The New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1792-04-04 00:00:00

New - Hampshire Gazette, and the General Advertiser.
Containing the Laws, &amp;c. of the United States, as well as those of this State passed since 1787, with a variety of other matters both useful &amp; entertaining.
PORTSMOUTH: Printed by JOHN MELCHER, at his Office in Market-Street, at nine shillings per Annum.
CONGRESS: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
FRIDAY, MARCH 2.
MR. GERRY called up his motion for the appointment of a committee to bring in a bill to reduce the rates of postage on newspapers.
The question being taken on the resolution and having passed in the affirmative (yeas 27; nays (not counted) about 17,) Mr. GERRY, Mr. MURRAY, and Mr. FINDLEY, were appointed a committee to bring in a bill pursuant thereto.
Mr. FINDLEY presented, a memorial from the Directors of the Ohio Company, which was referred to a special committee.
The order of the day being called for,
The House resolved itself into a committee of the whole, on the Militia Bill, Mr. B. BOURNE in the chair; and after some time spent thereon, rose and reported progress.
TUESDAY, MARCH 6.
The Committee appointed for that purpose reported a bill for reducing the rates of postage on newspapers, which was read a first time and ordered to lie on the table. The postage proposed is half a cent, for any distance not exceeding 100 miles, and three quarters of a cent for any greater distance.
Mr. Speaker laid before the House a report from the Secretary of the Treasury, respecting the excise law, which was read and ordered to be printed.
The militia bill being brought in engrossed,
Mr. VINING moved for a recommittal. This motion gave rise to a debate of some length, after which, the question being taken, and passing in the negative—yeas 27—nays 28 the blanks were filled up, and the bill passed; yeas 31—nays 27—and was sent to the Senate for their concurrence—yeas 31—nays 27.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7.
Mr. Vining presented a memorial, signed with the names of near sixty respectable merchants of this city, in opposition to the memorials lately presented from the merchants of New-York and Philadelphia, who trade in India and China.—Referred, at the two last mentioned, to the committee of the whole on the state of the Union.
The House took up the amendments, proposed by the Senate, to the “bill for the relief of certain widows, orphans, invalids, and other persons;” and after having considered the same, a-
greed to some, and disagreed to others:
THURSDAY, MARCH 8.
A report on the memorial of the Ohio Company of Associates was read. The substance of which is, that it would be expedient to exact a specific compliance with the original contract—that the sum paid by the contractors, is about the price contemplated by government in future sales of Western Territory—that it would be expedient to relinquish the balance that remains due, &c. This report was referred to a committee of the whole on Tuesday next.
The resolution reported by a select committee—That the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to report his opinion to the House, on the best mode of raising those additional supplies which the public service may require for the current year, was further discussed—after debating the subject 'till 3 o'clock, Mr. Vining called for the Ayes and Noes, which were, Ayes 31, Noes 27.
EXTRACTS from the COMMON-PLACE BOOK of the KENTUCKY PHILOSOPHER.
ORIGIN of the PROVERB, “Lay hold of the tail if you can, and be sure to keep it fast.”
WHEN the Slaves of Tartary, in crossing the river, find themselves in danger of being drowned, they catch hold of the horse's tail that passes before them, and frequently thereby escape. From hence comes the proverb, “Lay hold of the tail if you can, and be sure to keep it fast.” An honest Mussulman, by once luckily applying this saying; escaped from being impaled. The case was this: He had spent many years in study, had most parts of the Alcoran by heart, was acquainted with several sciences, but by attending to them, he had lost the more material science, that of knowing how to live : so that when he grew in years, though his mind was well-fitted, his body was in danger of want.—He addressed himself to the Sultan Mahomet, on whose memory be peace! beseeching him to save a son of science from starving. The Sultan having considered his case, gave him no other than this: “Friend, with all your learning, don't you know that the world is a tale, and happy is he that gets hold of it?”
The Mussulman went home in despair, where, after passing three days in deep meditation, he thus addressed himself to a certain Russian slave, from whom he had learnt that language: “Infidel,
let us change clothes; carry me to market, and sell me.” These orders were obeyed; he worked six or eight months in the fields with the other slaves; and appeared so very stupid that he was the jest of all his companions.—At the end of that time he began to preach; affirmed that he had visions: and that the prophet, whose name be blessed, and taught him the Alcoran; of which he repeated many chapters.
