The New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1788-05-29 00:00:00

THE NEW-HAMPSHIRE AND GENERAL THURSDAY, PORTSMOUTH: By JOHN MELCHER,
[VOLUME XXXII.—No. 1655.] GAZETTE, THE ADVERTISER. MAY 29, 1788.
PRINTED AND PUBLISHED IN MARKET-STREET.
"WHEN ANGRY NATIONS PART IN LEAGUES OF PEACE, LET PRIVATE FEUDS AND CIVIL DISCORDS CEASE."
AN ACT
Passed June 27th, 1787.
In addition to an act, entitled, an act to regulate flax-seed, pot-ash and pearl-ash, for exportation.
Whereas by an act made and passed by the General Court of New-Hampshire, entitled, "an act to regulate flax-seed, pot-ash and pearl-ash, for exportation," the President and Council are impowered to appoint within such sea-port towns within this State as there shall be occasion, one or more skillful person or persons, to be assay masters, for the proving and assaying pot-ash and pearl-ash, whose qualification and duty are therein set forth; But no provision is therein made, for appointing any such assay masters in any other towns, except sea-port towns as aforesaid, and it appearing of public utility, that such should be appointed in other towns:
Therefore,
BE it enacted by the SENATE and HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES in GENERAL COURT convened, That the President and Council be, and they hereby are impowered to appoint in any town, or towns within this State, as occasion shall require, one or more skillful person or persons to be assay masters, whose duty and qualifications shall be the same, as are by the aforesaid act required.
AN ACT
Passed June 27th, 1787.
In addition to an act, for setting off debts and mutual demands.
Whereas by an act made and passed in the fifth year of his majesty king George the third's reign, mutual debts and demands may be set off against each other, either by being plead in bar, or offered in evidence as the case may require; but no provision is made, in case the defendant's demands shall exceed the plaintiff's:
For remedy whereof,
BE it enacted by the SENATE and HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES in GENERAL COURT convened, That when an offset, is plead in bar, or offered in evidence by the defendant against the plaintiff's demand, in any action, in which by said act an offset is allowed; if it is found by the Jury who shall try the cause, that there is a balance due to the defendant, judgment shall be rendered for the defendant, for such sum or balance, as they shall find due, and legal costs.
And be it further enacted, That when any offset, shall be plead as aforesaid, in any case triable by a Justice of the Peace, the Justice shall in like manner render judgment and grant execution accordingly, for the balance he may find due to the defendant. Provided the balance so found, exceeds not his jurisdiction.
OBSERVATIONS on the CONSTITUTION proposed by the FEDERAL CONVENTION.
BUT besides the objections originating from the before mentioned cause, that have been called local , there are other objections that are supposed to rise from the maxims of liberty and policy.
Hence it is inferred, that the proposed system has such inherent vices, as must necessarily produce a bad administration, and at length the oppression of a monarchy or an aristocracy in the federal officers.
The writer of this address being convinced by as exact an investigation as he could make, that such mistakes may lead to the perdition of his country, esteems it his indispensable duty, strenuously to contend, that—the power of the people pervading the proposed system, together with the strong confederation of the
states forms an adequate security against every danger that has been apprehended.
If this single assertion can be supported by facts and arguments, there will be reason to hope, that painful anxieties will be removed from the minds of some citizens, who are truly devoted to the interest of America, and who have been thrown into afflictive perplexities, by the never-ending mazes of multiplied, intricate, and contrariant disquisitions. The objectors agree, that the confederation of the states will be strong, according to the system proposed, and so strong, that many of them loudly complain of that strength. On this part of the assertion there is no dispute: But some of the objections that have been published, strike at another part of the principle assumed, and deny, that the system is sufficiently founded on the power of the people.
The course of regular enquiry demands—these objections should be considered in the first place. If they are removed, then all the rest of the objections, concerning unnecessary taxations, standing armies, the abolishment of trials by jury, the liberty of the press, the freedom of commerce, the judicial, executive, and legislative authorities of the several states, and the rights of citizens, and the other abuses of federal government, must of consequence, be rejected, if the principle contains the salutary, purifying, and preserving qualities attributed to it. The question then will be—Not what may be done, when the government shall be turned into a tyranny; but, how the government can be so turned?
Thus unembarrassed by subordinate discussions, we may come fairly to the contemplation of that superior point, and be better enabled to discover, whether our attention to it will afford any lights, whereby we may be conducted to peace, liberty, and safety.
The objections, denying that the system proposed is sufficiently formed on the power of the people, state, that the number of the federal trustees or officers, is too small, and that they are to hold their offices too long.
One would really have supposed, that smallness of number could not be termed a cause of danger, as influence must encrease with enlargement. If this is a fault, it will soon be corrected, as an addition will be often made to the number of the senators, and, almost every year, to that of the representatives; and in all probability much sooner, than we shall be able and willing to bear the expence of the addition.
As to the senate, it never can be, and it never ought to be large, if it is to possess the powers, which almost all the objectors seem inclined to allot to it, as will be evident to every intelligent person, who considers those powers.
Tho' small, let it be remembered, that it is to be created by the sovereignities of the several states, that is, by the persons whom the people of each state shall judge to be most worthy, and who, surely, will be religiously attentive to making a selection, in which the interest and honour of their state will be so extensively concerned. It should be remembered too, that this is the same manner, in which the members of Congress are now appointed; and that herein, the sovereignities of the states are so intimately involved, that however a renunciation of part of these powers may be desired by some of the states, it never will be obtained from the rest of them. Peaceable, paternal, and benevolent as these are, they think, the concessions they have made, ought to satisfy all.
That the senate may always be kept full, without the interference of Congress it is provided that if vacancies happen by resignation or otherwise, during the recess of the legislature of any state, the execu-
tive thereof may make temporary appointments, until the next meeting of the legislature, which shall then fill up such vacancies.
As to the house of representatives, it is to consist of a number of persons not exceeding one for every thirty thousand. Thus, every member of that house will be elected by a majority of the electors of a whole state; or by a majority of the electors among thirty thousand persons. These electors will reside, widely dispersed, over an extensive country. Cabal and corruption will be as impracticable, as, on such occasions, human institutions can render them. The will of freemen, thus circumstanced, will give the fiat. The purity of election thus obtained, will amply compensate for the supposed defect of representation; and the members, thus chosen, will be most apt to harmonize in their proceedings, with the general interests, feelings, and sentiments of the people.
