The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1790-08-20 00:00:00, page 4

To gain so fair riflower as you
(The tar return'd) who would not plead.
Nor shall you, nymph, to Bethlehem go, -
While love can write what you mult read.
Come, to yon meadow let us stray,
I have some handsome things to fay.
Love has his wi(h when reason fails—
In vain he figh'd, in vain he drove ;
Forsake (said foe) those (welling^^
If you would have me think of Love .
- Great merit has your failing art .\
But absence would diftrad my hear .
What else was said we secret keep
The tar, grown fonder of the shore,
N^lech his profpe& on the deep, N
And ihe of Bethlehem talks no more ;
He quits the coasting trade—
She pities her—that dies a maid.
There let me sleep, forgotten in the clay,
When death (hall flint these weary, aching eyes,
Rest in the hopes of an eternal day,
Till the long might is gone, and the last morn arile.
There let me wander at the close of eve,
When sleep fits dewy on the labourer's eyes,
The world, and all its busy follies leave,
To talk with wisdom where my Daphnis lies.
The winged moments, whose unftaying speed
No art can stop, or in their course arrest ;
Whose flight Ihall shortly count me with the dead,
And lay me down in peace with them that rest.
No wandering seamen ((he replied)
' Can tempt me to forego my plan,.
No barque that wafts him 0 er the tide, ,
Nor many a better a looking man :
Go, wonderer, plough your gloomy lea,
Constantia must a lifter be.
Starting and (hivering in th' unconftant wind,
Meagre and pale, the ghost of whaf Iwas,
Beneath some blasted tree I lie reclin'd.
And count the silent moments as they pass :
I hear the hapless wail, the shriek of woe ;
I fee the muddy wave, the dreary shore,
The sluggish streams that slowly creep below,
Which mortals visit and return no more,
Farewell, ye blooming fields! ye cheerful plains!
Enough for me the church-yard's lonely mound,
Where melancholy with Rill silence reigns,
And th, rank grass waves o'er the cheeriefs ground.
IL TOW Spring returns ; but not to me returns
The vernal joy my better years have Known:
Dim in my breast life's dying taper burns,
And all the joys of life with health are flown.
- Oft morning-dreams, presage approaching fate,
And morning-dreams, as poets tell, are true :
Led by pale ghosts I enter death's dark gate,
And bid the realms of life and light adieu.
[The following is part of a Poem written b, Michael
Bruce, a Scotch gentleman (who died at about 21
years of age) on bis own approaching death. The
fnenefs of imagery, joined with the interesting situa
tion of the writer, will doubtless render it an agrees
able repast to the lovor of sentimental poetry.]
A fails,, loitering from his crew,
As chance would have it pafs'd along,
She told him what (he had in view,
And he repli'd—my dear, you're wrong ;
Let wither'd hags to Bethlehem go,
' Where kisses freeze, and love is snow.
Supposed to be written by Capt. Freneau.
SICK of the world, in prime of days
Constantia took a serious fit—
Refolv'd to shun all balls and plays,
And only read what faints had writ„
To Bethlehem's walls she would repair.
And be a pensive filter there.
With such a dull and drowsy train.
Who, but a hermit, could agree —
Ah, rather stay to grace the plain,.
Or wander on the wave with me.
For yon the painted barque mail wait,
And I would die for such a freight.
FOR THE NEWHAMPSHIRE GAZETTEER.
SEAT OF' THE MUSES.
From the Newyork Dail, Advertiser.
Mr. PRINTER, . „ , ,
I SEE your last paper teems with Candidates for
Congress 1 suppose they are all capable of
the business, tho' I am not perfona.lly acquainted
with any of them lam glad Newhampfhire is
so fertile in great men. As they are to ad in a
popular assembly I suppose they are qualified for
that sphere. I Juppofe they are all learned and
eloquent, and endued with the talent of uttering
their sentiments in public.
I rejoice at the idea, because this wil give them
weight arid influence—l hope too, their political
sentiments Hand right, for should they be of that
class that are^lways crying up the BmHh Govern
ment, and faying we never (hall be fafe and happy
'till we return to it, that the authors of the late
revolution ought to be hanged, and that Gover
nor Carleton keeps the frontier ports with a number
of British regiments there only to take advantage
of our confufion, and then to strike, and that he
will be joined by all the old ?r%— I fay, if any
of the Condidates are of this class, I wall be a
gainst them, for they think the more confufion the
better for their designs, that the people will get sick
of their present government & wish to return to their
old masters, and then, fay they, we shall be Gover
nors and Nabobs Besides, ;do not think such
people in justice entitled to the offices under the
government they were opposed o——Theyo——They are the
fruits of the labours of the Whigs, and when they
have laboured, others ought not to enter into their
labours. Do we not all think so?
[Another] FAIR PoAY.
A MONG all the Candidates of Congress, these
A men shall have my vote, and I do not care
who knows it, viz.
CHRISTOPHER TOPPAN,
JAMES SHEAFE, and
- NATHANIEL ROGERS, Esq rs.
• ~ 'foie'. .
That this was their design only let us attend to
the lifts of public officers voted for several years
part in the towns where they live—you will uni
formly find a certain set of this description in one
ticket. b
This and a thousand other circomftances clearly
show a combination to get all that power icto their
hands which was purchased with the blood of the
whigs.
