The New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1791-04-02 00:00:00

New - Hampshire Gazette, and the General Advertiser.
Containing the Laws, &c. of the United States, as well as those of this State passed since 1787, with a variety of other matters both useful and entertaining
PORTSMOUTH: Printed by JOHN MELCHER, at his Office in Market-Street, at nine shillings per Annum.
LAWs of the UNITED STATES.
CONGRESS of the UNITED STATES AT THEIR THIRD SESSION, Begun and held at the City of Philadelphia, on Monday the 6th of December, 1790.
An ACT regulating the Number of REPRESENTATIVES to be chosen by the States of KENTUCKY and VERMONT.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That until the Representatives in Congress shall be apportioned according to an actual enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States, the States of Kentucky and Vermont shall each be entitled to choose two Representatives.
FREDERICK AUG. MUHLENBERG, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United States and President of the Senate. Approved—Feb. the 25th, 1791.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, President of the United States. Deposited among the Rolls in the Office of the SECRETARY of STATE. THOMAS JEFFERSON, Secretary of [State.
An ACT supplementary to the Act, intitled, "An Act to INCORPORATE the SUBSCRIBERS to the BANK of the UNITED STATES."
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the subscriptions to the stock of the bank of the United States, as provided by the Act intitled, "An Act to incorporate the subscribers to the bank of the United States," shall not be opened until the first Monday in July next.
And be it further enacted, That so much of the first payment as by the said act is directed to be in the six per cent. certificates of the United States, may be deferred until the first Monday in January next.
And be it further enacted, That no person, corporation, or body politic, except in behalf of the United States, shall, for the space of three months after the said first Monday in July next, subscribe in any one day for more than thirty shares.
And be it further enacted, That every subscriber shall at the time of subscribing, pay into the hands of the persons who shall be appointed to receive the same, the specie proportion required by the said act to be then paid. And if any such subscriber shall fail to make any of the future payments, he shall forfeit the sum so by him first paid, for the use of the corporation.
And be it further enacted, That such part of the public debt, including the assumed debt, as is funded at an interest of three per cent. may be paid to the bank, in like manner with the debt funded at six per cent. computing the value of the former at one half the value of the latter, and reserving to the subscribers who shall have paid three per cent. stock the privilege of redeeming the same with six per cent. stock, at the above rate of computation, at any time before the first day of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three; unless the three per cent. stock shall have been previously disposed of by the directors.
FREDERICK A. MUHLENBERG, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate. Approved, March the second 1791.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, President of the United States. Deposited among the rolls in the Office of the SECRETARY of STATE. THOMAS JEFFERSON, Secretary [of State.
An ACT to explain and amend an Act, intitled, "An Act making further provision for the payment of the Debts of the United States."
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the duty of one cent per pound, laid by the act "making further provision for the payment of the debts of the United States," on barr and other lead shall be deemed and taken to extend to all manufactures wholly of lead, or in which lead is the chief article, which shall hereafter be brought into the United States, from any foreign port or place.
And be it further enacted, That the duty of seven and a half per cent. ad valorem, laid by the act aforesaid on chintzes, and coloured calicoes, shall be deemed and taken to extend to all printed, stained and coloured goods, or manufactures of cotton, or of linen, or of both, which hereafter shall be brought into the United States from any foreign port or place.
Provided always, That nothing in this act shall in any wise affect the true construction or meaning of the act aforesaid in relation to any of the above described articles brought into the United States before the passing of this act.
FREDERICK AUG. MUHLENBERG, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United States and President of the Senate. Approved—March the second, 1791.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, President of the United States. Deposited among the Rolls in the Office of the SECRETARY of STATE. THOMAS JEFFERSON, Secretary of [State.
An ACT giving EFFECT to the LAWS of the UNITED STATES within the State of VERMONT.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the third day of March next, all the laws of the United States, which are not locally inapplicable, ought to have, and shall have the same force and effect within the State of Vermont, as elsewhere within the United States.
And to the end that the act, intitled, "An act to establish the Judicial courts of the United States," may be duly administered within the State of Vermont,
Be it further enacted, That the said state shall be one district, to be denominated Vermont District: and there shall be a district court therein, to consist of one judge who shall reside within the said district, and be called a district-judge, and shall hold annually four sessions; the first to commence on the first Monday in May next, and the three other sessions progressively on the like Monday of every third calendar month afterwards. The said district court shall be held alternately at the towns of Rutland and Windsor, beginning at the first.
And be it further enacted, That the said district shall be, and the same hereby is annexed to the eastern circuit. And there shall be held annually in the
said district one circuit court; the first session shall commence on the seventeenth day of June next, and the subsequent sessions on the like day of June afterwards, except when any of the said days shall happen on a Sunday, and then the session shall commence on the day following; and the said sessions of the said circuit courts shall be held at the town of Bennington.
And be it further enacted, That there shall be paid to the judge of the said district court the yearly compensation of eight hundred dollars, to commence from the time of his appointment, and to be paid quarter-yearly at the treasury of the United States.
And be it further enacted, That all the regulations, provisions, directions, authorities, penalties, and other matters whatsoever (except as herein afterwards is expressly provided) contained and expressed in and by the act, intitled, "An act providing for the enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States," shall have the same force and effect within the said State of Vermont, as if the same were, in relation thereto, repeated and re-enacted in and by this present act.
And be it further enacted, That the enumeration of the inhabitants of the said State shall commence on the first Monday of April next, and shall close within five calendar months thereafter.
And be it further enacted, That the Marshal of the district of Vermont shall receive in full compensation for all the duties and services confided to, and enjoined upon him in and by this act in taking the enumeration aforesaid, two hundred dollars.
