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Federal Legislature.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14.
A MESSAGE from the Senate by Mr. Otis their Secretary, informed the house that the Senate have passed the bill for the relief of Thomas Jenkins and Sons.
The house then proceeded in the consideration of the report on the Delaware election.
The question for agreeing to the clause which states that John Patton is not duly elected to serve as a member, being put, was carried in the affirmative, nearly unanimously.
The clause of the report which states that Henry Latimer is duly elected, being put, a debate ensued.
The question was at length determined by yeas and nays, 57 in favor of agreeing to the clause and 31 against it—Mr. Latimer was accordingly qualified, and took his seat in the house.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17.
The merits of the petition of William Smith of Maryland, were taken up, and after debate a decision was postponed.
The Post-Office business was then taken up in committee of the whole. A vast number of new post roads were ordered without opposition. The committee then came to the consideration of that part of the report which relates to Newpapers, and it was moved, that the postage of them should be reduced to half a cent to distance not exceeding 100 miles, and one cent for any greater distance. The committee after some debate rose without taking a question, and the house adjourned.
Foreign Intelligence.
MANHEIM, November 26.
We yesterday morning heard a terrible cannonading towards Landau, and we are assured that fortress is upon the point of surrendering.
Nov. 27. We have received accounts that Gen. SZEKULI has repulsed the Republicans, and is now posted at Hombourg. We have also received advice from Landstuhl, that affairs in that neighbourhood wear a better aspect. The Prussians, who had been obliged at first to cede to superior numbers, having received a reinforcement of 10,000 men, attacked the French in their turn, in the neighbourhood of Bliesle, and repulsed them victoriously with great loss.
Imperial Head-Quarters, at Hagenau, December 1.
This day the French gave us a most furious battle; and the attacks were every where most furiously conducted. The conflict lasted from day-break until late at night, when the enemy were ultimately turned and repulsed.
Dec. 2. Eight o'clock in the evening.
Yesterday and this day bloody actions have been fought. The patriots did all they could to break through, but they were obliged to retreat with the loss of seven pieces of cannon. Gen. Count KEGLEVICH was carried off by a cannon ball, and the Duke of Bourbon received a wound in his hand with a stroke of a sabre.
DECEMBER 1.
By accounts received from the Prussian army we learn, that the French made an attack on the 29th November on the army commanded by the Duke of BRUNSWICK, near Lautern, and were repulsed; but nothing decisive happened on that day; but the next morning, at 6 o'clock, they made a vigorous attack on Erlenbach, where three Saxon battalions were placed, the greatest part of which were cut up.—The Duke of BRUNSWICK upon this ordered his troops to charge bayonets on the left wing of the French army; which after a few hours resistance, were beat back.
At the same time the French made an assault on the post situated on Gallows-Hill; but, being exposed to a heavy cross-fire, they were obliged to retire.—On their right wing they attempted, with 15 battalions, to force their way to Hoheneck, but in vain. After this they took their former position—when the Prince of WALDECK, with a corps of Austrians, came up to the assistance of the Prussians. After which the French were drove out of Lautern and Landstuhl.
Their loss is very great, but the particulars cannot be ascertained; and the loss of the Prussians and Austrians is also very considerable. The regiments of HOHENLOE and the Duke of BRUNSWICK'S, have suffered greatly. Gen. KALREUTH is mortally wounded, and is carried to Frankfort. Major HIRSCHFELD, Adjutant-General and Aid to the Duke of BRUNSWICK is killed. It is said that Gen. KLIEST is among the slain. The last action lasted from 6 o'clock in the morning till night.
The militia chest, and the papers belonging to the Quarter-Master General's department, were yesterday, (by way of precaution) removed
from Franhendal through this city to Ladenburgh, there to remain till further orders; as it is presumed that a third action will soon take place.
N. B. By this precaution of the Duke it is presumable, that the French are not so much beat as is stated in the above accounts of the battle.
FRANKFORT, Nov. 24.
The plan of taking Bitsche by surprise, or rather the citadel, which would have been a great acquisition, as it commands the defiles, was attempted in the night of the 16th, and succeeded. The town was easily taken, and the Prussians even penetrated in the zigzag to the last gate towards the citadel, where the French, with balls, timber, stones, and boiling water, forced the assailants to retreat with the loss of several hundred men.
DECEMBER 5.
The intelligence that Lieutenant Colonel KITSHFELDT, Adjutant-General to the Duke of BRUNSWICK, had been killed, is without foundation. He had a stone thrown at his head near Bitsche, which wounded him; he is alive at Worms, whither he went to wait his recovery.
The wound which Lieutenant General KALKREUTH received, near Leauteran, in his shoulder, was occasioned by a piece of grenade; it is far from being dangerous.
On the 29th of November, the Prussians again threw a great number of bombs into Landau.
Camp of Schweickhausen, at Hagenau, Nov. 23.
Gen. WURMSER having received orders from the Duke of Brunswick to retire behind the Motar, and enter into winter quarters, on account of the advanced state of the season, was preparing to put them into execution, when he learnt by a deserter, that the French designed to attack him; in consequence of which he determined to wait their attack which was made on the 18th and in which they were defeated with the loss of 6000 men killed, and 19 pieces of cannon taken: our loss was very trifling. On the 19th we marched to take up our post between the Motar and Zorn:—on the 20th the enemy crossed the Zorn to ravage the country: but on the 21st we obliged them to retreat; killed a great number and took 22 pieces of cannon: and yesterday we returned to our position, nearly under the walls of Hagenau. The head-quarters of the Duke of BRUNSWICK are at Pirmasens. Our loss, in the course of these four days has not been very great, but the loss less than 15,000 men. The left wing of our army this evening drove the enemy as far as Robatzau.
BOURLACH, Nov. 25.
Yesterday a strong cannonade was heard here all day long, and we learn, this day, that 9000 men of the garrison of Straubourg made a sally upon the Austrians, who being previously informed of their design, received them as usual, and repulsed them into the fortress.
Extract from the Leyden Courant of the 11th of December.
By the last post several letters were received from Hagenau, Lautern, Manheim, Worms, and Frankfort, dated from the 27th November, to 2d December, which state, that the French had made incessant attacks on the Austrians and Prussians, but were at last beat back, with the loss of eleven thousand men killed and wounded, and were driven back five miles beyond Lautern.
The loss of the allies, the same letters say, are very considerable. At Erlenbach three battalions of Saxons were nearly all cut to pieces; the regiment of HOHENLOE, it is said, lost six or seven hundred men, and the Duke of BRUNSWICK'S regiment lost four hundred men. Major HIRSCHFELD, aid to the Duke, had both his legs shot off, and died of his wounds, and General KALKREUTH is mortally wounded.
BRUSSELS, Nov. 29.
After the repulse of the Prussians at Bitsche, in which, according to their own account, their loss has been very considerable, the current has appeared to turn in favor of the French. In that assault, Prince FREDERICK, of Prussia, received a severe wound in the shoulder. Of the Prussian army it is said that the attempt cost them no less than 800 killed and 1300 wounded. The battalion of the grenadiers of Runinsky who wished first to scale the walls, was almost entirely destroyed. This affair took place on the evening of the 16th, and on the morning of the 17th the French made an attack on Bliescafel, but the Duke of BRUNSWICK having succeeded in turning their right wing, they were repulsed, but with what loss has not yet been ascertained. On the 18th, another dreadful engagement took place between the Austrians under Gen. WURMSER, and the troops of the enemy in the vicinity of Straubourg, aided by a part of the garrison of that fortress. The accounts here say that the loss was extremely severe on both sides, but the silence observed respecting the particulars, furnishes no favorable augury. This was followed by a third engagement on the 21st, when Gen. Wurmser was
attacked in all his positions. The slaughter was prodigious.
