The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1775-02-10 00:00:00

THE New-Hampshire AND HISTORICAL CONTAINING the FRESHEST ADVICES
FRIDAY February 10, 1775.
Vol. XIX. GAZETTE, CHRONICLE, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
No. 955 { Weeks since this Paper was first Publish'd. }
PORTSMOUTH, THE COMMITTEE for carrying the Association Recommended by the Continental Congress into Execution, have taken under their serious Consideration, the Practice of GAMING, more especially that at CARDS & BILLIARDS, which there is great Reason to think, still prevails in this Town: They therefore do earnestly recommend it, to all those who furnish the Accomodations for those Purposes, to discontinue their unjustifiable Proceedings at this Time, when all the Colonies are involved in deep Distress and Danger; otherwise they may depend upon seeing their Names in the publick Papers, as recommended in the Association. The Committee do likewise recommend it to the Merchants and Traders in this Town, who are dealing in European GOODS, that they do not take any Advantage of the Times, by raising the Price of GOODS, least they be found violating the GRAND AMERICAN ASSOCIATION, and of Course, deemed & treated, as Inimical to the GLORIOUS CAUSE, so zealously espoused, by every true Friend, to the just Rights of Mankind. H. WENTWORTH, Chairman.
MR. PRINTER, Be pleased to insert the following in your next useful Paper, and you'll oblige a Number of your Friends and Customers. TO all Friends and Fellow Countrymen, pray view the following Lines, and take it under your mature Consideration, and lay the Wound open to your View, and you may see the direful Affliction issuing therefrom, like unto an Impetuous Shower of Hail driven by the Northern Winds; Alas, how the Times are chang'd, how the bright & shining Gold is become dim; O consider our deplor'd Situation, and lament in Sack Cloth & Ashes! Oh--We the Inhabitants of New-Hampshire, how are we govern'd, or how does our Rulers stand, or what was our late General Court dissolved for? was it because they voted to raise Money of the Province, or because they voted the Governor a Salary, or was it because they consulted the Province Emolument? Answer, the Latter.
Now says the Authority, let us lay a Plan that will effectually answer our Turn, let us consider Rockingham County, that they are old, they are numerous, and independent, there are but few Tools in that County; but few Placemen or Pensioners, neither are there many, that regard Commissions equal to their sacred Liberties and Privileges; and as there are Writs issuing out for a new Choice of Representatives, we must not send any to Nottingham, Alton, Tilton, Pembroke, Bow, Concord, Canterbury, Chichester, nor Epsom; Whereas there is a large Circle containing not less than 1500 Families; and they are old Settlers, & have bore the Heat of the Day, and have stood thro' out the late War, and were not ashamed; and have got to be independent, so we cannot get any Member that will represent that Quarter, that will answer our End; But let us send Writs in plenty to the County of Hillsborough, for that County is young, and there are plenty of Placemen, and there are many young Officers, in that County, and some of the oldest of them are chiefly dependant on the Province for their Subsistence; whereas there's but one copious Run of Shad Fish in a Year, and but one Crop of Potatoes, but no Matter for that, as they will answer our End; and also the County of Grafton is younger still, and as all new Country's are dependant; and as they are Strangers in general from various Parts of the World, and have got Lands and Grants, as you know where and how; and as the some spankled Gentlemen that's now in Town, let us send them up with Writs; but be sure not to send any to Haverhill, Haverhill, or Lebanon; whereas they are the oldest, strongest, and most independent, for there is great Fear and Doubt; but send them to Plymouth, Orford, and Lyme, and no Doubt but these aforementioned Gentlemen will use their best Endeavours to put it out of Dispute. A SPECTATOR.
MR. FOWLE. DUNBARTON, FEB 6, 1775. Please to insert the following in your next Paper, and you will oblige your humble Servant, the Subscriber. The Subscriber beg Leave to inform the Publick of a very extraordinary Affair that happened of late in the County of Hillsborough. I being Constable for Dunbarton, and on the 24th of June last in said Town; saw two Men fighting, commanded Peace in his Majesty's Name, which I thought was my Duty to do, but being assaulted and caught by the Throat by one John Stinson, and he was bound to answer at the Sessions of the Peace to be holden at Amherst, appeared there and swore to the Complaint with other Evidences before the grand Jury. Alexander Gilchrist of Goff's Town, being one of the grand Jury seemed to dislike the Method I took in commanding Peace in his Majesty's Name. He said I should have done as he did when grand Juryman; saw Men fighting, struck the Men that were Fighting with the butt End of my Whip and so kept the Peace, without commanding in his Majesty's Name. James M'Cauley of Derrifield another of the grand Jury, his Conduct was similar to that of Gilchrist's, the Doors when the grand Jury were sitting being open. & Liquor coming in plentifully to them, they found no Bill against the said Stinson. I am under the Necessity of begging the Favour of some Gentlemen learned in Law to instruct me how to do the Duty of a Constable as my Year is not out, for the Method I took in commanding in his Majesty's Name to preserve the Peace hath been greatly to my Disadvantage. The Attorney General who was present with the grand Jury, and others can evidence the Truth of the above Affair. I am the Publick's humble Servant. ISRAEL CLIFFORD.
We hear from Grenada, That on the 18th of December last, died the Hon'ble HUGH HALL WENTWORTH, Esq; greatly lamented by all his Friends and Acquaintance. He went from this Town about seven Years ago.
CUSTOM HOUSE, Piscataqua, February 9th. Inward Entries, Schooner Britania, Andrew Millet from Virginia. Clear'd Outwards, Ship Errol, William Parker, for West Indies. Ship Sukey, Robert Follett. Ditto. Ship Sally, Stephen Meeder. Ditto. Brig Abigail, John Whellwright, Ditto.
Boardman's Answer to Poile, must be desert'd till our Next. In an Advertisement publish'd in this Paper January 13th, 20th, 27th, sign'd Jonathan Moulton, Collector, by mistake was inserted March 3d, 1776, instead of March 3d, 1767.
HOLLIS RESOLVES. At a Legal Meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of HOLLIS, in the County of Hillsborough, in the Province of New Hampshire, held on the seventh Day of November 1774, the following RESOLVES was unanimously pass'd, viz.
