The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle — Portsmouth, N.H., 1773-07-09 00:00:00, page 2

The Duke of Cumberland Packet, Captain
Goodrich, is arrived at New-York, in 5
Weeks and 3 Days from Falmouth ; Ad
vices by the Packet are to the 6th of May.
A Letter trom London by the May Pack
et mentions, "That a Bill to allow a
drawback of the duties of customs, on the
exportation of TEA to any of his Majesty's
colonies or plantations in America ; and to
impower the Commissioners of the Treasury
to grant licences to export Tea duty-free, was
read in Parliament the 30th of April, and
was ordered to have a second reading."
LONDON, April 7, 1773.
This Evening the famous Mr.' Wildman
will let any Person in Company cut off the
Head of a living Cock, Hen, or any other
Fowl & he will immediately join the Head
to the Body again in the Presence of the
Company, and the Fowl shall be alive, and
perfectly well as before the Operation.— He
tells the Ladies and Gentlemen's Thoughts
by several Methods never attempted before.
He lets any Person take a Card and run a
Fork through it on the Table, in order to
hold it faft, but he will change it in one Mo
ment without ever touching it.—He lets the
whole Company fee two Cards on the Table
and any Ladies or Gentlemen covering the
fame with two Pieces of Money, he engag
es to change both the Cards without ever
touching them or the Money.—He lets se
veral Ladies and Gentlemen chute Cards and
shuffle them into what Part of the Pack they
please, and lay theCards on the Table them
selves, and he will take all the Cards from
the Top of the Pack with the Point of his
Sword, without ever touching them with his
Fingers.—He lets any Person take a Card
and put it into what Part of the Pack they
please, and it instantly disappears, notwith
standing they have all theCards in their own
Hand ; but if any Perlon chufe to bring a
few Nutts in their Pocket, and crack one of
them, the Card will be found in the Middle
of the Kernel.—And fifty other different as
tonishing Deceptions both with Cards and
Money.
April 22. It is said that hoop fellies for
wheels, lately invented, will annually pre
vent the consumption of a million of ash
Trees facrificed for that purpose. The land
at present appropriated to these purposes tur
ned into arable, would produce corn for 50,-
000 inhabitants. Ought not these wheels that
save threefourths of the timber now continu
ed, to be patronized by the Royal Family ?
Yesterday at Mr. Christie's sale of pictures
a very singular circumflance happened : Five
following lots of pictures, two of which were
painted by Claude Lorrain, and three by Ni
cholas Poussin, including the finding of Mo
ses, were fold for 26781. 10s.
Capt. Duke, of the Providence, arrived in
the Downs from Liibon, in 20 days, gives
an account that the Cornwall Packet, Webb,
being on her Passage from Tenerifffor Cork,
having two Spanish sailors on board, they
murdered the Mate, & threw him overboard,
the Capt. being below, and hearing a noise,
was going on deck, but feeing the villians
ready to murder him,retired into the cabbin,
and a little boy with him, and with a mus
ket fliot one of them, and confined the other,
and at last got to Lisbon, after being many
days at sea in this distress.
Capt. Bernard from Jamaica, informs, that on the 21st of
May a Schooner with 21 Puncheons of Rum on Board, belong
ing to the §hip Either, Capt. Harvey of London, was going from
Green-Island to Savannah Le Mar, when she was boarded by a
Boat with four Spaniards and three Frenchmen, armed, who af
ter disputing what they should do with the Englishmen, gave
them the Boat to go ashore in, and went off with the Schooner.
The Particulars of a Party of Creek-Indians being cut off by
the Cho&aws, as inserted in a Georgia Paper of the zd. ult. are
thus related : Twenty Creeks went on an Expedition against the
Cho&aws, and were so bold as to penetrate among their Towns,
where lying in wait near one of their watering Places, they saw
two Cho&aws coming to fetch Water, at whom they fired, and
killed one of them, the other made his Escape and alarmed the
Town, the Inhabitants of which immediately ran to Arms, and
went in Pursuit of the Enemy : The Creeks, finding themselves
difcovered,madeoffas fall as they could ; but mistaking the Road
they went straight upon another Town of the Choctaws, which
,Ifo being alarmed, they had no other Choice left than to fell their
Lives as dear as they could ; they fought till Night, and most of
their Number being killed, the Rest finding themselves cut off
from every other Means of Escape, went into a Pond that was
near, and kept themselves under Water to their Mouths and
Noses j the Choctaws, in Order to find them out, cut Canes
with (harp Ends, went pushing and poking about in the Water
PHILADELPHI A, June 2t.
by which Means they found them all but one,who notwhhßanb
ding he was pushed and pricked two or three Times, withstood.
the Pain, and after theChodtaws had gone with thole they found,
made his Escape, and came home alone with the bad News.
