Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

On Friday last, his Excellency the Governor communicated the following important information to the Hon. the Legislature.

Gentlemen of the Senate, and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives.

On the last evening, by Mr. Henry Thaxter, I received a letter from Stephen Jones and James Avery, Esquires, dated at Machias, the 29th of June. They mention in it, that by letters from Col. Allen and Mr. Deledernier (a copy of which was enclosed) they are informed of a most daring insult upon the dignity of this Commonwealth and the United States, committed on the 26th of that month, by the civil and custom-house officers, of the British Province of New Brunswick, in seizing two vessels, the property of the citizens of this Commonwealth, and within the acknowledged jurisdiction of it.

Col. Allen's letter, dated at Dudley Island, the 27th June, mentions, that the acts of New Brunswick, which are now published, extend the western boundary of Charlotte county to the western shore of Passamaquoddy Bay; that the seventh parish, called the West Isles, includes Moose, Dudley and Frederick Islands, expressly; and consequently the United States are wholly debarred from all navigation in, and into that Bay.

By inquiry of Mr. Thaxter, I find the two vessels were seized, as they lay at anchor, near the western shore of the west passage of Passamaquoddy.--This conduct corresponds to those acts, and both together show a disposition to exclude us from the navigation of that bay; and at the same time must be considered as a violation of the definitive treaty of peace between the United States and Great Britain.

Nothing is mentioned, in the official information received by the Governor, of the capture, by the Refugees, of Major-General Lincoln, as has been reported.