The New Hampshire gazette (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1794-07-29 00:00:00

New Hampshire Gazette.
PORTSMOUTH: Printed by JOHN MELCHER, Printer to the Hon. GENERAL COURT of the State of New Hampshire, at his Office in Market-Street, at nine shillings per Annum.
From the Philadelphia Gazette.
THE happy time is arrived when we may hope for the general influence of liberty upon the minds of the much injured nations of Europe.
Already has France shewn herself as able to maintain her freedom in opposition to the tyrants and enemies of the human race, as she was to accomplish the revolution.
France will undoubtedly be an example to the rest of Europe for crushing the authority of kings, under whose government mankind have experienced every calamity that can ensue from avarice and ambition.
May the nations of the world animated by the spirit and fortitude that has distinguished the French nation, rise up at once against their unfeeling governors, and demand of them what services they can render to a country that can in the smallest degree atone for the miseries they bring upon it.—The machinations practised by kings and their dependants, to gratify their own selfish inclinations and enslave their fellow creatures, and the readiness with which they are willing to plunge their country in war, without participating in the danger and expence, have been experienced for ages without alleviation.—And here let us add, if kings and their nobility had to contest the point themselves, and risk their lives and fortunes as they do those of their subjects, wars would be less frequent; nor would those devourers of the public wealth have recourse to a war, to replenish their private coffers, if the miseries attending it were shared equally among them.—The French nation have been charged with cruelty in the exercise of that new invented machine, the guillotine: but no impartial person will deny that punishment to have been justly inflicted on those who presumed to oppose the general will of the nation.—Can we expect a nation surrounded with enemies and compelled to cope with all the armies of Europe, or suffer the miserable subjection to hereditary monarchy—to shew any lenity towards those who rebel against the government, and co-operate with the despot of Europe in enslaving their country? Let us not judge too harshly of a nation jealous of its liberties: when we consider the dangers in which it may be involved by the villainy of a few men, their severity in punishing it cannot excite in us the least resentment. What if among the sacrifices that have been made, there should be found one innocent person whose unhappy lot it was to have fallen under strong suspicion? Our pity in this case must give way to the joy we feel in the happiness of the country at large. The proportion which his misfortune would bear to that of twenty-four millions and their posterity is small indeed! Far better would it be that half the nation should perish, than that the whole should survive their liberty and equality.
Hitherto they have fought with success; and the idea of conquering them now seems madness and folly.
That they may continue successful, and repel with unabating vigor the attempts of their enemies, is the ardent wish of
BRUTUS.
FROM THE EAGLE.
A Penny saved is a penny earned, says poor Richard; and so says the miser; aye, and the libertine too, when there's no music heard at the shake of the purse. Strange, that Mr. Spendthrift's prudence should step up, just at the exit of his cash; but he's like half of the world, with whom prudence and property were never joint tenants. Make every mother's son face the grindstone, say the Aristocrats; the swinish rabble have liberty! it would be calling pearls before swine; obedience is the soul of order, and severity is the parent of submission. Poor Richard makes a parody on this language—make every mother's son pale with poverty, quoth prudent Dick; the world have plenty of cash! it's calling guineas into the ocean. Adversity is the school of wealth, and want creates invention. Take warning, ye knights of the careless purse! many of your order have woed prudence behind the grates. They then sing psalm-tunes, at church, instead of the Bacchanal chorus, at the hotel.
Pell Bluster was like ye; he borrowed dollars, and stumped people to play for 'em; bought land in Vermont, and went to New-York in the stage, to speculate; and came home in a sulkey. Pell talked of a servant and mistress, and swore he'd have 'em; which was scarce uttered, before Mr. Officer steps up, and reads to him—to answer unto Mr.—for not paying him 800l. Our gentleman spends four weeks in goal, and comes out prepared for a man of business; he now reads PALY instead of ROCHESTER, buys his annual coat, calculates interest on his notes, and uncorks his bottle, only to his friend. He now points to the old sign of the punch-bowl, where sit in reeling merriment a circle of topers; see there says he, poor Pell Bluster, had it not been for the goaler's bolt.
CIMON.
District of New-Hampshire.
SUPERVISOR'S OFFICE, Portsmouth, July 7, 1794.
The following Sections of the Act of Congress, passed the 5th day of last month, entitled, "An ACT laying duties upon carriages for the conveyance of persons," are published for the information and government of all concerned.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there shall be levied, collected and paid, upon all carriages for the conveyance of persons, which shall be kept by or for any person, for his or her own use, or to be let out to hire, or for the conveying of passengers, the several duties and rates following, to wit: For and upon every coach, the yearly sum of ten dollars;—For and upon every chariot, the yearly sum of eight dollars;—For and upon every phaeton and coachee, six dollars;—For and upon every other four wheel, and every two wheel top carriage, two dollars;—and upon every other two wheel carriage, one dollar. Provided always, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to charge with a duty, any carriage usually and chiefly employed in husbandry, or for the transporting or carrying of goods, wares, merchandise, produce or commodities.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That every person having or keeping a carriage or carriages, which, by this act, is or are made subject to the payment of duty, shall, within the month of September in each year make entry of the same with the officer of inspection of the district, in which he or she shall reside, and pay the duty thereon: And such entry shall be in writing, subscribed by the owner of such carriage or carriages, and shall describe each by its proper denomination, and number of wheels. And, for the purpose of receiving such entry and payment, it shall be the duty of the supervisor of the district, or of some officer of inspection, to attend, within the month of September in each year, at one of the most public and convenient places in each county, within their respective districts, and to give public notice, at least one month previous to such day, of the time and place of such attendance. And if any person, having or keeping a carriage, or carriages, charged with a duty or duties by this act, shall neglect or omit to bring, or send and deliver such list thereof, at or within any monthly period aforesaid, in manner above mentioned, or to pay the duty or duties thereupon payable, he or she shall, for every such neglect or omission, forfeit and pay a sum equal to the duty or duties payable upon the said carriage, or carriages, in addition to the said duty or duties.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That if any person having or keeping a carriage or carriages chargeable with any duty by this act, shall prefer to the mode of payment herein before directed, that of paying the amount of the duties by him or her payable, upon demand of him or her made at his or her usual place of habitation, it shall be at his or her option to make payment in manner last mentioned, upon the condition following, that is to say: that he or she, if having or keeping a carriage or carriages, so liable to duty, on the first day of September next, shall, within the said month of September, or, if beginning to have or keep such carriage or carriages, at any time after the said first day of September, shall, within thirty days after he or she shall so begin to have or keep such carriage or carriages, give notice thereof in writing, at the office of inspection nearest to his or her said place of habitation, by transmitting a list thereof, of the like, kind and description, with that directed and described, in the third section of this act, and expressing thereupon, that he or she doth elect to pay the
yearly duty or duties payable upon the carriage or carriages therein mentioned, upon demand of him or her, at his or her said place of habitation, and upon this further condition, that he or she shall pay, upon such demand, in addition to the said duty or duties, a commission of one per centum upon the amount thereof, for the benefit of the officer or person, by whom the said demand shall have been made.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That every person, who shall make such election, as aforesaid, shall pay, or cause to be paid yearly, and every year after the month of September, upon the calling for that purpose, at his or her said place of habitation, of any officer of inspection, or person thereunto authorized, the amount of duty or duties by him or her payable, upon the carriage or carriages, whereof he or she shall have transmitted a list, as aforesaid, so long as he or she shall continue to have or keep the same, and until he or she shall give notice in writing, at the office of inspection, to which the said list shall have been transmitted, that he or she hath sold, or otherwise assigned, or alienated, any carriage or carriages, therein mentioned: in default of which payment, the duty or duties, and commission thereupon, in respect to which, any such default shall be made, shall and may be sued for and recovered in any court of the United States, or of either of them, or shall and may be levied, together with reasonable charges, by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of the person making such default.
