The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1790-01-30 00:00:00, page 4

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Taught by some conquering friends,
who came is foes,
When Commerce riling from the bed
of ease;
Ran round the land and pointed to
the Ceas ;
When emulation; born with jealous
eye.
And avarice, lent their fours to in
cuftry ; -
Then c'e by one the numerous laws
rvere nide,
Those to controul, and these to fuc
cour trade ;
To curb the insolence of rude oom
mand,
To snatch the viaim from the Ufur
rer's hand,
To awe the bold, to yield the wrong'd
red refs,
And feed the poor with luxury's ex
cess.
Like some vast flood, unbounded,
fierce, and strong,
His nature leads ungovern'd man a.
long ;
Tike mighty bulwarks made to stem
, that tide,
The laws are form'd, and plac'd on
every fide ;
Whene'er it breaks the bounds by
these decreed,
New statutes rife, and Wronger laws
facceed ;
More and more gentle grows the dy
ing stream,
More and more strong the riling bul
warks seem ;
Till, like a miner working sure and
flow.
Luxury creeps on, and ruins all be
low ;
The basis links, the ample piles de
cay,
The Ratel, fabric shakes and falls a
way ;
Primaeval want & ignorance come on,
But Freedom —favereign boon of life
is gone,
state :
Nor into diflant climes would avarice
lO'}
to delights forluxury at home:
Bound by no tyes but those by nature
made, '
Virtue was law, and gifts prevented
trade,
Mistaken youth! each nation firft
was rude,
Each man a cheerless son of solitude,
To whom no joys of social life were
known,
Nor felt a care that was not all his
own;
Or in feme languid clime his abject
. foul
Bow'd to a little tyrant's stern con
troul ;
A Have, with (laves his monarch's
throne he rais'd ;
And in rude song hi: ruder idol praid's
—The meener cares of life were all
he knew#
Bounded his pleasures, and his withes
find none were proud of wealth, for
few :
But when by Gow degrees the Arts
rife ;
When all were bleft to (bare a com
mon store,
^rml' b' great,
Drove modest Merit from its proper
The ORIGIN OF LAWS.
THRICE happy age the youthful
pact cries,
Ere laws arose, ere tyrants hade them
none were poor—
No wars, no tumults vext each still
dom in,
No thirst of empire, no desire of gain;
No proud great man, nor one who
SEAT of the MUSES.
From the GAZETTE of the
United States,
AN EXTRACT.
very pungent, yet Philp tho t
proper to inform himfelf m?c
fully of the affair, and find
ing that he had right on bis
fide, gave him bis right by
way of appeal.
caused him to dose in the cha,
of judgment. —The citizen,
finding he loft his caufeJrom
the Emperor's inattention,cri
ed out in an audible voice, I
APPEAL —which routed the
haughty monarch, who flern
ly replied, to whom do you
appeal ? The honefl; man, not
in the leaf abashed, added—
from Philip asleep to Philip
awake !——lhe words were
Three pieces dark Callico, con
taining about fifty or sixty yards.
Whoever will apprehend the thief,
so that he may be brought tofuftice,
and the goods recovered again, ihall
receive the above reward.
David Boardman.
Dover, ,#<. izh^go.,
A FEW COPIES OF THAT^
Excellent Pattern for Children,
□economy of Human Life,
ea, he bad at H. Ranta' efu.
ON Saturday evening,
the 9th instant, the (hop of
the Subferiber was broken o
pen, and the following articles taken
therefrom, via.
Four yards of red and white broad
cloth—
THERE are at present two chil
dren at Cruwjs, in Devonshire,
who have been (offered by their mo
ther to run wild from their infancy,
rather than accept of the parish as
finance. The one is a boy of ten—
the other a girl of twelve years of
a g e -
They are both in a state of nature
— feeding only on wild berries, and
running on all fours with amazing
celerity ! If pursued, they utter a ter
rifick fcreem, and hide themselves in
the top of a tree, or in the recedes of
a thicket.
