The New Hampshire Gazette

Extract of a letter from a respectable House in Lisbon, to a Gentleman in this town, dated Oct. 14, 1793:

"Our last was on the 28th September. Three days ago, a Portuguese frigate from Gibraltar, brought us the distressing intelligence, that a truce for twelve months has been concluded between our Government and that of Algiers, and that seven of the Corsairs of the latter had already passed the Streights. To-day we receive advice, we are afraid but too true, of five vessels having been already taken, and we tremble for the safety of many others, who may be bound here and to Cadiz, entirely unacquainted with their danger. We are all here in the greatest consternation—not an American dare venture out—and we learn only just now, that a Swede is going to New-York—we seize in haste the opportunity, to give you this intelligence, which you will of course make as public as possible, to deter vessels from coming out. The cutting off by this means the American commerce, must certainly cause a scarcity of grain here, in the spring, and speculations in neutral bottoms, or under convoy, could scarce fail to answer."