The New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1787-09-08 00:00:00

NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE, AND GENERAL ADVERTISER.
SATURDAY,
SEPTEMBER 8, 1787.
PORTSMOUTH:
PRINTED and PUBLISHED
By JOHN MELCHER,
in MARKET-STREET.
$ 8s. per Annum. $
“WHEN ANGRY NATIONS PART IN LEAGUES OF PEACE, LET PRIVATE FEUDS AND CIVIL DISCORDS CEASE.”
To G—e F—t, Esq.
SIR,
PERMIT me to begin, by most sincerely congratulating you in having given a fatal wound to that Constitution, which was established by blood; and which you have once solemnly sworn to maintain SACRED and INVIO-LATE, in having excluded from the bar a young gentleman upon a supposed affront. But let me assure you, that however he may be silenced there, the liberty of the press still remains at present, and your principles and conduct may be there canvassed by an impartial public.—
You will therefore consider this as an introductory prologue to scenes still to be represented, to acts to be unfolded, which as yet remain behind the curtain.
For the present, I shall confine myself to your ORDER of Court, secretly heard, and judiciously determined in a tavern at a time when the Court was under an adjournment and no legal determinations could take place. The Bill of Rights solemnly ratified and declared to be the fundamental Law of the State expressly declares, “that no subject shall be arrested, imprisoned, despoiled, or deprived of his property, immunities, or privileges, put out of the protection of the Law, exiled, or deprived of his life, liberty, or estate, but by judgment of his Peers, or the Law of the land”—That the practice of Law in any Court is an immunity none will (I fancy) pretend to deny; that the officers of the higher Court practising in the lower are liable to an attachment for a contempt committed in that Court will not be disputed, and it is equally certain that the Judges of the Superior Court upon motion will issue their Writ of Habeas Corpus and bring the cause before them—a personal contempt of the Court can only happen when they are sitting.
And I believe you Sir, are the first Magistrate who has ever discovered the summary mode of disqualifying any officer from future practice, for personal reflections made out of Court.—It has never yet been conceived that a Peer of the realm of Great-Britain, would be excluded his seat in Parliament, for vilifying the Lord high Chancellor in the streets of London; but the House of Lords have ever left him to his action of SCANDALUM MAGNATUM and a trial by his Peers. The murderer, assassin, robber and thief, have each an opportunity of knowing their charge of meeting their accusers and being heard by themselves and Council—Tho’ I must confess your mode is much more summary, and the cause much more certain, when you yourself as Party, Judge and Jury IMPARTIALLY and without a hearing determine the merits, the propriety of this might not be disputed in Turkey; but I must confess it seems to militate a little with the principles of our Constitution—and even with the rigid rules of Military Law. For altho’ a certain writer has declared that the moment a gentleman accepts a Commission in the army he waves his rights as an Englishman, or barters them for a laced coat and a feather—Yet even there a Superior officer cannot take the bread out of the mouth of an Inferior, but by the Judgment of a Court Martial composed of his brother officers;—of which Court I believe the prosecutor is never
one—Whatever is said defamatory of a Magistrate is most undoubtedly actionable and he in common with every other citizen may prosecute in a Court of Justice therefor; for Lord Coke says the Law provides a remedy for every wrong, and that it hath delight in giving that remedy. Every determination of Court ought to be founded upon the Law of nature, upon the revealed Law of God, the common Law of the Land or particular customs or written Statute Law: Let us see upon which of these your late determination was grounded—It could not be upon the Law of nature for that can never admit a man to be Judge in his own cause, nor the avenger of his own wrong.