N E W-Y O R K, June 17.
On Wednesday Night lad Week arrived
the Brig Friendship, Capt. Philip Weftcott,
and <m Saturday the Ship Pallas, Capt. Tho's
Holt, and Henry, Capt. George Metcalf, in
6 Weeks from Plymouth ; which Ships, to
gether with the Budenel, Capt. Christopher
Hudson, came as Transports with a Regi
ment of his Majesty's Royal Welch Fuzileers,
under the Command of Col. Bernard. No
Troops that ever came to America made a
better Appearance than these.—The 15th
of May Capt. Holt spoke a Brig from the
Streights, with Salt, bound to St. John's very
leaky.
Captain Moore, arrived from via Phila
delphia. informs us, that rice keeps obstina
tely at 65 (hillings that currency, when alas
in England (the land of famine) the price
is only 12s. 6d. sterling per 100. There
lately arrived in South-Carolina, from the
Coast of Africa, a fpfightly reinforcement
of between 3 and 4 thousand negroes, which
has railed bills two per cent, myriads more
of the fame fraternity are daily expected,
and those will increase the premiums. A
series of dry weather has railed apprehen
sions that the firft cutting oflndigo is spoiled,
and the planters will be obliged to sow again.
The Negroes fold from 300 to 350 and 3801.
each. The Shippers of rice to London it is
feared will be fufferers.
N E W-Y O R K, June 24.
We have received by several Albany Vessels, the melancholy
News that Sir William Tohnfon, Baronet, lay dangerously ill at
his House; That last Tburfday Evening, the large elegant House
of his Son in Law, Col, Guy Johnson, was Bruck, and set on Fire
in two Places by Lightning ; and there being none but Servants
at Home, (as the Col. and his Lady attended Sir William) the
House and all it contained ( except one Bed) were entirely con^
fumed.
Many valuable Manuferipts and Drawings cf great Moment
to the Public are loft.
A Letter from Glasgow dated April 5, to a Gentleman in
Virginia, gives a most dismal Account of the State of Trade,
Manufactories, and Business of all Kinds, in Scotland, occasioned
by the late Failures in England, and in Holland ; that a gene
ral Distrust, among all Ranks, prevails ; that Mechanicks are
without Employments ; a numerous Poor in the utmoftDiftrefs ;
Trade in all it's Branches on the Decline, particularly the To
bacco Trade, by which those concerned have had immense Los
ses, as the Importers of Tobacco cannot fell it at near the firft
Cost.
On the 7th of April last, his Majesty by an Order in Council,
was pleased to direct all the Governors and Commanders in
Chief in North-America not to issue any Warrants for Surveying
Lands, paP any Grants of Land, or grant any Licence's to pur
chase any Lands from the Indians, without his Majesty's ex
press Directions, until his Majesty's royal Will and Pleasure
should be further lignified, except to such Officers and Soldiers
as are entituled to Grants by the Royal Proclamation of OCiubcr
1763.
HART FORD, June 21.
Left Thursday 2 fat Oxen, belonging to Tho's
Pitkin, Esq; of Bolton, /landing under a Tree in
a Storm of Thunder, were both killed by a Flaft
oj Lightning.
On Monday last his Excellency font the following
MESSAGE to both Houses, viz.
"Gentlemen of the Council., &f oftbeHoufe of Representatives,
THE Secretary has laid before me a Number of engrossed
Bills, in which you have made an Alteration in the usual
Form of inserting the Year of the King's Reign.
I am not only averse to Innovations, unless a manifeft Reason
Can be given, but I am also restrained by my InftruClions fiom
consenting to any Bill of an unusual and extraordinary Nature,
without a fufoending Clause.
