New-Hampshire gazette, or, State journal and general advertiser (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1780-09-16 00:00:00

THE NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE; OR, STATE JOURNAL, and GENERAL ADVERTISER.
[ Vol. XXIV. ]
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1780.
[ No. 1247. ]
From a BRITISH PUBLICATION, Just come to hand.
THE SCOURGE, No. I.
SATURDAY, January 20, 1780.
NOTWITHSTANDING too many of our countrymen are degenerated into all the vileness of abjects sycophancy and a slavish submission to lawless power; yet we are determined, however hazardous it may be, not to remain unconcerned spectators of the RUIN of our country. We have lived to see our rights and liberties, and the sacred constitution of the empire, most daringly INVADED, but we will not live to see them DESTROYED; the wounds by which they fall shall first reach our hearts and the crimson torrents of our BLOOD be shed as a libation on the pile of expiring FREEDOM. He who can tamely see a corrupt and ungrateful TYRANT and his MINIONS, wantonly destroy the natural rights of mankind, the property and the blood of thousands of his friends and fellow-subjects, only to survive their miserable fate, and be the next victim to his cruelty and lust, must be a wretch indeed! he can have no claim to the protection of Heaven, nor to the rewards of good men.
THE AUTHORS.
NINE TENTHS of the English nation will, we are persuaded agree with us that there never was a set of men at the head of affairs in any kingdom upon earth, who deserved not only to be scourged, but to be punished (without even the form of a trial) so much as the present most abandoned ministers, with which the King, in his great wisdom has been pleased to curse this nation; and with persevering obstinacy, peculiar to himself, is determined to continue in power, notwithstanding they have destroyed more than one half the empire, shed oceans of blood, and wasted millions of treasure and he has done it in direct opposition to the prayer and advice of more than two thirds of the people. It must be confessed there is something great and magnanimous in it, it is acting the imperial tyrant with a witness and at once bidding defiance to reason and common sense, to justice and humanity, and to all laws divine and human; but what have they to do with the WILL of a King in this country, when he and his minions can traitorously bribe the representatives of the people with the PUBLIC MONEY, and turn them like a nose of wax to their own purpose?
If these are facts, and we dare, we defy the most bare faced, impudent ministerial hireling to deny the truth of them, what man who calls himself an Englishman, but what must detest and abhor such a united band of TRAITORS to their country and join with us in holding them up to public contempt, and to the just resentment of an insulted, plundered, and almost ruined nation. This is no time for fulsome compliments and adulation, the spirit of the people must be roused, they must be made acquainted with their own strength, their own power, & with the dignity of human nature; and these must be exerted with resolution and firmness against the despotic and bloody designs of that corrupt, base, and wicked confederacy, supported and encouraged by the KING at Buckingham-House, against the
laws, liberties and properties of the people, to the absolute destruction of the state and kingdom.
It is not only the duty of the people, but it is strictly lawful and just to oppose and defeat the present system of government, which evidently tends to the utter subversion of the rights and liberties, and the very small remains of property they have left, from the all-grasping hand of those merciless plunderers, those state leeches, who would drain from them their last shilling to answer their diabolical purposes. By the law of God and of nature, every man has a right to defend himself against the abuse of any power, and by the happy constitution of this country, when kings and ministers break through the bounds prescribed by the laws, the right of the people to RESIST is unquestionable. For as the end of all civil government is the safety and happiness of the WHOLE body, any power not naturally conducive to this end is certainly unjust and the people have an undoubted right to oppose and resist it. The king and the people enter into a solemn compact or agreement with each other; the king to govern well and according to the fundamental principles of the constitution, and the people, while the contract is religiously adhered to, and faithfully performed on his part, ought to honour and respect him; but if he regards his own interest and that of a few worthless minions, in preference to the happiness and welfare of the people, he forfeits, of course, every claim to their affection and esteem, and merits their utmost contempt and indignation for his baseness and ingratitude.
Let every disinterested, unprejudiced, & unperjured man survey with candor and impartiality the present black and gloomy situation of our affairs, and regulate his conduct accordingly.—Trade rapidly declining, the middling and lower class of people groaning under the oppressive burthen of partial and unjust taxes, levied for the vilest and the most wicked purposes; the whole commerce of America destroyed, and that land which used to be esteemed a paradise, made a stage of cruelty and lust; our merchants ruined, our prisons filled with starving insolvent debtors; our navy unable to face the combined fleets of France and Spain; our armies defeated; a number of our valuable islands lost; the whole landed property of England scarce sufficient to pay the interest of our enormous national debt, and daily increasing, which must in the end overwhelm us in one general ruin; the common rights of mankind and the personal liberties of the people, most daringly attacked and openly violated, by the king and a corrupt legislature, and thousands of our fellow-subjects, with large families dragged like criminals from their dearest connections by a set of abandoned desperate ruffians legally authorised; merit and virtue neglected and despised, and those only advanced, at this time, who are willing to become instruments in the horrid work of slaughter and despotism.
