The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1773-07-16 00:00:00

NEW-HAMPSHIRE AND HISTORICAL
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FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
Friday July 16, 1773.
NO. 874 { Weeks since this Paper was first Publish'd.
Further Proceedings of the Council, &c. in the Massachusetts.
The COMMITTEE now proceed to consider the LETTERS of the Hon. ANDREW OLIVER, Esq; Lieutenant-Governor. HIS Honor's Letter the 7th of May 1767, appears to have been written with Intention to procure the passing an Act or Acts of Parliament to raise a Revenue in America...
In his Letter of the 13th of February 1769, he seems to confirm what he had in the last mentioned Letter suggested of the Utility of sending Troops. He speaks of the quiet Reception they met with at their Arrival as not at all surprising to him...
In his letter of the 12th of August, 1769, he resumes the subject begun in his first letter respecting the necessity of making provision for the support of the Crown officers, and thereby rendering them independent of the People.
That in giving an Account of the Seizure on the 10th of June, 1768, his Excellency erroneously affirmed, that no Endeavours were used the next Day by any Authority, except the Governor, to discover and punish the Offenders...
deserted the Town, his Excellency by his Letter of Aug. 1768, endeavoring to exculpate them, declares that he did not "believe if the Mob had seized them, there was any authority able and willing to have rescued them..."
That his Excellency's letter of the 4th of October, 1768, contains a very exaggerated representation of the disordered state of the province; and greatly tended to inflame the resentment of administration still further against the town and province.
That in the same letter his Excellency unjustly censured the Council, and says of them what had a tendency to bring in them the displeasure of his Majesty for their conduct about quartering the troops...
That his Excellency's letter of the 10th of December, 1768, unjustly censured a number of the council and had a tendency to bring on them the censure of administration for what is represented in the said letter to be their conduct in petitioning parliament for the repeal of the American revenue acts.
That the said representation being greatly erroneous, and reflecting great dishonor on the petitioners, manifestly tended to defeat the prayer of the petition, and would have been at any time unkind and injurious to the province...
That his Excellency, who does not appear to have thought the sending of troops hither, indicated a sufficient resentment, did by his letter of the 20th of Jan. 1769, manifestly approve, and therein intimated the propriety of further marks of resentment to be shewn by parliament either on the province in general, or on particular persons.
That by the same letter it appears it was his Excellency's opinion that other measures than declaratory acts and resolves were necessary to secure the dependence of the Colonies, and strongly recommended such measures; and declares that there must be an abridgement of what are called English liberties.
And from the letters of the Hon. Andrew Oliver, Esq; it will clearly appear.
That he had it in design to promote the passing of acts of parliament for the purpose of raising a revenue in America, with a view to his own personal emolument, and rendering the officers of the Crown dependant of the people.
That by the representation contained in his letter dated 11th May 1768, of the temper of the people, and the want of some effectual support to government, which he speaks of as too weak to subdue their turbulent spirits, he not only had it in his intention, but probably became instrumental to introduce a military force into the province.
And that by representing the Council as wholly under the influence of the populace, in his letter the 13th of February 1769, he intended to prepare the way for the adoption of his plan, proposed in the same letter, for subverting the constitution, and, in a great measure, destroying the Liberties of this People.
And it further appears, That the exaggeration and misrepresentation, contained in the said Letters of Governor Hutchinson and Lieut. Governor Oliver, collectively considered, have had an unhappy Tendency, and have probably operated, to bring upon this Province the displeasure of our Gracious Sovereign; to procure the Armaments, which have been sent hither, and are expressive of it; to prevent a redress of our Grievances, and to alienate the mutual affection, and dissolve the Union, which ought always to subsist between Great-Britain and her Colonies.
Wherefore as duty and loyalty to the King, affection to the Mother Country, and Regard for this Province, must influence the Friends of them to desire the removal of causes productive of such effects, they must influence them to desire the removal of his Excellency Thomas Hutchinson, Esq; and of the Honorable Andrew Oliver, Esq; from the Offices of Governor and Lieutenant Governor of this Province.
And it is the humble Opinion of the Committee that Resolves be passed by the Honorable Board conformable to this Report.
In COUNCIL, June 25, 1773. Read and accepted, and thereupon the Board passed the following RESOLVES.
RESOLVED unanimously, That the Writer of the Letter sign'd Tho. Hutchinson, dated 18 June 1768, in giving an Account of the Seizure on the 10th of the same Month, erroneously affirmed, that no endeavours were used the next day by any Authority, except the Governor, to discover and punish the offenders...
RESOLVED, That the Writer of the Letter sign'd Thomas Hutchinson, dated August 1768, in endeavouring to justify the Conduct of the Commissioners of the Customs when they unnecessarily deserted the Town of Boston, represented the Danger they would have expos'd themselves to by remaining there, the consequent Necessity of their removing from thence, and the Want of further Aid and Support to be given to the Officers of the Crown in general, in such Terms as did excite to the prosecuting a Measure which had been efficaciously recommended to Administration, namely the sending of Regiments into the Metropolis; which has been productive of much Confusion and Bloodshed.
RESOLVED, That the Letter sign'd Tho. HUTCHINSON, dated the 4th of October, 1768, contains a very exaggerated Representation of the disordered State of the Province, and greatly tended to inflame the Resentment of Administration, still further against the Town of Boston in particular, and the Province in general.
RESOLVED unanimously, That in the same Letter the Writer has unjustly censured the Council, making divers groundless Assertions, tending to subject them to the Displeasure of his Majesty, for their Conduct with Respect to providing Quarters for the Troops, and strangely charging them with Ingratitude to Parliament, altho' they strictly followed the Requisitions of the Mutiny Act, and in all their Proceedings attended not only to the Letter, but to the Spirit and Intention of said Act.
