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TUESDAY, May 14, 1799.
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FROM THE CENTINEL.
The True American.—No. III.
The divisions of free countries in Europe, have occasioned their overthrow, and in America, they have produced great and weighty expenses, and may finally end in our complete subjugation.
MR. RUSSELL, I HAVE heretofore remarked, that the Jacobins, who were crushed into silence, and merited contempt, by the disclosure of the bold and nefarious designs of France—designs which she has long entertained, but which she never was so imprudent as to avow until the last year—are laboring to re-establish their wicked and dangerous influence, by seizing the passions of their fellow citizens.—That for this purpose they had sought out the weakest side of the American character, and having discovered it, they were driving home the javelin of destruction through this vulnerable point.—That through the medium of their avarice they were attempting to find a passage to their hearts, and to regain for France and themselves that ascendancy and confidence which they had deservedly lost. It is the solemn duty of every honest and upright man, to check these nefarious attempts—to warn the people of their danger—to strip the enemies of our government of their disguise—to demonstrate the necessity, and to defend the justice, the prudence and the policy of the measures of our government. The Jacobins make a great clamour about the expenses of the present year, about the building and establishment of a navy, and about the taxes and burdens which unavoidably follow from such increased expenditures. It is not to be concealed that such expenses have actually been incurred, and will probably continue.—It would be madness to deny that these increased expenses and burdens must fall upon the people, that they will fall in some degree with a heavy hand, and that they will in some measure check the career of their prosperity.—But wise men, before they censure the Government, which is the apparent organ through which these burdens are inflicted, will sedulously inquire into the causes which produced the necessity and into the nature and degree of that necessity which superinduces such heavy expenses. Upon the first inquiry we shall be enabled to place the blame, and consequently the vengeance of the people, upon the wretches who ought to bear it—and upon the second point, we shall be satisfied that all our taxes and burdens are vanity, and less than vanity itself, compared to the important interests at stake. It is staking a feather for an empire.
The obvious cause of all our expenses and taxes, is the hostility of France—The real and secret occasion of them, is the opposition to our Government.—Yes! my fellow-citizens—to such men as J—n, Gallatin, Giles, Nicholas, Livingston, Randolph, Munroe, Brackenridge, Fries, Dallas, M c Lean, Austin, Bache, Greenleaf, T. Adams, and other patriots , are you indebted for a navy, a standing army, a stamp-act and a land tax—and you must draw upon their patriotism for your reimbursement.
I have said that France was the obvious cause of all our expenses.—It is her perfidy which violated our treaties.—It was her rapacity which seized upon our defenceless commerce.—It was her insolence which refused to listen to our supplications for redress.—It was her philosophy which first poisoned the minds of our deluded citizens.—It has been her gold which has corrupted them.—It was her minister who employed "Flour merchants" to stir up the Gallatin insurrection, and which cost the United States one million of dollars.—It is her love of plunder which makes her cast a wilful look upon the fertile territories, the well filled barns, the well-fled cattle, the rich vaults of the Banks of the United States.—It is her love of pleasure, and the lust of her citizens which make them fight for the forcible and rapturous embraces and violation of our wives and our daughters—and lastly, it is her inordinate ambition, her love of universal domination, which has led her bold marauders, her unprincipled buccaneers, to overturn and conquer all the free Republic of
Europe, and which will impose no restraints upon itself, until it shall have subjugated the world.—Still, however France would be as harmless as a dove, and as peaceable and inoffensive as a lamb, if her "diplomatic skill" had not enabled her to excite, foment and maintain intestine divisions in our country. This mighty, magnanimous nation of heroes, who have been compelled to be the bombastic heralds of their own fame—this bullying Republic, which forces nations to accept freedom, at the point of the bayonet, and which boasts of the invincibility of her citizens, after a defeat—this blood-thirsty monster, surrounded with the reeking spoils of the victims to her infuriate passions, smiling in the midst of carnage, has in no one solitary instance effected or attempted a conquest, until she was sure of her prey. The victim has been bound, hand and foot, and she has magnanimously and bravely aided the executioner. "Diplomatic skill" and intrigue have been the pioneers to her army, and after they have prepared the way, and have convinced her that there would be no resistance, she has entered and taken possession of the citadel.
In Holland—in Geneva—in Belgium—the same scenes were exhibited. Those brave and honest nations never surrendered their rights and their liberties to an insolent and invading foe—No, the work of revolution was effected, before the French armies made their appearance, and that event was only the signal for its explosion—But the history of the Swiss Cantons is so analogous to that of America, that we have only to exchange names, and we should fancy ourselves reading the history of our own country, and the development of our own catastrophe, in the fate of unhappy Switzerland .—A confederation of free, sovereign and industrious citizens—a nation of warriors and statesmen, jealous of their rights, warned of their danger, with the example of the ruin of all their neighbours, by the arts and arms of France, perpetually before their eyes, yet remaining under the influence of tardy and delaying counsels, suffering an inveterate faction within their bosoms, to mar, check and destroy the energy of their counsels, and finally surrendering themselves without exertion, to the disposal of a relentless foe, whom they detested.
If France has not ventured to attack even the most contemptible nations in Europe, without first destroying their energies by her intrigues, can we believe she would ever have attacked this country, if our citizens had not been deluded by her arts, or some of their leaders bought by her gold? The history of our opposition, is the history of her intrigues.
Without her aid, the faction of this country would have exhibited nothing to alarm—without the assistance of this faction, France would never have dared to insult and plunder us, and if she had, she would have made us compensation. If any honest man doubts these truths, let him recollect that while we were divided, our supplication was repaid with indignity, but as soon as we became tolerably united, although we dissolved our treaties of alliance, and made reprisals upon the ships of the Grand Republique , this magnanimous nation affects to supplicate us in return. To whom then are we indebted for all the expenses and burdens of the present day, but to the Jacobins of our country?—But more of this hereafter. "DECIUS."
The True American.—No. IV.
"The Honor of a Government, is a pearl of great price." "A nation which weighs its purse, against its rights, will in its end be sure to lose both." R. G. HARPER.
MR. RUSSELL, HAVING attempted to shew, in my former numbers, that the perilous and semi-warlike situation into which the United States have been reduced, has been produced by our internal divisions; and that those divisions have been occasioned by the factious spirit of our own bad citizens, aided by the arts of France, and not by any improper measures of our own Government:—Having made it apparent, that the Jacobin clamours against taxes and public expenditures, ought to excite the public indignation against themselves, who were the true
authors of all the evils which we deprecate, I proceed to shew, as I proposed, that the expenses of the present year, and those in which we shall probably be involved, and the burdens which will eventually fall upon the people, if they have but one spark of that patriotism which warmed them in 1775, will appear as the veriest trifle , compared to the precious interests at stake.
In considering this part of the subject, I intend to satisfy all " True Americans ," that the expenses are unavoidable—that submission to France would not save, but only magnify our losses, and that in the end, the cheapest line of conduct, will be resistance:—
In the next place, I shall attempt to shew, that the Government has been governed by a rigid economy in the public expenditures—that they are not greater than were necessary, that they are very insignificant, compared to the wealth and population of the United States, and that they have already produced the most happy effects upon our trade, navigation, and upon our agriculture.
It has been said, that the expenses which the nation are now incurring, are unavoidable:—This is apparent, from the Nature of Man .—In common life, we all know and feel, that to get rid of unjust pretensions, the only way is to oppose them in their commencement. If a man encroaches upon my farm, by fencing in an acre of my meadow, I instantly claim my right, and punish the aggressor:—Would it be natural to suffer him to remain quiet in his dispossess possessions, in order that he might be satisfied, and refrain from further encroachments? Or would it be expected, that if I conceded one acre without opposition, he would not soon covet a second? Or to take a case, more analogous to the French depredations—Suppose a miserly man, whom I well knew, was in the daily habit of plundering from my corn barn, or from my shop, would it be politic to wink at such depredations, under the foolish hope, that his avarice would be satisfied,—fear of my ruin? If such would be our mode of reasoning in common life, why should we fail to make the application to nations, who have the same passions, the same love of plunder, and who are less restrained by moral sentiments, and not in the least affected by a sense of reputation.—If a submissive temper would be impolitic against the encroachments of avarice alone, how much more necessary, to discard it, when we are assailed by inordinate ambition, combined with a miserly love of plunder?
France, deranged and disorganized by a Revolution, the most tremendous and the most astonishing that the world has witnessed—the morals of her citizens corrupted—their manufactures destroyed—their industrious habits extinct—the nation reduced to the two feeble classes, of Soldiers and Cens ,"—In what manner can she subsist, but upon that system of plunder, to which all her young men have served a regular apprenticeship?
During this mighty blaze of revolution and victory, which has dazzled and petrified her unfortunate and now subjugated neighbours, France has been a prey to internal discord and private misery. Their soldiers have feasted, but their citizens have wanted bread. In order to divert their attention from their private distresses, and the still more miserable prospects which await them, their artful rulers have seized violent hold upon the weak side of the nation. Vanity and the love of power have been conspicuous traits in the Gallic character, from the time of CHARLEMAGNE. The Republican tyrants have sagaciously contrived to transfer the glory of the Grand Monarque , which ten years ago was the first passion of Frenchmen, to the " Grand Nation ," and the schemes of universal empire, conceived nearly effected by Lewis XIV, have been received, and still more successfully carried on by his nation of sans-culottes, soldiers and robbers.
