The New Hampshire gazette (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1799-08-06 00:00:00

THE New Hampshire Gazette.
— MY COUNTRY'S GOOD SHALL BE MY CONSTANT AIM —
PORTSMOUTH: (NEW-HAMPSHIRE)—PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY 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. XLIII—Numb. 2227.]
TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1799.
[One Dollar & half pr. Annum.]
Published by Authority.
Acts passed at a Session of the General Court held at Concord, June 1799.
[Concluded from the Gazette of the 23d ult.]
AN ACT to divide the tenth regiment of Militia in said State.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened, That the companies in Gilmantown (except the first company) shall form a first battalion; that the first company in Gilmantown, and the companies in Barnstead, shall form a second battalion, which shall constitute the tenth regiment; that the companies in Sanbornton, shall form a first battalion; that the companies in Meredith, New-Hampton and Centre-Harbor, shall form a second battalion, which shall constitute the twenty-ninth regiment, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.
Approved June 12, 1799.
AN ACT for the division of the twenty-first regiment of Militia in said State.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened, That the companies in the town of Boscawen and Hopkinton, shall form a first battalion; the companies in the towns of Salisbury and Andover form a second battalion, which shall constitute the twenty-first regiment; and the companies in the towns of Warner, Bradford and Kea-farge Gore form a first battalion; and the companies in the towns of Fitzersfield, New-London and Sutton form a second battalion, which shall constitute the thirtieth regiment, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.
Approved June 13, 1799.
AN ACT suspending in certain cases the operation of an act, intitled, "an act for the limitation of actions, and for preventing of vexatious suits," passed the sixteenth day of June, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened, That the several periods specified in said act, shall be computed from the first day of April, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, instead of from the first day of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one as expressed in said act.
Provided nevertheless, That this act shall not be construed to effect any judgment or decision of any Court heretofore rendered by virtue of said act.
Approved June 14, 1799.
AN ACT to prevent undue influence and fraud in town meetings, and in the choice of town and State officers.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened, That if any person or persons at any town or district meeting within this State, legally warned, to transact the business thereof, in the choice of any town, county or state officer, or representative for such town, or district, or for representatives to Congress, shall hereafter put into any box or hat, or cause to be received for the purpose of being counted, or cause to be counted in any other way or manner in said meeting, more than one vote, at any one balloting for any such officer or representative, or for any candidate for any town, county, state officer or representative as aforesaid, usually chosen by ballot, on conviction thereof, he or they shall forfeit and pay, for each and every such vote so put in, or cause to be counted in any other manner more than such person is intitled to by law, the sum of six dollars to be recovered by bill, plaint, or information, or suit, before any court proper to try the same, in the county where such offence is committed, one moiety thereof to and for the use of the town or parish where the offender is an inhabitant, the other moiety to the use of the informant or person who will sue for the same with full costs.
And be it further enacted, That if any moderator, selectman or selectmen, whose business it is by law to preside at any such town or district meeting within this State, shall knowingly and
fraudulently receive and count any such vote so illegally and fraudulently put in by any person whomsoever, for the choice of any town, county, state officer or representative as aforesaid, or shall knowingly, knowingly or fraudulently embezzle from or add, any vote to the number of votes legally given in such meeting for the choice of any town, county, state officer, or representative as aforesaid, usually chosen by ballot, he or they shall on conviction thereof, forfeit and pay for each and every vote so received and counted, embezzled or added, the sum of forty dollars, to be recovered and distributed in the same manner, form and proportion as above, in this act is directed.
And be it further enacted, That if any moderator, selectman or selectmen, presiding at any town, or district meeting in this State, for the choice of any town or district officers or any county or state officers or representatives to Congress usually chosen by ballot, shall receive and count any vote given at said meeting by proxy and without the personal delivery of such vote by the person entitled to give the same, on conviction thereof, he or they shall forfeit and pay for each and every vote so received and counted the sum of twenty dollars, to be recovered and distributed in like manner as aforesaid; and it shall be the duty of the town clerk in every town in this State at the opening of every town or district meeting, when and where any of the foregoing officers are to be chosen, and before the business of such meeting is entered upon to read or cause to be read the foregoing act in said meeting.
Approved June 14, 1799.
AN ACT for the better regulation of Schools within this State, and for repealing all the laws now in force respecting the same.
SECT. 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened, That the selectmen of the several towns, parishes and places within this State, be and they hereby are empowered and required to assess annually the inhabitants of their respective towns, parishes and places according to their polls and rateable estates, together with the improved lands and buildings of non-residents, in a sum to be computed at the rate of thirty-five dollars for every one dollar of their proportion for public taxes for the time being, and so for a greater or lesser sum, which sums when collected shall be applied to the sole purpose of keeping an English grammar school, or schools for teaching reading, writing and arithmetic within the towns, parishes and places for which the same shall be assessed, except said town be a shire or half shire town, or in which a judicial court be annually held, in which case the school by them kept, shall be a grammar school for the purpose of teaching the Latin and Greek languages as well as reading, writing and arithmetic as aforesaid.
SECT. 2. And be it further enacted, That no person shall be deemed qualified to keep any such school, unless he produce a certificate from some able and reputable school master and learned minister of the Gospel, or preceptor of some academy, or president or tutor of some college, that he is well qualified to keep such school.
SECT. 3. And be it further enacted, That if the selectmen of any town, parish or place, neglect to raise and appropriate for the aforesaid purposes, the money required by this act to be by them assessed, collected and appropriated, such selectmen shall forfeit and pay the full sum which they shall be found delinquent in assessing, reasonably collecting and duly appropriating; which sum shall be recovered by bill, plaint or information, in any court proper to try the same, and when recovered shall be appropriated to the purpose of keeping a school in the town where such delinquency shall happen, which sum shall be paid out of the goods and estate of such selectmen, and it shall be the duty of the town clerk for the time being, of the respective towns, parishes or places to see that the sums recovered of such delinquent selectmen be appropriated agreeably to the true intent and meaning of this act.
SECT. 4. And be it further enacted, That this act shall not be construed to ex-
tend to the unimproved lands of non-residents: and the operation thereof be suspended until the first day of March next.
Provided nevertheless, No certificate heretofore obtained, shall be considered valid after the passing of this act.
SECT. 5. And be it further enacted, That all the laws heretofore made respecting the regulation of schools, be and they hereby are repealed.
Approved June 15, 1799.
Miscellaneous.
The picture of Paris in 1793, drawn by Gen. DUMOURIER.
PARIS the most miserable and most guilty city that has existed, thought herself the rival of Rome, because in the space of a few months, she had become the scene of crimes, massacres, and catastrophes, that were the accumulation of ages in the capital of the Roman empire. Forty theatres always crowded, amused her trifling, cowardly and cruel inhabitants; while a small band of villains, no less ridiculous in their pretensions, than barbarous in their deeds, supported by two or three thousand dependants, the outcasts of the provinces, and many of whom indeed were not Frenchmen, destroyed the memory of the massacres and horrors of each evening by those of the succeeding morning. The frightful cavern of the Jacobins, vomited forth every ill, and spread terror through every house. All men of property trembled, and citizens who in peaceful times, would have been mild and virtuous, hardened their hearts against pity, and were ready to applaud guilt, lest they should become its victims.
All who had the remains of virtue or shame, were fled or were driven from the administration of the department, of the municipality, and of the sections. An infallible sign always precedes the fall of nations. Then good men hide themselves; and wicked and violent alone remain in the conduct of affairs: and in this crisis, it is not even the power of supernatural aid to save the people from the effects of public phrenzy. Such was the terrible situation of France, in the beginning of the year 1793. Such is the Culp, to which Democracy leads, when the populace takes place of the nation, and tyrannizes over it by the oligarchy of a few depraved wretches selected from the refuse of the people."
[Such oh! Jacobins are your works! And to this situation, do the Jacobins of America wish to bring, their (at present) happy country. And into these horrors, would the Jacobins of Paris, and their dependants, and brethren throughout the world, calling themselves Republicans plunge all nations, and countries.]
Gen. DUMOURIER's account of the murder of the King of France.
IT was in the same temper that this horde of cannibals pushed on the trial of the King, with the bitterest fury and most horrible joy. The trial is in the hands of all the nations of Europe. The proofs, documents and pleadings are published, and will remain the dishonor of the French nation to all posterity. Never was crime committed with such cowardness, such cold-bloodedness, and such deliberation of mind. More than an hundred and fifty members of the pretended tribunal, had printed and published their opinion, even before they had been made acquainted with the facts and papers, on which it ought to have been founded. They ought therefore to have abstained from giving their vote, or their vote ought to have been rejected; but the unfortunate LOUIS XVI. had none of the privileges of an accused man on his trial. It is astonishing that the three hundred and ten members, who had the courage to vote for preserving the King's life in spite of the daggers at their throats, had not resolutely insisted, that each of the Judges who had given his opinion publicly in writing, should be incapacitated from voting. But those friends of humanity, will pardon this reflection in an historian, who far from designing to cast any reproach upon them, wishes to have the power, of raising a column to their names, as deserving of remembrance, as were the names of the heroes of Marathon.
