The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1772-03-13 00:00:00

NEW-HAMPSHIRE
AND
HISTORICAL
CONTAINING the FRESHEST ADVICES
Friday March 13 1772.
GAZETTE,
CHRONICLE,
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
NO. 803 } Weeks since this Paper was first Publish'd.
A DESCRIPTION of LONDON, from the EXPEDITION of HUMPHREY CLINKER.
I N London I am pent up in frowzy lodgings, where there is not room enough to swing a cat; and I breathe the steams of endless putrefaction; and these would undoubtedly produce a pestilence, if they were not qualified by the gross acid of sea-coal, which is itself a pernicious nuisance to lungs of any delicacy of texture: but even this boasted corrector cannot prevent those languid, sallow looks, that distinguish the inhabitants of London from those ruddy swains that lead a country life. I go to bed after midnight, jaded & restless from the dissipations of the day—I start every hour from my sleep, at the horrid noise of the watchmen bawling the hour through every street, and thundering at every door; a set of useless fellows, who serve no other purpose but that of disturbing the repose of the inhabitants; and by five o'clock I start out of my bed, in consequence of the still more dreadful alarms of the country carts, and noisy rustics bellowing green peas under my window. If I must quaff the mawkish contents of an open aqueduct, exposed to all manner of defilement or swallow that which comes from the river Thames, impregnated with all the filth of London and Westminster—Human excrement is the least offensive part of the concrete, which is composed of all the drugs, minerals, and poisons, used in mechanics and manufactures, enriched with the putrifying carcasses of beasts and men, and mixed with the scourings of all the wash tubs, kennels, and common sewers, within the bills of mortality.
This is the agreeable potation, extolled by the Londoners as the finest water in the universe.—As to the intoxicating potion, sold for wine, it is a vile, unpalatable and pernicious sophistication, balderdash with cider, corn-spirit, and the juice of sloes. In an action at law, laid against a carman for having staved a cask of port, it appeared from the evidence of the cooper, that there were not above five gallons of real wine in the whole pipe, which held considerable above a hundred, and even that had been brewed and adulterated by the merchant at Oporto. The bread I eat in London is a deleterious paste, mixed up with chalk, alum, and bone-ashes insipid to the taste, and destructive to the constitution. The good people are not ignorant of this adulteration; but they prefer it to wholesome bread, because whiter than the meal of corn: it is thus they sacrifice their taste and health, and the lives of their tender infants, to a most absurd gratification of a misjudging eye; and the miller, or the baker, is obliged to poison them and their families, in order to live by his profession. The same monstrous depravity appears in their veal which is bleached by repeated bleedings, and other villainous arts, 'till there is not a drop of juice left in the body, and the poor animal is paralytic before it dies: so void of all taste, nourishment, and favour, that a man might dine as comfortably on a white fricassee of kid-skin gloves, or chip hats from Leghorn.
As they have discharged their natural colour from their bread, their butchers meat and poultry, their cutlets, ragouts, fricassee, and sauces of all kinds, so they insist upon having the complexion of their pot herbs mended even at the hazard of their lives. Perhaps you may hardly believe they can be
so mad as to boil their greens with brass half-pence, in order to improve their colour; and yet nothing is more true.—Indeed, without this improvement in the colour, they have no personal merit. They are produced in an artificial soil, and taste of nothing but the dunghills, from whence they spring. My cabbage, cauliflower, and asparagus in the country, are as much superior in flavour to those that are sold in covent-garden, as my heath mutton is to that of St. James's market; which, in fact, is neither lamb nor mutton, but something betwixt the two, gorged in the rank sens of Lincoln and Essex, Pale, coarse, and frowzy—As for the pork it is the flesh of an abominable carnivorous animal, fed with horse-flesh and distillers grains; and the poultry is all rotten, in consequence of a fever, occasioned by the infamous practice of sewing up the gut, that they may be the sooner fattened in coops, in consequence of this cruel retention.
On the fish I need say nothing in this hot weather, but that it comes forty, fifty, sixty, seventy, fourscore, and a hundred miles by land-carriage; a circumstance sufficient, without any comment, to turn a Dutchman's stomach, even if his nose was not saluted in every alley by the sweet flavour of fresh mackerel, selling by retail.—This is not the season for oysters; nevertheless, it may not be amiss to mention, that the right Colchester are kept in slime-pits, occasionally overflowed by the sea; and that the green colour, so much admired by the voluptuaries of this metropolis, is occasioned by the vitriolic scum, which rises on the surface of the stagnant and stinking water—Our rabbits are bred and fed in the poulterers cellar, where they have neither air nor exercise, consequently they must be firm in flesh, and delicious in flavour; and there is no game to be had for love or money.
It must be owned that Covent-garden affords some good fruit, which is always ingrossed by a few individuals of overgrown fortune, at an exorbitant price; so that little else than the refuse of the market falls to the share of the community, and that is distributed by such filthy hands, as I cannot look at without loathing. It was but yesterday that I saw a dirty barrow bunter in the street, cleansing her fruit with her own spittle; and, who knows but some fine lady of St. James's parish might admit into her delicate mouth those very cherries which had been rolled and moistened between the filthy, and, perhaps, ulcerated chops of a St. Giles's huckster—I need not dwell upon the pallid, contaminated mash, which they call strawberries, soiled and tossed by greasy paws through twenty baskets crusted with dirt, and then presented with the worst milk thickened with the worst flower into a bad likeness of cream: but the milk itself should not pass unanalysed, the produce of faded cabbage-leaves and sour draff, lowered with hot water, frothed with bruised snails, carried through the streets in open pails, exposed to foul risings, discharged from doors and windows, spittle & tobacco-quids from foot-passengers, overflowings from mud-carts, spatterings from coach-wheels, dirt and trash chucked into it by the roguish boys for the joke's sake, the spewings of infants, who have slubbered in the tin-measures, which is thrown back in that condition among the milk, for the benefit of the next customer: and finally, the vermin that
drop from the rags of the nasty drab, that vends this precious mixture, under the respectable denomination of milk-maid.