Goaded by two such passions, as ambition and love of plunder;—bursting with national conceit, and flushed with victory, what nation can hope to appease or assuage this mighty Republic?—Will principle sit bounds to her passions? Look at every page of her history, monarchical or repub-
lican:—Will treaties bind her? Look at Dr. FRANKLIN's treaty of 1778, and then peruse the condemnation of the ship Laurens , in 1793, before any pretence of complaint, before even the arrival of GENET;—Will friendship restrain her ambition or her avarice? Ask the Swiss , who have been her allies for 150 years—who had fought her battles, and defended her territories, but who are now victims to her rapacity: Will submission secure safety? As this is the most interesting question to America, and as I have said, that resistance is cheaper than submission, I shall answer this question by briefly stating the example and the fate of other nations.
Every nation in Europe, but Great Britain, has in the contest with France, been governed by a narrow and parsimonious policy:—France has debauched and frightened more nations than she has conquered. The paltry consideration of saving a few towns, or a few provinces, or a few millions of dollars, has nearly subjugated all Europe to the power of France:—But this niggardly policy has saved them nothing but a name. Like the allies of Rome, they have the honor to pay a tribute, and to support the grandeur of their noble friend, and to have honorable mention made of them in the bulletin of the Republic. The first example which exhibited to view is that of Holland:—Holland was our old ally and friend—she foolishly thought herself free, but France convinced her that she was enslaved. No man will deny, that the Dutch loved their money better than their liberties. A modern Dutchman, not the men who wrested their liberties from Philip of Spain, but the new-fashioned pacific Dutchman, would surrender his rights and the honor of his nation sooner than his purse:—Invaded by France—threatened with her vengeance, if they did not consent to be free, and to let France make free with their country—terrified at the apprehension of the cost of vigorous defence—Holland ignominiously and meanly submitted to the terms which France saw fit to impose.—What has Holland saved by this despicable policy? What could she have lost by a manful resistance? If vanquished, she might have lost her territory and her wealth, but she would have retained the fair fame which a 70 years glorious war had gained for her ancestors. The Dutch might have perished, but they would have perished with honor:—They have now purchased life, but they hold it with disgrace. In the narrow calculations of political arithmetic, in which honor is sold by the pound, and national rights are bartered by weight and measure, Holland has gained nothing but submission, and dishonor and slavery. She has not saved one stiver.—Her trade is destroyed—her Famous bank without credit—her navigation rotting in the Texel —her fleet fighting the battles of France, vanquished and destroyed—her East-India commerce at an end—her most valuable colonies captured or rendered useless to her—her merchants having paid thirty per cent to France, in requisitions, are suffering the disgrace of bankruptcy—but above all, a French mercenary army quartered upon her peaceable inhabitants, in submissive alliance with the Grand Republic. "DECIUS."
FROM THE FARMER'S JOURNAL.
HAS HE A FORTUNE?
WHY do you ask that question? Will nothing compensate for the want of fortune? I am tired of hearing this question, as if the salvation of soul and body depended on fortune. You never ask if the young gentleman has a good education—If he has abilities; If he is a man of sincerity and truth; If he is a christian? No, these are matters of no account; but has he a fortune? If he has that, the young lady must certainly be happy; never considering he may be a blockhead; a deceitful villain, or an atheist—should he turn out to be either of these, the lady that is to be his wife, must be miserable, were he possessed of all the wealth in the Indies.
It is strange that mankind are so blinded by riches, that they cannot, nay, will not see a man's defects and vices, while he is possessed of wealth:
But the God of nature has so ordered the affairs of the world, that this garb is generally stripped from wicked men before they die: and then their vices appear in all their deformity.—This may be some consolation to the generality of mankind; but to a lady of sensibility who has resigned herself into the arms of one of these miscreants, it must be a terrible mortification. He is every thing to her; on him must her happiness in this life depend; and to see him despised and detested by all good men, must "harrow up her soul," and make her wretched indeed.
Were the ladies left to choose for themselves, I am satisfied they would, generally speaking, make better choices than are generally made for them. I know dear Mrs. Prudence, that you have more experience, and perhaps more judgment than your daughter, but you must consider, that she can better judge what will please herself, than you can: and it is she and not you, that must spend her days with the man she marries. I do not contend that a man ought to be poor. With good qualifications, wealth is desirable. These united, tend to produce as much happiness as this world is capable of. Perfect happiness cannot be expected: Nor am I certain that perfect misery can be experienced in this life; but if there can be a situation more wretched than that of a woman of sensibility under the tyranny of an unfeeling, wicked brute of a husband, it must be a dreadful place indeed!
The following Singular Incident happened in the State of Vermont, the last summer.
MR. Loudon Case, of Addison, was riding with his sister on horseback, from Waterbury to Stowe: Their road lay through a long piece of wood; when they were about half way through, and at four miles distance from any house, they were overtaken by a gentleman well dressed, and mounted on a spirited horse who joined the travellers, and politely bowing, entered into a very amusing conversation: The party soon came to a fine spring; where they all stopped to water their horses. The stranger immediately sprung from his horse and observed, "That he had a loaded pistol in his saddlebags, and that he did not know that he should have a better time to discharge it." Mr. Case immediately took the alarm, and whilst the highwayman was searching for his pistol, struck his sister's horse, and putting spurs to his own, set off on full gallop. The stranger repeatedly called to them to stop! but Mr. Case looking round observed that he held the loaded pistol in his hand, struck his spurs deeper and fled for life. The stranger mounted his horse and pursued—He soon overtook the young lady, and begging her as he passed, for God's sake not to be frightened, rode at full speed after the brother, beseeching him to stop and not be frightened, declaring that he intended him no harm. Mr. Case, after dropping his hat and portmanteau, happily arrived safe in Stowe. He immediately alarmed the inhabitants, who, with great bravery, activity and spirit, apprehended the highwayman: But upon searching him, no pistol was found upon him; his saddlebags containing only a case of surgical instruments, some necessary linen, and a small bottle of excellent Jamaica spirits: this last article it seems, gave rise to Mr. Case's perturbation. The highwayman proved to be a physician of eminence and character from the neighbouring town of Cambridge, and it seems merely intended to invite Mr. Case to partake of his Jamaica spirits; calling the half pint bottle by the common cant name of a pistol. Mr. Case's hat and portmanteau were found safe in the road next day; and we understand that the young lady suffered no lasting injury from her alarm; not being so much frightened as her brother. In newspaper phrase, "This should be a solemn warning to people travelling not to make use of metaphors."
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GALLIC SINCERITY.
[The public have not forgotten the professions of Hedouville, on his first arrival at St. Domingo. Let them compare these boasted professions of friendship, with the following fact, which we have extracted from a letter written by the hon. Mr. Harper to a friend dated at Philadelphia in March last.]
SOME time ago, the Directory sent to St. Domingo, their principal West-India possession, an agent of the name of Hedouville. This man, on his arrival, made some professions of justice and amicable conduct towards the United States; but he soon equalled, and even exceeded his predecessors in depredations on our commerce. Last summer, while Mr. Gerry was still in Paris, and the directory was employing every artifice to keep him there, and to draw him into an endless negotiation, Hedouville was preparing to invade the Southern States from St. Domingo, with an army of blacks; which was to be landed with a large supply of officers, arms and ammunition, to excite an insurrection among the negroes, by means of missionaries previously sent, and first to subjugate the country, by their assistance, and then plunder and lay it waste. For the execution of this humane and friendly scheme, he waited only till the English should evacuate a certain port in the island, which lay most convenient for the expedition; but he was interrupted by a black general, of the name of Toussaint, who drove him from the island, compelled him to embark for France, and took the whole authority into his own hands, which he yet retains.
This scheme came to our knowledge in the following manner: A very rich ship, from the East-Indies, valued at nearly seven hundred thousand dollars, was taken last summer by one of Hedouville's privateers. The owners, merchants of this town, employed a man of honor and character, well known here, and well acquainted in the West-Indies, to go and endeavour to purchase the ship at a low rate. He went to St. Domingo for that purpose; and there conversed with some of the black officers who were to be employed in the expedition. As he spoke their language well, he was led to cultivate an acquaintance with them; and from them, in their moments of conviviality, he learned the project. I have it from him, through a person of the highest confidence.
Hence may we learn to appreciate the professions of the French Government; and the wisdom or honesty, of those counsellors, who perpetually tell us that there is no danger of an invasion from France, and no need to prepare against such an event.
PHILADELPHIA, May 3.