RESOLVED, That it appears to this Board that the Writer of the Letter sign'd Tho. HUTCHINSON, dated 10 Dec. 1768, by unjustly censuring a Number of the Council for petitioning Parliament for a Repeal of the American Revenue Acts, had it in Contemplation and in Design to bring on them the Displeasure of Administration, and that it had a Tendency to effect an Alteration in the Constitution of this Province.
RESOLVED unanimously, That the Representation made in said Letter being greatly erroneous, and reflecting great Dishonor on the Petitioners, manifestly tended to defeat the Prayer of the Petition, and would have been at any Time unkind and injurious to this People; but was more especially so at a Time, when all regular approach by Petition to Parliament from hence, had been greatly interrupted by means of Governor Bernard, and other Enemies of the Province.
RESOLVED unanimously, That the Writer of the Letter sign'd Tho. HUTCHINSON, dated 20 Jan. 1769, who does not appear to have thought that the sending the Troops hither indicated a sufficient Degree of Resentment, did by his said Letter manifestly approve, and therein intimated the Propriety of further Marks of Resentment, to be shewn by Parliament, either on the Province in general or on particular Persons.
RESOLVED, That by the same Letter it appears that the Writer gave it as his Opinion, that other Measures than declaratory Acts and Resolves were necessary to secure the Dependence of the Colonies, and that he strongly recommended such Measures, and declared that "there must be an Abridgement of what are called English Liberties."
RESOLVED, That it appears to this Board that the Writer of the Letters sign'd ANDW. OLIVER, had it in Design to promote the passing of Acts of Parliament for the purpose of raising a Revenue in America, with a View to his own Personal Emolument, and rendering the Officers of the Crown independent of the People, in direct Violation of the Charter of this Province.
RESOLVED, As the Opinion of this Board, That by the Representations contained in the Letter sign'd ANDW. OLIVER, dated 11 May, 1768, of the Temper of the People, and the Want of some effectual Support to Government, which in said Letter is alleged to have been too weak to subdue their turbulent Spirits, the Writer not only had it in his Intention, but probably became instrumental to introduce a Military Force into this Province.
RESOLVED unanimously, That the Writer of the Letter sign'd ANDW. OLIVER, dated 13 February 1769, by representing the Council as wholly under the Influence of the Populace, intended to prepare the Way for the Adoption of his Plan proposed in the same Letter, for subverting the Constitution, and, in a great Measure destroying the Liberties of the People.
RESOLVED, That the Exaggerations and Misrepresentations contained in the aforesaid Letters sign'd Tho. HUTCHINSON and ANDW. OLIVER, collectively considered, have had an unhappy Tendency, and have probably operated to bring upon this Province, the Displeasure of our gracious Sovereign, to procure the Armaments which have been sent hither, and are expressive of such Displeasure: to prevent a Redress of our Grievances: and to alienate the mutual Affection and dissolve the Union which ought always to subsist between Great-Britain and her Colonies.
WHEREFORE, As Duty and Loyalty to the King, Affection to the Mother Country, and Regard for this Province, must influence the Friends of them to desire the removal of Causes productive of such Effects: And whereas the mutual Affection which ought ever to subsist between a People and their principal Magistrates, is in this Province totally destroyed by the Conduct of the Governor and Lieut. Governor; as they have entirely lost the Confidence of this People, and are consequently become unsuitable Instruments for promoting the inseparable Interests of the King and his faithful Subjects here:
RESOLVED, That if his Majesty, in his great Goodness shall be pleased to remove his Excellency THOMAS HUTCHINSON, Esq; and the Hon. ANDREW OLIVER, Esq; from the Offices of Governor and Lieut. Governor; it is the humble Opinion of this Board, that it will be promotive of his Majesty's Service and the Good of his loyal affectionate People of this Province.
N. B. There was but one of the foregoing Resolves that had so many as three Dissentients.
Extract of a letter from Ireland, April 21. "Our Country affords no public News of any Sort at present to send you; we have had no Meeting of Parliament since our new Lord Lieutenant, Lord Harcourt came over which was last November, nor is there one expected till next Winter;—the disagreeable Disturbances in the North of Ireland, which I mentioned in my last are all settled, but I hear the Inhabitants, of that Province are emigrating to America in vast Numbers."

Salem, July 13. Last Week Cap. Hooper, in a Schooner belong to this Place, arrived here in 50 Days from Falmouth, who brought an English Paper of the 10th of May, from which the following Articles were taken, viz.
HANOVER, April 27. WE hear from Brunswick, that the regiment of Prince Leopold has, for a certain sum agreed on, entered into the service of Prussia.—That Monarch is raising recruits thro'out the Empire, and the Austrians are doing the same.
Leghorn, April 16. The Captain of a French vessel lately arrived here says, that he was obliged to sail from Marseilles in great haste by reason that on the day of his departure they began taking without regard to persons the Sailors from on board all the merchant ships there, in order to send them to Toulon, to man the thirteen vessels of war and six frigates fitting out at that port.
LONDON, May 6. We hear the King of Prussia has compleated all his regiments, and that they consist of 150,000 choice troops.
The master of a vessel just arrived from Cork, reports, that five sail of French men of war were cruising off Cape Clare on the coast of Ireland the 21st ult.
For this week past no less than five or six expresss have arrived from our Ambassador at Paris, and each contradicting the preceding one.
Orders are given for all the Officers belonging to his Majesty's ships of war to repair to their respective ports immediately.
When the command of the fleet was lately offered to Admiral Saunders, instead of cringing to the M—— to thank them for their intended favour, this brave sailor waited on the King, and told his Majesty, that "although he detested the present Ministry, yet he so honoured his Royal Master, that even oppressed with illness and infirmities as he then was, the arduous task should be accepted, and the service of his King and Country preferred to every other consideration, even life itself."