Allowing such an increase of population as, from experience and a variety of causes, may be expected, the representatives, in a short period, will amount to several hundreds, and most probably long before any change of manners for the worse, that might tempt or encourage our rulers to mal-administration, will take place on this continent.
That this may always be kept full without the interference of Congress, it is provided in the system, that when vacancies happen in any state, the executive authority thereof shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies.
But, it seems, the number of the federal officers is not only too small: They are to hold their offices too long.
This objection surely applies not to the house of representatives, who are to be chosen every two years, especially if the extent of empire, and the vast variety and importance of their deliberation, be considered. In that view, they and the senate will actually be not only legislative but also diplomatic bodies, perpetually engaged in the arduous task of reconciling, in their determinations, the interest of several sovereign states, not to insist on the necessity of a competent knowledge of foreign affairs, relative to the states.
They who desire the representatives to be chosen every year, should exceed Newton in calculations, if they attempt to evince, that the public business would, in that case, be better transacted, than when they are chosen every two years. The idea, however, for the zeal that prompted it.
Is monarchy or aristocracy to be produced, without the consent of the people, by a house of representatives thus constituted?
It has been unanimously agreed by the friends of liberty, FREQUENT ELECTIONS OF THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE PEOPLE, ARE THE MOST SOVEREIGN REMEDY OF ALL GRIEVANCES IN A FREE GOVERNMENT.—Let us pass on to the senate.
At the end of two years after the first election, one third is to be elected for six years. Of the remaining thirds, one will constantly have but four years, and the other but two years to continue in office. The whole number at first will amount but to twenty-six, must ever continue very small, will be regularly renovated by the biennial elections of one third, and will be overlooked, and overawed by the house of representatives, nearly three times more numerous at the beginning, rapidly and vastly augmenting, and more enabled to overlook and overawe them, by holding their offices for two years, as thereby they will acquire better information, respecting national affairs. These representatives will also command the public purse, as all bills for raising revenue, must originate in their house.
As in the Roman armies, when the
Principes and Hastati had failed, there were still the Triarii, who generally put things to rights, so we shall be supplied with another resource.
We are to have a president, to superintend, and if he thinks the public weal requires it, to controul any act of the representatives and senate.
This president is to be chosen, not by the people at large, because it may not be possible, that all the freemen of the empire should always have the necessary information, for directing their choice of such an officer; nor by Congress, lest it should disturb the national councils; nor by any one body whatever, for fear of undue influence.
He is to be chosen in the following manner. Each state shall appoint, as the legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors, equal to the whole number of senators and representatives, to which the state shall be entitled in Congress: but no senator or representative, or person holding an office of trust or profit under the United States, shall be appointed an elector. As these electors are to be appointed, as the legislature of each state may direct, of course they will be appointed by the people of the state, if such be the pleasure of the people. Thus, the fairest, freest opening is given, for each state to choose such electors for this purpose, as shall be most signally qualified to fulfil the trust.
To guard against undue influence these electors, thus chosen, are to meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot; and still further to guard against it, Congress may determine the time of choosing the electors, and the day on which they shall give their votes—WHICH DAY SHALL BE THE SAME THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES. All the votes from the several states are to be transmitted to Congress, and therein counted.—The president is to hold his office for four years.
When these electors meet in their respective states, utterly vain will be the unreasonable suggestions derived from partiality. The electors may throw away their votes, mark, with public disappointment, some person improperly favoured by them, or justly revering the duties of their office, dedicate their votes to the best interests of their country.
This president will be no dictator;—two thirds of the representatives and the senate may pass any law, notwithstanding his dissent; and he is removable and punishable for misbehaviour.
Can the limited, fluctuated senate, placed amidst such powers, if it should become willing, ever become able, to make America pass under its yoke? The senators will generally be inhabitants of places very distant one from another.—They can scarcely be acquainted till they meet. Few of them can ever act together for any length of time, unless their good conduct recommends them to a re-election—and then there will be frequent changes in a body dependent upon the choice of other bodies, the legislatures of the several states, that are altering every year. Machiavel and Cæsar Borgia together could not form a conspiracy in such a senate, dangerous to any but themselves and their accomplices.
It is essential to every good government that there should be some council, permanent enough to get a due knowledge of affairs internal and external; so constituted, that by some deaths or removals, the current of information should not be impeded or disturbed; and so regulated, as to be responsible to, and controulable by the people. Where can the authority for combining these advantages, be more safely, beneficially, or satisfactorily, lodged, than in the senate, to be formed according to the plan proposed? Shall parts of the trust be committed to the president—

with counsellors, who shall subscribe their advices? If assaults upon liberty are to be guarded against, and surely they ought to be with sleepless vigilance, why should we depend more on the commander in chief of the army and navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several states, and on his counsellors, whom he may secretly influence, than on the senate to be appointed by the persons exercising the sovereign authority of the several states; In truth, the objections against the powers of the senate originated from a desire to have them, or at least some of them vested in a body, in which the several states should be represented, in proportion to the number of inhabitants, as in the house of representatives. This method is UNATTAINABLE, and the wish for it should be dismissed from every mind—that desires the existence of a confederation.
What assurance can be given, or what probability be assigned, that a board of counsellors would continue honest, longer than the senate? Or, that they would possess more useful information, respecting all the states, than the senators of all the states? It appears needless to pursue this argument any further.
How varied, ballanced, coincident, and benign, is the system proposed to us? To secure the freedom, and promote the happiness of these and future states, by giving THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE a decisive influence over the whole, and over all the parts, with what a comprehensive arrangement does it embrace different modes of representations, from an election by a county to an election by an empire? What are the complicated ballot, and all the refined devices of Venice for maintaining her aristocracy, when compared with this plain dealing, work for diffusing the blessings of equal liberty and common prosperity over myriads of the human race?
All the foundations before mentioned, of the federal government, are by the proposed system to be established, in the most clear, strong, positive, unequivocal expressions, of which our language is capable. Magna charta, or any other law, never contained clauses more decisive and emphatic. While the people of these states have sense, they will understand them and while they have spirit, they will make them to be observed.
FABIUS, No. II.
V I E N N A, Feb. 27.
The operations of war are already begun bloodily. One garrison of the Turks has already been cut to pieces. Our earliest intelligence presents no welcome news. The Ottomans will grow desperate, the Huns no less so; so that the most dreadful and unwelcome operations are to be expected. It is past doubt the Emperor will shortly put himself at the head of his forces.