The means of redress for these enormous evils are in the hands of the people, and they must be most shamefully degenerated if they are wanting in spirit, it is a duty they owe to God, themselves, their country and to posterity. Our brave and virtuous forefathers who left the most valuable inheritance of any in the whole world, a FREE GOVERNMENT , in their last prayers be-
seched the Almighty, that their posterity might enjoy the blessings of freedom no longer than they had sense to value, virtue to deserve, and spirit to defend them.
Liberty is to the collective body what health is to every individual; without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty no happiness can be enjoyed by society: therefore the obligation to maintain and defend the constitution will appear most sacred to every rational thinking mind. Men who are sensible of themselves, and of their own dignity and rights, will never shrink from the service of their country, nor promote its interest with coolness and indifference, but on every occasion be ready to risk every thing in its defence. They will behold, with the utmost unconcern, the ridicule and censure of those tools of power who would drown the voice of freedom in the clamour of a court faction. Such slaves ought to be treated with the most sovereign contempt, because they are the known enemies to freedom, from that antipathy which private interest, and the lust of power for selfish ends, will ever bear to true patriotism and public virtue.
Let them please themselves with making a king absolute, who think a whole nation may be sacrificed for the interests and pleasures of one man and his adherents. Let others rejoice in their subtlety, who, by betraying their trust, have advanced themselves; perhaps they may soon find, that they have, with much pains, purchased their own ruin, that the king's power is their shame, his plenty the people's misery, and that the gaining of an office, for the sake of enriching themselves, is but a poor reward for destroying a nation, and that they will shortly fall a just sacrifice to the revenge of a greatly injured people.
What man will dare to deny, or even doubt that when a nation is fallen from the greatest height of glory, by the obstinacy of a king, and the mal-administration of his ministers, into the most despicable and ruinous condition, that the people have no right to rescue their country out of such hands. Every man ought to know, that by the principles of the last revolution he is bound to resist any King, who may endeavour to ruin the kingdom and enslave the people, and that he may push this resistance even to the dethronement and exclusion of his race. The laws and constitution are the general property of the subject, not to defend is to relinquish, and who is there so stupid and senseless as to renounce his share in a common benefit, unless he hopes to profit by a new division in the spoil. The highest station, and the greatest glory any man can aspire to, is to be the support of good, the controul of bad government, the protector of virtue, the patron of industry, and the guardian of public liberty: When our rights are invaded, our feelings ought to tell us how long we should submit, and at what moment it would be treachery not to resist. The present situation of this kingdom is alarming enough to rouse the attention, and to demand the assistance of every man who pretends to the least concern for the public welfare. Bad as it is, there is no extremity of distress which of itself ought to reduce a brave people to despair. A luke warm conduct is always odious, in times of national danger highly criminal. We owe it to our ancestors, to preserve pure and untaught, those rights and that constitution which they have handed

adown to us at the expence of their blood and we certainly owe in to our innocent posterity, not to suffer their dearest inheritance to be destroyed. By one glorious struggle against the despotic and ruinous designs of an infamous ministry, and the all-gasping power of the crown, this country may yet be saved from perdition. But if all hopes to establish once more the spirit and the virtue of our ancestors, who successfully resisted kingly tyranny, are vain, then all expectation of the constitution's remaining entire, and our continuing to be a free people, must also be vain, and we may expect to see the same violence. Villainy, and madness practised over again with redoubled vigor, Resistance is therefore become absolutely necessary, and cannot be prosecuted by the people with too much ardor and resolution, if they mean to save themselves and their country from DESTRUCTION .
L O N D O N.
Answer from the Court of Great Britain to the Declaration of the Empress of Russia, sent to the British Envoy at Petersburg, April 13, 1780.
D URING the course of the war, wherein his Britannic Majesty finds himself engaged through the unprovoked aggression of France and Spain; he hath constantly manifested his sentiments of justice, equity, and moderation, in every part of his conduct his Majesty hath acted towards friendly and neutral powers; according to their own procedure respecting Great-Britain; and conformable to the clearest principles generally acknowledged as the laws of nations, being the only law between powers where no treaties subsist, and agreeable to the tenor of his different engagements with other powers; those engagements have altered their primitive law, by mutual stipulations, proportioned to the will and convenience of the contracting parties.
"Strongly attached to her Majesty of all the Russias by the tie of reciprocal friendship and common interest, the King, from the commencement of these troubles, gave the most precise orders respecting the flag of her Imperial Majesty, and the commerce of her subjects, agreeable to the law of nations, and the tenor of the engagements stipulated by his treaty of commerce, with her, and to which he shall adhere with the most scrupulous exactness.
"The orders to this intent have been renewed, and the utmost care will be taken for their strictest execution.
"It may be presumed not the least irregularity will happen, but in case of any infringement contrary to those repeated orders taking place, the Court of Admiralty, which in this, like all other countries, are established to take cognizance of such matters, and in all cases to judge solely by the laws of nations, and by the specific stipulations of different treaties, will redress every hardship in so equitable a manner, that her Imperial Majesty shall be perfectly satisfied, and acknowledge a like spirit of justice which she herself possesses."
