The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1791-10-14 00:00:00, page 1

, Newhampfhire
I FRIDAY, October 14, 1791.]
nOHE Commissioners ori
, 1 the tftate of Stephen L.
Creighton, hereby give notice,
, That the time for receiving
accounts against said estate is
lengthened out O^e Month
from this day.
Exeter, Sept. 22, 1791.
•
Broken open between the 17th
and 27th infl, the House
'of the Jubfcriber, and federal
Notes of Hand to the amount
of twelve pounds, taken there,
from, viz.—•
A note of HAND a
gainft William Gordon,
of Pit tsfield,for E/g^ Pounds
nine foillings. —A Note against
Samuel Sfflif^ofGilmantown,
for Two Pound eight foillings,
with some indorsement on it.
Alio, a Note for twelve foil
lings, with fix fhillirigs in,
dorfed. A Note against
John Burley, of Gilmantown,
for twelve /hillings.—A Note
againft' Richard Dolloft of
New-Pennycook, for tenfold-
Z%s.^-—Whoever will detect
the above Notes and ,return
them to the owner, shall re
ceive Six Dollars reward.
JOSEPH GORDON.
Eveer, Seot. 29. 1791.
For the Life of Religious Assemblies and
Private Christians—being a collection by
Joshua Smith —and others.
The Third Exeter Edi ion corre^ed—
with an A'diion of THIRSr.TWO
HYMNS —containing in the whole, 145
Hymns of various metres.
, Printed and Sold at the Printing Of
fice in Exeter, by wholesale or retail—
Sold alio by Mr. Samuel Sleeper, at his
house in Poplin. October 7.
Smith's Hymns.
ALL persons indebted to,
or have demands against
the eflate of Samuel Brown,
late of Hampton, deceased,
are requeued to fettle imme
diately with the subscriber.
Theodore Brown, Executor.
Hampton, Sept. 6,1791. _
^ V vfy Pukltfeed, , : •
Divine hymns-or,
SPIRITUAL SONGS;
B, 'Benj. Boardman.
Exeter, August 18. 1791.
C AS H, or
LINSEED OIL,
EXETER, (New-Hamp[hire) Printed and Published by HENRY RANLET, at Nine Shillings per annum.
Flax-Seed,
Burglary.
GIVEN FOR
In the great and beautiful town
Epping, is
,^^ &Farm
be fold—66
^^^^^ acres,with.build
ings and* orchards —with (or
without) stock, hay and corn,
lying on both sides the road
leading from Portsmouth to
Coos-College and N°° 4 —
near 7 miles from salt water 1
^uefi. Is it too level? No;
yet well watered—Heaving
with moderate degradation
down to its centre —compos-
ing beautiful wash-land, af
fording near two tons per
acre. If any gentleman is
inclined to purchase said lit
tle Patten, he may depend
cn being well used and gen
tleman-like treated—by
WHEREAS I the fab.
scriber did, in the
month of June or July last,
give to Jo/eph Dearborn of
North-Hampton, a power of
attorney to appear for me in
all cases moved or to be mov
ed for me or.againft me,
and jn my name to appear,
plead and pursue to final
Judgment and Execution—
I do now absolutely revoke
the fame. David Page.
^itnefs;
Simon Wiggin,.
Christopher Page,
Exeter, OflobeQ, 1791.
English & W. India"
GOO D S,
With other Articles,
to be Sold very reasonable for
Case & Country Produce,
BROKE into theenclofure
of the fubferiber, about
the firft instant, a, brindle
colour'd STEER, two years
old—the owner may have
him again by proving pro
perty and paying charges,
BARZILLAI FRENCH.
1^,% Sept. 1791.
, BY
% tburfton,jr.
Trotr.Hiil, Exmr, Sept, if, 1791.
JOHN GIDDINGE.
Exeter, Sept. 28. 1791..
ADVERTISEMENT.
Stra, Steer.
TAKE NOTICE!
THE
Being an ANSWER to Mr.
Burks's ATTACK on the
FRENCH REVOLUTION.
By Thomas Paine,
Secretary for Foreign Affairs to Congress
in the American War, and Author of
the Work entitled Common Senje.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Presidents, the United Sta tes^
America.
sir, .. r
I PRESENT you a final! Treatise in
defence of those Principles of Free
dom which your exemplary Virtue hath
so eminently contributed to establish.
That the Rights of Man may become
as universal as your Benevol ence can
wish, and that you may enjoy the Hap
piness of feeing the New World regene
rate the Old, is the Prayer of
Sir,
Your much obliged, and
Obedient humble Servant,
THOMAS PAINE.
AFTER feme prefatory remarks, Mr.
Jefferfon the Secretary of State, in a note
to a Printer in Philadelphia,accompanying
a cop, of this Pamphlet for republicati
on, objerves : \ <.
" I am extremely pleased to find it nvdl
" be reprinted here, and that Something is
" at length to be publickly said against the
" political herefes ^which have sprung up
" among us.
" l have no doubt our citizens toll rally
" a second time round the standard of
" Common Sense."
