The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle — Portsmouth, N.H., 1773-05-07 00:00:00, page 2

r,Gentlemen,
"VrOU well know the Support I gave
I onThurfday to the Motions in com
mon Hall, for the Remonstrance, and the
Engagement for shortening the Duration of
Parliaments, I now feel a real Pain in de
clining to comply with the Solicitations of
such refpe&able Friends. As I have long
been personally obnoxious to theKing,lhave
hot for many Years, been to St. James's.
It would now be rude and indecent to force
myfelf into the Royal Presence, on an Oc
casion not the most pleasing, I believe to his
Majesty.— lam not used to go into any
Gentleman's House who does not wish to
fee me. The last Year, as Sheriff it would
have been the particular Duty of my Office
to have attended the King with any Petiti
ons or Remonstrances, and I should have
obeyed the Commands of the City. lam
now to be considered only as an Alderman.
The Attendance of the Whole Body is not
heceffary. No favourable Effect could pos
sibly arise from my being with you at St.
James, ; and if the least Disturbance should
happen without, it would be construed to
be a premeditated Riot, the Guards imme
diately be ordered to fire among the People,
and another Massacre ensue.
LONDON, March ao.
Several of Mr. Alderman Wilkes's Friends
"Waited upon him the 13th Instant, and pref-
Ted his going to St. James's with the other
Aldermen, to present the late Address, Fe~
tition and Remonstrance to the King. Mr.
Wilkes's anfwer'is said to have been nearly
in these Words :
March 19. The Lords read a firft Time
the Bill for punishing Mutiny and Deser
tion, and for the better Payment of the
Army in his Majesty's American Colonies.
Also the Bill for naturalizing such foreign
Proieftants as are or shall fettle in America,
serving in the Royal American Regiment,
or as Engineers.
We hear for certain that the King of
Prussia is determined very shortly to take
Possession of Hannover.
Majority, —— — 53
The Bishop of Oznaburg is said to have
Very quick Parts.— When the Prince of
Wales the last Week seemed g?eatly morti
fied at not being permitted to receive the
Gentleman of the Principality of Wales,
the Bishop broke out, "Why Brother, I
believe I shall fee my German sheep before
you will your Welch Goats."
A new Fashion is come up among the
fine Gentlemen at the Weft End of the
Town, which is to use red Powder in their
Hair ; and a certain yourg Officer of the
Guards, was so fashionably brickdufted at
2 late assembly, that with refpeH to his
Head, he seemed to have been a Savage
just escaped from the Wilds of America,
" I am not fond of the Air bf a Court ;
it generally blasts sooner or later, and often
nips even in the Bud, our modern Patriot
ism. I should be particularly unhappy at
this Time to fee my Sovereign surrounded
almost entirely by the Enemies of our Coun
try and his Family, and the Royal Smiles
beaming on those very Ministers, against
Whom theCity of London, now petition and
remonstrate with so much Truth and Jus
tice, while my fellow Citizens were received
With Coldness and Disregard. My warmest
Willies, however, Gentlemen, will go with
you, and may you meet with that gracious
reception and Success which your Cause and
your Zeal so nobly merit."
March 24. The Aldermen &c. who afe
to accompany the Lord Mayor to St. James's
With the City Remonstrance are invited to
Breakfaft at the Mansion-House on Friday
Morning.
Mr. Sheriff Oliver continues much indis
posed. His Disorder is a Swelling in the
Throat.
March 20. Yesterday the Commons 1-
greed to Report of the Amendments made
to the Bill for Relief of Protefiant Diflent
ers, which with the Bill, was ordered to be
ingroffed.
For the Bill, — 69
Against the Bill, — 16
We are told that the Answer prepared to
be given on a certain occasion is big with
reproof for giving so much trouble, and it
is said to be levelled at some particular
Leaders in the City, who are to be called
Troublers of their Sovereign's and his Peo
ple's repose,
The third reading of the Bill for the Re
lief ofProteftantsdiffenting from theChurch
of England will be on Thursday next.
Lord Bellamont is so well recovered asto
walk in his room, has a good appetite, and
will be able, it is thought, to take an airing
in a few days.
Samples of several mineral ores have been
lately received here from North America,
said to be the produce of some mines lately
difeovered, which are expected to prove ac
quisitions of infinite value.
The Dove, Brown, from Bristol to Boston,
is arrived at Kinfale, with the loss of her
masts, andfeven feet waterin her hold ; the
Mate was washed overboard.
London, March 22.
New Revenue Boards of Ireland stand thus :
Commissioners ofCuftoms . Commjftoners of Excise.
John Baurk Richard Townlend
John Beresford Sir Francis Bernard
John Staples John Monk Mason
Thomas Allean Robert Waller
Charles Tottenham Wm. Montgomery.
