The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1791-02-12 00:00:00, page 2

Numbers,unblefs'd by fortune, live re
tir'd.
Nor annual feel a cause for heart elate ;
For whom not finiling fpring's so much
defir'd,
Nor summer funs can cheer their way
ward fate#
ground:
''Full fwiftly steps the hardy peafan: by,"
To shun the storm that threatens him a
round.
But happier ye, whom providence has
bleft
With health and competence another year,
Who knew no wish beyond what ye pof
fefs'd,..„.
Nor felt a pang that drew the trickling tear<
SEAT of the MUSES.
C^^«3 „
THE SEASON.
By a Lady.
NOW raging winds deform the an
gry iky, , f
And snows their carpet spread along the
But shall withthee the bloom of nature die
Thou passing year,in sadness drawn away ,
Shall hope no more its needful aid Supply;
Noryet survive th' unwelcome closing day?
Yes! gratitude and hope (hall Aill sur
vive;
And teach my heart and dignify my song ;
While youth, and love, and fancy still
(hall live, . ,
And aid the muse to whom they all be
long.
Then, child of genius, flowers of fancy
bring; ....
Enliven nature, pain and fear beguile :
Lead on the hours to sweetly blooming
Spring, ,
And jocund months, when nature's fail
fnall smile.
Farewell thou lovely part, and long
loft spring:
And fammer's bud of beauty, charting
rose!
Farewell to Autumn's fruits ! —Time's ra
pid wing
Alike my fleecing life, as thine shall close.
" Teach me to feel another's woe."
THERE is in human nature a propensity
to /brink from mifery,whether in rela
tion to ourselves or others. With refpea to
ourselves, the reason is obvious ; but in both
cases the effed is produced b, the fame cause
——the love of ease. Hence may be deduced the
difference between a perfod who performs a
benevolent adiort from principle, and one
who, propelled by involuntarj sensibility,
relieves the diftreffed,to relieve his own feel
ings. From the farmer we may expea afy f
tematick exercise of benevolence ; the latter
is charitable by accident.
Ifaw BENEVOLUS conting from the
boufe of penury and affiiaton —bis counte
nance was irradiated with the beams of com
placency—-he had cheeredthe heart of despon
dency—be badfed the hungry — be had eloath
ed the naked—reanimated hope—and, in
spired affirm confidence in that Being, "who
bears the young ravens when they cry." — te
In many a lone and dreary cell,
Thefans of Want and Virtue dwell: ,
There when bleak blows the wintry gale,
And food, and eloathes, and fuel, fail.
The feeling heart will oft repair,
And cheer the bofem of despair :
For the, to life's best purpose live,
Who know how blessed 'tie to give.
THEexample is rare (fays Mr. Bruce)
that a large kingdom has beenen
ricbed by war.
Alexander conquered all Alia, part of
Africa, and a considerable portion of Eu
rope : he plundered Semiramis's kingdom,
and all those that were tributary to her :
he went farther into the Indies than ever
(he did,tho' her territories bordered ^pon
the river Indus itfelf : yet neither Mace
don,nor any of the neighbouring provinces
of Greece, could ever compare with the
small diftrids of Tyre and Sidon, for ri
ches. War disperses wealth in the very
infant it acquires it.
Bat Commerce, well regulated, con
(tady and hoacftly supported, carried on
WAR and COMMERCE.
with eoconomy and punautiry, is the on
ly thing that ever did enrichextenfive king
dom^; and one hundred hands employed
at the loom will bring to a country more
riches and abundance, than ten thouiand
bearing spears and (hields. , .
This truth,tho' confirmed by the expe
rience of all nations, has never yet had a
place among the political dodrines of Eu
ropean Cabinets. Yet the time, we hope,
is not far off,when itwill strike such con
yidtion into the mipds of Kings and Min
isters, that Wars ,(hall neverbe underta
ken, but in defence of undoubted and in
disputable right ; and that all nations (hall
deny their Sovereigns the power of mating
an offenfive War.
An eafv and cheap Method to preserve the
ROOFS of BUILDINGS
, ~r'AKE warm tar, and fine sand, mix
1 Them well together,until they are of
aconfi ftency ofthick paste, then with a ftift
broom lay it on the shingles, it.will effec
tually (top ail the wormholes and crevices,
and in a short time will become as hard
as brick, and is the most sure method to
preserve the shingles from taking fire, as
it prevents ail kinds of mossy fubitances
from affecting them. It is.found by ex
perience, that this method is of much
greater benefit, as it does much.the best
on thefhingles that are considerably worn.