 1. Resolved, That we will at all Times endeavour to defend our Liberties and Privileges, both civil and sacred, even at the Risk of our Lives and Fortunes; and will not only disapprove of, but wholly dispirit all such Persons as we have just and solid Reason to think, even with in any Measure deprav'd of the same.  2. Resolved, That we do abhor, detest, and abominate all oppressive Acts of Persons in Power, whether Magistrate or Officer, whereby the Poor are distressed, and unlawfully Robbed of their Properties in any unjust Manner whatsoever, and will always deem them, not only inimical to Individuals, but to the general Good of Mankind, & will always endeavour to treat them in such a Manner as they justly deserve.  3. Resolved, That we will at all Times endeavour to assist the civil Magistrate in the due Execution of his Office, in support of our Laws, at the Risk of our Lives, and will always shew our dislike and Disapprobation to all unlawful Proceedings of unjust Men, Congregating together (as they pretend) to maintain their Liberties, and very outrageously trample under Foot the very Law of Liberty, and madly destroy that Jewell which is so exceeding precious to our American Land.  4. Resolved, That all Persons setting themselves to adjudge and determine Causes between Party and Party, only by the Authority of a mobbish Company of disorderly Men unlawfully assembled, to commit Riots and unlawful Actions, are bold, contumacious, Despisers of Law, and their Proceedings directly tend to the utter Subversion of all Regularity, good Order, Peace and Harmony amongst his Majesty's good Subjects in this Land.  A true Copy of Record, SAMUEL CUMINGS, T. Clerk.
BOSTON, January 30. By a Vessel from Cape Nicholas Mole we learn, that on the 8th of December there was a most violent Gale of Wind off Hispaniola, in which a Sloop, Capt. Williams, belonging to Newbury, was drove out of Turks-Island, but returned again, having one Man killed.---Capt. Martin, of Maryland, in a Sloop was drove out of the same Place, and lost his Boat, Caboose, and Rudder, on the Caicos Bank, and put into the Mole to refit.---Capt. Cunningham, in a Schooner belonging to New-York, was also drove out, and was on the Caicos Bank from 10 in the Morning till 8 at Night, lost a Passenger overboard, his Boat and Mainmast, drifted aboard a Vessel bottom up, and afterwards got into the Mole. Capt. Stiles, in a large Schooner from St. Thomas's, belonging to Marblehead, foundered, the Captain, Mate, and one more saved, all the rest perished.---Capt. Graham in a Brig belonging to Philadelphia, bound to Virginia, was lost on the Caicos Bank, the People all saved.---A Sloop belonging to Mr. Paul Boscomb of Bermuda, foundered and three Men only saved.---Capt. Wallace, in a Ship from Philadelphia, was lost on the Caicos Bank, but the People and part of the Cargo saved.---Capt. Morgan, in a Sloop belonging to Bermuda, was drove out from Turks Island, & had not been heard of since.---Capt. Wattles, in a Brig from Connecticut, lost his Foremast, Rigging, Sails, and four Horses; he refitted at the Mole, and proceeded to Jamaica.---Great Damage is said to be done by the Gale to the Plantations on Hispaniola.
BOSTON, THURSDAY February 2. Extract of a Letter from a Gentleman of military Distinction in Connecticut, dated Jan. 24. 1775.
"Every Body amongst us seem determined not to survive the Loss of their civil and religious Liberties. We have favourable Sentiments of the Justice and Clemency of our Sovereign, but are preparing against the worst." "It is not pretended to vie with a Sister Colony in the noble Art of War; though you must allow one that has had long acquaintance with the Service, to assure you, that our Militia is become respectable. By fresh Returns from various Parts of the Government, we find that a Park of forty Pieces of Cannon may be formed in the Spring, should there be Occasion (which may God forbid) and our Army will be pretty expert at most of the Manoeuvres, will have in the first Grand Division about ten Thousand Men, that need not blush to encounter an equal Number of foreign Troops from any Quarter of the Globe.---This and some neighbouring Towns are preparing a Token of their Sympathy for the distressed Inhabitants of Boston, which will be sent to the honorable Committee, who merit highly of their Country."
Extract of a Letter from Charles Town South Carolina. "The whole proceedings of the Continental Congress are universally approved in this Colony, and we are cemented in the strongest Bonds of Harmony, like a Band of Brothers, resolutely determined to suffer Death, rather than relinquish any of our inestimable Liberties.---God grant every Colony may be as well prepared to meet the Day of Trial. Since you left us, Pardon B. I---n, heated with the intemperate Rage of ecclesiastical Z-al, mounted one of our Pulpits, and dated, in this enlighten'd Age, to preach up that long exploded tory Doctrine, of passive Obedience and Non-Resistance. But our Vestry and Wardens have convinced him that such Doctrine (which the Authority of the three Branches of the Legislature have ordered to be publicly committed to the Flames by the common Hangman) shall not defile our sacred Pulpits, and therefore silenced him: He desires much to preach again, but will not be permitted, unless he recants his Oxford Principles."
Extract of another Letter from a Gentleman in Charles Town, South Carolina, dated December 31, 1774.
"Most of the Inhabitants of this Province are displeased that their Delegates asked an Exception of Rice from the Non-Exportation Agreement---there will be a strong Push by the Rice Planters to reject the Indulgence, and have Rice forbid Exportation as well as Indigo. We never knew till lately, that our Members demanded it of the Congress."
BOSTON Monday Feb. 6. 1775. Last Wednesday the Provincial Congress met at Cambridge, and made Choice of the Hon. John Hancock, Esq; for their President, and Benjamin Lincoln, Esq; Secretary.---We hear there have already assembled 178 Members.
We hear from Plymouth, that 11 Persons were chose in that Town on Friday last night, to observe the Actions of the Tories, & make Report from Time to Time what they can hear & observe. DONATIONS received since our last.
MASSACHUSETTS-BAY. From Falmouth Casco-Bay, 51 Cords of Wood by Capt. Wright. Cape-Elizabeth, 44 Cords of Wood, by Capt. Dyer.     From l. s. d. From l. s. d.     Danvers, Cash 13 13 6 Welfleet Cash 7 10 8   Yarmouth East Precinct 7 4 4 Newbury-Port dit 202 10 2   Kittery dit 41 3 5 Middleton, dit. 22 9 1   Rehoboth, Rev. Mr. Hox's Parish 6 0 2   Ditto Rev. Mr. Rogers's Parish 2 6 3   Berwick, South Parish, 11 6 8   Ditto North dit. 2 2 0  
NEW HAMPSHIRE. From Portsmouth, Cash 200 0 0 From a Lady unknown, dit. 7 0 1 From the London Gazetteer, Nov. 12.
A Friend to the Public in general, I beg leave to suggest one Consideration to those whom it may concern, respecting the Operations at Boston.
I do not know what Number of Inhabitants the Town contains, but I imagine they are very numerous; & as their Trade is at an End, it must inevitably happen that many are reduced to the utmost Distress for Want of Subsistence, notwithstanding the Large Sums sent to them by other Colonies.
The certain Consequence of Scarcity of Provisions is, the consumption of much unwholesome Food; and the certain Effect of this is, Sickness and Diseases, almost Pestilential.
Should this be the State of Things at Boston, which that it will be so appears most probable, is it likely that our Troops, or even the Sailors and marines, will totally escape the Contagion?
And for what Purpose are we exposing a populous City, a considerable Part of the English Army, a Part of the British Fleet to such Hazards? Let those who know inform us; I cannot.---From so much as I have heard of the Matter, I cannot but think a little good Humour on our Side would have produced the like on the other, and a few good-natured, sensible People would have settled in half an Hour a Business which is made of Consequence by a few who wish to profit by Confusion.
