The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1774-08-05 00:00:00

NEW-HAMPSHIRE AND HISTORICAL
CONTAINING the Freshest ADVICES
Friday Aug. 5, 1774.
THE
Vol. XVIII.
GAZETTE, CHRONICLE, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
NO. 928 { Weeks since this Paper was first Publish'd. }
Conclusion of the ACT for the better regulating the GOVERNMENT of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England.
AND be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That if, by reason of Challenges or otherwise, there shall not be a sufficient Number of Jurors, for the Trial of any Prosecution for any Misdemeanour, or any Action depending in any of the said Courts, then and in such Case, the Jury shall be filled up de Talibus Circumstantibus , to be returned by the Sheriff, unless he be a Party, or interested or related to any Party or Person interested in such Prosecution or Action; and in any of which Cases to be returned by the Coroner, unless he be a Party, or interested or related to any Party or Person interested in such Prosecution or Action; and in any of those Cases, to be returned by a proper and indifferent Person, to be appointed by the Court for that Purpose.
And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That in Case any Person summoned to serve upon the Grand or Petit Jury, at any of the Courts aforesaid, or upon the Jury in any Prosecution, or Action, or Suit, depending in any of the said Courts, shall not appear and serve at the said Courts according to the said Summons, (not having any reasonable Excuse to be allowed by the Judges or Justices at such Court,) shall be fined by the Judges or Justices of such Court, in any Sum not exceeding the Sum of Ten Pounds, nor less than Twenty Shillings Sterl.
And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That every Sheriff, or other Officer, to whom the Venire Facias , or other Process or Warrant, for the Trial of Causes, or summoning of Juries, shall be directed, shall, upon his Return of every such Writ, or other Process or Warrant, (unless in Cases where a Special Jury shall be struck by Order or Rule of Court, pursuant to this Act,) annex a Pannel to the said Writ, or Process, or Warrant, containing the Christian and Surnames, Additions, and Places of Abode, of a competent Number of Jurors, named in such Lists, as are qualified to serve on such Juries respectively, the Names of the Persons to be inserted in the Pannel annexed to every such Writ or Process, or Warrant; which Number of Jurors shall not be less than 24, nor more than 48, without Direction of the Judges or Justices of such Court or Session, or One of them, who are hereby respectively empowered and required, if he or they see Cause, by Order, under his or their respective Hand or Hands, to direct a greater or lesser Number; and then such Number as shall be so directed, shall be the Number to be returned to serve on such Jury; provided that such Number to be so returned, shall not be less than Twenty-four.
And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That for the Trials of all Actions or Suits depending in any of the said Courts, the Name of each and every person who shall be summoned & returned as aforesaid, with his Addition & the place of his Abode, shall be written in several and distinct pieces of Parchment, or Paper, being all as near as may be of equal Size and Bigness, & shall be delivered unto the Officer to be appointed by the Court for that Purpose, by the Sheriff, Under-Sheriff or some Agent of his; and shall, by Direction and Care of such Officer be Rolled up all as near as may be, in
the same Manner, and put together in a Box or Glass, to be provided for that Purpose; and when any Cause shall be brought on to be tried, some indifferent Person, by Direction of the Court, may and shall, in open Court, draw out Twelve of the said Parchments or Papers, One after another; and if any of the Persons, whose Names shall be so drawn, shall not appear, or shall be challenged, and such Challenge allowed, then such Person shall proceed to draw other Parchments or Papers, from the said Box, till twelve indifferent Persons shall be drawn; which 12 indifferent Persons being sworn, shall be the Jury to try the said Cause; and the Names of the Persons so drawn & sworn shall be kept apart by themselves in some other Box or Glass, to be kept for that Purpose, till such Jury shall have given in their Verdict, and the same is recorded, or until such Jury shall, by Consent of the Parties, or Leave of the Court, be discharged; and then the same Names shall be rolled up again, and returned to the former Box or Glass, there to be kept, with the other Names remaining at that Time undrawn, and toties quoties as long as any Cause remains then to be tried.
And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawful, to and for the Superior Court of Assize, and Court of Common Pleas, upon Motion made on Behalf of His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, or on the Motion of any Prosecutor or Defendant, in any Indictment or Information for any Misdemeanor, depending, or to be brought or prosecuted in the said Court, or on the Motion of any Plaintiff, or Plaintiffs, Defendant or Defendants, in any Action, Cause, or Suit whatsoever, depending, or to be brought and carried on in the said Court, and the said Court is hereby authorised and required, upon Motion as aforesaid in any of the Cases before-mentioned, to order and appoint a Jury to be struck for the Trial of any Issue joined in any of the said Cases, and triable by a Jury of Twelve Men by such Officer of the said Court as the Court shall appoint; and for that Purpose, the Sheriff, or his Deputy, shall attend such Officer, with the Duplicate of the Lists of Persons qualified to serve on Juries; and such Officer shall thereupon take down in Writing, from the said Duplicate the Names of 48 Persons qualified to serve on Juries, with their Additions and Places of Abode, a Copy whereof shall forthwith be delivered to the Prosecutors or Plaintiffs, their Attorneys or Agents, and another Copy thereof to the Defendants, their Attorneys or Agents, in such Prosecutions and Causes; and the said Officer of the Court aforesaid shall, at a time to be fixed by him for that Purpose, strike out the Names of 12 of the said Persons, at the Nomination of the Prosecutors or Plaintiffs, their Attorneys or Agents, also the Names of 12 others of the said Persons, at the Nomination of the said Defendants in such Prosecutions and Suits, and the Twenty-four remaining Persons shall be struck & summoned, and returned to the said Court as Jurors, for the Trial of such Issues.
Provided always, That in Case the Prosecutors or Plaintiffs, or Defendants, their Attorneys or Agents, shall neglect or refuse to attend the Officer at the Time fixed for striking the Names of Twenty-four Persons as aforesaid, or nominate the Persons to be
struck out; then, and in such Case, the said Officer shall, and he is hereby required to strike out the Names of such Number of the said Persons, as such Prosecutors or Plaintiffs, or Defendants, might have nominated to be struck out.