“This accident made much noise; he was visited by every body, and none went away, without giving him something.
At last the Grand Seignior heard of it and sent for him.—As soon as he saw, he recollected him: friend, says he, “Have I not seen you before?” “For God's sake” answered the impostor, “Betray me not, you know the world is a tale, and I have but just got hold of it.” The issue of the matter was, that the man got a good living by his wit, and the world has got a good story.
“My friends, you will never be the worse for hearing it; and, believe me, you will be much better for remembering it; for, of all kinds of knowledge, none is more important than this, “that the world is a tale, and happy is he that gets hold of it.”
Foreign Advices.
PARIS, Jan. 19.
It is now certain that M. de TALLEYRAND, formerly Bishop of Autun, goes to the Court of St. James's, charged with an important mission, the object of which is, to keep up and fortify the harmony existing between England and France.
Last week in the National Assembly, M. Issnard made use of the following expression:—The traitors of every rank shall fall by your hand; the generous nation pardoned once, it will pardon no more; so King and Ministers take warning!”
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, SPAIN. [Jan. 16.]
M. LOUSTEIN read a letter from the Procurator Syndic of the department of the Basses Pyrennes, importing that Spain was on the eve of an attack; that the part of the frontiers opposite was in a bad posture of defence; that the troops of his line were not complete; that the volunteers had lately gone without dinner for want of pay; and that great doubts were entertained of the fidelity of M. DACHILLEAU, the commander.—Referred to the
Military Committee. Ordered also, that the Minister at War state the reasons of the troops of the line on the frontiers of Spain not being complete.
JANUARY 17.
A letter was read from an Englishman, offering 200 livers in support of the deranged finances of the French nation. The offer was thankfully accepted.
The Minister of War communicated to the Assembly a letter from the King. His Majesty therein proposed to the Legislative Body, to take into consideration a mode of recruiting, which should speedily complete the army. This dispatch was referred to the examination of the Committee, in which the King proposes an augmentation of 8 Lieutenant-Generals, 12 Marshals-de-camp, 4 Adjutants-General, and 8 Commissaries of War.
M. BRISOT, in a long speech endeavored to prove the necessity of going to war. He represented most of the Princes of Europe, as prostrated at the feet of the National Assembly of France; the Emperor, however, appeared to him, to have adopted an attitude less humble; He therefore proposed that vigorous war should be carried on against the Emperor; that it was part of the Assembly, “Parcere subiectis et debellare superbos.”
The speech of M. BRISOT was ordered to be printed.
JANUARY 18.
The Assembly voted the sum wanted from the fund of Extraordinaries, to make good the deficiency in the receipt at the Treasury for the month of December, being 20,860,624 livres.
LOUIS STANISLAS XAVIER. The Committee of legislation presented the decree of forfeiture in the following terms, which was adopted with loud applause:
“The National Assembly considering that Louis-Stanislas-Xavier, French prince, the first called to the Regency is not returned to the kingdom on the requisition of the Legislative Body, proclaimed on the 7th of November, 1791; and that the term of two months, fixed by the proclamation, is expired, declares in the terms of the 2d article of the 3d section, of the 2d chapter, of the 3d part of the Constitution, that Louis Stanislas Xavier, French Prince, is held to have abdicated his right to the Regency, and that in consequence he is deprived of it.
“The executive power shall give the necessary orders for the publication of the present legislative act, which it shall cause to be proclaimed, and shall give an account to the National Assembly,

within three days, of the presentation made to it, and of the measures which it shall have taken to this effect."
The Minister at War gave an account of the measures taken for the defence of the frontiers towards the Pyrenees , which he assured the Assembly were sufficient. The contracts made for arms and ammunition could not be made public without danger; but he desired to be held responsible for them; and also that copies might be deposited in the archives of the Assembly, to be opened and examined at a proper time. ( Loud applause. )
JANUARY 19.
The minister for foreign affairs communicated a second letter from M. ST. CROIX, dated Coblenz , January 15th, at midnight, containing new assurances of the real and complete dispersion and expulsion of the emigrants from the Electorate of Treves . The conduct and the sentiment of the Elector, says the Ambassador, are no longer equivocal: He has done, and will continue to do his duty towards France .
JANUARY 21.
M. LAMARQUE said, the public opinion called for war, but there was one measure which ought to precede it—to sequester the property of all those openly engaged in the conspiracy against the public. The people in the neighbourhood, he said, had a list of all the emigrants, and threatened to burn their houses on their first movement against France .