Feb. 28. Our last advices confirm the intelligence, that after four assaults, in which we lost a thousand men, our army subdued the fortress of New-Gradisca; and that the whole garrison, which had been reinforced by troops from Banialuka, were either put to the sword or taken prisoners.
M A L A G A, Feb. 8.
There have entered this port in the course of the last year 202 merchant ships, viz. 1409 Spanish, 187 English, 96 French, 24 Dutch, 76 Swedish, 54 Danish, 16 Venetians, 5 Portuguese, 1 Sicilian, 42 Rogusans, and one from Jerusalem. The difference of number is 197 less than in 1786.
Extract of a letter from Annapolis, April 28.
“Governor Paca voted for the Constitution; but provisionally he spoke as follows:—“As to the line of conduct which I shall now pursue, I thus publicly declare, that, exceptional as this government is, and liable to all these objections (which he in an eloquent speech had before enumerated) I hope and trust, that its defects may hereafter be corrected; but, under our present circumstances and embarrassments, my inclination leads me to take this government as it is.” The two Mr. Chases also declared their intention to submit, like good citizens, to the opinions of a majority of their fellow-citizens. Mr. Mercer behaved with equal manliness and candour. Indeed, the conduct of the whole minority was such as merits the highest encomiums.
L O N D O N, March 28.
Those who delight in the horrid relation of well-fought battles, and fields covered with slaughtered hosts, will soon, no doubt, be gratified, in the events of the war between the Turks and Russians—We anticipate, with grief, the rivers
of blood which will flow, the dying groans which will ascend, the ravages and desolations which will take place, in this war of Russian and Austrian ambition! In what dreadful calamities do the passions of the great, involve mankind!
There are not far short of A MILLION of the humane species at this instant in arms on the borders of Turkey, for the purpose of destroying each other: but much of this inhuman business may probably be saved, as the plague rages violently at Constantinople, and will inevitably be soon communicated to the Imperial and Russian, as well as the Ottoman, armies, where it will make more dreadful havoc than even the vengeful weapons of the adverse parties.
France, by the march of the Austrians into Hungary, is left so totally defenceless, as must make her a very easy conquest indeed to Prussia, should her intriguing spirit lead her so soon to break her late declaration. The truth is, France has dropped for a time her gay dreams of speculative dominion, for the more solid purposes of introducing reform and economy into every branch of their government. Spain is of too little account almost to be noticed; her navy is her whole strength; she can be of no use to France in the land war; and the most timorous will little dread the combined fleet, now that Holland has with us, and that, in the event of a war, the King of Prussia would be thundering on the frontiers of France with an army of 200,000 men.
We are assured that the Marquis de Noailles, Ambassador from the Court of France, to that of Vienna, is using every means in his power to avert the impending war between the Austrians and the Ottoman Port.
A short time since a Butcher, who had purchased a calf not far from Lewes, sat with it on a horse at a public house door; on which a shoe-maker (remarkable for his drollery,) observing, and knowing that the Butcher, had to pass through a wood, offered the Landlord to steal the calf, provided he would treat him with six-pennyworth of grog. The Landlord agreed, and the shoe-maker set off and dropt one new shoe in the path near the middle of the wood, and another near a quarter of a mile from it.
The butcher saw the first shoe, but did not think it worth getting down for, however, when he discovered the second, he thought the pair would be an acquisition, and accordingly dismounted, tied his horse to the hedge, and walked back to where he had seen the first shoe. The shoemaker, in the mean time, unstrapped the calf, and carried it across the fields to the Landlord, who put it in his barn. The butcher, missing his calf, went to the inn and told his misfortune, at the same time observing, that he must have another calf, cost what it would, as the veal was bespoke. The Landlord told him he had a calf in the barn, which he would sell him; but the butcher looked at it, and asked the price. The Landlord replied, give me the same as you did for the calf you lost; as this, I think, is full as large. The butcher would by no means allow the calf to be so good, but agreed to give him within six shillings of what the other cost, and accordingly put the calf a second time on his horse. Crispin, elated at his success, undertook to steal the calf again for another six pennyworth, which being agreed on, he posted to the wood and hid himself; where observing the butcher coming along, he bellowed so like a calf, that the butcher, conceiving it to be the one he had lost, cried out in joy, “Ah! are you there! have I found you at last?” and immediately dismounted and ran into the wood. Crispin, taking advantage of the butcher's absence, unstrapped the calf, and actually got back with it to the publican, before the butcher arrived to tell his mournful tale; who attributed the whole to witchcraft. The publican unravelled the mystery, and the butcher after paying for, and partaking of a crowns worth of punch, laughed heartily at the joke, and the shoemaker got highly applauded for his ingenuity.
Extract of a letter from Canterbury, March 28.
“About a fortnight since a private soldier belonging to a regiment now laying at Dover, was sentenced to receive a 1000 lashes for desertion; after receiving 650, he was sent back to the Guard-House, where he languished till Friday morning last, and then died. When the unfortunate lad, who, it appears was only 18 years old had received 500 lashes, he entreated, in the most pethetick manner for mercy, assuring
those who stood near “his heart was breaking, and that he must die if they flogged him any longer.”
March 22. A man made his third experiment on the 6th inst. at Paris, of saving the most valuable effects out of a house set on fire on purpose. Protected by an incombustible dress of his own invention, he went and returned with the greatest ease and composure through the flames several times, and made use of his limbs as if in perfect safety. The inventor announces that the dress is not very expensive. The Academy of Arts and Sciences have approved it.
H A L I F A X, May 8.
Yesterday arrived the Thyne Packet, Capt. Wolf, from Falmouth, which left the 6th ult. In the Thyne came passengers, Lord Viscount Mountmores, Col. Smith, late secretary to the American Ambassador, with several other passengers, on their way to New-York. In this vessel has arrived the new act of Parliament, lately brought forward by Mr. Grenville, for regulating the trade with America.
M A Y 15.
Extract of a letter from a Gentleman at Quebeck, to his Friend at Halifax, March 29.
“The Loyalists are coming into this Province in vast Numbers; 700 Families of Quakers from Pennsylvania, and 107 Families from Suffex, in New-Jersey, are petitioning for lands on Lake Erie. The Lands on our side of Niagara are already filled, and above 1000 Families are now applying for a settlement to the Eastward of Lake Champlain; Colonel Fitch, of Connecticut, is at their head.
