The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1770-02-02 00:00:00

Sententiae Stellares : or MAXIMS of PRUDENCE to be observed by ARTISANS of STATE.
THAT Government is best tempered, where a few Drams of Fear are blended with the People's Love.
2. It's the Interest of Princes to make Acts of Grace peculiarly their own; because they which have the Art to please People, have commonly the Power to raise them.
3. A Multitude of Offices are dangerous to a Prince, and serve for nothing but to rifle his Purse; & the fuller they fill their Coffers, the more facile is their Justification when questioned: When Verres was Prætor of Sicily, he had with wonderful Corruption pillaged that Province; & at the same time the Prætor of Sardinia, being sentenced for depopulating & robbing that Province, Timarchides Verres his Correspondent at Rome, writ a Letter to him, giving him warning of it: But Verres, in a Jolly Humour, answered him, That the Prætor of Sardinia was a Fool, and had extorted no more from the Sardinians than would serve his own Turn; but himself had gathered up such rich Booties amongst the Sicilians, that the very Overplus thereof would dazle the Eyes of the Senate, and blind them so, that they should not see his Faults: Hence we may conclude, that just Men must be guilty, because they were Fools, & others shall be innocent, because they were Knaves.
4. Religion is the only Orb which doth influence Men's Minds; and except the Prince be powerful over their Religion (which is the Bond of their Affection) he will have but a weak Dominion over their Persons.
5. A Prince that runs on any Design, contrary to the general Humour and Spirit of the People, may indeed make his Ministers great Subjects, but they can never make him a great Prince: Whereas a Prince that doth act with the Hearts and Interest of his People, can never fail of making what Figure he pleases in the World, nor of being safe and easy at home.
6. That Prince which raises an Army to effect any thing against the Bent and Inclinations of his Subjects, is like him who raised an Army to keep out the Plague, when the Army itself was infected.
7. Seds in their first Rise are to be nipped: but being over-grown, it's Wisdom not to oppose them with too strong a Hand, lest in suppressing one, there raise many: A soft Current is soon stopped, but a strong Stream resisted breaks into many, or overwhelms all.
8. He who putteth off his Hat to the People, gives his Head to the Prince; for the immoderate Favour of the Multitude, as it can do a Man no good, so it will undo so many as shall trust to it: It was said of the Earl of Essex, that he was grown so popular, that he was too dangerous for the Times, and the Times for him.
9. If any Person begins to be aspiring, it is Prudence in the Prince to deal with him as the Birds did, who beat the Cuckow, for fear he should become a Hawk.
10. It may sometime be the Interest of a Prince, not only to remove Grievances by doing what is desired, but even Jealousies, by doing something which is not expected; for when a Prince does more than his People look for, he gives them reason to believe that he is not sorry for doing what they desired.
11. Transcendent Services and too great Benefits from Subjects to Kings, are of dangerous Consequence, when they make the Mind more capable of Merit than duty.
12. A Parliament is the truest Glass, wherein a Prince may discern his People's Love & his own Happiness.
13. Too great Severity in the Laws, seldom does good: For many Times the Common Guilt make the Penalties impracticable.
14. If affection lead you to Court, take care that Interest keep you there; for when it's once past Noon with a Favourite, it's presently Night with him; the good Fortune of the Court hath few sure Friends, but the ill Fortune of it none.
15. Kings cannot meet without great State, and they seldom part without much Envy, who never are farther asunder than when they meet.
16. All States stand more by Fame than Force; it's most safe neither to discover Weakness nor hazard Loss by attempt.
17. What is the great humour and bent of a Nation, ought ever to be much considered by a State, which can hardly miscarry in the Pursuit of it.
(To be Continued.)
***** To the PRINTERS. Please to insert the following, and I doubt not you'll oblige many of your Readers, besides Your Humble Servant, A. Z.
Stealing is become so common now-a-days, and THIEVES being some of the greatest Plagues, or Nuisance that Society are troubled with, it is high Time for every one to be upon his Guard, and take Care of himself:—And it is hoped the Authority will take due Notice of the late Discoveries in this Place. The following Extracts may perhaps be a Warning to others, to avoid the abominable Sin of Theft, as Thieves are generally detested by all honest Men; and often expose themselves to Fines, Imprisonment, Whipping, and sometimes the Gallows is their Portion here, and everlasting Damnation hereafter.
The bad Consequences of the Non-Observance of the Eighth Commandment.
Thou shalt not steal.
THE Words of this Law are so very explicit, and the Sense seemingly so very clear, that many People, we doubt not, will think us quite impertinent in offering to add any farther Comment thereon. We happen, however, not to be altogether of their Opinion, having good Reason to believe, that it has hitherto been taken by most Persons in a much too restrained Sense; and we are the more induced to imagine this, because we see it violated every Day by those who would be very angry, and perhaps make us answer it with our Lives, should we tell them in plain ENGLISH, what nevertheless is strictly true, that they are THIEVES.
