further informs that the Officers of the Police, were particular in searching for all newspapers, or political publications, as nothing of the kind was allowed to be carried into the city.
BOSTON, August 15. By the ship Nancy, Capt. Phillips, from Cape Francois, we have received papers from our correspondent as late as the 19th of July—from the "Moniteur Colonial" of the 18th a gentleman in town has been so obliging as to translate for us the following:
A Letter from the Provincial Assembly of the North of St. Domingo, to the King of the French.
"SIRE, "YOUR children, your faithful colonists of St. Domingo, offer at the foot of the throne, their just complaints, and deposit in your paternal breast, their fears and their alarms. The province of the North of St. Domingo, has until this moment discovered the most respectful submission to the decrees concerning the colonies, made by the legislative body, and sanctioned by your Majesty; and this submission has entitled them to the most flattering applause from the nation in general. We have relied on the reiterated promises comprehended in the decrees of the 8th and 28th of March, and 12th of October, 1790, to pass no decree upon the subject of qualification of persons but what should be precisely and formally represented by the colonies; but a new decree of the 15th of May, which can be but the result of surprise, of cabal and intrigue, causes all our hopes to vanish and plunges us in the greatest consternation. This decree, which is absolutely contradictory to those which have preceded it, says, "The National Assembly decrees, that it will never deliberate upon the qualities of the coloured people who are not born of free parents, without the previous, free and spontaneous will and desire of the colonies; that the Colonial
"Assemblies now existing shall be continued; but that the coloured people born of free parents shall be admitted into the Parishional and Colonial Assemblies; provided always that they possess the other requisite qualifications."
We shall not attempt to paint to your Majesty the shocking sensations the news this impolitic decree has caused, in this town; and the misfortunes that will follow its promulgation are unaccountable; they will be such as will draw after them the total annihilation of this flourishing colony.
The prosperity of your kingdom, Sire, is essentially connected with that of the colonies which form a part of it, and these cannot flourish except they maintain the strictest subordination among those employed in the different kinds of culture: this subordination will cease to exist, the instant the line marked out which separates the whites from the coloured people shall be broken through and both placed upon the same line of equality.
The order established in the colonies sanctioning certain prejudices, is by no means originated by pride, as those pretended philosophers who call themselves the Apostles of Humanity suppose; it is dictated by the extreme necessity which will never admit the coloured people, the offspring of former slaves, to be entitled to the same privileges with the whites, and be comprehended without distinction with them: if this indispensable order of the colonies is annihilated, the ruin of them must inevitably ensue.
This, Sire, is what the legislative bodies had in their wisdom particularly attended to, when forming their decrees of the 8th and 28th of March, and 12th of October, 1790; the colonists according to those decrees were left to make their formal representations concerning the qualifications of persons, because it was judged impossible to do ample justice without such representation; the infraction and violation of these principles of justice and equity the result of the new decree of 15th May, become the source of the greatest ills.
It is in calumniating us that these Philanthropists have propagated their doctrine; they represent us to those who are unacquainted with the colonies, as the murderers of our slaves and the tyrants of the coloured free people. Humanity and our interest induce us to preserve the former, and the latter are upon the footing of white citizens under the immediate protection of the law which renders their persons and properties secure.
Cast, Sire, a kind look over your colonies, and you will see them peopled with Frenchmen who tenderly love you, and who are entitled by every claim to your affection.—Condescend to receive in a favourable manner their just complaints.—If it is not too late, prevent the calamities with which we are threatened, and refuse your assent to an act so big with mischief; and if it is already sanctioned, interpose your authority and stop its promulgation.
We are, Sire, with respect for your majesty, the most humble and faithful French colonists of St. Domingo.
(Signed) GRENIER, President. PETIT DESCHAMPEAUX, Vice-President. BOUYSSON, POULET, FRANCOIS DE CHAUMONT, Secretaries.
We hear from Watertown, that on Tuesday last a Young Man by the name of Devan accidentally fell into the flood of the Mills, near the Bridge and was carried under the Wheel, which killed him instantly—He belonged to Sudbury, where he left a wife and a young Child, who will most severely feel the loss.
AUGUST 17. The Marquis DE LA FAYETTE, and his family, intend a visit to the United States, in a short time. New-York paper.
MARINE JOURNAL. Arrived at Maderia, June 10, from
Baltimore, Sloop Phoenix, of Boston.—From Dublin, Schooner Mary, Eldridge, of Boston.