“Thus we go on prosperously, and if Lord Dorchester lives (which is the fervent prayer of every Loyalist,) in a few years the whole province, from this to Detroit, will be filled with good and faithful Subjects. There are now upwards of 10,000 Souls settled between the Cedars and Cartaragui; that, and all about it, is the finest Country and richest land in the World; they already send to market large Quantities of Wheat, Butter, &c.—They are happy and contented.”
WILMINGTON, (Delaware) May 7.
We hear a few days since, Mr. William Bradley, with others from Frederica, went to the bay to fish, and laid out his seine on a part of Strunkill bar, and drew in 123 drum fish, weighing from 15lb. to 60lb. each.
P H I L A D E L P H I A, May 14.
The following is a part of a letter from Leghorn, dated January 16.—“I shall now give you an account of the escape of some Portuguese from Algiers. The whole crew consisted of the Captain, mate, and ten men. They were taken about three weeks since, carried into Algiers, and thrown into a loathsome prison, where they were almost starved. Hearing they were to be sent up the country into slavery, they contrived their escape in the following manner.—Some of them pretended to be ill, and called to the man who kept the gate for assistance. He no sooner entered than they secured him, tied his hands and feet, and locked him in the room they were confined in. Having taken the keys from him, they let themselves out, securing the door that he might not get out to follow them. They went immediately down to the harbour, where they found a small vessel, in which they put to sea without provisions or water; but Providence so ordered it, that they had a fair wind to this place. When they arrived they were obliged to be brought on shore on men's backs. Great care is taken of them. It is impossible to express how joyful they are that they have escaped out of the hands of the Barbarians.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Greenock dated February 18, 1788, to his friend in this city.
“I am certainly informed, that some of your neighbours in Philadelphia have advised Lord Sidney of London, that you are promoting a cotton manufacturery in Philadelphia, and that you had given orders to your correspondents in this country, to send out tradesmen and utensils for that purpose by the ship Alexander. Lord Sidney has wrote to Provost Riddle in Glasgow, and Provost Riddle has wrote to his correspondents in Greenock, respecting the above. This is a serious matter which I do not believe, and it would be attended with very dangerous consequences to have any hand in sending out manufacturers from this country.”
The spirit of the above extract is a very striking evidence, that the British nation
are strongly opposed to the establishment of manufactories in this country, and consequently to its real interest.
Yesterday arrived the ship Amsterdam Packet, Captain Collet, from Amsterdam—On his passage he spoke with an English ship from the East-Indies, the Captain informed him, that the ship Alliance, Captain Read, of this port, arrived at Canton about the beginning of January last.
H A R T F O R D, May 14.
Late English Newspapers advise, that several of the Persian Princes had offered to assist the Turks against the Russians—That the Swedes and Venetians had resolved to observe a strict Neutrality in the War between the Russians and Turks—That the Turks had formed four great Armies; one in Servia of 100,000, the Second in Bosnia of 60,000, the Third in Bessarabia and Moldavia, where are the chosen Artillery, and the Fourth in the Crimea, of near 25,000 Men—That the new Khan of the Tartars was in Bessarabia, at the Head of 30,000 Men, in opposition to the Russians—That the Russians work night and day at Cherson, and the other ports in the Crimea, in order to repair and equip their damaged fleet for sea—That the troubles and confusion in the Austrian Netherlands were much greater than at any former period—in particular it is mentioned, that the breach between the Government and the Council of the states of Brabant grows wider every day, and appears to be wholly irreconcilable—That in Brabant, the Emperor either strikes a blow now or never; and the last accounts had a very threatening aspect—That in the spring, the Emperor's forces take the field along with those of Russia, all mediation with the Porte being in vain, and all hopes of peace disappointed—That notwithstanding the immense preparations which the courts of Vienna and Petersburg are making to ensure success to the hopes of aggrandizing their dominions—the Turks are no less sanguine of victory, and appealing to the same tribunal as their adversaries, though by a different agent, seem confident of a decree in their favour—That all accounts agree in announcing the firm unshaken resolution of the Turkish Divan to see it out with their numerous powerful enemies as well as insidious friends, and that the increasing numbers of their adversaries only increases their ardour to defend themselves against a combination which they think they see formed for the downfall and final destruction of their huge unwieldy empire—That the number of their forces they are said to be sending forth to fight their battles, seems to be incredible! However, an unusual vigour, alacrity, and unanimity seems to pervade their councils as well as their fleets and armies—and what the event will be no mortal man can know, until events develop themselves—That the building of ships of war in all the Spanish dock yards goes on with much rapidity; his most Catholick Majesty being determined to have 100 ships of the line, fit for service, with all expedition—That the French ministers were again employed in the reduction of the body guards and infantry—that, excepting in a civil war, the confidence and attachment of the French nation never were more apparently alienated from their king and his government, than at present.
B O S T O N, May 27.
“We are informed that Judge Symes of New-Jersey, who not long since purchased a quantity of land of Congress on the Ohio west of the Sioto, is gone on with fifty families and fifty light-horse to begin a settlement on the western waters.
Extract of a letter from Halifax, to the Printer hereof, dated the 14th inst.
“We have strong talk here of the intercourse between Britain and the States being totally stopped.—Should this be the case, we shall have good reason to regret the cause which at first separated the quondam Mother from her Child.
“For various reasons I have cause for my attachment to the country under whose government I am happily settled. Nevertheless, it gives me the most heartfelt satisfaction to find, by the last advices from you, that the American Republic, whose increasing happiness and grandeur is the prevailing theme in almost every civilized country, is about CONFIRMING her own liberties, and establishing herself on the basis of EVERLASTING UNION and LOVE.

"Engulphed in the vast ocean of accursed Anarchy and a disjointed government—the fires of Columbia viewed the tottering fabric, and, by their united wisdom and endeavours, have fixed, it is hoped, a foundation, firm and as fixed as the stars, and of a duration equal to time itself."
"Happy, thrice happy, will your situation be, if to your other endeavours of instilling virtuous principles into your citizens, a proper REVERENCE OF THE DEITY is added! To the rising generation—the youth of the present age—in particular this duty is incumbent. Then will the government which you are about establishing, and which to me it seems the efforts of human wisdom could not bring to greater perfection) fix that lasting happiness which a brave and intrepid people justly merit. Adieu!"
The expence of the Baltimore procession, amounted to six hundred pounds, independently of what the different orders expended in their preparations.
Natural Curiosity. In Newcastle county, Apoquinimink hundred, Delaware state, near Mr. Duncan Beard's, there is a piece of ground, which contains a valley with the adjacent hills, producing hickory with the natural grain, &c. turned into stone.