And be it further enacted, That the Person or Party who shall apply for such Special Jury as aforesaid, shall not only bear & pay the Fees for striking such Jury, but also pay and discharge all the Expences occasioned by the Trial of the Cause by such Special Jury, and shall not have any further or other Allowance for the same, upon Taxation of Costs, than such Person or Party would be intitled unto, in case the Cause had been tried by a common Jury, unless the Judge, before whom the Cause is tried, shall immediately after the Trial, certify in open Court, under his Hand, upon the Back of the Record, that the same was a Cause proper to be tried by a Special Jury.
And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That, in all Actions brought in any of the said Courts, where it shall appear to the Court in which such Actions are depending, that it will be proper and necessary that the Jurors who are to try the Issues in any such Actions, should have the View of the Messuages, Lands, or Place in Question, in order to their better understanding the Evidence that will be given upon the Trial of such Issues; in every such Case the respective Courts in which such Actions shall be depending may order the Jury to the Place in Question, who then and there shall have the Matters in Question shown them by Two Persons to be appointed by the Court; and the Special Cost of all such Views as allowed by the Court, shall, before the Trial, be paid by the Party who moved for the View (the adverse Party not consenting thereto;) and shall, at the Taxation of the Bill of Cost, have the same allowed him, upon his recovering Judgment in such Trial; and upon all Views with the Consent of Parties, ordered by the Court, the Costs thereof, as allowed by the Court, shall, before Trial, be equally paid by the said Parties; and in the Taxation of the Bill of Costs, the party recovering Judgment shall have the Sum by him paid allowed to him; any Law, Usage, or Custom, to the Contrary notwithstanding.
And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That if any Action shall be bro't against any Sheriff, for what he shall do in Execution, or by virtue of this Act, he may plead the General Issue, and give the Special Matter in Evidence; and if a Verdict shall be found for him, he shall recover Treble Costs.
JUST PUBLISH'd, And Sold at the Printing-Office, Portsmouth, Price Nine Pence L. M. single, and half Piastre by the Dozen. A RATIONAL EXPLICATION of
St. JOHN'S VISION OF THE TWO BEASTS
In the XIIIth Chapter of the Revelation, Shewing, that the Beginning, Power, and Duration of POPERY, are plainly predicted in that Vision, and that these Predictions have hitherto been punctually verified.
By SAMUEL LANGDON, D. D. Pastor of the First Church in Portsmouth,

For the New-Hampshire Gazette.
Salutis communis interest. Cicero.
It is an adopted maxim, "That private Interest should ever give place to the general good of the community, of which we are members." If the foundation of this maxim is duly considered, no reasonable man will ever hesitate one moment, to forego every gratification, and give up every profit of trade, incompatible with the true interest of his native Country. He that runs, may not only read, but hear, see and feel too, the effects of the oppressive Measures of the present day; I will not arraign the policy of the British Parliament, in adopting, or enforcing such measures, as I am fully of opinion, that the ministry which promoted them, were induced thereto, by the advice and information of American Parricides, & the pestilential influence of the East-India company, a company that has always been considered as founded upon the mean and ungenerous principles of Monopolists, and destructive to the true political interest of the British nation: I will wave the consideration of the detriment they have been, and still are, to the manufacturer, by their importing those goods that could be made in England, or by their exporting Bullion, to the manifest injury of the trade & commerce of the nation, nor will I mention the circumstance of their oppression, cruelty and destruction of the East-Indian natives by the misgovernment of their subordinates. I shall confine myself to their artifices and attempts to enthral all America, and thereby secure to themselves the Monopoly of a trade, which in half a century, would be more profitable to them than the Indies themselves, but thanks to the supreme Governor of the universe, their schemes are detected, and the eyes of every American view with disdain the shackles and chains with which they intended to bind them.
Their affairs being perplexed, they lately applied to the present parliament for assistance to extricate them; a committee was appointed, who reported amongst other things, that the number of ships which they had employ'd had greatly contributed to the decay of their flock, as by these ships they had imported purposely to give them trieghts more than thirty millions weight of Teas, most part of which was then on hand, because the Americans had nobly resolved not to import it while charged with a duty, by which a parliamentary claim was supported of taxing America, without representation; with this extravagant stock of tea on hand, they found themselves nearly ruined, unless they could find a vent for it, they therefore applied for an act to empower them to ship teas for America, which before they could not do; and easily obtained one in their favour, (nam quid non possit Nummus,) with this limitation, that they sell the same at 4 quarterly publick sales: this act, say they, will exclude the british merchant from purchasing for exportation to America; for as our sales will be publick, the Americans will chuse to be their own Purchasers: besides, if the english merchant should incline to do it, it is easy to employ Persons to outbid them, and we will sell rather cheaper at first, at american sales than in England, by which artifice we shall imperceptibly engross the whole sales of that Commodity, and rise or fall the same so as to totally discourage all smuggling, and at any time make an artificial famine of TEA as was done with the rice in the India's, by which immense profits was gained, though thousands of innocent wretches were starved thereby. In consequence of this act, they have shipped vast quantity's of their detested teas to this continent, and have thrown the whole into convulsions, by which the affections of thousands, nay millions, are alienated from their mother country; their teas were either sent back, stored or destroyed, and here let us take a view of their secret revenge. Notwithstanding the loss of 2 or 300 chests, they made no complaint or applied for redress, that measure would never avail, they had another Cue in sight, which they understood better how to improve. They knew that themselves and their connections had such
an influence in parliament, that they could easily persuade Administration to espouse their cause, and thus the whole nation would appear for them, for which purpose the Boston Port-Bill was framed, A M A S T E R P E I C E O F I N V E N T I O N, by which the innocent are involved with the guilty, and all bound to repay to that company a heavy sum, without their even desiring it or proving their property. Is it not obvious to every man of common sense, that they knew their interest would accomplish any thing, for that there was scarce any monied men or stock-jobbers in England, that are not more or less interested in or effected by their losses; we plainly see they depended upon their own strength, and it is they that have accomplished these acts, and to them must we apply for redress: but not in the manner they would wish; let us convince them by an indissoluble union thro'out the colonies, that they have mistook their men and overshoot their Mark, and become the objects of universal contempt; it is earnestly hoped that the DELEGATES at the approaching CONGRESS will recommend a total stagnation of commerce with them, even of those articles that have been thought necessary: many are for distressing the manufacturers of Great-Britain, and the inhabitants of the West-Indies; I would ask what have they done? I may be answered, they have left undone those things they ought to have done, they should have remonstrated to Parliament, and instructed their members, to oppose those Bills passing into acts; this answer is not sufficient to starve innocent thousands, till they have fair notice, that if they did not in future, after a certain day, or at the next Election, use their utmost efforts, not to re-elect the same members or any others who would not first solemnly declare upon oath, if necessary, that he would use his endeavours for the repeal of all the late oppressive acts so justly complained of by the Americans, and that he would during the time of his seat in Parliament, do his utmost to prevent an interruption of that harmony that may be hereafter restored, and subsist between Great-Britain, and her colonies, as the only means of aggrandizing the glory of the British nation. This must first be requested and even insisted on of them, and there is no doubt but they will comply; YET if the Congress should think the oppression of the town of Boston calls for a more immediate remedy, and that a universal stoppage of all commerce would be the only means under GOD, to effect a relief, and that the merchants of London, and the persons who own estates in the islands should support their distressed, as the continent are determined to support Boston, I say if these should be their sentiments, let us all unite to adopt such measures as they may advise to or recommend as the PATRES CONSCRIPTI of the American colonies.
