Fowle's New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser ([Portsmouth, N.H.]), 1786-04-20 00:00:00

F O W L E'S  NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE, AND  GENERAL THE  ADVERTISER.
T H U R S D A Y,
A P R I L 20, 1786.
P O R T S M O U T H: By JOHN MELCHER,
PRINTED AND PUBLISHED IN PAVED-STREET.
VOL. XXX.]
"OPEN TO ALL PARTIES—INFLUENCED BY NONE:—WE AIM ONLY TO BE JUST." No. 1539.
An ACT
To prevent the keeping of large quantities of Gun-Powder in private houses in Portsmouth, and for appointing a keeper of the Magazine belonging to said town.
Whereas the keeping of large quantities of Gun-Powder in private houses in Portsmouth, aforesaid, or in merchant ships, or vessels lying at the wharves in said town, would greatly endanger the lives and properties of the inhabitants thereof in case of fire; which danger might be prevented, by obliging the owner of such powder, to deposit the same in the magazine, provided by said town for that purpose:
Therefore,
B e it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court convened, That if any person or persons, shall keep in any dwelling-house, store or other building, on land, within the limits of said Portsmouth, except in the magazine aforesaid, more than ten pounds of gun-powder at any one time, which ten pounds shall be kept in a tin cannister properly secured for that purpose, such person or persons shall forfeit the powder so kept, to the firewards of said Portsmouth, to be laid out by them in purchasing such utensils as they may judge proper for the extinguishing of fire: and the said firewards are hereby directed and empowered to seize, and cause the same to be condemned in any Court of law or record proper to hear and try the same, to be disposed of for the purchase aforesaid. And the offender shall also forfeit and pay a fine for the use of the poor of said Portsmouth, equal to the value of the powder so kept in any store, dwelling-house or building; which fine shall be sued for and recovered by the Overseers of the Poor of said Portsmouth, for the use of said poor, in any Court of Law proper to try the same.
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That every master of any merchant ship or vessel, bringing gun-powder into said Portsmouth, shall within the space of forty eight hours after his arrival, deposit in said magazine, all the gun-powder by him so brought as aforesaid: and if he shall neglect so to do, he shall pay a fine of THIRTY POUNDS for the use of the poor of said Portsmouth, to be recovered by the Overseers, in manner aforesaid.
And be it further enacted, That there shall be chosen annually, or oftener if necessity require, by the inhabitants of said Portsmouth, being legal voters, a keeper of said magazine, whose duty it shall be, to receive into, and deliver out of said magazine, all the powder so deposited, and to account therefor, who shall have a right to demand and receive for his time and trouble in attending on said business, at the rate of one shilling per hundred weight, for all quantities of powder above ten pounds, that he shall so receive into and deliver out of said magazine; and for all quantities under ten pounds, at the rate of a half-penny per pound.
To the Public.
THE Essex Journal of March 22d, 1786, shocks the reader with an expression of blasphemy, too horrid to repeat; which, I fear, will suggest the idea contained in it, to the thoughtless and inconsiderate, to the irreligious and evil disposed (the bare mention of which may captivate their wicked and feeble minds) so as to induce them to realize as true, the blasphemous defamations against the divine Saviour of the world; uttered by a monster, unparalleled in his invention of so great impiety.—This publication makes it a thousand times more incumbent on the public, to discover the guilty person hinted at, and exhibit him by condign punishment, an example of terror to blasphemers; that so, they may see, hear and fear, and speak no more so wickedly. The author of this information discovers (in my opinion) more zeal than judgment, in making public in a newspaper, such an awful and dangerous expression, prior to the conviction and punishment of the wretch, who devised and vented it from his sacrilegious lips; which would carry an antidote with the poison, and make the repeated publishing of it, both proper and useful. It is no wonder, that the indignation of the worthy author of this account, should get a little the better of his prudence in this part of the relation; though I must confess, that his readers are much divided in their sentiments on the matter; so that after all, the error may be in my own judgment: nor do I much care which of us is right in this point, provided we both of us (together with the assistance of all friends to true religion) can baffle the
wicked attempts against it; which each of us, I trust, heartily unite at this time in combating. And now, if the public authority should neglect due notice of this matter, by resenting the affront given to the great author of our sacred profession, will not silence give consent? Will it not justify, at least, will it not lessen the horrible malignity of this crime in the eyes of the world? Ought not the wicked imagination and evil machinations of this miscreant to be utterly blasted and defeated? The absolute necessity of confounding his malicious devices will best appear, by explaining the term miscreant. The common sense of this word is,—a base, vile, wretched, abandoned person; which well applies to the context and purpose of my using of it; but the exact etymology of it ought not here to be forgotten; which signifies an infidel or unbeliever. Such a traitor to the commonwealth, disseminates the seed of a poisonous weed, far more fatal to it, than he who should strew her fairest and most fertile fields of grain with tares, thorns and thistles; or spoil and deform her pastures, meadows and flowery vales with briers and brambles; or turn the soil of the whole state into a barren heath. If this impious blasphemer should be suffered any longer to reign in his impiety with impunity; and not only suffered, but encouraged and rewarded, by holding places of high trust and honor in government: shall we not have the greatest reason to exclaim, O TEMPORA! O MORES! HEU-PIETAS! HEU PRISCA FIDES!
CHRISTIANUS.
FOR THE NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE.
Mr. PRINTER, By giving the following a place in your useful and impartial paper, you will oblige a constant customer.
