The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1791-05-20 00:00:00, page 2

An ACT making an appro
priation for the purpose
therein mentioned.
BE it ena&ed by the SENATE& House
of REPRESENT A T I V: s of the Uni
ted States of America in Congress assembled.
That for the purpose of effecting a re
cognization of the treaty of the United
Staes, with the new Emperour of Mo
rocco, there be and hereby is appropri
ated a sum not exceeding twenty thou
fAnd dollars, to be paid out of the mo
nies which prior to the firft day of Ja
nuary next (hall arise from the duties
imposed upon spirits distilled within the
United States, and from Hills by the
'a^intitled " An aft repealing after
the last day of June next, the duties
heretofore laid upon distilled spirits im
ported from abroad, and laying ohers
in their Head, and also upon spirits dis
tilled within the United Hates, and for
appropriating the fame," together with
the excess of duties which may arise
from the duties imposed by. the said aft,
on imported spirits beyond those which
would have arisen by the aft intitled,
'* An A& making further provision for
the payment of the debts of the United
States." And the President is hereby
authorized to take on loan, the whole
sum by this aft appropriated,or so much
thereof, as he may judge requisite at
an interest not exceeding fix per cent,
per annum, and the fund established for
the above mentioned appropriation is
hereby pledged for the re-paymerit of the
principal and interest of any loan to be
obtained in manner aforefaid, and in
case of any deficiency in the said fund,
the faith of the United States is hereby
also pledged to make good such defici
ency. '
Frederick A. Muhlenberg,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President ofthe
U. States,and President ofthe Senate.
Approved, March the third, 1791.
G. WASHINGTON,
President of the United States.
Deposited among the Rolls in the Office
of the Secretary of State.
Thomas jefferson,
Secretary of State.
Our good Country folks who talk En
glish, when they rtiean to fay a man's
fame is spread abroad, or his reputation
extensively established, fay, his name is
#, A or he has got his name up. How bless.
ed is the man who has got his name up. -
Every body knows how a certain a
strologer gor his name up for a great Al
manack maker, by foretelling snow in
the month of May. The truth was, in
the copy of his Almanack, in the month
of May, there happened to be a blank
space—he cast about for something to
fill the blank fpace—/row was the firft
word that occurred ; and snow was
Written in the blank. Heaven, not by
Occident, for Heaven has nothing to do
with the capricious things called acci
dents ; Heaven had determined there
should be snow that year in May; and
snow there was, though the almanack
maker had as little fore-knowledge of
LAWS OF THE UNITED
STATES.
THIRD SESSION.
Begun and held at the city of Philadel
phia, on Monday the fxtb of Decem
ber, one tboujand jeven hundred and
ninety.
CONGRESS of the U. STATES ':
From the Connecticut Courant.
t^
BUT the Prompter's name is not
half up—he! can therefore take a
fhorc dap only.
The PROMPTER—No. 17.
When a man's name is up, he ma, lie abed
'till noon.
MISCELLANY.
this as his horse block. No sooner did
it snow, but all the world looked into
the almanack—" La, (said the world)
our almanack tells of snow at this very
time. This ft a knowing man—he is a
genius." What a luckey hit ! The man's
name is up —no almanack so good as his
—and while he continued to make al
manacks, Sir Isaac Newton himfelf
would have Starved upon Almanack-mak
ing within the fame of this mighty con
jurer, whose almanacks, by one mere
guess had got bis name up, and.drove all
competitors from the market. When
this was done he might lie abed till
noon. A Jingle blunder before his name
<was up, would have damned his alma
nack—afterwards fifty errours only gave
credit to the work, for, fay the world,
great men may miltake, but this man's
nashe is up.
I have known a man get bis name up
by curing the belly ache, (excafe me,
ladies, for the ladies in Philadelphia,
of the tip top fadiion call certain
rools of sweet cake by a much less deli
cate name) with a powder of unknown
composition. All at once the doctor is
sent for to Cure the belly ache—even the
boys who eat green apples must have the
belly ache dodor —Skill, science, wis
dom, prudence are ail prostrated before
that dodor and his power. If his pati
ents die, no matter ; bis name is up, and
he will still have bufiriefs.
get a peep at him as he passed the window
of his lodgings—Every body bowed as
he passed—Every body looked and ad
mired! The man was indeed a very great
fcouridrel—but he knew human nature—
he knew the name of Washington was up.
he assumed the name for travelling pur
poses—the President's real letters of re
commendation could not have procured
him more refpe&.