CAMILLUS.
PHILADELPHIA, July 20.
Last Friday Afternoon, agreeable to Invitation from the Committee of this City, Delegates from the several County Committees, viz. Bucks, Chester, Lancaster, York, Cumberland, Bedford, Berks, Northampton and Northumberland, met the Committee for this City and County, and we hear they have been engaged in preparing a set of General Resolves, declaratory of the Sense of this Province, on the present State of British America, and the peculiar Sufferings of our Brethren in Boston, and the Massachusetts Bay. We are assured that there is great unanimity in their Councils and determinations, and that a happy Presage may be formed of a general Concurrence and Support, in such Measures as shall be found necessary to preserve and secure the Rights and Liberties of the inhabitants of this Country. We are informed, that a more full and ample declaration of our present Grievances, and a Suggestion of the Mode of Redress, so as to relieve the distressed Bostonians, ease the Minds of the other Colonists, and draw some just and equitable Line between the Mother Country & the Colonies, is under the Consideration of this respectable Meeting, and will be conveyed to the Hon. House of Representatives, as the Advice or Instructions of a number of their Constituents, on this important Occasion: which will also, in due Time, be communicated to the Public. On Friday last arrived at Newcastle, the Ship Peace & Plenty, Capt. M'Kenzie, with 400 Passengers from Belfast.
We hear that the Assembly of this Province which are now met, have resolved themselves into a grand Committee, and have appointed To-morrow at Ten o'Clock, for the Consideration of sundry Letters from the Committees of our Sister Colonies, relative to American Grievances; at which Time we are likewise informed, our provincial Committee, who are also sitting here, will have leave to attend the Debates.
NEW-YORK, July 21.
Thursday last three Transports arrived here from Boston; they are now taking in Ordnance, and a Proportion of Military Stores, among which are 500 Barrels of Gun-Powder; and we hear the Royal Welsh Fusileers, now here are to embark this Week on
board the said Transports, with a Detachment of the Train of Artillery, to sail directly for Boston.
Letters from London, late as May 14. mention a great Change in the Sentiments of the People, respecting the Guilt of the Bostonians, in destroying the Tea. The Representations of that Circumstance were so unfair, and so industriously propagated among all Ranks of People, that a general Rage possessed the Body of the Nation against us. A worthy Writer has lately published a Pamphlet, setting Things in a true Light, which has had amazing Success.
BOSTON, July 23. 1774.
By Capt. Lovett arrived last Sabbath in this Town, after a short Passage from Antigua, we learn, that the Merchants and Planters were in great Consternation there on reading the Proposals of the Colonies for suspending their Supplies of Lumber and Provisions; which they agree must be ruinous to them; and in consequence they have appropriated a Third of their Cane Plantations for the Culture of Indian Corn, Yams, Potatoes, &c. for the Maintenance of their Slaves, in case the Suspension does take Place. It is further said, Antigua has sent home a Remonstrance on that Head, and prayed Great-Britain, either to open the Port of Boston, and let them have Provisions as usual, or furnish them with absolute Necessaries of Life themselves; otherwise say they, their Sugar-Planting must soon come to an End, as they can neither support their Slaves, nor ship the Sugars home for Want of Casks. Notwithstanding the Distress in which they foresee they must be involved by our Discontinuance of Trade with them, they generously commended us for the Resolutions; acknowledging that in our Circumstances any Measure we can lay hold of for Relief from the Chains imposing on us is fully justifiable.
At a Town-Meeting on Tuesday last, the Methods proposed for employing such as are out of Business by the Operation of the Port-Bill, were approved; a circular Letter to the other Towns, relative to the Bills for vacating our Charter, was reported, and accepted by the Town. The Meeting stands adjourned to Tuesday the 9th Day of August.
The Governor of Connecticut, has appointed the 31st of August next, as a Day of Fasting, Humiliation and Prayer thro'out that Colony.
Last Tuesday afternoon one James Mac Gee, of this Town, Labourer, was piling Wood at Capt. Hatch's Wharf, and accidentally fell from the Pile, with a large Log upon his Shoulders, which fell upon his Head, broke his Skull, and killed him instantaneously.
BOSTON, August 1, 1774.
Extra of a Letter from a Gentleman at St. Eustatia to his Friend in Boston, dated the 14th of July past.
