The New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1792-06-21 00:00:00

New - Hampshire Gazette, and the General Advertiser.
Containing the Laws, &amp;c. of the United States, as well as those of this State passed since 1787, with a variety of other matters both useful &amp; entertaining.
PORTSMOUTH: Printed by JOHN MELCHER, at his Office in Market-Street, at nine shillings per Annum.
From the HAMPSHIRE CHRONICLE.
The ECONOMIST.
GOOD economy much depends on the good government of a family. I have often seen, and long been convinced, that a mild and dispassionate, is much more efficacious and salutary, than a severe and rigorous discipline. If you would prevent faults in your domestics, take care that you see but few; never animadvert on trifles, nor appear discomposed at accidents, nor reprove real faults in a passion. Mrs. Teasy, who has no daughters of her own, has brought up several girls, whom she took out of poor families; but she complains, she never yet has had one but who was a vexation to her. They do her more mischief than all their work is worth; and though she is always talking to them, she cannot make them mind her. She thinks poor people's girls are a kind of witches; her complaints are partly true; but the fault is her own, for she spoils all her girls by eternally fretting at them. If Betty happens to turn over the swill-pail, or breaks a mug by stumbling across the broom, which Mrs. Teasy in her hurry, has left in the way, the old lady is in a rage. "There, you careless drab, I knew you would do so. You are always breaking things. You waste and destroy more than you earn. I had rather do every thing myself. I never will set you to do any thing again, as long I live; And so Betty sits down— "What you baggage; have you nothing to do?—Go fetch the cream-pot, and turn the cream into the churn—see if you can break the pot now—How you handle it—I know you will break it, as you do every thing else." The poor girl, in a trepidation of carefulness and anxiety, lets it fall sure enough. It is dashed into fragments, and the cream spattered round the floor. "Oh la, you nasty trollop. I never saw any thing like this. Just so you do every day. I cannot keep my hands off from you." Thus with tongue and claws, she frights Betty almost into fits. Nine tenths of the mischief which the girl does, is through an excessive caution to avoid it. Her mind is never calm, nor her nerves steady, because her mistress is always blaming, scolding and threatening. By degrees, however, the girl becomes hardened. If she breaks an article, when Mrs. Teasy is not present, she secretes it. If inquiry is made, she lies to prevent discovery.
Mrs. Prudens treats her girls in a different manner, and they always please her. She never was so unfortunate as to have a girl who was mischievous, or would lie. If Peggy falls and breaks the pan, into which she has just strained the milk, Mrs. Prudens inquires "Have you hurt you, Peggy?" "No, says Peggy, but I have done worse; I have broken the pan and spilt all the milk. I am sorry." "That is a trifle, says Mrs. Prudens, accidents will happen. If you have not hurt you, it is well." Peggy seldom does any mischief, because her mind is serene, and she knows what she is about. If mischief happens, she always speaks of it, because she is sure she shall not be unreasonably blamed. Mrs. Prudens never frets; takes no notice of trifles; if she observes a fault, she reproves it with mildness, and it is never repeated. Now Betty and Peggy are sisters, taken out of the same poor family. Their natural disposition is much the same. Their different manner of behaviour is entirely owing to the different kind of government which they are under. The true reason why Mrs. Teasy has all her utensils destroyed, and Mrs. Prudens preserves hers, is because the
one distracts her girls by perpetually scolding at them; and the other keeps her maids calm and in good humor, by a rational treatment of them.
From the CONNECTICUT COURANT. A P R O M P T E R.
Rags! Rags! H OW the best things grow out of the worst! Even the bible is made out of rags! And yet people will not save their rags! Authors, printers, arts, sciences, and records all depend on rags for support; and yet rags are thrown away. Great people, that is, people really great, save rags. Why? Because though saving rags is a very little thing, yet it is a little thing that has great effects. Poor people, who are really poor, that is, people who are not poor and proud save rags. Why? Because every little helps. A few pounds of rags brings a few pence, and pence feed hungry children. But middling people, who are above want and below affluence, will not save rags. Then let them put the business into the hands of little folks; children and maids. Tell Moll and Betty to keep a rag bag in a handy place—give them all the pence that their rags will produce. Their minds are not above the business—they will think of it—they will buy a cap or a hat with a year's collection of rags; and the rags will make a bible or a law book—There is a bible and a cap clear gain: Twenty thousand families in Connecticut will save twenty thousand bibles and caps! A great saving this for one year and one State.
P. S. Tell Moll and Betty, that you papermakers do not mean to get away their dishcloths—after their rags are become unfit for dishcloths and house cloths, they are just as good for papermakers as ever.
Foreign Intelligence,
Received by the Sandwich Packet, Captain Dillon, arrived at New-York, the 9th inst.
STOCKHOLM, APRIL 3.
WE have not yet seen any authentic list of those who are taken up or supposed to be concerned in the plot of the late regicide; they are, however, said to be 28 in number, four of whom the assassin himself owned as accomplices, eight lay under violent suspicion, but have not yet confessed any thing; one poisoned himself; and lastly, 14 were arrested on suspicion, of whom five are since released.
The Queen of Sweden is very ill. The deceased King not long before his death desired that the conspirators might be pardoned, and the assassin himself be as mildly punished as the law would admit of.
All the inhabitants of Stockholm has been forbid to have any gun powder in their houses, or to sell any.
LONDON, APRIL 1.
Notwithstanding the continental newspapers declare that the Austrian troops are now upon the march for the Low Countries, all our private letters contradict the assertion; not a single regiment is in fact in motion, and we can confidently declare that the German papers are paid by the emigrants to keep France in a ferment.
The insurrection in Hesse-Cassel is of the most serious kind. There is not one of the despots of Germany so justly abhorred by his people, and even by his army, as this prince. Having made a trade in human blood, infinitely more horrible than that trade which has at length awakened the too long dormant
philanthropy of Britain, he has filled his own coffers, while the face of his country is a dreary waste. The lands are without culture—manufactures are unknown—and the people are in the greatest misery.