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That if any person, by whom such election, as aforesaid, shall have been made, shall omit to notify, in manner herein before directed, any carriage or carriages liable to duty, by this act, which he or she shall, at any time, have or keep, he or she shall, in respect to such carriage or carriages, stand and be in the same predicament, as persons by whom no such election shall have been made, and shall incur the like penalties and forfeitures, as such persons are by this act made liable to, for neglecting or omitting to bring, or send and deliver, true and exact lists of the carriages by them respectively had or kept, and paying the duties thereupon, in manner herein directed.
Sec. 7. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That it shall be, at any time, lawful for any person, who shall have made any such election, as aforesaid, by notice in writing under his or her hand, sent to, and delivered at the same office of inspection, where the notice of such election shall have been given, to revoke the said election; after which revocation, he or she shall stand and be, as to all matters and things directed and prescribed by this act, in the same situation, as if no such election had been made.
The Printers in the counties of Strafford, Cheshire and Grafton, are desired to insert and continue the foregoing three weeks, viz. Bragg at Dover—Printer at Keen, and Dunham at Hanover—and by lodging the bill and duplicate (with one of their papers) at this office, may receive pay.
JOSHUA WENTWORTH, Supervisor.
PARIS, May 12.
Payant, national agent, has denounced, in the commune, the reports propagated by fanatics and counter-revolutionists, that the popular committees secretly execute in the prisons a great number of victims. He observed that the people were quite sufficiently advanced in the spirit of the revolution to remove any dread of presenting to them the public spectacle of the punishment of criminals. He next denounced a new sect of females, who eagerly purchased the hair of the persons guillotined. He concluded by complaining of the frequent and numerous assemblages of women before the butchers shops; and obtained the following resolution of the municipal body—namely, "that the number of butchers should be augmented in each section, and that no one should visit a butcher's shop before 6 in the morning."
In the order of the day of the 12th, Henriot, the commandant general, denounced, to the guard several cidevant nobles who were sending emissaries into Paris, to try a coup de main.
At Rheims a fire lately broke out in the building containing the public ovens. The rich inhabitants not having made the smallest effort to
extinguish it, the national representative has ordered a fine of 40,000 livres to be levied on them, and distributed to the poor.
Our letters from Rennes state, that 6 persons convicted of having joined the insurgents, have been executed there, and their heads placed on the church steeples of La Vendee. A few small assemblages of rebels scattered here and there, are all that remain and La Charette is no longer mentioned. There had been daily skirmishes between the republicans and these small bands, which were on the point of a total extermination.
Particulars of the Capture of Port-au-Prince—
NASSAU, (N. P.) June 10.
This morning arrived here the Schooner Port-au-Prince Packet, Capt. Dell, sent express from Port-au-Prince with intelligence of the surrender of that important place, with an immense property, in shipping and merchandise, to his Majesty's forces.
Mr. Bryan, who came passenger in this vessel has been so obliging as to favour us with the following particulars of the military operations at Port-au-Prince.
On the 1st of June, the fleet, under the orders of Commodore Ford, consisting of the Irresistible, 74, Sceptre, 64, Belliqueux, 64, Europa, 50, several frigates and sloops, with about 40 sail of transports, having on board three thousand British regulars, and about the same number of colonial troops, arrived off Port-au-Prince.
Early in the morning of the 2d of June—a summons was sent from the fleet to the town; but the boat carrying the Officer with it, was refused admission.
At noon the fleet got under way.—The Sceptre and Belliqueux placed themselves within 300 yards of Fort Brissleton, at half past 12, and began a most furious cannonade, which was kept up, almost without intermission, till sunset. At the same time that the cannonade commenced, 1500 troops, commanded by Col. Spencer, were landed under cover of the Fly sloop, two miles west of the fort. At 4 P. M. they marched from the landing place towards the fort, where they arrived a little before sunset: At 7 o'clock, in a heavy rain, the troops assaulted the fort, and after a short resistance carried it, with the loss of about 20 men, among whom was Capt. Wallace of the 2d regiment.—This gallant officer was among the first who entered the fort; he had taken the Mulatto General prisoner, and neglecting to disarm him, the miscreant taking advantage of this, seized a favorable occasion to shoot his generous conqueror; the wretch was slightly wounded with a bayonet by Capt. Wallace's servant, but effected his escape in the hurry and confusion, inseparable from such situations.
In the evening of the 2d, 300 men were landed on the sides of Lacahare, 4 miles from Port-au-Prince, and were there joined by 700 colonial troops, under the command of M. le Point. This corps moved towards the city in the night; and on the march encountered and defeated a large body of the enemy.
This night passed off otherwise very quietly. In the morning of June 3d, two frigates came to anchor with the two 64's, a breach of Fort Brissleton. The day was employed in making preparations for assaulting the place.
About 8 in the evening, a heavy firing of cannon and musketry began in the city, and continued with little intermission during the whole night. This was afterwards learnt to be an action between the white inhabitants, and the Brigands.
On the 4th of June, at 7 in the morning, the tri-coloured flag was hauled down at Fort L'Illet, at 9 the same was done at Fort St. Joseph, and about an hour after, all the other Forts. At this time Colonel Spencer, with his corps, entered the city, without opposition, took possession of the different batteries, hoisted the British colours, and fired the royal salute.
General White, with the remainder of the troops, about 6000 men, disembarked in the forenoon, and marched into the city.
At noon the ships of war entered the harbour, when each ship fired a royal salute in honor of his Majesty's birth day, which was returned from the shore.
The British forces at the capture of Port-au-Prince, were detachments from the royal artillery, the royals, 10th, 13th, 16th, 20th 19th, and 62d; and the whole of the 2d and 41st regiments, lately arrived from Ireland.
On the 8th instant, a reinforcement of 1500 men arrived from Sir Charles Grey's army.
The property captured, ashore and afloat, is said to exceed two millions sterling in value.
Santhonax and Polverell went on to Jacmel, on the 3d inst. When leaving Port-au-Prince, they urged the inhabitants to set fire to the town and shipping, and follow them.
On the 7th inst. Colonel Whitelocke and Capt. Rowley, sailed in the Fly sloop, with General White's dispatches, for England.
Port-au-Prince, June 13. NOTICE is hereby given, That the sale of

For and their cargoes, taken in this har- bor, as well as the confiscated property on the, will commence on the 11th of next month, and continue till the whole is sold. By an act, a deposit of 25 per cent, will be required.
Of the FLEET convoyed by the CONCORDE, &c.
ON Sunday, 13th inst. about 25 sail of mer- chantmen failed from the Delaware, with pro- visions, &c. bound to France, and under the convoy of the Concorde , of 44 guns, the Par- tridge , of 26, and the Lafayette of 18. On the day following, distant 27 leagues from the land, they fell in with the British Squadron, under Admiral MURRAY, who were bound to Hal- ifax, and who were probably in that latitude by a cruising digression from their direct course. The Squadron consisted of the Resolution , 74 Africa, 74, L'Oiseau , 48, Cleopatra , 36, Thistle , 36, Triton , 36, and Alert of 16 guns, and some accounts mention the Argonaut , ship of the line. On this fleet's appearing in sight, the Concorde , made the signal for dispersing, which was so promptly obeyed, that the convoyed vessels were in an instant sailing in all directions. The Brit- ish, however, had captured 5 or 6 of them, when the accounts left them, and were in pursuit of others.—The Concorde was a considerable way to windward of the fleet, and two vessels were sent in pursuit of her. The other French ves- sels of war have not been particularly heard of.
