The New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1791-11-30 00:00:00

New - Hampshire Gazette, and the General Advertiser.
Containing the Laws, &c. of the United States, as well as those of this State passed since 1787, with a variety of other matters both useful & entertaining.
PORTSMOUTH: Printed by JOHN MELCHER, at his Office in Market-Street, at nine shillings per Annum.
STATE PAPERS.
REPORT
Of the SECRETARY of the TREASURY on the ESTIMATES for 1792.
MADE TO CONGRESS, NOV. 7.
THE Secretary of the Treasury respectfully reports to the House of REPRESENTATIVES the Estimates herewith transmitted.
Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4.
THE first relates to the civil list, or the expenditure for the support of government during the year 1792 (including incidental & contingent expenses of the several departments and offices) amounting to 328,653 56
The second relating to certain liquidated claims upon the treasury; to certain deficiencies in former estimates for the current service, & to a provision in aid of the fund heretofore appropriated for the payment of certain officers of the courts, jurors, witnesses, &c. 197,119 49
The third relating to the department of war, shewing the stated expenditure of that department for the year 1792, 357,731 61
The amount of a year's pensions to invalids, Pay and subsistence to sundry officers for which no appropriation has yet been made, 87,463 60 3/4
Arrearages due upon Indian affairs for the year 1791, and the sum supposed to be necessary for the year 1792, 39,424 71
Expenses incurred for the defensive protection of the frontiers for the years 1790 & 1791, and for which no appropriation has yet been made, 37,339 48
Amounting together to Dol. 1,058,222 81 3/4
As appears by No. 4, which contains a summary of the three preceding ones: Exhibiting in one view the total sum as above stated, for which an appropriation is requisite.
The funds out of which the said appropriation may be made, are, first, the sum of six hundred thousand dollars reserved annually out of the duties on imports and tonnage, by the act making provision for the debt of the United States, for the support of the government thereof: And secondly, such surplus as shall have accrued to the end of the present year, upon the revenues heretofore established, over and above the sums necessary for the payment of interest on the public debt during the same year, and for the satisfying of other prior appropriations.
Judging from the returns heretofore received at the Treasury, there is good ground to conclude that, that surplus, together with the above mentioned sum of six hundred thousand dollars, will be adequate to the object.
All which is humbly submitted.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON,
Secretary of the Treasury.
GENERAL ESTIMATE
For the Services of the ensuing Year.
CIVIL LIST.
Dol. Cts. Dol. Cts.
  For compensation to the president, vice-president, chief-justice & associate judges, 51,500   Ditto of the district judges, 21,300   Members of the senate and house of representatives, and their officers, 129,730   Treasury departm't, 60,300   Department of state, 6,300   Department of war, 9,600   Board of commisso's, 13,100   Government of the western territory, 11,000   Grant to baron Steuben, 2,500   Pensions granted by the late government, 2,767 73   Incidental and contingent expenses of the civil list establishments, 20,555 83   328,653 56 
EXTRAORDINARIES.
  For discharging certain liquidated claims on the U. States, 117,625 70   To making good deficiencies in the civil list establishment 49,043 79   Clerks of courts, jurors, witnesses, &c. 5,000   Maintenance of light-houses and repairs, 16,000   Keeping prisoners, 4,000   Arranging the public securities, 2,450   Purchase of hydrometers, 1,000   Building and equipping ten cutters, 2,000   197,119 49 
WAR DEPARTMENT.
  Stated annual expenses, 357,731 61   Annual allowance to invalids, 87,463 60 3/4   For former deficient appropriations, 47,829 84   Indian department, 39,424 71   532,449 76 3/4   1,058,222 81 3/4 
Treasury Department, REGISTER'S OFFICE, Nov. 4, 1791. JOSEPH NOURSE, Register.
REPORT
Of the TRUSTEES of the SINKING FUND.
THE Vice-President of the United States and President of the Senate, the Chief Justice, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Attorney-General, respectfully reports to the Congress of the United States of America:
THAT pursuant to the Act, entitled "An act making provision for the reduction of the public debt," and in conformity to two resolutions agreed upon by them, one on the 15th of January, and another on the 15th day of August last, and severally approved by The President of the United States, they have caused purchases of the said debt to be made through the agency respectively of Samuel Meredith, Treasurer of the United States, William Seton, Cashier of the Bank of New-York, Benjamin Lincoln, Collector of the district of Boston and Charlestown, and William Heath, Collector of the district of Bermuda Hundred, to the amount of $52,677 dollars and 14 cents, in specie, as will more particularly appear by the several documents
No. 1 to 8, herewith submitted as part of this report, and which specify the places where, the time when, the prices at which, and the persons of whom the said purchases have been made.
That the statements of William Seton and Benjamin Lincoln, have not yet passed through the forms of settlement, it appears by the document No. 8, being a certified transcript from the books of the Treasury, that the amount of the stock by them respectively reported to have been purchased, have been duly transferred to the said books.
That the purchases now, and heretofore reported, amount in the whole to 1,131,364 dollars and 76 cents, for which there have been paid 699,163 dollars and 38 cents in specie.
Signed in behalf of the Board, JOHN ADAMS.
Second CONGRESS of the United States.
FIRST SESSION.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, MONDAY, NOV. 7.
THE BUDGET.
MR. Secretary HAMILTON's report was read; and a Committee appointed to report a Bill making the necessary appropriations.
The Senate informed the House, that they had passed the South-Carolina Census Bill.
