The New Hampshire gazette (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1796-02-13 00:00:00

THE New Hampshire Gazette.
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PORTSMOUTH: (NEW-HAMPSHIRE)—PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING BY JOHN MELCHER, PRINTER TO THE STATE, AT HIS OFFICE CORNER OF MARKET STREET, WHERE SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR THIS PAPER, ADVERTISEMENTS, AND ARTICLES OF INTELLIGENCE ARE THANKFULLY RECEIVED.
Vol. XL.—Numb. 2046.]
SATURDAY, February 13, 1796.
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Sketch of the argument of Mr. Dexter, before the General Assembly at their last session, respecting the capture of the Lu-anna, by the armed brig M'Clary.
(Concluded from our last.)
I WILL no longer detain the assembly with reasoning to shew the justice of the decision of the Supreme Court of the nation. Much of the reasoning used at the trial, and which doubtless had weight and influence is necessarily omitted. If the foregoing reasoning be satisfactory, it necessarily follows that the law of the State of New-Hampshire was wrong, and if by following this the petitioners have been great sufferers, it seems to follow that the equity and justice of the State are pledged to indemnify them.
It cannot be said fairly that they ought to have judged at their peril between this State & the U. States; for it was out of the power both of the owners and of George Wentworth the agent for the mariners to abandon this right in the prize. Wentworth in his capacity as agent had no discretionary power; the owners were not here to relinquish their claim, and if present they never would have consented. If Wentworth had refused either to receive the proceeds of the prize or to pay it over, he would have been prosecuted by the mariners in the State Courts of New-Hampshire, and they would certainly have given judgment against him. Besides the spirit of the times would not permit it. Had he refused to do what was then universally thought his duty, tho' the humanity of our countrymen might have saved him from capital punishment, yet he certainly would have been thought a proper subject for tar and feathers. If George Wentworth was obliged to go forward, the others were obliged to go with him; for it was one joint cause, and the appeal removed the whole or no part of it. It would be illeberal to say now when the event is known, that the petitioners ought to have abandoned the prize, when it is well known that at the time of the transaction such conduct would have been thought by all, not only foolish, but base.
For a moment I will suppose that I am mistaken in my apprehension that the cause was rightly decided, what is the consequence? Surely this; citizens of New-Hampshire have suffered by an improper exercise of power by another government; they have often applied to their own government, to whom they owe allegiance, and from whom therefore they are entitled to protection, for redress; the law of society, as well as of justice, requires that the government to whom they thus apply, should either put it in their power to obtain satisfaction from the government, which did the wrong, or indemnify them at their own expense. This is consonant with the general practice of nations. It would be a mortifying consideration that we should be behind the British legislature in justice. They made provision by law for paying an immense sum to the American refugees, for confiscated property. They considered the confiscations during the war as unlawful acts; but when they made the treaty of peace and agreed to submit to them, it was not a question whether they should indemnify the sufferers. The practice of towns in indemnifying officers and others in asserting their claims in actions at law is strong proof of the general opinion of the equity of the principle, for which we contend. I may add the common practice of giving a bond to indemnify a sheriff for doing what it is strictly his duty to do is founded on the same opinion of equity. It is a well known fact that the M'Clary was fitted out as a privateer rather from motives of patriotism, that New-Hampshire might not appear deficient in her proportionate exertions for annoying the enemy, than from expectation of profit. It is more universally known that privateering at that time was the only mode of supplying our country with military stores, and probably saved us from subjugation. Few hearts are hard enough to con-
sider the situation of George Wentworth, and then coldly turn away from him as not deserving relief. He was merely an agent for men who were engaged in patriotic service, on which probably depended the salvation of the country; he has only obeyed the law and the Courts of New-Hampshire, which he could not avoid doing, and now in his old age, he is reduced to the alternative of languishing in prison for life, or taking a last farewell of his country, his friends and family, to fly into some unknown country, or throw himself a poor miserable outcast, on the pity or scorn of strangers. The last he cannot do; his feelings, his age, his poverty forbid it. Must he then be imprisoned for life? What is his crime? That he faithfully did his duty as a citizen and a patriot. Is the State of New-Hampshire, which caused his distress, too poor to relieve him? Plenty and happiness smile every where around us. The great objects of the war are accomplished; New-Hampshire is a rich, free and independent State. Will she suffer George Wentworth one of the instruments of this happiness to live and die in a dungeon for obeying her command? Shall he languish unseen, and groan unheard? The heart of every humane man has answered these questions already. Reasoning is lost on this subject; the feelings of nature command that he should be relieved. Perhaps the claim of the owners will not be found greatly different from George Wentworth's in principle. There is undoubtedly this difference in fact; they have received a share of the proceeds of the sale of the prize to their own use. For this they ought to account; it is only for the balance that an equitable claim against the State can arise. Such have been the expenses and vexations attending this controversy, and such is the amount of the sum recovered against them, that this balance is to them very important.
It is time to relieve the patience of the honorable Assembly. I will state the principle and fact on which our application is founded and leave the petitioners with them. They appear to me so strong, that no reasoning, of which I am capable, can enforce them. Equity requires that he who commands an act, doubtful in its nature, should abide the consequences; especially where his own rights are deeply interested, where he has power to compel obedience, and ability to indemnify his obedient servant. New-Hampshire in such a situation commanded both by her legislative and judicial voice; the petitioners obeyed. To suffer the consequences is utter ruin to some of them, and distress to others; to the prosperous State of New-Hampshire it is a trivial burthen.
French School For Young MISSES. THE subscriber most sensibly affected by the kind reception and encouragement which he has received from the inhabitants of Portsmouth, begs leave to offer them his most respectful acknowledgements, and entreats a continuance of their favours, which he will endeavor to merit by unremitting attention.
Wishing to render himself more and more useful in his profession he proposes, in addition to the schools he is already engaged in, to open one for young Misses, which he will attend three times a week at 3 dollars a quarter.
The advantages which must result from the study of this universal language are so obvious, that any observations on that point would be superfluous, feeling the impropriety of being the echo of his own abilities as a master, he rests the proof of them on the progress of his scholars. Those who are not perfectly acquainted with their own language, will derive great advantage in that particular from the study of the French. He will begin as soon as any encouragement presents.
NEUVILLE.
TO BE SOLD BY John P. Williams, On good terms,
A QUANTITY of best Hamburg Glass, a few barrels of new Flour, fresh Raisins, Sugar, Coffee, Chocolate, Indigo, Pepper, Spice, Cotton, Redwood, Logwood, Alum & Copperas. Rock, St. Ubes and fine Salt, by the quantity; a few casks rod. Nails, and other goods as usual. Portsmouth, Jan. 26, 1796.
Fairbanks & Sparhawk HAVE CONSTANTLY FOR SALE, A general assortment of West-India Goods AND GROCERIES, Wholesale & Retail, which they are selling on the lowest terms for cash, viz.
