The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1772-07-03 00:00:00

Province of New-Hampshire.  W HEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of this Province, intitled an Act, for establishing and making passable a Road from the GOVERNOR'S House in Wolfeborough, to Dartmouth - College in Hanover, it is enacted, that a good Carriage Road shall be made from his Excellency the GOVERNOR'S House in Wolfeborough to Dartmouth - College in Hanover, which Road has been duly Survey'd and plainly marked out, and Notification given publicly thereof; Notwithstanding many Proprietors through whose Land the Course of said Road is laid out, have neglected to make the same: — This public Notice is therefore given, to the Delinquents herein, that Commissioners will be appointed on the 20th of July next, forthwith to complete and finish such part of the said Road as may then be found deficient, and so much of the adjoining Lands sold, as may be necessary to defray the Expence, pursuant to the Directions and Authority of the aforesaid Act of Assembly.
per Order, THEODORE ATKINSON, Sec. Secretary's Office, Portsmouth, June 27th, 1772.
By Capt. Elwell who is arrived at Boston from Falmouth, we have Public Prints which contain London News three or four Days later than the Articles we had last Weeks by the Mast-Ship, — among them are the following.
L O N D O N, April 23, 1772.
T HE Fleet that were to rendezvous in the Downs, supposed designed for the Baltic, are countermanded. Ships of War will be kept in readiness, in case any circumstance should arise to render such a measure necessary.
The Parliament will rise the 21st of May. Jonathan Britain, who is now at Sherburne to take his trial at the next Sessions, declares in the most solemn manner, that he will seal the truth of his testimony relative to the fire at Portsmouth with his blood; that all he requires is a public hearing on that affair, and if he cannot prove every title of his information, he is content and will cheerfully submit to any punishment he may be thought to deserve — that if any Gentleman of character will ensure him a hearing either at the bar of the House of Commons, or in a public court of justice, he will deliver up all his papers in their hands. But, a correspondent says, it is too evident that the present trial for petty forgeries is designed to suppress an enquiry into the great National Concern, the Portsmouth Conflagration.
It is said Lord North will be called up to the House of Peers. That the Seals will be offered to Lord Cambden, and if he declines, to Lord Chief-Justice De Grey.
Extract of a Letter from the Hague, April 17.
According to the last advices from Copenhagen, the Attorney-General having drawn up the charge against the Queen Carolina Matilda, and delivered it to the Committee of Enquiry; and the Queen's defence being likewise produced, Commissioners were sent with both of them to Cronenburg to shew them to the Queen — Her Majesty received them very amicably.
Copenhagen, April 4. Last Tuesday Doctor Munter passed seven hours with Count Struensee, who then wrote a letter to the Queen. After he had finish'd it, he said to that Ecclesiastic, "Now we will take in hand some
affairs of the greatest importance; I mean those of my poor soul." His conversations with the Officer of his Guard, always have the divine worship for their object.
April 15. A letter from Copenhagen by yesterday's mail says, That the trial of the Queen is over: she is confined in the Castle of Aalbourg, to bear the title of Majesty, & her children are declared legitimate. Her Majesty is allowed to take the diversions of the country under a guard, but not to cohabit with the King. Count Struensee and Count Brandt are found guilty; the former will be executed, and the latter banished.
We are well assured, that notwithstanding the seeming slowness of a Great Personage to undertake the cause of an illustrious young lady of his own family, his first address to his Minister after receiving the news of her confinement was, "Save her honor, save her life, and do what you please with your master."
The Queen of Denmark, we hear, by a letter which comes from the British Minister at Copenhagen, has never once lost her fortitude in the midst of all the dangers that surrounded her; though a woman, and a very young one, she still maintained all the dignity of her rank, and determined to die at least with heroism, if she could not live with reputation.
Extract of a letter from Copenhagen, April 11. "On the 9th Sir Robert Keith went to Cronenburg, and had a conference with her Majesty the Queen Carolina Matilda, and returned again Yesterday; since which it is said, he is to return to London."
Lord North, in a conversation which he lately had with a Great Personage, made use of the following expression, which deserves everlasting remembrance: "Peace, Sir, is the greatest blessing your people can enjoy, besides liberty and honor; and it shall be my perpetual study to secure it, while it can be obtained, consistently with their freedom and their reputation."
Accounts from Corsica inform us of a most cruel war being carried on in that island between the French and miserable natives; a war resembling the hunting parties of savages on one side, and the brutal resistance of enraged beasts of prey on the other; who as soon as those bloody conflicts are over, retreat again to their dens, caverns, and inaccessible fortresses.
To the Printers.
One of your Customers desires you to re-print a Piece which he finds in the Public Advertiser and which seems to be as well calculated for another Meridian as for that of London.
To the Printer of the Public Advertiser. Nam veræ demum Voces tum pectore ab imo Ejiciuntur; et eripitur Persona: Manet Res.
S I R. LUCRIET  I DREAMED last Night that I was present at Tyburn, amidst an innumerable Concurrence of People, who were assembled together to see an infamous Sower of Sedition punished, according to his Deserts. He was standing in the Cart, with the Halter about his Neck, and was just going to be turned off, when he beckoned with his Hand: and I thought I heard him address himself to the Spectators, who did not shew the least Signs of Compassion, in the following Manner:
Good People,
I am now going to suffer the Punishment due to my Crimes, and stand trembling upon the very Brink of Eternity. It is too commonly the Custom for those, who come to this place to have Speeches made for them, and cried about in their own Hearing, as they are carried to Execution: Now, as I cannot expect to meet with better Treatment than my Predecessors have done I think it incumbent upon me to address myself to you in this public Manner, that a spurious Speech may not be imposed upon the World, and hurt that Character for Eloquence, which I have universally acquired.