June 6. There are private letters it town, of good authority, from Paris, which bring the important intelligence of the King having held a bed of justice, where he personally presided, and in the most solemn manner, before his Parliament, and principal gentlemen of his kingdom, established the edict of Nantes, and gave orders that Protestant churches should be built throughout the kingdom, at his own expence, beginning in the city of Paris, the first one of which was to be paid by M. Neckar. The letters further add, that his Majesty had prohibited the monasteries from taking in any more noviciates, and when they individually should be reduced to ten inhabitants, they should be transferred to another, and that the estates by which each was supported should return to the heirs of such families, as bequeathed the same lands to them.
PHILADELPHIA, August 23.
Last Sunday evening arrived here from Egg Harbour, Mr. Edward Giles, jun. of Boston, who went from thence in the Schooner
Shark, (belonging to Messrs Pitts and Call) Roger Haddock, commander, to Virginia, on a visit to his friends; and returning to Boston, on the 6th of August, to the Northward of Cape Charles, fell in with a sloop of ten guns, from New-York, who took the Schooner, and taking all the people out but Mr. Giles, they stripped him of every thing he had, exclusive of what was on his back. After leaving the sloop two days, the prize-master indulged him with an observation, when he found they were about 20 miles to the southward of Egg Harbour. There being some good old spirits on board, Mr. Giles used his best endeavours to let it circulate, which it did effectually, and about 12 o'clock that night ran her in over Little Egg Harbour bar, where she now lays safe. The next day Mr. Giles had the satisfaction of waiting on the prisoners, being 4 in number, to Philadelphia. The above Schooner is loaded with tobacco and bar iron.
Extract of a letter dated at Hillsborough, North Carolina, July 21, 1780.
"A party of our militia, commanded by seven Captains of light horse, made an attack on a body of Tories, under the command of one Col. Moore; the eldest of our Captains, Gilbert Hall, together with five others, fell in the engagement; the other Captain and one Lieutenant were wounded; 70 of the enemy were killed, 100 taken prisoners, with 300 horses, and a considerable quantity of baggage.
"A second attack was made on a party of about 130 Tories, commanded by Colonel Ferguson, a noted tory, from the Northward, and 70 light-horse of Cathcart's legion, commanded by a Capt. Hook, on the 12th instant, by a party of 80 or 90 militia, under the command of Col. Neale; the surprise was compleat, Ferguson, Hook, a Lieut. and 7 others were killed on the ground, and a Major, two Lieutenants and 27 taken, many of whom are since dead of their wounds, the remainder were dispersed; some accoutrements for light-horse and a number of horses were also taken---of the exact number we have not certain accounts---our loss was only one man wounded. Lieut. Col. William Lee Davidson of the Continental line, with a detachment of 160 light-horse from Brigadier-General Rutherford's brigade, on the 21st instant, made the third attack on about 5 or 600 Tories, commanded by the infamous Samuel Bryan, near Collier's on Pee Dee, killed 3 or 4, took 40, and put the remainder to flight with more precipitation than we fled from Bryan Creek; none halted till they had reached the enemy's post at the Waxaws, where they threw the whole into the utmost confusion and consternation. Their whole time since has been employed in constructing fortifications for their safety. Col. Davidson was wounded in the body, 'tis feared mortally, 2 privates wounded slightly but not a man killed---to Davidson's misfortune may probably be attributed their escape.
"After the enemy had evacuated their post at Cherraws, one Captain Thompson, with 25 men, (all of whom had taken protection from the King of Great-Britain) marched down to a narrow part of Pee Dee, and took a boat going to Georgetown, with most of the enemy's plunder, and 102 men of the 71st regiment."
Extract of a letter from an officer in the South-Carolina Line, dated at General Gates's Head Quarters at Little Black Creek, 12 miles from Lynch's Creek, and sixty miles from Camden, Aug. 7. 1780.
"I take the opportunity of the present express to inform you, that two days ago, Major General Gates entered South Carolina, at the head of the Maryland division with a park of artillery, Col. Arnold's corps, and a regiment of Virginia State troops, and a party of South Carolina refugees, under Col. Marien. Same day, previous to our coming here, the North Carolina Militia, under Generals Caswell and Rutherford, entered South Carolina also, a little above the Cherraws, in two divisions, as Gen. Rutherford crossed the Pee Dee, the British troops consisting of the 71st and a few
dragoons and Tories abandoned their posts at Anson Court house and Cheraw hill, after burning the houses at the latter, and retreated to Lynch's creek, a party of Col. Giles's regiment, who resided in that neighbourhood, having intelligence of their retreat, and that they had sent some boats loaded with stores down the Pee-Dee, waylaid and intercepted the boats, in which they captured 102 officers and men of the 71st regiment, some hogheads of rum and other stores.