H AVING lately perused a piece in the Newbury paper, wherein, under the notion of a dream, a representation is given of a dialogue between three persons at Mr. Br-wf-t-rs, at Portsmouth, in which, the christian religion, and the whole of the sacred scriptures are treated with contempt and ridicule;—although I am at no loss to discover the characters meant to be pointed at, I confess it gave me great pain to hear, that some persons to gratify their malice, have ungenerously whispered that the hon. Major General Sullivan was one of the party, because he happened to lodge at Mr. Br-wf-t-rs the last session of the General Court, and because he is interested in Allen's claim, but though he lodged at that house, he was in a separate department, and had no connection with the three, who kept in a chamber together, and although interested in Allen's claim, it is a well known fact, that fraud and deceit make up no part of that gentleman's private or public character, consequently it cannot be supposed that he joined in any plan to deceive the good people of this state, but to suppose him to be one of those who joined in reviling the sacred writings, is most unjust, and ungenerous, it is a fact, well known to all who have the pleasure of an acquaintance with that gentleman, that he has ever been a zealous and able advocate in favour of the divinity of the scriptures, and particularly of the truth of the christian system; it is well known to a number of worthy officers, who served under him, that while the army, which he commanded in 1779, lay at Wyoming, he wrote a most learned and ingenuous treatise against the Deists, which was highly applauded by all the chaplains in that army, among whom was the Rev. Dr. Evans, then chaplain to the New-Hampshire troops, and even those who professed to be Deists, acknowledged that it contained the most powerful and conclusive arguments in favour of Divine Revelation, and the system of christianity they had ever seen; this piece, though many copies of it were given out, he would not consent to have published, lest it should be said, he was acting out of his sphere. I remember sometime the last fall, to have heard a number of persons, among whom was Mr. James McGregore, son to the late Rev. Mr. McGregore, say, that in a dispute with some gentlemen who professed deism, he argued with such clearness of reason upon the scriptures, as at once silenced his adversaries, and what is still more striking, is, that during the very session in which this dialogue
is said to have taken place, he was more than once engaged against those persons supposed to hold the impious discourse, and I heard the hon. Judge Calf, since observe, that he was the most powerful antagonist, and used the most convincing arguments against the Deists he ever heard; how malicious then and cruel must it be, for persons to whisper that he was one of the impious club, who so daringly blasphemed the sacred scriptures, and the Redeemer of mankind? These observations would be useless, among the acquaintance of that worthy gentleman, but lest some who have not that pleasure, should be imposed upon by the sons of envy, I have related facts that I know, and opened the door for enquiry, so that every person may satisfy himself, whether I am not a
FRIEND TO JUSTICE.
Miscellanies.
Begin Nothing of which you have not well considered the End. (EVENT,
THINK WELL E'ER YOU RESOLVE—WEIGH EACH LEST WHEN TOO LATE, IN SORROW YOU REPENT.
A CERTAIN Cham of Tartary going a progress with his Nobles, was met by a Dervise, who cried with a loud voice, "Whoever will give me a hundred pieces of gold, I will give him a piece of advice." The Cham ordered him the sum; upon which the Dervise said, "Begin nothing of which thou hast not well considered the end."
The courtiers upon hearing this plain sentence, smiled and said with a sneer, "The Dervise is well paid for his maxim." But the King was so well satisfied with the answer, that he ordered it to be writ in golden letters in several places of his palace, and engraved on all his plate. Not long after, the king's surgeon was bribed to kill him with a poisoned lancet at the time he let him blood. One day, when the king's arm was bound, and the fatal lancet in the surgeon's hand, he read on the basin, "Begin nothing of which thou hast not well considered the end." He immediately started and let the lancet fall out of his hand. The king observed his confusion, and enquired the reason:—The surgeon fell prostrate, confessing the whole affair, and was pardoned, and the conspirators died. The Cham turning to his courtiers, who heard the advice with contempt, told them, "That council could not be too much valued, which has saved a king's life."
A N E C D O T E
Of CASIMIR the King of Poland.
W HEN Casimir was prince of Sandomir, he won at play all the money of one of the nobility, who incensed at his ill fortune, struck the prince a blow on the ear, in the heat of passion. He fled immediately from justice, but being pursued and overtaken, he was condemned to lose his head—yet the generous Casimir determined otherwise: "I am not surprised, said he, at the gentleman's conduct; for not having it in his power to revenge himself of fortune, no wonder he should attack her favourite." After which he revoked the sentence, returned the nobleman his money and declared that himself alone was faulty, as he had encouraged, by his example, a pernicious practice, that might terminate in the ruin of hundreds of his people.
R E P A R T E E
T WO gentlemen riding into Boston, over the Neck, as they approached the Gallows, one of them, pointing to it, said to the other, "Suppose the Gallows now should claim its own?" Who replied, "Then I should ride into Boston alone."
E P I G R A M.
O N the Almanac page the soothsayer says, Says Riches make Pride, and Pride is War's But we need not fear, a War very near, [ground— As at present our Riches do not much abound

Foreign Intelligence.
L O N D O N, January 27.
This day his Majesty, with the usual solemnity, entered the House of Peers, notice being given to the Commons, he opened the Parliament with the following Speech.
My Lords and Gentlemen,
SINCE I met you in parliament, the disputes which threatened to disturb the tranquility of Europe, have been brought to an amicable conclusion, and I continue to receive from foreign powers, the strongest assurances of their friendship towards this country. My subjects, in the interior parts of the kingdom, begin to experience the happiness consequent upon peace, in the augmentation of their commerce, the increase of the revenue, and public credit of the nation. For the perfecting of these important objects, I confide in the continuation of that zeal and industry manifested by you in the last session of parliament. The resolves which you then presented me, to serve as a foundation for the establishment of commerce between Great-Britain and Ireland, have been communicated by me to the parliament of that kingdom. But as yet no effectual step has been taken, by which you will be enabled to accomplish so salutary a work.
Gentlemen of the House of Commons,
I have ordered to be laid before you the estimates for the present year—I ardently desire that the strictest economy may be observed in every department; and I am persuaded that you will also be disposed to make every necessary provision for the public service, and to maintain our naval force upon the most solid and respectable footing.—Above all, I recommend that you adopt some fixed plan for the diminution of the national debt. The flourishing state of the revenue, I am well persuaded, will enable you to effect this important measure with very little encreasing charge to the public.
