The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1789-10-10 00:00:00, page 4

Thus friends, who think on Gene
fee,
Or with within that place to be,
Go view the fame before you buy,
Then come and tell me if [ lie.
A Friend to Truth.
And ds for water in such (tore,
'Tis like a sea without a (hore,
Qf colour red and strong as lye,
ps goodness you may tell thereby.
'Tis full of lakes you'll understand,
Which makes one third thereof drown'd
land,
A country calculated well
For fevers, agues, I can tell.
The next for venison so good,
There are a few within the wood,
Yet rare it is to find their haunt,
Or get it if you starve for want.
And as for fi(h they tell so much,
Can scarcely pass your very touch ;
True fuckers often there I fee,
The largest of their progeny.
But as to salmon, trout and pike,
They told there never was the like,
I never saw them in the place,
To cheer my eyes or please my taste.
There are some ducks 'tis very true,
So shy they'll nothing have to do
With any mortal near.the land,
But keep at distance on the strand.
'There's dippers, loons, ravens and
Blanks of most forts ma,
be bad at H.R anlet's office as cheap
as at a ft office in she ftatc._ .____^
But then, if interval you crave,
With it poor upland you mult have,
The foil so (hallow that I'll swear,
Two inches deep 'twill scarcely bear.
birds,
Not for to make too many words,
That you will find within the place
To cheer your mind, or please your
taste.
crows,
The thickest place that mortal knows,
As also owls and whig-o-wiils,
That found their evening notes so
shrill.
Then comes a solid (land of clay,
Call this but good, no more I'll fay ;
And as for orchards in that place,
Perhaps a hundred trees you'll trace.
That boatmen kill'd them as they
row'd,
I've seen the whole, am fatisfy'd,
Those who talk thus have always ly'd ;
Tho' prejudic'd, as I was then,
In its favor, ftili believe my pen.
First as to land they call so good,
So easy for to raise your food ;
True there are some within that line
Os interval exceeding fine.
Who would not wish for such a land,
To make their fortune,yes their stand ;
But flop a while, the truth I'll tell,
Those who speak thus they lie like h—,
'Twas Genefee, was all the cry,
Thither with rapture 1 must fly.
For none on earth was call'd so good,
Provisions grew within the wood.
Lands ready clear'd,one half manur'd
Orchards all blooming were enfur'd,
Venison and fifh in plenteous (tore
Were easily caught upon the ihore,.
An impartial account of that part cf uor
Weftern Territory kno<wn by the name
of Genefee.
I Like a fool, in middle age,
Sac out this spring on pilgrimage,
To search for lands was my intent,
The best that mortals could invent.
With stones and flicks as they pafs'd by,
T'is was the universal cry.
These are the chief of beasts and
Fowls, ducks and geefe,Hew in such
crowd,
From the Hudson Gazette.
England.
LONDON, AUGUST 5.
The unhappy effe^ produced
by the Duke of Dorfet's let
ter is such, that every gen
erous Englishman will read
with pleasure the following
extras from a Speech made
in the National Assembly on
the occasion.
"A People who owe their
name to the antique frank
nefs of their ancestors, are
at length determined tofhake
off the unworthy chains with
which tyrants have loaded
their arms. It is no longer
the leaguing and seditious
people armed by fanaticifm
against themselves under C.
IX. and Henry 111. It is no
longer the people of the
Fronde, who basely harnes
sed to the car of Louis XIV.
holds out to Europe the con
vulsions of an^energy which
slaves never can possess. It
is no longer the People, who
under Louis XV. fang their
defeats and victories in the
fame tone. Itis a brave Peo
ple, who, after a long capti
vity, awaken to the remem
brance of their being born
freemen, who wish to be free
—and will perish or attain
their object
"And who will take upon
them to oppose so refpefla
ble an energy? Can it be
you, you frank and courage
ous nation, who have fpilt
such seas of blood for Li
berty? Oh, Englishmen! the
error of a moment has made
us presume it possible. The
wicked system of Court Pol
icy, an ancient and foolifh
irivalfhip, which ages have
been unable to destroy, in
duced us to dread an event
which would have di (honor
ed the glorious caufeof free
dom and humanity. But all
our doubts are at an end :
Our ardor will be doubled
by possessing your esteem &
approbation. Your worthy
representative has taught us
yesterday— That the bravefl
ration in the world is also the
most generous !"
