The New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1792-05-31 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.
For the GAZETTE.
MR. MELCHER, As your paper is the channel thro' which our public acts are communicated to the people of this State, you are desired by many of your customers to publish the act of the General-Court, for extending the limits of the prison yards, and thereby to expose the inattention of some of the Justices of the Inferior Courts, to pay obedience to laws, which they themselves are empowered, and by their oaths are sworn to execute.—The law expressly enacts, that they shall do it, and applications have been made to them for that purpose; but it is not yet done in some counties, and if they have a dispensing power to pass over this act, why not over all others, and set the whole at nought. Many have thought that these courts are only sinecures for favorites, and ought to be abolished; but we may with equal propriety abolish even the General-Courts, if their acts are not to be regarded. Many respectable men have been, and, by misfortune, may be imprisoned, and if the government is so tender of their rights, liberties and privileges, as to mitigate the rigour of the laws, and indulge prisoners with the free exercise of public worship, by extending the boundaries, at least as far as those places may be on populous towns, why should our Justices hesitate to execute such indulgencies? Some prisons in England have four miles extension of their liberties.—It is to be wished that some gentleman in our approaching General Court, possessed of resolution and spirit, would propose an amendment to said act, by expressly declaring the boundaries in the act of amendment how far they shall extend, without leaving it in the power of any designing men, to counteract the good laws of the State.—Such a clause of amendment would effectually execute the act itself, and the hearts of the prisoners be made glad, and filled with joy.
PUBLICUS.
State of New-Hampshire. In the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one.
An ACT to enable the Justices of the Inferior Courts of Common Pleas, to fix and determine the boundaries of the gaol yards in their respective counties.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General-Court convened, That the Justices of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, shall , as soon as may be, after the publication of this act, fix and determine the boundaries of the gaol yards, appertaining to the several gaols in their respective counties, and extend the bounds and limits of the several gaol yards, as far as the local situation of the gaol, and the convenience and accommodation of the prisons may require. Provided said yards shall not in any case extend more than two hundred rods each way from said gaols, and at all times, that the determination of the Inferior Courts be subject to the control of the Justices of the Superior Courts of Judicature.
In the House of Representatives, February 11, 1791.
The foregoing bill having been read a third time, passed to be enacted.
Sent up for concurrence.
Moses Dow, Speaker.
In Senate, February 14, 1791.
This bill having been read a third time, voted that the same be enacted.
JOSIAH BARTLETT, President.
Attest, JOSEPH PEARSON, Sec'y.
Account of TOPHAM, the famous Strong Man.
[From the EUROPEAN MAGAZINE, for January 1791.]
WE learn from private accounts, well attested, that Thomas Topham, a man who kept a public house at Ilkington, performed surprising feats of strength; as breaking a broomstick of the first magnitude by striking it against his bare arm, lifting two hogheads of water, heaving his horse over turnpike gate, carrying the beam of a house as a soldier his firelock, &c. But however belief might stagger, she soon recovered herself when this second Sampson appeared at Derby as a performer in public, at a shilling each. Upon application to Alderman Cooper for leave to exhibit, the magistrate was surprised at the feats he proposed, and as his appearance was like that of other men, he requested him to strip, that he might examine whether he was made like them; but he was found to be extremely muscular. What were hallow under the hams of others, were filled up with ligaments in him.
He appeared near five feet ten, turned off thirty, well made, but nothing singular; walked with a small limp. He had formerly laid a wager, the usual decider of disputes, that three horses could not draw him from a post which he should clasp with his feet; but the driver giving them a sudden lash, turned them aside, and the unexpected jerk had broke his thigh.
The performance of the wonderful man, in whom were united the strength of twelve, were, in rolling up a pewter dish of seven pounds as a man rolls up a sheet of paper; holding a pewter quart at arm's length, and squeezing the sides together like an egg-shell; lifting two hundred weight with his little finger, and moving it gently over his head. The bodies he touched seemed to have lost their powers of gravitation. He also broke a rope fastened to the floor, that would sustain twenty hundred weight; lifted an oak table six feet long with his teeth, though half a hundred weight was hung to the extremity; a piece of leather was fixed to one end for his teeth to hold, two of the feet stood upon his knees, and he raised the end with the weight higher than his mouth. He took Mr. Chambers, Vicar of All Saints, who weighed 27 stone, and raised him with one hand. His head being laid on one chair and his feet on another, four people (14 stone each) sat upon his body, which he heaved at pleasure. He
struck a round bar of iron, one inch diameter, against his naked arm, and at one stroke bent it like a bow. Weakness and feeling seemed fled together.
