The New Hampshire gazette (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1796-08-20 00:00:00

our money appropriation for 1796
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. 2073.]
SATURDAY, August 20, 1796.
[9s. pr. Annum.]
Law of the United States, Passed at the first session, Of the Fourth Congress.
Begun and held at Philadelphia, on Monday the 7th December, 1795.
An Act making appropriations for the support of Government for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six.
Sec. 1. B e it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for defraying the expenditure of the civil list of the United States, for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six, together with the incidental and contingent expenses of the several departments and officers thereof, there be appropriated a sum of money, not exceeding five hundred and thirty thousand, three hundred and ninety two dollars, and eighty five cents; that is to say:
For the compensations granted by law to the President and Vice-President of the United States, thirty thousand dollars.
For the like compensations to the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, their officers and attendants, estimated for a session of six months continuance, one hundred and ninety three thousand, four hundred and sixty dollars.
For the expenses of fire-wood, stationery, printing work, and all other contingent expenses of the two houses of Congress, eleven thousand five hundred dollars.
For the compensations granted by law to the Chief Justice, associate Judges, district Judges, and Attorney General, forty three thousand six hundred dollars.
For defraying the expense of clerks of Courts, Jurors & Witnesses, in aid of the fund arising from fines, forfeitures and penalties; and likewise for defraying the expenses of prosecutions for offences against the United States, and for safe keeping of prisoners, twenty thousand dollars.
For making good deficiencies in the last mentioned fund, in the appropriation of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety five, ten thousand dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of State, Clerks and persons employed in that department, seven thousand, eight hundred and fifty dollars.
For incidental and contingent expenses in the said department, twenty three thousand, three hundred and eighty dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of the Treasury, Clerks and persons employed in his office, eight thousand, one hundred and fifty dollars.
For expense of stationery, printing and all other contingent expenses in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Comptroller of the Treasury, Clerks and persons employed in his office, ten thousand, nine hundred dollars.
For expense of stationery, printing and all other contingent expenses in the Comptroller's office, eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Treasurer, Clerks and persons employed in his office, four thousand four hundred dollars.
For expense of fire-wood, stationery, printing, rent and other contingencies in the Treasurer's office, six hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Auditor of the Treasury, Clerks, and persons employed in his office, eleven thousand, two hundred and fifty dollars.
For expense of stationery, printing, and other contingent expenses in the Auditor's office, six hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Commissioner of the Revenue, Clerks, and persons employed in his office, five thousand, two hundred and fifty dollars.
For expense of stationery, printing and all other contingent expenses in the office of the Commissioner, four hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Register of the Treasury, Clerks, and persons
employed in his office, fourteen thousand, seven hundred dollars.
For expense of stationery, printing, and all other contingent expenses in the Register's Office (including books for the public stocks) two thousand, eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the purveyor of public supplies, including his salary from the time of his appointment to the thirty first day of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety five, three thousand, six hundred and ninety four dollars and forty four cents.
For the payment of rent for the several houses employed in the Treasury department (except the Treasurer's office) one thousand, nine hundred and eighty six dollars, and sixty eight cents.
For expense of fire-wood and candles in the several offices of the Treasury department (except the Treasurer's office) three thousand dollars.
For defraying the expense incident to the stating and printing the public accounts, for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety six, one thousand dollars.
For the payment of certain incidental and contingent expenses of the Treasury department in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety five, beyond the sum which was appropriated, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the several loan officers, thirteen thousand, two hundred and fifty dollars.
For payment of Clerks, allowed to several of the loan offices, for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety five, by an act of the last session of Congress, ten thousand, one hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of War, Clerks and persons employed in his office, seven thousand and fifty dollars.
For expense of fire-wood, stationery, printing, rent, and other contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary of War (including the rent of the General Post Office, which is kept under the same roof) one thousand eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Accountant to the War department, Clerks and persons employed in his office, six thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses in the office of the Accountant to the War department, six hundred dollars.
For compensations to the following officers of the Mint:—The Director, two thousand dollars:—The Treasurer, one thousand two hundred dollars:—The Assayer, one thousand five hundred dollars:—The Chief Coiner, one thousand five hundred dollars:—The Melter and Refiner, one thousand five hundred dollars:—The Engraver, one thousand two hundred dollars: Three Clerks, at five hundred dollars each, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For the purchase of Copper for the use of the Mint, thirteen thousand dollars.
For defraying the expenses of laborers in the different branches of refining, melting and coining at the mint, eight thousand dollars.
For the pay of mechanics employed in repairing and making the machinery for the mint, three thousand, two hundred and sixty four dollars.
For the purchase of ironmongery, lead, wood, coals, stationery, office furniture, and for other contingencies of the establishment of the mint, eight thousand, seven hundred dollars.
For making good deficiencies in the former appropriations for the mint, to the end of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety five, eighteen thousand three hundred dollars.
For compensations to the Governor's, Secretaries and Judges of the territories north-west, and the territory south of the river Ohio, ten thousand, three hundred dollars.
For the expenses of stationery, office-rent, printing patents for lands, and other contingent expenses in both the said territories, seven hundred dollars.
For the payment of sundry pen-
sions, granted by the late government, two thousand and seven dollars, and seventy-three cents.
For the annual allowance to the widow and orphan children of Col. John Harding, and to the orphan children of Major Alexander Trueman, by the act of Congress of the 27th of February, one thousand seven hundred and ninety three, seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For the annual allowance for the education of Hugh Mercer, son of the late Major-General Mercer, by the act of Congress of the second of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety three, four hundred dollars.
For the discharge of such demands against the United States, on account of the Civil Department, not otherwise provided for, as shall have been ascertained and admitted in due course of settlement at the Treasury, and which are of a nature, according to the usage thereof, to require payment of specie, three thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted , That for the support of Light-Houses, Beacons, Buoys, and public piers, for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety six; and to satisfy certain miscellaneous claims stated in the report of the Secretary of the Treasury, of the fourteenth of December last, there be appropriated a sum not exceeding thirty-seven thousand, six hundred and seventy-two dollars, and nine cents; that is to say:
For the maintenance and support of light houses, beacons, buoys, public piers, and stakeage of channels, bars and shoals, twenty-four thousand dollars.
To repay David Lenox, late Marshal of the District of Pennsylvania, for payments made with the approbation of the Judge of the said district, to sundry persons for summoning jurors to attend the district court of Pennsylvania, upon the trial of sundry persons committed for high treason, two hundred and fifty-six dollars, and eighty-eight cents.
For the payment of a balance due to Lewis Pintard, agent for the American prisoners in the city of New-York during the late war, four hundred and twenty-nine dollars, and twenty-one cents.
For the payment of a balance due to the representatives of Thomas Smith, late commissioner of the loan office for the State of Pennsylvania, nine thousand and eleven dollars, and ninety-seven cents.
For the payment of a balance due to the representatives of Joseph Clarke, late Commissioner of the loan office for the state of Rhode-Island, one thousand, nine hundred and seventy-four dollars, and three cents.
For the discharge of such miscellaneous demands against the United States, other than those on account of the Civil Department, not otherwise provided for, and which shall have been ascertained and admitted in due course of settlement at the Treasury, and which are of a nature, according to the usage thereof, to require payment in specie, two thousand dollars.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted , That the several appropriations herein before made, shall be paid and discharged out of the fund of six hundred thousand dollars, reserved by the act "making provision for the debt of the United States."
JONATHAN DAYTON, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JOHN ADAMS, Vice President of the United States & President of the Senate.
Approved Feb. 5th, 1796.
GO. WASHINGTON,
President of the United States.
Deposited amongst the Rolls in the Office of the Department of State.
TIM: PICKERING, Secretary of State.
Wanted Immediately, A Journeyman Printer to whom good wages will be given. Apply to JOHN MELCHER, of Portsmouth, New-Hampshire.
Monday Evening.
Genteel and surprising Feats of Activity, At the Assembly Room, PORTSMOUTH.
Don Pedro Cloris,
The principal Performer in Donaghy's Company, who exhibited some years since, with great applause in this town—has the honor to inform the Ladies and Gentlemen that on
MONDAY next, Aug. 22, he will perform curious feats of activity on the
WIRE,
AND Extraordinary balancing. Likewise, Tumbling Feats, In a surprising manner.
Dances the Spanish Fandango, blindfolded, over thirteen times, placed in different situations, and, imitating the drunkard, flags amongst them, without breaking.
To which will be added, a great variety of entertaining Performances on the SLACK ROPE.
Merryman, the Clown, will perform a number of tricks and feats.