In the unworthiest assembly in the world, were found three hundred and ten men, who acted with conscience and courage in the midst of general depravity and cowardice, and to whom the royal family of France has an eternal obligation. Just and humane citizens, receive the homage of a soldier, who acknowledges more courage in your conduct than he has shown, or than he has seen, in all his battles where he commanded with such success and glory!
His observations upon the crimes of the French.
IT may be said that providence has united all the people of Europe to inflict a punishment on the enormous crimes committed by the French nation; and perhaps to punish their own errors by the calamities they will have to endure in this long, afflicting and bloody contest. The Atheists of the national convention, and these are the most ignorant and wicked of the members, because it is not through the influence of philosophy that they have become Atheists, but thro' the influence of their crimes have considered what the General has said to them respecting providence in his letter of the 12th of March, as an unmeaning rhapsody; to such men he has to answer, that providence leaves us free to make a virtuous or vicious choice, but that from this first choice necessarily results the character of our actions, good or bad; but that which is just is alone true; that which is unjust is the effect of error in the mind; and this is above all true with respect to governments; and that justice conducts nations to happiness, and injustice to misery—that when a nation is universally infected with a licentious spirit as in the case with France, all her motives and actions tend to her ruin: hence the same phrenzy which induced France to commit the fruitless crime of murdering LOUIS the XVIth and of treating his family as a herd of slaves, dictated the decree of the 15th* of December, which is equally devoid of justice and policy, which has lost the nation the good will of every people who were attached to her, has infused divisions into her councils, familiarized her with accusations, robberies and massacres, has begotten her filthiness and grossness of manners; her wantonness in creating of enemies and indifference to the means of resisting them; and in fine her anarchy and total want of order, which has already inflicted upon her the first punishments of that long series that awaits her. For from the moment that France became a republic, she degenerated into the most unfortunate country that the annals of the world have produced."
[What a terrible picture of this horrid nation? Can any one but a Jacobin believe, but that the Almighty, by his just providence is punishing this nation for their almost infinite wickedness, and depravity?]
* This decree was for seizing upon the property of the poor Belgians, after they had been duped by the French, and had admitted them into their country as friends, and had made a solemn treaty of friendship with them. "Gallica fides."
MR. PRINTER, I request you to publish, in your truly Federal Gazette, the following extracts from the Oration delivered in Boston on the 4th inst.—An Oration replete with sentiments which ought to be indelibly impressed on the mind of every American;—which exhibits in just and glowing colours the accursed principles by which the French revolution has been conducted, and which have marked its progress with desolation and blood—Principles calculated, and intended, to subvert all social order, to destroy all government, and to prostrate all religion; and thereby to render mankind the fit instruments of insatiable and unprincipled ambition. Tours, A. B. July 1799.
WE have the misfortune to live in an age of violent revolution. A new spirit of Chivalry, more Quixotic, more sanguinary, and more destructive than that which formerly deluged Europe in blood—A blind and novel fanaticism, more violent, and less restrained by moral sentiments than that of the Crusaders of former ages, have seized upon the passions, have inflamed the imagination, and threatened to destroy the repose of the whole
civilized world.—This revolutionary hydra, more terrific than any spectre which poetic fancy has described, more horrid in its aspect than the much famed Gorgon, more baleful than the most potentous meteor which has ever affrighted the imaginations of mankind, has spared, in its destructive progress, neither age nor sex, nor helpless infancy, nor customs, nor manners, nor ties, nor principles—Mercy forms no part of its attributes; humanity is not a handmaid which appears in the train of its followers; innocence supplicates it in vain; inexorable to the demands of justice or to the milder claims of pity—Under the pretence of propagating liberty, it has established the worst of slavery—Professing to secure the rights of man, it has thrown down all the barriers which have hitherto protected them. It has let loose upon society the most ferocious passions of the worst of men—Virtue it has persecuted, vice it has patronized and rewarded—Industry has been robbed of the fruits of its labour, to enrich and to pamper the lazy and the dissolute.—Not confining itself to the wretched luxury of depriving mankind of the external comforts of life, it has burrow'd into the inmost recesses of the human heart, and tried to play the tyrant over conscience—To make and to keep men slaves, it has stripped them of those virtues and of those principles which alone fit them to be free—Whatever was established it has overturned; whatever was ancient it has modernized; whatever was virtuous it has corrupted; whatever was respectable it has ridiculed; whatever was sacred it has profaned—In lieu of order it has established confusion; in the place of obedience it has organized insurrection; in the room of government it has established anarchy; in the stead of religion it has propagated atheism—It has made man as wretched as he is capable in this world, and it has persecuted him beyond the grave, by depriving him of the hopes of future happiness as a solace for present misery. In fine, it has thrown law, order, morals, established institutions, religion, every thing but the solid globe we inhabit, into a state of volcanic eruption, of chaotic confusion—And is this the fiend like spirit to which our glorious revolutionary principles, feelings and manners have been compared? Is this the liberty which is said to have been an emanation of our own? Is this the freedom so often recommended to our patronage and support, as the legitimate offspring of the pure and virtuous flame which animated the breasts of Americans? To call this liberty is a gross perversion of language—It is a wilful calumny on the best and most distinguished of patriots—It is a nefarious libel on the principles of our revolution. To give it credit and currency, would be to fix an eternal stigma upon the American character—Our hoary patriots would rise up and disclaim their share of the disgrace—Our departed heroes and statesmen would burst their cold imprisonments, and vindicate their memories from the unmerited reproach."
From F. Russell's Commercial Gazette.
Vice is a Monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated, needs but to be seen.
Pope, on Man.
THE French announced, with formality, their determination, to disregard the law of nations, and the musty worm-eaten books in which it was written; but at the same time, they pledged their faith to the world, that they would be guided by principles more pure, fraternal, humane, and just, than those they abrogated. Six years of active war, which have elapsed since these declarations were published, have furnished an ample commentary on their true import and intention; and it is no exaggeration to say, that in their intercourse with all people, thro' that period, they have violated every obligation of justice, humanity, charity, and good faith, retaining only the use of these names to beguile the honest part of mankind. Whenever the French are about to perpetrate an act of extreme wickedness, it may be discovered by their professions of unusual respect for its opposite virtue; thus in the journals of their proceedings, it is seen, that they renounced all desires of conquest and aggrandizement, while they

were actually preparing the means to subjugate and enslave the whole civilized world; Humanity was the order of the day in the time of great massacres, justice in that of confiscation and Robbery—Liberty, Equality, and the protection of personal Rights when men were guillotined for daring to worship God according to the dictates of their consciences.
It is acknowledged, that strictly speaking, the rights of war are absolute and unlimited; or at least, this is the most antient doctrine, and is still maintained by the Savages, who claim indefinite power over their captives, and the right to do every possible injury to their enemies: These barbarous principles might have been preferred among nations that became enlightened; but such nations saw an obvious advantage in tacitly agreeing to mitigate the unnecessary sufferings of prisoners, and to avoid inflicting upon enemies any distress which would not conduce to a favorable termination of the war. Such may have been the origin of the law of nations, but a religion which refines the sentiments, and improves the morals of men, has had a powerful influence in extending and enforcing these humane maxims, and in softening the rigors of war. Let it be forever remembered, that while the French have affected a contempt for these salutary principles because they were sufficiently beneficent, they have deliberately burned villages, violated helpless women, murdered captives in cold blood, massacred innumerable unoffending citizens, and by public law, have required their troops to give no quarter to vanquished enemies: And as if they expected to overawe the whole world by their audacity, they have repeatedly decreed, that they would treat as pirates the unfortunate Neutrals they should capture in the ships of their enemies, although such neutrals should be in those ships against their own will. This is the improvement in the intercourse of nations made by the regenerate French in regard to persons; with regard to property, it is notorious that from May 1793, to this day, they have plundered their credulous friends to a much greater amount, than they have captured from their resisting foes.
If this little sketch is justly drawn, it is the indispensable duty of every man who knows the truth to propagate it zealously, that the truth may make us free.
ANTI-GALLICAN.
FOREIGN ARTICLES,
Extracted from Dublin Papers to June 6th, received by the Sch. Dolphin, arrived at Boston.
CONSTANTINOPLE, April 20.
THE Grand Seigneur issued the following order to the Grand Vizir, before the late favourable intelligence from Syria was received.
