The New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1787-12-05 00:00:00

THE NEW-HAMPSHIRE AND GENERAL
WEDNESDAY,
PORTSMOUTH: By JOHN MELCHER,
[VOLUME XXXII.—No. 1630.] GAZETTE, THE ADVERTISER.
DECEMBER 5, 1787.
PRINTED and PUBLISHED in MARKET-STREET.
“WHEN ANGRY NATIONS PART IN LEAGUES OF PEACE, LET PRIVATE FEUDS AND CIVIL DISCORDS CEASE.”
MR. MELCHER, Please to give the following a place in your paper, From the MASSACHUSETTS GAZETTE,
TO THE PEOPLE.
MANY inconveniences and difficulties in the new plan of government have been mentioned by different writers on that subject.—Mr. Gerry has given the public his objections against it with a manly freedom. The seceding members from Pennsylvania Assembly also published theirs. Various anonymous writers have mentioned reasons of great weight. Among the many objections have been stated the unlimited right of taxation—a standing army—an inadequate representation of the people—a right to destroy the constitution of the separate states, and all the barriers that have been set up in defence of liberty—the right to try causes between private persons in many cases without a jury; without trying in the vicinity of either party; and without any limitation of the value which is to be tried. To none of these or any other objections has any answer been given, but such as has acknowledged the truth of the objection while they insulted the objector. This conduct has much the appearance of trying to force a general sentiment upon the people.
The such harmony of the happiness of the people by opposing all their habits of business, and by subverting the laws to which they are habituated, appears to me to be at least a mistaken proceeding. If to this we add the limitations of trade, restraints on its freedom, and the alteration of its course, and TRANSFER OF THE MARKET, all under the pretence of regulation for FEDERAL PURPOSES, we shall not find any additional reason to be pleased with the plan.
It is now conceded on all sides that the laws relating to civil causes were never better executed than at present. It is confessed by a warm federalist in answer to Mr. Gerry's sensible letter, that the courts are so arranged at present that no inconvenience is found, and if the new plan takes place great difficulties may arise. With this confession before him, can any reasonable man doubt whether he shall exchange a system, found by experience to be convenient, for one that is in many respects inconvenient, and dangerous? The expense of the new plan is terrifying, if there was no other objection. But they are multiplied. Let us consider that of the representation.
There is to be one representative for every thirty thousand people. Boston would nearly send one, but with regard to another there is hardly a county in the state which would have one. The representatives are to be chosen for two years. In this space, when it is considered that their residence is from two hundred to five miles from their constituents, it is difficult to suppose that they will retain any great affection for the welfare of the people. They will have an army to support them, and may bid defiance to the clamours of their subjects. Should the people cry aloud the representative may mail himself of the right to alter the TIME OF ELECTION and postpone it for another year. In truth, the question before the people is, WHETHER THEY WILL HAVE A LIMITED GOVERNMENT OR AN ABSOLUTE ONE?
It is a fact justified by the experience of all mankind from the earliest antiquity down to the present time, that freedom is necessary to industry.
We accordingly find that in absolute governments, the people, be the climate what it may, are in general lazy, cowardly, turbulent, and vicious to an extreme. On the other hand, in free countries are found in general, activity, industry, arts, courage, generosity, and all the manly virtues. Can there be any doubt which to choose? He that hesitates must be base indeed.
A favourite objection against a free government is drawn from the irregularities of the Greek and Roman republics. But it is to be considered that war was the employment which they considered as most becoming freemen.—Agriculture, arts, and most domestick employment were committed chiefly to slaves. But Carthage, the great commercial republic of antiquity, though resembling Rome in the form of its government, and her rival for power, retained her freedom longer than Rome, and was never disturbed by sedition during the long period of her duration. This is a striking proof that the fault of the Greek and Roman republics was not owing to the form of their government; and that the spirit of commerce is the great bond of union among citizens. This furnishes employment for their activity, supplies their mutual wants, defends the rights of property, and producing reciprocal dependencies, renders the whole system harmonious and energetick. Our great object therefore ought to be to encourage this spirit. If we examine the present state of the world we shall find that most of the business is done in the freest states, and that industry decreases in proportion to the rigour of government.
AGRI PPA.
MISCELLANY.
THE LAST WORDS of remarkable CHARACTERS. AN ancestor of Lord Oxford's in the time of James the first, was executed for high treason. His last words were, "My friends and countrymen, I came here to suffer for a plot, plotted, but never acted! and an act, acted, but never plotted."
Mr. Watson, uncle to the late Marquis of Rockingham, a man of immense fortune, finding himself at the point of death, desired a friend who was present to reach a drawer, in which was an old shirt, that he might put it on. Being asked why he wished to change linen when he was so ill, "Because, (replied he) I am told that the shirt I die in must be the nurse's perquisite, and that is good enough for her." This was as bad as the old woman, who with her last breath, blew out an inch of candle, "Because, (says she) I can see to die in the dark."
