The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1772-03-27 00:00:00

To the Printers of the New-Hampshire Gazette. THE Scarcity of Money, with all Orders of People, in this Province, is so sensibly felt at this Time, that it is the general Desire of far the greater Part of the Community, that a Sum of Paper Money might be emitted, either upon a Loan, or upon such a Fund as may not be subject to Depreciation...
"Massachusetts have Cash in Plenty, and their Treasury is in such Credit, as to be fully supplied at 5 per Cent. Their monied Men have drawn their Cash out of the public Funds in England, and have placed it in their own Treasury; and emitted Treasurers Notes; Connecticut and Rhode-Island have plenty of Paper-Money; and New-York have last Year emitted £. 75,000 Lawful Money on Loan, and have placed large Sums at Interest in Connecticut; and were evidently making a Prospect of that Colony, but their Legislature wisely passed an act prohibiting this Currency. Every Government on the Continent but this is either supplied with Current Bills or Treasurers Notes; and none want it so much as we do; the present circulating Cash, is wholly supplied by our Merchants at a great Disadvantage to them and the Publick; they had better pay ten per Cent to have Money that will Answer for their Trade, than to be under Necessity to sell their Bills. It may be an Object worthy the Attention of our Legislature to find out an Expedient to redress the People of this Province, who are in a Dilemma that no other Province is; and as Administration at Home, both Inns and Outs, have approved of our ready, uniform and firm Attachment, both to our own Privileges and the Rights of Parliament, we surely may be countenanced in the Emission of at least so much money as may serve us for a Medium of Trade.
New-Hampshire, March 1772.
L O N D O N, Dec. 16, 1771.
The following is handed about at the west end of the town, as a true copy of the letter which Mrs. H——n sent to his M——y some time after her marriage with the D. of C. was publickly known :
"Gracious Sire,
"The late event, in which your r——l brother and I are (I fear) too nearly concerned and which has already made so much noise in the world, has, I am unhappy to hear, met with your r——l disapprobation. If I have done amiss, it is my warmest wish to have an opportunity of throwing myself at your M——'s feet to beg for pardon—May I never meet with a severer judge!—Yet surely, gracious Sire, if the errors of the head ARE even unpardonable, some lenity is to be shewn to those of the heart: and if to endeavour to reclaim a generous, but heedless youth, from levities which were more the effects of good nature, than of bad principle—If to recall a heart that was wandering after pursuits unworthy of it, and fix it to one steady point—if to collect his scattered thoughts, regulate his passions, and lead him finally to virtue—if these are purposes worthy of mercy, of r——l grace; wit-
ness Heaven how sincerely they are mine; and how faithfully I am,
Gracious Sire,
Your loving subject and servant.
Sir Ralph Payne, who goes out on thursday next Governor of the Caribbee islands, is a West-Indian by birth, a gentleman of distinguished abilities, & married to a beautiful foreigner of a noble family, who some time ago accompanied the King of Poland's Sister on a visit to this country.
Sunday last, at a Church at the West End of the Town, the Prayers of the Congregation were desired for a disobedient Wife.
On Friday last a whimsical trial of skill, in the art of gormandizing, was exhibited by a journeyman glover of this city and a mastiff dog: the former had laid a considerable bet that he swallowed seven pounds of tripe in less time than his canine antagonist, which he accordingly did with great ease and decency.
A L B A N Y, February 17.
Extract of a letter from New-York.
"By last Post I forwarded you an account of sales of 17 barrels of Pot-Ashes, as it sold at the London market, which is undoubtedly much lower than you expected (for reasons set forth in many of the public papers) I would therefore, advise you to be cautious in the purchase of Ashes this approaching season; for I have particular information from London, on which you may rely, that Pot and Pearl Ashes will be sold there for at least, one third less this coming season than the last, occasioned by the large Quantities daily arriving at that market; so much in short, that it was there tho' that America could not supply the quantity in five years, that is now there landed within a few months past."
CHARLESTOWN, South-Carolina, Feb. 21.
The ship Britannia, James Clendianen, Master arrived in Georgia on Monday last from Belfast, with upwards of two hundred and fifty passengers on board, who have unhappily got the Small-Pox and Measles among them. His Honor James Habersham Esq; Commander in Chief of the said Province, has issued a Proclamation directing the said ship to be moored in Tybee Creek, the passengers & others to remain on board or to be put on shore at the Lazaretto during the quarantine, which is to continue till at least forty days after the last person infected shall be recovered. His Honor has likewise given directions for the most effectually preventing the infection from spreading.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 27, 1772.
We hear that a Brig from Piscataqua for this Place, in the Fog on Tuesday last, ran ashore at Cape Henlopen, and its feared she is bilged.
Capt. Boon, in a Ship from Liverpool for Casco-Bay, having been blown off the Coast, is arrived at Antigua.
N E W-Y O R K, February 20. 1772.
The General Assembly have allowed the Sum of Eight Hundred Pounds per Annum, for the use of the Hospital to be erected in this City, for the term of Twenty Years, out of the Excise on strong Liquors retailed in the City and County of New-York.
B O S T O N, March 16.
Tuesday last the Superior-Court, &c. for the County of Suffolk held in this Town adjourned without Day.
The following Persons who had been tried and
convicted received their respective Sentences, viz.
One Sinnet, for attempting the Crime of Bestiality, to set upon the Gallows, and to receive 30 Stripes—Elizabeth Smith, for stealing the second Time, to set upon the Gallows, and to receive 20 Stripes, pay treble Damages & Costs.
Died at Cambridge; the present Year 1772, Mrs. Thwing, aged 101, in January.—Mrs. Williams, 102, in February. Mr. Holden, 96 March 8. Still living in Cambridge, Mrs. Mayo in her 102d Year.
