Fowle's New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser ([Portsmouth, N.H.]), 1786-01-13 00:00:00

F O W L E S  NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE,  A N D  GENERAL  THE  ADVERTISE
F R I D A Y,
J A N U A R Y 13, 1786.
P O R T S M O U T H: By MELCHER AND OSBORNE,
PRINTED AND PUBLISHED IN PAVED STREET.
VOL. XXX.]
"OPEN TO ALL PARTIES—INFLUENCED BY NONE:—WE AIM ONLY TO BE JUST."
No. 1526
From the POLITICAL MAGAZINE.
The CRISIS of the SUGAR COLONIES considered by J. WILLIAMS.
WHEN the dispute first broke out between America and the English ministry, I was the humble mover of a petition that was presented to avert the evils that followed the rejection of it. I am now as sanguine for the union of trade between England and America, through the medium of the Sugar Colonies. By their long usage and dependence for lumber and horses upon America, and the uncertainty and expense of getting either from any other part of the world, an intercourse is highly essential; and it is fortunate for England that America, in her turn has been as long and habitually dependent on the colonies for the vending her little horses and lumber, which in Europe would be unable to find a market.
The English colonies require a greater supply of the productions from America, than the extensive and fertile islands of France ever can possibly demand. This is another argument for an union of trade. As nature has pointed it out, habit has confirmed it, and policy, as strong as either, calls for the continuance. The intercourse would be carried on in small vessels, as it always has been; and these little carriers would divert the attention of America from building large ships, which would be required to make more distant voyages, and for which a greater number of sailors would be also expedient.
This consideration is annexed to an intercourse between the colonies and America, and pleads strongly for the constant habits of trade and reciprocal benefits, by which all rancour and jealousy would be removed, and permanent peace secured; and the stronger, as the violation of it would deprive the planters on the sea-coast of their support and livelihood; and the traders of their employment in the colony trade, upon which they might be made to depend, and become subservient to the Sugar Islands, and to the parent country also, as the colonies would be a depot for its manufactures and goods that require and cannot prosper long without the assistance of such consumers, as may be found in the colony market, and there only.
Trading vessels in America put her in no formidable state when the war broke out. The same causes must produce the same effects. These little vessels are built for temporary purposes, and soon become unfit for sea. They are worked with a very few hands, and therefore cannot awaken any jealousy in England. Let
us reverse this commercial system, and, instead of it, let us say, No; with America no intercourse shall be allowed. From this moment, at the side of the planter, you place a deathly arrow; he cannot be possessed of common sense, but he must see in the map, how nearly he is placed to a formidable enemy, as capable to annoy as to befriend. If the planter be thus perplexed, and made of all mankind the most precarious in his situation; the merchant will feel the fatal effects; the manufacturer will daily find his orders diminish; and the sinking tonnage of England shew the deathly pulse of its trade and navigation.
Whilst I plead for an union of trade already explained, I must pursue the same liberal principles a little farther, and declare myself a friend to Canada and Nova-scotia; and in order to promote the prosperity of each, I propose an exemption from colony taxes, for every ship containing a certain number of horses, cattle, provisions, or quantity of lumber, imported into any one of the British islands.
An intercourse between the British Sugar Colonies and America has been a topic of disputation in the political circles. Some assert the impolicy of such an intercourse; some the possibility of their doing well without any assistance from America; others have censured the planters for devoting so much land to the sugar-cane, and not cultivating the growth of provisions, as well as lumber. These considerations go a great way to form the Crisis of the Sugar Islands. It is well known, that the cane is of all plants the most adapted to the soil and climate of the West-Indies; and yet not one year in seven do the estates in sugar make a good crop in either of the islands, yet the planters have followed the hand of nature and reason, in cultivating the plant most answerable to their care and expense: and both, for above a century, have been confined to the planting and manufacturing sugar, encouraged by the parent country, as well as governed by the lights of experience. Fifteen thousand pounds go but a little way in stocking an estate, and building of works. After a capital is once engaged in a plantation, it is quite impossible to convert it to any other design. Most other considerations give way, and the planter has no choice. But, says the coffee-house politician, why not plant provisions? why not suffer the growth of timber to accompany the cultivation of the cane? The answer is this. In the most comprehensive estate in the West-Indies, neither nature nor art has ever been able to raise such a succession of materials as are wanted, and implied in the term of lumber. At the same time, in the West-Indies, frequent
drougths are fatal to vegetables; therefore the Sugar Colonies have from their infancy depended on America for lumber and provisions. The intercourse has lasted above a century. Besides the West-Indies are liable to such ravages from storms, that even Jamaica would have been lately a scene of horror, had not lumber and provisions from America relieved the distress of the island. It is therefore plain that the Sugar Colonies, in different seasons, and upon emergencies peculiar to the climate, cannot exist without America.
‡ The vending of Rum of an inferior nature to America, has been a pillar upon which the planters have occasionally rested. Such rum it is in vain to send to Europe. Indeed the planters cannot afford to pay the freight and duty on it. Sound policy should be full of eyes, and look to every object that can produce any advantage to a state. But, say the Anti-Americans, your colony-trade must not be carried on in any degree to America, because it is become independent. According to this doctrine, because Russia, or any other state, is independent, England must cease to take from such quarters all those materials for equipping her navy, which her own soil does not produce. The doctrine is both immoral and impolitick, and flies in the face of nature, having in different climates allotted peculiar benefits to cement different nations, and bind them by a social chain of conveniency and comfort. Would any friend to England wish to see a bar fixed between America and the Sugar Colonies? If there be so mistaken a man, his principles would infallibly hurt them, and consequently the navy of England; and upon its ruins, raise that, together with the prosperity of the French colonies, that are struggling to fix a prevailing interest in America. If America will send lumber, and other articles wanted in the colonies, in vessels of limited tonnage, and be content to take your surplussage of rum, and such other articles of commerce as might be enumerated in a treaty of mutual benefit, England should lose no time in adjusting this system, before the habits of reprisals become frequent and inveterate. French rum is very inferior to the English, for this plain reason, because the brandy and wines of France, form the staple of the European markets, and rum is totally excluded from them; but at present the American States, to encourage the French colonies, admit their rum with a duty inferior to that affixed to the English. This privilege will certainly be attended with
‡ The state of the trade as it formerly stood between the British Sugar Colonies, and the American States, may be seen by consulting our Mag. for June 1784; page 566, to 570.