The tenth command of the Dialogue— forbids us to covet (and most certainly taking away is stronger) any thing that of common right belongs to our neighbour. That speech is a common right will not be disputed by common Law, Right, or Justice; no man shall determine his own matter, nor has any custom establish’d such a doctrine—if so mankind had better never enter’d into a state of society; no written Law warrants it; it having therefore never been Law of any kind—The same Sage abovementioned informs us—That the Judges ought not to change or deviate from the Law which hath always been used—The Constitution is the Basis on which our Government is raised and the people look upon it as their principal strength and security, is properly speaking a real covenant obligatory and binding and so has the force of Law, and every Magistrate upon his appointment expressly binds himself under an oath to dispense Justice agreeable to the Constitution and Laws of the land; from which they can never deviate without a wanton abuse of the trust reposed in them by the people.—The people in fact say to them in their appointments “We, who have as much power as you, make you our Judges; upon condition, that you maintain inviolably our rights and liberties guaranteed to us by compact and not otherwise do we dignify you”—This compact has placed you upon a footing with the lowest citizen in obtaining a redress of private injuries—it has no where empower’d you to determine your own cause—nor to judge of matters before you hear them, nor yet to pass judgment like an Asiatic Cadi agreeable to the ebb and flows of your own passions, but like an intelligent and upright Judge in a land of liberty, not making a new Law, but faithfully and impartially declaring the Law already written. This has pointed to you the true criterion in all cases to guide you, the immemorial usage and custom of seeing the accuser and accused face to face, of candidly hearing the matter and (when not interested) from the verdict of our Peers to give judgment in equity and good conscience. Whoever clothed with authority however dignified, deviates from these principles, whatever he may think of himself, is guilty of treason against our MAGNA CHARTA. I have chosen this method of conveying my sentiments thro’ the medium of the Press, that my fellow citizens may be jealous of their liberties, and whenever I find the Constitution of my country trampled upon, I shall not forbear to lift my voice and warn my countrymen of their danger, whether in this case their rights and liberties are invaded they will best judge
—nor will they suffer you or me to determine—In whatever light you may view this publication, or whatever steps you may take, I care not—having ever been firmly resolved when I could see, steadily to oppose tyranny, in whatever shape it may appear, whether in the splendid robe of Royalty or the plain coat of Republicanism—and I sacredly promise my fellow citizens, to defend with my pen and sword, to the utmost of my ability, that Constitution for the establishment of which so much of the crimson fluid of life has been cheerfully spilt. BRUTUS.
THE MONITOR.
IT is to be lamented, that mankind were not taught to cultivate the heaven born principle, Charity, in a greater degree; or, in other words, that our teachers were not more careful to inculcate the principles of moral virtue. Would not this have a much happier tendency of making their hearers more virtuous than the filling their minds with the dark labyrinths of the decrees of heaven, which they themselves nor their hearers will be ever able to ascertain? Would it not be more for the benefit of the community, if, instead of endeavouring to frighten men, vice and virtue were portrayed in colours, that would induce them to abhor the one and cleave to the other? If the heinousness of slander, and the beauties of veracity, were properly pictured, would it not have a tendency of making us shudder at the first, while we assiduously cultivated the latter? If the moral virtues were more attended to, charity would not lie neglected—we should be taught to throw the veil of compassion over the foibles of our neighbours—pity their misfortunes—commiserate their distresses—and lend a helping hand to their necessities—we should be taught, that as the wheel goes round, we may possibly be in their place, and need the same helping hand. If this doctrine was more attended to, we should be taught to cultivate every amiable principle which has a tendency of adorning human nature, and to shudder at the contracted ones. But now—slander rears her baintful head, and points her invenomed sting at every breast. The most brilliant characters feel the smart, and virtue herself is her broad mark.
“How prone to censure are mankind “Each foible of the erring mind; “Whilst virtues scarce procure a name, “But blaze and vanish like a flame.”
Against idle DISPUTES.
ONE of our ancient British Princes set up a statue to the Goddess of Victory where four roads met. In her right hand was a spear; and the left rested on a shield, one face of which was gold, the other silver. It happened one day, that two knights completely armed, the one in black, the other in white, came up to this statue from opposite parts. This golden shield, says the black knight—golden shield, interrupted the white knight, if I have eyes, it is silver. I know nothing of your eyes, replied the black knight; but I know that the shield is gold. The dispute ended in a challenge. After fixing their spears, they flew with impetuosity at each other; and both of them fell to the ground much bruised. A Druid who came by, showed them their mistake; and gave them this lesson, “Never to enter into a dispute ‘till you have fairly considered both sides of the question.”

CONSTANTINOPLE , April 10.
It is computed that the troops of his Imperial Majesty, stationed upon our frontiers, amount to upwards of fifty thousand.
The discipline observed in the march of our troops is so rigid, that in passing the highways, we every moment behold soldiers either hanged or impaled.
V I E N N A , May 20.
The following is given as an authentic account of the Russian navy, in the black sea, viz. three ships of 74 brass guns each, two of 66, three of 50, twelve of 30, five of 36, four of 26, six of 20, seven of 17, three of 14, and two of 12. There is in the storehouses, timber for only two more ships, but there is a forest upon the Cuban, and plenty of hemp and iron. There are said to be 4000 sailors at Cherson, and 6000 at Sebastopol. Three frigates are still at Tanagerock, which are going to Cherson, and twelve little corvetts, of 12 and 18 guns each, are in the Caspian Sea.
D U B L I N , April 24.