Being a master of music, he entertained the company with Mad Tom. Heard him sing a solo to the organ in St. Warburgh's church, then the only one in Derby; but though he might perform with judgment, yet the notes more terrible than sweet, scarcely seemed human. Tho' of a pacific temper, and with the appearance of a gentleman, yet he was liable to the insults of the rude. The ostler at the Virgin's Inn, where he resided, having given him disgust, he took one of the kitchen spits from the mantle-piece, and bent it round his neck like a handkerchief; but as he did not choose to tuck the ends in the ostler's bosom, the embrous ornament excited the laugh of the company till he condescended to untie his iron cravat. Had he not abounded with good nature, the men might have been in fear for the safety of their persons, and the women for that of their pewter shelves, as he could instantly roll up both. One blow with his fist would forever have silenced those heroes of the beargarden, Johnson and Mendoza.
At the time of his death, which happened the 10th of August, 1769, he kept a public house in Hog-Lane, Shoreditch. Having two days before a quarrel with his wife, he stabbed her in the breast, and immediately gave himself several wounds, which proved fatal to him. His wife, however, recovered.
Danger of Haunted Houses.
A girl who was a servant in a house reputed to be haunted, was suspected, and at length fairly convicted, of pregnancy; she fell on her knees before her mistress, craving forgiveness, alledging indeed that she ought not to be blamed, for it was entirely the Ghostes fault. The Ghostes fault!" exclaimed the mistress; "how could that possibly happen?" "Why indeed madam!" replied the simple girl, "the Ghost one dark night made a huge noise, and almost terrified me out of my seven senses. I told John how it scared me, and he persuaded me how spirits never appeared, when two people slept together. So as I liked his company better than the Ghostes, and was mortally afraid of Ghostes I went along with him, and so, indeed and indeed Madam I should never have lost my virtue, if it had not been for fear of the Ghostes.
REMARKABLE ANTIQUITIES IN INTERIOR AMERICA.
[From the Manuscript of a late Traveler.]
BESIDES those ruins in the Illinois and Wabash countries, which have been often mentioned, there are others no less remarkable, many hundreds of miles farther west, and particularly in the country about the great falls of the Mississippi. As we approach these falls, commonly called St. Anthony's, we frequently meet with pyramids of earth from thirty to seventy, and even eighty feet in height. These are, most probably, the tombs of the ancient kings and chieftains of this part of America, tho' there are others which I am inclined to believe were erected in consequence of some signal victory, and, possibly, to cover the bones and carcases of the slain. In digging horizontally into several of these pyramids, a little above the base, we generally found a stratum of white substance, something like moist lime, and glutinous withal, extending in all probability several yards within, or perhaps nearly the whole length of the diametrical line. I had even reason to believe this consolidated chalky substance to be the remains of skeletons buried, perhaps two hundred centuries ago, and converted by time and the operation of the elements into their present state.
Many tokens remains, on both sides of the Mississippi, of that country being in ancient ages as well cultivated and as thickly inhabited as the country on the Danube or the Rhine; which fully proves that the literati have been too hasty in denominating America a new world , or an original present to the Europeans from the hands of rude nature.
A copper mine was opened some years since, farther down the Mississippi, and, to the great surprise of the labourers, a large collection of mining tools were found several fathoms below the surfaces of the earth. Another person, in digging for a well, discovered a furnace of brick-work five fathoms below the present surface; and in this furnace were found a quantity of coals and fire-brands, which, for aught we know, might have been kindled in the days of Moses or Lycurgus.
Not long since, at a spot on the shore of the Ohio where the bank had been wasted by the undermining of the water, a stone dropped out, of the hardest kind of black marble, about seven pounds in weight, having twelve equal surfaces, each surface being

mathematically equilateral and equiangular five sided figures; this does not appear to be a lusus naturae but a work of exquisite art, the offspring of human ingenuity. Near the falls of the Mississippi, there is a salt spring in the bed of the river, which has been enclosed with stone work of unknown antiquity, to keep out the fresh water. In times of freshets, however, the river overflows the stone work and mixes with the brine, so that it does not afford salt to the savages hereabouts until the river is considerably fallen.
In several places, circular fortifications have been discovered in the same country: These are constantly enclosed with deep ditches, and fenced with a breast work.—From these, and many other similar remains of antiquity, one would be inclined to think the world much older than it has been commonly imagined. Several tribes on the western side of the great river abovementioned date their national existence for more than twenty thousand moons back, and the Indians of the eastern world go immensely farther into the depths of time, though both relate many events of these distant periods that are evidently mixed with fable.
From the CENTINEL.
RESOLUTIONS of IRISHMEN.