We understand that the celebrated Mr. James Necker, now of Coppet in Switzerland, and formerly financial Minister of France, has made investments in the lands of the U. States of America. A large number of settlements have been made, within the last 12 months upon the lands of the Holland Company, on the Banks of Lake Erie and the Allegany river. Their lands are greatly advanced in value thereby. Sir William Pulteney, of the British House of Commons and Governor Hornby, formerly of Bombay, have made similar purchases with vast advantage. The wisdom of the United States in keeping out of war which has proved so costly to all nations and ruinous to the government of many, have induced a great number of distinguished foreigners and others to commit a considerable share of their property upon the certain prosperity of America. The distance of the United States from the belligerent nations of Europe, and their being without any foreign neighbour, strong enough to incommode them, add greatly to their safety. It is said that several of the British colonial towns in their adjoining provinces are nearly uninhabited in consequence of emigrations from thence to the more flourishing sea ports of the United States.
HARTFORD, May 6.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in New-York, to his friend in this city, dated May 3.
"Yesterday was concluded the most contested election that ever took place in this city; four thousand two hundred votes were given in for Assemblymen. The votes for Senators have been counted and are three to one in favor of Coles and Hatfield, the federal candidates. What the result will be with respect to the Assemblymen is in some degree doubtful; success is however claimed by the Federalists, and defeat acknowledged by the Jacobins."
BOSTON, May 8.
FROM EUROPE.
Lord St. Vincent, having had the position of the French fleet in the port of Alexandria, minutely examined, and
in consequence of the reported practicability of its destruction, has dispatched some ships to strengthen Captain Troubridge, the better to enable him to perform that service.
The Russian Gen. Suvarrow is to have the chief command in Germany, against the French, the Austrians being to act under his order.
Prince Pignatelli has been disgraced by the King of Naples, for his negotiation with the French Gen. Championet—who is also in disgrace.
FROM THE EASTERN WORLD.
We learn from the Cape-of-Good-Hope, that an expedition commenced about the 10th of March, from that station, against the Isles of France and Bourbon . The British force was composed of two line of battle ships, and three frigates, with transports and troops. It was not expected at the Cape, that the French would make much opposition. The intire inhabitants of the islands are opposed to the French creed of Liberty and Equality ; and it is expected will receive with cordiality the champions of their faith.
The Dedalus British frigate, of 32 guns, Capt. Ball, has captured and conducted to the Cape, the French frigate La Prudente , of 36 guns, in the merchant's service, at the Isle of France . La Prudente had previously captured and sent in the ship Concord , from India for Philadelphia.
A large quantity of munitions of war, and 200 horses, have been destroyed by an accidental fire, at the Cape-of-Good-Hope . The damage is estimated at 300,000. sterling.
In the Eliza , Capt. Folger, from Calcutta, last from the Cape-of-Good-Hope , the Hon. Col. Linzee, Lieut. Mansel, and Lieut. Strus, of the British army came passengers.
WEST-INDIES.
Four Spanish frigates, with 600 German troops, (80 of whom died after their arrival) in the service of Spain, are said to have arrived at Surinam, from Cadiz; and that a squadron of three Dutch frigates had failed on an unknown destination.
No region is exempt from the infernal spirits which the French revolution has let loose upon the world. As soon as the news of the arrival of Buonaparte, in Egypt, arrived in India, the French emissaries therein were in instant activity; and had actually provided stores for, and had embodied a force of 20,000 men in the interior. But owing to the damper which the intelligence of the Aboukir destruction threw on the enterprise, and the activity of the Governor-General Lord Mornington, the conspiracy was detected, the principal actors imprisoned, and the collected stores secured.
Triumphing Federalism.
VIRGINIA. In the Ancient Dominion the sun of federalism in dissipating the clouds of French principles and Jacobin practice . The Hon. Evan Powell (the gentleman who alone of all the Electors of Virginia, voted for our beloved PRESIDENT) is elected Representative in Congress, by 917 votes, opposed to 520.—Gen. Marshall, the Ex Envoy to France, will probably fill the seat in the next Congress, which Clopton unworthily held in the last.—Gen. Lee, is, we learn, also elected.—He was a distinguished officer in our revolutionary war, has been Governor of Virginia, and commanded the army against the Pennsylvania whisky insurgents. Five or six more federalists, it is expected, will be re-elected.
NEW-YORK. The Federalists in New York city have triumphed.—The federal ticket for Senators gained 1280 votes; while the Jacobin list, with every exertion, could but allure 674. "The votes for Assembly men" says the Daily Advertiser , "are not canvassed, but there is very little division of sentiment as to its probable result.—Thus has this important election terminated, and terminated with honor.—It has crowned the efforts of the Friends of Government with complete success." For Federalists to be successful they have but to will it.
RHODE-ISLAND , exhibits a complete galaxy of Federal men. A purification has been made.—His Excellency Arthur Fenner, is re-elected Governor.—The Hon. George Brown is chosen Lt. Governor.—The Hon. John Innes Clark, Noah Matthews, Job Greene, John Cooke, James Langdon, Thomas Hospie, Nicholas Taylor, Job Watson, John Harris, and Timothy Wilmarth, Esquires, compose the Senate.—The Hon. William Bradford, is chosen Speaker; and William Merchant, Esq. Clerk of the House of Representatives.
MASSACHUSETTS. The election of Representatives is making. The choice in this town will be on Tuesday next. In Milton the Hon. Edward H. Robbins had nearly the unanimous suffrage. Salem—always correct—will be ably
represented by Ebenezer Beckford, Benjamin Pickman, jun. and William Prescott, Esquires.—The choice was nearly unanimous. At Danvers the federal banners have been victoriously displayed.—That town has been misrepresented by Col. Hutchinson—a Virginia Resolutioan man—this year Gen. Foster—a firm federalist—supplies his place.—The General had 238 votes;—poor H. had but 28! Charlestown sends, Dr. Josiah Bartlett, who had 176 of 230 votes.—In Cambridge Dr. Aaron Hill is re-elected. A letter from thence says, "Our town meeting was the largest ever known here, both sides appeared intent on the business, the one to retain Hill and the other to throw him out. Hill obtained his election by a majority of THREE only; yet you must not infer that there are more Jacobins in Cambridge than Federalists, the reverse is the truth.—There were a sufficient number of staunch Federalists to give Col. Dana an handsome majority who would not take the trouble to stir from their fireside to go to the meeting! Men too who execrate the part which the representative took in the business of the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions ! Men who are thoroughly convinced of the horrid consequences which would flow from such politics! Such an accountable apathy as this in some of the first characters lost Switzerland her liberty, and overwhelmed her in blood and ashes! Dr. Hill had the votes of some federalists, these he probably owed to the outrage on his house. Some local politics probably have influenced others, but you may assure yourself that the cause of federalism is gaining ground fast in this town. The Virginia and Kentucky resolutions as far as they are understood, have opened the eyes of many of our yeomanry and the distinguished part which our representative acted in that affair will never be forgotten."
Wisdom comes often learnt too late. It is supposed—there is no less than 100,000 active male aliens, in the U. States, opposed to the government thereof,—including emigrants from France, Ireland, and the West-Indies.—We have an Alien Law , but "dead to insinuation, to itself it is dead." Brutus why sleepest thou?"
The Sally, Lackey , arrived at New-York, from London, brought 70 pieces of cannon, 4, 9, 12, 18, 24 and 32 pounders; and 4 large anchors, for the U. S. navy.
Last week, the Board of Health , seized 68 barrels of Pickled Fish, in consequence of their being putrid. On opening them it appeared they had been filled up with good fish, at each head about six inches: prosecutions against the owners have been commenced in pursuance to the late law.
On Saturday last, in consequence of the report respecting the prevalence of the Yellow Fever at Demerara, Surinam and the Havanna, the Board of Health directed that no vessels should come up to town until they had been visited by the physician of the Board, and obtained a certificate from him, that the crew, their clothing, and the cargo was free from any contagious disorder.
The legislature of New-York state have passed an act uniting an East-India company with a Bank, and with a privilege to water the city of New-York, by the name of "The Manhattan Company."
Letters received at Philadelphia, state, that Toussaint and Rigaud, rival Generals at St. Domingo, have come to blows, together with all their partisans.
FROM HARTFORD, MAY 6.
On Monday last, six young persons were drowned in a Pond, at Wilbraham, (Mass.) The particulars as far as we have been able to learn, are, that a company of young people were visiting at a house near the Pond—A small boat being at hand, the company proposed sailing.—Ten of them set out, in haste, emulous who should first embark in the boat. The six who first arrived, (being three young Gentlemen and three young Ladies,) jumped into the boat and pushed off. They had got but few rods from the shore, when a sudden gust of wind upset the boat, and, painful to relate, every person on board was drowned. There being no other boat in the Pond, nor any person very near, except their four companions, who arrived on the shore but just in enough to witness the distressing scene, no relief could be given them. As soon as possible a number of persons collected, formed a raft, and made search for the bodies, only five of which had been found, when our informant left there.
The names of the unfortunate persons were Gordon Bliss, Leonard Bliss, and their Sister—a daughter of Dr. Merrick, Catherine Warren—all of Wilbraham, and Guy Johnson, of Tolland.
War with the Tyrants.
The official Declaration of War by DESFERNEAUX, sub-tyrant at Guadaloupe, is at length come to hand. It states, that
DESFERNEAUX, calling himself "a particular agent" of the Executive Directory, HAS DECLARED WAR AGAINST THE UNITED STATES.