I cannot say that I am at all sorry for the Offence which I have given to my King and Country; but I am truly so, for the bad success of my Villianies, in bringing me to this untimely End. What man of Spirit could sit by tamely, and see the Common wealth enjoyed, and defiled, like a common Prostitute, without trying himself to get Possession of her? What Man of Abilities like mine could endure, with Patience to be put by to rust in Obscurity, while the meanest and most insufficient Tools are employed in the great Business of Government? No, Death itself, with all these Circumstances of Infamy, and Terror, is glorious and desirable, in Comparison of such a Life; which must be spent in wishing and despairing, in striving to rise, and being constantly thrust down. I shall not conceal or disguise my Intentions, it is now too late; and a Mask would be as ridiculous, as it is insignificant. Who would not try to throw every Thing into Confusion, rather than submit to the Scorn and Hardship of an indigent and obscure Being; oppressed with Wants at home, and Debts abroad; spurned by the Proud, and scoffed at by the Wealthy? The Wretched have nothing to fear, the Desperate nothing to risk — Every Change must give them a Chance of a Removal from Misery. For myself, I declare solemnly, that I am so far from repenting of the Part, which I have acted that I should glory to act it over again. The same Die, which To-day turns up a Gibbet, might To-morrow, perhaps, give me a Crown. There is every thing to encourage the bold & necessitous to the most desperate Enterprizes: The Luxury of one Part of the state, which is bloated, and full of Humours, the Poverty of another, which covets Innovation to repair and recruit them; the Ambition of some popular & facetious Leaders, who are ready to co-operate with the Scum and Refuse of the People: but, above all, the Weakness and Timidity of Government, which has been harraffed by such frequent Changes, that it has lost all Strength and Confidence, and is now too dispirited a State to revenge the most flagrant Insults. Amidst such Incitements to Sedition, how unfortunate am I to be reduced to this deplorable Situation! But I scorn the Impotence of Complaint; and since I am doomed to suffer, it is my Concern, that I have not been able to pull down the Pillars of the State; and to perish like the Israelitish Chief, amidst the general Ruin.
When he had uttered these Words, there was an universal Hiss from all the Spectators, the Noise of which awaked me, & put me in Mind of the Reception which the Speech of Beelzebub met with in the Pandæmonium.
I am, S I R, Your humble Servant, PACIFICUS.

We have the following Advices via Philadelphia.
L O N D O N, April 18.
THE reports of the affront which the Duke of Gloucester received at Rome, are said to have arisen from the following circumstance. The Pretender meeting the Duke one day in public, bowed to him, which the Duke returned only with great coolness, as he did not immediately recognize the Chevalier's person; however meeting him a second time in public, the Duke complaisantly apologized, and interested himself so much in the Chevalier's favour as to hint that a pension was in great forwardness for him in this kingdom: but just as matters were in a right train, the Pretender, knowing the Duke was to pay a visit on a particular day, took care to stop him in his carriage, and the Duke's servants being ordered to make way for THE KING OF E----- D! immediately obeyed; the Pope hearing of the matter, commanded the Pretender to keep his house during the Duke's stay in Rome, and the Chevalier, besides that mortification, will go without an income which would have been very useful in his circumstances.
April 21. A letter from Vienna remarks, that it is the prevailing opinion in the Hungarian dominions that the Emperor has come to the resolution of taking the advantage of the present trouble in Turkey, and will soon pour a numerous army into the Turkish territories, and thus avail himself of such part of the Ottoman empire (in Europe) as he shall be able to acquire by conquest; while the Empress of Russia conquers other parts of this empire (in Europe); and Ali Bey makes himself master of such other parts of it as lie in Egypt, and all Syria. Thus it seems the fate of the Ottoman empire is determined on, and as so many fires have lately happened in Constantinople, which have been discovered to have originated from the very subjects of the Grand Signior, and as the troops of the Porte cannot be brought to learn the modern military discipline, it is imagined that this mighty empire will fall to pieces in the course of this succeeding year.
A letter from Hamburg says, that a British Minister having mentioned to a Monarch, famous for wit as well as courage, that Sir Robert Murray Keith had represented, in a most spirited manner to the Danish Court, that the King his Master's honour was lodged in his Royal Sister, and that whatever they did to her would be resented by Great-Britain, the Northern Hero answered, "I should not thank any of my Ministers that should lodge my honour in so slippery a place."
The last Paris Gazette mentions, that by a vessel from the coast of Guinea, accounts have been received that the Pholies, a people descended from the Arabs, have lately appeared in great numbers, on the river Gambia, and have committed several hostilities against the English, whom they threaten to dispossess of the Gold Coast, which they assert was part of the territories of their forefathers.
The above people, says the French accounts are exceeding powerful, rigid Mahometans, well acquainted with the cultivation of cotton, corn, and tobacco, and the breeding of cattle, & no strangers to the profits made by the gold, ivory, and slave trade, from which, and their intrepid bravery, it is thought they will become very troublesome neighbours to the subjects of Great-Britain.
April 22. Notwithstanding what has been said in the papers the friends of the court acknowledge that they have no manner of doubt of the guilt of a certain great personage; but they assert by way of palliation, that she became criminal only in revenge for the very great injuries sustained on her part; that the monarch her husband had provoked her to those transgressions by the most unjustifiable liberties.
The Queen of Denmark, it is said, has been afflicted for some time past with a somnolency that is likely to put an end to the malice of all her enemies.
Card-playing is made so much the business of life amongst all orders of men, that a Clergyman within twelve miles of town boasts, that he annually pays his Curate with the money got by playing at quadrille in private families.
Orders were sent last week to Ireland, for the strictest guard to be kept, to hinder the raising of recruits by the French and Spanish emissaries, which are now said to be swarming in that kingdom.
An edict was published at Copenhagen the 9th inst. by his Danish Majesty, strictly commanding, upon severe penalties therein mentioned, the immediate return of such of his subjects as are mariners, and in the service of foreign powers.