Lord Clive made a speech in the House of Commons, on Monday last, which lasted near two hours & half, to exculpate himself from the criminal charge bro't against him.
In this speech, his Lordship ironically complimented the vast extent of abilities of Lord North, in limiting the continuance of the territorial acquisitions in the Company's possession for six years. He said, he might call his Lordship the Lion of government, & the India Company the jackall, or lion's provider; that he had already seized upon 3 quarters, & no doubt, but when the lion had been out hunting, and was returning hungry, that the remaining quarter would be seized also, that he stood there an independant man, ready to give government every honorable assistance; that that he would do, and farther would not be expected of him with respect to the East India Company; that he lamented their situation; that they had long been tamper'd with by quaks, even till they were reduc'd to an absolute consumption.
A messenger arrived yesterday from the continent, with such pleasing news to the Ministry, that Lord North is already grown an inch taller, and the King added an extra fiddle to his concert last night.
Orders are given for batteries to be erected on all the forts in Scotland, in case of any attempts to invade those parts.
A Letter from Canton, in China, informs, that a vessel lately sailed along the N. E. coast of Tartary, and in 70 degrees latitude landed several persons to make enquiry; that the natives very much resembled the Americans of Hudson's bay in their features and complexion, and that their dialect was much like that of those of Labrador and Quebec.
May 8. A business, in which the Honour of the K—— will be very materially concerned, and in which it will receive very severe rubs, is expected to come on next week in the House of Commons.
There is sufficient cause to believe that the armistice between the Russians & Turks is prolong'd, and that a peace will be declared before the expiration of three months,
The following, from one of the late London Papers, appears to be a good Account of the State of Europe, and contains the probable Causes of the late warlike Appearances.
WHEN the Dauphin was married to a daughter of Austria, a strict alliance was entered into between the Empress and the Court of Versailles. The principal conditions were, that should Austria during the war between the Russians and Turks, and the disturbances in Poland, think it expedient to send an army into that country to restore to its liberty the Republic, France should assist her with 24,000 men, or a specified subsidy, at the option of the Court of Versailles. Choiseul was then Minister; but when the Emperor, designing to assist the Poles, made a requisition of an immediate observance of the terms of the treaty at Versailles, D'Aguillon, who held the reins of government, scoffed with him, and promised to pay the money at some future period, but absolutely refused the 24,000 men. Count Caunitz, offended at this breach of faith, persuaded the Emperor, though against the inclination of the Empress, to enter into the triple alliance, which has already brought about the division of Poland.
France, alarmed at this league, shewed much desire to enter into an alliance with Great-Britain. Our Ministry, who have long declared their resolution not to interfere with a continental war, and moreover averse to an unpopular union with the House of Bourbon, declared their fixed resolution to observe a strict neutrality in the war which subsists between the Russians & Turks, and which is likely to be kindled between the former and the King of Sweden, who is not only the determined Ally, but even the very Creature of France.
The House of Bourbon, in their rage to assist the Turks and the Swedes, entered into a negotiation with the King of Sardinia, who in consideration of a large subsidy from Spain, has, it is said, consented to join his forces to a Spanish army, and to attack the Italian dominions of the House of Austria. It is also apprehended, from some late memorials presented here by the Prussian Envoy, that his Master is secretly in the interest of France, which he will declare should the Emperor make any motion on the side of Alsace and Lorraine.
The French Court in the mean time have issued orders for the equipment of a fleet at Toulon, and for fitting out another at Brest; The first is intended to exterminate the Russian squadron in the Archipelago; the latter to aid the Swedes in the Baltic, and to facilitate descents upon the Russian territories. In the kind of harmony which has for some time subsisted between us and the French, the latter informed us the other day concerning their two armaments.
By this declaration another wheel was touched, which moves the present preparations. In the Treaty of Commerce concluded between us and Russia a few years ago, there was a secret article, by which we guaranteed the safety of their fleet against the French and Spaniards; and though the Court of Petersburg have not of late shewed the proper attention to us, we are resolved not to depart from our engagements; neither indeed is it our interest to permit the House of Bourbon to parade it thro' the Baltic & Mediterranean without asking them a civil question.
The present fleet is certainly intended for nothing but to be a squadron of observation: yet is apprehended that the House of Bourbon is too far engaged with its Allies, to permit the gathering storm to blow over without breaking.
PHILADELPHIA, June 30.
About twelve Years ago, Thomas England, of this City, Tallow-Chandler, was suddenly missing, but afterwards found floating in the River, and from many Circumstances it was thought that he had made away with himself;—but a few Days ago a Letter was received by our Governor from Virginia, informing him, that a Person had delivered himself up, and says that he having some Words with the said England, on one of the Wharves, struck him with a Stick, which killed him, and then to hide the Murder, he threw his Body into the River; and that he has been wandering ever since a Vagabond, continually tormented by a guilty Conscience.
Several Men were taken up in New Jersey, said to have come there from N. England, being detected in counterfeiting Dollars and Half-Johannes.—One of them named Stephen Waterman, has made a full Confession, by which 13 Persons in different Parts, and Men of Property, appear to be concerned with them. The Dollars made, are of 1758, 1762, and 1766: The Joes not being compleat no other Description can be given of them than that they are all of 1743 and 1761.
We hear from Georgia, that the Congress at Augusta was opened on Monday the 31st of May, and on Wednesday following the Business terminated amicably, and we are told, much to the Satisfaction of the Governor, the Indians having ceded to his Majesty a very large Tract of very fine Lands, containing between 3 and 4,000,000 Acres. About 480 Cherokee, and 240 Creek Indians were present at the Congress.