"I am extremely concerned at the Measures pursuing by G. Britain against the Colonies: for poor Boston in particular! It could never be meant that she would be the sole Butt of their—I will call no harsh Names. The rest of the Colonies were in full perspective—Gradual in Execution was the most probable Means of gaining and establishing a Precedent. The Capital subdued to Obedience would have been sufficient, to every Purpose. By Obedience I mean Obedience to the extraordinary new Mandates; and I can assure you that but few who know the Interest of the English Caribee-Islands, but must and do approve the Measures adopted by the Town of Boston. It cannot be conceived by you on the Continent, what a Confusion the Suspension of Supplies to the Islands would Occasion. Insurrections among the Negroes must be the inevitable Consequence. Hunger is and ever will be the Means to drive Men upon every practicable Means to appease it's Gnawings. The Islands formerly raised Negroe Provisions, such as Yams, Potatoes and Indian-Corn nearly sufficient for each Plantation, and had from North America the Remainder. But the Grounds so appropriated, have of late Years been constantly improved in Canes as more profitable; and the Food brought from the Colonies being not only cheaper, but more solid and agreeable in taste, the withdrawing it from the Slaves now accustomed to it, would be sufficient to breed a Mutiny throughout the Estates. The Property of many of these Estates, improved by their Agents, & stocked with, from 2 to 7 or 800 Negroes, residing in many of the leading Men in London, Bristol and other capital Seaports, would render them your Advocates rather than suffer such immense Fortunes to run to Ruin.
"In short a Suspension of Supplies would oblige the Planters to discontinue the Culture of Canes, and it could by no Means be speedily recovered. The Islands cannot subsist for any Time without Provisions from the Continent; and few indeed of their Inhabitants are there but already groan with apprehension, that the dreaded Suspension may take place.
"I should conceive a second Consideration would draw the Attention of those Gentlemen to the common Welfare, viz the French King's Death, and the Measures that Nation are taking in their Islands. It is not six Months since several Troops arrived in Martinico and Guadalupe, which are distributed in Reinforcements to their Garrisons. A Continuance or Renewal of this Policy has very lately taken Place. About 8 Days ago a Brig landed an Hundred fresh Troops at Port-Royal, and then proceeded at St. Domingo. The French say nine Hundred more are on their Passage for the same Place in different Vessels. Their Artizans are all employed on Fortresses, adding and repairing; and many new Batteries and Redoubts are erecting in a private Manner, even where no probable Service by prevention to Land, can be expected from them. In their gacconading Way they are very soon to conquer much of America, as well as these Islands. War seems planning in Martinico, I hope no where else in this critical Juncture. God only knows what would be the Event. Their several Preparations are unaccountable, I wish all Matters were reconciled to be in Readiness for what may happen."
A Correspondent desires us to acquaint him, whether Hypocrisy is thought to be the reigning Vice of the present Day, or whether it is necessary that we should Horse-Race it and Cock-fight it, Swear and Fuddle it on Lord's Days, and shew our Anterior as well as Posteriors through our Windows on week Days, in order to prove that we are no Hypocrites, & so not excluded by Act or P-cl-----n from the Notices of our Superiors.
We learn from Hadley, that the famous P. L. of that Town, was apprehended as a common Traitor of his Country, for bringing some of the detested Tea into that Town; after confessing the Crime, was hanged the usual Time, then cut down by the common Hangman.
A Cart-Load of new Pick Axes was seen putting into a Store on the Long-Wharf last Saturday. Quere, What are we to apprehend from all these warlike Preparations? Is a Fort to be erected in good Earnest, and the Town to be awed into Submission by Cannon and Mortars? Forbid it, Heaven! Rather let it become an Heap, & be raised to its Foundation, than one mean Concession be the Means of its Preservation!
Saturday a Vessel arrived here with One Thousand Bushels of Grain, as a Present for the distressed Poor of this Town, from our truly worthy Friends and Brethren of Weathersfield, in the Colony of Connecticut.
At a legal Town-Meeting at Cambridge on Thursday last, a Committee was chosen to receive Donations for the Relief of their distressed Brethren in Boston.

Last Monday arrived at Salem, Capt. Rolland, in 54 Days from Falmouth. He has bro't only one Paper of a latter Date than we have before received from London: in which we find the following Articles, viz.
L O N D O N, May 24.
THE new French King's Mode of dismissing his Grandfather's Ministers contained some degree of Humour. He sent Word to the Duke d'Aguillon and the Chancellor, that they had been too near Louis the Fifteenth, to be admitted into the Presence of his Successor, as he has not yet had the Small-Pox, and that it was to avoid an Infection that he had confined their female Friend (Madam Barre) to a Convent.
They write from Rochford, that Advice has been received there of the Loss of two French Men of War, with a Number of Land Forces on board, off the Island of Madagascar, in a violent Storm, and that all on board perished.
Our Readers will doubtless be pleased with a Relation of the Ceremonies performed at the Death of the late French King: As soon as his Christian Majesty was given over, the four Heralds of Arms were ordered to wait in the Anti-Chamber next to his Majesty's Bed Room; just as he was expiring they were introduced and placed one at each Corner of the Bed, and after the Physicians attending had declared that he was dead, the 2 Heralds on the right Side of the Bed, immediately proclaimed aloud, three distinct Times, Le Roi est mort . But as the King is supposed to be never dead in France, the two others on the left proclaimed in the same Manner, viz. Le Roi Louis le meilleur ; then the Body remained exposed for the Inspection of every one; Twenty-Four Hours after the Death, the Body was opened, the Heart and Bowels extracted, and washed in aromatic Waters; after being embalmed, they were put into a Box for that Purpose, and buried in a Tomb, at the Val of Grace ; the Body was carried to the Louvres in Paris, exposed in State, remained there till all the Parish Priests, Monks, Friars, &c. had been in procession, and said Prayers: it was then sent with funeral Pomp to St. Dennis, and placed under a Mausoleum erected in the Choir of the Church, where it is to remain 40 days; during that Time all the Household will be in waiting as if the King was alive; a Table is served twice a Day, and when the Dinner is ready, Le Grand Maître d'Hôtel will taste the Victuals, and then proceed to the Choir of the Church and announce to his Majesty that the Table is served; the first Gentleman of the Chamber in waiting will answer his Majesty has dined; the same Ceremony is to be gone through at Night for the Supper. At the Expiration of the 40 Days the Ceremony of the Burial will be performed, and a funeral Speech pronounced; the Tomb is then to be open, and six Guards du Corps will take the body of Lewis the XIVth, who lays upon the first Steps, and carry him down into the Vault, and put the Body of Lewis XVth in his Place. The Entrance is then shut up, and upon it is erected a new wooden Mausoleum, covered with a black Velvet Pall on the right Hand of the Altar.