And that the act, intitled, "An act to provide more effectually for the collection of the duties imposed by law on goods, wares and merchandise imported into the United States, and on the tonnage of ships and vessels," may be carried into effect in the said State of Vermont:
Be it further enacted, That for the due collection of the said duties, there shall be in the said State of Vermont one district; and a collector shall be appointed, to reside at Allburgh on Lake Champlain, which shall be the only port of entry or delivery within the said district, of any goods, wares or merchandise, not the growth or manufacture of the United States.
Provided nevertheless, That the exception contained in the sixty-ninth section of the act last above mentioned, relative to the district of Louisville, shall be and is hereby extended to the said port of Allburgh.
FREDERICK AUG. MUHLENBERG, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate. Approved—March the second, 1791.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, President of the United States. Deposited among the Rolls in the Office of the SECRETARY of STATE. THOMAS JEFFERSON, Secretary of [State.
CONGRESS, THIRD SESSION. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
FRIDAY, FEB. 25. THE engrossed bill, supplemental to the act for establishing the Treasury Department, was read the third time; the blank filled up, and the bill passed.
The petition of Jacob Isaacs, stating that he had discovered a sure, cheap, and simple method of procuring fresh from salt water, and praying the patronage of Congress: Read, and referred to the Secretary of State.
Another report from the same officer was read, respecting the loan of three millions of florins, made in Holland, stating the terms on which that loan has been effected: The report proposed an explanation of a clause in the act, making provision for the reduction of the public debt: And was referred to a select committee, to report a bill or bills pursuant thereto.
A message from the Senate by Mr. Secretary Ovis, informed the house that the President of the U. States has given his assent to the act for incorporating the subscribers to the Bank of the United States, also to the act regulating the number of Representatives for the States of Kentucky and Vermont.
Mr. Boudinot, of the committee of conference on the subject of disagreement between the house and senate, respecting the 61st section of the Revenue-Bill, brought in a special report, which had been agreed to by one of the committee of the house, and by all the members of the committee on the part of the senate. This report was superseded by a vote to consider the original subject of disagreement.
Mr. Jackson moved that the house should adhere to their disagreement: This being seconded, a question of order rose. The Speaker gave it as his opinion, that the question to be in order should be, whether the house would recede from their disagreement? An appeal was made from the chair to the house—and the question being taken, the house decided in favor of the Speaker's opinion.
The motion was then made to recede, in order to agree to the amendment proposed by the special report—which was, to limit the whole sum to be received by the officers, to 45,000 dollars.
A debate ensued—The question was finally determined by ayes and noes.—Ayes 30. Noes 29.
On motion of Mr. Smith (S. C.) the committee of the whole house was discharged from any further consideration of the post-office bill.
In Senate of the United States. FEB. 25. On motion, That the following resolution be entered into, viz.
Resolved, That it be a standing rule, that the doors of the Senate chamber remain open, whilst the Senate shall be sitting in a legislative capacity, except on such occasions as in their judgment may require secrecy, and that this rule shall commence and be in force on the first day of the next session of Congress.
The Yeas and Nays were required by one fifth of the Senators present. Yeas 9. Nays 17.
SATURDAY, FEB. 26. A message was delivered by Mr. Secretary Ovis, informing the House, that the Senate had passed the Bill supplementary to the act incorporating the subscribers to the bank of the United States.
Mr. Speaker laid before the House an invitation from the American Philosophical Society, requesting the attendance of Congress at the German Church in Fourth street, where an eulogium, on Dr. Franklin, will be pronounced on Tuesday next at half past nine in the morning.
The petition of Elias Haskel Darby, praying relief in the payment of duties on goods imported from India and China, was read and referred to the Secretary of the Treasury.
MONDAY, FEB. 28. On motion of Mr. Smith (S. C.) a committee was appointed to prepare and bring in a bill, to continue in force an act passed at the first session of Con-

grets for the temporary regulation of the post-office; and, on motion of Mr. Sherman, the said committee were directed to insert a clause, to provide, that no carriages nor horses employed in conveying the mail of the United States, nor the owners or drivers of, or passengers in such carriages, shall be subjected to any tax, penalty, or other obtrusion in consequence of any law of a particular State.
Mr. Floyd, from the joint committee of enrolled bills, reported, that the said committee had examined, and found to be duly enrolled, the bill, repealing, after the last day of June next, the duties heretofore laid on distilled spirits imported from abroad, and laying others in their stead, and also on spirits distilled within the United States, and for appropriating the same; and Mr. Speaker signed it.
The following Bills were reported by committees, and read a first time: A Bill to continue in force for a limited time, an act passed at the first session of Congress for the temporary establishment of the Post-Office; a Bill to compensate George Gibson; and a Bill making compensation to the widows and orphan children of officers who died in the service of the United States &c. Adjoined.
TUESDAY, MARCH 1.
Sundry petitions were presented, and referred to the Secretaries of the Treasury and of the Department of War.
Mr. Floyd, from the joint committee on enrolled bills, presented, and the Speaker, signed the following enrolled bills:—A bill supplemental to the act incorporating the Subscribers to the Bank of the United States; a bill giving effect to the laws of the United States within the State of Vermont; a bill to explain and amend an act making further provision for the debt of the United States; and an act fixing the time of the next annual meeting of Congress.
On motion of Mr. Boudinot, resolved, that the clerk of the House of Representatives of the United States shall be deemed to continue in office, until another be appointed.
An engrossed bill, providing compensations for the officers of the judicial courts of the United States, and for jurors and witnesses, and for other purposes, was read, and, the blanks therein being filled up, was passed. Yeas 30.—Nays 23.
An engrossed bill, to amend the act for establishing the temporary and permanent seat of the government of the United States was read, and passed. Yeas 39.—Nays 18.