THE Estate of ELISHA BRIARD, late of Portsmouth, in the County of Rockingham, deceas'd. Intestate, being Represented Insolvent, and the Subscribers appointed Commissioners to Receive and Examine the Claims thereon; they hereby Notify the Creditors to said Estate, that they will attend that Service, at the House of Capt. JACOB TILTON, on the last Monday of this, and the five following Months, from six to nine o'Clock, P. M.
GEORGE HART, } Comm. J. missers. Portsmouth, July 9. 1773.
MASSACHU BY ORDER of the SUPERIOR COURT, SETTS BAY, THIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE to all PERSONS interested in LOT Number Nine in the third Range of the Division of the outer Commons so called, in YORK in the County of YORK, containing one hundred Acres, and consisting of twenty shares, that NATHANIEL DONNELL, Esq; and EBENEZER MCINTIRE have petitioned his MAJESTY'S JUSTICES of the said SUPERIOR COURT, to cause the same LOT to be divided, and seven of the said Shares to be set off to each of them, to hold in severalty;—And that said PETITION will be considered and acted upon at the Superior Court to be held at BOSTON, in the County of Suffolk, on the last TUESDAY of August next, when all Persons interested, may be heard touching the same if they see meet.
PROVINCE of NEW HAMPSHIRE GRAFTON, ss.
§ Conway. §
WHEREAS the PROPRIETORS of CONWAY, in the County of GRAFTON, in the Province of New Hampshire, chose me the SUBSCRIBER Collector to collect the following Sums hereafter mentioned, viz. Seven Shillings on each original Right or Proprietors Share in said TOWN, to pay outstanding Debts and other incidental Charges. One Vote or Grant of Eighteen Shillings on each Right or Proprietors Share to pay the Expense of laying out a Division of one Hundred Acres of Land in said TOWN, and to pay the other Charges that may arise for future Services for said Proprietors; all which was voted the 30th of March 1773 it being in the whole Twenty five shillings Lawful Money on each of said Rights: And whereas I have given proper Notice to said Proprietors in this Paper, to pay the above said TAX to me; and as many of them have neglected to pay the same, this is therefore to Notify those that are thus delinquent, that unless each of them pay the following Sums, viz. Seven Shillings and Three Pence on each common or undivided Right; and Eighteen Shillings and Nine Pence on each first Division, to me the Subscriber, at my Dwelling House in said CONWAY, on or before the sixteenth Day of August next by two o'Clock, P. M. so much of each first Division or common undivided Land will be sold immediately on said Day, at my House aforesaid, as will discharge the said Sums with incidental Charges.
The Delinquents Names are as follows,
Joseph Eastmond, Peter Parker, William Ingils, John Mellen, junr. David Hicks, Richard Ayre, Ebenezer Burbank, Joseph Eastmond, junr. Conway, July 9. 1773. DAVID PAGE, Collector:
[Conway.]
TO THOMAS MERRIL, Esq; Clerk to the Proprietors of Conway in the County of Grafton, and Province of New Hampshire. We the Subscribers and Owners of more than one Eighth Part of said Township, Desire you to call a Meeting of said Proprietors to be held at the Dwelling House of Mr. Joshua Heath, Innholder in said Conway, on the 21st Day of September next, at Two o'clock in the Afternoon, to act on the following Articles, viz. 1. To chuse a Moderator. 2. To see if the Proprietors will give the Mill Privilege on Pudding Brook (so called) to any Person or Persons that shall appear to build a Grist Mill and Saw Mill on said Stream, nigh to Mr. Richard Estman's; and to conclude on what Conditions—Also to see if they will give any more Land, and how much, to the Person or Persons that shall build said Mills. 3. To see if the Proprietors will raise any more Money to finish clearing, Bridging, Causewaying and digging the High Ways in said Town, and how much.—Also to chuse Assessors and Collector to assess and collect said Money and a Committee to do said Roads.
Abial Lovejoy. Moses Estman. Jonathan Cochran. Abiather Estman. Thomas Merrill jun. William Knex. Ebenezer Merrill. William Merrill. Ebenezer Farnham, Benjamin Farnham. David Page, John Wilson. James Osgood, Benjamin Osgood. Richard Estman. Thomas Russell. Grafton, ss Conway. Agreeable to the aforesaid Application I do hereby notify and warn said Proprietors of Conway to meet at the aforesaid Time and Place, for the Purposes aforesaid in the Application. Given under my Hand, this 29th Day of June 1773. THOMAS MERRIL, Pro. Clerk.
TO BE SOLD,
Gunnison's ISLAND,
Near the Ferry on Kittery Side, containing about twenty Acres of choice good Land, with a good House & Barn thereon, with other Buildings: For other Particulars Enquire of Mr. BENJAMIN PARKER, near the Market on Spring Hill, Portsmouth.
A Quantity of new Feathers, very good, if applied for immediately, to be SOLD by JOSEPH BASS, at the SHOP next Door to the PRINTING OFFICE.

A new IMPORTATION of BOOKS
In various ARTS and SCIENCES, To be Sold by JOHN SPARHAWK, At his BOOK-STORE in Queen-Street, The Particulars will be in our next.
EDWARD HACKETT
Has open'd his DANCING SCHOOL For Young GENTLEMEN and LADIES, At the ASSEMBLY-HOUSE, On Thursdays in the Afternoon, and Fridays in the Forenoon, and will continue 'till Nov. next.
PORTSMOUTH, July 15.
About a Fortnight ago, as two Men were together at Co-ox, one having a loaded Gun, the other in attempting to take it from him, it went off and shot the Person through the Knee, who made the Attempt, whereof he died in a Day or two: About the same Time his Brother was drowned in crossing Connecticut River.
DIED.] A Child of Capt. Parrot. A Child of Mr. Jackson. A Child of Mr. Coolum.