others, unless the care and wisdom of the English legislature seasonably prevent such alarming confederacies to take place against the balance of our trade. The liberal bounties once given by the English to encourage the rice trade, turpentine and other American productions, have ceased, and will be felt by the states very materially. The rice imported since the war, has but paid the expense of its carriage and duties laid on it. America will be glad to repossess the market of England for such and other branches of her commerce. In regard to tobacco, the bargain made with France is too pernicious to the planters to be long preserved; mutual dissatisfaction has arisen; and though Mr. Alexander has been sent out to inspect the tobacco, and keep up the terms of the contract, yet he has by no means been able to please the Farmers-General of France. This is therefore a critical juncture to fix the vibrating state of our own and the American trade.
India has had a competent share of legislative regard and attention; Ireland has received singular instances of both. The colonies in the West-Indies now rap at the bosom of England for a share of its wisdom and protection.
An EXTRACT from "Specimens of Oriental Wit and Wisdom."
FOUR things should never flatter us: familiarity with princes, the caresses of women, the smiles of our enemies, nor a warm day in winter, for these things are not of a long duration.
Your own reason is an errour; therefore it cannot discern an errour; to stick firmly to one's own sentiments and opinions, is the way to err: for since you can never reason but upon what is to happen, and the contingency of things, all your thoughts and reasonings will conduct you into the darkness of pride and obstinacy.
The worst of princes is he whom the good fear, and the bad hope; it is very difficult, however, to distinguish the bad from the good, ultimately.
If an ignorant person perceives in himself one virtue, he thinks he has an hundred; and if he has otherwise a thousand faults, he sees none of them; but when he observes any defect in an excellent person, he imagines he has a thousand.
He alone is worthy the esteem of mankind, who has a beautiful soul like a diamond, obscured by no speck.
Do not serve that which understands not, nor sees not, nor what brings you no profit. It is astonishing that men of this world pay their court to creatures, and forsake their Creator: they forget to ask of him who is rich, and they endeavour to be assisted by those who are under a necessity of begging.
He that thinks to content his desires by the possession of what he wishes for, is like him who put out fire with straw.
You cannot draw a line but must have a beginning and an end: a wise man knows principle and origin of all things; and, secondly, is not ignorant of their end. As long as old age shall succeed to youth, and the earth turn round the sun, be old in counsel and young in fortune; so that both old and young may seek to serve you.
The Mahometans esteem fools faints; and they add, with more sense, that wisdom is looked upon as folly by people of this world, which very wisdom consists in folly. Some things may be compared to the eye which appears black, but is, when examined, a body of light.
You have spoke well to-day, but have you thought on what you are to do to-morrow? You ridicule me, because you know what I do? did I know your actions I could return it.
Happy are those that know us not, as well as those we do not know; for if we know any one, it serves him only to prolong his labours, and interrupt his sleep.
Let us behave so well to our enemies as to make them our friends, and caress our friends in such a manner as to attach them invariably to our interest.
Wise men use liberally their estates, and during their life make their friends partakers of them; but the avaricious are so foolish, that they amass riches even for their enemies.
On the INVENTION of LETTERS.
THE noble art from Cadmus took its rise, Of painting words, and speaking to the eyes. He first in wondrous magick letters bound The airy voice, and stopp'd the dying sound. The various figures by his pencil wrought, Gave colour, and a body to the thought.
ORIGIN OF THE VEIL.
THE Origin of the Veil is referred by the Greeks to modesty and bashfulness—properties which partake equally of timidity. They used to tell a pleasant story on this subject.—About thirty furlongs from the city of Sparta, Icarus placed a statue of modesty, for the purpose of perpetuating the following incident:—Icarus, having married his daughter to Ulysses, solicited his son-in-law to fix his household in Sparta, and remain there with his wife; to which Ulysses would not consent. Frustrated in his application to the husband, he made the like request to his daughter, conjuring her not to abandon him; but, seeing her ready to depart with Ulysses for Ithaca, he redoubled his efforts to detain her; nor could he be prevailed on to desist from following the chariot on the way. Ulysses, shocked at the desperate situation of his father-in-law, says to his wife, you can best answer this request: it is your's to determine whether you will remain with your father in Sparta, or depart with your husband for Ithaca—you are mistress of the decision.—The beautiful Penelope, finding herself in this dilemma, blushed, and, without making the least reply, drew a veil over her face, (thereby intimating a denial of her father's request) and sunk into the arms of her husband. Icarus, very sensibly affected by this behaviour, and being desirous of transmitting it to posterity, by the most durable monument, consecrated a statue of modesty on the very spot where Penelope had thrown the veil over her face; that, after her, it might be a universal symbol of modesty to the fair sex.
BON MOT.
A GENTLEMAN of the name of Addison, being in company with several good fellows, at length become so far intoxicated as hardly to be able to speak, and laying his head on the table, almost instantly fell asleep. A person who sat opposite to him, made the following ingenious remark "Mr. Addison, I perceive, is neither a Tatler nor a Spectator."—"True," replied another, "he appears to me to want a Guardian."
