The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1791-09-23 00:00:00, page 3

ritus —OnFridarand Saturday destroy
-q federal gentleman's houses, with their
-teck in trade, &c.—,Many persons
were killed, being -intoxicated, and the
ruins falling oa, them.—The Earl of
Aylesford, the Magistrates, and prin
cipal inhabitants, were very adive in
their endeavours to flop the depredati
ons of the populace,and published a very
earnest entreaty and serious remon
drance, to retire to their refpedive
tomes, and become peaceable and order
ly. On Sunday night the military ar
rived, since which we are informed all
is quiet. —The damage sustained is sup
posed to exceed ioo,oool.
On Taefday .the Magistrates were fit
ting at the S^an Inn ; federal of the
ringleaders were committed to prison,
and more remained lor examination.
y. The lights of men to all men. 8.
The liberty of the Press, the fountain of
all other liberties. 9. May all the goyer
ments of the world, however organized
speak the will and promote the happi
ness of the, governed. 10. Why the
Monarchs of the earth fee that arbitra
ry power is not made for man, and that
the will of afew should never prevail
against the interdft of millions, 11. A
speedy union between the free nations
of.the world, for peace and happineG of
mankind. 12, The rights of confeience.
13. The rights of juries—may they be
preserved sacred and inviolate,- 14.
All honest whigs, my their zeal be
Governed b, knowledge, I^. All ho
nest torto, and may their Tears and
prejudices be speedily removed, 16.
The foot inseparables— knowledge
freedom, virtue, and happiness. 17.
,The encreaflng, and never to be extin
guished flame of liberty.
SONG : (A second time)O'rr the vine-
On Thursday last, the 14, h ioftant,
(being the Anniversary of the French
revolution) a ref,enable number otGen
,lemen dined at the Globe Tavern,
when the following toads were drank,
and the annexed song, written for the
occasion, was sung by Mr. Merideth,
and received with universal applause :
I. Peace on earth, and good will to all
men. 2. The King. 3. The majeflyl
of the people. 4. The British conkitu
x^n—may Englishmen reverence is !
principles ! 5. The Revolution in
France, may its success jollify the hopes
of its friends, and refute the calumnies
of its enemies. 6. The National As-1
fembly of France —may wisdom dired,|
and virtue execute their councils.
SONG : O'er the nine-cover'd btllsfSc.
1 cover'd hils, &..
- 18. May the heart of man, be the
qfcar of freedom^ and the spacious earth
her temple. 19. The riling generation
—May truth find entrance into voung
minds and unprejudiced Qaderftandings.
20. May genius never ftocp to fear or
flattery, nor conscience be ever bar
tered for gold,^ Zi. Fair play and day
light for the champions of liberty, zz.
The memory of the illustrious charapi
one of British liberty. The cause for
which Hampden fell in thefield, and
Sydney on the fcaffoid, 24. The friends
of freedom who are diet jo commem.
orate this day. zfr The glorious pros
pects of the coming age.
And the balance yet trembles with
fate?
Ah, who 'midft- the horrors of night
would abide.
The SONG:
O'er the vine cover'd bills and gay regi
ons of France,
Enwrap'd in his cob-webs, ljke flies;
Shall phrenzy and fopliiflry hope to
prevail.
Where reafonoppofes her weighs ;, ,
When the welfare of millions is hung
in the scale, • '
See the Day-star of Liberty rife- §,
Thro' clouds of detradion unwearied,
advance,
And hold it< new course thro' the
ikies. I
An effulgence so mild, with a luftre so
bright, J
All Europe with wonder surveys ;
And from defarts of darkness, and dun
geons cf night,
~ Contend for a share of the; blaze.
Let Burke, like 3 bat from its splendor
A splendor too strong for ,his eyes ;
Let pedants and fools his eAfions ad-
mire, .
retire,,
That can rafte the pure breezes of morn;
Or, who fas drank of the chryftalline
tide,
To the feculent flood would return,
When the bosom of beauty the throbbing
I. A falutarory Oration in Latin,on the
rife, progress, and flourifhing situation
of the college.—By Sheldon Logan.
2. A Forenfick Deputation upon this
question, Is Deity the efficient cadfe of
all things ? —By Rufus Anderson, David
Hale,Otis Croft;, and Nathan Braa/lreet.
>3. An English Dialogue—a compari
son between the pregrefs of the ancients
and moderns in arts and sciences
Llipbalet Gillet and John P. Ripley.
^4: A Syllogiftick Disputation on this
question. An fervituti perpetual civenfe
fubjicere liceat ? Mfo Appleton; respon
dent—John Cofa and fohn Baldwin,
opponent .
Ah ! who can the transport decline ?
Or who that has tailed fair Liberty'
sweets,.
