The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1790-10-30 00:00:00, page 1

nLANKS, of various kinds, for sale
V at H. Ranlet's office, Exeter.
IT is hereby made known, that the
following arrangement has. been adopted to
wards carrying into" execution the aft making pro
vision for the debt of the United States, viz.
. Loan Office Certificates, and those issued by the
Coinmiffioners for the ad^ftment of accounts m<he
several States,will be receivable.gply at the Trea
fur, and by the refpe&ive Corafolffiopers of Loans
within the State in wlich they were gefpeaively
issued, The Certificates issued by the Register of the
Treasury, by the Paymaster General and Commif,
fioner of Army Accounts, by the Commissioners for
the adjustment of the Accounts of the Quarter
Matter's, Commissary's, Hbfpital, Clothing, and
Marine Departments, Indents of Interest; and Bill,
of Old Emission, will be receivable indiscriminately
at the Treasury and by the Commissioners ofall
the States. The situation of the Checks has dic
tated this arrangement for the greater fapy of
, the publick against impofcion# by forged or coun
terfeit paper, and the details which have been
adopted from the fame consideration for the exe
cution of the business are such, that it will give
- facility and dispatch, if applications from the
holders of Certificates of the Register of the Tre,
fury and of the Paymaster General, and Commit
fioner of Army Accounts, and of the Commission,
ers of the five Departments above mentioned, ^re
made in the firft instance , the Treasury ; and if
applications from the holders of Loan Office Cer,
litotes, and Certificates issued by the Com.
missioners for the adjustment of Accounts in the
refpeftive States, are made in like manner to the
Commissioners of Loans within the States in which
they were issued. Transfers can afterwards be
made to any Office that the Proprietors of these
Certificates may desire.
Printing-Office, Worcester, Oaober J, 1796.
-M R# Thomas most refpectfully begs
IVJL leave to inform the publick, that his Editi
on of the LARGE Royal Quarto BIBLE is
now committed to the Press, and will be carried on
with all ihe dispatch that the nature of the work
will permit. .
The many difeouragements he has met with in
getting forward with this large, expensive and
important undertaking, he finds have principally
arisen from people in general being unacquaint
ed with the Real size of a-Royal Quarto Bible
many suppose that there is no difference in the size
and quality of Quarto Bibles; whereas there are
Quarto Bibles of many fixes and qualities, as well
as Duodecimos, Oftavos and Folios. The Edition
he proposed to print, and is now printing, is of
the largest kind,of Quartos, and of the firft qnal ty;
and the British Editions are commonly fold in this
and other States at Eight Dollars each—his Edi
tion is to be but SenjenDollars, and warranted
that they shall be, at least equally as good
smaller Quarto Bibles are fold from 10/ to 24/
each.
He begs all.fuch as have been discouraged from
fubferibing from an idea that the work would be
high priced, to make themselves acquainted with
the various sizes and prices of Bibles, and they
will soon perceive their mistake. He is.confident
that when the real size of his Edition if known,
that every objection as to the price will be re
moved, and that it will actually be found to be
cheaper than any English Edition of its size and
quality now felling on this Continent—he pledges
himfelf tfa it shall be so. 1 [
gin fulkaffurance, when fads are »nown, that he
shall l&epcouraged, he is now proceeding with
the requests that the Reverend Clergy
woufAffifyne into the truth of his.affertions, and
übdecrefch as have formed a wrong opinion as
to thFffi quality and price :—He wishes for a
continuance oftheir exertions, now the work is in
the Press, to obtain fubferibers—foch as have-not
reterned-th. Sdbfcriptioh Papers; will be pleased
to do it by the firft day of June next.—Those ^ho
foe returned their papers, andare disposed to
make another trial, will be again furnifhed with
fyecimens, on giving information to their, and the
Publick's most obedient and very humble servant.
ISAIAH THOMAS.
THE NEWHAMPSHIRE GAZETTEER.
Saturday, October 30, 1790.]
• Treasury Department, Sept. 20, 179°°
Holy Bible.
War Department, Sept, gtb, 1790. ;
INFORMATION is hereby given to
1 all the military Invalids of the United States,
that the sums to which they are annually entitled,
and which will become due on the fourth day of
March ensuing, will be paid on the said day, by
the Commiffiontrs of the Loans within the dates
refpedively, under such regulations as the President
of the United States may direst.
H. KNOX,
Secretary for the Department of War.
an eye witness. ;^
''Y-'HE day after we had passed the tropick of
| Cancer the ceremony usual on that occasion
was- performed by the fhip's people. Those of
them who. had never passed before, were confined
below. ABout three o'clock the ship was hailed
by ths old, man of th tropick, who, being desired by
the officers of the deck to come on board, entered
over the bow, attended by his tuife, whence they
were drawn in their chariot, by a number of sailors,
as Triton!, to the quarter deck, where the captain
and gentlemen received them. Their appearance
was truely ludicrous, having their faces blacked
and painted,, a blanket over their shoulders, byway
of royal robe, and a large swab on their heads in
stead of a crown, the long strands of which hanging
down to their waist, served for hair. After pay
ing their compliments to the captain, and welcom
ing the "fllip to their dominion, they observed that
she was a new ship which had never been there be
forehand that there was a number of n-.v faces
which they had never before seen. The captain
having given his word, that both the ship and the
gentlemen fliould be properly entered, they re
turned forward and proceeded to business.
The jolly boat having been previously filled with
water, and a bucket of tar and grease mixed to
gether, the men who had never passed the tropick
were brought up singly and blindfolded. They
were welcomed with great ceremony by the old
man, who told them that he was glad to fee them,
and would take the liberty to have them foamed
before they went any farther; The candidate was
then placed on a teat across the boat, and his feet
kept from the water, wh^re still blindfolded, he
was lathered with the tar and grease, and shaved
with a notched stick. As soon as this was done the
oath was administered to him, viz.