An engrossed bill, for making compensations to the commissioners of loans for extraordinary expenses, was read, and passed.
The House, then proceeded to consider the amendments proposed by the Senate to the Bill supplementary to the act establishing the Treasury Department, and concurred in the same.
The House in committee of the whole.
(Mr. Boudinot in the chair) took into consideration a bill supplementary to the act making provision for the reduction of the public debt; and having reported the same without amendment, it was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading.
A Bill to continue in force, for a limited time, an act passed at the first session of Congress, for the temporary establishment of the Post-Office, was, after a second reading, taken up in committee of the whole house. The committee having reported the same with amendments, and those being adopted by the House, the bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading.
The House again resolved itself into a committee of the whole, on the bill, for making compensations to the widows and orphan children of certain officers who were killed, or who died,
while in the service of the United States, during the late war, and for the relief of certain invalids, and other persons therein mentioned; and having reported the same without amendment, it was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading.
An engrossed Bill supplementary to the act making provision for the reduction of the public debt, was read a third time and passed.
Mr. Benson laid on the table a proposition of amendment to the constitution of the United States, to be proposed by Congress to the legislatures of the several States relative to judges and courts of laws. Adjoined.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2.
A number of Bills, in their last stages, came under the consideration of the House, and were acted upon.
The Senate, by message, informed, that they have referred the Land-Office Bill to the next session of Congress.
THURSDAY, MARCH 3.
A resolution, received from the Senate, was concurred in, That the President of the United States be requested to cause to be laid before Congress, at their next session, an estimate of the quantity and situation of those lands, not claimed by Indians, nor occupied by citizens of the United States, in the territory ceded in North-Carolina, N. W. of the Ohio.
A message from the Senate informed the house, that they adhere to their disagreement to the amendments proposed by the house to the Consul Bill.
A resolution was received from the Senate at same time, for the establishment of a Mint, pursuant to law, and authorizing the President to cause such principal Artists and Apparatus to be engaged, as may be necessary to carry said resolution into effect.
The House insisted on their amendments to the Bill; and concurred in the above resolution with amendments.
A Bill was originated and passed the usual forms to the third reading, for carrying into effect, the consular convention between his Most Christian Majesty, and the United States of America. Read a third time and passed.
A number of Bills, in various stages, engaged the attention of the House—and many resolutions, &c. passed; when the House adjourned 'till six o'clock.
THURSDAY EVENING.
Seven enrolled Bills were signed by the Speaker.
Several messages was received from The President, informing that he had approved certain Acts:—And a message from the Senate, acquainting that they had finished the Legislative business before them, and were ready to adjourn.
The thanks of the House were then voted to the Speaker, and the Mayor and Corporation of this city—when the House dissolved.
PARIS, November 21. NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, NOV. 17. CIVIC OATH.
M. DESMEUNIERS, moved, "That all Ambassadors, Ministers, Envoys, Residents, Consuls, Vice-Consuls, their Secretaries, or others employed by them at Foreign Courts, be charged to forward to the National Assembly, or the nearest legislative body, an act by them signed and sealed, containing their civic oath. This act is within the delays following: For those in Europe, one month; those in America, five months; those in the Isles of France and of Bourbon, or in the East-Indies, fourteen months.
The following is the Diplomatique Oath:—
"I swear to be faithful to the Nation, to the Law, and the King; to maintain with all my powers the Constitution resolved upon by the national Assembly, and accepted by the King, and to protect at the Courts of ( ) with its Minister, and Agents, the French who may be in this Kingdom."
Those who refuse the oath are to be recalled, divested of their places, and
declared incapable of all functions, and public trusts, until they shall have consented to take the oath.
This resolution was adopted. DUBLIN, January 23. Extract of a letter from Detroit, Canada, October 1, 1790.
"On the 23d of July, a party of Saguina Indians brought into the garrison of Detroit thirteen Americans, whom they had captured on the Ohio; they approached the fort with the usual war hoop, exposing scalps at the head of their canoe. Major SMITH of the 5th regiment, Commandant, expressed his full disapprobation of this measure; and refusing to see the chief, by proper methods gained so far an ascendancy over him, as to prevail on him to deliver up the prisoners, in council held for this purpose; this affected, they were fed, cloathed, and lodged in the garrison, and afterwards forwarded to their own homes, by guides, hired for that purpose, who were pledged for their safety. Mr. M c Kee, and Mr. Elliot, of the Indian Department, afforded Major Smith every assistance in this affair; which shews that the servants of his Britannic Majesty can do their duty to their King and country, without neglecting the call of humanity or forgetting social ties."
E P I G R A M.
I THINK, cries PETER, 'tis a pity, But all the cuckolds in our city, Collected to one point should be, And duck'd together in the sea; No danger risqu'd, or damage done, The scene would make a deal of fun. "Right," quoth his wife, who chance was standing near, "It would be fun—But can you swim my dear."
PHILADELPHIA, March 17.
Monday last arrived here from Cadiz, the ship Harmony, Nathaniel Gardiner, master; which port he left the 2d of February. By the above ship we learn, that the whole kingdom of Spain (except the court party and the clergy) are ripe for the same revolution as has lately taken place with their neighbors, the French. The people speak their sentiments more freely than ever was known in the kingdom before. It was reported in Cadiz, before this ship left that place, that hostilities had already commenced in the province of Biscay; and that the people had cut off the heads of several Governors who were too much attached to the arbitrary power of the King. In December last his Majesty passed a decree, that all shopkeepers should pay a tax of 10 per cent on their merchandise throughout the kingdom: upon which, the dealers immediately shut up all their shops, and at last his Majesty thought proper to repeal the decree.