FRIENDSHIP AND LOVE.
THE happiness of social virtue depends on the matured affection which arises between the sexes.—The cares and vexations which continually present themselves in an intercourse with the world, can only be compensated by the smiles and endearments of the female sex. It spurs men on to industry, that they may be the better enabled to endear themselves to, and by the acts of generosity and kindness, win the love of women. For so strongly is the mind of that sex attached to dress, it may be said to be the universal passion. However, to cement the harmony between the sexes, founded on mutual inclination, great care should be taken that friendship be the foundation of love, and that nothing but the greatest importance, wherein the happiness of others are interwoven, should ever be a secret from the other. A want of confidence is a want of esteem, and the most trivial circumstances, when veiled in mystery, are daggers to a mind of sensibility. As you value your happiness, let love be without dissimulation; it poisons the sweets of domestick happiness; it rancours in the heart, creates sensations which destroy the delicacy of the passions, estranges the heart from the objects of fond desire. No man can be happy who roves from a fixed point, or woman who keeps a man's company, merely for the ease he administers to her convenience; for "nought but love can answer love, and render bliss secure."
EPIGRAMMATICK.
WHO can complain that times are bad? Or what the plague can ail us? "THE ROOT OF EVIL" (CASH) is fled; Then how can harm assail us?
For the NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE.
Messieurs PRINTERS, Please to give the following a place in your useful and strictly impartial paper, and you will oblige a number of your customers. ROCHESTER. Jan. 1786.
THE inhabitants of the Town of Rochester, Wakefield, New-Durham, and the adjacent towns in the county of Strafford, in the State of New-Hampshire, do return their hearty thanks to the Honourable General JOHN SULLIVAN, Esq, for his good Service at Concord, in behalf of a distressed people; and do ardently wish, that the zeal of so noble a spirited Patriot for the welfare of his country, may gain the applause of every person who wishes for liberty, and that the good people of this State would conform themselves to your bright example; then how gloriously would we flourish in freedom, and be enabled to pay our taxes, and enjoy our liberties so long contended for, and do earnestly recommend it to the inhabitants of this State, to be aware of designing persons, that do wish to monopolize and build themselves up on the ruin of their country; and do also inform the inhabitants of this State of the damages sustained in this county, in consequence of the late acts; in the year 1784, our lumber was quick at eight dollars per thousand, (boards and staves) and other lumber equivalent thereunto.—This present year we cannot have more than four dollars per thousand, in goods, as may be bought for cash. Allowing we turn off fifty hundred thousand boards this present year, and split lumber thereunto, at four dollars per thousand, our loss amounts to forty thousand dollars, only in this small county (at a moderate computation) how much we suffered in other produce in this small county we have not calculated, but shall leave it to the reader to judge, admitting this small county to sink this sum, what an immense sum must this whole state sink?
L O N D O N.
Oct. 25. Thursday last a man and woman, genteelly dressed, called at Mr. Mackay's, an upholsterer, in Piccadilly, and asked whether he had not a house to let at Walworth? being answered in the affirmative, they desired to know whether he could accompany them to see it, as they had a coach waiting at the door. Mr. M. not suspecting any thing wrong, got into the coach, was driven to Walworth, where he shewed them the house; but as he was coming down stairs they both seized him, and the man holding a pistol to his breast, insisted on his giving them a check on his banker for 300l. or he would blow out his brains. Mr. M. being intimidated, signed a check and the woman was dispatched with it to the banker, while the man kept guard over Mr. M. On her return with the cash, both the man and the woman drove off, and Mr. Mackay roared out till some persons came to his assistance. The first thing he did, after he was released, was to run to the banker, but the money had been received upwards of an hour before he arrived.
Nov. 28. Duelling has descended to as low an ebb as possible, as will appear from the following fact: on Friday morning two footmen met vi et armis , without either the fear of God or loss of their places, in Hyde-Park, and there discharged a case of pistols. One of them whose name is John Richards was wounded in the thigh near the pope's eye, and it is much feared must suffer amputation. The other's hand is shattered by his antagonist's ball, the pistol going off as he was falling. One of these fellows is servant to a foreign Ambassador, and the dispute arose about a milliner's apprentice in Tavistock-Street.
A grave and sincere correspondent recommends to the nation, as all that is wanted, to turn virtuous and holy, to fear the Lord, and become Quakers. By which means the clerical profession will be useless—every man will fear God, and preach in his turn, so that the whole revenues of the church, with all the thythes, may be applied to pay off the national debt, and in this manner it may be paid off in seventeen years.
Extract of a letter from Mogador, July 30.
His Excellency Don Francisco de Julines y Monimo, the Spanish Ambassador, presented to the Emperor of Morocco a second present as valuable as the first. In his last audience that Minister strenuously insisted on the freedom of all Christian slaves, in particular, of the American captives. These were granted. Ten French slaves had also been promised, but his Imperial Majesty having thought better of it, they were finally refused. However, upon his Excellency's remonstrances, the duty of 12 was reduced to ten per cent. on all imports from any part of the world.
The idea adopted by his Majesty, of transporting for life, to Africa or India, all deserters, instead of shooting or whipping them, will have a much better effect than the former mode of punishment, and we trust it will in some measure put an end to that horrid custom practised by the India Company, of kidnapping young men, confining them in cellars, and transporting them for life, without either law or justice to warrant such an outrage to the liberty of the subject. Hundreds of innocent young men are lost to their friends and to their country, and supposed to be drowned, who are thus trepanned by the India Company; and many a parent at this day bewails the loss of a child as dead, who is in perpetual slavery as a soldier on the burning plains of the Eastern world. The Company never permits any of their soldiers to return, although they pretend to enlist them only for three years. The reason is obvious. They are afraid of prosecutions and heavy punishments for this daring breach of the laws. Indeed it is amazing, that among other Indian enormities, this crime has not been brought before Parliament.
