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The Vermont Journal from Windsor, Vermont • 3

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uliich one feventti fuel is ti It eai in. and burnt ammllv, till the uhsk Jbill be fw By the Eajiem ft- ue katn that in the jevere Jlom on Saturday evening tk 6th fipfced to he from Broad Bay; was cajl on Cjfie Poipus rocks all on board pe-rijhed Pieces of the -wreck and part of the eat go, confining of w.d lumbe-, 6c vetedieve on fhort. A bag has bttn Uktn tip contjii.bg a number Lttin books. WORCESTER, May iS. Lift Saturday thi biigntice Capt, Muffcy, arrived at Boftoa, from Biittol, in Ei by the Btiiifh Gazette bto't in this vefTel, we lern That Ccmmodoio Sawyer, on the Newfcnndland flatioa had complained to his court of th eacioachment of the Fiench and American fifhermtn, oa the Btiiillibouadarks That his Excellency Thomas JefTetfon, our-Misificr to the Court of Ftance, arrived ia Lotdoo in Match latt, and cn the 1 5 of that month was introduced his Britannic Mijcfly, by Mr.

A-dams, Sc on the day following to the Queen the Hen. Mr. Sayre our late Envoy at the Court Madrid, Coi. Smith, fxretary to Mr arrived in England neariy ac the fame time That a Spanifh ih'p of wac from Lima, in South-America, boood to Cadiz, was loft on the ccall cf Portugal they had on board befidt! a very valuable cirgo, eight millions of doifars it is that by the help of divers 250 thefts cf the csfb have been taken cut tf the fea she whole smount cf the fbip's cargo was to be 53 millions And that there weie great commo 0 t) 0 Feb if Exuta of a letter fom Dumbkr.e, Dec29. Oa Saturday nigh latt a wager of fooie ta'ue decided by a very curious mode of cooe.uion Oae Daaglc, a parbiiad feruth-maker cat tnre agaklta bu 1 deg, quantity wuhio time, and beat nimby two p-uodsia ff tea notwithflandiag a.i thejx-kyifm praft.feJ sgaiaft him by his oppoaeati.

The quuo i'y of tripe allo-cd this occafi-od was twe-we pounds, which was divided between the jmpeiitors, (lute and (hare a-Jika aad though it was contrived 10 throw ail the fat Dangle' dith ia order to clog his appsiue, aad a large piece of old lea her breeches was tufted into his mefs, with a riew to interrupt his mtflication, yet he trs talk ia two thirds oi the time and munched biead aod cneefe for the icm binder, to keep his aatagooiii io coua nance. Aod on Susday night the faoiemaa undertook for another wager, to drink twelve quarts of ale ia fix draughts, within 4 hours, but pet formed it ia thice, wish the addition of live ooufe, which a m.fchievoas W3g threw in his Iaft flagon." A I January 6' 1 he 29th and 30th of iaft month arrived here the frigates Our Lady de Kofario, Catalane, and the brigs Holy Trinity and Perfcft, from Montevido, Carthagena, Guyara and Havana, Among other articles, they have bro'C over in the firft Teffel 172,872 dollars, 85 gold marks weighing 8 ounces each) 808 of wrought filver; the 46,350 dollars, 56 marks Stafford, are Frequently feen mounfed on oxen, cows, and fomtimes bulls, which are, in many inftances, 8S tractable as horlts. Weare informed, that at Greenwich, in England, forty tons of copper is now coining into half pence, for the ufe of the American States On one fide an Eye of Providence, with thirteen Stars the reveife S. for United States. Exiraft of a letter from a gentleman in N.

2ork to bis friend in Philadelphia, dated April 19. The paper money bill is palled, making it a lgal tender in all cafes of profecution an inducement for people to refufe paying their debts, which many imagine was not altogether mcfffuy This operates as a general obftrucYion to bufinefs, which will not only prevent people's fatiguing them-lelves too much, but will liberals men's notions of property, and, in lime, may bring back the apoftolick practice of having all things in corn-mon. It will lb take off our hearts and lelTen our affections for this tran-fitory world, the fafhion whereof chan. geth, and further verifies the proverb, that riches take to thernfeives wings and flee away, and fhews the particular pertinence of the wife man's qutftion. Whit good hatha man of all the labour wherewith he labouieth under the fit?" tions in flollacd, between the parrzics of the Stans and ihcTe cf the Stadiholdsr.