"The enemy at Lynch's creek, abandoned their post last night on our taking our present position, where we forced a junction with Maj. Gen. Caswell's division of Militia. Col. Stumpner with some of the inhabitants of our State, supported by a party of Mecklenburgh Militia, has exerted himself meritoriously; his party as well as Gen. Rutherford's have had several successful skirmishes with the enemys parties, and we have a report to day, which seems pretty well founded, that he yesterday defeated the New York volunteers and a party of Tories, at the Hanging Rock; our affairs on the whole, wear a prosperous aspect.
Another letter from the same quarter mentions that 100 of the South-Carolina militia have joined General Gates, since he entered that State, and that desertions from the enemy were very considerable.
August 26. Yesterday His Excellency the Chevalier de la Luzerne, Minister of his Most Christian Majesty, gave an elegant Entertainment, on Occasion of the King's Anniversary, to the Honorable Members of Congress, and many other Gentlemen of Distinction; when the following Toasts were drank: The King---The United States---The King of Spain---The Queen---Monsieur (the King's brother)---The Comte d'Artois---Success to the Combined Armies---General Washington---The Marechal de Broglio---The Chevalier de Ternay---The Plenipotentiaries in Europe.
August 30. A letter from Pittsburgh of the 4th ult. says, that a party of 600 Indians with 150 English and French, marched from Detroit, with four field pieces, to take possession of Kaintuck in Virginia, when information being given, Major Lanckton, Superintendent of Indian affairs, went and met them privately and soon persuaded the Indians to lay down their arms, which they did, and two days after the guides came in, leaving the British to find their way to Detroit in the best manner they could; but it is generally believed they would all perish, unless they came in and surrendered themselves.
EXTRACT from GENERAL ORDERS, Head-Quarters, Prackanefs, July 20, 1780.
"The Commander in Chief has the pleasure to congratulate the army on the arrival of a large land and naval armament at Rhode-Island, sent by his Most Christian Majesty to co-operate with the troops of these States against the common enemy; accompanied with every circumstance that can render it honorable and useful: The generosity of this succour, and of the manner in which it is given, is a new tie betwixt France and America: The lively concern which our Allies manifest for our Safety and Independence, has a claim to the affection of every virtuous citizen. The General, with confidence, assures the army, that the officers and men of the French forces came to our aid, animated with a zeal, founded in sentiment for us, as well as in duty to their Prince; and that they will do every thing in their power to promote harmony and cultivate friendship: He is equally persuaded on our parts, we shall vie with them on their good disposition; to which we are excited by gratitude as well as by common interest; and that the only contention between the two armies, will be to excel each other in good offices, and in the display of every military virtue: This will be the pledge of the most solid advantage to the common cause, and a glorious issue to the campaign."
PROVIDENCE, September 9.
The following is handed us as a copy of a letter from his Excellency General Washington, to Major-General Greene, on his resigning the office of Quarter-Master of the American army.

Head-Quarters, Orange-Town, August 15, 1780.
SIR,
AS you are retiring from the office of Quarter-Master-General, and have requested my sense of your conduct and services while you acted therein, I shall give it to you with the greatest cheerfulness and pleasure.
You conducted the various and important duties of it with capacity and diligence, entirely to my satisfaction, and, as far as I had an opportunity of knowing with the strictest integrity.
When you were prevailed on to undertake the office in March, 1778, it was in great disorder and confusion, and by extraordinary exertions you so arranged it as to enable the army to take the field the moment it was necessary, and to move with rapidity after the enemy, when they left Philadelphia: From that period to the present time, your exertions have been equally great,---have appeared to me to be the result of system,---and to have been well calculated to promote the interest and honor of your country;---and, in fine, I cannot but add, that the State have had in you, in my opinion, an able, upright and diligent servant.
I am, Sir, your humble and obed't.
Serv't. G. WASHINGTON.
Major-General GREEN.
The Hancock and Randolph privateers, of New-London, have retaken and sent into this port, the schooner Le Compte, Capt. Biffon, of about 90 tons burthen, and mounting 8 carriage guns, from Nantz bound to Virginia: She had been captured by the Hibernia privateer of New-York, and was taken off Sandy-Hook. The Hancock and Randolph also captured the Hibernia, and ordered her for New-London, where we are informed she is arrived. The schooner has on board a quantity of dry goods, 80 or 90 chests of small arms, some medicine, cordage, &c.
B O S T O N, September 14. Extract of a letter from an officer, dated English Neighbourhood, August 30, 1780.
"On the 24th, the light camp, which you know is commanded by Major General the Marquis de la Fayette, took up its line of march from the place of encampment in the vicinity of Fort-Lee, and moved on the road to Bergen. We arrived near the town about 1 o'clock at night, where we halted, and fixed our pickets, and patrols: Col. Stewart, with his regiment, took post within about musket shot of Paulus-Hook, the place where your friend Lee so very deservedly gained such reputation. Altho' I have been on the ground before, I was not till then sufficiently sensible of the multitude of difficulties which must have been opposed to this success.