The loss of the Austrians is calculated at 6000 killed and wounded, and yet their persevering bravery compelled the French to retire to the heights of Saverne, where they have an entrenched camp. The Austrians resumed, for a time, their former position; but by later accounts we learn that Gen. Wurmser, with the greatest part of his army, has retired to Hagenau.
The French have taken possession of Bliescafel, and are in possession of the capital of that Duchy. They have also entered Luxembourg, which was left nearly without defence, and carried off large quantities of provisions and stores. They have changed their quarters near Phillippeville, and have moved up the Sambre towards Thionville.
Reinforcements are hourly passing through this place, and all the army on this frontier is in motion. His Royal Highness the Arch-Duke CHARLES, our Governor addressed a depeche, or memorial, to the states of our provinces, requesting a supply to their finances from the subjects of the Emperor in these provinces, by way of patriotic contributions, or voluntary loans, with or without interest, for defraying the expenses of the present war.
DECEMBER 5. Last Saturday the French again made a general attack on the Imperial frontier posts, and they had the good fortune to penetrate as far as Menin, from which place the cannon placed on the ramparts played on them, which made them retreat, after having fifty men taken prisoners: and we understand that in the district of Sturwooden, the enemy are collecting in great numbers; from which we judge, that their design is once more to wrest from us West Flanders.
GRAVENHAGEN, DEC. 12. Letters from Brussels, of the 5th inst. advise that several bloody skirmishes had taken place near Halluin and Werwick, where 150 men of Laudon's free corps were taken prisoners the first inst. The French had advanced to Ypres and Menin nothing took place but slight skirmishes, which were viewed as the fore-runner of a serious attack soon taken by the French; as they had already retaken the post of Paperingen, and that their army daily received considerable reinforcements.
FRISBURG, Nov. 20.
A general requisition has been ordered here in consequence of which 28,000 Germans will rise in arms and take the field. The district of Baden furnishes 6000; Furlenburg 6000; Brislaw and Schwartzfeldt 16000, and the city Fribourg 522, including 160 volunteer riflemen. The inhabitants of the district of Schwartzfeldt carry large carbines, with which they successfully kill their antagonists at the distance between 5 and 600 yards.
They will probably hunt in the forest of Wantzenau, whither a vast number of fugitive Sans Culottes are said to have retreated for shelter.
BRUMATH, Nov. 17.
Intelligence has been this moment received from the head quarters of the Imperial General WURMSER, that a detachment of his army has cut off a French post, killed about 170 men, took 56 prisoners, and several baggage waggons.
The greatest discord is said to prevail at Straubourg. The inhabitants wish to surrender. Their project has, however, been prevented by the commissioners of the Convention, who have already caused 220 persons to suffer by the guillotine, and their property to be confiscated. The French army of the Rhine now consists of 80,000 men, and daily receive, farther reinforcements.
The brother-in-law of General WURMSER has been apprehended at Straubourg, and conveyed to Paris as a prisoner of state.
LEGHORN, Nov. 12.
Yesterday morning failed hence for Toulon the Fortitude 74 guns, and 600 men; the Leviathan of 74 guns, 650 men; and La Sincere, of 24 guns and 100 men as a transport. Besides these failed La Perie, a French royal frigate, of 40 guns and 300 men. The above squadron is commanded by Capt. YOUNG; it serves as a convoy to some ships, including the Grand Dukes of Tuscany, commanded by Capt. CONSTANTINE TOSCANE, and bound for the East-Indies.
This day the following ships cast anchor here—Il Trancrede of 74 guns and 750 men, commanded by Count CARACIOLO; the frigate Sirena of 40 guns and 330 men, commanded by Count MARESCOTTI, and the Arethusa frigate of 40 guns and 330 men, commanded by Count THURN.—These three ships are Neapolitan, and came from the Gulph of Spezia, with 12 Neapolitan transports.
We now have in sight two other large men of war: One of them is supposed to be the Scipio, a royal French ship.
By letters from Genoa, we learn, that last week a great number of barrels, filled with gunpowder, were found in Porto Franco, probably hidden there with the wicked intention of blowing up the great magazines. On account of
this manoeuvre, an extraordinary Council was held, the result of which was, an order for all foreigners to quit immediately the city and harbour of Genoa. This morning, several ships full of foreigners, expelled from Genoa, arrived here.
FRANCE.
NATIONAL CONVENTION—Nov. 26.
A letter was received from Leguinio and Laignelot, commissioners at Rochefort, intimating, that a plot of the English to procure the surrender of Rochefort, L'Orient, Brest, St. Maloes, Bourdeaux, and other ports of the ocean, had been seasonably discovered. That there had been on board a vessel called l'Apollon, which had been sent to Rochefort for the purpose of debauching the people, a number of papers, which gave the most complete evidence that a diabolical plot was in agitation to procure the surrender of all these places, as they had procured that of Toulon. That an engineer on board the Apollon, being detected, had blown out his brains, which had prevented them from drawing from him the secrets with which he was evidently entrusted; that a vessel sent to Bourdeaux for the purpose of stirring up rebellion, had been wrecked near Rochefort; that the guillotine had in consequence been erected, and had received the new name of "The people's justice," which is written over the national axe; and that from morning till night, the ruffians, federalists, &c. who had entered into conspiracy to sell their country, were expiating the crime with their lives, and feeling the strokes of "the people's justice."—Applause.
PARIS, Dec. 2.
Yesterday the Convention received advice that the Republicans had obtained a victory over the Piedmontese troops, and that they had taken their Camp at Magdalena, and also of a fruitless attack of the Prussians on Bitsche, from whom they took 250 prisoners.
From Sar-Louis we learn, that on the 25th, November the army of Saarbruch had its head quarters at the Two Bridges, and another division as at Homburgh, which keep the enemy in awe. The garrison of Sar-Louis had the day before made a sortie, with two cannon, of two villages which were in possession of the Prussians, who on their approach retreated, and our troops returned to the city with 300 sheep, a number of hogs, six waggons with grain, and three waggons with potatoes.
HALIFAX, JAN. 28.
On Tuesday last arrived here the ROEBUCK packet, in 32 days passage from Falmouth.
By the ROEBUCK packet, we received London papers to the 16th ult. from which we have extracted the preceding intelligence, besides the extracts we have made from the papers we find, that the parliament is prorogued to the 21st Jan. then to meet for the dispatch of business. Sir JOHN Jervis's squadron was spoke with the 4th December clear off the channel, consisting of the following ships—Boyne, 98 guns, Vengeance 74, Veteran 64, Ulysses 44, Woolwich 44, Quebec 32, Rose 28, Dromedary 24, Inspector 16, Vetuvius Bomb 8, and twelve or fourteen transports with troops under convoy for the West-Indies. Rear Admiral KINGSMILL, who is appointed commander in chief of his Majesty's ships and vessels at New-foundland, in the room of Sir RICHARD KING, set off for Portsmouth, in order to embark for his station.
Letters and accounts from Germany and Flanders, mention, that several battles have been fought with various success. The forces under the command of the Duke of Brunswick, and those directed by Gen. WURMSER, appear to have been engaged by the French, near Straubourg (with scarcely the intermission of a day) from the beginning of November to the first last month. Accounts from those armies of the attacks made by the French on the 28th, 29th and 30th of November, in which they were so severely repulsed, say, that the slaughter made by the Prussians was so great, that their lines were surrounded with a pile of the carcasses of men and horses nearly five feet in height that the French soldiery had been made furiously drunk by their officers, which occasioned them to fight with the most fatal desperation. The intelligence brought by Lord GEORGE CONWAY, is of the most important nature. The surrender of Fort Louis, with a garrison of four thousand men, and one hundred and twelve pieces of artillery, and the quantity of ammunition, and military stores of all kinds taken in the place is immense.