WAR! WAR! WAR!
FRANCE. NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, APRIL 25.
In the sitting of the 19th, M. Dumoulier read two letters from M. Noailles to the French Minister for Foreign Affairs.
The President then read the following Letter from the King :
"MR. PRESIDENT,
"I ENTREAT you to make known to the assembly, that I shall come there to-morrow at half past twelve o'clock.
LOUIS."
On Friday his Majesty came to the assembly, the members of which rose, and were uncovered as he entered, and took their seats when he had reached his place. The King then spake as follows:
KING'S SPEECH.
"Gentlemen,
"I HAVE come among you for an object of the highest importance in the present circumstances. My minister of foreign affairs will read to you the report which he made to me in council, on our situation with regard to Germany."
The minister of foreign affairs then went up, and standing by the King's side, read the report, which the King had notified to the assembly.
Minute of the Cabinet Council of France, addressed to the King.
"Sire,
"When you took an oath of fidelity to the constitution, you became the object of the hatred of the enemies of liberty. No natural tie could stop them, no motive of alliance, of neighborhood, of propriety, could prevent their enmity. Your ancient allies erased your name out of the list of despots, and from that moment they forgot your Majesty's fidelity. The emigrants, rebels to the laws of their country, are gone beyond the frontiers to prepare a guilty aggression against France. They wish to carry into its bosom fire and sword. Their rage would have been impotent if the foreign Princes had not seconded and encouraged their criminal manœuvres. The house of Austria has done every thing to encourage their audacity. —The house of Austria, who since the treaty of 1756, has found us good and faithful allies.—This treaty, sire, subjected us to the ambitious views of this house. She engaged us in all her wars, to which she called us her allies. We have been prodigal of our blood in the cruel tragedies of despotism. The instant that the house of Austria saw she could no longer govern us for her purposes, she became our enemy.
"It was Austria that had stirred up against France the restless Northern Potentate, whose tyrannical phrenzy had at last made him fall under the hand of an assassin.—It was Austria in office, of which Europe shall judge, advised one party of Frenchmen to take up arms against the other. The note of the court of Vienna of the 18th February, was in truth a declaration of war. N. Kaumtz there avows the league of the powers against France. The death of Leopold ought to have made some change in this ambitious system, but we have seen the contrary.
"The note of the 18th of March is the ultimatum of the court of Vienna. This note is more provoking still than the former. The King of Hungary
wishes that we should submit our constitution to his revision; and he does not dissemble the project of arming Frenchmen against Frenchmen.
"Sire," continues the Minister, "in charging me with the administration of foreign affairs you have imposed on me the telling you the truth: I proceed to tell you the truth. It results from this explosion, that the treaty of 1756 is broken, in fact, by the House of Austria; that the maintenance of a league of the Powers is an act of hostility against France, and that you ought this instant to order M. Noailles your Ambassador, to quit the court of Vienna, without taking leave.—Sire,—the Austrian troops are on the march—the camps are marked out—fortresses are building: The nation, by its oath on the 14th of July, has declared that any man who shall accede to an unconstitutional negotiation is a traitor. The delay granted to Austria is expired—your honor is attacked—the nation is insulted—Therefore there remains for you no other part to take but to make to the National Assembly the formal proposition of war against the King of Bohemia and Hungary."
The Minister having read this minute, the King resumed his speech— CONCLUSION OF THE KING'S SPEECH.
"You have heard, Messieurs, the deliberation, and the decision of my council. I adopt their determination conformable to the wish, many times expressed, of the National Assembly, and to that which has been addressed to me to be the wish of all the French people. Frenchmen prefer war to a ruinous anxiety, and to a humiliating state, which compromises our constitution and our dignity. I have done every thing to avert war; but I judge it indispensable. I come, therefore, in the terms of the constitution, to propose to you formally to declare war against the King of Bohemia and Hungary."
A burst of applause broke from the galleries.
The Assembly maintained a dignified silence.
The President answered:
"SIRE,
"The Assembly will proceed to deliberate on the great proposition which your Majesty has made to them. They will address to you, by a message, the result of their deliberation."
The King then retired with his Ministers, and conducted by the same deputation of members. The Hall rung with acclamations of the people.
The Assembly was adjourned to five in the evening.
LONDON, April 16.
The decision of the National Assembly of France has accorded precisely with the general anticipation. In the sitting of Friday evening the important decree was passed which sanctions the hostilities of France with the King of Bohemia.
It was at the same time resolved, that a manifesto should be immediately published and distributed through the continent, stating the provocations and the motives by which the nation was induced to enter on a war. It was also proposed, that both the national guards and the troops of the line should take the oath to the constitution as prescribed on the 14th of January last; but this new ceremony was deemed superfluous.
CANADA.
The military force at present in Canada consists of a detachment of artillery, the royal fusileers, commanded by his Royal Highness Prince Edward, the 4th, 5th, 20th, 24th, 26th, and 65th regiments of foot, and Col. Simcoe's new raised corps.

Foreign Intelligence.
LIVERPOOL , April 14.
A gold medal has been adjudged by the Agricultural Society of Paris, to M. Moran, of Brillon, near Bar le Duc, who though poor and the father of six children, has brought up a child which he found on the highway, perishing with cold and disease.
L O N D O N , April 5.
Yesterday a messenger came express from Paris to the French Minister: it is said, that he brings information that the National Assembly, from the answer of Prince KAUNITZ, had judged it the most prudent and effectual means of securing permanency to the constitution to declare war against the King of Hungary, whom they consider as only tampering to watch the most favorable opportunity of overturning the objects of the French Revolution.
A messenger has been dispatched by our government to Earl Gower at Paris, to direct him to explain, and, if possible conciliate the transaction in the East-Indies.
APRIL 9.