M. BIGOT said, that the property of the wives and children of the rebels, ought to be put under the special safeguard of the nation.
The Assembly ordered the Committee of Legislation to prepare a decree on the subject, against Tuesday.
LONDON, Jan. 28.
In the rescript addressed by the Emperor to the Aulic Council , he holds forth his authority as derived from God alone, the divine and the sacred, indefeasible rights of Kings, &c. This senseless jargon is now exploded in all free countries.
The number of M. d'ORLEANS' creditors is 2818! Their demands consequently are immense.
His revenues are about 67 millions of livres, but inadequate to defray his debts and expenses.
The recapitulation of the debts fills 45 folio pages of a pamphlet which has been two months preparing. It is to be hoped that every Prince seeing the degradation brought on royalty by luxury and extravagance, will take warning, and obtain the love of the people as the sure source of riches to the utmost extent of all virtuous wishes. M. d'ORLEANS' creditors have taken possession of his estates and effects, and allow him an annuity.
At one of the late meetings of
the Duke of ORLEANS' creditors, when the Prince entered the apartment in which they were assembled, he found them all standing up and uncovered. One of the tradesmen, however, a greater democrat than the others, and knowing himself to be superior in some respect to him who had called the meeting, thus constitutionally addressed his fellow sufferers—"Good folks, by the first article of the Rights of Man, "all mortals are born equal," why then should we stand with our hats off in presence of one who is not more than ourselves. For my part, I cannot think what we owe him, but am perfectly sensible of what he owes us; so let us sit down and be covered."
The adherents of the French Princes, like the followers of the unfortunate House of Stuart , were encouraged to quit their country, and ruin their fortunes, to promote the views of foreign powers; and for the convenience of those very powers, they are driven from one place of refuge to another, amid the rigors of winter, and through roads covered with snow, and almost impassable.—Several hundreds of Mirabeau's legion have returned to France , with their arms, and such baggage as they could carry with them.
[Though the following does not contain much matter of importance; yet, as our good friends in England always insert the speeches of our beloved PRESIDENT, we readily give it a place.]
Westminster, January 31.
His Majesty's Speech TO BOTH HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.
THIS day his Majesty came to the House of Peers, and being seated on the throne with the usual solemnity, Sir FRANCIS MOLYNEUX, gentleman usher of the black rod, was sent with a message from his Majesty to the House of Commons, commanding their attendance in the House of Peers. The Commons being come thither accordingly, his Majesty was pleased to make the following most gracious speech.
My Lords and Gentlemen,
THE many proofs which you have given of your affectionate attachment to my person and family, leave me no doubt of your participating in the satisfaction which I derive in the happy event of the marriage which has been celebrated between my son, the Duke of York, and the eldest daughter of my good brother and ally, the King of Prussia; and I am persuaded I may expect your cheerful concurrence in enabling me to make a suitable provision for their establishment.
Since I last met you in Parliament, a definitive treaty has been concluded, under my mediation and that of my allies the King of Prussia and States General of the United Provinces, between the Emperor and the Ottoman Porte,
on principles which appear the best calculated to prevent future disputes between those powers.
Our intervention has also been employed with a view to promote a pacification between the Empress of Russia and the Porte; and conditions have been agreed on between us and the former of those powers, which we undertook to recommend to the Porte as their establishment of peace, on such terms, as appeared to be, under the existing circumstances, a desirable event for the general interests of Europe. I am in expectation of speedily receiving the account of the conclusion of the definitive treaty of peace, preliminaries having been some time since agreed upon between those powers.
I have directed copies of the definitive treaty, between the Emperor and the Porte, to be laid before you, as well as such papers as are necessary to shew the terms of peace which have been under discussion during the negotiation with the court of Petersburgh .
I regret that I am not yet enabled to inform you of the termination of the war in India ; but the success which has lately attended the distinguished bravery and exertions of the officers and troops under the able conduct of Lord CORNWALLIS, and the recent advices from that quarter, afford reasonable ground to hope, that the war may be speedily brought to an honorable conclusion.
The friendly assurances which I receive from foreign powers, and the general state of affairs in Europe , appear to promise to my subjects the continuance of their present tranquillity. Under these circumstances I am induced to think, that some immediate reduction may surely be made in our naval and military establishments; and my regard for the interests of my subjects renders me, at all times, desirous of availing myself of any favorable opportunity to diminish the public expenses.