It is very easy indeed to account for the Generality of the World's being so greatly mistaken in the Latitude of this Commandment; since it is intirely owing to the same Cause as their misunderstanding the others, namely, because it makes against themselves, and they cannot allow it its full Scope, without pronouncing their own Condemnation: But for all this, if they will commit such Actions as bring them within the Verge of this Law, they must be contented to find themselves sentenced thereby, and must not take it amiss if they find themselves included in the Number of those who transgress it. For, not to flatter any one, this Commandment, as well as all the others, is exceeding broad; and indeed so great is its Latitude, that however vainly some
Persons may sooth themselves with the Fancy of having never offended against it, it will be very well, if, upon a serious Review of our past Conduct, we can clear ourselves of that Guilt.
Many People, no doubt, will think this Censure too rash and uncharitable, and imagine themselves mighty honest Folks, because they have never done any Action that is punishable by the Laws of the Land; which is saying no more in other Words than this, that they have had so much Value for their dear selves, as to avoid the Gallows, Transportation, the House of Correction, or the Whipping-Post; a pretty Commendation truly! And yet it would be well if all would come up to this. But come we now to the Law and to the Testimony, that is, to the written word of GOD, which certainly must be allowed to be the best Comment upon the Ten Commandments, and then let us see who can say, I am clear.
How then do the holy Oracles speak upon this Head? And here, we think, the Example of the wretched Achan, would justly demand the first Place, if that of Ananias and Sapphira may not rather claim the Preference. Of these three unfortunate Persons, the first only took a Babylonish Garment, with two hundred Shekels of Silver, and a Wedge of Gold of fifty Shekels Weight, the Spoils of the Enemy, and reserved them for himself. How apt should many of us have been to have done the same? It is true, the Gold and Silver were to have been consecrated to the Lord! But how apt should many of us, now-a-days, be to say, The Lord doth not want it; I have earned it at the Hazard of my Life; it is the Spoil of my Enemy; I wrong no one; and how will it be known? How natural is this to frail Flesh and Blood? And yet how severely was this Sin punished? In the first Place, the Children of Israel are defeated by their Enemies; and tho' Heaven mercifully saw fit, that no more than thirty-six should perish, yet the Consequences, had they not immediate recourse to God, deprecating his Anger, and humbly besought his Favour and Assistance, conjuring him for his great Name's Sake, that he would bless their Arms, and not give them up a Prey to the Canaanites, might have been fatal. As it was, the Sentence pronounced against the wretched Achan, by the Almighty himself, was no less, than that he, together with his whole Family, and all his Effects, even to his Cattle, should be burnt; which was accordingly executed upon them by the Israelites, in the Valley of Achor, after having first stoned them.
But we think this Example, terrible as it is, is hardly so remarkable as that of Ananias and Sapphira; because, tho' Achan had only taken the Spoil of his Enemies, which is reckoned lawful Plunder, and in that Sense could not be said to have stolen any thing; yet as he knew all the Silver and Gold was to have been consecrated to the Service of God, and had been strictly forewarned not to save or reserve any thing out of the City of Jericho, he was guilty not only of transgressing an express Command, but even of robbing the Almighty; and accordingly the same Punishment was inflicted upon him, and his, as had before been executed upon the Inhabitants of that City.
Now this could not well be said of Ananias and Sapphira, they had neither violated any express Command, nor had they been guilty of detaining any thing which it had been previously determined to set apart for the Service

of God; at least it does not appear from Scripture that they were so: Nay, it is to be questioned, whether they imagined themselves to have committed any Crime in doing as they did: In effect, we believe most of us, now-a-days, should fancy ourselves very extraordinary Christians in giving up a considerable Part of our Substance for the Use of the Church, and should rather look for a Blessing than a Curse for such an Offering. But the Almighty sees not as Man sees; the inmost Thoughts of the Heart lie open to his View; and in his Eye they were guilty of Theft, and that the worst of Theft, the robbing him of their Hearts, which were visibly divided between GOD and Mammon: They pretended to give up all, and throw themselves upon Providence for their Support, and yet not caring altogether to rely thereon, had made a Reserve, in case of the worst, for themselves, which argued a manifest Distrust of the Goodness of Heaven, and was in itself a heinous Sin.
But, to come from sacred to profane History, and even to our own Nation, we shall seldom find that they who have persisted any Time in such unjust Practices, of what Rank soever they have been, and however protected, have not escaped coming to a miserable End.
We will now proceed to give some Instances of the fatal Effects generally attendant upon the Commission of this Sin, in those who have acted in a lower Sphere. And here we think the notorious Jonathan Wild will justly claim the Pre-eminence upon all Accounts; and especially as he was generally acknowledged as their Head and Leader, during his Life, by all the numerous and formidable Fraternity of Free-booters.
This extraordinary Person, who wanted nothing but the same Advantages of being born to a competent Fortune, and having a liberal Education, to have made as great and remarkable a Figure as another capital Plunderer his Cotemporary, by the Dint of uncommon Subtlety, Impudence, and undaunted Resolution, soon gained so much Credit amongst his lawless Companions, that, excepting now and then a mutinous Spirit, all confessed his Superiority, followed his Directions, formed themselves into Bands and Companies according to his Advice, submitted readily to his Orders, and kept punctually, to the Quarters, Posts, and Walks, by him assigned to them respectively: In short, he had them as much, or more at Command, than many Officers have their Regular Troops.
