The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1790-12-18 00:00:00, page 5

Single Li RE && ^Matrimony contrasted.
By a^ikdent at Yale College.
THE matrimonial state—All prudent men ap
prove ;
The wife sincerely hate—A course of changing love ;
True happiness we find —In Hymen's silken chain.
With those who are unjoin'd—There's nought but
, fear and pain.
I'll therefore wifely dare—To have a constant wife.
To change from fair to fair—ls but a wretched life.
CURIOUS ANECDOTES.
TlfymHE whimfieal and immortal au
thor of Triftram Shandy was
"^married to Mrs. , Sterne on a Satur
day morning. 4is parifhoners had
timely information of this circum
stance, and knowing he would preach
the next morning at his parish church,
_ and desirous at the fame time of fee^
ingThe b(ide, thcy assembled in lucA
v rotids that the church was full be
fore the bell had <one tolling. The
bride, as was expend made her ap
at Montpellier, (he went thither
from Gighac, where she lived, and
found means, the very evening of her
arrival, to be introduced to the guilty
author ofher family's disgrace, whom
she instantly (hot dead with a pistol.
.Shethen wrote to Mons. Le Blanc,
Secretary at War, owning the deed,
but denying its being an offence to
which mercy was not due. The la
dies at Montpellier, one and all, ap
proved of her condu(ft ; they made
themselves prisoners, to accompany
her to the Throne, and she soon ob
taineda full pardon..
seducer and brother's murderer was
11/rONS. D'ESTACHE, formerly
a cornet in Asfeld's dragoons,
being fifty-two years old, seduced a
young lady, of seventeen years of age,
whose name was St. Cheron, and then
refufed to marry her under the pre
tence of having been too familiar with
her mother in his younger days. The
abused lady had two brothers, officers
in the regiment of Brifack, who would
have fought d'Eftache, but he wound
ed the eldest in the face, and (hot the
other brother froma window. This
injured family had a sister, who for
some time abandoned herfelf to grief
and rage ; but the last of these pas
sions prevailing, prompted her to a
revenge above the daring of her-sex ;
for, being informed that her filter's
SINGULAR INSTANCE OF FE
MALE REVENGE.
AT will, while Fortune turns the wheel,
That life's a lottery, mankind feel ;
All venture, few confefs their gain,
For rich and poor alike complain.
The lover's mad, the miser's four,
The coxcomb all things in an hour,
The low repine ; and for the high
They're angry too, they know not why.
This finale maxim saves the wife,
«' Context makes any lot a prize."
SEAWBTHE MUSES.
THE LOTTERY.
what might naturally be expected ;
the French have served an apprentice-
Jhip to liberty in this country, and
now that they are out of their time,
they have set up for themselves."
ON the burning shores, diftined as
it were only to glut an insatia
ble thirst of gold; a virtuous Dane
exhibited unexampled proofs of inte
grity and humanity. At the forts
of Fredericfburgh and Chriftianburgh
situated on the gold coast, at a small
distance from eachother, the Danish
African Company, who, by virtue of
. their charter, were in possession of
them, had exercised its priviledges
with that barbarity of which the most
polished European nations have set
the example,in these devoted climates.
This Dane, whose name was Schilde
rop,was the only one of its agents who
had the resolution to denounce that
cruelty to which custom had given a
kind of fanftion. So great was the
reputation of his humanity, and the
confidence reposed in his probity, that
the blacks would come the diflance
of 300 miles to fee him : and the sove
reign of a distant country sent his
- daughter to him, with presents of
gold, and (laves, that this European,
so revered through all the coasts of
Nigritia, might give him a grandson.
O Virtue ! still dost thou cxift in the
fouls of those wretched beings, con
demned to dwell with tigers, or to
pearance, and the country folks in
dulged themselves with the usual ob
servations, until Sterne mounted the
pulpit. Here every eye was directed
to him, and every ear ready to catch
the words of his text, which turned
out to their astonishment, to be the
following : "We have toiled all
night, and have caught no fifh." The
congregation looked at each other ;
some smiled, others flopped their
mouths with their handkerchiefs to
prevent them from laughing, while
the old folks wore very serious faces,
and thought the humoulift a very
odd fort of man for a pulpit lecturer.
However, they attended to his dis
course, which turned out, as usual,
very instructive, and all went home
very highly diverted with the text,
except poor Mrs. Sterne, who bluih
ed down to her fingers' ends every
step of the way to her house.
phia, -when he could no longer go
abroad; every one was wondering
at the circumstance, and asking whe
ther it was not very singular. The
Doctor having heard them for some
time, with his ufuat patience, at last
replied —" Why I fee nothing singu
lar in all this, but, on the contrary,
Anecdote of Dr. Franklin.
WHEN the Doctor firft heard of
the French Revolution, it was
in the company of several perlons
who came to visit him at Philadel-
SINGULAR INTEGRITY.
STRAYED from the Oakland, feme
° time in June last, a dark red, year
ling HEIFER, with a white face.--
.Whoever will give information of Jai d
heifer, Jo tha^the owner ma, have her
again, Jhall be b^dfomel, rewarded.
Enquire of the Printer.
Exeter, Sept. 16,
ALL persons indebted to, or have
demahds on the estate of Hum?
phrey Noyes, late of Atkinson, de
ceased, are requested tootle the fame
with Joseph Noyes, I Joint
Peter Noyes, \Extors.
Atkinson, 21, Soft. 1790.
ALL persons indebted to, or that have
any demands against the estate of
Doctor BENJAMIN ROWE, late of
Ken/ington, deceased, are requeued to
fettle the fame immediately with the sub
scriber, Executor to the last Will of fad
deceased, ^, Attendance will be given
for the above purpose jrom 6 to 9 o'cl^^
A. M. at the late dwelling-house of fata
deceafed. BENJAMIN ROWE.
— Kensington, July 28, 1790.
A New STORE, in the centre of
the town of Exeter, adjoining the River—
-40 feet front—well calculated for any gentleman in
Trader also—
A HOUSE, WHARF and STORE,
54 feet front, formerly occupied by William
Brooks——. also—
groan beneath the voke of their own
species ! They yet have hearts sus
ceptible of the foft impressions of hu
manity and beneficence ! Just and
virtuous Dane! what monarch ever
received so pure, so glorious an ho
mage, as thy nation has seen thee en
joy ? And where ? Upon a lea, up
on a continent, degraded forever, by
an infamous traffick of men exchange
ed for arms ! and children fold by
their parents ! of crimes and misfor
tunes carried on through two cen
turies !—We cannot fufficiently de
plore such horrors ; and if we could,
our lamentations would be useless.
A handsome Fall-back Chaise, almost
New, and one year's credit given. For terms ap
ply to Sumuel Brooks, Esq. Exeter, or WiLr
liam Brooks at Brintwood,
Exeter, Sept, 30. 1790.
A House, Wharf and Brick-Yard,
and one and (half acre of LAND, lately occupied
by Samuel Brooks, jun.—Three years credit
given with good security. also—
ALL persons indebted to, or have
demands on the estate of James
Grifin, late of Deerfield, yeoman,de
ceafed, are desired to exhibit the fame
for settlement, to,
LYDIA GRIFIN, Adm'trix.
Deerfield, Sept. 21, 1790.
ALL persons indebted to, or have
demands on the estate of Abra
ham Drake, late of Pittsfield, yeo
man, deceased, are desired to exhibit
the fame immediately for settlement,
to —• SAR?H DRAKE, Adm'trix.
Pittsfield, Qth Sept. 1790.
TO BE SOLD,