[The seeds of Revolution are taking deep root, in Ireland. That generous and spirited nation begin to awake from the dream of slavery, in which they have for ages continued—and rousing from their lethargy seem determined to ascertain and to vindicate the " Rights of MEN ." As a specimen of their patriotic writings and resolutions, we insert the following Handbill, communicated to the EDITOR from BELFAST.]
DOAGH, Jan. 2, 1792.
AT a meeting of Inhabitants from different parishes;—Resolved unanimously, that we now form ourselves into a body, to be called the SIX MILE-WATER SOCIETY OF UNITED IRISHMEN , and have agreed to the following:
ANIMATED with the spirit of Liberty and Philanthropy which has so rapidly enlightened the world in the latter part of this century, we behold with admiration that principle of government adopted by the French NATIONAL ASSEMBLY; that "The law is an expression of the will of the community. All citizens have a right to concur, either personally or by their Representatives in its formation.—It should be the same to all, whether it protects or punishes; and all being equal in its sight, are equally eligible to all honors, places, and employments, according to their different abilities, without any other distinction than that created by their VIRTUES and TALENTS ."
SUCH being our feelings, how must we be affected when in direct violation of every principle
of JUSTICE and HUMANITY, we see a very large majority of our countrymen and fellow citizens, deprived of RIGHTS essential to their well-being, and subjected to PENALTIES which exclude them from the most important benefits they are capable of receiving from the social compact.
THE machiavelian principle, DIVIDE and GOVERN, has been hitherto practised with too much success, but the illusions of prejudice are vanished—Let the nation UNITE, and the irresistible voice of the PEOPLE must, and will prevail.
WE are happy to find our sentiments exactly correspond with the Declarations of our brethren of BELFAST and DUBLIN. The following Resolutions of the former, we adopt as our own, and will heartily coincide with IRISHMEN of all denominations, in every Constitutional means to render them effectual.
1st. Resolved, That the weight of English influence in the government of this country is so great, as to require a cordial UNION among ALL THE PEOPLE OF IRELAND, to maintain that balance which is essential to the preservation of our LIBERTIES and the extension of our COMMERCE.—
2d. That the sole Constitutional mode by which this influence can be opposed, is by a compleat and Radical Reform of the people in Parliament.
3d. That no Reform is practicable, efficacious, or just, which shall not include IRISHMEN of every religious denomination.
WILLIAM GALT, Secretary.
LONDON, March 23.
The courier of the Empire, who arrived at Leyden on Thursday last, brought some fresh particulars relative to the death of the Emperor Leopold I. and the cause of it. According to the Vienna Gazette, it was neither a plurisy nor a rheumatic fever , but a violent inflammatory disorder, which attacked the cavities of the stomach and bowels . The event of his death has produced the greatest sensation imaginable amongst all the Princes of Germany, particularly at the court of Berlin, with which a treaty of alliance had just been concluded.
Extract of a letter from Vienna, March 6.
"The new King, Francis the I. of Hungary and Bohemia, has appointed Count Francis Colloredo, formerly his Preceptor, to be his Cabinet Minister.
"Soon after the death of the Emperor, the King requested to see the Prussian General Bischoffswerder and desired him to write word to the King of Prussia, that he was fully resolved to confirm and adhere to the convention of Pilnitz, and every thing that had been agreed upon in consequence of that convention between his
Prussian Majesty and the late Emperor. To this candid declaration the King added many expressions of friendship, which he desired might be reported to the Prussian Monarch; besides this, none of the Ministers (that from the court of Berlin excepted) were permitted to hire post horses until all the Court Messengers were sent off.
"With respect to the marching of the troops, we learn that those destined for the Netherlands, have received orders to halt; but those for Frieburgh are to pursue their march.
"It is apprehended that the electors of the empire will, on account of the present situation of affairs, hasten the election of an Emperor as much as possible, which will be the easier, as the election capitulation is in perfect order, and wants no addition."
Advices from Coblenz, dated March 8, says—"As soon as the news of the death of the Emperor arrived here, our elector went to Bonn to visit the elector of Cologne: The Princes, brothers to the King of France, were much affected at this event; and the emigrants in general lamented, and feared it might throw some obstacles in the way of the Counter-Revolution. Count d'Artois will go to Vienna shortly.
FRENCH AFFAIRS.
M. PIERRE read, in the National Assembly on the 16th inst. two letters transmitted to him from the department of the Garde, part of the ci devant Languadoc, which stated, that the South of France is on the eve of the most serious commotions; that the people, indignant at seeing the counter revolution plots carrying on in the several towns at Arles, Avignon, Bannes, Merade and Jales, are preparing to go armed to exterminate these haunts of Aristocracy.
