The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1770-09-14 00:00:00

NEW-HAMPSHIRE AND HISTORICAL CONTAINING the Freshest ADVICES
THE G. R. GAZETTE, CHRONICLE, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
Vol. XIV.
Friday Sept. 14, 1770.
NUM. 726 { Weeks since this Paper was first Publish'd. }
The two following Pieces taken from one of the last New York News Papers, are well wrote, contain many Truths, and worthy a Place in every Gazette.
MR. GAIN, A PUBLICATION having made its appearance in your last paper containing a relation of the proceedings at a "meeting of the trade at Faneuil-Hall in Boston," in consequence of a letter to a committee of merchants in that town, signed by Messieurs Isaac Lowe, Henry Remsen, jun'r. Thomas Walton, and John Harris Cruger, which proceeding, if truly related, imply, as I conceive, unmerited censures upon those gentlemen in particular, and in general upon the committee and body of merchants in this town; permit me to state that matter in its true light:---It is said that at this meeting the above-mentioned letter was read, informing that a majority of the inhabitants of New-York, were for an importation of goods, and that many orders had been actually forwarded; but as this intelligence was not sufficiently AUTHENTICATED, as the said four persons had not even DECLARED themselves to be AUTHORIZED to give this information, either by the standing Committee or any other Body, said letter was regarded as design'd to impose upon this and the other American colonies, &c. And then follows the sentence which was passed and executed at this "as full a meeting of the trade at Faneuil-Hall as ever was known."---It was therefore voted unanimously, That the said letter in just indignation, abhorrence and detestation, be forthwith torn into pieces and thrown to the winds as unworthy of the least notice." That the consistency of the above remarks as well as the propriety of this sentence may appear in their genuine colours, I beg leave to state the following facts.---That the said four gentlemen are, and have from its first institution been members of the standing Committee of Merchants of this City, and to exclude the supposition of this being unknown to the gentlemen in Boston, their names have not only been printed in the public news-papers as such, and particularly that of Mr. Low, as chairman of that Committee, but also several letters wrote to the said Committee, have been signed by some or all of those gentlemen, and those letters actually answered by the Committee in Boston, and the authority of the letter-writers recognized, tho' no declaration was contained in them of their being "AUTHORIZED" to write those letters, and without a farther "AUTHENTICATION" of the genuineness of them, than merely the signature of their names. Further it is also observable, that in writing to the several Committees, the Committee of this city have not been restricted to any particular mode, with respect to the number of signers or the individuals who were to sign their letters, but as to convenience has directed the subscribers have been different in different letters. The one now under consideration passed thro' the usual formalities of being read in the Committee, and approved of by all the then members of it; it was also wrote in the same hand-writing with the other letters, and to detain it longer for more signers was tho' unnecessary, as that number had answered the end heretofore, and we were desirous of giving our brethren, the earliest advice of what was done by the inhabitants in general, and not by the Committee as has been either ignorantly or impudently insinuated by the wise men of the EAST, whose prevaricating conduct respecting the non-importation agreement, I could fully expose, did not charity and universal benevolence (aliens to a republican breast) dictate the contrary. Combining these circumstances with two passages in the letter so grossly abused, in these words.--- "In pursuance of the printed advertisement inclosed you by our last express we are directed to acquaint you, &c. And also, we are ordered to give you the most early advice of this event"---and comparing the whole with the proceedings of the Bostonians upon it, one cannot but be amazed at the inconsistent and pueril proceedings of them. A conduct like this, instead of adding weight and importance to their determinations, makes them sink into insignificance. Instead of justifying their arrogance in presuming to dictate to others, they themselves become the objects of contempt. These observations cannot be thought inapplicable, when 'tis considered that at as full a meeting as ever was known at Faneuil-Hall---an introduction so pompous as would forebode some matters of the utmost importance to the cause of America---this respectable meeting voted, that a letter from the Committee of New-York should be torn to pieces and thrown to the winds. It were indeed much to be wished for their honour, that those gentlemen had left the students of Nassau-Hall singular in the performance of this ingenious sentence---a sentence more becoming the tender years of these young gentlemen, than the inhabitants of a place which arrogates itself the lead in all matters of importance. Nor can it escape observation that instead of entering into a number of ostentatious resolutions of religiously observing their agreement, those gentlemen would have been more commendably employed, had they taken effectual measures to carry those resolutions into execution, a circumstance which in their much speaking they seem intirely to have overlooked. Were it not for this kind of behaviour in them, and had they acted up to the principles they pretended to avow; instead of so repeatedly resolving what to do, had they done what they resolved, they would not be reduced to shelter themselves under those paltry equivocations and trifling subterfuges to which of late they have had recourse for a justification of their conduct; the pretence of entertaining scruples of the authenticity of letters in question, is an infamous prevarication, an aberration from the truth, twisical and jesuitical, truly characteristic of the people.
