The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1791-08-26 00:00:00, page 3

^ American Intellience.
GEORGETOWN,JULY 23.
A negro woman, Monday last, bn her
Way from Broad Creek to this town,
was Hoped dy two fellows, a white and
a black, and robbed of her money to the
amount of three or four (hillings, and
were then proceeding to take her clothes,
but on perceiving some perlons come in
fight, they took to the woods without
fully accompliging their purpose. — Not
long before the was robbed, she had met
a girl, of her colour, with both her
ears cut off and then frefii bleeding :—
She informed her that she had been
flopped by two fellows (probably the
lame as mentioned above) who, on
finding she had no money, or an X thing
else of value, through revenge, treated
her in this barbarous manners
Upon the publication of Mr- Burke s
t< Reflexions on the affairs of France,"
Mifi W:llks, whose general taste and
attachment to polite literature are well
known, tranftaced two of the moll lumi«
nous parages of that celebrated perfor
mance, viz. the description of the 6:h
of OXober, and the fine eulogies on
the Queen of France, for the Countess
de la Failure, a French lady of diftind
ion, with whom M, Walks has long
jived in habits of the closest intimacy.
The Countess, after receiving this ver,
valuable prefect from her friend, took
th3 firft opportunity which offered of
waiting on the Queen, and reading
to her the above two paffsges. At the
ift her Majesty dissolved into tears
which foaffcded the Countess that she
could scarcely proceed ; recovering her
felf, however, (he read thro' the second
passage, when her Majesty, no longer
able to contain herfelf, rose from her
feat, and clasping her bands together
in an extacy of fervour, exclaimed—
*' Good God ! am 1 kill so happy as
to be pitied by such brave and illu ftri
bus foreigners ?"
LONDONDERRY MAY 2fo
ON Saturday last Mr. Cox finished
entire the Bridge over the river
Foyle. Wnen we consider the imtnen.
fity of the undertaking; & the Ihortnefs
of the' time in which it has been com
pleted,we cannot oo much admired ap
plaud the genius and execution of this
molt able artist. He began and com
pleted the whole work in a little more
than twelve months, & if a fufficiency of
timber had been always at hand, it
would have been finifhed much footer.
The bridge is yet to be painted, and
the lamps to be put up, and another
toll-gate to ba erected.
Some European hoftili.ies may be
fairly expected from ail the following
circumstances :—The Emperour, by
manifesto, calls upon his Prince to com
bine an army for the honour of the Em
pire. The dates of Holland are no.
unmindful of the state of their navy
Sweden prepares a fleet under the fem
blance of a contrast withß/^fa tooppofc
England from entering thcßaltic. Prtfa
marches an immense army to join En
gland, and hedor Raffia into a peace
with the Turks. The Turks arms, and
re-arms and falls and attacks, and de
fends; and negociations are said to be
daily passing between their great arbi
trators, who look all round and effect
no decifion —while fr^i remains the
glory of freedom, yet trembling at sur
rounding arms half pointed against her
felf, it behoves every nation to be
watchful, left the arms raised by an os
tensible cause, are suddenly turned to
reinstate ariftocratick defpoufm ia her
old intolerance.
LONDON JUNE I.
Last week a grazier be ween B;cef
ter and Oxford who had sustained grea
damage among his lambs, from the
crows, hung up a dead lamb, which he
dressed with poison, in order to destroy
them; the lamb was f>oa afterwards
taken away by a Party of gypsies, all
of whom partook of it ; in consequence
of which, eleven of them died fion as
terwards, and three or four others were
riot expected to recover.
P&ttffrtsraUCTamme^
Foreign Intelligence.
Authentick Anecdote.
WORCESTER, AUGUST 18.
The present very extraordinary (pe
culation in the funds, and the rapid rife
of Bank flock, by which many have
made very large fortunes, has severed
but one very good purpose that we know
of, and that is it has unlocked the iron
chests of monied men, and thrown large
fams of their hoarded cash into circu
lation.
The Retort Courteous, A perfoh who
had " burnt bls fingers," by a too deep
fpeculatjon in Script, beig in conver
sation a few days since, with another
on the fubjeX of the Bank, afted, in
rather a taunting manner, " Pray, Sir,
do you know the true meaning of that
word Script ? " —" No, Sir," replied
the orher, fignificaatly, f cant fay I do
perfe&ly understand the meaning of the
word ; but Ido very perfectly under
stand the meaning of the word Bank
rupt."
The late revolution in Poland, in
favour of the liberties of that country
may justly be considered as anotherin
ftence of the advantage derived to man
kind from the independence of the Uni
ted States, and the reference in the
King's speech to the new Constitution
of this Republick, is a truly honourable
testimony to the wisdom and patriot
ism of the illustrious Convention that
framed it.
Aug. 5. A gentleman of a
worthy character in this city,
whohds bro'tupa large fami
ly of children with great re
putation, was asked by a
friend, what was the secret
he made use of, in the edu
cation and government of his
boy;, to make them so sober
and orderly ?He answered,
" no other than to confine
them to myhoufe after night,
and on Sundays." —This
short reply was full of wis
dom. The principal danger
to the morals and manners
of young people, arises from
their being allowed to go in
to the streets after night, and
from walking and riding
out on jaunts of plealure on
Sundays ; for it is at those
times chiefly that Pandora
opens her box, and lets fly
all her pestilential follies and
vices.
