The New Hampshire Gazette

Extracted from a Baltimore Paper.

THE inhabitants of Cape-Francois in an Address to the Inhabitants of Baltimore, describe, in the most affecting manner, the horrors and dangers, on their native shore, from which they had fled, the dissolution of the nearest and dearest connections occasioned by the fury of a horde of savages: abandoned by Fortune to a state of absolute want; and no other consolation remaining for them, but a painful resignation to the dispensations of Providence; which alone was capable of arresting the effects of their despair; conclude their pathetic address as follows:

"Generous inhabitants of Baltimore! receive these public expressions of a gratitude that shall possess our hearts 'till our latest breath-that shall be perpetuated in the hearts of our children, whom it shall be our duty to bring up in these sentiments for you: We will inform them of the benevolent reception you have given us; we will tell them that it is you who have restored us to life-but how will it ever be possible for us to describe to them the obliging cares, the delicate attentions, the engaging and kind concern you have manifested to us--the marks of sympathy, the tender compassion you have shewn for our sufferings-the sweet consolation you have procured us-the tears you have shed with us-and in fine, the deep sense you have discovered of the horrors of our wretched situation.

"Receive the assurances of a gratitude whose weight is lighter on our hearts, from your accompanying your benevolence with a touching sensibility, that marks true generosity with all those shades of delicacy that infinitely enhances its value.

"Receive the assurances of all those sentiments with which we are so deeply penetrated, and of our fervent wishes for a continuance of that prosperity of which you are so eminently deserving, from the honorable use you make of it.

Citizens, a base calumny may possibly strive to pursue us to the friendly asylum you have opened; but we beseech you not to listen to its suggestions-to the kindness you have already shewn us. add that of being on your guard against it. Our enemies, envious of that humane concern with which you endeavor to make us forget our misfortunes, may endeavor still to persecute us, by attempting to rob us of your esteem. Alas! we trust we may with confidence say that we deserve it-we deny with that assurance that innocence alone can give, the dispositions most injuriously imputed to us, of making resistance to those laws dictated for us by our country.

"Virtuous Americans! be not surprised that we cannot convey to you the sense of all we feel on this occasion; the great sensations of the mind are far beyond the most impassioned powers of language, and your hearts are sufficiently acquainted with them to judge what must be the extent of our feelings."