By Capt. ISAAC NELSON in the Brig Peggy of this Port in about 40 Days from Bristol, we have the following Ar- ticles from the public Prints.
L O N D O N, May 15.
EXTRACT of a LETTER from Portsmouth, May 14.
"Yesterday Morning about three o'Clock one of the King's Mes- sengers, came down here with Orders to stop the MEN of WAR from returning to Plymouth, and the Frigates from being paid off; and no more Men to be discharged, but on the contrary, for the 15 Sail of the Line to get their full Complement of Men, to take on Board six Months Provisions, and twelve Months Stores, and get ready for Sea with the greatest Expedition."
GOSPORT, May 15. Thursday Morning an Express arriv'd to get the Ships in ordinary ready for Commission, and that they be in Readiness at a Moment's Notice.
CHATHAM, May 15. His Majesty's Ships, Triumph, of 74 Guns, and the Marlborough, of 74, both Guardships at this Port, were under Orders to sail from Hence to the Nore, but an Express arrived here Wednesday Night from the Admiralty, to resist them.
Extract of a Letter of London May 15.
"It is very much suspected in Town, that the Bustle about War is not yet over. By what I can learn the Spaniards have refused to give up their Armament, and insist on maintaining the Preparation of their Fleet; if it is True, it will be necessary for us to send ships to the Mediterranean which our Ministry had planned and countermanded rather too precipitately; and I fear a little Time will prove Matters not so well settled as we had flattered ourselves they were."
Paris, (Capital of France,) May 7. They continue to raise Sailors at Marseilles to Man the Fleet fitting out at Toulon. No French Vessels are permitted to sail from that Port; and 200 Bakers are employed Night and Day, in the seventeen Towers of the Arsenal, in baking Biscuit.
L O N D O N, TUESDAY, May
A Messenger who had been but a few Hours coming from Paris, arrived at the Secretary of State's Office on Saturday Night last; when, it is said, he brought from our Ambassador a Confirmation of the News that has alarmed our Ministry in the Course of last Week: The French, it seems, have actually pursued those Measures they first set out upon, notwithstanding their Assurances to the contrary; but the Spaniards have ex- ceeded them in Insolence, and it is supposed will meet with Chastisement in a few Days, for on Sunday Expresses were sent to Portsmouth and Plymouth, to enter all the Men that came, and to give more Bounty Money than was offered in the late Proclamation.
May 14. Wednesday night a Board of Admiralty was sud- denly held, though Lord Sandwich was in the country. Seve- ral Captains of the Royal Navy received their final orders to go down to the respective ports where their ships lie, tho' they had been permitted but the day before to go into the country on their own private concerns. It is rumoured that this sudden and un- expected turn of affairs is owing to a Courier's arrival from the Court of Versailles on Wednesday, with an account that the Spanish ships have set sail. All is bustle, or business, thro' out the whole department of the Navy. Several messengers were in- stantly despatched to Lord Sandwich, and to the different ports and dock-yards. The Board sat till nine o'clock at night.
V I E N N A, May 6.
The armies which the Emperor has been raising are now completed, embodied, cloathed, and all in full pay, which can- not, at the most moderate computation, cost his Imperial Ma- jesty less than two millions sterling annually; an amazing ex- pence, and it is scarce credible that his treasury will support it.
P A R I S, May 7.
Our ministry have not suspended the equipment of the Tou- lon fleet, as reported; but they continue pressing at Marseilles so warmly that no French vessel is allowed to sail out of that port. Two hundred bakers are employed night and day at the arsenal in making biscuit for the fleet: the last letters from Genoa also bring advice that they had pressed and embarked there for Toulon all the French sailors in that port; and that the Repub- lic of Genoa had likewise permitted all such of her subjects as are mariners to enter into the service of France. No one can guess at the destination of this fleet; but the King has refused the Duke de Chartres, one of the Princes of the Blood, his per- mission to serve on board it, on account of its destination, as the Duchess is pregnant.
L O N D O N, May 21.
The Union, Ashton, from Lisbon, is arrived at Cowes, with her mast and bowsprit sprung. Capt. Ashton took up off the Start-point twenty eight hogheads of Claret; he saw about three or 400 hogheads, but could not flow any more on his deck; a light vessel, bound to Terby, he imagines took up a great number. Some Dutch ship he supposes had foundered.
By letters received by Wednesday's post from Trowbridge Wilts, we are informed of the death of William Temple, Esq; a celebrated political writer, who, among other legacies to his friends, has left Mr. Wilkes 500l.
May 22. Nothing to be depended upon has transpired this week relative to the preparations for war; 15 ships of the line lie ready to sail at Spithead.
The report of Sir Charles Saunders having resigned the com- mand of the fleet, is without foundation. Of the same kind are many other reports that appear in the Papers, particularly that of a certain LADY going mad.
Her Majesty's Pregnancy has been again announced in Form to the Privy Council.
B O S T O N, July 8.
On the 11th ult. a small Vessel loaded with Corn, was overset at Sassafras River in Mary- land, by which Accident Mr. Ralph Mid- dleton, Clerk to Mr. Henry Thompson, and Mrs. Bruce, Wife of Capt. Jonathan Bruce of Baltimore, who were in the Cabbin, were drowned. The rest of the People, four in Number, were saved in a small Canoe.
We just hear that Mr. Thomas Jackson, Son of the late Mr. Thomas Jackson, of this Town, Distiller, was found drowned in Charles River: It is supposed he had been drowned several Days.
A Hat was taken up in the Harbour Yes- terday supposed to belong to a Fisherman, suspected to have fallen out of a Canoe and drowned.
B O S T O N, Monday July 12.