"It is not unknown to you, my First Vizir, my General Representative, and Victorious Chief of my armies, that it is the purpose of the French to extirpate from the earth the race of the Ottomans, (whom God preserve,) and to seize on the Holy Lands of Mecca and Medina, the country of our prophet, and the place where the faithful offer up their prayers.
"I have, therefore, chosen you, to frustrate this intention; you who are my most distinguished Minister and especial favourite, and have before dispersed, and destroyed the rebellious and malignant hordes at Everzurum, Iralison, and on the Persian frontiers. It is therefore my will, that you, with all dispatch, and with as little baggage as possible, proceed to Damascus as General in Chief, where I invest you with full power to take with you the Janizary Aga, and as many regiments of Janissaries as you shall find necessary which shall be re-ensconced on their march by others.
"I present you on this occasion with a pelisse, and a keen sword set with diamonds, in order, that you may use the former to give new warmth to your zeal, and the latter to prove your bravery; may the Almighty grant that you, and all those who go forth with you to battle, for the maintenance of Religion, may return in safety; for these are the times in which men should with one accord, and with their whole hearts, exert themselves in defence of Religion and their Sovereign Viziers and other ministers and public officers must not imagine that the present times resemble other times, I call upon you to exert all your zeal for the maintenance of religion and the State; employ the unlimited power which I have entrusted to you, to reward and heap benefits on those who shall distinguish themselves with courage and fidelity in these important services; and severely to punish those who shall act in a contrary manner. May the Almighty let victory thine on your forehead—Veneration be to our Holy Prophet."
DUBLIN, MAY 25.
The last week of April appears to have made the Cantons of Switzerland the theatre of the most bloody and alternate carnage. A general attack has been made upon the French under Massena by the Austrian armies, which has succeeded so far as to drive the French from their positions, but not until after a desperate conflict, in the beginning of which the French were successful, and the Prince de Ligne and two thousand Austrians killed or taken prisoners; but at length Massena, weakened by the loss of nearly five thousand killed in various actions was obliged to retire.
LONDON, June 2.
Not a single merchant ship has been permitted to sail from any port in England, since the Brest fleet was at sea, notwithstanding numerous applications have been made to the Admiralty for a licence.
The fleet of Indiz ships at Portsmouth are all on Demurrage. The passengers on board, who are very numerous, express themselves very anxious for the signal for getting under way; but it is apprehended the ships will not be dispatched from the India-house this week, for the reasons already assigned.
Six different lists have been formed, as bidders for the New Loan, viz. Messrs. Curtis, Goldsmith, Thellusson, and others—Mr. Daniel Giles—A committee of 24 Bankers—Sir Francis Baring, Devaynes, and Co.—Messrs. Walwyn, Hodsol, Stirling, and Co.—and the gentlemen of the Stock Exchange.
It is said that General Denican has been arrested on a charge of having been accessory to the assassination of Bonnier and Roberjot.
A Commission of Military Inquiry has been appointed by the Archduke Charles, to inquire into the murder of the French Plenipotentiaries. General Spork is to be President of it; and it is to consist of two Colonels, two Majors, and two Auditors. It is to hold its sitting at Vilingen in Suabia.
The Slave Trade Restriction Bill has been read a second time in the House of Lords. Numerous petitions and remonstrances have been presented against it. A Bill has been introduced in the House of Commons for suppressing Sunday Newspapers.
A number of English seamen found in arms on board a French Privateer, have been executed for fighting against their Country.
The Kite sloop of war has taken a French lugger of 14 guns and 60 men, called La Russia.
The Ann, cutter, has captured the French lugger Privateer, L'Amiable Therese, of 4 guns and 27 men.
The Transfer, sloop, of war captured the French privateer L'Eicomoteur, of 3 six pounders and 34 men.
16 sail of the line are under sailing orders for the Mediterranean, positively, under Ad. Gardner.
PLYMOUTH, MAY 28.
Some time after the sailing of the French fleet, a frigate full of troops failed from Brest, to join it, which no doubt she did, as we have not heard of any capture being made by Lord Bridport's cruisers; and it is said there are now in Brest water ready for sea two 74 gun ships, and one frigate, which we may suppose will take an opportunity of sailing to add to their naval strength.
JAMAICA. IN PRIVY COUNCIL.
Tuesday, August 28, 1798.
Resolved, In order to obviate doubts which are entertained with respect to the construction of a resolution of this Board, of the 23d of March, 1794, that such resolution be amended.
Resolved, That his honor the Lieutenant Governor be advised to recommend to the several Officers of his Majesty's Customs at the several ports of this island, to permit the free importation of sheep, hogs, poultry, small live stock of all kinds, and all sorts of fruit, salted and all other provisions, and lumber of every description, as well in British as in all other vessels belonging to neutral, and other states in Amity with Great-Britain, from the day of the date hereof, until the first day of March next, and until six months notice shall be given to the contrary, upon the like terms, charges and conditions, and subject to the same rules, regulations, visitations, and searches, as are observed with respect to vessels importing provisions to this island.
Resolved, That all neutral vessels importing the foregoing articles under the authority of the above resolution, be permitted to export from any port or ports, place or places, of this island, such articles as may be exported to foreign parts upon the like terms, stipulations, charges and conditions as are observed with respect to British vessels in the like cases.
True Extract from the Privy Council Minutes. (Signed) M. ATKINSON, Cl. Counc.
JAMAICA. IN PRIVY COUNCIL.
Friday, March 8, 1799.
It appearing that great frauds have been committed by neutral vessels coming into the ports of this island with enumerated articles, and also with those that are contraband reporting the latter for exportation, have disposed of the enumerated articles, landing those that are contraband in other ports of the island: In order to obviate such frauds in future,
Resolved, That it be recommended to his Honor the Lieutenant Governor to direct the officers of his Majesty's Customs, to suffer no neutral vessel importing articles under the resolutions passed in the year 1798, to bring into any of the ports or places of this island, under any pretence whatsoever, (distress or other unavoidable accidents excepted) any articles which are not enumerated in the above resolutions.
Resolved, That it be recommended to his Honor the Lieutenant Governor to cause the above resolution to be enforced from the 1st day of January next, and that in the mean time if any vessel should come in without fraudulent intent, and under a misconception of the former resolutions, that the same be specially reported to his Honor before any entry is permitted.
Resolved, That it be recommended to his Honor the Lieutenant Governor to transmit copies of this resolution, and of the former, to his Majesty's Consuls in the United States of America, and also to have the same published in one of the newspapers of this island.
True Extract from the Privy Council Minutes. (Signed) M. ATKINSON, Cl. Counc.
PHILADELPHIA, July 25.
We understand, that the corner stone of the foundation for the Water Engine at the centre square, was yesterday laid by Robert Wharton, Esq. Mayor of the city. This valuable work from which we anticipate much benefit to the health and convenience of the city, is in great forwardness. The conductors only await the further patronage of the citizens to effect its completion.
Extract of a letter from a merchant of respectability in Cadiz to a mercantile house in this city, dated May 26, '99.
"Enclosed you will find a copy of a decree lately given in Madrid, prohibiting all neutral vessels going to our West Indies, &c. but it is expected, that by the representations gone to Madrid, it will be revoked in a great measure, and that cocoa and sugar will be admitted into our ports as of late, and at least, those who have private licences for the importation will enjoy them."
"Our opinion is, that tho' there should be a declaration of war between America and France, that this country will avoid engaging in the affair."
By the brig —, Capt. Rust, arrived yesterday at the Port from La Guira, we learn that the markets there were dull and overstocked.
Capt. R. further informs, that on the night of the 5th inst. two days previous to his leaving La Guira, the British frigate Trent, that had just appeared off there, coming for the first time since his arrival, sent in two boats, and succeeded in cutting out a Spanish polacre, which had arrived from Spain a few days before; but, daylight coming on, they (the Spaniards) sent out three gun-boats and easily retook her, the Spaniards likewise retook a launch the frigate's boats had captured on their passage into the harbour with three of her crew they had put on board in order to conduct her to the ship. In the course of the day the frigate sent in a flag of truce and demanded the three men, which demand was immediately complied with, and the affair ended.
It is to be observed that although the American vessels lay outside, they carefully rowed past them, and selected out the Spanish vessels.
JULY 26.
In this pestilential period, scarcely a species of animal has escaped a portion of evil. The hens, geese, dogs, fish, oysters, cattle, and cats have been affected; and this summer the wild pigeon is suffering its portion of calamity. On the Delaware and Susquehanna, these fowls are affected by a disease which attacks the head and produces a gangrene or running sore; and the bird dies. This pestilence is so general, that people avoid eating the species. We with men to be more careful in observing and recording such facts, as they may rely on it that the cause is the same general principle of destruction, which spreads pestilential diseases among the human race.