"In the morning, the light camp took a post on the high ground between Bergen-Town and Paulus-Hook. The city, the shipping, Long Island and the harbour lay exposed to our view. The troops in New-York, of course, had an opportunity of seeing us, and I make no doubt felt themselves injured by our near approach.
"All this day the infantry were employed in forming as low as the Kills. The enemy fired a number of shot upon those on Bergen Neck from Staten's Island, but they were too ineffectual either to disturb the waggoners, who were loading with grain, or to drive off any of the foragers.
"I cannot say what is the amount of cattle and forage collected; but certificates were given to the people that they might have as little room as possible for complaint; These will procure them compensation at some future day; and in the mean time, they should consider, that they have contributed heretofore very little to the support of the war; and that what was taken for the use of this army and to prevent its becoming a source of subsistence to the enemy, does not amount to the value of their taxes. In this light we have only off-set them to liquidate a tax, cheerfully paid by their fellow citizens, and which they could have paid in no other manner, owing to their particular situation.
"But a business of this kind is but seldom unattended with more or less injury to the household property of the inhabitants. The soldiers will find occasion to pester however watched by the officer. It is impossible however to exclude every practice of this nature. All the officer can do in this case, is to punish the offender when discovered, and restore the goods. This was done in every instance; and one of the soldiers hanged on the spot.
"What think you of all this, with Clinton's eyes fixed upon every motion of ours? Have we not offered him an opportunity to fight us, had he been so disposed? and as he has not done it, was it not submitting to a glaring insult? will not the world consider it in this light? and can he any longer boast to his vain court, that he only wished and waited for a fair occasion to fight? have we not offered him a battle every day since we re-crossed the North River and took post near Dobbs ferry? and at this instant is not our situation at Liberty Pole and the neighbourhood of Fort Lee of the nature of a military challenge? We have done the same thing, precisely as a man of private life who has been injured, and who twits the fellow by the nose, or strikes a cudgel over his shoulders, who abused him: Clinton has behaved like the fellow, who quietly submits to the chastisement.
"The light camp in this movement were supported by the Pennsylvania line; it commanded the passage at Redbank: The Jersey brigade, Bull's ferry; and the York troops the intermediate space between that and the rest of the army, which remained encamped at the Liberty Pole. The whole was under Major General Greene, who commands the right wing of the army. His arrangements in this movement do him a great deal of credit.
"We are again where we were, Clinton, 'tis said has landed at Frog's Point, in the county of Winchester, with intention, I would suppose to take care of himself. I wish we could irritate him to come where we want him.
"I think it probable that the army will change its situation in a few days."
The ship Harlequin of 18 guns, ship Jack of 14, and the brig Eagle of 14, all belonging to Salem, are taken by the enemy in the river St. Lawrence, and carried to Quebec.
At the superior court held here last Saturday, Thomas Gibbs, of Vermont, and Ebenezer Burbanck, of Sudbury, being convicted of passing counterfeit 50 dollar bills, Gibbs was sentenced 36 lashes, 6 months imprisonment, pay treble damages and costs; Burbanck was sentenced to sit on the gallows one hour, suffer 3 months imprisonment, pay treble damages and costs.
The following is an account of the damage done by the Indians at Canajohary about the first of last month, viz. One church, one mill, 52 dwelling houses and 42 barns, burnt: 17 persons killed, 10 of whom were children; 6 are missing, 2 left scalped, yet alive. It must be truly lamentable to see what fine crops of wheat are left in the field in these parts, while the owners are either killed, carried off, or obliged to fly & leave all.
Tuesday last arrived here a Carfel from New-York. Captain Charles Dyer, in a Brig belonging to Plymouth, arrived at Bedford the 4th instant, in 20 days from Cape-Francois, who sailed with a fleet of nineteen sail of the line, and upwards of 200 Transports and Merchantmen. Capt. Dyer left the fleet in Lat. 26, bound Northward.
Captain Dyer, in Lat. 34: 32; Long. 71: 30: spoke the sloop Eclipse, Job Bray, Commander, having with him a prize Brig, laden with 117 hogheads of rum, then bound for Philadelphia.
We hear three regiments of the militia of the State of New-York, are gone up for Albany, in their way to our frontier settlements, in order to defend them against and to chastise our Indians, and more savage British & Tory enemies, whose motions indicate a disposition to commit further ravages on our borders.
There are reports in town of a repulse lately given to the forces of the United States, under Gen. Gage, in South-Carolina: These reports are so vague and uncertain, that we are not able to give our readers any clear authentic account of this matter.
WANTED IMMEDIATELY, For the Use of the Troops stationed at Piscataqua Harbour, 200 Bushels RYE, and 60 Bushels BEANS or PEASE. Inquire of SUPPLY CLAP, Agent Victualler. Portsmouth, September 15, 1780.
