The New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1791-02-19 00:00:00

New - Hampshire Gazette, and the General Advertiser.
Containing the Laws, &amp;c. of the United States, as well as those of this State passed since 1787, with a variety of other matters both useful and entertaining.
PORTSMOUTH: Printed by JOHN MELCHER, at his Office in Market-Street, at nine shillings per Annum.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS the General Assembly of the State of Maryland, by an Act passed on the twenty-third day of December, in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, intitled, "An Act to cede to Congress a district of ten miles square in this State, for the Seat of the Government of the United States," did enact that the Representatives of the said State, in the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States, appointed to assemble at New-York, on the first Wednesday of March then next ensuing, should be, and they were thereby authorized & required, on the behalf of the said State, to cede to the Congress of the United States, any district in the said State, not exceeding ten miles square, which the Congress might fix upon and accept for the seat of government of the United States.
And the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia, by an Act passed on the third day of December, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, and intitled, "An Act for the cession of ten miles square, or any lesser quantity of territory within this State, to the United States in Congress assembled, for the permanent seat of the General Government," did enact, that a tract of country not exceeding ten miles square, or any lesser quantity to be located within the limits of the said State, and in any part thereof, as Congress might by law direct, should be, and the same was thereby forever ceded and relinquished to the Congress and Government of the United States, in full and absolute right, and exclusive jurisdiction, as well of soil as of persons residing or to reside thereon, pursuant to the tenor and effect of the eighth section of the first article of the Constitution of the Government of the United States.
And the Congress of the United States by their act passed the sixteenth day of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety, and intitled, "An Act for establishing the temporary and permanent Seat of the Government of the United States," authorized the President of the United States, to appoint three Commissioners, to survey, under his direction, and by proper metes and bounds to limit a district of territory, not exceeding ten miles square, on the river Potowmac, at some place between the mouths of the Eastern Branch, and Connogocheque—which district so to be located and limited, was accepted by the said act of Congress, as the district for the permanent seat of the Government of the United States.
Now therefore, in pursuance of the powers to me confided, and after duly examining and weighing the advantages and disadvantages of the several situations within the limits aforesaid, I do hereby declare and make known, that the location of one part of the said district of ten miles square, shall be found by running four lines of experiment in the following manner, that is to say, running from the Court-House of Alexandria, in Virginia, due South West, half a mile and thence a due South East course, until it shall strike Hunting Creek, to fix the beginning of the said four lines of experiment:
Then beginning the first of the said four lines of experiment at the point on Hunting Creek, where the said
South East course shall have struck the same, and running the said first line due North-West ten miles: Thence the second line into Maryland, due North-East ten miles: Thence the third line due South-East ten miles: And thence the fourth line due South-West ten miles, to the beginning on Hunting Creek.
And the said four lines of experiment being so run, I do hereby declare and make known, That all that part within the said four lines of experiment, which shall be within the State of Maryland and above the Eastern Branch, and all that part within the same four lines of Experiment which shall be within the Commonwealth of Virginia, and above a line to be run from the point of land forming the upper cape of the mouth of the Eastern Branch due South West, and no more, is now fixed upon, and directed to be surveyed, defined, limited and located for a part of the said district accepted by the said act of Congress, for the permanent seat of the Government of the United States; (hereby expressly reserving the direction of the survey and location of the remaining part of the said district, to be made hereafter contiguous to such part or parts of the present location as is, or shall be agreeable to law.)
And I do accordingly direct the commissioners, appointed agreeably to the tenor of the said act, to proceed forthwith to run the said lines of experiment, and the same being run, to survey, and by proper metes and bounds to define and limit the part within the same, which is herein before directed for immediate location and acceptance; and thereof to make due report to me, under their hands and seals.
IN testimony whereof, I have caused the seal of the United States to be affixed to these presents, and signed the same with my hand. Done at the city of Philadelphia, the twenty-fourth day of January, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, and of the independence of the United States, the fifteenth.
G. Washington.
BY THE PRESIDENT. THO'S JEFFERSON.
FROM THE CENTINEL.
MR. RUSSELL,
IT appears that those persons who purchased a Patent, for the new discovered method of making Pearl-Asbes, now called the Hopkintonian method, are to have a grant for five years only; at the expiration of which time the original Patentee will have the controul of all the Works erected upon his plan. As Sixty Pounds , the price of a Licence is no inconsiderable sum, it would be highly unjust to subject each proprietor of a Furnace to the caprice of a man, who will have it fully in his power to exact what further price he may please to ask for a future Licence.
If Mr. H. declines publishing his wonderful secret to the world, until he makes a certainty of accumulating a fortune by the sale of four hundred Licences, perhaps the good people of this age may not be benefited by the discovery. As it is not probable there will be a sale of so many upon the present uncertain terms, that people living in the present century may derive some advantage from the discovery, a Philanthropist begs leave to communicate a method by which Pearl-Asbes may be made by calcination.
Erect a Pearl-ling-Oven, made in the common form except with this difference—under the hearth of the oven there must be an arch longer than the
hearth, so as to let the chimney extend up behind the oven, which must be wide enough to contain a small pot-ash kettle, or large iron pot, which must be about three quarters filled with water, then covered with a lid or head like a still, tight and secure, with an iron pipe fixed in the centre of the head or cover, continuing through the hearth of the oven, and terminating within about two or three inches of the under sides of the arch of the oven: Put into the oven from six to eight bushels of ashes or a greater or less quantity in proportion to the size of the oven, then kindle the fire in the upper arch, which will flame all over the ashes, and in time change them to a lighter colour, and when the ashes are burnt to a great degree, stir them with an iron scraper, which will cause all the common moisture to pass off—then kindle your fire in the lower arch until the water boils freely, which will cause a steam to ascend through the pipe that will produce a damp, which in combination with the particles of heat, will cause the alkalis to sweat out and separate from the earthly parts—which soon evaporate and pass off, leaving the pearl-ashes in a state of great perfection, as well as quantity.