"Capt. Watson, of the brig Two Sifters, arrived here yesterday morning, left Hamburg the 31st of May. Before he failed, he saw 25,000 Rus-
sian troops (all remarkably fine looking fellows) embark at a small port 15 miles from Hamburg, in British vessels. It was generally supposed they were part of a large force destined for the attack of Holland."
[D. Gaz.]
JULY 27.
Arrived yesterday, the brig Two Sifters, Capt. Watson, from Hamburg.
On the 16th of June Capt. Watson was boarded by the Monarch, British 74, in the channel, and informed, an official account had been received, that Lord St. Vincent had come up with the French fleet off Minorca, and getting between them and the shore, had endeavoured to bring them to action, but in vain. He however, succeeded in driving them into Toulon, which was closely blockaded by him.
[True Am.]
Capt. Watson, of the brig Two Sifters, 54 days from Hamburg touched at Dover, and procured a London paper of the 16th of June, which contains an official account of the French fleet being drove into Toulon by Lord St. Vincent.
The rear of the French Fleet sustained considerable damage from the fire of Lord St. Vincent's in entering Toulon, after being chased 4 days, although double in number, could not be brought to action.
Toulon is blockaded by Lord St. Vincent.
[Porcupine.]
FROM SPAIN.
Extract of a letter, dated May 24th, 1799.
"We have received certain information, that the Spanish fleet, from Ferrol, has arrived at Rochefort. The fleet from Cadiz, of 17 sail of the line, has also got into Carthagena, much damaged by a violent gale of wind; several of them being so much injured in their masts and rigging that they cannot be fit for sea for a considerable time to come."
Extract of a letter from the American Consul at Alicante, dated May 18, 1799.
"My last respects advised you that the Brest fleet had passed up, I have now to communicate to you the news received from different vessels arrived at this port, and conceive there is great probability of its veracity. A Swede arrived from Malta brings advice of his having spoke with the French fleet off Saloa on this coast, and that 36 hours after he fell in with the English fleet composed of 20 sail of the line and 11 frigates, and that he fell foul and broke his jibboom on board a 74;—that he gave them information of the French fleet being on before them.
A Ragusan vessel, 4 days from Mahon, advises that in that port there were eight English line of battle ships and 7 frigates ready to join the English fleet! that a frigate had arrived there bringing advices of the French fleet, and that 5 vessels had been dispatched to Admiral Nelson to advise him of the operation of the French.
A Swede from Leghorn, who left that 8 days ago, says 4 Austrian Commissaries had arrived there 2 days before he left it, and demanded of the French to surrender it up without delay, or the troops would be ordered to put every man to the sword, that the communication between Florence and Leghorn was cut off."
We hear that at the Board of Commissioners appointed to carry into effect the 6th article of the treaty of amity with Great Britain further proceedings are suspended; the American commissioners deeming it their duty to lay before the President the differences that prevail between them and the other members of the Board, and in the mean time to be absent until an opportunity shall be given to the two nations, by an explanatory article, to remove the present difficulties. From the friendly dispositions of the two powers towards each other, and from the obvious interest of both to improve and cultivate the present good understanding, it is to be hoped this will be easily accomplished. Besides in the last article of the treaty of amity, it is expressly agreed that the parties will from time to time readily treat of other articles for facilitating intercourse and obviating difficulties, and will endeavour so to form them, that they may conduce to mutual satisfaction and friendship.
The step taken by the American Commissioners when properly considered cannot fail to obtain the highest approbation of every well-wisher to the lasting harmony of the two countries.
NEW-YORK, July 23.
Yesterday morning, pursuant to a sentence of Court Martial, JOSEPH PERKINS, a private in the first Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers, was shot for desertion. The repeated pardons which the President has extended to this offence in the army of the United States, evince his extreme reluctance to enforce the severities of martial law, without the most peremptory and imperious necessity.
That necessity was created not only from the frequency of the crime which seemed to gather boldness from lenity, and to require terrible examples for its suppression; but from its atrocity in the unhappy man who has expiated it with his life.
He was placed as a Centinel over two Deserters, whom he not only permitted to escape, but was faithless enough to accompany. He received his sentence without any apparent emotion. Not a feature, nor a muscle of his countenance altered. His apathy, in some measure, continued till a few hours before his execution. A secret hope of reprieve, which he abandoned only when it was impossible to retain it any longer, contributed to weaken the impression which his circumstances ought to have made on his mind. Yesterday morning, however, his sensibility appeared alive, and his heart tender. Without any disposition to criminate either the rigour of the law, or its application to himself, he acknowledged the justice of his fate. To the intemperate use of liquor, and the seduction of evil company, he attributed that want of principle which betrayed him into the sacrifice of his duty, and the shame of his untimely end. Of this he requested his fellow soldiers to be informed, and to be warned as from his mouth, by his example, against those vices which wrought his ruin.
With affecting impressions of his situation; with trembling apprehensions of the world to come; with endeavours, according to every symptom, as far as his narrow views of eternal realities would permit, to adventure upon the divine mercies, in the Lord Jesus Christ; without any comfort, but not altogether without hope, did he go to appear before God. The scene was awful—the utmost propriety and decorum marked every part of the procedure. The troops drawn up in a hollow square, were forcibly struck: The humane emotions of the officers honored themselves, and added to the interest of the exhibition.
The deportment of the prisoner was decent and composed. Immediately before his execution, he was commended, by prayer, to the forgiveness and grace of God—Every thing was extremely solemn.
BOSTON, July 31.
A gentleman arrived from Leghorn informs us, that the French troops in that city were preparing to quit it, in April last. The French General, who commands at Leghorn, gave every protection in his power to American property and persons. He formerly served in the United States, and received two wounds in our revolutionary war;—and at the theatre directed the music to strike up "Washington's march."
That a written Constitution, in the hands of French modellers is a mere nose of wax, needs no other proof, than that it was known three months previous to the trial, which of the Five Directors should draw the "go out" lot. Our readers recollect that Reubell was the man;—and the archives of the French Directory thus solemnly record the Constitutional humbug:
"PARIS, MAY 11.
Extract from the Journal of the Directory, sitting of the 26th Floreal (May 9.)"
"The members of the Directory having met, pursuant to the 37th article of the constitution, to decide by lot which of them should go out of office on the 1st of next Prairial (the 20th of May) the order or drawing was first determined in the following manner, 1st Citizen Barras; 2d Citizen Lepeaux; 3d, Citizen Reubell. The ball containing the words—"member of the Directory to go out," was drawn by Citizen Reubell, and it was accordingly declared that he should quit this official situation on the 20th of May. A message stating this proceeding was immediately sent to both councils."
The intriguing Abbe Sieyes supposes the place of the ousted Reubell.
The unblushing manner in which the French Directory has charged the murder of their Deputies on the Austrians, has produced as much effect in Germany, as it has in France. The Germans are exasperated to madness at the impudence of the charge.
HAVANNAH, JULY 11, '99.
SIR, In consequence of a late order from Madrid, no neutral vessel from a British port is allowed to come into this place; as several have been lately ordered away, and others may come for the want of information of this new order, I think it my duty to communicate the circumstance to you, that you may, if you judge proper, make it public. I have the honor to be, &c.
JOS. M. YZNARDI.
The Secretary of State, &c. &c. &c.
In the last American fleet from the Havannah, there were upwards of 6000 tons, 547 men, and 126 guns.

Latest Foreign Affairs.
By the Trio, arrived at New-York— Dates to June 8.
LONDON, JUNE 7. THE Gazette Extraordinary, published yesterday morning, contains detailed accounts of the advantages obtained by the Austrians in the Engadine. The French have evacuated the Canton of Appenzel.—The Austrians entered St. Gallon the 20th ult. and general Bellegarde is at Chievres. The French had 4000 prisoners, and 36 pieces of cannon.
Paris papers to the 1st of June inclusive, have been received in town. They contain two letters from Gen. Massena to the French Directory, dated the 24th and 25th ultimo, by the 1st of which it appears that the Austrians were repulsed in an attempt to cross the Rhine with a small body of troops on the 23d ult. near Coblenz (in the Canton of Zurich) and Klingenzau, with the loss of 300 prisoners, and several drowned in attempting to repass the Rhine." In the second attack general Massena states, "that the Austrians having collected a force on the left bank of the Thur (he does not state how all the country between the Rhine and the Thur came into the possession of the Austrian troops, and where they now remain) he had thought it necessary to attack them and had driven them back to the right bank of that river. In this action the Austrians are said to have lost 3500 prisoners, amongst whom are Colonel Barco and Capt. Prince of Hohenzollern, besides one standard and two pieces of cannon, and 2000 killed and wounded. The French had 490 killed and wounded."