Nov. 3. The French artists who are gone to South-Carolina, for the purpose of cultivating the silk of that colony, are said by a Parisian paper of the present month, to have taken with them a new machine, which performs all the work of the celebrated Piedmontese Reel, without any additional mechanism, and which gives stability and beauty to the silk. The French are vigorously promoting their own silk manufactures.
The French, with all their art and ingenuity, cannot produce a silk machine equal to that which is used at Derby, and which winds seventy-three thousand seven hundred and twenty-eight yards every time its water-wheel goes round, which is three times every minute. It consists of twenty-six thousand five hundred and forty six movements, which are continually at work; one water-wheel communicates motion to them all, one fire engine conveys air, and one regulator governs the whole grand apparatus.
The yearly salary of the Cardinal Rohan was 40,000 livres; his whole income about 50,000; but his ambition was unbounded, and he was connected with a gang of thieves!
Miss Ann Frankland, daughter of the Rev. Mr. William Frankland, sometime Rector of Oldwaldkirk, near Malton, in the North Riding of the County of York, fondling a little dog in her lap, was bitten in the lip by the animal, which was not perceived to be mad. Upon her crying out, a maid servant, who was then employed in washing the linen of the family, ran immediately to her assistance; but in taking the dog away was herself severely bitten in the arm. The consequence was, that Miss Frankland, not apprehending her danger, and, therefore, applying no remedy, was seized with the hydrophobia, and died with all the usual symptoms of that dreadful disorder. The maid continuing her business of washing, with her arm for several hours in the soap-suds, escaped all the calamitous consequences of the accident. Whence it was concluded, that the searching quality of the soap had perfectly secured her from the fatal effect of such an accident. Whether the like experiment may be preventive of the evils attending the bite of mad animals in other subjects, may be worth the trial.
An extraordinary circumstance, worthy the attention of the faculty in general.
At Rye, in Sussex, lives a young woman named

Margery Gascoigne, twenty-two years of age, who has according to her own account, and the doctors who have attended her, been with child for near these four years past; the last year of which expires this month, and has experienced the pains of labour every 9 months regularly, during that time, and is, at present, a most surprising phenomenon, and shews how far nature can, under the most distressing circumstances, and dreadful situation that ever befel a poor creature, be supported by the human frame: her size is beyond description, and the movements of the embryo (if a child) are surprising, inasmuch that she is forced to take opium in great doses to lull, in order that she may have some little ease herself, which she would not otherwise experience. The foregoing is taken from a letter written by her direction to a friend in London, she not being able to write herself, having kept her bed for these eight months past, and her room for upwards of two years. She has been attended by Mr. Mackell, at Rye, who knows the truth of the above.
PHILADELPHIA, December 26. Friday last, the Hon. R. Morris presented to the House a memorial from the directors and trustees of the bank of North-America, praying a repeal of the late law for taking away the charter of the said bank.
NEW-YORK, December 31. Extract of a letter from Arcot, in the East-Indies, dated 20th December, 1784.
"A duel was lately fought between Lord William Murray (of the Athol regiment) and Lieutenant Gilbert Waugh of the 73d regiment, when the latter was mortally wounded, and died three days after, greatly regretted by his brother officers, and universally lamented by all his friends and acquaintance." (They both served in the American war, the latter as a Commissary on Long-Island.)
A letter from the Hague, dated October 6, says, "The States General are again sitting. A very particular circumstance has happened, which has not occurred for near a century before, i. e. on the first day of meeting, the deputies of the province of Utrecht, after giving a solemn protest against the articles preliminary to peace with the Emperor, took their leave and set off for their own country, and it is whispered, that the deputies of Zealand and Groningen are about to follow their example; warm contentions are expected in debating this business."
There is authentic information received here, dated November, from Cadiz, which declares that the peace with Algiers is firmly concluded; and that the Barbarian cruizers are in greater force than ever on the coasts of Spain and Portugal, and the neighbourhood of the Straights.
The Carlisle Gazette, of the 14th inst. has the following article. "By several persons lately returned from the western country we learn, that on their departure from that place, the British were preparing to hold a treaty with the Indians at Fort Detroit. Their reasons for attempting to hold treaties at a post which should long since have been given up to this country, must be either to irritate the savages against the peaceable inhabitants of the United States; or, if they still intend to retain their present unlawful possession, to assist them in that perfidious undertaking."
On the 18th inst. the sloop Experiment, Stewart Dean, Esq. Commander, sailed from hence on a voyage to Canton, in China. This is the second adventure from the United States of America to so distant a port.
Extract of a letter from Nova Scotia, December 20th, 1785.
"We have lately had our General Election—and a terrible time it was—the true English Electioneering spirit reigned—and every one strove who should carry the strongest marks of loyalty to his king in his face—and indeed the many black eyes and bloody noses which the day after exhibited, fully evinces that for loyalty and true English spirit his Britannick Majesty has not a more hopeful set of subjects than are to be found in the barren deserts of Nova Scotia."
In a Jamaica paper of November 16, it is observed, that the high price of the produce of that island will oblige the Americans to return chiefly ballasted with silver.
