The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle — Portsmouth, N.H., 1772-06-05 00:00:00, page 2

BOSTO N, faex.
On Saturday Zaft a committee of his Majedy's
council waited on his Excellency the Gover
nor, with the following address in answer to
his speech, viz.
May it please your Excellency,
YXXXWE have taken intd consideration your Excel-
Vty' %'%' lency's speech to both houses, and thank you
O'fy N, for the readiness you express to concur with
v,, ,f, them in every measure confident with your
/%,, f\'\ duty to the King and the welfare of the pro-
XXX^X vince. As from the nature and end of govern
ment that duty and welfare should result from & be inseparably
connected with each other; we hope there will never be any
znilitation between them.
We are obliged to your Excellency for the early care you
took to transmit to the Governor of New-York the proceedings
of the general court relative to the settlement of the line be
tween the two provinces, and hope you will soon receive an
an fwer.
The settlement of that line is for many reasons greatly to be
wished, in particular that all occasion may be taken away of
further disturbances between the borderers. We hope the ans
wer you expe& from the Governor of that province, will ihew
that the necessary preparatory measures on their part, have been
or loon will be taken for the amicable and final adjustment of
that line. .
We are fully in the sentiment intimated by your Excellency
that the royal charter ought to be conformed to in the powers
and privileges granted by it ; but however conformable to the
charter in your Excellency's opinion the convening of the
general court at Cambridge may be,its fitting out of Boston is in
many refpe&s very inconvenient : We therefore pray your
Excellency to remove it to the court house in that town, which
for more than a century has (with very few exceptions) been
uninterruptedly the place of its fitting ; and where, in our o
pinion, it will be more for his Majesty's service and the true
intcreft of the province, the court fliould be held.
To the several publick matters your Excellency expefts to
p I; fe to our consideration, we Shall give the closest attention
and the utmost dispatch.
Li^ Friday the House of Representatives refol
-7 -^ ^ ^on the following answer to the Gover
nor's speech to both Houses at the opening of
the iffon of the general Assembly ; which was
prefentej io his Excellency by Mr. Hancock,
Captain Thomas, Mr. Adams, Mr. Phil
lips and Mr. Gorham, viz.
flay it pleafeyour Excellency,
/^:IHE House of Representatives have deliberately considered
your Speech at the opening of this Session.
Y^^Excellency is pleased to fay, that “ in conformity to
the power and privileges granted by the royal charter, we
have been convened at this place, in order to the election of
cojNoehors for the enfeing year." It is a charter right that a
General Assembly ihall be convened on the last Wednesday in
RR'' annually, for the Choice of Councellors: But the con
vening and holding the General Assembly at Harvard-College
;.• . abridge, is a Measure very grievous to us. And it re-
^ \ .? sreataft degree of Candor to fuppufe it to be for the
gou • :e people, which is the sole End for which the Powers
yest-i in you b,the Charter were granted.
The Tawn House in Boston is the accustomed ancient
Place for holding the General Assembly, and where alone
Provision is made for it. It does not appear to us there was
any Necessity for convening the Assembly in this Place, nor
conceive of any for continuing it here : Without such Necef
f/.the continuing the Assembly in any other Place than the
Town House in Boston, will be a very great Grievance, and
^n undue Exercise of your Power. And as we cannot without
^begreareft Inconvenience proceed to the Consideration of the
public Business in this Place which is very pressing, and great
ly in Arrears by reason of the Prorogations of the last Year, we
are constrained to lay befor e your Excellency our earnest Re
queftthat you would be pleased to remove the Assembly to the
Town-House in Boston ; where we may with the greatest
Advantage and Dispatch tranfad all such public Matters as
are now before us, together with such others, as your Excellency
Ihall propose to our Consideration.
To the Answer of the House of Representatives, his Excel
lency the Governor sent by the Secretary the following
Reply.
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives,
lAgreeI Agree avith you that the Powers wefted in me by Charter are
to be exercised for the Good of the People,and I have made this
the great Obje/? of my Administration, I wife to avoid every
orbing which Jball appear to you to be grievous, and although I
cannot agree wi:h you that unless there be a Necessity of holding
the Court in fame other Place than tbe Town of Boston, it must
therefore be a Grievance to remove it from thence ;yet I will take
tbe Subject Matter of your Message into consideration, and if it
frail not appear to me necessary for bis Majesty's Service and tbe
Good of tbe Province to continue tbe Court in fame other Place
than tbe Town of Boston, I will comply with your Defre and
remove it there. If iejball appear to me to be necessary to conti
nue it in fame otber^ Place although by tbe Constitution I am made
tbe fudge op that Necessity, yet I will endeavour by another Mefo
fa?e to convince you of it, that you may proceed in your Business
with tbe greater Satisfaction.