Mr. PITT seems determined to carry on the war with the same spirit his father shewed upon similar occasions. The most formidable preparations for another campaign are making by the allied powers; and the French to enable themselves to carry on the war, are seizing on property wherever they can find it—and the unfortunate man who is in possession of wealth must not only part with it without murmuring, but must think himself happy if he is not obliged to part with his head also. His Britannic Majesty, as elector of Hanover, demanded of the diet of Ratisbon,

the sum of 2,000,000 florins, for the assistance which he afforded to the Empire during the Spanish succession war. The States of Austrian Netherlands have offered the sum of 4,500,000 florins, as a voluntary contribution to the war. The states of Hungary have it in contemplation to offer the Emperor a voluntary gift of 3,000,000 florins, and three regiments, each of which to consist of between four and five thousand men.
The number of killed and wounded, prisoners, and sick, in the Austrian armies, is said to amount to 30,000 men. This loss in comparison with that of the French, is but small. There are 16,000 French prisoners in the Netherlands. There is also a great number of them in Interior Austria, and 10,000 more are expected in Austria before the middle of the present month. General JOURDAN's projects in the North have all miscarried, in consequence of the timely intimation the Prince of Saxe Cobourg had received, and the prudent disposition he made accordingly to thwart them. The vast reinforcements he has since obtained, render his situation too formidable for any further apprehensions—The Elector Palatine of Bavaria, is to furnish 15,000 men for the service of Great-Britain.
FRANCE.
NATIONAL CONVENTION.
Substance of a late report made respecting the political situation of the Republic of France, by Citizen ROBERSPIERRE, in the name of the committee of public welfare.
WE now solicit the utmost attention of the National Convention towards the greatest interests of the country. We come to lay before your eyes the situation of the republic with regard to the divers powers of the earth, and above all with regard to the nations whom nature and reason attach to our cause, but whom intrigue and perfidy seek to range among the number of our enemies.
Emerged from the chaos in which a criminal court had plunged government, the French legislators ought to fix their political principles towards the friends and enemies of the republic.
To unite the monstrous league of powers against France, it required the politics of two courts, whose influence swayed all the rest; it required even the alliance of the King of the French, and of the faction who caressed and threatened him by turns, to govern under his name, or to raise a foreigner upon the ruins of his power.
It is now universally known that the politics of the court at London, contributed a great deal to give a shock to our revolution. PITT's plan was immense—the execution of which was to have secured to England the three great objects of its ambition or jealousy: Toulon, Dunkirk, and our colonies. PITT endeavored to part the south of France, from the north. This plan was bold, but the genius who formed it could not find means to put it into execution. PITT wanted to sport with the French nation, but he has been thunder struck.—His notions respecting our revolution are grossly erroneous. His views have been crossed, and barbarism could not be restored. PITT saw dismemberment, ORLEANS, LA FAYETTE, LAMETH, DUMOURIER, CUSTINE, BRISLOT, and all the pigmies of the Brissotine faction. It was in vain for the Girondist faction, and all the cowardly emissaries of foreign powers to pretend to excite civil war and the hydra of federalism. The genius of liberty screened the French, who unanimously wish to be free.
Since the year 1791, the English nation perceived that there was a strong Republican party in France, which would not side with tyranny. The people themselves were that party. The assassination of the Champ de Mars and of Nancy , were not deemed sufficient to destroy that party; and they resolved upon war. Hence the monstrous alliance of Austria and Prussia, and afterwards the league of all the powers armed against us. It would be absurd to attribute that phenomenon to the emigrants, or to the credit of the late court: It was the work of foreign politics, supported by the power of factions who ruled France.
To have led the Kings to this step, it was not enough to have represented the form of government as odious to the majority of the people, and to have added, that the nation wait for them as their deliverers: It was enough to have corrupted the Generals; but to justify the attempt of the Kings before the eyes of their subjects it was even found necessary to save them the trouble of declaring war. You all know the Micheli address with which this event was brought about.
The sincere partisans of the Republic thought quite otherwise. Before they broke the chains of the world, they intended to secure the liberty of their own country, by extirpating their own tyrant, and inculcating the notions of universal liberty.
Such was the character of the false patriots; such the conduct of the emissaries pensioned by the foreign courts.
The moment had arrived when the British government after having excited so many enemies against us, chose itself openly to join the league.—But the wish of the party of the opposition militated against that project of the Ministry: BRISLOT caused war to be declared against England and Holland at the same time: And soon after war was proclaimed against Spain, because we were not prepared then to combat that new enemy, and the Spanish fleet was ready to join that of England.
With what base hypocrisy did the traitors avail themselves of pretended insults committed upon the Ambassadors, which had been preconcerted between them and the foreign powers? With what indecency did they attest the dignity of the nation with which they thus insultingly sported?
The dastards! They had saved the Prussian despot, and fattened Belgium with the purest blood of the French, and delivered up to the enemy our treasures, our magazines, our provisions and our defenders. This was not enough—our Journalists were suborned to vilify the revolution, and to render the French name contemptible to all mankind.
They chiefly endeavored to oppose the opinion of Paris to that of all the rest of the Republic, and that of the Republic to the prejudices of the foreign nations.
They also armed the hand of fanaticism against us by a new artifice. DUMOURIER in Belgium excited the national volunteers to strip the churches and to play with the silver Saints, at the same time that traitor published religious manifestos, worthy of the Pope, which vowed the detestation of the Belgians and of mankind upon the French. In the same manner the traitors from within, declaimed here against the Priests, while favoring at the same time the rebellion of the South and the West.
Mean while France was left by herself, combating for the common cause. Allies of France, what became of you? Americans, were you only the allies of LOUIS XVI? Did not the French nation by her arms and armies, help you to shake off the yoke? No, Citizen Allies, the French have not abjured their sentiments, but if it depended on the faction which governed Frenchmen, they would now be among the number of your enemies.
By a very singular fatality, the Representatives of the Republic in America, are the Agents of the traitors whom she has punished—The brother-in-law of Brissot is Consul General with the United States from France; another man of the name of Genet, sent by Le Brun and Brissot, with the charge of Plenipotentiary Agent, resides at Philadelphia, and has faithfully fulfilled their designs and instructions. He has made use of the most unaccountable means to irritate the American Government against us; he affected to speak without any pretence, in a menacing tone, and to make proposals to that government equally contrary to the interest of both nations; he endeavored to render our principles suspected or formidable, by exceeding them by the most ridiculous applications. By a very remarkable contrast, while those who had sent him to America, persecuted at Paris, the Popular Societies, denounced as Anarchists the Jacobins, courageously struggling against tyranny, Genet, at Philadelphia, made himself the Chief of a Club there, and never ceased to make and excite motions equally injurious and perplexing to the Government. Thus the same faction which wanted to subject the people in France to the aristocracy of the rich, endeavored in a moment to set free and arm all the negroes to destroy our Colonies.
The same manoeuvres were employed in France by CHOISUL GOUFFIER, and his successor.—Who would believe that clubs and primary assemblies have been holden at Constantinople: Such proceedings could be neither beneficial to our principles nor to our cause; but they could perplex and exasperate the Ottoman Court. The Turk, the necessary enemy of our enemies, the useful and faithful ally of France, slighted by the French government, circumvented by the English cabinet observed hitherto a neutrality more prejudicial to his own interest than to those of the republic. It appears, however, that he is ready to awake; but the English cabinet direct the Divan—he will not bring his forces against Austria, our common enemy, which might be easily overwhelmed, but against Russia, whose power may once more prove a rock for the Ottoman arms to split upon.
There is another nation united to our cause by ties not less strong—I mean the Swiss. The politics of our enemies have drained all their resources to turn the Swiss against us; imprudence, supineness, and perfidy, concurred to succor their efforts; some violations of territory, some useful chicanes, some libels inserted in certain Journals, and a very active intrigue carried on at Geneva, Mont Terrible, and in some dark committees holden at Paris and consisting of bankers, foreigners and intriguers, all have been tried to strengthen the line of our enemies. Helvetic prudence has withstood all the solicitations of the foreign powers. The Swiss confined themselves to address their grievances in a friendly manner to the government; the committee of public welfare, who found their complaints justly founded, has taken measures to remove the causes of those grievances, and to give to the Swiss Cantons ample proofs of the fraternity and benevolence of the French nation.