NEW-LONDON, December 23. It is said to be the intention of the British Ministry (says a Jamaica paper) to deliver up the posts on the lakes ceded to the Americans by the treaty of peace, as soon as others can be erected within the British boundaries. For that purpose, a number of engineers and artificers have lately embarked for Canada; but as the construction of a chain of forts, necessary to prevent an extensive line of communication, along the frontiers, and effectually to protect the commerce with the Indians, must be a work of time. The Americans cannot this year, nor probably the next, expect to reap much benefit from the fur trade, which these posts at present command. From the predatory inroads of the Indians on the back settlements of the United States in general, there is all reason to believe they will continue attached to their ancient allies, and that the British traders will still engross that lucrative branch of traffick.
A Hillsborough paper mentions, that at a Superior Court lately held there, William Douglass, Esq. of Chatham, was found guilty of bribery and corruption in office, as a magistrate, dismissed from office, and fined five pounds.
BOSTON, January 9. The Hon. Nathaniel Gorham, Esq. set out from Charlestown, on Thursday last, for the city of New-York, in order to take his seat in Congress, as a member for this Commonwealth.
We are sorry to acquaint our readers, that, through indisposition of body, his Excellency JOHN HANCOCK, Esq. President of the Grand Council of the Confederation, is not yet able to proceed, in order to take upon him the important functions of his office.
A line of stages is now established from New-Hampshire to Georgia, by which the public mails are in future to be regularly conveyed. The first on this estab-
lishment, arrived here last Saturday evening, and brought the southern and western mails. During the winter season, we are informed, the mails, from both eastward and westward, are to arrive every Wednesday and Saturday evening; and those made up at the Post-Office in this town are to be dispatched every Monday and Thursday morning.
From Sutton we learn, that, early last Tuesday morning, one James Puff, of that town, was found dead, lying in the road, supposed to have perished through the extremity of the weather.
Capt. Rich, in a brig from Lisbon, for this port, was, a few days ago, cast on shore at Cape-Cod; but, we hear, by taking out the cargo, that the vessel is like to be got off.
Richard Squires and John Matthews, who were tried at Salem in November last, and found guilty of Robbery and Felony on the High Seas, were brought to this town Tuesday last. Their Counsel, at the conclusion of their trial, having pled in their favour an arrest of judgment, the Court deferred passing sentence till their session in this town, to be held the ensuing month.
Capt. Isaac Gleason, of Waltham, we are told, on Wednesday last, impiously put an end to his existence.
CHARLESTOWN, Dec. 30. Considerable quantities of base coin are now in circulation—A copper one in imitation of French guineas, gilt, are very current—they are dated 1732, are larger, and thicker than the true ones—A copper coin washed with silver, are frequently passed for English six-pences, they are much larger than good ones—these, with quantities of what are called coppers, but of a baser metal, passing, should put people on their guard, not only to prevent being cheated, but to stop their circulation.
PORTSMOUTH, January 13.
The world at length must perceive that commerce depends not upon a competition, but upon a combination of interests; and that it is best supported not by mutual limitation or embarrassments, but by a perfect freedom of intercourse. It will be understood that the trade of nations, as well as individuals, flourishes best when the trader is surrounded by opulent neighbours; and that the mutual encouragement of a labour, in the several ways in which each country, from its natural advantages, or acquired habits, is best able to excel, must be a mutual benefit; and that even where the labour is employed in the same tract, it is as injurious to neighbouring nations, as it is commonly found to neighbouring individuals—to live in a perpetual state of jealousy. It is supposed that from an adoption of these liberal sentiments, that commerce and manufactures would rest on a more solid and permanent foundation. May not the most friendly correspondence and traffic be thus every where established, and UNIVERSAL BENEVOLENCE among mankind take place?
Among the variety of gifts usually bestowed, on the commencement of a new year, we beg leave to propose the following political ones: honour and wisdom to our rulers—consistency to preachers; perseverance to the just; reasonable powers to Congress: fidelity to husbands; economy to wives; prudence to young men; sweet-hearts to maidens; and honesty to the people at large. The above are much wanted at this day, and, without doubt, were the parties to be gratified, this year would be much happier than the last.
The Buffalo and Astrolable French frigates, under the command of the Comte de la Peyrouse , and destined for a voyage for the improvement of science; anchored in the port of St. Croix, (Canaries) on the 19th of August last. The Comte and his officers were received in the most friendly manner by the Governor of these islands, who gave them an elegant entertainment and a ball.
Died at Paris, in France, the latter end of October, the Sieur Cremette, chief conductor of the King's Printing-Office, in that city, and publisher of the "Gazette de France."
DIED Since our last, Mrs. Mary Stoodley, wife of Mr. William Stoodley, of Newington, in the 26th year of her age, and eldest daughter of the Rev. Mr. M c Clintock.
MARINE LIST.
PORT of PISCATAQUA, Jan. 13.
ENTERED, none.
CLEARED,
Ship Viscount de Arrot, Palmer, for Tobago. Skip Chalkley, Thompson, West Indies. Schooner William, Whittemore Virginia. Brig Cooper, White, West-Indies.
Whereas I, the Subscriber, John
Henry Hyner, have this Day been informed that a Man by the Name of JOHN MOROTTO, had offered to dispose of a Note of Hand, given by me, the said Hyner; said to have been given for almost Two Hundred Dollars; which Note must be a Forgery, as I never owed the said Morotto, nor ever gave him my Note of Hand—Therefore I forewarn all Persons from purchasing any such Note, for I will never pay the same.
JOHN HENRY HYNER.
Boston, Nov. 14, 1785.
STATE of NEW-HAMPSHIRE, Rockingham, ss. THE Inferior Court of Common Pleas, by Law to be holden at Portsmouth, within and for the County of Rockingham, on the first Tuesday of February next, will then be adjourned to Tuesday the 28th Day of said February, of which all Jurors and others concerned are to take Notice.