Arrived at Philadelphia, August 6, Brig Missouri, Boys, from Bilbao—Capt. Ward, of Salem, failed in company—Capt. Bailey, in a Schooner of Boston, bound to Lisbon, was to sail in ten days.
Arrived at New-London, August 4, Schooner Unity, Libby, and Sloop Sherwood, of Casco Bay.—August 9, arrived Brig Revival, from Aux-Cayes—left there Schooner Polly, James, of Marblehead—Schooner Knight, Salem—Brig—Pierce, Newbury—Brig Abigail Chauncy, Exeter.
Several thousand emigrants from Ireland, have arrived at Philadelphia and New-York, within these few weeks, principally passengers.
Saturday arrived the brig Mary, Carter, from St. Martins—Also the Two Sisters, Gorham, from Spain, 52 days passage.
On Tuesday, the 9th inst. the Frigate La Favorite, M. Riviere, commander, arrived at Philadelphia, in 45 days from Rochefort; on board of which came passenger, M. DE TERNANT, Minister-Plenipotentiary from His Most Christian Majesty to the United States of America, and in his suite, Messrs. DUPONT and KELLERMAN.
When La Favorite left Rochefort, all was quietness in France.
From T. Allen's Marine List, Aug. 2. The Revenue Cutter Argus, Jonathan Malsbie, Esq. commander, from Swagochee, will soon proceed on a cruise, to destroy blackfish, and protect the fair trader.
Brethren in navigation, shun the appearance of evil, keep your loins girt with true faith, honor and honesty.
Patience and perseverance are sovereign remedies against all attacks.
PRICES OF STOCKS. YESTERDAY NOON. Six per Cent. Stock, 22s. for 20s. Three per Cent. do. 13s. do. Deferred do. 13s. do. Finals, interests to 1787. 20s. 6d. do. Assumable State Notes, 16s. do. New State Notes, 18s. 6d. do. New Emission Bills, 13s. do. Old Emission do. 54s. for 1000 dols. At Mr. Jones's sale of Public Paper, yesterday, Bank Script sold for 158 Dollars.
Script was sold at New-York, on Wednesday last for 286 dollars. It has not now any price. So much for their speculation, &c.
SALE M, July 16. Ship Swan, Deal, failed from Yorktown on the 20th of July, with 600 hogheads of tobacco, bound to London. On the 31st, about 46 leagues out the Capes, the ship sprung a leak, and in a few hours 6 feet water was in the hold. This obliged the Captain to put back, and endeavour to reach Norfolk, but on the 1st of August in a very thick fog ran ashore on Hog Island, near Cape-Charles. The 2d mate and 5 hands more set off in the long-boat to make Norfolk, and left the captain, mate, boatswain and two hands on board. A few hours after, the boat sprung a leak and almost filled with water, when they were picked up by two Virginia Schooners, and carried to Philadelphia. From the depth of the water in the ship's hold, they suppose she soon went to pieces, and that all on board must have perished.
NEW-LONDON, Aug. 3.—Arrived at Stonington, sloop Nabby, Waldron, 24 days from Rio Esquebo. Left there Schooner—Babson, belonging to the eastward—expecting to sail from thence in 21 Demerara days.
PORTLAND, August 8. By Capt. MOTLEY we are favoured with a number of Tobago papers, contain—nothing—one half of which is in French and the other in English. Since writing of the above paragraph, however, we have discovered something, viz. "That the opening of Port Louis, has been prorogued until the first day of November next, with the same advantages as had been
previously agreed upon with regard to the forts of provisions and other objects mentioned by the Assembly, in May, 1790.—The King's Commissioners authorise also in Courland-Bay, until the said first day of November, the same importation as in Port-Louis; and they have determined that the exportation of Sugar and Cotton shall be permitted, until the sum of six hundred thousand livres shall be completed; notice whereof shall be given one month before-hand, by printed advertisements. All masters of vessels, who shall come into Courland Bay shall be obliged to repair to the General Custom-House at Port-Louis, both to enter and to clear their vessels, and to leave at the same a manifest either of their inward or outward bound cargo; upon which they shall get their clearance."
PORTSMOUTH, August 18.
The President of the United States has been pleased to recognize JAMES BARRY, Esq. as Vice-Consul for her Most faithful Majesty the QUEEN of Portugal, within the States of Maryland and Virginia—and has issued Letters Patent to that effect.