°'^fr'\^" rid ' e 'T. HUTCHINSON.
We hear from Ipswich, that fin.ee the letting up of the
Alewives into some of the frelh ponds on the branches of that
river to fpawn,,that those fiffi have greatly mulpply'd in that
river- r And that they have drawn the. cod-filh over the bar
much nearer to that place than ever they were known to come
befe.
We hear that Capt. Robert Ball from this , place for the
Weft-Indies, on the 28th of March was wafh'd overboard, with
three others, twoof,which were again wafh'd on board ; one
of whom had his back ,broke, but Cept. Ball and the other
failur were drowned.
A„Houfe at Lancafer, belonging to Capt. Hezekiah Gates,was
lately carfumed by Fire : It sirs broke cut on tbe Roof, but tbe
Person who lived in tbe House taking no Pains to extinguish it,
tbe Fire cot to such a Head before the Neighbours, who were
half a Mile diiant, could come to his Affiance, that bis House
could not be saved, though almost all tbe Goods were.
Last Thursday Night the Dwelling-House of Mr, William
Thompson, in Pond-Street, was broke open and a great num
ber of valuable Articles carried away, among which were a
snver Whiffle, a pair of Gold Sleeve Buttons, Silver flock and
I< . I?dries, several Pieces of printed Linnen, upwards ofa
Duz.fr Shirts, mark'd W, T. two Table Cloths and a Nap-
Sunday died, much lamented by the curious in the phrnno
menan of nature, the noted Chevalier Defcaizeauz, who resided
for thirty years in a garret within the rules of the Fleet. He
has left, by will, his Tragedy of Turnus, between the Mana
gers of our Theatres and King of France.
Advices from Paris mention the Death of the great Helvetius,
Author of that inestimable Work in Three Volumes intitled
L'ESPIRIT. He died possessed of 3,000,000. French Livers,
which he has left to his two Daughters.
March 25, The following paflage is taken from the speech
made by the Hon. Judge Nares, when he passed sentence on
William Morgan, at Gloucester Assize, for the cruel murder of
Miss Jones.-.-" The person whom you have murdered, and
the manner in which the horrid deed hath been committed, are
such aggravations of the crime, that history hath not yet fiur
nifhed us, and, I hope in God, never will again, with a fimu
lar instance of such amazing cruelty, such savage barbarity. It
was no open or secret enemy, no sudden aggravating provocation,
that could excite you to the commission of it ; it was your
friend and your neighbour, and who was, at that very instant,
breathing out from her benevolent heart the kindest wiffies
for your fafety and preservation. In short, you have been that
unheard-of Ruffian, that hath murdered such youth and beauty,
such innocence and virtue, as every other part of the human
species would have flown to the protection of, and died to have
preserved. "
Some workmen who were employed in the ruins of the Ab
bey at St. Edmundibury, found a leaden coffin, made after the
antient custom, exactly the shape of the body. This bad been
enclofod in an oak case, which by length of time was decayed,
but the lead remained quite perfect. Upon close examination,
it was found to be the body of Thomas Beaufort, Duke of
Exeter, uncle of Henry V, and dedofited in 1427. On open
ing the lead, the fldh, hair and toe and hand nails, were as
perfeft and found as tho' he had not been dead fix hours./
A surgeon in the neighbourhood made an incision on the
breaft,and declares the fleffi cut as firm as in a living fubje&,&
there was even an appearance of blood ; multitudes of people
were present and saw the fame. At this time the corpse was
not in the least noisome, but being exposed to the air it pre
sently became putrid and offenfive. The workmen coming
early on Friday morning, resolved to make a prize of the lead,
and therefore cut out the corpse, tumbled it into a hole near
at hand, and threw the dirt on it, The lead was conveyed
diredly to the plumbers, and there fold for twenty-two Killings.
Thus, in Shakefpear's phrase, was a great man knocked about
the sconce, with a dirty shovel.
One of the most extraordinary causes was heard this week
in the court of Chancery,that perhaps ever came before a Chan
cellor. Some few years since Gen. Stanwix, his lady, & daugh
ter were all loft ( by the finking of the vessel ) in their passage
from Dublin to Parkgatc. The lady was bis second wife,
r j SALE M, June z.