I shall conclude this catalogue of London with the table-beer guiltless of hops and malt, vapid and nauseous; much fitter to facilitate the operation of a vomit, than to quench thirst and promote digestion; the tallowy rancid mass, called butter, manufactured with candle-grease and kitchen stuff; and their fresh eggs imported from France and Scotland. Now, all these enormities might be remedied with a very little attention of the police or civil regulation; but the wise patriots of London have taken it into their heads, that all regulation is inconsistent with liberty; and that every man ought to live in his own way without restraint—Nay, as there is not sense enough among them to be discomposed by the nuisances I have mentioned, they may, for aught I care, wallow in the mire of their own pollution.
***** By the Packet arrived at New-York, we have the following Advices.
L O N D O N, Nov. 26. AT the last Board of Admiralty orders were given for several vessels to be taken into the government service, for the importation of masts, spars, and ship timber from Piscataqua, &c. for the use of the Royal Navy.
Mr. Alderman Townshend has paid the Land-Tax, Charged on his Estates in the Country; and consequently all Proceedings in that affair are dropt.
They write from Milford, that three Vessels arrived in that Harbour on the 17th Instant, mere Wrecks; two of them were Swedes, the other is the Hope, from Rhode-Island.
They write from Newfoundland, that the French Traders, have succeeded so well in establishing a lucrative Trade with the Labrador and other neighbouring Indians, that it is computed several Ship-Loads of valuable furs have within these few months been exported to Rochelle, Bourdeaux, and other Ports of France.
Dec. 9. We are told from Authority, that our most amiable Queen is again pregnant; she was not at Chapel Yesterday, but had Divine Service performed in her own Chamber, being indisposed.
In a conversation which the Earl of Rochford had a few days ago with the Prince de Masserano, wherein the Secretary demanded explicit reasons for the conduct of the Spaniards in the American seas, and of their movements in general, the haughty Spaniard arrogantly asked his Lordship, why he was not commissioned too to enquire how often his (the Spaniard's) master said his prayers, or retired to his water closet? The answer of Lord Rochford was, "Sir, your Excellency may treat the business of the English Minister as ludicrously as you please, but pray remember that the English Gentleman demands another kind of carriage, & will enforce it on all requisite occasions." This determined reply of the Gentleman compelled a concession, which no remonstrance of the Minister had ever been able to effect.—The story is now the talk of all the great tables.
The Duchess of York is next heir to an estate of 6000l. per annum, her brother, the Irish patriot, having no children.

L O N D O N.
Dec. 11. We hear that Orders are given for a Survey to be made of all the Ports and Harbours belonging to the British Colonies in America, under the inspection of two able Engineers.
An Anathema was pronounced on Saturday last, at the Synagogue in the Duke's Palace against all the accomplices in the late robbery at Mrs. Hutchins's.
The Jews taken into custody lately, for being concerned in the robbery of Mrs. Hutchins, have, we hear, impeached a gang of thirty more, in the neighbourhood of Whitechapel, the Minories, &c.
DIED at Canterbury, Lieutenant Swinburne, aged 103; though never promoted higher, he had been in the sea service near 80 Years, and had distinguished himself in several great actions! in particular he was in the castle of Alicante at the time of blowing up the rock at that place, yet died at last on half-pay. At Leeds, in the 93d Year of his age, Mr. Ger-vaise Elam, formerly an eminent clothier.
Certificates to be allowed to Bankrupts. Robert Williams, late of Newbern, in North-Carolina, Merchant, but now residing in London; on or before the 21 of Dec.
A discovery has been made at Paris by a nurse on her death-bed, which has occasioned an order to be made to forbid any person's giving surgeons, midwives, or nurses, fees at the death of their patients: the wicked wretch has declared that she has destroyed upwards of forty ladies for the sake of the perquisites of linen, &c.
Yesterday, and not before, the cause brought by Lord L—r against Lady L—r for Adultery with A—i, a Piedmontese Nobleman, came on at Doctors Commons; when, after a full hearing, and the clearest case made out by his Lordship, the Judge pronounced a definitive sentence to divorce from bed, board, and mutual cohabitation, by reason of the said adultery.
Dec. 12. A few days ago a quarrel happened between one Noakes and his wife, near the parish of White Lady Aston, in Warwickshire; a poor man of the neighbourhood very unfortunately, yet with a kind intention, interfered in the matter, when the woman, in her rage, stabbed him in 2 or 3 places in his belly, of which wounds he died soon after. The woman is committed to Bridewell.
As some labourers were cleansing a fish-pond, at a gentleman's seat, near East Grinstead in Sussex, they found a bottle covered with mud a yard deep, on which were inscribed these words: "New Canary, put in to see how long it will keep; April, 1666, R. Wilson." The mouth of the bottle was waxed over, the wine was excellent, though the cork was almost decayed.