If you wish to know what cowardly means are employed by the allied powers, I will relate to you a curious stratagem employed by the Austrians and which reached the committee of public welfare, at the moment when I was going to terminate this report. The committee received an authentic note which Austria caused to be delivered to the government of the Canton of Berne.
The government of Berne, much troubled by this note, communicated it to our Ambassador in Switzerland, and though the latter entreated that government to banish all fears respecting such an event, all the German Gazettes published throughout Europe, that the committee of public welfare was determined to declare war against Switzerland, and that I was charged to make a report to you on that subject.
That you may still better perceive Austrian perfidy, I can tell you, that more than a month ago a proposal was made to your committee, which offered an advantage infinitely precious in our circumstances; to obtain that advantage we were only to have invaded a little State surrounded by our territory, and allied to Switzerland; but we rejected that proposal with indignation.
land; but we rejected that proposal with indignation.
The Swiss have always consulted the true interest of their country: and your committee will demean itself in the same manner towards the Helvetic Cantons, and all other friendly powers. We will always deal frankly as it becomes a great and powerful republic.
Domestic Intelligence.
BALTIMORE, Feb. 19.
By gentlemen arrived in town, from Norfolk, we learn, that Rear Admiral VAN STABLE had arrived at Norfolk, with two line of battle ships, viz. the Leopard and the Tyger, and two frigates (being part of a fleet which failed from Brest, and which parted with these at a certain latitude)—that at their departure from France, an army of 100,000 Republicans had penetrated into Spain, by Catalonia, and were laying siege to Barcelona, besides 25,000 men which have entered Spain by Biscay, and that the Spanish army had been completely routed. That Ostend and Nieuport were invested by a numerous army; the Dutch troops almost discouraged and reduced; and that the combined armies, which were lately beaten, had been forced to retreat into Austrian Flanders; that it was impossible for Valenciennes, which was invested, to hold out much longer. That the almost impregnable lines of Weissenbourg, which the treacherous General FERRIERE had delivered up to the Prussians and Germans, had been retaken by the Republicans, who have again entered the Dutchy of Deux-Ponts, where the grand army of the lower Rhine have retreated. That the Swiss Cantons have renewed their treaty with the Republic, and have engaged themselves by the new treaty, to observe the strictest neutrality, and to guard with a sufficient force all the defiles through which the enemies could enter the territory of the Republic; that an army of sixty thousand men, which before the new treaty guarded those defiles, has now marched into lower Alsace. That although a large portion of the troops which composed the army in Sardinia have marched to the siege of Toulon, yet notwithstanding, the success of the Republicans in that part have been marked by the taking of three very advantageous posts. That at the departure of the squadron from Brest, the news of the retaking of Toulon was expected every day; the Republican army before that city consisting of 120,000 men; which had already taken possession of all the heights and forts which surrounded it; and that even the enemies of the Republic were persuaded that that city could not hold out much longer. That the laws of the Republic were in full vigour, and had never yet since the beginning of the Revolution, been so well obeyed; that the most perfect tranquility and harmony reigns every where: That the 450,000 men of reserve, being the class of citizens from the age of eighteen to twenty-five, are to assemble early in the spring, to go to reinforce the armies on the frontiers. That the Dedalus, a British frigate, which has for this long time lain at Norfolk, had escaped very narrowly being burnt up, by a New-England Captain, joined by the inhabitants, who had two of his hands pressed by the British Captain, and who was however, obliged to liberate them afterwards. That by a revengeful disposition, the British Captain had fired into the New-England vessel with langrage; and by a shot which passed under her bow, and went through a fable, had killed a horse—that the inhabitants of Norfolk had met together, and were determined not to let the vessel sail without unloading the cargo of pork, and other provisions she had on board, intended for the British fleet, which were purchased there contrary to treaty, and which had enhanced the price of that article to more than thirty per cent. That in retaliation for the French frigate, which was, in violation of the Law of Nations, taken in the port, and under the guns of Genoa, and the crew inhumanely butchered, the Rear-Admiral at Norfolk, had taken possession of the British frigate, but did not dispose of the crew in the same manner as the English did at Genoa.
REFLECTION.
[When so gross a misrepresentation is made, as is to be seen under the above head, and which the following paragraph contradicts, the public will at least be cautious what credence they give to the accounts derived from the same source.]
Feb. 20. By a gentleman just from Norfolk, and who was present at the dispute between an American Capt. and Sir CHARLES KNOWLES, commander of the British frigate Dedalus, respecting a seaman—our informant (whose veracity is undoubted) says, that the seaman was not pressed; but entered freely on board the frigate—that there was no attempt made by the French Admiral to take possession of the Dedalus—and our informant understood, that matters were settled between the two Consuls, so as to preserve perfect tranquility while at that port—that there was no horse shot, nor any firing at the American brig—and that Sir CHARLES KNOWLES had obtained another hand for the American brig, in place of the one entered on board his ship.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 22.
This day M. FAUCHET, was publickly introduced to THE PRESIDENT of the United States, by the HON. MR. RANDOLPH, Secretary of State. His credentials being produced he was acknowledged as Minister Plenipotentiary of the French Republic.
M. DE LA FOREST, is recognized a Consul-General of the French Republic, for the United States; and M. PETRY, as Consul for the port of Philadelphia.
This day being the anniversary of the birth day
of THE PRESIDENT of the United States, at twelve o'clock, THE VICE-PRESIDENT of the United States, Members of the Senate and House of Representatives, Foreign Ministers, the Heads of Departments; the society of his fellow veterans, the Cincinnati; the Government and other functionaries of Pennsylvania, with a great number of their fellow citizens, waited on the President and congratulated him on the occasion.
The day was devoted to joy and festivity—the bells were rung and colours were displayed from various parts of the city, and the shipping.
The several military corps paraded in honor of the day, and fired federal salutes. The officers of the military appeared in a new and elegant uniform.
FEBRUARY 24.
Saturday the 22d instant being, the Birth Day of our beloved President, the Managers of the City Dancing Assembly gave a ball in the evening.
They were honored with the company of THE PRESIDENT and Mrs. WASHINGTON, several of the Foreign Ministers, a number of the members of Congress, the Secretaries of the Treasury and of War, the Governors of the State & of the Western Territory, and the most brilliant display of beauty, perhaps, ever exhibited in this city. The countenances of all present, appeared perfectly congenial with the happy occasion. The toasts given were highly patriotic, and truly federal.
NOTE.
* Among whom, we learn, was M. FAUCHET, the new Minister Plenipotentiary from France.
Yesterday arrived in town from Baltimore, three waggons, supposed to contain money, and the effects of the Minister of France. The carriages were guarded by a party of the Baltimore Volunteer Dragoons.
NORFOLK, Feb. 19.
On Saturday last arrived in Hampton Roads, the French frigate Charent, of 40 guns, from Rochfort, and on Monday the remainder of the French fleet, consisting of the following vessels, viz.—Le Tigre, of 80 guns; Le Jean Bart, of 74 guns; La Concorde, of 40 guns; Le Semillante, of 40 guns; Le Papillon brig; and a corvette. They failed from France on 26th December last, in company with two more ships of the line, who may be daily expected here or at New-York.
They have brought out the new Minister appointed to succeed Mr. Genet, and also Consuls for the different Districts of the United States.
On their passage they have taken four prizes, viz.—a frigate and a sloop of war from the East-Indies, who were dispatched express with the news of the capture of Pondicherry, and had on board the treasure and trophies taken there; they also captured a ship in company with the above, who had on board, (besides other property) 87,000 dollars; they were sent to France under a sufficient convoy. The fourth was a merchantman, taken near this coast, and whose arrival is hourly looked for.