The thoughts of sending a fleet to the Baltic are entirely laid aside; but ships will be kept in readiness, should it hereafter be judged necessary.
By a letter from Copenhagen, dated March 9, there is advice, that the Commissioners who have the charge of enquiring into the facts laid against the state prisoners, have examined all the letters and papers delivered to them, but have found none that effect the Queen in the least, and that it is believed that she is innocent of every charge alledged against her; as to the rest of the State prisoners, it is imagined that their principal crime consists in opposing the Queen Dowager in all her plans, and it is not doubted but that some of them will suffer death. The letter adds, that the weather has been more severe there than has been known for many years, that the sea is full of ice, and it is believed it will not be clear till the latter end of April or beginning of May.
On Thursday next being Maunday Thursday, the Lord Almoner, assisted by the Sub-Almoner, and proper attendants, will distribute to thirty-three poor men, and the same number of women, a platter of fish, a piece of woolen-cloth, a piece of dowlas, a sixpence, four-pence, three-pence, two-pence, and a penny, all in the new coinage of silver. This is his Majesty's annual bounty to as many poor people of both sexes, according to the age of his Majesty. These Royal gifts are always distributed about 12 o'clock at noon, at the bar near the gate of Scotland-yard.
April 10. What follows is a fact well known in the neighbourhood of Berkhamstead: A few Sundays ago some choice spi-
rits from London were regaling at an Inn, when after dinner the liquor introduced the love of frolick, after the burning of hats and wigs, it was proposed to draw lots which of the company should be hanged, and during the course of the bottle was demonstrated to the satisfaction of the whole company, that it was a death without pain. The lot fell upon a young man who had but just entered the fortunate estate of bankrupt; however whether he thought the advantages of bankruptcy not so great as it is in general believed, or he wished to be in the fashion of going out of the world in a string, he determined to die hard, to die like a cock. A convenient place in the room presented itself, and in an instant his own garters furnished the noose, the knot was fixed and the chair in a minute knock'd from under him; but whatever the opinion before was about this death being without pain, the volunteer criminal made such a kicking against the wainscot, that the landlord was brought into a room by the noise; where he saw the companions almost as black in the face with laughing, as the young man was with the agonies of death. The landlord astonished and distrest at the sight, cut down the almost expiring youth, and with the assistance of a Surgeon, and proper care, he is since recovered, and it is remarkable that the first words he spoke after he recovered was, I'll be hang'd if ever I do the same again.
A Correspondent has favoured us with the following Particulars of a barbarous Murder committed on Monday Night the 30th Ult. near Dundalk: A Farmer who resides in the Neighbourhood of Dundalk, being at the Market of that Town, met with an old Acquaintance, a Serjeant in the Army, with whom he spent the Day, and was prevailed on by the Serjeant to stay and sleep with him that Night; but being much terrified about Midnight with a frightful Dream, he arose, and accompanied by the Serjeant, who was armed with a Case of Pistols, proceeded Home when the first Objects that presented themselves were his Wife and two Daughters lying weltering in their Blood, with their Throats cut, and otherwise cruelly used, and three Villains plundering the House. On the Murderers finding themselves discovered, they attempted to escape, but two of them were immediately shot dead by the Serjeant, the other taken, who is since lodged in Dundalk Goal. On Examination they proved to be the Man of the House where they lay and his two Sons.
By a Gentleman arrived in town last week from Brest, we learn that a Rear Admiral was to set sail from that port in a few days, with three ships of 74 guns, two of 60, and three 40 each, but that their destination was kept a profound secret.
Extract of a Letter from Lisburne, in the North of Ireland, March 22.
"Nothing can equal the confusion into which this unhappy country is involved, by the insurrection of the lower class of people, on account of their cruel treatment from their inhuman landlords; born down with oppression and despair, they are compelled to have recourse to the sword, to acquire that redress which they could not receive by the most piteous supplications. Your knowledge of the situation of this country will inform you, that it is on account of that overflow of hands which the cramped trade of this country cannot find employment for; this causes the great rise of lands to double, nay three times their intrinsic worth; for when a lease is once expired, the mercenary landlords, and particularly those that live on your side of the water, will not grant a fresh lease unless the poor wretches pay a fine, which it is impossible for them to raise by any means. Thus what can they do, driven from their lands and habitations! which is immediately taken by some wealthy Grazier, or Bleacher, who can pay the fine. They are obliged to fly to the wilds of America, or turn rapparees or insurgents at home. This is truly the reason of the present disturbances which embroil this unfortunate country. God only knows where it will terminate! for a few hours ago an ex-
press arrived here with an account of an encounter between them and the 62d regiment of foot, and five companies of Highlanders, in which the regulars were obliged to retire."
ANNAPOLIS, June 4.
On Friday last, a young Man and his Horse were both killed by Flash of Lightning, on the Road leading through Mr. Joseph Calloway's Plantation.
PHILADELPHIA, June 18.
By Capt. Ewing from Londonderry, we learn, that the Accounts Published of the Killed & Wounded, between the King's Troops and the Heart's of Steel, were much Exaggerated, as there had only been slight Skirmishes between them; that many of the Insurgents were taken Prisoners, and some of their Ringleaders Executed, and that more were Daily bringing in; and that the Country was pretty Peaceable when he came away, which was the 9th of May.
Extract of a Letter from London, April 11.
"In regard to the Ministry in general, I think them upon a very Permanent Footing. Lord North is Confessedly the most able Man in the House of Commons, and Conducts the Public Business there with great Candour, Moderation and Firmness; never losing his Temper in the midst of the greatest Opposition, but Preserving that Dignity of Behaviour, so becoming his Station, and discovering, upon all Occasions, that Courage and Equanimity, which a Consciousness of acting with a Pure intention can alone inspire, the King, un solicitated, has given him the Garter, and I believe his Political Enemies (for Personal ones he has None) will allow it well bestowed."