Bank Script has been compared to a
Balloon —We think Common Sense's fi
gure much more applicable ; for it rose
like a Rocket, and fall like its Stick.
We are well informed, that Bright
and D,er, of Burks County, contract
ors for clearing the navigations of the
Lehigh, have made great progress there
in, they have been engaged since the
Bih of July with upwards of 20 hands,
and every thing necessary to com
plete the undertaking. The spirit
with which this department of the
plan for this improvement of the
Roads and Navigation, has been under
taken, has induced the inhabitants of
Luzerne Coun y to survey and mark out
a road near Nanticoke on the Su/quebanna,
to the reared place on the Lehigh be
low the juudion of the great Itreame
Tobzhannah and Bear Cre?k which will,
by fuppofirion not exceed 12 miles, to a
landing for all their produce. Whac
may we not expe& when all the objeds
of improvement in roads and navigation
already proposed, are accomplished?
This contras of Weighs and Dyer ap
pear, to be of the fi:2 importance to
the date,as a water carriage will thereby
be obtained for the whole produce of a
flourishing country,u hich will all centre
in Philadelphia, as well as furnishing an
inexhaustible fcurce of very valuable
timber on and near the Lehigh.
PHILADELPHIA; AUGUST 8.
BOSTON, AUGUST 20.
, 1 2 93 2
Among the white inhabitants
are 51 feerfens above 60 years
of age now alive, (nearly 1 in
33^ = ~,
Number of dwelling and fe
derate flore- boufes, exclusive of
Public-buddings, 437.
Bill or Mortality from the ift
July, 1790, to ift July
. . ,79^
White inhabitants above
1
Cen/us of the City of Savannah,
in Georgia, ffan. 1, 1791.
White males above 16
years of age, 657,
under 310 '967
Ditto Jemales, 474,
under 271 745
Free negroes, mulattoes,
meflizoes of all ages,
and /exes 116
Negro and other saves
of all ages and Jexes 1104
the age of 50 years. 14'
under 50 & above 14 25 >55
under 14 years I 6„
Strangers or tranfent
persons, goj
Seamen, 2 3J''
N, B. Among the stran
gers there was I accidentally
killed, and 6 seamen drowned.
Containing feme general rules and di
re&ions, necessary to be known and
obferved* by all the justices of the
"Peace throughout the United States.
And as there has an Aft puffed the
General Court of this State at their
last session, enjoining it upon all justi
ces of the peace within this State to
keep a regular record of all their
proceedings, they will undoubtedly
think it an indifpenfible duty for every
justice to procure one of those excellent
books, where their duty is fully and
clearly pointed out, and inftruded how
to proceed tn all anions which do or
may come before them, and that the
general interest of the United States
may be advanced, and the purchaser
benefited, he i§ induced (from are
queft ofa number of the members of
the General Court and justices of the
peace in the State) to fabmit to the
public coafideration the following
PROPOSALS,
For printing by fubfeription;
An abrigment of
BURNS's
JUSTICE of the PEACE,
AND
PARISH OFFICER:
THE Bible (hid the late King of
Prvffiu) is a ftaff, which God put into
the hands of blindmen, to guide their
ftepa. But they, iaftead of applying it
to that use, immediately began to wran
gle and dispute about its length, breadth,
and thickness ; and concluded by
knocking each other over the pate with
it.
At a diftria meeting held
at Northwood, the Bth inst.
Jonathan Clark, Esq. was
chosen to repiefent Ep/om,
Northwood and Alienftown, in
Convention at Concord, in
September next.
EXETER, (Friday)Zag. 26.
To which is Added,
An APPENDIX,
State oj 1\ ew-Hampfcire.
PUBLIC notice is hereby
given,that a petition hath
been prefened to the General
Court, by a Committee ap
;pointed by the Proprietors of
Unity, setting forth—That
in the year 1764 the proprie
tors of the town of Kings
town received from the inha
bitants of Hampftead a Deed
of the laid town of Unity, for
and in consideration of said
proprietors' quitting their
claim to the lands claimed by
laid inhabitants of Hamp
ftead, and that laid deed is
loft and no record thereof can
be found, except on laid Uni
ty proprietors' book—They
therefore pray, that an attest
ed copy of said deed, taken
from said proprietors' book,
and recorded in the County
records in the county of Che
shire, may be considered to all
intents and purposes as good
and valid as if the original
deed had 'oeen duly recorded
in said County records.
Upon which petition, the
General Court ordered, that
they may be heard thereon,
before them, on the Third
Thursday of the next session
—and that they cause the
substance of said petition and
order of Court to be publish
ed three weeks fucceffivek in
one of the New-Hampshire
Newspapers—and also that a
copy of laid petition and or
der of court be polled up in
the towns of Hampftead and
Unity, the like teim of time;'
fix weeks prior to the fitting
of said court, that any period
or persons may then appear
& shew cause why the prayer
thereof should not be granted^
Attest, Joseph Pearson;
June. 1791. [SeOfc
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