WEDNESDAY, the 24th of August,
being the Anniversary of Dartmouth
College, a large concourse of people as
sembled to celebrate the day. Ac so
o'clock in the morning the Trustees of
the College, gentlemen of diftindion,
gentlemen of literary character, candi
dates and ftudehts, convened at the
President's houfe y and proceeded to the
chapel, where the exercises of the day
were opened by a well adapted prayer,
by the President.—Aster which an Ode
on Commencement, composed and fee
to mufick by John Hubbard, A. M. was
perforated- vocally and instrumentally/
and the following exercises by the gen
tJeraen candidaes entertained the au
dience for the forenoon :
6. A Greek Oration upon the progress
of manners, together with the ufefufand
polite arts among the confederate A-
Americans.—By- Serb Willison.
7. An Engliffi Dialogue upon the ne
cessity of conforming laws and govern
ments to the genius and manners of the
iube&s. By 7 bomas S. Srarha^wk, and
Job* Ujber Parfon^
8. An Erigliih Poem on the progress
of freedom.—By Be%aleel Pinneo.
After which a piece of mufick was
performed, and the procellion returned
to the ^refident's house. >
At /o'clock P M.the procession be
ing formed, and again returned to the
chapei, the following were made the
older of the evening exe cifes:
I A philcgiftick Oration on Geni
us.—By Joseph Apptaon.
2. A Latin Dialogue upon American
independence and Turkish Slavery.—
"By JeJepb Goff and Reuben Kidder.
3. An English Poem oh Fame.—By
'Thomas, Odiorne.
.'4° A Hebrew Dialogue concerning
Saul's difooedience ! when feat against
the Amalekites.=By Joel Chapin and
Samuel Hidden^
After which the degree of Bachelor of
Arts was conferred on the following per
lons, viz.
The Prize but tith life would resign?
—But 'tis over—high heav'n the di-
Oppression has ftroggled in vain :
To the hell she has form'd superstition
remov'd;
And Tyranny bites his own chain.
In records of time a new sera unfolds,—
All nature exults in its birth—
His creation, benign, the Creator, be
holds,
And gives a new charter to earth.
O catch its high import, ye winds,
as ye blow !
O bearit , ye.waves, as ye roll !
From regions that feel the feu's verti
cal glow, . ?
To the farth-ft extremes of.the pNe,
Equal Rights, Equal Laws to the nati
ons around
Peace &Friend,. ip its precept's impart,
And wherever the footfteps of man Ihall
be found,
May he bind the decree on hi, heart.
EXETER, (Friday) Sept. 23.
COMMENCEMENT
5 A Foranfick Disputation upon this
quefton, Have society a right to inflid
the punishment cf death for Any crime ?
By Neman Ball, 'John Fife, Rufus Greavs
and Joj'epb Proper.•
heart meets,
AI DARTMOUTH.
circon approves—
Ebenezer Adams, John, Waldo Ames,
Rufus AnJerfon, Jofepb Appleton, Moses
Appleton, Thomas Afoly, John Bolden,
Hernan Ball, Nathan Bradjireet, Calvin
Chaddock, Joel Chapin, Heber" Chafe,
Dudley Chafe, John Coffin, John Cook,
Timothy Clark, Otis Crosby, Timothy
Allen Cufeman, Silas Dinsmore, John
Fjk, Samuel Fuller, Elipbalet Gillet, Al
len Gilman, Jojeph Goff, Rufus Graves,
William Green, David Hale, Samuel Hid
den, John Kelley, Reuben Kidder, Sheldon
Logan, Thomas Odiorne, John Park, John
Ujher Parsons, Humphrey Perley, Eiza
leel Penneo, John Preston. Jofepb Proper,
John P. Ripley, Daniel Shepard, Thomas
Stearns Sparhawk, Silas. Stickney, Sere
nas Swift, John Walbridge, Hugh Wal
lis, Seth Will:flon, Ebenezer Woodward,
Elijah Wooley, Nathaniel Perley.
; Samuel Holyoke and Luther Stearns,
Bachelors of Arts at Harvard University,
and Jeremiah B. Howel, Bachelor of
arts at Rhodeifland College, were ad
mitted ad eundem. The fame degree
was aifo conferred on the Rew. Noah
Worcefer.
>The degree es Maft^r of Arts wa>
then conferred on
Samuel Taggart,Jafper Murdock, Peleg
Sprague, Lathrop Thomson, Jonathan
Calef, Jofab Carpenter, Daniel 0. Gil
let, Daniel Jacobs, Jufab Lynden Arnold,
Daniel Dana, Elias Dudley, Jonathan
Huje, Abiel Japes, Ariel Parish, Alum
ni of the College.
The fame degree was conferred on
John Saunders and James Brown, Efq'rs.
Masters of Arts, at Harvard Uaiverfity
— The Rev. Selden Church, Master of
Aris at Yale # College, and the Rev.
Mojes Baldwin, and the Hon. Nathaniel
Niles, Matters of Arts at Naffiu Hall, —
The fame degree was conferred on his
Excellency Thomas Chittenden, Esq. Go
vernor of the Hare of Vermont, and the
Hon. Nathaniel Peabody, of the Senate
of the Scare of Newhampfhira, and on
the L R,CV.,Ng&» Ward. -
The degree of Dodor of Divinity, on
the Rev. Samuel Buell.