N. B. Leached ashes produce good pearled-ashes, yielding amazingly, and work much easier than other ashes.
The Unhappiness consequent on the neglect of early improving the mind.
[ADDRESSED TO YOUTH.]
THERE is not a greater inlet to misery and vices of all kinds, than the not knowing how to pass our vacant hours. For what remains to be done, when the first part of their lives, who are not brought up to any manual employment, is slipt away without an acquired relish for reading or taste for other rational satisfactions? That they should pursue their pleasures?—But, religion apart, common prudence will warn them to tie up the wheel as they begin to go down the hill of life. Shall they then apply themselves to their studies? Alas! the seed time is already past: The enterprising and spirited ardour of youth being over, without having been applied to those valuable purposes for which it was given, all ambition of excelling upon generous and laudable schemes quite stagnates. If they have not some poor expedient to deceive the time, or, to speak more properly, to deceive themselves, the length of a day will seem tedious to them, who, perhaps have the unreasonable benefit to complain of the shortness of life in general. When the former part of our life has been nothing but vanity, the latter end of it can be nothing but vexation. In short, we must be miserable, without some employment to fix, or some amusement to dispate our thoughts: The latter, we cannot command in all places, nor relish at all times; and therefore there is an absolute necessity for the former. We may pursue this or that new pleasure; we may be fond for a while of a new acquisition; but when the graces of novelty are worn off, briskness of our first desire is over, the transition is very quick and sudden, from an eager fondness to a cool indifference. Hence there is a restless agitation in our minds, still craving something new, still unsatisfied with it, when possessed; till melancholy increases, as we advance in years, like shadows lengthening towards the close of day.
Hence it is, that men of this stamp are continually complaining that 'the times are altered for the worse'; because
the sprightliness of their youth represented every thing in the most engaging light; and when men are in high good humour with themselves, they are apt to be so with all around: The face of nature brightens up and the sun shines with a more agreeable lustre: But when old age has cut them off from the enjoyment of false pleasures, and habitual vice has given them a distaste for the only true and lasting delights; when a retrospect of their past lives presents nothing to view but one wide tract of uncultivated ground; a soul distempered with spleen, remorse and insensibility of each rational satisfaction, darkens and discolours every object; and the change is not in the times, but in them, who have been forsaken by those gratifications which they would not forsake.
How much otherwise is it with those who have laid up an inexhaustible fund of knowledge? When a man has been laying out that time in the pursuit of some great and important truth, which others waste in a circle of gay follies, he is conscious of having acted up to the dignity of his nature; and from that consciousness there results that serene complacency, which, though not so violent, is much preferable to the pleasures of the animal life. He can travel on from strength to strength; for, in literature as in war, each new conquest which he gains, empowers him to push his conquests still farther, and to enlarge the empire of reason: Thus he is ever in a progressive state, still making new acquirements, still animated with hopes of future discoveries.
From a Hartford Paper.
THE PROMPTER.—No. VI.
The Grace of God in Dollars.
I Met a fat plump sacred Speculator; the other day, staggering under a heavy canvas bag. With true yankee freedom, I asked him what he had in his bag.—"The Grace of God." replied the wag. Ah, said I, I have heard of that article, but never saw it in a bag. By this time he had slipped his hand into the bag, and taking out a dollar, "there," said he, Dei gratia , Carolus III, is stamped upon the face of every dollar in the bag." I was surprised to hear a Speculator say, he had the Grace of God , especially such a load as to stagger under it; but upon explaining himself, my surprize ceased and I smiled. He had cleared three hundred dollars, that morning, by the sale of public paper—he was too much pleased with the abundance of his grace to stand discussing nice points—and we parted.
A N E C D O T E.
THE Natives of this country are noted for their shrewd and sarcastical answers and observations to white people. The following may be taken as an instance. A Clergyman in a neighboring town lately met a Squaw upon the road, who had a horse-shoe in her hand, and accosted her with "Good-morrow, Squaw."—"Good-morrow, Mr. Minister"—with a low courtesy.—"What is that you have in your hand, Squaw?"—"I don't know, Mr. Minister."—"Don't know?"—"No, I don't know what 'tis—what is it, Mr. Minister?"—"Why it is a horse-shoe."—"A horse-shoe, Mr. Minister!"—"Yes, a horse-shoe."—"O! Mr. Minister! (exclaimed she, with uplifted hands and downcast eyes) now I see what LEARNING do; LEARNING make you tell HORSE-shoe from MARE-shoe!"

CONGRESS.
THIRD SESSION. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
FRIDAY, JAN. 28.
A Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, relative to the establishment of a mint was laid before the house; and 200 copies ordered to be printed.
The bill, received from the Senate, for erecting the district of Kentucky into a separate state, was referred to a committee of the whole, who after some time spent in considering the same, rose and reported it without amendment: whereupon it was resolved that the said bill do pass.
The report of the joint committee of both houses respecting the time of commencing the next session of Congress, was adopted by the house, and a select committee appointed, consisting of Messrs. Tucker, Lee, and Partridge, for the purpose of bringing in a bill to alter the time of the annual meeting of Congress.—Adjourned.
MONDAY, JAN. 31.
Mr. Floyd, from the joint committee on enrolled bills, reported, that they had examined the bill, entitled an act admitting the state of Kentucky into the federal union, and found the same to be duly enrolled; whereupon the speaker signed the said bill.
TUESDAY, FEB. 1.
A member moved that as he had some communications to make to the House of a secret nature, which made it necessary that the Galleries should be cleared and they were cleared accordingly.
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 2.
Mr. Floyd from the committee on enrolled bills reported that they had waited on the President of the United States and presented to him an enrolled bill entitled an act to admit the state of Kentucky into the federal union.
THURSDAY, FEB. 3.
The bill to incorporate the subscribers to the Bank of the United States, was taken up in the House in order to its being passed; a motion was made for recommitting the first section, which after some debate was negatived, Ayes 21—Noes 38; a lengthy and very interesting debate then ensued respecting the constitutionality of the Bank; an adjournment being called for, the House rose without coming to a decision.