Thus far there was a strong Resemblance between him, and his Achievements, and those of another eminent Raparee: The Propensity to Rapine was equal in both; the Ambition of being at the Head of their respective Parties alike in both; and which was yet more, both were punctually obeyed by them, both equally laid the Public under Contribution, both were equally willing and able to screen such, as observed their Orders, from condign Punishment, both likewise flourished a long Time, in Defiance of all Law and Justice, tho' their injured Country long and loudly demanded, that each might be brought to receive his due Reward. The Paralell indeed went no farther; the one, named Jonathan , met with his Deserts, whilst the other, to the lasting Scandal of the British Nation, lived to riot in the Spoils of the Public, and to laugh at the impotent Attempts of his injured Fellow-Subjects, to make him a memorable Example to betrayers and Plunderers of their native Land. So much safer it is in this World, to be a Rogue in a high Station, than one of a low Condition!
The next petty Plunderer we shall bring upon the Stage, was one who flourished likewise for some Time with Impunity; nay one whom even when seized, it was found very difficult to hold; we mean the noted Jack Sheppard . This hopeful Spark was likewise a very extraordinary Person in his Calling: He was a Man of Dexterity, Industry, and Resolution; nor did he want for Wit and Humour, though he greatly misapplied it; witness his Answer to the Turnkey, when he was chained and stapled down to the Floor, after having once broken out of Newgate: Look you young Gentleman, said the Turnkey, the Evening be-
fore he was to have suffered, It is your Business to get away if you can, and it is mine to take Care you do not. Very well answers Sheppard, mighty calmly, then let us both mind our Business ; as he did accordingly, (if we mistake not) and made his Escape that very Night.
Be that, however, as it will, it is very certain, that all those good Qualities, which, if put to a right Use, might have made him a happy Man, were of no Advantage to him, serving only to render him more hardened in Iniquity, and to make him the more a Gazing-stock, to those Multitudes who went to see him under his Confinement, and at his Execution: For, such is the Fatality (if we may use that Expression) attending these unfortunate Creatures, that they seldom or never take Warning; and accordingly poor Jack , though he made a shift to break Prison twice, was apprehended, and so well secured the third Time, that he finished his wretched Course at TYBURN.
The next Instance we shall produce of the little Hope there is of a Thief escaping Punishment, even in this Life, shall be Daniel Mauden , one who likewise broke twice out of Newgate, but had not the Discretion to improve the Mercy granted him by Heaven, so far as to make his Escape effectually, and reform his Life; though as he had betaken himself to honest Labour for some Weeks before his being apprehended a second Time, and seeming heartily penitent at his Execution, we would willingly hope the best of his present State.
Another remarkable Example of the fatal Consequences of violating the Eighth Commandment, is the notorious Mac Cray ; one who, though he wanted neither for Understanding to inform him of the Danger of such Practices, and the little Probability of escaping if he persisted therein, nor yet for a tolerable Education, to enable him to put that Understanding to a good Use, having been bred an Attorney; yet, like the two former, would take no Warning till it was too late, and he was thereby brought to a shameful End. He had once been tried at the Old Bailey, for robbing a reverend Clergyman, and acquitted only by the Dint of Perjury though certainly guilty; the infamous Wreathock , one of his Accomplices having procured such a Cloud of Witnesses to invalidate the Force of the King's Evidence, that the Jury would not venture to condemn him, though the Fact was positively sworn upon him: And he flattered himself with the Hopes of coming off a second Time by the same honest Means, as he certainly had, if the suborning of false Witnesses could have saved him; but he found himself miserably deceived; the Hand of Justice at last overtook him; all his Subterfuges and Subtlety availed him nothing; for notwithstanding a desperate Attempt make by him to break out of Goal, he ended his Life miserably at KENINGTON Gallows.
The last Instance we shall produce of the dreadful Effects of such vicious Courses, and the Punishment that seldom fails to attend them, is the late famous, or rather infamous, Richard Turpin . This extraordinary Person, after having long laid his Country under Contribution; after a long Run of Success, wherein, with good Management, he might have laid up enough, to have enabled him to subsist the Remainder of his Days; having, at last, by his repeated Robberies, made the Country where his usual Haunts were, too hot to hold him, several Persons, on account of the great Reward offered for apprehending him, being out Day and Night in pursuit of him, was forced to betake himself to Flight, and concealing his real Name under the fictitious one of John Palmer , to lie lurking up and down in Yorkshire.
Now, had he not been infatuated, had he put his ungodly Gain to a good Use, as he might have saved a Competency for his Subsistence for the Remainder of his Life, he had there abundant Opportunity of making his Escape beyond Sea, and might have ended his Days in a peaceful Obscurity, in some foreign Country; nay, even as it was, could he have kept himself honest, could he have left off his former vicious Courses, he might have lived
unknown and secure there many Years: But, not being able to desist from his former Pranks, though in a different Branch, he was there apprehended for Horse-stealing, and the Fact being proved upon him, was condemned and executed at York Gallows.
We have now shewn sufficiently, in our Opinion, the fatal Consequences of breaking the Eighth Commandment; and as to the happy Effects of observing it, or, in other Words, of Common Honesty, surely every one must be sensible of them; as continual Danger, constant Fears, and perpetual Remorse of Conscience, must be the inseparable Attendants upon Robbery and Theft; so, undisturbed Peace of Mind, quiet Sleeps, and a happy Security, are the never failing Recompence of an upright Life, and just Dealings: Sufficient Inducements surely to any reasonable Man, to prefer the latter to the former, were even the Rewards and Punishments of a Future State out of the Question.