Extract of a Letter from London, April 16.
"The very Extraordinary Application respecting the Islands in the River Deleware, was to have been Determined this Day. But Lord Rochford much to his Honour, withdrew his Petition, upon the Principle, that those People who first Possessed themselves of those Islands, while they were in a State of Nature, and Raised them to their present State of Culture and Improvement, were best Entitled to the Royal Favour."
Saturday last Arrived here the Ship Jupiter, Capt. Ewing from Londonderry, in a short Passage, who brought with him, and Landed at New-Castle and this Place, 430 Passengers, all in good Health.---It is said the high Price of Lands and Provisions will induce great Numbers to leave Ireland for America this Year.
NEW-PORT, June 22.
Last Tuesday James Bud & Lemuel Guffine, were Apprehended and Committed to Goal in this Town, on Suspicion of being Concerned in Counterfeiting and Passing New-York and Jersey Paper Money. About a Week before, they, with some others, came from Nantucket in a Sloop, and Anchored in Mackerel-Cove, a little within our Light-House, where these two left her and came to this Town, and agreed with an Engraver to Cut them a Plate for the Escutcheon or Border of a New-York Forty Shilling Bill, for which Purpose they cut out the Printed part of the Bill, and gave the Engraver the other part cut in three or four Pieces. But before the Engraver had quite Finished the Plate, he accidentally saw a New-York Bill, which Bud passed to another Man, by which he discovered the real Business he was about, and immediately informed Judge Hazard of the same. After Bud and Guffine were Examined, the Sloop was brought into this Harbour, and being Searched, upwards of 50 Pounds of New-York and Jersey Money was found, including a small Sum Bud and Guffine had about them. They Confessed but little on the Examination: But it might be easily perceived that one Wills of Connecticut, one Smith of New-York, and a Number of others were concerned in this Affair.
The Money above mentioned consists of sixty, twenty, ten and five shilling bills, principally of New-York Currency, most of which are well known to be counterfeits; the Jersey bills doubtful, and may probably be some of those taken out of the treasury when robbed. There is one five pound bill not signed: The forty shilling bill by which the plate was to have been made, is a true one.
By what could be drawn out of these men, there must be a very considerable Amount of New-York bills counterfeited to the Westward; as Bud confessed that he saw a great number lying on Wills's table the first time he went to see him.
BOSTON, June 29.
WEDNESDAY last being the Festival of St. John the Baptist, the Most Worshipful Joseph Warren, Esq; Provincial Grand Master of Ancient Free & Accepted Masons, attended by his Grand Officers and the Master Wardens and Brethren of the Lodges under his Jurisdiction, viz. St. Andrew's and Massachusetts Lodges held in this Town, the Tyrian Lodge held at Gloucester, and St. Peter's Lodge held at Newbury-Port, clothed in the Jewels and Badges of their several Offices, marched in Procession from Concert Hall to Christ's Church, where a very suitable and pertinent Discourse was delivered by the Rev. Brother FAYERWEATHER of Narragansett, from 1st of Corinthians 5th Chapter 11th Verse, which was received with universal Approbation by a numerous and polite Audience. When the Service was ended they proceeded to Mason's-Hall, where an elegant Entertainment was provided in the Garden adjoining said House under a large Canopy erected for that Purpose; and the Remainder of the Day was dedicated to Purposes of Benevolence and social Festivity. The unanimous Thanks of the Lodges were voted to the Reverend Mr. FAYERWEATHER, and a Copy of his Sermon desired for the Press. The Thanks of the Lodges were also voted to the Reverend Dr. BYLES, Rector, the Church Wardens, Vestry and Proprietors of Christ's Church for their polite Behaviour in granting the free Use of their Church on the Occasion.
Last Monday se'nnight, as Mr. Joseph Davis of Barnstable, was weighing an Anchor on board a Vessel, the Pawl not taking fast hold in the Windlass, the Hand-spike sprung in his Face which fractured his Jaw-Bone in a terrible Manner.
We hear that the 14th regiment, now at Castle William, with two other regiments, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Dalrymple, are speedily to embark on a secret expedition.
From the Morning Chronicle. On the Royal Marriage Act.
QUOTH Dick to Tom,---This act appears Absurd, as I'm alive;
To take the crown at eighteen years, The wife at twenty-five. The my'stry how shall we explain? For sure, as DOWDSWELL said, Thus early if they're fit to reign, They must be fit to wed. Quoth Tom to Dick,---Thou art a fool, And little know'st of life; Alas! 'tis easier far to rule A kingdom, than a wife.

B O S T O N, June 25.
Mr. Draper, Perhaps the most barbarous Murder and Robbery ever heard of in this Province was committed at Stockbridge, as near as can be guess'd twenty Days ago, on a Traveller unknown here, the dead and naked Body was found last Thursday a few Rods from the Road with many Marks of Violence on it, much mutilated and defaced a Parcel of old Cloaths very poor lying near the Corpse, Marks of Blood in the Brush where the Body was drawn along out of the road, an Ax-helve lying near the body bloody. Nothing can be found that is supposed to belong to the Deceased but a valuable Sleeve Button, and as the Button was never wore in the old Shirt found among the Cloaths, no doubt the Assassin left that old Cloathing of his own, and now wears the Cloathing of the unhappy Victim. Who the Villian is and who the unhappy Sufferer is, as yet is wholly unknown: Time may discover and Justice will overtake the Perpetrator of such horrid Crimes. — If you should insert it in your extensive Paper you may serve the Cause of Justice. Yours, &c.
Captain Jesse Newcomb who arrived here from Newfoundland, informs that on Monday the 8th of June, one John Jones, a Seaman on board his Vessel being Delirious run from his Cabbin jumped overboard, and was drowned, all attempts to save him proved ineffectual.