The information received by this fleet is, that the internal affairs of France are now in a regular and prosperous train; that the Army of the Pyrenees, after several successful battles, had entered Spain, and conquered the whole of Catalonia, except Barcelona; that so rapid were the successes of the French arms in that quarter, there was little doubt but that by this time the Carmagnole dance was performing in the environs of Madrid; that the batteries raised against Toulon had succeeded in cutting off the communication between the inner and outer harbours, which had reduced the town to the greatest distress for provision, the garrison was on an allowance of 4 oz. of bread per diem; that Toulon had twice offered to capitulate, but the Convention having passed a decree for its total destruction, the Republican General was determined they should surrender at discretion; that the Prussian army in Alsace meeting with strong opposition, had given up the design of besieging Strasbourg, had recrossed the Rhine, and totally quitted the territories of the Republic; that in Austrian Flanders, Courtray, Menin, and Nieuport were in possession of the Republican troops, and Ostend close besieged; that the Convention had decreed the seizure of all goods and merchandise the manufacture of her enemies, and placed them in the public stores, paying the former owners for them; and also that no more should be admitted into France from those countries during the war; that the cruising frigates on the coast of France had been particularly successful; and that the Republic, in spite of the perfidy of the Toulonese, will have ready for sea by the last of February a fleet of 50 sail of the line well manned. We also understand that M. Bompard is under arrest at Paris.
PROVIDENCE, Feb. 27.
Monday last arrived in the River, the ship Rising-Sun, Capt. D. OLNEY, of this port, from the Isle of Jersey, (G. B.) which place he left the 20th of December. Capt. OLNEY informs, that the Duke of York arrived in London, from the combined armies the 20th. That Mr. PINCKNEY, our Ambassador at London, informed him, that the peace between the Portuguese and Algerines, was negotiated under the auspices of the English and Spanish courts.
BOSTON, March 1.
Extract of a letter to his correspondent in this Commonwealth, from a gentleman of probity, and much political information, in a neighbouring State, who was in Philadelphia from the time that Mr. MADISON's Resolutions were brought into Congress, until the fourth day of February following.
"The friends of anarchy are devising every trick to cheat us in a war with Britain. The wish for war possesses, I believe, even members of Congress. The plain English of MADISON's Resolutions is nothing else. They are

artfully called Commercial Regulations, when the supporters of them mean, and even sometimes say they mean hostilities. I hope their hypocrisy has not possessed the minds of the people of your State in their favor, and brought any degree of odium on those who (I am persuaded) have, from a sense of duty, opposed them. If the opinion of your citizens is favorable to the Resolutions, I wish they could be stripped of their disguise in the public papers. When the opposers of them propose any amendments, in the committee, which tend to make them what their advocates call them, they vote against these amendments. And I have no doubt, if they should hereafter be carried by a small majority, the most zealous promoters of the resolutions at present, will then vote against the whole. The Editors of News-papers have mangled the debates most unmercifully. If the mutilated statements of them published in the Southern papers have been republished in Boston, in justice to the Speakers, a correct representation of their observations and reasonings ought to find places in the same papers. It is the duty of those printers, though they were the innocent copyers of (perhaps innocent) misrepresentations, to redress, as far as they can the injuries done.
"I think Sir, on the whole, there is a small majority in both Houses of Congress of good and federal men, disposed for peace; but not a few of the minority are bitter, and seem to fear no confusion. The resolutions in debate are a very subtle-attack, a masked battery. They appeal to the prejudices of the people, and particularly of the Eastern States. They are called by a wrong name, AND WERE INTENDED TO BE MISUNDERSTOOD. The people ought to know this. The supporters of them are in close league with the Ex-Minister Genet. It is thought by some, that the mischievous parts of them will at length be exposed, and that they will, probably, be so changed, that both parties will reject them. I very sincerely with this prediction may be accomplished."
From PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 19. "The business of a naval equipment to prevent the depredations of the Algerines will be resumed in a day or two, and will probably succeed, notwithstanding the violent opposition of those who have advocated MADISON'S propositions."
From PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 22. "Yesterday four commissioners, Mr. FAUCHET as principal, arrived in this city, from the National Convention of France, to supercede Mr. GENET. They have not yet been introduced to the President in their diplomatic characters; but will soon be."
A Baltimore paper contains a report, via Norfolk, that the Cork fleet of 70 sail, destined for the West-Indies, is captured by some French ships, sent from Brest for that purpose.
FROM THE WESTERN ARMY.
GREENVILLE, Jan. 11, 1794.
"This day I have the pleasure to inform you, there came a flag from the Indians at war with us, one white man and an Indian Chief, to ask for peace in behalf of all the nations. They say they have all been sorry that they did not meet, and make peace last year; but that they were deceived, or misunderstood some talk they had with Brant, respecting some Indians who were killed; that they were told that they were willing for peace, and that they were. This was told them by the old squaw I mentioned in a former letter. You need not doubt we shall have a peace immediately. The Indians have been alarmed by us since we have lain here; we have beat up some of their camps:—Capt. EATON, mentioned in my last letter, came in this day with several hundred skins of different kinds taken from the Indian camps, which they deserted on his approach, about sixty miles from this."
Yesterday his Honor the Lieutenant-Governor, at the request of both houses, adjourned the General Court of this Commonwealth, until the Tuesday next preceding the last Wednesday of May next. The number of bills passed this session are about 50—principally private and local ones.
OF TOULON. March 5.
Within the last three days, we have received additional advices of the re-capture and evacuation of Toulon. The public have so often been deceived by similar accounts, that the subject ought to be touched with caution. We shall, however, present the reports given by gentlemen arrived here from New-York, who inform, That Capt. BROWN, had arrived at New-York, from Guernsey, [an island in the English channel, on the coast of Normandy, subject to Great-Britain] which he left Jan. 8th, and informs, that Toulon was re-taken by the French, that Gen. O'Hara, with his army, were captured, and that Lord Hood had escaped, with the combined and French fleets:
Text"> Another account says, that the English, finding they could not hold the place, evacuated it; burning the French ships which were in the inner harbour:—And
A third account states, that the French carried the works by assault, in which they lost 20,000 men; and that the garrison was put to the sword.
The gentlemen further say, that the reports of the re-capture of the place, were credited at New-York. A few days will evince, whether they are founded in fact, in rumour, or made out of the repulse which Gen. O'Hara lately met in one of the sallies. It is to be noted, that according to the accounts lately published, Gen. O'Hara was taken prisoner, in the fortie; but that his troops got into Toulon.
Letters from Guernsey mention, that the ex-
pedition set on foot by the British Cabinet, for landing a body of troops in France, had failed. The Earl of Morai, who commanded this body, finding that the Royalists did not approach the coast of Normandy, and judging it impracticable to land in France, with the troops he had with him, abandoned the enterprise, and had failed from Guernsey for England.
Advices from the West-Indies, via New-York, inform, that the Governors of the British Islands have received a Proclamation from the British King, commanding them to release all American vessels, and to pay to their Commanders the damages they may have sustained by their dures. This it is said, will make bankrupts of many of the gentry of the Islands, who have lately grown fat on American spoils. Letters in town, confirm this.
We learn from Philadelphia, that the late commercial communications from Great-Britain, [See Congress head] are such as cannot be accepted by the United States, and will occasion fresh negotiations. The posts, we learn, are to be given up immediately. As the communications are confidential, we can give the above only as a report—but it came from a respectable quarter.
THE NEW FRENCH CONSULS
Have already entered on the duties of their functions, as appears by the following advertisement, copied from a Philadelphia paper of the 25th ult.
"The undersigned, Consul of the French Republic, for the port of Philadelphia, requests all the Agents, employed by or on account of said Republic, to suspend all sales, delivery of money, and in general the execution of all orders which they might hitherto have received from any Public Officer of the Republic, and to apply to him for further directions, under the Penalty of answering for any thing contrary to the present notice. City Tavern, Philadelphia, 4th Ventos, 2d year of the French Republic, (22d. Feb. 1794—old style.) J. B. PETRY.