An article from Strasburgh of the 27th ult. three days after Massena's action, mentions, "that the Austrians were in possession of Winterthur, on the right bank of the Thur, and that the Swiss Convention, after naming a committee of seven persons, who, together with the Executive Directory, were to exercise all the authority of the state, had dissolved itself. The Directory, &c. had retired from Lucerne to Arau."
JUNE 8. Yesterday his Majesty, by message, acquainted Parliament, that he had some time since concluded an eventual engagement with the Emperor of Russia, for employing 45,000 men against the common enemy. That though the state of affairs was altered since the contract was proposed, and the Emperor had engaged in the war, and had actually put this army in motion towards the place of its destination; yet the pecuniary conditions of the treaty will require various sums of money, which his Majesty is confident will readily be granted; as also to enable him to afford succors to the Queen of Portugal, and the Swiss Cantons; and to complete the general deliverance of Europe from the insupportable tyranny of the French Republic.
QUERY.—May not Portugal be the destination of the Russian troops embarked at Glushadt?
WASHINGTON, (K.) July 10. A gentleman from Chillicothe, informs us, that so far from the Indians in that vicinity having any hostile intentions towards us, they shew every disposition to cultivate a good understanding—some of their young men had been in the habit of taking off horses from the frontier settlers, those have been carefully sought after and restored by the other Indians, with a promise to do every thing possible to prevent similar depredations.
BALTIMORE, July 24. A letter from Martinique, of the 4th inst. mentions the safe arrival there, of the Isabella, from Baltimore; and states that the Merimac sloop of war, had captured the French privateer Retaliation, with 130 men, both which had been spoken by the Isabella.
PHILADELPHIA, JULY 24. About forty years ago, a citizen of Philadelphia, (and now near 70 years of age) visited the late celebrated Dr. Fothergill. The Doctor's attachment to Philadelphia was well known.—After speaking of its low situation between two rivers, and of its probable future increase, he said, "Unless uncommon pains are taken to keep your city clean, after it becomes more extensive and populous, nothing can prevent its becoming subject to pestilence."
NEW-YORK, July 29. The armed Schooner Nautilus, Capt. Robert Dixon, of this port, bound to Curacoa, was captured by a French privateer within the limits of that Island, after a severe engagement of an hour and a half. The privateer, men, after boarding, inhumanly murdered Capt. Dixon, the first and second mates, and two seamen, and desperately wounded four more. She
was carried into Curacoa, and on being demanded, the governor of that island refused to deliver up vessel or cargo.
Our port was immensely enriched by the arrivals yesterday morning. The Trio, from Liverpool, furnishes us with London dates to the 8th of June. A London paper of the 8th ult. mentions, (not officially) that Lord St. Vincent, having been reinforced, had driven the Brest fleet into Toulon, where they were blockaded. We have, too, a confirmation of part of the Spanish fleet having put into Carthagena, disabled.
The ship Ohio, Bruce, arrived on Saturday, was launched from the mountains of Naked Creek, some months since, into a swamp near Egg-harbor, and then drawn to the water by men. She is a rare ship, in ballast, to Browne and Brown, who bought her in the woods.
IMPORTANT. By the Adonis we learn, that the French took possession of Leghorn on the 24th of March. When the failed it was daily expected Leghorn would fall into the hands of the Austrians. On the 6th of June the Adonis was at Malaga, where information had just been received, that Leghorn had been actually taken by the Austrians.
From a Charleston paper of July 3. The French at Guadalupe are making many captures of American vessels; amongst the number lately captured, are the brig Defence, capt. Moffet, from Surinam for Norfolk via St. Thomas, the sloop Nancy, Cox, of Philadelphia, bound to St. Thomas; and others not recollected. They have also taken a brig under British colors from Norfolk bound to Martinico.
Capt. Moffet reported that a cartel had been granted at Guadalupe, to carry him and about 40 American prisoners to St. Thomas, where they were to be set at liberty: that on their passage down, they fell in with an American cruising brig, called the Genius, commanded by a Capt. Cables, owned by a certain Cadwallader Colden of New-York, who was himself on board and cruising, which captured the cartel, and sent her in, to be proceeded against as a prize, to Tortola. Capt. Moffet said, that he had received more unhandfome treatment from this brig, than from the French who first captured him.
Mr. Colden came from New-York to St. Thomas's in a sloop which he rigged into a brig, and has been cruising in her as a private armed vessel for near six months past. During his cruising he has not confined himself to that generous and liberal policy towards neutrals, recommended by the President of the U. States, and practiced by state ships of war; for finding difficulties arose in the British courts of admiralty, respecting their taking cognizance of prizes made by him of property not their enemies, he fell upon a scheme of getting a small schooner, called the Nimble, got a British commission for her in the name of a British subject, (though she was under his direction) for the purpose of proceeding against vessels in the British courts, as prizes to a British vessel; but his plans were frustrated by his being arrested for damage, for having sent in an American vessel.—This arrest detained him several weeks in Tortola jail, during which time the fch. Nimble was overfitted near St. Thomas's; however he is again at liberty, and contrary to the usage of civilized nations, has captured a cartel. He has also captured a French ship, with a valuable cargo, which will help to pay the heavy expense his projects have cost him. How long he intends to, or will be permitted to pursue this strange conduct is uncertain.
It was also reported at St. Thomas's that an insurrection has happened at Laguire, on the Spanish Main, and that in consequence an order had been issued not to admit any more neutrals there.
BOSTON, August 3. Yesterday we obtained, by the arrival from Liverpool, English papers to June 6th.—London papers to June 8th have been received at New-York; and verbal accounts to June 16th, at Philadelphia. In the mass of these accounts, we see the dissipation of that delightful mystery which so highly relishes conjecture; and it is now reduced to a plain matter of fact, that the late French Brest fleet has become the Toulon fleet; that the Cadiz armada has changed its name for that of Carthagena; and that Lord St. Vincent's blockade of that business is only removed from Gibraltar to the islands of Hieres.
Lord Duncan's fleet lies to the Dutch armament in the Texel.—He has lately been joined by five Russian sail of the line. The Russians are approaching the conflict with the French, on the North as well as the South of Europe.
FORT INDEPENDENT. On Wednesday last, the President of the United States visited the fortress
in our harbour; and under a discharge of 15 guns, pronounced the name it is in future to bear, to be "Fort Independent on Castle-Island."
The President and suite, were received with due military honors, by the garrison, commanded by Capt. Gates. After reviewing the troops, works, &c. he was escorted to the citadel, where an elegant dinner was provided—at which upwards of fifty Ladies and Gentlemen partook.
There were six burials at Philadelphia in the 24 hours ending July 25, at 12 o'clock.
The burials at Philadelphia, July 27, were five children, and two women.
COLUMBIAN NAVY. A new brig the property of the United States, called President Adams, was launched on Rouge river, six miles from Detroit, on the 25th ult. She carries 18 guns, is remarkably handsome and well built.
The Connecticut, sloop of war, Capt. Tyron, is fitting for sea at New-London.
The Washington Troop, and a Company of Riflemen at N. York, have given an elegant Dinner to Capt. Truxton.
The New-York Chamber of Commerce propose to give a public dinner to that brave Naval Commander. The General Green frigate, Capt. Perry, has arrived at Newport from the Havannah—Having convoyed a fleet of 50 sail. It has been very sickly on board. 20 have died of the fever, including nine officers, and 30 remain sick. The latter are landing at Coaster's harbour, and the ship will be thoroughly cleaned. Among the deceased officers are the purser, surgeon, and Mr. Coleman, of Providence, a midshipman.
SALEM, August 2. COMMUNICATION. From a gentleman of Information lately returned from the Continent of Europe.
Having in the former campaigns of this war seen the French arms attended with almost invariable success, many people were astonished to find the present open with such a glorious reverse. But the French are exhausted of some of the means with which they formerly obtained their victories.—That enthusiasm with which the people were inspired in the pursuit of a pantheon they called liberty; and which enabled them to oppose the steady valour of the Austrians with double numbers, is no more; that delusive charm with which they formerly disarmed the countries they attacked, is now dissolved; and the plunder with which they have been enabled to pay their numerous armies has failed them. The conscription recruits are raised only at the point of the bayonet, and the Directory and Councils are baffled in their attempts to raise taxes sufficient to support the war. On the other hand, the people of Germany are exasperated against the French by the injuries they have received—the Archduke Charles has been enabled to meet his enemies with equal numbers—his genius pervades the army—in stead of depending upon the military commission of Vienna, for orders to act (by which means the military plans were often betrayed to the enemy before they were communicated to the army) his power in the conduct of the military operations is unlimited—he has introduced in his army a discipline, by which rank and family will not protect the coward, and by which merit is rewarded in the common soldier; he has broke several officers of the first nobility in the empire; and in one instance he promoted a man of good character, but low extraction, in the course of six successive days fighting with the French, from a Corporal to a Brigadier-General, for his gallant conduct. While he punishes cowardice, and rewards valour, he sets the example of personal bravery himself; he leads his troops to action—on many occasions he has been mounted in the heat of battle, and fought sword in hand at the head of his grenadiers. He is adored by his army, for his condescensions, humanity and bravery, and in an address to them, he has declared that the Austrian soldiers shall be considered, not as machines but as men—that they shall be led by their officers, not driven into action. With these advantages he has been able, with equal numbers, to beat the French day after day, leading his men to victory through snow and wet knee deep; by which exposure of his person he brought on alarming sicknesses, which for a long time arrested his progress, but from which he was perfectly recovered towards the last of May.