We hear from Rochester, that on the 5th Instant the Wife of Mr. Nathaniel Snow, of that Place, aged about Seventy, having eat her Dinner as well as usual, soon after complained of great Distress at her Stomach after walking the Room a few minutes, she went out at the Door, and tarrying longer than the Folks within expected, her Husband, being anxious about her, went out to see if any thing had befallen her; and to his great Surprize, found her a few Yards from the House, prostrate upon the Ground lifeless.
On the 20th Instant, at Sun-setting departed this Life at Haverhill, JAMES M'HARD, Esq; of that Place, aged 63, one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Essex. He was a Gentleman of an extensive Acquaintance and his Benevolence was no less confined, his Hospitality was without Ostentation; in a Word he was a Benefactor to Mankind, in his last Sickness, his Pain was extreme which he endured, with a truly Philosophick Spirit without the least Repining.
We hear that our honourable House of Commons have received a letter from Governor Tryon, in which he offers to divide the disputed lands between the two provinces, and thus to settle the line of division between us. — Query, Is it in the power of any mortal, King, Lords, Commons, or any other person, or persons, to subject me, an inhabitant of this province, to any other jurisdiction but this where I have a right to remain by compact?
P O R T S M O U T H, July 3.
A Report has prevailed for some Days past, that a Quantity of Land has been lately sunk in the Town of Berwick or Lebanon, by an Earthquake or some other supernatural Cause. — The Public may be assured, that the Fact is no more than this. Contiguous to a Part of the River, lay a Piece of spongy sandy Land, which the Water has for a long Course of Years been beating against, and by that Means wash'd away the Sand and undermin'd it, so that it has been long held up only by the Turf and Roots of the Trees; till lately not being able to sustain it longer, as the Sand was continually washing away, it has sunk about 20 Rods in length, in some Places 4 Rods, and in others perhaps more in Breadth, and about 10, 15, or 20 Feet deep.
By Captain Harris who arrived here last Wednesday from Barbados we learn that on the 29th May last a large Ship belonging to Bristol with Four Hundred and Fifty Hogheads of Sugar on board besides Rum &c. caught on Fire and was entirely consumed; the Accident happened by a Sailor drawing some Rum between Decks with a Candle Burning near the Hh.
CUSTOM-HOUSE PISCATAQUA 2d July.
   FROM. FOR.     Sloop Sarah, Samuel Harris, Barbados.   Schooner Betsey, Joseph Choate, Guadaloup.   Sloop Charlotte, Jesse Ketcham, Nantucket.   Outward-Bound FOR.   Ship Three Brothers John Whitefield, Biddeford.   Brig ---- Mark Fernald, West-Indies.   Clear'd for Departure FOR.   Sloop Friendship, Jacob Bell New-Haven.   Schooner Dilligence, James Brown, Newfoundland.   Schooner Lively, Andrew M. Kenzie, jr. Coast of Africa.   Ship Friendship, Andrew Mc. Kenzie, Ditto.   Brig Chamling Betsey, Joshua Stackpole, West-Indies.   Brig Dolphin, Jeremiah Turner, Ditto.   Brig Sally, Samuel Langdon, Ditto.   Brig Widows Son, Daniel Evans, Grenada.  
T O B E S O L D
AT Public Vendue on Saturday, the 4th of July next, a House, Shop and Barn, in Greenland, now in the Occupation of Walter Philbrook, Chair Maker — Enquire of Robert Tustin Philbrook — also two Lots of Land in Chichester, containing 50 Acres each. The Sale of the Premises to be at Mr. Felton's, Innholder in Greenland.
Compleat Sets of the new and correct Law-Book, for the Province of New-Hampshire, may be had of the Printers hereof, who will take the old ones of such Persons, as were subscribers for that Edition, and allow them one Dollar for the same, (though not worth a Farthing) in case they purchase a new Book now: There being but few to dispose of in this Way, the Printers will not Promise to exchange after the first of August next.
James King,
Has to sell at his Store on Spring Hill the best of eighteen Thread COD LINES, large Bank Hooks, small Cod ditto, Mackerel and others; together with an Assortment of English piece Goods and Hard Wares, cheap for Cash.
New Flour,
T O B E S O L D By John Evans, at his Store on Capt Janvrin's Wharf.
Province of New Hampshire, Cheshire ss.
[Lempster]
WHEREAS Application is made to me the Subscriber, one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace, for said County by the Proprietors and Owners of more than the sixteenth part of the Township at Lempster in said County, that a Meeting of said Proprietors may be Notified and Warned, to meet at the House of Mr. Jabez Beckwith, in said Lempster in the County aforesaid, on the second Monday of August next, at Ten of the Clock in the Forenoon to Vote and agree on the following Articles, viz. 1. To choose a Moderator to govern said Meeting. 2. To choose a Proprietors Clerk and Treasurer for said Proprietors. 3. To choose a Committee to settle with any former Committees that have been chosen heretofore. 4. To see if the Proprietors will agree to make a Division of Fifty Acres more to the first Fifty Acres laid out and to couple it to the Fifty Acres and joining two of these Lots together to make 100 Acres to each Right, and lay out the 100 Acre Lots in lieu of the 50 Acres together and Vote the Same if they see cause, and choose a Committee to do the Work. 5. To choose a Committee to lay out the Roads in said Town that shall be needful, or desire the Select Men to lay them out where they shall be most Convenient for the Settling said Town. 6. To see if the Proprietors will agree to confirm any or all the Votes that have been passed by said Proprietors, at any former Meetings, and Vote the same if they think best. 7. To agree on some proper Method to warn Proprietors Meetings for the future, and to act on any other matters that shall be thought for the best to bring forward the Settlement of said Town. 8. To raise Money to defray all necessary Charges in bringing forward said Town.