Last Friday Morning early, was found in a Rope-Yard, just expiring, one Mathew Haines, a Seafaring Man, who lately came from New-York. It fully appeared to the Jury of Inquest who sat on the Body, that he was frequently in Liquor, and the preceding Evening was much intoxicated therewith; and they, as also the Doctor who was called, apprehended that he got into the Rope Yard, and lying on the cold ground, and it being exceeding cold, and he in Liquor, by that means came by his Death.
Extract of a late Letter from London.
"It is necessary to acquaint you of our last grand Installation of Officers for Ancient Masonry in this Kingdom, viz. His Grace the most noble Duke and Marquis of Athol, Marquis and Earl of Tulibardine, Earl Strathlay and Strathardle, Viscount of Ballquider, Glenalmond and Glenlyon, Lord Murry, Belveney and Gash, heritable Captain and Constable of the Castle and Constabulary of Kincleavy, 1 of the sixteen Peers of Scotland, Knight of the most noble and most Ancient Order of the Thistle, was attended by about three hundred Officers of the Lodges in England, was installed Grand Master of the most Antient and Honorable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons, to preside over that Part of Great-Britain called England, and Masonical Jurisdiction thereunto belonging; and Laurence Dermott, Esq; Deputy Grand Master, William Clark, sen. and John Christian, Esq; junr. Grand Wardens, William Dickey, junr. Esq; Grand Secretary, and Thomas Smith, Esq; Grand Treasurer.—We have no Account by Memory or Writing of any Instalment equal to this for Grandeur, Elegance, Solemnity and Festivity, which must appear evident, having the Patronage of so graceful and noble a Personage, whose Dress was extremely magnificent, and his Officers in the grandest Uniform suitable to the Occasion—And his Grace nobly contributed a handsome Purse of Guineas to the Grand Charity. In short, to give you a minute Account of this happy Event, would be to write a large Volume; and yet I should not have dwelt so long on the Subject, were it not that I know our happy Situation will give you great Pleasure."
Russia Duck, Tick-
lingburgh, Oznabrigs, Cod and Mackrel Lines and Hooks—Bar lead, with many other Articles, suitable for the Fishery.
A Variety of English and West-India Goods, Grocery, Hardware, Stationary, Ship Chandlery,—to be sold for Cash, or short Credit, as cheap as may be bought in Boston or Newbury, by
THOMAS MARTIN.
N. B. A small Assortment of Mantua, Ducape and Padusoy Silks.
Blanks of most Sorts, to be Sold at the Printing Office, Portsmouth

EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.
WARSAW [Capital of Poland] Nov. 9.
PAST night about half an hour after nine o'clock, as his Majesty was returning home from Prince Czartorinski's, the Grand Chancellor, he was attacked at the corner of the street of the Capuchins by six Confederates, commanded by captain Koczowski, opposite to the Bishop of Cracow. The King was not escorted as usual, by his guard of twelve Uhlans; but only attended by some pages and domesticks. The confederates fired their carbines and pistols at the carriage, the balls of which entered it; immediately on which the two heydukes, who were behind the carriage with flambeaux, descended to assist his Majesty; one of whom received several wounds with a sabre, of which he died soon after, and the other was grievously wounded but it is thought he will recover; several other of his attendants were wounded.
The whole city was immediately in the greatest consternation, not being able to discover his Majesty, and supposing him murdered, as they found his hat bloody on the spot. At length it appeared, the above Koczowski had taken an oath, together with twenty five other confederates, to deliver the King, dead or alive, to the confederates at Czenstokau, and in the above scuffle had seized the King, whom he had carried near to Wilanow; in the way to which place were some Russian pickquets. Here Koczowski, either touched with fear or remorse, demanded pardon of the King, and proposed to save him; but the King happily took advantage of Koczowski's dividing his body of desperadoes into 2 parties (one of which was to attack the Russian pickquets, while the other guarded his Majesty) sipt aside into a wood and after an hour and half's desperate journey gained a small hut, from whence he sent notice to general Coccelli, who immediately repaired to the place, where he found his Majesty, and this morning at four o'clock his Majesty arrived at his palace, where two wounds his Majesty received on his head, the one by a pistol, and the other by a sabre, were dressed, and happily appears that neither of them are dangerous. At eleven o'clock Te Deum was sung in all the cathedrals for his Majesty's escape.
By advices received the twenty sixth instant, it appears that the twenty five confederates, who carried off the King of Poland, had introduced themselves at different times into that city under the characters of waggoners, driving so many loads of hay.
The same accounts mention, that the King after being forced out of his coach, had been carried between two horses to Wilanow, by which his Majesty was so extremely rocked, that when he came, after the fatigue of an hour and an half's march on foot to the hut in the forest, where he was relieved by the Russian detachment, he threw himself on the poor peasant's truckle bed, and had one of the most comfortable naps he ever enjoyed in his life time.
Another account says, that his Majesty, in his way to the hut, after escaping from the confederates, had the misfortune to lose his shoes in the swampy grounds in the forest, by which his feet were so terribly hurt, that the pain he underwent in continuing his journey is incredible; and this, no doubt, added to the comfortableness of his repose.