Messrs. S. BOURNE, of Massachusetts and Mr. SMITH, of Vermont, were appointed, on the part of the House, of the Committee on Enrolled Bills. [Hon. Mr. RUTHERFORD is chosen on the part of the Senate.]
The Report of the Secretary at War, on the petition of John Torry, was called up by Mr. AMES; and after a short debate was made the order of the day for to-morrow.
A report was received from the Vice-President, on the purchases of the public stock.
The House proceeded to consider the report of the Secretary at War, on the petition of Joseph Tucker, Thomas Hollis Condé, Robert Williams and Samuel Armstrong (Agents appointed by the State of Massachusetts to the several Regiments to which they belonged) made to the first Congress; whereupon, after a short debate, the following resolution passed—"That so much of the said report as is contained in the words following be agreed to: "That the case is so circumstanced that the petitioners cannot obtain any further allowance, unless the Legislature of Massachusetts should think proper to grant the same."
TUESDAY, NOV. 8.
Mr. BOURNE, presented the South-Carolina Census Bill, enrolled; which was signed by the Speaker; and sent to The President—who soon after informed that he had approved and signed the same.
ORDER OF THE DAY.
On the petition of John Torry, and the report of the Secretary at War, thereon, the House went into Committee. Mr. MUHLENBURG in the chair.
[Joseph Torry, an officer in the service of the United States, died in September 1783, without leaving widow or children; and John Torry, as his administrator, lays claim to the compensation of half-pay. The Secretary of the War department reports, as his opinion, that he is not entitled to it.]
It was moved that the report be agreed to.
Mr. AMES observed, that Joseph Torry, having entered into the service of the United States, the United States had stipulated with him, that if he
served until the end of the war, he should receive a recompence; and the only question now to be decided was, when the war ended? He used several arguments to prove, that the war was at an end, when hostilities ceased, on the signing of the provisional treaty, in Nov. 1782; that the compensation was of course justly due to the deceased; that it was of high importance to the legislative body, to act with good faith, and not attempt to explain away the obligations, under which the government had laid itself at the time of making the promise to those who took up arms in defence of their country.
Mr. BOUDINOT replied, that as there were certain established rules, which had been observed in settling with every other officer in similar circumstances the House ought not to break through them—unless they were contrary to the rules of justice. If they were consonant to the rules of justice, he maintained that the Secretary's report was right, and ought to be adopted. The term of the contract, between the officers and the United States, depended (he said) on the decision of the sovereign power, that was alone entitled to determine, when the war should cease. That power was vested in the then existing Congress, who, altho' they entered into provisional articles, in Nov. 1782, did not however think proper immediately to disband their armies, or put an end to the war, as it was yet uncertain whether those provisional articles, would be ratified by Great-Britain, or a treaty of peace concluded between Great-Britain and France—a circumstance which was necessary, before those articles could be definitively binding. It was only when the definitive treaty was made, that Congress determined the period of the war. The army, when finally disbanded, and paid up to that day, acknowledged, by accepting their pay, that it was then only the war ended;—and as far as was in their power, assented to the principle which he maintained, that the provisional articles had not before put an end to the war. Suppose (continued he) that, on the arrival of the definitive treaty, Congress had not agreed to the terms, would the war then have been considered as at an end? Would not Congress have been in the same situation, as before the signing of the provisional articles?—It was necessary that Congress should, by a definitive act, determine when the war ceased:—Congress had passed such an act, and the House at present cannot with propriety enter into a resolution to alter the period. The argument of inconvenience, ought also, he observed, to have some weight with the House; for if any alterations were now to be made in the law, it must have a retrospect to all the widows and children of deceased officers, who have received half-pay for years past. Besides, many officers, who have not hitherto considered themselves as entitled to half-pay, would, in consequence of such an alteration, have a right to apply for it.
Mr. LAWRENCE and Mr. WILLIAMSON spoke in favor of the Secretary's report. Mr. Ames rose again in opposition to it. Messrs. Dayton, Hillhouse, Wadsworth, Wayne and Clarke severally spoke on the subject: after which, The question was taken on agreeing to the Secretary's report, and passed in the affirmative. The Report of the Vice-President, in the purchases made of the public debt, was ordered to be printed.
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 9.
Mr. SEDGWICK reported a bill for the renewal of lost or destroyed certificates.—Read a first time.

The committee of the whole House was discharged from the consideration of the proposed Amendments to the Constitution—which were referred to a Committee of seven.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL was directed to report to the House such information as he might possess relative to the operation of the Judicial System.
BANKRUPT BILL.
A committee was appointed to prepare a Bill or Bills to establish an uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States.
A committee was also appointed to report a Bill for the regulation of pilots, and the superintendence of beacons, &c. in the river Delaware, Chesapeake-Bay, and rivers emptying therein.
The Report of the Secretary at War, on the petition of John Younglove, and the Counter-Petition of sundry inhabitants of the State of New-York, was called up; and a resolution passed, of which the following is the substance, viz.
That the prayer of the counter-petitioners cannot be granted.