Sunday, Afternoon, some Person or Persons broke into
the Governor s House at Milton, while his Excellency and Fa
,%^" , tendi °g divine Worship, and carried off a valuable
° ' Several fufpe&ed Vagrants were pursued soon
after Meeting was over,and two or 3 were taken up on their
° ft °? On Examination, one of them made some
Confeffion of the Theft, and told where the Watch was con
cealed, which was accordingly found : after which they were
committed to Goal.
LOND O N, March 15.
We hear that a Gentleman, who has lately made a voyage
round the world, is firmly of opinion, that the Aurora frigate
was cast away near the Illa of Abraham, which is situated
Eastward of the Cape of Good Hope ; and is determined, on
his intended voyage, to search that, and some other adjoining
Inlands, in hopes of making, amongst his other ufeful difeove
ries, that most important one of the Crew of the Aurora.
PROVIDENCE, May 9 .
A Correspondent informs us, that an eight
Year old Ewe, belonging to Mr. Josiah Stone,
0/ Johnson brought lad Week 3 Lambs.
At a rear old fee brought 2, .at two Year old 2,
at three rears old 3, at four Years 3, at five
Years old 3, at fix Years old 3, at seven Years
old 2, and at eight Years old 3 ; in alias.
CHARLESTOWN, (Soutb-Cdrolina,) May 4,
Letters from North-Carolina informs us, that some wicked
and malicious Persons had, in the Night of &reh :6th, wil
fully set on File and confirmed to Ashes, the Till-house and all
the Utensils thereto belonging ; also, a large quantity of Flax,
the Property of MrJohn McGee, Esq; of Guildford County
in that Province. The fame Gentleman had his Barn, with a
large Quantity of Wheat, and his Stable, burnt some Months
before ; His Excellency Governor Martin has issued a Pro
clamation, offering a Reward of Fifty Pounds Proclamation
Money, for -apprehending the Perpetrators of those horrid
Crimes, fuuppofed to be some of the desperate Outlaws, who
it is thought, were the Gang that stabbed the Horses of one of
the associate Judges and one of the Attornies, a few Weeks
ago, when going the Circuit.
His Majesty's Ship Gibralter,. commanded by Sir Thomas
Rich, Baronet, arrived here on Friday last ftom Boston, and is
to continue some Time on this Station.
kin, mark dl. T. several Holland Caps, Muffin Cravats, and
Tape Stocks, several Yards of bewlafs and brown Sheeting,
China Tea Pots, Cups, Saucers, Cream Pot, Sugar Pot, and
a number of other Things. A Reward of TEN DOLLARS
is offered for the Discovery of the Thieves.
Extras of a LETTER from Newry jn Ireland, dated
March 31, 1772.
"rrHE North of Ireland is in the greatest Confufion it ever
1 was since King James's Time ( oceafidned, it is said,
by 'he Landlords raffing their Rents so high that the Poor can
not live, by some new Laws for enclosing the Common Lands
^P 0 ' 1110 ^) There are, it is supposed, in each of
of the Northern Counties, about 15,000 Men who call them
selves Hearts of Steel, assemble in the Evening at the Sound of
Horns, march in the Night through the Country, take all the
Arms and Ammunition they can find, go among the great Gen
tlemen and Land-holders, oblige them to swear never to let
their Land at above twelve Shillings ah Acre, destroy all the
Leafei taken at a higher Rent, and oblige the Landholders to
gtve new ones, that Rate. All that join them swear to be
"'^ and Hearts of Steel,with some other Articles
which are kept Secret ; each Party has a Poft-Office for their
Letters : the whole Army of the Kingdom both Horse and Foot,
" e a ^ ln ° them, but cannot subdue them, though many
of their out Scouts, and all Persons that are fufpe&d or have
ever been heard to talk of the Hearts of Steel, have been ta
^ P "'° n> . f ° thatthe G ° als are as fu ll as they can
hold, and the Country is lying perfectly waste, for not one La
bourer is to be had, except old Men and Women : God only
knows how tae Matter will end.
Ind the Daughter was by the firrt wife. At his Second mare
riage, it was stipulated in the settlement, that if the General
survived his lady, the personal estate was to defeend in such a
line ; if the Lady survived the General then in such a line ; and
if the daughter survived both of them, then in such a line.