A third account says, Kowiski, who headed the six confederates that took the King, was no more than a lieutenant, & that when after joining the rest of the confederates at the entrance of the city, they had carried his Polish Majesty as far as Wilanow; they hearing the report of cannon, which were fired by the Russians as signals of alarm, and dreading the approach of troops, he advised his captain, who commanded the corps to divide them into two bodies, and sent them forward to reconnoitre, leaving himself with four of the band to guard the King. Having thus got rid of his commander, and the principal part of the corps, he then contrived to send the four left with him, under various pretences, different ways. Being left alone with the King, he threw himself at his Majesty's feet, and told him, that if he would grant him pardon, and a reward he would save his life. His Majesty, it is to be supposed was not long hesitating. Koczowski and he set out for the hut in the manner that has been related.
L O N D O N, Nov. 12.
Yesterday came on before the Barons of the Exchequer at Westminster-Hall, the great cause between Sir James Lowther, Bart. plaintiff, and the Duke of Portland defendant, in consequence of a grant made to Sir James Lowther, Bart. plaintiff, and the Duke of Portland, defendant, in consequence of a grant made to Sir James Lowther of the forest of Inglewood, in the year 1767, of lands being for upwards of seventy years in the possession of the family of the Duke of Portland. Their Lordships came into Court about nine o'clock, and after waiting near an hour for Baron Adams, the Chief Baron received a letter from his Lordship, informing him of the impossibility of his attending the Court that day, on account of the death of Lady Adams. The Court then entered into the business of the day, and recited all the records and prerogatives of the Crown from Edward the First to the lease made to Sir James Lowther; when, after a full, candid, & most impartial examination of the said lease, it was found invalid, agreeable to the statute made in the first year of Queen Anne, which recites, "that upon every grant, lease, or assurance, there be reserved a reasonable rent not being under the third part of the clear yearly value of such of the said manors, messuages, lands, &c. as shall be contained in such lease or grant." Sir James Lowther's grant from the Crown being only a quitrent of 13s. 4d. for the whole forest of Inglewood, was immediately judged by the Court an inadequate third proportion, and he was NONSUITED accordingly.
L O N D O N, November 21.
The following is a Copy of a Letter from the unhappy Mr. O'Neil, who lately committed an
Act of Suicide, to Bingham Ellison Esq; at Charing Cross.
"Dear Friend,
I AM sorry to part with you in so abrupt a manner; it must be done, Providence has decreed it. It is a folly I am going to commit, I see it in its proper light, but I am weak; I have not strength to dispel the gloomy and melancholy tho's that continually hover about me. This is no new invention; I have had it ever since I landed in England; I discovered it to you one night in my cups; you behaved as a friend and a worthy one; you strove to dissuade me off so vast an enterprize; I seemed in appearance, convinced of my error, put on a smiling countenance, but to no purpose; I never set the resolution, out of my head: With this intention I went to the country, but never found a proper opportunity to put it in practice, and before-hand wrote a few letters to the very few friends I have. The day you went to London I determined should be my last, but your carrying away the key of your trunk prevented me, the pistols being locked up in it; this was the reason that carried me yesterday to your lodgings in search of them, and this the reason I wrote you this morning so plausible a letter, in order to get them; now I have got them, now I am going to put an end to this life. Alas dear friend, I must die; if I do not now, I must in a few days; the all-seeing Providence, when he sent me into the world foresaw my end. Scripturarians, Divines, &c. will all condemn me to Hell, for putting an end to my own life; let them talk and bark, my reason convinces me to the contrary. Did God ever create a Man to be damned? No. Wherefore did he then send me into the world, when he foresaw my end would be such as deserved damnation. This makes me easy, this makes me depart contentedly, it is a folly to think that men must be cracked, or non compos, to put an end to themselves; no such thing: I am as much in my senses now, as ever I was in my life: you may reply, why then you never was in your senses; I have presumption enough to be of a contrary opinion; so have fools, you may say. Enough of this.
"The trifle I owe you'll not get at present; I have wrote to Mr. Casley, of Lisbon, to pay it to your order, who will instantly do it. I beg my dear friend, that you will see me put under ground; this is all I request of you. I hope you will meet with all the success in the world, a long and happy life, a friend, and a good bottle to give him, and after all a happy death. I beg you will insert this unhappy circumstance in the papers; it may perhaps, hinder some young men of coming to the same end; it will be an example to them, likewise an advice to parents not to give their children too much liberty, to avoid letting them have cash if possible; it was these two circumstances that brought me to this untimely end. Adieu, dear friend;
I am your, &c.
PHILIP JAMES O'NEIL."
"P. S. If I should chance to get into the Elysian Fields, I well keep you a good place."
NEWBURN, North-Carolina, February 21.
To the Officers and Soldiers of the Provincial Troops, who served under his Excellency Governor Tryon, on the late Expedition against the Insurgents.
IN a Letter I have just received from the Earl of Rochford, one of his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, I have it in command from the King to express his Majesty's Thanks to the Troops who were in the Field on the 16th of May last, for their Conduct and bravery on that Day; by which they have gained so great Honour, and have been the Means, under God, of preventing the Desolation and Ravage with which this Country was then threatened.
It is with the greatest Satisfaction, Gentlemen, that I bear Testimony of this most gracious Mark of his Majesty's Royal Favour to you. JO. MARTIN.
Newbern, Feb. 20.
To the Colonels and commanding Officers, of the several Regiments of Militia in this Province.
WHEREAS I have understood that a general Muster of the Militia hath been appointed in a certain County of this Province, on the Day preceding the Day of Election of Representatives, which I have tho't it proper to countermand; and lest the same Measure should be adopted in other Places, I do hereby expressly order and command, that no general or private Muster of the Militia be made within less than ten Days after the Election of Representatives for the Counties and Towns throughout this Province; as I would, by all Means, discourage every Practice that can carry the least Appearance of influencing, or in any wise tend to restrain the Freedom of Elections.
Given under my Hand at Newburn, this 20th Day of February, 1772. JO. MARTIN.