During the illness of the Archduke, and the consequent inactivity of his army, Suwarrows arrived with his Russians in Italy. His name alone was equal to a host.
The Archduke after the recovery of his health, was preparing as it was said, to cross the Rhine, and enter France by the north, while Suwarrows
was carrying all before him in the south; and it was said that a body of Russians were to approach Spain as soon as possible, to feel the pulse of that nation.
NEWBURYPORT, Aug. 2.
COMMITTEE OF HEALTH.
Since our last of the 29th inst. none have died—one remains sick, supposed dangerous—no new cases the last ten days.
JON. BOARDMAN, Chairman. Monday eve', Aug. 1.
WALPOLE, July 15.
Mr. S. Hall, of Boston, a printer not only distinguished for the neatness and accuracy of his editions, but for the liberality and integrity of his mind, has just published forty-two sermons of the late Dr. CLARKE, a clergyman, whose loss will be long deplored, and whose style should be always copied, by those who aim at scrupulous accuracy in composition. Perhaps, he was the most correct author in the United States. The precision and purity of his lucid phrase, the happy choice and judicious collocation of his words, would recommend his books to critics the most delicate, and correct; and the soundness of his doctrine, and mildness of his discipline, will ever benefit the pious, and sooth the catholic. The writings of this American Atterbury, have gained the applause of England; and it must be remembered by those who would emulate his pure diction, that to good sense and just taste, he associated the assiduous study of the Greek and Roman classics, without a knowledge of which let French innovators say what they will to the contrary, few men ever reached the elegant, the correct, and the sublime of composition. We hope that the public shall be indulged with a complete edition of the works of so classical a scholar, of whom it may be said, he could
"Excel Ten Metropolitans, in preaching well."
The following TOASTS, MILITAIRE, were drank by a company of Artillery, commanded by Capt. Abbott, at Cooperstown, (New-York state) the 4th July.
1. "ATTENTION!" to the manoeuvres of the Jacobins. 2. "Make ready!" to defeat their plots. 3. "Obey your right hand man, (Adams) and your file leader," (Washington.) 4. "Look to the right," when the French Directory preaches. 5. "Swab out" all political Heresies. 6. "Dress" and protect "the American Fair." 7. "As ye were" in '76. 8. "Support Arms" for the Federal Constitution. 9. "Ram down the Charge" of Judge Rugh to the Grand Jury of the district of Pennsylvania. 10. "Give Quarters" to all well disposed Aliens. 11. "Discharge" all those of opposite characters. 12. "The Rogue's March" to Seditious citizens. 13. "Recover Arms," to Geneva, Egypt, Switzerland, &c. &c. 14. "Pay the Salute," to the Allies of the United States. 15. "Form Battalion" every 4th July. 16. "To the Right about Face," to all who do not believe these Toasts to be Patriotic.
PORTSMOUTH, August 6.
In the prospectus of a new work, by the Rev. Arthur Homer, D. D. and Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, England, a work to be entitled, An Universal American Library, is a general catalogue of publications relating to America: with pleasure we notice the following paragraph.
"The dedication of it is intended (if permission can be obtained for that purpose) to the author of the benevolent and truly patriotic address to the people of the United States of America, upon the resignation of his office as their supreme magistrate; or, if it may be allowed to express his name to the inhabitants of this country, after so long an interval of peace and good friendship subsisting between the two nations under his auspices, to Gen. WASHINGTON; accompanied with an elegant engraving of his person, from the best likeness which can be procured, and a plan of the city which is called after his name, as a mark of respect to the greatest and most virtuous character that the New World has ever produced; in which opinion, it is presumed that every good man and every loyal subject of this country, forgetting all former animosities, will at present concur."
Marine Intelligence. Arrived here fch'r Camillus, Capt. J. Driffo, jr. in 12 days from St. Thomas. List of American vessels left at St. Thomas July 18, which expected to sail the first day of August, with an English convoy, viz. Sch'r Arny of Portsmouth, S. Fernald, master, bound to Savannah; brig John of Newburyport, Knap, master; brig Peggy of Boston, bound to Havannah, James Cook, master; sloop Boston and New-York Packet, of Boston, Davis, master. Spoke in lat. 37, o, long. 68, 40, W.
the ship Adriana, Williams, from Charleston, bound to Hamburg, out 10 days, all well.
Arrived here fch'r Three-Sisters, Capt. John Buck of Newburyport, in 14 days from Charleston. July 18, spoke the fch'r Isabella, Nath'l Donnels, master, at anchor in Charleston road, from Biddeford, out 38 days.
The ship Neptune, arrived at New-Haven, from China, pays above 73,000 dollars revenue to government.
ENTRIES AT THE CUSTOM-HOUSE. Sch. Camillus, Driffo, St. Thomas. CLEARED.
Sch. Hero, Savage, Trinidad. Sch. Friendship, Blunt, Cape-Francois. Brig Magdalena Eliza, Phenix, St. Tho's. Brig Centaur, Peirce, Trinidad.
DIED—At Durham, Capt. Eliphalet Daniels, formerly of this town, in the 87th year of his age.
N. McIntire
HAS FOR SALE, A quantity of excellent sweet scented VIRGINIA Tobacco by the Hoghead; Cordage of different sizes very good; Cotton pr. bag or pocket.
Old Rum of a fine flavor, by hoghead or barrel; barrels Beef in very good order; 20,000 Segars.
Tobacco of all sorts by retail as usual.
Portsmouth, August 5, 1799.
TAKE NOTICE!
WE the subscribers hereby give notice, that on the 8th day of January last past, did then sign a note of hand, payable to one John M'Millen, of Fryburg, in the county of York and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, for the sum of one hundred dollars, for which note we never received one farthing consideration. Therefore we caution and forbid all persons from purchasing the same, as we are determined never to pay one cent for said note. STEPHEN BURBANK, EBEN R BURBANK. Conway, July 29, 1799.
NOTICE.
Office of Inspection, Portsmouth, August 1st, 1799.
The owners of Carriages
for conveyance of Persons, and retailers of Wines, and Foreign distilled Spirituous Liquors, in the First division of the District of New-Hampshire, are notified, that the Collector will attend at the following times and places, to receive entries and duties on Carriages, and to receive applications and grant licenses to Retailers, to wit: At Exeter at Mr. Hutchins's tavern on Saturday the 7th, and in the forenoon of Monday the 9th day of September next; at Chester at Deacon Dearborn's tavern on Tuesday the 10th of the same instant; at Londonderry at Doctor Thom's tavern on Wednesday the 11th of the same instant; at Concord at Mr. Stickney's tavern on Friday the 13th of the same instant; at Epsom at Mr. M'Clary's tavern on Saturday the 14th of the same instant at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, and at Nottingham at Mr. Butler's tavern at 4 o'clock in the afternoon of the same day.
Attendance for the
like purposes will be given at the subscriber's office, as usual, till the 31st day of December next. But the owners of carriages are reminded, that the time limited by law for the annual entries of carriages expires annually in the month of September.
Samuel Elliot, Collector of Revenue.
Samuel Hill
HAS JUST RECEIVED A few Whole and Half Chests Fresh Bohea Tea, It being a consignment will be sold very cheap.
Also may be bought of him, A few hlds. good retailing MOLASSES; a number bbls. excellent SUGAR; ten hlds. W. I. RUM; N. E. ditto; old Madeira WINE, in whole, half and quarter Pipes, and other GOODS as usual.
Portsmouth, August 6, 1799.
One Cent Reward.
RUNAWAY from the subscriber on the 4th June, an apprentice boy named JONATHAN WILLEY, about eighteen years old.—All persons are cautioned against harbouring, trusting or employing said runaway, as they would avoid cost and trouble; any person returning said boy shall receive the above reward and no charges paid. By SAM'L PLUMER, Jr. Epping, June 6, 1799.

That man whose pipes are attuned to the concord of sweet sounds, and will not commit the subsequent song to memory, ought to be denounced as having no federalism in his soul—and as fit for solitude, misanthropy, and the unceasing company of frightful allusions.—Let no such man be respected.