WEST-INDIA and N. E. Rum; French Coniac Brandy; Hollands Gin; Sherry, Lisbon, Malaga and White Port Wines; Hyson, Souchong and Bohea Teas; Coffee; Chocolate and Molasses; Loaf and Brown Sugars; Raisins; Redwood; Logwood and Fustick; Brimstone; Copperas; Alum; Pepper; Pimento; Crown Soap; Sweet Oil in flasks; Candles; Bar Lead; old Sable Russia Iron; German Steel; French and Spanish Indigo; old Pollock Fish; 4d, 6d, 8d, 10d, and 20d inspected Nails.
A few pounds fresh table Potatoes. Portsmouth, Jan. 29.
Pocket Book Loft.
LOST on Saturday last, somewhere near the State House, Portsmouth, an old leather pocket book, with sundry papers in the same, of no value to any person but the owner, with about eight or nine shillings in money, it belongs to a poor single woman; whoever has found the same and will please to leave it with the Printer hereof shall be handsomely rewarded. Portsmouth, Jan. 26, 1796.
FOR SALE BY William Boyd, At his Store on Church-Hill, for cash or approved credit,
TWENTY-SIX Hhds. Sugar entitled to drawback on exportation. 20 Hhds. Molasses. 11 do. 2d and 4th proof Rum. 6 Barrels Coffee. 50 Casks Holland Gin. 80 Bbls. Tar, Pitch and Turpentine. 80 Bbls. Beef, Windship's Brand. 20 do. Mefs Pork. 50 Furkins Hogs Lard. 50 do. Ship Bread. 20 do. Mackarel. 80 Half barrels Salmon. 20 M. red oak hhd. Staves. 400 Red oak hhd. Shooks and Heading. 10 M. White oak hhd. Staves and Heading.
ALSO 1 New Cable 7 inches, 90 fathom. 2 Cables, 6 inches & worn. A few hogheads fine SALT. Dried Spanish HIDES. 4 Tons LIGNUM-VITAE.
Blanks for sale at J. MELCHER'S Office.
J. & J. Goddard Have for Sale, At their Store in Market-Street, RUM by the hoghead or barrel.
Brandy of an excellent quality by the pipe or less quantity. Wines, Sherry, Colemenar, Lisbon, Red-Port, White-Port and Malaga. Teas, Hyson, Souchong and Bohea. Loaf and Brown Sugar. Cotton, Coffee, Pepper, Spices. Window-Glass, 10 by 8 & 9 by 7. Looking-Glasses, gilt and Mahogany frames. Nails of all sorts. Bar-Iron. Nail Rods. German Steel. Painters' Oil and colors. Nova-Scotia Grindstones. Brimstone. Stoves, Rittenhouse and 10 Plate various sizes. Cambooses, Patent & common.
ALSO A large and very general assortment of Hard-Ware Goods, by wholesale and retail, on the most reasonable terms for cash or approved credit.
State of New-Hampshire. Hillsborough, ff. To Capt. Jonas Minot, of Concord in the county of Middlesex, and Common-wealth of Massachusetts, clerk of the proprietors of the township of Morristown, situate in the county of Grafton in said State.
THE subscribers being owners of more than one sixteenth part of said township of Morristown, request you to call a meeting of said proprietors to be held at the dwelling-house of Capt. Benjamin French, innholder in Dunstable, in the county of Hillsborough, on the first Tuesday in April next, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, for the following purposes, then and there to vote and act upon.
1st. To choose a moderator to govern said meeting. 2d. If it shall be thought expedient to choose a proprietors clerk, in the room and stead of the now clerk, and also all other necessary officers. To make grants of monies for the purposes of paying and discharging accounts and demands against said proprietors, and also for reimbursing any sums of money which may have been paid for State and County taxes, and to assess and collect the same. 3d. To choose an agent or agents, to commence, prosecute and defend any actions and processes in the law, and also to adjust and compromise any disputes and controversies with other proprietors.
4th. To make and establish some mode for calling meetings for the future, in lieu of the one now existing, if judged expedient.
5th. To do and transact all such matters and things as may be necessary to effectuate the foregoing purposes, and all other business which shall then be judged necessary and convenient.
6th. To examine into the expenditures of monies heretofore raised, and all thereon.
JOHN TAYLOR, for himself, and JOHN TAYLOR, jr. Dunstable, Dec. 4, 1795.
State of New Hampshire. Hillsborough county. Dunstable, Dec. 4, 1795.
IN consequence of the foregoing applications so far as I have a right, I hereby notify and warn the proprietors of Morristown to meet at the time and place and for the purposes before mentioned. JONAS MINOT, Proprietors Clerk.
Luther Ellis, Has Imported
In the Neutralia, Captain Jenkins, and the Ann Capt. Moores (recently arrived in Boston) from London and Liverpool,
A large assortment of GOODS, which will be sold by Wholesale & Retail (as the season is far advanced) at a very reasonable rate.
CONSISTING of the following articles, viz. \frac{3}{4} , \frac{1}{2} , \frac{1}{4} , \frac{1}{8} red, green and crimson Baizes; white and yellow Flannels. Broad Cloths of the most fashionable colors, all prices; best and common Cassimeres; Forest Cloths; Serges; Duffels; Lambkins; Coatings; Ratinets; Half Thicks; twill'd and plain Velvets; Thickets; Corduroys; Denims; Jeans and Fustians; fancy Waistcoating.
Camblets for Mens' Cloaks; Wildbores; Cambleteens; Florentines; Satinets; Taborcens; Moereens; Joans; Calimancoes; Shalloons; Durants and Tammies.
A large assortment of Hosiery, viz. Mens' plated Silk and Cotton; fancy, twill'd, white, ribb'd and plain Cotton; plated Silk and Worsted, ribb'd and plain Worsted; Boys' Worsted; Ladies' white Cotton, some very fine.—Mens' and Boys' Worsted Gloves; Mens' Worsted and Cotton Caps.
A great variety of Chintzes and Calicoes, all prices, figures and qualities; Patch color'd, and purple Shawls, all sizes and prices; Cotton and Linen Handkerchiefs; black, Barcelona, Bandanno, Romal and Sufsey Handkerchiefs; \frac{3}{4} , \frac{1}{2} , \frac{1}{4} Irish Sheetings; \frac{3}{4} , \frac{1}{2} , \frac{1}{4} Linens; Dowelies; Cotton and Linen Checks; Mouselins and Dimoties; Book, Jacobet, Cobweb, frisp'd, check'd, sprig'd & Tambor'd Muslins; Muslin Handkerchiefs; Lawns & Lawn Handkerchiefs.
Lustrings; black Modes and Satins; Silk Florentine, and Satins for Mens' wear; color'd Sarsnets and Tiffanies.
A beautiful assortment of fancy and plain Ribbons and Tapes; black and other color'd Plumes and Feathers; long & short Kid Gloves.
Ladies', Gentlemens' and Misses' Beaver Hats.
Oil'd Silk Hat-Cases.
Portsmouth, Dec. 31, 1795.
A few cases Surveyors Instruments FOR SALE BY Matthew S. Marsh.
BOSTON, Jan. 30.
The appropriations for discharging the various expenses of the United States for 1796, are estimated at 11,257,421 dollars.
MARRIED —In this town Mr. John Deming, Aet. 75, to (his 5th wife!) Miss Sally Cushing, Aet. 35—Mr. Annanias Howard, of Philadelphia, to Miss Mary Foster, of this town.