PHILADELPHIA, February 24.
From the Pennsylvania Chronicle.
Inserted by particular Desire.
They write from Charlestown, that on the 1st Instant departed this life, after a tedious indisposition, which he bore with the utmost fortitude and resignation, JOHN HUGHES, Esq; collector of his Majesty's customs for that port. This Gentleman was justly entitled to the Character of a loyal Subject, an affectionate husband, a tender father, a faithful friend, an agreeable companion, and a punctual honest Man in his dealings. Notwithstanding his promotion arose from an unpopular circumstance, he conducted himself in so disinterested and just a manner, as to gain the general applause and esteem of a humane, grateful and generous people, who regret his death as a heavy loss to the province of South Carolina. His remains were interred with peculiar Marks of distinction and respect. [The treachery of Mr. Hughes's nominal friends in this province, at a very interesting crisis in his affairs, is now well known to many, and has fixed a STAMP, of indelible disgrace on their characters; however Providence so ordered matters, that while Mr. Hughes experienced the affection of his country-men, returning to him, he saw a Galloway and a Wharton * sinking into the lowest depths of infamy and contempt.]
* J. Galloway, and T. Wharton, sen. Printers, land jobbers, politicians, &c. &c. &c.
The above Mr. HUGHES was not long since appointed a Collector for Portsmouth, New-Hampshire, where he resided but a short time.
SOUTH-CAROLINA.
The PRESENTMENTS of the GRAND JURORS for the body of this province at a Court of General Sessions of the peace, Oyer and terminer, assize and general-gaol delivery, begun and holden at Charles-Town, on Monday the 20th day of January, 1772.
I. WE present, as a grievance, the want of creditable persons to act as magistrates; such persons in general holding that commission only to exempt them rendering other services for the good of their country, and by which the execution of justice is often entrusted with partial, unjust, trading justices, to the great hurt of honest good men, and hurtful to the province in general.
II. That sufficient regard is not had to the character of those men who are intrusted with the commission of the peace, which appears by again impoverishing a present acting justice, Fenwicke Bull, who was some time ago deprived of that commission from his bad practices, publickly confessed by himself.
III. We present, as a grievance, the office of Constables, being in the execution of persons of a mean low character, whose poverty and ignorance subject them to take bribes, by which villians do often escape justice.
IV. We present, as a grievance, the general neglect of the Militia officers, in not mustering the Militia according to law; & also, that the patrole acts are not properly enforced.
V. We present, as a grievance, the great number of dram shops, and tippling houses in Charles-Town, such as entertain Negroes and other disorderly persons; and recommend, that the magistrates would be more vigilant in suppressing such pests of society.
VI. We present, as a grievance, the general bad state of the public roads thro' out the province, and the road between Charles-Town and the quarter house in particular; and recommend Toll-Brides, as a proper means to have them kept in better order for the future.
VII. We present, as a very great grievance, the disorderly behaviour of the town watch, by which they defeat the good end intended of watching and preserving the property of the people and town from harm, instead thereof they become a very great nuisance by beating and abusing Negroes sent on errands by their masters with tickets, letting others escape who have none; by which irregularities the Negroes in general do disregard them, and if they can but raise the sum of ten shillings to pay for their release, are not afraid of being out all night.
VIII. We present, as a grievance, the erecting of booths in the high-way in the time of the Races, as being very dangerous to persons travelling thereon in the night.
IX. We present, as a grievance, Negroes being allowed to keep horses, and carry fire arms, contrary to law.
Signed, Benjamin Singellton, Foreman, Mathurin Guerin, John Hume, Thomas Corbett, Francis Gottier, Thomas Heyward sen. James McCall, John Neufville, Timothy Crosby, David McKee, Thomas Ferguson, Henry Reeves, William Frierison, Abraham Waight.

Messrs Fowles, IF you will give the following a Place in your valuable Gazette, and it sets some able Pen a going (acquainted with the Courts of Law, &c.) to treat the Subject with the Perspicuity it deserves, the End is answered, of your constant Reader and humble Servant Z. A.
Moultonborough, March 8, 1772.
To the Select-Men that are or shall be chosen in the Province of New-Hampshire, the present Year, hear and fear, and do not so foolishly as your Defunct—in that Office have done in the Affairs of JURY-MEN, for many Years past.
The 27 of Geo. 2d, an Act for Reasons in the Preamble given, Impowered the Select-Men to put the Names of suitable Persons for petty Jurors into Boxes, from which Jury-Men should be drawn, &c. then esteemed an excellent Law, (and perhaps is so) yet it has Faults, not now intended to be pointed out, tho' the Abuse of it for thirteen Years past, is in some Degree aimed at, and if it be true (as I am told) that the best Juries we have had within that Time, have been those that had the most Tales-Men in them, called on the Stand by the Sheriff, sure it need no further Proof.
Then, Gentlemen, Select-Men, how must you blush and be ashamed, if in your Years Service, you crowd into the Boxes Boys, Ignorants, and Men at best of doubtful Fame for Jurors, or suffer such to continue there (if such there be) from the low Principal of, where there is the greatest Numbers, there is the best Chance to escape being drawn.
Never, Never stretch your Oaths to so vile a Purpose; but when you regulate your Jury-Boxes, throw all such aside, and let none but Men of Knowledge, Spirit, Vigour, and Honesty, so far as you know, be in the Jury-Boxes of New-Hampshire; and thereby let all be able to say, when they see a Pannel of them, we not only enjoy the great good, and never enough priz'd Priviledge of being tryed by Jurors, but by good ones; "A Priviledge English Men may boast of beyond all Memory, the begining whereof no History specifies, it being Contem- "oray with the foundation of the English "State, and one of the Pillars of it, both "as to Age and Consequence."