In Consequence of the foregoing Application, I do hereby Notify and Warn the Proprietors to meet at Time and Place, and for the Purposes aforesaid.
B. BELLOWS, Justice Peace.
Walpole, June 20, 1772.
T O B E S O L D,
AT PUBLICK VENDUE,
On Tuesday the 14th Day of July next, at Four o'Clock in the Afternoon, the Dwelling- House, Barn, Blacksmiths Shop, and 25 Acres of good Land under Improvement, with a good Orchard now in the Occupation of Mr. Ichabod Rawlings, together with a good Well and Spring that never fails, — Pleasantly situated in Newington, on the Road from Knight's-Ferry to Portsmouth, within a Mile from the Meeting House. Conditions of Sale will be known at Time and Place.
SYTHES Of the best Sort, to be Sold Cheap by PETER PEARSE.
A few of the Norfolk Militia Exercise may be had at the Printing Office.
Edward Emerson,
Has just opened a general Assortment of Hard Ware and English Piece GOODS, which he will sell for Cash or short Credit; At a very low Rate, at his Shop in York, opposite the Town House, where may be had
Bohea TEA, and all sorts of GROCERIES, West-India GOODS, New England Rum, Iron Hollow Ware, Bar Iron, Crockery Ware, and many other Articles: to mention the Particulars would take too much room in the Paper, but his good Customers and others (in Town or out,) by calling at his Shop will find his Assortment as full and as cheap, as in the Country.
N. B. Many Articles will be sold by Wholesale, at such a Price as will please the Purchasers: Constant attendance given, all favours gratefully Received, and properly Acknowledged.
TO BE SOLD, a Lady's genteel SIDE-SADDLE very cheap for Cash, or any other good pay. — Enquire of Gilliam Butler.
Province of New Hampshire.
C A N A A N,
WHEREAS the Proprietors of the Township of Canaan have been legally Notified to pay an Assessment on Each Proprietors Right of Land in said Township to me the Subscriber, and said Proprietors being yet delinquent in whole or part; This is therefore to Notify such Persons that these delinquent Proprietors Lands will be Exposed to Sale at Public Vendue at the House of Mr. Charles Hill Innholder in Lebanon, on the first Monday in August next at Two o'Clock Afternoon, to pay said Taxes with incidental Charges. The Names of the delinquent Proprietors are as follows, with the sums.
   £. s. £. s.     Thomas Gustin 3 0 Isaiah Rathban 3 0   Gibson Harris 3 0 Wm. Chamberlain 3 0   Ebenezer Harris 3 0 Wm. Chamberlain, junr. 3 0   Daniel Harris 3 0 Thomas Gates 3 0   Joseph Eames 3 0 George Lamphear 3 0   Ebenezer Eames 3 0 Thomas Minord 3 0   Ebenezer Peck 3 0 Phineas Sabens 3 0   Allin Whitman 3 0 Johna Rathban 3 0   Jared Spencer 3 0 Salvester Randal 3 0   Ephraim Wells Jr. 3 0 Samuel Dodge, 3d 3 0   Thomas Wells 3 0 Ephraim Wells 3 0   The's Gustin Jr. 3 0 Josiah Gates junr. 3 0   Jediah Lothrop 3 0 Lewis Loveridge 3 0   Clement Daniels 3 0 Rufus Randal 3 0   Johna Chamberlain 3 0 James Jones 3 0   Benja Chamberlain 3 0 Jonathan Beebe, 3d 3 0   David Chamberlain 3 0 Jabez Jones 3 0   Richard Sparrow 3 0 Thomas Gustin 3 0   George Harris 3 0 Richard Wibird Esq; 3 0   Caleb Whiting 3 0 James Neving Esq; 3 0   Wm. Fox Junr. 3 0 Capt. John Wentworth 3 0   Stephen Kellog 3 0 of Somersworth 3 0   Israel Kellog 3 0 Thomas W. Waldron 3 0   Aaron Cady 3 0 George King, Merchant 3 0   Aaron Cady Junr. 3 0 Wm. King Dit. 3 0   Nathaniel Cady 3 0 Daniel Rogers 3 0   Asa Daniels 3 0 John Newmarch Esq; 3 0   Capt. Wm. Wentworth 3 0 John Treble 3 0   The's Parker 3 0 Amos Wallsworth 3 0   Jospeh Babcock 3 0 Abner Chamberlain 3 0   John Treble 3 0 Jed. Hebbard, Collector. 3 0   Samuel Dodge 3 0   Samuel Macham 3 0  
Canaan, July 2. 1772.
To a LADY, who wished not to hear the Toll- ing BELL
AND why not hear the sound of yonder bell? Ah! why from serious thought for ever fly? It tolls a sober, awful, solemn knell, A wish'd for pass to immortality. Think not a round of folly's mad career Can always shield thee from reflections power, The young, the fond, the gay, the rich must fear; Too long regardless of an awful hour. Think not that beauteous form that now you wear, That glow of crimson, those inspiring eyes Must linger ever here, — they all declare — They speak aloud their kindred to the skies. Do not the hour, the day, the month, the year, All in their course expire — but all renew? All Nature shews, alas! a prospect clear, All Nature shews there's happiness in view. Long tost in storms do mariners repine, When the glad pilot distant land discloses Ah! see them eager trace the solid line, See their hopes kindle as the objects rise? And shall my fair, with brightest hopes in store, Nor once look up beyond this barren clod Shall she alone her destiny deplore, Her anchor Heaven, and her pilot God?
T O B E S O L D A
Likely healthy Negro Woman, for Particulars, Enquire of the Printers.