The foregoing Extracts are designed as a Caution to the rising Generation; and it is desired that all Masters and Parents would not allow their Children and Apprentices to be out at unseasonable Hours of the Night, which is a great Temptation and Inlet to all Manner of Mischief; and has a natural Tendency to destroy their Usefulness in the World; and bring on themselves everlasting Shame and Scandal.---How many young Fellows are ruined by such Practices? And what a bad Example is it for the Children that are coming after them?
From a London Paper, November 4. CONSTANTINOPLE, September 18.
THE Grand Vizir, Mahemet Emin Pacha, Generalissimo of the Ottoman Armies, who was lately beheaded, and his Head exposed at the outside Gate of the Seraglio, had a Paper affixed, upon which were wrote the Motives of his Condemnation: The chief Crimes that were imputed to him were, that he had abused his Authority, in the Disposal of the Treasure and Troops; refused to march towards the Enemy; distressed the Ministers of State, the Grand Officers, and the Mussulmen Troops, by not sending them Provisions, and other Things necessary for their Support; and that he had, by Delays, and unpardonable Neglect, put off sending Succours to Choczim, when that Place was besieged; and when he was informed, by the Kan of the Tartars, of the Approach of the Enemy, which was the Cause of the Continuation of the Blockade, and of all the Sufferings the Ottomans laboured under during the Siege of that Fortress.
Malta Sept. 16. A Secretary arrived here a few Days ago from the Emperor of Morocco with 37 Tuscan Slaves, which he delivered to the Grand Master with the following Letter:
In the Name of the Almighty God, The Emperor of Morocco, &c. to the Prince of Malta, Grand Master of the Religion of St. John, and to all his Council, Greeting,
"You will know hereby, that being moved with Compassion for the Fate of several Leghorn Slaves who have been a long while in my Custody, and have never been demanded of me, I resolved to send them to you by my Secretary Abladi Saletti; in doing which I have a double Satisfaction, 1st, That of making a Present to you; and next, that of procuring these unhappy Persons that Liberty. If you had no Slaves in your Custody, I should desire nothing from you in Return; but as you have, I shall be glad to receive such as you can send me, by my Secretary.
The Grand Master paid the same Honours to that Envoy, as to Ministers Plenipotentiary, and has ordered two Ships to be immediately fitted out; one to carry home the said Tuscan Slaves to be presented to the Grand Duke; and the other to take a like Number of Turkish Slaves to the Emperor of Morocco, together with Presents for his Highness.
Warsaw Octo. 7. We have had here, within these few Days a Spectacle that cannot but excite Pity. Nine Gentlemen are arrived, having their two Wrists cut off. This cruel Sentence was put in Execution by Order of General Drewitz, if not actually done by himself. The Great General of Lithuania has these unhappy People under his Care, and it is said will provide for their Maintenances Paris Gazette. [Probably nothing more than a Forgery of the Papists, in Order to excite a general detestation of the Russians.]

Just Imported from LONDON
And to be SOLD,
By George Craigie,
At his Shop next the Market House on Spring Hill, Portsmouth, a Fresh Assortment of ENGLISH GOODS , suitable for the Season, exceeding cheap for Cash, viz.
B road Cloths, German Serges, Kerseys, Bearskins, Flannels, Swanskins, Blankets, Thicksets, Shalloons, Calamancoes; black, blue, pink, and cloth colored Tammies and Durants, Camblets, Cotton Gowns, striped Camblets, Callicoes, and Chinces, yard wide and seven 8ths white Linnen, Lawns, Demy Cambricks, Silesia Linnens, Checks, Taffity, Persians, Capuchin Silk, Silk Damasks, Romalls, Bed Tick, Oznabrigs, and Ticklingburg, Castor and Felt Hatts, Pewter, Shot, Writing Paper, Breeches Patterns, Men's Stockings, Worsted Caps, Mill'd Caps, Mill'd Gloves, Buckram sewing Silk, Knee Garters, Buttons, Twist Qualities, Gartering, Needles, Pins, Tapes, Sheers, Scissors, Thimbles, Knives & Forks, 4d, 6d, 10d, and 20d Nails; — Earthen Ware, — New Raisins, — Tea, Coffee, — Chocolate, — Rum, — Sugar, — Pepper, — Indigo, Starch, — Rice, — Snuff, — Mustard, — Looking Glasses, — &c. &c. &c. &c.
A few Hogheads of Molasses to be sold
CHEAP FOR CASH,
By W. and J. WHIPPLE,
AT THEIR STORE ON SPRING HILL,
Where also may be had,
West-India Rum by the Hoghead,
New-England Rum,
Old Jamaica Spirit,
Muscavado Sugars by the Barrell,
Bohea Tea, best Green Tea, Pimento, Pepper, Coffee, Cotton, Indigo, Cop-peras, Allum, Brimstone, German Steel, Wool-Cards, Pot Iron, &c.
Also a few Casks of good WINE.