After a long exordium, in which he describes his unremitting attention to keep up and cultivate, by a free and open conduct, the friendship of the United States, and supporting his professions by the return of the " Retaliation ," which he says he made to the President, he orders all commanders of French armed ships to pursue, capture, and bring into port all American vessels, whether belonging to the Government or to individuals. Those belonging to the American Government to be retained for service. Merchant ships, if condemnable to be sold, as usual, for the profit of the captors; and if not condemnable to be sold nevertheless , for the profit of ***** the proceeds thereof to be deposited into the coffers of the French Republic, one and in divisible.
This declaration took place some time in March last.
Thus notwithstanding the uniform disposition of this country to preserve peace; notwithstanding all our sufferings borne for years with a patience bordering on pusillanimity; notwithstanding the many declarations of both our Presidents that war was not our choice, and if we were brought to it, it would be from necessity; notwithstanding the recent nomination of an Embassy, for the purpose of meeting even the smallest appearance of probability, for the purpose of averting that appeal which has so often been the scourge of nations, are we compelled to the ultima ratio of republics as well as of monarchies. May the war thus commenced by our enemies be prosecuted with spirit and firmness on our part, till the haughty, deceitful, and bloody power which has destroyed the peace and happiness of half Europe, and menaces all the world is reduced as low as vice and infamy deserves.
The deadening hand of Gallic intrigue had benumbed the vital energy of the once vigorous kingdom of Naples with its contagious touch. It was this, which, by its secret and powerful influence had already effected the political death of the kingdom. The French army had nothing more to do than form the splendid parade of its funeral procession. The unfortunate king and his royal consort are doomed to lament in a foreign country the disasters of their unhappy dominions, with no other consolation, than that the destruction, which is now inevitable, might probably have been averted by TIMELY VIGOR, and SPIRITED RESISTANCE.
VIRGINIA ELECTIONS.
The election for Federal Representatives in Virginia, has terminated, as far as is ascertained, in favour of the good cause. viz:—
 Gen. Marshall, elected vice Clopton .  Col. Devan Powell , vice Brent .  Gen. Henry Lee , vice Jones .  Col. Josiah Parker , vice Newton .  Col. George Hancock , vice Trigg .  Robert Page, Esq. vice Gen. Morgan , resig. 
Samuel Goode, Esq. vice T. Claiborne . The election of the above Federalists is officially confirmed.
Besides the above agreeable news, the Virginia Gazette says, that James Machir, Esq. has declined a re-election in favour of Major Haymond, a federalist, of whose election no doubt is entertained:—that Mr. Evans a decided federalist will be re-elected; and that Messrs. Eggleston and Dawson are re-elected. The two latter, we are sorry to say, voted with the opposition at the last session of Congress.
ADJUDICATION.
The Brilliant , Kellog of Nantucket, and the Betsey , Barnard, of Rhode-Island, were seized by a French privateer, on the high seas, and one sunk , and the other burned .
SHIP OCEAN,
It is well ascertained, arrived safe at Le Vera Cruz, whether she was bound. The stories respecting her probably apply to some vessel yet to be named.
YELLOW FEVER.
An Essay on the Yellow Fever, by a gentleman who has resided long in the United States, has appeared in the London Morning Chronicle of Jan. last.
The Essay goes into a historical statement of facts, and reasons with candor from his premises. The prominent features of his dissertations are—That the yellow fever is a disorder of the same nature as plagues—like it, originated in the warm climates of
Asia or Africa; was introduced to the West-Indies by the African ships, and has become general to the islands, whose warm climate keeps it in continual existence; that Europe is preserved from it by the length of the voyage from the West-Indies; but the immense commerce of the United States with the shortness of the voyage, render the W. I. to them the same source of contagion, that the Levant is to Europe; that the increase of commerce with the W. I. especially with Guadaloupe and St. Domingo, which have been the principal scenes of military operations and seat of this disorder—the throngs of passengers, and the promiscuous baggage, and every species of goods brought home, have constantly conveyed the contagion to our sea ports, that the difference among the physical faculty, prosecuted with rancor and enthusiasm, both on the origin, nature and treatment of the disease, have proved one of the severest afflictions that has accompanied it, by robbing the unhappy victim of all the comfort, which confidence in a physician is capable of inspiring. He closes, by observing; "The unhappy inhabitants of America have already exhausted almost every effort in perfecting the internal police of their cities, until attention to cleanliness can do little more; had they been equally attentive to establish general and vigorous quarantines, in all probability they would have been, ere this, free from the attacks of this dreadful disease. Instead, therefore, of calling away their attention to delusive theories, we ought to strengthen them in the resolution to adopt regulations which we have found effectual ourselves, and to cheer them by the hope, that these will, under kind providence, ensure their future safety."
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
May 6. Arrived, Schr. Rebecca , Vincent, Surinam, 40 days.—In lat. 29, long. 65, 30, Capt. V. was boarded by a French privateer sloop Bonne Courrier  Capt. Jubins , and plundered of a number of articles— informed they had taken a number of vessels from the Southward .—While on board the Courrier she brought too and captured the Sch. Fair American , Capt. John Vanneman , from Charleston, out 6 days, bound to St. Kitts, belonging to Philadelphia.
May 9. Arrived, brig America , Captain Allen, from Liverpool, 90 days. About 47 days since, was overhauled by a French privateer, in lat. 43, long. 39 mounting 26 nine-pounders, three months out from Brest, which after a short detention suffered him to proceed. Capt. Allen , was requested from on board the privateer to inform that she had captured the ship Fame , Capt. Story , from New-York.
The Thetis , of New-York, Sch. Mary Wentworth , of Portsmouth, and Schooner Three Friends of Charleston, are captured by the French Sch. La Fortune , Capt. Pique , of 10 guns, and sent to Campeachy.
The crew of the ship Toby , of N. York, who had been captured by a French privateer, and manned by ten myrmidons, has been risen on by the American crew, five of the Frenchmen killed, the ship recovered, and carried into Kingston Jamaica.
William Neil,
In addition to his former assortment of Goods lately advertised, has received a new parcel of
BOHEA , fouchong, hyson and gun-powder TEAS; India SUGAR per bag.
10 Barrels prime middlings PORK, Cayenne Pepper, in small bottles, &c. &c. and daily expects a large quantity of new Rice and Cotton, all of which will be sold at his usual moderate prices for CASH.
Orders for ship stores executed with dispatch, and no bad article put up to go to sea.
Portsmouth, May 10. 1799.
Rockingham, ff.
NOTICE is hereby given, that Phinehas Merrill of Stratham, in said county, yeoman, has petitioned the Judge of Probate respecting that he and Love Chase, of said Stratham, widow, and her daughter Sarah, are tenants in common of about ten acres of land, with the buildings thereon, situate in said Stratham, late the estate of Thomas Chase, late of said Stratham, innholder, deceased, that to him, the petitioner, now belong four fifths of two thirds thereof, which he is desirous of occupying in severality, and therefore praying the said Judge to cause partition thereof to be made agreeably to law; whereupon it is ordered that he be heard at the Probate Office, in Exeter, on the seventeenth day of June next, at ten of the clock before noon.
By order of the Judge, W. PARKER, Reg. May 9, 1799.

NASHVILLE, Jan. 14. By a gentleman just arrived from Natchez we are informed, that the inhabitants of that district, have it in contemplation to build a vessel of force, for the use of the United States, and that he saw upwards of 3,000 dollars subscribed already for that purpose.
NEW-YORK, May 6.
Capt. Galloway, in 27 days from St. Kitts, informs us, that the active, enterprising, and gallant TRUX-TON , has taken another French privateer, of 6 guns, bound from St. Bartholomews to Guadaloupe. She had long been notorious for her successful industry in taking our merchantmen. May such be the fate of every plundering marauder plundering marauder.
The person who has defied the sacred title of Priest, and the tenets of our holy religion, by taking a conspicuous lead among the conspirators of Northampton, it appears, has been but a short time in the country, and was, previous to his emigration, an intimate disciple of the famous, or rather infamous Weilhaupt, the chief of the illuminati of Europe.
BOSTON, May 13.
A letter from the Havanna, dated the 6th instant, received at Baltimore, confirms the account we have already received, of the yellow fever raging at that place. Among a number of other American vessels, there was one from New-York, with about 70 men, almost the whole of whom were taken down.
The Havanna has hitherto been generally healthy, but owing to the vast influx of strangers, and the army which is collected there to the number of 30,000 men, it will hereafter for a long time probably be a hot bed for the fever, and the worst of all the islands. The reflection will, no doubt, suggest proper measures to the health committee for the safety of this city.
There will, in the next Congress, on the most moderate computation, be seventy odd Federal members.
Gen. WASHINGTON , on the day of election in Virginia, mounted his old Iron Grey Charger, and rode 10 miles to the County Court-House, to vote for his brave old brother soldier, Col. Powell, who is happily elected.
[Com. Adv.] [Let this example be carefully recorded, and repeated on the morning of every election of public officers.]
