John Harris and John Fortescue, perfons concerned in the above piracy, were apprehended the ft. inft. at Cape Charles, where they landed, and fafely escorted to Keps Ville, to undergo their examination for former offences committed in that neighbourhood. Agriculture and manufactures have been the caufe, rife and progrefs of many fplendid empires; and from these alone it is, that we must expect to derive a consequence, worthy of fo valuable a country--a country abounding with every thing that heart can wish. Caft your eyes to the east, and there you will find the fish and the oil. The middle ftates will furnish us with beef, pork, grain, pulfe and vegetables of every kind. Virginia and the Carolinas, with tobacco, naval stores, rice and indigo; and Georgia would furnish us with filk in abundance. Let your imagination rove for a moment, into the interiour parts of the United States; there you will find a foil, teeming with every thing that is grateful; in fhort, there is no part of the known world, more amply furnished. Will you then fupinely hang your headswrapped in your tattered garments, loitering from place to place, a burden to fociety ?Roufe from your lethargy, and with a determination worthy of rational beings, refolve to improve what Heaven has provided for you. NEW YORK, June 20. In publishing the following account of fome villains in Nova Scotia, attempting to counterfeit the paper money of this State, we feel a pleasure, that at the fame time we have it in our power to commend the uprightness and honourable conduct of the magistracy of Shelburne; and the honeft and difinterestedness of Mr. Humphreys, the Printer of the Nova Scotia Packet, at that place. The accounts we have been favoured with, ftate, at a Court of Quarter Seffions of the Peace, on the 2d May laft, Mr. James Humphreys, Printer, of that place, brought a charge against Ifaac Clements, also of that place, by trade an engraver, ftating that he, the faid Clements, had inviegled an apprentice boy of Mr. Humphreys, named William Leonard, and encouraged him to take types out of his printing office, and fix them for the faid Clements, in order to print counterfeit bills, of the prefent circulating paper money of New York. On examination of the boy, before the Magiftrates, he declared that Clements tempted him, by the promife of a confiderable reward, to get a few types of a certain kind, fhewing him a New York five Shilling bill, which he wanted to imitate; the boy accordingly furnished the types, and fet up the form of a five fhilling bill for him, which he left at the houfe of faid Clements. The boy further informed, that Clements told him, one Robert Wilkins, of the 17th regiment of light dragoons, and many others, were concerned with him. Wilkins was the next examined, who faid he knew very little about the matter. Next to him, Clements was examined, who confeffed that he had made the attempt, but had not fucceeded in finishing any of the bills; that he had cut the bordering for the bills himself, and that he had a prefs at his own houfe, to print them with. The court then fent a proper officer to the house of Clements; where the prefs, implements for printing, &c. were found and brought into court. After examining one more perfon, it was thought proper by the court, to bind over Clements for his appearance at the next quarter feffions, and to give fecurity for the fame :-Wilkins was alfo bound over, and it is expected will be profecuted for perjury. We are told by a London paragraph of the 24th of April, that Monfieur Neckar was banished from Paris: But we are affured, that it is not the fact; Mr. Neckar fimply retreated a few leagues, and returned. It is a notorious fact, that M. de Colonne is difmiffed, to which account, is added, in private letters to a refpectable gentleman in this city, the following anecdote refpecting him-That while on his expeditious route through the country, he paffed a place of execution, where a malefactor had just received the rewards of his demerits; and, on his arrival, the intelligence of his perfonage, foon buzzed through the numerous crowd, whofe rage was fo great, that it was with difficulty that the police prevented his being abfolutely bung upon the gallows, through the two ftandards of which they paffed him and his coach. WORCESTE R. The delegates from New Hampshire to the grand federal Convention, it is said, will foon join that auguft body, now fitting at Philadelphia. All the ftates will then be reprefented, except Rbode Island, which state has refused to send any members. The clouds that hover over our political hemifphere, we hope, will speedily be difpelled, and not be permitted to gather, until the ftorm of divifion shall shake the ftates to their centre, and hurl them into ruin. It is now faid that the tender act is continued until the first day of January next. We hear from Concord, that Job Shartuck, who was to have been executed at that place, on Thursday laft week, for Treafon, is refpited until the fecond day of Auguft next. DIED.]-At Keene, in the State of New Hampshire, Afa Dunbar, Efq; Attorney at Law-formerly of Salem, in the county of Effex. At Bofton, Mrs. Margaret Hovey, aged 68. The Editor requests all those who are indebted to bim for Newfpapers and Maga zines, to make payment.-Butter will be received for small fums, if brought within a fero days. 