Fowle's New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser ([Portsmouth, N.H.]), 1787-04-14 00:00:00

NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE,  A N D  GENERAL ADVERTISER.
"WHEN ANGRY NATIONS PART IN LEAGUES OF PEACE, LET PRIVATE FEUDS AND CIVIL DISCORDS CEASE."
PORTSMOUTH: Printed and published by JOHN MELCHER, in Market-Street, where Subscriptions, (at SIX SHILLINGS and EIGHT PENCE pr. Ann.) Advertisements, &c. for this Paper are taken in, the favours of correspondents carefully attended to, and the Printing Business carried on at a reasonable rate.—Also—Advertisements, Subscriptions, &c. taken in by T. ODIORNE, Esq. Exeter.
Proper Rules for preserving HEALTH, By JAMES MACKENZIE, M. D. (continued from our last)
Of the PASSIONS and AFFECTIONS of the Mind.
HE who seriously resolves to preserve his health, must previously learn to conquer his passions, and keep them in absolute subjection to reason; for let a man be ever so temperate in his diet, and regular in his exercise, yet still some unhappy passions, if indulged to excess, will prevail over all his regularity, and prevent the good effects of his temperance; it is necessary, therefore, that he should be upon his guard against an influence so destructive.
2. Fear, grief, and those passions which partake of them, as envy, hatred, malice, revenge, and despair, are known by experience to weaken the nerves, retard the circular motion of the fluids, hinder perspiration, impair digestion, and often to produce spasms, obstructions, and hypochondriacal disorders. And extreme sudden terror, has sometimes brought on immediate death.
3. Moderate joy and anger, on the other hand, and those passions and affections of the mind which partake of their nature, as cheerfulness, contentment, hope, virtuous and mutual love, and courage in doing good, invigorate the nerves, accelerate the circulating fluids, promote perspiration, and assist digestion; but violent anger (which differs from madness only in duration) creates bilious, inflammatory, convulsive, and sometimes apoplectic disorders, especially in hot temperaments; and excess of joy destroys sleep, and often has sudden and fatal effects.
4. It is observable, that the perspiration is larger from any vehement passion of the mind when the body is quiet, than from the strongest bodily exercise when the mind is composed. Those therefore who are prone to anger, cannot bear much exercise, because the exuberant perspiration of both would exhaust and waste the body. It is also remarkable, that a disorder which arises from any vehement agitation of the mind, is more stubborn than that which arises from violent corporal exercise, because the latter is cured by rest and sleep, which have but little influence on the former.
5. A constant serenity, supported by hope, or cheerfulness, arising from a good conscience, is the most healthful of all the affections of the mind. Cheerfulness of spirit (as the great Lord Verulam observes) is particularly useful when we sit down to our meals, or compose ourselves to sleep; because anxiety or grief are known to prevent the benefits which we ought naturally to receive from these refreshments: "If therefore says he, any violent passion should chance to surprize us near those times, it would be prudent to defer eating, or going to bed, until it subsides, and the mind recovers its former tranquillity."
Having thus mentioned the principal rules relating to the six things necessary to life , considered singly, I shall here subjoin a very important rule, which considers two of the six together, and shews the mutual influence which they have one upon the other, with
respect to health. The rule is, that our exercise should bear an exact proportion to our diet, and our diet in like manner to our exercise, or, in other words, that he who eats and drinks plentifully should use much exercise; and he who cannot use exercise should, in order to preserve his health, live abstemiously. Persons who can use moderate and constant exercise, are able to digest a large quantity of aliment, without any injury to their health, because their exercise throws off whatever is superfluous; but tender people, who can use little or no exercise, if they should take in a large quantity of food, some indigested superfluity must remain in the body, which becomes a perpetual source of distempers. Hippocrates looks upon this rule of adjusting our diet to our exercise, as the most important in the whole art of preserving health, and has taken particular care to recommend it, as we have seen before.
But one caution I must here recommend, which is less attended to than it deserves, viz. when a man happens to be much fatigued and spent after a hard journey or violent exercise, and stands in need of immediate refreshment, let him eat things that are light and easy to digest, and drink some small liquor warm; for heavy meat and strong drink will increase the artificial fever (if I may so call it) which violent exercise raises in the blood, and will rather waste than recruit his strength and spirits.
Besides those appertaining to the six things already mentioned, there are three other general rules greatly conducive to the preservation of health, which must not be forgotten.
The first rule is: Every excess is an enemy to nature. Whether it be in heat or cold, in grief or joy, in eating or drinking, or in any other sensual gratification, excess never fails to disorder the body; whereas, to be moderate in every affection and enjoyment, is the way to preserve health.
