The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle — Portsmouth, N.H., 1771-03-15 00:00:00, page 1

.. Messieurs FowLes,
IT is a notorious and melancholly Truth,
that Mankind are generally much more
solicitous to provide for the Body, than
~the Mind, although the former is of short
“Duration, and the latter Immortal.—This
Jamazing Stupidity, is in some Measure ac
~counted for by being constantly surround
ed by Temporal Things which strike the
Senses, and spiritual Things are only seen
by the Eye of Faith, or Reason, which is
very dim in most Minds. But ’tis not my
present Design principally to carry the
Reader’s Views to another World, but to
Jhew the great Advantage of Improving
the Mind with regard to the present. All
Persons have a great many leisure Hours,
which if improved in Reading the most in
ftrutive Books, would furnifh their Minds
with such Knowledge as is neceflary in
. their Stations, to render them ufcful to
_ themfelyes, and Bleflings to the Warld...
. 'The ample Field of Sciences, is as fruitful
v as it is sarge, and at once gives Profit and
{ Delight to all the wife Travellers therein.
2 Every Man should study the Science that
is his calling, if he would reap Profit and
Pleasure theteby ; the Tradesman, read
those T'reatifes that relate to his particular
Business ; the Farmer, Husbandry, &c..
In this Way,. wife Men grow wiser, and
colle&t what past Ages have learnt by Ex:
perience, which added to their own, is a
very great Advantage to Persons in every
Station and Imployment in Life,
- No Men fuffer mote by this negleét of
Study, than the Farmers ; they vainly im
agining that they learnt the whole Artin
Youth, negleét all further Improvement,
and think reading Books on the Subject
needless ; whereas no Sceince is capable of
greater Improvement, or is of equal Im
portance to Mankiand.—The wife Romans
esteemed Husbandry, the most ufeful and
honourable Employment, and the greatest
Encomium that could be given a Maa. ia
Rome, was, ‘“‘that he cultivated his owni
spat. of Ground well.””—The most illus
trious Sepators applied themselves to it,
and their Di&ators were taken from the
Plough. — They wifely considered that
" Husbandry, was the criginal Fountain of
Wealth ; and thatany People who depend
upon the Manufaétures and Produce of
Foreign Countries, will always be Poor,
while those who live upon the Manufac
tures' and Produce of their own, will be
- opulent. i :
The small Expence of necessary Books,
will be no objeétion to the above Propo
sal, when the great Advantages that will
accrue thereby are considered ; for many
whe now . Jlive inPoverty, might raise them
selves to Affluence, if they knew how to
improve the Advantages they enjoy. ~—.
Many profitable Manufactures might be
garried on, and barren Lands turned into.
fruitful Fields, if the Knowledge of those
“Fhings-were generally kaown. ;
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Friday March 15,1771
WILLIAMSBURG, Fameary 24.
We are infermed from North Caroling, that the
Aflembly of that province have voted the Regu'a.
tore, rebels ; and that Herman Hu%unds’, one of the
sflembly, and chief ringieader, iscommitred to goal.
Fan. 31. . By & veflel arrived at Norfo'k from
Gibraliar, in a flort peflage, we have advice that
the Spaniards had fortified Cadiz with great expe
ditien, and maerched sixteen thcufend treep: into its
reighbourheod ; and that they weré putting the
wiisle kingdom in a pofturé of defence.” Mr. Duff
. the Britith Consul stCadiz, was expefled at Gibraitar,
' CHARLESTOWN, Sowth Carolina, Jan. 7.