In January last, the Minister of State received a letter from an unknown hand, setting forth the grievances of the subjects, and threatening withal what he had to depend upon soon, if better laws were not made for the good of the whole:—The letter was compared with other letters in Madrid, at length a hand was found which left no doubt of the author, who was a merchant at Cadiz; a guard of the King's officers and men were dispatched to Cadiz, with orders to take him and every man about his house to immediate confinement.
They accordingly came to Cadiz the last of January, and produced the letter to the merchant, who immediately confessed that he was the author, and at the same time informed the guard, he would be one of the first who was willing to suffer for his country, in hopes it would open the eyes of his countrymen. The consequence was, that they seized him and his clerks, and put them in a place where they may wait the assistance of their countrymen to relieve them.
The Post-Office is watched at Cadiz as if the salvation of their nation was wholly depending upon every mail that comes in from the northward.—There is not a letter that contains more than a common sheet of writing-paper, but
what is immediately broke open, and the contents exposed to every King's officer who has a mind to peruse it. Letters sent by the post to merchants with bills of exchange, have their seals broken open. It is transportation to the mines of any master of a vessel or any other person to be caught with a letter in his pocket going through the gates, while the punishment for murder is only to make the criminal ride on a mule with his face towards the beast's tail, when the mob pelt mud at him.
On the 5th inst. pursuant to a notification from the President of the United States, the Senate assembled in their chamber of Congress, for the dispatch of business in their executive capacity.
CARLISLE, [Penn.] Feb. 23.
We are informed from good authority, that a party of 70 Indians lately presented themselves before Fort—(a small stockade not far from General Harmar's head quarters) garrisoned by 30 regulars and about 20 inhabitants of the vicinity, under command of lieutenant Kingsborough. The Indians had previously taken a Mr. Hunt prisoner, with two or three others, whom they hoisted on their shoulders before the fort, directing them to inform the commanding officer that their party consisted of 300, and demanded a surrender of the garrison—the lieutenant answered, that if they were 300 devils he would not surrender, and immediately fired on the Indians; twelve of them were killed, the remainder, after having quartered Mr. Hunt in the view of the Fort, made a rapid retreat. None of the garrison were either killed or wounded.
NEW-YORK, March 12.
On the 17th of last February the sloop Venus, Capt. Lemuel Fowles, was lost on a reef in Abcecon Bay, near Egg-Harbour. The master, a passenger and three sailors perished by the severity of the frost, after they had reached the shore of an uninhabited island. The mate who is the sole survivor out of six, was in existence on Friday last, but in a most deplorable condition, and was not expected to live many hours. Dr. Remare, a worthy inhabitant of the adjoining coast, exerted his utmost abilities on this occasion as on all others. His humanity often exercised in similar instances, entitle him to the praise of his fellow citizens. The cargo, consisting chiefly of wheat was totally lost; three boxes only of books, &c. the property of William Prichard in Philadelphia; after having floated more than six days, drifted on shore.
March 15.—English papers by the last packet mention a succession of violent gales on the different coasts of England, the latter end of December last, which have been accompanied with immense damage to life and property. The loss of the Charlemont packet is mentioned with particular regret; which, with 120 passengers on board, bilged on some rocks, and only 16 out of the whole number escaped. Among the passengers were twelve ladies (all drowned) some of whom, in expectation of assistance, and under the horrors of impending death in the most terrible of all forms, clung round the steward of the ship, who being thus prevented from making the least effort for his own preservation, perished with them in their embraces.
Late English papers mention the loss of the ship Newbern, Capt. John Scott of and from Newbern, (N. C.) bound from Port Glasgow, with naval stores, She was lost on the spit of Hoyle Bank, western coast of England. The captain, a passenger, and the cook were drowned; the remainder of the crew were saved by a fishing boat.
NOTICE is hereby given, by order of his Britannic Majesty's Consul General, That all masters and commanders of British ships or vessels, which may arrive at the ports of the United States with Mediterranean passes, are required to deliver in to the British Consul, at the port where they may arrive, a true list of the mariners they may have brought into port: and also, at their

departure, a list of such mariners as are about to proceed on the voyage, distinguishing in each list such as are foreigners from those that may be British subjects. And it is requested, that merchants or factors at the several ports, to whom British vessels may be consigned, will inform such masters or commanders on their arrival, of the foregoing requisition.
NEW LONDON , March 24.
Extract of a letter from Newport, (R.I.) March 21.
“On Thursday last, Col. George Irish was apprehended and committed to our gaol, on a warrant charging him with counterfeiting Public Securities and other high crimes and misdemeanors; an event long expected.—’Tis generally thought he would have left the place by this time, had he not been taken the day he was. The gaol is full of this sort of gentry—among them Justice George Peckham. There has been a most astonishing scene of villainy carried on from one end of the continent to the other.”
[The above named George Irish had the lead of all the iniquitous measures in the State of Rhode-Island, during the Paper-Money administration—and is possessed of property to the amount of Sixty Thousand Pounds!]
In such a dreadful state of commotion is the island of Martinique, that a ship from Old France (a regular trader) which arrived there a few days since, was compelled to slip her cable, after being at anchor a little more than an hour, and run down to Cape-Francois. In Martinique there is no safety either of person or property; the military have associated with them a number of desperadoes of all colours, whose excesses are indescribable, and who scruple not to violate every obligation that could give security to either inhabitants or strangers.
Ten thousand disciplined Blacks have joined the military in Martinique; the inhabitants are flying by hundreds to the neighbouring islands, in apprehension that inevitable ruin will be the lot of all who remain.
On the 8th instant, as Mr. Beckwith was employed in catching eels at the mouth of Trading-cove, the ice on which he stood, broke under him—he was heard repeatedly to call for help, and some people went to the shore, but too late to afford him assistance.—He had broken the ice almost to the shore before he sunk.—He has left a wife and children in Norwich, in needy circumstances.