Rule the second: It is dangerous suddenly to alter a settled habit or an old custom, and to fly from one extreme to another. Even those things which are in themselves bad, as dram drinking, chewing tobacco, sitting up late at night, sleeping immediately after dinner, morning whets, as they are called, &c. when by long use they have unhappily grown familiar to any person, must not be broke off all at once, but should be relinquished by degrees.
The third rule is, that whatever tends to impair our strength, should be carefully avoided. To bleed often, for instance, without an urgent cause; to take strong purges or vomits; to go into a slender and vegetable diet rashly, and rather from whim than necessary: All such errors as these, I say, charge the small pipes, through which the circulation is performed, into impervious cords, and impair the strength by drying up the conduits of life.
CHRESTON'S MISCELLANY, No. X.
IN wisdom as in other attainments, the further we advance, the more facility we find—but it has one advantage which no other possesses: The more we acquire,
the less we presume on our acquisitions; we keep them in silence, like treasures hoarded up for the day of need, and of which, the possessor is careful to make no needless and ostentatious parade.
Wisdom consists in the right perception of things: This secures us from most of the injuries of fortune—they fall heavy only on the unenlightened part of mankind.—By teaching us the secret of true felicity, which dwells but little in the externals, wisdom obviates that digression of mind, which constitutes adversity, and directs us not to seek for solid and lasting satisfaction, in any thing that is not in some measure dependent on ourselves.
Our good qualities expose us more to hatred and persecution, than all the ill we do.
Wisdom puts into our hand, the scale of impartiality, and teaches us to weigh with exactitude, the good and evil of which this world is composed.
Whenever you would recreate yourself, says M. Antoninus, reflect on the laudable qualities of your acquaintance, on the magnanimity of one, the modesty of another, or the liberality of the third.
It is much to be lamented, that the practice of the social virtues, and a strict adherence to the love of truth, are but shallow recommendations to raise a man in the world. He who wishes to recommend himself to the rich and powerful, must too often submit to the meanest indignities, and, like a serpent, press the earth with his belly, in order to spring forward.
State of New-Hampshire.
GENERAL ORDERS,
Given at Durham, the 11th day of April, 1787.
THE field officers of the fourth, seventh, eighth and twentieth regiments, having represented to the Captain-General, the present deranged state of their regiments, and requested that the review of their respective corps may be postponed to some future day.—The Commander in Chief notifies them that the review of their regiments is not to take place at the time proposed in former orders, all the other regiments are expected to meet on the days appointed, except either of the days should prove stormy, in which case the review will be on the next fair day; and in case that should happen on the day appointed for the review of another regiment, the review of such other regiment will be the next fair day after.
If it be attended with no inconvenience, the Captain General would wish such of the artillery men as will not be immediately wanted for drawing or tending the field pieces to appear with muskets and bayonets at the reviews they may attend.
JOHN SULLIVAN, Capt. Gen.
ALL persons having demands on the estate of the Honorable JOHN WENTWORTH, Esq. late of Dover , deceased, are desired to exhibit their claims for adjustment; those indebted, are requested to make immediate payment to MARGARET WENTWORTH, Adm ss Dover, April 4th, 1787.

An account of the REMORA.  T HE description of the Kraken is truly surprising; but what will people say, when they are informed of the wonderful powers of a fish not above half a foot in length?—This phenomenon of nature is an inhabitant of the Archipelago in the Mediterranean, and was by the Greeks called Echeneis, and by the Latins Remora; because, by its unparalleled strength, it is able to stop the motion of a ship, by means of two scales, wherewith it closely embraces the rudder.—Pliny writes, that Periander having sent a ship to Gnidos, with orders to destroy all the male children of that island, it was stopped so long, in the main sea, by one of those fishes, that it gave Periander an opportunity of relenting, and sending contrary orders:—in remembrance of which circumstance, the two scales of this little Sampson were, in the time Pliny flourished, seen hanging up near the altar of Gnidos and Venus. The like happened to a Pretorian ship belonging to Anthony, at the battle of Actium, so that he could not advance to give orders to his navy. The Emperor Caligula, having set sail from Austria, with a fleet, was likewise constrained to stay with his vessel, while the others proceeded without any obstruction; at which the Emperor was so enraged, that he commanded the bottom of the ship to be searched, when the Remora was found sticking to the helm. Plutarch, in his Symposiacks, affirms, that it was found sticking to the ship which he had hired to sail into Sicily, whereby its progress was impeded; and Rondeletius (an Italian author) saith, that the Cardinal of Turin, being embarked for Rome, was a long time stopped at sea by the same marine animal. The existence of this wonderful fish being therefore warranted on authority equal to that of the Kraken, I may venture to affirm, that if the latter be the largest of nature's productions, the Remora is equally as astonishing, being by an infinite degree the strongest animal in the whole creation.