Mrs. Burnet, daughter to Dean Stanhope, being near fainting, and just at the point death,—the attendants rubbed her temples with Hungary water, she entreated they would desist, adding, "though I feel it refreshing, I am afraid it will make my hair turn grey."
A Cheshire waggoner, who had got together a little estate, seems to have displayed as much magnanimity as the best of them. He found himself very ill, sent for a Clergyman and an Attorney, who both came at the same time, and found all his family weeping round his bed. The man of law having prepared his pen and ink, desired to know how he would choose to leave his property? The sick man having mustered up sufficient strength for his last effort spoke as follows:
"The house, and all the sticks in it, to Mary (my wife) as long as she live, and then divided among the rest on 'em. The waggons and horses to Tom. The plows and cows to Dick, with half of the farm. The other half and a hundred pound to Will. Three hundred pound to Moll; the same to Bett. And now write lawyer, pray parson, cry wife, and bellow children; for by the Lord I'm dying."
The MONITOR.
MARRIAGE is an admirable institution, divinely, calculated to promote love among individuals, and give permanency to the strength of a nation.—It may justly be called the band of society, without which all worthy affection would be loosened, refinement unknown, and virtue entirely exiled.
Preparatory to our entrance into other stations of honor, certain mental and virtuous qualifications are deemed indispensable; but into this, the most honourable and consequential of any, we enter without regard to integrity of heart, or equanimity of temper.
Hence the origin of that impunity, which pollutes the chief fountain of our happiness; and which, for the sake of method, I shall consider under the heads of avarice and dissimulation.
Against the influence of avarice in the determination of our choice, we cannot too carefully guard, as it always impairs, & frequently destroys esteem. It is a concentration of our affections to the object of our union only, that can produce the pure, fervent, and lasting flame of love.
The expectation of mutual amity should be the primary motive of this passion. Was this a settled rule, marriages would be truly honorable, infidelity would cease, and industry be powerfully promoted; mankind would then be stimulated by a noble motive to obtain wealth, and would esteem it, only, because it gave them the means to act disinterestedly.
Good temper is the vital principle of happy unions; so essential to the conciliating esteem, that even those who possess it not, deceitfully assume its appearance; and, by the gilded poison of dissimulation, allure artless sincerity into the snare that proves destructive to its peace—Strange! that mankind will embrace the appearance, and shun the reality; but they will not discontinue a practice that proclaims their minds impotent, inconstant and wicked: and entails a lasting disquiet on themselves, and the unhappy objects of their choice.
The three greatest Beauties in Nature.
THE first is a field of well manured wheat reaped and bound, ready to go in the barn; the second a flock of sheep in the month of May, well fleeced, with a good yield of lambs playing about them; the third a young married woman, tidily dressed in her own manufactory, with a babe in her arms.
An IRISH BULL.
TWO Irishmen having travelled on foot from Chester to Barnet, were confoundedly tired and fatigued with their journey; and the more so, when they were told they had still about ten miles to London. "By my shoul and St. Patrick, (cries one of them,) it is but five miles a-piece, let's even walk on."
Jan 6. 13. 20 27. Feb 7 3. 10. 17. 24. March 3. 10. 17. 24. April 7. 14. 21. May 5. 12. 19. 26.
Sept 15. 29. Oct 6. 13.

Late very Important and Interesting European Intelligence,
Received by a Schooner which arrived at Boston on Saturday the 24th ult. in 4 days from Halifax.
H A L I F A X, November 20.
Yesterday evening arrived here the Lord Hyde Packet, in 39 days from England; the papers received, are as late as the 4th of last October: From which the following interesting Advices are extracted, viz.
That General Gaudi of the Prussian Army with his Division, has attacked and taken Niewenflays with 800 Prisoners, 10 pieces of Cannon, and 60 Officers.—That Orders have been issued by the King of France, recalling all Officers in the French Service at present resident in England, to join their respective Corps, which Order was communicated to them on Wednesday, through the medium of his Most Christian Majesty's Charge des Affairs. That Lord Amherst, says an Evening Paper, should a War take place, will be appointed Commander in Chief of the Army. That Orders have been issued for Camp Equipage for 6000 Men, which will be sent to Germany, in Conformity to our present Treaty with Prussia; in case of a War with France, twenty sail of Ships of the Line are to be furnished on the same Conditions, and those will be very soon ready for sea.—That the Number of Men impressed on the River since the first issuing of Press Warrants, is upwards of 2000.—That Orders are given, to add one Battalion to the 42d Regt. and to the 60th, which latter will then, as before the Peace, consist of 4 Battalions. The Men are to be raised on the risk and expence of the Officers, most of whom are already appointed. That the French are out of all Patience with their new Ministers, for suffering the King of Prussia to advance unmolested into Holland, which they assert might have been prevented by assembling the so much talked of Camp at Givet, which has never yet been formed; Orders are however, now issued for the march of a large Body of Troops, which has long been in readiness.—That several sail of large Transports, with various Stores on Board, fell down the River, in order to proceed to Portsmouth, from whence they are to be conveyed by two Frigates, to the West-Indies.—That press Warrants was sent off last week to Ireland, and Houses of Rendezvous and Tenders are now stationed at Belfast, Dublin, Waterford, Cork and Kinsale.—That it is said the French have artfully availed themselves of the Insurrection in Holland, to possess themselves of the Cape of Good Hope; England, therefore, has reason to be alarmed at a rival Nation thus securing to herself a Key to the Eastern Ocean. Trincomale is also an Object of Dispute.—That war is declared between Russia and the Turks. It is also said, that a War has broke out between England and France. His Majesty was pleased to appoint Commodore Herbert Sawyer, Esq. Rear Admiral of the white Squadron.