My Lords and Gentlemen,
The strength and resources of this country, now so evident by its present situation, will encourage you in the continuance of the most diligent attention to every important national object, and especially to take into consideration, the most necessary measures for the better collecting the public revenue, and to encourage and increase as much as possible the trade and industry of my subjects.
The opening the ensuing session will prove the severest ordeal that Mr. Pitt has ever undergone. Will he, as a minister, attempt to justify his ignorance on the subject of Austrian Arret? Can he, as a man, evade the ridicule which must follow the rejection of his boasted propositions? Will he, as a financier, continue to support his ingenious, happy, and impartial shop-tax? Or dare he, as a statesman mention, without shame, the treaty which has been formed with his most passive acquiescence, between the courts of France and Russia? Will promises and boasts, idle and unfounded as they are loud and peremptory, prove sufficient to retrieve his fallen reputation? The negative that must be given to each of these interrogatories, calls on the good sense of the nation, bids us assert our rights, and avert the ruin which must follow the continuance of such feeble and distracted Councils.
Our Ambassador at the Hague is reported to have presented a Memorial to the States General of such an extraordinary nature, that they know not how to take it, much less how to answer it; nor do they seem to care whether they answer it all or not! So low are our Ministers fallen in the estimation of our near neighbours and quondam allies and friends!
Our Ministers seem to be Ambassador mad, sending Ambassadors every where, and duplicates somewhere, yet doing nothing, or what is worse than nothing, any where!—Not content with letting the Hanoverian Minister manage the German affairs, they have put their Ambassadors at the Court of Berlin in motion on the same subject, which we fear will be productive of something ominous to Great-Britain.
Extract of a letter from Marseilles, Dec. 10.
The whole conversation of this City is on the gallant and heroic Madame du Frenoy. This lady embarked with her husband a few days ago in a Tartane for Genoa. They had scarce lost sight of the port, when they discovered a corsair making towards them, and finding it impossible to escape by flight, prepared to receive him. In vain did M. du Frenoy endeavour to prevail on his lady to go below; she absolutely refused, and seizing a sabre, placed herself by his side, declaring there she determined to abide her fate. M. du Frenoy finding all arguments vain, was obliged to consent. The Algerine advanced, and after a broad side, grappled the Tartane, and threw a large party on board her. Our people received them gallantly; but none can describe the behaviour of Madame du Frenoy. She flew among them with her sabre, and with her voice animated and cheered the crew. Monsieur du Frenoy having fallen with a pistol bullet in his thigh, his lady stood over him, and levelled with one stroke of her sabre a young Turk, who advanced to attack her. The pirates were obliged to retreat on board their own vessel, when they cut their grapplings and fell off. A smart action now ensued with the great guns. Madame du Frenoy, after assisting her husband down to the surgeon, returned upon deck, where she continued encouraging the men, until the corsair, tired of his reception, sheered off. We had fourteen men killed, and thirty wounded. The loss of the pirates must have been great, they left eighty men upon our decks. The Tartane being much shattered, returned to this port. The Magistrates being informed of the action, waited on Madame du Frenoy, and invited her in their name to the Theatre, where she was received with the loudest acclamations, and a crown of laurel placed on her head by the Marquis de St. Christeau."
Our Commercial Treaty with the United States of America goes on very slowly, if it goes on at all.—The Dey of Algiers is reported to have declared war against that new state: whether he declares war or not, he carries on a vigorous predatory war against them, which is a severe check upon their commercial enterprises, in the European seas. They now feel the effects of their dismemberment from the British Empire. Independence is to them a fine name for distraction, anarchy and confusion in the extreme.
Venice makes a better figure against Tunis than the King of Spain and all his Confederates made against Algiers; it looks as if their resolute and spirited commander would make the Dey of that piratical State hearken to the voice of reason, and learn some rules of justice and equity—If so, he will deserve great praise.
The manner in which the Emperor has acted to enforce his former edict against the admission of foreign merchandise and manufactures into Germany, and the new restrictions which he has formed, are the things which has given the alarm to our manufacturers. He published an edict, imposing 60 per cent. on our manufactures eighteen months ago, but, like the former edicts of France, it was of no avail; like France, he is now taking steps of a most rigorous kind to enforce that edict.
No foreign goods are to be exposed to sale—no magazine can be kept—and wherever they are found, they are to be subject to seizure and confiscation.
The commissioners of the customs are to furnish him monthly with an exact list of all the persons in his dominions, mentioning their names, profession, or quality, who import, or cause to be imported, foreign manufactures to the end that he may know the persons who are rich and luxurious enough to pay a duty of 60 per cent. in addition to the original value of the goods; for it is, he says, from such persons that he must draw the sums necessary to answer the exigencies of the state.
No foreign goods are to be admitted—but expressly on the order and for the use of the persons who import them.
No foreign goods are in future to be permitted to pass from one part of his dominions to another under the penalty of confiscating, without producing at the Custom house a certificate of the first payment of the duty of 60 per cent. upon which a permit will be granted for the carriage to the place of their destination.
These are the measures with which the Emperor now threatens England. Stronger and more effectual means he could not have devised.
A truce of thirty years, with the Algerines, hath been at length happily accomplished by the Comte d'Espilly, and includes the Portuguese, also the Neapolitans, and some other Italian nations, as well as the Spaniards. The sum to be paid to the Algerines, by these powers, is two millions eight hundred thousand dollars, in annual instalments of 200,000 each.—The concluding this business was immediately followed by the release of several hundreds of Christians, who had for many years been experiencing all the miseries and horror, attendant on wretchedness, want, and slavery. As a mark of royal approbation of the Comte d'Espilly's services on this occasion, his Catholic Majesty was pleased to appoint him Consul-General to the regency of Algiers.