Three and a half ditto, of brown 1
Lamb(kin-
Four and three quarters dittos Flo.
ren tine—
Eight do. honeycomb Velvet-
One piece of coarse Cambrick—
Fourteen yards Linen— 1
Two and a half do. Satin—
Three do. Cambrick—
One Hat —
Eleven red and white Handker
chiefs—
- TEN DOLLARS
REWARD.
^CITIZEN of Macedon,
demanded juface of Philip
who bad been drinking, which
They are never seen in a Landing
posture—nor can they be prevailed on
to approach any person but their Mo
ther, with whom, though they c+ rt
not speak, they have always kept up
a distant and fearful communication !
Stop Thief!
The COLLECTION.
ofy^ro
ENGLISH ARTICLE.
ANECDOTE.
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mination of Christians will be pleased
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ly contribute in aiding him to carry
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edition of a royal quarto Bible. He
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With the greeted refpea, &c.
ISAIAH THOMAS.
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goodness, if not of a superior quality
to the (English) Cambridge, Oxford,
orlonion, Royal Quarto editions.
'lil.
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IV
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laudable undertaking, and to be in
possession of so valuable a property as
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The SCRIPTURES of the
Old & New Teflaments,
ISAIAH THOMAS,
Os Worcester. Maffachnfetts,
For Printing by SUBSCRIPTION,
In Large Royal Quarto,
[Ornamented with an elegant Copper
plate Frontispiece]
THE
APOCR rp HA& INDEX,
AND
MARGINAL NOTES and
An American Edition,
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Worcester, Nov. 1789.
PROPOSAL
OF
CONDITIONS.
I,
REFERENCES.
WITH THE
CREDITORS to the estate of Jo
nathan Moulton, fate of
Hampton, Esq. deceased, are inform o
ed, that the commissioners appointed
to receive and examine the claims a.
gainft (aid estate will attend at hit
late dwe&g hzuft .n Hnrflo; %
the last Thursday and Friday of this
and the eight following months for
that purpose.
Persons having claims (till to exhi
bit are desired to offer them— —and
those who have accounts and demands
open with the said estate, which can
be fettled with the executors, with
out an application to commissioners,
are requeued to apply to them on any
intermediate days.—Those indebted
to said estate will prepare to make im
mediate payment, as the speedy fete
element thereof will oblige the exe
cutors to exad it, ' ^ \
Hampton, 08. 19, 1789.
Blanks of most forts ma,
fa had at H. Ranlet's #fo at cheap
•sat an, office is thefate.
ALL persons that have
4 ' demands against the estate of _
Tristram Sanborn,late of J<ingf
town, deceased, are requested co ex
hibit them, ——And those indebted to
Aid estate are called on to make im
mediate payment —to John San
born, jun. of Ead Kingilown, Exe
cutor to said estate.
King^own, January 8, 1790.
years old next spring—with white face
and line Sack—his left ear cropt off,
and a hole thro' the right. Whoever
will give information of said (tear (hall
be handsomely rewarded by
EBEN. SWEAZEY.
Exeter, Sth January, 1790.
Salts of Alhes
THE highest prices
given for SALTS and con
demn'd POT-ASHES, at the Pearl-
A(h Works in Exeter,
January 9, 1790. (20 f.)
Benjamin Boardman,
[Administrator.
A LL persons having ac
-4 A cotfius handing open with the
Subferiber, are desired to elefe them
immediately, as his reasons for the
requeli are obvious.
lOSEPH TILTON.
Exeter, 11th ,an, 1,90.
— 4 -1
Strayed or Stolen, l
A Bout the 17th Odo-£
ber iaft, A red STEAR, three ,
ALL persons indebted
to, or that have any
demands against the es
tate of John Thompson,
late of Exeter, deceased,
are requested to exhibit
them for settlement, to
Take Ne:ice.
Debtors & Creditors.
Debtors ^ Creditors.—
Take Notice !
wanted.