We have been informed that the people of Tobago have free liberty to ship their produce to any part of the world they may think proper, for one year only.
A Southern writer prescribes gunpowder as a bane to the Hessian fly, the smell of which, he says, instantly kills them. This prescription is not new—it was pretty successfully applied during the war, to many of the namejakes of the above insect.
The Probability that England will be speedily engaged in a War, has raised the Price of Provisions in Europe.—The following were current Prices at Dublin on the 13th of May last:— Butter 72s. per Cwt.—Pork 26s. per Cwt.—Ox Beef per Tierce, of 300 lbs. 75s.—Wheat 23s. to 24s. per Barrel.
APPOINTMENTS By The President of the United States. THOMAS JOHNSON, Esq. of Maryland, associate Judge, in the room of Mr. RUTLEDGE, who has resigned. MATTHEW CLARKSON, Esq. of New-York, Marshall of that district, in the room of Col. SMITH, appointed Supervisor.
Died] At Cape-Francois M. L' Honore Dubuiffon printer of the Colonial Moniteur, of a fall from his Carriage.
Lately died, in a very advanced Age, at Martinsburg, Berkley County, Virginia, (of which Place he was the Founder) ADAM STEPHEN, Esquire; A Gentleman highly distinguished for his Medical Talents, Industry, Learning, and mental Endowments.—During the heat of the battle of Brandy-wine he coolly asked an officer, near him, if he did not hear the laden travellers "whistling for want of thought."
MARRIED]—By the Rev. Mr. Buckminster, Mr. AMOS TAPPAN, to the amiable Miss ISABEL BUCKMINSTER—both of this town.
ANECDOE. MRS. W——, walking on one of the wharves at New-York, jocosely asked a sailor, Why a ship was always called she? Oh faith, says the son of Neptune, because the rigging costs more than the hull.
VENDUE.
To be sold by public vendue, on Monday the 5th day of September, at 3 o'clock, P. M. at the North Meeting-House in Portsmouth, for delinquent taxes for 1790, the following Pews in said Meeting-House, unless prevented by previous payment,— NO. Pews. £. s. d. NO. Pews. £. s. d. 3 1 16 0 7 0 12 0 8 0 18 0 12 0 10 0 17 1 9 0 18 1 16 0 33 1 8 8 84 0 12 0 89 0 12 0 102 0 12 0 JOSEPH AKERMAN, Jr. Collector. August 17, 1791.

Parnassian SPRING.
FROM AN ENGLISH PAPER.
The following Verses were ordered by the late Mrs. TURNER of Woolwich, to be laid upon her Husband's writing desk a few days before her death, and may prove acceptable to the admirers of that Lady's composition.
An H Y M N.
THROUGH all the various shifting scene, Of life's mistaken ill or good, Thy hand, O God! conducts unseen, The beautiful vicissitude.
He portions with paternal care, Howe'er unjustly we complain; To each their necessary share Of joy or sorrow, health or pain.
Trust we to youth, or friends, or power, Fix we our feet on Fortunes ball; When most secure, the coming hour, If he sees fit, may blast them all.
When lowest sunk with grief or shame, Gorg'd with affliction's bitter cup; Lost to relations, friends, and fame, His powerful hand can raise thee up.
His mighty consolations cheer, His smiles erect th' afflicted head; His hand can wipe away the tear That secret wets the widow'd bed.
Now in the PRESS, THE Revised Laws OF THE STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE, AND WILL BE PRINTED BY JOHN MELCHER, AND READY FOR DELIVERY ON OR BEFORE NOVEMBER NEXT.
THE Committee lately appointed by the Honourable GENERAL-COURT, to Revise and Arrange all the LAWS of this State, having completed the same, and laid them before the Court for their inspection, who, after having minutely inspected the same, ordered them to be prefaced with the DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, the TREATY OF PEACE, between Great-Britain and America, with the CONSTITUTION of New-Hampshire, and the CONSTITUTION of the UNITED-STATES, and to be immediately Printed and distributed among the people;—they are now by authority committed to the Press. As this will be a complete system of all the Laws of the State, it will be highly requisite for every Justice of the Peace, as well as every person in public business to furnish himself with a book.—The expence attending the printing will be so great, that the Printer fears he shall not be able to strike off more books than are engaged before hand; he therefore requests every gentleman who wishes to have a book, to leave his name with him seasonably, by which means he will secure one.