Tickets of admission may be had at the place of performance—price 2/6. Children 1/6.
Doors opened at 7, and performance to begin at 8 o'clock.
N. B. The particulars are expressed in the hand bill of the day.
West-India News.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 4.
Important Proclamation.
[Translated for the Aurora.]
Extra from a proclamation of the Director of St. Domingo, dated July 7.
ART. I. We proclaim a general amnesty for all the French who inhabit the towns or districts possessed by the English in the colony of St. Domingo; whether they have or have not carried arms for the enemy, who occupy the towns and districts; their persons and property shall be protected and put under the safe guard of the republic.
II. Are not included in the present amnesty, those who have signed infamous Capitulations, by the help of which the French territory has been delivered up to the agents of the British government; also those who have occupied military or civil posts from that government.
III. Nevertheless, may be included in the general amnesty, those who after having signed the capitulations or accepted public employments, should facilitate the return of the French armies into the territory of the Republic, by a coup de main, or by clandestine co-operation.
IV. If in a place besieged by the French army, there are armed Frenchmen superior or even equal in number to the English, they should be bound to march out of the town, or to render themselves masters thereof, within the delay following the summons that shall be sent to the British Commandant; and this, under pain of being treated as emigrants at the entry of the French into the town, and judged as such by a court martial conformably to law.
Ten thousand copies of the present proclamation shall be printed; it shall be published, posted up, entered on the registers of the Administrative and Judicial bodies and transmitted to all the commanders of the sea and land forces in this colony.
Intelligence from St. Domingo by
the brig Six Brothers arrived in 16 days from Port de Paix.
Port Bompart has been evacuated by the British; the republicans have established a Cordon of troops from that place to Port de Paix.
The frigate L'Infurgente is arrived at the Cape and has made several prizes in her passage from New-York.
Two seventy fours and a frigate have left the Cape; destination not known. They had on board 50 of the troops they had brought from France.
These are probably the two French ships of the line and a frigate spoke with by several American Captains between the 25th and 28th degree of latitude. The capture of the home-ward bound Jamaica fleet seems to be the object of their cruise.
General Rochambeau, commander in chief of the Spanish part of St. Domingo, and Paget appointed General of Division, have set out for Port Domingo.
To his Honor, R. R. Wilford, Esq. Commander of his Majesty's forces at Port au Prince.
The petition of Wm. Jessup, Master of the American ship Mercury, of New-York, Humbly sets forth,
That your petitioner being on his passage from St. Marks for this port, was laying too about one o'clock in the morning of the 1st inst. in company with a number of transports and his Majesty's frigate Success, commanded by Capt. Pigot; when the Success wore ship and ran foul of the Mercury, the Capt. of the frigate ordered his people to cut away every thing they could lay their hands on, the jibboom, sprit sail yard, fore stay, topmast stays, jib stays, stopper thank-painters, and two strands of his small bower cable were cut: He further ordered his men to cut away, and bring on board, the Mercury's jib and fore topmast stay sail, which was done, Capt. P. telling his men at the same time they would do to make trowers. Your petitioner telling Capt. Pigot, for God sake not to cut more than he could avoid, or words to that effect—Capt. Pigot forthwith commanded his people to bring the damaged rascal that spoke on board the frigate. Your petitioner was then seized and ordered on board the frigate, where he remained for a few minutes until the vessels were cleared. Capt. Pigot thereupon desired the boat-swain's mate to give the d—d rascal, meaning your petitioner, a good flogging. They took hold of your petitioner, and enquired who he was; it was told him he was the master of the Mercury. "Well (said Captain Pigot) flog him well and let him flog his officers." These orders were instantly obeyed, and in so severe and cruel a manner that your petitioner was nearly bereft of his senses. During the time your petitioner was thus cruelly beaten and ill treated, he made use of no offensive language whatever, nor any kind of resistance—but only begged they would have compassion on him. No attention was paid to his cries, but on the contrary, they proceeded to beat him with the same violence, until Capt. Pigot was supposed to be satisfied. Your petitioner was now again ordered into the frigate's boat, to be put on board his ship without ever having once exchanged a word with Capt. Pigot.
Your petitioner arrived here the same day, when he exhibited the marks and bruises of his shocking treatment to a number of the most respectable inhabitants of the town of Port au Prince, who all impartially pronounced it an outrage of the most brutal and unmanly kind, as the certificate annexed to this paper abundantly testifies.
Your petitioner, therefore, humbly prays your Honor, to be pleased to interfere in his behalf, by such representation as your honor may think meet, to lay before the proper authority in this country, that should take cognizance of the above affair,

as that he, your petitioner, may obtain that justice and satisfaction which the nature of the offence so glaring and unprecedented, loudly calls for; and your petitioner, as in duty bound, will ever pray, &c. &c.
Signed by WILLIAM JESSUP. Port-au-Prince, July 4, 1796.
WE whose names are hereunto subscribed do certify and attest, that having seen & viewed the marks and lashes inflicted on the body and person of Capt. Jessup, master of the ship Mercury of New-York, by order of Capt. Pigot, commander of his Majesty's frigate Success, on the morning of the 1st of July, do declare that the facts stated in his petition hereto annexed, as far as the same regard his person, are strictly conformable to truth, and we do moreover give it as our opinion, that the danger to be apprehended from such wanton and barbarous treatment, is of the most imminent and alarming nature to the person and life of Capt. Jessup, revolting to humanity, degrading and dishonorable in the highest degree to the commander of a ship of his Britannic Majesty.
(Signed) Thomas Bruten, C. M c Pheron, F. Bellaney, James G. Ferees, Josiah Lewdin, S. B. Whitake, Benjamin Holmes, Jacob Haylander, Charles Parker, M. Gilles, W. Dunbar, W. Dickson, J. Pacifico, Peter M c Leod, A. Brown, A. Thomson, Charles Cowan, Charles Delajus, Londoo Dubmel, Neal Macnel, John Finlay, David Ross, Moses Franks, J. Hare, J. Woodman, James Donnel, Paul Simon, E. Kearney, J. Troup, W. Willson, A. Hamilton, W. Wenham, W. Young, George Reinhold, Tho. Satt, Robert Williams, Charles Hadfield, David Grigg.
I do certify, that I have viewed the body and arms of Capt. Jessup, and that it appears to me, that he has been very severely flogged, beat and bruised, by some person or persons unknown to me.
L. MACNEAL.
WE the subscribers, passengers on board the ship Mercury, do certify and declare, that when the Success frigate ran foul of the Mercury on the night of the 1st inst. on our passage from St. Marc's to this port, we did not hear Capt. Jessup utter or say any thing of an irritating or offensive nature but behaved in the most passive and forbearing stile in his answers when hailed by the Success. That at the time he was taken from or left the Mercury, to go on board the Success, he appeared to be in perfect health, but on his return therefrom he was in a very suffering condition, owing to and by reason of, as we verily believe, the sore beatings and bruises whereof his body and arms, which he exhibited to us, bore the most convincing proof,—and which to our knowledge he received while on board the above frigate Success.
Given under our hands at Port-au-Prince, Island of St. Domingo, this eighth day of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six.
Passengers Names,
P. S. Alana, S. Roberts, Shawell, Deccray, Dutray, M. Roberts, Teacy, Madame Gumaire, Mudd.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Gibr ar , to his friend in this city, dated May 30.
"Notwithstanding the superiority of the English in these seas, there are ten Republican privateers out of Toulon, Marfeilles, &c. who have taken within the present month 47 English vessels, viz. 14 ships, 35 snows and brigs, all of which (except four) have arrived safe."
Arrived yesterday the ship Gen. Washington, Capt. Price, from Cadiz, which place he left the 23d of June. On the 26th was brought too by a ship of 18 guns, which proved to be a Moorish cruiser. They examined the ship, and after two hours detention, taking a few small articles, and compelling Capt. Price to sign a declaration of having received no injury, suffered him to proceed. His mate was on board the Moor, when he saw Capt. Prentice, and the crew of the brig Emmeline, of Boston, taken 14 days before. He was informed that two frigates were cruising to the westward, and had taken 14 American and British vessels. It appears by Capt. Price, that they took none but such as were loaded with grain.
INSCRIPTION
On a very large and elegant VASE, or CUP and COVER, which came un-
der the care of Captain WEEKS, of the ship Sally, lately arrived at this port from London.
FROM THE MERCHANTS OF THE CITY OF GLASGOW, TO CAPTAIN JOHN HODGES, OF THE
AMERICAN SHIP SEDGELEY, In testimony of their high sense of his HUMANE AND HAZARDOUS EXERTIONS, IN SAVING THE LIVES OF 160 BRITISH SAILORS AND SOLDIERS, FROM ON BOARD THE AURORA TRANSPORT, WHEN SINKING, FEBRUARY 1796.