CHARLESTON, (S. C.) Oct. 23.
Extract of a letter from New-York, Oct. 8.
"Our New-Brunswick, Shelburne and Halifax friends, crowd in upon us fast with their vessels, to convey to their respective Edens, our produce and lumber, anticipating that the plans given by the convention, will shut them out of our ports in future; and rest assured, until we do exclude all English vessels from our bays, ports and havens, and to prevent our produce being exported in none other than American built vessels, navigated by Americans only, we shall not flourish either in commerce, agriculture or manufactures."
ALEXANDRIA, (Virginia) Nov. 8.
Last week, was committed to jail in Richmond, James M'Connel Fox, of Washington county, for the murder of a son of Mr. Russel, who was returning home from a mill in the neighbourhood, where he had been sent on some business by his father. The prisoner met the youth, and with one blow of a club knocked him off his horse; then taking his penknife from his pocket, cut his throat from ear to ear, mounted his horse and rode off with him. He was taken with the horse in his possession. On his way down he made two attempts to murder the Sheriff. This wretch is 22 years of age, a native of Pennsylvania, and 4 years ago came into Greenbrier county, where he married a young woman of a tolerable easy fortune, which he soon dissipated.
B A L T I M O R E, Nov. 6.
Extract of a letter from Augusta, Oct. 15.
"It now appears absolutely necessary that an army of at least 2000 men be raised against the savages, who are numerous on our frontier counties, and in force round and near the forts and
stations in which the inhabitants have taken shelter. They killed in all 51 white and black. The ground on which Gen. Clark fought first, has been since examined, and 28 dead Indians found; his loss was 6 killed and 12 wounded. We have now on our frontiers a sufficient force to act on the defensive, and cover the settlements from the depredations of the savages. In case the legislature does not meet, the executive will declare the State in alarm, when martial law will, in some measure, take place. Much confusion and destruction of property may be then expected."
P H I L A D E L P H I A, November 17.
We hear from Clinch, in Virginia, that a number of settlers belonging to that place, who were out gathering ginsang, discovered a body of 800 or more Indians, marching towards French-Board, on their way to the frontiers of that settlement: That the inhabitants were in continual alarm: That orders in consequence, have been issued for the militia to hold themselves in readiness to turn out on the shortest notice: That there was no account of any mischief being done by them when the account came away: and that the report, some time past, of 40 families being cut off in the lower settlements, was without foundation, four men only were killed, and a few wounded.
C A R L I S L E, (Pennsylvania) Oct. 24.
About two weeks ago, the following melancholy accident happened in Franklin county: some time in the night the house of Mr. Bowen, junior, took fire and consumed to ashes, the wind blowing very high, the fire communicated to the house of his father, of a distance of about twenty rods, which likewise was consumed—we are informed that a considerable part of the old man's effects were saved, but the former's wife with four children and the whole of his household goods were burnt. It is hoped, that, as the winter is fast approaching this may be a warning to people to guard against that impetuous and dreadful element—fire.
N E W H A V E N, November 22.
A piece called the CENTINEL is circulating with great industry in this state, in the same covered, secret, and insidious manner as British proclamations, pardons, and manifestos were in the days of Yore. The writer is said to be a certain supernumerary George Bryan, of Pennsylvania. He abounds in scripture quotations, and says general WASHINGTON is a fool from habit and doctor FRANKLIN a fool from age and infirmity. These pieces are sent in large packets, from a neighbouring state which is draining us of 35000l. annually by her impost. The gentleman who is so kind as to favor Connecticut with these modest publications, is either afraid or ashamed to subscribe his name to the letters accompanying them, but from the hand-writing it is conjectured that he enjoys a comfortable salary in the state alluded to, and has been so furious and violent against all federal measures for many years, that he foresees the ceasing and determination of that salary whenever our COMMERCE is properly regulated.
N E W Y O R K, November 14.
Extract of a letter from Amsterdam, Sept. 18.