There were claimants in the cause under the (uppofition of
each of these circun -aces. The party whom the General's
survivorship was to : benefited, contended, that the Grip be
ing loft in tempestuous weather, it was more than probable ''
he was upon deck, ar rat the ladies, (as is almdif ev^r .
case in these fituatio down in the cabbin, and of eburfe
( so confined ) were lubjeft to a more early lufs of their lives
than the General ; who as a man of arms and courage, was,
they asserted, more able, and more likely, to struggle with death
than women, and in which he might probably have been assist
ed by broken mafls, and other parts of the rigging. Those
who claimed on the fuppofal of the wife furving her husband,
contested, that the General was old, and consequently feeble -
by no means strong enough to resist the ffiocks of such a terri!
i'° '"' "'" considerabl y younger, and (though
of the weak sex) proportlonably stronger than her husband
and, fond of the General, not improbably, was with him at th^
Th e l"7 'V every &eafonable fuppofiti on survived him.
The third party advanced, that the daughter was younger, ana
r r';, c ° n , tutlon than either the General orhis wife ;
that undoubtedly the uncommon mutual affection of the two
latter rendered them insensible of their own refpe&ive danger
'” '!'."/" ',^', each ° thcr > so that jt was on the fide of
prob^ility that they funk down in death together : that the
daughter on the contrary, though a dutiful, and perhaps affec
tionate child, yet being fhll younger than the mother-in-law
and having no such violent attachment to any second person, as
the General and his Lady reciprocally had for each other ;
and being too from the circumstance of youth, to be supposed
u T e un ,"! n ^ to P^t with life than either father or
ther, the probability of being the last survivor was infinitely in
The '"" " not > et pronounces.
Chancellor recommended it to the parties to comp,
mtfe the matter, or if they p er sist ed in their f eperate c]aim,'de
clared he would call in the a ssist ance of s ome of th , j ud '
"'""" ° ffer " by the o^ifh 0 ^ ifh Counci:
D K D^' has bee ° talked ° fin ver y hi ß h words by
lord Rochford to Baron Dieden, and his Loroffiip has been
heard to fay that it will be productive of no very pfcfing con _
sequences. b
April 1, jn Norwich some hundreds of familes of the poor
Weavers and Woolcombers are in a Carving condition, having
but little work to do.
Extract of a letter from Caithnefs in Scotland, March 4.
''A very melancholy accident hath happened in this coun
try : As a great company, to thg number of sixty-six men,
' funeral to a church-yard on the other fide of
Loch Shein, in the Shire of Sunderland, which was then frozen
over, they agreed to pass over the ice, which unluckily ga\
way, and they all periled."
c" 18 ', 'ha! n ° ]efs tham fift y Divorce Bills have passed the
and tbat an hundred more are preparing
Many people are furpriied, that though
the lightening fell upon Mr. Whitefields
tabernacle, it fliould have killed only ont
man, and that thole escaped who were al
most in immediate contact with him. Tl,^
wonder, however, would cease, were
to be informed of many equally narrow es
capes upon similar occasions. Mr. Monnier,
a French electrician, relating that as five
peasants were passing thro' a corn field, near
Frankfort upon the Order during a thunder
florin, the lightning fell, and killed the firft,
the third, and the filth ofthein, without in
juring the second or the fourth.
S M OU T H, June 5,
In the Connecticut Courant of April 28,
are long Accounts relative to the arbitrary
Proceedings of the New-Yorkers with the
Inhabitants of sundry Towns formerly grant
ed by theGovernment of New- Hampshire,
but are now in the Jurisdiction of New-
York. At Allington, it is said, that on the
22d of March, in the Dead of the Night,
being Lord's Day Night, about 12 or 15
Scotchmen made an Assault upon the House
of Mr. Recompence Baker, broke open the
Door, entered the House, and awoke laid
Baker, who feeing a Number of Men armed
with Broad Swords, Cutlasses, and Pittols,
fled to the Gable End of his House & leap
ed out on a Bank of Snow ; however they
took him and secured him, and afte
cut him with their Swords across his
and cut one Arm near half off"; after this
they barbarously cut Baker's Wife across the
Head and Neck, and a Gafli in her Cheek,
and likewise cut the Arm ofa Boy of Bak
er's of 12 Years old. They then bound
Baker, and intended to carry him tp New-
York, having been indi&ed as a Rioter,
(though it is said he is a Man well efleemed
in the Country) and under that Pretence
they took him ; But the Country People
pursued the Banditti, and retook Baker, &
returned him to his House, where he is like
to get well of his Wounds.——lt is said
their Orders were to take him dead or alive,
but the Country are so enraged, if they
make another Trial for him, they will be
sent back dead or alive. They fay the
Yorkers Attempts to turn People out'of
their Possessions, have alarmed the Country,
and the Writer of the Account fays, that Vo
lunteers from the Bay Government woull
not allow of that,