WHITEHALL, May 16. A letter dated Tournay, May 13, 1794, of which the following is an extract, was yester- day received from his Royal Highness the Duke of York, by the Right Hon. Henry Dun- das, his Majesty's principal Secretary of State for the Home Department.
"SINCE my last letter no attempt has been made by the enemy to harass or molest any of my posts. On Sunday morning, however, they attacked in great force General Clairfayt's corps, which had the night before crossed the Heule. The action lasted from one o'clock in the after- noon till 11 at night, when General Clairfayt succeeded in completely driving them back into the town of Courtray, but not being able to take possession of the place, he retreated first across the Heule, and afterwards behind the ri- ver Mandel, but being still very closely pursued by the enemy, he found himself under the ne- cessity of continuing his march to Thielt, where he has taken up a position in order to cover Ghent, Bruges, and Ostend. His loss, I am sorry to say, has been very considerable."
Supplement Extraordinary to the Brussels Ga- zette , May 16.
I hasten to give you some faithful particulars of the dismal situation of this country. Gene- ral Clairfayt was forced to retire to this place, and to Ghent, with the loss in the various ac- tions, of not fewer than 10,000 men, of killed wounded and prisoners. His defeat is again ascribed to the conduct of the Hanoverians, who fled in whole battalions and squadrons, and whom it is in vain to rally, for they clearly are disgusted with the service and inveigh against the war. Among the killed is the gallant gene- ral Wencheim. The loss of the English I have not been able to ascertain; but I myself saw fifty-nine carriages full of wounded English come into Ghent this morning. Every thing is in the utmost consternation; for on Tuesday last the French made themselves masters of Charleroi, Binch, and Mariemont; and an al- arm was spread in Brussels, that a column was marching in full force against that city, as well as the citizens at large, to take up arms for their own defence. I enclose you copies of their supplicating addresses; but tho' they were so earnest in their applications, they refused to give what they called their useless aid, which would only expose their city, and their helpless rela- tives, to violence and pillage. It was the same both at Louvain and Antwerp; and to such a height did their fears carry them, that the min- ister had actually given directions for preparing to withdraw the government to Breda.
CHARLESTON, June 24.
On Saturday last was brought into this port the ship Boyd , Capt. Frew, of Port Glasgow, which was bound to London from the Bay of Honduras. We understand she was captured off the Bahamas by two whale-boats which were fitted out of this port, and failed on a cruise, under the authority of a copy of the commission of the French privateer La Montague . The ship's crew when she was taken, consisted of nine men, besides the captain and mate, seven of whom entered voluntarily on board of the whale-boats, and a prize master and seven men were left in charge of the ship and four re- maining prisoners.
The whale-boats then left the ship, and short- ly afterwards they fell in with a sail, which they determined to make a prize of, if they proved an enemy; and after obtaining the promise of the prisoners not to make any attempt to retake the ship, on the assurance of their being set at li- berty with their ship, if the other vessel should prove a good prize, six of the men set out in a boat to board the vessel which they had fallen in with, leaving the prize master in the ship; but after discovering her to be an American, they returned to the ship. During their ab- sence, however, the prisoners secured the prize- master and took possession of the ship, and as the men came up from the boat, disarmed them, and put them in confinement, three excepted, who cut the rope which fastened the boat, and drifted off.
These three men were afterwards picked up at sea by the ship Hope , Capt. Fowler, from Kingston, which arrived here on Saturday last. Capt. Frew and his men kept possession of the ship, for some time, until the prize-master and
his party, seized on a favorable moment and retook her, after killing the mate, and wound- ing the captain in a desperate manner.
On her arrival, she was taken possession of by order of the governor, being deemed an ille- gal prize.
PHILADELPHIA July 16. By the brig William , Capt. Oaks, in 49 days from Liverpool.
BASLE (Switz.) May 8. THE news is at present extremely important. The French are in Piedmont on the one side, and on the other, they have early last week passed the Petit Mont St. Bernard, and have taken the town of Aost, which commands the valley of the same name, and is capital of the principal of Aost; from thence to Turin there is but fifteen or sixteen leagues distance, along the river Dora Baltea, which joins the Po near Civiasco, about six leagues from Turin. The forts Bard, Terea, and Civiasco, are the only obstacles on the road, of less consequence than the port they have stormed. We have the in- telligence from the brother of a Swiss officer in the King of Sardinia's service, who was unfor- tunately killed in this affair.
There were two attacks by the French in the morning: after an action of two hours they made a false retreat. At night, the posts were attacked with such fury, that the Piedmontese gave way.—The Swiss defended the pass for a long time, till overpowered by numbers, they were obliged to retreat with a considerable loss. Morges and Sola were carried from this place, only distant three leagues of Aost. The French marched forward, and entered pell-mell, accord- ing to report, with the Sardinian troops.
Saorgio, near Nice, is taken by the French, with two generals, and 4000 prisoners, besides killed and wounded.
From a London paper of the 20th May. Mr. East, the messenger, arrived yesterday with dispatches from the Duke of York, dated Tournay, May 16, By these dispatches, it ap- pears that the Emperor, in person, has joined the Duke of York with 25,000 men, and relieved him from the very imminent situation which he was placed by the encircling numbers of the enemy. General Clairfayt, who had, in his last fatal affair of the 11th, in which, before he ran away, he had conquered, lost more than 4000 men, had since fortunately collected a number of scattered battalions and squadrons of horse, a thing which (after a total rout) was thought impracticable.
NEW-YORK, July 15. The English fleet of merchantmen bound to Newfoundland, is mostly taken by the French —of 27 sail, it is said, one only escaped. The Breton fleet of 28 sail was out about the 20th May.
A French fleet of three seventy-fours and 6 frigates was spoke with May 23d off the western Isles.
July 18. Extract of a letter from St. Bartholomews, dated June 22.
"Various reports prevail as to the strength of the French now at Guadaloupe, I think to strike a middle line, that there were about 2000 regular troops, 150 sailors, and 2000 armed ne- groes who are under white officers, and under constant discipline: Their shipping are inferior to the English, who have blocked them in at Point Petre, but without the least alarm to the French, who have the command of the whole harbor by the fortifications there. It is impos- sible to say which party will get the island; the Frenchmen have possession of all that part to the eastward of the river Salle, commonly called Grand Terre, which is the most valuable part of the island. The English have possession of all the West of said river."
BY the brig William , Capt. Oaks who ar- rived at Philadelphia from Liverpool, whence she failed the 25th May, London papers have been received to the 21st, and Liverpool to the 22d.—they state that General Clairfayt had suf- fered a very severe defeat on the 11th in which the Allies sustained a greater loss than in any one action since the commencement of the war.
The fate of the Delaware fleet which lately failed under a French convoy, is so variously re- ported, that no accurate account can, as yet, be given of the affair. The best we can collect is, that a fleet of 25 sail from the Delaware, and a few from this place, proceeded under convoy of three or four French ships of war, whether fri- gates or of the line of battle is not certain. That the fleet was immediately dispersed, several of the vessels taken, (some say all, but from the best authorities only six) and several arrived in port.
All the accounts published of the defeat of the Duke of York's division of the combined army, make the loss very great. The French accounts say that the loss must have been 5000—one third of the whole division.
The French Northern army consists of 90,000 men, Gen. Pichegru commands it.
The Empress of Russia has offered the Jews, that if they will collect for her 30 millions of pounds, she will guarantee the holy land to them, where they might build their temple, agreeably to their expectation grounded on the 8th chap- ter of Zacheriah."