"The consternation reigning throughout this city, and our present alarming situation, prevent me from giving you so circumstantial an account as I wish to do. Certainly you never thought that our contests would ever have been so serious. In a few days our fate will be decided. A formidable army of 30,000 Prussian troops, provided with a complete park of artillery, spreading a terrible panic through the whole country, is now within our territories, and is rapidly advancing towards this. On receiving this dreadful news, our city gates were shut and all the bridges drawn up, so that it is at present impossible for any person to leave the place or to enter it; in God's power alone will it be to avert the impending calamities. How many families, exposed to the utmost danger, would now be glad to repair to America, and there enjoy peace and real liberty, were the extreme distance between us not so very discouraging; for in case our patriots should be compelled to submit, we are determined to leave this, our native, country."
Nov. 15. By accounts, to Sept 22, from Europe, we learn, That the states of Holland were on the eve of a general surrender to the joint forces of Prussia and the Stadtholder. The states of Holland have issued orders for breaking and disarming the free corps; and late in the evening of the 18th of September, they passed a resolution for restoring his Serene Highness the Stadtholder to all his rights and honors, with the command of the garrison of the Hague; and a Deputation was appointed to the Duke of Brunswick, and a letter sent off to invite the Prince of Orange to return to his residence.
B O S T O N, November 30.
Saturday last arrived here Capt. Brown, in the Brig James, in 40 day from Londonderry, Ireland, by whom papers are received, late as the 9th of October (5 days later than the Halifax intelligence) by which we learn, That official dispatches from the English Ambassador in Holland, were received at London, October 1, stating, that on the 27th Sept. the Duke of Brunswick, with a large army, and a numerous train of Artillery, well served, arrived at the gates of Amsterdam, and immediately sent an herald summoning the city to surrender—from a delay of some hours it was expected they meant to stand a siege; but at length an herald announced a deputation, for the purpose of fixing on the terms of giving up the city—the Duke's answer to the truce bearer, was, that a short time only would be allowed for surrender—the conference took place the 28th, (the date of the dispatches) and it was expected the next day it would surrender,—and the Duke take possession: That among the great number of towns which surrendered to the Duke, were Rotterdam and Utrecht.—That the Court of Versailles had formally notified to the States their total inability to afford them the desired protection and support: And that the King of Prussia had determined not to evacuate Holland, until the Dutch shall pay all the expenses attending his taking the field, and the return of his army home.
Accounts respecting a French and English War, are various, but all tend to prove it inevitable. A London Gazette states, that 48 Admirals have been promoted; 4 new Colonels of Marines appointed; 13 Major-Generals promoted to Lieutenant-Generals, & 16 Colonels to be Brigadier-Generals: That Lord Howe had reported to Council an account of 17 sail of the line in commission, and of 35 in the ordinaries, with their sea-stores on board, and ready for being commissioned, in 48 hours: That a squadron had put to sea from Portsmouth, first for the protection of the homeward-bound Indiamen, 100 of which were at sea; and next to take station off Brest, to watch the motions of the French fleet: That 10,000 seamen had been impressed: That a French transport from Brest had been taken by an English frigate: That the French really took possession of the Cape of Good Hope, by desire of the Dutch patriots: And that the Parliament of Paris was recalled, &c.
Extract of a letter from Halifax, dated Nov. 20.
"This day the packet from England arrived—authentic news, by her is, that a WAR between Great Britain and France."
French frigates had been taken and carried into Falmouth, three days before she sailed—Orders are come to fortify this place with ALL POSSIBLE DISPATCH."
A few OBSERVATIONS in favour of the NEW CONTINENTAL GOVERNMENT, now under the consideration of the Citizens of this state.
1. That it was formed by a convention composed of the most sensible, virtuous, patriotick and independent characters that this, or perhaps any other country on the face of the globe, can produce.
2. That it is ushered to us under the respectable and illustrious signature of GEORGE WASHINGTON, whose disinterested and invaluable services to his country, has rendered him the admiration of the present age; and, to suppose that any act of his, could be intended, in the most distant degree, to injure a people, whose freedom he has already established, at the risk of his life and fortune, would be a piece of base ingratitude, that no honest American can possibly be guilty of.
3. That it will unite under one head, and bring to one point, the resources strength and commerce of this extensive country, and consequently serve to render us wealthy, respectable and powerful, as a mercantile as well as a warlike people.
4. That equal justice will be administered to each state, in the support of government, in proportion to its abilities and local situation, and no state be induced to furnish its full quota, when many others neglect furnishing a single shilling.
5. That in all probability the first good consequence, arising from a firm and a respectable government, will be the relinquishment of the WESTERN POSTS, by the British, according to the treaty of peace—which are now so unjustly detained from us, and for no other reason but a contempt of government.