The same illustrious character, when lately drawn, as Jurymen for the Inferior Court of his District, cheerfully accepted, and discharged the municipal duty of a citizen in that capacity. In Great Britain, it is a serious cause of complaint, that men of talents and information, commonly find means of exempting themselves from the task of setting as Jurymen, and that, by a custom much to be regretted, the important trust of deciding on the property, liberty, and lives of her subjects, too generally devolves on the lower and more ignorant class of citizens. Some parts of this country have too much reason for the same complaint. Let the example of the American Cincinnatus have its weight in correcting this grievance.
CONFLAGRATION.
On Saturday morning last, between the hours of 2 and 3, a fire broke out in Newbury-street, which destroyed eleven dwelling houses, several barns, and other out-buildings. The fire is supposed to have kindled in Mr. Merchell's barn; from thence communicated to Mr. Adams work shop, the dwelling houses of Mr. Merchell, and Mrs. Hunt, the buildings of Mr. Jarvis, eight of which it consumed; and the dwelling house of Messrs. Childs & Cole, with the stables adjoining.
The principal sufferers are Mr. John Jarvis, who in a moment is deprived of the property which was accumulated by long and labourious industry; Mr. Abraham Adams, who lost a valuable work shop, and the principal part of his stock and tools; Mr. Merchell's, who lost much of his furniture, stock to a considerable amount, and several horses and carriages; Miss Mary Yorkis, who owned the building occupied by Mr. Merchell; Messrs. Childs and Cole; and Messrs. George Groupner, Capt. George Wheelwright, Patrick Kenny, John Mitchell, Timothy Pease, jr. James Brewer, Lewis Degoy, and Henry Fullerton; who occupied the row of buildings owned by Mr. Jarvis, and who have lost great part of their furniture and wearing apparel.
The Dutch begin likewise to mimic the French gaiety. The following comment on French liberty, equality, and fraternity, was lately affixed upon the tree of liberty erected in Amsterdam:
Our liberty is that no one can go through the gates of our towns, without paying 6d.
Our equality, that in a very little time we shall be all beggars alike; and our fraternity, like that of Cain and Abel, cutting each other's throats.
SOLEMN TRUTHS.
"If the government of the United States had been cherished and supported by its citizens in proportion to its merit; if patriotism, old fashioned patriotism, not the love of other nations, but of our own, had been as distinguishing a trait in the American character as it has been in the British, or even in the French, we should have been at this moment one of the most powerful, independent and prosperous nations in the world. United, all the world could not make, and therefore would not attempt, a conquest of us—divided, we should fall an easy prey to a contemptible and insignificant foe."
Charleston, April 30.
Yesterday arrived the ship Mary , Pope, Eruma, 14 days.
On Monday morning last, in the Gulph Stream, Capt. Pope fell in with five large ships of war, having under convoy upwards of 70 sail of vessels; he did not speak either of them; they are supposed to be the Leeward Island fleet bound to England.
Capt. Atkins of the John Bulkey, on his passage from Philadelphia, on the 22d inst. being then to Leeward of Cape Look out, fell in with a number of pipes, half-pipes, quarter-casks, and half-quarter-casks of Malaga wine, a fresh gale blowing, prevented Capt. Atkins from taking up more than six casks containing about 15 gallons each, these casks branded X. P. joined and A. P.
A midshipman of the Constellation landed yesterday morning from the Union [prize] with dispatches from Commodore TRUXTON .
The Insurgent we hear is daily expected in Hampton Roads—She will be refitted at Norfolk.
Boston, May 11.
There has been an embargo on American vessels at Surinam, from the 3d of Feb. 'till the 25th of March, in which time, there arrived three Spanish frigates, with troops, three Dutch frigates sailed for Europe, and four French Schooners for Cayenne, with provisions for that colony; we were informed that the troops of Cayenne, were in a state of revolution, on account of there being no provision in the colony, owing as they say to the ill treatment, that the Americans have met with.
Capt. John Fillebrown, in the brig Speedwell belonging to Messrs. Peirce and Wait, of Salem, was boarded on his passage from La Vera Cruz, to the Havanna, by an English frigate, and robbed of cash to the amount of several thousand dollars; the seamen stripped of every thing, and their very shoes torn asunder, in search for gold; the bills the capt. had on the Havanna, destroyed, and the account of sales defaced. The captain of the frigate insolently gave Capt. F. a receipt of the articles plundered, without signature, and dismissed him with every mark of contumely and disrespect.
The ship Fame , Storer, from New-York, has been captured on the banks, by a French privateer and sent for France.
The brig Juno , Freeman, arrived here from St. Croix, 21 days; Constitution, Capt. Nicholson, failed in co. for Boston.
SALEM, May 10.
COMMUNICATION.
SHALL we any longer amuse ourselves with hopes of a negotiation with France? Has she not spurned our messengers of peace, and despised the avowal of our complaints? But this apparent contempt veils an activity that will indeed convince us what contemptible things we are, if we suffer ourselves to be duped by her artifices. It ought to awaken sentiments of indignation, and an elevation of soul, in the American people, that would rise superior either to French arts or arms. Those men who, flying in the face of facts, and would still stifle your many resentments by the hollow professions of French amity, are deceived, or they are knaves and hypocrites! Yet, were they consistent, in these characters, they should, we think, hold out a more specious lure to entrap us, than the hope of Gallic friendship; this having no moral tie for its foundation, no feature of interest or affection to coalesce our hearts. Treaties and national compacts France has abandoned to contempt; and the laws of nations, their enlightened politicians have voted a multi farago of nonsense. With what sense of propriety, then, can our government treat, or what reliance could be placed on the faith of treaties made with this nation? Her character is exalted to unexampled baseness, by her perfidies and infernal intrigues! Yet, a vile fac-
tion can dare to justify the French, blame our own government, misrepresent its measures, and calumniate its ornaments. But its partisans cannot adduce any thing but what will prove its wisdom, and love of peace, so long as its own existence was not threatened. Pin them up to facts, and smoke is more solid than the positions they build upon! Whatever they may allege,—their ultimate design is the overthrow of the Federal Government; they have system here; but in their views, afterwards, they are as various as the classes of men which compose the jacobin faction.—Some are stimulated by ambitious hopes; others, actuated by levelling principles, a hatred of laws, and prospects of plunder; while others are the slaves of obstinate prejudices. In this last class, are to be found some men of property; and the tie of property, to say the least, is as strong in these men, as in others. What then but the most stupid judgments, and blundering calculations, can induce these men to risk the overturning of a government which protects their interests, and every thing else valuable in society—and, perhaps, the beholding in its stead a five headed monster arise on its ruins, that would protect neither virtue, liberty or property? In truth, at any other time but the present, we might despise this ill afforded faction! It has the heterogeneous principles of confusion in its bosom, and systematized in nothing but its views of destruction. Here the deformed enemy of society with infernal activity works, aided by Gallic patrons; and will finally prevail, and we shall be metamorphosed into a nation of bastards, atheists, murderers and imposters, unless the Federalists abandon every other object as a secondary duty, and give government their first cares, as the preserver of their temporal happiness.
X.
PORTSMOUTH, May 14.
MASONIC.
On Monday the 6th inst. it pleased the Most Worshipful NATHANIEL ADAMS , Esq. Grand Master of Masons for the State of New-Hampshire, to install, the BLAZING STAR LODGE , at Concord. The solemnities of the day were opened by prayer; a very elegant piece of sacred harmony succeeded; and a discourse on the origin and design of Masonry, followed. The Grand Master duly assisted by the R. W. Dr. GOVE , acting as D. G. M. pro tem, then proceeded to the consecration, installation and investiture of the R. W. Col. D. WARNER , as Master of the Blazing Star Lodge; together with his Wardens, Deacons and other officers. After which a splendid, elegant and brilliant Oration was pronounced by H. ATHERTON , Esq.; and solemn music concluded the impressive scene. The fraternity then returned to Brother Gale's, and participated of proper refreshment. These very brief outlines are sufficient for common readers; but as the Brotherhood may feel themselves gratified, by more particular information, it is therefore added:—
That upwards of 70 Brethren, composing several different lodges, in the proper habiliments and insignia of the order, gave their attendance on the pleasing occasion; Besides a number of visiting members from various parts of the country, and those gentlemen who did themselves the honor to accompany the Grand Master from Portsmouth. A most capital band of instrumental performers, placed exactly in the centre, enlivened the line of march, on the length and breadth of the oblong square. At entering the Rev. Mr. M'Farland's meeting house, the Masonic eye was charmed with an elegant display of feminine Beauty;—Beauty to whose fascinating powers, wisdom and strength alike pay pleasing homage. It is supposed that little short of 1500 spectators were present, and nearly one half of this crowded assembly shone in female charms, the charms of elegance, and taste. The orchestra was filled, by a select band of vocal and instrumental performers, the exquisite harmony of whose sweetly melodious tones, are yet vibrating on the ear of music: Every amateur of the sacred art spoke in rapture of the concluding hymn: It was one of those irresistible energies of composition and execution which might have soothed despair and calmed outrageous phrenzy. G. M. ADAMS , appeared worthy of himself, of Masonry's most exalted honors and of virtue's brightest diadem. His charges and addresses to the master elect and his brother officers, combined truth, precision, eloquence and neatness. The impressions of the moment were felt; they are engraved on the tablet of the heart; but they cannot be described, by the pen of the readiest writer. Brother Atherton's oration was an excellent performance: It ably refuted the cavils of ignorance; the malice of enmity, and the whispers of detraction. Professor Robinson , if he had heard him, must have blushed for himself; and blotted out his criminating page with
the tear of penitence. The ladies were peculiarly pleased at a handsome compliment addressed to beauty and virtue, and every female of delicacy and good sense triumphed in the Masonic lover and friend; persuaded that his wisdom and strength would always protect her timidity and weakness.—The entertainment at Brother Gale's was in true Masonic style; the tables amply provided with every needed refreshment; and dinner and attendance served in a most satisfactory manner. The transitory regrets of a moment were not felt in the course of the day, excepting those painful sensations which the absence of the neighboring clergy occasioned, who were deprived of dining with the Grand Lodge, by the unusual lateness of the hour, at which they sat down, as works of different kinds precluded all thought of dinner until almost 5 P. M. Nevertheless, the lodges retired at an early hour, and nothing immoral or indecent disgraced the "feast of reason and the flow of soul."—The attendant lodges feel themselves under every obligation to the inhabitants of Concord, for the cheerfulness with which they granted the use of the meeting house, a large, handsome and elegant building. The selectmen are respectfully thanked for a ready compliance with the request of those gentlemen, who signed the petition, for the liberty of performing the solemn duties of Masonry, in the house of prayer and praise; and the musical society and vocal choristers are sincerely tendered all possible acknowledgments for the generous assistance which they so readily afforded. It is only to be regretted that the Rev. Mr. WILLARD , of St. John's could not attend by reason of severe bodily indisposition:—The harmonies of the day had then been absolutely perfect, nor the sound of the hammer heard in any part of the court without the temple.