ALBANY, July 15. It is a fact, not generally known that the of- ficers of the British garrisons on the western frontiers, have contracted with the Indians resi- ding in this State to take up and return all Brit- ish deserters, for which the Indians receive ten dollars each.
SPRINGFIELD, July 22. A RUTLAND paper states, that it is report- ed by a gentleman of veracity from Canada, that the Indians frequently visit Gov. SIMCOE,
with scalps of the citizens of the United States; that the humane Governor, for the encourage- ment of the business, has offered a Guinea a piece for them, and has actually purchased fif- teen at that rate; That no business can be done by agents for lands in the Canadas: And that on the British frontier, they were repairing and fortifying their garrisons, and raising men to man them.
BOSTON, July 22. A vessel arrived from Norfolk , yesterday. A gentleman in town, received papers by her, and was so obliging as to furnish us with the fol- lowing extract; which, however, is no other- ways interesting than as further confirmation of the capture of the Newfoundland fleet.
Yesterday arrived, the Swedish Snow Resolution , in 90 days from Allicant ; and a Schooner from St. Andrews, Nova-Scotia . Nothing new by either.
Our news from the westward is favourable— being assured that the 6 nations are on friendly terms with the United States, and no appearance of war in their quarter.
From N. YORK, JULY 17. Yesterday anchored in the stream off Gover- nor's Island, the British frigate, Thetis of 38 guns commanded by Capt. Cochran. This fri- gate is a part of commodore Murray's fleet, con- sisting of 3 sail of the line and 4 frigates, which are now in the offing.
Capt. Cochran saw a 74 gun ship and a frigate in pursuit of the Concorde , but cannot tell what number of the French convoy had been taken, as he was far to the Leeward.
From NORFOLK, (V) JULY 14. On Saturday morning arrived here in 7 weeks from Portsmouth, (England) the ship Bowman , Capt. Bell. Capt. Bell informs, that on the day he cleared out, a person arrived at the Cus- tom-House (the Captain of a sloop captured with the Newfoundland fleet) who informs that the whole of the fleet bound to Newfoundland, consisting of upwards of a 100 sail, under convoy of two frigates and a sloop of War, had been taken by the French, but that thro' the inatten- tion of the Captors he had escaped with his sloop. Capt. B. further adds, that a person was at the same time in the Custom-House, who had left Brest only 6 days before, and who informed him that 10 sail of the line had failed 8 days be- fore he left Brest; 28 sail were lying there rea- dy armed and equipped for sea, and 10 more ready at Rochelle, making in all 48 sail of the line ready for sea; that during his stay in Brest, he saw upwards of 40 persons guillotined. Capt. B. further says, that it was currently reported that the Duke of York had been defeated by Gen. Pichegru between Manheim and Courtray with the loss of several principal Officers, and 1000 men. That the French had entirely driven the Spaniards off the field and they were over- running Savoy.
From BALTIMORE, JULY 11. A letter from an officer at Greenville dated May 25, says "The Spaniards are in possession of the Chickasaw Bluff, fifteen or twenty miles below the mouth of Ohio."
BOSTON, JULY 24. Extract of a letter from Messrs. Bold, Richards and Conway, dated Liverpool, April 29th 1794, to their correspondents in Philadelphia.
"The very active measures which this go- vernment is taking to prevent a possibility of supplies getting to France, keeps the markers on this side the Island very bare, as the cruisers have instructions to send into port all NEU- TRAL vessels laden with grains without paying any respect to their destination, as it appears that the Danes and Swedes have carried consi- derable quantities to France, though their papers have appeared that they were destined for ports in Spain or Portugal."
By a gentleman who left Ostend the 24th of May, and whose veracity is unquestionable, we are informed, that of 1500 recruits which had arrived at that place from Ireland a few days previous to the late severe action in Flanders, only some few escaped of the whole number which had been immediately dispatched to join the Duke of York, upon their first arrival.
Our informant lodged in a house at Ostend with two officers who were in the action with the rest of the recruits, and who declared that the residue, to the amount above mentioned, were either killed or taken prisoners; so great has been the havoc among these unfortunate victims of royal pride in that destructive battle.
In speaking of the battle, one of the officers took occasion to call it a rout , but was immedi- ately corrected by the other who said it was only a retreat ; "Arrah, my dear," replied the honest Hibernian, "I care not whether you call it a ROUT or a RETREAT, but I know very well I ran five miles as fast as my legs would carry me, and by St. Patrick, you run with me every step of the way!"
GRAND NAVAL ACTION.
From PHILADELPHIA—JULY 16. Capt. Green arrived yesterday from Brest, which he left the 5th of June. In the begin- ning of that month or the end of May, there was a naval engagement between 28 English ships of the line and 25 French, in which much damage was sustained by both, and victory re- mained undecided. The French had several engagements in Flanders in which they were generally successful.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
Yesterday arrived here in forty-one days from Brest, the brig Maria , Capt. Green. Capt. Green informs, that on the 6th of June he was boarded by a French frigate of 40 guns; the Captain of which informed him, that on the 30th of May and 3d of June, the British fleet, consisting of 30 sail, and the French fleet of 25
had two severe engagements, near the British channel, off Scilly—that the two fleets had withdrawn, but no victory was obtained, on ei- ther side. Three large frigates hove in sight on the 7th ult. the Captain of the frigate sus- pecting they were enemies, left Capt. Green to proceed on his voyage.
PORTLAND, July 19. SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT.
The Supreme Judicial Court of this Com- monwealth was opened at Hallowell on Tues- day the 8th inst. On Thursday following, Ed- mund Fortis , a negro man, who was some time since committed for the supposed murder of Pam- ela Tilton , was brought to the bar: and a bill of indictment was read, to which he pleaded GUILTY; and in this plea he persisted, not- withstanding he was "duly informed from the Court of its legal effect upon his life." After the examination of several "credible witnesses, by whose testimony the truth of his plea was a- bundantly confirmed," his Honor Judge PAINE proceeded to pronounce sentence ; of which the following is a copy:—
SENTENCE OF DEATH. "UNHAPPY prisoner at the bar, ED- MUND FORTIS; you have been charged by the Grand Jury for these counties, with the crime of wilful murder, the murder of Pamela Tilton : to this charge, you freely, deliberately, and repeatedly pleaded that you were guilty, and this after due information from the Court of the legal effect of this plea on your life; and least there should be any misapprehensions in your mind, or mistake respecting this matter, the Court have attended to the evidence of credible witnesses on oath, by whose testimony in your presence the truth of your plea is abundantly confirmed: you therefore now stand convicted by your own voluntary confession of the horrid crime of murder: And now the Attorney Ge- neral in compliance with the duty of his office, moves to the Court that the sentence of law may be pronounced against you, for this crime where- of you thus stand convicted. This sentence, when executed, will remove you from this world, where you have proved yourself so un- worthy an inhabitant to a state of existence where you must reap the fruits of your past life; where you must appear before the awful tribunal of that holy Being, who cannot be de- ceived, and who will not be mocked, and who will judge you for this and all the other sins of your life, and which may have lead to it and ended in it: it therefore well becomes you, with the sincerest repentance and deepest con- trition of heart, to call to mind all the sinful dispositions and transgressions of your past life; listen to the monitions of your conscience, that faithful witness in your bosom, and it will tell you, how you have cast off the fear of God from your eyes, and all restraint of reverence to him from your thoughts, words, and actions, till your unbridled lust and malicious disposition had arrived to full ripeness, and urged you to the commission of crimes, at your own relation of which, nature revolts and the human heart is rent with agony. To what a pitch of brutal lust must you have arrived, that a person of your nation, your age, having a wife and chil- dren in the neighbourhood, should so inhuman- ly assault and violate the chastity of that young girl in spite of her intreaties and remonstran- ces, and then with all the savage cruelty of a ruffian and an assassin, deaf to those cries and supplications which would have melted any heart but one lost to every humane feeling, you barbarously strangled to death the inoffensive victim of your lustful crime; thus in a short space of time destroying life, the first right of all mankind, and chastity, the second right of woman. By these detestable crimes you have rendered yourself unworthy any connection with the human race, unfit to live, and without the sincerest repentance and renovation of heart, unfit to die; obnoxious to death by the law of the land, and lying at the mercy of an Omnip- otent Being who rules all worlds in righteousness, and renders to every man according to his deeds done in the body. Humble yourself therefore before that God who of one blood hath made all nations that inhabit the earth, who is no re- specter of persons, who rejoiceth not in the death of a sinner, but rather that he should re- pent and live, who in testimony of his great love to a lost world, hath sent his son Jesus Christ to proclaim the glad tidings of forgiveness on faith, repentance and reformation, and through whom he is reconciled to all repenting sinners; that so, although your aggravated crimes must bring you to an untimely and disgraceful death, yet that you may escape that weeping, wailing and knashing of teeth, that destruction from the face of the Lord, that bitterness of misery which cannot be described nor conceived, which will be inflicted on all the enemies of the holy Gov- ernor of the Universe, and that your soul may be happy forever in the heavenly world. And now the Court pronounces the sentence of law against you, which is, you shall go from hence to the prison from whence you came, and from thence be carried to the place of execution, and there be hanged by the neck till you are dead! And may God Almighty have mercy on your foul."