I must desire you to re-confider this Matter, and to cause your
Bills to be prepared in a Form which has not only been conflant
ly praaifed in this Government, but! have Reason to think in
most Parts of his Majesty's Dominions.
Province-Houle, T. HUTCHINSON.
June 28, 1773.
To which the HOUSE immediately sent the
following Answer.
May it pleaje your Excellency,
THE House have read your Meffagejuft now hid before them
and cannot but wonder that yon should confider the Bills
that have passed the two Houses as of an extraordinary Nature,
merely because the words expressive of the Year of the King's
Reign are in plain English instead of the Roman Language as
usual, or that your Excellency should think yourfelf restrained by
an InftruCtion from confentine to them.
It is immaterial to the House, and therefore if your Excellency
thinks proper to order the Bills to be laid before us, we will, to
gratify your Excellency, recede from that which you are pleased
to Bile an Innovation.
Tuesday last the Great and General Court or Assembly of this
Province was prorogued to Wednesday the if hos Sept, next,
his Excellency the Governor having firft signed his Consent to
the following Engrofs'd Bills, which passed this Session, viz.
An Aft for supplying the Treasury with the Sum of Tbirteen
Thousand Pounds, to te thence issued for the difebarging the
Debts of Government,
Tofton, July r
, Extract of a LETTER from a Gentleman in Granada,
dated May 20, 1773, to bis Frieno in this Town.
"T Expe& to go into the French Method again, as our Mofca
vadoes do not turn to good Account ; belides, we have two
of the greatett Enemies that can possibly attack the Stigar-Plan
ters. The yellow Blast of Antigua arid the Borer, unconquerable
Enemies I Lafl Year I made on this Estate 334 Hoglheads of Su
gar, and this Year only 135 : there was a Profpea (last August)
of making 42® Hoglheads. Those Infeas to Windward, &the
pernicious Ant to Leeward, I tear will ruin the Sugar Estates.
Some are gone upon Indico, forne upon Cotton, and many
upon Coffee: I began a Plantation of the last Commodity
about three Years and half ago, and it thrives very well : altbo'
that Article is so low at present, that it's difeouraging to perse
vere ; so that the great and pleasing Plans that were formed'
fume Years ago, appear falling to Nought. The pamper'd Plan
ter, who, a while paft,intended to be a rich Man, must begin as
it were anew 1 after fervjng two Apprenticefllips I must begin
and learn the Cultivation of INDICO, for if our Calamities
continue, that Commodity muff feed our hopes. I tremble for
feme cf the Planters, who are not upon the best Footing : their
exorbitant Debts ; the Failures at Home, and every melancholy
Circumstance conf,ire to render the Profpea gloomy ; and must
reduce man> to the lowest Sphere in Life. Our politic. Folks
seem to be very quiet, so much so, that I heat Nothing about
them : even the Assembly (compos'd chiefly ofthe French Par
ty) are doing Nothing for themselves or the Public. Scarcity of
Money, and a greater Scarcity of Confidence, has put many, and
will put more People to their best Shifts, and there is Reason to
fear that will not keep them up." #
He was in the 16th Year of bis Age, and was drowned as
he was bathing in the River. His Remains were carried to
Boston, and refpeafully interred this Day, attended by a vast
Concourse of Relatives and Friends, with the President, Profef
fors and Tutors of the College ; his Class in their accademical
Vests, walking in Procession before the Corps.
Unhappy Youth-—when in bis rf n g Morn,
When rosy Cheeks bis failing Brew adorn,
While be appear'd all blooming and all gay,
Raentlefs Fate then foateb'd bis Soul away :
Weep ye bis Frieds- -your'mournful Loft deplore,
Dapbnis is dead, bis -Beauty's now no more,
Surpriz'd-- Beheld the tender Biffm s fade,
For now, 'tis nip't by horrid Death's cold Shade.
Intern, July 6.
Last Tuesday, in the Afternoon, several Clouds arose direAly
over this Place, highly charged with the electric Fluid, and
produced very severe Flashes of Lightning, attended with most
tremendous Peals of Thunder. The Effefts were afterwards
seen in 8 erg different Places within the Limits of this Town,
viz, a Brig and aSebooner, laying off in the Harbour at Anchor,
and a Sloop at one of the Wharves, had their Masts shivered;
a Warehouse on Capt, Derby s Wharf was struck ; and at the
upper Part of the Town, a large Elm Tree was also Bruck, and
a Cow killed ; the Efte&s of this furpiizing Element were also
seen in two or three Places in South-Fields.