Another letter from Montpellier, dated the 10th of March, adds, that the city of Avignon is ready to raise the standard of revolt; the same is the case at Carpentras, where the citizens have dared to set up the white pavilion.
On the 7th M. Cahier de Gerville, who was not then out of office, informed the Assembly that every man is arming in the southern department.
The Empress of Germany, we are given to understand, sick of the world, retires to a monastic cell—so soon as she has witnessed the coronation of her son! The old Lady possesses some of the spirit of our late Countess of Coventry—Who knows, but the brilliant fight may reconcile her to the world again.
The Prince Royal of Denmark has published an Arret , by which the Slave trade is to cease, and to be forever abolished, after the year 1803.
The south of France is in a state of effervescence—an article
under the Paris head says, if the Spaniards should enter France, they would be received with open arms.—N. B. All sorts of newspapers are printed in Paris.
PHILADELPHIA, May 16.
On Thursday evening the Schooner May-flower, arrived at Bickham's wharf, in Southwark, and the master, JAMES MORGAN, and one of the passengers, who had a quantity of grain on board, went ashore, the master telling James Needles, who was hired to work the vessel, that he belived he should not return that night, desired him to take charge of her. Accordingly Needles and another passenger named Cullen, who had also grain on board, staid on board. About midnight Cullen hearing some person on deck, called to Needles, and the person soon went away. About ten minutes after, the fowls on deck made a noise as if somebody was catching them, and Needles having fallen to sleep was awakened by Cullen, and called out to know who was there, bidding them be gone, or he would fire at them. Soon after they heard a person come softly on the quarter-deck and Cullen suspecting it might be Morgan, called out to him by name, but received no answer, and immediately an attempt was made to burst open the cabin door, which was locked inside, Needles then called for the gun, and repeatedly declared he would fire; the attempt to force the door being continued with violence, Cullen went to the cabin window and cried out thieves! to alarm the neighbourhood: And at length, Needles not doubting that the attack was made by robbers, discharged the gun through the upper part of the door; and they continued calling out until some of the neighbours came on the wharf, and inquired what was the matter; when, upon opening the cabin door, they discovered Captain Morgan lying dead near it, being shot in the head.—From all circumstances the Coroner's Inquest were of opinion, that the deceased intended to frighten the people on board, and unfortunately persisted too long in the attempt.
MAY 18.
Captain Eve, of the sloop Sally, arrived here yesterday, 17 days from St. Kitts, says that a few hours before he sailed, accounts were received there of the arrival of a sloop of war at Martinico from France, with intelligence of war having commenced between that kingdom and Spain. No particulars had transpired, but the account was looked upon as authentic.—Captain Eve, left St. Kitts so late as the 28th of April.
D A N B U R Y, MAY 21.
About the middle of January last, a child of Capt. John Bell, of Middlesex, trod her heel upon a sewing needle, which, tho' an inch

and a half long, penetrated so far into the flesh, that it was not to be seen or felt, the needle continued in her heel, without causing any material lameness until the 4th of May, and was then taken out two inches above her ankle bone. The above extraordinary account may be relied upon for truth.
THEATRE.
TO-MORROW EVENING Will be presented the OPERA—called The Elopement, OR Cunning Little Isaac Outwitted,
The Picture of a Play-House— By Mr. Watts. A favourite Scotch SONG, (To the Green Woods gang with me) By Mrs. Solomon; To which will be added a Comic OPERA, —called— The Romp, The whole to conclude with a farewell address to the ladies and gentlemen of Portsmouth—By Mrs. Solomon.
LONDON, April 9. Tuesday evening an express arrived at the Secretary of State's office, from ROBERT LISTON, Esq. our Envoy at the Swedish Court, which brought the extraordinary intelligence, that on the 16th of March his Majesty gave a grand masquerade, to which all persons of distinction were invited—and that during the time of the festivity, a gentleman of considerable rank fired a large pistol at the King, and lodged five slugs in his groin and the bottom part of his belly.
The perpetrator of this horrid act was instantly seized; the account does not say whether or not he attempted to escape, but adds that he refused to assign any reason for what he had done.
The express was sent off a few hours after the event, at which time the King was alive, but it had been pronounced impossible for him to recover.
Information of so wonderful a circumstance instantly spread over Stockholm, for there were many hundreds present when the fact was committed. All ranks were in the greatest consternation; some ascribing the assassination to French Politics, and others to the malcontents of the Diet at the late proceedings, and at the general conduct and designs of the King; but from good authority we can declare, that neither of these was the cause. The Author of this remarkable event is a native of Sweden, and it is supposed he was stimulated to it by disappointment, having served long in the army, without being rewarded so liberally as he conceived his merits deserved.