Agriculture.
At a meeting of the Committee upon Agriculture, Voted, That the mode of cultivating Carrots, communicated to the Committee by Major Spooner, be recommended to the public, as worthy of their attention.
ROXBURY, April 4, 1786.
"SIR,
THE Academy of Arts and Sciences having, with a laudable view to the encouragement of the Agriculture of the country, appointed a Committee for this purpose, I take the liberty to address you as Chairman thereof.
"I must, Sir, request your candour, and that of the Committee, for introducing to your notice, an object which may appear so trivial; and if I am mistaken in my ideas, they will, I hope, impute my attempt to an inclination of forwarding the design of their appointment.
"In considering the science of Husbandry, we find many articles that, from a general knowledge of, and a common and universal cultivation, in some degree, appear at the first view, but small and inconsiderable; on experience, however, will be found advantageous to the community, if more largely cultivated and more generally attended to. At present I will only instance Carrots; it is an article that every man, almost, raises in his garden, as a vegetable for the table, and therefore appears but of small consequence, being so generally known; it is, notwithstanding, worthy the attention of the farmer, in a country like our's, whose staple commodities are beef and pork; for whatever will have a tendency to enlarge the number of cattle, will, while it increases the exports of the country, add to the wealth of the farmer. But this valuable root, though so generally known, has never, within the compass of my knowledge or information (except in one or two instances) been cultivated in the field, for the use of cattle. It is not, indeed, many years that they have been raised in Europe for this purpose. Since the introduction, however, of this culture, it has rapidly spread, and is now universally attended to by the graziers there.
"Knowing this to be a fact, and that great quantities were raised in gardens, upon small pieces of land, I conceived they might be made advantageous in this country, by the field culture, and concluded to try the experiment. Accordingly I pitched upon a piece of land, measuring about a quarter of an acre, in a corn-field, that had been in culture the preceding year, on
the top of a hill, and the soil somewhat gravelly. It was ploughed in the same manner, and had the same proportion of manure with the other parts of the field. I sowed my carrots, two rows in a furrow made by the plough, leaving a space of two feet between the furrows, for room to plough. It was the 15th of June last, when the sowing was completed. My attention was then called to my hay; the carrots were neglected till they had got buried in weeds, the severe drought, at the same time, came on, and I despaired of gaining any carrots from this land.
"About the 15th of July (being the first opportunity I could possibly spare from my hay) I directed my people to plough and weed them, and in a few days they were perfectly clean. The first part of August I transplanted between five and six hundred cabbages in the spaces left. The necessary hoeing for these kept the carrots also, in tolerable order. This was all the labour and attention bestowed on them till dug.
"My expectations were small respecting them, considering the soil (not the most suitable) and the little attention paid to them;—but on digging them in the fall, I was agreeably disappointed, by finding them generally of the middling size of garden carrots. After cutting the tops, I had them carefully measured, and the produce was but little short of 40 bushels.—They stood the drought better, and were much larger and sweeter, than those I had in my garden, on a rich soil, and well tended.
"It would hardly be doing justice to this valuable root, to estimate the product of an acre by this little experiment; for in rich, deep soils, and in well cultivated gardens, the product has been frequently known to be at the rate of four and even five hundred bushels per acre. On the other hand, we must not estimate them in the field culture (where, comparatively, the labour and expence are small) at this rate; but I have no doubt, in common fields, with a common proportion of manure, taking the diversity of soils and difference of seasons, the average produce of an acre would amount to 200 bushels, and if this is the fact, there is no method of husbandry can be practiced, that will keep so many cattle on a given quantity of land, and at so little expence. That this is not idle speculation, will appear from the experience of many parts of Britain, and of those persons here, whose observation has led them to attend to it. It is further to be observed, that cattle of all kinds are exceedingly fond of them, and prefer them to the best of hay—(this I can assert from my own knowledge)—Swine will eat them readily, and fatten fast upon them.—They will increase the milk of cows, and even keep horses in as good condition as grain.
"My own experience has so far satisfied me of the truth of those facts, that I have determined to sow at least one acre with carrots, having prepared a field, part of which I have already trench-ploughed.
"I cannot but with the practice was more general, of raising carrots, than it appears to be; for I am clearly of opinion, a much greater number of cattle might be kept in the Commonwealth, upon the same lands, by introducing this and other vegetables to universal culture.
"Wishing you, Sir, and the Committee, every success in the business of your appointment,
I have the honour to be,
Your very humble servant,
JOHN J. SPOONER.
The Hon. BENJAMIN LINCOLN, Esq. Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture, appointed by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences."
Clover and Herd's Grass Seeds, of a good quality, may be had at
Daniel Syme's shop, in Congress-Street.
LIKEWISE,
West-India RUM,
by the barrel, or smaller quantity,
AND
French Brandy,
with other articles as cheap as usual.
William Parker
WOULD respectfully inform the public, that he carries on at his shop in State-Street, the business of CLOCK and WATCH Repairing, where he makes all kinds of Goldsmith and Jeweller's work in the best and cheapest manner,
V I Z.
STONE BUCKLES, of various sorts; STONE BROACHES; CLUSTERS; EAR RINGS; STONE SPRIGS; QUIVERING PINS;—MINIATURE PICTURES; MOURNING and CLUSTER RINGS; STONE SEALS; together with all kinds of RINGS and LOCKETS, done in hair; Also, SWORDS and CUTLASSES, mounted in the neatest manner.
N. B. At the above place may be had, by wholesale and retail, a variety of PINCHECK BUCKLES. *** A generous price given for old COPPER and BRASS.
Portsmouth, March 29, 1786.

American Intelligence.
CHARLESTON (S. C.) March 13.