The triumph of the press naturally excites the most lively sensations of public spirit. Its freedom is the spirit that animates the mind that informs the nation. There is no class of the people, however inferior—no part of the kingdom, however remote, to which its salutary influence does not extend. The joy arising therefore from the defeat of an attack upon it, is no less universal than sincere.
A retrospect of our situation some years since, will best display the advantages procured from this nation, by her most invaluable friend—the press. When the tide of corruption waited on its bosom the spoils of an abused country, to an insolent and rapacious aristocracy: when one extravagant system of misrule was persevered in from the hated days of the flagitious Stafford, to those of his modern successors in office: when the same spirit of legislative violence, that sanctioned the most flagrant acts, sacrificed all our foreign interests, prostrating alike our constitution and commerce; when parliaments from their length were little better than a mockery on representation, and the people seemed reconciled to servility; the freedom of the press effected the national salvation; it taught our people to think like men; it showed them the nature of that bond and basis of society; the social compact, that power on abuse should revert to its fountain. Its operation gradual; but the effects certain and substantial. A free constitution, an unshackled commerce, a rank amongst the nations of the world are some of them. It is true, the volunteers of Ireland bore a part; but then it was secondary; for it was the press that embodied the army; that gave it life and motion, and directed its operations to the proper object.
Such are the services to the nation by the press. De Lolme very properly observes, that whenever a blow is intended against the 'constitution it may easily be discovered; for the first object of violence will be the liberty of the press.' De Lolme's authority is confessedly great. And he might have added, that without an independent honesty in juries it would be impossible ever to preserve that privilege. If a remnant of that abominable aristocracy remains, to which we have alluded it is perfectly natural they should wish for its total extinction; and though they dare not attack the privilege itself they might harrafs those who would bring it into action; and thus drive all respectable men from the profession. It must then fall into low, mean hands; and this great popular right would be like the sacred sword of justice in the polluted hand of a prompt assassin, ready to exercise it to the worst of purposes; a colourable pretext might then be furnished for its annihilation, or dismemberment. If not totally destroyed, it would only present the sorry shade of the departed substance: or it would be looked on by the aristocracy as the harmless skeleton of a once formidable foe.
As an instance in point, we shall mention Mr. J. Magee, the proprietor of this paper, (Dublin Even. Post) who has been the
butt at which the arrows of prosecution have been directed. Information upon information; attachment upon attachment; imprisonment upon imprisonment, has he encountered, exclusive of the ordinary modes of legal proceeding. No later than last week he was brought to a distance from his abode and avocation, upon an affair of the nature we have described, at the suit of a NOBLE Peer of the realm; but an independent jury of Downpatrick acquitted him with honor; and we cannot but congratulate the kingdom on the success of a man who is inflexible in fighting the battles of the publick, and in supporting the dearest and most inviolable of all popular privileges—the liberty of the press. In his absence we take the liberty of saying thus much, persuaded that that modesty which frequently accompanies merit, would prevent him from acquainting a generous public in what a high degree they were indebted to him.
N E W H A V E N , Aug 16.
Yesterday afternoon, as Thomas Stocker, of Danbury, an honest, sober and industrious man, was quitting a stack of hay, which he had completed, in sliding down a pitch fork having been carelessly left standing against the stack, with the fork end downwards, the tail of it entered the abdomen, by the os pubis, ascending his body about 18 inches, of which melancholy accident he languished about 12 hours, and then died, leaving a wife and three small children to lament his loss.
N E W L O N D O N , August 24.
The following extraordinary circumstance lately happened at Axminster in England; The child of a genteel family, about three years old, was dangerously ill of the measles, which were very rise in town; his death was hourly expected, as one had died just before. A very near relation of the family, an intelligent person, paid great attention to these circumstances, and being informed that the second child was dead, he would be satisfied of the same, by seeing it himself; and having received from all the attendants an assurance that the child was certainly dead, and convinced thereof himself, he insisted on trying an experiment, and ordered a vessel of cold water, in which the child being fully immersed, it was afterwards wrapped completely in flannels, and so put to bed, where, being strictly attended to, after some hours a violent perspiration took place, and soon after life was very apparent, and the child perfectly recovered.
P H I L A D E L P H I A , Aug. 25.
By a proclamation issued at Barbadoes the 14th of July 1787, vessels navigated according to law that shall arrive within any of the ports of that government, and import flour, bread, rice, wheat or grain, of any sort from the above date to the 1st of October next, shall be admitted to entry from any island in the West-Indies. Provided such articles belong to British subjects, without any false pretences; and are not sold upon commission for the benefit of foreigners, nor accompanied by prohibited articles.