Hail, Myllic art! ineffable, sublime! Sweet band of Charity 'mid ev'ry clime; Whose silken cord in gentlest fetters binds, Ten thousand thousand, varying forms and minds; I bid thee hail. Blest magic pow'r, 'tis thine, Thou Son of light and life and love divine; One tide of bliss around the sphere to roll; And bid all nations breathe one kindred soul; A soul that feels for joy; that melts at human woe, And burns with blest philanthropy's celestial glow.
Such was the gen'rous, humane, tender, kind, Warm, fervent, feeling, pitying, tender mind, Of Patriot WARREN*, no less good, than great, WARREN, Grand Master of a sister State. And such the friendship, labors, love & zeal, Of HIM, whose lofs as MASONs, MEN we feel: JACKSON, the honor'd, lov'd, fraternal name, JACKSON, whose Spirit rapt in virtue's flame,
Round kindred fellow man, the rays of healing pow'r, Set bounds to death, and life, from death itself, restor'd.
To SCIENCE, VIRTUE, MASONRY most dear, On both, we drop, the fond, fraternal tear; The sprig of Cassia plant around their tombs, That fragrant sprig, which ever deathless blooms; But why, oh why, the gem of piety's dew, Regret's deep sighs; and friendship's sad adieu? A WARREN, JACKSON live, they live confest, In HIM, whose square is set on honor's breast; His COMPASS sweeps the self same moral, social round; And ADAMS, light, love, peace, shall spread to Hampshire's bound.
*Grand-Master Dr. WARREN , fell on the memorable heights of Breed's-Hill:—He received his mortal wound on the mountain of glory; and freedom herself wept at the Patriot Hero's grave. Grand master Dr. JACKSON fell upon the plains of Portsmouth, he received his death wound in the vale of humanity. Philanthropy rose up and mourned the Physician's, untimely fate, science dropped a tear, on her favorite medical son; and the powers of healing chanted his funeral dirge. Ye children of sensibility, who delicately decide on moral character, to whom does the palm of the milder virtues belong? Both merit an equal diadem: Both were ministers sent forth to minister to woe.
Round one, the lamp of martial glory burns; He claims the meed of honor's laurel'd wreath, For one, Philanthropy in sackcloth mourns; And sorrowing woman till laments his death.
Virginia have elected TEN federal members of Congress, out of Nineteen . In the last Congress, the Ancient Dominion could boast of but three Federalists.
MARINE JOURNAL.
Arrived here the brig Gustavus , Capt. Ceo. F. Blunt , 26 days from Antigua, via St. Thomas's.—Left at Antigua 3d April, sch. Mercury , Stone, and sch.— Drummond of Kennebec —April 11, left St. Thomas's in company with 40 sail, under convoy of the U. S. Sloop of War Baltimore , among which was sch.— Novel , of Newburyport; ship Columbia , Whippy, and brig Harmony , Welding, New-Bedford; ship Mary , Hacket, N. York; ship Mary Ann , Stewart, Philadelphia; Schooner Peggy , Griffith, Norfolk; brig Rover , Chase,
Almsbury . April 27, lat. 30, 20, long. 67, 30, spoke ship Polly of Salem , Wm. Magford, master; brig Polly of Marblehead , J. Ruskey master, and sch.—from Beverly; bound to the Havanna, out 9 days, all well, another sch. was in company.
Arrived at Newbury-Port the fifth inst. brig Union , Capt. Hovey , 36 days from Cork; who informs that the ship Alligator , Harris, 38 days from Portsmouth, (N. H.) was cast away at Kinsale, and went to pieces—cargo partly saved with damage.
Arrived at Boston, brig William , Parsons, 48 days from Cape de Verde, left at Madeira, brig Felicity , Brown, of Portsmouth, for St. Martins.
Capt. Kimbell , arrived at Charles-ton, in 44 days from London, informs, that a great number of American sailors had lately been released from the British ships of war, it was reported to the number of three or four thousand, many of whom were working for their passages home, on board, of American merchantmen.
Extract from the Log-Book of the brig Orlando , Henderson, from Surinam, arrived at Boston in 44 days.
Sailed from Surinam, with 56 other American vessels, under convoy of the Portsmouth sloop of war. Daniel M'Neil , who conveyed us as far to the northward, as 23d long. 61, and then informed us he was going back to Jamaica. After that, we kept company several days with Capt. Hopkins , Davis, Bailey, Calwell, Tilden, Harding, &c. all for Boston. Randell and Patten for Salem. On the 3d of May, fell in with the brig Prudence of Newburyport, from Surinam, bound to Newbury, who had been taken by a French privateer sloop of 16 guns, one 18 pounder, four 12's and eleven 9's from the Havanna, bound to France; they took out the Capt. Supercargo, mate, and four people, and put seven Frenchmen on board, and ordered her for France.—After a few days the three Americans that were left on board, rose and retook the vessel, but had no navigator on board, except the prize-master;—Capt. Henderson thought proper to take him and one man out, and put Mr. Copeland and two men on board, with orders to make the best of his way to Newburyport, to the owner, Mr. Leonard Smith , where the arrived safe on Friday last.
A brig belonging to Portland, and two Schooners of Petersburg, were sent into Guadaloupe about the 20th March.
Thirty-nine American vessels sailed from St. Thomas the 11th April, under convoy of the Baltimore sloop of war.
ENTRIES at the CUSTOM-HOUSE. Schooner Industry , Trefethen, Antigua. Brig Little Cherub , Shackford, Havanna. Sch'r Hiram , Appleton, St. Christopher's.
CLEARED.
Ship Fanny , Jenkins, St. Bartholomews. Brig Anna , Tredick, Barbadoes.
MARRIED —At Exeter, by the Rev. Mr. Rowland , Mr. John Dean, jr. merchant, to Miss Nancy Boardman .
DIED —At Boston, on Friday afternoon, Mr. Thomas Adams , late Editor of the Independent Chronicle, aged 43 years.
At Sandwich, The Hon. Daniel Bedee , late Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Stafford.
At Berwick, on Friday last, Miss Fanny Hovey , daughter of Doct. Ivory Hovey . In this town, Mrs. Rachel Low , wife of Mr. Joseph Low, junior .
I pass with melancholy state, By all these solemn heaps of fate: And think, as soft and sad I tread Above the venerable dead, "Time was, like me, they life possess'd; "And time will be, when I shall rest."
FOR SALE,
A HOUSE with a large lot of land, at the South end of the town, with a good water privilege, and an excellent well of water—very commodious for a seat of retirement from the populous part of the town; the same will be sold on reasonable terms and the payment made easy—For particulars inquire of the printer.
Portsmouth, May 14, 1799.
THE subscribers being appointed Commissioners by the Hon. Samuel Tenney, Esq. Judge of Probate for the county of Rockingham, State of New-Hampshire, to receive and examine the claims of the several creditors to the estate of WILLIAM PLUMMER , late of Portsmouth, in said county, merchant, deceased, represented insolvent, hereby give notice that they will attend on that business, on the last Monday of this and the five following months, from 4 to 6 o'clock, P. M. at the store of Messrs. Prout and Parsons in Newbury-Port.
ABRAHAM WHEELWRIGHT, SAMUEL CUTLER, THEO: BRADBURY, jun. Newbury-Port, March 1, 1799.

AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE GAINED.