Gentlemen of the House of Commons,
It will, I am persuaded, give you great satisfaction to learn, that the extraordinary expenses incurred in the course of last year, have in a great measure, been already defrayed by the grants of the session. The state of our resources will, I trust, be found more than sufficient to provide for the remaining part of those expenses, as well as for the current service of the year, the estimates for which I have directed to be laid before you.
I entertain the pleasing hope, that the reductions which may be found practicable in the establishments, and the continued increase of the revenue, will enable you, after making due provisions for the several branches of the public service, to enter upon a system of gradually relieving my subjects from some part of the existing taxes, at the same time giving additional efficacy to the plan for
the reduction of the national debt on the success of which, our future ease and security essentially depend.
With a view to this important object, let me also recommend it to you, to turn your attention to the consideration of such measures, as the state of the funds, and of public credit may render practicable and expedient, towards a reduction for the rate of interest of any of the annuities which are now redeemable.
My Lords and Gentlemen,
The continued and progressive improvement in the internal situation of the country, will, I am confident, animate you in the pursuit of every measure which may be conducive to the public interest. It must at the same time, operate as the strongest encouragement to a spirit of useful industry among all classes of my subjects and above all must confirm and increase their steady and zealous attachment to that constitution, which we have found, by long experience, to unite the inestimable blessings of liberty and order, and to which, under the favour of Providence, all our other advantages are principally to be ascribed.
We hear a subscription has been opened at Glasgow , to aid the French in carrying on the war against the emigrant Princes, or any foreign power by whom they may be attacked. It is said that 1200l. have been already subscribed. We may venture to predict, that however respectable the list of the subscribers may be, a late Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow —the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, will not be among them.
If fame speaks truth, the Right Hon. Edmund Burke has got a pension of 2000l. a year on the Irish establishment, with as much more on the British Civil List, as a recompence for a total dereliction of former principles. It must also be said, that there is to be a reversion of those grants, after that gentleman's decease, to his family. Thus is he to be rewarded for taking the side of arbitrary power, despotic severity, and the necessity of supporting bastille and State prisons, and enforcing "the divine right of Kings for doing wrong." In the reward of such a meritorious act, poor Ireland is to be incumbered with an additional burden, which is usual for the support of such infamous jobs.
COPENHAGEN, Dec. 31.
We learn from Sweden, that the King continues to make preparations for an expedition, which, if the weather permits, is to take place immediately after the separation of the States of the kingdom.
The following words are wrote over the Prison at Ludgate , viz.
A prison is a house of care, A grave for men alive, A touch-stone for to try a friend, And not a place for man to thrive.

NEW-YORK, March 17.
It is remarkable that so long after the engagement with the Indians as the 5th of January, (two months) the dead bodies of the slain were still untouched by wild animals. The party that went to reconnoitre the place, found the small arms all broken on the field, and the bayonets thrust through the bodies of the dead.
We hear from Philadelphia, that 47 chiefs and warriors of the Seneca nation of Indians, arrived in that city on Wednesday last—They came from the northward, and landed at Market-street wharf, from whence they were escorted by a detachment of light infantry to Eller's Hotel, saluted by a discharge of cannon, and received by the Governor of the State. It is reported, that they are come to offer assistance in the war now carrying on between the United States and the southern Indians.
The bells were kept ringing all the evening.—This is the first time we have heard of joy bells being rung at the approach of savages.
From a QUEBEC Paper of March 8.
We are informed that persons from the American States are now in this town, buying up the paper money certificates, or other public securities of the U.S. particularly those given in the winter 75—6:—We mention this that the persons holding such claims may get paid for their faithful services, and at the same time that they may not dispose of them under value.
NORWICH, March 16.
Captain Thomas Wheeler of Stonington, last week had an eye gouged out by a Mr. Miner of that town. This transaction, we understand, was one amongst the ten thousand brawls which take place at country taverns, where a little drinking, a little swearing, a little gaming, and a little fighting, are touched off with an inimitable grace; inimitable we mean by those lounging drones, who prefer to sober, homely pleasures the beauties of a fine pimped nose, or the exquisite delights of a midnight revel.
NEWBURYPORT, March 21.