BOSTON , March 26.
FRENCH CONSULAR OFFICE.
BOSTON, MARCH 23, 1791.
Extract of a letter, dated Bourdeaux, December 8, 1790.
“Memorandum of the timber, proper for the Bourdeaux market. Oak Plank, for ships bottoms, should be 24 to 50 feet long, 2 to 4 1/2 inches thick, and at least 9 inches wide at the narrowest end. The usual price from 2 to 3 livres per cubic foot.—White Pine Plank should not exceed 12 inches in width (all over is loft) and 1 and 1/2 inches thick, and is worth 3 sous the running foot, those of one inch 2 sous.—Pine Rafter & Beams from 10 to 16 inches square, different lengths, are worth from 20 to 24 sous the cubic foot.—Scantling from 4 to 6 inches square, from 22 to 26 sous the cubic foot.—Masts and Bowsprits, straight, clear of faults, from 72 to 75 feet long, 25 to 27 inches diameter, are worth 1000 to 1200 livres each; those of 66 to 68 feet long and 22 to 24 inches diameter, from 600 to 800 livres—and Bowsprits from 45 to 48 feet long, and from 26 to 27 inches diameter, from 400 to 500 livres each: The diameter of Masts and Bowsprits is taken at 1/3 the distance from the big end, and the small end should hold 1/2 less than at the first measurement—small spars fell in proportion—Oak Beams and Rafter from 10 to 15 inches square, are worth from 45 to 50 sous per cubic foot—Knees, &c. in proportion to their size, quality, &c.—
Southern hoghead-staves from 250 to 300 livres per M. of 1616,—Northern from 200 to 250 livres. These are the general prices—at present they are something lower, owing to a stagnation of ship-building since the disturbances in this country; but as they are now at an end, we may expect to see commerce revive, and with it the prices of the necessaries for carrying it on of course.—The feet and inches above are French, which are one twelfth longer than English.
However averse we may be to give credit to all the rumours and conjectures, on the circumstances attending the late Indian expedition, we are assured the following is founded on fact:—That the Indians were supplied with powder to the amount of two thousand pounds and an half per bipe, and shot equivalent, prior to their march: And since their return have received restitution, for all the guns &c. lost in the expedition:—That Col. Brandt lost a cousin in the battle—that all the garrisons to the Westward are double manned; and that at Niagara they have laid in three year’s provisions, and increased the garrison and artillery. If the above are facts, it is much to be lamented, that the strong arm of the Union is suffered to remain inactive—and that we should foster in the bosom of our country, a nest of vipers, who with ease could be extirpated in one campaign.
Extract of a letter from a merchant in Cape Francois, to his friend in Philadelphia, dated Feb. 18.
“There are a great number of vessels in this harbor. They can neither sell their inward cargoes, nor procure any returns. I never knew so dull a time here as the present. Nothing will sell nor scarcely any thing can be bought. Superfine Philadelphia flour is offered in vain at six dollars per barrel. There is a great quantity of flour arrived from France, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New-York, Norfolk, Alexandria, Charleston, and almost every port in America. It is generally supposed some thousand of barrels will spoil for want of purchasers at any price; the quantity being so much above the consumption! and rice is plenty—18 livres per 100 lb. New-York superfine flour is offered at five dollars per barrel. Sugar and Molasses are extremely scarce; the former is difficult to be got under eight dollars per 100 lb. and the latter is at the enormous price of 87 sous per velt, exclusive of casks, &c. and the quality infamously bad. Several vessels have lately stored their cargoes, and gone in ballast, not being able to get any advances on their cargoes nor to get produce;—and under all these circumstances, vessels loaded with flour continue to arrive daily. Just now arrived a droger, which I sent with casks to the out ports in search of Molasses; but she has spent fourteen days going from port to port and returned without a drop. Even Coffee which has been the most plentiful article here begins to rise; the demand from France having taken off great quantities.
Extract of a letter from Port-au-prince, dated Jan. 14, 1791.
“Mr. Porter, from New-England, established as a merchant, in this place, died on the 24th ult.—His books, papers, &c. were immediately seized by virtue of the Droit d’Aubaine ; which is still cruelly and rigorously enforced in the French Colonies, although expressly contrary to the treaty between France and the United States. Affidavits of the Seizure will be taken, and forwarded to the President of the United States, with a representation of this unjust proceeding.”
Extract of a letter from Paris, Dec. 24.
“The guards on duty at the Louvre, have their muskets loaded since Saturday; every symptom announces a violent crisis.
“Numbers of the aristocrats have
stolen away from Paris since the plot of Lyons has been discovered, but now it is almost physically impossible to obtain a passport.”
London paper.
London papers advise, that on the 24th of November, the Turkish fortified town of Ilatzi (the general storehouse of the whole Turkish army) was taken by the Russians, and a flotilla of 30 vessels burnt, sunk, & taken, by the Russian Light Squadron near the mouth of the Danube—and that all the villages on the banks of the Danube, from its mouth to Tuleza had been reduced to ashes by the Russians, and the Turkish inhabitants obliged to retire.
The Citizens of Charleston, S. C. in turn, keep guard at the gaol of that city, day and night, to prevent the escape of any of the persons supposed to be concerned in forging Public Securities.
By letters from Cape Francois of the 27th of February, we are informed that Oje and Cressin, the two mulattoes, the most active in the disturbances at St. Domingo, were broke alive on the wheel, and that near 200 of their accomplices were shortly to be executed.
Every account from the Indian country agrees relative to the determination of the savages going to war. It is said, that the warriors have sent word to the different Indian hunting camps, ordering the hunters to return to their tribes immediately.