DIED —At Gloucester, Mr. John Horton, Aet. 99 years, 9 months, 20 days.—At Wintonbury, (C.) Mr. Nathaniel Eggleton, Aet. 94.—At Shrewsbury, Mrs. Jones, relict of Col. Jones, late of Hopkinton, Aet. 102.—Last evening, Mrs. Catherine Cooper, wife of William Cooper, Esq. Aet. 70.—At Danvers, the 25th inst. Mrs. Sarah Pool, Aet. 25, wife of Mr. Ward Pool, and daughter of the late Rev. Joseph Perry, of East Windlor, Connecticut State, of a consumption, which tickens the sustainer with Christian fortitude, and composure of mind, was willing to submit her soul and body into the hands of GOD who gave it.
It is remarkable in this family, her Mother and five Brothers and Sisters, died of the same disorder; She being the last, is universally lamented among her friends & acquaintance.

CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
MONDAY, JAN. 26.
M R . Smith (M.) laid the following resolution on the table:—
Resolved, That the Committee of Commerce, do consider whether any and what alterations are necessary in the Laws of the Union, with respect to commerce and navigation.
He observed, that it was the interest of the United States, to hold such a conduct with respect to foreign nations, as to command their good will. Europe is likely soon to be at peace, when they will no doubt, turn much of their attention to the subject of commerce, this therefore, was the proper time to place our own on such a footing as not to give umbrage or cause for discontent. He wished the legislature to turn their attention to their system of protecting duties. He considered them as measures of commercial warfare against foreign nations which might in peaceable times provoke retaliation.
France, he observed, in 1791, actually began retaliation. In consequence of some protecting duties that nation felt, that we were running away with her carrying trade, and to countervail this in '91, laid additional duties upon tobacco imported there in American bottoms. He stated the amount of this discriminating duty, and its prodigious effect. He suggested that France, when freed from the present war, might extend her policy in this direction to other articles, as rice, fish, &c. and thus diminish our carrying trade, and encroach their own.
He shewed, that on this ground, France had us more in their power, than we had them, since the chief of our imports from that country, are fine goods, of no great bulk, while our exports were on the contrary very bulky articles. He insisted much upon a change at the present time, in our system of protecting duties, for if France once enjoyed peace, and began to reap the advantages of retaliating in the same way, it might then be difficult, though we should recede to produce a change on their part. It was therefore our interest, to defer in time, from any measure which might provoke this war of retaliation.
He further stated, that in 1791, the merchants of Liverpool, felt the effects of our protecting duties and handed a remonstrance to the King in Council, stating that the Americans, by means of their protecting duties, were at that time engrossing the whole of the carrying trade between the two countries. The Minister, wisely referred a consideration of the business, to certain eminent merchants of London and Bristol, who acknowledged the fact, but recommended to the Minister, not to take up the matter with warmth as America was an excellent market for the British manufactures. The Minister, in consequence of this wholesome advice, had avoided entering into a war of retaliation.—The English find their remedy in the late treaty; which secures to them the right of countervailing the effect of those discriminating duties, while the same instrument prevents our exacting stronger protecting duties, to operate against the British. If the existing protecting duties are not withdrawn, the countervailing regulations of the British, will be a constant subject of misunderstanding and negotiation, they had therefore better be put out of the way.
He stated some calculations according to which, the British, by laying a small discriminating duty on our staple commodities, imported into that country, in favour of their own shipping, could take from us, the whole of the carrying trade, to our great detriment.
These were his fears as a merchant and a representative, from a mercantile community; he hoped, therefore, to see those duties done away, and for this purpose chiefly, he wished the business generally to come under the view of the Committees of Commerce and Manufactures.
The resolution was ordered to lie on the table.
Foreign Miscellany.
SPIRIT OF THE TIMES.
LONDON.
Meeting at Copenhagen House.
Remonstrance.
TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
The humble and earnest remonstrance of two hundred thousand, and upwards, faithful, though greatly aggrieved subjects, associated and assembled with the London Corresponding Society, in a constitutional manner, in behalf of themselves and others.
SIR! WHEN the treacherous duplicity and intolerable tyranny of the House of Stuart had routed the long enduring patience of the British people, the expulsion of one reared into their hands the primitive right of choosing another, as their chief of many magistrates.
At that period the privilege which we are now compelled by a forsook necessity to exercise, of addressing and remonstrating with the chief magistrate—stating our grievances—and demanding redress, was (so far fortunately) recognized and solemnly established.
When, in effect of the failure of heirs to the national choice, and to the succeeding sovereign, Majesty queen Anne, the exercise of the same fundamental right again reverted to the people, and became in their opinion necessary to secure the
liberties and happiness of the nation, the head of that house from which you are descended was called by the public will to the kingly office.
The preservation of those rights established at the revolution were then reconfirmed, and became part of the obligations which George the First contracted to fulfil with the people of these realms; and your predecessor and your majesty, upon succeeding to the throne, became alike bound by the sovereign law of the land to maintain them; and it is in virtue of that solemn compact, and therefore only, that the good people of these nations are, or can be, found in allegiance or respect for their magistrate, or your princely house.
We shall not particularize the smallness of the majority which established the Hanoverian succession; but we should be wanting of that respect which we owe to the virtues of our country, were we not to remind you Sire, how faithfully and steadily the nation has, to this hour, supported the decision of their Representatives on that occasion; notwithstanding the well grounded apprehensions of invasion and civil war;—in despit of the intrigues of foreign Courts, and the jealousies of potent Princes;—against the avowed supporters of hereditary descent;—and even against the opinions and efforts of others, true friends to civil liberty, within the bosom of the land, who drew from the sober lessons of historical experience, reasons the most cogent against foreign connections.
Your Majesty, in your well known compassion for the unfortunate descendants of the expatriated King, has satisfied your faithful subjects how intimately acquainted you are with the secret political history of those times; and it will not therefore be necessary for us to insist at large on the favours conferred by this country in transplanting your princely house from the poverty and obscurity of Hanover, to the dignity and opulence of the then (but not now) most respectable sovereignty of Europe.
Your Majesty must know all this; neither can you be ignorant, that the people of this country—often too sanguine—too credulous—entertained the well grounded hope, that an eternal gratitude would bind your House to support the freedom and happiness of that nation which had, under such great difficulties and dangers, conferred such signal favours.
How far that honest and just hope has been realized, we leave to your Majesty's most gracious and serious consideration.
Our present object is to renew a complaint which we delivered, by way of address to your Majesty, into the hands of his grace the Duke of Portland, your Secretary of State, on the 15th of July last, wherein we briefly besought your notice and relief, in behalf of ourselves and the great body of your Majesty's industrious, but unhappy subjects, enduring all the calamities of famine and a stagnant trade; witnessing the increase of bankruptcy; unequalled in extent or effect, but by the profligate waste of public money; feeling for the destruction of our industrious youth, and the disgrace of our arms abroad; and for the orphans, aged, and widows, lingering out a desperate and deplorable existence at home.