L O N D O N,
Dec. 16. America now feels its folly.—The visionary fabrics of liberty are all faded, and in the room of the fond delusion, they grasp a substantial wretchedness, which brings them to the very soul. Where is now that trade, in the management of which their ships covered the ocean? Where that internal happiness which made them the envy of the European world? All lost, all gone, without leaving a vestige of their former beauty—Discord and despondency have assumed the seats of plenty and cheerfulness; and they have now but one liberty left them, which is the liberty of complaining.
According to a survey of Constantinople, lately published, that Capital of the Turkish Empire contains 700,000 inhabitants, 5330 small and great Mosques or Mahometan Temples, 120 hospitals, 418 inns or hotels, 900 bathing-houses, 950 public fountains, 500 principals and 1650 inferior schools, 440 churches, two of them allotted to the Roman Catholicks, the rest to different Christian sects, 3800 streets of various dimensions, 580 mills, and 22 gates, viz. six on the land side, eleven on that of the harbour, and five from the Streight.
The Conservatory at Blenheim is one of the finest in Europe, and so disposed that the sun's heat is effectually reflected from one part of the building to the other. Here is the vast creation of plants in its wonderful and immense variety. But it is in his Grace's Library where the connoisseur is most sensibly gratified with the phenomena of the vegetable world. Here he sees the whole process of nature, in her unbounded diversities, as elaborately described by Linnæus, Ludwig, Marriotte, Dr. Hales, Moreland and other distinguished writers on natural history.
STAMFORD, [England,] September 3.
On Tuesday last Mr. Gooud, of St. Mar- tin's row, the property of Mr. Lupton, of tin's from a cu.
Thrust House, near this place, a calf of the following most uncommon make: It had two heads, with two eyes, and two ears to each, and fairly separated to far as the neck-bone, four cheek-bones, of the like size as if only a single calf; six legs, four of them as of a single calf, the other two small, one growing from the top of the shoulder, and the other from the top of the rump; two tails, one on each side of the R bone; the carcase had one breast upwards, another downwards; two distinct sets of inwards, and two proper places of discharge, with a skin to separate the vessels; one windpipe leading from each head to the heart and liver, which were the same as in other calves, though larger.
J A M A I C A.
KINGSTON, Jan. 20. We are assured official advices are received from the Musquito shore, importing, that the British settlers have lately had a general meeting, which was productive of a solemn resolution to resist the Spaniards by force of arms, should they be encouraged to make their appearance on shore, in consequence of the recent cession made by the British Ministry, and that they have entered into a strict league with the native Indians, who are equally determined to oppose the Dons in every attempt they make to establish their oppressive government in that fertile and happy country.—In consequence of this very interesting intelligence, which may ultimately be productive of the most serious consequences to both nations, our government have it in earnest contemplation, if that arrant liar common fame may be credited, to send a military force from this island to dragoon the innocent and unfortunate settlers into a compliance with the terms of the late Spanish convention.
PHILADELPHIA, March 24:
Our correspondent Merlin shews every disposition of a good citizen—but we are certain to receive his absolution, when we assure him, with sincerity, that we shall be soon able to convince him of the weakness of his predictions. That the views of the insurgents, in Massachusetts, extend further than the reformation of abuses in government, is unquestionable; that there is a number of disaffected persons in the different states, on whom these rebels intend to practice, is likewise conceded. But their united efforts, like a thunder storm, will only serve to rouze the exertions of the different states into action, in order, with the dignity and grandeur of that phenomenon, to clear the political hemisphere of all clouds and noxious vapours.
In the thunder storm on Tuesday the 13th inst. we hear that a barn, the property of Mr. John Glover, of Hattonfield, Gloucester county, state of New Jersey, was struck with lightning, which descended along the roof, and penetrated a stable adjoining, where there were five creatures, one of whom was killed instantly, while the rest received no injury.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman on the Mississippi, to a citizen of this place, dated New Orleans, Feb. 11, 1787.
"This colony at present thrives, and enjoys perfect freedom and tranquillity. Our governor and intendant live harmoniously, and in their respective spheres are admired, vying with each other, in promoting the prosperity of the province, and this is the only contest between them. His majesty is very indulgent to his new subjects at the Natchez, and allows them ten dollars per cent. for all their tobacco, delivered here in carrots, paid in silver."