State of New-Hampshire. Public Notice is hereby given, That a petition hath been presented to the General Court by Agents for the proprietors of sundry townships within the county of Grafton, in said State, setting forth, That the several townships of Lime, Dorchester, Cockermouth, Plymouth, Orford, Wentworth, Rumney, Campton, Piermont, Warren, Ticothick, Thornton, Haverhill, and Coventry, were granted by charters, to contain certain quantities of land respectively described by length of line and point of compass in said charters mentioned, depending the one upon the other. And that the same were never ascertained by any proper metes and bounds named in said charters. And that the said townships have never been laid out by any other authority, than each set of proprietors laying out their own respective townships. And that they conceive, that there is land sufficient, if properly laid out, to satisfy each charter; although, by means of each township being laid out by its own respective proprietors and by mistake, &c. some townships encroach several miles upon others; and some townships that should be six miles square have not more than about four miles square left for them: and that it is the desire of said townships to ascertain where their true bounds ought to be, what, or how much land each respective township ought to tax towards the public charges.
Wherefore they pray, that Ebenezer Thompson, Joseph Badger, Ebenezer Smith, Levi Dearborn, and John Smith, Esqrs. may be appointed a Committee to survey and lay out, by sufficient metes and bounds, all the townships aforesaid, or so many of them as have signed the petition, according to charters; and to make return thereof into the Secretary's office. And that their surveys and returns of them, or the major part of them, may be binding upon all parties.
Provided that no settler shall be disturbed in the possession of the lot he has improved upon, under any of the townships aforesaid; but that the proprietors whose land he has wrongfully taken up, shall be satisfied out of the unimproved lands of the proprietors under whom any such settler respectively settled; and that this survey and return may be made at the expence of the proprietors represented in the petition.
On which petition the General Court ordered, That the Petitioners be heard thereon before them, on the second Thursday of their next session; at which time any person or persons may then appear and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof should not be granted.
Attest J. PEARSON, D. Sec'y. June 21, 1780.
R ANAWAY from his Master WILLIAM COTTON, of Portsmouth, about five Week ago, a NEGRO MAN named Garack, 25 Years of Age, a Scot Fellow, of a yellowish Colour, five Feet ten Inches high, speaks very grum and broken, has a scar on his Forehead; part of the Nail of his little Finger on the left Hand squashed off. Had on light Clash colour'd Breeches, striped Linnen Shirt. Whoever apprehends said Negro, and conveys him to his said Master, shall have Thirty Pounds Reward, and necessary Charges paid by me WILLIAM COTTON. PORTSMOUTH, Sept. 15, 1780.
TO BE SOLD, by ISAAC WILLIAMS, at his Shop in EXETER, The best of West-India RUM, SUGAR, MOLASSES, COFFEE, CURRANTS, ALLSPICE, and Men's SHOES; with a Number of other Articles, cheap for Cash, &c.

THE SCOURGE, No. X.
LONDON, Saturday, April 1, 1780.
To the Right Honorable (otherwise right infamous) John Montague, Earl of Sandwich, Viscount Hinchingbrook, First Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty, a Governor of the Charter-House, and ranks as General in the Army, Receiver of the Corporation of Huntingdon and Godmanchester.
MY LORD,
UNGRATEFUL Kings, and all Tyrants, have been enemies to public virtue and public merit. They only consider themselves and their own separate interests, and they are sure to cut off from all share in the government of the state, every man whose true glory may eclipse their faults, and who draws away in any degree the affections and eyes of the people. They heap wealth and power upon the most vicious, profligate, and abandoned; they confer titles, honours, and dignities upon panders, pimps, and parasites; for it is such worthless flatterers, slavish and unprincipled villains, only, who are fit for their purpose; exalted virtue, conspicuous abilities, and singular services, are their certain aversion, and those who serve them most are surest of destruction.
From hence, my Lord, we may account for the pious gratitude of the present King, in striking off the privy council list, and dismissing from his presence, the late good old Duke of Devonshire (which broke his heart) who had signally served his family, and paved their way to the imperial throne of these realms; otherwise they had remained to this day in their original obscurity, among slaves in Germany, without even a possibility of a power to tyrannize over and plunder a brave, generous, and free people.
From hence, my Lord, we may account for your exaltation to the first seat at the Admiralty board, a place for which you are as unfit as your wise master who fixed you there, is to govern a nation of free men. A man so totally incapable of executing the office, so entirely unacquainted with maritime affairs, and a character so notoriously abandoned as your Lordship's could not have been found in this kingdom, or in the annals of infamy. Your life and your actions, my Lord, stand condemned by all men of honour, virtue, or good principles; you are a disgrace to human nature, and so far a proper instrument, to prosecute and forward the designs of regal cruelty and regal villainy. There is no doubt, my Lord, but you have plundered sufficient of the public treasure, with other panders in office, to bribe numbers in order to screen yourself from punishment; for there is nothing so high, or so holy, which money cannot corrupt.