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Foreign Intelligence.
By an arrival at Philadelphia from Brest, we are enabled to give the following particulars.
PARIS, May 27.
There has been another action on the 21st of May, near Tournay, between the republican army commanded by Pichegru, and the combined armies. These last were forced to cross the Scheldt, after a bloody action which lasted 24 hours. The French lost two pieces of artillery, took seven, and made 500 prisoners.
On the 20th May, the right of the French was at Binch and was to advance on to Mons or Charleroi; their head quarters still at Courtray, the left extending near Ostend.
A passenger in the vessel from Brest informs that an attempt has been made to assassinate Robespierre, by a young woman, of 17 years of age. An attempt was also made on the life of another member of the Committee of Public Safety, both without success.
The latter attempt was made by a man armed with a double barreled gun, who missing his first shot, fled and concealed himself in a house, where he was followed by the member and an officer that chanced to pass just after the shot was fired. They discovered the villain in his hiding place, and received from him, that the first person who endeavoured to arrest him should receive the contents of the loaded barrel. The member attempted to advance, but was prevented by the officer who declared he had not a right to hazard his life because he belonged to the people. The officer stepped forward then and received a ball in his shoulder, with one arm however he secured the assassin.
The Convention decreed, that a bulletin of the officer's health should be published daily until his complete recovery.
FRENCH ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE FOUGHT May 17th. From French Papers.
LILLE, May 18.
Citizens,
THE letter of exchange drawn by the Alpine army on that of the north, begins to be duly honored. Victory is here the order of the day. The enemy is in full rout. Notwithstanding their losses at Courtray, Moucron and Menin, they determined to attack us again, and to use every endeavour to resume their former position.
Yesterday having assembled their troops of the center they attacked us on all points. They obliged us to fall back from Port a Mark and Lannoy. We retreated in good order. Proud of this first success, they expected, by attacking us again to-day, to make further progress. It was their object to cut off our communication; but we did not give them time to effect it; we attacked them, and every where drove them back, beat to the charge, and our victory was complete.
Adjutant General Revel fought with the greatest vigor. We took a train of artillery complete, made the garrison of Lannoy prisoners; near three hundred Hessians have fallen into our hands. They asked for quarters, we ought not, by the laws of war to have granted it, since the town was taken by assault, yet they obtained it. We shall show to the world that Frenchmen are only to be feared in battle.
We learn that the enemy opposed to our forces 60,000 men. The commander in chief just returns from his round with my colleague Richard; I hope soon to be able to communicate new victories. We have taken 50 pieces of cannon, the enemy lost 1000 men. This division needed this victory.
CHODIEU, Representative of the People.
P.S. I learnt this moment that the enemy evacuated Port a Marque, and have fallen back upon Orchies consequently the communication between Douay and Lille is re-established.
MAY 24.
We promised not to suffer the enemy to rest. We keep good our word. We attacked them yesterday in all quarters, and every where beat. We have driven them to Tournay and Mount Trinity. The battle lasted 15 hours, and was well fought. The enemy were considerably reinforced and we retired in good order, having taken a considerable convoy on the Scheldt. We took two cannon that were dismounted. We took seven from the enemy and 600 prisoners.—We shall soon begin again.
Account of this LAST ACTION by the General in chief of the Northern army.
Courtray, May 23.
Citizens Representatives,
We fought yesterday the whole day long. We have driven the enemy beyond the Scheldt; we captured a convoy of hay, oats and coal. We carried off what we could; the remainder was burnt. The affair was bloody on both sides. There has been a great number wounded. We took from the enemy 7 pieces of cannon, who took 2 of ours. We made about 500 prisoners.
Traits of courage were numerous; cowardice and treachery in some parts injured us. Many soldiers left their duty to pillage, which so weakened the battalions, that towards evening we were near being driven back.
The right of the army, on the 21st May was near Binche, and must thence have proceeded to Mons or Charleroi.
PICHEGRU.
ARMY OF THE ARDENNES.
Commanded by General FROMENTIN.
Binche, May 22.
We have crossed the Sambre in several
points. Our divisions acted with concert and success. I have taken from the enemy all their travelling hospital, a great many sheets, a considerable number of Flemish horses. We have also taken several droves of cattle; I send them to Philipville. We drive on the enemy with expedition, and may anticipate successes the most important. The representative of the people Levasseur follows us every where; he is always in the height of action. I expedite this moment 900 carriages that brings us all kinds of goods. In a skirmish this day a chasseur had his arm carried away; he said turning round to an artilleryman, "put the arm in the mouth of your cannon, and send it back to those brigands."
MOSELLE ARMY.
Commanded by JOURDAN.
Arlon May 22.
We arrived this day at Arlon. The small number of the enemy here did not attempt to resist. I leave here a body of troops to protect the march of our artillery and provisions which pass through the country of Treves, and of Luxembourg, and I march on. Expect great successes. JOURDAN.
Neufchateau, May 24.
We have this day taken this post.—We made 70 prisoners, and lost but 5 men killed and 15 taken prisoners.—The inhabitants had been taught to believe, that the French pillaged every thing, they have been undeceived.—The troops have not pillaged. We are terrible to our enemies; kind to the people.
The van guard of Beaulieu has been completely beaten by that of the Moselle army. We took 100 prisoners. To-morrow march to St. Hubert, and the day after to Rochfort. Our communication is restored with Bouillon; it soon will be with Givet. [End of the extracts.]
PHILADELPHIA, July 18.
The Paris paper of the 27th May, contains an account of the fate of Clairfayt's army in the affair of the 17th May, on the subject of which the English papers are quite silent.—Clairfayt, our readers will recollect, was to have crossed the Lys, and by forming a junction with the five columns which proceeded from the environs of Tournay, have cut off the communication between the French at Courtray and Lille. In this Clairfayt was unsuccessful and lost upwards of one hundred pieces of cannon, 300 horses, and had 15,000 men made prisoners, the number of killed or wounded is not mentioned. The artillery was taken by the Sans Culottes General, who drove the English from before Dunkirk, and there took a considerable quantity of cannon, &c.
