The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1789-09-19 00:00:00, page 4

Answer to the Rebus proofed in las
tank's Gazetteer.
''T'WAS Tyre which was noted
for commerce of old
An ALE-WIFE will render a Taun
tonite bold ;
Ulyssas was fubtile, (in Homer
'tis ihown)
And the Neigh of an house gain'd
Darius his crown,
Honed Tar is a title to Sailors ap
p!y'd
Omphale a Queen 'for whom Her
cules figh'd,
And the Nail of your finger (a com
ical notion)
May with justice be call'd a perpetu
al motion 1
The Initials of these, Sir, will give
you a Town
Os fame, wealth and riches, whose
greatest renown
Arose from a FISH :—lt is TRUE on
my word ! _
And what is it's name? Why 'tis
Taunton, Good Lard!
BE it ena&ed b, the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United
States of America, in Congress assembled,
That in all cases in which by the said
ordinance any information is to be
given, or communication made by the
Governour of the said territory to the
United States in Congrsfs aflembled,
or to any of their officers, it (hall be
the duty of the said Governour to give
such information and to make such
communication to the President of the
United States ; andihe President shall
nominate, and, by & with the advice
& copfeatof the Senate, shall appoint
aH officers which by the said ordinance
were to have been appointed by the
United States in Congress affemhled,
and all officers so appointed, (hall be
commissioned by him; and in all cases
where the United States in Congress
assembled, might, by the said ordi
nance, revoke any commission or re
move from any office, the President is
hereby declared to have the fame pow
ers of revocation and removal.
And be it further enaaed, That in
cases of the death, removal, resignati
on, or necessary absence of the Go
vernor of the said territory, the secre
tary thereof shall be, and he is hereby
authorifed and required to execute all
the powers and perform all the duties
of the Governour, during the vacancy
eccafioned by the removal, resignati
on or necessary absence of the Gover
nour of the said territory, the Secreta
ry thereof shall be, and he is hereby
authorized and required to execute all
the powers, and perform all the du
ties of the Governour, during the va
cancy occasioned by the removal, re^
fignation or necessary absence of the
said Governour.
Frederick A. Muhlinburg,
Speaker of t/se House of Representatives.
JOHN ADAMS, Vice-Prefdent
of the United States, and
Prefdent of the Senate.
Approved — August 7th, 1789,
GEORGE WASHINGTON,
Prefdent of the United Stata.
Congress of the United States.
Begun and held at the city of Newyork,
on Wednesday the 4th day of March,
>7 8 9-
& ACT to provide for the Government
of the Territory North Weft of the ri
ver OHIO.
Whereas in order that the ordinance of
the United States in Congress affem
bled,for the government of the territory
north weft of the river OHIO ma,
continue to have full effia, it is requi
fte that certain prouifans foonld be
made so as to adapt the fame to the pre
sent Constitution of the United States.
BIGHTH ACT of CONGRESS.
MANKIND cannot subsist with
out society, nor can society
without government. If there were
no way to controul the felfifhnefa,
check the passions and restrain the vi
ces of men, they would soon become
so intolerable to one another, that they
must difperfc, and, being dispersed,
must periih or be miserable. Govern
ment is a combination of the whole
community against the,vices of each
particular member. The design ofit
is not merely to provide for the general
defence againtt foreign .power, but to
exercise a controul over each member,
to restrain him from wrong and com
pel him to right, so far as common
fafety requires. Mankind, by enter
ing into society and coming under go
vernment, put the prote&ion of their
rights and the redrefrof their wrongs
out of their own hands, and instead of
defending or recovering their rights
by private force, they agree to submit
to the more impartial decificn of the
society, or of those whom the society
has constituted Judges.
That a peopte may be free and hap
py under government, they mutt be
wife and virtuous. A well framed,
constitution may be some security ;
the wisdom and virtue of the people is
a greater. A virtuous people may
subsist under a mild government ; a
corrupt, and vicious people must be
ruled with rigour. They who are go
verned by rational principles of thier
own,need but little other government,
they who are wholly destitute of filth
principles must be governed by exter
nal force and terrour. ' The law is,
not made for a righteous man, but
for the lawlefs.'
We have, by force, repelled a fo
reign encroachment on our liberties,
and established a government of our
own. Whether we shall be fafe and
happy now, depends much more on
our own conduct, than on the form of
government, which we have adopted,
or any other that can be devised,
We (hould always be careful to
commit the Powers of government in
to the hands of wife and virtuous men
for it is manifeftly absurd to trust the
common fafety with those, whose a
bility and integrity would not enti
tle them to our confidence in private
life.
An ACT providing for the EXPEN
CES which ma, attend NEGOCI
- or TREATIES with the
INDIAN PRIMES, and the ap.
pointment of COMMISSIONERS
for managing the fame.
BE it enabled by the Senate and Haufe
of Rfrefentatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled.
That a sum not exceeding twenty
Thousand dollars, arising from duties
on imports and tonnage, fha|l be, and
the fame is hereby appropriated to de
fraying the expence of negociating
and treating with the Indian tribes.
And be it farther enaAed, That each
of the Commissioners who may be ap
pointed for managing such negocia
tions and treaties, shall be entitled to
an allowance,executive of his expences
at the place of treaty of eight dollars
per day dhriog his a&ual service, to
be paid out Os the monies so appropri
ated.
FREDERICK A.MUHLENBURG,
Speaker of the House of Represent atives.
JOHN ADAMS, Pice-Prfedent
of the United States, and
PreJident of the Senate.
Approved- 1 Auglift 20th, 1789.
Submission to Civil Govern-
NINGrH ACT of CONGRESS.
^REFORMER.
GEORGE WASHINTON,
Prefdent of the United States.