We have rfke pleafore to add b the
greatest decency and propriety was ob
served thro' the whole day.
,A piece of music was then performed,
and the exercises concluded with prayer.
The procession then returned to the Pre
sident's house. -•
After which a Valedictory Oration on
the Rights of Man, was delivered by
William Green. l
MT. RANLET,
Should nothing tetter he banded you for
publication, you may communicate to your
customers the followng
Imperjedi Jketcb of the doings of
the Convention for reviving
the conflitution of the State.
THE Convention having met at Con
cord and chosen :he bon. Mr. Livermore,
Frefident, and the hon. Mr Calfe Secre
tary, order'd the Constitution to be read
by paragraph'—Several articles of the
Bill of rights were difeuffed ; But few
of them underwent any material altera
tion.—Under the head pf representa
tives, in the Cdnftitution, it was pro
posed that the State ffiouid be divided
into sixty diftrias, in each ofwhch one
member should be elected, who together
should conflitute the lower houfe.~-
After considerable debate the motion
was rejected. It was then proposed that
zoo rateable polls should be necessary to
entitle a town or diftri& to a reprefen
live—which proportion shared the fame
fate as did a third, that every 159. polis
iri any town, should be entitled tb a re,
prefentative. These propofitiohs being
rejeded, r.o alterations were, made un.
der this head .^ With regard to the
Senate it vas propofedthat this branch
of the legislature should con lift of thir
teen members,to be chosen by the quali
fied voters, and that for this purpoie the
State should be divided into thirteen
diffrids according to rateable pro
perty. Under this proposition ^con
siderable debate took place, whether^
majority of votes should be required for
an elc^ion, or a plurality only ; which
was finally terminated by a decision in
favour of plurality. This amendment,
if adopted by the citizenship is generally
believed, will render the senate a much
more independent, refpeaable and ufe
ful body than they have heretofore
been. Under the head of President it
was voted that th^ chief executive ma.
giftrate fhoold be Riled Governor— and
that, to prevent bis having an undue in
fluence over the Senate, he should have
neither voice nor feat in that body. It
was also voted that the right of nomi
nating to vacant offices should be veiled
wholly in the governor; and,that all
appointments be made by him with ad
vice and consent of a majority cf the
Council. This amendment was designed
to prevent embarrassments from the
great number of candidates that are
frequently in nomination for the fame
office—and to render injudicious ap
pointments less common, by placing the
responsibility in an individual.—Under
the head of Council, it was resolved that
the Couufellors should be chosen by the
vo ers at large, at the time of electing
senators, one in each county —and that
no member of the council should hold a
feat in either hoafe of the legislature.—
By the amendments proposed under these
three heads it will readily be observed
that the legiflatiye & executive branches
of the government, as well as the two
houses of the legiflaturc, will be made
as independent of each other as is ne
cessary ,Q prevent the exercise of any
improper influence. With refped to
the judiciary department, it was voted
that the Legislature Ihould be authorized
co vest the necessary chancery powers in
forme exiting court of law, or iu a court
co be appointed for the purpose—that
the Supreme Judiciary Court fhou!d
have original cognizance of all actions
of aid above df.—that Justices cf the
Peace should try all adions under 4, —
but that an appeal should lie from their -.
decision to the Cupreine court-and that
the court of common pleas (hould be abo
lished— Mott of thele questions were de
termced by refpe&abic majorities after
lengthy and candid difeoffions.—Some
other amendments of leis importance
were proposed and voted, with which 1
ihall not trouble you.
Aft?r proceeding thus far, the Con
vention judging that the business before
them could not be completed in a rea
sonable time, thought proper to adjourn
to the firlt Wednesday in February next
— A refpedable committee was appoint
ed to fit in the interim for the purpose
of making a -proper arrangement of the
various amendments and alterations-pro
posed ; and to consider of and report
upon sundry motions for further altera
tions, handed in to the Chairin writing,
but not difeuffed. It is but justice to the
convention to obfeive that with a few
exceptions the debates were conduced
with moderation and candour.
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ADVERTISEMENT.
In the great and beautiful town
Epping, is ^„
^^g ^Farm
to be fold—66
acres,with build
ings and orchards—with (or
without) stock, hay and corn,
lying on both sides the road
leading front Portsmouth to
Coos-College and N°° 4 —•
near 7 miles from fait water.
@fi,„ls it too level? No^
yet well watered—Heaving
with moderate degradation
down to its centre—compof
ing beautiful wash-land, af
fording near two tons per
acre. If any gentleman is
inclined to purchase laid lit
tle Patten, he may depend
on being well used and gen
tleman-like treated-—by
BARZILLAI FRENCH,
THE Commissioners on
the estate of Stephen L.
Creighton, hereby give notice,
That the time for receiving
accounts against said estate is
lengthened out One Month
from this day.
Exeter, Sept. 22, 1791.
lours, A.Z.