GUSTAVUS the THIRD, King of Sweden, was born in 1746, and succeeded his father in 1780. He possessed abilities greatly superior to those of his predecessor, and had much more ambition; his understanding had been cultivated, he had an insinuating address, and a graceful and commanding elocution. He was at Paris when his father died, and soon after his arrival at Stockholm, swore to preserve the Constitution as established in 1772, and not to introduce absolute sovereignty. He did every thing to gain the affections of the Nobles and the people: He gave public audience three times a week; and to have received an injury, was certain of procuring an introduction; he listened to the meanest of his subjects with affability, and entered into the minutest details that concerned them, by which means he made himself adored. But at the same time he was fomenting the differences between the States, and, by his emissaries, sowing discontent among the people, until finding the business ripe, he in one hour made the whole Senate prisoners, totally overturned the mode of government, rendering himself in fact though not in appearance, one of the most absolute monarchs in Europe.
His death must give great joy to the friends of French liberty. The Swedish Monarchs had long received pensions from France, and Gustavus of Holstein-Gottorp was an Enthusiast for the old government—inasmuch that he was designed as the commander of the combined army against that of the National Assembly.
The King of Sweden married in 1776, SOPHIA MAGDALENA, Princess Royal of Denmark by whom he had issue GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS, born Nov. 1, 1778.
The assassin of the King of Sweden had been doomed by his Majesty to a long and tyrannical imprisonment, for having thwarted his ambition in the late revolution and overthrow of the Nobles.
APRIL 10. A letter dated the 23rd of March, from one of the members of the Swedish Ministry, to a Danish gentleman now in London, was received yesterday, and states, That the King was then thought to be much advanced in his recovery; that he had more appetite than the Physicians thought it proper to gratify; slept well, and was able to sit up three or four hours at a time, conversing with his immediate friends. The surgeons were also confirmed in their first opinion, that the wound had touched none of the nobler parts, from the circumstances of the functions of nature having been uninterrupted.
The disposition of the wound to suppurate was more certainly apparent; and, upon the whole, there was then no circumstance in his Majesty's illness, which threatens his life.
The letter adds that the conspiracy was discovered to have been formed against more lives than that of the King; but mentions only the Duke DE SUDERMANIA, as having been upon the list of proscribed Nobility.
This intelligence, as it is later than that received by Ministers, is probably the last upon the subject now in the kingdom.
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF FRANCE, MARCH 28.
IN the opening of this morning's sitting, information was received that, in the Department de Consal, fresh riots have broke out, is finitely more terrible than those which had some time ago been happily quelled. The chateaux are in a blaze; and the property of individuals is a prey to the mob. The inhabitants, struck with terror, demand the most speedy succours.
Referred to the Committee of Twelve. Ordered— That the thanks of the nation be voted to the Governor of Jamaica, to the British Government, to the American Congress, and to the State of Pennsylvania, for the succours granted to the colony of St. Domingo.
BOSTON, May 26.
OF FRENCH AFFAIRS—ORIGINAL. The French nation is certainly in a critical situation—it is our duty to give a true report thereof. That its Freemen, at the expense of life and treasure, are determined to establish the Revolution, is true: But it is equally as true, that hostile measures are pursuing against them in almost all the kingdoms which surround them. The exiled Princes have sworn never to return into the bosom of their country, except with swords in their hands; and the monarchs who find their diameters insecure, if the principles of the Revolution should spread, expect to find in the discipline of their troops, an entire submission to their commands, even though they should be hostile to Freemen—To secure this submission, the patriots of France, are continually described to them as the most barbarous and perfidious Tyrants which ever existed—and care will be taken to prevent the admission of any revolution ideas among them.
In support of the intelligence communicated in the last Papers, respecting the hostile intentions against France, it may be observed, that the Germanick Body has felt itself greatly aggrieved by the decrees of the French National Assembly—and has formally requested the late Emperor, as head thereof, to use all the means in his power, to recover the property they were deprived of—The probability, therefore, is, that his successor, FRANCIS I. will engage in their cause, if from no other motive, than to secure the votes of the Electors in his favor.
The age of the King of Hungary, has been stated as an objection to his advancement to the imperial Dignity—But the objection is unfounded! The Imperial Constitution, called "Bulla aurea," does not fix any express age, as a qualification—The words are "Jus-tae aetatis"—which is an indefinite expression.
The votes for Separation, in the towns mentioned in the Portland papers, are 1529, against 1352.
All the United States, in order to protect their ship in all quarters of the world, have to do, is to imitate the policy of Great-Britain in their Navigation Acts by declaring once for all, that no foreign ship, of any nation whatever, shall introduce into these States any other articles, except such as are of their own immediate growth or manufacture.
PORTSMOUTH, May 31.