[John Younglove, having been, but not then actually in the service of the United States, was disabled in his own house, in repelling an attack of the enemy, during the late war. He obtained from the late Congress a pension; and the contra-petitioners endeavored to effect the revocation of the grant. All the papers on this subject being referred to the Secretary of the war department, he reported, as his opinion, that Mr. Younglove did not, by any of the existing acts of Congress, seem entitled to a pension. An interesting debate took place, on the propriety of withdrawing the pension. On the one hand, it was urged, that if Mr. Younglove's title was admitted, every man, who might suffer in his person or his property, from an attack of the Indians, or of any other assailants, would have an equal right to claim a compensation at the national expence, and that the multitude of such claims would drain the public coffers; that Congress was not infallible; and if the late Congress had committed an error in granting a pension where it was not justly due, the present Congress have a right, and are, in duty to their constituents, bound to rectify the mistake, by revoking the grant. On the other hand, it was said, that, although Mr. Younglove was not under the then existing laws, entitled to a pension, yet, as the late Congress thought him deserving of one, and conferred it on him, it would ill become the present Congress to revoke the grant. They ought to suppose that their ancestors had sufficient reasons to influence them in making it; at all events, the grant being once made, and the public faith plighted for the continuance of the pension, they could not now withdraw it without destroying the public confidence in the promises of government]
THURSDAY NOV. 10.
The Certificate Bill, was read a second time, and ordered to be printed for the use of the members.
THE PRESIDENT communicated a report of the Secretary of State, containing an estimate of the quantity of unclaimed lands belonging to the United States in the North-western and South western territories. A committee was raised thereon, to bring in a Bill for the disposal of Lands belonging to the United States. Two hundred copies of the report were ordered to be printed.
ORDER OF THE DAY.
The House went into Committee of the whole, on the schedule of the enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States; made progress therein, rose, and requested leave to sit again, tomorrow.
A Committee was raised to bring in a Bill to provide for the settlement of the claims of persons under particular circumstances, barred by the limitations heretofore established.
From a work just published, intitled— “ The Triumph of Truth ,” and “ History and Visions of CLIO . By John Paul Martin, A. M. M. S. P.”—the following elegant extract is made:—
SIXTH VISION.
IMMORTALITY of the SOUL.
HOW little do I value this emaciated body? It is welcome to return home, if my soul can have the same privilege.—Surely some guardian angel watches my slumbers, and seizes the moment, when all my passions are asleep, to teach my reason the most sacred truths. O that my prejudice, error and pride would never awake.
If this be sickness, let me be sick, until death, for scarcely do I sink into the arms of sleep, when some unseen power presents to me the sublimest visions.
The last I cannot describe; it surpasses my strength and the powers of my pen.
Could I have written at the instant of the impression, my lines had been full of fire, they would have warmed every heart, not with poetick fire! No! for the genuine feelings of the soul, at such entrancing seasons, scorn the aids of art, and the prison of measured lines. They burst forth with inspiration, and delight to be arrayed in the flowing robes and charming dignity of prose.
Can that soul be mortal, which is composed of such heaven-wrought materials?—Shall that soul die which can for a season bid adieu to the senses and the clay, and soar to scenes immeasurably distant? No! The dust shall return to its kindred dust; but the spirit shall return to God who gave it.”
At such moments would I have wasted a wish to be sure of immortality? No! I felt myself already in actual possession of eternal being, full of principles of life, which death can never destroy, nor the grave diminish.
Such was my confidence, that had the choice been my own, I would never have been reunited to the forsaken mass. As soon would angels leave their seats of bliss, their golden harps unstrung, their blest society forgot, and ask for human bodies to inhabit this vile earth again. But to them how little is this world! its pomp, its pleasures and its nonsense all! The crowns of monarchs, and the wealth of worlds, how trifling in their view!
But heaven is their blest abode, and there will they rejoice to dwell for ever. That world will never want for songs, nor God for praise. There shall daily arrive, from these lower courts, after a triumphant flight from sense and pain, the spirits of the just. There shall cherubs ever smile, and seraphs ever burn before the throne of God.
Shall slimy argument, shall subtle sophistry and nice-wrought scepticism unsoul the man, and reduce to a level with the lower creation, the image of GOD? Shall not the soul of the mother meet the soul of the child in the world of glory? Shall not the son, who in youth was sunk into a watery grave see his father again! Yes! The graves shall give up their dead, and friends who parted with aching hearts, shall meet in a world, where tears shall be wiped from every eye.
But I must return to the body! must stay yet a little longer; but in prayer will I watch each rising sun, and swift in duty hail it to its setting.
Days, months, and years shall roll on without regret. Fain would I seize the minutes of my to-morrows, and draw myself to heaven! but I must wait until my change come: Death will never appal me; for I know that even in the dark valley of its shadow, I shall see beams of light from the sun of righteousness.
In sickness I will rejoice; even with present pains will be glad. Each pang will I regard as the beckoning of an angel; for as the body retires, the soul advances, and with one effort more I shall be gone.
With a most ardent exertion I sprang; but the body had chained me. I was still its prisoner, and could not burst the bands of life. I reached not the celestial goal. I sprung not into heaven, but back to earth, and found myself awake, repeating with prodigious energy, “Let others boast that they are brutes, I glory that I’m a MAN. Let others wish for eternal sleep, I shall be for ever awake. Let
others waste their golden hours in proving that GOD is false, I feel something within which proves that his word is true. Though others consign soul and body to the dust, the clods of the valley cannot cover my soul. No! Legions of Angels can’t confine me to the grave. My body was designed for the dust; but my soul will inherit the world of souls! ALAS! WHAT IS LIFE IF WE LIVE NOT FOR EVER!”
Foreign Intelligence.
LONDON, Sept. 20—21.