NUMBER IV.
(Continued,)
MENT.
We should educate our children in
rational notions of civil liberty, but,
at the fame time in just sentiments
of fabordinatien and submission to
authority, and inftil into their minds
such principles of honour, benevo
lence, integrity; piety and universal
virtue, that they may have little oc
casion for the rellraints of publick
laws.
When a people are greatly burthen
ed, they may juftiy demand the fe
vereft (economy in the application of
piblick treasures ; but they should be
careful,that they impute not to prodi
gal ty those expences,which arise from
neceility.
If rulers are prefufe, we may pre
fer men of more frugality,' but let us,
in private life, exercise the fame fru
gahty, which we expect of them in
their publick Station. The man that
wastes his own fubdance, would not
be very fparingof publick money, if
it was committed to his difpcfal ; and
such a man complains of extravagance
with a very ill grace.
If the general character of a people
is frugal, such of course will be the
prevailing dppofition of rulers because
men of this character will be chosen
to places of publick trull, and their
conduct will be much influenced by
the prevailing tatte and manners ol
the people.
We commonly fay, Rulers ought to
beour examples. And so they ought.
And why ought not we to be theirs i
In abofolute governments, where the
people are dependent on the will of
their- rulers, the publick examples
very much govern private manners.
In popular and elective governments,
like ours, the case is, in some mea
sure, the reverse. Rulers are here
chosen by, and dependent on the peo
ple, and it may naturally be expected,
that will be good or bad, frugal or
profufe, very much occoidiog to the
prevailing character of their constitu
ents.
A letter from Paris furnifres us quith the
following remarkable Anecdote ; —
A3 OUT a hundred years ago, a
young man, aged 18, was con
demned to the galleys for a hundred
years and a day. The man has fuf
fered in full the sentence of the law,
&is now returned to Lyons,in France,
where claiming an Estate belong
ing to his family, the Proprietor,
Mr. Burtholon, who had thought
the purchase very fair and fafe, agreed
by the advice of his lawyer, to fettle
the contentious matter by giving tne
real proprietor 4500!. sterling. This
wonderful old man at the age of 118
has lately offered his hand toa woman
of §@ and is soon to be married.
We fhonld contribute our aid to
carry into execution the wholesome
laws of the community! especially
chose which immediately relate to the
virtue and morals of the people.
A wife people will infixed the con
duct of their rulers, and guard their
rights from every invasion. But they
will not indulge an excessive jealousy,
nor complain of measures which they
understand not,.or which could not
be avoided.
If we would have the government
reformed, we rpuft reform our selves.
The more virtue there is among
private perform, the more there will be
among rulers, and the more easy it
will be for government to carry into
execution laws for the fuppiellion of
vice and the enco uragement'of virtue.
The belt laws are impotent things,
when the general difpofirion is to vi
olate them. They are but cobweebs,
which may happen now and then to
entangle some feeble infe^l, while the
strong will break through and escape.
But good laws carry force and terrour,
when themain body of the people ap
prove them, and are refolded to obey
and fuppor: them.
ANECDOT E.
Blanks of moftforts ma,
be bad at H. Ranlet's office as cheap
as at an, office in the fate, • -
Writing-paper given for
clean Linen and Cotton and Linen Rag,
at H. Ranlet's office.
WANTED,
By the printer hereof, a few pounds
SHEEP'S WOOL.
SEPTEMBER 8, 1789.
Whereas the Impost A3l of this
State has ceajed to operate, which
renders it neceffar, to elofc the bufinefe
of that departments
Therefore,
THOSE persons that have not
di(charged their Bonds (many
of +bich have a long time been lodged
in this Office) are hereby called upod
to make immediate payment, c^her^
wife Extents will issue for the fame.
Wm. GARDNER, Treasurer,
RAN away from me the subscriber
an apprentice boy named "John
Young, about 17 years old—had on
when he went away a blue coat and
waistcoat ,and 16ng trowfers. Whoe
ver will take up said apprentice and
return him to his master, clear
of expence, shall have one penny reward
-All perfops are hereby cautioned
not to harbour or trusting said runa
way, on my accountas they would
avoid the penalty of the law.
W" the fubferibers be
i°g appointed Commissioners
by the Hon. Phillips White,Efq.
Judge of Piobateof Wilis, & c . for the
county of Rockingham, to receive and
examine tue claims of the several cre
ditors to the estate of WARD COT
TON WEEKS, late of Exeter, Clo
thier, deceased, represented infi Ivent,
hereby give notice—That we will at
tend that business at the dwelling-
House of Mr. Benjamin Lamson,
innholder in said town, the latt Thurs
day of this, and the lad Thursday of'
the five following months, from three
to fix o'clock, P. M.
Exeter, Aug.uf 18, 1789.
THEOPHILUS FOLSOM,
Sanbornton, Aug. 23, 1789.
%~'HE Public Auction, for the fafe
l es LANDS, &r. belonging to
thSeftate of ^he late JONATHAN
MOULTON, Efy t'eceafed, is adm
journed until Monday the 21ftiafot,
at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, at the
laid deceafed's late dwelling house,
Hampton, September, 4, 1789.
JS is hereby given, that the Vendue
which was held at Lieut. Samuel
Pipers ; n Loudon, the 28th of May
last, for the sale of non-resident lands
in that tour, js adj urned to Monad,
the 14th of September next, 2 o'clock,
p, m.at he house of Joseph Smith,-
Esq. in said Loudon.
JOSEPH TILTON, Confabh
louden, August 26, 1789.
TREASURY-OFFICE,
NEWHAMPSHIR E,
PUBLIC NOTICE
s3° Take Notice.
|3 Take Notice.
[$ Take Notice,
ELIPHALET HALE,
william parker; j r .