This Vase is of exquisite workmanship—ornamented with Oak and Olive Leaves, &c. beautifully chased and frosted.
GEORGIA.
AUGUSTA, July 23.
MR. SMITH,
The failure at the late treaty with the Creek Indians, in the accomplishment of the object of the state of Georgia, as yet remains unexplained to the public, except by a partial and anonymous publication at Savannah. The following letter on that subject, from the commissioners of the United States, written upon the spot, with apparent candour, and under the impression of official responsibility, explains the cause; and its publication, therefore, cannot but be very satisfactory to the citizens. With this view a copy from the original has been procured, and is committed to the press.
A CITIZEN.
Augusta, July 20, 1796.
SIR, Having terminated our mission here, by concluding a treaty of peace and friendship with the Creek nation, we feel it a duty we owe to your Excellency, to make this communication to you; to inform you of the pacific disposition of the Creeks. They have, among other things, stipulated with us, to carry the treaty of New-York completely into effect, and to aid in running the line, from the source of the main fork of the Oconee to the Chulahatchee mountain; at such time and in such manner, as the President of the United States should direct. The expectations formed by your state relative to the purchase of certain lands guaranteed to the Indians, are frustrated. The Representative of the Creek nation came instructed by the whole nation, not to part with the lands. We were not apprised of this, until our negotiation had been extended to all the objects connected immediately with our mission. We on being informed of it, thought it our duty, to examine whether any improper interference had been used, to produce this determination of the nation, and we are of opinion, after the necessary enquiry, that there was not any such interference, on the part of any of the citizens of the United States.
From the long, repeated and friendly conversation we have had with the chiefs, we have been able to draw from them some information, which we owe to our situations to give freely to you: It is, that it will require some time, and a considerable degree of prudence, to impress on the Indians, a confidence in the uprightness of the views of your government, and in the friendly and peaceable intentions of its citizens, who inhabit the frontiers; and until such confidence is established, we are of opinion, that all attempts to acquire land from them by fair and open purchase, will be ineffectual.
With our best wishes for the prosperity of the state of Georgia. We have the honor to be, Sir, your obedient servants,
B. HAWKINS, G. GLYMER, A. PICKENS.
His Excellency JARED ERWIN, Governor of the state of Georgia.
BALTIMORE, August 5.
Capt. Richard Flinn, of the brig Triton, lying in the port of Leogane, has sent the following advertisement for publication, and requests that it should appear in every paper in the United States.
BE it known throughout the United States, that William Camp, seaman on board the brig Triton, of Philadelphia, and a native of New-Jersey, (as he has sworn by a certificate signed by Clement Biddle, Esq. of Philadelphia) has informed the officers of the privateers fitted out at Leogane, that Richard Flinn had taken goods on board the brig at Cape Nicholas mole, and that part of the cargo was British property and owned by a French emigrant. In consequence of which the said brig was detained for trial, and the said Rich-
ard Flinn denied access to her, although it fully appeared by the vessel's papers, that the whole of the cargo on board was truly and bona fide American property, and consigned to said master, who is a citizen of the United States, and the vessel has been plundered of her cargo, without condemnation.
Dated at Leogane, 13th July, 1796.
RICHARD FLINN, We whose names are hereunto subscribed, do certify and declare, that full faith and credit is due (in our opinion) to the above declaration.
WILLIAM SMALE, GEORGE REVELL, JAMES PHILLIPS, THOMAS S. HODGKIN. Leogane, 13th July, 1796.
WILMINGTON, August 8. Yesterday arrived at this port, the ship Swanwick, Capt. Sylvester, from Belfast, 6 weeks out, with 150 passengers, all in perfect health.
NEW-YORK, Aug. 12. Extract of a letter from Charleston, to a merchant in this city, dated July 19, 1796.
"We had yesterday and last night another alarm of fire. Yesterday about 2 o'clock, a house in the upper end of Meeting street, next to where Stroble, the tanner lives, was entirely consumed without communicating to any other apartment, and again about three this morning, a fire was perceived in one of the upper apartments of the Custom House, which was happily extinguished without doing any material injury; this is not thought to be an accident but the premeditated work of some evil-disposed persons in view to burn the town—indeed it appears as if the city would be finally destroyed, in case a discovery cannot shortly be made of these infernal incendiaries who wish to fatten on the ruins of humanity: Every method is taken to counteract such diabolical schemes." I trust we will be able to succeed."
PROVIDENCE, Aug. 13. David Howell, Esq. set out for Boston on Saturday last, from thence to proceed for Halifax on the business of his appointment, as commissioner for settling the eastern boundary of the United States.
BRITISH WEST-INDIES.
KINGSTON, July 2. Extracted from the Register of his Majesty's High Court of Appeals for Prizes.
Saturday the twenty third day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six, at the Council Chamber, Whitehall:—
PRESENT, Earl Mansfield, Lord President of the Council. Sir Richard Pepper Arden, Knight, Master of the Rolls. Earl Spencer, Lord Auckland, Lord Walsingham. Sir William Wayne, Knight, Sylvester Douglas, Esq. In the presence of Robert Jenner, Notary Public one of the Deputy Registrars.
COLUMBIA, Abisha Barnard, master. Bulb, Haseline.
For Sentence on the second Assignations and Informations. The Lords having heard the proofs read and advocates and proctors on both sides thereon, by interlocutory decree pronounced for the appeal, reversed the sentence appealed from, and retained the principal cause; and therein admitted the claim for the ship and cargo, pronounced the ship to have belonged as claimed, and directed the same to be restored, or the value thereof paid to the claimant for the use of the owners and proprietors thereof; but directed further proof to be made of the property of the cargo; and ordered a motion against the captors to bring in an account of sales upon oath, together with the proceeds of the sale of the ship and cargo.
ARDEN. Register of his Majesty's High Court of Appeals for Prizes.
NEW-YORK, Aug. 9. Arrived last evening ship Penelope, Capt. Bunker, in 77 days from Dublin, having on board 17 passengers. Off Block-Island, on the 5th inst. was boarded by the British frigate Cleopatra, Capt. Penrose, who impressed two of his men. Spoke, Gen. Pickney, White, of Charleston, from Rhode Island to Hamburgh out 15 days, all well.
TOUGH STORY. Yesterday morning it was reported with confidence, and generally be-
lieved until noon, that the Republican frigate Concord, had been taken by the British frigate Thetis, and a variety of particulars related to render it plausible—but, it has been discovered to have been the lie of the day circulated by those whose wishes correspond with the lie—probably for the purpose of wounding the feelings of the friends to that gallant nation the French Republic. Our last accounts from the Concord, were that she was at a distance and of the Thetis, that she was cruising on the American coast, in company with the Prevoyante and Hussar, for the purpose of way-laying some unwary coasters, or other property of the American citizens, agreeable to treaty to be adjudicated at Halifax, Bermudas, New Providence, or some other British receptacle of stolen goods.
At the date of the account communicated in this day's paper, the Austrians had been defeated in two engagements on the Sieg and at Aldenkirchen; the Arch Duke Charles resolved to fall back behind the River Men and abandon all the North of Germany to the victorious Republicans; the Fortresses of Ehrenbreitstein has already been surrounded, and Mayence as good as blockaded. All this was effected by little more than two thirds of the left wing of Jourdan's army that is by the troops posted from Elberfeld to the mouth of the Wipper and from Cologne to Coblenz.
As Gen. Kleber advances towards the River Mein, the Republican troops stationed on the left Bank of the Rhine, will cross the latter river, and follow the victorious advanced guard into the heart of the German Empire. The 30,000 men quartered between Cologne and Coblenz had already crossed the Rhine at Bonne, and Neuwied; the 30,000 Republicans posted between Coblenz and Bingen will have crossed the Rhine at Canb between Bingen and Rhinefels; the greatest part of centre of the Republican army composed of 90,000 men and led on by Jourdan and Marceau will follow the same road; the intrepid Marceau at the head of 80,000 men will force the passage of the Rhine above the Manheim near Kehl and by this manœuvre he will bring the Austrians between two fires. The Republican army assembled in the vicinity of Balle will attempt to invade Suabia, by crossing the Rhine under the cannon of the fortress of Hunningen; and the important result of all these operations will be peace with the German Empire and the Emperor, on the terms dictated by the French Republic.
The police of Baltimore, Philadelphia and New-York, is taking the most effectual measures to prevent the introduction therein of epidemic diseases.—Thanks be to God, we enjoy a very great measure of health.