On Wednesday next the General-Court are, by the Constitution, to convene at Dover.
Extract of a letter from Cape-Francois—April 15.
"In the western districts of the island, every thing wears the most horrid appearance. The troops are in a state of anarchy, and subordination generally at an end, while the wretched remains of Port-au-Prince are surrounded by an enemy, from whom an attack is every moment expected, and from whose mercy (if conquerors) nothing is to be hoped. To give you an account of various assassinations, murders, tortures, and excesses of almost every kind, that have been committed within these few months, would ask a volume. Vast numbers of opulent people are reduced to a morsel of bread, by the ruin of their plantations, and are going (many of them) almost penniless into foreign lands, for the preservation of an existence which has become altogether precarious here. We are willing to hope that the ocean which surrounds Hispaniola, will check the extension of the spirit of revolt; for, if it should become general through the islands, it will require almost half Europe to subdue it. As to myself, I will endeavor to leave this once delightful, though now miserable country, in all June;—a country which has become alike ungrateful to the sailor and the mechanick, to the merchant and the philosopher—a country,
"Where cruel passions the warm heart infest And banish pity from the human breast. Where hostile ruffians draw the vengeful blade And stain with infant gore the blushing shade! I turn, disgusted, from this horrid scene Of tortur'd captives, slaves, and murder'd men, To where the far-fam'd Massachusetts strays, Renown'd for justice and for length of days."
SHIP-NEWS.
Yesterday arrived here the ship Andromache, Hunting Penhallow, master, in 72 days from Poole, 45 days from lands end.—April 23, long. 27 W. lat. 46 N. spoke snow William of Boston, from Havre-de-Grace, bound to New-York, out 27 days, had hard gales.—May 10, long. 53 W. lat. 44, 23 N. spoke brig Rebecca, Isaac Parker, master, from Cadiz, out 46 days, bound for Boston.—Capt. Parker informed Capt. Penhallow that Capt. William McIntire, in the Eleven sons, of this port, was to sail in few days, after him, for Boston.
ENTRIES at the CUSTOM-HOUSE of this district.
Table with 3 columns: ENTERED, FROM, SHIP. Rows include: Brig Nancy, Hooker, Plymouth; Brig Thomas, Salter, L'Orient; Schooner Aurora, Noble, St. Martins; Snow Mentor, Lyon, Dartmouth; Brig Harriot, Rice, St. Eustatia.
State of New-Hampshire. PUBLIC notice is hereby given, that whereas by an Act of said State, passed the 9th day of January, 1792, all the lands in New-Durham-Gore, in said county of Strafford were taxed one half penny an acre for two years, for the purpose of repairing Roads in said Gore, —And in and by said Act it is enacted, that the owners of said lands should have liberty of "working out" their several parts of said tax, at the rate of three shillings by the day for an able bodied man;—Therefore the said owners are hereby advertised that they may "work out" said tax any time between the 6th day of June next, and the 6th day of October following, by applying to Messrs. Joseph Peirce, Joseph Roberts and Moses Gilman, selectmen, of said Gore, 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 Jacob Chamberlin, the subscriber, of said New-Durham-Gore, to collect.
JACOB CHAMBERLIN, Collector. Dated at New-Durham-Gore, April 16, 1792.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non resident proprietors and owners of land in Wolfborough, 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 June next, so much of their land as will pay the same, together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at 10 o'clock, A. M. on said day, at the dwelling-house of the subscriber in said town. No. Qty. s. d Solly and March, 13 200 1 0 William Torrey, 17 327 1 6 WILLIAM COTTON, Collector. Wolfborough, May 10, 1792.
NOTICE is hereby given to the proprietors and owners of land in the township of Rumney, that a tax of three shillings on each original right, and also on the rights voted to Clement March and Jeremiah Clough, Esquires, was granted on the 14th of March, 1791, to defray proprietors charges, viz. two shillings on each hundred acre lot, and one shilling on the second division of fifty acre lots.—And the same being committed to me to collect, unless said tax is paid to me at my dwelling-house in said Rumney, by the first day of June next, so much of the delinquents' lands as will pay the same, together with incidental charges will be advertised for sale.
JOSEPH JONES, Collector. Rumney, February 29, 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, Executor. MICHAEL M'CLARY, Executor. North-Hampton, May 22, 1792.