6. That the late disturbances, in Massachusetts, New-Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and even on the borders of York state, shewing a languor in our present government, that must alarm every thinking person; and which must; if not guarded against in future, end in anarchy and confusion. A situation infinitely more to be dreaded, than all the evils that can be conceived from the tyranny of an absolute monarch.

It is iliberal, says a correspondent, to give the opposers of the present plan of government the appellation of Shayites, Antifederalists, &c. — Are there not some, of this class, who have acted very conspicuous parts in the late drama? Are not many of them of true republican principles? Why then these harsh epithets? If they err, it is from a tenaciousness of that liberty their blood has been freely offered to attain—Give it a fair discussion, and it is a baseless fabric, in God's name let it vanish in fumo .
A landholder in a Connecticut paper, addressing the people on the proposed federal constitution, writes thus: "Believe not those who insinuate that this is a scheme of great men to grasp more power. The temptation is on the other side. Those in great offices never wish to hazard their places by such a change. This is the scheme of the people, and those high and worthy characters who, in obedience to the public voice, offer the proposed amendment of our federal constitution thus esteemed it, or they would not have determined state Conventions as the tribunal of ultimate decision. This is the last opportunity you may have to adopt a government which gives all protection to personal liberty, and at the same time promises fair to afford you all the advantages of a sovereign empire. While you deliberate with coolness, be not duped by the artful surmises of such as from their own interest or prejudice are blind to the public good."
S A L E M, November 27.
The town of Haverhill, yesterday week, made choice of Bailey Bartlett, Esq. and Mr. Nathaniel Marsh, Delegates to the ensuing Convention.
A vessel arrived at Marblehead, from Antigua, since our last, brings information, of a warm press of seamen at that Island.
P O R T L A N D, November 22.
The town, on Monday last, made choice of Peleg Wadsworth and John Fox, Esquires, delegates to the convention that will sit in Boston on the second Wednesday of January next.
P O R T S M O U T H, Dec. 5.
It is with pleasure we give our readers the excellent sentiments of a gentleman who has studied the new plan of government for the United States, proposed by the Convention for the benefit of his fellow citizens. "It is the formation of a plan of Government calculated to embrace thirteen states of diverse interest and various pursuits, no rational mind could look for perfection, and it is a happy presage of the glory of the rising empire, that so much harmony concord and good understanding, (as we hear) prevailed in the late convention, as to gain the unanimous assent of so considerable a body to a plan of government which (notwithstanding some imperfections) contains so many good things, and I am in favour of its adoption, because I am convinced (having carefully perused the same) that the tranquility of the country cannot be long preserved under the present form, and that there is not (from what I have heard) the remotest probability of gaining the general assent to one less exceptionable. Experience is the best critic, if inconveniences arise from the proposed form of government, there is a constitutional mode of reform, and if we have the wisdom, prudence and moderation to change the present mode of government, I think we may do it as often as necessity may dictate the measure."
Six States have agreed to the appointment of Conventions for considering the proposed plan of government for the United States—They are, Massachusetts (to meet at the State-house, in Boston, on the second Wednesday in January), Connecticut (to meet at Hartford, on the first Thursday of January), New-Jersey (to meet at Trenton, the second Tuesday in December), Pennsylvania (to meet at Philadelphia, on the last Tuesday in November), Delaware (to meet at Dover, on the last Monday in November), and Virginia (to meet next May, in Richmond).
Anarchy, says a late writer, with her haggard cheeks and extended jaws, stands ready, and ALL allow, that unless some efficient form of government is adopted, she will soon swallow us. The opposers to the plan of government lately agreed upon by the federal convention, have not spared their censures upon it: they have stigmatized it with every odious appellation that can be named; but, amidst all their railing, have not so much as hinted at a form of government that would be proper for us to adopt: and even if they had, it would have remained for us to examine, whether they were men of more honesty, greater abilities, and firmer patriots and friends to their country, than the members of the late convention; and whether the form of government, which THEY might propose, was better adapted to our situation and circumstances, and freer from imperfections, than the one which has already been proposed to us. But it is not the intention of the opposers to the
plan of federal government, that we should have any government, founded on a firm and truly republican principles; as, in that case, their aims would be entirely defeated, as it would put it out of their power to stir up sedition and discontent; and they would be lost in obscurity, or move in a most contemptible sphere.
When the illustrious Washington was called on by the Convention to ratify the Constitution as its President—Holding the pen, after a short pause, he pronounced these words—"Should the States reject this excellent Constitution, the probability is an opportunity will never again offer to cancel another in peace—the next will be drawn in blood!"—Great Heaven, avert the direful catastrophe! But may the rising glories of his country gild his declining horizon, and her smiling prosperity cheer his heart at sinking into the embrace of death!
N A V A L - O F F I C E.
PORT of PISCATAQUA, December 5, 1787. C L E A R E D, For, Ship Polly, Nixon, Nevis. Brig Molly, Gaskin, Barbados.
A N E C D O T E S.