The above extract shews the wisdom, and at the same time the policy of Spain, by promoting and encouraging the settlement of the back country.—She will secure the hearts of a great people now settling on the western waters, while the United States are divided, and about, abandoning them for ever.—Vide Brackenridge's learned speech on this important subject, and adopt some remedy before it be too late.
A Citizen of Philadelphia.
NEW-YORK, March 28.
The translator of the Marquis de Chastel-leux's travels in North-America, relates the following singular circumstance which happened in 1777. A poor fellow who was sent with a letter from Gen. Burgoyne to Gen. Clinton, inclosed in a silver bullet, miscarried in his message, and lost his life by the sameness of names of the American and British commanders. Falling in in the woods, with a party of Americans clothed in British uniform which they had taken, he enquired eagerly for Gen. Clinton, to whom he was instantly conducted, but on discovering that it was not the Clinton he was in search of, in the face of a number of spectators, he swallowed the bullet. Emenicks and purgatives were instantly administered, which made him disgorge, and the unfortunate fellow was hanged on the next tree.
The sagacious Machiavel seems to think that a rich soil tends to lessen the industry of the people that inhabit it; and if a nation like that of the Switzers is contented with the portion of land it enjoys, and meditates no further acquisition of territory; then a tract of earth, which yields its productions with some difficulty, will, in the long run, make its inhabitants a wealthy, happy, and powerful community. A rich soil, easy to be cultivated, naturally inclines the inhabitants to indolence and remissness. Thus in Portugal, where the soil is richest, as on the northern banks of the Duero, there the inhabitants are poorest. Nature, with a small variation of more or less, has been almost equally bountiful to all her industrious children in all places. I lay some stress upon the word industrious , because it is evident that the richest soils in themselves, if the cultivator is indolent, and inattentive, do not always produce the largest and best crops. In this sense, let us compare England and Sweden with Italy and Louisiana, and we shall soon find that the scale preponderates in favour of art and labour.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
T HE members of the society of the CINCINATI are requested to assemble at the house of Col. Samuel Folsom, in Exeter, on Monday the 16th of April inst. on business of very great importance .
JOHN SULLIVAN, President , Durham, April 5, 1787:
T HE taxable inhabitants of the town of Portsmouth, are requested forthwith to give into their selectmen, just and true invoices of their rateable estates, viz. the number of white male polls from 18 years old and upward—the number of black male servants from 18 to 45 years old—the number of black female servants from 18 to 45—the number of horses and oxen 4 years old and upward—the number of cows 4 years old and upward—the number of cattle and horses 3 years old—the number of cattle and horses 2 years old—the number of cattle and horses 1 year old—the number of acres of orchard land—the number of acres of arable land—the number of acres of mowing land—the number of acres of pasturing land, and the amount of the net yearly income of mills, wharves and ferrys, with the value of all their other buildings and real estate—money at interest, or on hand—stock in trade, &c.
The non-residents, or their agents are requested to attend to the above advertisement, and render invoices of such real estate as they have in said town, also such persons as move from farm to farm in said town, and from other towns to this, in the farming business, are requested to give in their invoices, as it will be a mean of saving trouble and expence.
N. B. The month of April is the time prefixed by law for the above, after which none will be received.
Portsmouth, March 31, 1787.

CHARLESTON, (South Carolina) March 12.
In Consequence of the Spaniards taking possession of the Musquito Shore, many of the inhabitants of that place are obliged speedily to remove their property; many, under a particular predicament, cannot return to their native shore; others, more happy, are determined to retire to Carolina or Georgia. A gentleman from thence arrived here last week, with his whole property, to settle in this State. Many families intend to follow him shortly. We are happy to find the legislature encourage so great an augmentation; there are about twenty families and about 500 negroes.
BALTIMORE, March 23. Extract of a letter from Kentucky, dated Feb. 18.
"The reports which have circulated to the prejudice of General Clark, are supposed to have originated through some envious, malicious letters from this country, which, on a strict enquiry, will be found groundless.
"The Lincoln militia, in hopes of retrieving their character, lately marched from this for the Chickamauga Indian towns, forty miles from which, they fell in with one of their camps, 15 in number; 8 of whom were killed, the others escaped, and the party returned.
"About the 20th of January, a party of Indians killed a man near Clarksville; Mr. Van Meter and son, at Sovern's Valley; Mr. Moore, about 10 miles from Lincoln Court-House and routed a surveying party from Sandy Creek, one of whom is missing.
"A number of Indians have just crossed into Jefferson county, from whence we daily expect to receive accounts of many of the inhabitants being killed:—The Indians have been very troublesome for some time past."