1 f any person should have the curiosity of
having any particular colour on thereof
of his building, the plinf may be mixed
with the tar and sand, of it rhay be laid
on afterwards ^itli less exper.ee, and to a
much better pufpofe, as the expence df
the tar &c.will be but trifling— m Sc led any
should be fearful of the black colour of the
tar, or that it will injure the water which
drops from the roof,the writer assures them,
that neither of these consequences will fol
low, for the tar in a short time will lose i,s
dark colour and the thingies, however bid
they may be, will become nearly the co,
lour of new ones ; and by reason of the
hardness pf the tar, it will not at all in
jure the water. . .-
Foreign Intelligence. ;
Mg Ranlet, °.
I HAVE been trying to find out who it
was that put that long piece in your
paper week before lafl, which Hated man
kind, sooner or later, in compleat and e
yerlafting happinefs —And some fay it was
+. and some fay it was D. but let himbe
who he will, he is a noble and generous
fellow, one who loves to let others know
the truth as well as himfelf, and such an
one, ought to have all honor and esteem
from all who love to know the truth ; and
I shall always esteem him, led him be
who he will ; and I hope and pray that he
will give us some more of his benevolent
plan by and by ; for the Ministers now
a days won't g?ve us any thing but /if//-
Fire and ^r%/orte to frighten us, ¥
A SAILOR-
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
TUESDAY, JAN. 11.,
APETITIONfrom sundry inhabitants
of the state of Pennsylvania was read,
and refered* to the Secretary of the Trea
sury.
Mr. Bloodwo&t h prevented a memo
rial from the merchants and others of the
town of Fayetteville ; & another from the
merchants of Wilmington, refpe&ing the
judiciary system; proposing certain alter
ations therein. Refered to a committee
of five. , .
fa committee of the whole on the bill,
repealing after the last day of r , ,
nex,t, duties heretofore laid on dialled
spirits, and others in their ttead.
The fflh feaion, which provides for
laying a duty on spirits, distilled from
Materials, the produce of the country war
read:
This fedion Mr Jackson moved fhoold
Be struck out ; a lengthy debate ensued,
which employed the residue of the day ;
the question on ftrikirig out being at length
put, puffed in the negative—3) to 17 —
the committee then rose and reported pro*'
grefs.
A message was received from the Se
nate, informing the House, that they have
passed a bill entitled an ad for granting
lands to the feeders at port St. Vincennes ;
read the firft time.
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KINGSTON,(Jantaica) NOV. 27.
ACCOUNTS from the Mufquito shore
fay, that in some trivial dispute with
a native Indiana a Spaniard- stabbed him
CONGRESS.
to the heart with a ftiletto,and then fled.
—The nation to whom Jhe Indian be
longed, being made acquainted with the
murder, lent a deputation to the Govern
our, demanding that five Spaniards fhculd
be initantiy delivered up as an attone
ment. This was peremtorily refufed,
as being more than equivalent to the of
fence ; but the murderer was offered as
aia:isfa£tion : The Indians , would not
accept him singly, and went off, vowing
the severest revenge. —A few days after
wards intelligence was received, that the
Indians had surprised and massacred six
teen men, who had been at work in the
woods; And when the vessel departed,
the Spaniards were Hying with the utmost
precipitation and terror from all parts of
the country, and seeking Iheitcr in the
forts. #
The publick creditors in Pennsylvania,
the State, which assumes to be the Arbiter
of the Union, have presented Congress with
a petition, the style of which, in imita
tion of Gibbon is most jublime and elegant
ly obscure, but the, design of which is to
induce Congress to alter the funding sys
tem and give fix per cent, interest on the
whole plublick debt at once. They gall
themfeives the patriotick viaims of the war;
when in truth three fourths of them are
those greedy vultures„of the date called
peculators, who have purchased most of
publick paper for less tKan half its value,
They begin their tedious address with
charging the Secretary of the I'reafur,
with inconff enej, in recognizing the jus
tice of their clainhin the ptmoft latitude,
in the beginning of his,report, and then
recommending a plan of funding the debt
at less than was originally promised.
They proceed to charge Congress with
having loft the difpojition to dojujlice, altho
they had acquired the power. After some
common place remarks on the moral and
political obligation of contraas and the im
portance of publick credit, they enumerate
the many promises made to the creditors
by Congress under the confederation,
and, then charge the present legislature of
the Unions with having dandeftinel, ob
tained an unreasonable <onctflon from the
creditors, and With having infringed the
original cottraa and defrayed its principles,
They charge the Congress indirectly with
being callous to their merits and fofferingi,
and tarni/hing the glories of America with
broken contraas and violated faith. They
declare the old Congress to have been a
wife and virtuous body,who practised right,
as far as they were able ; but the present
a& for making provision for the publick
deSt, they fay, is an unneceffar, dereliaiox
of the publick faith, a flriking contrast to
the illuflrious example of the old Congrejs,
and a dangerous infraaion of tbefundemental
laws of justice. In ffiort, the whole pe
tition is but a round about way of telling
Congress they are a tfeft of Jcoundrels. —
The common practice of the Philadelphi.
ans is to cut the matter very short, & it a
pan doesnot think like them, to call him
a blockhead and a rajkel at once. In the pre
sent instance they have'grown wonderfully
polite and civile they hive fuffered the
members to get warm in their feats, before
they charged them direal, with knavery^
THE following circumstance has been
communicated to us by one of the
Militia who was out on the late Indian
expedition.