Samuel Hill Respectfully acquaints HIS FRIENDS & CUSTOMERS, That he has imported in the last vessels From LONDON & BRISTOL
A VARIETY of Spring and Summer GOODS, —viz.— An assortment of Broad- Cloths and Cassimeres, with trim- mings suitable for do. Fustians, Jeans, Satinets, Sattin Lastings, Lastings, Waistcoat Shapes, Stockenet, Royal Rib, &c. a large assortment of Men's Hats, Durants, Tammies, Calliman- coes, Irish Linens, Cambric, Muslins and Mullinets, an assortment of elegant Calicoes and Chintzes, a variety of beautiful Lutestrings, Persian and Sar- net, black mode, black and white Gauzes, Silk, Linen and Cotton Hose, a general assortment of cutlery and hard Wares, Pewter, Nails, Painters Oil and Colours, Herring Nets and Twine, Seine Twine, Cod and Macke- rel Lines and Hooks, with many other articles too numerous for an advertise- ment.
—ALSO— May be had at the same place, Philadelphia Iron, Deck and 20d. Nail Rods, German Steel, Flour, Corn, Pork, Ship Bread, West-India Goods and New-England Rum. Portsmouth, May 8, 1792.
JUST RECEIVED, And for sale by Peter Coffin, A large and Fresh Assortment of Spring and Summer GOODS. Portsmouth, May 24, 1792.
ANDOVER. State of New-Hampshire. NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and own- ers of land in Andover, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1790, that unless they pay said taxes to me the subscriber, on or before the 7th day of June next, so much of their land as will pay the same, together with inci- dental charges, will be sold at pub- lic vendue, at the dwelling-house of the subscriber, in said town, at 10 of the clock in the forenoon.
State. Co'ty     No. R. Q'ty. d. q. d. q.     Dan. Marston, 5 1 44 2 0 3   9 4 60 2 0 3   Samuel Blake, 11 1 80 4 3 1   Daniel Cram, 13 1 80 4 0 1   Joseph Gove, 15 1 71 0 3 0   15 1 80 2 0 3   Edward Brown, 16 2 31 0 3 0   16 4 100 1 2 0   Edmu. Brown, 20 2 100 4 3 1   20 2 80 4 0 1   20 4 100 1 2 0   22 2 100 3 0 1   22 2 80 4 0 1   24 2 80 3 0 1   Jos. Rawlings, 33 1 80 1 2 0   Tho's Packer 46 4 100 4 3 1   John Sanborn, 49 3 100 1/2 0 4   49 1 70 7 0 2   69 4 40 1 2 0   72 4 100 3 0 1   72 4 80 1 2 0   75 3 80 4 3 1   John Hoit, 77 1 80 7 0 2   Benari Been, 77 1 20 0 3 0    PETER WEARE, Collector. Andover, May 22, 1792.
FOR SALE, SEVERAL Cows, with or without Calves,—Inquire of the Printer. May 23, 1792.
STRAFFORD ss. At the Court of General Sessions of the Peace, holden at Dover, within and for the county of Strafford, on the Thursday next following the second Tuesday of March, by adjournment, from the Thurs- day next following the third Tuesday of February, Anno Domini 1792.
WHEREAS a number of the In- habitants of the towns of Moul- tonborough, Sandwich and Tamworth within this county, petitioned the Court of General Sessions of the Peace, at August term 1790,—Praying that a road might be laid out by a committee appointed by said Court of Sessions, through the unincorporated tract of land in said county called Tufstonbo- rough, and the necessity and reasonab- leness of said prayer appearing to said Court; It was then and there ordered that upon notice being given according to law, unto the owners and proprietors of said Tufstonborough, a committee be appointed by said Court to lay out said road according to the prayer of said pe- tition, and make return of their doings therein to the next Court of Sessions, then to be holden at Dover, in and for said county of Strafford, on the Thurs- day next following the third Tuesday in February then next, which said com- mittee was appointed, and proceeded in consequence of said order to lay out said road as follows.—Pursuant to the foregoing order of Court, we the sub- scribers have viewed the College road through Tufstonborough, and find so much of the same unfit to make a good waggon road, that we have viewed a new road through Tufstonborough, part of Moultonborough, and part of Wolf- borough, which is marked out by a line of spotted trees, and the small bushes cut out of the same.—Beginning at the highway in Moultonborough, about one hundred rods south of Joseph Richardson's Dwelling-house, thence running south-easterly one mile to Tuf- stonborough line; thence through said Tufstonborough about the same course on said new spotted road, seven miles, one hundred and fifty rods to Wolfbo- rough line; thence about the same course, about one hundred rods to the College road, the south side of Jonathan Hersey's house in said Wolfborough:— And we hereby return said road four rods in width, and no damages for the land taken for said road, as we judge the advantage to the owners of said land to be more benefited by having such a said road than the damage.