PROVIDENCE, March 22. Extract of a letter from a gentleman at Pittsburgh, dated February 12.
"In my last I informed you, that there was a conference shortly to be held here with the chiefs of the Indian nations, who it was supposed were hostile to the United States, since which it has taken place, and I had the pleasure of being present—The purport of their communications was, that their nations were peaceably disposed.—Cornplanter, who was the principal speaker on the part of the Indians, said, That nothing prejudicial to the United States need be apprehended from the late councils which the Indians held at Sandusky, and other places, among themselves: That in consequence of the speeches of Congress last summer, a deputation from the Six Nations had been sent last fall to the westerly and northwesterly Indians—within the territory of the United States; and that a part of this deputation is still on that business among the nations mentioned.
"The winter has been very mild in these parts, the only cold weather we have had was a few days before Christmas. I do not know that I have ever mentioned in any of my letters the large quantity of stone-coal, with which this country abounds, and is of an excellent quality—it is principally made use of in Pittsburgh for their fires, and it may be bought, delivered at the doors, for four coppers per bushel.
"It has sometime past been reported here, that Congress have a negotiation before them, to deliver up the navigation of the Mississippi for 25 years to the Spaniards:—The inhabitants in these parts are violently opposed to it: as they build great hopes on having a trade down the river.
PHILADELPHIA, March 28.
There is a Mr. St. George, a Creole, son to the French Governor of St. Domingo, now at Paris, who realises all the accomplishments attributed, by Bayle and others, to the admirable Creighton of the Scotch. He is so superior at the sword, that there is an edict of the parliament of Paris, to make his engagement in any duel actual death. He is the first dancer (even before the Irish Blingby) in the world. He plays upon seven instruments of musick, beyond any other individual. He speaks twenty-six languages,
and maintains public theses in each. He walks round the various circles of human science like the master of each; and strange to be mentioned to white men, this Mr. St. George is a Mulatto, and the son of an African mother.
The following account of the artificial incubation of eggs, as practised in Egypt, is extracted from Savary's letters:
"The building appointed for the purpose consists of two stories, the first of which is under ground, and the second very little elevated. A narrow corridor, which divides each story into two equal parts, runs the whole length of it. To the right and left are little cells, where the eggs are deposited. The upper story is vaulted with an ox eye at the top. There is a similar aperture in the floor, by which the heat is communicated below: both have a small window, which is carefully blocked up. The door of entrance is very low, and serves for a communication with the whole building. The eggs are first ranged in heaps in the lower story.—The fire is then lighted in the upper story, for an hour in the morning, and an hour in the evening. Cows dung, dried in the sun, serves for fuel. This operation lasts eight days. When the building has received the proper degree of heat, the fire is extinguished; all the apertures are shut, and part of the eggs heaped up below, are carried into the upper story. The man who looks after this operation, enters from time to time to examine it, if it be necessary to preserve the same heat, or to diminish it. The nineteenth day of incubation, the chickens begin to stir in their shells; the twentieth, they make use of their beak, and try to get out of prison. They usually hatch the one and twentieth day. Then it is that one sees these heaps of eggs, hitherto immovable, in agitation, and rolling on the floor, and that thousands of little flutterers, of various colours, are to be seen hopping about the apartment. This sight is really amusing. The next day they are carried about the town in baskets, and cried in the streets. Each family purchases their provision of them at a halfpenny a piece. Several authors have asserted, that these chickens never become such good poultry as those hatched under the hen.—This is a mistake. A French cook I saw at Grand Cairo, bought them every year, and by feeding them well, made excellent pullets of them. It is said, that the inhabitants of the village of Berme alone, have the secret of this incubation. This is a fact, however, I have not yet ascertained."
NEW-YORK, March 29. On Wednesday last, the bill for authorising the delegates in Congress to ratify, &c. the independence of Vermont, was read a third time in the committee of the whole house, and passed in the affirmative by a majority of ten.
Chancellor Rutledge, Hon. Major Butler, General Pinckney, Colonel Henry Laurens and Charles Pinckney, Esq. are elected Delegates, for South-Carolina, to the Federal Convention to meet in Philadelphia.
Shays and ten more (his officers) are taken up by the British garrison at St. John's and confined until Sir Guy Carleton's pleasure is known respecting them. General Lincoln has sent an express to Sir Guy on the subject.
BOSTON, April 13.