The war between the Emperor of Morocco and the Spaniards will not in all probability be of long duration.—The garrison of Gibraltar will however labour under a temporary inconvenience, for want of the usual supply of fresh provisions, &c. with which the Moors were accustomed to furnish them.
The Empress of Russia has had built a new triumphal car to go to Divine Service on the Thanksgiving-day appointed to be held throughout the Russian dominions for success in her arms, and her happy termination of the war with the Porte.
The report of an alliance between Austria, Russia and Prussia, is still much talked of, to which it is said Sweden and Denmark will unite themselves.
The reduction of the troops of those different powers will be the chief point to be settled, which it is reported will be done in the following manner:—Russia is to have 150,000 men, Austria 120,000 and Prussia, 90,000 men, in time of peace.
It is said to be the intention of the Court of Madrid to destroy Salee, should the Moors attack Ceuta, and they have notified this intention to the Moorish Ambassador.
Extract of a letter from the Hague, Sept. 8.
“There are no less than three loans going forward in this country at present; one for Russia, at 5 per cent. for twelve years; one for America, at 5 per cent. for ten years; and one for Sweden, at 5 per cent. the prices of all which keep very high. A loan is also attempting for the Emperor, at 4 per cent. but the low interest makes it imagined that it will not succeed.
Extract of a letter from the Hague, Sept. 9.
“Lord St. Helen’s, the British Ambassador, has obtained an order, which was forwarded to all the seaports, and dispersed through the kingdom of Spain, purporting that British subjects should not be molested, or compelled to take the conditional oath of allegiance, but that licences should be granted them to continue undisturbed in Spain.”
A plan is in agitation, and will most probably be carried into execution, for raising twelve regiments to garrison the conquered provinces in India. For the greater dispatch they are to be drafted from the different regiments at present in England, and will, should the plan be approved of by his Majesty, be conveyed out in the course of a few months. Several applications have been made; and great interest is already employed, to procure companies, &c.
On the 28th ult. the ship Marina, of Greenock, Captain Young, sailed from Shuna Bay, in Appin, Argyleshire, for Wilmington, North-Carolina, with two hundred and eighty men, besides women and children, amounting in all to six hundred. There have five other vessels sailed from different parts in the Highlands this season, with emigrants for America. If the emigrations continue, which we are sorry to observe is likely to be the case, owing to that country in general being turned into extensive sheep-grazing, by which the poor people are turned out of their farms, in a few years the Highlands of Scotland will be in a great measure depopulated.
An American Schooner, commanded by Captain Metcalf, which made a successful voyage to China, called at the Sandwich Islands, in Nov. last, on her return home. The crew were surprised by the natives, and every one murdered.
During the late fire in Berwick-street a man was observed to be particularly strenuous in requesting the firemen to direct the engine pipe towards the wainscoat of a public house tap-room, which did not appear to be in the smallest degree of danger; upon being interrogated respecting the cause of such earnest entreaty, he replied, ‘that he had a very long score there, which if once obliterated, the landlord could never possibly recollect!’
Friday at twelve o’clock, Reed, the celebrated pedestrian, set out in a field near Portsmouth, to go one hundred miles from that time till next morning at ten, to decide a trifling bet of ten guineas. He rested two hours and twenty minutes of the time (twenty-two hours) and performed the undertaking, extraordinary as it appears, with three miles over, and some minutes to spare.
On Thursday orders were received by the commanding officer at the marine barracks at Plymouth, for the reduction of the marines. Twenty-five second lieutenants, and three hundred, serjeants, Corporals, and privates, are to be reduced. Seventy companies, of 49 rank and file each, besides officers and serjeants, are to be kept up as a peace establishment.
The French King’s Speech does no little honor to its author: Besides the good stile and good sense which pervade it, there is an apology for the King’s late elopement, intermixed with peculiar skill and effect.
The acceptance of the new Constitution by the King of France must certainly be regarded as in some measure definitive, depriving others of a pretext for interference. The alternative was either that he should accept upon the terms there granted him, or abdicate the throne.
The act of oblivion just now passed in France, was certainly dictated by a wise and good policy. It will tend to soften the animosity of parties, and reconcile the minds of those who are yet averse to the Revolution.
Numbers of French families, are preparing to quit London, in consequence of the adjustment of the French Constitution.
CHARACTER OF A TRUE FRIEND.
CONCERNING the man you call your friend—tell me, will he weep with you in the hour of distress? Will he faithfully reprove you to your face, for actions which others are ridiculing and censuring behind your back? Will he dare to stand forth in your defence, when detraction is secretly aiming its deadly weapon at your reputation? Will he acknowledge you with the same cordiality, and behave to you with the same friendly attention in the company of your superiors in rank and fortune, as when the claims of pride or vanity do not interfere with those of friendship? If misfortunes and losses should oblige you to retire into a walk of life, in which you cannot appear with the same distinction, or entertain your friends with the same liberality as formerly, will he still think himself happy in your society, and, instead of gradually withdrawing himself from an unprofitable connection, take pleasure in professing himself your friend, and cheerfully assist you to support the burthen of your afflictions? When sickness shall call you to retire from the gay and busy scenes of the world, will he follow you into your gloomy retreat, listen with attention to your ‘tale of lymptoms,’ and administer the balm of consolation to your fainting spirits?—And lastly, when death shall burst asunder every earthly tie, will he shed a tear upon your grave, and lodge the dear remembrance of your mutual friendship in his heart, as a treasure never to be resigned? The man who will not do all this, may be your companion—you flatterer—your seducer; but, believe me, he is not YOUR FRIEND.
