The New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser. [volume], October 11, 1783, Image 2

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ports., It appeared to us that the inward
duties and-expences not being equal to their
cargoes nor the rate of their vessels ; and
on the other hand, that flownefsin getting
their freight, occasioning great expence to
‘them, which was the cause of thelr aversion
for trading with us. Withing to puta
stop to all these inconveniences, and give
to those merchants every encouragement
to furnith our cclonies with what goods the
‘national commerce cannot afford them, and
procure to the Americans the exportatioa
of such commodities as our traders cannot
export themselves, We, &c. in virtue of
the powers trusted to us by his Majelty,
have regulated, ftatuted, and ordained, and -
we do regulate,ftatue Bzordain what follows:
Zriicle 1, The Americans, who shall
think proper to trade in this colony and its
dependencies, shall be taxed for the inward
duties in our ports only at the rate of 16
livres 10 fois for anchorage, 24 livres 145
{ols for the declaration at the admiralty,and
the fame sum for the rights of the interpreter
including his trouble for conduing the
captain to the government, and todifferent
places where he must fulii his formalities.
Article 2d. Withing to favor the quick
dispatch of the American veflels, it will be
granted to those merchants who bave fet
tled or shall fettle in the quarter of La Ga-
Jere, and within the curcomference of St.
Pierre, rum f(tores, and cisterns for their
melzfies, and exemption from all taxes for
their negroes, and themselves, for five years.
These presents shall be registered at the
government’s office, as well as a¢ the admi
ralty and domain, and publithed [0 asto be
made known to every person.
Given at Port Royal, Martinique, the
twenty third day of July, 1783, under the
seal of our arms, and the countersign of our
{ecretaries. | |
sigread PAMAS and VIEVIGNE ; and
by Monficur the Geacral, signed BIOCHE,
and by Monsieur the Ordinator, signed
DE LEAU.
Fume 30. A few days ago Count Adhe
mar, the Freach Ambaflador, notified a
proposal to the Britith Miniftry,on the part
of his Court, in copjunétion with other
European powers, mutuslly to abolish Ex
clusive Trade, and to leave it reciprocaily
open to every nation. In consequence of
this axtraordinary proposal, a courier was
difpatehed to Petersburg, and Ministry
have declined returning an answer, or in
in any manner difcuffing’the fubje,’dll the
sentiments of the Czarina shall be known.
-~ The Court of Denmark has taken off
most of the impost and {hipping duty on
goods carried to and from the islands of St.
Thornas and St. Croix, and made them
fore free to all nations than they have béen
heretofore 5 and in their. publithed edicts
and regulatons they seem to coort and pay
pariicular attention to the rising commercial
States of America, <, - T
Faly 1, The ea-of abolithing exclusive
trade can never be agreed to, in the present
state of Europe.—~What, in this cale would
become of our trading companies 7 What
would became of the Dutch ? It must be
an exclusion of common sense to adopt the
Idea: . ~ % | | ,
The revoiution of human events, if con
sidered with attention, paturally leads the
inquisitive mind to a developement of final
caubes. There seems to be a chain of con
tingencies, beginning as it were with 3
point, and ending with lines of almost infi
nite extent. The greatef human occur
rences are generated from the molt trifling
incidents : and when we observe that the
impost on a pound of tea can produce the
revolution of an empire, we must of neces
sity infer the controul of a luper direCting
wildom, which it i 8 in vain to oppose,
imprudence to contemn, and the height of
uman madness not to adore,
; Prince William Henry has occasioned
various perplexities in the courtly circles of
Windsor, by his use of sea phrases @ the
maids of bonor, in particular, were confuled
to know what was meant by mdnning Ibe
sop, grappling, and coming to close quarters!
Fuly 22, A letter from Charlemont, in
Ireland, fays, that che spirit of emigration
begins to reign in that town 3 many fami
lies are preparing to et off for America as
soon as matters are fettled between England
and the United States. A
Fuly 29. Advices from Paris of the 14th
of July, mention, that it being, on the 4th
of this month, seven years since Congress
declared the independence of the United
States of America, Dr. Franklia celebrated
thar anpiverfary by the most brilhant enter
tainment, at which the Comtes d’Estaing
and De Rochambeau, assisted in their uni
forms, and the Marquis de Ja Fayerte, as
Major General of the United States ; there
were also present the Comtesd’Aranda and
d’[Lievenon de Berkenrode, the Duc de
L.avzun, and a great nuimber of other noble
men and ladies of the fir it ditinétion. An
allegoric representation ‘was given of the
military prowess cfevery one of those who
had in any material degree contributed to
effe&t that great revolution ; this leading
the attention of the company to the greac
merits and signal services performed by the
Do&or himfelf ,théy bestowed on him those
praises which both his public and privaie
charaller so well delerved 3 to which ke
replied by the following couplet, no less
polite than apropes : et 8
Des Chevaliers F.anc is tel eff e eovaliore, =
Leur Neblefle en taut temp neus fut wtile ot chers.