See Dalt. Jus. Ch. 186.
The Law referr'd to, provides that no Person shall serve more than once in three Years, and when a Venire facies is sent to a Town Clerk, whose Jurors have all served within the meaning of the Law, won't it be much more agreeable to the Intention of Jurys, for the Clerk of such Town to return it with a non est Inventus thereon, than to send a Fellow who you would not trust to try the issue of the plainest Matter, not of the value of his Day's Work, with a Hoe or an Ax; besides, when the Boxes are all thus purged, there will be no want of Jurymen, if the Clerk sends to more distant Places than usual therefor, in the Opinion of Z A.
B O T O N, March 19, 1772.
At a General Council held at the Council-Chamber in Boston, on Wednesday the 18th of March, his Excellency the Governor was pleased to nominate,
James Goven, Esq; to be a Justice of the Inferior-Court of Common Pleas for the County of York. And,
Jonathan Soysgaard, Esq; to be Judge of Probate of Wills, & a special Justice of the Inferior Court for said County.
To which Nominations his Majesty's Council did advise and consent.
The Cold, (a Disease) which lately so universally prevailed in this Province, we hear has circulated throughout the whole Continent, by which many Persons have died.
March 23. Yesterday Morning a Fire broke out in Captain Johnson's House, near Mr. Hallowell's Ship-Yard, but being timely discovered, was extinguished without much Damage.
On the 19th instant one Ebenezer Brown, of Squamquam, about 50 Years of Age, having been to Long-Island, was about to return Home again near Sunset, but it is suppos'd in going to his Canoe he fell off a steep Bank, about 12 Feet high, by which he was so much hurt and bewildered (as appeared by his tracks in the Snow) that after travelling up and down, he at last fell on his Face and was found dead in the Snow a day or two after.
S A I L E M, March 24, 1772.
Last Saturday was taken up on Nahant Beach, in Lynn, the Wreck of a two-mast Fishing-Boat, Ipswich built; it was drove about half over the Beach, and lay across the Road. On the fore Part of the Wreck there appeared, wrote with Chalk, quite legible, these Words, Aaron Craft is my Name . From the Place where the Boat was drove ashore, were seen the Tracks of three Men, appearing as though they walked together for about twenty or thirty Rods, when one of them (whose Body was taken up last Sunday) it is thought, hit his Foot against a Stone, and fell with his Face on a large flat Rock, where he died: This appears probable from the Position in which he was found, laying on his Face with his two Hands under him, and
his Nose flattened on the Rock. The other two were traced about 20 Rods further, reaching to the opposite Side or End of Nahant, where the Tracks were lost for want of Snow; and both of these Persons, it is beyond all Doubt, also perished, as they have not been heard of. It is probable their Bodies are (as that of the Person found was nearly) covered with Snow; or, if they happened to be near the Water, the Tide may have washed them away. The Person found was a likely young Man, well dressed for a Fisherman, and had on new Boots. There were 5 or 6 Pair of other Boots also taken up, which appeared to be new. The Wreck was taken up by Mr. Nehemiah Breed, and the Boots by different Persons. There was a Quantity of fresh caught Fish in the Wreck. There is no Account where the Boat was from; but it is conjectured she came from Cape-Ann.
Last Saturday Morning, just at Break of Day, a Dwelling House in Danvers, belonging to Mr. Daniel Jacobs, and which was improved by two Families, his own and that of his Son's, was consumed by Fire, with all the Furniture, to the value of Five Hundred Pounds Lawful Money.
DIED---At Boston, Mrs. Ruth Barrel, Wife of John Barrel, Esq; now in England.---Mr. Lucas, Tideman,---Mrs. McCulloch, Widow.
At Eastham, the Rev. Mr. Joseph Crocker, Pastor of the South Church in that Town, in the 58th Year of his Age, and 32nd of his Ministry.---At Uxbridge, the Rev'd Mr. Nathan Webb, in the 42nd Year of his Ministry, and 67 of his Age.
PORTSMOUTH.
We hear from Canterbury, that on the 14th Instant, the House of Mr. David Norris took Fire, which was consum'd, together with most of the Furniture and 50 Bushells of Wheat, in a very short Time.
Last Tuesday Evening died at Dover, Mr. EPHRAIM HANSON, who has been for many Years a noted Innholder in that Town, and sustained several public Offices there to general Acceptance, in all of which he behaved as a worthy honest Man.
The General-Assembly in the last Sessions passed an Act, forbidding all Persons, Boys, Negroes, &c. from riding Horses or driving Carriages &c. in the Town of Portsmouth, faster than at the Rate of five Miles an Hour, on severe Penalties, which it's hop'd will prevent the Accidents of Children's being run over, &c. which is common.
   CUSTOM-HOUSE, PISCATAQUA, March 26. FROM. FOR.     Inward-Entries,   Sloop Three Friends, Daniel Winn, Virginia.   Schooner Endeavour, Richard York, St. Vincents.   Schooner Unity, Seth Clark, Martinico.   Clear'd Outwards   Schooner Merrimack, James Brown, Newfoundland.   Sloop Susanna, William Wyer, Philadelphia.   Brig Minerva, Thomas Pickering. West-Indies.  
[ East-Town. ]
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
WHEREAS the proprietors of the Township of EAST-TOWN, have been legally NOTIFIED to pay an Assessment on each proprietor's Right or Lots of Land in said Township, to me the Subscriber, and several of them being yet delinquent in the whole or part, This is therefore to NOTIFY such Persons, that those delinquent proprietors Lands will be exposed to Sale at public VENDUE, at the House of Captain Jonathan Ham, Innholder in Rochester, on the second Tuesday in APRIL next, at One of the Clock in the Afternoon, to pay said Taxes with incidental Charges. The delinquent proprietors Names are as follows, with the Sums due.