Dec. 14. On Thursday last at a Court of Common Council, it was carried by a Majority of 65 for returning the thanks of the Court to Bras Crosby, Esq; late Lord-Mayor of this city, for his diligent and impartial administration of justice during the whole time of his holding that high and important office; for his readiness to convene Common Halls and Common Councils; for having always presided with great candor and ability; for having as Chief Magistrate, supported with spirit and dignity the privileges and immunities of this city; having refused to back press warrants, issued in violation of the rights of the subject; for having discharged a Printer and Fellow Citizen, taken into custody by an illegal warrant of the Speaker of the House of Commons; for having committed the Messengers of that House for the assault in violation of the laws; for having returned to a Court of Justice a recognizance taken before him, notwithstanding the minutes thereof by order of the House of Commons were expunged, and that House ordered, that no other prosecution, suit, or proceeding be commenced or carried on for or on account of the said pretended assault or false imprisonment; for having maintained in Parliament the rights of the nation, as well as the chartered privileges of this metropolis; and for having preserved, through an imprisonment in the Tower, the same te-
nor of upright conduct with unshaken integrity, firmness, and fortitude.
Dec. 17. To so great a pitch of extravagance was a certain new made Dutchess arrived before she married, that notwithstanding she had a jointure of 600l. per ann. it is said that at the time of her marriage, she was above 12,000l. in debt.
Dec. 19. The new-made Dutchess has one son, about seven Years old, by her former husband.
The Inhabitants of Jersey are going to send over four of the principal merchants of that Island, in order to represent to his Majesty the oppressions which those people labour under, and to crave a speedy redress of their grievances.
On Monday was tried before Lord Mansfield, a cause against three custom house officers, for searching the house of Messrs. Ballantine and Cawdron, in Cheapside, and taken from them ten single red-bordered muslin handkerchiefs; when after a short hearing they were clearly convicted, and the damages adjudged were 32l. 10s. for the plaintiffs.
Letters from Quebec say, that the next spring they were in great hopes of discovering a navigable communication from Lake Superior to the South-Seas, by means of a great river which the native Indians had reported to run many leagues westward.
Letters from Paris mention, that the French King had demanded a free gift of 40 millions from his clergy, but that they hoped to be able to moderate the demand, as the largest free-gift ever made has not exceeded 30 millions.
Dec. 25. The Court of Spain have issued orders to their commanding-officers in the West-Indies, to suffer no foreign subjects to cut logwood in the island of Rattan, or even resort to that place, on any pretext whatever.
Orders are given for two companies of the Artillery to hold themselves in readiness to embark for Jamaica, to relieve those now on duty at that place.
The treaty of commerce between the English and Russians is to be concluded next week, as all difficulties are now removed.
It was yesterday currently reported upon Change, that the Grand Signior, irritated by the bad success of his arms, had, in a fit of despair, poisoned himself, and was found dead in the Seraglio. This advice is said to be received two days ago from Holland.
They write from the Hague, that a treaty is on foot for lending at a high price ten Dutch men of war, to serve the Russians the ensuing campaign against the Turks in the Levant.
We can assure the public, that a Memorial was lately sent off from St. James's to the Spanish Court, demanding a release of English prisoners, which have been at different times taken by Spanish vessels on various pretences. From the same authority we also assert that there is not one royal seaport town in Spain, which has not at this time a greater or lesser number of English-prisoners in close confinement. The above point must be settled, before the disputes now subsisting between England and Spain are brought to any termination.
Last night an alarm was spread among the shipping below bridge, that press warrants had that morning been issued, which occasioned a general consternation among the seamen.
Yesterday a grant of a pardon passed the Great Seal to Sir James Stewart, Bart. who was concerned in the late rebellion, and against whom a bill of indictment was found for high treason, by the grand Jury, in the court of Justiciary in Scotland, in October 1748.
The Brig Charming Nancy, from Nova-Scotia for London Abiel Lucas, of Boston, Master, arrived at Falmouth the 17th of December, in seventeen Days.
They write from Guernsey, that five sail of French homeward bound ships from Canada, have been lost on the coast of Brittany, near the Gaskets, between the 8th and 12th instant.
The Neptune, Shepherd, from Boston to Hull is totally lost near Margate.
Extract of a Letter from Dublin, November 9.
THURSDAY after two o'clock, the Remains of the late Doctor Lucas, a citizen in Parliament for Dublin, were carried from his house in Henry-street, to St. Michan's Church, in the most solemn and grand manner, preceded and attended by the most numerous crowd of people ever known in this Kingdom. The coffin was covered with black velvet, and richly adorned with clasps and hinges of silver, double gilt. The pall had on it plumes of black feathers, and borders of escutcheons in black and white silk, with a cock in the center being the Doctor's crest. The order of the procession was as follows.
Persons to clear the way.
The servants of the deceased two and two.
The Rev. Dean Fletcher, and the Clergyman of St. Mary's.
The Rev. Dr. Ledwich of St. Michan's.
Two hundred of the young gentlemen of Trinity College, in their gowns; two and two.
The children of St. Michan's Parish; and the children of the Blue-Coat Hospital, singing a solemn dirge.
CONDUCTORS.
The Body adorned with escutcheons.
SUPPORTERS of the PALL,
Sir Lucius O'Brien, Sir William Mayne, Mr. Flood, Mr. Brownlow, Mr. Lowther, Mr. Hufey, Mr. Adderly, Sir. Charles Bingham.
Chief Mourner,
Henry Lucas, Esq; son to the deceased.
Mourners,
Earl of Charlemont, Marquis of Kildare.
Divers of the Nobility and Gentry.
The Speaker and several members of the House of Commons.
The city Officers.
The Lord Mayor with the Sword of State.
Several Aldermen, two and two.
The Sheriffs.
Sheriffs Peers,
The Masters, Wardens, Officers, & Members the several Guilds, All in their respective Habits, and with Scarfs and Hatbands, Making in the whole upwards of 2000.