Letters from Germany fay, thet the army
of his Prussian Majesty actually confiits of
224 451 meén. S
~ Faly 30. The plague rages so much in
Tuikey, that not only the Rullians have
shut up all their ports, but the Emperor,
on the fide of Hungary, is forming a line
of troops, to prevent the infeCtion from
{preading to his dominions.
Extrafl of a letter from Paris, Juné 24.
¢ The delay of the several powers in
putting the last hand to the definitive treaties
1s not very cafy to be accounted - for, any
more than the very uncommon secrecy
which appears to reign in the Cabinets of
theSovereigns,much more {imilar to the be
ginning of a war than the conclusion of one,
¢ That able and ingenious veteran, Dr.
Fraoklin, is preparing to leave this city
(where he has resided five years, widseßreat
credit to himfelf and profit to his country)
to return to America : he will be succeeded
in his public charatter by Mr.Laurens,who
arrived Ihis day at the American Hotel,
and will be fthortly introduced at Court.””
- Extraß of a letter from Paris, Fuly 20,
% They write from the Pays de Caux,
that the lightning fell, the 15th, in globes
of fire on the village of Tankerville, and
‘occafioned such a conflagration, that it was
still burning on the 18th.” -
Ratifoon, Fuly 16. It is said that Rufia
demands, that the Porte shall not in future
purchafeany Christian slave 5 that the thail
aeliver up those she already has, without
ransom ; and that (he shall puta flop to alf
piracics. ‘ '
St Tol i S A O
_BOSTON, Ofober o.
We have an'account from Loncon, of
roth August, via New York, that there was
then in the Britith channel a large fleet of
wen of war, confiting of Dutch, Spanih,
and Englith : Various conj=@ures had ari.
{en of their design, but no particular obje&
couid be fixed upon : Time alone must
produce the refuit of such an unexpc&ed
maneeuvre, . | ;
S A L E M, Ofober 9.
Extrall of a letter from sn Admerican Gentle
- man of the firlk diffiniiion wt Paris.
“We are surprised 1o hear that any doubts
have arrifen in America refpe@ing the time
when the. ceflation of Loftiiities took place
there.=lt most certainly took place ag the
‘expitation of ooe month afrer the dare of
that declaration in all parts of the world,
whether land or sea, that lay North of the
latitude of the Canaries. The ships after
- wards taken from us, in the more Notherly
lattudes, ought to be reclaimed -and
given up.” - .
The declaration of the ¢ ffation of hofti
hities, referred to in the above extract, is
dated February 20, 1783, ,
The transport thip Martha, from New -
Yoik, bound o St. John’s, was cast away
on a ledge of rocks,at the mouth of Lobster
Bay, near Mud Islands, oo the 23d of
September,————She had on beard about
one hundred men, women &nd children, of
the corps of Maryland Loyalists 5 out of
which number 42 only were saved: There
were also on board between sixty and seventy
of the {econd battalion of Delancey’s brigade,
of whom 23 only efcaped.=~The long boat
. was stove, 2s she went over the fide, by the
~main mast falling on her : after which, the
taster (<= —~Willis) went off, by the most
cruel of alf cheats, with the small boats, and
a few seamen and f{ix soldiers who swam
after .the boats, leaving the unhappy fouls
on board to their fate, without a profpe& of
teliof. from any quarter. Providentially,
the second day after, four fithing boats came
“into the Bay, belonging to Marblehead,
Cape Anmand Salem, and took up, from va:
tious rafts, to the number of 65 persons;
who were just on the verge of perithing, and
landed them fafely at Yatmouth, a fmalf
fett)ement at the head of the Bay, =~
‘Out of twelve officers, three nly surviv
ed the distress, viz, Capt. Kennedy, Capt,
Sterling, and Ensign Gill, all of the corpy
of Maryland Loyalists. The officers of the
2d Delancy’s are all supposed 10 have pe
rithed, viz_ five inpumber, ..
For the honar of humavity, and in justice
to the persons concerned, we are happy to
publith the names of the masters of veflels,
-who exerted themselves, at the risk of their
own lives,(the waves running high) to save
the few who survived the distress, viz.—=
JofephMelder Laurence,of schooner Josephs
Stehen Jenkins, ditto Lively Sally ; Samue]
- Willwitham, ditto Traveller’s Wonder ;
Nicholas Pigot, ditto Two Brothers. . - i
- The foregoing account was written, and
- communicated to the Printer, by one of
-the unhappy persons who were taken off the
wreck of ghe ips < - <oy e g