The following was written on the SEA-SHORE, By a LADY.  THOU restless fluctuating Deep, Expressive of the human Mind, In thy for ever varying Form, My own inconstant self I find.   How soft now flow thy peaceful Waves, In just Gradations to the shore; While on thy Brow unclouded shines, The Regent of the Midnight Hour.  Blest Emblem of that equal State, Which I this Moment feel within: Where thought to thought succeeding rolls, And all is placid and serene.  And o'er thy smoothly flowing Tide, Their Light the trembling Moon Beams dare, My lov'd Eudocia's, Image smiles, And gaily brightens all my Heart.  But ah! this flattering Scene of Peace, By neither can be long possess'd, When Eurus breaks the transient Calm, And rising Sorrows shake my Breast.  Obscur'd thy Cynthia's silver Ray, When Clouds opposing intervene: And every Joy that Friendship gives Shall fade beneath the Gloom of Spleen. 
Just Open'd, and to be Sold by Jewet & Elliot, At their Store in Exeter, a general Assortment of English and Scotch GOODS, which they determine to sell on the most reasonable Terms for Cash. N. B. FLAX-SEED will be taken as Cash.
Province of New-Hampshire. [Monadnock No. 4.]  WHEREAS the Proprietors of said Township have been legally notified to pay sundry Grants of Money, legally assessed on each Proprietors Right or Lots of Land, in said Township, to me the Subscriber, and several of the Proprietors being yet delinquent in the whole or part, these, are therefore to notify such Proprietors, that so much of each delinquent proprietor's Land will be exposed to sale at public Vendue, at the House of James Read Esq; Inholder in said Township, on Thursday the 23d of July next, at two of the Clock in the afternoon, to pay said Taxes with incidental Charges; The Delinquent's Lots being as follows, with the Sums due.  Thomas Spalding, Lots No. 9 in the 11th Range, and 11 in the 12th, one Half of the 6th Lot in the 2d Range. £ 2 17 6  Abel Lawrence, Esq; alias Abel and Josiah Parker, Lots No. 4 in the 4th Range, 7 in the 4th Range, 23 in the 4th Range, 11 in the 6th, 18 in the 12th. £ 6 18  John Woods, Lot No. 8 in the 7th Range. £ 1 3  Paul March, Lot No. 20. in 12th Range, 9 in the 9th Range. £ 2 6  Mathew Thornton, Esq; Lots No. 9 in 12, 5 in 11, 15 in 10, 11 in 4, 12 in 12, 11 in 9, 1 in 8, 22 in 4, 13 in 12, 13 in 11, 23 in 5. £ 12 13  EDWARD KENDALL, Collector.
§ Barnstead § PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Rockingham, ss.  WHEREAS Application hath been made to me the Subscriber Clerk for the Proprietors of BARNSTEAD aforesaid by the Owners of more than a sixteenth Part of the Rights or Shares in said Barnstead—requesting me to notify and call a Meeting of said Proprietors to be held at the Parish House in Newington on Tuesday the 14th Day of July next, at two o'clock P. M.—Then and there to act on the following Articles if the proprietors think proper—   1 To chuse a Moderator.  2 to see if the proprietors will sell some of the common Lands in said Township of Barnstead, in order to pay off sundry persons who have done service for the propriety, or devise some other way whereby those persons to whom the propriety stand indebted, may be paid.  3 To see if the propriety will chuse an Agent or Agents for said propriety, to act for and in Behalf of said proprietors in all Causes moved or to be moved for or against said propriety of Barnstead, and to carry the same on to final Execution.  4 To see if the proprietors will give or grant Leave to George Walton, junr. to draw an hundred Acre Lot, somewhere in the Second Division, viz. one of those hundred Acre Lots, the Proprietors had of John Fisher, Esq; in Exchange for Commons on the North side of said Barnstead, it being supposed the Number drawn by said Walter, interferes with the Home or Sixty Acre Lots: Also to Consider whether the Proprietors will exchange a piece of Common Land lying between John Taskers Lot and the Province-Road, he giving an Equivalent therefor in other Lands.   In Consequence of the above Application, I do hereby Notify and Warn said Proprietors to meet accordingly. RICHARD DOWNING, Prop. Clk. Newington. June 23. 1772.
A few Suits of handsome Green, Blue, Chaney, and print Curtains, To be sold by Joseph Bals, at his Shop next door to the Printing-Office, very Cheap for Cash.
John Fernald, Late Servant to His Excellency Governor WENTWORTH, has opened an INN, at the SIGN of the MOOSE DEER on the Great Road leading to Pigwackett and the Upper Cohass, also to Dartmouth-College and the Lower Cohass, within two Miles of the GOVERNOR'S SEAT in WOLF-BOROUGH,— He is now furnishing his House with every Accommodation the Country affords for the Entertainment of Travellers, and will do his utmost to give Satisfaction to all Persons that will please to oblige him with their Custom:
[Monadnock, No. 4.]  WHEREAS at a legal Meeting of the Proprietors of the Township of Monadnock No. 4. so called, in the province of New Hampshire, on the 4th Day of March 1772, a TAX was laid on each Lot liable to Taxes in said Monadnock No. 4, of One pound Four shillings and Ten pence Lawful Money, This is to give Notice to all the delinquent proprietors, that unless payment of said Taxes be made to me at my House in Monadnock No. 4, in the province aforesaid, at or before the First Day of August next, then the aforesaid Lots of Land will be advertised for Sale. Edward Kendall, Collector.
Province of New Hampshire.  Whereas a Petition has been preferred to the General Assembly of the Province aforesaid, by Israel Morey and Alexander Phelps, Esquires, Agents for, and in behalf of the Township of ORFORD in said Province, praying, for certain Reasons assigned, that a Tax of Two Pence Lawful Money per Acre, may be laid on all the Land in said Township (except the Public Rights) for the Term of Four Years, annually, solely for the purposes of erecting a House for the public Worship of God in said Township of Orford, and towards the maintenance and support of a Minister of the Gospel to officiate therein.—This is therefore to notify all Persons whom it may concern, that the General Assembly aforesaid have passed the following Vote upon the said Petition, viz. "Ordered that the Petitioners cause the Substance of the Petition, to be printed in the New Hampshire Gazette, 3 Weeks successively, that any of the Proprietors of Orford may be heard thereon on the 3d day of the sitting of the General Assembly, after the first day of July next.  THEODORE ATKINSON, Sec.