The husband of a vocal heorine is said to have procured a cornet of dragoons through superior interest, on condition that he leaves his baggage behind him when he goes upon service.
A SCRAP ON KINGS.
Kings surely 'stand on slippery places' The prices current of monarchs, in Europe, has lately suffered a rapid fall. England's light—France's insignificant—The Empire's poisoned—Sweden's assassinated—Portugal's crazy—Russia's superannuated—Denmark's weak—Prussia's mad—but Poland's happy.
B A L T I M O R E , June 5.
By the Brigantine Greyhound, Captain Elias Porter, who arrived here in 13 days from Cape-Francois, we are informed, that the situation of affairs, respecting the disturbances in Hispaniola, wore every day a more melancholy aspect—that all hopes of peace being restored, were relinquished—that the colony was, beyond a doubt, irretrievably lost—that, till latterly, some expectations were entertained of the arrival of more troops from France, but then every prospect of that nature had closed in despair—that attacks were made, almost every night, on the out-ports contiguous to the Cape—that the military force was so enfeebled, that a general massacre was apprehended—that the whites were emigrating daily, and it was thought that, in the course of a few months, not one would be found remaining on the French part of the Island—that it was confidently believed, that some celebrated characters (among whom is supposed to be the well known Count d'E——, who had, a little before, arrived in a clandestine manner from France) were the chief actors among the revolted mulattoes—that the Colonial Assembly was in a state of the most ruinous anarchy, the members having, on the day before Captain Porter sailed, carried their differences on political opinions so far, that they actually drew their swords on each other, and the house would have been drenched in blood, had not the interposition of some less turbulent spirits subsided the dreadful ferment.
Extract of a letter from Bourdeaux, dated March 23, 1792, to a gentleman in this town, received yesterday.
"What passes within our own country is more interesting than the affairs abroad. The King pushed impatrimony so far as to dismiss the only two patriotic Ministers he had near him, Narbonne and Cahier de Gerville. The National Assembly has arrested de Lefart, whose manœuvres have been for a long time obnoxious; it has seized upon his papers, and sent him to Orleans, in order to be tried by the High National Court. It is said even that the other Ministers are arrested: That the people of Paris demand loudly the head of the Queen. It is added, that she has been accused, on Monday last, by Mr. Condorcet—They say—they say, in fine
they say things which are almost all incredible, and which, without doubt, could not have been spoken some years ago—but many things are said which perhaps do not exist, and which I will inform you of only when confirmed.
"The army of the line had a deficiency of fifty-two thousand men.—Well, my friend, upon a simple invitation from the National Assembly, in one day, at the same hour, without any other words but— the country is in danger —four hundred thousand citizens have voluntarily enlisted!—Many of those new soldiers have been seen to ride post in order to get more quickly to their colors. Mention me any other country in which soldiers rode post to join their corps!—This, however, is the fact.—So I can assure you, my dear friend, that the good cause will be triumphant, and that probably, before long, twenty enslaved nations will be restored to liberty, and will sing in chorus the celebrated tune of the French Revolution— CA IRA ."
CHARLESTON , May 29.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Augusta, dated May 23.
"By a gentleman from Rock Landing, we have received advice of General M'Gillivray's arrival there, with a number of the upper chiefs; but, in consequence of two white men being murdered some little time back, they have all returned to the Creek nation, in order to hold a grand council to decide this business, which will in all probability detain the running of the lines for these three months."
PHILADELPHIA , June 13.
Extract of a letter from St. Georges, Grenada, to a gentleman in New-York, dated May 16.
"Just as I closed my letter of yesterday, a dreadful fire broke out in the Carenage of this town, and in the course of three hours every house there was burnt to ashes, except three. The fire is not yet totally extinguished, but so far got under as to relieve the people in the bay from the dreadful apprehension of sharing the fate of the Carenage. The loss is estimated at, at least 100,000l. sterling.
ELIZABETH-TOWN , May 30.
In every country where free newspapers are allowed, these periodical publications may be called the pulse of the world's health; and as they contain more or less news, you may conclude the nations of the world to be more or less happy.
Wars, conflagrations, robberies, insurrections, shipwrecks, bloodshed, pestilence, murders and famine, make the pulse of a newspaper beat high, but depend upon it, the world is at the same time in the delirium of a fever, that threatens its dissolution.
When we hear a universal complaint, for any length of time, that the newspapers are intolerably dull, uninteresting and insipid, we may conclude that tyrants are at peace, the people contented and well fed, the ship sails in safety over the ocean, and that the sword of revenge is lodged in the sheath.
The increase of newspapers, and consequently the increase of news, shews either a real increase of wickedness among mankind: Or, at least that they are less ashamed than formerly to publish their wickedness to each other.
N E W - Y O R K , June 6.
Accounts from China, via Calcutta, say, a hurricane was experienced on part of the coast of that country in November last, which was attended with an immense loss of the coasting vessels, upwards of eleven hundred of which were wrecked and sunk, and about twenty thousand people perished. Such was the violence of this convulsion of nature, that a large Dutch ship in the harbor of Macao was obliged to have all her masts cut away, to prevent her going on shore. We are informed from the same accounts, that the government of China has prohibited the sale of skins and furs brought from the north west coast of America, in all its ports; and has made it death for any one to purchase or wear them.
W I N C H E S T E R , May 28.
Our last accounts from the territory of the United States south of the Ohio, are to the 12th inst.—they state that frequent depredations are still committed by the Indians in that quarter, but that some of them have paid for the roasts, 4 having been killed lately by a party of militia.—That the boundary line, agreed upon in the treaty which took place last summer, between the United States and the Cherokees, is now running—and that when this necessary business is accomplished, every exertion will be used by Governor Blount to protect the frontiers from any depredations a banditti of outcasts may meditate.
D A N B U R Y , June 4.