We unfeignedly expressed to your Majesty therein, our sentiment of your Ministers, because, as we possess, the best means of obtaining the sincere opinions of the whole country, so we know that the great body of the people think with us, that under the abused function of your prerogative, they have wontonly plunged this nation into all its present calamities, and continue to uphold themselves in power, by a baseful system of corruption, for the purposes of their selfish avarice and ambition: We declared our serious apprehensions for the tranquility of the nation, and the safety of your throne, were not these Ministers speedily dismissed; and that a reform in the representation alone could restore this country to that native vigour and happiness of which it is capable, but now destitute.
But we have represented and prayed in vain; and we have to lament, that in addition to the national grievances, we have to complain, that our address has not been attended to by your Majesty's servants, as we know it should have been, in a manner suitable to the former dignity of the national character and your own high station, nor with a decency becoming the situation of public servants towards their fellow subjects, constitutionally exercising the right of petition on an occasion of particular and serious moment.
Under all the obligations of law and justice, are we then, Sire, to suffer and not to complain? What have we not to fear, if there stands an insurmountable barrier between the oppressed and the majesty? Alas! we hoped to find in the third sovereign of the House of Brunswick line, in these critical times, an example of royal virtue; a proof of princely gratitude; a powerful, though solitary argument for the superiority of our form of Government.
Is it in vain, that we wished your majesty, no less interested than ourselves in the issue of our prayer, to consider your own numerous family, and the vast debts and taxes with which this nation is encumbered—to call to mind the duty which you owe to all and every of the Royal offspring and their progeny as well as to the people, from whose industry alone the funds necessary for their support can be drawn; and to examine, by the test of history, whether ends so essential and indispensable are most likely to be accomplished by pursuing the reprobate measures of odious Ministers, or by giving the people that liberty, peace, and reform, which they seek, and which would assure their love, attachment and generosity.
Listen, then, Sire! to the voice of a wearied & afflicted people, whose grievances are so various that they distract, so enormous that they terrify. Think of the abyss between supplication and despair! The means of national salvation are in
your own hands—it is our right to advise as well as supplicate; and we declare it to be our opinion, that a reform in the representation of the people, the removal of your present Ministers, and speedy Peace, are the only means by which the country can be saved, or the attachment of the people secured."
Signed by Order of the Meeting. J. BINNS, Chairman. J. ASHLEY, Secretary. Copenhagen House October, 26, 1795.
This being received with an equally unanimous approbation, the resolutions were then read, and put one by one, without any objection being made to any of them.
Resolved, 1st. That the present awful and alarming state of the British empire, demands the serious attention of our fellow countrymen.
2d. That its unexampled distresses call for immediate and effectual redress.
3d. That we are fully persuaded the present exorbitant price of the necessaries of life, notwithstanding the late abundant harvest, is occasioned partly by the present ruinous war; but chiefly by that pernicious system of monopoly, which derives protection from the mutilated and corrupt state of the parliamentary representation.
4th. That the enormous load of taxes, under which this almost ruined country groans, together with its unparalleled national debt, which has been and will be greatly increased by the present war, threatens the British nation with total ruin.
5th. That the inflexible obstinacy of ministers, in continuing the present cruel, unjust and disgraceful war—a war which has stained the earth and seas with so much human blood—calls aloud for the execration of every friend of humanity.
6th. That the present government of France, is as capable of maintaining the accustomed relations of peace and amity, with the King of Great-Britain, as with the elector of Hanover.
7th. That we remain fully convinced that the permanent peace, welfare, and happiness of this country, can be established only by restoring to our fellow countrymen, their natural and undoubted rights, "Universal suffrage and annual parliaments."
8th. That we are determined, at the next general election, to support such candidates only, as will pledge themselves to promote a radical reform in the Commons house of Parliament.
9th. That the evasive conduct of his Majesty's Ministers respecting our late address, convinces us that our fellow countrymen have little to hope from the executive part of government.
10th. That the only hope of the people is in themselves.
11th. That we believe the period is not far distant, when Britons must no longer depend upon any party of men for the recovery of their liberties.
12th. That the publicity of our conduct evinces the purity of our intentions, and is a testimony of our love of peace, and of the sacrifices we would make to spare the blood of our fellow-countrymen.
13th. That the events of every day are clearly proving, that we have gained the good opinion of our fellow-countrymen, notwithstanding the opposition of our persecutors and calumniators.
14th. That in order the more effectually to obtain the co-operation and assistance of the whole country, deputies shall be sent from the society to the principal towns in the kingdom for the purpose of explaining to our fellow countrymen the necessity of associating, as the only means of procuring a parliamentary reform.
15th. That strong in the purity of our intention and the goodness of our cause; regardless of the calumny and threats of our enemies; we again solemnly pledge ourselves to the British nation, never to desert the sacred cause in which we are engaged, until we have obtained the grand object of our pursuit.
Extract—From a Philadelphia Paper.
In five years the annual exports of the United States have risen from seventeen to FIFTY millions of dollars!!! The exports of Great Britain in 1791, did not exceed the latter amount.
EDENTON, Jan. 14.
Copy of a letter from Demsey Burges, Esq. Representative in Congress from this district.
(CIRCULAR.)
Philadelphia 28th December, 1796.
SIRs, A circumstance of (possibly) important consequence has just taken place; five petitions, respectable as well from the number as the character of the subscribers, have been introduced and submitted to a committee of the whole house, praying the interposition of Congress to prevent the operation of the late treaty with Britain, and stating in pretty strong terms its evil tendency. This circumstance is greatly alarming and animating to the fears and hopes of all parties—Its magnitude makes me earnestly desire the sense of my constituents. Will you be so obliging as to collect as much as possible, and send to me by the post. By the middle of February, may, I think, be the time. Very little else, other than the incidental and necessary business, of Congress, has yet been done. I lately forwarded to your county, under address to the Sheriff, all the information I then thought worth attention. I hope it has reached its address. I am gentlemen, with great esteem and respect, your most humble servant,
DEMSLEY BURGES.
To the Members of Assembly and Justices of the Peace of Chowan county, and other citizens.
BOSTON, Feb. 6.
From LISBON.
Extract of a letter from Captain Richard O'Brien, who has been in captivity in Algiers, above ten years, to a friend in Baltimore, dated Lisbon, 9th November, 1795.
"I have the pleasure of informing you, and all friends, that on the 5th of September, Joseph Donaldson, Esq. agent of the United States, concluded a peace with the dey and regency of Algiers, to the full joy and sorrow of our political enemies."
"On the 11th of September I failed from Algiers, arrived at Malaga on the 19th, and came by land to Lisbon, charged with dispatches of Mr. Donaldson, to our esteemed countryman Col. Humphreys, who, I am sorry to inform you, was absent, having gone to Paris to solicit the influence of the Convention towards obtaining a peace with the Algerines, not expecting Mr. Donaldson would succeed; but as Col. Humphreys has heard of the peace taking place, he will shortly be at Lisbon."