A Philosophical Query.
WHAT are Fire, Heat, and Light?—are they the immediate effect of the Sun’s rays?—Or, in other words, are the bodies of the Sun and Fixed-Stars composed of real Fire?

NEW HAVEN, Nov. 16.
The General Assembly of Vermont has passed a law, laying a tax of one half-penny per acre, on all the lands in that State, for the purpose of raising the sum of thirty thousand dollars, to discharge the demand of the State of New-York, upon them.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 15. Extract of a letter from a Mercantile House in Cape-Francois, to a merchant in this city, dated Oct. 22.
"There is no demand for provisions of any kind, and our market is overstocked with all kinds of American produce. There are 25,000 barrels of flour now unfold, and 1500 barrels of pork. As to our produce, it is difficult to procure it on any terms."
DANBURY, Nov. 7.
A person in Stephen-town (State of New-York) had taken from him a Worm that measured upwards of fifty feet, as attested by several respectable men.
BOSTON, November 21.
Saturday last arrived here from St. Martins, the Schooner Sally, Samuel Cobb, master, in 15 days.—Capt. J. Dodge, who came passenger in her, gives us the following intelligence.
On Tuesday morning, October 25th, between the hours of 4 and 6, came on to blow a very severe hurricane, which drove every vessel on shore that lay in Great-Bay, St. Martins; the greatest part of which, it is supposed, were entirely lost—among them were the following, viz.
Ship Maria, Ashbel Burnham, master, New-London.
Schooner Henry, Amos Brown, Kennebec.
Schooner Donald, Robert Denton, N. York.
Sloop Cumberland, James Dodge, jr. North-Carolina.
One Schooner and a sloop belonging to St. Martins.
He further informs, that great damage was done to the dwelling houses in St. Martins; and that about 90 were blown down in Auguilla.
We learn also, that all the vessels at St. Eustatia except three put out to sea, which three were destroyed.
A brig of about 150 tons burthen, having The Nymph of Baltimore painted on her stern, was seen about the first of October ashore on the Florida Coast, with her bottom upwards.
Thomas Willing, is appointed President of the Bank of the United States with a salary of 3,000 dollars.
On the 9th instat, at a meeting of the Directors of the National Bank, at Philadelphia, it was determined that four branches should be established, one in Boston, a second in New-York, a third in Baltimore, and a fourth in Charlestown,—to commence operation in January next. These branches are to have the benefit of a part of a Specie Capital.
We hear that the brig, Clark, master, lying at Kennebec, and partly laden with lumber, accidentally caught on fire last week, and was burnt to the water's edge.
The Court-House in the town of Woodstock, (State of Vermont) was on the 25th ult. set on fire and consumed.—A Cato Boston was taken up on suspicion of setting fire to the same, confessed the fact, and was committed to gaol.
Sylvanus Bourne, Esq. the Consul of the United States, for St. Domingo, has arrived at Philadelphia, from Cape-Francois; in company with two Commissioners from the Colonial Assembly of that island, deputed it is said to solicit aid from the United States.
The Legislature of New-Jersey is now in session, and we hear that there is every reason to believe a most liberal plan of incorporation will be granted to the association for promoting manufactures in the United States.
Morgan Lewis, Esq. is chosen Attorney-General of the State of New-York, vice Aaron Burr, Esq. Federal Senator—and John C. Hoo-
boom, Esq. Sheriff of the County of Columbia—the place his father held when murdered.
The Hon. Henry Lee, Esq. is elected Governor of Virginia.
We hear, there is no choice of Federal Representative for Bristol District, at the sixth trial.
Extract of a letter from Cape-Francois, dated Oct. 23.
"We have received this moment the disagreeable news from Port-au-Prince, that the mulattoes have revolted—1500 have taken possession of Leogane, and they intend to attack Port-au-Prince.—The negroes have also revolted, and 20,000 are encamped in the plain not far from Port-au-Prince."
"The head of one of the black Generals was brought in here a few days since; and several of the Negro prisoners have been broke upon the wheel."
A late London newspaper mentions, that Monsr. de Verac, the French minister at the Swiss Cantons, had sent in his dismissal to the minister of state for foreign affairs at Paris; alledging, as his reason for so doing, "that as he had received his appointment from the hands of the King, so he no longer thought it honorable to hold it when he could not act in his Majesty's name."
It is said, that the Ticket No. 6313, which drew the highest prize in the New-Haven Lottery, was the property of a Brother Typographer at the southward.
The person who shot Sheriff Hogeboom, with three others principally concerned in that melancholly business, were lately apprehended at Canterbury, in the State of Connecticut, and safely lodged in Claverack gaol.
CENTINEL MARINE-JOURNAL.
Dublin, Aug. 23. There are no less than twelve American ships now in this harbor, that have brought different cargoes of the produce of that quarter of the globe, namely, tobacco, boat-staves, hemp, flax-seed, tar, bees-wax, rice, skins, &c. &c. and those vessels will, of course, take back large returns of the manufactures and productions of this island. This is an incontrovertible proof of the increasing commerce, and rising prosperity of our country. Some of the above vessels have brought over samples of the maple-tree-sugar, the culture of which is in great forwardness there. The process of extracting the maple-sugar is much shorter than from the cane, which it also exceeds in quality: So that it is hoped we shall, in a very short time have sugars of the very best kinds, much cheaper than they have been heretofore sold by the dealers in that article.
PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 30.
This day, by adjournment, the Hon. General Court are to meet at the State-House in this town, for the dispatch of public business.
The President of the United States, by the advice and consent of the Senate, has been pleased to appoint the Hon. Nathaniel Rogers, Esq. of Newmarket, to be Marshal of the New-Hampshire District, in the room of John Parker, Esq. deceased.
By the brig Theodosia, Capt. Lake, who sailed the 23d ult from Cape-Francois, and arrived at Philadelphia the 10th inst. we learn,—That three days previous to his sailing, a body of troops marched from the Cape to attack the Negroes, who were embodied at Post Margaret ; also, that a French frigate sailed for the above place, and that the night before he sailed, the hills appeared on fire, but the issue could not be learned.
Extract of a letter from Cape-Francois, dated October 15.
"We have had but little news this week from the Camp, but the blacks still insist on their freedom, and keep possession of the plain—I have seen a letter from the black chief to the General in this town, wherein he requests the whites to leave the Cape, and depart for France—He says they may take
their gold, jewels, and all that belongs to them, but must leave the Cape, for it is the Cape we want, and this is our motto, "Liberty or Death"—for we will die or conquer."
On the 10th inst. arrived at Philadelphia, from Cape-Francois, Sylvanus Bourne , Esq. of this town, Consul of the United States for St. Domingo.
Mr. Hammond was lately introduced to the President by the Secretary of State, and presented his Credentials as his Britannic Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States.
BRITISH MAIL-PACKETS.
Admiral Hughes, Naval-Commander on the Halifax station, has ordered, that the British armed Schooners shall sail from thence to New-York, monthly, during the winter, to carry the Mails to and from those places. The first was made up at Halifax, the 31st ult.
BILL of MORTALITY.
GEORGIA.
DIED,
At Savannah, Mr. Samuel Kennedy, an officer in the Pennsylvania line of the late American army; Mrs. Mayer, wife of Dr. Augustus Mayer, SOUTH-CAROLINA.
At Charleston, Dr. Budd, for many years an eminent Physician of this place.
NORTH-CAROLINA.
At Nixington, in the 19th year of his age, Mr. Isaac Field, son of the late Capt. Isaac Field, of Providence, NEW-YORK.
At New-York, after a painful and lingering illness, Mr. Enoch Robbins, aged 31; Mrs. Margaret Jay, after a short illness, wife of Mr. Frederick Jay.—At Fishkill, Mr. Frederick Harpel, a German, who served in the capacity of a dragoon at the commencement of Queen Ann's war; and was, from the calculations he made, about 120 years of age when he departed this life—through the whole course of which, he enjoyed a perfect state of health, and was remarkable for his frugality and industry, until a few months before his death.—At Whites-town (Mohawk river) of a belious fever, after a few days indisposition, Mr. Elijah Webster, of Litchfield, CONNECTICUT.
At Middletown by suicide (cutting out his tongue) a young man named Absalom Culver, belonging to New-London. It appears that he committed the fact by cutting his tongue sheer off, about two thirds of the length of it, with his penknife, which with the amputated part of his tongue, was found lying by his bed side. When discovered in the morning, he was living, but soon expired. He had complained of being not well, and had called for and received the advice and assistance of a Physician—said he should not live long, and requested his Landlord to see to his decent burial, and take care to perform some trivial matters for him after his decease. His conduct and conversation appeared unusual, but to what it tended was not suspected until the fatal catastrophe took place. The verdict of the Jury was, that he was non-compos mentis . He was decently buried on the Lord's Day, and a numerous concourse of people, in a humane and Christian manner, attended the mournful occasion.
Mr. Edward Rockwell, aged 84.—At Litchfield, Mr. Eaton Jones, aged 62.—At Lebanon, Mr. Nathan Wetmore, aged 34.—At Norwich, Mrs. Polly Hyde, consort of Mr. Abiel Hyde, MASSACHUSETTS.
At Boston, after a short illness, Capt. Manassah Marston, aged 62.—At Monson, by suicide (hanging herself with a skein of yarn on her loom) the widow Sebra Cady.—verdict of the Jury, Insanity .—Williamburgh, Mr. Jonathan Pomeroy, aged 41.
In England, the Marquis de la Luzerne, Ambassador at the Court of London, from the King of the French, and formerly the French Ambassador to the United States.
1792.
Cheaper than at Boston or elsewhere.
TOWN and Country shopkeepers will find for sale a great variety of ALMANACKS at J. Melcher's printing-office, in Market-Street, for the year 1792, very cheap.
Real Estate to be Sold.
By Virtue of a Licence from the Hon. the Judge of the Probate of Wills, &c. for the county of Rockingham, will be sold at public vendue, at the Bell Tavern in Portsmouth, on Thursday the 22d day of December next, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, the following real Estate of Mr. Samuel Hirst Sparhawk, late of Kittery, deceased, viz.—The Reversion in fee of a good Farm in Newington, of about one hundred acres, now in the occupation of Joel Leighton, with the buildings thereon and appurtenances; said Farm is agreeably situated on Great-Bay, and was part of the estate of the late Sir William Pepperrell, of Kittery, Baronet, deceased.—Also the Reversion in fee of a dwelling-House, large house lot, Barn and appurtenances in Portsmouth, lately also part of the Estate of the said Sir William, situated on Pleasant-Street, near the South Meeting-House, and now in the occupation of the subscriber;—The above described premises are now holden for the life of a person aged about sixty-eight years.—And the life estate in each parcel aforesaid will also be sold at the same time, in manner aforesaid.