BOSTON, July 26. AGREEABLE.
Letters from Philadelphia, by the last mail, inform, that by a late arrival there from London, official accounts had been received from Mr. PINKNEY, our Ambassador at the Court of St. James, containing assurances from Mr. PITT, that a full indemnity would be given to the United States for the spoliations on the American commerce, which the imperious necessity of circumstances had forced them to make.
JULY 28. AN EXPRESS,
HAS arrived at Philadelphia from Mr. Encicet, and Capt. Denny, dated Pittsburg, July 7, and bearing various letters—a "TALK" of the Six Nations, and the answer of the Commissioners. The tendency of the Talk is,—That unless the Citizens of the United States immediately retire from the line which they now dwell upon, they shall no longer consider them as friends. The answer observes, That the land was guaranteed to the United States by Treaty with the British, and also actually purchased by the Pennsylvanians, from the Six Nations, and therefore they must, till further orders from the General Government, support their possessions.
THIRD CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES:
AT THE FIRST SESSION, Begun and held at the City of Philadelphia, in the state of Pennsylvania, on Monday the second of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three.
RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the Secretary for the department of War be, and he is hereby directed to make out an exact list of the names of each person returned to him as invalid pensioners, by the Judges of the Circuit Courts of the United States (signing themselves as Commissioners) under the Act of Congress passed the twenty-third of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, intituled "An act to provide for the settlement of claims of widows and orphans, barred by the limitations heretofore established, and to regulate the claims to invalid pensions;" and return to the Judge of each district, one copy of such list, stating particularly, the district from which each person was returned, and that all are by Congress directed not to be entered on the pension-list. And the said Secretary is further directed to return to each District Judge, a list of the names of all such persons, as have been returned as invalid pensioners by the District Judges under the Act of Congress passed the twenty-eighth of February, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, intituled "An Act to regulate claims to invalid pensions;" distinguishing
those who have been placed on the pension-list; and those who have not been placed on the same, by reason of their testimony being incomplete, stating particularly, the legal requisite or requisites wanting in the evidence of each; and naming such of them whose evidence of leaving service is not lodged in his office. And the Judges of the several District Courts, upon receipt of the above described lists and statements from the Secretary for the department of War, are hereby directed forthwith to publish the same in one or more of the newspapers published in their respective Districts, adding to such publication, the time when the Act regulating the claims to invalid pensions expires.
FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, Speaker of the House of Representatives. RALPH IZARD, President of the Senate pro tempore. APPROVED—June the ninth 1794. GO. WASHINGTON, President of the United States. Deposited among the rolls in the department of State, EDM: RANDOLPH.
LIST of all the persons who were returned to the War Office of the United States, as invalid pensioners by the Judges of the Circuit Courts of the United States, filing themselves commissioners, under the Act of Congress, passed the twenty-third of March, 1792, intituled "An Act to provide for the settlement of claims of Widows and Orphans barred by the limitations heretofore established, and to regulate the claims to invalid pensions;" and who are all by Congress directed not to be placed upon the pension-list.
New-Hampshire.
James Crombie, Lieutenant; Ebenezer Copp, Serjeant; John Clough, Private; Thomas Eastman, Ditto; Ebenezer Fielding, Ditto; Joshua Gilman, Ditto; Thomas Kimball, Ditto; Abraham Kimball, Ditto; Jeremiah Pritchard, Lieut. and Adjutant; John Reed, Private; William Taggart, Ensign; Edward Waldo, Lieutenant; Weymouth Wallis, Private.
Massachusetts.
May Term, 1792.
Thomas Alexander, Captain; Nathaniel Barney, Corporal; Caleb Chadwick, Private; Peter Charlou—; Levi Farnsworth, Private; Thomas Gleason, Ditto; Joseph Goodridge, Ditto; Jonas Green, Ditto; John Grace, Lieutenant; John Heath, Corporal; Peter Hemmenway, Private; Daniel Lollar, Ditto; John Manley, Capt. (Marine); Asa Merrett, Private; Aaron Mason, Ditto; Simon Noyes, Serjeant; Job Priest, Ensign; Amos Pierson, Serjeant; Benjamin Pressey, Private; Abner Pier, Ditto; Joseph Peabody, Private; Patrick Shanley, Ditto; Caesar Spragues; Ditto; William Warner, Lieutenant.
October Term, 1792.
Spafford Ames, Private; Lemuel Barns, Ditto; Joseph Bates, Dragoon; Ebenezer Bement, Brigadier-Major; Sampson Brown, Private; Barnabas Chapman, Ditto; Thomas Cook, Ditto; Joseph Cox, Ditto; James Easton, Colonel; William Eaton, Serjeant; Benjamin Farnum, Captain; Moses Fitch, Private; Henry Gates, Ditto; Uriah Goodwin, Ditto; Wardwell Greene, Serjeant; Henry Hawks, Private; Samuel Joy, Ditto; Ozias Judd, Serjeant; Ebenezer Kent, Ensign; Job Lane, Private; Thomas Lilly, Private; Jacob Loomes, Fifer; Joseph Loring, Lieutenant; John Nixon, Brigadier; Jonah Scovel, Private; John Taylor, Serjeant; Samuel Warner, Private; Robert Wyley, Ensign; Ebenezer Learned, Colonel.
Connecticut.
May Term, 1792.
Samuel Andrews, Corporal; Jeddiah Brown, Serjeant; Samuel Bennet, Fifer; Enoch Blakely, Private; Silas Baldwin, Ditto; Rheuben Chapman, Ditto; Burr Gilbert, Serjeant; Thurston Hilliard, Artificer; Isaac Higgins, Fifer; William Leeds, Lieutenant; Elnathan Norton, Private; Ebenezer Patchin, Ditto; David Pendleton, Ditto; Samuel Perker, Ditto; Isaac Richards, Private; Thaddeus Reed, Ditto; John Smith, Ditto; Toney Turney, Ditto; Yale Todd, Ditto; Enoch Turner, Ditto; James Wayland, Ditto; Richard Watrous, Ditto;
October Term, 1792.
William Anderson, Corporal; Theodore Andrews, Private; Clement Andrus, Ditto; Asa Bunce, Corporal; Ebenezer Bevins, Private; Francis Baxter, Ditto; Salmon Burr, Ditto; Isaac Buell, Ditto; Elijah Boardman, Serjeant; Hartwell Barnes, Private; Amos Barns, Ditto; Moses Boardman, Ditto; David Blackman, Ditto; Daniel Barns, Captain; Job Bartram, Ditto; James Beers, Private; Isaiah Bunce, Private; Nathaniel Beach, Ditto; Jonathan Bowers, Corporal; Thaddeus Beebe, Private; William Cafe, Serjeant; Simon Crosby, Dragoon; James Campbell, Private; Elisha Clark, Artificer; Ebenezer Curtis, Private; Abijah Cadys, Ditto; Jonah Cooke, Ditto; Aaron Cooke, Ditto; John Chandler, Colonel; John Chaple, Private; Joseph Dunbar, Corporal; John Downs, Serjeant; Eliphalet Easton, Private; Samuel Easton, Serjeant; Moses Evans, Private; Jonathan Flagg, Artificer; Joel Fox, Private; Ebenezer Gilbert, Ditto; Joel Gillet, Ensign; Amos Gray, Private; David Hall, Serjeant; Abijah Hubbell, Corporal; Thomas Hobby, Major; Cornelius Hamlin, Corporal; Robert
Jerom, Fifer; Lyman Kinne, Private; Ashbel Kilbourn, Ditto; William Leech, Ditto; Samuel Loomis, Corporal; Josiah Lacey, Captain; Jabez Lewis, Private; Nathaniel Lewis, Ditto; Joseph Loung, Artificer; George Lord, Private; John McKinley, Ditto; John McKinsey, Ditto; David Morehouse, Ditto; Stephen Miner, Soldier and Qr. Gunner; Josiah Merriman, Corporal; Gideon Noble, Fifer and Corporal; Francis Nicholson, Serjeant; Jeremiah Osborne, Serjeant; Levi Pierce, Private; David Pratt, Drum-Major; Isaac Palmer, Serjeant; Elijah Rice, Private; John Roberts, Trumpeter; David Ranny, Private; Jedidiah Smith, Private; Elihu Sabin, Ditto; Zachariah Sanford, Serjeant; Heber Smith, Ditto; Moses Smith, Private; Nathaniel Scribner, Captain; John Watson, Private; Charles Webb, Colonel; Joel Wilcox, Private; William Woodruff, Corporal; Philip White, Private; Azel Woodworth, Matros; William Weare, Private; Bayze Wells, Lieutenant; Samuel Whiting, Colonel; Josiah Witter, Lieutenant.