FOR SALE By AUCTION, On THURSDAY the 25th instant, 12 o'clock, At Dearborn's AUCTION-ROOM, THREE hundred Acres of LAND in the town of BURTON, clear of all incumbrance by tax or otherwise. August 6.
BLANKS of all Sorts may, on the shortest notice, be had at JOHN MELCHER's Printing-Office.
State of New-Hampshire. PUBLIC notice is hereby given, that a petition hath been presented to the General-Court, by the selectmen of the town of Ossipee, setting forth, that the greatest part of the land in said town is owned by gentlemen living out of town, and but few inhabitants, and the roads so extensive as to put it beyond the power of the inhabitants to support them:—Therefore they pray that a tax of one penny per acre, may be laid on all non-residents land in said town for the term of two years, for the purpose of making and repairing said roads.
Upon which petition the General-Court ordered an hearing on the second Wednesday of their next session, and that in the mean time the petitioners cause that the substance of the petition and order of court thereon, be published in the New-Hampshire Gazette three weeks successively, six weeks prior to the sitting of said court, that any person or persons may then appear and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof may not be granted.
Attest, JOS. PEARSON, Sec'ry. Concord, June 6, 1791.
THE subscribers appointed Commissioners, to receive and examine the claims of the several creditors to the estate of Benjamin Holmes, late of Portsmouth, deceased, represented insolvent, give notice that they shall attend that service at the Post-Office, in said Portsmouth, on the second Thursday of the five following months, from 3 to 6 o'clock, P. M.
NATHANIEL TREADWELL, JEREMIAH LIBBEY, DANIEL R. ROGERS. Portsmouth, June 20, 1791.
JUST PUBLISHED, By Eliphalet Ladd, AT DOVER, AND FOR SALE By the Printer hereof, An ORATION, Delivered at DOVER, On the 4th of JULY, 1791. Being the 15th Anniversary of American Independence: By William Atkinson.
District of New-Hampshire. } Be it remembered, THAT on the 15th day of July, in the fifteenth year of the Independence of the United States of America, SAMUEL LANGDON, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit: "Observations on the revelation of Jesus Christ to St. John, which comprehend the most approved sentiments of the celebrated Mr. Mede, Mr. Lowman, Bishop Newton, and other noted writers on this book; and cast much additional light on the more obscure prophecies; especially those which point out the time of the rise and fall of Antichrist—In two parts—
Containing, PART I, General observations on prophecy—The form, order and style of the revelation—The monitory vision.
PART II. The prophetic visions; which are distinguished into five prophecies, each of which is subdivided into several scenes—By SAMUEL LANGDON, D. D. minister of Hampton-falls, in the State of New-Hampshire.—"Blessed is he that readeth and they that hear the words of this prophecy and keep those things which are written therein, for the time is at hand." Rev. Chap. 1, Verse 3,—in conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, intitled, "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned."
JONATHAN STEELE, Clerk of the District of New-Hampshire. A true copy of Record. Attest, JONA. STEELE, Clerk.
New Candle Machine.
To THE TALLOW CHANDLERS OF THE UNITED STATES.
AS the abridgment of labour by the improvement and use of MACHINERY, is highly favourable to the manufacturing interests of AMERICA, a Machine, the nature of which is described below, is offered with a confidence, that it is founded on the knowledge of its utility.
THIS Machine is sufficiently large to make ONE TON of Candles per day, without the addition of any other utensils, than those now required in the common mode of making them. A BOY, who has acquired a sufficient knowledge of the manufacture, to spread a Cotton, can, from the ease of working, and neatness of finishing, which appertains to this Machine, make 360 rods of Candles per day; with as much safety and dispatch, as a JOURNEYMAN, to whom the highest wages are paid.
THE simple construction of this Machine is one of its greatest recommendations.—Any ingenious man may easily construct the whole, with a very trifling expence of wood and labour. The great saving occasioned in the article of labour, by using this Machine, cannot be estimated at less than ONE HUNDRED & EIGHTY DOLLARS per annum.
THE TERMS on which these Machines are offered to the patronage of the Tallow Chandlers throughout the Union, are these:
A COMPLETE MACHINE, to be delivered to the subscriber, in this town at FORTY-FIVE DOLLARS; Directions, by which the subscriber shall be enabled to erect one himself, at TWENTY DOLLARS:—The first Machine, or first copy of Directions, to be delivered as soon as a sufficient number are subscribed for.