Extract from a London Paper, of Jan. 17.
“By the last letters from Amsterdam, there is a confirmation of the account of the great FOG on the last day of the old year. It was so thick at Amsterdam, that the people could not see their way through the streets, and ran against each other, even tho’ they had lights in their hands. The accidents it has occasioned are very numerous; but the most lamentable is the number of people who have perished from falling into the canals, where they were drowned before assistance could be given them, tho’ their cries were distinctly heard. The number of persons who have perished in this way is known to amount to three hundred and thirty.”
SALE M , March 29.
From an obliging Correspondent.
MR. CUSHING,
AS the friends of mankind, every where, must feel interested in the issue of those efforts that are making in FRANCE, to establish civil and religious LIBERTY, I send you the subjoined extract of a letter from a gentleman, whose good connections enable him to obtain the most extensive information, and whose good sense qualifies him to judge of what is authentic. If no intelligence of the kind should be previously published, it may perhaps be worthy a place in your paper.
Yours, &c.
LONDON, JAN. 5, 1791.
My dear Sir,
“You will participate in the joy I feel at the present state of things in France. You need no longer read the Gazettes with anxiety, but make your mind easy—THE FRENCH REVOLUTION IS EFFECTED—The interest of the National Debt to December 30, 1789, is paid—All arrears, up to January, 1791, including the expense of the late armament, will be paid off at a stroke—The King has signed two decrees, one obliging all abbeys to take the civic oath, the other requiring the Clergy, to subscribe a civil constitution formed by the National Assembly—The compensations to the Clergy, for the property and power they have lost, are ready, and I have no doubt the majority of them will soon conform—exile and poverty are evils too serious to be long trifled with—the invitation to return to the country they have deserted, cannot be refused by many of them, especially since it is accompanied with liberal offers of property, in gold and silver. The system of finance is new; but tho’ 12 millions sterling have been raised on land, yet it was deliberately voted, and quietly paid.”
PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 2.
Extract of a letter from Alexandria, dated March 2, 1791.
“This would be a good place for a vessel, or vessels to come for flour, there being, at least, twelve thousand barrels in store, and large quantities daily coming in, and no vessels to carry it away. The price they ask is 4 1/2 dollars per barrel; but you may depend in a few days it will be lower.”
Portsmouth Academy will be opened the last Monday in the present month.
A RECIPE to cure the Whooping Cough,
which has been tried with success.
TAKE dried Colt’s foot a good handful, cut it small and boil it in a pint of spring water, until half the water is boiled away—when almost cold, strain it through a cloth, squeezing the herbs as dry as you can. Dissolve in the liquor half an ounce of Sugar-Candy, finely powdered, and add one spoonful and a half of the tincture of liquorice.—Give a child one spoonful, three or four times in a day, and more to a grown person. It will cure in three or four days.
ENTRIES at the CUSTOM-HOUSE of this district.
CLEARED FOR
Brig Elizabeth, Hooper, Scotland.
MISCELLANEOUS THOUGHTS.
IN all changes we should have regard to these three things: God’s approbation, our own benefit, and the no-harming our neighbour.
One day spent according to the precepts of virtue, is infinitely to be preferred to an eternity of vice.
How few are there like Tully, who wished that every man’s thoughts were written in his forehead.
If thou regardest thine own welfare, health of body, and peace of mind, observe this short precept—Be always doing good.
The seeds of virtue should be so early ingrafted into the minds of children, that they should not know whether nature or precepts were the teachers of them.
The most ignorant are forced to seem, at least, to pay a regard to learning, as the most wicked are to virtue, such is their intrinsic worth.
Vice is as degrading as it is criminal.
Conscious virtue is the only solid foundation of all happiness.
The man who has spent his time well, and can enjoy his own thoughts and observations, will with the philosopher, when others are sorry he is grown old, be only sorry he was ever young.
Lies and perfidy are the refuge of fools and cowards.
ANECDOTE.
AS the celebrated and haughty SEYMOUR, Speaker of the House of Commons, was riding one day near Henly upon Thames, he met a large west-country waggon, which he was astonished to find did not turn out in compliment to his dignity. As the waggoner approached him, SEYMOUR lifted up his gold-headed cane, and made a blow at him: The driver falling back just his whip’s length, soon convinced the courtier of his error, who smarting under its well applied lash, exclaimed, “Sirrah! villain! I’ll commit you to gaol—I’ll send you to the devil—don’t you know who I am?” “Naw—who beenst?” “I am the SPEAKER, rascal!” “Rotte, then, replied the sarcastic lout, why didnt SPEAK afore!”
Public Vendue.
ON Tuesday the 26th inst. at three o’clock, in the town-house in Exeter, the EXCISE in the county of Rockingham, from the 1st day of October 1790, to the 1st day of January 1791, will be sold at public vendue, agreeable to a resolve of the General Court.
NATHANIEL ROGERS, } Committee. EPHRAIM ROBINSON, } April 1st, 1791.

Parnassian Spring.
EPITAPH—ON A SMITH.
M y Sledge and Hammar lie reclin'd, My Bellows too have lost their wind; My Fire's extinguish'd; Forge decay'd; And in the dust my Vice is laid; My Coal is spent; my Iron gone; The last Nail's driven—my Work is done.
From the NORWICH PACKET.
THE BACHELOR'S PARODY.