Observations on the opening of the campaign on the Rhine. EXTRACTED
The report of a complete victory of the Republicans on the borders of the Rhine, unaccompanied as it is by any explanatory details, cannot fail to excite the curiosity of our readers. The position of the French on that side was in every respect decidedly superior to that of the Austrians that nothing else but the total rout of the latter could be expected from the opening of the campaign. The New-York papers make no mention of the place where the late victory was gained, the contending armies occupy a tract of several hundred miles in length; it is therefore difficult to point out the scene of action by the mere help of calculation, yet many circumstances induce us to believe that the battle was fought between Spies and Mayence, and more particularly in the vicinity of Kreuznach and Alzey. The armistice being broke, General Marceau has probably pushed his advanced posts nearer to the latter towns, the Austrians unwilling to quit their position without an effort to maintain it, will have attacked the Republican troops, and repulsed them without much difficulty; this early success must have encouraged them to stretch a little further towards the Hundstruck, and suffer themselves to be taken in the snare laid them by the Republicans, who wished nothing more than to allure their enemy a little farther from the banks of the Rhine to the same mountainous districts, from which Clairfait would have escaped last year, had Pichegru not then committed such gross blunders.
A statement of the forces at the disposal of the Republic in the North will enable our readers to anticipate the glorious successes which must follow the defeat of the Austrians.
   Men.     1200 battalions of infantry at 500 men each, that is 240 men less than the effective state, 600,000   600 squadrons of horse at 200 each, 120,000   Corps of Artillery, 60,000   Total, 780,000  
Let us suppose the army of Italy 150,000 men strong, and 230,000 men troops of the line, besides the national guards employed in the interior of the Republic; there remains then 400,000 men against the Austrians. They are posted as follows:
   On the Right bank of the Rhine.   From Elberfeld to the discharge of the Wipper into the Rhine. 40,000   On the left bank of Rhine, from Neuss to Coblenz, 30,000   From Coblenz to Bacharach, 30,000   From Bacharach to Birkenfeld in the Hundstruck, 70,000   In the passes of the Vosges, 20,000   From the pass of Anwerler to Guermersheim on the Rhine. 80,000   270,000  
   Corps de Reserve.   In Holland, 30,000   In Belgium and between the Rhine and Meuse, 40,000   In the fortified Camp of Mount Vert near Treves, 15,000   In Alsace, 45,000   130,000  
"You may rely that this city enjoys as perfect health as any one in the United States. God be praised."
BOSTON, August 17.
FROM FRANCE.
Benjamin Hichborn, Esq. of this town, who has resided some years in France, arrived from the Republic since our last. He left France the 17th of June, and was on his passage captured by La Raion, British frigate, Capt. Beresford; the vessel he was in was ordered for Halifax, and Mr. H. was taken on board the frigate, where he remained four days, and then took passage in the Hynde, Capt. Hodges, from Calcutta, for Salem; where he arrived on Sunday. Mr. H. speaks in very handsome terms of the polite and gentleman-like conduct of Capt. Beresford, when on board La Raion.
The political news by Mr. H. is but a few days later than before received. Peace between Austria and France was expected, notwithstanding the actions on the Rhine; which were but partial, and by no means involved any serious consequences. The development of the conspiracy of Drouet, &c. was not completed.
The American Ambassador at Paris, is respected and esteemed; and the French government have the same idea of the prerogatives of an independent nation, that we have.—They know they have a right to form any national compact they please, without consulting us; and they know the United States have an equal right. They appear to wish for peace, and to cultivate the friendship of all nations.
FROM RUSSIA—LATEST.
Yesterday Capt. Smith arrived here from St. Petersburg, in 74 days.—He informs, that in Denmark vigorous preparations were making for war. That united Danish and Swedish fleets lay in Copenhagen road, completely victualled and manned—and that in Norway, two French privateers had taken and carried into Cressland, fourteen British ships richly laden from the Baltic.
Extract of a letter from a merchant in St. Petersburg, to his Correspondent here, dated 28th May, 1796.
"The division of Poland is not yet amicably settled, and from the vigorous preparations for war we fear the consequences—the Swedes and Danes are also arming—but all is secret in this country."
"The small crops the last year, owing to a very severe drought, and the increasing demand for our products, has advanced the price much beyond any former period:—Indeed very little Hemp or Iron can now be had, at any price.—The British government have contracted for ten thousand tons of clear hemp, to be delivered at this city in June; other contracts are made for Spain and Portugal."
"Several ships of your country are taken up for the southern ports in Europe, others (if fast sailers) would now meet with advantageous freights."
"The ice closing our river until the 15th May, will prevent your ships being dispatched with their usual expedition; and it is now impossible to know what price will be demanded for hemp, as the before mentioned contractors are not yet supplied, and orders for purchasing increasing daily."
The altercation between the French Republic and the Canton on Balle, is terminated. The dignified reply of the Swiss Republic, to Citizen Barthelmy, will furnish an excellent comment on the Jacobin insinuation, that the French will resent towards the United States, its conduct in forming a national engagement."
Major Burbank, of the artillery, we are informed, commands at Detroit.—He will be relieved in a few weeks by Major Rivardi, and may be expected home shortly.
The Commissioners appointed by the Legislature to purchase the Penobscot lands the Indians, have, we hear, completed their business.
On Friday last, sailed from this harbor, the sloop Portland Packet, Thurlow, in government service, bound for Halifax, having on board Hon. David Howell, Esq. Commissioner on the part of the United States, to determine our Eastern boundary, the Hon. James Sullivan, Esq. Agent in the same business; and several gentlemen passengers. She is to proceed to Halifax, where the preliminary business with the English Commissioner, Thomas Barclay, Esq. will be transacted—after which she will go to the vicinity of the controverted boundary, where the business will be decided.

Fellow-Citizens,
THE day is at hand on which by law you are to assemble for the choice of Representatives to Congress. An attempt to point out the importance of the business to an enlightened people would seem a libel on their understanding as well as patriotism, did not repeated experience prove its necessity. It is not uncommon that our meetings are throng'd, when some town affair comparatively of the most trivial consequence is to be acted upon, but when the great business of determining in whose hands we will place the management of our highest national concerns, is the object, in many instances scarce enough attend to comply with the formalities required by law. To what can this astonishing indifference to the exercise of our most valuable privileges be owing! Say, you who were witnesses to the complicated horrors of an eight years war with a powerful and merciless nation, you whose friends and brethren were slain in battle, or confined in loathsome prisons, barbarously suffering the pangs of hunger, torture and death in defence of our liberties—how can you account for the surprising inattention that has been frequent on such occasions? Does it not argue a want of that true republican spirit that ought to fill the breast of every American? Nay more—does it not discover an ingratitude to heaven unbecoming a people favored as we have been? If we lose our liberties of which there certainly is danger, it will be from a neglect to improve the advantages that have been placed in our hands.
Rouse then, fellow citizens to a sense of duty, let not the present opportunity pass unimproved, see that your suffrages are for men in whom you can confide, men whose interests are inseparable from yours, for be assured, however unpleasing the consideration (such is the depravity of human nature) that political integrity too often forms but a feeble barrier when in competition with personal interest.—Lists will probably be handed you and urged with much zeal & earnestness, if so, consider well whether those candidates can have any purposes to answer incompatible with the general good. Combinations have been formed, & tickets full of lawyers palmed on the public, every effort will be made for them by their brethren and such others as they have had the address to gain over to their views, their frequent opportunities of holding consultations will render their influence considerable, the interest they feel in promoting their brethren to seats in Congress serves as a constant stimulus to exertion, and renders it necessary to be on our guard; for however respectable a part of the community they may be considered, every independent mind must spurn at their attempts to engross so large a share in the administration of government, as they seem to be aiming at.—Though the agricultural and mercantile interest merit the most particular attention, and ought fully to be represented, yet I am by no means desirous of excluding gentlemen of the law, many of them possess abilities, and I would charitably hope, a good share of patriotism, but they cannot with decency claim more than one place in four, that I am willing they should be allowed, provided the choice be properly made, and if it can be thought of as much importance to the community, that the merchant as well as the lawyer should meet with public patronage, it cannot be thought arrogant to claim another for some gentleman of that profession, more particularly when it is considered how small the number that have, or probably will at any time be found in Congress. A merchant in full business cannot without great injury to his interest accept the appointment. While lawyers are (many of them) gentlemen of leisure and generally ready to obey such calls, the consequence is that they abound in Congress beyond any other denomination of citizens, an evil that certainly requires a remedy. The only merchant I have heard named in this State who could accept if chosen, is Woodbury Langdon, Esq. his abilities are undoubted, they have been discovered in the various public employments, to which he has been called, particularly in the settlement of accounts between the United States and the individual States, which though arduous and intricate, terminated to general satisfaction beyond what could reasonably have been expected. Possessing abilities, he certainly has had the means of acquiring the best political information—he is both farmer and merchant, is possessed of a valuable property in each character, and of course must be deeply interested in the happiness and prosperity of his country—he doubtless has some political enemies, as every man has who seems to pay devotion at the shrine of popularity—but notwithstanding this, from the best information, joined to the propriety of the measure, there is scarce a doubt but he will be elected. Among the other candidates are the names of Abiel Foster, Thomas Cogswell, Nathaniel Peabody, William Plummer and Joseph Cilley, Esquires, either three of whom with Mr. Langdon would form a very respectable and proper representation from New-Hampshire.