EBENEZER SMITH, JOSHUA WINGATE, } Committee. JOHN PLUMER,
AND whereas said road so laid out by said committee remains yet uncleared and impassable; it is therefore order- ed by the Court of Sessions, that Na- than Hoit, Bradbury Richardson, Esq's, and Nathaniel Shannon, gentleman, be a committee to clear and make pass- able said road agreeably to the law of this State, made and provided for lay- ing out highways through unincorpo- rated lands.—And that the Clerk of the Sessions cause this order to be pub- lished four weeks successively in one of the New-Hampshire Newspapers, ex- pressing the return of the committee aforesaid, and requiring the proprie- tors of said lands to make the same pass- able, by the first day of August next, en- suing; and in case the same shall not be complied with, within the time afore- said, then said committee to proceed and clear the same and make it pass- able as said law directs.
By order of the Court of Sessions, BENJAMIN THOMPSON, Clerk. April 12, 1792.
State of New-Hampshire. NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in the township of Rochester, who have not paid their State tax for the year 1787, that unless they pay said taxes to me the subscriber, on or before the 7th day of June next, so much of their land as will pay the same toge- ther with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at my dwelling- house in said town, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, on said day.
   1st div. 2d div. 3d div. 4th div. 1st div. 2d div. 3d div. 4th div.   Specie. Certificates.   s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d.     Joseph Kent 0 0 0 0 5 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 11 0 0   James Durgin 0 0 0 0 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0   Thomas Drew 0 0 5 10 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 11 1 0 0 0   Joseph Jenkins 0 0 1 7 2 11 0 0 0 0 0 9 1 5 0 0   Shadrick Walton, Esq. 0 2 — — — — — — 0 1 — — — — 0 0   Clements Hughs — — 2 6 — — — — — — 1 3 — — — —   Richard Waldron, jun. — — 10 0 — — 0 5 — — 5 0 — — 0 2   Lt. Jona. Woodman — — 10 0 — — — — — — 5 0 — — — —   Lt. John Smith — — 2 6 2 11 — — — — 1 3 1 5 — —   Ebenezer Varney — — 2 10 — — 0 2 — — 1 5 — — 0 1   Ensign Israel Hodgdon — — — — 0 9 — — — — — — 0 4 — —   Lt. Joseph Jones — — — — 4 4 — — — — — — 2 2 — —   Ensign John Waldron — — 4 6 1 11 — — — — 2 3 1 0 — —   Capt. Paul Wentworth — — — — 0 11 — — — — — — 0 5 — —   Archibald M'Pheadrick — — 8 4 — — — — — — 4 2 — — — —   Benjamin Bickford — — 0 8 — — — — — — 0 4 — — — —   George Walton — — 10 0 2 11 — — — — 5 0 1 5 — —   Capt. Paul Gerrish — — — — 5 10 — — — — — — 2 11 — —   Dea. G. Wentworth 1 3 — — — — — — 0 7 — — — — — —   Lt. Tristram Heard 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 — —   Capt. Timothy Gerrish 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 — —   Lt. Joseph Roberts 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 0   Col. James Davis, 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0   Col. Richard Waldron 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1   Governor Shute 0 0 0 0 5 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 9 0 0   Lt. Governor Wentworth — — 5 10 — — — — — — 2 11 0 0 0 0   A share between two men—Nich. Harford 0 0 2 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0   John Cenny — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —   A share between three men—Tho's Hanson, J. Hanson, N. Hanson 0 0 1 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0   Joseph Ricker — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —   George Ricker 0 0 0 0 1 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 0 0   Jeremiah Rollins — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —   Gershon Downs 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1   Thomas Downs — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —   Ebenezer Downs — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —   John Ricker 0 10 3 4 4 4 0 0 0 5 1 8 2 2 0 0   Meturin Ricker — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —   Ephraim Ricker — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —   John Treekey 0 0 1 6 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 1   Thomas Treekey — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —   Hativil Nutter — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —   Edward Evens 0 0 2 10 4 8 0 0 0 0 1 5 2 4 0 0   Benjamin Evens — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —   Joseph Evens — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —   Hativil Nutter, Henry Nutter, Eleazer Colman, — — 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 6 0 0   Benjamin Mason — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —   William Dame 0 0 2 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 0 0 0 0   Capt. J. Leighton — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —   John Bickford — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —   Joseph Bickford 0 0 0 0 4 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 0 0   Eleazer Bickford — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —   John Hall — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —   Thomas Hall 0 0 6 8 0 0 0 3 0 0 3 4 0 0 0 1   Samuel Cearl — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —   Ebenezer Tuttle — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —   William Twombly, 0 0 6 9 2 10 0 0 0 0 3 4 1 5 0 0   James Guppy — — — —> — — — — — — — — — — — — —   Samuel Heard — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —   James Heard 0 0 0 0 2 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 0   David Watson —