"The most of the Christian Nations at peace with Algiers, gave the United States great opposition, and if Mr. Donaldson had not obtained the peace in the manner he did, be assured that the United States would not for many years have had opportunity to have effected it; and the longer the affair was prolonged, the more difficult and exorbitant their demands. The dey and regency would not admit the captives to be redeemed under the enormous sum of four hundred thousand Mexican dollars."
"We are at peace with Morocco, and the dey and regency of Algiers, but we have to obtain a peace with Tunis, Tripoli and the Ottoman empire;—with the latter the French influence can be of service to the United States. The Tunisians have many corsairs; I believe 12 fail; they are often as far as Barcelona, Alicante, Cartagenas, Port Mahon, Yvica;—therefore the commerce of the United States should be properly guarded, for if any American be taken by the Tunisians, it will occasion their terms to be more exorbitant; and I think the United States will have to encounter more difficulties than are generally considered of."
"On Col. Humphreys arrival in this city, we are certain that nothing on his part will be wanting toward facilitating a peace with the other Barbary states, and freeing our colors in the Mediterranean.—When the United States are at peace with all the Barbarian states, and our colors free, we must have from three to five hundred sail of merchantmen in those seas. In case of any sudden disturbance with any one, what security has this extended and important commerce? therefore, there is no alternative; but policy and necessity must oblige the United States to have built, and have ready to act on any emergency, 15 or 20 sail of good ships of war, viz. 6 frigates, of 44 guns; 6 ships, of 24 guns; 4 brigs, of 18 guns; and 4 Schooners, of 16 guns each: This fleet is certainly requisite for the United States to keep up in times of peace, and will cause our flag to be respected; otherwise, as I observed above, there is no security for our extended commerce. It would be necessary that of the above fleet two frigates, two brigs and two Schooners, be at times at Gibraltar, Cadiz, Port Mahon, Genoa, &c."
"The exploring the Mediterranean, and doing all in their power to contribute to the honor and interests of the United States, will much prevent the insinuations, bribes and intrigues of our commercial enemies from having the desired object, and our extended commerce will make ample amends for the expense of keeping this fleet; and depend on it, without them we can have no real security."
"Mr. Donaldson had it not in his power to redeem the captives immediately, on obtaining the peace; but as soon as Colonel Humphreys arrives at Lisbon, he will facilitate their ransom, and they will return to their friends, families and connections."
"Considering the Mediterranean to be equal to one third of Europe, our opening this advantageous and extensive commerce, will very soon reimburse the United States for the money expended on this business. The vessels of the United States are free in the Mediterranean, at present, with the Algerines, and will not require passports until the expiration of one lunar year;—then the passports should be done and cut; trophies of the marine arms of the United States. You may depend, that had not Mr. Donaldson succeeded as he did, I had my fears that the Portuguese would have been admitted on favorable terms, in order to surprise the neglectful Americans. The United States should put no dependence on Portugal, who through policy and necessity, must be subservient to the views and intrigues of the British and Spanish courts."
"Colonel Humphreys has been and is the life and soul of this business, which opens the Mediterranean and extricates from slavery the citizens of the United States."
"We are told, by letter from Gibraltar, that a correspondence has taken place between Admiral Richery, commanding the French Squadron in Cadiz, and Admiral Mann, commanding an English one at Lisbon. They had reciprocally exchanged prisoners; and had invited each other to another trial of strength, at the end of which adds one of them, "there will unquestionably be more hats left than heads."
"Accounts from Detroit, mention, that the British are making every preparation for delivering up that post in June next; agreeably to treaty."
A Bill has been brought into the New-York Legislature for the gradual abolition of slavery. That Legislature being really patriotic, it may be expected the Bill will pass into a law. The number of slaves in
the state of New-York, is estimated at 19,000.
FEB. 8.
The following address of the Consul of the French Republic, resident in Philadelphia, to his fellow-citizens of France, is translated from Parent's Courier Francois, of Monday last, which, as it holds out a prospect of a return of a considerable body of citizens to their country and friends, cannot fail to be pleasing to our readers:
"Philadelphia, 30 Nivose, the 4th year of the French Republic, one and indivisible."
"A vast and profound conception, citizens, assures for ever the happiness of our common country. The obscure night of intrigue, the reign of faction, the storm of passions, are all destroyed; the genius of liberty has alighted with rapid wings on the affairs of France; It has fled the light of a glorious day."
"Already, your parents, your friends, hold out their arms to receive you; they call you to partake of the benefits which are conferred upon a new Constitution, already sanctioned in your hearts by its conformity to the principles dictated by nature."
"It creates the best political order."
"Guarantees our rights, it prescribes to us our duties, it encchains licentiousness and tyranny; it opens the way to the social virtues, and indicates their triumph by the reign of the laws which it secures."
"The Minister Plenipotentiary of the French Republic of the United States of America, has communicated to me that he has received officially, the Law of the first Vendemiaire last, which declares, in the name of the French People, that the Constitution is accepted, and that it is the fundamental law of the French Republic."
"You will appreciate, citizens, according to its just value, the happy event which terminates the French Revolution, and, without doubt, you will come with eagerness to the office of the Consular, to learn particulars of the Communication, from which I publish this news, as precious to my heart, as it is interesting to all ages and to all nations."
DELAUNEY."
APPOINTMENTS.
The President of the United States (with the concurrence of the Senate) has appointed WILLIAM CUSHING, Chief Justice, of the United States.
SAMUEL CHASE, of Maryland, Associate Judge, vice BLAIR, resigned; and JAMES M'HENRY, of Maryland, Secretary of War.
MARRIED, Mr. Charles Coffin, Et. 69, to Miss Elizabeth Webb, Et. 45.
From PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 23.
[Communicated by a Member of Congress, to his friend in this town.]
"Congress have accomplished very little business, excepting such as relates to memorials and petitions. Petitions and resolutions of various kinds, are before Committees, and on the table maturing and preparing for the more public consideration and deliberation of the House."
"Among other matters, the following questions will be involved, and I expect soon engage our serious attention, viz."
"Shall we proceed, and finish the frigates, which are now building, or defer, and sell those materials which were procured for this purpose, and appropriate the money arising from the sale, to other uses."
"Shall we guarantee a loan, for the purpose of completing the public buildings in the Federal City."
"Shall we pass a resolution, prohibiting all nations, from importing any articles into the United States, excepting those articles which are the manufactures, or produce of their own country."
"Is the Treaty lately negotiated between Great Britain and America, Constitutional? And shall we make laws and appropriations, in order to carry it into effect?"
"With respect to the Treaty, I expect there will not be a majority of the House against its being carried into effect; but I think it is likely that a major part of the House of Representatives, will be in favor of discussing the merits and demerits of it; and, with a view to the forming of their opinion, with respect to the propriety, or impropriety, of making such laws and regulations as may be requisite in order to its going into effect. This discussion and the result, I expect will be contended for as a constitutional right." [Centinel.]
A CARD.
Mrs. TREATY affires his Excellency of Massachusetts that his insinuation this day, before a great number of gentlemen, that she is "pregnant," besides being indelicate, is wholly unfounded; and she expects from his justice as a gentleman, as well as his candor as a man, that he will contradict the assertion as publicly as he has made it. In June last, she lost by death, the only child (being the 19th) which ever gave her the least inquietude. Since then she has enjoyed perfect health, and avers that she has not felt the least pain common to "pregnant" ladies. As she is now "one-and-indivisible," and has to provide for her other eleven children, she cannot for a moment suffer so injurious a report respecting her, to pass uncontradicted—more especially as she can convince his Excellency of his mistake, by ocular demonstration. [Centinel.]