Foreign Intelligence.
MADRID, November 1.
Contrary to the expectations of many, the dispute between England and us has been amicably terminated: It is certainly fortunate for the interests of Europe, that a War has been prevented; but from the following correct and authentic statement of our armaments, it will be seen that we had not much cause to dread the contest.
We have now afloat,
   Total guns.     11 ships of 112 guns — 1232   2 ditto 94 ditto — 188   4 ditto 80 ditto — 320   44 ditto 74 ditto — 3256   5 ditto 64 ditto — 320   4 ditto 58 ditto — 232   1 ditto 54 ditto — 54   Total, 71 ships — 5602    We have, besides,     3 frigates of 40 guns     44 ditto of 38 ditto     1 ditto of 30 ditto     15 zebecks     6 corvets     26 bilanders     10 brigantines     26 packet boats     7 pataches     5 galleys, and     5 galliots.    
LONDON, Nov. 20.
Such is the spirit of commerce in this country, that a number of ships
are already ordered to be got in readiness for the South Sea fisheries in consequence of the recent convention with the court of Spain.
A mason employed in erecting a bridge near Ulverston lately, was so intent on his labor as not to observe that the tide which had been some time flood, had surrounded the spot on which he was; there was no boat near, and the rest of the men employed, were all gone, without ever missing him. In this alarming situation, he very deliberately began to erect a wall, or rather pedestal, which he continued to rear, until the water overflowed it; he then stood upon his edifice, and with a large iron crow, supported himself against the rapidity of the current; in that situation he remained (at one time up to his chin in water) until the tide retired. This expedient saved his life, and the directors of the work, have determined that this temporary bulwark shall be secured, and remain a monument of extraordinary presence of mind, and astonishing intrepidity.
The following decision recently took place in the London Court of Chancery .
On the 18th of June, 1761, the Hon. Mr. Boyle, left by will the sum of 5400l. to be laid out in lands in Yorkshire , out of the rents of which the sum of 90l. was to be paid annually to the College of William and Mary , in New-England , to be applied for the purpose of propagating the Christian religion among the Indians in the back settlements in North-America ; and likewise a farther sum of 45l. to be paid to the same College, for the support of two missionaries to preach the gospel. The City of London were left the trustees; and the management under the trust was, by the will, committed to the care of the Bishop of London , and the Earl of Burlington , for the time being. The latter being extinct, the whole management fell into the hands of the former.
The present Bishop instituted this suit in which the city, and a great number of other persons were parties, for the single, and indeed novel purpose of knowing, whether (as the testator had originally devised the several sums for the use of British subjects , and the Americans have ceased to be in that situation, since their independence) the annuity ought not to revert to this kingdom, or to some other of his Majesty's colonies, to be applied to similar purposes. This being the first determination of that nature, since the revolution, his Lordship decided it with that superior dignity of sentiment, that always attends his decrees. Two phrases are sufficient: "All charitable devises are to be held sacred—we cannot rake up the ashes of the dead in search of latent intentions." The annuities and arrears must be paid, and (upon two or three minutes further consideration) Messrs. Anderson and Gipps , the agents for the College in New-England , and likewise the City of London must be paid the costs."—A determination so liberal and so just, particularly being the first, cannot fail of being distinguished.
[Our London brethren, we think, misstate several of the above particulars.—The Hon. Robert Boyle, died in 1691.—By his will he left a sum of money to the Society for propagating religion, among the Indians in New-England —the interest of which was to be appropriated for the support of two Gospel Ministers amongst them.]
NOVEMBER 28.
A stock broker, who is also a warm Methodist, was lately robbed of 800l. in the following manner.
Whilst his maid Betty was gossiping with some of the neighbors, a thief stole unperceived into the house and secreted himself under the stock-broker's bed, who, on his return home deposited the above sum in his bureau; but afterwards finding a disinclination to sleep alone, he ascended to the bed-chamber of his favorite, leaving all his clothes behind him; the fellow took the convenient opportunity of conveying away the cash, and silently quitting the house, while master Consol was locked in the embrace of his dear bed-fellow. The discovery has been acknowledged by the thief, who is now in Newgate .
National Debt of England.
A wager of a very curious nature, and involving great nicety of calculation between two eminent arithmeticians, was determined at the Pewter Platter in Charles-street , last week—the subject was the national debt, and the question was, how many ton weight of ten pound bank notes would be sufficient to pay it? After an accurate investigation, it was clearly proved, by a gentleman chosen the umpire, that taking each bank note at thirteen grains being the average weight, and the national debt two hundred and eighty millions , it would require twenty-one ton three hundred, or six waggons loads of ten pound bank notes to discharge it.
In the great Pacific Ocean, whales are found in the vast proportion of one hundred to one in the northern Sea. How invaluable such a fishery must become, it is needless to demonstrate. A vessel must be filled in one tenth part of the time; and besides, the risk of returning clean, which often happens from the Greenland Seas, is intirely precluded.
THE NEW FRENCH FLAG.
The Jack on the bowsprit—three stripes of equal breadth, and placed vertically; that nearest the Jack-staff, red; that in the middle, white; and the other blue.
The Ensign the same as the Jack in the upper quarter, encompassed with a narrow stripe; one half the length, red, and the other white; the rest of the Ensign white.
The ships of war and merchants ships are to carry the same flag: Those of the ships of war are to have in the largest part, the three stripes vertical, red, white, and blue; the rest of the flag to be white, the flag and ensign will be hoisted on board, as soon as the orders shall be given by the KING.
DECEMBER 3.
THE NETHERLANDS.
On Tuesday evening the Duke of Leeds received the following very important communication from Colonel Gardner at Brussels, which confirms the news of the surrender of Namur to the Imperialists, and relates the consequences which it has produced in every part of the Netherlands.