AMONG the incivilities by which
nationsor individuals provoke and
irritate each other, Mr. Burke's pamph
let on the French Revolution is an ex-
traordinary instance. Neither the peo
ple of France, nor the National Assem
bly, were troubling themselves about
the aftdirsof England, or the English
Parliament ; and why Mr. Burke should
commence an unprovoked attack upon
them, both in parliament and in public,
is a conduct that cannot be pardoned on
the ffore of manners, ner juftified on
that of policy.
there is scarcely an epithet of abuse
tq be found ih the English language,
with which Mr. Burke has not loaded
the French nation and. the National
Assembly. [Every thing which rancour,
prejudice, ignorance or Knowledge could
fuggeft' are poured forth in the copious
fury of near four hundred pages, In
the strain and on the plan Mr. Burke
was writing, he might have wrote on
to as many thousands. When the tongue
or pen is let lopfe in a phrenzy of pas
sion, it is the man, and not the fubjeft,
that beomes exhausted.
Hitherto Mr Burke has been miffa
ken and disappointed in the opinions he
had formed of the affairs of France ;
but fuchis the ingenuity of bis hope, or
the malignancy of his despair, that it
furnifhes him with new pretences tb go
on. There was a time ,when it was
impossible to make Mr. Burke believe
there would be any revolution in France.
His opinion then was, that the French
had neither spirit to undertake it, nor
fortitude to fopport it ; and now that
there is one, he seeks an escape by con
demning it.'.
Not fufficiently content with abusing
the National Assembly, a great part of
his work is taken op with abusing Dr.
Price, (one of the best hearted men that
lives) and the two Societies in England,
RIGHTS of MAN:
, x [Numb. 15 of Volume 6—
Gazetteer.
known by the name of the Revolution
and the Conflitutional Societies.
Dr. Price had preached a sermon on
the 4th of.November, 1789, being the
anniversary of what is called in England
the Revolution which tock place 1638,
Mr. Burke, {peaking of this sermon,
fays, " The political Divine proceeds
'' dogmatically to assert, that, by the
'' principles of the Revolution, the peo
'' ple of England have acquired three
" fundamental rights :
''l. To chufe our own governors.
'' 2. To chafhier them for mifccn
da&. ,
" 3, To frame a government for our
(elves."
Dr. Price does not fay that the right
to do these things exifls in this or in
that person, or in this or in that descrip
tion of persons, but that it extfts in
the whole ; that it is a right resident
in the nation.—Mr. Burke, on the
contrary, denies that such a right ex
ists in the nation/ either in whole or in
part, or that it exists any where ; and
what is still more strange and marvel
lous, he fays," that the people of Eng
" land utterly disclaim such a right,
" and that they will refill the practical
'• assertion of it with their lives and
'' fortunes." Tfit men should take up
arms, and spend their lives and fortunes,
not to maintain their rights, but to
maintain they have nor rights, is an en
tire new species of difeovery, and sui
ted to the paradoxical genius of Mr.
Burke.,
The m thod which Mr. Burke takes
to prove that the people of England
have no such rights, and that such rights,
do not now exist in the nation, either in
part, or anywhere at all, is of the fame
marvellous & monfterous kind with what
he has already said ; for his arguments
are, that the persons, or the generation
of persons, in whom they did exift,ire
dead, and with them the right is dead
also. To prove this, he quotes a decla
ration made by parliament about A hun
dred years ago, to William and Mary,
in these words: "The Lords spiritual
" and tempgral, and Commons, do, in
'' the name of the people aforefaid,
" ( meaning the people of England then
"living) mod humbly and faithfully
“submit themselves, their keirs and pof
" terites for ever.'? He also quotes a
cause of another aft of parliament made
in the fame reign, the terms of which,
he fays, " binds us, (meaning the peo
" ple of that day) our heirs and our pos
terity to them, ther heirs and poverty, to
the end of time."
Mr. Burke conceives his point fuffici
ently established by producing those
clgufes, which he enforces by faying
that they exclude the right of the na.
tion for ever : and not yet content with
making such declarations, repeated o
yer and over again, be farther fays,
" that if the people of England posses
sed such a right before the Revolution,"
(which he acknowledges to have been
the case, not only in England, but
throughout Europe, ; at an early period)
'' yet that the Engli/b nation did, at the
" time of the Revolution, most solemn
" ly renounce and abdicate, it, for
themselves, and for all their feo/lerit, fare,
ver.”.,. [
iAs Mr. Burke occasionally applies
the poison drawn from his horrid prin
ciples (if it is not a prophanation to
call them by the name of principles)
not only to the Englilh. nation but the
French Revolution and the National
Assembly, and charges that august, illu- •
minuted and illuminating body of men
with the epithet of ufarfcertyl&aW jam
ceremonie, place another fyfem of prin
ciples in opposition to hjs.
The English Parliament of 1688 did
certain thing, which for themselves a*4
their constituents, they had a ri?ht tri
do, and which it appeared right fbtfd