S A L E M, May 27. The General Assembly of Nova Scotia have established premiums for encouraging the raising of flax-seed and hemp in that province: And also premium to be paid to the first adventurers who shall, in the present year, build a good bloomery or forge, for making bar-iron; a finery, for the making of bar-iron; and a furnace, for the making of pig-iron.
It is said, that not less than 800 families have already gone from the New-England States, to settle in the Ohio Country.
Mr. Atherton, the leader of the Anti-federal party in the New-Hampshire Convention, says, he now FEARS the New Constitution will be assented to by that Convention.
PORTSMOUTH, May 29.
A correspondent observes, that, among the many advantages resulting from a free government, none are more eminently distinguished than the LIBERTY OF THE PRESS, it being a vehicle through which intelligence is universally conveyed, through which a great part of the business of civilized society is transacted, and science and knowledge generally communicated; yet these are but secondary benefits when compared with the important questions of more public utility that are by this means discussed, whereby the great principles of political and social happiness are disseminated among the people at large, warning them against the snares of tyrants, and the misery and degradation of the human mind under the rod of oppression, and urging them to a regard for those obligations that bind society together for the mutual benefit of its members.
Mr. Cevenant, who published several essays upon the trade of England, in the end of the last century, observed, That where a nation is impoverished by bad government, by an ill managed trade, by war occasioning high taxes, or by any other circumstance, the interest of money will be dear, and the purchase of land cheap, the price of labour and provisions will be low, rents will everywhere fall, lands will lie untilled, and farm-houses will go to ruin. The yearly marriages and births will be lessened and burials encreased. The inhabitants will by degrees, and in some measure, withdraw themselves from such a declining country.
It is observed in one of the histories of England, that during a few years after the revolution in Great-Britain, before the government was fully established, and the nation laboured under heavy taxes on account of the late war with France—its trade was interrupted, and the interest of money was high, and excessive high premiums were given for ready money. The nation might at that time have been deemed poor, and was in on little distress: But no sooner was the Government reckoned
fully established, and freedom and property properly secured, but trade began to revive, and riches to flow in upon the nation in abundance.
There needs no observations or applications on the above; HE THAT RUNS MAY READ.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in London, dated Feb. 17, 1788.
A long peace is expected; but if the war between Russia and the Port continues, it is very likely it will create a general war in Europe. The French finances must be at a very low ebb, or they never would have suffered the Prussians to have marched into Holland, and to have relieved and supported the Stadtholder. This hath been the severest stroke France hath received for a century past.
London newspapers of a recent date, speaking of Warren Hastings, Esq. mention, that six waggon loads of papers, relative to his trial, would be conveyed from the India house to Westminster hall, in the course of a few days.
The Countess of Albany, the widow of the late Pretender, has a pension from the French Treasury of 60,000 livres.
The Hon. JOSHUA WENTWORTH, JOHN PICKERING, PIERCE LONG, CHRISTOPHER, TAPPAN and JOHN BELL, Esquires, (all staunch Federalists) are elected, by the free suffrages of the people, Senators for the county of Rockingham.
We hear from Boston, that His Excellency JOHN ADAMS, Esq. our late Ambassador at the Court of Great-Britain, arrived there on Monday evening last, from London.
Died since our last, GEORGE PIERCE, Esq. Attorney at Law, aged 28 years: a Daughter of Mrs. Ann Meads, aged 10 years; also a child of Mr. Nadab Moses.
NAVAL OFFICE, PORT OF PISCATAQUA, May 29, 1788. ENTERED. From Brig Elizabeth, Riley, Hispaniola. — 2-Sisters, Roach, Martinico & St. Peters. Schooner Nancy, Lord, St. Johns. Schooner Dove, Trefethen, Philadelphia. Sloop Catharina, Gerrish, St. Croix. Schooner Swallow, Palmer, South Carolina. CLEARED. For Brig Olive, Shores, West-Indies. Ship Brittannia, Reid, Barbados. Schooner Polly, Currier, West-Indies.
WEEKLY ALMANACK. For PORTSMOUTH, — Lat. 43d. 5N.
  May. 1 st 2 nd 3 rd 4 th 5 th 6 th 7 th 8 th 9 th 10 th 11 th 12 th 13 th 14 th 15 th 16 th 17 th 18 th 19 th 20 th 21 st 22 nd 23 rd 24 th 25 th 26 th 27 th 28 th 29 th 30 th 31 st   29 4 32 8 5 56 0 31 0 fast cl. 3m.   30 4 31 8 6 30 0 57 0 fast cl. 3m.   31 4 31 8 7 27 1 26 0 fast cl. 3m.   June 1 4 30 8 8 17 1 56 2 past trinity   2 4 30 8 9 11 2 35 3 very warm   3 4 29 8 10 18 3 22 4 CCP. Powna   4 4 28 8 11 12 4 sets 5 Eclipsed. 
For the New-Hampshire Gazette. A LACONICK EPILOGUE,
To be spoken at the grave of Antifederalism. HERE lies inter'd three feet deep, Antifederalism!—pray donot weep, Why need you weep, it's no such matter That you shou'd now his grave bespatter, For in his life, he did no good And now he's gone, he's only food For worms that eats his antis' out, And make him take another rout, So fare you well, ANTIFED'RAL.
A Toast for the New-Hampshire FEDERALISTS.
Long life, health, strength, peace and prosperity.
For the ANTIFEDERALISTS. May they be shun'd as an adder or poisonous snake, fit for no Company but brutes.
ON THE DECREASE OF RESPECT TOWARDS WOMEN.
IT is a mark of the times, that we daily degenerate in our high respect and esteem for the ladies, and it deserves enquiry to what cause the diminution of their influence on our manners is to be attributed.
Is it that they are less lovely than in former times? No, for beauty is evidently on the encrease.
Art is now so complete a handmaid, so adroit and intelligence—has so much contrivance and resource, that almost every woman is beautiful.
"They are like the lillies of the valey, they toil not, neither do they spin, and yet Solomon was not arrayed like some of these."
A woman now a-days, requires nothing from nature but height, and a couple, or at least one sparkling eye.
Shape is supplied by the truss-maker. Teeth, singly, or in sets, by the dentist. Rumps and bosoms by the milliners. Inoculation prevents the small-pox.
The friseur bids defiance both to red hair and grey.
And as to the complexion, perfumers provide it of every hue; from the ruddy of buxome nature, to the pale of delicate refinement.