There are not a Set of more useful Subjects, nor more loyal, in any Part of the British Dominions, than in America: nay, I think I may add, than in New-England; but they have their Tempers as well as John Bull; and if he says sternly they shall eat no hard Dumplings, they may possibly reply but we will; and about such a wise Affair as this we are hazarding every Thing. N. L.
From the MASSACHUSETTS SPY. January 19. Please to give the following, which is the Production of a common Soldier in the Army, a Place in your Paper, and you will oblige one of your Readers. MARS.
To his Excellency G----- G----- PERMIT an old Soldier to address your E-----y, not in the Language of Praise or Flattery, but that of the deepest Sorrow; I have serv'd his Majesty near 30 Years, and when I look back and compare the present Service, with what it was when I first enlisted, I could almost wish I had never been born; a Soldier at that Day was something of a respectable Character, and whatever Town he came to was treated as a Citizen; few Men if any were admitted into the Army without their sustained good moral Characters at least, and a Soldier's Honour and Reputation was then as dear to him as his Life: The Cat was seldom made use of to bring him to a Sense of Duty; we were admonished again and again we were treated then as reasonable Creatures, with all the Tenderness imaginable, well paid, and well clothed, and every little Indulgence granted to us which was not incompatible with our Duty; but Times are changed, instead of being respected, we are held in Detestation and Abhorrence, we are become a Reproach amongst Men and really thought good for nothing but to stop a Bullet, or satiate the Cruelty of our Officers, which upon little Pretence is exercis'd with the greatest Wantonness: If my Memory fails not, when I first entered the Army, I was in it 3 Years before I saw a Man punished, and then the Punishment was inflicted, with the greatest Reluctance, after repeated Admonitions, so that it was evident to every one the Offender was chastised justly, but now every Morning our Ears are dined with the Cries of some unhappy Sufferers. And the late poor Victim that fell a Sacrifice on the Common, is a convincing Proof that your E-----y is steed to every Sentiment of Humanity: Permit me Sir, to ask what Exigence required that poor Fellow to be put to Death so suddenly! not to allow a poor Creature, scarcely 24 Hours to prepare himself for Death, but in the most merciless Manner plunge him at once into Eternity, with all his Sins unrepented of, is really shocking to human Nature! And though your E-----y has many able Advocates for your tender and compassionate Feelings, I cannot help thinking whatever they may say in future on that Subject will be looked upon as mere Sarcasm. The long Experience you have had in the Army ought to force Conviction on your Excellency's Mind, that repeated Flogging never reclaims a Soldier, this should naturally lead you to seek for a Remedy elsewhere---need I point it out, our Officers and Leaders are in general become a most corrupt, profligate and abandoned set of Men, no Wonder then when the Head is unfound if the Members be rotten;---no Wonder if such Precedents are set before us, if we follow the Example---let an old Soldier speak for once, lay aside the Cat, pay more Attention to reforming the Morals of the Soldier, reform yourselves, for as the old saying is Precedents go farther than Precepts, then shall you command a set of Men in whom you can confide, and Desertion will scarcely be heard of, a Soldier's Honour will again become dear to him, and his Character respectable;---but till that is the Case what Confidence can you have from a set of Men whom you are continually cutting to Pieces, for the very same Faults you are guilty of yourselves, especially when we have a City of Refuge set open to us, a wide and spacious Country, the Inhabitants of which are with open Arms offering us an Asylum; in a Word, treat us as rational Creatures, not like Brutes, and you will soon see a happy Change amongst us, which is the sincere Wish of your Excellency's, &c. &c. AN OLD SOLDIER.

Continental Congress continu'd.
A letter being receiv'd from several gentlemen in Georgia, was read.
Saturday, October 15, 1774.
The congress resumed the consideration of association for carrying into effect the non-importation, &c. and after some time spent on that subject, adjourned till Monday.
Monday, October 17, 1774.
The congress met according to adjournment.
Mr. John Dickinson appeared in congress, as deputy for the province of Pennsylvania, and produced his credentials, as follows :
In assembly, October 15, 1774. A. M.
Upon motion by Mr. Ross, Ordered,
That Mr. J. Dickinson be and he is hereby added to the committee of deputies appointed by the late assembly of this province to attend in general congress, now sitting in the city of Philadelphia, on American grievances.
By order of the House,
Charles Moore, clerk of assembly.
The same being approved, Mr. J. Dickinson took his seat as one of the deputies for the province of Pennsylvania.
The congress then resumed the consideration of the plan for association and after spending the remainder of that day on that subject adjourn'd till to-morrow.
[ To be continu'd. ]
The following is the introductory Part of the PETITION of the CONTINENTAL CONGRESS to his MAJESTY, which was omitted last Week for want of Room.
Most gracious Sovereign,
WE your Majesty's faithful subjects of the Colonies of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts-Bay, Rhode-Island, and Providence plantations, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, the Counties of Newcastle, Kent and Sussex on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, and South-Carolina, in behalf of ourselves and the inhabitants of those colonies, who have deputed us to represent them in General Congress, by this our humble petition, beg leave to lay our grievances before the throne.
A standing army has been kept in these colonies ever since the conclusion of the late war, without the consent of our assemblies ; and this army, with a considerable naval armament, has been employed to enforce the collection of taxes.
The authority of the commander in chief, and under him, of the brigadiers-general, has in time of peace, been rendered supreme in all the civil governments in America.
The commander in chief of all your Majesty's forces in North-America has, in time of peace, been appointed governor of a colony.
The charges of usual officers have been greatly increased, and new, expensive and oppressive officers have been multiplied.
The judges of admiralty and vice-admiralty courts are impowered to receive their salaries and fees from the effects condemned by themselves.
The officers of the customs are impowered to break open and enter houses, without the authority of any civil magistrate founded on legal information.
The judges of courts of common law have been made intirely dependant on one part of the legislature for their salaries as well as for the duration of their commissions.
Councillors, holding their commissions during pleasure, exercise legislative authority.
Humble & reasonable petitions from the representatives of the people have been fruitless.
The agents of the people have been discountenanced, & governors have been instructed to prevent the payment of their salaries.
Assemblies have been frequently and injuriously dissolved, and commerce burthened with many useless and oppressive restrictions.
By several acts of parliament made in the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th years of your Majesty's reign, duties are imposed on us, for the purpose of raising a revenue, and the powers of admiralty and vice admiralty courts are ex-
tended beyond their ancient limits, whereby our property is taken from us without our consent ; the trial by jury, in many civil cases, is abolished ; enormous forfeitures are incurred for slight offences ; vexatious informers are exempted from paying damages to which they are justly liable, & oppressive security is required from owners before they are allowed to defend their rights.