PALMA, one of the most distinguished musicians of Naples, having been assailed in his house by an enraged creditor, who was determined to have him instantly, Palma only answers to his menaces by singing a most elegant air. The creditor stops and listens. Palma sings a second air, accompanies it with his harpsichord, marks the passages which seem to have the most powerful effect upon the feelings of the creditor, plays them over in an exquisitely pathetic stile, and at length more than softens the heart which was prepared to be obdurate. The payment of the money is now so totally out of the question, that the creditor lends Palma the contents of his purse, to extricate himself from another embarrassment. — Rare instance of the power of Music.
UPON an Examination for Fellowship in Trinity College, Doctor Gilbert began to examine a young Gentleman who was excellent in every Branch of Learning, but Mathematics; Gilbert knew the Lad's Defect, and he not being a Favourite, the Doctor ask'd him, where do the Particles of red wine pass, they don't pass in the Urine? The young Gentleman could answer that question, as well as the Doctor, but knowing he would be foil'd in other matters, he was resolv'd to come off with a Joke; and Doctor Gilbert having a great red nose with several Excrescencies; The young Gentleman said, looking earnestly at the Doctor, I believe, Sir, they pass through the Nose.
Copy of a letter from an Irish Warden, addressed to the Governor of the tower of London.
"May it please your honour's worship and glory; I Patrick Cogan, have a wife very ill, beg the leave of laying out of the tower; and I faithfully promise never to go out till after the gates are locked up at night, and always to come in before they open in the morning."
ALL persons that have any demands on the estate of RICHARD WALDRON, late of Portsmouth, deceased, are desired to exhibit their claims, properly attested, to the subscribers, executors to the last will and testament of said deceased, and all persons indebted to said estate are desired to make payment as soon as possible.
SARAH WALDRON, HALL JACKSON.
Portsmouth, December 3, 1787.
N. B. As a speedy and final settlement of the above estate is determined, the creditors are earnestly requested not to delay their claims.
THE commissioners appointed to examine the claims of the several creditors to the estate of the Honorable JOHN WENTWORTH, late of Dover, in the county of Strafford, deceased, represented insolvent, give notice that a further time of six months from the 22 d of November last, being allowed for the creditors to exhibit their claims; they will attend for that purpose on the second Tuesday of this, and the five months next ensuing, from 2 to 6 o'clock in the afternoon, at the late dwelling house of said deceased in Dover aforesaid.
MOSES WINGATE, } Commissioners. WILLIAM KING, }
December 3.
Genteel Boarding, very low, For one or two gentlemen.—Apply to the Printer hereof.
Best English Frying-Pans, Of a superior quality to any heretofore imported, To be sold by the dozen, or single, By James Norie, next door to Mr. Bowles's —Daniel-Street, Portsmouth.— Also,—all sorts of TIN WARE at the lowest prices. Cash given for Kinglass.
ALL persons indebted to the estate of Col. Timothy Bedel, late of Haverhill, in the county of Grafton, and state of New-Hampshire, deceased, intestate, are hereby requested to make immediate payment to the subscriber, MOODY BEDEL, Administrator. November 26.
WE the subscribers being appointed by the Hon. Joseph Badger, Esq. judge of Probate, for the county of Strafford, to receive and examine the claims of the several creditors to the estate of Solomon Perkins, late of Rochester, represented insolvent; six months being allowed for that purpose, give notice that we will attend that business on the first Monday in December next, and the first Monday of the five following months, from two to six o'clock, P. M. at the dwelling house of Simon Torr, innholder in said town.
AARON WINGATE, } Commissioners. SIMON TORR, } Rochester, November 22.
Strayed or Stolen from the subscriber's inclosure in Durham, about the 14 th instant, a good Gelding of a chestnut colour—had a white spot in his forehead, one white hind foot, dark mane and tail, good hair, a thick high neck, about fourteen hands high, travels some, but is most natural to a trot, was in very good flesh, and about six years old. Whoever will take up said horse and return him to the subscriber, or send him notice thereof, shall have FOUR DOLLARS REWARD and all necessary charges paid by JOHN SMITH. Durham, Nov. 19.
PRINTING-PAPER.
JUST RECEIVED By the last ship from London, A QUANTITY OF PRINTING-PAPER, a variety of Writing Paper (which will be sold lower than in Boston) very elegant Ink Pots for the Pocket, and some of the cheapest kind, Barlow's Penknives, black Lead Pencils, Scales and Dividers, beautiful coloured Wafers, Sealing-Wax, Entick's and Perry's Dictionaries, Blank, Spelling and Arithmetic Books, Davidson's Virgil, an Optical Perspective Machine, with beautiful views of London, Paris, Philadelphia, &c.
To be Sold very low, by DANIEL HUMPHREYS, At his House in Pleasant-Street, near the South Meeting-House: Portsmouth, Nov. 1.