By Order of Court, N. EMERY, Clerk. N. B. The Court of General Sessions of the Peace will be held at Portsmouth, on the second Tuesday of February next, the Day by Law for holding the same, Exeter, Dec. 29, 1785.
WHEN Dr. Swift was Dean of St. Patrick's, he was informed, by one of the Chapter, that the Beadle of the cathedral was a poet. The Doctor sent for him, and asked him some questions relating to his poetical talents, which he modestly disclaimed, asserting that he only wrote for his bell. It being winter, the Doctor insisted he should compose some verses on the fifth of November, and repeat them under his window; which, accordingly, he did; and the Dean was so pleased, that he rewarded the composer with a guinea, declaring, at the same time, he was a better poet than Ambrose Phillips.
The following are the lines repeated under the Dean's window:—
To-night's the day—I speak it with great sorrow, That we were all i' bane been hung up to-morrow: Therefore take care of fires and candle light: Tis a cold frosty morning—and so good night.
A LIST of Letters remaining in the Post-Office, Jan. 5, 1786.
REV. Buckley Alcott, Charlestown; Richard Adams, Londonderry; Tobias Butler, New-Boston; John Bevans, Wendell; Edmund Berrey, Portsmouth; Col. Thomas Cogswell, Gilmantown; John Collins, Portsmouth; Samuel Chard, do. Capt. James Calf (2) Dover; Col. Jonathan Chase, Cornish; James Cairnes, New-Boston; David Folsom, Esq. Dover; Robert S. French, Kingston; Abiel French, South-Hampton; Abiel Folter, Esq. Canterbury; Robert Fulton, Londonderry; Stephen Fols, Barrington; Stephen Grover, Student, Dartmouth-College; Caleb Hodgson, Dover; Peter Herriman, Plaistow; Col. John House, Hanover; or Col. Ebenezer Green, Lime; William Henry, No. 4; Lewis Hurtal, Portsmouth; Samuel Harper, Ackworth; Daniel Hood, Wilton; William Jones, New-Castle; Daniel Jones, Esq. (3) Hinsdale; Jos. Jones, South-Hampton; Thomas H. Lewis, Kittery; Rev. Isaac Mansfield, Exeter; Matthew O'Bryan, Dearing; Doct. William Page, Charlestown, No. 4. Thomas Patterson, Londonderry; Samuel Pearson, Exeter; Oliver Phelps, Esq. Granville; William Patten, Kingston; Rev. Stephen Peabody, Atkinson; Nathaniel Peabody, Esq. do. Capt. Thomas Rogers, Londonderry; Thomas Sparhawk, Walpole; Joseph Shaw, Portsmouth; William Stocker, New-Castle; Daniel Tenny, Hopkington; Capt. Benjamin Tyler, Claremont; Hugh Tallant, Pelham; Daniel Wood, Berwick; Benjamin West, Esq. Charlestown; Rev. Simeon Williams, Windham; Meshech Weare, Esq. Hampton.
A few Tons of good BAR-IRON, to be sold cheap, by Jeremiah Libbey.
PURSUANT to the Orders of the United-States, in Congress assembled, the Post-Master-General has entered into a contract for the conveyance of the Mails by Stages, from Portsmouth in New-Hampshire, to Savannah, in Georgia, and from the city of New-York to the city of Albany. The times of their arrival at this Office are as follow, viz. from November 1st to May 1st, on Tuesday and Friday, at 12 o'clock at noon: From May 1st to November 1st, on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, at 8 o'clock in the evening.—And in two hours after, the Mails are to be made up and forwarded. The Post-Master requests that gentlemen will deliver their letters in season at the office, as the utmost punctuality is required of him in this particular.
Post-Office, Portsmouth, Jan. 12, 1786.
Just Published, and now ready for Sale, At the Printing Office in Paved-Street, —
Melcher and Osborne's
New-Hampshire Sheet-Almanack,
for the Year of our L O R D, 1786.
The advantage as well as convenience of such an Almanack is too apparent to need any comment.
ALL Persons indebted to, or that have Demands against the Estate of JOHN GIDDINGE, Esq. late of Exeter, deceased, are requested to call and settle the same with
MEHITABEL GIDDINGE, Admin'trix.
Exeter, Jan. 13th, 1786.
ALL Persons indebted to, or that have Demands against the late Company of GIDDINGE and BROOKS, are requested to call and settle the same with SAMUEL BROOKS, jun'r. Exeter, Jan. 13, 1786.
Lost on Tuesday the 3d inst. between Mr. Mark Nelson's and Mr. Noah Parker's, the HEAD-STALL of a Chaise BRIDLE, with the short Rein; whoever has found the same, by leaving it at this Office shall receive a handsome Reward therefor.
Portsmouth, Jan. 13, 1786.
TO BE SOLD, BY
John Penhallow, jr.
At his STORE on LONG WHARF, Flour, Barr-Iron, Tarr, Turpentine, Pitch, &c. &c.
Portsmouth, Jan. 13.

Parnassian Spring.
H O P E.
D ELUSIVE, flatter'ing Hope—away, Fleeting phantom of a day; Fair Hope! of origin divine! 'Tis the exalt'd joys are mine. By thee inspir'd, I take my flight Through regions of eternal light; The heav'nly bliss anticipate, And pleasures, ever new, create. Divinely great, I walk the skies; Celestial objects feast my eyes; Angels attend me through th' empyrean road, And lead me up to the bright throne of God. False hope betrays, with sensual joys; Empty bubbles, glitter'ing toys; The love of these impose on thee, Sure, in vain, to flatter me. Hope ne'er deceives, which God inspires; Secures my bliss, and satiates my desires; Exhaustless mines of wealth divine I claim, And love that burns with an immortal flame.