1 8 0 May i9, We hear from Lyae, New Hampfliire, that oa Thuifdsy the 18 innanr, Mr, Dasid Sioce, of rhat town, having got cp acd kindled a fite, in attempting to walk to the door, fell instantly dead, without the least puviciis complaint ot For the Vetmont Jvurtsal. Mr Prinseis Am ao o'd man who five in the midd'eof the woods and now and "tun by accident NEW-YORK, May 9 Extreft of a letter frm a gentleman in Prance ti his fixed in rY Haven, dated Abbeville, January 1736. A certain Autoine Caffjui, a rich met-ehaat of Cadiz, had deftined occof his two fons to the commercial life. The youth ac cordiogiy embarked in the Los Spidos for the ladies the wind was favorable and fcemtd to proteife a favorable voyage, but fortune was againlt them a ilorm arefe their efforts to brave it were vain they were driven into the fircights of Gibraltar, the vefH was wrecked cm the rocks and the ctew peiifhcd. The uuhappy father had the I feoae of yonr newfpapcrs and I find the.e it a miry uoife libut oar Governor and Couocils alowicg the Surveyor Giueraiii acount and the like Now I dont like yottr piiodng kindeilors pects apanft cur ate' men f.nt to you by Tom, Dik Harry a ho are to let there names be nown, for if the Gotvcraor thaot it woad be b'lt coalts icarched outing tignt the hnt could hear co tidines ot his Ion.

I that the iusvay act ftould not be repceicd r. ii of wrought fiiver the third, 141,055 dollars, 1855 gold caitillians, 90 marks of wrought filver the fourtn, 55000 dollars, 98 marks of wrought liiver. The number of velTels arrived in this harbour during the laft year, amount to 1124, among which are 28 from the United States of America NEW-HAVEN, Maya Gen. Pa, fons arrived in this city Iaft week, having lately returned from Ken-tacky, on the Ohio, lie brought with him from thence feveral natural curi-fuics, as animal and vegetable petrifactions and among other things two enormous teeth, fuppofed to be tie pham's, one of which ke prefents to the Mufeum oi Harvard College, and the other to the Mufeum of Yale College They were weighed here, and one of them was found to weigh S2 ounces, was 19 inches in girr4aad above fix inchss in heigh: the other weighed 78 ounces, and was twenty inches in git. The extremities or each were broken off, fo that the whole magnitude could sot be defined.

The General obtained there a bone, fuppo-fed to be atbigh bone, 49 inches long. To what pf-citsr amm-iis thefebe'ong is uncertain but the fpecics ia extinct in America. They may have been brought thereby that ctvil'z-d people, which, from bricks and earthen ware, and other remnants of force works and regular fortifications to have inhabited thole regions in the ancient ages, Sine: the taxes have been laid cn hoggin England, the country people in general, tnure -particularly thole in the counties of Warwick, Chtftcr, lUp'icu ti wuuiu wuca itit niuuiu pice agin I done fee why he not in the rights to put it ont ot their pocr to trpcal it psfling the furvayiog acctsnt, I dont thitk the pepit have aiite to do aiwsj's jell as they pltfe for then what good wou-d aod Council do-Any fool roi.e hav oown fail Sifhiots what the piao was it adsiliog not to hac t' act hen rcpeied, but it was teft of ill the p- did not fee it Now the fuivav nukes'a guud maey goari of hod aad the Gorvcrcer and Cuaci. Chtt reward tbcttif-uis i them, but if ihcfu; vny falls thredoot yoo fee the goats are ioft: I i(h the reft of (hem wc-ud have peace piloted acd fuc there names to thrm and wi.l be boucd for it notody will dare to r't aginft ihrm If they (houd times ar ftrantrly alterd for a few a'S ago nobody vente ed to ri agioll oui bed men Now what I want is that peple hco they lite fhoud let us no who thej be fo that we may no what to teete, for if ihey do cot ihry may be be'eved as q'lkk as theGoiver-ncr or Lifcnon! Guncrnor ttnd fj fpi'a their liaraclcis As a pattern I lhail fice my trcw nmc and fukes fay it is a la. ten and at length concluded that he was loft, when on tuc of October Iaft, while Caf foni was bufied without the fon entered fuddeniy and flaw to his mother's bofota, who was nearly dillracted with joy.

At that moment the father (whofe tault was that of jealoufy) eoiered, aud Iteing a young man ia the arms of his wife, aud not tecoi-leftiog the features of his fon, iuultitly die his poigaatd and p'uaged it in his brtall he witr. difficuity telated his miraauious efcapc, and exp'ned in the arms of his father, who would have plunged inhison bieall the dagger which was covered with ihc bluod ot his Lai, had he not bcea regained by thofe whoa the tiagicai fecne had caned together. The mac was apprehceded, aud is to have a (rial but it is huped by all who kco the ci.cutBftances that jut'tice will for bear its right as no puuifhmcut cao exceed that of the ttmorfe of his confeience PORTSMOUTH, Sin 17. The fiptr money dead to it emitted by the ikJi iLnd Jfimbly, to be a uuu' ttdet or the paymet.t of ail ntw uehs now due or which may kreafter le controlled is to be loaned to tie cj that State, on tie cuditoj tanned fiJes, cf doubiethevtiti of the Jims hand is 11 carry inter (ft tfcur fa unt autMtJw (wen ytmi after I atd fusa iay it jeil txft fuc my karsftcj TUANliUS,.

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