First Division and second Division.
   Lawful Money.   £. s. d. £. s. d. £. s. d. £. s. d. £. s. d. £. s. d.     Joseph Hufsey 1 2 9 1 2 9   Isaac Horn 0 0 0 2 0 0   Ebenezer Downs, junr. 0 0 0 2 5 6   Nathaniel Horn, 2 5 6 0 0 0   Amos Heward 2 5 6 0 0 0   William Gerrish 2 5 6 0 0 0   James Kelley 0 0 0 2 5 6   James Kanney 0 0 0 2 5 6   Stephen Varney 2 5 6 2 5 6   Love Roberts 0 0 0 2 5 6   Ebenezer Hanson 0 0 0 2 5 6   Ebenezer Tuttle 2 5 6 2 5 6  
ICHABOD CANNEY, Collector.
Madbury, March 27. 1772.
ALL Persons indebted to, or that have any Demands on the Estate of Captain Richard Rand late of Rye, deceased, are desired, once more to bring in their Accounts to Nathaniel Rand, of Rye aforesaid, administrator to said Estate, in order for an immediate Settlement, otherwise their Accounts will be put in suit.
LIKEWISE,
ALL Persons that have any Accounts with Nathaniel Rand of Rye, are desired to settle the same immediately, to prevent further Trouble.
[ Weare. ]
THIS is to notify the delinquent Proprietors of a Tract of LAND granted to Ichabad Robie Esq; and others, now called WEAR, that the VENDUE that was held at the House of Captain Jonathan Burnam, Innholder in Hampton Falls, for the SALE of those delinquent proprietors LANDS, on March the twelfth Day is adjourned to Monday the twentieth Day of APRIL next, at One of the Clock on said Day, at the House of said Jonathan Burnam's in said Hampton Falls.
Hampton Falls, BENJAMIN LEAVITT, March 16, 1771. Collector for Weare.
Province of New-Hampshire. BY HIS EXCELLENCY JOHN WENTWORTH, Esq; Captain-General, Governor, and Commander in Chief, in and over his Majesty's Province of New-Hampshire aforesaid, and Vice-Admiral of the same.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS the General-Assembly of this Province, now stands Adjourned to Monday the Thirtieth Day of March Instant, and it being expedient for his Majesty's Service, that the said General-Assembly should be Prorogued to the 19th Day of May next:
I HAVE therefore thought fit to Prorogue, and I DO hereby PROROGUE the GENERAL-ASSEMBLY aforesaid to Tuesday the 19th Day of May next, then to meet at the State-House in Portsmouth, at ten o'Clock A. M. for the Dispatch of the necessary Public Business of the Province; whereof the Members of the said General-Court, or Assembly, and all others whom it may concern, are required to take Notice & to govern themselves accordingly.
Given at the Council-Chamber in Portsmouth, the 13th Day of March, in the Twelfth Year of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of GOD of Great-Britain, France and Ireland, KING, Defender of the Faith, &c. Annoque Domini, 1772.
J. WENTWORTH.
By His Excellency's Command, THEODORE ATKINSON, Secretary. GOD SAVE THE KING.
John M c Master
AND COMPANY,
GIVES Notice, That we have removed from Col. Wallingsford's to Mr. David Moore's Store, North End, where we have opened a good assortment of GOODS, suitable for the Season, lately imported from Great Britain and Ireland; and as we always make this a General Rule, to sell low for Cash or short Credit, in order to give Encouragement to our Customers, in Town and Country, so in favouring us with their further Custom, they may depend on being as well used, as they could at any Ware House in Boston.
TO BE SOLD THE Subscribers Farm,
IN LONDONDERRY,
Containing near one Hundred Acres, mostly under improvement. A large Quantity of Stone Wall, Two good Houses and Barns. Two good Orchards: Is situated on the Border of Chester, and upon the Main Road: equally handy to Mr. Flag's Meeting House, as to any in Londonderry. With a Wood-Lot of about 150 Acres, and an exceeding good Brook Meadow. The first about a Mile, the other between two and three Miles distance. The whole duly improved, is well sufficient to support 2 mid-dling Families. Will be sold either together or apart, as will suit, the Purchasers; and upon lower Terms than any Farm of the Value in these Parts for a long Time. One Third of the price paid down, the Purchaser may have Trust for the remaining two Parts, for a Year, or some longer on reasonable Terms. Any Person desiring to know further, concerning the Premises, may apply to James M c Gregor or James M c Gregor, junr. both of Londonderry.
N. B. The said Farm, if not sold, will be let a Year, on very advantageous Terms.
James Rogers.
[ Middletown. ]
THIS is to give NOTICE to the proprietors of MIDDLETOWN, That at their last Meeting they voted a TAX of Four Dollars on each original Right or whole Share, therefore this is to desire the said proprietors to pay the above TAX to me the Subscriber, at my Dwelling House in Somersworth, at or before the First Day of May next, otherwise I shall NOTIFY their LANDS for public Sale, as the LAW directs in such Cases.
Somersworth, March 17, 1772. CHARLES BAKER, Collector.
All Persons indebted to, or that have any Demands on the Estate of Ephraim Green, late of Stratham, Yeeman, deceased, are desired to bring in their Accounts to Samuel Smith, of Stratham aforesaid, Administrator on said Estate, in order for Settlement. Stratham, March 24th, 1772.

POET'S CORNER.