Extract of a Letter from Paris, May 16.
"The Countess de Barre is banished by a Letter of Catehet to the Abbey of Pont-aux-Dames near Meaulx; and Mad. de Fentenelle, the Abbess, is enjoined not to let her see any Person. Some Ladies of the Court, who frequently visited her, have received Orders not to appear any more at Court. The Duchesses of Gramant, who had been exiled for having treated the Countess de Barre with Disdain, hath received from the Queen a most gracious Letter of recall to her Service."
A Letter from Warsaw, dated May 7, says, "Yesterday a Courier arrived here with the most surprising News, that the Prussians have taken the City of Frauenstadt; that another Army of 10,000 Prussians has just entered Great Poland; and that a large Prussian Army, with the King at its Head, had encamped near Dantzig."
May 26. A few Days ago Overtures were made to Lord Chatham to take a Post in Administration, but they were rejected as being upon too narrow a Foundation.
It is said that Accounts were received last Week from Boston of a very alarming Nature to the Ministry.
The late Dispatches arrived from Lisbon, it is said are of an alarming Nature, and seem to portend that we are not so far from a War as our Ministry would insinuate.
May 28. On Thursday came on, according to Order, in the upper Assembly, the third Reading of the Bill for providing Quarters for the Officers and Troops in North-America. The Bill was accordingly read a third Time by the Clerk; and upon the Question being put, whether the Bill should pass, Lord Chatham got up and spoke for upwards of an Hour in a very nervous & sensible manner. During the Course of his Speech, his Lordship highly condemned the refractory Behaviour of the Americans, but at the same Time disapproved of the Measures taken by Administration, looking upon them as harsh, oppressive, and tyrannical. When he had concluded, Lord Suffolk spoke for a short Time, and was answered by Lord Temple, who closed the Debate. The Question again put, that this Bill do now pass, and the House divided, contents 57, non contents 16.
N E W - Y O R K, July 21, 1774.
"From a Person in Office of Exports and Imports in Boston, (one Murray) to his Friend, D. Ar. M'Neil in Carolina."
"Our Sons of Liberty, as you'll see by the Papers, have at length procured for themselves a smart Dose of Correction, but they make Faces and take it with a bad Grace, which will not make the Operation the gentler. Will your Colony and others of the same Stamp take Warning by our Discipline? If they do not, they will certainly come in for their Share, now John Bull is roused."
"The late Feats here have had one good Effect, to put Government in Mind of some, who dared to show themselves in Support of it, among others, your humble Servant is like to come in for a small Acknowledgement—about 150l. per Annum, in Office of Inspector of Exports and Imports, lately held by Thomas Erving, Esq; who is appointed Receiver General for your Province—the good of this Office to me is, that it can be executed without taking me quite from my beloved Amusement, this Farm."
"We hear that Sir William Johnson, Bart. about three hours before his Death, finished a Negotiation with upwards of 200 Indians, and dismissed them in perfect Peace, after they had given him the strongest Assurance of their good Dispositions to the English Nation. The Indians exhibited, on the occasion of Sir William Johnson's death, the most extraordinary shews of distress and sincere affliction that ever were before observed among that People."
B O S T O N, August 1.
More than sixty Days have expired, since Boston, by a late Edict of the British Parliament, has been besieged by a British Fleet and Army, and its Trade annihilated: The Inhabitants now receive that Insult and Damage, which was never experienced in the hottest Wars we have been engaged in with France and Spain, & their Allies, the Savages of the American Woods. The Particulars of the Siege, and the Manoeuvres of our Enemies, may in Future be told by some able Historian. Suffice it at present to inform the World, that though Wood and
Provisions have been allowed us by said Port-ACT, the Introduction of these Articles has been attended with such loss of Time and unnecessary Charges as greatly to raise the Price of Fuel upon the poor Inhabitants: No Wood can now be bro't from the Rivers and Bays included in our Harbour, upon which we depended for a considerable part of our supply: No Goods of any kind are suffered to be Waterborne within a Circle of 60 Miles: No Timber, Boards, Shingles, Bricks, Lime, Sand, &c. are to be transported from one Wharf to another; and so even the Tradesmen, not immediately dependent upon Shipping, are thrown out of Business. No Barrels of Liquors, Bread, Flour, &c. are suffered to be bro't by a few Rods in our row Boats, or across our shortest Ferry; and even the Vessels on the Stocks, which have for some Time past been ready for launching, cannot be put into the Water, without their being exposed to a threatened Seizure. Neither is the dry'd Table Fish and Oil, the Charity of our Massachusetts Friends, nor RICE, the generous Present of the Carolinians, nor even House Sand, to be brought us by Water, but must be accompanied with the great Charge of a Land-carriage of about 30 Miles: We are also cut off from the Advantage and Profit of supplying as usual an extent of Sea Coast on the North and South of more than 100 Leagues, even with British Merchandise: And when any of these Hardships and Distresses are mentioned to those Infatuated in Office, the Commissioners, and their Understrappers, we are told it was the Design of the Act, and that it is not their Intent to lessen these Difficulties:—This is the Treatment meted out by a British Minister to a Town and Province, by whose Exertions in a late War, the Province of Louisbourg was taken, which purchased the Peace of Europe and delivered Britons from their terrible Apprehensions of an Invasion by French flat-bottomed Boats. What further Cruelties we are to suffer we know not; but whether America, or even this single Town is in this Way to be brought to the Feet of Lord North, with the full surrender of their inestimable Rights and Liberties, Time only can determine.
Salem, August 2.
We can't learn, by Capt. Rolland, whether or not the two last tyrannical Bills, for preventing Justice and subverting the established Constitution of this Government, had received the Assent of "the best of Kings."
By Capt. Leech in one Week from Philadelphia, who arrived here last Saturday Night, we are informed, that 400 Barrels of Flour were ready to be shipped as a Present for the Poor of Boston.
