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~ A PROCLAMATION.
Uy his Honour NINIAN HOME, Esq. Lt.
Govern our and Commander in Chief in and
over the if and of Grenada, and fuel of
the if ands commonly called Grenadines.
to the Jouthward of the ijland oj Carriacou,
including that if and, and lying between the
fame and Grenada in America, Chancellor,
Ordinary, and Vice Admiral of the Jame.
NINIAN HOME, (L. S.)
HERE AS, it hath been represented,as
well by an address of the Honourable House
of Assembly, as by the Petition of a great
number of very refpedable inhabitants, that
there prevails at this time an alarming fear
city of provisions in this Government, which
is likely to be augmented, as well by the
number of unfortunate Loyal Emigrant?
from the French islands, as by rhe difficulty
that cxifts at the prefenc moment, of obtain
ing supplies from abroad in British veflels ;
In order therefore, to obviate so dreadful a ca
lamity as Famine, as far as in me lies, I
have, by and with the advice of His Majes
ty’s Council, and at the urgent entreaty of
the Honourable House of Aflcmbly, thought
it neceflary to iflue this- my Proclamation,
hereby permitting and allowing the free im
portation into this island, in American vef.
fels, of all such articles as are now by law
admitted to be imported from America, in
British bottoms, to continue till the rft day
of January next, whereof all persons whom it
may concern are hereby required to take no
tice. < ' ■
Given under my band and Seal at Ar mt, at
St. George's, the twenty-Jevent h day of
AuguH,in the year of our Lord one thousand
fevtn hundred and ninety three, and in the,
thirty* third year of His Majefy's reign.
God save the King,
By Bis Honour's Command,
MATHER BYLES.
Paly proclaimed dt St. George's, Grenada, the
Z^th day ofAuguft in the year of our Lord 1793.
J. DAVIS, Prov, Mar.
“ Very astonishing, indeed I flrange thing
(Turning the dumpling round^rejoin’d thcKing)
’Tis most extraordinary, then, all this is—
•* It beats Pinetti’s conj’ring, all to pieces—
“ Strange,Hhould never of a dumpling dream !
“But.goody,tell me,where, where, where’s the
seam ?”
“Sir,there’s no feam,(quoth she) I never knew,
That folks did apple-dumplings few.”—
No I cried the ftaringMonarch,with a grin,
“ How, how the Devil, got the apple in i”
The wrinkled, blear-ey’d, good old grarny.
In this fame cot, illum’d by many a cranny ;
Had finilh’d apple dumplings for her pot.
Jn tempting row,the naked dumblings lay ;
When, Io I the Monarch, in his ufaal way,
Like lightning spoke, “What’s this ? what’s
th : s i what ? what ?”
G [hooping,
NCE on a time, a Monarch, yr’d with
Whipping and spurring, ,
Happy in worrying
A poor, defencelefs, ha-mlefs back—
The horle, and rider, wet as muck—
From his high consequence & wildom,(looping.
Enter’d through curiosity, a cot,
Where fat a poor old woman, with her pot.
The Apple-Dumplings and a King.
Epitaph on W. Button, Esq.
O Heavens 1 OEa-th! OSeas! O Poles!
Are graves no^ turn’d to Button Holes ?
Then taking up a dumpling in his hand,
His eyes, with admiration, did expand ;
And olt did Majesty (he dumpling grapple,
“ ’Tis monstrous, monstrous hard, indeed I”
he cried.
“ What makes it, pray, so hard r” The dame
replied, [apple.”
Low curt’fying, w P«afe your Majelly, the
Far from despising kings, I like the breed,
Provided, king-like they behave—
Kings are an inllrumeot, we need,
Just as we razors want—to shave.
Why Ihould it not be true ? The greatest men
May alk a fcolilh quellion, now and then—
This is the language of all ages—
Folly lays many a trap—we can’t escape it;
Hemo (fays some one) omnibus horis fafit;
Then why no;Kings,like me. Sc other sages ?
Reader,thou likefl not my tale, look’ll blue,
Thou art a courtier—roareft, lies, lies, lies^
Do, for a moment, Hop thy cries—
I tell thee, roaring infidel, ’tis true-
Seat of the Muses.