Aug. 10. The current
news at Constantinople is,
that Karon Mirfa,. the Sul
tan of Persia, the declared
enemy to Mahometan fefta
ries, having overrun all Kur
distan, and taken 12,000
slaves, has laid siege to Bag
dar ; while another Persian.
Foreign Intelligence.
HIS Britannick Majesty's
present prime minister is
fufficiently notorious for the
poffitivenefs with which he
delivers and supports his
opinion. The Chancellor
once rebuked him in his own
way. Mr. Pitt was disputing
at a cabinet dinner, on the
energy and beauty of the
Latin language : In support
of the superiority which he
affirmed it to have over the
English, he averted that two
negatives made a thing more
poffitive than one affirma
tive possibly could. ' Then,'
said the Lord Chancellor,
'your father and mother
must have been two nega
tives to have made fuah a
positive fellow as you are.'
The following account of
a singular method of taking
a thief, lately praftifed by
Mons. De Frenzie, of this
place :- —" He was met one
evening by a man, who de
sired him to deliver his mo
ney, or he would blow his
brains out. Mons. de F. im
mediately complied with the
request, and afythe fame time
told him, as he did not ap
pear like a common robber,
he fancied he was some gen
tleman in distress, &; there
fore offered to deposit 20
guineas for him in a certain'
part of his garden hedge, if
he would come and take it
that day fortnight, which
was accordingly agreed to.
Mon f. de F. got three ffeel
straps, and placed twoin the
ground where he must stand
to get the money, and one
under the money,fo that when
the thief came to take the
deposit, he was caught by
both legs and one hand, and
remained there until he was
secured and taken to gaol."
WANTED,
By the printer hereof, a few pounds
SHEEP's WOOL.
arrqy has blockaded the city
of Baffora, one of the richest
ports in the Turkish domin
ions. To these storms from
the East, the Grand Signibr
appears indifferent, all his
attention being directed to
wards Europe.
Extract of a letter from Port
au-Prince.
NOW IN THR PRESS,
And quill immediate^, be publifotd.
Weatherwife's Genuine
ALMANACK,
Far 1790.
ANECDOTE.
Whereas application hath been
made to me the fubferiber,
one of the yunices of the
Peace for the county afore
laid, by the proprietors and
o timers of more than onefix
teenth part of the town/hip
of Effingham,requeuing that
a meeting of said proprietors
be notified and call'd as soon
as may be.
A Greeable to said appli
cation and request, I do
hereby notify and warn all
the Proprietors aforefaid, to
meet at the house of Weare
Drake, Esq. in said town,on
Thursday the 29th day of
October next, for the pur
poses following, viz.
I. To choose a Modera
tor to govern said meeting.
2. A Proprietors'. Clerk.
3. To chufe and impower
a committee to adjust and
fettle all accounts open with
any of the Proprietors and
Collectors, and to ask, de
mand, lue for, and recover
unto final judgment, any &
all the monies due from any
former collector or collect
tors to said Proprietors.
4. To fee if said Proprie
tors will appropriate the
money that shall be found
due from said collectors or
Proprietors, to the use of
building a^Meeting-Houfe
in said Effingham, and to
empower a committee to lay
out said money to provide
Nails, Glass, &c. for said
meeting-house.
5. To fee if they will
raise by vote any money or
labour toward building said
meeting-house, and repair
ing and making Roads in
said town.
6. To chose a Collector
and Assessor.
WEARE DRAKE,
TNforms his Customers—
-1 that his present engage
ments will expire the 17th
instant. He requests ALL
to fettle up previous to that
date (according to the num
ber of Papers they shall have
then received) that he may
be enabled to answer the de
mands of the Printer.
Exeter, October 2.
Samuel Bean,
State of Newhampfhire.
Strafford—ff.
Pofl-Rider,
(Juface Peace.