Tuesday, 19th Jan.
ANECDOTE.
A HORSE Jockey was selling an old mare. This mare, says he, is ten years old, and a good mare she is, for says he inadvertently, I have proved her to be so subje twenty years.

LONDON, Nov. 10.
The Hurricane.
The memory of man does not recollect so violent a hurricane as that which was suffered on Friday morning. Its continuance was happily short. It began about half past one, and had totally subsided before four o'clock. The squall came from the north-west, and was not accompanied by rain or hail. Its ravages were dreadful beyond description; trees were torn up by the roots, stacks of chimneys blown down in every corner of the metropolis, houses totally uncovered, and numbers of buildings entirely demolished.
A house in Mead's row, Lambeth, was blown down, and a lady, who slept on the first floor (and who was to have been married that day) buried in the ruins; two of the servants were very much hurt. A child, in the same row, was also killed, by the falling of a stack of chimneys.
A house in another part of Lambeth was unroofed, by which an old woman lost her life. In St. George's Fields, a young woman was killed, and another dreadfully maimed, by the falling of a house. A house in New-Road, Fitzroy square, and another in Conduit-Street, were completely destroyed. A brew-house belonging to Mr. Hinkins, in the New Cut, leading to Westminster bridge, another in St. John's square, and the Orchestre in the Apollo Gardens, are entire ruins.
The house of Sir John Sinclair, at Whitehall, is very much injured; the upper part fell into the street. The dwelling of a poor man at Sommerstown, by trade a bow and arrow maker, was swept away, and all his little property destroyed.
The brick wall at the south end of the Opera-house, was blown down, and falling in the adjoining court, did considerable damage to the houses. At Limehouse bridge, a heap of deal boards were thrown down, and some carried by the force of the wind to the distance of a hundred yards.
Several dwellings in Cornhill, Moorfields, the Borough, Shadwell, Wapping, &c. &c. have also received very material injury.
Eighteen large trees in St. James's and Hyde Parks, were blown down, and great numbers torn up by the roots in other places.
At Twickenham, fourteen trees which stood before the house of Lord Dylart, were blown away to a considerable distance; and a watch box, at the same place, with a person in it, was carried a great way, but the man happily received no material injury.
In St. James's Park and at Knight's-bridge, similar accidents happened. One of the trees in Covent Garden Church yard was entirely blown down. In Greenwich Park several trees also fell a sacrifice. The effects of this hurricane at sea, we fear, have been of the most melancholy nature. In the river several tiers of ships started from their moorings and received much injury.
An immense torrent of rain preceded the storm.
In the late high winds, several of our colliers and other vessels were driven from their anchors in the Downs, on the coast of France, where two or three of them went on shore; two or three others were so fortunate as to reach Calais harbour, by which their crews escaped perishing.
In the Temple, many chambers are unroofed. A brick wall and handsome pailing, with which the Bedford fields had lately been intersected, and the upper part of one of the new houses building in the same field, were totally demolished. The pailing seems to have been blown about the field in shreds.
The King and Queen, who were at Buckingham house, arose from their beds, as did many hundreds of families; for the stream of wind was of that continuance, weight & pressure, that scarcely any fabric seemed to be capable of bearing its force.
In the country. Many of the largest and most beautiful trees in the walks of King's, St. John's and Queen's Colleges, Cambridge, were torn up by the roots. St. John's Bridge has also been considerably damaged.
At Brompton, Chatham and Rochester the effects of the storm were severely felt. The church of St. Margaret's, at the latter place, was much injured. The Vestry room chimney was blown down, and much of the tiling blown off.
At Norwich one of the largest trees in Chapel field, was actually snapt in twain, during the tremendous storm, and five others very much damaged. The demolishing of chimneys, and the unroofing of houses were very general throughout that city.
The mail coach, previous to its arrival at Ipswich, was several times actually blown out of the road, and the guard obliged to dismount to lead the horses. A windmill on Bishop's hill, belonging to Mr. Dowling, was totally demolished, and many pieces of timber carried to a considerable distance. Much damage done to other mills, houses, &c. in the county of Suffolk.
In Reading many houses were unroofed, and in the neighborhood many trees were torn up by the roots.
At St. Alban's and its vicinity great damage has been done. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas, also Mr. and Mrs. Ellis, at the bell inn, near the market place, were in a dreadful situation for some time; the chimneys giving way, the roof of the house and ceilings fell upon the beds wherein they slept; these unfortunate persons were extricated from their dreadful situation with their lives, though they are much bruised. Mr. and Mrs. Ellis were buried in the ruins for several hours, before they could be got out. The roads and bye lanes are strewn with timber trees which have been blown up by the roots. Great damage has been done to the build-
ings and walls of the Dowager Lady Spencer, by the fall of the trees that have been blown up: a great number of trees were also torn up by the roots, and in about Lord Grimston's Park. Providentially, however, no lives have been lost, as we have yet been able to learn.
Much damage has been done to the shipping—At Spithead, two transports bound to the West-Indies, were drove on shore, and both sunk at Monckton fort. It is thought their cargoes will be saved: the ships may possibly be got off when lightened.
Diversion. It is somewhat difficult to find out in what sense our Ministers understand the word diversion . They paid the King of Sardinia a subsidy of 200,000. a year for defending his own territories, and making a diversion . He immediately diverted the French into Piedmont. They paid the King of Prussia 1,200,000. for making a diversion . He diverted the French all the way from their own frontier to the banks of the Rhine. They lent the Emperor four millions and a half to make a diversion . He has diverted the French across the Rhine. In short, every body seems to be exceedingly diverted at this game, except John Bull, whose money has been diverted out of his pocket, and the bread almost out of his mouth, without affording him the least diversion , except that of being laughed at by his pretended friends.
A dreadful Plot, once more!!
Some justice officers, went to seize upon the goods of a tavern keeper, at Chelsea, but he claiming his property, they were obliged to retire; however, the house was not yet rid of them, when lo! one of the gang spied, in the cellar, a guillotine! The machine is complete! The ax weighs 24 pounds!
The sheriff denounced immediately the fact, and immediately was that dreadful instrument of death sent for, and deposited in the secretary of state's office; and a woman, who was the only living soul found on the place, underwent an interrogation, that lasted two hours; but she could give no information respecting the guillotine.
Yesterday a counsel was held at Whitehall; the woman was again interrogated, but in vain, and the guillotine was exposed before the Ministers of his Majesty. It was a dismal show; the Duke of Portland looked wild, and Lord Mansfield cried out—O Louis the Sixteenth!
Lord Spencer trembled, Mr. Dundas and Lord Hawkesbury lifted up their eyes to heaven.
That detail is undoubtedly astonishing and dreadful; but what will be the astonishment of our readers, when they will learn that that guillotine had been constructed by Mr. Reeves' order.