In our account of yesterday, we stated that General Schoenfeld , the commander in Chief of the Belgic troops, had saved himself by flight from the hands of the Imperialists, and had arrived at Brussels. The latter part of this information we find to be premature, for the Duke of Leeds's dispatches positively mention, that the whole Belgic army in garrison at Namur had been made prisoners, and amongst the rest General Schoenfeld . This account is certainly correct, though the particulars of the capture are not yet known.
But the most important news is, that the Congress of Brussels, on hearing this intelligence, and that the Imperial army, amounting to 40,000 men under the command of General Bender , was in hasty march towards Brussels, immediately dispersed and took to flight. Some of the members got away unopposed, but the populace have seized on Van der Noot and Van Eupen , the lawyer and the priest, who were endeavouring to escape in disguise, both of whom they held in confinement, and their fate will soon prove an example of punishment to others who dare to rebel against their lawful sovereign, and usurp a Government by means of the most barefaced and wicked imposture.
The Imperial troops were expected in Brussels on Saturday last, and the inhabitants are extremely well disposed to receive them. They will find no resistance in re-taking possession of the Government of the Netherlands.
The Congress of Ambassadors at the Hague, for settling the disputes in Brabant, is dissolved rather abruptly. The Count de Merci d'Argenteau , the Imperial Minister, had been entreated by the other members of the Congress, to delay the entry of the Imperial troops into Brabant for eight days, which he refused to do for as many hours. The ministers of the three allied powers o-
penly protested against this rash conduct of M. de Merci , and the Congress broke up. It is however generally understood that Lord Auckland tacitly acquiesced in the proceedings of this Minister.
On the very moment that the term given by the emperor expired, the states of Brabant offered to submit on condition of receiving the Emperor's third son as the Sovereign, but all offers short of unconditional submission were refused.
Domestic Intelligence.
GEORGETOWN, Jan. 26.
Extract of a letter from a Correspondent at Louisville, Kentucky, dated the 10th of December, 1790.
"YOU will, before this reaches you, hear of the dreadful slaughter made by the Indians. I have lost fifteen men out of my company, all which were heads of families, five have left eight or ten children behind. The loss fell heavily on the militia of Kentucky; the disharmony which existed between the federal troops and the militia, contributed much to this unfortunate campaign.
CARLISLE, [Penn.] Jan. 19.
On Tuesday the 11th inst. the house of Mr. Alexander M'Donald, in East-Pennsborough, was burned, and his wife, two of his children, and a girl the only child of his brother-in-law, unhappily perished in the flames. This dreadful accident was occasioned by putting a quantity of flax to dry upon the stove. The flax taking fire Mr. M'Donald took it up in his arms to throw it out of the door, but as he carried it, the blaze caught the loft floor, which was loosely laid with dry boards and husks over the beams. Mr. M'Donald's brother-in-law was in the house with him and his wife, and her mother an old infirm woman. They all ran out immediately, except Mr. M'Donald's wife who came to the door and then turned back into the house to bring out the children as was supposed, but the flames which raged most violently at the door, prevented her return—she was heard for some time in the back part of the house, but the two men stupified, and like persons bereaved of their senses with the fright, could do nothing for her assistance. She finding all hope of relief in vain, threw herself over her children to screen them as long as possible, and continued in this situation until the fire reduced them to a coal.
SPRINGFIELD, Feb. 2.
We learn from undoubted authority that the noted Daniel Shays , commonly called General Shays , who was so recently at the head of a riotous banditti, in the state of Massachusetts, is now confined in the common gaol at Bennington, for a debt under ten pounds—due to a farmer of Little-White-Creek, in that State.
We learn from Sandsfield , county of Berkshire, that on Tuesday night the first inst. the dwelling-house of Capt. Robbins, of that place, was consumed by fire, with all his furniture, papers, and a quantity of merchandise, to the amount of eleven or twelve hundred pounds. This scene was rendered peculiarly distressing by the loss of his hired man, who, it is said, perished in the raging element.
At the Court of General Sessions of the Peace held in this town, in and for the County of Hampshire, on the third Tuesday of January, 1791,
Benjamin Cottrell , of Dudley, in the county of Worcester, labourer, was convicted of horse-stealing, and of theft on three other presentments, and was sentenced to be whipped 35 stripes, and to pay three fold damages and cost of prosecution; he being unable to pay said damages and costs, it was further considered that said Benjamin might be disposed of in service to satisfy said damages and costs, for the space of three years and nine months, if demanded for that purpose within 30 days; otherwise that said Benjamin be sent to Castle-Island , in the harbour of Boston,

there to be kept at hard labour for the space of two years. The former part of his punishment he received on Thursday last.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 28. His Excellency Governor Johnston of Maryland, Hon. Daniel Carrol , Esq. and Dr. Stuart , of Alexandria, are appointed by THE PRESIDENT of the United States, Commissioners to lay out the district for the permanent Seat of the General Government.
A L B A N Y, Jan. 31. The following was communicated by a worthy correspondent, in the Indian country.—“Many of the Indians, in the late engagement with Gen. Harman , or rather the brave, but unfortunate, Major Wyllys , fought on horse-back, and with a dexterity that would have not disgraced well disciplined dragoons. Their horses were equipped with a bunch of bells hanging down the left cheek, and two narrow strips of cloth, red and white; and the Indians were painted red and black, and in such a manner as to represent the infernal spirits, perhaps much more than the human species. The most hideous and terrific appearance, added to the noise of the bells and the flapping of the pendant strips of cloth, rendered them truly formidable to the militia horse, which shrunk back at the very sight, and it was with the greatest difficulty any could be brought to the charge.”
D A N B U R Y, Feb. 1. A Correspondent has sent us the following account of the shipwreck of the brig Sally , mentioned in our last. On the morning of the 17th of January between 8 and 9 o'clock the brig Sally , belonging to Stamford, commanded by Capt. Benjamin Keeler, of Ridgfield, returning from a voyage to the West-Indies, was cast away on Eaton's Reef, Long-Island, and all on board consisting of 11 persons perished.