ALL persons having demands on the estate of JACOB TREADWELL, late of Portsmouth, merchant, deceased, are desired to exhibit them immediately, and those indebted to said estate are desired to make immediate payment to DANIEL R. ROGERS, Administrator. Nov. 7.
A House to be Sold cheap, And on terms easy to the purchaser, Being the House wherein Charles Waters lives, together with The Lot on which it stands, well situate in Pitt-Street. For particulars apply to Daniel Humphreys, Portsmouth, October 26,

Parnassian Spring.
THE FALL OF THE LEAF.
S ONS of men, averse from teaching, Turn into the woods your eyes, Hear the lessons they are preaching, They'll instruct you to be wise.  Where is now their boasted glory, Leaves with which they did abound? See them scatter'd all before you, Lying with'ring on the ground.  Doctors skill'd in mystick pages, Seeking truth tho' void of fame; Wise and venerable sages. Here's a moralizing theme.  Blooming virgins, charming creatures, Blessed with a comely face, Boast not of your fading features, Summer gives to winter place.  Youths, though full of manly graces, Know those flow'rs will swiftly waste, Time shall blight them on your faces, Ye shall feel cold winter's blast.  Sons of sport, with joy abounding, To your mirth the woods reply, We, so late with songs resounding, Now in mournful silence lie.  Griping misers, greedy wretches, We your very case express. ; We are strip'd of all our riches, They forsake us in distress.  Reverend fires, with age grown hoary, Think not life shall still remain; See in us your falling glory, Falling ne'er to spring again  Learn, O man, that grandeur's fading, Honours, like our leaves, decay; We were happy, both, in Eden, Now we swiftly fade away.  Then seek out that land eternal, Where the tree of life doth grow; There the leaf is ever vernal; There no winter tempests blow.
P URSUANT to a warrant directed to me the subscriber, do hereby give notice to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the township of Conway, who are delinquent in paying the proprietary tax committed to me to collect in the year 1785, assessed for the purpose of building bridges and making roads through said town, amounting to twenty-four shillings on each right, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber, at my dwelling house in said Conway, on or before the second Monday in January next, so much of their lands as will pay the same, together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at 12 o'clock on said day, at the house of Col. Andrew McMullen, innholder in said town, unless prevented by previous payment.
JOSHUA HEATH, Collector. Conway, November 24, 1787.
T HE subscribers being appointed commissioners to receive and examine the claims of the creditors to the estate of Amos Pease, of Dover, in the county of Strafford, husbandman, deceased, represented insolvent, and six months being allowed for that purpose; notice is hereby given, that they will attend on that business, at the house of Jonathan Gage, innholder in Dover, on the first Monday in December next, and on the first Monday in each of the five following months, from two to six o'clock, P. M. on each of said days.
No accounts will be allowed, unless properly attested.
JOSHUA WINGATE, } Commissioners. JOSHUA DREW, } Dover, November 24.
State of New-Hampshire,
N OTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the township of Barrington, who are delinquent in paying their highway tax in said town for the year 1786 and 1787, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber at my dwelling house in said town, on or before the first Monday in January next,
so much of their lands will be sold at public vendue as will pay the same with incidental charges at my dwelling house at ten o'clock, A. M. on said day, unless prevented by previous payment.
   No. Ac. 1786. 1787.   l. s. d. l. s. d.    Joseph Moses 33 72 0 4 10 0 4 10  Robert Armstrong 36 190 14 8  Nicholas Bishop 37 72 4 10 4 10  Joseph Pitman 38 78 5 2 5 2  Nathan'l Jackson 52 16 1 1  Rich. Waterhouse 63 80 5 5  Richard Cross 64 120 9  Alexander Dennet 75 60 3 11 3 11  Nat'l Tuckerman 77 33 2 8 2 8  John Daverfon 82 72 5 5  Richard Waldron 101 26 2 2  Walter Warren 104 20 1 8 1 8  Thomas Beck, jr. 107 13 1 1 1 1  John Abbot 119 84 7 7  William Hunkin 126 18 1 1 1 1  George Jaffery 143 200 15 15  John Jones 146 4 4 4  Thomas Packer 149 300 12 6 12 6  Joshua Pierce 156 520 2 2  William Peavey 173 58 3 8 3 8  Gov. Wentworth 176 583 2 8 7 2 8 7  David Gardner 152 120 9 9  Benjamin Lucy 174 27 2 2  Robert Almony 175 27 2 2  Axwill Roberts 180 180 15 15  George Townson 183 72 4 10 4 10  Samuel Snell 184 36 2 4 2 4  S. Waterhouse 185 24 1 8 1 8  Benjamin Cross 189 120 7 6 7 6  A. McFederace 192 600 2 2 10 2 2 10  William Cotton 212 111 7 7  John Gowel 215 84 2 5 2 5  William Rose 216 72 4 4  James Sherburn 217 50 3 3  John Sherburn 218 120 8 8  Thomas Peirce 220 210 9 9  John Edmunds 222 48 1 1  Henry Sherburn 224 90 5 9 5 9  James Stootley 229 60 4 4 4 4  William Fellows 238 240 15 15  Col. H. Sherburn 241 552 19 8 4 8  William Tarrat 243 24 1 6 1 6  Edward Ayers 246 209 13 1 13 1  Joseph Simpson 273 120 7 10 7 10  
In the hundred acre lots to called.