When a man's name is up, he may lie
abed 'till noon.
lonce knew a shopkeeper who got his
name up as a cheap trader. He did in
deed fell cheap—wondrous cheap—even
belowfrft cos. He began to trade with
litle capital—fold goods for less than he
gave—and yet grew rich. How can
this be ? The Prompter thinks it is ve
ry easy. That article which every bo
dy wants and knows the value of, fell
very low ; even lower than firft cost —
get your name up —draw all the 'world
to your (hop—and then put double pro
fit on other goods. It is very easy, and
very common ; the greatest blockhead
can do this and make a fortune.
So when a writer gets his name up, he
may retail all manner of nonsense and
it will find a ready market in p'ublic o
pinion. A good Essay appears in the
newspaper— who wrote it ? Dr. Frank
lin, it is said wrote it. Well, it is like
him—itis a masterly production.—Some
time after, the real author appears to be
a young man, who, as the poet fays, is
unknown to fame ; and as 1 fay, whose
name is net up —impossible ; he cannot
be the author. Who ever heard of him
before ? Jam fore Dr. F. or Gov. L.
helped him.—ln fa& his name is not up.
A young lady gets her name u, for a
beauty or a fortune— all the world are
fighting and dying for her.—Wit, sense,
accomplishments all distinguish her —
beaux hang round her. like flies about a
calk of sugar—suddenly (he has a fit of
fickr.efs—the roses on her cheeks decay.
It is difeovered (he has no fortune—her
admirers draw off—(he is a clever girl —
but (he is not so clever as I thought her.
I once knew a very sensible woman
who took a great fancy to names. Ooe
of her whims was that her daughters
should marry names beginning with H.
She could give no reason for her inclina
tion but this ; (he had known several of
her neighbours who married men «rith
names beginning with H. and they all
made good husbands. They were not
the greatest men, she said, but they were
kind, good natured husbands, and would
fuffer any thing rather than :o be offend
ed. All the neighbourhood were in
love with the letter H—nothing would
do for husband, but this letter H, which
some fquemifh grammarians will have to
be no letter. But the name of the letter
quas up.
To conclude, a man by the name of
Washington some time ago passed
through the village where I live. This
was soon known—Mr. Washington !—
What a relation of the President? This
indeed was not known—but every body
really thought he looked a little like the
President. All the world colleded to
At a small village called Bergen up
Zoom, is the following whimsical sign.
It is a tree bearing fruit, & the branch
esfilled with little naked urchins, seem
ingly just ripened into life, and crying
for fuccour ; beneath, a w>m^r. holds
up her apron, looking wifhfolly at the
children, as if entreating them to jump
into her lap. It belongs to the house of
ENGLAND.
LONDON, FEB. 2^.
Extrafl of a letter from SbrewJbury, da
ted Jan. 28.
'' Saturday a clergyman,belong
ing to the Rev. Dr. Wefley,was
flopped near Bedford by a highwayman,
and robbed of his money, to the amount
of fifty-two shillings : the robber like
wise inliked that he Should change coats;
Which request he complied with in some
chagrin, it being a new one. After he
had rode on about ten minutes, he per
ceived the depredator again returning
—being fearful of niore dangerous
consequences, he hastened his speed,
happily escaped the purfait, and got to
a friend's house ; where he instantly dis
covered the cause of the highwayman's
return for on searching the pockets, he
found tied in a silk handkerchief, as
many guineas as he hid loft (hillings ;
which, very well compensated for the loss
of his coat, and bereaved the plunderer
of his ill gotten treasure."
, Jan. 31.
" The agitation and difcordancy of
opinions here, refpefting our revolution,
forebode serious evils. The almost en
tire unanimity of the BiShops and paro
chial clergy in refuting to take the civic
oath, will have an extensive influence.
Friz whole number of Bilhops in the
Kingdom is about one hundred and thir
ty, of these one hundred and twenty
five have protected against the decree of
Nov. 27, respecting the Ecclesiastical
Constitution. The Cures or rectors of
parishes, in general, and almost all our
clergymen adhear to the Bilhops in re
jediag the oath. .Only two clergymen
of note have yet taken it ; the Abbe
Poitier, an eminent preacher, who has
Since retraced ; the other is the Rector
of the pdrilb of St, Euftache, and con
feffor to the King. It is confidently
aflerted, that to prevent the unfavoura
ble impression, which might be the con
sequence of so great a rejection of the
oath, many Laymen have been employ
ed to perfonate priests and take it.
Tae day on which it was to have been
administered, the redor of St. Sulpice,
the largest parish in Paris, said to con
tain 200,000 fouls narrowly escaped be
ing murdered by an enraged multitude.
Two Parish Priests, one of them near
Rheims, have been actually put to death.
Such is the spirit prevailing in cities
and large towns. In molt country pa
rilhes, the people would be outrageous,
and insult their pastors for taking it.