The report respecting the conversion of the Rev. Mr. Lesslie to Popery, some time since mentioned in this Paper, was premature—that conclusion was probably drawn, from his remaining so long silent, and not replying to Mr. Thayer—He has now entered on the Business, and forwarded an Essay on the Subject, which arrived too late for this Paper, but will appear next week—Mr. Lesslie seems determined thoroughly to investigate the Subject, before he quits it, which would sooner have been attempted, had he received Mr. Thayer's communications as soon as might reasonably have been expected—but in a private Letter he informs, that the first he saw was on the 13th of December, the reason of
which must be, his distance from this town, and not living on a Post road.
BOSTON, March 31.
It appears, by a letter from the Treasurer of the United States, read in the House of Representatives the 24th ult. that there is a balance in favor of the United States in his hands, and in the banks of Philadelphia, New-York, Providence, &c. of upwards of one million and forty thousand dollars.
Several public spirited characters, in Albany, have lately offered very handsome premiums, to encourage the manufacture of maple sugar.
Six per cent stock of the United States which a short time since readily sold at 25/ on the pound—at the date of our last accounts from New-York, the vortex of speculation—were selling for cash at 19/6—The sheer effects of speculation—Other stock has proportionably fallen.
MARINE JOURNAL.
CAPTAINS of vessels, pilots, and others, having charge of conducting vessels up and down the Delaware, are recommended not to stand too close in towards the piers at Mud-Island, as the uttermost one of the said piers has been so far destroyed by the late breaking up of the ice, that no part thereof is to be seen except at very low tides. A spar buoy, is now laid about thirty feet to the eastward of the wreck of the said piers, and is intended to be kept there until farther measures be taken in the premises.
EARTHQUAKE at St. Paul's Bay, Eboulemens, &c. in Canada.
When the latest advices came off from these places on Monday the 19th instant, the Earthquake still continued to the great alarm of the inhabitants. An ingenious correspondent on the spot has favored us with a circumstantial account from its commencement up to that date. The following is an extract:
"All the different shocks were felt from west to east, and did most damage within the breadth of two leagues, comprehending in their course (the length of which is yet unknown) the lower part of St. Paul's Bay, striking north and south, the lower end of the island of Coudre, and the lower part of the Eboulemens.
"Within the above space 21 chimnies have been thrown down or damaged. One stone house almost entirely demolished, several others split, and many stoves and ovens broke down, besides the damage done to the church of the Eboulemens.
"It is remarkable that during the first days the shocks came on regularly at the same hour, morning and evening—and since the 6th, until now (the 19th) we have had at least four or five shocks every day.
"The 17th, about half after five o'clock in the evening a globe
of fire, appearing to the eye of the size of a 48 pound cannon ball, was observed coming from the south-east, striking towards the north-east, and at the height of about 140 toises, disappeared in its perpendicular descent above St. Paul's Bay, after bursting with an explosion.
"Many old people remark that for several quarter-centuries back, earthquakes similar to the present have happened, which lasted 40 days, and find their return tolerably exact every 25 years, to a year or two of variation, and that the present is the third, which to their recollection have taken place in the same season, within the difference of a month or two.
"In the history of Canada mention is made of a more violent earthquake in the month of July 1663 than any felt since, having then lasted six months, and began in the preceding January.
"Dating from that period there appears to have happened one regularly every 25 years—for since 1663 to the present year, five quarter centuries and three years have elapsed.
"Previous to and ever since the 6th instant, the weather has been clouded and gloomy, particularly west and east, and, and whenever it cleared up (which was very seldom) it always began to darken from thence."
Quebec, Jan. 1792.
ANECDOLE.
Old FREDERICK, king of the Prussia, had a great opinion of the utility of experience.—A very young officer presented a petition, requesting his Majesty would appoint him a supreme General.
The king wrote under his petition—"Turn to your bible, and in the 10th chapter and 5th verse of the 2d book of Samuel, you will find it thus written—Tarry at Jericho until thy beard is grown, and then come again."
PORTSMOUTH, April 4.
By accounts from Savannah it appears that Gen. BOWLES has taken a small fort belonging to the Spaniards, in consequence of which, the Governor of East-Florida has offered a reward of two thousand dollars for his head.
The Turkish Ambassador, to Vienna, being complimented by the Clergy, returned an answer very singular, and not much to be expected from the mouth of a Mahometan: "I commend myself," said Ratic, "to your prayer. We all have the same God, and only pray to him in different languages."
