The Freeman's journal, or, New-Hampshire gazette — Portsmouth, N.H., 1777-06-28 00:00:00, page 2

to carry zoo men, if he can procure them —
that the Scarborough sloop of war, intends
watering fliortly, at the Cramberry islands,
where ihe has contracted (we learn) with
one Jones, of Gouldlborough for 20 head of
cattle—That upwards of 180 Americans,
confined on board' the prison ihip, in Hali
fax, have been innoculated for the small
pox, and have got over the sickness.— That
by the vigorous, unwearied efforts, of the
arch General Massey, they have ere&ed on
Halifax Citadel Hill, a half moon battery,
of seven 24 pounders, with intention of
protecting the harbour, from an invahon
from the Continental Navy: He has like
wise refitted an old battery at Pieafant-Point,
for the fame purpose ; and another at Irish
Town mountings 24's ; and are preparing
to fortify George's Island, laying in the mid
dle of the harbour.—That the noted busy
body, John Butler (late a carter in that
town) who c'lls himfelf, lord king, and go
vernor, of Halifax, is very officious in ap
prehending and committing to prison, all
j°ufpe&ed friends to America.—That the in
offenfive Geo. Dawson, commander of the
Hope brig, is endeavouring to get the com
mand of the Continental brig Cabot, taken
and carried into that port by the Milfold.—
That Henry Mowat (well known at Cafco-
Bay) late commander of the Milford, has
been tryed by a court martial there, for be
having in a cowardly manner, laid Decem
ber, when in fight of Alfred Continental Ship
of War (commanded by Captain John Paul
Jones, Efc;) and her two Prizes, charged
with 6 running from her,' by his his officers
and men.—That the hectoring Gorham,
dungeon of the goal there, by feme means
effected an escape, in undermining the goal
wz" ^ five fee' through :— The two former
were convi&ed of high ^reafon, agai ft the
British government, and sentence was to
have been pronounced on the very next day
after their departure.— That Arthur Gould,
has returned from St. John's with his Troops,
after compelling the inhabitants to swear
allegiance to the Perjured King of Britain.
The General Assembly of Rhode Island
have enaded, “ That no Ram, Sugar, Mo-
Jaffes, Cotton Wool, Coffee, tanned Lea
ther, Sheeps Wool, and Sheep, untill they
are thorn, shall be carried put of that State,
either by Sea or Land, under any Pretence
whatsoever: That if any Person shall be con
vi&ed of having carried, or attempting to
carry out of the State, any of the aforemen
tioned Articles, he shall forfeit the Articles
so carried or attempted to be carried out of
the State ; one Half thereof to and for the
life of the Prosecutor, and the other Half
80 and for the Use of the State, to be reco
vered by Bill,Plaint, or Information, in any
Court of Record within the State : Thatall
of the aforementioned Articles, which shall
be found carrying from one Town to ano
ther, in that State, or on board any Vessel
about departing from the fame ; unless in
final! Quantities, shall be deemed to be at
tempted to be carried out of the State, with
in the Meaning of laid Ad, and unless the
Person, so carrying the fame, shall produce
a Certificate or Petmiffion from the Town
Council of the Town from whencefUch Ar
ticles shall be removed, fpecifying that the
lame are permitted to be carried to feme 0
ther Town within that State for the Use of
the Inhabitants thereof."
TO BE LET T, a very convenient and
well floated Ho^fe, with a Shop, in
ip a convenient Place, suitable for a Gold
finuh,Shopkeeper,&c. with a good Store &
Well behind the House, lately improved by
David Griffith, of Portsmouth. For further
Lujars, enquire of Samuel Bowles.
commander (at present) atFort-Cumberland,
is under arrest, owing to a complaint lodged
againfi him, by his officers, 'tot mifcondu&
and cowardice.'— That Dr, Clarke, and
Mr. Faulkner, both late of this State, toge
ihe. wi:h four other gentlemen belonging to
the now province of Nova-Scotia, who were
taken at Cumberland, last December, in
arms, feat to Halifax, and confined in the
Letter 11.