Many things are published in the daily
prints to support public credit ; but you
may be assured, that the Affignats lose
credit daily.%
Died, on Friday fennight, at Fair
field, near Languor, in Staffordshire,
William Billings, soldier, at the age of
111, without ever experiencing a fit of
sickness, and at last expired without
either qualm or groan; General Cado
gan, who died a few years ago, was one
of the last of Queen Anne's officers that
farvived the great Marlborough ; and
Billings the last private, in England,
that served under that great command
er : Billings' birth and death were c
qually extraordinary —-he was born un
der a hedge, in the y^ar 1679, not a
hundred yards from the cottage where
he died.—Billings was buried at Lang
uor, on Sunday ; and many of his neigh
bours (much to their honor, oat of re
fped to British valour) a tended him to
the grave ; and they have agreed to pur.
chafe him ahead-stone upon which they
mean co have engraved (after his name,
age, &c.) the following :
Billeted by Death, / quarter'd here re-
Extrafl of a letter from Paris, dated
main,
And when the trumpet founds —I'll rife
and march again.
Singular sign adopted by a Dutch Mid-
Foreign Intelligence.
wife.
At that period the fubjeft of such a
coalition was very much agitated in the
House of Commons : in one of the de
bates which took place on the occasion.
Lord Nugent took an opportunity to
observe, that if the two gentlemen whom
the landed interest wanted to unite,
could be prevailed upon to meet over a
bottle of, wine, it would do more in half
an hour towards effecting a coalition;
than all the dry meetings at the Cocoa
tree.
He said, he remembered, that when
he was yo ng in political life, two great
men divided the public opinion: the,
were on opposite sides in Parliament,
but were well enough disposed to coalefcc
—this disposition, however, was of lit
tle avail, for neither would make the
firft advance.
" I fdw very clearly (said his Lord
ihip) that they were both anxious for
a meeting, which neither would propose.
I rcfolved therefore to take upon my.
felf to manage this business ; 1 invited
them both to my house, introduced them
to each other, ordered in some wine,
and then left them. In half an hour
they emptied two or three bottles, and
in little more than that time they came
to a perfeft understanding, and called
me in to witness their coalition. Thus
did a glass of good wine do in so short a
time, what had been in vain attempted
for years by the best friends of these two
great men, and by the most powerful
parties in England. It alio gave them
courage to proclaim to the world an u
nion of political itereft, of which it
would make them tremble a day before
to have beeri .thought capable.—The,
both dreaded the meeting so much, that
they came to my house not in their car.
riages, but on foot, and muffled up in
great coats, as much afraid of being
known as if they were thieves who wan
ted to pass unknown by thieve-takers.
Now I beg to inform (said Lord Nu
gent) the two right Hon. Gentlemen
(Mr. Fox and Mr. Pitt) that I have a
good warm room at their fervivce, with
plenty of exquisite Burgundy and cla
ret, and they will do me a very great
pleasure if they will make use of them
tete a tete ; and I will venture to fay,
that ifthey will drink deep, the much
wished for union will immediately take
place, without any farther trouble to
the country Gentlemen."
IT is to be regretted, that the quar
rels of nations cannot he fettled as those
of individuals, are. with a dinner and a
bottle. It is well known the peace of
Aix-la-Cbaptelle had like to be broken
off, and the Ambassadors were depart
ing in dudgeon, when Lord Sandwich
proposed another bottle, in the course of
which the heart, of the plenipos dilated,
and the business wis done.
When Lord Bath recently resolved to
invite the two Chancellors to longleat,
he had in view the hint thrown out by
the late Lord Nugent, at the time when
the country gentlemen were endeavour
ing to effed a coal.tion between Mr.
Fox and Mr. Pitt. -
GEORGIA.
'NORFOLK, APRIL 16.
A MONSTER.
A FEW days ago a negro girl, a
bout 15 years old, was delivered
of a monger, different perhaps from an,
heretofore seen. Without the assistance
of a plate it will not be possible to give
a just idea of this Lufus Naturae. It
must therefore fuffice to fay, that it it
composed of two male children united,
and' perfed in all their parts, except
the navel, the liver, and the thorax aid
a sworn midwife, and has this inferip
tion:
'' fang my, ik zal loot zine."
In English,
" Catch me, i'll be a sweet boy,"
THE GOOD EFFECTS OF WINE.
IN VINO VERITAS.
^ bumper of good liquor.
Will end a contest quicker
™Than Justice, Judge or Vicar :
But if more dee, the quarrel.
Why sooner drain the barrel.
Than be the bateful fellow,
That's crabbed when he's mellow.
Columbian Intelligence.
Sheridan.