ENTRIES at the CUSTOM-HOUSE of this district.
ENTERED FROM Ship Arethusa, MacClintock, Demarara. Brig Nancy, Trefethen, St. Eustatia. Schooner Mary, Prescott, ditto. Schooner Sally, Tarlton, Virginia. Schooner Dove, Vennard, N. Carolina.
CLEARED FOR Brig Mehetable and Mary, Fernald, [England.
SHIP NEWS.
Arrived, last week, the Ship Arethusa, Capt. MACCLINTOCK, 25 days from Demarara, in lat. 20, 10. long. 63, 30. spoke the Snow Thomas, Capt. PAINE, from Tobago, for Boston—all well.
LETTERS remaining in the Post-Office at Portsmouth, April 2, 1792.
 A. David Alden.  B. John Baatun, Londonderry. John Beckford. William Ballock, to the care of Alexander Ralston, Claremont. Isaac Butterfield, Westmoreland. John Heard Bartlett, Kittery. John Blydenburgh, Durham.  C. Darby Cornan. Edward Combs. Ebenezer Clark, New-Castle. Benjamin Clark, Ditto. James Carruth, Kingston. Joseph Clark, Rochester. Daniel Crosby, York. John Cilley, Nottingham. Levi Caswell.  D. Samuel Davis. Charles Dwyer, New-Concord. Benjamin B. Darling, Hopkinton. Joseph Dunn.  E. Benjamin Emerson, Hamstead. Jonathan Eames, Newton.  F. Simon Forrester.  G. James Gray, Epsom. Nathaniel Gookin. Ichabod Goodwin, Berwick. Robert Gerrish. Peter Green, 2.  H. George Hough, Concord. Robert Hall, 2 Gilbert Horney, Jonathan Hubbert, Charleston. John Fogg, Hamstead.  J. William Jones, New-Castle. Samuel Jones, Kittery.  K. George Kimbal, Charleston.  L. James Lock, Alexander.  M. John Melcher. Thomas Mace. Alpheus Moore, Westmoreland. Benjamin Moore, Charleston. Nicholas Mudget, Brentwood. Thomas M'Donough, Dover.  N. Samuel Nickels. Paul Newel, York. Daniel Nawcomb, 2, Keene.  O. John C. Ogden.  P. Peter Pray. David Paine, 2, New-Concord. Benjamin Parker, Kittery. Amos Peasey, Dover. William Page, Charleston.  R. Daniel Rindge. Jacob Reily, Thomas Reed, Hamstead.  S. Caleb Stark, Dunbarton. William Scott. Mr. Sherrif. John Stone, Concord. Jacob Steward, Claremont. Caleb Spinney, Kittery. William Sawyer.  T. Archelaus Temple, Westmoreland. Christopher Tappan, Sandwich. Adonijah Tyler, Hopkinton. James Taylor, Widow Tirrill.  W. Dudley Watson, Newmarket. John Walden, Dover. John Wheelock, 2, Dartmouth. Joseph H. White, Hamstead. Samuel Wilson, Windham. John Williams. Jonathan Wildair, New-Salsbury. Joseph Wells.  Those names that have no towns annexed are for Portsmouth.

Parnassian Spring.
A RIDDLE
For the LADIES to SOLVE.
'TIS you, fair Ladies, I address, Sent to adorn your Life, And she who first my Name shall guess Shall first be made a Wife.
From the dark regions of the Earth, To others' aid I come, And e'er I do receive my birth, I various shapes assume.
Passing by Nature, I am made As Active as the Roe, And often times with equal speed, Through flow'ry Lawns do go.
When wicked men their wealth con- fume And leave their Children Poor, Their Daughters often to me come, And I increase their Store.
But let th' enchanting fair be told, Unless I grace her Life, She must have pond'rous Bags of Gold, Or make a wretched Wife!
TO BE LET,
ON reasonable terms, for one or more years, the Globe Tavern , on Portsmouth Plains, toge- ther with 40 acres of land, more or less, belonging thereto—to be entered upon on the 15th day of next month;—For particulars inquire of the subscriber. HALL JACKSON. March 8, 1792.
NORTHWOOD.
State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in Northwood, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1791, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber on or before the 1st day of May, so much of their land as will pay the same to- gether with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling- house of Jonathan Clark, Esquire inn- holder in said parish, at ten o'clock, in the forenoon, on said day.