On Thursday last a brig commanded by Captain Davis, arrived in this port from Cape Francois. She brings accounts that before she left the cape, an express had arrived there, informing the government that the civil war in Holland had risen to the greatest excess; and France and Britain had each of them sent ten sail of the line into the Texel to countenance their respective parties. It is probable from these appearances that the war will soon become general throughout Europe.
By another brig arrived from Port au Prince yesterday morning, we are informed that there has been a very heavy gale in the West-Indies. Captain Earle who commanded this vessel fell in with a large French wreck on the Hog-fishes, and took 38 persons on board. She was chiefly laden with sugar.
B O S T O N , September 6.
On Tuesday last arrived here, his Most Christian Majesty's frigate, the Cleopatre, commanded by M. de la Bouchetiere, from the harbour of Cape Ann.
The ship Two Sisters, belonging to Liverpool, with 500 slaves on board, overset near the Island of Hispaniola, and all on board perished, except six white men and 2 negroes, who escaped in a small boat.
Stow , August 31, 1787.
"Yesterday afternoon, a ball of fire, of about six inches diameter, exceeding bright and glowing, passed with great velocity through the Heavens, leaving a train of about 20 degrees in length: next the meteor it appeared like a blaze, and gradually lessened in smoke to a point; no one that saw it could determine whether it fell to the earth or pursued its course; about 8 or 10 minutes after it disappeared, a noise was heard like heavy though distant thunder: It was apparently much above the clouds, and left a body of smoke which settled down in the N. E. & was visible until after sunset—Its course was from S. W. to N. E."
P O R T S M O U T H , Sept. 8.
His Excellency the Captain General, on Tuesday last, attended by Major General Cilley, and a number of respectable gentlemen, reviewed the 4th regiment commanded by Col. Hill, several troops of light-horse, and a company of artillery, at Exeter. His Excellency was escorted to Stratham by a company of light-horse and a number of gentlemen, who were there joined by Col. Wentworth's independent company of light-horse, and proceeded to Exeter, where his Excellency was received with every mark of respect, and saluted by the discharge of artillery. The regularity and exactness which was observed through the different firings and evolutions was highly approved of by his Excellency, gave great satisfaction to a numerous concourse of spectators, and reflects great honor on the officers and soldiers.
By accounts from a number of towns in this State, we are credibly informed, that the people are disposed and determined to receive the new federal government, and is said, that a federal disposition seems to prevail through almost every State.
Next Wednesday the General Court, by adjournment is to meet at Charlestown, No. 4, only one hundred miles from this town.
The situation of America, says a late writer, is more favorable at present, to her growth in wealth, independence and happiness, than ever it has been in any stage of her history, provided she will now adopt the means of obtaining them.—These means are, Agriculture and Manufactures .—She has no business with commerce, 'till she derives it from the products of the earth, or from her own arts.
By private letters from Europe, we learn, that the oppressed and prosecuted in every country, look with great eagerness to the United States in the present awful crisis of her affairs. Should the new federal government be adopted, thousands would embark immediately for America. Holland would pour in with her merchants, a large quantity of cash among us.—Germany and Ireland would send us colonies of cultivators of the earth, while England and Scotland would fill our towns and cities with industrious mechanics and manufacturers.—With the liberties, safety, population and glory of our country, all depending upon the adoption of a national government, that man must be a great enemy to his country, who, for selfish or party purposes, advises his countrymen to reject it.
One of the first objects with the national government to be elected under the new constitution, it is said, will be to provide funds for the payment of the national debt, and thereby to restore the credit of the United States, which has been so much impaired by the individual states. Every holder of a public security of any kind is, deeply interested in the cordial reception, and speedy establishment of a vigorous Continental government.

BALTIMORE, August 21. Extrat of a letter from Chemung, dated July 16. "Cornelius Sturgeon, the great Onondago Chief, was murdered, last month, at the Tyoga Point, by one of his own tribe, and a townsman. It appears to have been a premeditated piece of work, and had its rise from two causes: First, he was an absolute despot in his tribe, and imposed an implicit compliance with his orders—he was punctually obeyed, thro' fear, not love: Secondly, he began to adopt the dress and customs of the United States, and introduced them into his family—this gave great umbrage. As he was a man of some literature, he had some idea of the great value of letters; and the evening on which he was killed, in conversation with Capt. Spalding, he informed him, that he intended to send his son to some of the American colleges for education. The friends of the murderer purchased his life for a sum of money not exceeding 375!—A poor recompence for the life of a great man!"