A CITIZEN.
FOR THE GAZETTE.
MR. MELCHER,
YOU will very much oblige a large number of respectable citizens by inserting for the consideration of the good people of this State, the following list of Candidates for Representatives to Congress.
Jeremiah Smith, Esq. Peterborough. Abiel Foster, Esq. Canterbury. John Prentice, Esq. Londonderry. William Gordon, Esq. Amherst.
A CITIZEN.
Gilmantown, Aug. 8, 1796.
LONDON, June 8. London papers to the 8th of June, brought by the Farmer contain the following particulars.
On the 11th May General Massena entered Milan; on the 19th the tri-colored cockade was hoisted by the inhabitants. The Dutchy of Modena purchased peace by paying ten millions of livres and four millions in provisions. On the 20th May, Bologna was in possession of the French. French privateers commissioned by Salicetti take all Austrian and Roman vessels they meet in the Mediterranean. The London Courier states, the victories of the French are marked with moderation, and that their armies preserve the strictest discipline. The courier of the 8th June, contains a full report of the debate of the house of representatives of the United States on the British treaty. The Star of June 7, states that a division of the Toulon fleet had eluded the vigilance of the English, and had arrived on the Genoese coast.
The enemy were collecting considerable flotillas of flat bottomed and gun boats, &c. at Ostend, Dunkirk and Flushing.
HALIFAX, Aug. 2.
Monday arrived here the brig Friendship of Newbury-Port, Capt. Thomas Smith, from Aux Cayes, which place she left the 5th June. She is sent in for adjudication by his Majesty's ships Thetis and Prevoyante.
FAYETTEVILLE, (N.C.) July 30.
Two valuable prizes, the homeward bound Jamaica fleet, were sent into Wilmington a few days past, by a small privateer schooner, belonging to the Republic of France—the prizes, viz. a ship and a brig, were laden with sugar, rum and coffee, and are estimated at 100,000 dollars value—the privateer, we understand, had also captured four other prizes before she fell in with the above.
NEW-YORK, Aug. 15.
Captain Hubbell, who arrived yesterday in 18 days from St. Thomas's, informs, that on the 12th July, an engagement took place off the Island of St. Martin's, between a French frigate of 44 guns, and two English sloops of war, one of 26 and the other of 28 guns, but the Frenchman beat them off. Immediately after an English frigate of 32 guns bore down upon her, but a squall coming on, separated them.
AGAIN
By Captain Hubbell, of the sloop Endeavour, 18 days from St. Thomas's, it appears, that the French frigate that was engaged with the two British sloops of war, was La Penfee, of 44 guns, which had arrived at St. Thomas's in a shattered condition, previous to Capt. H's leaving that port.
The French sloop of war Scipio, from New-York on a cruise, has arrived at St. Thomas's.
Letters from Philadelphia, mention, "That the Thames is taken by the Santa Margareta, an English frigate of 32 guns; and Le Tribune, by the Unicorn, of 32 guns."
From the Newport Mercury.
Mr. Barber, Please to let the following Deposition appear in your Mercury, that, if possible, every citizen may be roused with resolution to prevent in future a British Crown from being supported at the expence of the blood of innocent Americans, and you will much oblige A CUSTOMER.
COLBORNE PARKER, of New London, in the State of Connecticut, mariner, of lawful age, do hereby testify and say: That I was in the month of April, A.D. 1793, with six others, pressed out of the ship Permuta, belonging to New York, by the Hufsar, a British frigate, of 36 guns, commanded by Capt. George, where I found five or six Americans that were pressed before us, who were all compelled to do duty equal to their own enlisted men. I remained on board the Hufsar about eighteen months, and was then put on board the Argonaut, another frigate of the same rate, where I remained about eight or ten months, and was then put on board the Wiscaw, a two and thirty gun frigate, and remained on board the Wiscaw until about the first of Jan. 1795, and was then put on board a snow called the Isle of Mire, of 16 guns, which on the 26th day of March 1795, came into Newport harbour and landed several passengers from Halifax, to wit: A Miss Smith, Mrs. Belcher, Mrs. Brimmer, and three other ladies, and returned back to Halifax immediately, and I was again put on board the Hufsar, where I remained until about seven weeks ago, when I and two men that belong to Cape Cod, in the night swam from the Hufsar, lying at anchor in Halifax harbour, at which time we left 43 Americans on board said Hufsar, who were also pressed and obliged to do duty as we were. At the time I was in Newport harbor in the snow, there were six or seven other Americans on board her. I was three years and three months kept in the British service as aforesaid, and compelled to fight the French against my will. While on board the Hufsar, we took one French frigate of 32 guns; and while on board the Argonaut, we took the Esperance of 28 guns; there was about 16 or 18 Americans on board the Argonaut, when I was on board the Wiscaw about a dozen.
I was informed that there were a large number of Americans on board the Thetis frigate, and I have reason to believe there are more or less on board every ship in Admiral Murray's squadron, even to the amount of many hundreds. I have never been able to get a letter or any information to any Americans that might by chance come on board and return, or any other way to give notice of my being an
American; for it is the general rule, whenever a British ship comes into any harbor in the United States, to drive the Americans below, and place centries over them, that an American is not allowed to speak a single word.
COLBORNE PARKER. South Kingston, July 27, 1796.
Washington Jf. at South Kingston, on this 27th of July, 1796.
Personally came, the above named Colborne Parker, and made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition, by him subscribed before me.
CYRUS FRENCH, Justice Peace.
From the Maryland Herald.
Mr. Cowan, In reading over a late paper, I met with the following address to the people of the United States. As the sentiments and warning it contains are applicable to the citizens of our district, as well as to those of other districts in the Union, I request you, Sir, to publish it in your Herald, for the attentive consideration of our fellow citizens.
I am, Sir, Your humble servant, A SUBSCRIBER. July 22, 1796.
To the People of the United States.
There are prevailing in this country two parties of very opposite sentiments. But without tracing them through all the distinctions by which they have respectively been known, it is sufficient to observe, and it is greatly important for every citizen to be informed, that one party is exerting all its endeavors to involve the United States in the calamities of war, and that the other party is wily, and I trust successfully, employed in preserving our peace and happiness. To men, well acquainted with the true situation of our public affairs, this information is unnecessary; but too many of the people are inattentive to political objects, and appear unconscious of their danger. Being themselves in the possession of all the blessings which a good government wisely administered has bestowed, they do not imagine that turbulent and seditious men surround them, and labor to destroy their repose. And yet the better to deceive into this fatal security, these turbulent and ambitious men, borrow the language of patriotism, and hypocritically assume the character of patriots. But these blessings, dear and interesting as they are, are held at present by nothing but a thread: For while the war rages in Europe, be assured the situation of this country will remain eminently critical. The continuance of that terrible war, famous for the destruction of man, keeps alive the hopes of this malignant party; and they still expect, by artifice and fraud, to make us partake in all its horrors.
Let these, then, who are really the friends of peace, look around them, and make themselves inquisitive about the temper and character of every candidate for office: The ensuing elections for members of the House of Representatives in Congress will require all the caution and fortitude of which the human mind is capable. Citizens, be careful how you dispose of your suffrages—Pause for a moment, and consider who you turn out, and who you put in. Inquire minutely into the public conduct of those who have served you already: Do not judge of them by this or that particular instance, but by the general tenor and complexion of their political actions. If you find that your member has sided with the partizans of war, and has fought to "flop the wheels of government" and embarrass the honest views of our worthy President, turn him out without respect to his person, and elect the friend of peace. If on the contrary, your present member has invariably supported the measures of peace, and united his endeavors to preserve amity between the United States and other nations be sure to run no hazard—be sure to re-elect him; you are certain, by repeated trials that he is a friend to your prosperity and happiness; and from the proofs he has given of his firmness and fidelity, you may safely depend upon his future exertions for the same desirable ends. By a change, the prosperity of our country may be hazarded, and our rights and liberties may be swallowed up in the terrors of a sanguinary revolution.—But a prudent people, like a wise individual, should put nothing so valuable at stake—They should never give up a CERTAINTY for an UNCERTAINTY. Citizens, attend! Let PEACE be the watch-word of your safety.