You are tainted, my Lord, with so many scandalous vices, that your appointment to, and continuance in office, is the highest reflection upon the King imaginable, and an evident proof of his obstinacy and weakness, and disregard of the honour and glory of the British navy, as well as an insult of the grossest kind offered to the people of England. The foul stains and ignominy of your youth; your corrupt management in the office you hold; your treachery, baseness, and irreligion; your injustice and oppression; your garbling and disgracing the navy, by bringing your creatures forward to the command of ships, and to be flag officers, whose names were never heard of before, who never had seen any actual service, and who could have no claim or pretensions to such preferment, is notorious; whilst veteran seamen, of known skill, bravery, courage, and abilities, who had fought and bled in the service of their country, were not only neglected, but suffered to remain in obscurity and want. In a word, my Lord, every thing where you preside is determined, without the least regard to merit, justice or right, by your own, or your master's arbitrary will, as prejudice, revenge, or interest dictate. These abuses and oppressions, will remain, my Lord, lasting monuments of your villainy, and reflect eternal disgrace on the present reign.
Your grateful master, my Lord, seems ambitious of treading in the steps of the worst Roman Emperors and English Kings. Those who serve him most, and are the most capable of serving their country, and who have any real virtue or public merit, are sure to meet with his contempt and disregard, whilst the worst and basest of mankind, are countenanced, and supported, honored and rewarded.
Thus Germanicus, who saved the empire of Rome for Tiberius his uncle and father by adoption, by reconciling to him the mutinous and revolted legions, was the first great sacrifice to his jealousy, being poisoned in Asia, where he was sent under pretence of commanding it. Thus Nero too rewarded Corbulo; and thus Domitian rewarded Agricola; both the greatest officers of their time, and the greatest benefactors to their ungrateful tyrants, who aimed at cutting up virtue by the roots; nor did Vespasian, the first Roman Emperor that changed for the better, prove much more grateful to Antonius Primus, who
who had signally served him, and paved his way to the imperial diadem.
It would be endless my Lord, to recount all the cruel and ungrateful acts of tyranny. If they are ever grateful, it is only to such wretches as your Lordships, the vile and despicable instruments of their tyranny. —Whoever serves them faithfully are sure to fall a sacrifice. Belisarius is an affecting instance of this; an illustrious General, who, in decline of the Roman Empire, did, as it were, new conquer the world for his Royal Master; and, as a reward, was stripped of all that he had, and turned off to beg his bread with his eyes put out. The two Howes, Keppel, Burgoyne, &c. have been very amply rewarded for their services by his present pious Majesty with contempt, disgrace, and dismissal.
It is a very fine observation of Tacitus my Lord, and very applicable to the present circumstances of this kingdom, and the policy of St. James's: He says, "It is the business and special interest of an arbitrary prince, that his forces be commanded neither by a nobleman, nor by a freeman, nor indeed by any man, who is two degrees removed from a slave." Or if such princes be obliged, by the necessity of their affairs, to employ an illustrious person in an important command, they always employ him with fear, and when their turns is served, and he has made them safe, dismiss him, into obscurity with contempt; and if he escaped in that manner it is well; for all their suspicions generally end in blood.
I believe, my Lord, his Majesty might have searched the kingdom in vain, to have found a man, so well calculated for his purpose and design, as your Lordship. You will stick at no dirty work, at no act of infamy however diabolical, nay you will belye heaven and abuse men, to honor and please him, and make your court to power. The character of no man however great, illustrious, or exalted, is safe in your hands; if he happens to incur, your or your Master's displeasure; you, my Lord, are the ready instrument of his disgrace and ruin. You are a venal slave and flatterer, and flattery is always pleasing to tyrants, you can make one and the same man, a God or a devil, just as it answers your purpose best, and that of your patron. You have been at perpetual enmity with truth, honour, and virtue. Flattery is always cruel, and gives bloody council, and flatterers are constant and merciless calumniators of the virtuous, great and good; every word which they do not like, is a libel; every action that displeases them, is treason or sedition; where there is no faults they create them. In this manner, my Lord, you attempted not only to blacken the character, but to take away the life of Admiral Keppel, which is of more value and importance to this kingdom, than the lives of ten thousand such parasites and traitors as your lordship and Sir Hugh Palliser.
The crimes, my Lord alledged against the honest and excellent Thrasea Petus, the virtuous Roman senator, and lover of liberty and truth, were such as those: — "That he had never applauded Nero, nor encouraged others to applaud him; that when the senate were running into all the extravagance of flattery, he would not be present and therefore had not been in it for three years; that he had never sacrificed for Nero's charming voice; that he would never own madam Popaea for a goddess, she who had been Nero's mistress, and was then his wife; that he would not vote that a gentleman who had made satirical verses upon Nero should be put to death, tho' he condemned the man and his libel; but he contended, that no law made the offence capital; that they could not without scandal, and the imputation of cruelty, punish with death, an offence for which the law had already provided a punishment that was milder." These, my Lord, were the honourable and virtuous crimes of that great and good man; but they were then high treason, and cost him his life. He lived in the cruel and bloody reign of Nero, a monster in human shape; we live in the mild, merciful, just, and good reign of George the Third.