   No. Ac. l. s. d. l. s. d.    Benning Wentworth 4 63 5 5  Nathaniel Mendum 7 105 7 6 7 6  James Libbey 20 105 7 6 7 6  Mark Wentworth 38 105 7 11 7 11  Jethro Furbur 15 105 7 6 7 6  Samuel Foss 16 105 7 6 7 6  
The forty acre lots.
   Ac. l. s. d. l. s. d.    150 Acres 0 6 6 0 6 6  
   Stephen Tuttle 50 3 3   the 2 mile Streak to called   David Jaffery, Esq. 216 18 18   Theod'c Atkinson, Esq. 940 1 12 4 3 18 4   the estate of Mark Hunking Esq. 140 9 9  
The settlers rights to called.
   Acres l. s. d.    John Churchill 27 2 2  Samuel Banfield 27 2 2  Thomas Snell 27 2 2  Joseph Brewster 27 2 2  Peter Mow 27 2 2  James Sherburn 27 2 2  Moses Caverly 27 2 2  Richard Parsly 27 2 2  Daniel Jackson 27 2 2  Jethro Furbur 27 2 2  Ephraim Jackson 27 2 2  Joseph Holmes 27 2 2  James Libbey 27 2 2  Stephen Greenleaf 27 2 2  James Gray 27 2 2  Mathew Nelson 27 2 2  William Howard 27 2 2  Samuel White 27 2 2  Mark Wentworth 27 3 2  Nathaniel Mendum, 2 rights 54 4 4  Theodore Atkinson 27 2 2  Joshua Pearce, 3 rights 81 6 6  Benning Wentworth, 2 rights 54 4 4  
JOSHUA FOSS, jr. Collector. Barrington, November 26, 1787.
Almanacks,
For the year 1788,
May be had at this Office
For 1/6. by the single dozen,
To Mr. JOSIAH MOULTON, junior, Clerk to the proprietors of Piermont.
SIR, W E the subscribers being owners of more than one sixteenth part of the said township, desire that you would call a meeting of the said proprietors at the house of Capt. William McHard, in Portsmouth, on the second Tuesday of December next, at ten o'clock A. M.—and there to act upon the following matters, viz.
 1st, To chuse a Moderator.  2d, To chuse an Agent or Agents to defend any suit or suits already brought, or which may hereafter be brought against this Proprietary, with a power of compromising.  3d, To see what measures the proprietors will take to set aside any agreements (made for the payment of debts) which have not been complied with.  4th, To lay any necessary taxes, and to chuse assessors and collectors.  5th, To consider of the legality of a meeting lately held at Hampton.  6th, To transact any other matters for the benefit of the Proprietors. 
SAMUEL SHERBURNE, GEORGE BRACKETT, THOMAS MARTIN, JOHN WENDELL, RICHARD JENNESS, THOMAS JENNESS, SIMON JENNESS, Portsmouth, October 29th, 1787.
Portsmouth, October 29th, 1787. P URSUANT to the above request, I hereby notify and warn the Proprietors of Piermont, aforesaid, to meet at the time for the purposes specified therein. JOSIAH MOULTON, Proprietors Clerk.
State of New-Hampshire.
W E the subscribers being appointed commissioners by the hon Moses Dow, Esq. judge of probate, &c. for the county of Grafton, to receive and examine the claims of the several creditors to the estate of Col. Timothy Bedel, late of Haverhill, deceased, and six months being allowed for that business, hereby give notice that we will attend the same on the first Monday in December next, and on the first Monday of the five following months, from 10 o'clock, A. M. to 2 o'clock, P. M. at the house lately occupied by Amos Fisk, innholder in said Haverhill.
ASA PORTER, JAMES WOODWARD, ANDREW CROCKER, Haverhill, November 15.
A LL persons having any demands on the estate of Mr. Noah Parker, late of Portsmouth, deceased, are requested to exhibit their claims, and all who are indebted to said estate are desired to make payment to JEREMIAH LIBBEY, Attorney to the Administratrix.
TO BE SOLD
At Public Vendue,
On Monday the 10th December next, at 10 o'clock, A. M. at the house of Mr. Jacob Treadwell, late of Portsmouth, deceased,
A variety of Household Furniture,
— LIKEWISE — A likely Horse, a second hand Sleigh & Chaise, with Harness.
B LANKS of all sorts for sale at this Office, at the lowest Boston prices.