The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1792-09-28 00:00:00, page 2

pay the person to whose use
he received inch money,five
times the lawful interest
thereof, so long as he (ball
detain the fame, after de
mand made.
And be it further enabled,
That no fheriff or deputy
fheriff shall be fuffered to
appear in any court, or be
fore any juftite of the peace,
as attorney to any party in
a luit, nor shall any fheriff
or his deputy be allowed to
make any process, draw any
writ or declaration, or make
any plea for any other per
lon, and all such a&s done
by either of them shall be
void.
And be it further enabled,
That when judgment shall
be rendered against any per
son holding the office of
fheriff, either in his official
or private capacity, for any
lum of money, the execu
tion thereon shall be against
his godds, chattels and
lands, but not against his
body ; and if such execution
be returned unfatisfied, the
creditor may file luch execu
tion and the return thereon
with the lecretary of the
state, who shall thereupon
issue a notification to said
fheriff,informing him there
of, and of the day when the
lame was filed. And if such
execution remain fix months
unfatisfied after such notifi
cation is served on said
fheriff, the president and
council shall forthwith re
move such fheriff from his
office, arid when any sheriff
shall be removed from his
office, execution may then
issue against his goods,lands
arid body as in other cases.
And when any fheriff is
removed from office he shall
and may execute all precepts
in his hand at the time of
such removal from office.
^N elderly gentleman, who
wore a large white wig,
bad been out late on Saturday
evening, in the summer time.
'Next day be attended public
worjhip,and for bis own com
And be it further enabled,
That atiy fheriff though re
moved from office, shall
have the custody of all pri
loners, and the keeping of
the gaol, until another
fheriff be appointed and
qualified as the law directs ;
and every fheriff so remov
ed shall deliver over to his
successor all such prisoners.
ANECDOTE.
fort, as be was rather corpu
lent, be seated himfelf in the
ile of the church,near the door,
before which were a number
oj Jbeep feeding, among which
was a large Ram, who was an
old warrior. While the par
son was engaged for the good
of bis foul, the old gentleman
was Jieeping for tbe refrefh
ment of bis body —As be fat
facing tbe door, nodding in bis
Jleep, tbe old Ram observed it,
miflaking tbe wig for the bead
of an antagonifl, and tbe nod
ding,jor signs of battle, began
to Jhake bis bead, and drew
back to a proper diflance for a
rencounter, when our hero
making a very low nod, the
Ram, fuppojing the enemy ad
.vancing, met him full butt,
'and lent him bowling half way
;to the pulpit, knocking off bis
' w ^ —the sudden interruption
I did not a little foil the mini J
ter, & divert tbe audience—
but what added to the div^r-
Jion, tbe old man recovering
bis legs as food as poflible,gath
ered up his wig, & putting it
on tbe tail before, & again
took bis feat, but did not dis
cover bis miflake 'till /ervice
was ended.
The country is generally hilly or
mountairfous,with intervals of flat and
fertile lands on the banks of the Mer
rimac and Conneaicut rivers. The
mountains are well watered, and the
foil excellent. The inhabitants are har
dy and numerous.
New. Hampshire may properly be
Said to consist of two divisions, the
East and Weft, formed by the chain
of hills east of the Connecticut river.
The Weft division partakes of the
customs, manners and improvements,
in Connecticut, from whence the firft
fettiers removed. The East division
copies those parts of Massachusetts and
New-Hampshire which border on the
sea. Altho' the settlements are much
more new in the Weft, yet they are
much higher cultivated, and more im
proved, than in the East division. The
whole country, from the ibuth to the
north line of the State, on and near
the banks of the Connecticut river is
one continued, uninterrupted trad of
fertile country, well watered from the
heights by brooks and artificial convey
ances. The farms are well cultivated—
the houses com modious and well built—
the barnsextenfive and well filled—the
fences in good order—the stocks of
cattle large—and provision of every
kind most abundant. Wheat, cattle,
pot-allies and lumber, are the staple
commodities of that division of the
State : rye, peas, oats, barley, Indian
corn, pork, butter and cheese are also
plenty. Winter wheat is rarely culti
vated east of the mountains ; and the
home manufactures of woolen and Itn-
THIS State is formed by a most
healthy and pleasant country. It#
Summers are neither intensely hot, nor
its winters too Quid. The Snow fall
ing in November, and continuing un
til April, affords a constant opportu
nity for easy transportation, for the
farmer and merchant, as well as ama
fement for the man of Jeifure.
A description of New-Hampshire.
nen (except in Londonderry) afe in
ferior in quality to the weftern. This
is the case in all other productions.
Academies are erecting in the eastern
division, but have not yet extended
their benefits very far. Religion,learn,
ing, liberty and pure patriotism are
less protested and encouraged, for the
good of mankind, in New-Hampshire,
than in aimoft any State in United A
merica.—A rusticity prevails in the
yeomanry, and a hauteur in the gentry
or more wealthy, in the East division,
which checks in part the whole advan.
tage that ought to be derived from the
rich and poor being beneficial to each
other.
The College, in the middle of the
western divibon, diffufes a third for
knowledge, and improves Society in its
neighborhood ; thereby exhibiting it
as an ornament and blefling to the
State.
that proteaion and encouragement in
the capital which ought to be wiffied or
expeded : and the traveller is always
disappointed when he visits Port/moutb.