James Ager.
Robert Clement.
Died. Sir Tho's Hales Pym, Bart. Mem
ber for Dover.
The King since the duel on Tuesday, has,
we hear, been shut up for two hours with
Lord North considering of some method to
flop the manual decisions of honor ; and it
is said, not more highly to the credit of the
Prince than to the honor of the minister,
that a plan is fnggefted, which will make
personal refentmen'ts infinitely less danger
ous than at present to the interests of fodiety.
March 24. On Monday the Earl of Bella
mont took an airing for the firft time in
Hyde-park.
A great House in Dublin is said to have
flopped Payment.
A certain great Weft India House has
flopped in the City for 200,000 1.
A Person just arrived from Cadiz fays,that
when he left that place, two frigates of war,
of 28 guns each, only waited for a fair wind
to fail for the Havanah, with a great quan
tity of warlike stores, especially bombs.—
These are attended by three large transports
laden with guns, anchors, fails, and cables,
and are to take on board 600 Soldiers, draf
ted out of different regiments. Several o
ther vessels are freighting for the King's ac
count, to carry out 2000 regular troops to
Carthagena and PortoVelo,in theW-Indies.
Monday fe'nnight upwards of 1000 Stock
ingmakers assembled together, and went to
the House of Mr. Simplon, Hosier, in the
Market-place at Leicester, where they de
manded a machine for making flockings,
which Mr. Simplon had in his possession.
After much altercation,Mr. Simpson to save
his house and property from being destroy
ed, gave up the frame to the resentment of
the Stocking-makers, who carried it in tri
umph along the public streets, after which
they totally destroyed it, and every one went
home. The above machine had only three
motions, —= ■ 3 —- . — weighed
about 25 lb. and worked one third quicker,
which was the foie reason of the Stocking
makers destroying it, as work would be
more scarce, and at this time hundreds are
unemployed.
/l genuine Anecdote. One of the great Offi
cers belonginging to the Dorfet ratch, and an
Liftman, very partial to the Latcht, and will
ing to make her Virtues known, told a Lady that
the Yatcht, was as ftiff as a Church, upright
as a Difo, and that the Cabbin was paper'd
with Leather. BRAVO/
Deal, March 22. Came down the Cle
mentia, Walker for Nova-Scotia.
Feb. 1. When the report of Lord Bella
mont's being wounded reached St James's,
a great personage pathetically exclaimed,
"Unhappy nation, where the loss of life
is deemed a fatisfa&ion for an imaginary
wound of honor."
PHILADELPHIA, April 1%
Capt. Shewell just arrived informs, that the French are very
aria at the Cape, searching every vessel that arrives from Ame
rica ;juft before he failed they took a Sloop belonging to New-
York, laden with Flour, and a Sloop belonging to Rhode-Ifland,
the Captains and Crews are confined in Jail, as well as many
others. He further informs us, that a Gentleman of Rhode-
Island was in Jail, there, and had been tried, and {entered to
forfeit his Vessel and Cargo, and to Hand in the Pilory for three
Hours, with a Label at his Breast : That the French are deter
mined to suppress the American Trade, as they are now fop
plied with Provisions from Old France.
By a Letter from St. Vincent's, of the 6th of March, we are
informed that Orders had been issued by Brigadier Dalrymple,
for the 14th Regiment to embark on the 16th, and to fail on
the 20th, to relieve the 29th Battallion in Garrison at St. Au
gustine. The 31st Regiment was ordered to embarlc for New-
York on the 25th,
It is said the Tea-Aft is likely to be repealed---.-for-----r^e
benefit of the mother country.
By letters from a gentleman of diftin&ion in London, we
learn that our proceedings had been well recei ved, and that the
pamphlet had been re-printed,with a judicious preface by the
British Editor, to make oar grievances more generally known.
We hear that his E --y has received by Captain White a
letter from Ld. D h, wherein his L---p has been pleased
to express it as his opinion, that the Resolves of the towns of
Roxbury, Marblehead, & Plymouth contain uery extraordinary
doftrines, but hopes from thzprivate opinion of his new faithful
correspondent, there will be but few followers of their examples ;
and that the Honorable House of Representatives would difeoun
tenance them.
Extras of a Letter from a Gentleman in Surrinam, to bis friend
in Newport.
" Miss S. a lady who come from Holland to this colony, and
lived with the old lady who was lately murdered, was also at
tacked by the negroes, and received a very severe cut over the
head with a bill, something like a cutlass, but heavier, and .very
sharp : She was dressed in the pink of the tower mode, with a
great roll, which broke the force of the ftrofce ; so that what
would otherwise have been a fatal blow,was only a flight wound.