M. FAUCHET, the new French Ambassador, is ranked foremost among the Philosophers of the present day; and he considers himself as sent to the government of the United States, and not to an antediluvian party.
The Genetits die hard. Because M. FAUCHET did not act on his arrival, as their leader did; they first intimated that no Minister had arrived in the French squadron; and that, after the squadron had failed, a swift sailing cutter had been dispatched and had recalled him. M. FAUCHET, instead of issuing commissions immediately on his arrival, was cautious to conceal from every one his rank and mission until he was recognized by the Supreme Executive of the United States.
Letters from the Western army speak in high terms of its discipline, adroitness in the Indian mode of warfare, harmony, and confidence of success. The Indians fear them, and are again playing their old game of offering peace. They ought to feel the strength of the hatchet first.
FAST.—Thursday, the 17th April, is appointed as a day of public Fasting and Prayer, throughout the Commonwealth.
MARINE JOURNAL.
Extract of a letter from Montserrat, dated Jan. 6, to a gentleman in this town.
"A Danish Sloop, belonging to Messrs. Miller and Murphey, of St. Thomas, laden with sugar at Guadalupe, and bound to St. Thomas, has been taken by a Privateer, and sent in here—and the Sloop and Cargo is condemned."
Particulars respecting the Capture of Ship Little Cherub , of Boston, in a letter from her Commander, Robert Reid, to his owner—which has never been made public:—I left Havre-de-Grace the 3d June 1793, and three days after was boarded off Dunkirk, by a Dunkirk privateer; whose crew came on board like mad-men, with cocked pistols, and hangers—searched the ship, and took some Lemons and put in their boat. I asked the Commander if he suffered his people to rob the ship; on which one of his officers presented a pistol at my head, and threatened to shoot me; next one of his people ordered Mr. Fanning, my Second Mate, to go in their boat—he told him he would, but before he did go, he wished to go below to get some of his things; and on going below the villain took hold of him with one hand, and with the other shot him in the forehead. Immediately after, myself and my crew were ordered on board the privateer, and continued on board until my ship was carried into the road, then ordered on board in the charge of an officer who sealed my Trunk—before which I had discovered that it had been broke open and plundered, and that my watch and sundry articles had been taken from the cabin and other parts of the ship. They got my ship under way, and run her into the harbour, when I found that my people were ordered to Gaol and guarded by a number of armed soldiers. My Second Mate was sent to an Hospital, where, in a very little time, he expired of the barbarous wounds he had received. I begged permission to bury him, it was granted, and his funeral attended by almost all the Americans and English in the place—interred under American Flag.—More cruel and horrid treatment could not be experienced by the most savage enemy, and to receive it from our Allies, is shocking to every well-disposed or honorable person. The murderer is in confinement, and it is to be hoped he will suffer the punishment his atrocious crime merits. Mr. Coffin the American Consul has taken this case in hand, and is determined to get every possible satisfaction; but the life of the worthy young man can never be attoned for.
N. B. Subsequent to the above letter—advices
are received that the fellow who shot Mr. Fanning, was released and neither trial or punishment inflicted upon him.
Capt. Brice, arrived at Norfolk, from Havre, left there the ship Commerce , Igery , of Kennebec, ship Industry , Haven , of Portsmouth, ship Grand Turk , Ingraham , of Boston, from India, ship Catharine , Coffin , of do. Snow Pacific , Dunbar , of do. brig Nancy , la Buquet , of do. brig Endeavor , Prince , of do. and Schooner Alert , Lord , of do.
NEW-YORK, Feb. 20. The Eliza , Capt. Bright, left Cadiz 27th Nov. in company with the brig Zephyr , Capt. Pote, bound to Portland; but lost sight of him at night, not thinking it prudent to run in for Cape St. Vincents, but stood off W. They were the only American vessels that left Cadiz since those that failed under protection of the Havannah convoy.
It was reported at Cadiz, when Capt. Bright failed, that the Algerines had all returned to the Straights, and that one of their Zebecks of 22 guns, had been cast ashore between Gibraltar and Malaga, and every soul lost.
Left in Cadiz the following American vessels, viz. Ships Commerce , Loring ; Greenway , Oakman ; Rookby , Jones ; Brig Dolphin , Stutson , all of Boston.
Brigs Almy , M. Cutter , New-York; Fanny , Colley , Virginia; Hull packet , Lawrence , New-York; Hope , Field , Virginia; Jane , Stone , Portland. Sloop Eliza , Coffin , Baltimore, where all lately arrived and ordered to ride quarantine on account of the pestilential disorder raging at Philadelphia.
March 5.
A letter from Messrs. GEORGE C. FOX, and sons, dated Falmouth 13th Dec. 1793, contains the following paragraph:
"By one of our vessels this day from Lisbon, we have a list from our friend there, of the American vessels captured by the Algerines—viz. Ship Minerva , Capt. John M'Shee, Philadelphia, 17 men; brig Jane , Moses Morse , Newbury-Port, 8 men; Schooner Dispatch , William Wallace , Richmond, 7 men; brig Patty , Michael Smith , Newbury-Port, 9 men; brig Olive-Branch , William Furnace , Portsmouth; ship President , William Penrose , Philadelphia, 11 men; brig George , James Taylor , Newport, 8 men; Schooner Jay , Samuel Calder , Gloucester; ship Hope , John Burnham , New-York, 19 men; ship Thomas , Newman , Boston; Capt. Jackson from Malaga, with fruit. All captured in October, between Cape Trafalgar, and Cape Pitcher.
List of vessels belonging to the Northern States, detained by our good allies at Bourdeaux, being part of 100 sail: Hope , Chadwick of Marblehead; Pallas , Wells ; Fame , Frazier ; Fame , Boland ; Mary , Jones ; Elizabeth , Cliff ; Sally , Collins ; Diana , Emery ; Massachusetts , White ; Zephyr , Pepper ; Diana , Pease ; Eliza , Worsley ; Favouite , Lewis ; Sterling , Clermont Dras ; Deux Seurs , Pike , all of Boston; the Merchant , Jones , Portland; Favouite , Orn , Portsmouth; George , Prouse , do. Commerce , Preble , Portland; Cumberland , Scott , do. the Venture , March ; Hannah , Russell ; Nancy , Gerrish , and Polly , Carter , of Newburyport; Speedwell , Crawford , Warren; Columbia , Sote , Freeport; Franklin , Wilbridge , do. Union , Johnston , Bristol; Deux Frenes , Greenleaf , Massachusetts; Ruby , Dexter , do. Nancy , West , Salem; Neptune , White , Pownalborough; Pattern , Blackington , do. Lydia , Gardiner , Shelburne; Minerva , Cutts , Pepperelborough; Nancy , Sargent , Gloucester; Aurora , Seward , Kennebec; Connecticut , Little , Newhaven; and Liberty , Fields , Rhode-Island.
Northern vessels at St. Kitts, libelled, and supposed will be condemned.
Brigs William , Trow , Newbury-Port; Mercury , Sill , Windsor, (Con.) Bethia , Lathrop , Boston. Schooners Charming Sally , Crownfield , Salem; Sally , Craig , do. Lucy , Grant , Boston; Atlantic , Marshall , do. Commerce , Burton , Fairfield; Seafarer , Savage , Middletown; Atlantica , Sprag , Providence, (R. I.) Sloops Swallow , Flitch , Norwich; Dolphin , Cranton , Rhode-Island; Union , Warner , Hartford.
At Montserrat, brigs Lydia , Castle , Boston; Two Brothers , Endicutt , Salem; Hind , Putnam , do. Richmond , Day , Portsmouth; Schooners Peacock , Blaney , Marblehead; Randel , Lay , Manchester; Laura , Pond , New-Haven; Polly , Stillman , New-London. Sloop Sexton , New-London; Experiment , Towbridge , New-Haven.