Capt. Leighton, from Virginia, informs, that he was told by some respectable Gentlemen, that there would be 60,000 Bushels of Grain sent from that Colony by the 10th of September, all freely given by that generous, patriotic People, for the Support of their distressed Brethren in Boston. It was said that 30,000 Bushels would also be given and sent by the worthy People of Maryland for the same noble Purpose.
We find no Account in the Boston Papers of the Affray in that Place last Week, between several Officers and some of the Inhabitants: Indeed the Conduct of the former, as we are told, was so detestably savage and obscene as to render a particular public Relation thereof improper.
The Hon. W. S. Johnson, Esq; Major Erastus Wolcott, and Richard Law, Esq; three of the Delegates for Connecticut, have declined serving at the approaching Congress. The Committee of Correspondence are about choosing three other Gentlemen in their Stead.
PORTSMOUTH, Aug. 5, 1774.
MARRIED. At Hampton, Samuel Mather, Esq; Secretary to the Board of Commissioners, to Miss Peggy Gerrish, of Salem.
DIED. At Norwalk, the Hon. THOMAS FITCH, Esq; Aged 75, late Governor of the Colony of Connecticut, who by his Merit, rose from the Bar to the Chief Seat in Government, in which important Place he gave general Satisfaction till the Time the famous Stamp-Act came over to America, when this valuable Man was displaced by a Poodle from the Place of Governor, (who in that Colony are voted yearly) for Nothing more than Swearing the Stamp-Master into Office, which he no doubt at that Time, thought he must do—since which he has been neglected by the People, and no Notice ever taken of him, the other side the Water.
HAY, we are like to have here in great Plenty—it is now currently sold for four Dollars, and some say it will be cheaper. But the Prospect of Cyder being poor, a Quantity brought from Connecticut and Rhode-Island, to this Market in the Fall, will undoubtedly fetch a good Price.
Tyre Iron for Cart-Wheels, To be sold by DANIEL PEIRCE, at his Shop in King-street, where may be had a Good Assortment of ENGLISH and WEST-INDIA GOODS, as cheap as at any Shop in Town.—Also, long and short PIPES by the Dozen,—SIEVES, Sieve Bottoms, and Reims by the Dozen, &c.
Portsmouth, Aug. 4, 1774.
§ Gunthwaite. §
Province of New Hampshire, Aug. 1, 1774. PURSUANT to a Vote of the Proprietors of Gunthwaite, authorizing and empowering their Clerk to call a Meeting, upon Application to him, of more than one sixteenth Part of said Proprietors, and such Application being made; the Proprietors are hereby notified and warned to meet at the House of Capt. Jacob Tilton, Innholder in Portsmouth, on Wednesday the 31st Inst. at 4 o'clock P. M. then and there to act upon the following Matters and Things. 1st. To chuse a Moderator. 2. To receive and settle Accounts from the Treasurer and Collectors. 3. To receive and settle Accounts for cutting out and clearing Roads, and other Services done for the Propriety. 4 To consider of, and agree upon Measures to complete the Settlement of the Town-ship, according to the Charter. 5. To consider what further Sum may be necessary to be raised by a Tax on the Propriety, and in case any Tax should be levied, to chuse Assessors and Collectors for that Purpose. 6. To consider and determine on some convenient Mode of paying his Majesty's Quit Rents, that now are, or hereafter may become due. 7. To consider of and transact any other Matters that shall be for the Benefit of the Propriety.
SAMUEL ROGERS, Pro. Clerk.
Richard Champney,
Informs his Customers & others,
That he has just open'd a fresh Assortment of most Kinds of English and Hard Ware GOODS, which he will sell at his Shop in Queen Street, as low as can be purchased in any Shop in Town.
—Among which are,—
A Good Assortment of Sarges—Shal-lons—Buttons, Twist, Buckrams, sewing Silks, Threads, Tammies, Calamancoes, 3 4ths, 7 8ths, and yard wide Irish Linnens—Callicoes, Chinces, Patches,—A good Assortment of plain and figured Ribbands—Dutch Laces—Black & white plain Gauze—Sattins,—Sarsnets—Lawn Aprons and Handkerchiefs—plain Lawns and Cambrick—Linnen, Silk and Cotton Handkerchiefs—black Barcelona Handkerchiefs pr. Dozen—Bengalls—narrow and wide Bindings—Garterings, Pins, Tapes, Combs of all sorts—white, black blone and blond Laces—Silk and Cotton Stay Laces, Cheiveaux de Frize—Tassies, and Tassie Persians—Wide and narrow Allamode,—Fans, Necklaces, lb. Beads,—Black, white color'd, silk & worsted Mitts,—Men's and Women's black and white Lamb Gloves—and all Kinds of Mourning—Testaments, Placards, Primmers,—All kinds of Spices—Best French Indigo pr Pound—Chinces and Lawns,—Single and double Flint Wine Glasses—Delph Bowls—A great Variety of black, white and yellow Shoe and Knee Buckles—Penknives, Scissars, Cuttoes, Case Knives and Forks—Brass Cocks—A compleat Assortment of Desk Furniture—Chest and Cubbard Locks—Spikes and Nails, Gimblets, Tap Borers, Chests and H Hinges, Bellows, Iron Candlesticks,—Cotton and Hemp Chaulk Lines,—Slates and Pencils—Brass and Leather Ink-Pots—Powder, Shot, and Gun Flints—Raisins, Oatmeal—Snuff by the Bottle—Coffee, Pepper, Allspice, Ginger, Log-Wood, Red-Wood, Allum, Loaf and brown Sugars, Whale Bone, Oil by Flask or Gallon, Cotton-Wool.
At his Store on the Long Wharf, may be had, West-India & New England Rum, Molasses by the Hoghead or Barrel, superfine and common Flour by the Barrel, brown Sugar pr. Barrel—Excellent common and clear Pork pr. Barrel, New-York Gammons—brown Bread pr. Cask, Lemmons pr. Box—All the above Articles by retail at very low Prices for Cash only.—All Kinds of Tin Ware made and sold by wholesale or retail at his Shop.