A singular case occurred lately in this town.—A child of Mr. Philip Burret, playing with a Metal Coat Button, got it into his throat, where it remained 23 days, during which time the child appeared to be in great pain, and every effort to extract it proved fruitless.—We have the pleasure however to add, that on the 23d day the child swallowed the button, and the 26th voided it, and is now recovering its former strength and activity. The button measures one inch in diameter.
MAY 28.
Wednesday last, was exposed for sale in this town, the four quarters of a calf, killed by Mr. Amos Burritt, butcher at Newtown, which weighed as follows:
  Four quarters, 122 3 4   Caul, 5 3 4   Skin, 17 
Total, 145 1 2
The calf was 5 weeks and 5 days old, raised by Mr. Nitam Curtis, of Newtown.
P O R T L A N D , June 15.
Since Bowles has left the Creek Indians, every thing seems to have been quiet in those parts. By the last advices Gen. M'Gillivray had not yet attended the meeting at Rock-Landing, having been prevented by the uncommon high freshets in the Oak-mulgee river.—He was expected, however when the accounts came away, in a few days, with 1500 of the Creek nation, to carry into full effect the treaty with the United States.
S H I P N E W S.
Arrived at Dublin, ship Mary of this port, and Roxby, Parker and Ceres, Sherburne of Portsmouth.
Capt. Roberts arrived at Philadelphia. —April 8. spoke brig Neptune, Capt. White, from Wiscasset, bound to Whitehaven—rudder lost, one man drowned, and out 73 days. Capt. Roberts supplied her with water—the island of Torrey bearing S. W. 5 leagues.
B O S T O N , June 20.
INTERESTING INTELLIGENCE FROM SPAIN.
Capt. KELLSA, from Bilboa, which he left the beginning of May, confirms the accounts of the DECLARATION OF WAR , by the French nation, against the House of Austria, and the other powers who have succoured and encouraged the French emigrants, and who have been menacing hostilities, and dictating terms to France—He further adds, that a merchant, of great repute in Bilboa, read him an account of a battle which had been fought by the French patriots, and the Germans in Austria Flanders—that it was on the 26th day of April, and that accounts had stated the loss on both sides, at 7000 men, the action continuing from nine in the morning until four in the afternoon. On which side victory declared herself he did not understand, but supposes from the silence on that head that it was dubious.
The Captain further informs that the Spanish Government entertained great fears of a revolution in that kingdom—that, as far as possible, all correspondence on political subjects was interdicted, and that the Inquisition Boat visited every vessel on its arrival, to forbid the landing of any books,
pamphlets, letters or newspapers, but such as were previously inspected. The Captain and crew of all vessels were also forbid speaking on the government or religion of Spain.
The declaration of war by France, we are assured was made on the 19th April—and not on the 25th, as mentioned in the English papers, the latest of which by the packet, were only to the 26th.
A settlement with the United States has been effected by the Ohio Company—and a dividend of the residuary funds made, amounting to about eighty dollars , per share; which has been repaid to the subscribers.
Mr. COX—THE ARTIST,
Of this town, was in Ireland , at the date of our last accounts from thence, April 6 , and in high reputation—continually receiving applications for building Bridges, and performing other efforts of enterprize.—He was then contemplating the construction of a dam for the Grand Canal Company ; and had offers to engage in the building of two large Bridges, one 2000 and another 700 feet long—the timber to be the production of the American soil. The account published some time since, of his being engaged in levelling the Monument , in London , was not authentic—the above is.
Capt. DANIEL SHAYS, who a few years since commanded the body of Insurgents which shook this Commonwealth to its centre—and whose proceedings had great effect in producing our National Government —is now confined in prison at Worcester, for debt. The Captain is a man of spirit, and we are assured by those who know, that he took the command of the insurgents, merely to prevent the excesses which are ever committed by armed men, who feel no principle of subordination—It cannot therefore be an impeachment on patriotism or federalism, and surely not on benevolence, to propose a subscription to extricate him from his " durance vile ."
L A W C A S E.
At the Circuit Court of the United States, sitting at Newport, on Monday, last week, a decision was given in a case of importance. Two merchants of London, in company, commenced an action against a citizen of the State of Rhode-Island, for the recovery of monies due—the Defendant's council plead a Resolution of the Legislature of the state of Rhode Island, in bar of the action—by which he was allowed three years to pay his debts—and during which time he was to be free from arrests on that account.—The Judges were unanimously of opinion, that, as by the Constitution of the United States, the individual States are prohibited from making laws which shall impair the obligation of contracts—and as the resolution in question, if operative, would impair the obligation of the contract in question—therefore it could not be admitted to bar the action.
A PHYSICIAN observed to a clock maker, whose work needed mending, that if he was to make such errors in practice, it would be attended with the loss of all his patients. The man drily replied—good Doctor, the SUN discovers my faults—the EARTH hides yours.
On going to Church.
Some go to Church just for a walk, Some go there to laugh and talk; Some go there for speculation, Some go there for observation; Some go there to meet a lover, Some the impulse oft' discover; Some go there to meet a friend, Some go there the time to spend; Some go to learn the parson's name, Some go there to wound his fame; Many go there to dose and nod, But few go there to worship God.
PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 21.
A southern paper informs that the bulk of the materials for the public buildings of the intended Federal City have been contracted for and are preparing, and that the walls of the first fo-

ry of both the Congress house and the President's house will, certainly, be completed in the present summer and ensuing fall.
Civil List of this State For the year ensuing.
(President in our last.)
COUNCILLORS.
PHILLIPS WHITE, JOSEPH BADGER, jun. ROBERT WALLACE, LEMUEL HOLMES, JONATHAN FREEMAN.
(Senators in our last.)
REPRESENTATIVES.