By a gentleman who arrived in town, on Tuesday, directly from the county of Hampshire, we are informed, that the Honorable Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court, finished their session for the County of Berkshire, last week, after passing SENTENCE OF DEATH on SIX of the rebels, who have been taken in arms in that county;—and, among many others sentencing William Whiting, Esq. Chief Justice of the Court of Common pleas for that County, to be imprisoned 6 months, pay a fine of 100l. and find sureties for keeping the peace for 5 years-- and a Mr. Gould, a lawyer, to pay a fine of 50l. to the State, and find sureties for his good behaviour for 3 years.
Austin, of Sheffield, and a Mr. Wilcock, we are told, are among the rebels under sentence of death in Berkshire County. Capt. Hamlin, who commanded the rebels in the attack on Col. Ashley, at Sheffield, has not yet received his trial, on account of the bad state of his wounds.
We hear, that the rebels in Hampshire, have lately made several incendiary attempts to destroy the buildings and other property belonging to General Shepard at West-field.
PORTSMOUTH, April 14.
The printers in the state of Massachusetts will probably by the next General Court be relieved from that burdensome, disgraceful, torified and unconstitutional advertisement-tax—A change of rulers will be likely to produce a change of measures, and as the people appear determined to put tried Patriots only, in power, it is likely that the Press, the only safeguard of the liberties of what is called the lower class of people, will then be liberated.
The Governor of the state of New-York is allowed for his salary 1500l. per year; 300l. for house rent; 150l. for incidental charges, and 150l. for private secretary; amounting in the whole, to 2100l. per year.
NAVAL OFFICE, PORT of PISCATAQUA, April 11, 1787. ENTERED, FROM Brig Two Sisters, Roach, Martinico. Schooner Industry, Peirce, Philadelphia. —Tryall, Chamberlain, Baltimore. Brig Nabby, Kenney, Demarara.
A Watch found.
FOUND on the 2d day of April inst. on the road leading from Nottingham to Deerfield, a SILVER WATCH, the person who lost the same may have it again proving his property and paying charges by applying to Rebecca Rollins of Nottingham, or the Printer hereof.
WE the subscribers being appointed and impowered by the hon. Joseph Simpson, Esq. judge of probate, &c. for the county of York, to receive and examine the claims of the several creditors to the estate of Capt. William Dearing, late of Kittery in said county, deceased, represented insolvent; and six months from the date hereof being allowed the creditors to bring in their claims and proving their debts;—we therefore give this public notice, that we will attend on said business on the third Monday of this, and the second Wednesday of the five succeeding months, from three to seven o'clock in the afternoon of said days, at the dwelling house of Mr. Richard Parsons, in Kittery, aforesaid.
WILLIAM MOORE, } Commissioners; BENJA. PARKER, } Kittery, April 6, 1787.
State of New-Hampshire,
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors or owner of a lot of land in the town of Deerfield, in the name of Mary Wheeler, that there is a tax assessed on said lot for the year 1782, which remains unpaid, and unless the same is paid on or before Tuesday the 24th day of April instant, so much of the same as will pay said tax and incidental charges will be sold at public vendue, at the house of Benjamin Stevens, innholder in said town, at ten o'clock, A. M. on said day, unless prevented by payment.—The tax is as follows, viz. Mary Wheeler N. 29 1st R. 128A. 1.166
TRISTRAM SANBORN, Collector: Deerfield, March 12, 1787.
WANTED.
A BOY about 11 years of age, to serve in a family. Apply to the Printer hereof.
BLANKS of most sorts for sale at this Office, for cash or country produce.

Parnassian Spring.
On the first visit of the GOUT.
O Thou! to man the earnest of fourscore, Guest of the rich, unenvy'd by the poor, Thou that great Esculapius doth deride, And o'er his galley-pots in triumph ride; Thou that was wont to hover near the throne, And underprop th'head that wears the crown; Thou that dost oft in privy councils wait, And guard from sleep the drowsy eyes of state; Thou that upon the bench art mounted high, And warn'st the judges when they tread awry; Thou that dost oft from pamper'd prelates toe, Emphatically urge the pains below; Thou that art always half the city's grace, And add'st to solemn noodle solemn pace; Thou that art us'd to sit on lady's knee, To feed on jellies, and to drink cold tea; Thou whose luxurious sense can scarcely bear The velvet slipper and the feather'd chair; Whence doest thy mighty condescensions flow, To visit my poor tabernacle? — oh! Her knee indulgent here no lady lends; To watch thy looks no liv'ry'd train attends; No costly jellies, and no chairs of down, Invite soft slumbers, or the banquet crown. Yet what I have for solace or for state, I give, and envy for thy sake the great. Jove, who vouchsaf'd in ancient times, 'tis said, At poor Philemon's cot to take a bed; Pleas'd with the mean, but hospitable feast, First bid him ask, and granted his request— O! then (for thou art of the race divine, Begot on Venus by the god of wine) Since not incognito thy visit paid, I meet thee, conscious of my wants, dis- may'd: Do thou to entertain thee give me Store, Or with thy presence honor me no more.