True it is, that in the winter of 1793, Mr. Reeves', in order to animate the good natured and soft hearted Englishmen against France, ordered that guillotine to be made at the expense of the government. It was exposed at Down's, the printer, near Temple Bar, where, for the sake of diverting and instructing the foreigners, the King of France was most dexterously beheaded, for the moderate price of one shilling. The owner of that guillotine has travelled every where to exhibit the HUMAN show, and when the instrument was no more productive of lucre, it was sold for a trifle, and thrown per chance into the cellar of the tavern-keeper. During the interrogatory, Mr. Dundas has discovered two very suspicious countenances. 1st. The landlord had absconded: undoubtedly because he was conscious of his crime, and intimately connected with the Jacobins.
Lord Spencer observed, however, that he might have concealed himself, to prevent being arrested for his debts, but he was not listened to.
2d. The woman confessed that great many people frequented the tavern, which sufficiently evinced, that there reformed a club of blood-thirsty Jacobins.
Lord Spencer asked whether those men were not the customers of the house? The woman was forbidden to answer.
Such is the plot, which will be soon announced to be as frightful as the gunpowder conjuration.
The guillotine has just been committed to the flames of the Glare Market. Mr. Reeves and other sycophants, in solemn mourning, were present at the auto de fe ; they were undoubtedly lamenting that the machine could excite no more the hatred of the people against the French.
As it was conveyed to Whitehall, the people asked whether it was intended for Mr. Pitt, Lord Loughborough, Mr. Dundas, or Mr. Windham. A very satisfactory answer was returned, that it was for all the Ministers.
NEW-YORK, Jan. 28.
Capt. Austin, of the Julia from Jamaica, off the west end of the island took up at sea, a mulatto man, who had been nearly fourteen hours in the water, and was six leagues from land. The man informs that he was in a schooner, bound to the Spanish main from Port Royal—The Schooner was taken by a French Privateer from Aux-Cayes, which afterwards put into salt river and cut out an English ship. An English Privateer commanded by Capt. Perkins pursued and retook the ship, firing only a few shot at the French privateer and passing her. After being aboard of the French privateer 7 days, the Capt. and crew of the schooner, while prisoners, were massacred, in cool blood, except this mulatto, who jumped overboard and remained in the water from evening till next morning, when Capt. Austin was hailed by him and took him up. He is now in this city, and has related this story to the writer.
The same French privateer afterwards boarded Capt. Austin and plundered him
of wine, fowls, and some other articles. Capt. Austin requested the fowls for some sick persons aboard, but was answered, "That sea breezes were very good for sick people! and fowls very good for Frenchmen!"
BOSTON, Feb. 9.
FEDERALISM.
From PROVIDENCE. We last evening received from Providence the following highly Federal Resolutions.
State of Rhode-Island, &c. In General Assembly—house of representatives—February session, A. D. 1796.
WHEREAS attempts have been made to diminish the confidence of the people in the President of the United States, by misrepresenting the motives which determined him in the execution of his official duties, and particularly in his ratification of the treaty lately negotiated by John Jay with Great Britain, as consented to and advised by the senate of the United States; which attempts manifestly tend to deprive the President of the well earned esteem and affection of his fellow citizens, the only reward acceptable to this disinterested patriot and father of his country; Left therefore our sentiments of the President should be deemed equivocal; and to rescue our republican character from the imputation of ingratitude.
Resolved, as the opinion of this house, that attempts to lessen the well grounded confidence of the people in the President of the United States, have a tendency to injure the cause of liberty, by weakening the influence of one of its principal defenders; they consequently merit and meet our pointed disapprobation.
Resolved, that the same disinterested devotion to this country which characterized George Washington as commander in chief of our armies, has evidently distinguished him as our chief magistrate.
Resolved, that, in the opinion of this house, the President, in ratifying, and the senate of the United States in consenting to and advising the ratification of the treaty lately negotiated by John Jay with Great Britain, were actuated by one common motive—a regard to the peace and prosperity of their country.
Resolved, that we conceive it to be our duty, as the organ of the people of this state, to declare, that the PRESIDENT of the United States has not ceased to be beloved by his country.
Voted and passed, nemine contradicente. ELISHA R. POTTER, Speaker. In the House of Magistrates.
Read the same day and concurred, nemine contradicente.
By order, HENRY WARD, Secretary.
The preceding is a true copy, as appears of record. Witness, HENRY WARD, Secretary.
At a town-meeting on Tuesday, it was voted, that the town had no objections to the incorporation prayed for in the petition of Mr. Robert Pierpont, for building a bridge from Pleasant-street, to Roxbury.
On Tuesday last, two Persons were apprehended for passing counterfeit Providence Bank Notes, examined before Mr. Justice Crafts, and committed for further examination. They were further examined yesterday, and committed. The Notes are poorly executed, and may easily be distinguished from the true bills.
Last Saturday night a very melancholy affair took place at Middleborough. The House of the widow Dunham accidentally took fire and was entirely consumed, together with the house furniture and two children.
Last week the House of Mr. Gay in Dedham also took fire and was entirely consumed.
Capt. Hughes arrived at Philadelphia, from Kingston, Jamaica, informs, that the Maroon insurrection was nearly quelled. Seventy of them surrendered a few days before he failed.
Accounts from Copenhagen to Dec. 10, mention that the Danish and Swedish fleets have separated. The Swedish has returned to Carlscrona, and the Danish is begun to be dismantled.
The English force gone against Port-du-Paix, is said to consist of five ships of the line and four frigates, with ten transports.
FEB. 10.
From PHILAD. Jan. 27.
The ratification of the treaty with Great-Britain, has not yet arrived, when it does, there will probably be an effort to prevent its execution, by withholding a grant of such sums as may be necessary for that purpose; but I cannot think there will be found a sufficient number, even among those who do not like the treaty, to do such an outrage to the Constitution. Authorities of our government, and be willing to meet the consequences which would be the result of such conduct. There are two other treaties on their passage from Europe, to this country, viz. one with Spain and the other with Algiers; and possibly the anti-treaty folks will, if they indulge their usual ingenuity, be able to muster up the same constitutional objections to them, as they have to the one with Great-Britain."
FEB. 3.
"Congress are jogging on slowly, and all for the best, especially as the individual State Legislatures appear to be disposed to confirm the measures of the Executive of the Union. This circumstance will pave the way for a calm and placid conclusion of the session of Congress, hitherto without any appearance of party spirit."
FEBRUARY 11. From PHILADELPHIA—Feb. 1. The Committee of the House of Repre-
sentatives in Congress on the subject of naval equipments, have reported in favor of continuing to build and equip one frigate of 44 guns and one of 36. The surplus perishable materials to be sold, and the others stored.
Great debates in Congress on the subject of appointing a stenographer, and no decision is yet had.
EXTRACT from the KENTUCKY LEGISLATURE.
DECEMBER 21.
On motion, Resolved, that a committee ought to be appointed to draught a memorial to Congress, setting forth that Humphrey Marshall, one of our Senators from this State, has been publicly charged with being guilty of perjury, and requesting that an investigation may be made on the subject, and that if the fact is sufficiently proved, he ought to be expelled from the Senate.