Had it not been for such miscreant parasites as your lordship, there would never have been one tyrant in the world capable of doing public mischief; they must have servile hands to execute their will, and servile mouths to command their actions. We have lately been stunned, my Lord, you and the whole herd of king's friends, alas traitors, with the word prerogative. But what prerogative do you mean? I know of no prerogative in the crown, which is not at the same time a certain privilege of the people, for their sake granted, and for their sake exerted; and where a prerogative is claim'd contrary to the rights and interests of the people, so far a tyranny is claimed. And the king may now rob and plunder the people at his pleasure, it is one of the prerogatives of the crown; no retrenchment must be made in the civil list, because it is one of his majesty's prerogatives to bribe the members of the house of commons, and a few prostituted peers, with a part of the money, to ruin the nation. But I trust, my Lord the PEOPLE will soon convince you that it is one of their prerogatives, to stop the progress of your villainy, and your master's tyranny.
[This is the last Crisis that has yet come to hand.]
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State of New-Hampshire, Rockingham ss.
WE the Subscribers being appointed by the Honorable PHILIP WHITE, Esq; Judge of the Probate of Wills, &c. for the County aforesaid, Commissioners, to receive and examine the Claims of the several Creditors to the Estate of STEPHEN HOLLAND, late of Londonderry, Esq; an Absentee from this State, (and six Months only being allowed the Creditors for bringing in and proving their Claims) Hereby give Notice, that we shall attend said Business at the Dwelling-House of Mr. NOAH EMERY, junr. Innholder in Exeter, on the last Monday of this and the five next following Months, from two to six o'Clock Afternoon on said Days. ELIHALET HALE, JOHN T. GILMAN, NOAH EMERY, jr. Commissioners. Exeter, September 1, 1780.
State of New Hampshire.
We the subscribers being appointed Commissioners by the honorable Court of Probate for the county of Cheshire, in the State of New-Hampshire, to receive and examine the claims of the several creditors to the estate of BREND BATCHELLOR, late of Packerfield, in said county, Esq; absentee, who has joined the enemies of these United States; do hereby give notice that we shall attend the business of said appointment, at the house of Capt. Jonathan Whitcomb, in Swansey, on the second Tuesday of October, November, December and January next, from one to four o'clock, P. M. — No accounts will be received unless properly attested. Thomas Applin, Samuel Hills, C. Frink. Commissioners. Swansey, July 16, 1780.
All Persons indebted to, or that have any Demands on the Estate of Mr. CALEB KIMBALL, late of Exeter, deceased, are desired to call on Capt. PORTER KIMBALL, of Brintwood, in order for adjustment of their Accounts. Brintwood, Sept. 9 1780.
Notice is hereby given to all Persons that have any Demands upon the Estate of SAMUEL DICKEY, late of a Place called the Society Land, in the County of Hillsborough, deceased, to bring their Accounts immediately to the Subscribers for a Settlement. ROBERT FOYD, ALEXANDER PARKER, Administrators. September 6, 1780.
Ranaway from the subscriber in Berwick, on Saturday the second Instant, a Negro Man named Boston, about 34 years old, about five Feet eight inches high; a thick set Fellow; speaks good English. Whoever will apprehend said Negro, and convey him to his said Master, or commit him to any Goal, and give Information to the subscriber, shall receive One Hundred Dollars Reward, and all necessary Charges paid. Noah Ricker, Berwick, Sept. 8 1780.
[MIDDLETON.]
WHEREAS the proprietors of the Town of MIDDLETON, in the County of Strafford, & State of New-Hampshire, at a legal Meeting, notified and held at the House of Francis Marchess, in said Middleton, on the 29th of March last, which Meeting was adjourned to the 12th of April, at the House of Jonathan Gage, Innholder in Dover, then voted a Tax of Fifteen pounds twelve shillings on each original Right or share of Land in said Town, seven pounds sixteen shillings on the first Division, and seven pounds sixteen shillings on the second Division, and committed the same to me the subscriber, Collector for said proprietors. This is therefore to notify said proprietors to pay the said Tax to me at my House in MIDDLETON, within eight Weeks from this Advertisement, and on Failure thereof, their Lands will be advertised in the New Hampshire Gazette for sale, as the Law directs. William Chamberlin, Collector. Middleton, Aug 30, 1780.
ALL PERSONS that have any Demands on the Estate of James Clarkson, late of Portsmouth, deceased, are desired to bring their Accounts in to James Clarkson in Portsmouth, Administrator on said Estate, in order for settlement. And all Indebted to said Estate, are desired to make speedy payment. Portsmouth, Sept. 1, 1780.
Barnstead Meeting stands adjourned to the last Friday of this Instant September, 2 o'Clock, at the Parish House in Newington. All concerned, are desired to take Notice, and govern themselves accordingly By order of the Proprietors Richard Downing, proprietors Clerk.