The Procession went from Henry-street, through Mary-street, and Chapel-street, over Essex-bridge, up Parliament-street, a long Castle-street, Skinner-row, High-street, down New-row, and Bridge-street, over the Old-bridge, and along Church-street, to St. Michan's Church; taking that Round to satisfy the eager Desire of the People in general, who were anxious to pay the last Tribute of their Tears to their PROTECTOR, their FRIEND, and their REPRESENTATIVE.
So great a Number of Noblemen's and Gentlemen's Carriages were never seen together before in Dublin, as upon this Occasion. The late celebrated Dr. LUCAS did not die poor; he died immensely rich: rich in Sentiment, Spirit and Independence; rich in Integrity and public Esteem; rich in true Dignity and Honor; rich in every refined Quality and Ornament of the human Mind; rich in the Possession of the whole Train of Virtues; rich, magnificently rich, even in the Extremes of Poverty. Living, he enjoyed a secret Happiness unknown to the Base and Venal; and dying, (we will presume) felt "that sweet HOPE springing up in his Soul," which, in the last fatal Moment, every good Man feels.
PHILADELPHIA, February 17.
By Capt. Wright from South-Carolina, we learn that John Hughes, Esq; Collector of that Port, and late Stamp-Master for this province, has finished his political race, and took his departure for the land of spirits, the first instant.
Feb. 20. Letters from St. Kitts say, that the loss sustained by the Fire at Grenada is estimated at £300,000.
The Commissioners of his Majesty's customs have appointed Major Robert Bayard, of New-York, Collector for this port, who arrived here last night.
NEW-YORK, February 17.
No. 25,614 in the present State-Lottery, a Prize of 10,000l. is the Property of Mr. Thomas Fisher, of this City, Merchant, who some Time ago generously gave a Quarter of the same to his Brother Mr. John Fisher, and his Nephew, Mr. John Shatford Jones.
About the Middle of November died in England, the Lady of the late Sir Peter Warren, Sister to the Hon. Oliver DeLancy, Esq; of this Place.
Mr. Barent Cuyler, of this City, Merchant, who went from hence for the Island of Barbados, for his Health last Fall, died there a few Days after his Arrival.
We hear from Holland, that Monsieur De Voltaire, has lately published a Book called REPENTANCE, in which he publickly confesses and recalls the horrible and abominable Sentiments and Vices, he for so many years has been attached to. — Non demeris in errore impiorum: ante mortem confiteris.
Capt. Prince acquaints us, that Capt. Budden, in a Vessel belonging to Philadelphia, and several others, that were beat off the Coast in the Winter had got into the Islands; where Flour was selling for 23s. per Cent. by Capt. Deane, of Albany, and several others from the Continent.
Feb. 20. It may not be amiss to inform the Public, that the Buoy lately fixed on the S. W. Spit of the East Bank, near Sandy Hook, is carried away by the Ice.
Extract of a Letter from Salem, (New-Jersey) dated February 10, 1772.
"Talbert, the Shopkeeper, at Quintent-bridge is in Gaol for the Murder of his Wife. She had been buried three Days, when she was taken up by the Coroner. The Inquest brought their Verdict in "Guilty of shortening her Days." He is to remain in Prison 'till the Chief Judge comes down to try him for Life. She was a Sister of Edward Kerfby, Esq; Wife. A few Days ago our Goal was broken open & four prisoners escap'd."

HALIFAX, February 4, 1772. On Thursday last between 11 & 12 o'clock a most melancholly accident happened in this harbour: John Boyer, a lad aged about 8 years, son of Mr. Abraham Boyer of this Town, was sliding upon the Ice and venturing almost to George's Island, fell through the Ice and was drown'd; his body is not yet found.
BOSTON, March 5, 1772. The General Assembly is further Prorogued to the 8th of April.
Thursday the Second of April is set apart for Fasting and Praying in the Massachusetts.
We hear that France is not in a State to engage in a War with Great Britain, and that without the Assistance of France there is no Danger of a War with Spain. That the opposition in England is at an end, and the Kingdom in a more quiet and peaceful State than it has been for divers Years past.
Last Monday the man, committed to goal some time ago, on suspicion of the crime of Bestiality, was tried by his Majesty's Superior Court, and found guilty of the attempt.
March 9. Agreeable to a Vote of the Town for that Purpose, a Meeting was called on Thursday the 5th of March current, at which the Committee appointed last Year for that purpose, reported that they had engaged Joseph Warren, Esq; to deliver an ORATION, on the dangerous Tendency of standing Armies to the Rights of civil Society, and in commemoration of the horrid Massacre perpetrated on the 5th of March, 1770; which in Consequence of the Weekly Lecture falling on the forenoon, it was voted to begin at half past Twelve at the old South Meeting-House. Doctor CHAUNCY, whose Turn it was to preach at the Lecture that Day, favoured a numerous Audience with a Discourse very pertinent to the Occasion; at the Conclusion of which, the People crowded to hear the ORATION in such Numbers, that it was with much Difficulty the Orator reached the Pulpit, which was covered with black Cloth. The Oration took up about 35 Minutes; during which Space, we will venture to affirm, no Species of Entertainment could have afforded a more general, solemn, and hearty Satisfaction. At Night a select Number of Friends of constitutional Liberty, met at Mrs. Clapham's in King-Street, and exhibited on the Balcony a Lantern of transparent Paintings, having in Front, a lively Representation of the bloody Massacre which was perpetrated near that Spot on the Fifth of March 1770. Over their Heads was inscribed,
"The fatal Effects of a standing Army, poised in a free City." On the Right, AMERICA sitting in a Mourning Posture, looking down on the Spectators, with this Label, "Behold my SONS."