A FARMER.
June 20, 1796.
BOSTON, August 17.
Immigrations to the United States continue to increase. Almost every vessel from Ireland, is filled with passengers.
The Canals and Locks by the great falls of Pauquet, are in such forwardness, as promise to be passable for boats in September.
From every quarter we hear of rapid improvements in our country. The means of communication are increasing—and success attends every enterprise.
The Medical Society of Charleston, has informed the public, that its members know of no contagious disease in that city.
The scourges of war ought ever to be held in view to deter nations from intailing them, from passion or ambition.—We therefore give the following anecdote, which may be relied on, and which we have learnt from a gentleman who left the West-Indies last month. When the 18th regt. arrived at Barbadoes with Admiral Christie's squadron, it consisted of 750 effective men; in two months it lost, by the fever, 575—the remains were then incorporated with the remnant of another regt. which had been there some time, and at the time our informant left the
islands both consisted of no more than 103 effectives.
From NEW-YORK, August 10.
Monday evening arrived here, the ship Belvidere, Capt. Ingraham, in 63 days from Havre.
A number of vessels were lying at Havre de Grace, when the Belvidere failed, with their cargoes on board, about 20 sail with their cargoes of flour, chiefly, for different ports in France and Holland, to try the markets.
Flour at 5 crowns in Havre, and money scarce—17,000 bbls. dull for speculators.
Two French frigates and 3 corvettes left Havre the day before Capt. Ingraham failed, supposed with an intention of joining the Dutch fleet in the Texel.
From FORT DAUPHIN.
Capt. Nason informs us, Fort Dauphin was delivered to the French, just previous to his sailing, in pursuance of the Article in the French and Spanish Treaty, which cedes Spanish Hispaniola to the French. The French, immediately on getting possession, commenced the exercise of their colonial despotism upon the Americans. They take all cargoes—at their own prices—and pay those prices principally in promissory notes.
Capt. Snow, from St. Marks, says, it was extremely sickly there, 20 or 30 seamen or soldiers dying every day. A British officer observed, that "the French needed only to exercise a little patience, and their enemies on the island would be completely destroyed, without taxing their ammunition or exertion."
Extraction of a letter from an American gentleman of the first respectability in France to a gentleman in Boston—[whose name is left with the Printers of the Chronicle]—of a late date.
"The news of this country you undoubtedly have in the papers with more accuracy than I can give it—the question of peace and War, is the only interesting event. Peace is all the time in contemplation, and I believe I may say, negotiating between France and the Emperor, and may be expected to take place before next winter; but it is my opinion that there will be no Peace with England for two years; and I think it possible that before that event takes place, the Bank Notes of England may not be more valuable than the Assignats or Mandates of France."
The ship Eliza, Captain Smith, of Boston, was captured on her passage from Bordeaux, by a British frigate, carried into Martinique and condemned.
The Commissioners appointed by the Legislature to purchase the Penobscot lands of the Indians, have, we learn, completed their business.
CORSAICA.
It appears that the Corsican Republicans, who some time since had driven the English and their partizans from the interior of Corsica are already masters of Ajaccio. If this is really the case, they are not only in possession of the southern half of Corsica, but of nine tenths of that precious jewel which two years ago was with so much exultation added to the crown of Britain.
Ajaccio is situated on a gulph of the same name on the western coast of Corsica. It is the finest place, the second town in size, and the best port of that island.
When Paoli had, in 1793, determined to sell his native land to the British, his first care was to get possession of Ajaccio, which his adherents effected soon after by treachery. After the loss of that important place, the French, notwithstanding all possible efforts, were unable to keep any other post but Bastia, and the wretched posts of Calvi and St. Florenzo.—We have reason to suppose that the loss of Ajaccio will be accompanied with still more decisive and disgraceful consequences to the English.
SALEM, August 12.
Arrived the sch'r Hope, Capt. Moulton, from Merriguane, via Halifax, for Beverly, Capt. M. was captured by the Thetis, and sent into Halifax. The mate of the Hope was taken out and sent home in the Eliza to Boston, with a letter from Capt. Cochran, informing that he conceived it his duty to take the vessel, and wished that proof of property, &c. if really American, might be sent to Halifax. This was done and the vessel cleared, but as there was said to be probable cause of capture, the claimants were obliged to pay costs, amounting exclusive of detention, &c. to about 100l.
There is now lying at Union Wharf, Salem, a Schooner of about 25 tons burthen, marked on the stern "Polly of Boston." She was brought there on the night of Saturday July 30. It is not known from whence she came or where she belongs. No person has been seen on board her, since her arrival, nor has any care been taken of her, except by persons on the wharf. She is already some damaged for want of proper attention and every thing on board appears to be going to destruction. She has neither stores nor merchandise on board.
NEWBURY-PORT, Aug. 16.
SHIP NEWS.
Yesterday arrived here the Schooner Nymph, Capt. Mayhew, 23 days from Fort Royal. Left there the following vessels: brig Jane, Dalton, of this port, to sail in 3 weeks; sloop
Speedwell, Motley, to sail in 14 days; Schooner Atlantic, Court of Boston, to sail in 4 days; Schooner Nickerson, Marblehead, to sail in 3 weeks; Sloop Stork, Eldridge, of Boston, to sail in 2 or 3 days; Schooner Hulling of Marblehead, to sail in 10 days.
Capt. Mayhew stopped at St. Bartholomews. Left there a Schooner belonging to Portland; Schooner Cyth, Bennet, of Philadelphia, bound to St. Croix; failed in company with Capt. Colby of Newbury Port, bound to St. Croix.
July 23. lat. 19. 10 long. 65. spoke Capt. Anthony Knap, of this port, 23 days out, bound to Hispaniola.
A number of troops was embarking when Capt. Mayhew left Martinique, but their destination was not known.
PORTSMOUTH, Aug. 20.
DIED.—At Exeter the 10th inst. very suddenly in childbed, Mrs. ABIGAIL GILMAN, the amiable and respectable consort of Nathaniel Gilman, Esq. and eldest daughter of the late Rev. Woodbridge Oldlin, aged about 28 years.
"How lov'd, how valued, once, avails thee not;
"To whom related, or by whom begot.
"A heap of dust alone remains of thee— 'Tis all thou art—and all that w. shall be."
ENTRIES at the CUSTOM-HOUSE
Table with 4 columns: District of PORTSMOUTH, N. H. Entered, From, Brig, Cleared, For. Lists various ships and their origins/destinations.
A Horse race
3 o'clock this day, on the Race Ground, opposite Mr. Coulbroth's, on the Newington road, about three miles from Portsmouth—large bets made, and room to make more—a fine time this for sportsmen. Saturday, Aug. 20.
TICKETS.
A few Tickets in the 4th Class of Harvard College Lottery, which commences drawing the 15th September next, may be had at H. & B. Penhallow's Store. Portsmouth, Aug. 19, 1796.
Sweetness
For sale cheap by wholesale & retail, at
Mr. Manet's Shop
On Spring Hill, viz. SUGAR Candy—Sugar Plumbs—Sugar Almonds—Citron—Carraway and Peppermint.—Likewise—
West-India Goods And Groceries as usual. Portsmouth, Aug. 19.
A Cow Loft.
STRAYED from this town on Monday evening the 15th inst. a black Cow, the left side of her face almost white; whoever will return her to Mrs. Henderson, at Portsmouth shall be handsomely rewarded for their trouble. Portsmouth, Aug. 20.
THE Members of the
New-Hampshire Friendly Society are requested to meet at the Bell Tavern in Portsmouth, on Monday the 5th day of September next, at 7 o'clock, P. M. to appropriate, or apply the funds of the society to certain purposes.
By Order of the President, THOMAS MARTIN, Clerk. Portsmouth, Aug. 18, 1796.
MUSIC.
MR. Johnson proposes opening a School for the instruction of Sacred Vocal Music, and should encouragement offer, will devote three nights in each week to that purpose, at the rate of two dollars per quarter, one half to be paid at entrance.—All the respectable musical characters in town will attest to his abilities in that science, and he hopes to merit the patronage of the public by his assiduity. Portsmouth, Aug. 19.