   R. Lot. Ac's s. d.    William Clefferton 7 10 42 0 2  Cutting Norris do. 16 130 0 4  John Gile 0 9 100 0 9  John Gile 0 8 78 0 6  John Calf 8 13 156 0 7  Thomas Peirce do. 20 140 0 7  John Weight 0 21 156 0 7  Col. Gilman 9 25 78 0 4  Elisha Storey do. 32 130 0 8  William Briggs 10 10 40 0 4  Fann Clements 0 11 130 0 8  John Johnson 11 5 156 0 8  John Allet 10 14 96 2 0    SAMUEL BARTLETT , Constable. Northwood, March 23, 1792.
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  The moralist, or young gentle- man's entertain- ing companion. History of the Buc- aniers of America. Secret history of Queen Elizabeth. Adventures of Gil- blas. The Shepherd's Kalendar.  Life & history of Marshall Saxe. Honor of chivalry. History of Don Quixote. Ben Johnson's Jests The life of a thief- taker, highway- man and house- breaker. History of Kouli Khan.  
—Children's Books—
  Royal Primer. Pamela. Virtue & vice, &c. Holy bible abridg'd History holy Jesus. School of good manners. Watts' divine songs History Tom Trip. Puzzling cap.  Tom Thumb's song book. Nourse True Loves new years gift. King Pippin, &c. with above twen- ty other different sorts of a smaller kind.  
—Stationary—
  Account Books. Black Ink-Powder. Red Ditto. Red Sealing-Wax. Black Ditto. Wafers. Dutch Quills. Best Blocktin Ink- Stands. Lead Ink-Stands. Paper ditto. Memorandum books.  Writing books. Cyphering books. Slates. Copy slips. Pencils. Pounce boxes. Folio post writing- paper. Best quarto letter- paper. Fool's cap and pot writing paper.   Likewise at the same place may be had Best English playing Cards. Belknap's History of New-Hampshire, neatly bound. Clarke's Chart of the coast of America. Map of New-Hampshire. The act of Congress for the government and regulation of seamen in the merchant's service, and A general assortment of Blanks, printed on good paper.
IMPORTED AND NOW FOR SALE,
At the Store of
Jonathan Warner,
For Cash or Lumber,
SEA Coals per chaldron— Anchors—English and Nova-Scotia Grindstones, Liverpool Salt, Paints, a large assortment of Liverpool Ware in crates, Boxes of Pipes, Wine Glasses and Decanters, &c. Broad Cloths, Bai- zes, Bed Blankets, Men's Worsted Hose, Men's Hatts, Check and Striped Linnens, a large assortment of Chint- zes, fine Threads, Black Lutestrings, Drab Armoezen ditto, Crow Striped ditto.
HARD WARE—and sundry other articles.
Portsmouth, April 2, 1792.
WHEREAS application has been made to us the subscri- bers, by the owners of more than sixteen rights or shares in the common and undivided lands in the township of Canterbury, to call a meeting of the proprietors of said township, for the following purpo- ses:—
 1st. To choose a moderator.  2d. To see what method they will take for discharging any debts due from said proprietors, and whether they will, for this purpose, sell any part of those pieces or tracts of land which still lay in common and undivided.  3d. To see if they will appoint per- sons to draw the fourth division lots, not already drawn.  4th. To see if they will choose a committee to adjust and rectify any such mistakes as have taken place in any former divisions. 
NOTICE is hereby given to the said proprietors, to meet at the Meeting-House in said town, on the first Tuesday in May next, at one of the clock in the afternoon, for the pur- poses above mentioned.
Given under our hands and seal this 3d day of March, A.D. 1792. ASA FOSTER, } Committee for call- DAVID FOSTER, } ing propr'y meeting.
WHEREAS RACHAEL , my wife, behaves herself in a very unbe- coming manner, by needlessly running me in debt, greatly to my damage;— this is therefore to forbid all persons trusting or harbouring her on my ac- count, as I will not pay any debt she may contract after the date hereof.
ADAM MORRILL. Chester, March 28, 1792.
State of New-Hampshire. NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in the town of Bradford, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1790, that unless they pay said taxes to me the subscriber, on or before the 10th day of April next, so much of their land as will pay the same, together with inci- dental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of Wil- iam Presbury, in said town, at 10 o'clock, A. M. on said day.