Portsmouth, George Gains, John Pierce, e John S. Sherburne, Speaker. Exeter, Benjamin Connor, Londonderry, e John Bell, James Macgregor, Chester, Joseph Blanchard, Newington, e Ephraim Pickering, Greenland, Joshua Weeks, Northampton, Moses Leavitt, Hamptonfalls and Seabrook, e Elisha Brown, Stratham, Jonathan Wiggin, Southampton, &c. e Phillips White, E. Kingston, John Eastman, Brintwood, e Richard Bean, Newmarket, e James Hill, Nottingham, Jonathan Cilley, Deerfield, Joseph March, Epsom, Michael M'Clarey, Northwood, Jonas Clark, Chester and Pittsfield, e John Cram, Loudon, Jonathan Smith, Concord, e John Bradley, Pembroke, e Richard Bartlett, Candia, Nathaniel Emerjon, Raymond and Poplin, Ezekiel Godfrey, Hawke and Sandown, e Timothy Tilton, Hampstead, e William Marshall, Salem, e Jeremiah Dowse, Pelham, e James Gibson, Dover, John Kelly, Durham, e Ebenezer Smith, Somersworth, James Carr, Rochester, James Howe, e Aaron Wingate, Barrington, Isaac Waldron, Sanborntown, William Harper, Gilmantown, Joseph Badger, Sandwich, Daniel Bedee, Moultonborough, Wolfborough and Offspec, Nathaniel Hoit, Barnstead, e John Nutter, New-Durham, and New-Durham-Gore, Joseph Pierce, Wakefield & Middleton, e Carr Leavitt, Conway, Andrew M'Millen, Nottingham, e Asa Davis, Litchfield & Deerfield, e Robert Parker, Dunstable, e Noah Leavitt, Merrimac, e William Barnon, Bedford, e Stephen Dole, Goffstown, Robert Macgregor, Hollis, e Jeremiah Eames, Raby and Mason, e Obadiah Parker, New-Ipswich, Charles Barnett, Francistown, e Jonathan Fiske, Wilton, Abiel Abbot, Lyndborough, Peter Clark, Sharon and Temple, e Francis Cragin, Peterborough, John Smith, Hancock, Antrim, and Dearing, John Duncan, Henniker, e Timothy Gibson, Hillsborough, e Benjamin Pierce, Hopkinton, Benjamin Darling, Salisbury, e John C. Gale, Bolscawen, e Enoch Gerrish, Warner, James Flanders, Charlestown and Langdon, e Benj. Moore, Alstead, Oliver Shepherd, Keene, Jeremiah Stiles, Swanzy, Elisha Whitcomb, Jaffrey, Abel Parker, Westmoreland, Archelaus Temple, Chesterfield, e Eleazer Jackson, Rindge, Daniel Rand, Walpole, e Thomas Bellow, Claremont, e Jabez Upham, Cornish, e James Welman, Newport and Croydon, e Uriah Wilcox, Ackworth, Lempster and Marlow, e E. Sanborn, Surry, Gilmore & Sullivan, Sam. Holmes, Stoddard and Washington, T. Pennymann, Dublin & Packersfield, e Sam. Tuitcheel, Fitzwilliam, Abner Stone, Plainfield, e Daniel Kimball,
Protectworth & N. Grantham, S. Duncan, Holderness, Campton and Thornton, e G. Livermore, Plymouth and Rumney, e Alex. Graige, New-Chester, Bridgewater and Alexandria, T. Crawford, Enfield, e Jesse Johnson, Orange, Canaan and Grafton, e W. Richardson, Lebanon, e David Hough, Lyme and Dorchester, John Fairfield, Haverhill and Coventry, e Samuel Brooks, Piermont and Warren, William Tarlton, Orford and Wentworth, e Nath'l White, Lancaster and Northumberland, e John Weeks, Bath, Lyman, &c. e Peter Caltern.
Those Gentlemen who have this mark (e) before their names, were not of the House last year.
His Excellency's MESSAGE.
Gentlemen of the Hon. Senate, and Gentlemen of the Hon. House of Representatives,
AMONG the public papers that I have received since the last session of the legislature (which the Secretary will lay before you) you will please to take particular notice of an act of Congress relative to the election of the President and Vice-President of the United States: Also, "An act apportioning Representatives among the several States according to the first enumeration," both of which I beg leave to recommend to your early attention, as laws for carrying said act into execution so far as relates to this State will, I conceive, be proper to be passed during the present session: I would also request your particular attention to an act of Congress, entitled, "An act more effectually to provide for the national defence by establishing an uniform militia throughout the United States."
I have nothing special, further to recommend to your attention at this time, if any thing further should occur during the session that will require your attention, I shall not fail to communicate it to you by a separate message; the general affairs of the State, and any matters that were left unfinished at the close of the last session, will be before you, and you will take up such of the business, as you may think proper to be acted upon during the present session.
The busy season of the year coming on, will no doubt make you desirous to finish the session, and to return to oversee your own particular affairs, as soon as it can be done consistent with the public interest, and I shall make it my particular care to facilitate the public business to the utmost of my power, consistent with the good of the community.
JOSIAH BARTLETT.
Council Chamber, June 9, 1792.
THE ANSWER.
May it please your Excellency, THE Senate and House of Representatives beg leave, cordially to congratulate your Excellency on your re-appointment, by the unanimous suffrages of the citizens, to the first magistracy of New-Hampshire; and to return their thanks for your message, pointing out the objects which demand the attention of the legislature the present session.
The united voice of your fellow-citizens which has again proclaimed your Excellency the Chief Magistrate of the State, while it demonstrates their implicit confidence in your integrity and abilities, must, we conceive, afford you all that satisfaction which can result from the combined affection and esteem of one enlightened and virtuous people.
The two Houses have received the public papers, mentioned in your Excellency's message, and perfectly agree with you, that it is necessary to make immediate provision for a compliance with the several acts of Congress by you enumerated.
We shall assiduously attend to the general affairs of the State, particularly such as were before the late General Court, and left incomplete, relying in
the mean time, on your Excellency, to make such communications as you may judge worthy of our deliberation.
As the season of the year requires that we soon retire to our private concerns, it is our desire, and shall be our highest object to give all dispatch to the business before us, compatible with the good of the public: And in this we are confident, we shall have your Excellency's most chearful concurrence.