THUS spoke our sires, Columbia's guardian band, When war's rude tempest swept our infant land! When hosts on hosts embattled round us pour'd, And havoc read'd aloft her blood-stain'd sword. Imperial Albion all her thunders hurl'd, And ruin hover'd o'er a rising world! Thus spoke our sires, "Columbia shall be free!" Approving Heaven confirm'd the bold decree, Forth at the word a nation burst to birth! And shot its radiant glories round the earth! Wide and more wide the rising splendor blaz'd, While climes admir'd, and wond'ring nations gaz'd, "To arms! to arms!" Columbia's hero spoke, Like Heaven's loud peal the awful accents broke! "Redress your wrongs! defend your ra- vag'd shore! "Rouse! rouse! indignant at the Lion's roar!" Forth from the fields th' intrepid war- riors sprung, O'er their broad breasts th' avenging weapons hung. In each firm bosom burn'd heroic ire, And flash'd each eye-ball with terrific fire. Arrang'd by Vernons Chief, the patriots join, Form the deep column and the lengthen'd line, Full on the foe in fierce battalia pour, Loud rings the steel, and deep the engines roar; On fire the heavens, the trembling earth in blood, In dread suspence the awful balance stood; Till, rich in fame, and deck'd in mar- tial spoils, Lo! Independence crown'd their glo- rious toils!
AGRICULTURAL.
TO THE FARMERS OF THE U. STATES.
PERMIT me, through the medium of a newspaper, to give you a few hints respecting the cultivation of Indian Corn. Altho' the mode here recommended may be considered very imperfect, yet it may engage the attention of farmers more able than myself, and by their experiments, bring the art of husbandry to great perfection. I have been convinced, from experience as well as philosophy, that planting corn at the distance of four feet, with four or five kernels in a hill, and that the raising the earth about it in hoeing time, are equally absurd. Planting the seed at so great a distance, is wrong on several accounts. 1st. Corn is a plant that requires both moisture and heat; but not a heat so intense as the meridian sun in summer often produces. Any man of common observation will allow, that in moist, warm weather, corn always vegetates the fastest. The extreme heat of the sun has a tendency to, and will ratify and exhale both the moisture and the salts or nitrous particles, which, in a degree, deprives the plants of their nourishment. To plant the rows of your corn about three feet distant, and the hill in the rows about twenty inches, with two kernels in each hill will give the same quantity of seed, and each plant its share of heat and moisture. The ground will be so shaded before the drought of summer comes on, that neither the extreme heat of the day, nor the night chills, are so destructive as they are to corn planted in the old way.
As I generally sow and plant my ground alternately, I find by experience, that my successive crops as well as my corn, are much larger than they were when I used the former mode.
Against hilling corn I think several reasons may be offered.
1st. Nature always directs right with regard to the placing of vegeta- ble roots. If you draw over them a new layer of earth, you derange the order of nature; you give them different degrees of heat and moisture, and create for them as it were, a new climate. 2d. If you make a hill a- bout your corn, it keeps the stalk ten- der within the hill. If it is only bent by a storm, a hole is left in the top of the hill on the windward side of the stalk, and the rain washes in the dust and prevents the corn from rising af- ter the storm is over. 3d. Corn is a plant of quick vegetation and sends forth its roots to a great distance from its stalk. If you plough between the rows you will cut the fine roots of the corn, which greatly injures it. This you will discover by the corn's wilting when you plough it in the middle of a hot day in hilling time.
From the foregoing considerations and others, I am convinced, that it is best to plough your ground well in the spring; to run over it a light harrow before you plant it; to keep the ground as clear of weeds as possible after the corn is up, and at each time hoeing, in order to prevent exhalations to liir
gently the whole surface of the earth. As the exports of America chiefly depend on the agricultural part of so- ciety, it is of the utmost importance that we bring the art of husbandry to the greatest perfection. To promote this object I hope farmers will careful- ly attend to experiments.
ELIAKIM SPOONER.
N. B. I would inform the farmers, that I have received from the Presi- dent of the United States, Patents for two machines that are calculated, the one for planting, and the other for dressing corn in the method above ex- pressed. Westminster, Feb. 1799.
IRISH LINENS.
JUST OPENED BY
Peter Coffin,
An assortment of yard wide Irish Linens.
Portsmouth, April 30, 1799.
Drugs and Medicines
FOR SALE BY
Josiah Dwight,
IN MARKET-STREET, A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF DRUGS and Medicines, by whom Physician's bills, and prescrip- tions will meet with particular at- tention. Portsmouth, May 6, '99.
READ THIS!
To the Delinquents, in paying their Tax- es in the town of Portsmouth, for the years 1797 and 1798.
THE pressing demands of the Se- lectmen and Overseers of the Poor; compels the subscriber to ad- dress such persons of the necessity in discharging their arrearages; his du- ty as an officer, who has given his own security to those to whom the town were indebted previous to the annual Town-Meeting, in order to ad- just his accounts with the Selectmen; —the injustice to those who have ear- ly paid; Likewise to those who have advanced their property—all combine to solicit and entreat such persons to an immediate payment; three fourths have already paid; those persons ex- pect and require that the residue should be immediately collected.
I with not to distress, and it would likewise be painful to wound the feel- ings of any individual, or family, but at the same time they must give me leave to say, that in justice to all I must do my duty; Therefore, I call on them, I invite and even intreat all such, for their own honor, and com- mon justice, to come forward and e- nable the subscriber, to discharge his trust without the disagreeable alter- native of being under the necessity of doing that which would give him painful reflections.
Geo: Wentworth, Collector.
Portsmouth, April 23, 1799. State of New-Hampshire, Rockingham, ss.
TO BE SOLD AT Public Vendue,
By the Wardens of the first Parish in Portsmouth, at the north Meeting House in said Portsmouth, on Monday the 20th of May next, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, for arrears of taxes on the following Pews, viz.
NUMBER 104 in the gallery, three years, 1796, '97 and '98, six dollars seventy-two cents—number 19 below, three years, 1796, '97 and '98, nineteen dollars twenty cents—number 44, half of said Pew, three years, 1796, '97 and '98, nine dollars sixty cents—number 59, two years, 1797 and '98, twelve dollars eighty cents.
R. HART, } Wardens. E. HALL, } S. HILL, }
Portsmouth, April 29, 1799.
READ and ATTEND!
THE subscriber requests ALL his customers who are indebted to him, to call for settlement—And those who owe for one year or more, must pay, renew their notes, or be sued.
OZIAS SILSBY.
FOR SALE,
An Excellent Farm,
NEAR the centre of the town of Conway, in the State of New- Hampshire, one mile north of the low- er meeting-house, on the main road from Coos to Portland, containing 60 acres of good intervalle, and 240 of upland, about 50 of which are un- der improvement, on which are yearly cut 30 tons of hay, with tillage and pasturing adequate, has a House there- on 40 by 26, a barn 60 by 30, and a very large and convenient spring of water, with an orchard from which may be made 30 barrels of cider an- nually.—Any person wishing to pur- chase will please to apply for condi- tions to JOHN DOLLEFF, on the premises. Conway, April 23.
State of New-Hampshire. NOTICE is hereby given to the owners of the original rights or shares of land in the town of Peeling, in the county of Grafton, they being delinquent in paying a tax of seven dollars on each right, assessed agreea- bly to a vote of the proprietors, at a meeting held at the house of Peter Russell in said Peeling, on the fourth day of June last, and committed to me to collect, that so much of the com- mon and undivided land belonging to each right or share, as will raise the said sum of seven dollars with inciden- tal charges, will be sold at public ven- due, at the house of Peter Russell, in said Peeling on Monday the third day of June next, at two o'clock in the afternoon, unless prevented by previ- ous payment.
The names of the proprietors delin- quent as aforesaid are Joshua Wingate, John Demerit, Robert Hill, John De- merit, jr. Daniel Evans, Joseph Hall, Stephen Otis, Joseph Roberts, Ralph Twombly, Thomas Hanson, Otis Ba- ker, Isaac Canney, Nathaniel Lammas, Joseph Twombly, Meshech Drew, Maul Hanson, Obadiah Drew, William Twombly, 3d, William Allen, Clem- ent Drew, Joseph Hanson, Jotham Nute, Benjamin Hill, Samuel Emerson, Elijah Austin.
EBENEZER DEMERIT, Collector. April 29, 1799.
State of New-Hampshire, Grafton, ss.
TO be sold at public vendue, at the house of me the subscriber, in Groton, in said county, on the third Tuesday in June next, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, so much of the following lots of land in said Groton as will pay the taxes assessed thereon, for the year 1798, with all legal costs unless prevented by previous payment to me the subscriber.
Table with 7 columns: Proprietors names, No., Range, Divis., Acres, Hwys., State. It lists various names like Sam'l Hobart, Esq., Henry Thomson, Noah Thomson, etc., with corresponding land details.
ASA RIDER, Collector. Groton, April 20, 1799.
