The New Hampshire Gazette

SALEM, MARCH 25.

FROM BOURDEAUX.

Last week. Mr. Samuel Cabot, of Beverly, arrived from Bourdeaux, by way of Tobago. He sailed, by permission, on the 28th Dec. The embargo was then continued; and the National commissioners could give no encouragement of its being speedily taken off. It is supposed that Bourdeaux would long since have been given up like Toulon, had the inhabitants had the same opportunity. Their disposition being well known, they are watched by the National Commissioners with the utmost strictness : and the decrees of the Convention are executed with unexampled rigor. All foreigners at that place (except of neutral nations) and many French, have been confined in prison. Numbers have been condemned to the guillotine, by the Revolutionary Tribunal ; and the executions take place immediately on sentence being passed, whether by day or by night. Vast property is confiscated. The rich are objects of suspicion. All plate and specie is demanded in exchange for assignats, which were at par in that place. Bread was scarce ; and the inhabitants, rich or poor, on an equal allowance of half a pound a day. The churches were destroyed, or converted to other uses, and the bells cast into cannon. Reason and truth were worshipped, in the temple of liberty. The Sans Culottes were in high spirits.--The men, between 18 and 25 years of age had been called for, and marched some time in November. It was said that several thousand Prussians had deserted to the French, in one body. Mr. Cabot saw a company of 60 of them, which were sent to Bourdeaux. Americans were treated with much respect in France, and the French have no desire that we should be engaged in the war.