As the season for making Candles is at hand, those who are inclined to subscribe, are requested to forward their names immediately, that the Machines may be ready for delivery (if the plan is sufficiently encouraged) by the 29th of SEPTEMBER next.
ORDERS for the above MACHINE, or DIRECTIONS for constructing it, to be forwarded (if by letter, post paid) to the SUBSCRIBER, Soap-Maker and Tallow-Chandler, BOSTON—MASSACHUSETTS—or to WILLIAM FROBISHER, jun. Tallow-Chandler, NEW-YORK.
WILLIAM FROBISHER, SEN. Boston, August 9, 1791.
HILLSBOROUGH. State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of Hillsborough, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1790, that unless they pay said taxes to me the subscriber, on or before the 31st day of October 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 John Dutton, Esq. innholder in said town, at one o'clock, P. M. on said day.
   D.No. Ac's. d. q.d.q.     J. Kinedge 3 1 in 27 0 5 0 1 2   J. Wentworth 3 3 in 28 0 5 0 1 2   Step. Rolf 1 37 50 2 2 0 3   J. Hinshaw 3 17 0 10 0 3 0   Dav. Little, part of Hunting-ton's farm 0 0 150 7 2 2 1   Sam. Stiles 0 0 50 2 2 0 3   Heirs of William Bradford 1 60 30 1 2 0 2    WILLIAMS SYMONDS, Constable. Hillsborough, July 23, 1791.
Wanted Immediately,
AT the DUCK MANUFACTORY in Exeter, two active LADS about 16 years of age, to serve as apprentices at that business.
JUST PUBLISHED,
AND now ready at the shop of SAMUEL PENHALLOW, Esq. to be delivered to subscribers in Portsmouth and the vicinity, Dr. LANGDON's observations on the Revelation of Jesus Christ.—A few copies will be for sale at said shop. Price 7/.
Portsmouth, August 15, 1791.
LEGISLATURE.
PROPOSALS
For PUBLISHING by SUBSCRIPTION, A REGISTER OF THE DEBATES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE House of Representatives OF THE Commonwealth of Massachusetts. By the EDITOR of THE ARGUS.
THE subjects discussed by the Representatives of the PEOPLE of this Commonwealth, being such as are often very interesting to the Community, has induced J. HOWEL, to offer the following Proposals to the consideration of the Public, viz.
I. To collect and print all the interesting Debates and Proceedings of the House, on all subjects deserving notice, during, and at the close of each session of the Legislature.
II. To deliver the work to the subscribers in Boston, and the neighbourhood, in sheets, with all possible dispatch, during the sitting of each session; and forward it to the subscribers resident in the Country with all convenient speed, at the close of the same.
III. The price of this Register, to be ONE DOLLAR, for the Proceedings of each session;—TWO DOLLARS per annum. To be printed with a handsome type and on fine paper.
TO THE PUBLIC.
THE importance of transmitting to Posterity the sentiments prevalent at the moment of enacting those laws handed down to them, or the principles on which particular propositions were rejected, will be admitted in its fullest latitude, by every candid and honest Politician. But the advantages held forth by this Plan, are not confined to posterity, but enter into the interests of the present generation. Legislation is a secret, known, comparatively, but to a few. The constituents of a Member situated far distant from the seat of Government, can now be apprized of his conduct only by vague report, procured by chance.
He returns to them without that complete information relative to the prevailing sentiments of the day, which would doubtless enlighten their minds, and afford amusement to many an idle hour. The PEOPLE at large will have an opportunity of judging of the merits of those whom they have delegated to represent them.—Many misrepresentations may be prevented, and many beneficial ends secured, by adopting this proposal.
HISTORICAL INVESTIGATION, may be much aided in some future period, by having a REGISTER of State LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS, to refer to. It would elucidate opinions which time may have rendered obsolete.—It may afford a clue to the Biographer to determine at what era the characters of the present day, whose names will be handed down with honor to posterity, flourished in MASSACHUSETTS. A variety of advantages will result from it, to the next and succeeding generations; and we should suppose it a species of entertainment the most instructive, and most worthy the perusal of the present.
The approbation bestowed on the sketches of Debates which have appeared in the Newspapers, leads THE EDITOR to hope, this work will be conducted in a manner satisfactory to its patrons.
JOHN HOWEL. Boston, August 5, 1791.