Both houses of Parliament have resolved, that the colonists may be tried in England for offences alledged to have been committed in America, by virtue of a statute passed in the 35th year of Henry the 8th ; and in consequence thereof attempts have been made to enforce that statute.
A statute was passed in the 12th year of your Majesty's reign, directing that persons charged with committing any offence therein described, in any place out of the realm, may be indicted and tried for the same in any shire or county within the realm, whereby inhabitants of these Colonies may, in sundry cases by that statute made capital, be deprived of a trial by their peers of the vicinage.
In the last session of parliament, an act was passed for blocking up the harbour of Boston, another impowering the governor of the Massachusetts Bay to send persons indicted for murder in that province, to another colony, or even to Great-Britain, for trial, whereby such offenders may escape legal punishment ; a 3d for altering the chartered constitution of government in that province ; and a 4th, for extending the limits of Quebec, abolishing the English, & restoring the French laws, whereby great numbers of British freemen are subject to the latter, and establishing an absolute government and the Roman catholic religion thro' out those vast regions that border on the western and northerly boundaries of the free protestant English settlements ; and a 5th for the better providing suitable quarters for officers and soldiers in his Majesty's service in North-America.
BOSTON.
To the INHABITANTS of the Province of MASSACHUSETTS-BAY.
IT is difficult to account for so many of the first rate Whigs being returned to serve on petit Jury at the Term next after extraordinary Insurrections, without supposing some legerdemain in drawing their Names out of the Box. It is certain that notwithstanding Swarms of the most virulent Libels infected the Province, and there were so many Riots and Insurrections, scarce one Offender was indicted, and I think not one convicted. Causes of meum et tuum were not always exempt from party Influence. The mere circumstance of the Whigs gaining the Ascendancy over the Tories is trifling. Had the Whigs divided the Province between them, as they once flattered themselves they should be able to do, it would have been of little Consequence to the Community, had they not cut asunder the very Sinews of Government, and broke in Pieces the Ligaments of social Life in the Attempt. I will mention two Instances which I have selected out of many of the Weakness of our Government, as they are recent & unconnected with Acts of Parliament. One Malcom, a loyal Subject, and as such, intitled to protection, the Evening before the last Winter Sessions of the General Court, was dragged out of his House, stript, tarred & feathered, and carted several Hours in the severest Frost of that Winter, to the utmost Hazard of his Life. He was carried to the Gallows with an Halter about his Neck, and in his Passage to and from the Gallows, was beaten with as cruel Stripes as ever were administered by the Hands of a Savage. The Whiping however, kept up the Circulation of his Blood, & saved the poor Man's Life. When they had satiated their Malice, they dispersed in good Order. This was transacted in the presence of Thousands of Spectators, some of whom were Members of the General Court : Malcom's Life was despaired of several Days, but he survived & presented a Memorial to the General Assembly, praying their Interposition. The Petition was read, & all he obtained was Leave to withdraw it. So that he was destitute of protection every Hour until he left the Country, as were Thousands beside, until the Arrival of
the King's Troops. This originated from a small Fracas in the Street, wherein Malcom struck, or threatened to strike a Person that insulted him, with a Cutlass, and had no connection with the Quarrel of the Times, unless his sustaining a small Post in the Customs made it.
The other Instance is much stronger than this, as it was totally detached from Politics. It had been suspected that Infection had been communicated from an Hospital, lately erected at Marblehead, for the Purpose of inoculating Small-Pox, to the Town's People. This caused a great Insurrection, the Insurgents burnt the Hospital ; not content with that, threatened the Proprietors and many others, some of the first Fortunes and Characters in Town, with burning their Houses over their Heads, & continued parading the Streets, to the utmost Terror of the Inhabitants several Days. A Massacre and general Devastation was apprehended. The Persons threatened, armed themselves, and petitioned the General Assembly, which was then sitting, for Assistance, as there was little or no civil Authority in the Place. A Committee was ordered to repair to Marblehead, report the Facts, and enquire into the Cause : The Committee reported the Facts nearly as stated in the Petition ; the Report was accepted, and nothing farther done by the Assembly. Such Demonstrations of the Weakness of Government induced many Persons to join the Whigs to seek from them that Protection which the constitutional Authority of the Province was unable to afford.
Government at home, early in the Day, made an Effort to check us in our Career, & to enable us to recover from Anarchy without her being driven to the Necessity of altering our provincial Constitution, knowing the Predilection that People always have for an ancient form of Government. The Judges of the Superior Court had not been staggered, though their feet stood in slippery Places, they depended upon the leading Whigs for their Support. To keep them steady they were made independent of the Grants of the General Assembly. But it was not a Remedy any way adequate to the Disease. The Whigs now turned their Artillery against them, and it played briskly. The Chief Justice for accepting the crown Grant, was accused of receiving a royal Bribe. Thus, my Friends, those very Persons that had made you believe that every Attempt to strengthen Government and save our Charter, was an infringement of your Privileges ; by little and little destroyed your real Liberty, subverted your Charter Constitution, abridged the Freedom of the House, annihilated the Freedom of the Board, and rendered the Governor a mere Dorge of Venice. They ingrossed all the Power of the Province into their own Hands. A Democracy or Republic I once called it, but it does not deserve the Name of either ; it was, however, a Despotism, cruelly carried into Execution by Mobs and Riots, and more incompatible with the Rights of Mankind, than the enormous Monarchies of the East. The absolute Necessity of the Interposition of Parliament is apparent. The good Policy of the Act for regulating the Government in this Province, will be the Subject of some future Paper. A particular enquiry into the Despotism of the Whigs will be deferred for a Chapter on Congresses. I shall next ask your Attention to a Transaction, as important in its Consequences, & perhaps more so, than any I have yet mentioned, I mean the Destruction of the Tea, belonging to the East India Company. I am sensible of the Difficulty of the Task, in combating generally received Opinions. It is hard Work to eradicate deep rooted Prejudice. But I will persevere. There are Hundreds if not Thousands, in the Province that will feel the Truth of what I have wrote, Line by Line, as they read it, & as to those who obstinately shut their Eyes against it now, haply there may be some lucid Interval when their Minds shall be open to the Truth before it is too late to serve them, otherwise it will be revealed to them in bitter Moments, attended with keen Remorse and unutterable Anguish. Magnum est veritas et prevalebit.
MSSACHUSETTENSIS.
[ To be continu'd ]

Thomas Martin
INTENDING to compleat the Sale of his GOODS on hand, determines to expose at publick AUCTION, whatever may be remaining on Tuesday the 14th Day of February Instant, at his Store in Portsmouth.
The Sale to begin at 2 o'Clock in the Afternoon, if the Weather be good—if otherwise, to be put off until the next Fair Day, and so continue from day to day until the Sale be finished. They consist of
English piece GOODS, Silks, Hatts, &c. A Variety of HARDWARE, such as, Brass Kettles, Locks, Hinges, Jappan Waiters, Iron Pots, & Kettles, Joiners & Carpenters Tools, Swords, Hangers, Pistols, &c. &c. Some GROCERIES, China, Earthen and Glass Ware.