PHILADELPHIA, August 24. How great, says a correspondent, must be the satisfaction of our late worthy Commander in Chief, to be called upon a second time, by the suffrages of three millions of people, to save his sinking country! In 1777, we beheld him at the head of the armies of America, arresting the progress of British tyranny. In the year 1787, we behold him at the head of a chosen band of patriots and heroes, arresting the progress of anarchy, and taking the lead in laying a deep foundation for preserving that liberty by a good government, which he had acquired for his country by his sword.—Illustrious and highly favored instrument of the blessing of Heaven to America—live—live for ever!
The decay of ship-building is manifested throughout the continent, but particularly at New-York, where, a traveler informs us, there is but one small vessel on the stocks. This, as well as every other art, will soon, it is hoped, be revived by the natural influence of an efficient government.
The author of a piece in the Pennsylvania Packet last Wednesday, asserts, that 300,000 pounds worth of buttons has been imported by the United States from England since the year 1783.
A cause was argued in the Common Pleas, on Saturday last, of a very interesting and important nature. It was the cause of Stoddard against Penhallow. It seems, that in the year 1777, a vessel, belonging to a citizen of Connecticut, bound from England to Nova-Scotia, was taken by a citizen of New-Hampshire, and condemned in the Inferior Court of Admiralty, as a legal prize. On an appeal to the Superior Court of Admiralty for that State, the decree below was affirmed; but the cause being removed into the Court of Errors and Appeals for the United States, the proceedings were reversed, and a decree given in favor of the appellant. After this, an action was instituted in a common law court of Massachusetts, to recover damages from the captors; but that court would not allow the decree of the Court of Errors and Appeals for the United States to be read in evidence, and the plaintiff was therefore obliged to discontinue his action. The question is revived here, upon an attachment which has been laid on the property of the captors in this State, the defendant moving to quash the attachment, upon these leading objections: 1st. That Congress had no power, at the time the vessel was taken, to institute a Court of Errors and Appeals, and therefore, that the reversal of the decree of the Courts of Admiralty for the State of New-Hampshire could not operate. 2dly, That the proceedings in Massachusetts, upon the common law suit, under the articles of confederation, were binding upon our courts. 3d, That as the matter was originally of Admiralty jurisdiction, none of the consequences are cognizable by a common law court. The questions were discussed with great ability by the counsel on both sides, and the Court has taken time to consider of the judgment.
PORTLAND, August 23. A convention of delegates from the several towns in the counties of York, Cumberland and Lincoln will be held in this town on the first Wednesday in next month—for the purpose of effecting a separation of this from the other part of the commonwealth—If the people of these counties are for the measure, they will undoubtedly obtain it. A decided majority of the present General Court acknowledge the reasonableness of our request and appeared, at their last sitting, to be entirely willing to grant it.
From the Pennsylvania Packet. Halifax, (Nova Scotia) June 28, 1787. Dear C—,
Every thing seems to wear a most promising aspect on this side the water; the frontier posts being still in our possession is a stroke of policy peculiarly in our favor. The rulers of your empire do not seem to be sufficiently acquainted with the many dangers that threaten its destruction; your pusillanimity in suffering Britain to retain the frontier posts, the want of energy in your federal head, the contracted state of your commerce, the British reinforcing the garrisons of Canada, the many thousands of troops which were disbanded and became settlers in this Province, at the end of the war, and who are ready to fly to arms at a moment's warning, being tired of cutting down the trees, and endeavouring to cultivate unfruitful lands, are circumstances, which unless guarded against will rend America in pieces, and "like the baseless fabric of a vision, leave not a wreck behind." Keep these sentiments close, and by the first opportunity, let me know what your grand convention are about. Your Friend, &c. R. S.
B O S T O N, August 31.
A jail pays no debts. —For what reason, then, must persons be confined there? to persevere in confining people, under a conviction that they have it not in their power to discharge what they owe, is cruel indeed! and in the sight of the Deity, most abominable. In that awful presence, what mercy can be expected, who has himself set mercy at a distance, and who, in the pride of resentment, punished, merely because he had the power of punishing?
On Friday last the honourable Caleb Strong, Esquire, one of the delegates from this commonwealth to the Grand Federal Convention, passed through Springfield on his return to Northampton.
By the return of the Honourable Mr. Strong we learn, that the Convention, (after having unanimously agreed on a system for the future government of the United States) were expected to rise some time last week.