Immediately after the Gust of Wind last Saturday, we had a very refreshing Shower of Rain, attended with Thunder and Light- ning, which we hear struck the Steeple of the Meeting-House at Watertown, and rent it from Top to Bottom, Besides doing con- siderable other Damage to the Building.— The Lightning passed in it's Course down- wards within two or three Feet of a large Chest in the Steeple, which contained the Town Stock of Powder, but fortunately it did not communicate thereto, otherwise it is thought the whole House would have been destroyed.
On Monday the 22d ult. died in Wea- thersfield, Connecticut, the noted Elisabeth Canning, whose Case made a great Noise in England about 20 Years ago, when she was arraigned for wilful and corrupt Perjury; her Trial lasted seven Days, and is con- tained in near 300 Folio Pages of the State Trials, Vol. 10. She was found guilty, but though recommended to Mercy, at the In- stigation of that excellent Citizen, Sir John Barnard, and that her Sentence might be only six Months Imprisonment, she was transported at the Request of her Friends, in August 1754, and has lived ever since in New-England.
The Members of the Sandemanian Church are building a House for publick Worship, in Middle-Street, in the Room of that lately burnt down in Beck-Street.
S A L E M, July 13.
Capt. Hooper informs, that it was report- ed at Falmouth, when he sailed, that the French King was dead.—When off Scilly he saw the side of a Ship which had Port- Holes, and which he supposed to be some Man of War that had been wrecked—In about Lat. 55, Long. 33. a few Leagues to the Westward of the grand Banks, he saw 3 large Mountains of Ice, one of which was above 300 Feet high.
We hear that the Schooner—belong- ing to this Place, and late commanded by Capt. John Masury, is arrived in the West- Indies from the Coast of Africa; and that the Captain and 3 Men were dead; but that the Mate and one Hand, the only Two of the Crew left, performed the arduous Task of navigating the Vessel from the River Gambia to Dominico in 19 Days, having at the same Time Twentyfive Slaves under their Care.
We had some Thunder and sharp Flashes of Lightning, last Saturday Afternoon, by which a Tree on Gallows Hill, a little West- ward of the Town, was shivered and tore into a Thousand Pieces, so that the upper Part of the Trunk resembled a Broom; a Cow was killed at Danvers, about the same Time, by the Lightning.
N E W-P O R T, June 28.
Last Monday as a brig, Capt. Munro, was coming into this harbour, the Mercury's barge was observed to be making to- wards her, when a number of the brig's men took their boat and put ashore at Brenton's Neck, where they were followed by the barge men, who (notwithstanding what some people may say to the contrary) we are assured, fired several muskets at the brig's men, after they had landed; and it is asserted, that some shot went through the people's cloaths; but as they belonged up up the river, and went immediately out of town, we had not an opportunity of getting a particular account from the people them- selves.
N E W-Y O R K, July 1.
Last Monday Morning, a little before Sunrise, a smart shock of an Earthquake was felt at New-Town, Jamaica and Fos- ter's Meadows on Long Island.
On Sunday last was brought to Town, and committed to our Goal, Francis Personel alias Parcels, who stands charged with the
Murder of Robert White, Esq; by coming behind him in the Night Time as he was walking the Street, near St. Paul's Church, about six Weeks ago, and knocking him down with a Club, laid to be the Bar of a Door, by which his Skull was fractured in many Places and he remained Speechless & deprived of his Senses 'till his Death, which happened some Days after.
N E W-Y O R K, June 28.
About 12 months since Mr. Joseph King (who arrived here last Wednesday from S. Carolina) left his residence in Morris Coun- ty, New-Jersey, and travelled by land to Fort Pitt, on the river Ohio; from thence he went down that river to the Mississippi, from that to New-Orleans and Pensacola and back again to the Mississippi, where he explored several rivers that empty in the bay of Mexico: He left the English settle- ments on the Mississippi the 10th day of May last, and says that the inhabitants there were very healthy, the lands good, the Indians friendly, and the settlements in that country daily increasing: that about the 18th May the Connecticut military adventurers, under the command of Col. Putman, left their sloop at New-Orleans, and proceeded up the river, in a barge, in order to pursue their in- tention of making a settlement on the river Mississippi.
N E W-H A V E N, July 2.
Last Saturday John Goodale, a young Man belonging to Glastenbury, bathing in the great River, & venturing beyond his Depth, was unfortunately drowned.
Last Saturday Evening, William Thomp- son, was drowned in the West-River, near the Bridge, where he, & several other young Men, were bathing. His Companions en- deavoured to save him, but they being in a Fright, and the River deep, prevented their giving him any Assistance; his Body was taken up in about four Hours after he was drowned, & several Experiments were try'd to restore him to Life, but they all proved ineffectual. As his Head had received some Hurt, it is supposed that in diving, he struck it against the gravelly Bottom, which was the cause of his unhappy Fate. He was the eldest Child of Capt. Joseph Thompson of this Town, and had nearly completed the Twenty-first Year of his Age.
Q U E B E C, June 10.
On Thursday last, a young Man about 12 Years of Age, named De Cormier, a Student at the Seminary, was drown'd bathing at the Anse des Meres.
The Ship Buchannan, Captain Moody, is arrived at New-York from Glasgow, with 90 Passengers, many of whom are respect- able Persons, who propose settling in this Country.
Charles-Town, (S. Carolina,) June 11.
When the last advices from England came away, the establishment of the new Province on the Ohio, was on the eve of taking place; it is to be called VANDALIA, and the only thing then remaining to be done was the Proprietors giving security to Government for the payment of the civil establishment, estimated at about three thousand pounds sterling a year.
Accounts from South Carolina mention the thriving State of the Vineyards in that Province; that they are well furnished with Grapes; and that next Year a great Deal of Wine, as well as Silk, will be made there. The Progress made in one Year is surpri- sing; of all the Vines planted last March, some of which were brought from Madeira, none have miscarried, but were, the latter End of May in full Growth.