Hope thou in God. He is the source of thy being. His love and goodness which now supports thee, will preserve thee forever. Soul hope thou in God.
State of New-Hampshire.
T HE subscriber being appointed collector of taxes for the propriety of the township of Warren, in the county of Grafton, in said State, doth hereby give notice that the assessors of said propriety have committed to him a list and warrant, dated 6th inst. to collect a tax of six shillings in specie, and eighteen shillings in certificates (such as are received for state taxes) on each original right in said township, subject to pay taxes, and that if said taxes are not paid to me at my house in South Hampton, in the county of Rockingham, and State of New-Hampshire, by the twenty-eighth day of March next, so much of the undivided land of each delinquents share, as also so much of the five hundred acres reserved or granted to his Excellency Benning Wentworth, Esq. called two shares, will be advertised for sale to pay said taxes and charges as the law directs:—Also the delinquent rights in a former tax will be advertised for sale at the same time.
PHILLIPS WHITE.
South-Hampton, December 21, 1785.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
T HE Subscriber being appointed Collector of Taxes for the Proprietors of the Township of Wentworth, in the County of Grafton, in said State, doth hereby give Notice, that the Assessors of said Propriety have committed to him a List and Warrant, dated the sixth Instant, to collect a Tax of One Pound, Four Shillings, in Specie, and Seven Shillings in Certificates (such as are received for State Taxes) on each Original Right in said Township, subject to pay Taxes, and that if said Taxes are not paid to me at my House, in South-Hampton, in the County of Rockingham, and State aforesaid, by the Twenty-fifth Day of March next so much of the undivided Land of each Delinquent Share, as also so much of the Five Hundred Acres reserved or granted to his Excellency Benning Wentworth, Esq. called Two Shares, will be advertised for Sale, to pay said Taxes and Charges, as the Law directs; also the Delinquent's Right in a former Tax, will be advertised for Sale, at the same Time.
PHILLIPS WHITE.
South-Hampton, Dec. 21, 1785.
State of New-Hampshire, Concord, Nov. 1, 1785.
P UBLIC Notice is hereby given, that a considerable Number of the Inhabitants of the Towns of Lebanon, Hanover, Enfield and Canaan, in this State, have petitioned the General Court, setting forth, that their local situation is such, by being situated in the corners of the aforesaid towns, and so remote from the respective centres of the towns they belong to, that they cannot, without great inconvenience, attend the public town-meetings, and public worship on the Lord's day; wherefore they prayed that a certain part of each of the aforesaid towns, as described in said petition, might be incorporated into a distinct town, and enfranchised with the same privileges as other towns in this State have and enjoy. On which petition the General Court ordered, that the petitioners be heard thereon before them on the first Tuesday of their next session, and that in the mean time, they cause the substance of said petition and order of Court thereon, to be published three weeks successively in one of the New-Hampshire papers, that any person may then appear, and shew cause, why the prayer thereof should not be granted. Attest. E. THOMPSON, Sec'y.
Taken up just above Sullivan's Fort (so called) in the Ice, a fourteen Feet Moses Boat; painted yellow and black, with two yellow Stars on her Stern. The Owner may have said Boat again by applying to Andrew Yeaton of New-Castle, paying Charges. New-Castle, Jan. 3, 1786.
For the publick Good.
A NEW MANUFACTORY. Monsieur GILLET DE LA VALLEE and COMPANY,
B EG leave to inform the Publick, that they have on Hand, at Packer's Falls, near Gen. SULLIVAN's Mills in Durham, of their own Manufacture, the following Articles, viz.
Large BUTTONS of all Colours, from Six to Twelve Coppers per Dozen, of Goats Hair, Small do. from 3 to 6 Coppers per Dozen; Mohair of all colours, at 2 coppers per Skein. Silk Knee-Garters, of all colours, at 10 Coppers per Pair; Common do. at 6 Coppers per Pair; Hair-Buttons for Hats, at 3 Coppers per Dozen; fashionable Loops for Hats, at 3 Coppers per Yard; round do. at 1 Copper per Yard; white Cord, of different Qualities and Prices.
They have the Machines for doubling and twisting all Sorts of Thread for Sewing, Embroidering, making Lace, or for fabricating Silk or Cotton Hose; for making all Sorts of Ribbands and Lace, either of Thread, Woolen, Cotton, Silk, Gold or Silver.
Also, Garters of all Qualities, Colours and Prices. Also, Looms for making superfine Broad-Cloths, and other fine Cloths, either according to the French or English Fashion, equal in firmness and lustre, to the Manufactures of any Country. They not only have the Machines for making the beforementioned Articles, but they are perfectly capable of fabricating them, and of establishing and carrying on many other Kinds of Manufactures. They are very desirous of communicating their Knowledge, which extends to a variety of Objects, useful to the common Interest of America in general, and to that of New-Hampshire in particular.
The Honorable Major-General SULLIVAN, at whose House they have formed their first Establishment, out of zeal and love to his Country, has given them sufficient Proof of his Esteem and good Will; and assurances of his further Assistance and Aid.
They also hope to acquire the Esteem and Confidence of the enlightened Part of the People of this Country, when they have had real and convincing Proofs of what they advance.
GILLET DE LA VALLEE & COMP.
N. B. Wool, Flax, Cotton and Raw Silk will be received in payment for manufactured Articles, or taken to be manufactured on the most reasonable Terms. DURHAM, December 14, 1785.
State of New Hampshire, Grafton, ss.