IGNORANCE OF LAW IS AN EXCUSE FOR NO MAN.
The subscriber being duly authorized by the Hon. GENERAL COURT to print a second edition of the Laws of the State of New-Hampshire (his first edition having met the approbation of the public, and the whole sold) therefore in order that every person who wishes might have an opportunity of procuring a correct copy of the same, in the cheapest manner possible, he has thought it expedient to present to the public
PROPOSALS For Printing the LAWS
of the State of New-Hampshire, The Constitution of the State, and the Constitution of the United States, in one handsome Octavo volume, on the following
CONDITIONS. 1. The whole shall be comprised in one large Octavo volume, to contain all the Laws of the State now in force, those that shall be passed previous to the works being completed; the Constitution of this State, and the Constitution of the United States, with a copious index inserted at the end of the volume.
II. The work shall be neatly printed on good Paper with an elegant Type.
III. The price to subscribers will be only one dollar & fifty cents, neatly bound and lettered.
IV. The money to be paid on delivery of the books.
V. The work is committed to Press, and will be finished with convenient speed.
JOHN MELCHER, Printer to the State. To non-subscribers the books will not be sold for less than two dollars. Subscriptions received by the publisher at his Printing-Office and Bookstore corner of Market-Street, Portsmouth, and by various persons with whom subscription papers are lodged. Portsmouth, August 1796.
TO BE SOLD. And entered on the first of April next, A Farm,
Laying in the East parish of Londonderry, New-Hampshire, within one mile and half of the Meeting House, AND very contiguous to saw and grist mills, said farm was late the property of John Cochran, deceased, and contains about one hundred acres of mowing, tillage, pasture and wood land, all enclosed chiefly with stone wall, together with two dwelling houses, two barns and other out buildings; produces hay and pasture to keep twenty head of cattle, and orcharding sufficient to make fifty barrels of cyder yearly, the soil is allowed to be as good as any in that part of the town. Any person inclining to purchase the same, may know the conditions by applying to the subscribers residing near the premises ROBERT BARNET, } Executors to JOHN ADAMS, } said estate. Londonderry, July 30, 1796.
ALL persons indebted to, or that have any demands against the estate of Elijah Cartlan, late of Lee, inhoulder, deceased, are requested to exhibit the same without delay, for settlement to ABIGAIL CARTLAN Administratrix of said Estate. For which purpose attendance will be given at the late Mansion House of the deceased, on the 1st Mondays of the five following months, from 2 to 5 of the clock in the afternoon. Lee, July 18, 1796.
NOTICE is hereby given that a tax of five dollars on each original right or share of land in the township of Eaton, in the county of Strafford, and State of New-Hampshire, has been assessed by the proprietors of said Eaton, and has been committed to me to collect, and the same has been advertised for payment as the law of this State directs, and the original right of Jonathan Warner, Esq. has not been paid, and unless the same is paid to me the subscriber, on or before the 20th day of September next, together with incidental charges on the same, so much of said right will be sold at public vendue according to law, as will pay the same at my dwelling house, in Eaton aforesaid, at 10 o'clock on said day. JACOB BLASDEL, Prop'r's Collector. Eaton, August 4, 1796.
TAKE NOTICE!
ALL persons who have any demands on the estate of George Frost, Esq. late of Durham, in the county of Strafford, deceased, are requested to exhibit their claims to George Frost, administrator on said estate; and those who are indebted to said estate, are requested to make payment. Northwood, August 6, 1796.
President's Speeches, &c.
Are now published in one handsome volume, and ready for subscribers and others,
By S. Larkin, At the Portsmouth Book-Store, Market-Street.
WATSON'S Apology for the Bible. Clarke's Letters to a Student, and a new edition of Morse's Universal Geography, 2 vols. A few Tickets and Quarters in Harvard College Lottery may be had as above if applied for soon. August 13, 1796.
Twenty Chests of Fresh TEA, FOR SALE AT William Smith's Store, On Portsmouth Pier, at the Boston prices. July 28, 1796.
European Goods.
Luther Ellis, North End Market-Street.
RESPECTFULLY informs his customers and others that he has now ready for sale a large assortment of European Goods, directly from the manufactories, which will be sold by wholesale and retail, on reasonable terms. As the assortment is general he thinks it unnecessary to particularize the articles.
ALSO A quantity of Sheathing Paper. Portsmouth July 9, 1796. [t.b.c.]
Joseph Haven HAS JUST RECEIVED A large and general assortment of European GOODS, Suitable to all seasons, which will be sold at the lowest rate. t.b.c.
FOR SALE On very reasonable terms, A large and valuable
F A R M, In Barrington, CONTAINING six hundred acres, now under improvement by Israel Pierce; said farm has an excellent growth of wood on it, and is situated only six miles from Durham Landing; for particulars apply to WILLIAM SHEAFE. Portsmouth, Aug. 6, 1796.
Dartmouth College Lottery. Class Second.
THE MANAGERS of Dartmouth College Lottery present to the Public the following SCHEME of the Second Class, in which they have aimed to meet their wishes by making a larger proportion of valuable prizes than usual; they flatter themselves that the same Public Spirit will be displayed, by encouraging the sale of Tickets in this, that was so fully manifested in the former Class.
  Prizes. Dollars. Dollars.    1 of 3000 3000  1 of 1000 1000  4 of 500 2000  10 of 200 2000  20 of 100 2000  30 of 50 1500  80 of 20 1600  100 of 10 1000  1650 of 6 9900  1896 Prizes. 24,000  4104 Blanks.  
*6000 Tickets at 4 Dollars are 24,000 Subject to a deduction of twelve and an half per Cent. Of the above prizes of 500 Dollars, one of them will be placed to the first drawn Blank, and the other three to the three last drawn Blanks. This Class will positively commence drawing at Concord, on the first day of December next; and when completed, a list of Prizes will be immediately published, and the Prizes paid on demand. JONA. FREEMAN, } Managers. BENJ. CONNER, } Managers. W'M A. KENT. } Managers. June 13, 1796.
H. & B. Penhallow Have just imported in the Africa, Capt Tinkham, from Liverpool, and have now ready for sale at their Store in Market-Street, A large and general assortment of CUTLARY.
CLOCK, smooth; Surveyor's chains. & common files. Horsemen's pistols & Scicels. hangers. Goldsmith's shears. Bung & tap borers. Garden shears. Spike and deck nail gimblets. Copper fish kettles. Brass & iron chaffing dishes. Copper tea kettles. Brass & iron skimmers. Brass and iron candlesticks. Locks, latches, &c. Brass wire.
Portsmouth, August 4, 1796.
Samuel Sparhawk, jr. Daniel-Street, Has received by way of New-York, A variety of Ladies' black, straw-color'd and red Morocco Slippers, and Childrens' black & red Shoes of all sizes; Also, Diapers, handsome Muslin Apron patterns, &c.—Likewise, green Sun Fans, large and small, and Oil skin hood coverings, &c. August 11, 1796.
For sale, a few bolts Russia & Holland's Duck, By TOBIAS WALKER at his Sail-Loft on Pearn's Wharf, at the North End. Portsmouth, Aug. 10, 1796.
THE Invalids in the State of New-Hampshire who have been placed upon the Pension list, pursuant to an act of Congress passed the 20th of April 1796, are requested to call on the commissioner of Loans in Portsmouth, and receive payment to the 4th of March last. July 8, 1796. [6 w.]
State of New-Hampshire. Strafford.
To Andrew M c Millen, Esquire, Clerk for the proprietors of Conway.
WE the subscribers, proprietors and owners of more than one eighth part of all the common and undivided land in the town of Conway, desire you the said M c Millen, to notify and warn agreeable to law a meeting of said proprietors to meet at the school-house, near the meeting-house in the northerly part of the town on Thursday the first day of September next at 1 of the clock, then and there when met to choose a moderator to regulate said meeting.
2d. To see if the proprietors will vote to have a proper plan of the town with every division and raise money to complete the same.
3d. To see if the proprietors will vote to cut roads to the hundred acre lots and raise money for the same.
4th. To see if the proprietors will vote to raise any money for building a bridge over Saco river in the most convenient place between the head of Odell's falls and Dolaff's fordway (so called) and how much; also to take some method to carry it into effect.
5th. To choose a committee to examine the records and surveyors minutes and returns, and if they find any mistake or omission of any lot or lots not being assigned or recorded, to assign or record them and to make good to all such delinquent rights or lots, if any there be, their legal proportion which properly belongs to them.
6th. To see if the proprietors will choose a committee to settle with all the former collectors that has not paid up the whole of the proprietors money.