By two men belonging to Ipswich, who have just returned from the western country, we are informed, That, since early in the spring, the Indians have discovered an entirely pacific disposition towards the inhabitants. Some time in March, a small party, supposed to be on a thieving expedition, made 3 men prisoners, opposite Short-creek, and one of them, a Mr. Carpenter, refused to go with the Indians, was killed a little distance from the place where he was taken. About a fortnight after, four Indians, entered the house of one Parday, in the night, about four miles above Wheeling-creek, whom they killed, with two children, and made two other children prisoners. Mrs. Parday was wounded, but made her escape.—These Indians had previously threatened the life of Parday, on account of some treatment they had received from him. It appears to have been their intention to gratify their revenge on him, as they passed by several other houses, in their way to Parday's, without molesting them. Two days before these men left Pittsburg which was on the 3d inst. it was reported, that a party of ten men fell in with thirteen Indians below Grave-creek, whom they supposed to be in pursuit of horses. The men fired on the Indians, who after returning it, ran off, leaving their packs and blankets, and three of their party dead on the ground.
A letter from North-Carolina, dated July
30, says, We have no intelligence particular—but the delightful prospect of a good crop as was ever known in this country."
POLITICAL REMARKS. PATRIOTISM stands at the head of the social affections. It triumphs over every selfish motive, and is a firm support to every virtue. The morals of the patriot are ever pure, and his conduct ever correct. Patriotism at the same time is the great bulwark of civil liberty; equally abhorrent of despotism on the one hand, and of licentiousness on the other.
The management of the finances of a state is a most important branch of government; and no less delicate than important. They should never be committed to the direction of any but men of the most unquestionable integrity. And of all others, men, whose private affairs are desperate, are the least worthy of confidence in this department.
Money is not an object of commerce. It is only an instrument used by consent, to facilitate the exchange of the objects of commerce.
The prices of the objects of commerce are in proportion to the plenty or scarcity of the circulating money.
If the circulating money should be diminished one half, that which before was worth 20s. would now be worth 10s.—In the reign of Henry VII. a crown in England was as valuable as a pound is at present; because it would buy as much.
If we consider a state by itself, it is of no consequence whether it has a circulating medium of 200,000. or 100,000. because the prices of things will always bear a proportion to the quantity of money. And if the circulating money should be reduced from 200,000. to 100,000. it would have no other effect in the end than to render one dollar as valuable as two dollars were before.
Though the low prices of every article of sale be a necessary consequence of the decrease of money, yet it follows not immediately upon such decrease. There is an interval before the alteration in the quantity of money is attended with a proportionable alteration in the price of commodities; and this interval is unfavourable to industry.
A commerce, in which the imports exceed in value the exports, will always drain a nation of its money. If we import goods to the value of 90,000. and export produce only to the value of 80,000. there will be a balance against us of 10,000. and this balance, as it cannot be paid by us in produce, must be paid in money.
It is only by an unfavorable balance of trade that a nation is ever drained of money. Commercial nations, therefore, struggle hard against it.
A disadvantageous balance of trade may always be prevented by industry and frugality. If a people continue industrious and frugal, they cannot be long afflicted with an unfavorable balance.
The value of money rising in proportion to its scarcity, will gradually lower the price of all commodities. And if our commodities be cheap, the money of foreigners will be introduced among us to purchase them, and thus exportation will be promoted. On the contrary, the difficulties and disadvantages of making remittances will lessen the imports, and thus the balance will gradually turn in our favor, and money in consequence will flow in among us.
An unfavorable balance of trade, in general indicates an expensive, profligate disposition in the people. And this profligacy of character can only be corrected by the embarrassing difficulties which it invariably brings upon a people. To study how to supply by an artificial money the scarcity of coin occasioned by an unfavorable balance, is to study how an expensive, profligate disposition in a people is to be cherished.
The above are the common remarks of all our admired political writers; and they are considered by statesmen as true as they are common.

Parnassian Spring.
On S U I C I D E. F R I E N D.
RASH youth, forbear; O, lay that poinard by; Nor boldly thus the wrath of Heaven defy; Contend not with thy God in impious strife, But calmly bear th' allotted ills of life; Nor from thy station treacherously withdraw, Assign'd by heaven's inviolable law.
S U I C I D E. "With grief, with pain, with poverty, oppress'd, "No ray of hope to cheer the tortur'd breast; "Or, with ill fortune, say, a wretch has strove; "Neglect of friends, or pangs of slighted love; "What law commands such wretches to endure "Those desp'rate evils, which admit no cure?"