The shore presented a mournful and distressing sight of various parts of the vessel and cargo scattered and broken to pieces, floating upon the water. The quarter deck, which was composed of two inch plank, was broken cross-ways, and the vessel torn asunder in many parts. These fragments and ruined cargo, were drifted on shore, about 30 rods from the extremity of Eaton's point. The body of Capt. Keeler was found, drifted on shore, with his arms clenched fast round the top-mast shrouds, where he probably was when the vessel struck, and fell with the mast. Three other bodies were found on shore, viz.—Daniel Gray of Stamford, Stephen Jackson, and James Butler, of Norwalk,—sailors. The brig failed out of Sagg-Harbor on Sunday morning: The ferocity of the weather, the mildness of the day, and the little appearance of such a dreadful storm, had probably raised their expectations of reaching their designed port without danger. But from this time to the morning in which they perished, we can only conjecture their awful and distressed situation; excepting from some circumstances and papers. It appears that Capt. Keeler, apprehending the destruction which awaited them, packed his cloths up and put them with his papers respecting the voyage, his watch, medal, and some other things, into his chest, locked it and fastened his keys to the hinge of his trunk. In order to secure themselves in case the vessel should strike they had fastened one end of a piece of rigging to the boat, the other to the shrouds. The vessel was seen at seven o'clock in the morning of the 17th close in with the land at Eaton's neck, under sail and endeavouring to claw off the shore. Soon after this they were probably stove in pieces. Among the papers found, there was one written by the Captain, and carefully packed up with the log-book, describing the horrors of the storm, and the distress they were in, being presented with nothing but the gloomy prospect of a watery grave. The bodies which were found, were brought from the island on Tuesday, 25th, and on the 26th Capt. Keeler's was decently interred. The Rev.
Mr. Mitchel, of Canaan preached a sermon from Heb. 4, 16, to the largest concourse of people ever assembled in Ridgfield on a similar occasion. The whole was attended with the greatest solemnity, and all dropped a tear of sympathy with the bereaved friends. Capt. Keeler was the only son of his mother, and she a widow—a dutiful and affectionate child, beloved by all his acquaintance: Having experienced misfortunes himself, he was ever ready to succour the wretched. As a seaman he was expert, having followed the business 12 years: He died (aged 29) lamented by his relations, friends, and acquaintance.
The following lines were found in Capt. Keeler's chest, with his papers, supposed to have been written during the storm in which he suffered.
“How wonderful is the scene altered! the landscape, large and spacious,—which a warm fancy drew; brought to the test of cool experience, shrinks into a span. Just as the shore vanishes, and mountains dwindle to a spot; when the sailor surrounded by skies and ocean, throws his last look on his dear native land.
“The tempest summons all the force of the air, and pours itself with restless fury from the angry North. The whole atmosphere is tossed into tumultuous confusion, and the watry world is heaved to the clouds. The astonished mariner and his straining vessel, now scale the rolling mountains, and hang dreadfully visible on the broken surge: now shoots with headlong impetuosity, into the yawning gulf, and neither hulk nor mast is seen. It staggers the pilot, and baffles the skilful mariner.
“O how sweet is a steady mind at that time! “That sweet relief, the healing hand of Heav'n, Alone to suffering innocence has giv'n; Come friend of virtue, balm of ev'ry care, Dwell in my bosom and forbid despair.”
B O S T O N, Feb. 16.
[By an arrival last night later than by the Post, we have received a Philadelphia paper, of the 9th inst. from which we have extracted the following interesting article.]
TUESDAY, Feb. 8, 1791. NATIONAL BANK.
This Bill was further discussed, Messrs. Gerry and Vining spoke in favor of it—Mr. Madison against it, who moved the previous question, viz. Shall the main question be now put; which passed in the affirmative, Yeas 39, Nays 20.
On the question, shall this bill pass, the Yeas and Nays were as follows:—
AYES. Messrs. Ames, Benjon, Boudinot, Bourne, Cadwallader, Clymer, Fitzsimons, Floyd, Foster, Gerry, Gilman, Goodhue, Hartley, Hasbun, Heister, Huntington, Lawrance, Leonard, Livermore, P. Muhlburg, Partridge, Ranjellcar, Schurman, Scott, Sedgwick, Seney, Sevier, Sherman, Sylvester, Sinnickson, Smith (M.) Smith (S. C.) Steel, Sturges, Thatcher, Trumbull, Vining, Wadsworth, Wynkoop,—39.
NOES. Messrs. Abbe, Baldwin, Bloodworth, Brown, Burke, Carroll, Contee, Gale, Grout, Giles, Jackson, Lee, Madison, Matthews, Moore, Parker, Stone, Tucker, White, Williamson,—20.
Accounts from Philadelphia state, that there has been a confederation of all the South-west Indians, to fall on our frontiers early in the Spring.
OF FRANCE.
The National Militia, according to the military code, is to consist of 60,665 companies of 54 men each—nearly 3,700,000 fighting men!
Change of Ministry. —The King has named M. DU PORTAIL, as Minister of War, in the room of M. de la Tour du Pin, who has resigned. M. DELA FLEUR, as Marine Minister, in the room of M. de la Luzerne, also resigned.—[Before the latter resigned, he informed the King that of the navy of France, there were Seventy ships of the line completely fit for
service.] M. DU PORT DE TERTRE, is named Keeper of the Seals, and M. PASTORET as Minister of the 83 Departments.
The bold Parliament of Toulouse has fled to St. Sabastian , in Spain—where, it is said, the members are well received.
VERMONT
Will be no inconsiderable Member of the Union. Its present population is about 120,000.—The Legislature has divided the State into three districts for choosing Federal Representatives.
S A L E M, Feb. 15.
His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Hon. Council, has appointed Thursday the 31st day of March next, for a day of FASTING and PRAYER, throughout this Commonwealth.
The Hon. Senate has made choice of the Rev. CHANDLER ROBBINS, of Plymouth, to deliver the Election Sermon, on the last Wednesday of May next.
P O R T S M O U T H, Feb. 19.