Letters by the last Shipsinform us, that Mr. Gor
den, an eminent Counféelior in Ireland, is appoinced
Chief [uftice of this province, :
On Sunday last 8 veflel arrived here from Belalt,
“with abeut 160 paflengers on board, in order to fet
tie in this provace. The fame veflel put 53 pal
feagersathore at Georgia, deflincd for that provicce.
dan, 28, The detachment of the 31st regiment,
under the commind of Capt. Creéfton, which atrived
‘here some time apo from Pensacola, [ailed this mora
ing for St. Augustine, to join the regiment now in
garrison there., : pith s -
Six of the guns which were obliged to be thrown
overboard from the ship Carysfort, when aground
near Caps Florida, bave been taken vp by feme
Bahamian wreckers, and are arrived here from New
Previdence, being claimed there for his Majesty ;
and it is thought that the others will ltkewife be re
covered.
We are desired by the Merchants of Jamaica to
givgenetice, That the trade of that iflind being grest
ly burt by the impartation of base and light coived
cut money, the legifl ture there have thought it an
object of such consequence, that a law was pafled [Aft
msnth to prohibit such importation, whereby it is
declared to be Felong, witbout bencfir of Clergy.
Jan. 2g Tuesday the 15th [eftant, the Hon. the
Cemmens Heufe of Aflembly of this Pravince met
herw, pursuant to their Prorogstion in Augult ; and.
on Wedaefday the 1 6th, his Honor the Lieat. Go
vernor was pleafcd to open theSeflion witha Speech :
In which he recommended to them, the cate of the
town with regard te fire ; a law for the meoring of
Thipping and erefing & light at the barr ; the ere&-
ing, of {emiuaries of lesrning ; repairing the fort fi
catiens, &c. :
On the 23d, the Commons returned an anfwer,in
which they fay,they’ll give attention to the laws With
regard te fire ; to the mooring of veflels ; seminaries
of learning, &c s
PHILADELPHUA, February 14. :
This winter lias beeti the' meft remarkable ever
koowe these many years, it having been so very
mild that we have hardly hsd the appesrance of ice
in eur river, till lat Mondsy morning, when it was
pearly covered wiili ice of o' inch thick, which al:
most disappeared on Tuelday ; bt yeßtorday it. was
neatly froze from fide te fide. '
On Friday might, between eight and nine o’clock,
the wind soon after histed to N W. and about 3
or 4 in the morning, j§ blew exceflive hard from S.
E. atiended with hesvy rain, which we bear, has
done much damisge in the country,by blowing dowa
fences, &c, We had another squall of wind from 8.
to S. W. about ten o’clock on Sunday morning since
which it has blown pretty conflant to W. & N. W,
Feb. 25. Our River is so full of ice, that all na
vigation is at a fland,. |
N EW.Y O R K, Febroary 21.
On Saturday last his Excellency the Right Hom
JOHIN, Earl of Dusmors, gave his Assent te 37
AQs, pafled this Scflion ; among which-are the two
following, An A& for emitting the sum of £ 120,
odo im Bills of Credit to Be put out:on Loan, and to
apptopriate.ikia Intereit arifiog thereon to the Pay
ment of the Debts of this Coloay, and to such pub
lick. Ex'gencies 83 the Circumstances of this Colony
may from Time to Time render v ceflary.
An A& for making a farther Provision of Tave
Thousand pounds, for farnithing his Majefly’s Troops
quartered in this Colony with Neceflaries for aYear,
Edmond Barke; Esq; remains Agsnt for the Pre.
LERRANN O N A T\, BN £ ,"(:r 7e* s e ;,"'(‘/ iy N
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DBLS ,1> RET s e AT
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FOREIGN Anp DOMESTIC.
NO; 752 Rttt
JO. Weeks since this Paper
. vince of New York, the last Vote of the House, in
his Favour, remaiging unaltered. Hu bat o fala'y
_ of 5001. par Aandm, from the Day of hisfi.lt Ap
pointment. ‘This Gentleman’s diftinguilhed Abil
ities and firm Aitachmeént to the American Cause,
will, no doubt rendar his appointment very difugree
able to our Esemies at Home. = .
GRENADA, in the Weft Indies, Nov. 23.