And a committee was appointed of Messrs. Young, Thomas, Davis, Jouitt and Calmes.
The fiscal concerns of the individual, as well as the United States yearly improve—The monies in the hands of the Treasurer of the State of New-York, the first of the present year, amounted to 335,000 dollars. That state also owns 158 shares in the Bank of the United States, 100 in the New-York Bank, 100 in the Western, and 100 in the Northern inland lock navigation; and 2,119,068 dollars of the funded debt of the United States.—During the last year, 50,000 dollars were expended on fortifications, 25,000 on the inland canals, 8000 given to various schools and colleges, 12,500 to the New-York hospital, 8000 to the St. Domingo French refugees, and near 30,000 in loans to private individuals.
From NEW-YORK—Feb. 2.
"Accounts are received from Liverpool that the British fleet destined for the West-Indies, had not failed the 29th of November. Preparations for continuing the war still going on."
SALEM, Feb. 9.
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
Capt. Hofmer, in the brig Volant, formerly commanded by Capt. Martin, deceased, arrived since our last, from Petit-Guave. Left there the following vessels, Jan. 7, viz. Schooner Petuxen, Camp-bell, and Schooner Swallow, Lindsey, of Charleston, S. C.—schooner Eagle, and sloop Jenny, of Norfolk; sloop Hunter, M'Hutchens, and sloop Hope, of Philadelphia; the latter funk—sloop Rachel, Smith, and sloop Sally, of New-York—the crew of the latter, all dead, and the supercargo only remaining on board. Jan. 13, off Crooked Island, Capt. H. was boarded by a Bermudian Privateer—papers inspected, and trunks searched, and then, (to use the commander's expression) "suffered to pass."
Arrived yesterday, at Gloucester, brig Catherine, Capt. Cazneau, 87 days from Liverpool; spoke a number of vessels outward bound—Saw a brig scudding to the Eastward, who had lost her bowsprit, boom, topmast, and boats; wind blew so hard, could not learn any particulars.
NEWBURYPORT, Feb. 5.
DEATHS.
Mr. SAMUEL PILSBURY, aged 83—On Wednesday night Mrs. ELIZABETH FITZ, consort of Mr. MARK FITZ, aged 56 years.
PORTSMOUTH, Feb. 13.
HANOVER, N. H. Paper.
On Saturday, the 16th ult. was consumed by fire, Mr. Lyman's Store in Weatherfield, the loss at least is computed at two thousand pounds; nothing saved, except the Clerk's chest, a few papers and some Wine in the cellar.
MARRIED—In this town, Mr. Benjamin Woodbury, to Miss Lucy Jones.—Mr. Henry Trefethen, to Miss Fanny Partridge.
DIED—At Walpole, N. H. Miss Olive Heaton, daughter of Mr. Noah Heaton.
In this town, Mrs. Lydia Broughton, aged 40, wife of Mr. Wm. Broughton.—Mrs. Dimsey, wife of Mr. Edward Dimsey; Also a Child of Mr. William Dame, joiner.
ENTRIES at the CUSTOM-HOUSE.
District of PORTSMOUTH, N. H. ENTERED FROM Brig Olive, Palmer, Poole. Schooner Brothers, Trefethen, Virginia. CLEARED FOR Ship Nancy, Orn, West-Indies. Brig Harmony, Shackford, Virginia. Brig George, Langton, ditto. Brig Ranger, Fernald, West-Indies. Brig Drake, Tredick, ditto.
Attend! Attend!
THIS is to give notice to the town and country that the experiment of the BALLOON and Parrachute is to be raised next THURSDAY the 18th inst. at the Assembly-House, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon (if the weather will permit.) Notice will be given the same day by drums and fires. The light will be astonishing to the spectators.
Tickets for admission will be sent to each subscriber on Monday next, when they will please to pay their subscription money to the person who presents the tickets. Portsmouth, Feb. 13.
By desire of a number of gentlemen, Mr. MAISON will perform Monday Evening, (February 15)
AT the Assembly Room, his curious AUTOMATONS, which has struck thousands of silent spectators with astonishment, will perform surprising feats of activity.
Performance to begin at 7 o'clock.
ANECDOTE.
AT the town meeting lately held at Philadelphia, where the question of "Treaty or no Treaty," was to have been decided, two sailors attended, when one addressed his mate thus—"Well, Tom, who do you vote for?" "I vote for the Treaty I think they call him," replied the other, "but upon my honor I do not know his christian name."
WASHINGTON.
The following is the conclusion of that beautiful eulogy by Dr. Smith, in his eloquent sermon:
"I esteem it one of our chief mercies, and I count it one of the noblest acts of patriotism in him to forsake his secure situation on the summit of fame, to accept the dubious helm of government; and, for the good of his country, to put to risk a reputation which history assured to him, untarnished and immortal." Mr. Mason, when speaking of the suppression of the western insurrection, lays, with his usual accuracy and energy, "Above all, our eyes involuntarily fasten on THAT MAN, whose timely application of the lever, but salutary discipline entrusted to his prudence, was the happy means of restoring peace.—On THAT MAN, whom God hath honored to be the instrument of countless blessings to this land; whose name will live, and whose memory will be revered, when the blighting eye of malignity is sealed up in darkness; and the tongue of calumny fettered with the irons of death."
WAR.
WHEN David was offered his choice of war, famine, and pestilence, he chose the last, Let us, laid he, fall now into the hand of the Lord, (for his mercies are greater) and let me not fall into the hand of man. Of these three judgments war is certainly the most dreadful, and often brings the others in its train. By the neglect of agriculture, and the desolation which is made, a scarcity of provisions is necessarily produced; and in war malignant distempers are generated, so that it is not unusual for more to perish by these than by the sword. Let it be added too, that war not only destroys the bodies, but has a most baneful influence on the morals of men. Famine and pestilence tend to awaken them to a sense of their sins, and dispose them to receive religious impressions; but war inflames wicked passions, and leads to a general corruption. This is lamentably the case in all internal dissensions, or what are called civil wars. That nation is accursed of God which is thus given up.
THE MORALIST.
Ingratitude.
"Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky, Thou dost not bite so nigh, As benefits forgot: Tho' thou the waters wrap, Thy sting is not so sharp, As friend remember'd not." SHAKESPEARE.
PRIDE has always been considered the parent of vice; and, if we search into the origin of Ingratitude, I cannot but think that it will be found to spring from this polluted source. To those, whose souls are naturally mean, their cannot be a greater mortification than to receive a favor, and incur an obligation; hence arises false pride, which they palliate with the name of SPIRIT. In order to evince, that they are not indebted to the hand that has succoured them, they return all the generous efforts of friendship with indifference and ingratitude; and, such are the effects of this temper in human nature, that we mostly find it is much easier to confer than receive a favor. I hope there needs little argument, to dissuade the reader from yielding to so infamous a crime! which must ever excite the abhorrence of every worthy mind; for in all the catalogue of human imperfections, there is not one of a more execrable and diabolical hue than Ingratitude; nor is there any character who merits universal contempt more than the ungrateful man!