F R I E N D. The first primeval law, by Heaven impress'd, At men's creation, on the human breast, "The love of life"—which nothing can controul, Till lots of reason supifies the soul: Self preservation is God's firm decree; Can "Self destruction" then from guilt be free? The fear of death the stoutest heart appalls; Then listen to her voice—'tis Nature calls. Hast thou no offspring; no dear faithful wife, By love, by interest, anxious for thy life? No aged father, or more tender mother, No friend—more dear than sister or than brother? If thou thyself canst mock the poinard's smart, Ah! Plunge not thus the dagger in their heart. But say, then, whence these miseries arise, Though man is foolish, God is good and wise; By whose kind plan, 'tis evident mankind Were for a life of happiness design'd, Thy griefs then spring from luxury and vice; Thy poverty, perhaps from cards or dice. Does love, like Werter's, thy fond breast inspire? Let reason quench at once the adulterous fire, Nor think 'tis intrude, amidst the blest above, A foul desir'd with sin and guilty love. As death to murder is by heav'n decreed, Self-Murder surely is a fouler deed, And death eternal must that crime succeed. For mercy's self, though eager to relent, Expects at least our crimes we should repent. And what atonement can the wretch devise, Who wilfully affronts his God—and dies? Then yield not, coward like, to transient woe; But, like a christian hero, face thy foe! Dare to be wretched—if thou dar'st to sin; Lest, when these pains thou'rt ended—worse begin.
State of New Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to all Masters and Commanders of vessels, who may have occasion to pass the Straights of Gibraltar, or near the dominions of the Emperor of Morocco, that a copy of the signals agreed upon between said Emperor and the United States, may be had at the Secretary's Office.
Attest,
JOSEPH PEARSON, Sec'y.
Exeter, August 16, 1787.
TO BE SOLD
On reasonable terms,
An excellent Farm,
in the lower part of Deerfield, within forty rods of the main road leading from Nottingham to Epsom, and within four miles of Nottingham square, contains about 150 acres of good land, well watered, 40 acres of which is cleared up for planting and mowing, has a good orchard, pasturing and a plenty of wood, good buildings, privilege of half a saw-mill, and a privilege for a grist-mill within 100 rods of the house. For further particulars apply to Job Jennett, of Rye, or Thomas Jennett Rand, living on the premises.
THE subscribers being appointed commissioners, to receive and examine the claims of the several creditors to the estate of DANIEL FOWLE, late of Portsmouth, Esq. deceased, represented insolvent; give notice that they shall attend for said purpose, at the Post-Office, in Portsmouth, on the last Monday of this, and the five following months, from 3 to 6 o'clock, P. M.
JOSHUA BRACKET,
JOHN PARKER,
JEREMIAH LIBBEY.
Portsmouth, August 20, 1787.
To be Let,
A convenient Dwelling-House,
situate in Market Street, having a Shop in one end & a compleat Cellar under the whole House, a good Well of water near the door, a large Garden and a convenient Store, Barn and Chaise House adjoining, all in good repair. For further particulars enquire of
JOHN NOBLE.
Portsmouth, Sept. 7.
A QUANTITY OF
Flax-Seed wanted,
For which, Cash, Coffee or Cotton Wool will be exchanged by JOHN SIMES.
Portsmouth, Sept. 4.
State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in Heniker, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1786, that so much of their land will be sold at public vendue, on the second Tuesday of October next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, at the house of Timothy Gibson, Esq. in said town, as will pay the taxes and charges unless prevent by previous payment.
   N. R. Q'ty s. d. q. s. d.   silver. certif't.     James Wilson 6 4 60 0 8 5 1 4   John Clark 18 5 30 0 4 3 0 9   James Humphrey 4 6 100 1 7 3   Jotham Odiorne 14 6 100 2 9 2 4 2   Common land 6 11 100 1 1 10   Ditto 6 12 100 1 1 10   Rev. Wm Davidson 2 13 100 1 2 1 2 3   William Ayers 13 7 15 4 3 9   Robert Wier 8 6 20 1 1 1 10   Blanchard & Comp'y 10 6 100 9 2 1 6   James Wilson 7 1 100 1 7 3   Ministerial lot 13 1 100 1 2 1 2 3   Daniel Lassley 14 1 40 6 1   Law lot 11 12 100 1 9 2 3 4   James Smith 10 2 100 1 2 1 2 3   Thomas Wallingsford 11 2 100 1 2 1 2 3   John Barr 17 2 100 1 2 1 2 3   Ditto 9 5 100 1 2 1 2 3  
JAMES JOSLEN, Constable, Heniker, August 23, 187.
State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in Ackworth, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1784, that so much of their land will be sold at public vendue, on Tuesday, the 2d day of October next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, at the house of Mr. Thomas Dodge, innholder in said town, as will pay the taxes and charges, unless prevented by previous payment.