CONVIVIAL SONG, Sung at Windfor (Ver.) on the evening of the FOURTH of JULY.
Composed on the occasion—By R. Tyler.
Tune—"Here's to our noble selves, Boys."
COME fill each brimming glass boys, Red or white has equal joys, Come fill each brimming glass, boys, And toast your country's glory; Does any here to tear incline, And o'er Columbia's danger whine, Why let him quaff this gen'rous wine, He'll tell another story.
II. Here's Washington, the brave, boys, Source of all Columbia's joys, Here's Washington, the brave, boys, Come rise and toast him flanking; For here's the hero firm and brave, Who all our country's glory gave, And once again he shall us save, Our armies bold commanding.
III. Here's to the gallant Tar, boys, Whose cannon's roar our foe annoys, Here's to the gallant Tar, boys, His country's cause defending; For warlike TARTON's noble name, Like Nelson's shall extend his fame, And loud through all the earth proclaim, His glory never ending.
IV. Here's to our native land, boys, Land of liberty and joys, Here's to our native land, boys, Your glasses raise for drinking; And he that will not drink the toast, May he in France of freedom boast, There dangling on a lantern post, Or on the Rhine be drinking.
V. Here's to our Vermont Fair, boys, Pledges bright of federal joys, Here's to our Vermont Fair, boys, Fill high to love and beauty; For while we toast their glowing charms, Their virtue ev'ry bosom warms, We'll die to guard them safe from harms, It is a federal duty.
VI. Here's to Vermont State, boys, And all her manly rustic joys, Here's to Vermont State, boys, Columbia's brave defender; For while our pines ascend on high, And while our mountains mock the sky, Our independence, liberty, We never will surrender.
VII. Here's to the sage of Quincy, boys, Legal head of all our joys, Here's to the sage of Quincy, boys, Who guards us while we're drinking; For while we quaff the boozey wine, And sense and sip with mirth combine— With temp'rate head be fit sublime, And for our good is thinking.
VIII. Now come join hand in hand, boys, Mystic type of fed'ral joys; Now come join hand in hand, boys, Like brother, brother greeting; For while our union we pursue, 'Tis I and he, and you and you, Our pleasure all may yet renew, At our next fed'ral meeting.
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Fore-Street, Where may be had, Cheap for CASH, Tobago Rum, Cotton, Corn, Sugar, Tea, &c. &c. Portsmouth, July 26, 1799.
State of New-Hampshire. County of Rockingham. WHEREAS, a township was granted by the name of Thornton, to Matthew Thornton, Esq., and others, on the sixth day of July, 1763, by Benning Wentworth, Esq., when he was Governor of New-Hampshire, and at a legal meeting of the proprietors thereof held on the 19th day of March, 1798; a tax of four dollars on each original share was granted to be laid out in clearing roads in said town, and the assessors hath made out a list and committed it to me the subscriber, living in Hampstead, in said county to collect.—I do therefore hereby give notice to the owners of said rights in said township, under the said grant, that the said taxes be paid to me by the 23d day of September next, otherwise so much of each original right as shall then be delinquent in paying such tax, will be advertised for sale as will pay such tax with incidental charges, as the law directs.
The names of the proprietors are as follows: Matthew Thornton, Thomas Gregg, William Wallace, Thomas Campbell, John Doak, John Campbell, Robert M c Neil, John M c Cartney, John Moore, John Alexander, John Gilmore, John Wilson, James Gilmore, James Doak, Thomas Christy, Jesse Christy, Andrew Jack, Robert Gilmore, John M c Lean, Janatib n Morrison, Samuel Morrison, John Taggart, Joseph Morrison, James Taggart, James Cockran, James Alexander, David Anderson, John Swan, Alexander Walker, William M c Neal, Matthew Clark, Joseph Caldwell, Thomas Morrison, Patric White, Jonathan Gilmore, Fitch Pool, Samuel Steel, William Taylor, Robert Clinidin, Thomas Walley, Andrew Clinidin, Isaac Thomas, David Clinidin, Hugh Gillice, Archibald Clinidin, Richard Wier, Andr. Clinidin, jr., Benjamin Davis, Samuel Alison, William Alld, David Steel, William Howard, David Craige, Hon. John Temple, Hugh Ramsey, Theodore Atkinson, Hugh Montgomery, M. H. Wentworth, David Montgomery, Theo. Atkinson, jr., John M c Clench, Col. Joseph Smith, Samuel Gregg, Joseph Blanchard Esq., Nathaniel Holmes, and Col. John Goffe. His Excellency Benning Wentworth, Esq. two shares—the society for propagating the Gospel in foreign parts, one share—one share for a glebe for the Church of England, as by law established—one share for the first settled Minister of the Gospel—and one share for the benefit of a school in said town forever. JOHN HOGG, Proprietors' Collector. Hampstead, July 27, 1799.
State of New-Hampshire. Grafton, ff.
WHEREAS Peter Davis by his attorney Thomas Peverly, jr. Hezekiah Smith, and David Burnside, have preferred a petition to me the subscriber, a justice of the peace and of the quorum, in and throughout the State of New-Hampshire.
Setting Forth,
THAT they are owners of more than one sixteenth part of the township of Percy, in said county, and requesting that a meeting of the proprietors and grantees owners of lands in said township of Percy, might be notified and warned to be holden at the dwelling house of Mrs. Betsey Cargill, innholder in Northumberland, county aforesaid, on the fifteenth day of August next, at two o'clock in the afternoon, to vote and act on the following articles, viz.
1st. To choose a moderator for said meeting. 2d. To choose proprietors assessors, collector, and treasurer. 3d. To see if the said proprietors will vote such a sum on each right or share in said Percy, as shall be thought sufficient to defray the cost of laying out the settlers lots. 4th. To see if the proprietors will agree to allot and make division of their lands in said Percy. 5th. To see if the proprietors will agree to raise money by a tax on each right, to cut and make the road through said Percy, leading to Shelburne. 6th. To act on any other matter or matters that may appear necessary.
Dated at Northumberland, July 1, 1799, and signed, PETER DAVIS, by his attorney THOMAS PEVERLY, jr. HEZEKIAH SMITH, DAVID BURNSIDE.
Therefore, pursuant to said request, and the laws of the State of New-Hampshire in such case made and provided, the proprietors and grantees, owners of lands in said township of Percy, are hereby notified and warned to meet at the time and place, and for the purposes set forth and mentioned in the before recited application.
(L. S.) Given under my hand and seal, at Northumberland, the second day of July, 1799. JEREMIAH EAMES, Justice Peace and Quorum.
To-Morrow, the 7th of August, will be sold at ABRAHAM ISAAC'S Auction Office, the following, viz.
177 PIECES Superfine India Cotton, 1 yard wide.
Several boxes India China Tea Setts, 1 sett in each box complete.
1 four wheel Carriage, with harness, for 2 horses in good order.
A handsome Cow, in good order, 4 years old, gives plenty of milk.
An elegant Mahogany Book Case.
A new Marble Slab, lately imported from Italy; a number dozen fine Cotton Cards; Broad Cloths.
Silver Watches; 2 Feather Beds; Black Lasting, &c. &c.
N. B. The above will be sold without any reserve—Vendue as usual kept every Wednesday.
State of New-Hampshire. To the honorable John S. Sherburne, Esq., one of the Justices assigned to keep the Peace throughout the State aforesaid.
THE subscribers being owners of more than one sixteenth part of the township of Franconia, in the county of Grafton and State of New-Hampshire; hereby request you to call or notify a meeting of the proprietors of said township, to be held at the house of Zebadiah Applebee, innholder in the said township of Franconia, on the 25th day of October next, at 10 o'clock A. M. then and there to act on the following articles and matters hereafter mentioned:
1st. To choose a moderator for said meeting. 2d. To choose a proprietors clerk. 3d. To choose assessors, a collector, a treasurer and other necessary officers, for conducting the business respecting said township, as the proprietors may judge expedient. 4th. To see in what method the proprietors will discharge the arrears of public taxes and requisitions due from said township. 5th. To agree on and vote such sum or sums of money to be raised on the right or share of each original grantee, as will pay their respective proportion of said taxes and requisitions, and for the expenditure of said proprietors, that hath or may arise in bringing forward the settlement of said township. 6th. To see how far the proprietors will ratify and confirm any or all their former votes. 7th. To see what effectual method the proprietors will take to settle all disputes respecting different claimants to said lands, and make such grant or grants, deed or deeds by themselves, or agent or their committee as may be thought necessary for the purpose, or for any purpose. 8th. To receive, examine and allow accounts brought against said proprietors, or act thereon as may be thought proper. 9th. To see what further steps are necessary to be taken respecting the boundaries of said township. 10th. To raise such sum or sums of money for making and repairing highways, and to pay the cost of the survey and other expenditures as may be thought necessary. 11th. To settle the pay for their agent or committee who have or shall serve them. 12th. To act themselves, or by agent or committee, upon all other matters which may be thought necessary. 13th. To agree on some method of calling proprietors meetings in future.