By Piter Pindar, Esq.
GRENADA,
XN the condud of life, the great matter is,
to know beforehand, what will pieale us, and
what pleafnres will hold out. And this
knowledge is more rare and difficult than at
firft fight it may seem to be ; for sometimes
pleasures, which are wonderfully alluring and
flattering in the profped, turn out in the
pofleflion, extremely insipid ; or do not
hold out as we expelled ; at ether times
pleasures flart up, which never ehtered into
pur calculation, and which we migh^ have
miffed of by not forefeeing ; from whence we
have reason to believe, that we adlually mil's
of many pleasures from the fam.e cause.
By reason of the original diversity of taste,
capacity, and conftituiic-., observable in the
human species, and the Rill greater vari
ety which habit and fafhion have introduced
in these particulars; it is impossible to pro
pose any plan of happiness which will fuc'
ceed ro all, or any method of life which will
succeed to al), or any method of life which is
universally eligible or practicable. All that
can be said is, that there remains a presump
tion in favour of those conditions of life in
yvhich men generally*appear most cheerful
and contented. For though the apparent
' happiness of mankind be not always a true
measure of their happiness, it is the bell mea
fare we have.
Upon this principle, then, happiness ap
pears to consist,
ift. In the exercifeof the facial affeClions.
Those persons commonly possess good spirits
who have about them many objects of affec
tion and endearment ; as wife, children,kin
dred friends; and to the want of these may
be imputed the peevilhnefs of such as live an
unfociel life. Os the fame natu.e with the
indulgence of our dotneftic affcCtions and e
qually refrelhing to the spirits, is the pleasure
which results from aCls of bounty and benefi
cence, excelled either in giving money, or
imparting to fhofe who want it the assistance
of our skill and profeflion.
2nd. Another main article of human hap
piness is, the exercise of our faculties, either
of body or mind, in the pursuit of some en
gaging end.
it seems to be true, that no plenitude of
present gratifications can make the pbfleflbr
happy for a continuance, unlels he have
something in reserve, famething^ to hope for
and lock forward to. This may be inferred
from comparing the alacrity and spirits
of men who are engaged in any parfait
which interests them, with the dejeClion and
ennui of almost all who are either born to fa
much as that they want nothing more,or who
have used up their fatisfaftions too soon, and
drained the faurces of them. It is this intoh
erable variety of mind which carries the rich
and great to the horse-course and the gaming
table ; and often engages them in contests
and pursuits of which the faccefs bears no
proportion to the solicitude and expense with
Which it is faught.
—The question now occurs, how we are
to provide ourselves with a succession of plea
farable engagements I This requires two
things Judgment tn the choice of ends adapt
ed to Our opportunities; and a command of
JOHN HANCOCK, Esq. Gov
ernour of the free, fovreign, inde
pendent Commonwealth of M atta
ch ufetts, acknowledged no allegiance
to any Prince, Person, Prelate, State,
or Potentate, Ecclesiastical or Spiri
tual, was (notwithstanding such mo
mentous and ’ stupendous indepen
d^ncy) arretted on the eighth day of
October, in the year of our Lord one
thousand seven hundred and ninety
three, by Death, Marshal of the
Prine of Peace, and is to be tried at
the bar of the Supreme Court of the
United Universe, at the feat of Gov
ernment holding pleas of “ the wreck
of matter and crush of worlds —
where he will^have to (lay aside all
other matters, and notwithttanding
any excuse,) plead the general ifiue,
and put himfelf on trial—unless by
the influence of his numerous friends,
the Court fhouid be advised tc-order
the Attorney General to enter a nolo
profequi.
On the QUESTION,
Wherein conjifts Human Happiness ?
From the WESTERN STAR.
te Fata volentes ducting nolenies.”
“ Thus all mull tread the path of fate,
“ Thus even (hakes the mortal urn,
“ Whose lot embarks us, soon or Ute,
“ On Charon’s boat, ah,never torelurn.”
