The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1790-09-03 00:00:00, page 4

The Address of the Convention of the Universal
Church, assembled in Philadelphia, I 790.
SIR,
PERMIT as in the name of the Society whom
we represent, to conchr in the numerous con
gratulations which have been offered to you since
your acceflion to the government of the U. States..
* For an account of oar principles we beg leave
to refer you to the pamphlet, which we have now
the honour to put into your hands. In this pub
lication it will appear, that the peculiar doftrine
which we hold, is not less friendly to the order and
happiness of society, than it is erfential to the per
fections of the Deity.
It is a singular circumstance in tfe hiftory of
this doctrine, that it has been preached anl de
fended in every age, since the firft promulgation
of the gospel, but we represent the firft society
profeffing this doftrine, that have formed them
selves into an independent church. Posterity will
hardly fail of connecting this memorable event,
with the auspicious years of peace, liberty and free
inquiry in the U. States, which distinguished the
administration of General Washington.
We join thus publicly with our affectionate fel
low-citizens in thanks to Almighty God for the
last of his numerous signal afts of goodness to our
country in preserving your valuable life in a late
dengerous indisposition, and we assure you Sir, that
duty will not prompt us more than affe&ion to
pray, that you may long continue the support and
ornament of oar country, and that you may here
after fill a higher Ration, and enjoy the greater re
ward of being a King and Priest to our God.
Signed in behalf and by order of the Convention.
'JOHN MURRAY,
W. EUGENE IMLAY.
Though in regard to number not exad:
It was not two black Crows, 'twas only one.
The truth of that you may depend upon :
The gentleman himfelf told me the case.—
Where may I find him ? Why in such a place.
Away goes he and having found him out,
Sir, be so good as to resolve a doubt :
When to his last informant he inferr'd,
And beg to know if true what he had heard :
Did, you, Sir, throw up a black Crow ?— Not so
Bless me how people propagate a lie !
Black Crows have been thrown dp, three,two & one.
And here I find all comes, at last, to—none !
Did you fay nothing of a crow at all ?
Crow, Crow, perhaps I might, now I recall
Th! matter over.—And pray, Sir, what was't ?
Why I was horrid sick, and at the last,
I did throw up, and told my neighbour so.
Something that was—as black, Sir, as a crow.
From whose ? So having nam'd the man,
Straight to enquire his curious comrade ran,
Sir, did you tell——relating the affair-
Yes Sir, I did ; and if 'tis worth your care.
Aik Mr. Such a one, he told it me ;
But bye the bye, 'twas two bhck Crows not^rer..
Refolv'd to trace so various an events
Whip to the third the virtuoso went:
Sir—and so forth— Why yes the thing is fad;
To the PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES.
A Gentleman, that lives not far from 'Change>
This week in short, as all the alley knows,
Taking a puke, has thrown up three black Crows!
Impossible ! Nay, but 'tis really true;
I have it from good hands, and so may you.—
The following was written to expose the folly of
fitch persons as exaggerate, every fiery they relate.
TWO honest tradesmen meeting in the strand,
One took the other briskly by the hand,
Hark ye (said he) 'tis an odd story this
About the Crows!—l don't know what it is,
Repli'd his Friend.—No ? I'm furpriz'd at that,
Where I came from it was the common chat :
And you shall hear !— An odd affair indeed :
And that it happened they are all agreed :
Not to detain you from a thing so strange,
SEAT OF THE MUSES.
FROM THE MIDDLESEX GAZETTE.
fr o the CONVENTION of the UNIVERSAL
CHURCH, lately assembled at Philadelphia.
With a great and just view,
This Truth we'll pursue,
That feature or colour no difference can be.
In the eye of that Mind
Which call'd forth Mankind
To make them one family, happy and free.
What a wide scene of rapture my eye now beholds;
When I turn to the Weft the enkindling view,
Their frank tawney children my bosom enfolds,
And claps them wio ardor, as brothers, like you.
Perhaps, ere I d°§
My children or I, <
With fafety and comfort may traverse this land
And bless this fair day,
When St. Andrew's sway, #
Impelled their Leader to give me his hand.*
It gives me the most sensible pleafare to find,
that in our nation, however different are the senti
ments of the citizens on religious doctrines, they
generally concur in one thing: For their political
profeffions and practices are almost universally
friendly to the order and happiriefs of our civil
inffitutions. lam also happy in finding this dis
position particularly evinced by your Society. It
is moreover my earnest delire, that all the mem
bers of every afibciation or community, throughout
the United States, may make such use of the au
spicious years of peace, liberty, and free inquiry,
with which they are now favoured, as they Ihall
hereafter frJ occasion to rejoice for having done.
—With great fatisfa&ion, I embrace this opportu
nity to express my acknowledgements for the in.
terft my affectionate fellow citizens have taken in
my recovery from a late dangerous indisposition,
and I assure you gentlemen, hat in mentioning
my obligation for the effefions of your benevolent
willies on my behalf, I feel animated with a new
zeal, that my conduct may ever be worthy of your
favourable opinion, as well as Tuch as shall, in
every refped, best comport with the character of
an intelligent and accountable being.
S%ng in the St. Andrew's Society, on Thursday
evening last, when Col. Alexander M'Gil-
Bivray was prejent.
Tune Nottingham Ale.
AMONG polifh'd nations for centuries past,
The Hero, the faint, have by custom affign'd
Aday to their honor, which ever shall last
While gratitude foftens the hearts of mankinds
For this cause to-day,
The Cross we display,
To honor St. Andrew, the great and the good ;
Who, despising the shame,
Laid to glory the claim,
And feal'd, like a martyr, the truth with his blood.