§ VENDUE. §
T O be sold at public Vendue, by Andrew Wiggin, on Monday the 26th Day of February next, at one o'Clock, P. M. at the House of Mr. Benjamin Mead, Innholder in Newmarket, a FARM, situate in said Newmarket, containing about fifty Acres of good Land, with a good Dwelling House and Barn, and a likely young Orchard thereon. Said Farm is well wooded and watered, and lays within two Miles of Lamprey River Landing, and within one Mile of Ewer's Meeting House, and is well situated for a Tradesman, particularly for a Tanner. — Conditions of Sale to be known at Time and Place of Sale, or for further Recommendation enquire of said Wiggin at Wolfborough, or of Wentworth Cheswill at said Newmarket. January 11, 1770.
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
W E the Subscribers being appointed Commissioners, by the Honourable Judge of Probates for this Province, to receive and examine the Claims of the several Creditors to the Estate of Joseph Wheeler , late of Durham, in said Province, Yeoman, deceased, represented Insolvent, and six Months being allowed for that Purpose, do hereby give Notice, that we will attend on the said Business on the last Tuesday of this and the five following Months, at the House of John Burnum Hanson, Innholder in said Durham from 2 to 8 o'Clock, Afternoon, of the said Days.
John Smith,
Durham, January 12, 1770. John Burnum Hanson.
BATH.
NOTICE is hereby given to the Delinquent Proprietors of BATH , in New Hampshire, hereafter mentioned, that their respective Rights of Land in said Township will be exposed to Sale at public Vendue, on Monday the nineteenth of February next, at the House of the Subscriber at Orford, in said Province, at Two o'Clock, P. M. in order to pay said TAX, with incidental Charges, agreeable to a LAW of said province, unless they prevent it by their respective paying the same, as hereafter mentioned, viz.
  Isaac Herriman £. 3 14 0   Joseph Herriman, junr. 3 14 0   Samuel Sanburn 2 4 0   Benjamin Sanburn 2 4 0   Benjamin Sanburn, junr. 2 4 0   Samuel Sanburn, junr. 2 4 0 
The above Sums are in Lawful Money.
Orford, January 8. 1770.
ISRAEL MOREY, Collector
Province of New-Hampshire, } Portsmouth, Jan. 19, 1770,
ALL Persons concerned at his
Majesty's Superior Court of Judicature, to be held on the first Tuesday of February next, are hereby notified that the said Court will then meet, to give Judgment on such Actions as lay before the Court only; at which Time the Persons chosen Grand Jurors are required to attend.
Those who may be returned for the Petty Jury may defer giving their Attendance, until the Adjournment of said Court, of the Day of which Adjournment they will have Notice in this Paper,
By Order of Court,
GEO. KING, Clk.
§ Leavett's-Town. §
NOTICE is hereby given to the several delinquent Proprietors of Leavett's-Town , in New Hampshire, that unless they pay the several and respective Sums at which their several and respective Lots are assessed, to me the Subscriber, Collector for said Town, that their several and respective Lots of Land in said Town, will be exposed to Sale at Public Vendue, on Monday the 12th Day of February next, at the House of John Leavett, Esq; Innholder at North Hampton, at Ten of the Clock in the Forenoon, agreeable to a Law of said Province, unless the said Delinquent prevent by paying the several and respective Sums, affixed to their several and respective Names herein after mentioned, and set forth, viz.
   1st Div. 2d Div.     Benjamin Johnson, 0 12 0 2 8 0   Benjamin Perkins 0 12 0 4 12 0   Benjamin Palmer 0 12 0 2 8 0   David Marston 0 6 0 1 4 0   David Knowles, jun. 0 12 0 2 8 0   David Knowles 0 12 0 2 8 0   Isaac Marston 0 6 0 1 4 0   Joshua Brown 0 6 0 1 4 0   John Marston, 0 6 0 1 4 0   Jonathan Norris 0 12 0 2 8 0   John Dearborn 0 6 0 1 4 0   Joseph Towel 0 12 0 2 8 0   Samuel Marston 1 3 0 4 12 0   Samuel Smith 0 12 0 2 8 0   William Weeks 0 12 0 2 8 0   Simon Nudol 0 6 0 1 4 0   Walter Briant 0 18 0 3 12 0   Zechariah Batchelder 0 12 0 2 8 0   Jonathan Marston 0 6 0 1 4 0   Thomas Nudol 0 6 0 1 4 0  
JOHN DEARBORN, Collector,
North Hampton, Jan. 16, 1770,
§ CAMPTON. §
W Hereas the Proprietors of CAMPTON , in the Province of New Hampshire, at a legal Meeting on the Sixth Day of November last, voted to raise a TAX of Ten Dollars on each original Right, towards defraying Proprietors Charges. Therefore publick Notice is hereby given to all the Proprietors of said Campton, that they pay said Tax to me the Subscriber, living in said Campton, being chose to collect the same, on or before the first Day of June next: And the Proprietors have Liberty to pay Five Dollars of said Tax on each original Right in Labour on High Ways, at Three Shillings per Day, provided said Labour is done before the first Day of said next June.
Samuel Fuller, Collector.
THE Creditors of the Estate
Thomas Goodwin, late of Berwick, in the County of York, deceased, represented Insolvent, are hereby notified to bring their several Claims well vouched, unto Capt. Philip Hubbard and Richard Hodsdon Commissioners, appointed by the Judge of Probate, for said County, to receive and examine the Claims; and six Months is allowed from the first Day of January Inst. for that Purpose. The Commissioners will attend that Business at the House of Capt. Philip Hubbard, Innholder in Berwick, in said County, on the last Tuesday in January, and the last Tuesday of the five following Months, from three to six o'Clock Afternoon, each Day.