ENTRIES at the CUSTOM-HOUSE. ENTERED FROM Sch'r Adventure, Trefethen, St. Eustatia CLEARED FOR Brig Dispatch, Long, W. Indies. Brig Sally, Low, Ditto. Snow Mentor, Lyon, England. Schooner Blossom, Brown, W. Indies.
THE UNEXPECTED RETURN.
AN EPIGRAM. How's this! with child, and I away For twelve long months and more; There must, good JANE, be some foul play, And you a very——
Not so, kind Hub. The times are bland; Then turn not pail or fallow: Friends will step in, and till your land, When too long laying fallow.
State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the township of Fitzwilliam, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1791, that unless they pay said taxes to me the subscriber, on or before Tuesday the seventh day of August next, so much of their land as will pay the same, together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of Col. Sylvanus Reed, innholder in said town, at nine of the clock, A. M. on said day.
   No. R. s. d. q    Edw. Kendal's heirs 8 in 1 6 7 2  Jeremiah Stuart 1 in 2 6 7 2  Colonel Stoddard 2 in 2 6 7 2  Zaccheus Hall 7 in 2 3 3 3  Zaccheus Hall 8 in 2 6 7 3  Colonel Stoddard 3 in 3 3 3 3  Benjamin Scott 14 in 3 5 5 0  Benjamin Scott 15 in 3 6 7 2  Colonel Stoddard 1 in 4 6 7 2  James Reed 4 in 4 6 7 2  Jotham Haven 19 in 4 1 1 2  Colonel Stoddard 1 in 5 6 7 2  John Whitney 3 in 5 2 9 2  Jacob Millar 4 in 5 4 7 2  Sampson Stoddard 8 in 5 5 0 2  Robert Mellen 14 in 5 6 7 2  Benjamin Davison 15 in 5 0 8 0  John Brigham 16 in 5 3 3 3  Abel Perry 21 in 5 3 2 1  Levi Wilder 2 in 6 3 3 3  James Stone 8 in 6 1 10 2  Joel Hayden 10 in 6 3 3 3  Sylvanus Reed 15 in 6 0 8 0  Elijah Phillips, 5 in 7 3 3 3  Samuel Patch 14 in 7 0 9 2  Sylvanus Reed 15 in 7 2 8 0  Robert Mellen 16 in 7 3 3 3  John Tanar 23 in 7 6 7 2  Levi Wilder 1 in 8 6 7 2  Asa Johnson 17 in 8 1 8 0  Daniel Farrar 21 in 8 4 1 2  Joshua Harrington 23 in 8 2 0 0  Thomas Carter 14 in 9 6 7 2  Joseph Foster 16 in 9 3 3 3  Daniel Farrar 21 in 9 6 7 2  Michael Sweetser 4 in 10 6 7 2  Joel Mellen 16 in 10 6 7 2  Sylvanus Johnson 17 in 10 6 7 2  Isaac Jackson, jun. 19 in 10 2 5 2  Daniel Gould 20 in 10 1 1 2  Ezekiel White 21 in 10 5 7 0  Benjamin Tolman 23 in 10 3 3 3  Asa Goodale 1 in 11 6 7 2  Nahum Howe 13 in 11 3 3 3  Peter Starkey 20 in 11 3 3 3  John Godden 21 in 11 6 7 2  John Swetland 22 in 11 3 0 0  Jacob Sargent 1 in 12 6 7 2  Micah Perry 2 in 12 2 8 0  Joel Whitney 6 in 12 6 7 2  Allen Grant 7 in 12 6 7 2  Silas Wheeler 16 in 12 6 7 2  Eleazer Mason 17 in 12 6 7 2  Agabus Bishop 18 in 12 6 7 2  Rufus Buckland 19 in 12 6 0 0  Colonel Stoddard 22 in 12 6 7 2  
JOHN BOWKER, Collector. Fitzwilliam, June 2, 1792.
N E W - D U R H A M.
State of New-Hampshire.
County of Strafford.
PUBLIC notice is hereby given, that by virtue of an act of the legislature of said State, passed the 15th day of June, A. D. 1791, all the lands in New-Durham, in said county, are taxed one penny an acre annually, for two years, for the purpose of repairing roads in said New-Durham; and whereas in and by said act, it is enacted, that the owners of said lands should have liberty of "working out" their several proportions of said tax, at the rate of three shillings by the day for an able bodied man;—Therefore the said owners are hereby notified that they may "work out" said tax any time between the first day of June next, and the last day of September next following by applying to Messieurs Joseph Evans, Thomas Tash, junior, and Elisha Davis, Selectmen for said New-Durham, for the current year, under whose direction said tax is to be laid out and expended. And said owners may know their respective proportions of said tax, by a list or assessment of the same, which is committed to John Bennet, jun. the subscriber, of said New-Durham, to collect.
JOHN BENNETT, jun. Collector. Dated at New-Durham, May 18, 1792.
C H A T H A M.
State of New-Hampshire.
To the Honorable John Calef, Esquire, one of the Justices of the peace throughout the State.
WE the subscribers being owners and proprietors of more than one sixteenth part of a township called Chatham, in the county of Grafton, and State of New-Hampshire, request your honor that a legal meeting of the proprietors of said township may be notified and warned to be held at the dwelling-house of David Page, Esq. in Conway, on Wednesday the eighth day of August next, at one o'clock, P. M. for the following purposes, viz.
 1st. To choose a Moderator.  2d. To choose a Proprietor's Clerk.  3d. To examine the records and all proceedings of former meetings, and to alter and rectify all irregularities, mistakes and mismanagements therein, and to confirm any votes passed at such meetings as they shall see proper.  4th. To see if the Proprietors will confirm to the Rev. Dr. Samuel Langdon and Thomas M'Donough, Esq. the locations by them respectively claimed within the said township, on conditions by them offered.  5th. To choose Assessors and such other officers as may be found necessary, for promoting the settlement and interest of the township.  6th. To see what encouragement the Proprietors will vote for building Mills, and opening and clearing Roads in the township.  7th. To take some method for calling Proprietors meetings in future.  8th. To raise money to defray all necessary charges already incurred, and for promoting the further settlement and lotting out the same. 