At the time Major M'Mullen was en
gaged with the Indians, two Negroes
from Kentukv, on the opposite fide of the
river, saw ' Indians coming across, feme
aiftance above the rest: they went and
placed themlelves on the bank, behind
a log, and as soon as the Indians came
within (hot, one of the Negroes fired,
and the Indian he (hot at fell; and the
other two got hold of him to drag him
out, when the other Negro fired and
killed another:, the remaining Indian
got hold of both those dead, to pull them
ashore, when the Negro who Iho; firft,
again fired and killing him; and the,
all floated down the river.
Another circumdance is a'fo related,
viz. A regular loldier, going some dis
tance from cLmp, met an Indian: they
attacked each other,.the soldier with his
bayonet, and the Indian r/ith his toma
hawk. Some of the soldiers passing by
that way some time after found them both
dead, the soldier with his bayonet in the
body of the Indian, and the Indian with
his tomahawk in the soldier's head.
AMERICAN ADVICES.
PITTSTUAC, DEC. IT.
iIARTFORD, JAN. 16.
EXETER,(Saturday)FEB. i 2.
DIED] —lx this town, Mrs. Eliza
beth Gilman, wife of Mr. Thomas
Gilman, and daughter of the late Rev. Mr.
Rogers, of this town, aged 37.
INFORMATION for the PUBLICK.
Portland, fan. 12, 1791.
• Lafl Monday evening, the Light-Hcufe
on Portland-Head, at the entrance of this
! harbour, was lighted. This building is
' built with Jione and lime—is feveuty-two
feet high, exclusive of the lanthorn. The
folliwirig DIR ECTIONS are given for
coming into this harbonr.
Bring the bght to bear N. N. 17. then
run for it, allowing it a small diflar.ee on
the larboara ha nd ; and when abreaf of the
Jame, then run N. by W, This course will
give good anchorage from half a mile to one
cnd,an half.
A particularfurvey will fan be taken,the
public will then have notice of rhe bearings
of the light from the different Rocks and
',Jhoals, together with directions hew far roef
fels may fan, either Erf or ifefl, when
; beating in. N. B. No variation for the
Compass is allowed.
+TO^<> >©G><>O©o©©<>©o^f
1 State 0/ New-HamtfLire.
As there are many Accounts
and Notes of hand of long
standing, on which balances
are due to said Eftates,(the set
tlement of which has been too
long negleaed) and as it is
indifpenlably necessary they
fhouid now be adjusted; those
who negfea this notice until
the 20th day of April next f
are hereby informed, that the
fubferiber ^ill be under the
necessity of calling on them in
;a manner very disagreeable to
him and expensive to them.
^'lkofe TVbo cannot make im
; mediate payment are requested to
adjust their Accounts and Notes
bejore that time.
JOHN TAYLOR GILMAN,
Executor of the last will of Danief
, Gilman, Esq. deceased —and Ad
miniflrator of the efate of Nicholas
Gilman, Esq, deceased.
Exeter, January 20th, 1791. (13th m.)
pUELIC Notice is hereby
A given har a Petition has been pre
ferred to the General Court by the Se
lectmen cf New Harc^ion, representing
the badness cf their reads in {aid Town
and praying rtia? they may be enabled to
levy, a tax cf c?Pnny per Acre on all
the lands of the non-reidents for the
term of three years,
V7hereu,,n the General Court ordered
that they may be heard thereon before
the General, Court on the third Wednefo
day of the next Seilion and that in the
mean time they cause that the substance
ot said petition and order of Court there
on be published in the Newhampfhire
Gazette three weeks successively, fix
weeks prior to the fitting of said Court
that any person or persons may then
appear and fh^w .cause why the prayer
thereof mould not be granted.
Joseph Pearson, Secretary.
Secretary's Office, Jan. 27, 1791.
ALL perlons having de
mands against the Estate
qf Daniel Gilman, Esq. or
Nicholas Oilman, Esq. or
the la^ Company of Nicho
las and Bartholomew Gil
man,' a'H late of Exeter, de
ceased, are hereby requested to
exhibit the fame and receive
payment."
^,Thofe who are indebted
to either of said Estates, are
(once more) requested to make
immediate payment.
t,0.w% to the badness of the weather
•and traveling this week, no Pofi has arrived.