   No. R.D. Q. d. q.    Thomas Packer, Esq. 3 2 2 60 5 0  Charles Barrett, 1 1 2 47 4 0  Capt. William Proctor, 50 3 0  John Rindge, Esq. 13 8 0  ditto, 70 8 0  ditto, 76 5 1  ditto, 93 5 1    JOHN BROWN , Collector. Bradford, Feb. 16, 1792.
THE subscribers appointed com- missioners to receive and examine the claims of the several creditors to the estate of Lemuel Chesley, late of Lee, husbandman, deceased, represent- ed insolvent—hereby give notice, that they will attend that service, at the late dwelling-house of said deceased, in said town, on the first Thursday of this and the following month, from two to six o'clock, P. M.
SMITH EMERSON, JOSEPH CHESLEY. Lee, April 2, 1792.
State of New-Hampshire. NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in the town of Effingham, who have not paid their State taxes, for the year 1790, that unless they pay said taxes to me the subscriber, on or before the first Monday of June next, so much of their land as will pay the same, toge- ther with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling- house of Weare Drake, Esquire, in said town, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, on said day.
   No. Div. Q'ty. s. d. q.    Abner Fogg, jun. 5 2 200 0 7 0  ditto 67 1 56 0 7 0  Abner Fogg 7 2 200 0 7 0  Benjamin Perkins 17 2 200 1 10 0  Ebenezer Smith, 23 2 200 2 3 0  Jona. Wedgwood 29 2 200 1 2 0  Ezekiel Russell 33 2 200 1 4 0  James Marston 48 1 56 0 4 2  Sam'l Wedgwood 55 1 56 0 3 0  John Rindge 73 2 200 0 11 0  ditto 3 1 56 0 4 2  Jona. Page, jun. 69 2 200 1 7 2  James Wedgwood 57 2 200 1 3 2  Tho. Parsons, j'r. 26 2 200 2 3 0  Mat. Livermore 6 2 200 1 6 0  Nathaniel Hobbs 8 2 200 1 6 0  Nathaniel Drake 32 2 200 1 1 2  ditto 29 1 56 1 3 3  Dav. Marston, j'r. 36 2 200 2 3 0  Moses Leavitt 43 2 200 1 10 0  Daniel Marston 98 2 100 1 0 0  
JOSEPH DRAKE , Collector. Effingham, March 12, 1792.
WE the subscribers, commissioners on the estate of JOHN NEAL , late of Londonderry, Esquire, deceased, do hereby give this further notice, that the commission has, by the Honorable Oliver Peabody, Esq. Judge of the Probate of Wills, &c. been lengthened six months from the fifteenth day of December last, and that we shall attend at the dwelling-house of the widow Mary Neal, on the first Mondays in April, May and June following, from one to six o'clock, P. M. of each of said days, to receive and examine any other or further claims on said deceas- ed's estate; and that no further time by law, can, by said Judge, be allowed. GEORGE REID, DANIEL REYNOLDS, JOHN PRENTICE. Londonderry, March 6, 1792.
NOTICE is hereby given, that an appeal has been claimed by vir- tue of an act of the General-Court, passed in January 1792, from the de- cree of the court of probate, held at Exeter, in July or August last, appoint- ing Dr. Nathaniel A. Haven , administra- tor, with the will annexed, of the goods or estate of JOHN TUFTON MASON , Esq. late of Great-Britain, which was granted, and said appeal will be prose- cuted at the next Superior Court of Judicature, to be holden at Portsmouth, within and for the county of Rocking- ham, on the fourth Tuesday of April next; of which all persons concerned are desired to take notice.
THOMAS MARTIN , Agent to [the Executrix.] Portsmouth, March 26, 1792.
THE heirs of Samuel Dame, late of Dover, in the county of Stra- ford, husbandman, deceased, are here- by notified, That the account of Joseph Hicks, administrator, de bonis non , and of Sarah Hicks, administratrix, de bonis non , of their administration of the es- tate of said deceased is to be examined by the Judge of Probate of Wills, &c. for the county of Rockingham, in or- der for allowance at the Probate office, in Exeter, on the Monday preceding the third Wednesday in April next, when and where they may be heard thereon. By order of the Judge. WM. PARKER , Reg'r. March 21, 1792.
JAMES HASLETT
BEGS leave to inform his cus- tomers and others, that he has re- moved from CONGRESS-STREET , to BOW-STREET —opposite the east end of the Church. Portsmouth, April 3, 1792.