On the Left, a Monument sacred to the Memory of SAMUEL GRAY, SAMUEL MAVERICK, JAMES CALDWELL, PATRICK CARR, and CRISPUS ATTUCKS,
Who were barbarously murdered by a Party of the 29th Regiment, on the 5th of March 1770.
At a Quarter after nine, the Painting was taken in, and the Bells muffled to'd till ten. The solemnity of the whole Day, and especially the Evening, was truly affecting.
We are informed that the Report of a Drover's being killed on the Road, on his Return from hence to Connecticut, and the Murderers being confined in Worcester Goal, is without Foundation.
S A L E M, March 10, 1772. It is reported, that Captain Thomas, Wye, in a Vessel from the West-Indies for Falmouth, Casco-Bay, was cast away, near that Place, last Tuesday Night; and Vessel and Cargo (except 20 Hogsheads of Molasses) entirely lost; but the People sav'd. A topsail Vessel was seen Yesterday near the Breakers in Lynn Bay.
P O R T S M O U T H, March 13, 1772.
ADVICE came by the Packet, that the Honorable JOHN TEMPLE, Esq; Lieutenant-Governor of this Province, is appointed a Surveyor-General of the Customs in England, a respectable Employment, with a Salary of £. 500 Sterling a Year, and an Allowance of 40s. per Day for Travelling Expences.
Mr. Temple was lately a Member of the American Board of Customs at Boston.
An Account is also received that the Idea of establishing a Board of Excise in Ireland, in which it was reported SIR FRANCIS BERNARD was to be included, is entirely laid aside.
HANOVER, February 6, 1772.
Yesterday was celebrated the nuptial Solemnity between Mr. BEZALEEL WOODWARD, Tutor of Dartmouth College, to the amiable Miss POLLY WHEELLOCK, second Daughter of the Rev. Doctor WHEELLOCK, President of said College; a Lady whose Virtue and Modesty, require no Encomiums to recommend her, whose Souls mutually attuned, and exactly fitted to each other, will doubtless share largely in social Bliss and Satisfaction.
"The mighty Power that form'd the Mind, One Mould for every two design'd, And bless'd the new Born Pair; This be a Match, for this he laid, Then down he sent the Souls he made, To seek them Bodies there."
Two kindest Souls alone must meet; 'Tis Friendship makes the Bondage sweet, And feeds their mutual Loves; Bright Venus on her rolling Throne, Is drawn by gentlest Birds alone, And Cupid yokes the Doves."
A LETTER from a QUAKER to his WATCH-MAKER.
Friend Samuel, I Have once more sent thee my erroneous Watch; for it wants thy friendly Care and Correction. The last Time it was at thy House, it was by no means benefitted by thy Instruction; for I find by the Index of his Tongue he is a Liar: and as his Motion is wavering and unsettled, I believe he is not right in the inward Man, I mean the main Spring. I would have thee therefore to prove him, and try him with an adjusting Tool of Truth, that if it is possible, I may draw him from the Error of his Ways. Perchance his Body may be foul, and his whole mass of Blood prove corrupted and thick. Prithee Friend, cleanse him with thy cleansing Stick from his Pollution, that he may circumvolve according to Truth. In thy last Bill thou chargest me with the fifth part of a Pound Sterling, which thou shalt have. But prithee, Friend, let thy Work deserve it first. I will board him with thee a few Days longer, and pay thee for his Board, if thou requirest it. But be sure, Friend, let thy Correction be without Passion, and let Reason bridle thy Violence, lest with two much severity thou drivest him to despair and Destruction. Let the Motion of his Tongue be tried and calculated to the Table of Equation; and when thou hast done, then send him home with a Bill of thy charge; and it shall be justly accepted and answered by thy Friend, TIMOTHY.
The 18th of February last, was celebrated the Ordination of the Rev. Mr. GEORGE WHEATON, to the Pastoral Office, over the Church and Congregation at Clermont, 20 Miles from the New Hampshire College in Hanover. A Sermon elegant, instructive, warm and pungent, was delivered on the Occasion, by the Rev. Mr. Abiel Leonard, Pastor of the first Church of Woodstock, in Connecticut, to a well pleased and admiring Audience, consisting of about five hundred, a surprising, and unexpected Collection for so new a Country. The whole Solemnity was conducted with the greatest propriety and decency. The Sermon will be committed to the Press as soon as may be. The fertility of the Soil, the lenity of the People, the auspicious influence of Civil Government, enjoyed by this Province under the Care and direction of our very worthy Commander, attended by the kind smiles, and indaring blessings, of indulgent Heaven, on both Pastor and People, can't fail to render their Situation extremely happy and agreeable. May the young and tender Vine, planted in the Wilderness, where the footsteps of barbarous Savages are scarcely erased, be long guarded by the great Head of the Church; may the wild Boar out of the Wood, never molest it, nor any weapon formed against it ever be suffered to prosper.
Capt. James Stoodly, junr. belonging to this Port, going off the Coast on the first of January last, took off a Wreck, and carried into St. Vincents, James Churchill, who was Master, one white Man, one Boy, and a Negro, in 37, 15 N. Long. 60 15 W. from Halifax, bound to Lunenburg, about 18 Leagues to the Westward of Halifax; there being a heavy Sea and very dark at eight o'Clock at Night could save Nothing.
It is remarkable the same Owner last Aug. had a Sloop that took off of a Wreck, four White Men and a Negro, & carried them into St. Kitts.
The Eastern Post not come in at the striking off this Paper, so that we cannot confirm the Article under Salem Head, relative to Capt. Wier's being or not cast away at Falmouth.