It may (perhaps ) be amusing, and pos
sibly, in some Degree inftrudive, to re
print, Part of the Introduction to the Irish
Draper's Letters,from Ely fium to Vefputia,
as published in the Massachusetts Spy, ih the
year 17,4, as follows.——
“ Laputa was once an Eland pendulous,
or boiant in the Air ; which by a locomo
tive Faculty, could move over any Place,
fubjed to the King of that Ifland,and in an
Instant crulh it to Atoms.——-
See Gulliver's Travels.
Laputa has since dropt Anchor,or father
taken Root, in the Atlantic Ocean, and be
come as fixt and ftationary,as any otherlfland
in the Sea ; but has invented and conftruft
ed such mighty Ships, as by blockading
with them, the Harbours add Sea-Ports of
her Colonies in Columbia, the Laputians are
able hill, with the Consent of the King, to
controul their FellowTubjeds on that Con
tinent, with a rtioft Tyrannic Sway.-
Vefputia is that Part of the Continent of
Columbia, inhabited by the Colonies of La
puta, which are divided into many Provin
ces ; each of which, of Right, should enjoy
a feperate Legislature, from that of the
Island of Laputa. —
The principal of these Provinces, is Maf
fabefick or Big Endia ; whose Capital Bes
cilla, at prefenc lays under the heavy Dis
pleasure, of the King of Laputa ; excited
thereto by the evil Counsel of wicked Mi
nisters; whose fatal Designs threaten Sia
very, to the Inhabitants of all the Colonies
of Laputa, in Vefputia, on the Continent of
Columbia."——
Thus far the Introduction to the Draper's
Letters.^ —To which let me add, that the
Vefputians, tired with the cruel Oppression
of cheLaputians,after may reafawie,hum
ble, refpeaful,.but fruitless Petitions, to the
King of Laputa, for Redress of their Griev
ances, have set up an Independent Govern
ment of their own ; which they maintain,
with more than equal Force by Land, and
bid fair in time, to over match them
by Sea, and if Divinely prospered, to give
Law to the Ocean ; adding in their Naval
Ensigns, Neptune's Trident, to the Union
of the thirteen Stripes,reprefenting the num
ber of the Free and Independent States of
Vefputa : In contesting whose just Rights,
Laputa (that is, Britannia)has left her Colo
nies, and will finally loose herfelf.——
Tegola, is an Island feperated from La
puta, by St. George's Channel, and fubjeft
to the King of that Island.—The Inhabi
tants of Tegofa, having for a long time, felt
the galling Yoke of Laputa, stand ready to
imitate the glorious Example of the Vefpu
tians,in liberating themselves from the cruel
Tyranny, and lawless Fewer, of the Lapu
tians. When this reasonable and necessary
Revolution takes Place,a free Intercourse of
Trade, between Tegofa and Vefputia, will
yield a mutual Profit and Advantage,of in
estimable Value to both Countries ; the na
tural and kind Effect of Liberty, Peace and
Amity, between different and distant Parts
of the World.-—- Vefputius Americus.
The Moral of the foregoing Fable in
ftruds us, that as the Inhabitants of one
Planet, were never intended to rule over
those of another ; so we must plainly dis
cern, unless we are blinded by slavish Prin
ciples,that the Inhabitants of^ifferent Coun
tries,and widely disjoin'd Parts of theGlobe,
are not intended, to exercise Legislation
and Lordffiip, any where but at Home ;
and that universal Government, Sway and
Controul, is the vainest, and, perhaps, the
wickedest Idea, that can swell and aduate
the proud Breast, of that feeble Creature
Man: To compass the ambitious Designs,
Letters fam tie Dead !f & Living.
of which weak prefumtive Animal, Meins
the most replete withMifehief to the World,
are oftentimes, illegally, unjustly, inhuman
ly, impiously and deftrudively made use
of,without Remorse or Hefitation,but with
wanton Pleasure and Triumph, carried into
fatal Execution and Effed.——
To prevent such Infernal Machinations,
and dilappoint the wicked Hopes, of the
Enemies of human Liberty, and to fruftrate
and confound their evil and cruel Devices,
we should bend our whole Care and Force ;
that the fhameful Lot and Portion, of these
who dig Pits for others, may be, to fall into
them themselves, and reap the Folly of their
extravagant Desires ; who by catching at
the Shadow, loose the Substance, and by
grasping at more than enough, let go all
they possess.