PAINTERS MATERIALS, consisting of Whitelead, dry and ground in Oil.—Spanish Brown dry & in Oil—Redlead, Spanish Yellow, Umber, Lampblack, Brushes.
CLOTHIERS MATERIALS, viz. Redwood, Fustick, Ground Redwood, Madder, Copperas, Alum.
He has for private Sale a Right of Land in Conway, 40 Acres of which is the best of Interval, with 7 or 8 Acres of Trees fell thereon last Summer, which he will sell for Cash—or one or two Years Credit, with Interest and proper Security.
He earnestly intreats those in Debt to him, either by Note of Hand, or Book, to oblige him therewith—And those who pay no Regard to his repeated Solicitations, must expect that their Notes and Accounts will be immediately put into the Hands of an Attorney, as he is near embarking for Europe.
Social Library.
WHEREAS by the State of the Social Library in Portsmouth, by the Catalogue taken upon the Delivery thereof, by the Rev. Doctor Langdon the late Library Keeper, it appears there are a great Number of Books out: The Possessors of them are hereby desir'd without any Delay to return them into said Library, and the Proprietors of said Library are desir'd to meet at Union-Hall in said Portsmouth, on Monday the 27th of February inst. at 6 o'clock P. M. to consider & determine upon Methods that may then appear most interesting.
SAMUEL PENHALLOW Clerk. Portsmouth Feb. 7, 1775.
John Moore,
BEGS Leave to acquaint the Publick, that he hath opened a Day and Night School, in a convenient Room in the House he liveth in, opposite to Mr. Hickey's, near the Long Wharfe; Where he teacheth Writing, Arithmetic, Vulgar and Decimal Fractions, Extraction of the Square and Cube Roots, Mensuration of Superficies and Solids, Land Surveying, Merchants Accompts, according to the true Italian Method: All those who pleases to favour him with the Instruction of their Children, may depend on the greatest Care being taken with them, he purposing only to take about Twenty.
Also to be sold
By the said JOHN MOORE, A large Assortment of Paper-Hangings, Whips, Men-Hatts, Stockings, Carpeting, Holland Tyles for Chimnies; Pails, Wood Boxes, Corn Measures. — Jacob's LAW Dictionary.—Onions, &c.
TO BE SOLD, at PUBLIC VENDUE, on Tuesday the 14th Day of February next, at ten of the Clock in the Forenoon, at the House of John Drew, late of Durham, deceas'd.
A Quantity of English and Salt HAY, belonging to the Estate of said Drew, by Joseph Drew, Paul Hayz, and Joseph Sias, Administrators on said Estate. Jan. 28. 1775.
Choice Stone LIME by the Hhd. and PITCH by the Barrell. to be Sold, By JACOB SHEAFE, junr.
[Leavitts Town.]
WHEREAS the Proprietors of the Township of Leavitts Town in the County of Strafford in the Province of New Hampshire, who are delinquent in paying their Taxes some Time since advertised for Payment, are advertis'd that unless Payment prevents, their Rights, or so much of their Land will be expos'd to Sale at public Vendue as to pay the Taxes and incidental Charges at the House of Jehu Leavitt, Esq; Innholder in North Hampton, on Monday the 13th Day of February next, at one of the Clock in the Afternoon. Their Names are as follows.
   First Division. 2d. Division.   l. d. l. d.    Joseph Tew's 7 0 1 3 0  David Marston 7 0 1 3 0  Daniel Samborn 7 0 1 3 0  David Wedgwood 1 17 6  David Knowles 7 0 1 3 0  David Knowles jun. 7 0 1 3 0  Ebenezer Smith 7 0 1 3 0  Ebenezer Smith 7 0 1 3 0  Ebenezer Lovering 10 6 1 17 6  Jonathan Wedgwood 7 0 2 12 0  Jonathan Knowles 7 0 1 3 0  John Cheppard 7 0 1 17 0  Jonathan Marston jun. 7 0 1 17 0  John Taylor 1 3 0  Jonathan Norris 7 0 1 3 0  Jeremiah Avery 7 0 1 3 0  Jehu Dearborn 7 0 1 3 0  Jedidiah Prescott 7 0 1 3 0  Jonathan Marston 7 0 1 3 0  Levi Dearborn jun. 1 17 6  Moses Leavitt 7 0 1 3 0  Samuel Robbie Fogg 7 0  Simon Marston 7 0 3 0  Samuel Wedgwood 7 0 3 0  Simon Dearborn 7 0 1 3 0  Simon Leavitt 7 0 1 3 0  Thomas Robbie 7 0 1 17 6  Thomas Parsons 7 0 1 3 0  Thomas Parsons jun. 7 0 1 3 0  Zechariah Batchelder 7 0 1 3 0  
JOHN DEARBORN Collector.
North Hampton Jan. 18, 1775. N. B. The Proprietors Meeting stands adjourned to the above Time and Place.
[Dorchester.]
THE Proprietors of the Township of Dorchester in the County of Grafton, in the Province of New Hampshire, who are delinquent in paying their Taxes (sometimes since advertis'd for Payment) are notified that unless Payment prevents, so much of their Rights as will pay the same with incidental Charges, will be expos'd to Sale at public Vendue according to Law at the House of John House, Esq; Innholder in Hanover, on Wednesday the first Day of March next, at two o'clock in the Afternoon. The delinquent Proprietors are
N. B. The first Sum is on the first Hundred Acre Lot, the second on the 2d Hundred Lot, and the third on the undivided Land. l. s. d. l. s. d. l. s. d.
  John Wright 0 0 0 0 0 0 0  Nathaniel West 6 0 6 0 6 0 6  David Woodward 6 0 6 0 6 0 6  Otis Little 6 0 6 0 6  Ambrose Cushman 6 0 6 0 6 0 6  Thomas Porter 6 0 6 0 6 0 6  Asa Parker 6 0 6 0 6 0 6  Thomas Floyd 6 0 6 0 6 0 6  Thomas Davison 6 0 6 0 6 0 6  Joseph Sherburne 6 0 6 0 6  Maj John Wentworth, Esq; 6 0 6 0 6  Jacob Marston 6 0 6 0 6 0 6  Giles Tiffany 6 0 6 0 6 0 6  William Yeats 6 0 6 0 6 0 6  James M'cher 6 0 6 0 6 0 6  Samuel Hobart, Esq; 6 0 6 0 6 0 6  Daniel Pierce Esq; 6 0 6 0 6 0 6  John Parker Esq; 6 0 6 0 6 0 6  John Hurd Esq; 6 0 6 0 6 0 6  Samuel Parker 6 0 6 0 6 0 6  Richard Cuts Shannon 6 0 6 0 6 0 6  John Nelson Esq; 6 0 6 0 6 0 6  John P'grey Williams 6 0 6 0 6 0 6  William Gardner 6 0 6 0 6 0 6  Nathaniel Ray Thomas Esq; 6 0 6 0 6 0 6  Wilseman Claggett Esq; 6 0 6 0 6 0 6  John Sparhawk 6 0 6 0 6 0 6  Joshua Brackett 6 0 6 0 6 0 6  Ebenezer Lewis 6 0 6 0 6 0 6  Bezanger Salter 6 0 6 0 6 0 6  Joseph Ward 6 0 6 0 6 0 6  Paul Langdon 6 0 6 0 6 0 6  Joshua Wentworth 6 0 6 0 6 0 6  John Marshall 6 0 6 0 6 0 6  Ephraim Ham 6 0 6 0 6 0 6  George Marshall jun. 6 0 6 0 6 0 6  Henry Sherburne 6 0 6 0 6 0 6  
Jan. 28, 1775: CALEB CLARK Collector.