   N. R. Q'ty s. d. q.     J. Cragg 2 7 50 0 9 3   David McGragory 5 7 83 1 4 0   Elisha Dexter 4 7 50 9 3   Oliver Pierce 16 7 9 1 3   Sampson Stoddard 17 7 100 1 7 3   David McGragory 1 8 100 1 7 3   John Rob, & Hunt 15 8 100 1 7 3   B. Butterfield 4 9 100 1 7 3   James Blanchard 5 9 100 1 7 3   James Blanchard 3 10 100 1 7 3   David Brown 4 10 100 1 7 3   Ditto 5 10 100 1 7 3   Samuel Wentworth 16 10 10 1 3   Moses Parker 1 11 100 1 7 3   Nathaniel Butterfield 4 11 100 1 7 3   Sampson Stoddard jr. 5 11 100 1 7 3   Robert Adams 9 11 80 1 3 2   John Hardy 12 11 100 1 7 3   W. Caggett 13 11 50 9 3   Ditto 14 11 50 9 3   Thomas Davis 1 12 100 1 7 3   Robert Fletcher 3 12 37 7 0   Ditto 4 12 51 9 3   Daniel McFee 9 12 100 1 7 3   Peter Levis 10 12 100 1 7 3   Ditto 11 12 100 1 7 3   Ditto 12 12 100 1 7 3   Seta Grout 7 8 30 0 5 2    WILLIAM MITCHEL, Collector, Ackworth, September 24, 1787.
State of New-Hampshire.
PUBLIC notice is hereby given, that a petition hath been preferred to the General-Court by James Hayes, of Barrington, in the county of Strafford, yeoman, sitting forth that Thomas Hayes, late of Dover, deceased, that in his life time, did make and execute his last will and testament, which after his decease was duly proved and allowed. By which testament, he devised all his houses and lands to his two sons, Thomas and Benjamin, that after the decease of the said testator, the aforesaid devisees made a division of the real estate bequeathed as aforesaid, by deed to each other; that after said division, Benjamin Hayes sold the petitioner fifty acres of land in Barrington, being what he took by the aforesaid division, as his part of the land devised as aforesaid, that afterwards said Benjamin went to sea, and left the aforesaid division deed, signed by his brother, but not recorded, in a chest unlocked, at his said brother's house, and on his return said deed was missing, and has not since been found, that lately four persons creditors to the said Thomas, the joint devisees have brought actions against the said Thomas, recovered judgment against him, and have levied their several executions on the land purchased by the said petitioner of the said Benjamin, to the amount of upwards of seventy pounds L. M. and the said Benjamin, by misfortunes, is so reduced as to be unable to pay any part thereof; wherefore he prays that he may have leave to bring in a bill to vest the property of the aforesaid fifty acres of land in him, his heirs and assigns; whereupon the General Court ordered that the said James Hayes may be heard thereon before them on the second Tuesday of their next session, and that in the mean time he cause that Daniel Rogers of New Durham Gore, Daniel McDuffee and Benjamin Odiorne of Rochester, and Jonas Wentworth of Somersworth, be served with a copy of the petition and order of said Court, also cause the substance of said petition and order to be published four weeks successively in one of the New-Hampshire newspapers, prior to the day of hearing, that any person or persons may appear and shew cause, if any they have, why the prayer of said petition should not be granted. Attest,
JOSEPH PEARSON, Sec'y.
Exeter, July 24 1787.
( Loudon. )
State of New Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in Loudon, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1784, that so much of their land will be sold at public vendue, on the third Wednesday of September next, at the house of Lt. Samuel Piper, innholder in said town, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, as will pay the taxes and charges, unless prevented by previous payment.
   Old hundreds No. War. State.   s. d. s. d.     George Jaffrey 76 2 3 2 0   Samuel Smith 99 3 0 2 8   John Woodman 130 3 0 2 8   Thomas Drew 133 2 3 2 0   Thomas Willey 134 2 3 2 0   New hundred,   Timothy Tibbetts 72 3 5 2 5   Edward Tibbetts 96 2 3 2 0   Samuel Hill 1 3d of 100 100 0 9 0 8   Paul Gerrish 1 4th 102 0 9 0 8   John Hayes 119 4 6 4 0   Ichabod Chesley 130 3 4 2 8   Joseph Tibbetts 133 3 4 2 8   Benjamin Mason 135 3 4 2 8   N. Lummox 1 4th 151 0 5 0 4   John Demeritt 157 3 4 2 8   Daniel Davis 183 2 3 2 0   Rich'd Waldron half 86 1 6 1 4   John Blazdon half 200 1 6 1 4   William Fellows 188 3 0 2 8  
ELIPHALET REVLEYS, Constable.
Loudon, August 10, 1787.
FOR SALE,
An elegant new fall-back Chaise, Inquire of the Printer hereof.