The following is the Governor's Message to both Houses, on Saturday last.
GENTLEMEN,
The Chactaws, who are now in this city, requested to give in a talk, which they did on yesterday,—This day they again met, and I delivered them an answer, both which I do myself the honour of sending you. There are two principal men among them, Tinctimingo, or the Red Wood pecker, and Spokahomo, a young man, and son to the head warrior of all the Chactaws.
WILLIAM MOUDTRIE.
March 13, 1786.
Tinctimingo, or the Red Wood pecker, A head man of the Chactaws.
I have come to see you, to take you by the hand, and to be brother to you. This day I see you, and have taken you by the hand. I love you and all your people. The Chactaws and Chickasaws are one people, and in the name of the two people I have taken you by the hand.—I am an old man, but have a great many young men; we are all your friends, and will take up the hatchet for you, and be on your side always. We have not come to beg any thing, we have come to see you as a beloved man, and whatever you may please to give we will receive thankfully—we ask nothing.
We came to the meeting of the Virginians.—We have been troubled by the Creeks in our way. They want us to join against your beloved men. The Creeks have killed some of our people, which has made us come a great way round to see you; and to tell you, if the Creeks make war on you, we will fight your battles, and hope for your support in ammunition and arms. Tell us what we shall do and we will do it.
Spokahomo, a young Warrior.
This day I have seen you. My father is the head warrior of our people. He has sent me down to you as the beloved head warrior of your people, and whatever talk you will give us, we will carry back. The talk you give us shall be read to our people; and what your heart wishes that we will do.
I and our people have come a long way. We have seen you, and our hearts are rejoiced and straight. I have not come as a snake in the grass with a forked tongue. I come as a man, and hope to be received by men. What I say I will stand by and support.
My father nor myself, nor none of our people, have ever, as yet, walked on the Spaniards ground, or taken them by the hand, nor shall we ever do it.—I am but a boy yet, I hope to live to be a man and a warrior.
The Governor answered he would give them a talk to-morrow.
The Governor's Answer on Saturday.
Friends and Brothers,
I take you by the hands, because I am glad to see you, and because you have always been friends with us, and have never made war against us.
It is many years since any of your people have been in Charleston, and now you are come again, we are glad to see you, and hope the path will always be straight between us.
I am glad to know by your talk, that you and the Chickasaws are one people; they are great warriors, and have always been our friends—they have fought the ways straight between us.
I am sorry the Creeks have killed some of your people, and made you take such a round about path to come to us; if the Creeks should make war against us, our beloved men to the northward will send us a great many men to fight, and we shall soon kill a great many of them, and drive them from their country.
I thank you for your offer to fight our battles against the Creeks, but cannot think of suffering your men to be killed for us, and we sit still—No! If we want you, we will send for you and give you powder, bullets and good guns, and we will go and fight together: then we shall be brothers and love one another.
Brother Spokahomo,
I am very glad to see you, and to hear the talk from the great warrior your father, and thank him for the good talk he sent by you to me. I hope your people and our people will be friends, and the path straight between us as long as the trees grow upon the ground and the waters run in the river; and that you will not listen to any bad talk against us, and with you and all the red people may live in peace with one another.
I am glad to see and receive you as a man, because you tell me you come as a man, and not as a snake in the grass;—I believe what you say, that you will stand by, and act like a man and a warrior. Brothers,
I hope you will take care of yourselves when you are going home, and not go by the Creeks country.—I wish you a good journey, and safe home again.
V I R G I N I A.
In the House of Delegates, January 13th, 1786.
RESOLVED, That the damages on foreign bills of exchange protested, ought to be the same in this state and the state of Maryland; and that foreign protested bills of exchange should be considered in all cases and to all purposes, as of equal rank with debts upon contract in writing, signed by the party.
Resolved, That it is essential to the commerce and revenue of the state of Maryland and of this state, that duties on imports or exports (if laid) should be the same in both states: and that it is proper for the legislatures of the said states, at their annual meeting in autumn, to appoint commissioners to meet and communicate the regulations of commerce and duties proposed by each state, and to confer on such subjects as may concern the commercial interests of both states, and within the power of the respective states, and that the number of the said commissioners be equal, not less than three nor more than five, from each state, and that they annually meet in the third week of September, if required by the legislature of either state, or the commissioners thereof, at such place as they shall appoint.
N E W - Y O R K, April 6.
Extract of a letter from a capital house in Jamaica, to their correspondents in Charleston, dated Kingston, Feb. 25, 1786.
The late instruction, which arrived from Britain, directed to the different officers in the revenue service here, have been such as will finally put a stop to all intercourse with the American States, except in real British bottoms, navigated according to law. Frigates and sloops of war will be constantly kept cruising round this island and its dependencies. We have had two or three very disagreeable jobs in consequence of vessels coming to our address, masked with unlawful papers; and although they escaped, no hopes of the same kind ever ought to induce you to risk your property to this island. A sloop of war, with a custom-house officer on board, has seized a ship, three brigs and a schooner, during her cruise round the island last week.
The following vessels are sent into this port from the out-ports, on account of their being American property, masked with illegal papers, having contraband articles on board, or on account of their not being navigated according to law, &c.
"The Brothers, Rhode-Island; brig Royal Midshipman, New-York; brig Friendship, Wilmington; schooner Aurora, New-York; sloop Convert, New-London."
Extract of a letter from a gentleman at Trenton, New-Jersey, to his correspondent in this city, dated March 20, 1786.
Our Assembly have recinded their resolution of November last, which was hastily produced, and calculated to counteract all federal measures until your State should come into the general impost.—Both branches of the Legislature are seriously determined to counteract as far as they can, every local system of New-York, until they come fully into the impost duty. It is not politically wise or just, to delay it for an hour. A bill is now engrossed in Council, to establish a free port at Powles-Hook; and I presume an impost duty will be laid on all goods brought from New-York into Jersey. All the other States have come fully into this essential measure, and strange it is, that New-York should now act so inconsistent with her former policy."