Henceforth, when I hear the WITS, as they call themselves,
ridicule any dress the ladies chufe to wear, I shall conclude their
skulls as thick as a roll,---Had not rolls been intended for some
ufeful purpose, would they ever have been invented ? Perhaps
they were designed to preserve this poor lady's life, who, with
out a joke, would have infallibly be&n killed but for a ROLL?
The Execution of Gilbert Belcher, John Wall Lovely, and
Joseph Packer, for counterfeiting New-York Currency has
been already mentioned in the Papers. The following is
Packer's Speech and Confeffion, just before he was turned off.
1 Never considered that it was criminal for' a Mechanic to
finish any Piece of Work that he is employed to execute,
whatever mifehievous Purposes the Inflrument he makes ie
applied to, after the Artist Delivers it out of his Hands : For
Example, a Gun-Smith makes a Mulket, an Assassin purchases
it, and with it ffioots twenty Men, whose Lives were very va
luable to Society, is the innocent Mechannic to be made an
swerable for the Damage done by the Villain.
My Case is exactly fimiler ; I engraved Plates in North Ca
rolina, Virginia, Pehfylvahia, and the Jerfies, for People who
made a Practice of counterfeiting the Currency of thofe,Pro
vinces ; but I never passed any Bills of Credit fabricated by them.
In the Months of February and March last I was applied to,
by William Hulbert and Daniel Lewes, to engrave two Cop
per Plates, the one to resemble a Three Pounds, the other a
Five Shilling Bill, dated February 16, 1771, of the late Emihiori
bf New-York Bills of Credit ; I compleated the Work, and re
ceived a Reward of Eighteen Pounds when I delivered the Plate
to Hulbert and Lewis o
Afterwards I saw Hulbert strike or impress, about 40 Bills
On the fame Copper Plates that I had engraved.
Daniel Lewes signed the Bills, and his sister, (Miss Polly, an
accomplished yoking Lady) distributed the Ink upon the Plates,
when the Impression was struck, James Budd was ih the Room
when the Work was performed, and Deacon Kelleck came to
Lewis's House with a Watch, in order to exchange it for Bills
of their Manufacture. And; in my Opinion, the Father of
Daniel Lewis was hot ignorant of the illegal Trahfadions of
his Son and Associates.
A cursory Narrative of My Life and Travels is already pub
lished, but since the justifiable Part of my Conduct has met
With so cold a Reception, I will not gratify the depraved Taste
of the Generality of Mankind, with a Recital of Actions that
are unworthy Imitation, and ought to be buried in everlasting
Oblivion.
I have a Daughter by a Woman that I married in New-En
gland, before I set out on my Expedition to Virginia ; but
I never saw her until 1 was confined in this City ; however if
She be as virtuous as some Young Gentlemen in Albany think
her Person amiable, She is very happy. An Union of Hearts
ought always to preceed Uniting of Hands; but this was not
the Case with her Mother and me ; for that Reason I left her,
when She was pregnant with this Girl. I have also a Son by the
Woman that I married in Virginia : If he is as hoheft as he is
intelligent he may make a brilliant Figure in Life.
I am how going to make my Exit ; and if my confeioufnefs
remain perfect, shall know more in a few Hours than Socrates,
Plato, or the greatest Philosophers that ever lived ; even St.
Paul, while he lived on Earth, had but a faint Idea of what I
shall know, when divested of this corporal Body, when the
World of Spirits opens to my View ! But my Knowledge then
cannot alter my State, nor be advantageous to those I leave on
Earth ; therefore I shall endeavour to make the belt Use of it
during my short Stay here.
Fellow Mortals give ear to the Words of a dying Man ! You
who have Children or that are appointed to inftrud them, be
careful to inftil into their tender Minds the Principles of Vir
tue and Honor, vigilantly watch over them, fron ithe Fourth
to twelfth Year of their Age, because the Notion that they
imbibe at thatPeribd of Life are generally eradicable.—Children
who despise their Parents are already anathemifed by the Al
mighty. Young Men who have exhausted their Strength upon
Harlots have defaced the Image of their Maker, and have no
Portion with his Children Those who habituate themselves
to drunkenness are fond of Temporary Madness. A Swearer
is the wilful Murderer of his own Soul, and a covetous Person
having Desires never to be fatisfied can never be happy.
Finally I fervently implore tn^ Almighty to extend his Mercy
to my Soul, pardon the Errors of my Life, and grant that my
Portion may be with theirs who have meaned well, and aded
up to that Meaning. I die in the Presbyterian Perfwafion, and
in Peace with all Mankind. JOSEPH PACKER^
B os t o n, April 29 .
Last Evening arrived here Capt. White and Captain Ack
worth from London.