When one oThis children ffiould make the way plain,
And people Ely hum with coverts from you.
When Ohio's fair plains
Should enlarge the domains
Os the Princes, and the Lover and Giver of Peate;
And a Son of his own
-Have the merit, alone,
Os making all Indian boftilities cease.
The time is at hand, nay, already appears;
When the Empire, of Realon shall goverri the
world,
Perhaps his last moments, those moments of pain,
Might be fweet'ned with profpeds of what would
ensue ;
And Error, tho'fandion'd by thousands of years,
With contempt, as it ought, from our bosoms be
hurl'd.
I THANK you cordially for the congratulations
which you offer on my appointment to the of
fice 1 have the honor to hold in the government of
the United States.
* Here the Chief and the Poet /book hands <with
great cordiality, and the members prefant participated
heartily in the exchange of friendly sentiments.
May plentiful seasons, a fun ever mild,
A spirit of kindness and friendfhip sincere.
Transform to an Eden your defarts so wild.
And sympathy only occasion a tear.
When you're gone far away, .
Oh ! remember the day,
When here joy and harmony mingled their pow rs,
To keep up the fame
Os St Andrew's name,
And embellifh'd his shrine with a chaplet of flowers.
FROM THE NEW-YORK DAILY GAZETTE.
Gentlemen,
SONG.
G. WASHINGTON.
.4 LETTER,
From Dr. FRANKLIN, to a friend
in England, dated in 1775.
DEAR SIR,
I AM to set out to-morrow for the camp, and
'having heard of this opportunity can only
write a line to fay that I am well and hearty. Tell
our dear good friend , who sometimes has
his doubts and despondencies about our firmnefs;
that America is determined and unanimous, a very
few tories and placemen excepted, who will pro
bably loon expo t themselves.
Britain, at the expence of three millions, has
killed one hundred and fifty Yankees this cam
paign, which is twenty thousand pound ) a head;
and at Brnker's-Hill the gained one mile of
ground, halt of which the loft again by our taking
post on Ploughed Hill. During the fame time fifty
thousand children have been born in America.
From these data, his mathematical head ,M eafiljr
calculate the time and expense necessary to kib us
all, and conquer our whole territory.
My sincere refpefh to , and to the Club of
honest Whigs at Adieu.
l'am ever year's most affe&ionately.
A LL persons indebted to, or that
' A have demands on the estate of TIMOTHY
CHAMBERLAIN,Iate of Exeter, Baker, deceased,
are required to fettle with the fubferiber, Execu
trix to the last Will and Testament of the deceased.
ESTHER CHAMBERLAIN.
Exeter, August tyh, 1790
STAY, chrdtian, stay, nor let thy haste profane
The humble stone that«lls thee life is vain.
Here beauty lies, in mould'ring ruins loft,
A bloffim nipt by death's untimely froft ;
Unwarn'd, yet unfurpriz'd, found on her guard}'
A prudent virgin watching for her Lord.
In early youth she wifely fought her God,
And the fafe path of iriling virtue trod :
In blow of beauty, humify turn'd aside
The incense flati'ry ofier'd to her pride.
Her front with blushing modesty me bound,
And on her lips the law of truth was found :
Fond to oblige, too gentle to offend;
Belov'd by all) to all the good a friend;
The bad the cenfur'd by her life alone, 1
Blind to their faults, severe upon her own :
In others' griefs a tender part she bore,
And with the needy fhar'd her little store :
At diftarfce saw the world with pious dread.
And to God's temple for prote&ion fled.
There Ought that peace which heav'n alone can give)
And learn'd to die, ere others learn to l?ve.
Trough clos'd those eyes, by which all hearts were
Tho'every feature ofeach grace difarm'd; [charm'd)
Yet think not that her pieiy was vain :
Her foul Jurvives, her virtues fill remain ;
O'er vanquifh'd death th'immortal faint prevail#,
And op'ning heav'n the new born angel hails.
pUBLIC notice is hereby given, by
A Alexander Gregg of Newbollon, in the
county of Hillfborough, Administrator of the estate
which was of James Gregg, late of said Newd
boftoh; weaver, deceased— That on the third Tues.
day of August instant, at Amherst in Lia county,
A Decree was made by the,Hon. Samuel Dana,
Esq. Judge of the Probate pf Wills. &c. within
said county, upon the said Alexander's administra
tion accounts of the effate of said deceased ; from
which decree the said Alexander then and there
claimed an appeal to the fuperibr court of judica
ture, nett to be holdeh at Amherst, within and for
said county, which was allowed b, the said judge;
and will be prosecuted accordingly.
WILLIAM GORDON, Attomty
Amherft,Aug. 23d, 1790. [for said Appellant.
OTICEis hereby-givenrfto-tKe
™ owners of the Lands ina place called Peter.
borough-Slip, in the county of Hiiyborougb, that pur
suant to an Ad of the General Court, passed the
Nineteenth day of June, 1789, a Tax of one tam,
per Acre is assessed on all the lands in said place,
for the sole purpose of rapairing the public r^dj and
building necessary bridges in fail placetand that the
fame must be paid to me the fubferiber, in said Pe
terborough -Slip, within eight weeks from the date
hereof, or the lands of delinquent owners will be ex
posed to faje agreeably to said Aft.
ROBERT McNAY, Confable.
Peterborougb-Sli,, July ,oth, 1790.
WANTED about £. too in Neiv±
bampJhire STATE NOTES— or
CERTIFICATES, For which CASH will be give.
Enquire at this office. Exeter, July 3%J
EPITAPH ON A YOUNG LADY.
FOR THE GAZETTEER.
B. F.