HULL ALE, A POEM, BY W. TAYLOR.
LONG time did a silly old proverb prevail, That meat, drink and cloth, were all found in (good ALE, Till a lover of truth went on purpose to Hull, And to try an experiment drank his skin full; He began to see visions, his head it turn'd round, Till off from his kegsal he fell on the ground, There in trances prescued our philosopher mellow, Lay all night in the snow consulting his pillow; Oracular vapours give prophecy birth, As Plutark reports, springing out of the earth, Whether this was the cause or however inspir'd, Our sages gave a sentence will ever be admir'd, 'Twas this, "I pronounce that good Ale is good (meat, For I find, I have no inclination to eat; That good ale is good drink, is a lye, I'll be sworn; For I ne'er was so dry since the hour I was born, The cloth cries a punster who chanc'd to come by Must be a good drab, if it kept you so Dry."
The PHILOSOPHER and the COXCOMB. Coxcomb once in Handel's parlour found, A Grecian lyre, and try'd to make it sound, O'er the fine stops his awkward fist he flings, And rudely presses on the classic strings; Awaken'd discord shrieks, and scolds, and raves, Wild as the dissonance of winds and waves, Loud as a Wapping mob at midnight bawls, Harsh as ten chariots rolling round St. Pauls, And hoarser far than all the ecstatic race, Whose drunken orgies stunn'd the wilds of Thrace, Friend quoth the sage, that fine machine contains Exacter numbers and diviner strains; Strains, such as once could build the Theban wall And stop the mountain torrent in its fall: But yet, to awake them, rouze them, and inspire, A fine finger, and a touch of fire; A feeling soul whose all expressive pow'rs Can copy Nature as she sinks or soars; And, just, alike to passion, time, and place, Refine correctness into ease and grace: He said—and, flying o'er each quiv'ring wire, Spread his light hand, and swept it on the lyre, Quick to his touch the lyre began to glow, The sound to kindle, and the air to flow, Deep as the murmurs of the falling floods, Sweet as the warblers of the vocal woods: The list'ning passions hear, and sink, and rise, As the nice harmony or swells, or dies: The pulse of avarice forgets to move, A purer rapture fills the breast of love; Devotion lifts to heaven a holier eye, And bleeding pity heaves a softer sigh. Life has its ease, amusement, joy, and fire, Hid in itself as music in the lyre; And, like the lyre, will all its pow'rs impart, When touch'd and manag'd by the hand of art; But half mankind, like Handel's fool, destroy, Through rage and ignorance, the strain of joy; Irregularly will the passions roll Through nature's finest instrument, the soul: While men of sense, with Handel's happier skill, Correct the taste, and harmonize the will, Teach their affections like his notes to flow, Not rais'd too high, nor ever sunk too low; Till ev'ry virtue, measur'd and refin'd, As fits the concert of the master mind, Melts in its kindred sounds and pours along Th' according music of the moral song.
Choice Bohea Tea,
At Four Shillings per Pound, two Shillings per half Pound, and one Shilling per Quarter, with a Variety of ENGLISH and WEST INDIA GOODS, to be sold cheap for Cash, or any kind of Provisions—By GILLAM BUTLER, at his Shop lately improved by Captain George Turner.—Said Butler expects a fresh Assortment of Garden SEEDS, and would be glad to supply those People that usually had them from Boston. Also good BROWN SUGAR at Ten Shillings Old Ten. per Pound.
ALL PERSONS indebted to the Estate of BENJAMIN ROLFE, Esq; late of Concord, in the Province of New Hampshire, deceased, are desired to make immediate Payment to Timothy Walker, junr. Attorney to Sarah Rolfe, sole Administratrix on said Estate: And all who have any Demands upon said Estate, are desired to bring them to the said Attorney, in order to a speedy Settlement.
TO BE SOLD,
A Strong young Negro Man, brought up to the Farming Business, for Particulars enquire of Theophilus Smith, Esq; of Exeter.
[Bretton-Woods.]
Whereas Application has been made to me the Subscriber one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace, for the Province of New Hampshire by the Proprietors or Owners of more than a sixteenth part of the Township of BRETON-WOODS, in the County of Grafton, and Province aforesaid, requesting me to call a Meeting of said proprietors for the Purposes and Articles following viz. First, To chuse a Moderator, for & to govern said Meeting, also, a Clerk, Collector & Treasurer, and any necessary Committees. Secondly, To divide said Town into such Parcels or Lots, as shall be thought proper. Thirdly, To see what Method the proprietors will come into, for immediately getting on a number of Settlers, and agree on the Encouragement for that Purpose. Fourthly, To lay such a Tax on all the Rights and Shares, as shall be sufficient to pay past, and some Charges that will immediately arise, and do, and act on any other Matters and Things, that the proprietors when assembled, shall think proper, for bringing forward the Settlement of said Township, and agree on a Method for calling Meetings in future.
I do therefore in consequence of said Application hereby Notify and Warn said proprietors, to meet at the House of Capt. Jacob Tilton, on Friday the 3d of April, for the Purposes aforesaid, at five o'Clock, Afternoon.
HUNKING WENTWORTH, Justice Peace. Portsmouth, March 17, 1772.
Bretton-Woods is about Forty Miles from his Excellency's Seat in Wolfeborough, and but Twenty Miles to Connecticut River; — the Great Road, known by the Name of the Co's Road, goes through said Township, for which Reason a House or two directly erected there, would be very convenient for Travellers bound into that excellent Part of the Province, and beneficial to the Person who should first erect one, and the more so, if he should open a sort of Tavern,—therefore any leading good Man or other Persons, able to carry up all Necessaries for that Country, and willing to settle on the choice Lands of BRETON WOODS, this Spring, may have good Encouragement by applying to the Printers hereof.