We hear from Dominica, that several of the run-aways on that island have been taken, some of them killed, and their encampments were so surrounded as to leave no doubt of their being very soon taken or destroyed.
B O S T O N, April 17.
An act was passed by the Legislature of the state of New-York, on the 31st ult. discharging every person from imprisonment, confined in any jail in that state, for any debts, fines or forfeitures not exceeding fifteen pounds (37 and half dollars) in the whole, exclusive of costs; and enacting, that no person, so discharged, should at any time thereafter be imprisoned for the same cause: But it is provided, that every debt and damage, judgment and decree, had or obtained against every person, so discharged, shall be good and effectual, in law, against their estates, real and personal. The act extends to all debts, fines, &c. due to the people of that state.
On Thursday the 23d ult. the Committee of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania, appointed to consider the several Petitions presented to the House, praying a repeal of the law which annuls the Charter of the Bank of North-America, made their Report, which concluded in the following words:
"Confining themselves to facts, and to reflections naturally arising from them, your committee conceive the conduct of the late house, in the instance of the bank, to be of most dangerous example. In their precipitancy they broke
through the procrastinating forms of proceeding, which were fixed as fences against the sudden violences of power. And in their partiality they appear to have manifested a pre-determination to condemn.—Your committee beg leave to remark on some circumstances attending the memorials presented to this house, which ought to have considerable weight in their present deliberations. The subscribers to these memorials are so numerous as to bespeak the general sense of the community. In them are included the most respectable characters amongst us, men who from their intercourse and condition in life must be supposed best experienced in the effects, good or bad, produced by the operations of the bank, and from general knowledge most intelligent in the nature of such institutions.—As the proceedings of the late house in the case of the bank thus appear with all the marks of precipitancy, prejudice and partiality, the annulling act has its foundation deeply laid in injustice, and remains a reproach both to the government and to the people. But your committee, trusting in the wisdom and probity of the present house, to restore to the state its lost honour, submit the following resolution.—That a special committee be appointed to prepare and bring in a bill to repeal an act, entitled, "An act to repeal an act of assembly, entitled, An act to incorporate the subscribers to the bank of North America;"—also one other act, entitled, "An act for preventing and punishing the counterfeiting of the common seal, bank bills and bank notes of the President, Directors and Company of the Bank of North-America, and for other purposes therein mentioned."
At 3 o'clock, P. M. on Saturday the 1st inst. the above report was rejected by the Assembly, after having been debated for four days. There were for the adoption of it 28, and for its rejection 41.
The Petitions against the Bank, presented to the late Pennsylvania Assembly, were signed by 1199 persons—and those in favour of it by 608, of whom 516 were of the city of Philadelphia.—The Memorials in favour of the Bank, presented to the present House, were signed by 2947 persons.
P O R T S M O U T H, April 20.
The General Assembly of Rhode-Island have passed an Act for encouraging the growth of sheep in that State, wherein a bounty of one shilling, lawful money, is granted per head for each sheep of one year old and upwards, to continue for the term of two years.—Those who kill any lambs, or sell them to butchers during said term, are not entitled to said bounty.
New-York, Connecticut and Vermont, have authorized a person in each of those States to coin coppers;—numbers of them are now in circulation; they are in general well made, and of good copper, those of New-York in particular. Was a person authorized in this State for the same purpose, it would undoubtedly prevent the manufacturing of those made of base metal.
America will never flourish (says a London paper) without, like the ivy to the oak, she clings to Britain for support; their literature is in a wretched state, and their trade in a worse. But to mention nothing of this, the country is torn by contending parties; and as the Gospel says, "a kingdom divided against itself shall not stand."
The perniciousness of gaming was so well understood by the grand impostor, Mahomet, that he thought necessary to prohibit expressly in the Alcoran, not as a thing naturally evil, but only morally so, as it is a step to the greatest vice. For whilst we captivate ourselves to chance, we lose our authority over our passions, being excited to immoderate desire, excessive hope, joy and grief; we stand or fall at the uncertain cast of the dice, or to the turning up of a card; we are slaves to the feeblest wither, which, if we succeed not, we grow furious, profligate and impious; banishing all prudence, temperance and justice, we become impudent, and fit for the blackest crimes.—Hence the cheats the quarrels the oaths and blasphemies among men; and among women, the neglect of household affairs, the unlimited freedoms, the indecent passion; and lastly, the known inlet to lewdness, when, after an ill run, the fair one must answer the defects of the purse—If Christians have not humility enough to conform to the rule of life laid down in Holy Writ, let them at least have pride enough to be shamed out of this detestable vice by the example of Pagans and Mahometans: but if we were at present as scrupulous as Cobillon was, it would be a difficult matter to negotiate any treaty for want of Ambassadors.
DIED on Monday last, at Col. William Brewster's, NERO, late King of the Africans, in this town aged 75
N A V A L - O F F I C E,
PORT of PISCATAQUA, April 20, 1786:
C L E A R E D, none.
E N T E R E D,
Sloop Dolphin, Coffin, St. Eustatia.

Parnassian Spring.
ON CENSURE.