Whereas I Timothy Hierlihy of MIDDLETOWN, in the County of Hartford, and Colony of Connecticut, Gentleman, by my certain Letter of Attorney, dated August 4, A. D. 1763, did Constituate and Appoint Darby Ryan, then of Leicester, in the County of Worcester, and Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, Yeoman, my Attorney in my Name, to appear in all Causes moved, or to be moved for, or against me, more especially as I am Administrator of the Estate of William Welch, late of said Middletown Deceased, to Prosecute, Plead, and Pursue to final Judgment and Execution. Now Know all Men, that I the said Timothy Hierlihy, have recalled, revoked, and annulled, and do hereby recall, revoke, and annul the said Letter of Attorney, and all and singular the Powers and Authorities by me, therein Granted and given to the said Darby Ryan, as aforesaid. Witness my Hand and Seal, the 24th Day of June, A. D. 1772.  TIMOTHY HIERLIHY. Signed, Sealed and Delivered In Presence of JEREMIAH BURNUM, MOSES EMERSON,
At a Meeting of the Proprietors of DORCHESTER held at the House of Mr. Aaron Storr in Hanover, on the 9th of June Inst. a Tax was assessed on the Rights of each Original Proprietor in said Township, of Six Dollars, and committed it to me the Subscriber to Collect. This is therefore to Notify said Proprietors that unless the said Tax is paid to me by the 20th of July next, at my House in Orford, their said Rights will be Advertised for Sale as the Law directs.  June 22, 1772. WILLIAM SIMPSON.
(East-Town.)  THE Proprietors of East-Town, so called, in the Province of New Hampshire, are desired to meet at the House of Lt. David Capps in said East-Town, on Tuesday the 14th Day of July next, at Ten of the Clock before Noon.   1. To chuse a Moderator to regulate said Meeting.  2. To chuse a Proprietor's Clerk and Treasurer, and all Proprietors Officers that's tho't needful.  3. To see what Preaching the proprietors will vote this Summer; and to see if they will do any Thing toward settling a Minister in said Township.  4. To see how far they will vote to finish the Meeting House this Summer.  5. To see if the proprietors will vote to purchase a Lot of Land for a Minister's Lot, or for a Parsonage, as both are cut short by Reason of the Pond.  6. To see if they will vote to fall some Trees on the Minister's Lot.  7. To see what Roads the proprietors will vote to be laid out and clear this Season.  8. To see if they will vote to take for the proprietors Use all such Lots as will not pay the Taxes.  9. To see if they will vote to clear the Lot or Right of Land where the Mills or Meeting House stands.  10. To see what Money they will vote to raise on each Right, and to chuse Committees for all Things necessary, and a Proprietors Agent, if necessary. And all Persons that have any unsettled Accounts with said proprietors, are desired to settle them before said Meeting, as the proprietors want to know how the State of the Treasury stands, in order to know what Money to raise. And to do & transact any other Matters that may be thought beneficial for said proprietors, and the forwarding the settlement of said Township. And all concerned, are desired to attend at Time and Place aforesaid.   By Order of the Assessors, JOHN GAGE, junr. Dover, June 8. 1772. I proprietors Clerk.
Province of New Hampshire, Meredith, June 8, 1772. Rockingham, ss.  NOTICE is hereby given, to all the Proprietors of said Meredith, that the Meeting of said proprietors held on the 4th Day of this Inst. June, at the House of Ebenezer Smith, Esq; in said Town, stands adjourned to Thursday the second day of July next, at One of the Clock in the Afternoon, to be held at the same said House, agreeable to a Vote of said Propriety. William Mead, Moderator.
TO BE SOLD, At Publick Vendue, By ISAAC HILL, of Dover, on Thursday the Ninth Day of July next, at Two of the Clock in the Afternoon, at said Hill's Dwelling House in Dover aforesaid.  A Large two Story HOUSE 41 Feet long, and 30 Feet wide, lying upon the main Road, leading to Rochester and Barrington, with 66 Feet of Land in the Front, and as much Land back as will contain about one Quarter of an Acre, with the Privilege of a good Well—and likewise a Quantity of English GOODS and a few Hogheads of SALT. Likewise to be sold at the same Time and Place two Lots of Land of 100 Acres each, being No. 25 and No. 27 in the Checker, lying in Berwick (at a Place called Beech Ridge) about eight Miles from Quampegia Landing. Also one Lot of Land No. 50, of 100 Acres in the First Checker, lying in said Berwick. Conditions of Sale to be seen at Time and Place. Dover, June 16. 1772.
RAN AWAY from his Master Rushworth Jordan of Biddsford, the 23d Instant, a NEGRO MAN named Boston, about 25 Years of Age, about Five Feet six Inches high; Had on a brown Fustian Coat, a gray Serge Jacket, a pair of yellow Breeches without Lining, Worsted Stockings, and a Surtout of Beaver Coating; A Gun with a new Cock Pin, small Bore, and sundry other Articles; it is thought he went away with a Negro Man belonging to Capt. Paul Jenkins. Whoever will apprehend said Negro and bring him to his Master again, shall have Two Dollars Reward, and all necessary Charges paid by me. Rushworth Jordan. June 25. 1772.
Ladies Caps, Hats, Bonnetts and Cloaks; and all Kinds of Millinary Ware, made in the neatest and most Fashionable Manner, may be had at the House of Mr. Livermore on Spring Hill near the Market.
Choice Philadelphia Flour, TO BE SOLD By William & Jos. Whipple.