Daniel Humphreys, Adminis'r Portsmouth, Nov. 29, 1791.
ROCK SALT.
FOR Sale at the Store of AARON HILL, ROCK SALT, of a good quality: for which Beef or Corn will be received in payment. Nov. 29, 1791.
ENTRIES at the CUSTOM-HOUSE ENTERED FROM Brig Rooksby, Parker, Liverpool. Schooner Aurora, Noble, Martinico. Frig Beesey, Garvin, Ditto. CLEARED FOR Ship Arethusa, M'Clintock, W. Indies. Brig Favorite, Orn, England.

ALL persons indebted to, or that have any demands on the estate of Stephen Batson, sen. shipwright, late of Newcastle, deceased, are desired to bring in their accounts in order for a speedy settlement, to SARAH BATSON, Executrix. Newcastle, Nov. 27, 1791.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in Lempster, who have not paid their tax of two pence on the acre agreeable to an act of the General Court, for the purpose of repairing the public roads in said town, that unless they pay said tax to me the subscriber on or before the 15th day of December next, so much of their land as will pay the same, together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of Capt. John Ways in said town, at ten o'clock, A. M. on said day.  John Ormsby Stephen Robbins } 17 acres off of lot 1 40 2 1 38 2 1 19 3 1 32 3 1 8 2 1 16 2
WANTED at the Taylors business, one or two journeymen Taylors, a fine chance! Enquire at the store in Cockermouth.
Prime Goods.
WILLIAM SCOTT,
At the sign of the SPINNING-WHEEL, In DANIEL-STREET, PORTSMOUTH,
Has IMPORTED in the CHARLOTTE, Capt. MACKAY, FROM LONDON, A large and general assortment
OF  Fall and Winter GOODS,
Which will be sold Wholesale and Retail.
BARGAINS! worthy the attention of his customers and others, at the lowest Boston prices. viz.—
 Broad-Cloths of all prices.  scarlet do. all prices.  forest cloths  Coatings.  Lambkins.  Kerseys.  Duffils.  German Serges.  Half Thicks.  White and Yellow Flannels.  Colchester and Drapery Baizes.  Mill'd do.  Emboss'd Serge.  Ratteens.  Knap'd Frizes.  Rose Blankets.  Cambleteens.  Striped & plain Wildbores.  Crapes.  Venetian.  Poplins.  Durants.  Tamies.  Shalloons.  Callimancoes.  Rattinets.  Black Russell.  Corduroys.  Thicketts.  Velvets.  Black and olive coloured Sattinets.  Jeans.  Fustians.  Waistcoat Patterns.  A pleasing variety of Chintzes exceeding low.  Black, slate, pink and changeable coloured Lute-string.  Black, white & Dove coloured Sattin, with furr trimmings.  Black & white Modes.  White, pink, blue, green & scarlet Sarfnet.  Black fring'd & coloured Silk Handkerchiefs.  Sewing Silk, all colours.  Black Silk Mitts and Gloves.  Purple & white and Patch coloured Shawls, very cheap.  Irish Linnens, all prices.  Cotton & Worsted Hosiery.  Worsted Gloves and Mitts.  Black & white Chip Hatts, with deep crowns, and natural colour.  ed Straw do.  Kilmarnock and mock velvet Caps.  Ladies delicate white Kid and colo'd Gloves.  Marseilles Quilting, plain and bordered.  Black, white and blue Tiffany.  Book, jacconet, Mull-mull, striped and Tambem work'd Muslins.  Book and jacconet muslin Handkerchiefs.  Muslinnets.  Cambric and clear Lawn.  Spotted & long Lawns.  Striped & flowered bordered lawn Handkerchiefs.  Mens best coloured beaver Gloves.  Lawn, muslin, and gauze Aprons.  Table Cloths.  Huckabuck.  Clouting Diaper  Bed-Ticking.  1/2, 3/4, and 1/2 cotton Manchester Checks.  Printed linnen and cotton Handkerchiefs.  Common apron and cap Tapes.  Fine Holland & striped do.  Plain & spotted, black and white Gauze.  Crape do.  Black and white gauze Handkerchiefs and Shawls.  Black and white Catgut.  A few pieces elegant striped and matrimony Gauze.  A general assortment of Ribbons & Taste.  Black double paduasay and French Hair-Ribbons.  Crewels in shades for working.  Black & Stocking do.  Quality & Shoe Bindings.  Col'ed Threads.  White do. all No's 
 Dutch Laces, all numbers.  Russells.  Thread Edgings.  Black Laces.  Silk Galloon & Ferrets.  Buckram.  Brown Holland.  Scarf Twist, all colours.  Mens and boys black Hatts.  Black, white & grey Feathers.  Italian Head Flowers.  London Pewter Dishes.  Knives & Forks.  Penknives.  Jack knives.  Scissars.  Shoe-Buckles.  Imperial and death-head Buttons.  White and yellow figured Coat do.  Matthewman do 1/2 y'd. and English Carpeting.  Writing-Paper.  Bibles.  Playing-Cards and Wool do.  Patent Blacking Cakes for shoes, boots and leather bottom chairs.  Poland Starch.  French Indigo and choice Tea per dozen or single pound. 