State of New-Hampshire.
N OTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in Grafton, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1783, that so much of their land will be sold at public vendue, on Monday the 4th day of June next, at the house of Hezekiah Bullock, innholder in said town, at ten o'clock before noon, as will pay the taxes and charges, unless prevented by previous payment.
   R. N. Q'ty. s. d.     James Otis 0 0 79 2 3   Stephen Smith 4 19 50 1 6   ditto 4 20 50 1 6   ditto 5 5 50 1 6   ditto 5 8 50 1 6   ditto 7 3 50 1 6   ditto 7 4 50 1 6   ditto 7 23 50 1 6   ditto 1 15 50 1 6   2 Div. 2 10 50 3 0   ditto 12 6 50 1 6   ditto 12 7 50 1 6   ditto 13 19 1 6   ditto 13 23 1 6   ditto 14 21 1 6   ditto 2 11 1 6   Constant Barney 9 18 50 1 6   ditto 3 21 1 6   ditto 3 22 1 6   ditto 5 16 1 6   ditto 13 9 1 6   ditto 13 12 1 6   ditto 4 7 1 6   ditto 5 20 1 6   ditto 9 16 1 6   ditto 9 17 1 6   Benoni Williams 2 9 1 6   2 Div. 1 7 1 6   Benjamin Martin 2 2 1 6   ditto 1 12 1 6   ditto 1 16 1 6   ditto 10 19 50 1 6   ditto 10 20 50 1 6   Noble Mason 175 4 6   Undivided land 400 12  
JOSEPH HAMELTON, Collector. Grafton, March 20, 1787.
State of New-Hampshire.
N OTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in Chichester, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1785, that so much of their land will be sold at public vendue on Thursday the 10th day of May next, at my dwelling house in said town, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, as will pay the taxes and charges unless prevented by previous payment.
   Div. N. R. Q'ty. s. d. q.     Sir Will'm Peperill 1 34 1 15 0 3 0   ditto 4 0 0 22 0 6 0   Capt. Rich. Currier 3 92 6 50 2 3 0   ditto 4 0 0 50 1 1 2   Thomas Arnald 1 23 6 50 2 4 2   ditto 1 17 2 50 2 3 0   ditto 1 19 2 50 2 1 2   Nicholas Gilman 1 21 8 50 2 3 0   William Stanford 1 25 2 50 1 10 2   ditto 4 0 0 50 1 1 2   Thomas Drake 1 1 4 50 1 6 0   ditto 1 1 3 50 1 6 0   Moses Blake 4 0 0 50 1 1 2   Benning Wentworth 4 0 0 50 1 1 2   John Cram, Esq. 1 12 7 50 2 3 0   ditto 4 0 0 50 1 1 2   Daniel Tilton 4 71 11 50 3 0 0   Richard Jennens 1 14 7 50 1 7 2   Hunking Wentworth 13 4 50 1 6 0 0   ditto 4 0 0 50 1 1 2   Governor Belcher 4 0 0 50 1 1 2   Samuel Thing 1 2 1 50 1 7 2   ditto 3 91 6 50 2 0 0   ditto 4 0 0 50 1 1 2   Thomas Leavitt 4 10 1 50 2 0 0   Peter Weare jun. 1 26 5 50 2 3 0   ditto 4 0 0 50 1 1 2   Jabez Smith 1 17 6 50 2 6 0   ditto 4 0 0 50 1 1 2    SAMUEL DAVIS, Constable. Chichester, April 7th, 1787.
State of New-Hampshire.
N OTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in the following towns, viz. Grafton for 1777, 1781, 1782, 85 and 86; Orford from 1780 six years; Canaan, 1779, 1781 and 86; Dunstable, Hopkinton, Rumney and Jaffrey for 1783; Chesterfield, and Warner for 84; Strafford, 83 and 85; Conway, 1784 and 85; Hanover, Mason, Thornton and Society for 1785; Loudon, Northfield, Rindge, Sanbornstown and Sutton for 1785 and 1786; Temple, N. Chester, Hillsborough, Dearing, Moultonborough, Gilmantown, Wentworth, Warren, Chichester, Effingham, Alstead, Wolfborough, Fishersfield, Dorchester, Bradford, Andover, Raymond, Sandwich, Ackworth, Weare, Protectworth, Packerfield, Dublin, the Gore, Wendell, New Hampton and Henniker for 1786; that their lands in said towns are taxed for the years aforesaid, and if the taxes are not paid within eight weeks from the first publication of this advertisement, either to the collectors or the subscriber, they will be advertised for sale according to law. (of non-residents taxes.)
