The New Hampshire Gazette

An American artist (says a Virginia paper) has lately discovered and proposed for the public service, an improvement in the use of fire-arms, by which a soldier, without the least hurry or embarrassment, can fire thirty, forty, or more shots in the space of one minute.-- The author, it is said, is employed in prosecuting measures to have this stratagem made use of to spread consternation and havoc among the savages on our frontiers; and from the nature of the engine, it is probable it will have a powerful effect. The principles of this improvement are simple and original--the number of shots intended to be suddenly fired, are to be charged into the gun at once, and fired off at intervals, just sufficient to recover the sight of a new object, with such stops and reserves as may be thought proper.