T O love or not to love, that is the question, Whether 'tis manlier for the youth to view, A beauteous blooming girl, with cool indifference, Or fly to her arms & court the pretty miss With all the heavenly raptures of a lover: To love, to be belov'd; ah say no more; And by the mutual fondness end the heart ache, And all those keen shocks which disappointed Lads are heir to: 'tis a consummation, Devoutly to be wish'd for: to love, to be belov'd, Perhaps to make a c--k--d; aye there's the rub; For in that scene of bliss, what ills may come, When we are ty'd to one, that makes an unchaste wife, Must give us pause! there's the flaw that thus Imbitters the marriage state, and keeps such Throngs of Bachelors from entering in to't; For who would bear the thoughts of having one, Who does but plant the horns, the cuckold's Coat of arms upon the head; the pangs too, Which must arise coeval with it, when He himself might his quietus make Solus: tasting the sweets of single life.
THE PROMPTER.
It is better to borrow than to buy.
S o says my correspondent, but he thinks as I do. Yes, if you want a thing but once in your life, it is better to borrow than to buy. But think of borrowing the instruments of every day, or of professional business! Yes, it is cheaper to borrow 1000 dollars, than earn it; but look ye, when a man has borrowed the money, how much richer is he for it? It is easier to go once to a neighbor for a shovel, than to work two days to buy it; but alack, a farmer wants a shovel a great many times in the year; and the trouble of going after it and returning it, is interest on the worth of it; yes, double interest . Now look ye to this, my friend—if a man works two days for a shovel, he earns it and he has a shovel of his own—he is richer by the whole value of a shovel. But when he goes to borrow it, he labours and gets nothing —he may spend a week's time in borrowing, but where is his shovel, when he has done? Does he work it right ? To the PROMPTER.
SIR,
Suppose public officers to be unfaithful, and some thousands of pounds in arrear: Or suppose men in the first offices of government, act like mere old women; do they work it right ?
TOM QUERIST.
The Prompter thinks they do not; but they do not work it half so wrong as those who fill offices with such men .
From an ENGLISH PAPER.
T HE following ludicrous mistake happened a few days ago at a funeral in London.—The Clergyman had gone on with the service, until he came to that part which says, "our deceased Brother or Sister," without
knowing whether the deceased was male or female.—He turned to one of the mourners, and asked, Whether it was a Brother or Sister?—"No relation at all (said the simple man) only an Acquaintance!"
Singing-School.
J OHN REED respectfully informs the public, that he has opened a SINGING-SCHOOL, for CHILDREN, on the afternoons of Thursdays and Saturdays, from 3 to 6 o'clock, P. M. at six shillings per quarter, at the house lately occupied by Mr. J. Marshall, in Pleasant-Street, near Capt. John Pickering's Mills—where he is ready to instruct scholars:—Likewise, an EVENING-SCHOOL, for young people of both sexes, through the summer. As he is lame, and can do no other business to obtain a livelihood for himself and family, he hopes the hearts of all feeling parents will expand to commiserate his present situation, and thereby patronize his assiduous undertaking.
Portsmouth, March 26, 1791.
State of New-Hampshire.
N OTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners and proprietors of land in Warren, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1789, that unless they pay said taxes to me the subscriber, on or before the 26th day of April 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 Mr. Joseph Whittier, in said town, at one o'clock, P. M. on said day.
   Div. s. d. s. d. q.    Jonathan Greely 1 0 11 1 8 1  Thomas True 1 0 11 1 8 1  Ditto 2 0 11 1 8 1  Ditto 3 0 11 1 8 1  David Clough 1 0 11 1 8 1  Ditto 3 0 11 1 8 1  Daniel Page 2 0 11 1 8 1  Abel Davis 1 0 11 1 8 1  Ditto 2 0 11 1 8 1  Ditto 3 0 11 1 8 1  Ebenezer Morrill 3 0 11 1 8 1  Truworthy Ladd 2 0 11 1 8 1  Ephraim Page 2 0 11 1 8 1  Col. Eben'r Stevens 1 0 11 1 8 1  Ditto 3 0 11 1 8 1  Philip Tilton 2 0 11 1 8 1  Jacob Currier 1 0 11 1 8 1  Ditto 3 0 11 1 8 1  Joseph Tilton 2 0 11 1 8 1  John Batchelder 1 0 11 1 8 1  Ditto 2 0 11 1 8 1  Ditto 3 0 11 1 8 1  John Darling 2 0 11 1 8 1  Samuel Graves 1 0 11 1 8 1  David Morrill 1 0 11 1 8 1  Ditto 2 0 11 1 8 1  Ditto 3 0 11 1 8 1  James Graves 1 0 11 1 8 1  Benning Wentworth 1 1 10 3 4 2  Ditto 2 1 10 3 4 2  Ditto 3 1 10 3 4 2  CHASE WHITCHER, Constable.  Warren, March 2, 1791.  
District of New-Hampshire.
By Order of the Hon. JOHN SULLIVAN, Esq. Judge of the District Court of said District of New-Hampshire.
N OTICE is hereby given that a Libel is filed before said Court by JOSEPH WHIPPLE, Esq. Collector of the District of Portsmouth, in behalf of the United States of America, against five Bags, one Barrel and one half Barrel of Coffee marked B, seized within the district aforesaid, for having been imported into the United States contrary to Law—And that the said Judge has ordered that trial be had on the Libel aforesaid at a special District Court, to be holden at Portsmouth in said District on the first Tuesday of June next.
JOHN PARKER Marshal of said District. Portsmouth, March 15, 1791.
E F F I N G H A M—State of New-Hampshire.
N OTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of Effingham, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1789, that unless they pay said taxes to me the subscriber, on or before the 3d day of May next, so much of their land as will pay the same, together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of Weare Drake, Esq. innholder in said town, at ten o'clock, A. M. on said day.