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VOL. III.] THE [NUMB. XV. WORCESTER MAGAZINE. For the Second Week in July, 1787. HISTORY of the late WAR in AMERICA. From the BRITISH ANNUAL REGISTER, for 1779. HE French had now got to leeward, Tand under the expectation of being immediately attacked, had huddled most of their fhips haftily together in a kind of cluster, in the operation of wearing, from whence they were gradually ftretching out into a line of battle; but upon obferving the expofed fituation of those British fhips which had fallen to leeward to repair their damages, it induced fome alteration in their movements, and they began to edge away, with an evident intention of cutting them off from the reft of the fleet. The admiral inftantly penetrated into their defign, and the danger of thofe fhips obliged him fuddenly to wear, and to stand athwart the van of the enemy, in a diagonal line, for their protection. At the fame time, he difpatched orders to Sir Robert Harland, to form his divifion at a distance aftern of the Victory, in order to cover the rear, and to keep the enemy in check, until the vice admiral of the blue should in obedience to the fignal (which was kept conftantly flying) come, with his divifion, into his proper ftation. These orders were instantly obeyed by the vice admiral of the red, who was accordingly formed in the wake of the Victory, before four o'clock. It was this evolution, which was afterwards made the foundation of one of those principal charges which were brought against the admiral, it being reprefented "as carrying the appearance of a flight, and bringing difgrace upon the British flag, by affording an opportunity to the enemy of claiming the victory, and of publishing to the world that the fleet had ran away." And it was also this movement, which fome of the braveft and moft experienced officers in the British fervice, and who were prefent at the time, declared upon oath, to have appeared, and to have been con fidered by them, both then and after, as a great and necessary manœuvre. In the mean time, the admiral perceiving that he was nearing the enemy, by the courfe which he fteered for the protection of the crippled fhips, and that the vice admiral of the blue still continued to lie to windward, and by so doing kept his divifion back from joining him, and from fupporting the fleet, he made á signal for all ships to windward to bear down into his wake. This fignal was repeated by the vice admiral, although he had not repeated that for the line of battle; but as he did not bear down himself, his repeating this fignal feems to have been particularly unlucky; it having been interpreted, by the fhips of his divifion, as an order for coming into his own wake, and not for their going into that of the admiral. Thefe appearances of neglect of duty in the vice admiral of the blue, were at tributed to the difabled condition of his fhip, to which feveral witneffes were produced on his trial, and on the credit of which he was afterwards acquitted. The protection of the difabled fhips being accomplished, and the French fleet continuing to form their line, ranging up to leeward parallel to the centre di vifion, it became the admiral's immediate and most urgent object, to form his as fpeedily as poffible, in order to bear down upon them and renew the battle, whilft it could yet be done with full effect. He therefore, after having repeated the fignal for fhips to come into his wake with no better effect than before, fent to Sir Robert Harland, to ftretch away ahead, and to take his proper ftation in the line; in which he was inftantly obeyed, with the usual promptnefs of that excellent officer; and feeing the vice admiral of the blue still to windward, with his foretopfail unbent, and without any vifible effort, either to wards fetting it to rights, or for obeying that fignal which had been fo long flying, he fent Captain Windfor of the Fox frigate at five o'clock, with exprefs orders to him, to bear down into his, the admiral's wake, and to tell him, that he only waited for him and his divifion to renew the battle. We must obferve that there is a confiderable variation, with regard to the exact time at which this meffage was delivered, in the evidence given upon the trials of Admiral Keppel and Sir Hugh Pallifer. This order not producing the desired effect, and having before hauled down the fignal for coming into his wake, the admiral threw out that for all fhips to come into their stations; and again, at feven o'clock, being wearied out with fruitless expectation, he made the fignal for each particular fhip of the vice admiral of the blue's divifion, to come into her station in the line; but before they had complied with this fignal, night put an end to all further operations. It will fcarcely efcape obfervation,that no fignal had been particularly thrown out tothe Formidable, the vice admiral of the blue's own ship : this the admiral afterwards attributed to a motive of delicacy, founded on the long fervices of that officer, as well as a due compliment to his rank in his donble capacity, both as a lord of the admiralty, and as the third in the prefent command; a delicacy which, whether juftifiable or not, brought great inconveniencies on Mr. Keppel; poffible crimination; and is not likely to be imitated on future occafions. Although the French, by their drawing up and forming a line parallel to the British fleet, fhewed a determination of fuftaining an engagement, if they had been attacked, they, however, fhewed evidently, that they were not at all difpofed to urge matters to that final conclufion, by any act of their own; as they had it in their power to have renewed the engagement during every hour of the afternoon; and that with fuch apparent advantage, from a fitua tion of affairs which it does not feem could poffibly have efcaped their obfer vation, that their miffing the opportunity appears little lefs unaccountable, than the range circumftance from whence it the was derived, Their conduct in night would have afforded a confirmation of their indifpofition to renew the engagement, if their preceding could have left any doubt upon the question. Three of their best failing veffels were ftationed at proper diftances with lights, to divert the attention of the British fleet, and to induce them to imagine, that the whole French line till kept that pofition, in which it had been laft feen at the clofe of day. Under