Likewise arrived in the brig Recovery , Captains Troubridge and Cunningham , whose vessels and cargoes were condemned, and inform of three others being already condemned, and they have not the least doubt but every American vessel and cargo, in Montserrat, will suffer the same fate—and that the charge against them is bringing sugars, or coffee, from French islands, and that they are determined to enforce the edict of Lewis XIV. and will condemn every vessel that brings from the French islands those goods which Lewis prohibited.
PORTSMOUTH, March 3.
From CONGRESS, FEB. 24.
IMPORTANT MESSAGE.
A message was received from the President of the United States, communicating extracts from letters lately received from the American Minister in London—copy of a letter from the British Secretary of State, to the British Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States, relative to a commercial treaty. Also,
A letter from Messrs. CARMICHAEL and SHORT, the American Ministers at Madrid.
These communications being announced as confidential, when the reading of them was called for, the galleries were cleared.
Also, a few articles of HARD WARE,
Among which are the following, viz.
LONDON and Bristol-
Pewter, block-tin Tea-Pots, Tea-Trays and Waiters, Frying-Pans, Sad-Irons, Devonshire Shovels, Garden Spades, Locks, Hinges, Latches, Table Steels, Knives and Forks, Penknives, Razors in Cases, Razor Hones, Brasses for Decks, &c. &c.
Crockery & Glass Ware,
among which are a few sets blue and white CHINA, blue edged DISHES, Soup and Sauce TUREENS, DECANTERS, WINE GLASSES, &c. &c.
EXCELLENT
Dutch Clover-Seed.
Portsmouth, March 1794.
THE subscribers being appointed by the Honorable SAMUEL TENNEY, Judge of Probate, &c. for the county of Rockingham, Commissioners to receive, examine and adjust all the claims of the creditors to the estate of CHARLES HENZELL, late of Portsmouth, in said county, mariner, deceased, represented insolvent—Give Notice, that we will attend upon that business, at the house of Colonel William Brewster, in said Portsmouth, on the first Monday of each of the five following months, at 10 of the clock in the forenoon.
EDWARD S. LIVERMORE, NATHANIEL ADAMS, ALEXANDER EWEN,
Portsmouth, March 6, 1794.
ALL persons having any demands on the Estate of Mr. PETER MAN, late of Portsmouth, Barber, deceased, testate, are requested to present them for settlement; and those indebted to said Estate are desired to make payment to
JOHN MAN, Executor.
Portsmouth, March 3, 1794.

SULLIVAN.
State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of Sullivan, who have not paid their county tax for the year 1793, that unless they pay said tax to the subscriber on or before the second Tuesday in May next, so much of their land as will pay the same, together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of Mr. Benjamin Ellis, innholder in said town.
   Col. Thomas Packer Number Lots. Range. Acres. s. d. q. Allen Willey No. Lots. Range. Acres. d. q.     Ditto 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 6 25 each 135 1 Josiah Kilburn 7 7 100 4 0 0   Ditto 1, 2, 3 & 5 7 400 2 Ditto 6 6 55 2 1 0   Ditto 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 8 500 5 Samuel Vanning 7 6 55 2 1 0   Ditto 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 9 500 6 Ditto 10 7 100 4 0 0   Ditto 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 10 500 6 Jonathan Wright 7 6 75 3 0 0   Ditto 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 11 500 6 Noah Beebe 10 8 45 2 1 0   Ditto 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 12 500 6 Polly Wilder 3 5 50 2 0 0   Ditto 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 13 500 6 Jonathan Smith 9 7 50 2 0 0   Ditto 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 14 500 6 Clemant Sumner 11 10 30 2 0 0   Ditto 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 15 500 6 Samuel Gilbert's heirs 10 10 100 4 0 0   Ditto 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 16 500 6 Ditto 12 10 50 2 0 0   Ditto 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 17 500 6 Ditto 10 10 50 2 0 0   Ditto 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 18 500 6 Ditto 10 11 50 2 0 0   Ditto 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 19 500 6   Ditto 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 20 500 6   Ditto 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 21 500 6   Ditto 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 22 500 6   Ditto 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 23 500 6   Ditto 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 24 500 6   Ditto 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 25 500 6   Ditto 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 26 500 6   Ditto 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 27 500 6   Ditto 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 28 500 6   Ditto 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 29 500 6   Ditto 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 30 500 6   Ditto 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 31 500 6   Ditto 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 32 500 6   Ditto 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 33 500 6   Ditto 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 34 500 6   Ditto 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 35 500 6   Ditto 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 36 500 6   Ditto 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 37 500 6   Ditto 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 38 500 6   Ditto 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 39 500 6   Ditto 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 40 500 6   Ditto 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 41 500 6   Ditto 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 42 500 6   Ditto 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 43 500 6   Ditto 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 44 500 6   Ditto 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 45 500 6   Ditto 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 46 500 6   Ditto 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 47 500 6   Ditto 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 48 500 6   Ditto 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 49 500 6   Ditto 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 50 500 6  
Sullivan, February 24, 1794. BENJAMIN KEMP, Collector.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of Lancaster, who have not paid their county tax for the year 1791, that unless they pay said tax to me the subscriber on or before the 28th day of April next, so much of their land as will pay the same together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the house of Mr. Titus O. Brown, in said Lancaster, at ten o'clock, A. M. on said day.
   No. Lots. Range. Acres. d. q. No. Lots. Range. Acres. d. q.     Tim. Whitney 1 7 4 John Rogers 1 7 4   Eph. Shattuck 1 7 4 David Page 1 7 4   Will'm Page 1 7 4 John Sanders 1 7 4   Joseph Stowell 1 7 4 Jotham Death 1 7 4   Elisha Crosby 1 7 4 Solomon Fay 1 7 4   Silas Shattuck 1 7 4   Benjam. Man 1 7 4   Daniel Miles 1 7 4   John Duncan 1 7 4   Charles How 1 7 4   Israel Hale, jr. 1 7 4   Daniel Hale 1 7 4   Wm. Daggett 1 7 4   Israel Ball 1 7 4   Israel Hale 1 7 4   Luke Lincoln 1 7 4   Silas Rice 1 7 4   Tho's Carter 1 7 4   James Read 1 7 4   Isaac Wood 1 7 4   N. Richardson 1 7 4   John Sawyer 1 7 4   Sam. Marble 1 7 4   John Rogers 1 7 4   David Page 1 7 4   John Sanders 1 7 4   Jotham Death 1 7 4   Solomon Fay 1 7 4  
WILLIAM MOORE, Constable. Lancaster, Dec. 4, 1793.
BEST ROCK SALT, By the bushel or in barrels, to be sold by WILLIAM SMITH, at his Store on SPRING-HILL. Portsmouth, January 30, 1794.
State of New-Hampshire. PUBLIC notice is hereby given, that a petition has been preferred to the General-Court, by SUSANNAH DODGE, of Amherst, representing that soon after the decease of her late husband she administered on his estate, and presented an inventory of the same to the Judge of Probate, as being insolvent, who appointed commissioners to adjust the claims of the several creditors to said estate; but the claims brought in, pursuant to notice given, did not amount to a sum sufficient to make the estate insolvent—She then proceeded to the payment of debts, which she did to a considerable amount—That not long after the termination of this commission, some heavy demands appeared against said estate from persons who well knew of the existence of such commission, who for reasons unknown, did not bring in their claims 'till it was out of her power to pay them.—Suits were commenced against her—and in one instance a large sum was recovered against her, and another is now pending in the court of Common-Pleas.—She therefore prays, that the Judge of Probate may be authorized to issue another commission of insolvency on said estate, that an equitable and final settlement may be made thereof; and also, that all further proceedings in the law against said estate, may be stayed 'till a return of such commission is made. Upon which petition a day of hearing is appointed before the General-Court, on the first Tuesday of the next session; and that she cause the substance of said petition, and order of court thereon, to be published three weeks successively in the New-Hampshire Gazette, commencing six weeks prior to said day of hearing, that any person or persons may then appear and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof may not be granted. JOSEPH PEARSON, Sec'ry. Secretary's Office, Feb. 21, 1794.