AN EXTRACT.
imagination, To as to be able, when the judg
ment has made choice of an end, to transfer
a pleasure to the means ; after which, the
end may be forgotten as soon as we will.—
Hence those pleasures are moll valuable,
which are most produ&ive of engagement
and aftiviry in the purfait; not which are
most exquisite in the fruition- A man who
is in earnest in b’s endeavours after the hap<-
pinefs of a future (late, has in this refpeft an
advantage over all the world. For he has
conflantly before his eyes an objett of Su
preme importance, productive of perpetual
engagement and activity, and of which the
pursuit (which can be said of no purfait be
sides,) laits him to his life’s end. Yet even
hr mull have many ends besides the fartheft
end ; but then they will cdndu& to that, be
subordinate, or lome way or other capable of
being referred to that, and derive their fatis
fatlon, or an addition of fatisladlion, from
that.
Engagement is every thing. The more
fignificant however,our engagements are, the
better ; such as the planning of laws, inllitu
tions, manufaflures, charities, improvements,
public works, and the endeavouring by our
in (ereft, address, felicitation and aftivity, to
carry them into effed ; or, upon a smaller
scale, the procuring of a maintenance and
fortune for our families, by a course of indus
try and application to our callings, which
forms and gives mo ion to the common occu
pations of life ; training up a child, prefe
cuting a scheme for his future eftablilhment,
makrhg ourselves mailers of a language or
science, improving or managing an estate,
labouring after a piece of preferment; and,
fina]h,an engagement which is innocent is
better than none ; as the writing of a book,
the building of a house, the laying out of a
garden, or even the railing of a cucumber or
a tulip. While the mind is taken up with
the objedb or business before it, we are com
monly happy, whatever the object or business
be : when the mind is absent, and the tho’cs
are wandering ro something else than what is
palling in the place in which we are, we are
often miserable.
3d. The art in which the secret of human
happiness in a great measure conlifts, is to
set the habits in such a manner, that every
change may be a change for the better.' -
The return to an old habit is likewise easy,
whatever the habit »'e. The habits themselves
are much the fame ; for whatever is made
habitual becomes fmcoth, easy, and indiffer
ent.—Therefore the advantage is in favpr of
those habits which allow of indulgence in the
deviation from them. The luxurious re
ceive no greater pleafnre from their dainties,
chan the prafant from his bread and cheese ;
but the peasant whenever *he goes abroad
finds a feuit, whereas the epicure mull be
well entertained to escape disgust. Those
who spend every day at cards, and those who
go every day to <he plough, pass their time
much alike ; intent upon what they are a
bour, wanting nothing, regretting nothing,
they are both in a state of ease. But then,
whatever suspends the occupation ofwhe card
player, distresses him ; whereas to the plough
man, every interruption is a refrelhment ;—
and this appears in the different effed that
the sabbath produces upon the two, which
proves a day of recreation to the ore' but a
lamentable burthen to the other. The man
who has learned io live alone, feels his spi
rits enlivened whenever he enters into com
pany, and takes his leave without regret ; a
nother who has long been accustomed to a
crowd, or continual succession of company,
v experiences in company no elevation of spi
rits, nor any greater fatiafa&ion than what
the tnan of a retired life finds in his chimney
corner. So that their conditions are equal ;
but let a change of place, fortune, or situa
tion, separate the companion from bis circle,
his visitors, his club, &c. and the difference
of advantage in the choice and ctfnftitution of
the two habits will Ihew itfeif. Solitude
comes to the One cloathed in melancholly ;
to the other it brings liberty and quiet. --
You will fee theone fretful and restless, at a
loss how to dispose of his time, till the hour
comes round that he can forget himfelf in
bed ; the other easy and fatisfied, taking up
a book or a pipe, as soon as he finds himfelf
alone ; ready to admit any little amusement
that cast up, or to turn his hands and atten
tion to the firft business that presents itfeif ;
or content without either to fit Rill, and let
his train of thought glide indolently through
his brain,without much ufe,perhaps, or plea
fare, but without hankering after any thing
better, and without irritation, A reader
who has inured himfelf to books of science.
and augtnenration, if a novel, a well written
pamphlet, an article of news, a voyage, or
travels, fall in his way, he fns down to the
repast with relilh, enjoys his entertainment
while it lefts, and can return when it is over
to his graver reading without distaste. Ano
ther, with whom nothing will go down but
works of pleasantry, or whose curiosity malt
be interested by perpetual novelty,, will con
sume a bookseller’s Window in half a fore
noon ; during which time he is rather in
search of diversion, than diverted; and as
books to his taste are few and short, and ra
pidly read over, the flock is soon exhausted,
when he is left without resource from the
principal supply of innocent amusement.