this deception, and the favour of the night, the rest of their fleet withdrew with the utmoft filence, without lights, and without any other fignal, than the throwing up of fome rockets, which appeared about ten o'clock, and made the best of their way to the port of Breft, for which place the wind was directly fair, and where they accordingly arrived on the following evening. At day light, their fleet had got to fuch a diflance, as to be only vifible from the maft heads of a very few of the Britifh fhips, excepting the three fail we have mentioned, which were still within a few miles to leeward of fome of the neareft. The admiral threw out a fignal for four fhips to chace them; but foon perceiv ing that two of these were not able to carry fo much fail as would even countenance the purfuit, he foon recalled it. And taking into confideration the crippled ftate of his own fhips, the dif tance which the French had gained in the night, their vicinity to their own coafts, and alfo reflecting, that whatever they might have fuffered in their hulls, they had not apparently received any great damage in their means of flight, he concluded upon the whole, that he had not the smallest prospect of coming up with them, and that neither a gene ral or partial purfuit, could have answered any wife or beneficial purpose. On the other hand, he confidered, that a vain and fruitlefs purfuit of a distant and flying enemy on their own coat, with a large fwell, and a fresh wind blowing full upon it, and a fleet of large and heavy fhips, in the ftate his own was, would not only have been wantonly expofing it without end or object to great rifque and danger, but would also be a misleading and defeating of its o perations, by delaying the refitment which was neceffary, for carrying on the future fevice with vigour and effect. It must be obferved, that the account of this action and the preceding circumftances, is taken from the printed trial of Admiral Keppel. The affair has been fince agitated with violence and heat, between parties with whom we have no concern, and and upon a fubject of which we have not naval skill sufficient to form any judgment. But as the evidence is that of the greatest feamen, and men of the highest honour, upon oath, and is for the greater part uncontradicted, and received by competent and unimpeached fworn judges, we could not, without the groffeft partiality or prejudice, re-s ceive it in any other way, than as it was received and decided on by that court in the trial. It is exceedingly rare for hiftorians to be furnished with facts fo eltablished. [To be continued.] COMMONWEALTH of MASSACHUSETTS. RDERED, That Mr. Jones, Mr. Read, Mr. Manning, of Salem, Doctor Kilham, and Mr. Davis, of Plymouth, with fuch as the honourable Senate may join, be a committee to wait upon his Excellency the Governour, with the following address. Sent up for concurrence, In SENATE, June 28th, 1787. Read and concurred.. And Charles Turner, Ebenezer Bridge, Thompson J. Skinner, and Benjamin Austin, jun. Efquires, are joined. SAMUEL ADĀMS, Prefident. May it please your Excellency, YOUR Excellency's meffage, of the *ft inft. containing an offer of three hundred pounds, to be deducted from your falary, as governour, for the prefent year, has been attended to, and confidered by the two branches of the legif. lature, not only as a proof of your Excellency's generofity, but as a mark of your attention to the peculiar fituation of the people, and the embarraffed state of our publick affairs. The patriotifm and benevolence of your Excellency having been fo often experienced in your various ftations, we are convinced of the fincerity of the fentiment expreffed in your meffage, that it always gives you the highest pleasure, when confiftent with your idea of the publick good, to meet the wishes of the people. The embarraffed fituation of this ftate, pleads in behalf of our conftituents to accept your generous and unfolicited favour, though, at the fame time, we would not wish to have it operate as a precedent to influence any fucceffour in office, to relinquifh any part of his year. ly falary. The conftitutionality of the queftion relative to the governour's falary, being undetermined, we fhall, at prefent, wave our fentiments, on this fubject, as this decifion, without doubt, will claim the attention of the legislature when they fhall think expedient. From the NEW HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE, November, 1786. The following obfervations and remarks, on the putrid malignant SORE THROAT, which has prevailed for three years paft, in many parts of the country, and now in this town, being much approved of by the faculty, is with pleasure handed to the publick to A Ta time when a moft peftilential and contagious disease is making its progrefs through a country, marking its way with the most calamitous circumftances, any attempt to investigate the real nature of the diforder, to miti gate its violence, and, if poffible, to prevent its deftructive effects, is not onlyin ittelf laudabled but a duty highly incumbent on thofe who have the lives of their nearest connections, friends, and neighbours, committed to their cared This confideration alone, has produced the following obfervations and remarks. They were thrown together at a late hour, after the fatigues of a busy day, as well for the author's own fatisfaction, as the purpofe of adopting fome concife and re gular method of treating a difeafe that is fo rapidly fpreading, and in all probabil. ity will become general, amongst us; They were fhewn to fome medical friends, at whofe preffing folicitations they are now, with the utmoft diffidence, fubmitted to publick infpection. The author is notunaware that he has laid himself open to criticifm aud cen. fure, but he will as patiently bear the one as he regardless of the other, should he ftimulate thofe of fuperiour abilities, |