The very severe Storm we have had this Week, has almost stop'd all communication between Town and Country, more Snow having fallen than at any one Time this Winter, so that it is much doubted whether any Posts can get far, if they attempt it, those therefore in the Country who do not get their Papers, will excuse it, and perhaps make them reflect whether both Printers and Posts ought not to be better treated than they generally are, and supplied with a little more of that necessary Article CASH.
Portsmouth March. 12.
Messrs. Fowles It is desired you would give a friendly fog, and awake the Select-Men, Justices, and Surveyors of the Highways: Be so good as to tell them, all the Roads to this Town have been blocked up with Snow for eight Days past, and that the Inhabitants hope, when their NAP is out, they will take Care the Town is no longer kept in Danger of starving, thro' Neglect only---And also that this Town may not be obliged to furnish all the Jurymen to the Superior Court now sitting here.
The POOR.
Stephen Hardy, Taylor,
TAKES this Method to inform the Publick, That he has moved into a House belonging to the Hon. JONATHAN WARNER, Esq; at the lower end of King-Street, and next below his Store, where he continues to carry on his business as usual.
Said Hardy has for Sale a few Choice ENGLISH CHEESES, and a quantity of English Goods of various Sorts.
To be let, if applied for immediately, a good Farm in Kittery, one Mile from the Ferry, with Stock and all convenient Buildings, there- on, may be entered upon about the 10th of April. And To be sold a Yoke of good Oxen. Enquire of the Printers.
TAKEN up in Town Yesterday Morning a Horse, Saddle and Bridle, the Owner may have him again paying Charges. Enquire of BENJAMIN MACKEY.
'Tis too much to be feared the Rider Perished in the late severe Storm.
Portsmouth, March 12, 1772.
TWO FARMS TO BE SOLD. By JOSEPH KELLY of Nottingham West, in said Town, with Buildings and considerable Improvements. Also Three Hundred Acres of good new Land; All which is near the middle of said Town: Also a good FARM in Salem within five Miles of Haverhill Town, all, or any of said Land will be sold cheaper than any Land in this Province of the same Kind and Quantity, provided one half the Money be paid down, as he wants his Money for Trading; the Remainder may be paid in Goods or Lumber of any Kind at any Time within one Year from the Time of Purchase. Any person inclining to purchase, may apply to said Kelly, who will show the Premises and Title of the said Land.
February 16, 1772.
TO BE SOLD or LETT. A FARM lying in Stratham, distant eleven Miles from Portsmouth, and four from Exeter. It contains One Hundred and Fifty Acres of Mowing, Tillage, and Pasture Land, with several Acres of Salt-Marsh, has a fine Growth of young Wood upon it, an Orchard, and a large Dwelling House and Barn. This FARM is situated on the Country Road, and extends as far as Exeter River, is within 40 Rods of the Meeting House, and within half a Mile of a Saw-Mill and Grist Mill.
Also a FARM in Brentwood (seven Miles from the former) containing about sixty Acres of Wood, Pasture, and Tillage Land.
The FARM at Stratham will be sold with, or without that at Brentwood. Both are well watered, and together are sufficient for keeping 40 Head of Cattle, and a good Flock of Sheep.
For further Particulars, enquire of Mr. John Win-gate at Hampton, Mrs. Love Chase, Tavern keeper at Stratham, or Mrs. Mary Leavitt, at Salem. Any Person inclined to purchase said FARMS, are desired to apply immediately, for by the 25th of March they will be Let to Hire. Salem, Feb. 20, 1772.
Choice Bohea TEA
TO BE SOLD BY DANIEL PEIRCE, junr. By the Dozen or less Quantity, as cheap as at any Place in Town. Likewise a good Assortment of ENGLISH, & WEST INDIA GOODS, and GROCERIES, NAILS, GLASS, &c. &c. &c. Also PEPPER and GINGER by the Dozen. N. B. Very good WOMEN'S Cloth; Callamance and Leather SHOES cheap.
TO BE SOLD. The Rigging, Sails, Blocks, CABLES and ANCHORS of a SNOW, about 160 Tons, some of the Sails almost new, Cables 10 & 12 Inches, Anchors about 1000 wt each; ten Iron bound Gang Casks, two Harnefses Tubs, Buoy, &c Enquire of CHARLES CHAUNCY of Kittery.
(Orford.)
WHEREAS the Proprietors of Orford, in the County of Rockingham, and Province of New Hampshire, at a legal Meeting, voted and laid three Pounds Lawful Money on each original Proprietors Right or Share of Land in said Township, and chose me the Subscriber Collector of said TAX; This is therefore to give Notice to all said Proprietors, that unless Payment thereof be made to me at my Dwelling House in Hampton, in the County and Province aforesaid, by the third Monday in April next, to much of each original Proprietors Right or Share of Land in said Orford, will be advertised for Sale, agreeable to LAW, as will answer the Demands aforesaid, with incidental Charges.
JONATHAN MOULTON, Pro. Collector. Hampton. March 11. 1772.
The delinquent Proprietors of RELHAN, are once more called upon to pay their Taxes, unless they propose to lose their Rights. R. FOWLE, Collector.
Portsmouth, March 12, 1772. CUSTOM-HOUSE, PISCATAQUA, March 12. Inward Entries, FROM. Schooner Polly, Thomas Frizel, Payal. Schooner John, Samuel Moor, Montserrat. Schooner eight Sisters, Epes Greenough, Grenada. Schooner Tammy, Jonathan Butman, Virginia. Cleared outwards, Sloop Polly, William Fernald, Phil a .