" That he will to the best of his ability, prove
himfelf a good fellow ; that he will never drink
small beer while he can get strong, unless he likes
the small beer best ; nor eat brown bread while he
can get white, but under the fame pron/fe; that
he will never kiss the maid when be can kiss the
miffrefs, unless he likes the maid best; that he
will never fail in an old ship when he can get a new
one, unless he knows that he is,born to be hanged;
and in fine, that he will never fuffer any man
where he may be, to pass the tropicks or equi
noaial line, for the firft time, without going thro'
the fame ceremonies." ;:
A BONE for L,AWYERS.
LAW REPORT.
Hale, an Attorney, against BallarO. „^
THIS a&ion was brought by the Plaintiff, to
r„dver nine pounds for work and labour done
in his profeffion, for the defendant. Mr. Ballard,
as it appeared in evidence, was an illiterate man,
employed the plaintiff to sue adebt for two guineas.
Mr. Hale proceeded ig this a&ion in the courts at
Westminster, and got the two guineas, which he
retained in part payment of the costs of that action,
and he thought fit to bring the prelent aftion a-
The following Defcriptim of the Ceremony used by
Seamen, on paging the Tropick, is Communicated by
This being done, a speaking trumpet was put
into his hand, and he was told to hail the tropick
.As soon as he got the trumpet to his. mouth, in
bn almost perpendicular elevation, a bucket of
water was thrown into it; and at the fame in
stant, .the feat being pulled from under hin^he fell
backward into the boat filled with water; where
he was very handsomely washed by the bystanders,
which closed the ceremony. .
About half a dozen went through this operation,
which was condoled.with great good humour, and
followed by the parties joining in drinking the
grog.given for the (hip and the gentlemen who en
tered the trapick for the firft time.,
Published by H. Ranlet, in the Main Street, Exeter.
From a London Paper.
MISCELLANY.
The apples after being thrown in a heap
should always be covered from the weather;
The l^er the cyder is made the better, as the
juices are then more perfectly ripened, and less
danger to be feared from fermentation. Nothing
does more harm to cyder than a mixture of rot
ten apples with the found. 1 The apples ought
to be ground so close as to break the feeds,
which gives theliquor an agreeable bitter. The
pumice also, should be pressed through hair
bags, and the juice strained through two sieves,
the uppermost of hair, the louermoft of muslin.
After this the cyder should be put into open calks,
when great attention is necessary to difeover the
exa& time in which the pumice Hill remaining in
the juice rises on the top, which happens from
the third to the tenth day,according as the weather
is more or less warm. This body does not re
main upon the top more than two hours; conse
quently great care should be taken to draw off the
cyder before it finks, which may be done by means
of a plug. -When drawn off, the cyder is put into
calks. Particular; attention is again required to
prevent the fermentation, when the least inclinati-'
on towards it is difeovercd. This may be done
by means of a small quantity of cyder spirits, about ,
one gallon to the hegfhead. In March the cyder
should be again drawn off, when all risk of fermen
tation cerfes. Then it should be put into good
sweet calks, and in three years from that rime it is
fit for bottling. Old wine .calks are to be prefer
red ; those which contained rum arc ruinous to cy
der. • Large earthen jars might be made with or
without glazing, which would be preferable to an,
wooden veffeis whatever.-—1 his is the Engliffi me
thod of making cyder, and when compared with
th, hasty process usual in America, no wonder their
cyder so infinitely excels ours..
Neivyork Paper.
gainft Ballard, for nine pounds, the remaining part
of the costs, so that the plaintiff charged the de
fendant eleven pounds, for recovering for him twa
pounds two shillings. <
The counsel for the defendant juflly reprobated
this condud in severe terms. He said he should do
in this case what palters sometimes did when the,
could not do justice to the fubjeft, he should draw a
veil over the whole tranfadion. This attorney,in
ftead of proceeding in the courts of Westminster hall.
Ought to have advised Mr. Ballard to have reduced
his demand so as to have brought it within the jurif
didion of the court of requests. If he had done this,
it would have been attended only with a trifling:
expense. fl<
Lord Kenyon expressed a jest indignation at the
condu& of the plainriff, and the jury found a ver
di& for the defendant. His Lordship hoped that
the plaintiff, and others in his filiation, would
take care and be more circumfpe& in their conduct
for the future.
<'PHILADELPHIA, OCT. 2.
ON the 18th of August, between the hours of ix
& 1% o'clock A.M. a fire broke out in Madrid,
and continued in such progress in spite of all efforts
to prevent it, that when the post left Madrid at iz
at night, there had been then burnt to the ground
above 800 houses and the fire continued.
The fame day was executed the Frenchman,
who attempted to kill the prime minister the.l3th ;
of June last.
mt—,„,_
From the latest accounts from Europe we have
some reason to expert the restitution of peace to
that continent. If the intelligence refpe&ing the
proceedings of the tongrefs at Riechenbach can be
relied upon, there is the greatest probability that
hostilities will cease between the Austrians, the
Prussians and the Porte. The Empress of Russia
will then stand singly against foes who have already
embarrassed her much, and will probably be oblig
ed to recede from the peremptory terms, on which
alone she has declared that she will make peace. •
The Turks no longer obliged to be upon their
guard against the numerous army of Austria, will
turn their united force against the Empress, whilst
the armies and fleets of Sweden commanded by her
brave monarch, will render, a diwfion of her forces
necessary. Should Prussia unite with the Turks
AMERICAN ADVICES.
Directions, for making CYDER.
PROSPECTS—OF PEACE,
[Vol. V.—Numb. 22s