JOHN GLOVER, JOHN COSTELLOE, AMOS COGSWELL. JOSHUA FOSS, MOSES CUNNEY.
State of New-Hampshire.
PURSUANT to the foregoing request I do hereby notify and warn the Proprietors of said Chatham to meet at the time and place aforesaid, for the purposes therein mentioned.
JOHN CALEF, Justice of the Peace throughout the State. June 16, 1792.
THE proprietors of Pews in the South Parish are hereby notified, that unless the arrearages of said Pews are paid in three weeks, from this date, that they will be advertised for sale.
SOLOMON COTTON, Collector. Portsmouth, June 21, 1792.

THE NEGRO'S HYMN.
O THOU! who dost with equal eye All human kind survey, And mad'st all nations of the earth From the same mass of clay. If pity in thy nature dwell, Behold our race forlorn; Behold us from our native soil From wives, from children torn. Chain'd in the ship's dark scanty womb, Behold us pant for breath, Envy those friends who happier far, Exchange their bonds for death. Behold us in the sun's fierce blaze, Struggling with toil and pain! Behold us sink beneath the lash, Expiring on the plain! And who are they that dare torment The produce of thy hand, And with their brethren's blood, like CAIN, Pollute both sea and land? Ah! 'tis a race that falsely boast Salvation through his name, Who taught "What ye wish men to do Do ye to them the same." Yet vengeance is not our request; We ask but LIBERTY; And light sufficient to explore The way that leads to thee. If these in mercy thou bestow, O! may thy bounty move Our hearts, our minds, our souls to glow With gratitude and love!
Grand Lodge.
THE Grand Lodge of the most ancient and honorable society of free and accepted Masons, for the State of New-Hampshire will celebrate the festival of St. John the Baptist, on Monday the 25th instant. The officers and members within the jurisdiction, and all other worthy brethren are requested to attend at the Assembly-Room in Portsmouth, with their cloathing and jewels, precisely at ten o'clock, A. M. to proceed in ample form, at eleven o'clock, to St. John's Church, where prayers will be read, and an oration delivered.
By order of the most worshipful HALL JACKSON, Esq. Grand Master. EDW. S. ZOE LIVERMORE, (Grand Secretary.)
Dinner at two o'clock—Tickets for admission may be had of Brothers E. LIVERMORE, N. ADAMS and R. BILLINGS.
Portsmouth, June 16, 1792.
NOTICE is hereby given to the proprietors of Amoskeig bridge, that a meeting of said proprietors will be held at Goffstown, in the county of Hillsborough, at the house of Robert M'Gregore, Esq. in said Goffstown, on Tuesday the 10th day of July next, agreeably to law in that case, made and provided, for the purpose of choosing a Clerk—Directors, and any other necessary officers, and to agree upon and establish such bye-laws as may be thought necessary for regulating the affairs of said propriety—and to raise such sums of money as may be necessary for building said bridge.
ROBERT M'GREGORE. Portsmouth, June 16, 1792.
TO BE SOLD
AT PUBLIC VENDUE
On the 19th day of JULY next, ON THE PREMISES,
At ELEVEN o'clock, A. M.
(If not sold before at private sale)
THE Dwelling-House and
Land, now in the occupation of Capt. JOSIAH SMITH.—Conditions of sale may be known on the day of sale, or sooner, by applying to Captain JAMES GILMORE, of Durham.
Durham, June 8, 1792.
STODDARD—State of New-Hampshire:
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in the town of Stoddard, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1790, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber, on or before the 18th day of July next, so much of their land as will pay the same, together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of the subscriber, at ten o'clock, A. M. on said day.
   Lot. R. Q'ty. Meeting-house tax. Highway tax. State specie. County Rate.   s. d. q. s. d. q. s. d. q. d. q.     Peter Fletcher 3 11 80 3 4 0 3 4 0 0 3 0 1 3   John Chamberlin 11 6 80 3 4 0 3 4 0 0 1 3 1 0   North side 24 5 61 2 6 2 2 6 2 0 2 0 1 1   Tho. Packer, West end 16 13 61 2 6 2 2 6 2 0 1 3 1 1   Jotham Odiorne 24 12 80 3 4 0 3 4 0 0 3 0 1 3   Col. Stoddard, East end 6 13 15 0 7 2 0 7 2 0 0 2 0 1   22 6 80 3 4 0 3 4 0 0 2 2 1 2   Heirs, East end 28 5 80 3 4 0 3 4 0 0 1 3 1 0   3 4 74 3 1 0 3 1 0 0 1 0 0 3   3 4 80 3 4 0 3 4 0 0 1 2 1 0   13 5 80 3 4 0 3 4 0 0 1 2 1 0   9 10 80 3 4 0 3 4 0 0 1 3 1 0   10 10 80 3 4 0 3 4 0 0 2 2 1 2   28 4 80 3 4 0 3 4 0 0 2 2 1 2   11 12 40 1 8 0 1 8 0 0 0 2 0 2   6 11 80 3 4 0 3 4 0 0 3 0 1 3   7 13 80 3 4 0 3 4 0 0 3 0 1 3   18 7 80 3 4 0 3 4 0 0 1 0 1 0   John Wentworth 11 13 35 1 5 1 1 5 2 0 1 1 0 3   Heirs 27 6 80 3 4 0 3 4 0 0 1 2 1 0   26 6 80 3 4 0 3 4 0 0 1 3 1 0   Oliver Parker 10 6 80 3 4 0 3 4 0 0 3 0 1 3   16 16 80 3 4 0 3 4 0 0 3 0 1 3   Capt. Peter Hunt 10 5 80 3 4 0 3 4 0 0 1 1 0 3   11 5 80 3 4 0 3 4 0 0 1 1 0 3   Nathaniel Cummings 6 14 22 0 11 0 0 11 0 0 0 3 0 2   16 2 38 1 7 0 1 7 0 0 1 1 0 3   Col. Jos. Blanchard's 15 2 30 1 3 0 1 3 0 0 1 1 0 3   Heirs 4 14 14 0 7 0 0 7 0 0 0 2 0 1   26 3 80 3 4 0 3 4 0 0 3 0 1 3   George Jaffery 15 12 50 2 1 0 2 1 0 0 2 2 1 2   7 5 11 0 5 2 0 5 2 0 0 2 0 1   Col. M. Thornton, 2 No 21 0 10 0 0 10 2 0 0 3 0 2   5 No 80 3 4 0 3 4 0 0 3 0 1 2   27 5 80 3 4 0 3 4 0 0 1 3 1 0   23 2 20 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 0 2 0 2   Joshua Peirce 9 8 80 3 4 0 3 4 0 0 2 2 1 2   Jotham Odiorne 12 13 30 1 3 0 1 3 0 0 1 1 0 3   David Junkins 11 13 44 2 10 2 2 10 2 0 1 3 0 0   Samuel Stevens 9 11 40 1 8 0 1 8 0 0 0 3 0 2    JOHN TAGGERD, jr. Collector. Stoddard, June 6, 1792.