GRAFTON.
State of New-Hampshire. NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of Grafton, who are delinquent in paying their county tax for the year 1791, that unless they pay said tax to me the subscriber, on or before the 3d day of April next, so much of their land as will pay the same, together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of Mr. Levi Martin, innholder in said Grafton, at 10 of the clock in the forenoon, on said day.
   Specie. D. R. L. Acres. s. d.     Aaron Barney, 2 3 6 50 0 2   Stephen Smith, 2 4 12 0 2 0   1 1 4 0 0 1   1 2 6 0 0 2   1 1 15 0 0 1   1 6 21 0 0 2   1 2 7 0 0 2   1 9 8 0 0 2   1 13 20 0 0 2   1 4 20 0 0 2   Constant Barney, 1 3 5 0 0 2   1 12 11 0 0 2   Aaron Barney, 1 4 23 0 0 2   Aaron Barney, 1 1 24 0 0 4   Stephen Smith, 1 1 25 0 0 4   Benoni Williams, 1 3 24 0 0 2   Benjamin Martin, 1 3 25 0 0 2   Undivided, 2 1 1 0 0 2   Undivided, 2 3 1 0 0 2   Undivided, 1 3 25 0 0 2   1 9 25 0 0 2   1 10 25 0 0 2   1 6 17 0 0 1   1 4 24 0 0 2   1 4 25 0 0 2   1 3 5 0 0 2   1 2 24 0 0 2   1 2 25 0 0 2   1 1 2 0 0 2   1 1 22 0 0 2   1 10 17 0 0 2   2 2 4 0 0 2   2 3 7 0 0 2  
BARAK SMITH, Collector. Grafton, February 10th, 1794.
TO BE SOLD, A F A R M, In Londonderry,
State of Vermont; CONTAINING one hundred and seventy acres—one hundred and thirty of which is under improvement; forty acres of excellent interval—on said Farm is a house forty feet by thirty, two stories high, built in the year 1777—two Barns, one 30 by 45, the other 30 by 55; which barns have not been sufficient to hold the produce of the farm: a delightful stream of water, called west river, runs thro' the farm, which affords plenty of salmon, salmon trout, and other river fish.—The owners home being at a great distance from said farm, he will sell it much below the real value, and give an indisputable title: JAMES ROGERS. February 16th, 1794. N. B. Enquire of James M'Gregore, Londonderry, or Robert M'Gregore, Goffstown.
State of New-Hampshire. NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietor and owner of land in the town of Newport, who has not paid his taxes for the year 1787, that unless the same is paid to me the subscriber, on or before the 17th day of April next, so much of his land will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of Mr. Phineas Wilcocks, Innholder in said town, at ten o'clock, A. M. on said day. s. d. Gov. Benning Went- } Specie tax 15 3 worth's 500 acres at } County tax 1 4 3/4 the South-West cor. } Certifi'te tax 3 9 3/4 ner of said town, } Indent tax 8 10 JOHN MEGREGORY, Constable. Newport, Feb. 12, 1794.
State of New Hampshire. PUBLIC notice is hereby given, that a petition has been preferred to the General-Court, by John Dodge, of Bath, representing that there is in the River Connecticut, adjoining, or opposite to said Bath, an Island containing about three acres of land belonging to said State, which he has cleared and made profitable, in no wise doubting but that he had a good title thereto by virtue of a deed thereof from the late Timothy Bedel, at the time said deed was executed, but he has of late found that said Bedel had no title thereto: Wherefore he prays that all the right, title and interest of said State to said Island may be granted to him, his heirs and assigns forever.—Upon which petition the General-Court ordered an hearing on the second Thursday of the next session, and that in the mean time the petitioner cause that the substance of said petition and order of court be published three weeks successively in the New-Hampshire Gazette, commencing six weeks prior to said day of hearing—also, cause that the heirs of Timothy Bedel, Esq. be served with a copy of the petition and order of court, the like term of time prior to said day of hearing, that any person or persons may then appear and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof may not be granted. Ateft, JOS. PEARSON, Sec'ry. Secretary's Office, Feb. 14, 1794.
State of New-Hampshire. PUBLIC notice is hereby given, that a petition has been preferred to the General-Court by the inhabitants of the town of Bartlett in said State, representing that they are few in number, and the greater part of the lands in said town, owned by the original grantees, or their assigns, who do not live in the town, and in consequence of their incorporation, are at the expence of making and repairing all public roads through said town, which they view as a great grievance—Therefore they pray, that one penny per acre may be laid on all the lands in said town of Bartlett, for the purpose of making and repairing the roads in said town, and appropriated to that purpose, under such orders and regulations as shall be thought fit. Upon which petition the General-Court postponed the hearing thereof until the second Wednesday of the next session, and that in the mean time, they cause the substance of the petition and order of court thereon, be published three weeks successively in the New-Hampshire Gazette, commencing six weeks prior to said day of hearing, that any person or persons may then appear and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof may not be granted. Ateft, JOS. PEARSON, Sec'ry. Secretary's Office, Jan. 30, 1794.
WE the subscribers being appointed commissioners by the Hon. SAMUEL TENNY, Esq. Judge of Probate for the county of Rockingham, to receive and examine the claims of the several creditors to the estate of BENJAMIN CHANDLER, late of Portsmouth, in said county, Caulker, deceased, represented insolvent—hereby give notice, that we shall attend for that purpose, at the Town-Clerk's Office, in said Portsmouth, on the fourth Thursday of this, and the five next following months, from three to six o'clock, P. M. on each of said days. ISAAC RINDGE, DANIEL R. ROGERS, } Commissioners. GEO. WENTWORTH, } Portsmouth, Feb. 19, 1794.
ALL persons that have any demands on the Estate of ISRAEL TRUE, late of Portsmouth, deceased, are requested to exhibit them—And all those that are indebted to said Estate are desired to make immediate payment, to JEREMIAH HILL, Administrator. Portsmouth, February 22, 1794.
Mr. Duport, Dancing-Master from Paris
P RESENTS his respects to the Ladies and Gentlemen of this Town.—He proposes giving Private Tuition in the polite accomplishment of DANCING—And he engages in three months to perfect those Ladies and Gentlemen, who shall please to honor him with their attendance. Several of the first Families at the Southward, he has perfected in this accomplishment, in that short period, from whom he has Letters of Recommendation.
A Subscription Pa- per is lodged at Capt. WHIDDEN's Assembly-Room; where the terms will be made known.—Provided suitable encouragement is given a School will be opened the first of April next in said room. Portsmouth, March 8, 1794.
For sale by the Printer hereof, Boyer's French Grammar, and a pretty assortment of Books & Stationary.
State of New-Hampshire. PUBLIC notice is hereby given that a petition has been preferred to the General-Court by the inhabitants of the town of Stoddard, representing that a new road is lately cut out from Hale's bridge in Walpole to Macgregore's bridge in Goffstown, through a large tract of unimproved land, in said Stoddard, owned by non-residents—Therefore, they pray that an act may pass, empowering the town of Stoddard to lay a tax of two pence per acre on all the lands in said town for the sole purpose of making passable the roads and bridges in said town. Upon which petition a day of hearing is appointed on the second Wednesday of the next session, and that in the mean time the substance of said petition, and order of court thereon, be published in the New-Hampshire Gazette, three weeks successively, commencing six weeks prior to said day of hearing, that any person or persons may then appear and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof may not be granted. Ateft, JOS. PEARSON, Sec'ry. Secretary's Office, Feb. 19, 1794.