'A LETiEk a TKad^MaN
farmers:
MY FRIENDS,
GIVE me leave to address you through the
channel of the press ana futjea of as much
or more importance to yourselves, as it poffibiy can
be to me, or any of my ptofeffion ; or indeed to the
whole Community. We refled with the grtoeft
concern on the condor you have pursued, and arc
still parking to ruin the glorious CHofe which you at
firft set cur to fupporr, a cause which if property
maintained, will be the glory of this and future ^ge/;
by the bluffing of providence, we have been inab!&
hitherto, to wiihttand the combin'd force of Britain,
and difeover'd many infernal plots, which if they had
been permitted to be carried into execution, wou'd
have prov'd our intire ruin; all the forte that our e
nemies has or can fend out, and ail the plots and ma
chinations of our internal enemies will not be so ef
fectual in overfetting the cause, as your refuting that
on which its maintainance wholly depend : I mean
the currency, which you, with a few monopolizers,
have b^ca the means of depreciating. We are forty
you will not condescend to vrfit us so often as form
erly, as we wou'd wish to keep Jie fliiaeft union with
cur brethren in the country; but the reasons of your
abfe^ce are obvious, they are Because we have no
Molasses, Rum,Coffee, &c.—but my friends,we have
paper money which is as fecare and good as ygur
elates ; for if that is sassed to be refufed for the ne-v
cefiries of life, your estates must inevitably fall into
the hands of your enemies, as they are defended by
people who take the currency far their services . •not
weft-india goods, therefore have it not in their pow er
to barter (they are not better off than ourselves in that
refect) and they c/ued that, that money will sup
port their families in their absence; and when that
fails, the enemy will be able to ravage the whois
country, without an army to oppose them ; ——you
complain, that the {hopkeepers & merchantmen will
no* take money for weft-india goods—— a very good
reafoh why, because they have not got them ;— —
have not the, been Applying you wilt those articles
for this year past, and have had no opportunity to re
place them, which they have endeavoured to do/
but their property has been made captures in the at
tempt : it's true, that a few people in this town find
ing you wou'd not coroe to market without they
wan'd exchange molasses, coffee &c. for your provi
sions, have been really neceffiated to barter what lit
tle they intended for their families use, and by that
means have induced you to believe tie town is flock
ed with those articles ; and cut of a wrong idea of re
venge on them, you have deprived the difreffed poor
almost of an exigence, if it were not for our all-boun
tiful Creator's gobdnefs in Applying us with cur chief
support, FISH, we should wholly be depriv'd of it :
There may be, and we believe there are a few dif
appoioted persons in this town, who has Well India
goods by them, for which they refufe and thereby
undervalue our currency,which is one method among
many others they are taking towards teflifyirg their
loyalty to their old mailer George,in endeavouring to
disunite us, they are the people that ought to fuftcr;
and we trust ere long that their vile proceedings will
be at an end— your cendud is also unjuflifiable
in the fight of him who blesses you with the inercafe
of the earth,in withholding the necessaries of life from
those who (land in need thereof, as you are but Rew
ards, and those very bkffings are given you to render
a proper account for them. How can you prove
faithful when the cries of the poor pierce the ears of
lord of fabaoth, and you negled to hear them : if
the fuff 'rings cf your brethern,and the duty you owe
to your great benefactor, will not have an, effect;
feel for yourselves ^families, and your intercft which
is predominant, for be assured, if you continue to
undervalue your currency, you will give rhe enemy
the f^ireft epportunities to succeed in their attempts
than they ever had yet : and on the other hand, re
flect with pleasure, that if the currency is valued, and
a Arid union preserved among ourselves we shall ba
on a film and sure foundation. Our armies will in
crease, our trade flourifh ; and the bleffiogs of Hea,
ven will be Lower'd down upon us.
Portsmouth, Juqe 20th 1777.