-~ By a flag of truce arrived yesterday from Marti
nico we learn, that in cenfequence of the differernces
which have arifén betwixt the English and Spéniards,
every precaution has been taken far the security of
that island, and that lately en the sppearance of a
fleet, which afterwatds proved te be a few merch
artmen, bound té Dominica, the alarm was given,
and the treop: ordered to be on the Qu# Vive.
0 QUEBEG, Jeo. 22, -
Extral? of a Iﬁrtr from & Gentleman at Bevtbier;
to bir Friend in 15is City, dated the 14th Inflant,
“ I arriv’d here last Ssturday Morning, after
much Fetigue.—On Thurf{day last I found the Body
of Donal Morrifen, in the Parish of Bai Du Fevre,
about 12 Leagues frem this Place, who was most
inhumanly murdered on Sunday Morning the 3oth”
Ult, by one Jean Bsptifte Dufourt, Native of France
by a Blow he gave him on the right fide of blt
Head, with a stone of 4 Pound and Half weight,
which funk into his Skull —The Body was carried
by the atrecious Mutderer, om the fame Nighe, in
to a 8 Woed behind hisHaoufe, where he inter’d it, &-
bout two and a Half Feet under Ground : Myfelf
and anether Person spprehended the Murderer, who
fhew'd us where he had conceal’d the Decess’d’s
‘Merchandize, for the Sake of gaining which and thes
Cash the Decras’d had sbout him (of which [94-
17 o has been found) he perpetrated his- wicked
D:fign ; bealfo deliver'd the flone with which he
did the Execution.— He is sent Priforier toMantreal,
where no doubt he'will be punithed according te
‘his Crime.” s -
. MoNTREAL, January 14, 1771. The Face of
Affairy is now grestly changed. Dancing, Feasting
and Meriment, go fwirgingly reund. The greatest
Harmory and the best Understanding now subsists
beiween both Sexes. The Blsck and White ming
ling tegather in NoQurnal Aflemblies form an un
'diﬂgingui(hed Band, where, throwing off the painful
Restraint: of Ceremony, cur Ycuth fresly usbend
their Minds from the Labour cf the Dsy, by indulg
ing themselves in Tinecent and inoffenfive Diversion,
A smart young Licutenant t’other Dtpy ( according
to the gallant- Made ) {sluted his Partner with,
« How do you feel E... this Morning after your last
. night’s Fatigue " So much for Montreal News,
NEW-7ORK, February 20. _
We bear that on Monday last, Mr. Fobn Lambirt,
of Ihis City, who for feweral Years bad been o flißed
woith the Stone, bad a large one, wiighing bitween
four and five Ounces extraßeds ( by Doßlor Fones )
and swrare told be is in a promising Way,—it i 1 re
markable that the Stome was form'd upen @ Bullet,
avbich wayr lodged in bis Bladder by a Gun [hot
W ound receiv’d above Tavemty five Years ago,
[N. B. The above remarkable Stone, awbich was
Jeen By the Printer bereof is Jomewbai of an oval
Form, a little flattened om two Sides, the Side =wbick
lodged undermiofl, almofl as Jmooth. as if polifh’d, the
upper fide rough and full of Knoby like large graim of
Grawel. A small Part of the Bullet appears on the
wnder Side, mot cover’d by the Stome. ) "
E the Subscribers Commiflioners: appointed
w by the Hon'ble Joun WeNTworTH, Esq;
Judge-of the Prebate of Wills for the Prevince of
New Hampthire, to receive and examine the Claims
of the several Crediters to the Estate of Mr, Joseph
Mason, late of Epsom in said Province, Yeoman,
deceased, represented Insolvent, and fix Months be
ing aliowed for that Piitpefe from the 3oth Day of
Jannary lsft, hereby give Notice, that we will attend
that Service on the last Tharfday of this and the five
following Months from two te five o'Cleck After-,
noen en {sid Days, at'the House of Captain Joseph
Cilley, Innholder in Neottingham, Foteph Sias, :
Nottingham Feb. 20, . Rice Rowel,