Is it owing to neglect of education? No, for at no time was the female mind more richly endowed, or more elegantly accomplished.
They assert their rank, and they maintain it by the establishment of a fancy superior to our own.
The cause, therefore, is only to be attributed to the degeneracy of the men. We have broken the line that divided the sexes. We are dwindled into a race of feminine coxcombs, and instead of paying our court to beauty in its true and proper shape, in the female form, are become enamoured of our prettyselves, and study only the ornament of our thin and sickly persons. Hence arises the indifference for the sex, and hence those vile imputations which disgrace and degrade us.
By the UNITED STATES in CONGRESS assembled, May 8th, 1788.
ON a report of the Board of Treasury, to whom was referred a motion of Mr. CARRINGTON,
RESOLVED, That Congress proceed to the election of two Commissioners for settling the accounts of the five great departments, to continue in office one year.
ORDERED, That the Commissioners of Accounts for the quarter-master's, commissary's, hospital, marine and cloathing departments, with the approbation of the Board of Treasury, commence suits in behalf of the United States, against all persons in any of the said departments, who stand chargeable with public monies, and whose accounts shall not be lodged with the proper Commissioners within four months, computed from the present date; and that this Order be published in the several States for the period above mentioned.
RESOLVED, That the said Commissioners be directed to continue their unremitting attention to the final adjustment of all accounts which have arisen in the said departments, and to the recovery of all sums for which suits may be commenced; and that at the termination of their commission, they deposit with the Register of the Treasury all the books and papers of their respective offices, together with a general abstract of the sums due from individuals, in order that immediate measures may be adopted for the recovery of the same.
Congress proceeded to the election, and the ballots being taken,
Mr. JONATHAN BURRALL was elected a Commissioner for settling the accounts of the quarter-master's and commissary's departments, and
Mr. BENJAMIN WALKER was elected Commissioner for settling the accounts of the hospital, marine and cloathier's departments.
CHARLES THOMSON, Sec'y.
State of New-Hampshire.
THE public are cautioned to beware of counterfeit Certificates, done in imitation of those issued for interest and fifteen per cent. of the principal on Notes of this State, dated July 31st, 1787. The whole impression is pale when compared with those that are genuine, and the letters in the Counterfeits, are smaller—The N o . in the beginning of the Certificates in the true ones, the o is near the top of the N. thus N o . in the Counterfeits the o is at the bottom thus N o . The top of the J in the beginning of the Certificates in those that are genuine is above the I, in the counterfeits rather lower. There are several other marks but those mentioned may be sufficient to detect them.
EXETER, May 22, 1788.
The several Printers in the United States are requested to insert the above in their news-papers.
To be Sold or Let
on reasonable terms, a valuable WALL PEW, number 13, in Queen's Chapel, Portsmouth;—for particulars enquire of Mrs. Lettice Clagett or Clifton Clagett, at Litchfield.
Take Notice!
WHEREAS on the 15th inst. one Samuel Scammons, of Stratham, came to the subscriber, and under the specious pretext of wanting to purchase a note which he had against a certain person, in order to make a discount which would be agreeable to all parties, finally prevailed upon the subscriber to let him have that and six other small notes, amounting in the whole to twelve pounds nineteen shillings and three pence, for which the said Scammons was to pay the sum of nine pounds fifteen shillings, and agreed as can be proved to take said notes and run the whole risk of them, and never to recur to the subscriber for any part of them, should they never be paid, which notes he absolutely refused to indorse over, because he was not to be accountable, but gave a bare order to the signers of said notes on the back of them, to pay them to said Scammons, not mentioning any value received, or directing them to be paid to his order:—And whereas the said Scammons the next day procured a certain person to call on the subscriber pretending he had purchased said notes at their nominal and full value, and demanding that sum, and there is reason to think he will attempt yet to put them off, whereby some honest unwary person may be deceived, thinking the subscriber to be accountable, when he is not, nor ever will pay any part of them;—This is to forewarn all persons against purchasing said notes, and should any do it, and the notes not be recovered against the signers of them, or the said Scammons, such person must stand to the loss incurred by his imprudence. JOHN MELCHER. Portsmouth, May 16, 1788.
Stop Thief!
ON Sunday night, the 18th of May inst. was broken open the PRESS-HOUSE of the Subscriber, at Packer's Falls, and from thence stolen and carried away the following articles, viz.— 9 Yards thin Cloth, dyed green, and Marked E. D. with yarn. 12 yards thick—dyed claret brown, Marked I. M. with yarn. 6 yards thick—grey, Marked I. G. with yarn. 8 yards thick—dyed olive colour, Marked S. E. with cloth. 18 yards thick—grey, Marked S. I. with yarn. 4 yards thick—dyed claret colour, Marked D. B. with cloth. 3 yards thick—dyed black, Marked M. E. with yarn. 10 yards thick—dyed snuff colour, Marked S. E. with cloth. 13 yards thick—dyed olive colour, Marked I. H. with cloth. 8 yards blue cloth, Marked N. D. D. with cloth. 6 yards grey cloth, Marked I. B. D. with cloth. 9 1/2 yards thin cloth—dyed green, Marked S. E. L. with yarn. 14 yards thick—, dyed green, Marked N. S. with cloth.
Whoever will apprehend and secure the Thief or Thieves, so that he or they may be brought to justice, shall have TEN DOLLARS reward, and all necessary Charges paid by
JOHN SULLIVAN.
DURHAM, May 20th, 1788.
N. B. If any of the Cloth is offered for sale, it is desired it may be stopped.
THE subscribers appointed commissioners by the hon. Judge of Probate of Wills, for the county of Rockingham, to receive and examine the several claims against the estate of Captain WILLIAM WHITE, late of Portsmouth, in said county, Mariner, deceased, represented insolvent, hereby give notice that we will attend for that purpose, at the house of JOHN GREENLEAF, innholder in said town, the first Thursday in June next, and the five following months, from six to nine o'clock, P. M.
JEREMIAH LIBBEY,
JOHN EVANS,
DANIEL PIERCE,
Portsmouth, May 21st, 1788.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in the town of Barrington, that I shall begin to work on the Province road (so called) agreeable to an act of the General Court for that purpose, on Monday the 23rd day of June next; any persons disposed to work are desired to attend at the house of Capt. Philip Caverly, at 8 o'clock, A. M. on said day. Each person is requested to bring a hoe, axe, spade or crow-bar.
Joshua Foss, jr. Collector.
Barrington, May 26,

Parnassian Spring.
THE YEAR.
JANUARY.