Wanted a Lad, about
. 16 or 17 years of age, to serve as an
apprentice to the Cabinet-MalAg
Bu fine fs» Enquire of
JOSEPH SMITH. !
Exeter, Sept. 23. '
— _ —
Wanted immediately, a large quantity
Green Sheep-Skins,
Far wbicb a gentrcui price will be given,
• •. J.
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Cafib; Writingpaper,
or Books will be exchanged for clean
Cotton and Linen RAGS>
at H.Ranlet’s Printing-Office, Maine
Street, Exeter.
printed on the new plan.
Justice’s Executions,
Warrantee and Quitclaim Deeds,
Apprentice Indentures, &c. &c.
So Far as circumflances of fortune conduce
to happiness, ikis not (he income which a
man proleffes, but the increase of income that
affords the pleafurc. Two persons, cf whom
one begins with tool, and advances his in
come to 10001. a year ; and the other fees off
with 10001. and dwindles down to tool,
may in the course cf their time, have the^e
ceipt and spending of the fame sum cf mo
tey ; yet their fatisfa&ion, so far as fortune
is concerned in it, will be very different ; the
series and sum total of their incomes being
the fame, it makes a tfide difference wbicn
end they begin at.
4th. Happiness conlifts in health ; under
flanding by health, not only freedom from
bodily distempers, bet also that tranquility,
firmnefs and alacrity of mind which we cal!
good spirits- For the lake of health, accord
ing to this definition cf it, no facrifices can
be too great. Whether it requires ts to re
linquilh lucrative Ctuaticns, to abstain from
favorite indulgences, to control intemperate
paflions, or undergo tedious regimens what
ever difficulties it lays us under, a man, «ho
purfus-s his happiness rationally and refolcte.
Jy, will be content to submit to. When we
are in high health'and spirits, we feel in cur
felves a happinels independent of any parti
cular outward gratification whatever, and of
which he can give no account. This is an
enjoyment which the Deity has annexed to
life; and probably conflitutes in a great
meafure.the happiness of infants and brutes;
especially of the lower and sedentary or*
ders of animals.
The proceeding account of human happi
r.efs, will fully jqftify these two conclusions,
which although found in most books of mo
rality, have leldorn been fepporred by any
fuffident resfons : ill. .That happi
ne's is pretty equally distributed amongll the
different orders of civil society ; and zndly.
That vice has no advantage ever virtse>even
with refpedl to rHis world’s happirefs.
TO BE SOLD BY
HENRY RANLET,
Hl his Printing-Office, next door to
Meflrs. Gilman Buyer’s,
Hs cheap as can be pitrehajed in Ecjlcn,
or elfexvhere,
A General Aflbrtment of
Books ^ Stationary;
Blank Justice’s Writs,
Notice is hereby given
—That some years past I did confi
ture and appoint George Lewis Haines
of Epping, in the County of Rock
ingham, to do business for me by a
power of attorney—Now I do hereby
revoke laid power, and do forbid his
acting or doing any business for me,
by virtue of the fame, as I shall not
allow any business done by him after
the date hereof. Janies Haines.
Sanhonton, C Scher if, 1793.
Attest, Simeon Haines.
LETTERS remaining in the Pott
Office, Exeter, October 1, 1793.
Hon. Nicholas Gilman, Esq. 7 .
Mr. Od iome, j Exe,iT -
Moles Blafdeli, Kingdown^
Joseph Calef, Chester,
John W ,(AilmatsPeJi Nlajler.
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