Abstract from the Proceedings of the House of Representatives.
JAN. 26. —A select committee on the state of the Treasury, outstanding taxes, &c. reported; That the President, Chief Justice and Treasurer should be empowered to fund the old Continental money, Final Settlements and Indents now in the treasury; that the Specie now in the treasury should be vested in the purchase of Continental Securities; that the outstanding State Certificate and Indent taxes should at the option of individuals be paid in Specie at the rate of eight shillings for twenty, &c.—27th. The House resolved itself into a committee of the whole on the report of the select committee on the state of the treasury, &c. Mr. Sherburne in the chair—after long and various debates the committee rose without coming to any determination with leave to sit again.—28th. The House again went into a committee of the whole on the state of the Treasury, &c.—Mr. Sherburne in the chair—After much time spent in debate, the committee came to sundry resolutions and rose; Mr. Sherburne reported progress and asked leave to sit again.—29th. The House took under consideration the report of the commissioners appointed to settle the Treasurer's accounts, after a very particular statement of his accounts, they conclude with these words, “We beg leave to observe, that the accounts have been kept in a very regular and fair manner, are right cast and well vouched.”—31st. The House took under consideration that part of the report of the committee of the whole, which provides that 8 shillings in specie should be received in lieu of twenty of certificate and indent taxes, and voted to accept it; they also voted to accept that part of the report which respects the funding the old Continental money, final settlements and indents now in the treasury, and that all specie orders, orders drawn on the Import, Excise and Naval-Office, should indiscriminately be received at the treasury for all specie taxes.—Feb. 2. The Speaker being absent from town, the House made choice of John S. Sherburne, Esq. as Speaker pro tem. the House then proceeded and finished their consideration of the report on the state of the treasury.—Feb. 3. The House passed a bill for granting permanent salaries to the Judges of the Superior Court; the Chief Justice £180—the Associate Judges £140 each—Feb. 4th. A bill passed for encouraging the culture of Hemp, in which a bounty of nine shillings per Ct. is given as a bounty. The House voted to choose three Commissioners for receiving demands against the U. States. 5th. A resolve passed for the establishment of post-riders through the state.—9th. An Act passed ceding the Light-House
to the United States.—10th. The House went into the choice by ballot of three commissioners to receive accounts against the United States and Mr. John T. Gilman, Mr. Sanford Kingsbury and Mr. J. M'Gregore were chosen.
The President by and with advice of his Council has appointed the 7th day of April next, to be religiously observed as a day of fasting and prayer throughout this State.
The Senate have concurred with the House of Representatives to meet the first Wednesday in June next, at Concord, where the Election will again be held.
The disturbances in Martinique continue with aggravated fury.
The present session of Congress will terminate the second of March next. The first session of the second Congress is expected to commence in October or November next.
The Hon. Aaron Burr, Esq. is elected Senator of the United States, to take the place of the Hon. Philip Schuyler, in March next.
The Hon. Moses Robinson and Stephen R. Beardley, Esqrs. are elected Senators to represent the State of Vermont, in the Congress of the United States.
That State have also chosen commissioners to apply to Congress to receive it into the Union.
We hear that General Wayne is elected a Representative for Georgia, in place of Hon. Mr. Jackson.
We hear that the Census of the inhabitants of Massachusetts, including the district of Maine, amounts to 470,000 Persons.
The number of inhabitants in the county of Hartford, in Connecticut, agreeable to the late Census, is 38,129.
The common bet among the ton, says a Boston paper, now is—a semi-annual Ticket.
PRICE OF STOCKS at Boston, FEB. 15.
  6 pr. Cents, 19/. Finals, &c. 16/6.   3 pr. Cents, 10/. Indents 10/.   Deferred 10/. Old Cont. 1000 43/ Sta. Notes 12/9 a 13 
ENTRIES at the Custom-House of this district.
C L E A R E D For Brig Betsey, Rollins, West-Indies. E N T E R E D FROM Brig Nancy, Brown, New-York.
ADVICE from a FATHER to his SON.
I DON'T mind your taking a few glasses of wine in company—it cheers and enlivens, promotes mirth, spirit and conversation.
Nay—if you can bear it, Jack—I don't much mind this bottle, or that bottle—
But, as you value yourself—and as you value my friendship—Beware of t'other bottle.
It is t'other bottle makes us drunk, quarrelsome, stupid, stay out late, keep bad hours, and bad company, and bad every thing.
Therefore, I say again, Jack, beware of T'OTHER BOTTLE.
T O be sold at Public Vendue, by virtue of a Licence from the Hon. Judge of Probate of Wills, &c. for the county of Rockingham, on Monday the seventh day of March next, at ten o'clock, before noon, at the house of Col. William Brewster, inn-holder in Portsmouth, the real estate of EDMUND ROBERTS, late of said Portsmouth, mariner, deceased, lying partly in said Portsmouth and partly in Somersworth, in the county of Strafford, with the incumbrance of dower.
MOSES WOODWARD, } Admini. SARAH WOODWARD, } Executrs. Portsmouth, Feb. 16, 1791.
T O be sold at Public Vendue, on Wednesday the 2d day of March next, the personal estate of Capt. Benjamin Holmes, late of Portsmouth, deceased, consisting of a yoke of Cattle, one Cow, some Sheep, and Household Furniture.—Sale to be at the late dwelling-house of said deceased, at 11 of the clock, A. M. on said day.
Portsmouth, Feb. 16, 1791.

Parnassian Spring.
STREPHON to ALMANDA.  A ND can thee dear Almanda live, And yet from bliss thro' fear re- strain? When love's soft empire you approve, Why will you let a tyrant reign?
For time's slow friendship pleas'd I'd stay, But e'er the promis'd hour he brings, Love, love with youth shall fly away. For love, than time has swifter wings.
E P I G R A M.
SAID an old Epicure, if Satan in H— In fishing for men take delight; His hook bait with wen'son, I love it so well,
By Jove, I am sure I should bite.