YE wife, instruct me to endure An evil which admits no cure; Or how this evil can be borne, Which breeds at once both hate and scorn. Bare Innocence is no support, When you are try'd in Scandal's court. Stand high in honor, wealth or wit, All others who inferior sit, Conceit themselves in conscience bound To join, and drag you to the ground. Your altitude offends the eyes Of those who WANT the power to rise. The world, a willing slanderer by, Inclines to aid a specious lie: Alas! THEY WOULD NOT DO YOU WRONG, But—all appearances are strong. Yet whence proceeds this weight we lay On what detracting people say? For, let mankind discharge their tongues In venom, 'till they burst their lungs, Their utmost malice cannot make Your head, or tooth or finger ake; Nor spoil your shape, distort your face, Nor put one feature out of place. Nor will you find your fortune sink, By what they speak, or what they think: Nor can ten hundred thousand lies Make you less virtuous, learn'd or wise.— The most effectual way to baulk Their malice is, TO LET THEM—TALK.
|| Coventry. ||
WHEREAS the proprietors of Coventry in the county of Grafton, and State of New-Hampshire, have been legally notified to pay me a tax of NINE POUNDS lawful money on each original right or proprietors share, assessed by a vote of said proprietors, at a meeting lawfully warned, and held the third day of August, A. D. 1782, yet many of said proprietors have neglected to make payment of the same. Notice is hereby given to said delinquents, that unless the said tax, with incidental charges, is paid to me at my house, in Boscawen, in the county of Hillsborough, and state aforesaid, before the second Monday of May next, so much of their respective shares as will pay said tax and charges, will be sold at public auction, the sale to begin at the dwelling-house of Mr. Enoch Knight, innholder in Atkinson, in the county of Rockingham, and state aforesaid, on Monday the 9th day of May next, at 10 o'clock before noon, and the sale to be continued from time to time, until enough is sold to satisfy their taxes as aforesaid. The names of the original grantees of the delinquent proprietors respective rights or shares are as follows, viz. Theophilus Fitch, Esq. John Fancher, Eliphalet Sealy, James Banks, Daniel Stevens, Amos Weed, Isaac Weed, Peter Weed, Ebenezer Hoit, Hezekiah Weed, Josiah Waterbury, Joseph Davenport, Gideon Leads, Samuel Crissey, Obadiah Sealy, Deodate Davenport, Ebenezer Scofield, Isaac Ammidell, Samuel Belding, Ephraim Smith, James Smith, John Bettes, Jesse Smith. Peter Husted, Samuel Bowton, Ithiel Bowton, Zebulon Husted, David St. Johns, Joseph Ambler, Charles Smith, John Bettes, Abraham Weed, Reuben Weed, Nathaniel Lounsbury, Admer Stephens, Obediah Stephens, jr. Nathaniel Weed, Ebenezer Sealy jr. Wix Sealy, Sylvanus Sealy, Silas Hoit, William Fancher, Daniel Benedict, Nathaniel Hoit, Enos Weed, Theophilus Honsford, Hezekiah Davenport, Nathaniel Waterbury, James Scofield, James Bates, Thomas Saymore, John Fancher, jr. Sylvanus Weed, Matthew Fountain, Joseph Lockwood, Adonijah Brown, Hon. John Temple, Esq. Theodore Atkinson, Esq. Theodore Atkinson jr. Esq. Samuel Weed, His Excellency Benning Wentworth, Esq. two shares. SAMUEL ATKINSON, Proprietors Collector. Boscawen, February 2, 1786.
RAN AWAY from me the subscriber, on the night of the 6th inst. an apprentice boy, named Henry Nash; whoever will take up said boy and return him to the subscriber, shall have one penny reward, and no charges paid:—All masters of vessels and others are cautioned against harbouring, or trusting him on my account, as they would avoid the penalty of the law. MICHAEL DWYER. New-Holderness March 9, 1786.
† Effingham. †
State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of Effingham, who have not paid their State taxes for the year 1784, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber, on or before Tuesday the 13th day of June next, so much of their land as will pay the same, together with incidental charges will be sold at public vendue, at ten o'clock of said day, unless prevented by previous payment. The vendue to be held at Lt. Weare Drakes.
   No. D. Acres. s. d. q.    Joshua Wingate 3d 3 2 200 4 8 2  Abner Fogg, jr. 5 2 200 2 6 0  John Johnson, jr. 69 1 56 2 6 0  Ditto 25 2 200 6 9 0  John Dearborn 68 1 56 2 6 0  Zekiel Russell 30 1 56 3 4 2  Thomas Marston 42 1 56 2 0 0  David Knowls jr. 31 1 56 3 4 2  Ditto 47 2 200 5 0 0  Benjamin Leavitt 28 1 56 3 4 1  Samuel Smith 33 1 56 2 5 3  Ditto, half paid 2 2 200 3 4 3  Simon Dearborn 54 1 56 1 7 1  Ditto 10 2 200 6 9 3  Jonathan Marston 89 1 56 2 5 3  Henry Batchelder 70 1 56 2 0 0  Ditto 24 2 200 9 5 0  Thomas Parsons, jr. 24 1 56 1 7 1  Nathaniel Drake 29 1 56 3 4 3  Ditto 32 2 200 5 0 0  David Marston, jr. 36 2 200 5 0 0  Levi Dearborn, jr. 27 1 56 2 3 2  Ditto 46 2 200 6 9 2  Moses Leavitt, half paid 48 2 200 5 0 0  Thomas Robie 9 1 56 2 0 0  Enoch Lovering 17 1 56 1 1 1  James Wedgwood 19 1 56 1 1 1  Ditto 57 2 200 6 9 0  Seth Fogg 98 1 56 2 5 3  David Knowls 64 1 56 2 5 3  Thomas Parsons 95 2 200 3 4 3  David Wedgwood 57 1 56 1 7 1  David Marston 98 2 200 6 3 0  John Dearborn 57 2 200 1 7 1  Abner Fogg 7 2 200 2 6 0  
CARR LEAVITT, Collector. Effingham, March 1, 1786.
|| Sanborntown. ||
State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in Sanborntown, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1784, that so much of their land will be sold at public vendue, on Wednesday the 31st day of May next, at two o'clock in the afternoon, at the house of William Harper, Esq. innholder in said town, as will pay the taxes and charges, unless prevented by previous payment.