Extract from a late Dublin News-Paper.
"Last Tuesday in the Morning, Mr. Wymacht near this City, was found dead in his Field near his own House almost sense- less, with several Marks of Violence upon him, in which Condition he continued 'till last Saturday Se'nnight and then died, with- out ever having been able to declare any Particulars. The Coroner's Inquest brought in their Verdict wilful Murder against Per- sons unknown."

A NEW PRIVATE SCHOOL
IS now opened in King-Street, next Door to the Hon. MARK WENTWORTH, Esq; where the Subscriber proposes to teach the LATIN and GREEK Languages; also the HEBREW Language in the modern Way, without regarding the Vowel Points, and by an English and Hebrew Grammar, whereby the Difficulties formerly in the way of learning that Language are in a great Measure removed, and a competent Knowledge of it may be easily and expeditiously acquired by young Lads, without learning either Latin or Greek. He proposes likewise to teach the Rudiments of English Grammar, and to apply the Rules of it in a Course of Reading some of the best English Writers, with a View to enable Boys to read and write the Language with Propriety. WRITING and ARITHMETIC will also be taught. Any who attend the School may be instructed in any ONE, or ALL the Branches abovementioned, as shall be agreeable to their Parents or Guardians.
DANIEL HUMPHRYS.
Portsmouth, July 7. 1773.
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, STRAFFORD, S.
§ East-Town. §
THE PROPRIETORS of EAST TOWN, so called, in said County, are hereby Notified to meet at the Dwelling House of Capt. DAVID COPPS, in said East Town, on Tuesday the 27th Day of July Instant, at ten o'clock before Noon. 1. To chuse a Moderator to regulate said Meeting. 2. To chuse all Proprietors Officers that's thought necessary. 3. To see if the Proprietors will vote to receive the Return of the Committee that was chose to lay out Roads, and confirm them, and to see if they will vote the vacant Roads or common Lands joining to these Persons Lands that have their Land cut by the Roads, as Satisfaction therefor, or what other Satisfaction they will make. 4. To see what other Roads the Proprietors will vote to lay out and clear; and to see if the Proprietors will vote to run the Range Lines in the first Division that are not run, and to bound such Lots in said Division as are not bounded. 5. To see if the Proprietors will vote to make any suitable Compensation to the present Owners of such Lots in said Town, as are short Measure, by Reason of said Lots being partly laid out in certain Ponds. 6. To see what Money the Proprietors will vote for PREACHING this Summer, and to see what Encouragement they will give towards the Settlement of a MINISTER in said EAST-TOWN. 7. To see if the Proprietors will vote any thing further toward finishing the Meeting House in said Township. 8. To chuse all Committees that are thought needful. 9. To see what Money the Proprietors will vote to raise this Season, and transact any other Business that may be thought necessary. And all concern'd, are desir'd to attend at time and place aforesaid.
By Order of the Committee, JOHN GAGE, junr. Proprietors Clerk. Dover, July 8. 1773.
TO BE SOLD,
A Right of Land in Chichester, in New Hampshire, containing two Hundred Acres, more or less, belonging to the Estate of Col. THOMAS WESTBROOK, late of Falmouth deceased, to the Person or Persons that will give most for the same, on the 29th Day of September next, at the House of Mr. Jacob Tilton, Innholder in Portsmouth, by ENOCH FREEMAN, Administrator on said Estate. June 30th 1773.
|| Alstead. ||
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, CHESHIRE, S. WHEREAS the PROPRIETORS of the TOWN of ALSTED, in said County, at Four legal Proprietors Meetings, have voted to raise EIGHT DOLLARS upon each Right or Share of Land in said Alstead, to be laid out to make and mend High Ways in said Alstead: These are therefore to Notify the said Proprietors to pay the aforesaid TAXES to me the Subscriber, at my Dwelling House in said Alstead, at or before the 20th Day of August next, otherwise so much of their Lands will be Advertised and Sold as will pay the same, with the Charges.
ABSALOM KINGSBURY, Collector. July 1. 1773.
Cash to be given for a good new MILCH COW. Enquire of the Printer.
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, STRAFFORD, S.
§ Middletown. §
THE PROPRIETORS of MIDDLETOWN, so called, in said County, are hereby Notified to meet at the House of Lt. ISAAC DREW, Innholder in said Town, on Wednesday the 28th Day of July Inst. at ten o'clock in the Forenoon, to act on the following Articles, viz. 1. To chuse a Moderator to regulate said Meeting. 2. To see what Sum the Proprietors will vote to be laid out this Year, on the GOVERNOR'S ROAD, so called, in said Town. 3. To hear the Request of NICHOLAS AUSTEN, and to see whether the Proprietors will exchange with him the School Lot, in the second Division for the Lot No. 73, in the second Division in said Town. 4. To see where the Proprietors will clear out the Road that goes by the Saw Mill, out to the main Road so that Teams may pass well, and fit it so as to haul Boards. 5. To see what the Proprietors will do concerning the Lots in the first Division, where, as the Bounds and the Point of Compass do not agree, that a Committee may be chosen to run the Lots where Bounds and the Point of Compass do not agree, and make Report to the Proprietors as soon as may be. 6. To receive the Committee Accounts who were to finish the Meeting House the last Year. 7. To see what PREACHING this Year the Proprietors will vote to be in said Town. 8. To see what the Proprietors will vote relative to finishing the Meeting House in said Town. 9. To see what Sum of Money the Proprietors will vote to be raised this Year. 10. To chuse a Committee to call the Collector and all the former Committees heretofore chosen to an Account, to see what they have done with the Proprietors Money they have collected, in Behalf of said Proprietors. All concerned are desired to attend at time and place aforesaid.