NOTTINGHAM.
State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in the town of Nottingham, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1789, that unless they pay said taxes to me the subscriber, on or before the 2d day of July next, so much of their land as will pay the same, together with incidental
   No. of Lots, Ac't. s. d. q. Crops street, upper range. Crops street, lower range. In Summer street. Incidents. Repre- sentative. County   order. rate.     Col. S. Evans, 6 150 6 42 200 0 11 7 2   Joseph Dodge, 3 50 0 50 0 13 0 3 0 2   John Sis, 27 0 112 0 32 0 13 1 1    WILLIAM WELCH, Constable. Nottingham, May 28, 1792.
TO be sold at public vendue, on Monday the 16th day of July next, at 10 of the clock in the forenoon, at the house of Colonel William Brewster, innholder in Portsmouth, by virtue of a licence from the Judge of Probate, for the county of Rockingham, the house and land adjoining, lately occupied by Mr. JOHN SHORES, situated in Portsmouth aforesaid, near Little Harbor, belonging to the estate of Capt. Edmund Roberts, late of Portsmouth aforesaid, deceased.
MOSES WOODWARD, } Admini- SARAH WOODWARD, } strators. Portsmouth, June 18, 1792.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors of land in Peterborough, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1790, that unless they pay said taxes to me the subscriber, on or before the 30th day of August next, so much of their land as will pay the same, together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of Captain John Smith, in said town, at ten o'clock, A. M. on said day.
   No. of Lots, Situation Range Q'ty. Specie. County   d. q.     Thomlinson & Mason, half 10 1st East Range 100 6 6   John Hill, Esquire, 94 5th West Range 100 6 6   ditto 95 ditto ditto 100 6 6   ditto 63 1st West Range 100 5 5   ditto 48 3rd East Range 150 9 9   ditto 103 2nd East Range 100 3 3   ditto 104 ditto ditto 100 3 3   ditto 99 1st East Range 100 3 3   ditto 101 2nd East Range 100 5 5   ditto 83 3rd West Range 100 6 6   ditto 81 ditto ditto 100 6 6   ditto 73 2nd West Range 100 9 9   ditto 65 ditto ditto 100 9 9    DAVID STEEL, jun. Collector. Peterborough, June 3, 1792.
ALL persons having demands against the estate of Levi Dearborne, late of North-Hampton, Esq. deceased, are desired to exhibit the same for settlement; and all indebted to said estate are desired to make immediate payment to SARAH DEARBORNE, Executrix. DANIEL GOOKIN, } Execu- MICHAEL M'CLARY, } tors. North-Hampton, May 22, 1792.
BEDFORD.
State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in the town of Bedford, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1788, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber, on or before the 2d day of October next, so much of their land as will pay the same, together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of Isaac Riddle, innholder in said town, at ten o'clock, A. M. on said day.
   No. R. D. s. d.     Unknown, 8 1 0   and 9 1 0   Widow Henshaw 8 7 0   and 122 0 3   Samuel Hewes 110 12 0   and 114 11 0   John T. Mason, 1/2 11 5 0   and 15 0 0   Wm. Devenport 43 0 0   home lot 0 0 0   James Darrah, 47 0 0   home lot 48 0 0    GEORGE ORR, Collector. Bedford, June 7, 1792.
JAFFREY.
State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in Jaffrey, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1786, that unless they pay said taxes to me the subscriber, on or before the 30th of June next, so much of their land as will pay the same, together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of Major Benjamin Prescott, innholder in said town, at two o'clock, in the afternoon of said day.
   No. R. s. d. q.     Captain Minot's lot 21 7 1 3 0   State Specie - - 1 0 1   State Rate - - 1 2 0   County - - 0 5 3   Indents - - 3 5 0    ELEAZER SPOFFORD, Constable. Jaffrey, May 26, 1792.
Grafton county.
THE proprietors of the township of Fairfield, in said county, are hereby notified that the proprietors at their meeting September 29, 1783, voted a tax of six shillings on each original proprietors right; and at their meeting Dec. 13, 1791, voted another tax of three shillings on each right in said township, which taxes are regularly assessed and committed to me to collect; and unless the said taxes are paid to the subscriber, at his dwelling house in Hartford, in the county of Windsor, and State of Vermont, on or before the first day of August next, the delinquent proprietors rights will be advertised for sale, and so much thereof be sold as will be sufficient to discharge said taxes and cost arising, as the law directs.