7th. To choose a collector and assessors for all money which may be voted to be raised at this meeting.
8th. To see if the proprietors will vote to lay out all the common and undivided land that is not laid out in the town of Conway, and assign the same to them that it properly belongs to.
Andrew M c Millen, Samuel Willes, Joseph Thompson, Elijah Densmore, Richard Kimball, Elijah Densmore, jr., David Page, Thomas Merral, Moses Wilson, Amos Merral, Joseph Odell, Enoch Merral, Thomas Russell,
State of New-Hampshire. Conway, July 5, 1796.
Agreeable to the within application, in the name of the State of New-Hampshire. I do hereby notify and warn the proprietors of the town of Conway, to assemble and meet at time and place within mentioned, then and there, when met to act on the several matters and things here above expressed. ANDREW M c MILLEN, Prop'r's Clerk.
FOR SALE BY Wm. Plummer & Co. A few Crates Liverpool Ware, At a moderate advance.
ALSO A quantity of Green Copers and Spanish Brown.
West-India GOODS AS USUAL.
By Authority.
Don JOSEPH IGNATIUS DE VIAR , Consul General and Charge des Affaires, from his Catholic Majesty, to the United States of America, &c.
TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. WHEREAS permissions have been granted by my predecessor to carry Flour, and other provisions to the Havannah, which the holders of them have not yet thought proper to put in execution: And whereas that trade has lately been stopped by Royal Order: Now therefore, this is to make known, that no vessel which may be cleared out from the United States, after the date of this publication, and proceeding under the said permissions, will be admitted to an entry at the said port of Havannah, agreeable to an official communication made to me by the Intendant of said port, dated the 21st ult. in virtue of which I give this public notice. Philadelphia, July 12, 1796. Consular-Office, at Boston, the 19th day of July, 1796.
TICKETS.
WHOLE, Half and Quarter Tickets in Dartmouth College Lottery for sale at J MELCHER'S Printing Office, Portsmouth.
Five Dollars Reward.
RAN AWAY from the subscriber at Newbury-Port on the first day of June last, an apprentice boy, named WILLIAM GROVER , about 16 years of age, rather short, light coloured hair, had on when he ran away a short striped jacket and trowers; whoever will return said boy to his master at Gloucester, shall have five dollars reward, and all charges paid. All persons are cautioned against harbouring or carrying said boy away as they will be dealt with as the law in such cases directs. SAMUEL WHEELER, Gloucester, August 2, 1796.
Fresh Groceries, Just received & now selling at Wm. Leverett's
GROCERY STORE, No. 2, Jaffrey's Row, sign of the Golden Bottle—consisting of GENUINE Citron, Nutmegs. French Brandy, Cloves and Mace. dy. W. I. Rum. Confectionary. Welch's best Choc- olate, Capers. Malaga, Lisbon, & Sherry Wines. Mustard, Candles. Molasses. Best Liquid Blueing in small jugs. Hibbert's real London bottled Porter. Poland and common Starch. Philadelphia Porter. Hair Powder. Hyson & Souchong. Tamerends. Teas. Honey, Indigo. Fresh Bohemian Tea by the hundred or single pound. 4d, 6d and 8d Cut Nails. Loaf, India & Brown Sugars. German Steel. Powder and Shot. Rice, Flour, Coffee. 7 by 9, and 8 by 10 Window Glass. Pepper, Allspice. Rock Salt. Coke and Bar Soap. Fresh Lisbon Lemons by the box or less quantity. Brimstone. Ground and Race Ginger. Currants. Real fresh Cinnamon, Cassia.
Stone Ware, consisting of Jugs, Pickle Pots, Butter Pots, &c. with a variety of other articles usually kept in a grocery store; all of which will be sold as low as can be purchased. He thanks his friends and customers for past favors, and will endeavor by his exertions to keep a continuance of the same. If the articles when purchased do not suit, they will be received back, and money returned. Constant attendance given. Portsmouth, Aug. 11, 1796.
A general assortment of BLANKS
Printed on good Paper, are constantly kept for sale at J. MELCHER'S Printing-Office and Book-Store, Corner of Market Street.
CONCORD. THE following rights of land in the township of Concord, county of Grafton, have been assessed for a State tax of eight pence, and for county tax one shilling on each original right, for the year 1790, and still remain unpaid, viz.
Medad Pomeroy, Elisha Hunt, Ebenezer Harvey, Arad Hunt, Philip Marion, Nathan Harvey, Samuel Wire, Hophney King, Wm. Symes, Ebenezer Severance, Phineas Wright, Jonathan Hunt, Shammah Pomeroy, Eleazer Pomeroy, Eliphas Wright, Ebenezer Walbridge, Josiah Pomeroy, John Smith, Joseph Burt, Joseph Wheelwright, Samuel Clark, Benjamin Burt, Aaron Burt, Jonathan Burt, Enos Burt, Reuben Smith, Elijah Mattoon, Willard Stevens, Gideon Lyman, Benjamin Sheldon, jr. Joseph Lyman, Elijah Lyman, Stephen Belding, Eldad Wright, Hezekiah Elmore, Samuel Root, Timothy Root, John Hubbard, Woolston Brockway, Silas Hamilton, Savage Truscott, James Matthews, Joseph Mosley, William Horkins, Christopher Horkins, Eleazer Warner, John Moffatt, Daniel Bull, Samuel Hunt, William Lang, Afael Burt, Jonathan Gilman, James Nevins, William Temple, Moses Harvey, Eleazer Burt.
NOW this is to give notice that unless the sum of fifteen cents on each of the rights of land aforesaid, with the legal charges, be paid to me the subscriber at my dwelling house in Lyman, in said county of Grafton, on or before the twenty sixth day of September next, so much of the lands of the delinquents will be sold at public vendue, on said twenty sixth day of September, at the dwelling house of Maj. Samuel Young in said Concord, as will pay the same, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon. TIMOTHY BAYLEY, Constable for 1790. Concord, June 15, 1796.
CONCORD. THE following rights of land in the township of Concord, county of Grafton, have been assessed for a State tax, fifteen cents on each original right for the year 1795, and still remain unpaid, viz.
Joseph Burt, William Symes, William Horkins, Jonathan Burt, Samuel Clark, John _____, Eleazer Burt, Josiah Pomeroy, Eliphas Wright, Elijah Mattoon, Ebenezer Severance, jr. Ebenezer Harvey, Samuel Hunt, Elisha Hunt, Willard Stephens, Aaron Burt, Benjamin Burt, Joseph Wheelwright, Christopher Horkins, Enos Burt, Eleazer Warner, John Smith, Ebenezer Walbridge, Shammah Pomeroy, Hophney King, Stephen Belding, Daniel Bull, Jonathan Hunt, Arad Hunt, Samuel Wire, Savage Truscott, Silas Hamilton, Medad Pomeroy, Phineas Wright, John Hubbard, Joseph Mosley, Philip Mattoon, Eldad Wright, Afael Burt, Joseph Lyman, Gideon Lyman, Elijah Lyman, Hezekiah Elmore, James Matthews, William Lang, Woolston Brockway, Benjamin Sheldon, jr. Timothy Root, Moses Harvey, Nathan Harvey, Maj. Richard Emery, Jonathan Gilman, Samuel Root, James Nevins, William Temple, Reuben Smith.
NOW this is to give notice that unless the sum of fifteen cents on each of the rights of land aforesaid, with the legal charges be paid to me the subscriber, at my dwelling-house in said Concord, on or before the twelfth day of September next, so much of the lands of the delinquents will be sold at public vendue on said twelfth day of September, at the dwelling-house of Major Samuel Young, in said Concord, as will pay the same, at ten o'clock in the forenoon. THOMAS SPOONER, Collector of said taxes. Concord, June 15, 1796.
ROCKINGHAM.
PUBLIC notice is hereby given by the subscriber, that the entry and duty on carriages for the conveyance of persons, pursuant to an act of Congress, passed at their last sessions (and has been communicated to the public, thro' the medium of this paper.)
That he shall for the convenience of the citizens within this county, attend at Mr. Lamson's tavern in Exeter, on Thursday the 15th day of September next, from 9 o'clock in the morning, 'till four in the afternoon, for the purpose of receiving entries and duties; also to issue retailers licences, for the year commencing 1st day of October next; and every other day in said month from 10 o'clock, A.M. 'till 4 o'clock, P.M. (Sundays excepted) at the Inspection Office in Portsmouth, for the purposes aforesaid.
GEORGE WENTWORTH, Collector of the Revenue for the first division in the district of New-Hampshire. Portsmouth, July 26, 1796. [6w.]