MAYNESBOROUGH,
WHEREAS the proprietors and owners of the township of Maynesborough, in the county of Grafton and State of New-Hampshire, at their meeting held at Concord in the county of Rockingham and State a- foresaid, on the 5th day of December 1798, voted to raise the sum of TWEN- TY-TWO DOLLARS on each original right in said township of Maynesbo- rough, for the purpose of defraying the charges of said proprietary,—and whereas the assessors of said township did on the same day commit the said assessment to me to collect, and the sum of six dollars and two 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. George Gray, Esq. John Graham, Esq. Walter Kennedy, Esq. William Botts, Esq. Paul Wentworth, Esq. John Nel- son, Esq. John Ward, Esq. Robert Graham, Esq. David Scrymgeour, Esq. Colin Mackenzie, Esq. Tho's Mayne, Esq. Edward Mayne, Esq. Wm Ser- wens, Esq. Hon. Robert Needham, Esq. Samuel Smith, Esq. Thomas Evans, Esq. William Wentworth, Esq. of Bar- badoes, shall pay me fifteen dollars ninety-seven cents (being the balance of said taxes now unpaid) and inci- dental charges, so much of said delin- quents land as will pay said taxes now unpaid, and the legal charges, will be sold at public auction, on Tuesday the 18th day of June next, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, at the dwelling house of Daniel Watson, innholder at Epping, in said county of Rockingham. Wm PLUMER, Collector. Epping, April 8, 1799.
Treasury Department,
March 11th, 1799.
Public notice is hereby given, Pursuant to the Act of Congress, pass- ed on the first day of June, one thousand, seven hundred and ninety- six, entitled, "An Act regulating the "grants of land appropriated for "military services, and for the so- "ciety of United Brethren for pro- "pagating the gospel among the "Heathen;" and the Act supple- mentary to the said recited Act passed on the second day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine—to wit :
THAT the tract of Land herein after described, namely, "be- "ginning at the North West corner of the "seven ranges of townships, and running "thence fifty miles due south, along the "western boundary of the said ranges;— "thence due west to the Main Branch of "the Scioto river; thence up the Main "Branch of the said river to the place "where the Indian boundary line crosses "the same; thence along the said boundary "line to the Tuscarora branch of the Mul- "kingum river at the crossing place above "Fort Lawrence; thence down the said "river, to the point where a line run due "west from the place of beginning, will "intersect the said river; thence along the "line to run to the place of beginning," has been divided into townships of five miles square, and fractional parts of townships; and that plats and surveys of the said town- ships and fractional parts of townships are deposited in the offices of the Register of the Treasury and Surveyor General, for the in- spection of all persons concerned.
The holders of such warrants as have been or shall be granted for military services performed during the late war, are required to present the same to the Register of the Treasury, at some time prior to the twelfth day of February, in the year, one thousand eight hundred, for the purpose of being registered; No registry will however be made of any less quantity than a quarter township, or four thousand acres.
The priority of location of the warrants which may be presented and registered in manner aforesaid, prior to the twelfth day of February, in the year one thousand eight hundred, will immediately after the said day, be determined by lot, in the mode prescribed by the act first recited.
The holders of registered warrants, shall on Monday the 17th day of February, in the year 1800, in the order in which the priority of location shall be determined by lot as aforesaid, personally or by their agents, designate in writing at the office of the Re- gister of the Treasury, the particular quar- ter townships elected by them respectively, and such of the said holders as shall not de- signate their locations on the said day, shall be postponed in locating such warrants to all other holders of registered warrants.
The holders of warrants for military services sufficient to cover one or more quar- ter townships or tracts of four thousand acres each; shall at any time after Monday the 17th day of February, 1800, and prior to the first day of January, 1802, be allowed to register the said warrants in manner afore- said, and forthwith to make locations there- for on any tract or tracts of land not before located.
All warrants or claims for lands on ac- count of military services, which shall not be registered and located before the first day of January, 1802, are by the supplemen- tary act of Congress herein before recited, passed on the second day of March, 1799, declared to be forever barred.
Given under my hand at Philadelphia, the day and year above mentioned. OLIVER WOLCOTT, Secretary of the Treasury.
THE FULL BLOODED HORSE, JANUS,
WILL Stand this season at the Stable of Mr. Daniel Lit- tle, in Sandwich, except on Wednes- day and Thursday in each week, which time he will Stand at the Stable of Eben'r and James Little in Centre Harbour—terms: 15f. the leap, 27f. the season and 42f. to warrant a foal. Janus is a fine bay, near seventeen hands high, smooth and handsome, and is acknowledged to be the best Horce of his size in the State; was bred by Charles Carroll, Esq. of Mary- land, was fired by the beautiful full blooded Horce Badger, Badger was fired by the celebrated Horce Apollo, out of a Mare imported by Mr. Carroll. Janus' Dam was fired by an Imported Horce, out of a full blooded Mare, likewise owned by Mr. Carroll.
Any Gentleman that wishes to en- large and mend his breed of Horses, is desired to call and see Janus, who is warranted to be as sure a Horce as a- ny in the State.
—ALSO— The well known Horce, called the Dauphin, which has been kept at Sand- wich and Moultonborough, for sever- al seasons past, will stand at the a- bove stables, at the times above men- tioned.
Terms, 7f. a leap, 15f. the season, and 27f. to warrant a foal.
Wm. WEBSTER & Co. N. B. The noted Horce called the Young Traveller, will stand at the stable of Col. David Webster, in Ply- mouth, the present season. Sandwich, April 20, 1799.
TO BE SOLD,
AT PUBLIC AUCTION,
By licence of the Hon. the Judge of Pro- bate, for the county of Rockingham, THE real estate of Capt. JOSEPH HIXON, late of Portsmouth, mariner, deceased, or so much as will pay the debts due from said estate, and incidental charges, being a corner lot with the building thereon, on Pitt- street about 69 feet, on Atkinson- street about 80 feet.—Sale to be on Wednesday 22d May, on the premises, at 10 o'clock, A. M. by GEO. HART, Administ'r de bonis non of the estate of said Hixon.
By the arrival of the ship Packet, from Liverpool,
Edward Parry
HAS RECEIVED A large assortment of new fashion Chintzes and Calicoes, of a superior quality—which will be sold cheap for CASH.
Benjamin Moses
INFORMS his customers that he has REMOVED from this town to Piscataqua bridge, where he carries on his business as usual; and returns his thanks to those who have been pleased to employ him, and informs them that they may be supplied by calling on Capt. Ebenezer Chadwick. Portsmouth, May 7, 1799.
FOR SALE,
A FARM of 100 acres,
WITHIN five miles of Durham landing, with a HOUSE and BARN thereon. For particulars ap- ply to the Printer.
WHEREAS the proprietors and owners of the township of Brittonwoods, in the county of Graft- on, at several meetings legally noti- fied and held—voted sundry taxes for the purpose of defraying the charges of the proprietary, which sums have been assessed on the several rights and divisions of rights of the original pro- prietors, and the same duly adverti- sed in the New-Hampshire Gazette; and whereas the owners of several rights in said township are yet delin- quent in paying their said taxes, which delinquencies in the name of the ori- ginal proprietors are as follows, viz: Francis Jenness, 10 dollars 25 cents, Sam'l Hall and Nicholas Pickering, 19 dollars 93 cents each, Robert L. Fowle, Vere Royle, Joseph Ward, Peter Curter, Charles Banfield, Ezekiel Gummer, Jo- seph Basi, Henry Carter, Thomas Chad- bourne, George Libbey, Joshua Went- worth, Nahum Ward, Joseph Simes, John Farnald, Joseph Walker, Jacob Sheafe, jun. Samuel Jenness, Thomas Lynde, Robert Hart, John Wendell and Walter Bryant, 10 dollars 58 3/4 cents each—Notice is hereby given that un- less the said delinquents shall pay me their said arrearages of taxes or delin- quencies and incidental charges, so much of said delinquents lands as will pay the same, will be sold at public auction on Monday the first day of July next, at three of the clock in the afternoon, at the house of Mr. John Greenleaf, innholder in Portsmouth, in the county of Rockingham, SAMUEL BOWLES, Collector. Portsmouth, (N. H.) May 8, 1799.
PHNOMENON,
THAT beautiful full blooded Stallion, late imported from England by LANG, BRIERLY & Co. Will stand for covering this season at the stable of Maj. Thomas Leavitt, of North-Hampton, until Monday the 6th of May, then at the stable of Capt. John Higgins, at Berwick, on Tues- day the 7th of May; at the stable of Levi Dearborn, at Rochester, on Wed- nesday the 8th of May; at the stable of Col. Richardson, at Durham, on Thursday the 9th of May; at the stable of Esq'r Clarke at Northwood, on Friday the 10th of May; at the stable of Benjamin Butler at Deerfield, on Saturday the 11th of May; at the stable of Maj. Simon Towle at Chester, on Monday the 13th May, then will return to the stable of said Thomas Leavitt, and from thence will return to each of the aforesaid places every fifteenth day, from the time he stood there before, until the season expires. He is a fine chestnut, rising 7 years old, 16 and an half hands high, got by the famous Phenomenon, whose Grandfire was the noted Eclipse, Dam Recovery by Hyder Ally, Grandam Perdita by Herod, great Grandam by Sampson, and out of the Lass of the Mill.—He has already proved himself to be a sure horse, and his colts are very handsome. Price 9 dollars the season, 5 dollars a leap; to insure a foal a price that may be agreed on; and 50 cents to the Groom. Northampton, April 29, 1799.