These people now have their emraries in every
quarter, to take the advantage of the un'ufpc&.
ing temper of the people, and-to endeavor to pro
mote the election of some who, had we failedin the
war, would have taken cur farms from us and have
had us for Servants and Haves—
Are these the men that ought in time of pence
to govern us ?—For my part, Mr. Printer, 1 think
him who could not be trusted, and wanteu to eu
flave us in war ought not to rule thu people in
peace I never have voted for one of these men,
and 1 am determined i never will, until I am con
vinced it is better to give up our present govern
ment and return to the Britifh—for when there is a
majority in our Continental or State Legislatures
of this description, what will prevent their voting
our return, or their promoting laws favourable to
our enemies, or their adopting matures that may
induce the people to believe what the British have,
and'now fay, that Americans cannot govern them
selves-. A/ARMER.
Mr. PRINTER,
FROM the numerous Candidates proposed for
federal Representatives, I Ihould imagine
some very extraordinary benefits were expedited,
either by the candidates or their adherents. I re
member, Mr. Printer, when the office of a member
of Congress was carefully shunned by a certain de
scription of men, and the name of Congress man
held in contempt. Danger then attended the post,
and a man being found in that or any office dur
ing the war, would, (had the Country been feb
dued) in the eyes of the British have proved his
title to a halter But how changed! The au
thors of our glorious revolution are now attempt
ed to be shoved out of fight, and some persons of a
quite different way. of thinking are attempted to
be forced on the public choice in this as well
as in many other instances 'ow well these
people have fuccededed in their plans, will
too fully appear by attending to certain people
that now are and of late have been, in office—And
the reasons of their success are obvious—The Au
thors of the revolution tired out with a long war,
after the peace thought every thing accompufbed,
and fat down under the-idea that all danger was
past—then w^s the time for the opposite party, to
work, and their success too well evinces their dili
gence—They were determined to puih forward
their friends, to the exclusion, if possible, of every
man who had a hand in the war.
FOR THE NEWHAMPSHIRE GAZETTEER.
MISCELLANY.
IN a country village there was a laborer who
killed his hog ; and as it was the custom
in th^fe cases to fend pieces of the meet, sausages,
black puddings, liver, &c. to ,all the neighbors,
our peasant who had alrealy received innumerable
presents of this kind, and who found if he adher
ed to this custom that he should have nothing left
for himfel f, confiding in ore of his neighbours, told
him, " 1 have killed my hog, and if Ifhould fend
a peice to Y all from whom I have received, there
will be none for myfelf- now I pray yen advise me
what is best to be done ?" To which his neighbour
replied, " were I in your case, I would hang up
my hog at the open window for a greater part of
the night, and the next day I wobld tell every bo
dy that it was stolen—by this means I ffiould be
excused from making presents." The laborer,much
pleafcd at his friend's advice, returned home and
put it in pra&ice. The giver of this friendly ad
vice, not failing to profit by the darkness of the
night, seized the hog and carried him home. How
afonifhed was the peasant, when early in the morn
ing, he found nothing of the hog ! He raved at
his neighbour's invention which he had the even
ing before so much approved of-—He sallied out
to give the alarm, and the firft he met was his
friendly adviser, to whom he related the whole af
fair, faying, “ Oh neighbour, what do you think
—they have stolen my hog !"—" There, here (fays
his neighbor) that's right ! stand to it !—you must
tell the fame to every one you meet—insist upon
it, and they will all believe you I" The peasant
soon began to fwear,and to protest by all the faints,
that he was not in joke, but that his poor hog was
absolutely gone. The Wronger he was in expressi
ons of grief and rage, the mgre fervently did his
neighbor tell him, " that's right, my friend, Hand
to it, that is the only method to make your neigh
bors believe it—and then, from Sympathy, those
you have riceived of will dispense with your pre
fen's."' 4
NOTICE is hereby given, to the
owners of the Lands in a place called Peter
borough-Slip, in the county of Hityborough, that pur
suant to an A& of the General Court, passed the
nineteenth day of June, 1789, a Tax of one penny
per Acre is assessed on all the lands in said place,
for the sole purpose of rapairing the public reads and
building necessary bridges in said place—and that the~
fame muff be paid to me the fubferiber, in said Pe
terborough-Slip, within eight weeks from the date
hereof, or the lands of delinquent owners will be ex
posed to sale agreeably to said A&.
ROBERT McNAY, Conflable.
Peterborough-Slip, "July 30th, 1790. .
'TREASURY^ FFI CE,
STATE OF NEWHAMPSHIRE.
DE it known to the Selectmen—
" Constables and Collectors of the
several Towns and Places within said
State,who have not difeharged their
TAXES prior to the Year 1789—
that it is expected payment will be
made on or before the First Day of
December next otherwise Extents
will issue for the fame.
READY Money given for LAMB
SKINS, with the wool on, and Shear'd
Lamb's Wool, at the house ofTHEODORE Moses,
near Cob Giddings's, in Exeter. J^J^
VizANTED ' about £, 100 in New-
VV bampJhire STATE NOTES--or
CERTIFICATES, For which CASH will be given
Enquire at this office. Exmr, %y 3°*
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ALL perlons indebted to, or that
have demands on the estate of TIMOTHY
CHAMBERLAIN,Iate of Exeter, Baker, deceased,
are required to fettle with the fubferiber, Execu
trix to the last Will and Testament of the deceafed*
ESTHER CHAMBERLAIN.
Exeter, Auguftgib^iygo,
From these gentlemen we may expe& a unifor„
mity of ebndua in public matters, for they always
have been of one opinion in politicks, and proba
bly will continue so, and should other states adopt
my Opinion in their choice, all those difoutes in
Congress would be prevented, which have been so
much complained of—and true Britijh government
again blazon out with refplendant luftre.
Given under my Hand at Exeter the
Istb Day of July, Anno Domini, 1790.
Wm. Gardner, Treasurer.