The SUBSCRIBER being determined as soon as he can settle his Affairs to remove into the Country, takes this Method to request the Favour of all Persons who have any Accounts open with him to settle the same as soon as possible: And all who are in Arrears for Rates during the time of his being Collector of the same, are desir'd to pay the same immediately, or they will be proceeded against as the Law directs.
GEORGE DAME.
N. B. Said DAME has a very convenient new two Story Dwelling House, with a Barn and Garden, situated near the Market, which he would sell cheap for, G A S H. Portsmouth Aug. 1, 1774.
JAMES HASLET, LEATHER-DRESSER, and BREECHES MAKER, In King-street, Portsmouth, Has for Sale all sorts of LEATHER-BREECHES & GLOVES, made in the neatest and best Manner. As said HASLET dresses the Leather, he can afford, and will sell as cheap as any in New-England.

Imported from LONDON , And to be Sold by John Penhallow, At his Store in Portsmouth, cheap for Cash only,
D ark blue, Sky blue, blue grey, black grey, green, buff-color'd, superfine black, crimson, scarlet, and other colored Broad CLOTHS ,—Buttons, Shalloons, and Twist to match,—light color'd Kersemeer, Wiltons, German Serges, Worsted Damask, Gold Hat Laces, Gold & Silver Prussian Bindings,—Gold and Silver Thread Buttons, Fises,—Plain, striped and changeable Lutestrings, black, cloth, changeable and sky blue Taffeties, Damask, Padusoy, Ducape,—blue, white and pink color'd half ell Persians, Chinces, Callicoes; green, blue & cloth color'd Brolios,—blue and white Copper Plate Furniture.—Three qrs. 7 eight, and yard wide Linnens, check Linnens, striped Cotton Holland, plain black Lasting,—plain, white, striped and black Gauze, flower'd dit.—flower'd Gauze Aprons, flower'd Lawn dit.—black and white Catgut, Cambricks and Lawns, plain and striped Camblets, Hair Bine, double and single Allopeans,—yard wide Crapes, Poplins,—blue, black, green, worsted and hair Plush,—green and cloth color'd worsted Grogams,—green and blue Chaney for Curtains, China Cups and Saucers, Plates and Dishes, green Linsey, Velvet and Velverets,—black, white, and blue Feathers, black, blue and white fatten Hatts, Men's and Women's thread, worsted and cotton Hose, Children's dit.—Men's black and white silk Hose, black Breeches Patterns, silk Damask, plain and corded Dimothy, Fustians, white Lamb Glover, black glaz'd dit. white Kid dit. Women's unglaz'd Lamb Gloves,—black, blue, white and pink colour'd Sattins,—plain and figur'd Stuffs, Calamancoes, Durants, Shalloons, Bombazeen, Children's red Morocco Shoes, Cloth, Shoe and Floor Brushes, Looking-Glasses, Desk Furniture,—White Chapel Needles, white Buckram, Black and white Laces, Cheveaux de Frize Laces, Women's Horn and Tortoise shell Combs, Cinnamon, Mace, Cloves and Nutmegs, Sewing Silks, colour'd Threads,—3 4ths napkinine Diaper, Diaper Table Cloths,—Men's and Women's black and white silk Gloves, pink and white figur'd Mode,—Quart and Pint black Jacks, Sagathees, Velvet Clogs, crimson, scarlet, green and cloth Cape Velvet,—4d, 6d, 10d, 20d, Nails, 3d, 4d, 5d, 6d, Brads, 24d, 30d, Deck Nails, 6 by 8, 7 by 9, 8 by 10 Glass,— —A good Assortment of PEWTER .—Large Stock Locks,— SYTHES and SICKLES ,—Hatters Trimmings—Hard WARE of all Kinds,—Molasses,—Cotton Wool,—Coffee,—Chocolate,—Loaf and Brown Sugar.
N. B. A few Bolts of Russia DUCK.
ALL PERSONS that have any Demands on the Estate of Waldo Emerson, late of Wells, in the County of York, deceas'd, are hereby desire'd to exhibit their Claims to Edward Emerson of York, in said County, Administrator to said Estate, or to Samuel Hancock of Wells, aforesaid, Attorney to said Administrator. And those who are indebted to said Estate, are desire'd to make speedy Settlement thereof. York, July 13, 1774.
All Persons Indebted to, or that have any Demands on the Estate of the Honorable JOSEPH SAYER, Esq; late of Wells, deceased, are desire'd to settle the same immediately, with Ebenezer Sayer, Tristram Gilman, and Eunice Gilman, Executors of the last Will and Testament of said Deceased.
John Handasyde,
Being regularly bred to the Practice of PHYSIC and SURGERY in Scotland, and having serv'd as SURGEON in his Majesty's Royal Navy, takes Leave to inform the Public, that he intends following the Practice of PHYSIC , SURGERY and MIDWIFERY in this Town.
N. B. He may be spoke with at any Time, at his House at the Head of Col. WARNER's Wharfe.
Portsmouth 29th July.
TO BE SOLD , near the State-House, in Portsmouth, at the House of Mr. Airmet, PAPER-HANGINGS , fine Carpets, Whips, Men's Hose, Men's Hats, Folio Account-Books, ruled Alphabets, Psalters, Spelling Books, Primers, Copy-Books, Pocket-Books, Writing-Paper and Post dit. Memorandum Books, Slates and Slate-Pencils, Black red and yellow Sealing-Wax, Tipes and Frames for marking of Linnen, &c. by J. MOORE.
ALL Persons Indebted to the Estate of ICHABOD CANNEY , late of Madbury, deceased, are requested to make payment as soon as may be to Moses Canney, the Executor of his last Will: And all to whom said Estate is indebted may call and receive their just Demands.
Madbury July 25th, 1774.
[Wilton.]
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE HILLSBOROUGH ss. WHEREAS the Proprietors or Grantees of the Township of No. 2, formerly so called, now WILTON , at their legal Meetings, called for that Purpose, on the 26th of August 1761, and the 25th of November, 1761, voted to raise eleven shillings and two Pence sterling Money on each original Right in said Town, to hire preaching; and as the Taxes on a Number of Lots in said Town remain unpaid; these are to notify said delinquent Grantees or Owners of said Lots, that so much of their Lands as will pay their proportional Part of said Taxes, together with incidental Charges, will be exposed to Sale on Wednesday the 24th Day of August next at ten o'clock in the Forenoon, at the House of Mr. Richard Tayler, Innholder in Wilton, unless paid to me before said Day. JOHN CRAM Collector. Wilton July 5, 1774.