Rhode-Island.
Clark Albro, Private; James Blevin, Forage-Master; John Baggs, Serjeant; Robert Carr, Private; Daniel Eldridge, Serjeant; Edward Vose, Ditto; Esek Aldridge, Drummer; Burton Briggs, Private; Nathan Jaquays, Ditto; William Lunt, Ditto; David Lewis, Ditto; Christopher Moore, Ditto; Joseph Spencer Taylor, Assistant Commissary of Issues.
Vermont.
Samuel Ball, Private; Samuel Bartlett, Captain; Elijah Bennet, Private; David Brydia, Ditto; Jared Dixon, Ditto; Samuel Eyers, Ditto; Stephen Gates, Serjeant; Jonathan Haynes, Private; Zimri Hill, Ditto; Elijah Tray, Serjeant; Abraham Merrifield, Private; Richard Millen, Serjeant; John Sargeant, Corporal; Isaac Webster, Serjeant; Ephraim Wilmarth, Ditto; William Yates, Private; Thomas Touence, Ditto.
New-Jersey.
John Obert, Private; Sylvester Tilton, Ditto.
Maryland.
John Coates, Captain.
Virginia.
Jacob Valentine, Captain; Joshua Davidson, Dragoon; William Dalby, Corporal; Christopher McCarmom, Serjeant-Major; John Bell, Lieutenant; David Welch, Serjeant; William McIntosh, Private; John Burton, Serjeant.
N. B. Those marked thus* have renewed their application under the Act of Congress of the 28th February, 1793.
H. KNOX,
Secretary at War.
The foregoing lists received from the Secretary at War, this 25th day of July, 1794, and published in pursuance of the Resolve of Congress of June the ninth, 1794. The Act regulating claims to invalid pensions, expires on the 28th day of February next, being in the year 1795.
EDWARD ST. LOE LIVERMORE, Attorney for the United States for the District of New-Hampshire. Portsmouth, (N. H.) July 25, 1794.
ENTRIES at the CUSTOM-HOUSE of this district.
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SONG—BY CUNNINGHAM.
MAY EVE: or, KATE of ABERDEEN.
THE silver moon's enamour'd beam Steals softly through the night, To wanton with the winding stream, And kils reflected light.
To beds of state go, balmy sleep, ('Tis where you've seldom been) May's vigil while the shepherds keep With Kate of Aberdeen.
Upon the green the virgins wait, In rosy chaplets gay, Till morn unbans her golden gate, And gives the promis'd May.
Methinks I hear the maids declare The promis'd May, when seen, Not half so fragrant, half so fair, As Kate of Aberdeen.
Strike up the tabor's boldest notes, We'll rouse the nodding grove; The nested birds shall raise their throats, And hail the maid I love.
And see—the matin lark mistakes, He quits the tufted green: Fond bird! 'tis not the morning breaks, 'Tis Kate of Aberdeen.
Now lightsome o'er the level mead, Where midnight Fairies rove, Like them the jocund dance we'll lead, Or tune the reed to love:
For see, the rosy May draws nigh; She claims a virgin queen; And hark! the happy shepherds cry, 'Tis Kate of Aberdeen.
ANECDOTE.
As a Minister and Lawyer were riding together, says the Minister to the lawyer, Sir, do you ever make any mistakes in pleading? I do, said the Lawyer. And what do you do with mistakes? said the Minister. Why, Sir, if large ones, I mind them; if small ones, I let them go, said the Lawyer. And pray Sir, continued he, do you ever make any mistakes in preaching? Yes, Sir, said the Minister, I do. And what do you do with mistakes? said the Lawyer. Why, Sir, I dispense with them much in the same way you just observed; I rectify large ones, and neglect small ones. Not long since, continued he, as I was preaching, I went to observe that the Devil was the father of Liars, but mistook, and said Lawyers, and the mistake was so small, I let it go.
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Regulations for the Order and Discipline of the troops of the United States, being the regulations for the militia, agreeable to an Act of Congress,
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The Laws & Regulations for Governing and Disciplining the militia of the United States,
AND
The Laws for Forming and Regulating the militia of the State of New-Hampshire.
WHEREAS Reuben
Kidder and Isaiah Kidder, Administrators on the estate of Reuben Kidder, Esquire, late of New-Ipswich in the county of Hillsborough, deceased, presented a petition to the General-Court of the State of New-Hampshire, in June, A. D. 1794, praying the same court to authorize and empower them to execute deeds in all cases, where the deceased gave bonds and agreements in writing, for deeds of land on certain conditions, which conditions have since been performed on the part of the obligees, the prayer of which petition was granted, and a bill corresponding with the prayer of the same petition by the liberty of the court, was brought in and read, and postponed to the next session of the General-Court, for the purpose of giving an opportunity to all or any of the creditors or heirs to the estate of the deceased, to appear, and they hereby are notified accordingly, to appear at the next session of the General-Court to be holden in Concord on the second Tuesday of December, A. D. 1794, and shew cause (if any they have) why the said bill should not pass into a law.
REUBEN KIDDER, } Administrators. ISAIAH KIDDER. } New-Ipswich, July 19, 1794.
State of New-Hampshire.
Hillsborough, ss.
At the Court of General Sessions of the Peace holden at Amherst within and for our county of Hillsborough, on the last Monday in September, A. D. 1793, by adjournment.
WHEREAS a road hath been laid out, returned to, and accepted by this court, through the unincorporated tracts of land, called Campbell's-Gore and Society land, and the owners thereof neglecting to make the same passable.—It is therefore ordered that the proprietors of said Campbell's-Gore and Society land, be, and they hereby are required to make the same passable, within six months from the first Wednesday in June next. (4.w.)
Published by order of Court. Attest, ROBERT FLETCHER, Clerk.
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York, July 21, 1794.
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Book-Binding in its various branches executed with neatness and dispatch.
Tickets & quarters in the first class of Harvard-College Lottery, which will positively commence drawing in November next, may be had as above. Portsmouth, July 21.
District of New-Hampshire.
SUPERVISOR'S OFFICE, July 21, 1794.
Notice.
Duty on carriages for the conveyance of persons.
ALL persons within the county of Rockingham in said District, having or keeping a carriage or carriages, are hereby notified, that entry, and payment of the duties on carriages will be received agreeable to law at the office of Inspection.