THOMAS ODIORNE, Receiver Exeter, April 2, 1787.
5 Dollars Reward,  MADE his escape from the PRISON in DOVER , last evening, one JOHN SMITH SANBORN , of Lee, confined on warrant; he is about forty-five years of age, six feet and one inch high, short dark hair, and of a pale clear complexion, and had on when he made his escape, a dark blue coat, and a spotted waistcoat, and has lost the first joint of one of his forefingers:—Whoever will take up said Sanborn, and return him to said prison, shall receive FIVE DOLLARS reward and necessary charges paid by
Theophilus Dame, Sheriff.
Dover, March 27th, 1787.
A LL persons in the county of Rockingham, that have sold Excisable liquors since the first day of October last, are hereby notified for to have their accounts made out, up to the first day of April current, and be ready for settlement up to the 20th of April instant. A punctual attendance agreeable to the laws will be expected.
THOMAS BARTLET, } Collectors of JONA. CILLEY, } Excise. Nottingham, April 2, 1787.
N OTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietor or owner of a lot of land in the parish of Northwood, who is delinquent in paying his taxes for the year 1784, that unless he pays the same on or before Tuesday the 12th of June next, so much of his land as will pay the same together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at ten o'clock in the forenoon on said day, at my dwelling house in said town, unless prevented by previous payment. N. R. Ac. s. d. d. 1 s d Aaron Morrill 9 4 100 17 3 9 1 7 6 JOSHUA FURBUR, Collector.
State of New Hampshire,
T HIS is to notify all the non-resident owners of land in the town of Nottingham, that have not paid the taxes assessed thereon for the year 1785, that so much of their land as will pay said taxes and charges thereon, will be sold at public vendue at the house of Benjamin Butler, Esq. innholder in said Nottingham, on Monday the twenty third day of April next, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, unless prevented by previous payment.
   Ac. s. d. q. s. d. q. s. d. q.     Lt. Zeb. Barber 86 10 1 2 5 4 3 0 11 2   Josiah Burleigh 40 7 0 0 4 11 2 0 10 2   Moses Chaney 100 4 2 2 1 8 2 0 3 2   Abner Clough 76 1 1 2   Lt. Joseph Fifield 14 9 11 2 6 8 3 1 2 1   John Fogg 34 4 9 0 2 10 0 0 6 0   Phenias Fogg 88 4 9 2 2 1 2 0 4 2   Benjamin Norris 8 1 3 1 0 10 1 0 1 3   Jonathan Prescott 50 1 2 2   Chaife Wiggin 14 5 1 3 3 6 2 0 7 2    Original proprietors names:
   N. First range. Ac. l. s. d. q.     9 Cutt and Moulton 180 0 3 1 2   3 John Favour 30 0 0 7 1   4 Col. Richard Kent 80 0 1 6 0   5 Samuel Penhallow 80 0 1 6 0    Woodbridge's gore     1 Will'm Langdon or } 150 0 7 3   G. Jeffrey    3 B. Woodbridge 165 0 1 4 1 JOSHUA STEVANS, Collector. Nottingham, March 9th, 1787.
State of New Hampshire.
N OTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors & owners of land in the parish of Northwood, who are delinquent in paying their taxes for the year 1785, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber, on or before Tuesday the 12th day of June next, so much of their land as will pay the same, together with incidental charges will be sold at public vendue on said day, at the dwelling house of Joshua Furbur, in said town, unless prevented by previous payment.
   R. N. Acres. s. d. s. d.     William Langdon 7 13 156 3 9 2 6   George Jaffrey 0 15 102 3 0 2 0   Cuttin Noyes 0 16 130 3 5 2 4   John Allen 0 17 61 3 0 2 9   Peregrin White 0 19 27 1 3 0 10   Samuel Penhallow 8 8 156 12 9 8 6   John Calf 0 13 156 5 0 3 4   Benjamin Bickford 0 19 50 4 0 2 1   John Weight 0 21 156 5 0 3 5   Mary Suminsby 9 12 50 6 0 4 0   Benjamin Harris 0 21 131 3 3 2 1   Cutts and Moulton 0 26 22 1 4 0 13   Dr. Nath'l Sargent 10 9 85 2 0 1 5   William Briggs 10 10 78 1 9 1 2   Fann Clements 0 11 130 3 6 2 8   Aaron Morrill 9 4 100 10 0 6 4    JOHN JOHNSON, Collector.