By Order of the Committee, JOHN GAGE, junr. Proprietor Clerk. Dover, July 8. 1773.
[Cardigan.]
WHEREAS APPLICATION is made to me the Subscriber, one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Hillsborough, in the Province of New Hampshire, by more than one Fifth Part of the Proprietors of the Township of CARDIGAN, in said Province, for a Meeting of said Proprietors to be warned, &c. in order to do and transact the following Business, viz. 1. To chuse a Moderator and Clerk, and any other Officer or Officers necessary for said Propriety. 2. To reconsider and confirm or alter any former Vote or Votes heretofore passed by said Propriety. 3. To agree upon some Way or Method of warning the Meeting or Meetings of said Propriety for the future, and to do and transact any other Matter Necessary and Proper.
These are therefore to warn and give Notice to all the Proprietors of said Township of CARDIGAN, to meet at the Dwelling House of Elisha Pain, Esq; in said Cardigan, on Thursday the fifth Day of August next, at Ten of the Clock A. M. to transact the Business aforesaid. Dated at Hollis, the 24th Day of June, 1773. SAMUEL HOBART, Just. Pac.
The JUDGE of PROBATE,
For the County of Rockingham, gives Notice, That he proposes to hold a Court of PROBATE at EXETER, on the last Wednesday of July Instant, being the 28th Day of said Month, at the House of Mr. Theodore Carlton, Innholder in said Town.
Portsmouth, July 7th, 1773.
Whereas Hannah the Wife of me the Subscriber, has eloped from me, and refuses to live with me; this is to forbid any Person crediting her on my Account, as I will not pay any Debts by her contracted. SOLOMON DAVIS, Nottingham June 29th 1773.
Quit-Rent.
THE RECEIVER of His MAJESTY'S QUIT RENTS, gives this public Notice, that He is collecting the Names of all Delinquents in the several Towns where the said Quit Rents are become due, and that at the next Superior Courts, he shall be obliged to sue them all without Respect of Persons.
JOHN HURD: New-Hampshire, July 1, 1773.
A young Negro Woman,
To be Sold, warranted healthy, sober, and honest, also notable in a Family. The lowest price £ 50. Enquire of the Printer.
NEW-HAVEN, July 2.
Last Tuesday, in the Afternoon, we had a fine Shower of Rain, attended with considerable Thunder, Lightning and Wind. At Amity, (a Parish belonging to this Town) the Wind was very violent, and we are told has done much Damage, by blowing down Trees, Fences, &c. and where the Lightning kill'd a Yoke of Oxen, belonging to one Mr. Prudden of Milford.
At Baltimore and Frederick Counties they had on the 10th & 11th of June, a considerable Fall of Snow, succeeded by a Frost, which greatly damaged the Corn & Tobacco BOSTON, July 8.
Last Saturday se'nnight, as Mr. Abraham Shearman, of Dartmouth, was crossing Cushing river in a boat, with another man & a boy, he fell overboard and was drowned; his body was taken up about an hour after. This is the seventh person drowned in said river in about 12 months. He has left many children, & a disconsolate widow, who has had the misfortune to lose one husband before this in the same way.
DROWNED.] At Halifax, Louis Turner, an Apprentice to Mr. Lloyd of that Place.
At New-York, A young Man of a respectable Family, named Jeffers, being in Company with others sailing to Staten Island, he offered a Wager that he could swim ashore before the Boat could get there, jumped overboard, and sunk down before any Help could be afforded him. A Lad belonging to Capt. John Lawrence inward-bound to New-York, fell over & was drowned. The Wife of one Duncan Duffee, having been for some Time disturbed in Mind, wandered away and was found drowned two Days after.
Just Imported
In the Brig Laurel from Philadelphia, and to be Sold by JOHN EVANS, Fresh Flour at Nineteen Shillings, The best Ship-Bread at Twenty Shillings, Bar-Iron at Twenty five Shilling pr. Hund. Also Maryland and Pennsylvania Corn at Three Shillings & Three Pence pr. Bushel. Said EVANS has also for Sale, Pork, Rice, Salt and Sugar.
Also a Quantity of choice COTTON WOOL just arriv'd and to be sold by said Evans,
Portsmouth, June 29, 1773.
§ Rumford, alias Concord. §
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Rockingham, S. WHEREAS the PROPRIETORS and OWNERS of a Tract of LAND, formerly called RUMFORD, now CONCORD, in said County, at a Meeting legally held the fifteenth Day of March last; voted that a TAX of six POUNDS Lawful Money should be raised on each original Right in said CONCORD to make a Settlement with the Proprietors of BOW, MASON'S PATENT and CANTERBURY. And the said TAX hath been assessed in Manner following, viz.
   £. s. d.     On each House Lot, 0 2 6   Six Acre Lot, 0 11 6   Five Acre Lot, 0 11 6   Twenty Acre Lot, 0 10 6   Eighty Acre Lot, 2 2 6   Undivided Land belonging to each Right 2 2 0   £. 6 0 0  
And the said ASSESSMENT with a Warrant to collect the same, hath been committed unto me the Subscriber. THIS IS THEREFORE TO NOTIFY said PROPRIETORS, and all PERSONS claiming LAND under them in said CONCORD, that unless they pay their respective Proportions of said TAX to me, at or before the last Day of July next; so much of their Land will be advertised and sold (as the LAW directs) as will pay the same, with incidental Charges.
TIMOTHY WALKER junr. Collector. Concord, June 18. 1773.
ALL PERSONS Indbted to, or that have Demands on the Estate of Capt. Robert Stockle, late of Portsmouth, deceased, are desired to bring in their Accounts to William Fernald and Mary his Wife, who was Administratrix to said Estate, in order for an immediate Settlement.