W HEREAS the Proprietors and Owners of Lime, at a legal Meeting holden at said Lime, on the 6th Day of September, 1783, voted to raise one Pound ten Shillings, on each Right or Share of land in said Town, to defray the Cost of laying out all the undivided Land; and also to pay the Proprietors Debt, &c. These are to notify the Owners of Land in said Township, to pay the aforesaid Sum to me, the Subscriber, Collector of said Proprietors, at my Dwelling-House in said Lime, at or before the 16th Day of February next; otherwise, so much of their Land will be advertised and sold as may be sufficient to pay the said Tax, with incidental Charges.
EBENEZER GREEN, Collector.
Lime, December 27, 1785.
ROCKINGHAM, ss.  T HE creditors to the estate of DANIEL GORDON, late of Epping, in said county, gentleman, deceased, represented insolvent, are hereby notified that six months from the date hereof, are allowed them to exhibit their claims against said estate; and that the subscribers appointed commissioners to receive and examine said claims, will attend that business, at the dwelling house of Col. Samuel Folsom, inholder in Exeter, in said county, on the second Monday of January next, and the second Monday of the five following months, from 3 to 6 o'clock, P. M.
DANIEL TILTON, } Com- Exeter, SAM'L HOBART, } miss'rs. Dec. 21, 1785. ELIPHALET HALE, }
Choice George's Stone Lime.
ALSO, Double refined LOAF-SUGAR, TO BE SOLD BY Jacob Sheafe, jun'r. PORTSMOUTH, Dec. 14, 1785.
A few Cakes of GENEVA, to be sold, cheap for CASH or CERTIFICATES, by JOHN WENDELL, jun'r. at his Store, Church-Hill. Portsmouth, Dec. 29, 1785.
This is to forbid any Person or Persons from purchasing any Note or Notes of Hand in the possession of Lieut. Thomas Hayes, of New-Durham, against me, the Subscriber; for I will not pay a Farthing to any Person or Persons that may purchase any Note or Notes of Hand, of my signing to said Hayes, from the Date hereof.
THOMAS WATSON.
Dover, December 29, 1785.
State of New-Hampshire.
N OTICE is hereby given to the non resident Owners of Land in the following Towns, viz. Grantham from 1776 to 1785; Holderness from 1780 to 1785; Epping for 1780 and 1781; Windham for 1782 and 1783; New-Ipswich for 1781 and 1783; Petersborough Slip, Allentown, Conway and Wilton for 1783; Thornton for 1783 and 1784; Jeffery, Sutton, Canaan, Andover, Fitzwilliam, Rochester, Saudbornton, Barnstead, Washington, Camels Gore, Loudon, Hanover, Wendell, Northumberland, Hancock, Boscawen, Croyden, and Tamworth for 1784; Wentworth, Warren, Moultonborough, Hillsborough, Washington, Acworth, Antrim, Heniker, Rindge, Stoddard, Fishersfield, and Fitzwilliam for 1785, that their Lands in said Towns are taxed for the Years aforesaid, and if they are not paid within eight Weeks from the first Publication of this Advertisement, to the Collectors or Subscriber, they will be advertised for Sale.
THOMAS O'DIORNE, Receiver of Non-Residents Taxes.
Exeter, Dec. 30, 1785.
Twenty-Eight Dollars Reward.
L OST or stolen from the Stage Coach, on the 17th Inst. between Hampton and this Town, a Trunk, near three Feet long, marked I. R. containing Cloathing and many valuable Papers, &c. of no Use to any Person but the Owner. Whoever has found or can give information of the same, so that it may be recovered, shall be intitled to the above Reward by Mr. JOHN STAYERS and Capt. JOSIAH ROBERTS. Portsmouth, Dec. 21, 1785.
For Sale,
That elegant Seat
in Wolfborough, owned formerly by Gov. Wentworth; With all the Improvements and Additions of Stock, Furniture, Tools, &c.
For further particulars, and the mode of payment, which shall be made easy, apply to JOHN and ANDREW CABOT, of Beverly, or RICHARD CHAMPNEY, of Portsmouth.
Beverly, (Massachusetts) Dec. 16.
All Persons indebted to, or that have any Demands on the Estate of JONATHAN SHAW, late of Brentwood, deceased, are desired to bring in their Accounts to MAYHEW CLARK, of Wakefield, Executor, in order for a Settlement.
N. B. The Executor will wait on the Creditors at the Dwelling-house of the said Deceased, in Brentwood, on the first Tuesday in February, April, and June next.
Wakefield, December 6, 1785.
Strayed or Stolen, on the night of the 19th inst. from the door of Mr. George Lubey, inholder in Greenland, a BLACK HORSE, about nine years old, carries himself handsome, is dull without spurs, had on a new saddle and bridle;—whoever will apprehend the thief, if stolen, so that he may be brought to justice, shall receive ten dollars, or three for the horse, if strayed, together with all necessary charges by ANDREW WIGGIN, jr.
Siratham, Dec. 26, 1785.
[New-Bradford.]
State of New Hampshire,
N OTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors or owners of land, lying in New-Bradford, that so much of their lands will be sold at public vendue, on Tuesday, the 14th day of February next, at 10 o'clock, A. M. at my dwelling-house in said town, as will pay the taxes together with incidental charges, unless prevented by previous payment,—The tax is for the year 1784.
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WILLIAM CLEMENTS, Collector of Taxes for New-Bradford.
New-Bradford, December 23, 1785.
SUBSCRIPTIONS for this paper, at Four shillings & six pence for six Months (exclusive of postage) are taken in at the Printing-Office in Portsmouth and Exeter, where Essays, Letters of Intelligence, Advertisements, &c. are received, and all kinds of Printing performed expeditiously, and at a reasonable Rate.