DIED.] At Boston, Mis. Margaret Sebastian, Mr, Macqua
neer. Mr. Lawrence. Mrs. Polley, ^ 78. A Daughter of
Mr. Michael Hart, ^. 12. Miss Lucy Bradstreet, TE. 68.
------On bis Pallage from New-Providence to Boston, Mr.
Shrimpton Hutchinson, jun. Ah 18.
At his Father's in Norton, the Rev'd GEOR GE WHEE
TEN, of Claremont, in the twenty.fecond Year ofhis Age, and
second of his Ministry.
An AA for apportioning and affemng a "Tax of Twenty Tlou
fond fix Hundred and 7 wentj-foe Pounds : and also for assessing
a Tax of Seven 7 boufand and seven Hundred and twenty. Pounds
fifteen Shillings paid the Representatives for their Travel and
Attendance in the General Court in the Years One Thousand
seven hundred and seventy, One thousand seven Hundred and
Seventy-one, & one Thousand seven Hundred & seventy two, &c.
An Ai!t for regulating Lamps already set up, or that may
hereafter be let up, for enlightening the Streets, Lanes, Alleys
or Passage Ways in the Tdwn of Boston, and to prevent th:
breaking or otherwise damnifying the fame, and also establishing
the Method for paying the Expenses that may arise in support
ing and maintaining said Lamps.
Also Twelve other AAs, of a more private Nature.
CAMBRIDGE, July 3, 177^
Last Tburfday was unfortunately drowned here, Mr, John
Paddock, a Student of Harvard College, and Son of Adino
Paddock, Efa; of Boston.--.-In the Short Space of Time which
he lived, he difeovered an a&ive Genius, and in all Probability
bad he lived, would have proved a fupeiiacive Blessing to Man
kind; his Temper was a Compound of Guodnefs and Benevo
lence: He was affable and generous Admired by his Cotem
poraries, and by all who had the Happiness cf knowing him:
His few Days were well improved to a singular Advantage;
while he had all theVihues without any of theVices of Youth ;
but in the Midst of the fond Hopes which his Relatives and
Friends had conceived for him, Death, in an unexpected and
unthoughtof Hour, hurl'd away his immortal Sual to Band be
fore his Judge, without a moment's Time to prepare. Thu#
came he in such an awful and surprising Manner to his Change;
in whom Innocence itfelf centered, and where human Depravity
was scarce perceptible : He has in the Blooming Dawn of Life,
left lamenting Parents, a weeping Society and mourning Ac-'
quaintance,
PORTS MOU TH, July 9 .
Since our last, came to Hand the following Character of
that worthy Patriot and Friend to bis Country, Col. JOHN
GAGE, Esq; which may be as an Addition or Correction of
last Week.
ON Friday the 25th of June the Hon. JOHN GAGE, Esq;
died at Dover of a fu, den paralytic Disorder, in the pzd
"Year of his Age, Having distinguished himfelf as a zealous
Friend of the Liberties of Mankind, and the most important In
terests of bis Country, he enjoyed the principle Honours which
it was capable of affording him ; being divers Times elected to
serve the Town in its interior Business and the Province in the
General Assembly ; and being commissioned by the Government
as a Justice of the Peace for above thirty Years past, and Colonel
of the 2d Regiment of Militia, one of the most exposed Regi
ments during the late Wars. At the Eftablilhment of the Coun
ty of STRAFFORD,he was appointed the firft JUDGE of Pro
bate a few Months before his Death, and^hadjuft entered upon
the Duties of that important Office. His benevolent Difpofitiom
and the Affability of Lis Department toward all, gained him the
Esteem of his numerous Acquaintance ; and be enjoyed in a pe
culiar Degree the Veneration of his Children. His Funeral was
attended on the Lord's Day following (the Season rendering it ne
ceflary) by all the principle Gentlemen, and an immense Con
course of People of all Ranks and Profeffions , in this and the
neighbouring Towns.
----Suddenly at Hingham, the Wife ofDeacon Cuffiing,
----At Grafton, Mrs. Mary Bachellor, /£, so.