The following Articles are from the English Papers brought by the Packet arrived at New-York, and by Capt. Calley arrived at Marblehead, from Falmouth.
L O N D O N.
Translation of a Letter from Civita Vecchia.
" YESTERDAY a felucca arrived here from Corsica. I have only time by this post, to send you the following extraordinary intelligence: next week you shall re- ceive intelligence still more extraordinary, that will surprise you much."
"At Oletta, nine French soldiers, three weeks past, found an old peasant, in appearance past seventy, in a cottage in this place much wounded, and in company with his two daughters, who anxiously attended the critical situation of his health; not doubting but he was wounded in a skirmish, with the French troops they com- pelled the eldest of the daughters to shoot the father when bound to a chestnut tree, and afterwards murder- ed the two daughters."
"At Pastorechia, a father and son being returned to this place, after the last skirmish with the French, and much wounded, a party of French soldiers immediately seized the father and son; and put them into chains. The next morning they compelled the father, before a multitude of Corsican peasants, to fire at his son, aged 31 years who was instantly shot through the body."
"At Sangalino, three Corsican girls, about nine years of age, were yesterday banged up by their feet in the market place, by order of a French Major, for having cried, Viva il Coltro Generale Illustrissimo Signor Paulo. Having hung an hour, by order of the officer, their throats were cut, and they were suffered to hang bleeding the rest of the day."
"At Cruciaci, a Corsican priest, worn out with age, and much wounded, was found by a French officer and his party near this town: they immediately cut off the old man's legs, plucked out his tongue by the roots, stuck his eyes full of pins, and filled his mouth with pebbles; leaving the mutilated body upon the road."
"At Vescovato, a decrepid peasant, with every mark of venerable old age, supported by his son, a youth of twenty, passing through this town, were last week seized for spies; the old man blind, the son deaf and dumb. These objects of universal charity were by French penetration instantly dubbed spies. The unfor- tunate youth was beheaded, and his head placed in the hands of venerable old age, and who was immediately hung upon a tree."
"The French threaten there shall be an avenue for- med with Corsican bodies, from Bastia to Florence; nor is it to be doubted, for they have distributed two thousand scalping knives among their troops, with a premium of twenty livres for every Corsican scalp. A brilliant proof of the politeness and humanity of the most refined nation in Europe, in the French title them- selves, and who first taught the Savage Americans the use of scalping knives; who taught barbarity to the most inhuman of savages!"
Extract of a Letter from the Hague, December 17.
"The last letters from Vienna advise, that the great advantages lately gained by the Russians over the Turks, have made such an impression upon the Empress Queen and her Ministry, that there is reason to hope her Imperial Majesty will be more inclined than heret- ofore to listen to the terms proposed for bringing about a peace between the Russians and the Turks."
Extract of a letter from Dunwich, Suffolk, Dec. 11.
"Last Saturday and Sunday there was here the most blowing weather I ever remembered! large trees were torn up by the roots, barns blown down, houses unroofed, and some cottages laid flat; but I hear of no lives being lost. The sea ran so high, that great part of our low grounds were laid under water, and many head of cattle drowned; but the seas along our coast presented to our view a most melancholy scene the wrecks of ships and dead bodies being every tide thrown up; in short, by what we can here see, the damage at sea must be very great."
[ Sanborn-Town. ]
WHEREAS the Proprietors of Sanborn Town, in the County of Strafford, and Province of New-Hampshire, at a legal Meeting, Voted, and laid eighteen shillings Lawful Money on each ori- ginal Right or Share in said Township, and chose me the Subscriber Collector of said Tax: This is therefore to give Notice to all said Proprietors that unless payment thereof, be made to me at my house in Exeter, in the County of Rockingham, in said Province, by the third Day of April next, so much of each original Proprietors Right or Share of Land in said Sanborn town, will be advertised for Sale a- greable to Law, as will answer the demands aforesaid, and Charges. DAVID FOSS, Collector.
February 24th, 1772.
ALL PERSONS Indebted to, or that have any Demands on the Estate of Deacon John Lord, late of Exeter, deceased, are desired to settle the same immediately with Bartholemew Gilman and Ward Clark Dean, both of Exeter aforesaid, Execu- tors to the Last Will and Testament of said deceased.
Shushong, Hyson,
Congo, and Bohea TEA, to be Sold very cheap by PETER PEARSE.
Russia Duck, Tick-
lingburgh, Oznabrigs, Cog and Mackrel Lines and Hooks— Bar lead, with many other Articles, suitable for the Fishery.
A Variety of English and West-India Goods, Grocery, Hardware, Stationary, Ship Chandlery,—to be sold for Cash, or short Credit, as cheap as may be bought in Boston or Newbury, by
THOHAS MARTIN.
N: B. A small Assortment of Mantua, Ducap and Padusoy Silks.
VOLUNTEERS.
WANTED some able Volunteers, to complete the Number in the Gar- rison of His Majesty's Castle of William and Mary, in the Province of New Hampshire;—the Men in this Garrison are provided with a compleat Suit of Regimentals once a Year;—They also receive three Dollars per Month pay, and five shillings lawful Money per Week for billeting;—Any Persons incline- able to enter into this Service, are desired to apply to John Cochran, Esq; Command- er of the said Castle at the Earl of Hal- ifax Tavern in Portsmouth.
Portsmouth, March 1772.
Tar, Pitch, Tur-
pentine, Caudles per Box, Duct. Stevens, Clove, Aniseed, Snakeroot, and Orange Waters, by the Cask, Kippen's Snuff, per Cask or single. also TO- BACCO of all Sorts sold by Neal Mc Intire at his Store on Spring Hill, very cheap for Cash.
