The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1789-09-05 00:00:00, page 4

^Throughout the east you gain applause
And soon the Old World taught by
0 far thou great exalted name!
What mafe can boast of equal lays.
Thy" worth disdains all vulgar fame,
Tranfeends the noblest poet's praise,
Artioars, unequal to the flight,
Anftgenius sickens at the height.
Not less in wisdom than in war
Freedom (hall dill employ your mind,
Slavery (hall vanish wide and far,
'Till not a trace is left behind ;
Your coanfels not bellow'd in vain
Shall still protest this infant reign.
$6 when the bright all cheering fun
From our contrasted view retires,
Tho' fools may think his race is run,
On other worlds he lights his fires ;
Cold crimes beneath his influence
glow,
And frozen rivers learp to flow.
Yourfame,thus spread-to distant lands,
May envy's fierceft blasts endure,
Like Egypt's pyramids it Stands,
Built on a basis more Secure ;
Time's latest age Shall own in you
The patriot and the statesman too.
Despising pomp and vain parade
At home you Stay, while France &
Spain
The secret ardent with convey'd,
And hail'd you to their mores in
vain: N
In Vernon's graves you than the throne
Admir'd by kings'Dut feet; by none.
Noe hurry from the busy scene,
Where thy PetowmacPs waters flow
May'd thou enjoy thy rural reign.
And every earthly blessing know ;
Thus Hr* who Rome's proud legions
Gray'd,
Return'd, and fought his sylvan (hade.
ForStates redeem'd—our weftern reign
Reftor'd by thee to milder sway,
Th, confcioas glory shall remain
When this great globe is swept
away,
And all is loft that pride admires,
And all the pageant scene expires.
• Cineinnatus.
CfoMMfifelfe^i^^
Will court a little bit.
S ON,G.
I HO'yoang and old may loud ex-
And fay it is unfit ; (claim,
Yet can you tell me where's the flume
To court a little bit?
you,,
Shall blush to own her barbarous laws,
Shall learn instruction from the New.-
Monarchs Shall hear the humble plea,
Nor urge too far for the proud decree.
Where'er the convex ocean flows,
To indian worlds by seas embrac'd,
And Tartar, tyrant of the wane.
In fuelling verse let kings be read
And princes thine in polic'd pfofe;
Without such aid your triumph Spread
plain,_
Prepar'd to conquer, or to die—
Heroes arose—bat none like you;
Could save our lives & freedom too;
Ere war's dread horrours ceas'd to
reign
What leader could your place sup
ply ?—
Chiefs crowded to the embattled
WHEN Faaion rear'd her Shaky
h ea d .
And join'd with tyrants to destroy,
Where'er you march'd the monster fled
Fearful her arrows ta employ ;
Hotts catch'd from you a bolder flame
And despots trembled at your name.
ADDRESS TO HIS EXCELLENCY GEN
eral WASHINGTON in h
PIITT the Basis if Virtue.
TH E necessity of virtue to the
happiness of society, was (hewn
in a former number. It is no lets evi
dent that a belief of, and regard to
the government of a Deity, is the on
ly sure foundation of virtue. What
motive can there be fufficient to en
gage men in the general pra^d
sobriety, justice, integrity
cence, and to retrain th^d
contrary vices, if they
lieve the doctrines of a A
meat and a future retre
beauty and reafonableA
and its tendency to tU;/
mankind in private
though an argument j
importance, yet is,
too refined to be cW
and in other refped I
ed to be strongly
used to fiich fpect,
already formed to
temper. But the coni
ever present Deity, wh ■
righteous government irq
and will bring his rationaiV
I solemn judgment, and diq
rewards and punishments in,,
equitable manner, according V
real charaaers, is an argument M
fill weight, and level to the Idweura
pacity. To talk of virtue indepAr
dent of piety, is as absurd in morals,;
as it is, in nature, to talk often ani ;
mal that lives without breath. But|
how (hall a fcafe of the Deity, his
perfections and providence, and a fu
tore state, be generally diffufed and
maintained among & people, so as to
A NEGRO Man in the county of
Plymouth, who was remarkably
ferioas & conscientious, in a Short time
after he was married, difeovered he
had been fatally fuccefsful as well as
early in some of his amorous inter,
views, for behold, his wife was just
on the verge of motherhood, —The
poor husband, smitten with a woeful
sense of this fin of com million—polled
to his Minister as soon as possi ble, and
began his address to him with " O
dear mafTa—me dreftl wicked— me
wants confeffion."—Why, Toby,faid
the Minister, what is the matter. —
"Q mafi," cried Toby with a deep
sigh, 66 my wife he go hab baby too
quick." Ah ! Toby, said theMinifter,
I am very sorry for you, but you had
better wait till the child is born.—
" No dear maffa," replied Toby,—
"me confefs now—me feel berry much
bad."— Accordingly the Minister
drew up a confeffion, which was read
publicity the Sunday following—up
on which Toby's twinges all left him
as is usual in such cases—but soon af
ter his wife was brought to bed with
twins —here was a new affliction for
poor Toby—away he went to the
Minister again—ag full of remorse as
ever, and opened his case anew—fay
ing, " Rebere fir, me want more con
feffion—my wife he got two baby."
—The Minister told him the other
confeffion was enough for both—and
Toby, after much perfuation was rea
soned down to a quiet conscience a
second time. This is an absolute fa&.
He must be true, he mutt be kind,
He mast my fancy hit ;
When such an honest foul I find,
We'll court a little bit.