Notice is hereby given to the Proprietors of HAVERHILL, that at a legal Meeting of said proprietors, a Tax of Forty two shillings has been laid on each original Right or Share, in said Township, which Tax is committed to me to Collect. I therefore desire the proprietors aforesaid, to pay the same to me the Subscriber at my House in Haverhill, on or before the eighteenth Day of April next, otherwise their Rights will be Advertised for Sale as the Law directs. Joshua Hayward, Collector. Haverhill, March 10, 1772.
Province of New Hampshire, Rockingham, ss. To the Proprietors of the Township of Barnstead, in said Province.
Pursuant to Charter, Ye are hereby Notified to meet at the Parish House in Newington, on Tuesday the 31st Instant, at two o'Clock P. M. 1st To chuse a Moderator. 2dly. To chuse all necessary Officers for said propriety this Current Year. 3dly. To hear the report of the Committee chosen by the propriety, to sell and exchange the common Land on the North side of said Barnstead, for making a Road thro' said Town, called the Province Road. 4thly, To hear the report of the Committee appointed, to adjust the Accounts of sundry Persons, who have done Service for the propriety, and to accept the same. 5thly, To see if the propriety will make any allowance, or pay those proprietors who repaired the Bridge, that was carried away with the Freshet, on Suncook River the last Spring; Finally, to pass any other Vote or Votes which may be thought necessary.
BENJAMIN ADAMS, } Selectmen: EPHRAIM PICKERING, Newington, March 16, 1772.
THE
Province Excise On Spirituous Liquors,
WHICH was to have been Sold at Public Vendue on Thursday the 12th of this Instant March, at the House of James Stoodly, Esq; is adjourned to the first Thursday in May next, by reason of the bad Travelling. People not being able to attend; then to be Sold by the Committee of the General Court for that Purpose, to the highest Bidder, at the said House, in three Divisions, from the 4th of September last, to the first Day of November 1772. CONDITIONS of Sale to be made known at the Time and Place of Sale. By Order, JONATHAN WARNER, Chairman.
Choice Bohea TEA
TO BE SOLD BY DANIEL PEIRCE, junr. By the Dozen or less Quantity, as cheap as at any Place in Town. Likewise a good Assortment of ENGLISH, & WEST INDIA GOODS, and GROCERIES, NAILS, GLASS, &c, &c. &c. Also PEPPER and GINGER by the Dozen. N. B. Very good WOMEN's Cloth, Callamanco and Leather SHOES cheap.
Tar, Pitch, Tur-
pentine, Candles per Box, Dett. Stevens, Clove, Anniseed, Snakeroot, and Orange Waters, by the Cask, Kippens Snuff, per Cask or single. also TOBACCO of all Sorts sold by Neal Mc Intire at his Store on Spring Hill, very cheap for Cash.
Stephen Hardy, Taylor,
TAKES this Method to inform the Publick, That he has moved into a House belonging to the Hon. JONATHAN WARNER, Esq; at the lower end of King-Street, and next below his Store, where he continues to carry on his business as usual.
Said Hardy has for Sale a few Choice ENGLISH CHEESES, and a quantity of English Goods of various Sorts.
Province of New Hampshire, Hillsborough, ss. Whereas Application is made to me the Subscriber, one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace, for said County, by more than the 16th part of the owners or proprietors of Cockermouth, in said Province, that a Meeting of said proprietors may be called, to meet at the Dwelling-House of Samuel Cummings, Innholder in Hollis, in said County on Monday the 8th Day of April next, at One o'Clock Afternoon, to vote, and act on the following Articles, viz. 1st. To chuse a Moderator, to regulate said Meeting. 2dly. To chuse any Committee or Committees, to settle any matter or matters transacted, or to transact, any matter or things for said proprietors. 3dly, To see if the proprietors will lay out any part, or the whole, of the remaining undivided Land, and in what manner, and to raise any Sum, or Sums of Money by Tax, or by disposing of Lands, to defray the necessary Expences of making and repairing Roads, Mills, and other Charges in said Town.—I do in Consequence of said Application, Notify and Warn said proprietors to meet at Time and Place, and for the purposes aforesaid. SAMUEL HOBART, Justice Peace. Hollis, March 10, 1772.
(Orford.)
WHEREAS the Proprietors of Orford, in the County of Rockingham, and Province of New Hampshire, at a legal Meeting, voted and laid three Pounds Lawful Money on each original Proprietors Right or Share of Land in said Township, and chose me the Subscriber Collector of said TAX; This is therefore to give Notice to all said Proprietors, that unless Payment thereof be made to me at my Dwelling House in Hampton, in the County and Province aforesaid, by the third Monday in April next, so much of each original Proprietors Right or Share of Land in said Orford, will be advertised for Sale, agreeable to LAW, as will answer the Demands aforesaid, with incidental Charges. JONATHAN MOULTON, Pro. Collector. Hampton, March 11, 1772.
MARY HOMANS,
LIVING opposite the Printing Office, begs leave to inform the Public, that she shall open a BOARDING SCHOOL for Misses, the first of April, to be taught any Sort of Needle Work.—Likewise Reading and Spelling.
All Persons indebted to, or that have any demands on the Estate of Theophilus Smith, Esq; Deceased, are desired to settle the same immediately, with Theophilus Smith, Esq; of said Exeter, sole Executor of the last Will and Testament of the Deceased.
TO BE LET
A Good dwelling-House in Portsmouth, with a Chaise-House and a fine Piece of Land for a Garden, near the Governor's.—Enquire of John Sparhawk of said Place.