Choice Bohea Tea,
At Four Shillings per Pound, two Shillings per half Pound, and one shilling per Quarter, with a Variety of ENGLISH and WEST INDIA GOODS, to be sold cheap for Cash, or any kind of Provisions—By GILLAM BUTLER, at his Shop lately improved by Captain George Turner.—Said Butler expects a Fresh Assortment of Garden SEEDS, and would be glad to supply those People that usually had them from Boston. Also good BROWN SUGAR at Ten Shillings Old Ten. per Pound.
TO BE LET
A Good dwelling House in Portsmouth, with a Chaise House and a fine Piece of Land for a Garden, near the Governor's.—Enquire of John Sparhawk of said Place.
TO BE SOLD
At Kittery-Point
RUSSIA Duck, Ship Bread, a small Quantity of Tar and Turpentine, Choice Sea Coal, Philadel- phia Iron and Nail Rods, Lamat, Lisbon, and St. Martins Salt. Also, made at said Place, with the utmost Dispatch the very best Cables and Cordage, of all sizes; Cod Lines, &c. and to be sold on rea- sonable Terms, for Cash or on credit. Enquire of SAMUEL SERVICE.
[ Moultonborough. ]
WHEREAS the Proprietors of Moultonbor- rough, in the County of Rockingham, and Province of New Hampshire, at a legal Meeting, voted, and laid Five Pounds Law- ful Money on each original Proprietors Right or Share of Land in said Township, and chose me the Subscriber Collector of said TAX; This is therefore to give Notice to all said Proprietors, that unless Pay- ment thereof be made to me at my Dwelling House in Hampton, in the County and Province aforesaid, by the second Monday in April next, so much of each original Proprietors Right or Share of Land in said Moultonborough, will be advertised for Sale, agreeable to LAW, as will answer the Demands aforesaid, with incidental Charges.
JONATHAN MOULTON, Pro. Collector. Hampton, March 4. 1772.
A few of the Massachusetts Registers, Ames's Almanacks, &c. &c. to- gether with a good Assortment of all kinds of STATIONARY, to be sold at the Sta- tionary Shop on the Parade, Portsmouth.— Likewise, a Picture of the curious Volunteer Frigate, built on Tower-Hill in London, by Capt. James Ayscough, for the encourage- ment of Seamen to enter into his Majesty's Service, which makes a genteel Picture, when handsomely fram'd, glass'd and gilt.
ALL PERSONS Indebted to the Estate of BENJAMIN ROLFE, Esq; late of Con- cord, in the Province of New Hampshire, deceased, are desired to make immediate Payment to Timothy Walker, junr. Attorney to Sarah Rolfe, sole Administratrix on said Estate: And all who have any Demands upon said Estate, are de- sired to bring them to the said Attorney, in order to a speedy Settlement.
[ Stevens-Town. ]
WHEREAS at sundry legal Meetings of the Proprietors of Stevens Town, lately held, new Salisbury, in the Province of New Hamp- shire, several TAXES have been voted to be raised on each original Right in said Town, in order to bring forward the Settlement thereof which have been duly notified as the Law directs. This is there- fore to notify the Owners or Claimers of the follow- ing original Rights that are delinquent in paying said Taxes that unless they pay to me the Subscriber at my House in Kingstown, the following Sums in Lawful Money, by the 6th Day of April next, so much of their original Rights will be sold on said Day, at two o'clock afternoon, at public Vendue at the House of Solomon Wheeler, Innholder in King- stown, as will pay said Taxes with incidental Charges.
  The delinquent Original Rights are as follows.   Tristram Quinby 2 19 0   The sixty Acre Lot, } of the Right of John } Huntoon Junr. 0 13 8   Ephraim Collins 1 06 0   John Huntoon 1 02 8   Peter Dearborn 0 15 2   Ebenezer Page 0 07 11   Nathaniel Lad 0 15 2   Joseph Clifford 0 07 6   JOHN CALF Collector! 
This is to inform all them of Portsmouth and in the Country that have Freight to send to Boston, and from Boston to Portsmouth that they shall have it freighted for these Prizes, to say, three Shillings per Hhd. and Iron three Shillings per Ton: four Shillings per Ton for Cordage, and six Pence per Barrel. But you must mind how these Freights are to be; that when Mr. Benjamin Part- ridge is here, and my Sloop Abigail is here, or both in Boston, then to be one these Prizes, but when one is in Portsmouth and the other in Boston, then the Freight put on Board the said Sloop is to be one customary, and Staves at ten Shillings per 1000 and Hoops at six Shillings per 1000 and is to stand good for Eight Months from this Date, for I intends the said Sloop to be in Boston when Mr. Parttridge is there, and to be in Portsmouth when the said Part- ridge is in Portsmouth. Portsmouth March 5th 1772. JOHN PICKERING. And the said will sail for Boston the first fair Wind.
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Rockingham, ss.
NOTICE is hereby given to the SELECT MEN of these Towns and Parishes that have not paid their County TAX, that unless it is paid to said County TREASURER by the Tenth Day of March next, EXTENTS will be sent to the Delinquents, Feb. 27, 1772.
Taken up adrift, a Small YAWL,
Almost new, and left in Charge with JOHN COCH- RAN at FORT WILLIAM & MARY. The Owner is desired to send for her, paying six Shillings Lawful Money, and Charge of this Advertisement.
WANTED,
A COOPER on Board his Majesty's SHIP SWAN. For Particulars, enquire of Mr. JAMES BATES Purser of the said Ship.
A few of the New-Hampshire Registers, very necessary for all sorts of People, may be had at the Printing-Office.