N. B.—CASH given for POT-ASHES, TALLOW IN CASKS, BEES-WAX & OLD SILVER.
The most ignorant will meet with no deception, the lowest price being always ask'd and no abatement made.  Constant attendance, and the smallest favors duly noticed.
William Boyd
HAS IMPORTED In the CHARLOTTE, MACKAY, From LONDON, And HERO, BLUNT, From BRISTOL, A general assortment of
Fall & Winter GOODS,
Which will be sold very reasonable for ready money, at his store in MARKET-STREET, PORTSMOUTH:
—ALSO— Tea, Coffee, Chocolate, Rum, Sugar, Molasses, Hollands Geneva in cases, the Essence of Spruce in Bottles and Kegs, and a few quintals of good table fish.
N. B.—CASH, and a generous price given for POT and PEARL-ASHES, TALLOW, BEES-WAX, good Beef OXEN, and Country Produce, in general.
State of New-Hampshire.  NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors or owners of land in Sutton, that the selectmen of said town have assessed their lands agreeable to an act of the Hon. General Court of the State aforesaid, passed January 1789, for to assess, levy and collect one penny annually, three years next following, on each acre of land in said town, therefore unless the following delinquents pay to the selectmen their 2d and 3d years proportion of said tax with incidental charges, at or before the 5th day of January next, so much of their land as will pay the same, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of Matthew Harvey, in said town, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, on said day.
For 1790 and 1791.     Div. No. Acres. l. s. d.     George Jaffrey, 0 15 105 0 17 6   For 1791.   Jonathan Poor, 3 27 11 0 11 0   Joshua Peirce, 0 2 300 1 5 0   MATTHEW HARVEY, } Selectmen.   BENJAMIN WADLEY, } men.   Sutton, Nov. 11, 1791. (6w)  
A Journeyman Printer that has acquired a thorough knowledge of his business, may have employ, and good wages by applying to the Printer hereof.—An apprentice to the Printing business is wanted, apply as above.
the dwelling-house in said town, at ten o'clock, A. M. on said day.     Div. No. R. Ac. d. q. d. q.     S. Powers, und. 0 0 0 0 1 0 2   Jona. Lovejoy, 1 6 4 50 2 1 5   Mart. Thomson, 2 1 4 32 1 2 3   3 4 1 10 1 0 2   Jam. M'Leiling, 1 3 5 85 1 0 3   3 4 7 50 2 1 5   3 3 8 50 2 1 5   Samuel B. More 1 13 3 50 2 1 5   Jona. Eastman, 2 3 2 50 2 1 5   3 3 5 100 4 2 10   3 16 13 100 4 2 10   A. Eastman, j'r. undivided, 1 0 2   James Taylor, 2 13 2 50 2 1 5   3 7 1 100 4 2 10   Will'm Teney, 2 4 3 20 3 3 2   Samuel Cutt, 2 8 3 13 1 0 2   3 13 3 100 4 2 10   3 5 4 100 4 2 10   Tho's Peverly, 2 1 5 50 2 1 5   Jo. Marsh, int. 0 5 0 10 1 0 2   3 2 13 100 4 2 10   James Hoit, 2 3 3 20 0 3 2   Hall Jackson, 2 4 2 25 1 0 3   3 1 5 100 4 2 10   3 1 6 100 4 2 10   Joseph Welsh, 2 3 4 25 1 0 3   3 14 2 100 4 2 10   Samuel Parly, 3 6 1 100 4 2 10   3 13 13 100 4 2 10   Isaac Williams, 3 3 10 100 4 2 10   3 4 10 100 4 2 10   John Braid, und. 1 0 2   WILLIAM POWERS, j'r. Collector.   Cockermouth, October 28, 1791.  
BY virtue of a licence from the Hon. the Judge of Probate, for the county aforesaid, will be sold at public vendue, at the house of James Peavey, innholder in Newington, on Tuesday the 20th day of December next, at ten o'clock, A. M. the real estate of JOHN PICKERING, jun. late of Newington, deceased, intestate. Said estate consists of two small tracts of land in Newington, and fifty acres of land in Barnstead, in the county of Strafford.—Conditions of sale to be known at time and place. JAMES PICKERING, Administ'r. Newington, Nov. 28, 1791.
BLANKS of all Sorts may, on the shortest notice, be had at JOHN MELCHER's Printing-Office.
John Goddard
Has removed to the store lately improved by Mr. SPENCE, near the Market—
Where he has for sale A general assortment of  Hard Ware Goods, Imported in the last Vessels from LONDON and BRISTOL, —Consisting of— IRONMONGERY, CUTLERY, SADDLERY and BRAZIERY WARES.
ALSO, an assortment of elegant Tea-Trays and Waiters—Looking-Glasses, of various fashions and sizes—10 by 8 and 9 by 7 Window Glass.
A variety of Glass and Crockerery Ware; among the latter are a few compleat Tablets—blue and green edged.
PAINTERS COLOURS & BRUSHES, CLOTHIERS CARDS and PRESS PAPERS, POWDER and SHOT.
At the same store may be had Hylon, Souchong and Bohea TEAS, LOAF-SUGAR—WINES—SPICES— REDWOOD—LOGWOOD—FUSTIC, OIL of VITRIOL, in large or small quantities.
WEST-INDIA GOODS, &c. The above articles will be sold very cheap.
N. B.—A few Iron Cambooses at said store. Nov. 22, 1791.