LO! my fair, the morning lazy Peeps abroad from yonder hill; Phœbus rises red and hazy Frost has stop'd the village mill.
FEBRUARY.
All round her looks sad and dreary; East the flaky snow descends: Yet the red breasts chirrup cheery, While the mitten'd lass attends.
MARCH.
Rise the winds, and rocks the cottage, Thaws the roof, and wets the path; Dorcas cooks the savory pottage; Smokes the cake upon the hearth.
APRIL.
Sunshine intermits with ardor, Shades fly swiftly o'er the fields; Show'rs revive the drooping verdure, Sweets the funny uplands yields.
MAY.
Pearly beams the eye of morning: Child! forbear the deed unblest'd! Hawthorn every hedge adorning, Pluck the flower—but spare the nest!
JUNE.
Schools-boys in the brooks disporting, Spend the sultry hour of play; While the nymphs and swains are court- ing, Seated on the new-made hay.
JULY.
Maids with each a guardian lover, While the vivid lightning flies; Hastening to the nearest cover, Clasp their hands before their eyes.
AUGUST.
See the reapers, gleaning, dining, Seated on the shady grass; O'er the gate the squire reclining, Wanton eyes each ruddy lass.
SEPTEMBER.
Hark! a sound like distant thunder, Murderer, may thy malice fail! Torn from all they love asunder, Widow'd birds around us wail.
OCTOBER.
Now Pomona pours her treasure, Leaves autumnal strew the ground, Plenty crowns the market measure, While the mill runs briskly round,
NOVEMBER.
Now the giddy rites of Comus Crown the hunter's dear delight: Ah! the year is flitting from us, Bleak the day, and drear the night.
DECEMBER.
Bring more wood, and set the glasses, Join, my friends, our Christmas cheer; Come, a catch!—and kiss the lassies— Christmas comes but once a year.
For SALE
At B. Dearborn's shop, a variety of genteel Hanging Papers, just received,—also, an elegant English Surveying-Instrument.
Portsmouth, May 21.
STATIONARY.
Just imported, in the NANCY, Capt. York, from London.
Demy, Crown, and Foolscap Printing Paper—an assortment of Writing Paper, in which is included some of very low Prices, for common uses— Quarto Post guilt, black edged or mourn- ing ditto—common and best coloured Wafers, Sealing-Wax, Penknives—Ink- Powder and Printing Ink—Perry's pro- nouncing Dictionaries,—Bibles—Spell- ing, Children's, and a few other Books —black Lead Pencils—Blank and Copy Books—and Slip Copies—to be sold at the lowest Rates, by
Daniel Humphreys,
At his House in Pleasant-Street, near the South Meeting-House.
Spring & Summer Goods.
SAMUEL HILL,
Informs his Friends and Customers, that he has received a General Assortment of Spring & Summer Goods, (By Capt. York, from LONDON) Which will be sold as low for CASH, as can be purchased in the State. viz.
Superfine & Durants, course Broad Cloths, Modes, Sarfnetts, Serges Forest Cloths, Silk, Linen & Cot- ton Handkerchiefs, and Plains Corduroys, Velvets, Shawls, Flat and Sergedemim, Sattins, roundblackFeathers nets, Sattin Lastings—Cotton, Thread, and Lastings. Hemp and Worsted Fiorentines, Princes Hose, Silk Mitts & Stuff, Jeans and Gloves. Fultians, Writing-Paper, Trimmings of all A few boxes 10 by 8 sorts, and 9 by 7 Window Glafs, Irish Linens, Cod-Hooks & Lines, Check'd Linens, Bed Mackarel ditto, Ticks, Chintzes, Seine, Herring, and and Calicoes, Sewing Twine. Cambricks & Lawns, Sail Cloth of various Black & white Gauze forts, Shalloons, Tammies Bolting Cloths. Calimancoes, Stuff, A General ASSORTMENT of Painters' Colours, Whiting, LINSEED OIL. POWDER, Shot, Wool, Cotton and Sheet and Bar Lead, Clothiers' Cards, Pewter, Brimstone, Nails and Brads of Copperas, Allum & all sorts. Dye Woods.
A general ASSORTMENT of Hard & Crockery Wares.
May be had at the same place,— West-India N. Eng. Rum, Molasses, Loaf and Brown Sugars, Cof- fee Chocolate, Bohea Tea, Salt, and many other Articles, too many to enu- merate in this Advertisement.
N. B. CASH, and the highest Price, given for— Pot & Pearl Ash, Shipping FURS, BEES WAX, and FLAX-SEED, in its Season.
(NORTHWOOD.) State of New-Hampshire, NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in Northwood, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1787, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber, on or before the third Wednesday in June next, so much of their land as will pay the same, together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at two o'clock in the afternoon, at the dwelling house of Jonathan Clark, Esq. in said town, unless prevented by previous pay- ment.
   R. N. Q'ty l. s. d. s. d.     Thomas Mosley 7 13 156 0 7 5 6   Will'm Langdon 14 156 7 5 6   Cutting Noyce 16 130 6 0 4 6   Peregrin White 19 27 2 5 1 10   Sam'l Penhallow 8 8 156 1 5 7 18   John Calf 13 156 10 7 6   Benjamin Harris 21 109 5 6 4   Thomas Cressey 30 90 9 6 9   Elisha Storey 9 32 150 8 6   Dr. N'l Sargent 10 9 85 1 6 1   William Briggs 10 63 3 2 3   Fann Clement 11 130 7 8 8   Samuel Whitwell 14 100 1 2 15 6   Joshua Moody 11 5 156 10 7 6   Sam'l Burly & Nath'l Stevens 9 6 104 1 3 16 3   Capt. V. Leathers 18 40 4 9 3 6   Capt. G. Tuttle 10 7 78 4 6 3 4   Stoten Tuttle 10 7 78 4 6 3 4   Col. Rich'd Kent 7 12 26 0 1 3 0 6    JONATHAN BLAKE, Constable. Northwood, April 29th, 1788.
BLANKS of all sorts for sale at Mel- cher's Printing-Office, at the lowest Boston prices.
Pot-Ash & Bees-Wax.
Cash given for Pot-Ash & Bees-Wax, BY Keith Spence, Who has for sale at his Store in Market- Street, a consignment of English Goods, at the lowest Boston prices.—Also, Bohea Tea of the first quality and Philadelphia Flour.