Duty on Licenses for retailing Wines or foreign distilled Spirituous liquors.
All persons within the county of Rockingham in said district, who are retailers of either the articles above named—are hereby notified, that licenses will be granted agreeable to law, at the office of inspection—those persons applying for license must produce the approbation of the Selectmen of the town where they dwell for retailing conformable to the law of the State of New-Hampshire.
Licenses for Auctioneers.
Notice is hereby given, that licenses will be granted at the office of inspection, authorizing persons to sell at Auction, agreeable to law, within the county of Rockingham in said District.
Attendance at the office of inspection in Portsmouth every day in the month of September next, (Sundays excepted) from 9 to 12 o'clock, A. M. and from 3 to 6 o'clock, P. M. for the purposes abovementioned.
By an Act of Congress, all snuff and refined sugar, is charged with a duty after the thirtieth day of September next—therefore, those persons within this District who are concerned in either the manufactures of those articles, are desired to comport with the law, to avoid the forfeitures.
JOSHUA WENTWORTH, Supervisor.
WANTED IMMEDIATELY
A few hhds. CYDER, apply to the Printer hereof, July 15, 1794.
ANY Persons disposed
to undertake to erect a Brick Building in the Fort at New-Castle, of 33 feet by 30, and to be completed in a strong, plain manner, as soon as may be; are desired to apply to the subscriber, who will give a more particular description of the Building and treat with them on the terms.
There is also a quantity of Stone Work to be performed at the same place, which will be let on contract to the person who may propose the best terms.
JOSEPH WHIPPLE. Portsmouth, July 5, 1794.
State of New-Hampshire.
To Josiah Moulton, Esq. Clerk of the proprietors of Tamworth.
WE the subscribers owners of more than one eighth part of the common rights in the township of Tamworth, request you to call a meeting of the proprietors of said township, to be held at the house of Jacob Gale, innholder in Gilmantown, on Thursday the twenty-first day of August next, at ten o'clock, A. M. for the following purposes.
 1st. To choose a moderator.  2d. To choose a proprietors clerk.  3d. To choose a treasurer.  4th. To receive the report or advice of the agents or committee what is best to be done, relative to the settling of the line and boundaries of said town, or to pass any votes respecting the claims or boundaries of said town, as they shall think proper.  5th. To choose a committee or agents to run the lines and fix the bounds of said town, to lay out all the common land in such lots as they may think proper, to sell or dispose of the same, or any part thereof, as they shall think most for the benefit of the proprietors; to prosecute any person or persons who has or hereafter may trespass on the same, and to establish any settler in the lot or lots he has settled on, and to settle and fix the lines of any lots already laid out, or to run the same anew and generally to do and perform any business relative thereto, that may be thought most conducive to the interest of said proprietors.  6th. To raise such sum of money as the proprietors may see fit to defray the charges that have arisen or may arise, and choose the officers for collecting the same. 
THOMAS LEAVITT, BRADBURY CILLEY, JOHN HALE, NATH'L A. HAVEN, JOHN S. SHERBURNE.
Portsmouth, July 14, 1794.
PURSUANT to the aforesaid application, I do hereby notify the proprietors of Tamworth aforesaid, to meet at the place and time, and for the purposes herein requested.
JOSIAH MOULTON, Prop'rs Clerk. Hampton, July 18, 1794.
Piscataqua-Bridge.
THE Directors appointed by the Piscataqua-Bridge Proprietors, have this day Voted a fifth assessment of fifteen Dollars on each and every share, and have directed the Treasurer to collect the same within fourteen days from the date.
The Proprietors are therefore requested to pay the same to him at his house in Portsmouth, on or before the fourth day of August next.
The urgent necessity for the money in the present stage of the business it is hoped will be an apology for the short notice, and stimulate to punctuality.
THOMAS MARTIN, Treasurer. Portsmouth, July 19, 1794.
JUST RECEIVED, AND FOR SALE, BY Williams & Coffin,
A small invoice of Linens, very low.
ALSO 3 Tons Philadelphia Iron,
A FEW casks Sherry and Malaga Wine; Brandy; Gin by the Cask; a few casks Raisins; Powder by the cask; 7 by 9 Glass by the box; Sugar by the barrel; Coffee by the hundred; Teas of all kinds; Pewter; good Flax; Brimstone; Nails; Indigo; Whalebone, &c. &c.
English and West-India
GOODS, and country produce as usual. Portsmouth, July 15, 1794.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of Northwood, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1793, that unless they pay said tax to me the subscriber on or before the 6th day of August 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 Jonathan Clarke, Esq. in said Northwood, at 10 o'clock, A. M. on said day.
   Range. Lot. Q'ty. s. d.     William Briggs, 0 10 40 0 5   Col Berough, 8 7 50 0 9    JONATHAN KNOWLTON, Collector. Northwood, July 19, 1794.
Imported in the last vessels from Bristol & Liverpool,
AND TO BE SOLD BY
H. G. B. PENHALLOW,
At their STORE in Market-Street,
Next door to the sign of the Golden Ball,
A very general assortment of
Hard Ware
GOODS,
Consisting of too great a variety of articles to enumerate in an advertisement.
Among which are the following articles, —VIZ.—
   Shott. Scicles.     Best London & Bristol Pewter. Saddlery-Ware.   Best & common Tin Plates. Handsome Brass Candlesticks.   Bar and Sheet Lead. Knives and Forks.   Thick and thin Sheet Iron. Saws, Files.   Crucibles. Communion Cups, Flags and Tankards.   Clock Faces. Anvils and Vices.   Pumice-Stone, Rot-ten-Stone, Emery. Shovels and Tongs.   Grain Tin. Locks, Hinges, Brads Tacks.   Copper & Sheet-Iron. Ship-Scrapers.   Tea Kettles. Caulking Irons.   Bed Pans. Cord and Mackerel.   Fashionable & low-priced Shoe Buckles, on cards. Lines, and Hooks: Screw-Plates of all Sizes.  
ALSO
A complete assortment of
Room Papers, from 1/8 to 5/pr. roll.
India China Cups and Saucers, Window Glass, French, Dutch and English Looking-Glasses, Nails of all sizes, Scythes, English German and Cast Steel.
A general assortment of
Groceries, Paints & Dye Stuffs.
Cash and the highest
price will be given for old Pewter, Brass and Copper.
They feel themselves much obliged to their customers for past favors, and hope that by paying a steady attention to their commands, to merit a continuance of them.
Portsmouth, July 21, 1794.
S U C C E S S.
State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given, that so much of each original right of land in the township of Success, situate in the county of Grafton, in the State of New-Hampshire, viz. the rights of Benjamin Mackey, Jonathan Shillaber, John Sherburne, jun. Ephraim Ham, Thomas Bickford, Joseph Walton, Joseph Walker, Samuel Ham, John Langdon, 3d. Stephen Weeks, Humphrey Fernald, Benjamin Mackey, jun. Joseph Hammond, Mathew S. Parker, Henry Rust, Otis Barker and John Lowell, Esq. will be sold to the highest bidder, on the 19th day of August next, ensuing, at 11 o'clock in the morning, at the dwelling-house of Col. William Brewster, innholder, in Portsmouth, in the county of Rockingham and State aforesaid, as will pay thirty six shillings lawful money on each of said rights, with incidental charges, if payment be not previously made, which sum was voted by said proprietors, at their meeting on the 4th day of December, 1792, for the uses and purposes mentioned in said vote, and duly assessed and committed to me to collect, and duly notified for payment, and still unpaid.
SAM'L SHERBURNE, Collector. Portsmouth, July 22.