State of New-Hampshire.  NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in Mason, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1786, that unless they pay said taxes to me the subscriber, on or before the 24th day of February, so much of their land as will pay the same, together with incidental charges will be sold at public vendue, at the dwell- ing-house of Capt. William Chambers, in said town, at 3 o'clock, P. M. on said day.
   No. R. Q'ty d.q. d.q. d.q. d.q.     J. Blanchard 7 16 25 4 2 21 61 1   R. Fletcher 10 0 11 1 0 2 10 1   Jos. Brown 6 0 3/4 lot 3 0 13 41 1   J. Blodgett 9 0 3/4 lot 3 2 20 43 1    HEZEKIAH HODGKINS, Constable. Mason, January 24, 1791.
State of New-Hampshire.  NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in the town of Tamworth, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1790, that unless they pay said taxes to me the subscriber, on or before the 28th of February next, so much of their land as will pay the same, together with in- cidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of Sa- muel Gilman, Esq. in said town, at 10 of the clock, A. M. on said day.
   No. Q'ty s. d. d. d.     Enoch Quimby 6 50 2 1 1   N. Remick, 1st R. 0 92 4 2 —   George Jaffery, Esq. 10 5 — — —   Jonathan Warner 10 5 — — —    JACOB GILMAN, Constable. Tamworth, February 2, 1791.
TO be sold at public vendue, at the house of John Atwell, in Hollis, in the county of Hillsborough and State of New-Hampshire, on the 8th day of March next, at one o'clock, P. M. the following lots or parcels of land in the township of Cockermouth, in the county of Grafton and State aforesaid, or so much of each lot as will be suffi- cient to pay the taxes due thereon with incidental charges.     No. R. D. s. d.     Dan'l Lovejoy, 1775, 2 3 2 4   S. Hart, jr. 1772, 12 int'le 9 0   Ditto, 1772, 10 2 1 9   Stephen Powers, 1772, 6 ven. lot 10 9   Ditto, 1772, 4 1 2 9   Ditto, 1773, 6 ven. lot 5 0   Ditto, 1773, 4 1 2 5   Ditto, 1775, 4 1 2 4   Amos Phillips, 1775, 4 5 1 4   Ditto, 1775, 1 8 3 8   John Nelson, 1773, 15 1 3 10   Ditto, 1775, 16 1 3 8   B. Wentworth's whole right for 1771, 11. 16s.   Ditto, 1772, 16 3 2 9   Ditto, 1773, ditto 5 0 —   Ditto, 1775, ditto 4 2 —   John Green's whole right, for 1769, 11. 2s.   Ditto, 1771, 5 2 — —    JOHN ATWELL, Collector. Hollis, January 25, 1791.
Cash and the highest price is given for Old Emission Money, New Emission Money, Final Settlements—Loan-Office Certificates, or State Notes of this and the other States, by Nathaniel A. Haven, At his Store in Market-Street, Portsmouth, Jan. 29, 1791.
State of New-Hampshire.  NOTICE is hereby given to the proprietors and owners of land in the township of Dryden, in the county of Grafton and State of New- Hampshire, that the proprietors of said Dryden, at their legal meeting, held the 6th day of July 1790, at the dwelling-house of Mr. James Brown, in Stratford, in the county of Grafton and State of New-Hampshire, voted three pounds L. M. on each original right in said township, for the purpose of defraying proprietary expenses— which being duly assessed and commit- ted to me to collect, and by me adver- tised for payment, and still unpaid, that so much of each and every of the original rights, aforesaid, as is found sufficient to pay said tax and inciden- tal charges will be sold at public ven- due at the dwelling-house of James Brown, in Stratford, in the county of Grafton and State of New-Hampshire, on the 15th day of March, next, at 10 o'clock, A. M. on said day, unless pre- vented by previous payment.
   Samuel Averill 3   Samuel Hungerford 3   Elias Onjévine 3   Jacobus Bleecker 3   David Lespinard 3   Daniel Hawthurst 3   William Ames 3   James Bestey 3   Henry Coutant 3   James Fowler 3   Peter Huggeford 3   Thomas Seymore, jun. 3   David Matthews 3   John Beekman 3   Henry Van Vleck 3   Cornelius Cuyper 3   James Beekman, jun. 3   John Beekman, jun. 3   Gerandus Beekman, jun. 3   Thomas Beekman 3   Theophilus Beekman 3   Timothy M'Carthy 3   William Proctor 3   Carden Proctor 3   Thomas Miller 3   Christo Miller 3   Vinant Matthews, jun. 3   Thomas Matthews 3   Peter Farmer 3   John Gibbs 3   Benjamin Ferriss 3   Aaron Quimby 3   Josiah Quimby 3   Joseph Cornell 3   Joseph Cornell, jun. 3   Drake Palmer 3   Aaron Palmer 3   Nathan Palmer 3   Benjamin Cornwell 3   Jacob Deyckman 3   John Abeel 3   James Abeel 3   Garrit Abeel 3   Edward Burling, jun. 3   Jonathan Quimby 3   Jacob Underhill 3   Joseph Farrington, jun. 3   Uriah Field 3   John Cornell 3   Jonah Quimby 3   Isaac Underhill 3   John Hallock 3   Andrew Abrames 3   Anthony Lispenard 3   Thomas Marston 3   Leonard Lispenard 3   Hon. John Temple, Esq. Dep. Gov. 3   Theodore Atkinson, Esq. 3   John Nelson, Esq. 3   His Excellency Benning Wentworth, Esq. two shares 6    DAVID HIDE, Proprietors Collector. Brunswick, Feb. 18th, 1791.
State of New-Hampshire.  NOTICE is hereby given to the proprietors and owners of land in Franconia in the county of Grafton and State of New-Hampshire, that the pro- prietors of said Franconia at their meet- ing held by adjournment on the tenth of November 1790, voted seven shillings on each original right, in said township, for making and repairing Highways in said township, which being duly assessed and committed to me to collect, and by me advertised for payment, and still un- paid—That so much of each and every of the original rights aforesaid, as is found sufficient to pay said tax and in- cidental charges will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of Capt. Benjamin French, innholder in Dun- stable in the county of Hillsborough in said State of New-Hampshire, on the 13th day of March next, at one of the clock in the afternoon, and so on from day to day, unless prevented by previ- ous payment.