Oliver Whipple,
Attorney at LAW,
Gives his Friends and the Public to understand that he has Removed his Office, lately opposite the Post Office, in Portsmouth, to the House of Thomas Bell, Esq; deceas'd, at the North End of said Portsmouth, where all Persons, who chuse to favour him with their Business in the LAW, will find him attentive to their Interest, and punctual and faithful in the Dispatch of their Business.
Portsmouth, December 28,
§ Frances-Town. §
THOSE Proprietors and Owners of Land in Frances-Town in the County of Hillborough and Province of New Hampshire, who have hitherto been delinquent in paying the Taxes laid upon their respective Lands in said Town, by virtue of an Act of the General Assembly of this province, for the purpose of building a Meeting-House in said Town, are hereby notified that unless Payment be made of the aforesaid Taxes with the Cost of this Advertisement, so much of their respective Lands will be sold at public Vendue to the highest Bidder at the House of Lieut. Oliver Holmes, Innholder in said Town, on the Third Tuesday of February next, as will pay said Taxes with all other incidental Charges. Their Names & Sums affixed are as follows, in L. M.
   l. s. d. l. s. d.    Mason's Proprietors, Own 1 3 0 Thomas Ackin 1 3 0  ers of Crotch 1 3 0 William Ackin 1 3 0  Mountain so call'd 10 0 0 Daniel Bixba 1 10 3  Right No. 9, formerly drawn to Jetham Odiorne. 41 5 0 Isaac Bruster 1 8 6  Robert Alexander 1 10 3  Asa Bixba 1 6 6  Jeha Ackin 18 0  Widow Barnard 18 0  Adam Dickey 2 10 0  Alex. P'kerlson 2 10 0  Spencer & Swift 1 5 0  John Mc'Neal 2 10 0  John Deesmore 4 7 6  Andrew Aimer 1 14 3  
JOHN QUIGLEY Collector.
Frances Town January 26, 1775.
Province of New Hampshire, Rockingham ss.
[Bretton Woods.]
APPLICATION having been made to me the subscriber one of his Majesty's Justices of the peace through the province, by the proprietors or Owners of more than one sixteenth part of the Township of Bretton Woods, in the county of Grafton & province aforesaid, requesting me to call a Meeting of said proprietors for the following purposes, viz. — 1. To chuse a Moderator to govern said Meeting. — 2. To chuse a clerk to the proprietary, assessors, collector and treasurer. — 3. To vote such sum as they shall think proper towards building a Saw Mill and Grist Mill in or near said Town. — 4. To determine what more they will do on the Road, and vote Money for that Purpose. — 5. Determine what farther Encouragement they will offer to the first Settlers, and to lay out Lots for them. — 6. To act on any other Matters that they may judge necessary to promote the Interest of the Proprietary. — 7. To appoint Committees to carry into Execution any Votes of the Proprietors. — 8. To agree on some Method to call Meetings in future — In Consequence of said Application I do hereby notify and warn the Proprietors of said Township of Bretton Woods to meet at the House of James Stoadley Esq; Innholder in Portsmouth, on Monday the 13th of February next, at six o'clock P. M. for the Purposes aforesaid.
DANIEL ROGERS Just. Pac.
Portsmouth Jan. 24th 1775.
THIS is to Notify the proprietors of the Township of Bretton Woods, in the county of Grafton, that at a legal Meeting of said proprietors, the sum of three pounds seventeen shillings was voted and assessed on each original Right in said Township, & a List thereof committed to me by the Assessors with a Warrant to collect the same; this is therefore to desire the said proprietors, and each of them, to pay the said Tax to me at the Printing Office in Portsmouth, on or before the 25th Day of February next, or the Rights of those who shall then be delinquent, will be advertised to be sold at public Vendue, agreeable to the Law of the province.
Daniel Fowle, collector.
Portsmouth, January 23, 1775.
§ Hanover §
THE Proprietors of HANOVER are notified that my Vendue of Land is adjourned to my Dwelling-House in said Hanover on the first Day of March next, at two o'clock P. M. for the Sale of Land in said Hanover. The delinquent Proprietors are as follows.
  John Knight £ 0 18 Prince Aspenwell £ 0 18  Phinehas Allen 0 18 Nathaniel Hopkins 0 18  Heman Atwood 0 18 JOHN HOUSE Coll'r.  

BOSTON Feb. 2.
WEDNESDAY Evening Nine o'Clock.
We are this Moment favoured with the English Papers to the 19th of December, bro't by a Vessel from Falmouth, which arrived at Marblehead this Day, from which we have selected the following Articles, viz.
LONDON, Dec. 12.
A LL the great trading Towns will either address the Throne, or instruct their servants in Parliament, upon the decline of Trade, and high Price of Provisions.
Dec. 13. Yesterday the House of Commons, in a Committee of the whole House, on the Supply, came to the following Resolutions.
That 16,000 Men be employed for the Sea-Service 1775, including 4232 Marines.
That 41. per Man per Month be allowed for maintaining the said Men, including the Ordnance for Sea-Service.
On a Motion that the Committee do agree that 16,000 Seamen should be employed in the Sea-Service for the Year 1775, including 2432 Marines, several Questions were asked of Mr. Buller concerning the State of our Marine Forces at Home, and the Increase of it in North America since last Year; the Gentlemen in Opposition seeming to think that to provide Men for the Ships sent out against America, we were left in a defenceless State at Home; but Mr. Buller in his Reply endeavoured to prove the very contrary; and that every Fort, as well as all the Guardships, had their full Complement of Men. The Committee agreed to the Supply, and then the House broke up.
A Gentleman who is a Member of a certain Assembly, asked the Lord Mayor, a few Days ago, how he liked the King's Speech. What Speech? answers the Lord Mayor. Why, that printed Speech in your Hand, replies the Member. You mistake, cries my Lord, this is no Speech, it is the American Death Warrant. You are merry, cries the Member, Yes, returns the Lord Mayor, I thank God it is not my Death Warrant. But to be serious says the Member, don't you think the Speech is a good one? Yes, returns the Lord Mayor, it is a BLOODY good one.