Berwick, Jan. 12, 1770.
Philip Hubbard, Richard Hodsdon.
A Woman, with a good Breast of Milk, would go into a Family. Enquire of the Printers.
Dr. M'Lain and White,
From NEW-YORK,
H EREBY inform the Public, that with God's Assistance, they will cure the Gravel, Hystericks, Old Sores and Humours in the Blood, &c. &c.
N. B. Tells the Disorders without asking Questions, gives Advice for One Shilling Lawfull Money. Cures the Tooth-Ach without drawing, and has Tincture to sell for preserving the Teeth. To be spoke with at Capt. Zechariah Foss's, Innholder in Portsmouth.
To be Sold,
One Hundred Thousand of square Rundle SHINGLES, & a few CLAPBOARDS very cheap for Cash or West-India Goods, by Neal Mc Intyre.
W A T C H E S. SIMNETT, only perfect Watchmaker ever in this Country. ——— Parade, PORTSMOUTH.
Hair Powder,
Of the best sort, scented, and POMATUM, to be Sold by WILLIAMS & STANWOOD, Barbers in Queen-Street, Portsmouth.
Peter Pearse,
Hath to sell, Baize, mill'd Flannings—Blanketing—Ruggs—Duffills—Ratteen, and sundry other Articles suitable for the Season, which he will sell cheap for the Cash.
S C H O O L.
T He Subscriber hereby informs the PUBLIC, that he has open'd SCHOOL opposite Dr. LANGDON's Meeting House, on the East Side the Parade; where he purposes teaching Writing, Arithmetic Vulgar and Decimal, Merchants Accounts, Mensuration of Superficies and Solids, Navigation, Gauging, Surveying, the Use of the Globes; and such Astronomical Problems as are of Use in the Art of Navigation; on the most reasonable Terms. Such GENTLEMEN as intend to learn any of the above Branches, may depend on being taught with the greatest Care and Expedition, by
BARNABY BRENOCK.
N. B. A Night SCHOOL will be kept from the Hours of Six 'till Nine.
WILLIAM PARKER,
PERUKE MAKER AND HAIR CUTTER, Has just opened Shop, opposite Squire HOLLAND's, in Londonderry, where
H e makes and sells all Sorts of WIGGS, cuts and dresses Hair in the newest and neatest Fashion. All GENTLEMEN and LADIES who chuses to favour him with their Custom, may depend on good Usage and proper Attendance.

NEW-YORK, Jan. 13. Last Saturday night, a number of men belonging to the 16th regiment, quartered in this city, made an attempt to cut down the Liberty-Pole in the fields, by sawing off the spars round it, and afterwards attempted to blow it up, by boring a hole in the pole, which they filled with powder and set fire to it; but all their endeavors were in vain, the pole being so well secured with iron they could not penetrate it, so that they could not accomplish their design:---They then sallied forth in a furious manner, with bayonets drawn, upon a small number of gentlemen (who were standing near the house of Mr. Montayne) when they entered the house, after having destroyed all the front windows;---one of the Soldiers made a thrust with his bayonet at a person, which he parrying with his hand, only received a slight wound in the forehead;---after which some of their officers interposing, they retired to their barracks.
The brig mentioned in our last to be ashore on the south-side of Long-Island, proves to be from Dublin in ballast, and is entirely lost, and all the crew drowned. In a chest that was drove ashore, a pocket book was found, with a shipping paper therein, with the following names thereto, viz. John Conry, Master; Michael Cannon, Mate; John Timothy Carpenter; Joseph Reily, Richard Berford, Joseph Burke, William Bowden, and William Arter. Three of the dead bodies were taken upon the Beach last Wednesday, much cut and bruised with the Ice.
Southold, Long-Island, January 13. 1770. Some Time last Week as a Number of Moon-Curiers were employed in getting on Shore the Logs and drift Wood which came from the Main in the late Freshet, they discovered a Man drowned and drove on Shore near Oyster-Pond-Point, his Flesh much torn off, and nothing to describe him by but his having on two Pair of Stockings, a Pair of Shoes, and Buckles which were not Mates: Likewise a Horse, Saddle and Bridle came on Shore at Plumb-Island about the same Time.
NEWPORT, January 28. Last Monday night as four men belonging to the Senegal Sloop of War, in this harbour, were in a small boat, in pursuit of another which was driving away; the boat overset, by which accident two of them were drowned, and are not yet found.
Capt. Alex. Dean in the Schooner -----, from Curacoa, for New-York, put in here in distress last Wednesday night, having had 60 Days passage, been at very short allowance for a considerable time, met with extreme bad weather, and received much damage in his sails and rigging.
BOSTON, January 29. We hear from St. Vincent, that on Sunday the 15th of November last, about 3 o'Clock in the Afternoon, they had there a severe Shock of an Earthquake, but did no Damage; and that several slight Shocks were felt preceding the above.