   Isaac Searl 7   His Excellency F. Barnard 7   Thomas Hubbard 7   William Brattle 7   Joseph Penchen 7   Oxenbridge Thatcher 7   John Micowendall 7   Oliver Wendall 7   John Moffatt 7   Harrison Gray 7   George Willis 7   Samuel Mather 7   Samuel Blodgett 7   Samuel Blodgett jr. 7   Nathan Blodgett 7   Caleb Blodgett 7   William Blodgett 7   David West 7   Daniel Jones 7   Joseph Russell 7   Richard Draper 7   William Taylor 7   Sanderson West 7   William Shepard 7   Fitch Pool 7   Willis Hall 7   Jeremiah Webb 7   Giles Alexander 7   Giles Alexander, jr. 7   William Alexander 7   Isaac Willard 7   Moses Graves 7   Elisha Graves 7   Moses Graves, jr. 7   John Graves 7   Jonathan Graves 7   Samuel Dunbar Searl 7   Rev. John Searl 7   Titus King 7   Joseph Hutchins 7   Thomas Storr 7   Daniel Castle 7   Zepheniah Platt, jr. 7   Zepheniah Platt 7   William Mitchell 7   Thomas Mechins 7   Joseph Richardson 7   William Mitchel, jr. 7   Justin Wheeler 7   George Gardner 7   Samuel Hopkins 7   Caleb Strong 7   Samuel Hunt 7   Thomas Allen 7   Thomas Mechins, jr. 7   Ebenezer Birt 7   Wifeman Claggett 7   Samuel Mather, jr. 7   Daniel Hopkins 7   William Mather 7   Lewis Gray 7   Jacob Wendall 7   Daniel Jones 7   John Temple, Esq. 7   Theodore Atkinson, Esq. 7   Theodore Atkinson, jr. Esq. 7   Mark H. Wentworth, Esq. 7    JOSEPH NIXON, Proprietor's Collector. Franconia, February 12, 1791.
Newcastle-Bridge-Lottery  The drawing of New- castle Lottery is postponed , to  TUESDAY , the 8th of March next, by reason of the imposs- ibility of procuring a return of Tickets, sent into different parts of the country for sale.
NORTHWOOD.  State of New-Hampshire.  NOTICE is hereby given to the non-residents and owners of land in the Parish of Northwood, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1790, that unless they pay said taxes to me the subscriber, on or before the 28th day of February, so much of their land as will pay the same together with inci- dental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of Jona- than Clark, Esq. innholder in said Parish, at ten o'clock, A. M. on said day.
   R. No. Ac's. r.s. d. d.     William Cleserton 7 10 42 0 3 1   Col. Richard Kent 0 12 118 0 5 1   William Langdon 0 14 156 0 6 2   Cuting Norris 0 16 130 0 6 2   Thomas Pierce 8 20 156 0 9 3   John Weight 0 21 156 0 9 3   Col. Gilman 9 25 78 0 6 2   John Tufts 10 4 156 1 8 6   William Briggs 0 10 78 0 6 2   Fann Clements 0 11 130 0 6 2   Samuel Whitwell 0 14 96 2 0 8    JOSHUA FURBUR, Constable. Northwood, January 24, 1791.
STRATFORD.  State of New-Hampshire.  PUBLIC Notice is hereby given to the proprietors of the township of Stratford, in the county of Grafton, and State aforesaid, that a Warrant has been issued to me the subscriber to collect a tax voted by said proprietors on 18th December, 1789, for the pur- pose of paying the expenditures which have arisen on locating and lotting out said town, for cutting, digging and bridging a Road through the same, and such other proprietary charges as has been heretofore advertised, the whole assessment being seven hundred and forty-two pounds L. M.—These are therefore to give notice that there will be sold at public vendue, at the house of Jeremiah Eames, Esq. in Northum- berland, on the 21st day of March next, at ten o'clock, A. M. on said day, so much of each delinquent proprietor's right, lot or lots of land as will pay said tax, and legal cost unless prevented by previous payment.—The sum due on each right is as follows—The first division lots contain fifty acres, the se- cond, third and fourth contain two hundred acres each.
   1st. div. 2d. div. 3d. div. 4th. div. Sum due.   £. s. d. q.     Wm. King — — — — 10 10 8 2   Rich'd Hart — — — — 8 10 8 2   Capt. I. Brown — — — — 7 2 7 2   50 acres of the right of Agur Tom- linson — — — — 0 14 0 0   Do. Wm. A. Tomlinson — — — — 0 14 0 0    EBEN W. JUDD, Collector. Northumberland Nov. 2, 1790.
TO be sold at Public Vendue, at the House of Col. Henry Butler, innholder in the town of Nottingham, on Monday the seventh day of March next, at two of the clock in the after- noon, so much of the real estate of ABNER CLOUGH, late of Notting- ham, deceased, as will pay the taxes assessed thereon, for the year 1783, with incidental charges, according to the laws of this State, in such case, made and provided.
   1 State tax. 2 S. tax. C. tax. T tax   l. s. d. l. s. d. l. s. d. l. s. d.     Abn. Clough, 2 to 8 2 to 8 4 9 1 19 7 — — — —    JOHN HARVEY, in behalf of JOSEPH HODGDON, Constable. Nottingham, Feb. 5, 1791.
War Department, Sept. 9, 1790.  INFORMATION is hereby given to all the Military Invalids of the Uni- ted States, that the sums to which they are annually intitled, and which will become due on the 4th day of MARCH ensuing, will be paid on the said day, by the Commissioners of the Loans within the States respectively, under such regulation, as the President of the United States may direct.  H. KNOX, Sec'y for Department of War.