JONAS MINOT, ABRAHAM MUNROE, DANIEL FISK, W m M c FARLAND, jr. JOSEPH NIXON.
State of New-Hampshire. Rockingham, ff.
Pursuant to the foregoing application, I hereby notify and warn the proprietors of Franconia aforesaid, to meet at the time and place and for the purposes aforesaid—Given under my hand and seal at Portsmouth, in said county, this 19th day of July, A. D. 1799.
JOHN S. SHERBURNE, Justice of the Peace throughout said State.
TERRITORY NORTHWEST OF THE OHIO RIVER,
INFORMATION is hereby given to all proprietors of wild land lying in the county of Washington and territory aforesaid, that agreeably to a law adapted by the Legislature of said territory in the year 1798, "subjecting all unimproved tracts of land to a tax," there has been a tax laid—all proprietors as aforesaid are requested and required to come forward by themselves or agents, enter their land in the proper office, and pay the tax by the first of December next, or the penalty of the law will fall upon them.
WILLIAM RUFUS PUTNAM, for and in behalf of the Collectors of taxes for the county of Washington. Marietta, June 3, 1799. N. B. The Ohio Company's purchase lies in the county of Washington.
For Charleston, (S. C.) THE Sloop Harmony, to sail in 8 or 10 days for freight or passage apply to the Captain on board, now lying at Long Wharf. Daniel Prows. Portsmouth, July 29, 1799.
SEGARS forbidden to be smoked.
THE Citizens of this town, as well as strangers resident here, are notified not to smoke Segars in the streets or on the wharves, at any time, there having been several large fires, occasioned by this means, at the southward. The Police of this town, are determined to prosecute, to the utmost rigor of the law, every such offence after this notice. Portsmouth, July 27, '99.
MEDICAL.
AT the Theatre in Dartmouth College, the MEDICAL LECTURES commence the 1st of October; On ANATOMY and SURGERY. CHEMISTRY and MATERIA MEDICA. And THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF PHYSIC. [6 w.]
From Philadelphia.
The subscriber has imported in the Sloop Amity, the following articles which will be Sold on moderate terms, at his Store on Long Wharf,
1000 bushels of Corn, 6 kegs best manufactured James river FIG TOBACCO. 2 barrels of STARCH. 2 1/2 tons IRON. 1 tierce LINSEED OIL. 1000 wt. of LOAF SUGAR. Moses Woodward, jr. Portsmouth, July 22, '99.
TAKE NOTICE!
Whereas the late Partnership of Leigh & Bowles
HAS been dissolved for upwards of twelve months, and a number of accounts still remains unadjusted, notwithstanding every pains has been taken to settle the same. Notice is hereby given, that all accounts that remain unsettled after the 1st of September next ensuing, will be put into an Attorney's hands.—Constant attendance given for settlement at the store of the subscriber in High-Street. WILLIAM LEIGH. Portsmouth, July 29, '99.
STRAYED from the pasture of Col. Samuel Sherburne, in the course of the last week, a young Horse about 14 hands high, light brown, with dark main, tail and legs—whosoever finds the same and will send word to the subscriber shall be handsomely rewarded. W. LEIGH.
Edward J. Long Has for sale at his Store in Market-Street, A general assortment of West-India Goods and GROCERIES, Which will be sold very cheap for Cash; —VIZ.—
OLD Coniac Brandy at 16 3/4 per gallon; Bourdeaux Brandy, very good flavoured. W. I. Rum; Holland Gin; Aux-Cays Molasses; Sherry, Lisbon, Redport and Malaga WINES. Hyson, Souchong and Bohea TEAS. Philadelphia Loaf SUGAR, East and West-India SUGARS. Superfine FLOUR pr. barrel or retail; Oatmeal; Poland Starch; Rice. Coffee; Sweetser's N o 1 & 2 Chocolate; 12 cakes fresh Raisins, excellent box ditto; Figs; Currants; Mustard per pound and bottles; Almonds; Cloves; Mace; Cinnamon; Cassia; Nutmegs; Ginger; Pepper; Allspice; Cayenne in bottles; double refined Salt Petre; Soap; mould and dipt Candles; Table Salt in baskets. Sweet Oil; Spanish Indigo; Gun-Powder; Tobacco; Snuff; Rock Salt; Chalk; Tumblers; Wine Glasses; Writing Paper per Ream, Wrapping do; Window Glass per box; Bar Iron; Gin Cates; Logwood; Copperas; and many other articles in the grocery line, which will be sold as cheap as can be purchased in this town. Portsmouth, July 12, 1799.
WANTED—In a Family,
A YOUNG Woman, who understands Cooking, and the usual work of a family; if suitably recommended, the highest wages will be given. Inquire of the Printer. July 23.
Good Chance for a Printer. TO BE SOLD on reasonable terms, If applied for immediately, A PRINTING OFFICE, CONSISTING of a sufficiency of Types for printing Books or Newspaper, with a handsome building, and every apparatus necessary for a newspaper, situated near the centre of this State, where upwards of 600 papers are printed weekly.—For further information apply to the printer hereof. July 30.
TO BE SOLD, A VALUABLE LOT OF LAND IN EPSOM, of about 150 acres, which has good white pine TIMBER to make upwards of five hundred thousand of boards. Inquire of the printer. Portsmouth, July 27, 1799.
Treasury Department, March 11th, 1799.
Public notice is hereby given, Pursuant to the Act of Congress, passed on the first day of June, one thousand, seven hundred and ninety-six, entitled, "An Act regulating the grants of land appropriated for military services, and for the society of United Brethren for propagating the gospel among the Heathen;" and the Act supplementary to the said recited Act passed on the second day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine—to wit:
THAT the tract of Land herein after described, namely, "beginning at the North West corner of the seven ranges of townships, and running thence fifty miles due south, along the western boundary of the said ranges;—thence due west to the Main Branch of the Scioto river; thence up the Main Branch of the said river to the place where the Indian boundary line crosses the same; thence along the said boundary line to the Tuckahoe branch of the Mufkingum river at the crossing place above Fort Lawrence; thence down the said river, to the point where a line run due west from the place of beginning, will intersect the said river; thence along the line so run to the place of beginning," has been divided into townships of five miles square, and fractional parts of townships; and that plats and surveys of said townships and fractional parts of townships are deposited in the offices of the Register of the Treasury and Surveyor General, for the inspection of all persons concerned.
The holders of such warrants as have been or shall be granted for military services performed during the late war, are required to present the same to the Register of the Treasury, at some time prior to the twelfth day of February, in the year, one thousand eight hundred, for the purpose of being registered; No registry will however be made of any less quantity than a quarter township, or four hundred acres.
The priority of location of the warrants which may be presented and registered in manner aforesaid, prior to the twelfth day of February, in the year one thousand eight hundred, will immediately after the said day, be determined by lot, in the mode prescribed by the act first recited.
The holders of registered warrants, shall on Monday the 17th day of February, in the year 1800, in the order in which the priority of location shall be determined by lot as aforesaid, personally or by their agents, designate in writing at the office of the Register of the Treasury, the particular quarter townships elected by them respectively, and such of the said holders as shall not designate their locations on the said day, shall be postponed in locating such warrants to all other holders of registered warrants.
The holders of warrants for military services sufficient to cover one or more quarter townships or tracts of four thousand acres each; shall at any time after Monday the 17th day of February, 1800, and prior to the first day of January, 1803, be allowed to register the said warrants in manner aforesaid, and forthwith to make locations therefor on any tract or tracts of land not before located.
All warrants or claims for lands on account of military services, which shall not be registered and located before the first day of January, 1803, are by the supplementary act of Congress herein before recited, passed on the second day of March, 1799, declared to be forever barred.
Given under my hand at Philadelphia, the day and year above mentioned. OLIVER WOLCOTT, Secretary of the Treasury.
SUBSCRIPTIONS for the New-Hampshire Gazette are thankfully received by the Editor at his Office corner of Market and Congress Streets Portsmouth, at only one dollar and a half pr. annum, one quarter down, or the whole at the close of the year, as shall be most agreeable to subscribers, and payment made easy to those who live in the country, as they may make payment in produce any time before the close of the year.
ADVERTISEMENTS inserted conspicuously on the most reasonable terms in the GAZETTE. To those who wish their advertisements to receive general perusal, this paper is particularly advantageous, as it has by far the most extensive circulation, not only throughout this State, but in every State in the Union, of any paper printed in New-Hampshire.