ALL persons having accounts open with, or demands against the Hon. George Boyd, late of Portsmouth, Esq. deceased, are requested to exhibit the same as soon as may be to the sub- scribers for examination and adjust- ment, and all persons indebted by note or otherwise are desired to make im- mediate payment.
JANE BOYD, } Executors. SUPPLY CLAP, } Portsmouth, May 8, 1788.
(NORTHWOOD.) State of New-Hampshire, NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and own- ers of land in the township of Northwood, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1786, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber, on or before the second Wednesday of June next, so much of their land as will pay the same, together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at one o'clock in the after- noon, at the dwelling-house of Col. John Harvey, innholder in said town, unless prevented by previous payment.
The taxes are three quarters silver and one quarter Certificates.
   R. N. Q'ty l. s. d.     Col. Richard Kent 7 12 26 1 0   Thomas Mosley 13 156 3 6   William Langdon 14 156 3 3   Cutting Noyce 16 130 3 3   Unknown lot 20 36 2 0   Samuel Penhallow 8 8 156 12 9   John Calf 13 156 5 2   Samuel Durant 15 75 4 6   Benjamin Bickford 19 50 3 6   John Waite 8 21 156 7 4   Richard Waldron 22 118 4 8   Mary Somersby 9 12 16 1 9   Samuel Jones 17 16 1 0   Benjamin Harris 21 156 4 9   Robert Acumdy 24 55 7 6   Dr. Nathaniel Sargent 10 9 85 2 8   William Bridges 10 78 2 0   Fann Clement 11 130 4 0   Abraham Rowel 9 23 63 3 0    ASAHEL BLAKE, Constable. Northwood, May 5th, 1788.
(MIDDLETOWN.) State of New-Hampshire, NOTICE is hereby given to the non- resident proprietors and owners of land in the township of Middletown, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1783, that unless they pay the same to me the sub- scriber, on or before Monday the 9th day of June next, so much of their land as will pay the same together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at my dwell- ing-house in said town, at ten o'clock, A.M. unless prevented by previous payment.
   No. Q'ty l. s. d.     Benjamin Wentworth 19 100 0 12 4   Benjamin Roberts 38 100 0 11 0   John Herard 90 100 0 7 4   Ephraim Wentworth 18 100 0 7 4   Nathaniel Austin 10 50 0 7 4   Richard Philpot 14 100 0 11 0   Ebenezer Place 45 50 1 8 8   Stephen Roberts 46 50 0 3 8   John Taker 59 50 0 7 4   Nathaniel Varney 77 50 0 3 8   Samuel Varney 49 25 0 2 7   Benjamin Evans 78 71 0 5 8   Andrew Marshall 39 100 0 14 8   George Hanson 76 100 0 7 4   Andrew Horn 64 50 0 3 8   Nathaniel Young 49 100 0 11 0    DANIEL DREW, Constable. Middletown, April 29, 1788.
For SALE, A Genteel Chaife, cheap, Apply to the Printer hereof.
THE commissioners appointed to receive and examine the claims of the several creditors to the estate of Meshech Drew, late of Madbury, deceased, represented insolvent, hereby give notice that six months further is allowed by the hon. Judge of Probate, for the county of Strafford, from May 14th, that they will attend for that purpose to receive any remaining claims, at the house of Silas Drew, in Barrington, on the last Monday in the following months, until the time expires. Madbury, May 27th, 1788.
Take Care of your HOGS!
IN no part of this state are Swine suffered to go at large without being properly ringed and yoked, according to law, and in the compact part of this town another law forbids Swine going at large on the penalty of their lives being forfeited;— notwithstanding both said laws, how many Swine are to be seen in our streets, yards and gardens, destroying all before them, and even our burying-grounds do not escape the rapacity of these very mischievous animals.— This is therefore, to offer a reward of SIX SHILLINGS, (for every Hog, of one hundred weight, and so in proportion for a larger or smaller size,) to any person that shall catch or kill in any part of the burying-grounds in this town, after the fifth day of May next, any swine that may be found there, provided said Swine be immediately carried to the Work-House.— The money shall be paid by order of the Selectmen, who request the inhabitants of the town to use their influence to carry the laws that respect Swine into execution, both in and out of the compact parts thereof. By order of the Selectmen. Portsmouth, April 28th, 1788.
TO BE SOLD BY Samuel Livermore, A tract of land
In New-Holderness, containing about 700 acres, SITUATED on the public road with- in four miles of Senter-Harbour (so called) or Winipiseoke, pond.— There is about sixty acres cleared and brought in- to grass, which has been used as a pasture, part of which would answer for mowing or tillage; also a small orchard which blossomed last year, and about five acres of rye now growing thereon. The land is in general good; the growth is red oak, white oak, beech, maple, &c.— about one mile from a saw mill and grist mill. It is expected to be sold cheap, and the payment made easy. New-Holderness, April 24.
(LOUDEN.) State of New-Hampshire. NOTICE is hereby given to the non- resident proprietors and owners of land in the township of Louden, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1786, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber, on or before Thursday the 29th day of May next, so much of their land as will pay the same together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue at 10 o'clock in the fore- noon, at the dwelling house of Lt. Samuel Piper, innholder in said town, unless prevented by previous payment.
   No. s. d. s. d. s. d.     John Hayes 119 2 8 3 2 2 6   William Jenkins 184 10 1 1 6   Ichabod Chey 139 1 7 1 11 1 6   James Busford 132 1 7 1 11 1 6   Joseph Tibbetts 133 1 7 1 11 1 6   Benj. Mason 135 1 4 1 8 1 3   Daniel Davis 183 1 4 1 8 1 3   William Fellows 188 1 9 2 2 1 8   Rich'd Waldron 186 0 11 1 1 0 10   Timothy Tibbetts 72 1 7 1 11 1 6   Edward Tibbetts 96 1 4 1 8 1 3   Old hundred.   Frances Durgin 78 1 9 2 2 1 8   William Jenkins 79 1 8 1 3   Samuel Smith 99 1 9 2 2 1 8   John Woodman 130 0 11 1 1 0 10   Jona. Woodman 135 0 11 1 1 0 10    JONATHAN SMITH, Constable. Louden, April 29, 1788.
SUBSCRIPTIONS for this Paper at TWO SHILLINGS and THREE PENCE per quarter (which has a very extensive circulation) are taken in by the Publisher, at his Printing-Office in Market-Street, Portsmouth, where Advertisements are received, the favours of Correspondents carefully attended to, and Printing performed reasonably.—This Paper to contain a copy of all the Laws of this State, passed since January 1787.