We hear from Medfield, that on the 15th Instant, a Woman aged 63, was cut there for the Stone; when a large rough Stone, weighing 3 Oz. & 7 Gr. was extracted from her Bladder:---This dangerous Operation was performed with great Dexterity & Judgment by Doctor JOHN JEFFRIES of this Town. The Woman is now in a fine way & like to do well.
A Brig Capt. Conry, from Dublin, for New-York, is cast ashore on the South side of Long-Island; and the People, 9 in number, all lost, and the Vessel beat to Pieces.
By a Person, from Cape Cod, we learn, that it is Capt. Morton from the Mole, which had put into that Place, and not the late Capt. English's Brig, as was reported.
We hear from Dominica, that two Mulatto Women, that were carried out to Sea, on the Top of a House, by the Inundation at Rosseau, lately mentioned, have been taken up & carried into Martinico.
SALÉM, January 30. Last Wednesday Morning died at Marblehead, the Reverend Mr. JOHN BARNARD; but as he was buried but last Evening, an Account of his Funeral and Character must be deferred till next Week.
The Beginning of last Week, Mrs. English, Widow, living at the lower part of this Town, fell into the Fire, while alone, supposed in a Fit, and when she was discovered her Cloaths all in a Blaze:---She lived about 24 Hours after, and then expired.
***** PORTSMOUTH, February 2.
Wednesday the 17th ult. died here much lamented, and on the Saturday following was very solemnly & decently interred, the Rev. Mr. SAMUEL DROWN, Pastor of one of the Churches in this town, aged 49. On the eighth of this Month he was cut by the ingenious Dr. HALL JACKSON of this Place, who extracted a Stone from his Bladder which measured almost five Inches round; there was the fairest Prospect of his Recovery, as every Circumstance relative to this dangerous Operation, was equal to the most sanguine Expectations of his Physician and Friends, until the 15th Instant, when he was seized with a violent Fit of the Asthma, (a Disorder he had a long Time been subject to) which soon brought on a severe Pain in his right Breast, and Fever, his Strength having been exhausted by a long Confinement, together with the Complication and Severity of the Diseases, that Almighty God in his holy Providence was pleased to inflict upon him, being no longer able to withstand the Stroke of Death, he with the greatest Calmness and Resignation, died in the full Assurance of Faith, and committed his Spirit into the Hands of his blessed Redeemer, on whom alone he trusted and relied for Mercy and Acceptance. He was (altho' he had not the Advantage of an Academical Education) a Gentleman possessed of strong, lively, natural Powers of Mind, and of a tenacious Memory, he was a good Christian, an affectionate Preacher, and a faithful Minister of Jesus Christ:---Blessed are the Dead that die in the Lord:---Mark the perfect, and behold the upright, for the End of that Man is Peace:---May the Blessings of the upper and nether Springs be poured down on his disconsolate Widow, and may the Fatherless Children partake of a double Portion of the Spirit of their pious deceased Parent.
Last Friday a young Fellow by the Name of Samuel Chandler, Apprentice to one of the Barbers of this Town, was taken up on Suspicion of breaking open the Store of Mr. John Penhallow, of this Town, Merchant, and stealing from thence a Number of Articles, which upon Examination he confessed, as also being concerned in stealing the Goods from Mr. Cutts Store, and the Watches from Mr. Griffith's Shop, as advertised some Months ago. It is not yet certainly known who are the Persons concerned with him; but if any, no doubt he'll bring them out, previous to his Trial.
CUSTOM HOUSE Piscataqua Feb. 1.    Inward Entries,  NGNE.    Outward Bound,  FOR.    Schooner Eight Sisters -----,  West-Indies.    Schooner Good Intent, Thomas Manning,  Virginia.    Clear'd for Departure,  FOR.    Brig Four Sisters, Bray Underwood,  West-Indies.    Brig Hannah, John Elliot,  Ditto.    Ship Piscataqua, Edmund Coffin,  Ditto.    Schooner Sally, Joseph Mead,  Ditto.    *****
PROVINCE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE. It being suggested,
that some Persons are possessed of Bills of Publick Credit of this Province, This is therefore to notify the Possessors of any of said Bills of Credit, that they may have them exchanged by the Province Treasurer, at his Office, agreeable to Acts of the General Assembly of said Province, by the 10th Day of March next.
And those Constables and Collectors of the Province Tax for the Year 1769, who have not paid their respective Collections of said Tax, are also notified, that any of the said Bills of Credit, will be received of them, for said Tax, by the Treasurer.
And as the Time limited for Payment of said Tax into the Province Treasury is expired: Notice is also given, that if said Tax is not paid into said Treasury, by the Tenth Day of February next, Extents will be issued against the Delinquents.
GEO: JAFFERY, Treasurer. Treasurer's Office, Jan. 29th, 1770.
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. By some Things in a natural and some in a providential Way, occurring unforeseen by us, we were obliged to adjourn the Vendue (after selling a few small Parcels) for Sale of the Lands in Rochester for the Delinquency in Payment of the Taxes on the same, 'till Tuesday the 20th Day of February next, Ten o'Clock A. M., at the House of Lieut. Stephen Berry's in said Town, where we expect to proceed. By Order, and in Behalf of the Select Men, Per Jonathan Dam, Town Clerk. Rochester, Jan. 29; 1770.
