The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1790-10-09 00:00:00, page 4

THE LOTTERY.
AT will, while Fortune turns the wfieel,
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 Angle maxim saves the wife,
'' Content makes an, let a prize."
MONS. 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 t'wo 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 from a window. This
injured family had a sister, who for
some time abandoned herfelf to grief
and rage; but the faft of these pas
sions prevailing, prompted her to a
revenge above the daring of her sex ;
for, being informed that her sister's
seducer and brother's murderer was
at Montpellier, the went thither
from Gighac, where (he lived, and
found means, the very evening of her
arrival, to be introduced to the guilty
author of her family's disgrace, whom
she instantly shot dead with a pistol.
She then 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 conduct ; they made
themselves prisoners, to accompany
her to the Throne, and she soon ob
tained a full pardon.^
SEAT OF THE MUSES.
Single Life and Matrimony contrasted.
B, a Student at Yale College.
?,HE matrimonial state —All prudent men ap
prove;,
The wife sincerely hate— A course of changing love;
True happiness we find—do 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 fronf fair to fair —Is but a wretched life.
SINGULAR INSTANCE OF FE
MALE REVENGE.
CURIOUS ANECDOTES.
THE whimsical and immortal au
thor of Triftram Shandy was
married to Mrs. Sterne on a Satur
day morning. His parifhoners had
timely information of this .circum
stance, and knowing he would preach
the next morning at his pari(h church,
and desirous at the fame time of fee
ing the bride, they assembled in luch
crouds that the church was full be
fore the bell had done tolling. The
pride, as was expeded made her ap
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 eacli 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 humourift 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 blulh
ed down to her fingers' ends every
step of the way to her house.
Anecdote of Dr. Franklin.
WHEN the Doctor firft heard of
the French Revolution, it was,
in the company of several persons
who came to visit him at Philadel
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 usual patience, at last
replied—" Why I fee nothing singu
lar in ajl this, but, on the contrary,
what might naturally be expend ;
the French have served an apprentice-
Jbip to liberty in this country, and
pow that they are out of their time,
they have set up for tbemfelves."
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 foits
of Frederiefburgh and Chriftianburgh
situated on the gold cbaft, at a small
distance from each other, 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 renounce that
cruelty to which custom had given a
kind of fanaion. So great was the
reputation of his humanity, and the
confidence reposed in his probity, that
the blacks would come the distance
of 300 miles to fee him : and the love
reign of a distant country sent his
daughter to him, with presents of
gold, and slaves, that this European,
so revered through &11 the coasts of
Nigritia, might give him a grandson.
6 Virtue ! still dost thou exist in the
fouls of those wretched beings, con
demned to dwell with tigers, or to
SINGULAR INTEGRITY.
groan beneath the yoke of their own
species ! They yet have hearts sus
ceptible of the foft itnpreffions 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 exchang
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 House, Wharf and Brick-Yard,
and one and jhalf acre of LAND, lately occupied
by Samuel Brooks, jun.—Three years credit
given witn good security. also —
A handsome Fall-back Chaise, almost
New, and one year's credit given. For terms ap
ply to Sumuel Brooks, Esq. Exeter, or Wil
liam Brooks at Brintwood,
Exeter, Sept, 30. 1790.-
A New STORE, in the centre of
the town of Exeter, adjoining the River—
-40 feet front—well calculated for any gentleman in
Trade also —
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— SARAH DRAKE, Adm'trix.
N Pittsfield, 24th Sept. 1790.
ALL persons indebted to, or that have
any demands against the estate of
Doctor BENJAMIN ROWE, late of
Kerifington, deceafed^ are requeued to
fettle the fame immediately witb & the sub
scriber, Executor to the last Will offaid
deceased. ^ Attendance will be given
for the above purpose from 6 to go clock
A. M. at the late dwelling-boufe of said
deceased. BENJAMIN ROWE.
Kensington, July 28, 'Z^ o*^ 0 *^
A HOUSE, WHARF and STORE,
54 feet front, formerly occupied by William
Brooks— 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
ALL persons indebted to, or have
demands on the estate of Hum
phrey Noyes, late of Atkinson, de
ceased, are requeued to fettle the fame
with Joseph Noyes, Joint
Peter Noyes, Ex'tors.
Atkinson, 21st &,'• 1 7 , . _
OTRAYED from the Oakland, some
~ time in June laji, a dark red, year
ling HEIFER, with a white face.--
Whoever will give information of Jaid
heifer, Jo that the owner may have her
again, Jhall be bandfomely rewarded.
Enquire of the Printer.
Exeter, Sept. 16.
LYDIA GRIFIN, Adm'trix.
Deerfield, Sept. 21, 1790,
TO BE SOLD,