Province of Massachusetts Bay.
By Order of the Superior Court This is to give Notice, to the Heirs of SAMUEL SMALL , deceased, that Jeremiah Moulton, Esq; of York, and others, have petitioned the said Court, to Cause Partition to be made of a Tract of Land, lying and being in the County of York, situate on the west side of Saco River, containing all that Tract between Saco River North Easterly; New Hampshire Line South Westerly, the Two Rivers of Great and Little Ossipee, Southerly & Northerly; excepting thereout, a Tract of Land known by the Name of New Limerick, now is the Possession of James Sullivan, Esq; & others, containing about Thirteen Thousand Acres; and one half part of first described Tract to be set off to them, to hold in severality: And that the Consideration of the said Petition, is to be had at the Term of said Court at Salem, in the County of Essex, on the first Tuesday of November next, when they or any or either of them, may be heard, touching the same, if they see meet. York July 18th, 1774.
Four Dollars Reward.
R UNAWAY from his Master Mark Hunking of Barrington, in New Hampshire, a Negro Servant named Caesar :—Had on when he went away, a striped homespun lappell'd Waistcoat, a Toe Shirt, black Serge Breeches, grey Jacket, a pair of Breeches and Jacket of a black and Hemlock dye, striped Toe Trowlers, black and white Yarn Stockings. He is a strait Limb'd Fellow about 5 Feet nine Inches high, very white Teeth, smiling Countenance; was bro't up to Farming Work.—Whoever shall take up said Runaway, and secure him, so that his Master may have him again, shall have Four Dollars Reward, and all necessary Charges paid by MARK HUNKING . N. B. All Masters of Vessels and others are forbid carrying him off, as they would avoid the Penalty of the Law. Barrington, July 12, 1774.
Newly Imported,
And to be sold very cheap for Cash, By OLIVER BREWSTER, At his Shop in Pitt-Street, opposite Dr. Hall Jackson's,
NICE Callicoes and Patches, Ditto Copper-plate Furniture and Counterpanes, Cambricks, plain & flower'd Lawns, Aprons and Handkerchiefs, Muslin, Cat-Gut, Gauzes of all sorts, Ditto Aprons and Handkerchiefs, Spider Net, Paris Net, Cap Wire and Buckram, Barcelona & Paste Handkerchiefs, Irish Linnens and Sheetings, Russia Drab, Ravens Duck and Doulas, Clouting Diaper and Table Cloths, Cotton Check and Bed-Ticks, coloured and white Thread, all Numbers, Chip and Sattin Hatts, Black Persian, Alamode. Sattin and Capuchine Silks, Laced Sattins and Sarfenetts, Nankeens, Mozeens and Ginghams, Dutch and Chivex de Frize Laces, Fashionable Ribbons, painted Gauze and stamped dit. Ducapes, plain and striped Lutestrings, Silk and Worsted Mitts and Gloves, Womens and Mens white and brown Thread ditto, white unglazed ditto, Ostrich Feathers, sewing Silks, Ivory, crooked-Horn & Barbers Combs, Men's and Women's Thread, Cotton and Worsted Hose, Umbrellos and Fans, Rich English Damasks, Cotton Velvet and Velverets, Thicksets, Breeches Pieces, and Royal Ribbs, Paste and other Rings; Taffeties,—Pins, Needles, Tapes, Qualities and Garterings, &c.
Dr. Hemet's celebrated Essence of Pearl, and Pearl Dentifrice for the Preservation of the TEETH and GUMS , at the LONDON Prices.
As his Stay in Town will be but short, Gentlemen & Ladies will do well to apply soon, who will find it to their Advantage in dealing with him.]
TO BE SOLD BY
Joseph Bass,
Of Portsmouth, The following Goods,
Very low for Cash.
CRIMSON and green Harrateen; crimson, green and blue Chaney; Coverlids and Rugs, Linsey Woolsey; Chaney and print Curtains; Feather Beds; Mattresses; Bed Tick, crimson, green blue and yellow Noneoprisses; worsted and silk Laces of all sorts for Curtains; red, blue, green and yellow Tapes; crimson, green, blue and yellow Tossels, and Cord for Window Curtains; black Horse Hair for Chair Bottoms; Glithweb; brass Nails; 14 oz. Tecks; pewter and brass Curtain Rings; Looking Glasses; Bed Cords; crimson, green and blue Sleva silk; red and green Buckram; leather Casters; Seives and Seive Bottoms; various Sorts of Pewter; green and scarlet Worsted Caps; Sewing Silk; Pins; Needles; long and short Pipes; Redweed; Copperas; Coffee; Sugar; Snuff; white and colour'd Threads; Writing Paper: A Quantity of good new Feathers, with a Variety of other Articles, &c. &c. &c.
WE the Subscribers being appointed by the Honorable JONATHAN SAYWARD, Esq; Judge of Probate of Wills for the County of York, to receive and examine the Claims of the several Creditors to the Estate of the Rev. JOHN ROGERS , late of Kittery, in said County, deceas'd, Represented Insolvent, and a further time of three Months being allow'd by said Judge, shall attend that Service at the Dwelling House of William Leighton, Innholder in said Kittery, on the last Wednesday of this and the third Wednesday of the three following Months, from three of the Clock until six in the Afternoon on each of said Days. And it is expected that those who have any Claims, will bring them well vouched, otherwise they may not expect them allowed. Kittery, July 18. 1774. James Gowen, William Leighton.
TO BE SOLD
A HOUSE in good repair,
At the South End, opposite Deacon Langdon's, has a good Garden adjoining, in which is a fine Spring, never dry. Very convenient for a Trader or Tradesman. a long Credit, with good Security will be taken. Enquire of the Printer, or Robert Harrold, at said House.
Warrantee and Quitclaim Deeds, Justice Blanks, Bail Bonds, Shipping Papers, &c. Sold at the Printing Office