   No. D. s. d. q. d. q.    Jabez Sanborn 6 1 2 3 3 2  Abraham Sanborn 23 1 1 6 2 2  Ditto 36 2 7 4 2 11  Solly and March 79 2 2 8 3 4  Marsten Sanborn 62 1 4 7 2 7  John Rawlins 44 2 2 3 3 2  
JOHN CLARK, Constable. Sanborntown, April 11, 1786.
State of New-Hampshire.
WHEREAS the inhabitants of Sanborntown, at a legal meeting held on the 28th day of March, 1786, voted to take all the vacant lands in this town into their own custody, chose us the subscribers for a committee to take care of the of same.
JOHN SAMBORN, NATH'L GRANT, EUJAH TRUE, } Committee.
ALL persons having any demands upon the estate of John Leavitt, Esq. late of Effingham, deceased, are desired to exhibit their accounts to Capt. Carr Leavitt, of Effingham, administrator upon said estate, and all persons indebted to said estate, are desired to make immediate payment to said administrator. CARR LEAVITT, Administrator. Effingham, March 1, 1786.
ALL persons indebted to, or that have any demands against the estate of John Rice, late of Exeter, Esq. deceased, or the estate of Anna Rice, late of said Exeter, his widow, deceased, are desired to make speedy settlement with the subscriber, executor of her last Will.—No accounts will be received unless they are attested to. BILEY LYFORD, Executor. Brintwood, March 2, 1786.
Thomas Manning
Has for Sale,
At his Store near Liberty Bridge, SALT, Tobacco, Tar, Pitch, Turpentine, Limes, Twine, Pork and Hams;—said Manning wants to purchase two yoke of OXEN, and a few COWS with their CALVES, likewise a number of sheep. Portsmouth, April 18, 1786.
[ Northwood. ]
State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in the town of Northwood, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1784, that so much of their land will be sold at public vendue, at my dwelling-house, on Monday the 8th of May, at 10 o'clock, in the forenoon, as will pay the taxes and charges, unless prevented by previous payment.
   State. County. War. R. N. Q'ty. s. d. q. d. q. l. s. d.    Thomas Mosely 7 13 156 4 8 0 3 0 0 7 5  Wm. Langdon 14 156 4 8 0 3 0 7 5  George Jaffrey 15 151 4 5 1 2 1 7 5  Cuting Noyes 16 130 4 4 3 0 6 9  John Allen 17 61 1 9 3 0 3  Ann Smith 18 156 5 1 2 2 1 8  Richard Kent 12 26 9 1 1 1 1 3  Col. Renough 8 7 53 5 1 1 2 1 8 8 3  Samuel Penhallow 8 156 16 4 1 8 1 5 7  Samuel Durant 15 129 7 7 4 1 15  John Calf 13 156 6 4 3 1 10  Benjamin Bickford 19 50 5 1 1 2 1 8  John Waite 8 21 156 6 4 1 3 1 10  Mary Suminsby 12 40 7 8 4 1 19  Samuel Jones 9 17 18 1 3 2 2  Benjamin Harris 21 156 5 1 1 2 1 8  Dr. N. Sergent 10 9 94 2 7 1 4  William Briggs 10 78 3 9 2 7 7  Fanny Clement 11 130 4 9 4 1 7 8  Samuel Whilwell 14 108 13 9 1 6 1 1 7  
JOSHUA FURBUR, Collector. Northwood, April 18, 1786.
THE commissioners upon the estate of Col. JOHN HART, give notice, that THREE Months further, from the 15th inst. are allowed the creditors to bring in their claims;—and that they will meet on the last Tuesday of this month, and the second Tuesday of the two succeeding months, at the dwelling house of Capt. GEORGE HART, at 6 o'clock, P. M Portsmouth, March 17, 1786.
NOTICE is hereby given, that on Monday the 1st day of May next, at three o'clock, P. M. will be sold by public vendue, at the north meeting house in Portsmouth, a number of PEWS in said meeting house, for taxes due thereon, to the subscribers, collectors of taxes for said parish, unless prevented by the delinquent owners paying said taxes, viz.
   No. years l. f. years l. f.    Joseph Alcock, 46 1783 1 10 1784 1 16  Jonathan Ayers, jr. half 26 82 1 10 85 1 16  Samuel Beck 116 82 83 1 16 84 85 1 11  George Libbey half 8 ditto 1 15 84 0 18  Thomas Priest half 96 ditto 1 10 84 85 0 12  Thomas Roach 110 ditto 0 18 ditto 1 4  Tho's Thompson, Esq. 85 ditto 1 4 ditto 1 4  Fernald & Alcock 50 ditto 2 12 ditto 3 12  John Low's heirs 108 ditto 1 4 ditto 1 4  John Seward's ditto 98 ditto 1 4 ditto 1 4  Richard Tobey ditto 106 ditto 1 4 ditto 1 4  H. Wentworth, Esq. 21 ditto 3 6 ditto 3 12  
WINTHROP BENNETT, } Collectors. JOSEPH WHITE, JOSHUA PIKE, jr. Portsmouth, April 7, 1786.
Clover, Herd's Grass and Red-Top.
The best of CLOVER, HERD'S GRASS, and RED-TOP, by the hundred, bushel, or smaller quantity,
TO BE SOLD BY  JOSEPH BASS, at his Shop in Portsmouth; where may be had, A COMPLETE ASSORTMENT OF Kitchen GARDEN SEEDS.
WANTED A genteel SADDLE HORSE, Enquire of the PRINTER.
SUBSCRIPTIONS for this Paper, at Four shillings and six pence for six Months (exclusive of Postage) are taken in at this Office, and at the Printing-Office in Exeter, where Advertisements are received, the Favours of Correspondents, and all Orders in the Art of Printing attended to with Punctuality and Dispatch.