   No. D. Q'ty. s. d. q. s. d. s. d. q. s. d.    Joshua Wingate, 3d 3 2 200 1 6 1 6 0 0 9 0 1 9  Abner Fogg, jun. 5 2 200 0 11 0 3 0 0 5 0 1 1  ditto 67 1 56 0 11 0 0 3 0 5 0 1 1  Abner Fogg 7 2 200 0 11 0 3 0 0 5 0 1 1  Jeremiah Dearborn 9 2 200 1 5 1 0 6 0 9 0 1 8  Benjamin Perkins 17 2 200 2 11 0 0 11 1 4 0 3 3  William Weeks, jun. 21 2 200 2 11 0 0 11 1 4 0 2 3  Ebenezer Smith, 23 2 200 3 4 3 0 11 1 4 0 3 6  John Johnson, jun. half 25 2 100 1 5 1 0 6 0 9 0 1 8  Jonathan Wedgwood 29 2 200 1 8 0 0 6 0 9 0 2 0  Ezekiel Russell 33 2 200 2 0 2 0 8 0 11 0 2 6  Nathaniel Gookins 35 2 200 2 10 0 0 10 1 2 0 2 9  ditto 46 1 56 0 7 2 0 3 0 5 0 0 10  James Marston 48 1 56 0 7 2 0 3 0 5 0 1 1  Samuel Smith, half 33 1 28 0 5 0 1 2 0 2 2 0 7  Matthew Livermore, 6 2 200 2 3 2 8 0 1 0 0 3 0  Nathaniel Hobbs 8 2 200 2 3 2 8 0 1 0 0 3 0  ditto 14 1 56 0 6 0 3 0 0 5 5 0 9  Simon Dearborn 10 2 200 2 3 2 8 0 1 0 0 3 0  ditto 54 1 56 0 6 3 3 0 0 5 0 0 10  Thomas Parsons, jun. 26 2 200 3 5 0 11 0 1 6 0 4 0  Lemuel Smith, half 2 2 100 1 1 0 3 2 0 5 2 1 3  Nathaniel Drake 32 2 200 1 8 0 5 0 0 8 0 2 0  ditto 29 1 56 1 2 3 4 0 0 6 0 1 1  David Marston, jun. 36 2 200 3 4 3 11 0 1 6 0 4 0  Solly and March 38 2 200 3 4 3 11 0 1 6 0 4 0  ditto 43 1 56 0 7 2 3 0 0 5 0 10 0  Levi Dearborn 53 2 200 1 2 3 4 0 0 6 0 1 6  Moses Leavitt 48 2 200 1 2 3 4 0 0 6 0 1 6  Joshua Brown, jun. 50 2 200 2 4 0 8 0 1 0 0 3 0  ditto 22 1 56 0 10 0 3 0 0 5 0 1 2  Zachariah Batchelder 74 2 200 1 2 3 4 0 0 6 0 1 7  John Rindge 73 2 200 1 5 2 5 0 0 9 0 1 9  ditto 3 1 56 0 8 2 3 0 0 5 0 0 10  Isaac Marston 4 1 56 0 10 0 3 0 0 5 0 1 2  Jeremiah Avery 41 1 56 0 10 0 3 0 0 5 0 1 2  John Wentworth, 63 2 200 2 9 1 6 0 0 9 0 3 4  ditto 13 1 56 0 7 2 3 0 0 5 0 0 10  Simon Marston 15 1 56 0 6 2 2 0 0 4 0 0 9  Daniel Sanborn 18 1 56 0 6 0 2 0 0 3 0 0 9  Jonathan Drake 66 1 56 0 10 0 3 0 0 5 0 1 2  Joseph Moulton 89 2 200 2 10 0 9 0 1 2 0 3 1  ditto 63 1 56 0 10 0 3 0 0 5 0 1 2  Thomas Parsons 95 2 161 2 7 0 9 0 1 2 0 3 0  John Wingate, jun. 96 2 175 1 2 2 4 0 0 6 0 1 10  David Wedgwood 57 1 56 0 10 0 3 0 0 5 0 1 2  Daniel Marston, half 98 2 100 1 2 3 4 0 0 6 0 1 10  James Wedgwood, half 57 2 100 1 1 0 3 2 0 5 0 1 3  Effingham, March 1, 1791  
ASAHEL DEARBORN, Collector.
State of New-Hampshire.
N OTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in the town of Bradford, who have not paid their road tax of one penny per acre, laid on their land by order of the General-Court, for the year 1790, that unless they pay the same to us the subscribers, on or before Thursday the 14th day of April next, so much of their land as will pay the same, together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of Ebenezer Eaton, Esq. in said town, at ten of the clock, A. M. on said day.
   No. s. d.    Theodore Atkinson, Esq. 38 8 4  ditto 51 8 4  ditto 83 8 4  ditto 54 8 4  ditto 96 8 4  Thomas Wallingsford 97 8 4  John Wentworth, Esq. 1 8 4  ditto 86 8 4  ditto 68 8 4  ditto 75 8 4  ditto 80 8 4  John Moffatt, Esq. 69 8 4  ditto 63 8 4  Solly and March 74 8 4  ditto 61 8 4  Joshua Peirce 27 8 4  EBENEZER EATON, STEPHEN HOYT, Bradford, Feb. 17, 1791. (6w)  
Taken up adrift.
T AKEN up adrift in the harbour's mouth, on the 22d inst. a White Pine Mast —60 feet long and 17 inches through.—The owner may have the same again by applying to Abraham Trefethen, of Newcastle, and paying charges.
Newcastle, March 22, 1791.
A C W O R T H.
State of New-Hampshire.
N OTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors & owners of land in the township of Acworth, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1790, that unless they pay said taxes to me the subscriber on or before the 21st day of April next, so much of their land as will pay the same together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of Mr. Eliphaz Silsby in said town, at ten o'clock, A. M. on said day.
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