* WARREN. *
NOTICE is hereby given to the several delinquent Proprietors of WARREN, in New Hampshire, hereafter mentioned, that their respective Rights of Land, in said Town, will be exposed to Sale at publick Vendue on Thursday the Eighth Day of March next, at the House of Col. Jonathan Greeley, Innholder in Kingston, at three o'Clock, P. M. agreeable to a LAW of said Province, unless prevented by their paying the several TAXES assessed on their respective Rights, as the Balance is hereafter mentioned and set forth in Lawful Money, viz:
  Capt. Ephraim Brown £. 3 0 0   Thomas True 1 10 0   Abel Davis 1 8 0   Aaron Clough, junr. 1 10 0   Silas Nowel 3 18 0   William Parker, junr. Esq; 2 14 0   Jacob Currier 2 8 0   Jacob Gale 3 0 0   Capt. John Parker 3 18 0   Philip Tilton 1 12 0   Nathaniel Barrell, Esq; 3 0 0   Lieut. James Graves 2 8 0   John Marsh 3 18 0   Jonathan Greeley, tertius, 3 18 0   ENOCH PAGE, Collector.   South Hampton, Jan. 22. 1770: 
Just Published, & to be sold by the Printers hereof, THE Necessity and Importance of Rulers, Civil and Ecclesiastical; and also of all private Christians, exerting themselves in the Cause of Christ and Religion, in their Endeavours to stop the threatening Growth of Impiety and Immorality; and to encourage pure Religion and undefiled: At a Time when Vice grows rampant, and Religion runs at a low Ebb:---A SERMON, preach'd at Newington, March 13. 1769, by JOSEPH ADAMS, A. M. and Pastor of said Church.
We hear the Managers of New-Market and Stra ham Lottery are now rowling up the Blanks and Prizes in said Lottery, and will begin to draw the Tuesday after next.
LEMMONS, Fresh and Good, to be sold by Joseph Hart, At Half a Dollar a Dozen, and cheaper by the Hundred.
Nath' Sheaff Griffith Hereby informs his Customers, and others, that he still carries on Clock and Watch making as usual, at his Shop opposite Dr. Langdon's Meeting House; and has now by him all Sorts of Materials for said Business.
WE the Subscribers being ap- pointed by the Hon. John Hill, Esq; Judge of Probate for the County of York, to receive and examine the Claims of the several Creditors of the Estate of Capt. JOHN LORD, late of Berwick, in said County, deceased, represented Insolvent: And six Months being allowed for that Service, from the second Day of January Inst. Do hereby notify said Creditors, that we shall attend that Service at the Dwelling House of Mr. Nabum Marshall, Innholder in Berwick, on the first Monday of February next, and of the five following Months, from 3 to 6 o'Clock Afternoon of said Days James Gowen, Berwick, Jan. 8th, 1770. Benj. Chadburn, Wm. Rogers.
[Meredith.] PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. WHEREAS there is sundry delinquent Proprietors, Grantees, or Owners of the original Rights or Shares, or other of their respective Lots thereto belonging, in the Town of Meredith, in said Province, which Town was lately called New-Salem, but now Meredith: These are to notify and warn such Delinquents as aforesaid, that they respectively pay the several Sums herein prefixed to each original Share, to me the Subscriber, Collector for the Proprietors of said Meredith, by the first Day of March next ensuing; otherwise their Interests will be exposed to Sale, for the Payment of the Sum, according to the Laws of said Province, in such Cases made and provided. The Delinquents are as follows, viz:
   1st Div. 2d Div. 3d Div.     John Taylor, 0 18 0 0 19 0 0 17 0   John Purmont, 2 10 7 3 0 8 2 5 0   Joseph Wadleigh, 0 12 0 0 14 3 0 10 0   Chase Robinson, 1 16 8 2 3 10 1 13 0   John Leavitt, jun. 1 6 10 1 11 5 1 3 7   Joseph Person, 1 6 0 1 11 3 1 4 3   Ebenezer Smith, Collector.   Meredith, January 15, 1770.  
§ CANAAN. § APPLICATION having been made to me the Subscriber, one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace, by more than one sixteenth part of the proprietors of Canaan, in the Province of New Hampshire, to Notify a Meeting of said proprietors to transact the following Matters, viz. 1. To chuse a Moderator. 2. A proprietor's Clerk and Treasurer, Collector, and all necessary Committees. 3. To establish and confirm the Transactions of any former Meetings, if the proprietors shall see fit. 4. To receive, examine and pass upon any such Accounts as may then be exhibited against said proprietors. 5. To grant and raise all such Sums of Money by Tax, as may be thought necessary to discharge the Debts of the propriety, and to promote the Settlement of said Township. 6. To see if the proprietors will agree to Lett out said Township. 7. To see what Encouragement they will give for building Mills in said Town. 8. To determine upon a Method for calling proprietors Meetings for the future. In Compliance with the above Request, I do hereby Notify said proprietors to meet at the House of Mr. John Man in Orford, in said province, on Thursday the 10th Day of May next, at Two o'Clock P. M. then and there to act upon the Premises. Orford, Jan. 18, 1770. ISRAEL MOFFY.
TO BE SOLD Two Lots of Land, near the Rev. Mr. Haven's Meeting House. Enquire of the Printers. A few Tickets in Newmarket Lottery may be had at the Printing-Office.