The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle — Portsmouth, N.H., 1770-01-05 00:00:00, page 1

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NEW-HAMPSHIRE .. d 8& GAZETTE,
HISTORICAL JPEGELEWIRACH R O NI CL E,
s the great Jearcity of MONEY at present in
__this Province; and a Meihod to have more of
that c.effary Article circulating, engrolfes the
Conversation of the Public, it will not perhaps
be thought an improper Time to i?y‘ert the fol
lowing | from one of the last New-Yirk News-
Pager:,——and it is much = be wifl’d, that our
GENERAL-COURT, would in their next
peffion, pass an A, for making foric on the fame
o~ Method, which is the best and enly Way it can
b: dome 3 and a Petition it's joid will be present
ed to them for thitPurpofe 3 and it is the carnc/t
Frayer c{ Hundreds, that it may be granted.
From the New-York Chronicle of Dec. 7.
~ Meifieurs RORERTSON,
ISend you 2 ~enuine copy of the memorial
A that was drawn up by the agent for this
province, and read at a meeting of the mer
chants in London trading to New-York, to
be by them ﬁ%ned and ptefented to the Earl
of Hillfborough, for obtaining leave for a pa
per curgency in this colony. The public, no
‘doubt, will be desirous of knowing the true
reasons of its miscarry, which was precisely
this and no other, the following paflage in the
memorial. viz. “We therefore that mercan
“ tile body, for whose benefit and {ecurity the
¢ reftri¢tions in-the 2&t were chiefly intended.”
AWhich pafiage the, merchants very justly objec
tearso, as tending}to exculpate the ministry
fropadik e bad 3f the refirictigee in th-g
ConTAINING the Fretheft ADVICES
Friday Fan. 5, 1770.
tain, by enabling the colonists to become pur
chasers of its manufaltures, and difpoling
them more readily to part with the coins they
had acquir’d in diicharge of their debts to the
‘mother country, 1 ;
That while the paper credit of those colo
nies subsisted and was a legal tender; no instance
can be given where bills of exchange and sterl
ing debts were ever discharged under the full
value faithfully paid in bills of credit, equal
to the amount of the real demand.
That since paper credithas no longer been
fuffered to remain in the colonies on its firft
establishment, a discouragement has been even
to trade, remittances have been less frequent,
and the inhabitants are, in some measure, ob
liged to avoid purchasing wkhat they are not
readily enabled to pay for. Lo big
That the Council and House of General
Aflembly of New-York, conforming them
selves to the restrictions in the aét of parliament
have offered to the governor of that colony,
a bill for a papey-credit without miaking it a
legal tender any where but to that loan office,
from whence it was to iflue on the voluntary
acceptance of the borrower. A pointof com
mon justice, and in payment of colony duties
and taxes wherein deficiencies muit be made
good by the public, no obligation is imposed
on the receiver of his Majesties quit rents, on
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FOREIGN axpDOMES T IC.
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Weeks since this
Numb‘ 690 l Paper was publith'd;
12t Sunday, has teadily agreed, that the goods
which he imported in the Flora, Capt. Carter;
-from Bristol, thall be reshipped or stored ; and
that Mr. Andrew Marr, has done the fame;
inregadd to a consignment of goods by the
Brigantine Mary, just arrived from Glasgow!
The subscribers to the resolutions are 10
conscious of-the justness of their proceedings;
that they appear deteriined to adhere to
them ; and have not only refufed to purchase
some slaves lately arrived from Penfacola,but
al{o rejetted a parcel of rice, belonging to 2
gentleman on fohn’s island, who 1s I’aifto be
a non-subscriber. , . R mair A
‘ The few interested individuals in the col
onies of Rhode-ifland and Georgia, who have
hitherto misled those unhappy colonies by
fkim’d milk reasonings, which has been at
tempted even in our province, we hear, have
begun to lose much of their influence,ds to be
under no small apprehensions of being gibbet=
ted (in fame) to rot and stink undet the noses
of their countrymen as 2 mark of public in<
famy & warning, to those who shall endeav»
our'to counteraét the designs of society ir
favour of liberty.—ls oppression (according td
Solomon) maketh a wife man mad; what 2
pity it is that it cannot teach Fools wifdom.’
,« It is whifperd, and credited by many, that
ur intercourse in trade widgthe colonies of
2 F oot il e s Do, i 2 gids
they have t;