If one may judge of the Expectations of a certain Assembly, from the Price many of them have given, and others offer, for a Seat there, a certain great Man, who is to purchase a Majority, must give a high Price, for four Thousand Pounds is the lowest Offer made in the City by the Borough-Mongers; and a certain North Briton, who has a Seat to dispose of, will not bate a Bawbee of five Thousand Pound, in hand, with other profitable Terms; and a Gentleman who lately gave three Thousand Pounds, declares to all his Friends, and has repeated it so often as to begin to think it true, that he came in for nothing.
The Majority have shown their Strength of Power with a Proof, that all they can do shall be exerted for the R----- of this Country and her Colonies.
It is said that Orders are given for all his Majesty's Military Stations in North America to be immediately reinforced by several Detachments of Land Forces from Great-Britain and Ireland.
Tho' the two Royal Dukes of G. and C. did not vote the 18th Day, it arose from a Delicacy of not being personally opposed to their Brother; the next Division of the House will produce them the true Friends of the People and the Country, not from factious Principles, but from patriot Feelings.
HOUSE OF COMMONS, December 13.
This Day immediately after the Resolutions of the Committee of Supply of Monday were reported and agreed to, Mr. Rose Fuller moved for Leave to bring in a Bill to prevent the Inconveniences arising in large Counties to the Freeholders, from being too far distant from the Place where the Poll for Members to serve in Parliament is usually taken, and to appoint others less remote for the above Purpose, which was agreed to.
Lord John Cavendish then rose, and begged Leave to state to the House the Conduct of Administration in one or two Points, particularly respecting the Naval Establishment for the ensuing Year. He observed, that there were 4000 Seamen voted the present less than the preceding Year, notwithstanding the Speech from the Throne announced the very critical and alarming Situation of Affairs in America. This was a Conduct he could by no Means reconcile; for taking the Speech to have been framed upon right Information, as calling for Measures of a spirited decisive Nature, what Sort of Correspondence there was between the Contents of the Speech and the Naval Establishment, was more than he could possibly discover. But were he to declare his Sentiments, he feared it would be found to be a mere Ministerial Trick. A forming Estimate in the first Instance, that were never intended to be adhered to, or rather designed as mere waste Paper, and afterwards surprize and drive the House into Grants of a very improper and burdensome Nature. Such being his suspicions, for his Part, he said he could not face his Constituents without previously knowing what he must tell them, both in Relation to further Burdens, and what was involved in such an Enquiry, if compulsory Measures were really intended to be pursued towards the Americans; for to talk of enforcing the Acts upon a reduced Establishment, either Naval or Military, was a Sort of Language fit to be held only to Children.
Lord Beauchamp said, that the noble Lord who spoke last had communicated to him that Morning his Intentions of moving some thing on the subject Matter of the present Conversation; that he had accordingly apprized the noble Lord who presides at the Treasury therewith; and, that his Lordship had authorized him to acquaint the House, that he had no Information whatever to lay before it, nor Measures to propose respecting America. He was therefore of Opinion, that as the noble Lord was indisposed & absent, it would be better, particularly as there was a very thin House, to suspend all further Solicitude, till his Lordship should have an Opportunity of fully explaining the Motives of his Conduct in Person.
Mr. Cornwall next rose, and endeavoured to apologize for the Minister's Conduct. He insisted, that the present was not a proper Time to enter into any Discussion relative to American Affairs; that the Naval Reduction, he presumed, was founded on good and substantial Reasons; that, however, the Motives which gave Birth to the motion might vary with the Circumstances; and, that when the Question concerning Great-Britain and the Colonies came in a parliamentary Way before the House, every Member would then be fully at Liberty to deliver his Sentiments, and maintain his Opinions.
Mr. Burke answered the Gentlemen on the Treasury Bench in a very masterly Manner, and was extremely severe on the Conduct of Administration. Among a Variety of other Things, he compared the House of Commons to a dead senseless Mass, which had neither Sense, Soul, or Activity, but as it derived them from the Minister. If his Lordship chuses to tell them one Day, that America is in a State little short of actual Rebellion, it is all very well; if in a few Days after he acquaints them at second Hand, that he had no Information whatever to authorize such an Assertion, who can doubt his Candour and his Veracity? Both Assertions will remain uncontradicted, and all must be Silence. We despise the Parliament, who are our only proper and constitutional Counsellors; but when we have blundered and ruined our Affairs, perhaps
beyond a possibility of Redress, then we will come to Parliament to do what?--to remedy what is incurable, and to recover what can never be regained.
Sir William Mayne, in a short Speech, condemned the very extraordinary Conduct of those in Power, in withholding from the House the necessary Information, or at least the best they had; and laying his Hand on his Breast, solemnly protested he would never have voted for the Address without the proposed Amendment, had he imagined they meant to refuse the necessary Explanations on which the Speech was supposed to be founded.
Dec. 15. The House went into a Committee on Ways and Means, came to the following Resolutions:
That the Duties on Malt, Mum, Cyder, and Perry, be continued for 1775.
That 3s. in the Pound Land Tax be laid on all Lands, Tenements &c. for 1775.
Mr. Burke, according to Order, presented a Bill for permitting the Importation of Indian Corn into Great-Britain on paying a Duty of one Penny per Quarter, when Barley is allowed to be imported on paying a Duty of two Pence per Quarter.
House of Commons, December 16.
The House was this Day remarkably full, considering the Occasion, upwards of 300 Members being present, including those in the Gallery. Mr. Cooper presented a Malt-Bill, which was read and ordered to a Committee. Mr. Burke took the Chair, in a Committee on the India Corn Bill, which, with the Amendments, was ordered to be reported on Monday.
Ordered that the House be called over on Wednesday the 1st of February next.
The Order of the Day was now called for the House to go into a Committee of Supply; and Sir Charles Whilworth having taken the Chair of the Committee, Lord Barrington moved that 17,542 effective Men be employed for the Land-Service, for the Year 1775.
Mr. R. Fuller rose and said, he had no Motion to make, but he would be glad to know from the noble Lord at the Head of the Treasury, if he had any Information to lay before the House, or any Measures to propose respecting America; because if he had not, he thought it the Duty of Parliament to interpose and call for Papers, and proceed on such Information however defective, as well as they could. He added, that he looked upon the Measures adopted by the last Parliament impolitic and impracticable; and that they could never have been prudently or effectually put into Execution.