And on my word, to tell the truth,
1 freely Should admit, %
The ever gay and gentle youth.
Would court a little bit.
For well I know, since life began,
Love was the feurce of wit,
And all the folks together ran.
To court a little bit.
^REFOR MER.
A N EC DO T E.
NUMBER 11.
(Continued.)
become a principle prompting them
to virtue, without some public forms
of social worship ? No means can be
imagined so conducive to this end, as
that divine institution, which requires
us, at stated times, to intermit the
common labours and amusements of
life, and unite in acknowledging the
fapreme governour of the Universe,
tn paying our devout adorations to
him, and in hearing our duty to him
and to one another inculcated upon
us. The sabbath is an institution co
eval with man's creation ; revived in
the time of Moses, numbered with
and placed on the fame foot as the
most important moral precepts, and
constantly observed by the great found
er of the chriftian dispensation and by
his servants, whom he immediately
authorifed to diffeoyinat ehis religion
in the world. The observance of a
sabbath and .of social worship, is of
such importance to the preservation of
religion, and to the happiness of a
people, that God enjoins it as a gr^nd
condition of his favour, and second
only to a belief of his existence. 6 ft
foall make no idols—l am the Lord your
God. Ye Jhall keep my fabbatbs and
reverence m, fanauary ; I am the Lord,
If ,e foall walk in my statutes, then <wiH
I give you rain in due Jeafon, and the'
land foall yield her increase; ,e /ball
dwell therein fafily. I will jet my ta
bernacle among you, and myfal /ball nut
abhor you.' If fabbaths, social wor
ship and publick instructions Should be
difeontinued, ignorance, vice and sa
vageness of manners would soon ensue
—virtue and even civility would, in
a great measure, be loft ; government
would either be subverted, or changed
into downright tyranny ; Society mutt
either disband, or be heli together by
absolute force. For as there can be
no piety without the worship of the
Deity, nor real virtue without piecy ;
so there can be no voluntary union
nor mutual confidence in society with
out virtue, and consequently no go
vernment but that which is of the
most arbitrary kind confiding in mere
force and violences
Strayed or Stolen,
pROM the fubferiber,
on the night of the 18th indent, a
pale red coloured GELDING, aboui
12 years old, 14 hands high, dark
main and tail, has a large blaze in hi!
face, trots and paces, has large wind
galls on his hind legs. Any person
who will take up said horse and con
vey him to the fubferiber, (hall receive
FOUR DOLLARS reward and all
FOUR DOLLARS reward
By the pri:^^hsfe o f> a few p^ffOT
SHEEP'sWOOL.
Blanks of mos forts may
be bad at H. Ranlet's office as cheap
as at an, office in the fate. ^
y^TPublic Auction, by
licence from.the Hon. Judge of
Probate, on the 7th of September
next, 3 o'clock, p. m. at the house of
Isaac Williams, the remainder of
that Land belonging to the eflate of
Benjamin Jenkins, late of Exeter,
tyteafed, to answer the caims against
&late. Exeter, Aug. 20.
E^C NOTICE'
Thereby given, that the Vendue
■ch was held at Lieut. Sum#J
Loudon, the 28th of May
the (ale of non-refidentlands
Blown, is adjourned to A^m^
th of September next, 2 o'clock,
■at the house of Joseph Smiths
■1 said Loudon.
JOSEPH TILTON, C^JZ
Don, August 26, 1789.
■ONAWAY—'
■OM me the fubferiber, an ap
prentice boy, named JEREMI
„KENESTON, about 17 years
had on when he went away, an
be coloured Coat and Breeches and
flintz Waistcoat. Whoever will take
up said runaway and convey him to
his mafler, (hall have ONE PENNY
reward, and no charges paid.
Q ALL persona are forbid harbor
ing or trailing him on my account as
they would avoid the penalty of the
law. SAMUEL PIPER.
LOUDON, JULY 21, 1789.
Y^E the fubferibers be
ing appointed Commiffionera
by the Hon. Phillips Whits, Efy.
Judge of Probate of Wills, &c. for the
county of Rockingham, to receive and
examine the claims of the several cre
ditors to the estate of WARD COT
TON WEEKS, late of Exeter, Clo
thier, deceased, represented infoivent,
hereby give notice—That we will at
tend that business at the dwelling.
House of Mr. Benjamin Lamsoit,
innholder in said town, the last TherL
day of this, and the last Thursday df
the five following months, from three
to fix o'clock, P. M.
ELIPHALET HALE,
WILLIAM PARKER, fa
Exeter, August 18, 1789.
IS hereby given, That a Petition
has been presented to the General
Court, by Nathan Hoit, Esq. Q
behalf of the Inhabitants of Moulton
borough, praying—That they mty
have liberty to Tax the Lands of the
Non residents in said town, at ONE
PENNY per Acre, for the term ts
Two Years, for the purpose of mak
ing Bridges, and repairing Roads
through said non residents lands'
Upon which petition the General
Court ordered, that the petitioner
may be herd thereon before them on
the Second Thursday of their next ses
sion, and that in the mean time Ire
cawfe the fabftance of Said'petition and
Order of Court thereon, to be publish
ed three weeks fecceffi vely in one #
the Newhampthire newspapers, prior
to the fitting of said Court, that any
person may then appear and' Shew
cause, if any they have, why tire
prayer of said petition Should not be
granted. Attest:
Exeter, Augufthyb, 1789.
STATE of Newhampshtrl
PUBLIC NOTICE
Auction.
TOBE SOLD,
JOSEPH PEARSON, &&
^3 Take Notice.