Instead of a large well built city, he
finds a town out of repair,without ele
gant public buildings and institutions,
and with few well built private dwel
lings : like a family once great and
wealthy, the inhabitants appear great
by repeating what they were once. An
extensive Ship-building, joined to for
tunate (peculations in lands,having en
riched and engrossed the attention of
the opulent,accompanied by gaiety &
dissipation, have always checked exer
tion, and prevented the enlargement of
that town. A fine river and harbour,
good wharves and Stores, an excellent
back country,and neighbouring ocean,
afford every necessary mean by which
Porthfmouth might be enriched.
Many ufeful arts, which have been
followed fifty and an hundred years in
some of the United States,are unknown
in the capital of New-HampShire. The
schools have lately been reformed ; but
no College, or refpe&able Academy,is
in it. A large dancing Assembly-
Room, —a temporary Play-Houfe,—a
Billiard.Tablfrexcurfions onSaturdays
and Sundays into the neighbourhood—
large Feasts—Water and Tea Parties—
engrofs a large part of the time of its
inhabitants. .
Orford, and some other places, make
good cheese ; and the proportion of
good, to that which is otherwise, is
very great.
Much of the land in the interior part
of the country is owned by the inhabi
tants of Portsmouth ; but has not pro.
duced that profit or increase in its value
that might have been. Very little at
tention has been paid to the improving
the breed of horses, cattle and sheep-
The horses in general are bad ; the
few which exceed, were brought from
Vermont and the Southern States.
' The arts and Sciences have not found
Though merit and abilities exist in
New-Hamplhire in most profeffions ;
yet they are not so frequent as in some
other States, when compared with the
number of inhabitants in this and
the other States .=The congregation
al is the most numerous religious de
nomination —the society of Baptists in
crease—as do the Unverfalifts. A war
in divinity is carried on by the two firft,
much to the profit of Printers. Many
of the blessings obtained by the know
ledge and practice of chriltianity are
loft,in large and old fettlements,which
have been twenty years without regular
preaching and inftrudion. New meet
ing houses have been built, some in op
position to the other, in the fame
neighbourhood ; but are now destitute
of Miniftdrs.—Difagreement and con
fufion in religious affairs pervade New-
Hamplhire.—ln less than thirty miles
of Portfmouh, some Os the inhabitants
are but little removed from the bar
barous Bate of the natives of America,
in religion, morals and cultivated
manners.,
The Press finds less encouragement
here,than in any other northern State.
Not a book-store, nor book-binder, is
in it. The Printers have endeavoured
to remedy this evil, but have not ex
perienced merited success.
While the capital is amused with the
idea of recovering their former profita
ble /hip-building, of being made a
Dry goods have lately been fold as
cheap in Portsmouth as elsewhere. The
consequent benefit as to the in create of
bufiuefs is vifible,and proves what more
exienfive Exertions might effect.
A rivalfhip subsists between the ca
pital and other populous towns as to
the public offices, and fefiions of the Ge
neral Court ; but the Legislature, find
ing it a fubjeCt riot worth their contest
ing,have wifely Shifted the places of
holding their meetings. The great
dinners and better lodging houses ie
Portsmouth, have not been Sufficiently
powerful perfuafives to draw the Re
presentatives to pay a higher price for
their board, without other better ar
guments to procure their company and
money.
Providence has liberally afforded
New.Hampfhire every mean to exalt it
in wealth,reputation, and felicity. A
proper improvement of his bounty is
only necessary to efted all for her ein,
zens. To promote these ends, is the
design of this publication.
Continental marine pert and dock,
yards, (a visionary Scheme te promote
some men's popularity) the country ia
destitute of that mart to which the,
may bring its produce, and therefore
turns its trade to the towns in Massa
chusetts and Connecticut.
Resumed the debate on the mode of
securing the public tranquility,and the
fafety of the kingdom.
M. Condorcet made a speech on
the fubje& ; he adverted to the King's
Proclamation, to the conduct of M.
Luckner, to his retreat,to the Min
iller for the Interior Department,
to the War Minister, &c. He then
moved," That these Ministers be lent
to the prison at Orleans ; that the King
be deprived of the right ofappointing
to several places, which he is allowed
to do by the constitution, and that the
office of Minister of public contribu
tions be suppressed ; that the admizif
trator of the civil lift be obliged to give
an account of his admiuiftration ; that
the estates of the Princes be expoted to
sale ; and that the Generals be forbid
den to present addrelics in the name of
armed force, on pain ofbeing declared
guilty of high treason." This speech
was applauded a thousand times by the
galleries. All the accusations against
the executive power,in particular,were
applauded with enthusiasm, and with
an explosion of reiterated bravos !
M.Cambou moved,That the King
should not be allowed to explain him
felf through the organs of his Minis.
ters, but that he Should immediately
correspond with the Assembly.
To wear a white cockade is death by
a decree.
" Mr. Prefident,— It is with regret
that 1 inform you that one more ene
my has just declared againg France.
1 am informed that a Fruffian army,
amounting to 52,000 men has begun
to march. Every thing proves that
there is a good understanding between
the Courts of Vienna and Berlin
[Some Members cried out, and tbat of
tbe Tbuiltom.] These are imminent
hoftilities,and conformably to the con.
Dilution, I give notice of them to the
Assembly."
Mr. Premdetn,
“ A GREAT number of French
-13 men assemble and repair to
the frontiers— they desire to Swear at
the alter of the country, to live free
or to die. I inform you my desire to
go in the midst of them to receive
their or era, and to prove to the fac
tious, that we have only one Spirit
that of the constitution."
PARIS, July 6.
LETTER es tbe KING
To tbe National Assembly, in fubfianec.
The fate of the King and Queen
seems particularly to depend upon the
present junduie. If Luckier and
The National Assembly
Foreign Intelligence.