Lord North confessed the very great Consequence and Importance of the Subject, the Hon. Member now mentioned; said, it would require the utmost Diligence and Attention, as a Matter of the greatest Magnitude ever debated within those Walls. He could not, he said, acquiesce in the Condemnation of Measures hastily, which had been taken up and adopted on such weighty Motives; that at the Time it was impossible to foresee precisely how they might answer; but the shortness of the Time and other Circumstances considered, they should have a fair Trial before they were reprobated; and that the Wisdom and Policy of them could be only finally known in the Event. He concluded, by assuring the House that he had Information to lay before it shortly after the Holidays; and that he would so far adopt his Hon'ble Friend's Ideas behind him, (Mr. Fuller) as to propose to appoint a Committee for taking the Affairs of America into Consideration.
Mr. Cruger, as a young Member, gave his Opinion on the State of the Colonies with great becoming Diffidence; and was heard with a considerable Deal of Attention. He recommended conciliatory Measures; but rather went a little out of his Way to compliment the Minister.
Lord North, on the whole, was plausible, sententious, and affected great Moderation. Governor Johnstone having alluded to something his Lordship had said on a former Occasion, relative to Great-Britain never receding or relaxing, till America was at her Feet; his Lordship observed that it was hardly fair to quote what a Man had said 7 Years before, and what he had explained on the Spot before he left the House; this Explanation then, and now was, he said, that by being at the Feet of Great-Britain, he meant Obedience to the Mother Country. Such as if they tho't themselves aggrieved to apply by Petitions and dutiful Remonstrances to the Parliament or the Throne. He said, he thought it the Duty of every Member, as well in the House as out of it, to interpret what might fall in the Heat of Debate, or warm Discussion, in the Manner it was explained by the Speaker: That if he had been thus candidly dealt with, the Author of a late Pamphlet, written in America, could never have asserted, that he insisted that Britain should never recede, till the Laws and Liberties of America were at her Feet: for as he never meant the one, so he never said the other. And he wished, that on the present Occasion he should be understood according to his present Explanation and no other.
Mr. Haley was for making the Americans contribute to the general Defence of the Empire, by Way of Requisition, and read in his Place one or two of the Resolutions entered into by the Continental Congress, to shew their Willingness to comply with such a Measure.
The Question was at length put on Lord Barrington's Motion, and agreed to; as were the others in Course, providing for the whole of the Military Establishments.
LONDON, December 17.
Were the People of America once clearly quit of their Prejudices, or rather their Affection to this Country, how evidently it must appear to be their Interest to trade with France, who take their Corn, Fish, Staves, Hoops, and every Kind of Produce, and in Return give them cheap cloathing either for Winter or Summer, together with Wine, Oil, Fruit, &c. &c.
The Ministry, it is said, are much offended with General Gage. They certainly have great Reason; for he has most grievously disappointed them. They had great Hopes of throwing the Blame upon him; but he acting upon the defensive, has thrown it upon them.
We hear that a late Protest has given more real Uneasiness to a great Personage, than the whole of the City Addresses put together. The Latter he only bore his Part in, as they remonstrated against Government in general: this he feels personally.
***** GEORGE DOIG,
Painter from LONDON,
H ereby informs the Public, that he draws Coats of Arms in the neatest Manner of any in the Province of New-Hampshire.—
At his Shop in King-Street.
Also, Painting in all its various Branches, as usual, either in Town or Country.— Those Gentlemen, who please to favour him with their Work, may depend on the greatest Care and Diligence.
Also, wanted an Apprentice at said Business.
*****
NEWPORT, January 30.
The Governors of New Jersey and New-York, have lately met their Assemblies, to whom they made just such Speeches as Lord North would have made: Some say those Speeches were actually imported, from the St. James's Junto, in one of the late Ships.
***** TO BE SOLD A NUMBER OF
Prime Moose HIDES,
By JACOB TREADWELL,
***** THOMAS WARREN,
Painter from BOSTON,
B EGS Leave to inform the Public, that he has opened a Shop near the Parade in Queen Street, where he carries on the Business of painting in general, also Gilding and Varnishing, &c. He also paints Carpets and Floors in imitation of Carpets, in the newest Fashions. He also paints Coats of Arms, makes and gilds Picture-Frames &c. in the genteellest Taste.
N. B. All Persons who will be so kind as to favor him with their Custom, may depend on having their Work done with the greatest Care and Dispatch possible.
I f the Person who took a small GUN out of Dr. Jackson's Entry will return it to Mr. George Dame, no Questions will be ask'd; otherwise the Person will be prosecuted as a Thief.
Province of New Hampshire
T HIS is to give Notice to the Proprietors of WARNER that there was voted to raise four Dollars on each original Right to pay Charges for the Year 1774, and that unless the Delinquents pay said Tax to me the Subscriber by the 1st of March next, so much of their Land will be sold as to pay said Tax and all Costs and Charges. STEPHEN MERRILL Col. Salisbury Feb. 7th 1775.
TO BE SOLD
A T PUBLIC VENDUE the 5th Monday in March next, at the House of Capt. Abijah Pinkham in Barrington, at one o'clock in the Afternoon, a valuable Farm, containing one Hundred Acres of good Land, Mowing, Pasturing and Weed Land in Proportion, with a one Story House, two Barns, two Orchards, is the Estate of Jethro Sherburne, lying in Barrington, within three Miles of the Meeting House; one Half of which a Warrantee Deed will be given for immediately, by James Sherburne of London upon the S's, the Remainder being the Widow's during her Life. Conditions of Sale may be known at Time and Place of Sale. Enquire of Richard Randal who lives on the Premises.
A good FARM
T O be sold in Nottingham West, and may be entered upon immediately; the Pay will be taken in an old Sloop or Schooner or live Stock or Goods, all except one 100 Dollars, or that may be taken in Cows, Oxen or Sheep and the Remainder will be waited for one or two Years with good Security. Said Farm contains 60 Acres of Land, and no one will need complain of the Price. A good House, Barn, and 30 Acres of Wood Land may be had with it; for further Particulars enquire of Capt. Joseph Kiely at Durham.
N. B. A good Title will be given to the Purchaser. Durham January 30th 1775.
A LL Persons Indebted to, or that have Demands on the Estate of Joseph Abbot, late of Portsmouth, deceased, are desired to bring in their Accounts to Sam'l Hall, Administrator to said Estate in Order for Settlement. Feb 8, 1774.
§ Dartmouth. §
T HIS is to notify the Proprietors of the Township of Dartmouth, in the County of Grafton, that at legal Meetings of said Proprietors several Sums have been voted by them for Purposes in said Votes mentioned, the whole amounting to five Pounds eight Shillings on each original Proprietors Right, a List whereof with a Warrant to collect the same is committed to me— The said Proprietors are therefore hereby desired to pay said Taxes to me at my House in Portsmouth on or before the 10th Day of March next; the Rights of those who shall then be delinquent will be advertised to be sold at public Vendue agreeable to the Laws of the Province. J. WHIPPLE, Collector.
Portsmouth February 9, 1775:
W ANTED A BOY about thirteen or Fourteen Years of Age for the Barbers Business. Enquire of the Printer.
A WET NURSE is wanted to go into a Family immediately. Enquire of the Printer.