Introductory of the following addressed to the Printer, we are desir'd to Remark, that the Non-importation Agreement never existed in Quebec, Nova-Scotia, or New-Hampshire, : That it hath not been observed, tho' avowedly adopted, by Massachusetts and Rhode-Island--- Must have operated to little, if any Purpose, in Connecticut & New-Jersey, who are supplied by their Neighbours.---Was acceded to by Pennsylvania near nine Months later than by New-York. :---And that the Restraints, partially imposed in Maryland, Virginia, and the Carolina's left them at Liberty to introduce every necessary Article, even if liable to Duty, While the Ports of Georgia, remain'd constantly open to a free Importation.
MR. GAIN, AS the Persons who signed the late Agreement for an Importation have been represented in the different Provinces as to so many Catalines, and as they so readily gave up the List of their Names to be published, which Action most certainly implied an
Unconscionableness of Guilt, I took it for granted, that we should have had, before this Time, a Defence of their Conduct. Whether they chuse to pass by, with silent Contempt, the illiberal Treatment they have met with, or whether they intend to wait until their Enemies have vented their Rage, and begin to speak & write as Gentlemen and Persons in the sense, I know not.---For my own Part, I am not willing to be longer silent, and to refrain from acquainting the World with the Reasons that influenced me to subscribe for an Importation.---I am not ashamed to confess my having signed this Agreement;---No! I glory in what Inconsideration and Party Malice may impute to me a Crime; for if an Action proceeding from a thorough Conviction of its Propriety and Necessity; if an Action performed from no View of Advantage, but of that Advantage which my Country might reap by it; cannot possibly involve me in Guilt, I may yet hold up my Head and demand an Audience at the Bar of the Public; and let any Person, if he can, after seriously considering the Reason which, as an Individual, I shall offer in Justification of my Conduct, lay his Hand on his Heart and declare, that he believes no Person could be influenced by them, but an Enemy of his Country.
But let it not be understood that I mean to submit my Cause to the Decision of the illustrious TRADE of the Great Town of Boston. I look upon these People to be entirely out of the Question, and therefore I do not desire to be judged by them;---for nothing has equalled my Detestation of their Conduct, from the very Beginning of the Altercation between Great-Britain and the Colonies, but my Admiration of their Ingenuity in preventing themselves so long from sinking into utter Contempt.---I do not accuse them of Defection, because it would imply their having, at some Time, adhered to the Agreement, which I absolutely deny;---What I have to desire of them, is, that they would not interfere in the present Case, but stand aside, and permit me to be judged by honest Men.
What Pains have been taken, what Arts have been used by a Number of wretched Racketeers to place in an odious Light, the late Conduct of the greater Part of this City?---What terrible Anathemas have these sounding Nothings denounced from the Press against us!---With what amazing Industry has the wretched Faction in this City drawn up Resolves for all the little Towns around us, and sent the motley Product of their addled Brains to be signed and published by the deluded People who are actuated by Zeal without Knowledge!---What woeful Lamentations have we heard concerning the Disolution of the Union of the Colonies, & the Cause of Triumph given by us to a despotic Ministry. One would think by their Expressions that there never had been the least Jealousy nor Animosity subsisting between the Colonies; that they had just hitherto been of one Mind; that the Agreement had never been infringed by either of them; that they entered into it together, jointly, and on equal Terms:---No Person would suppose that one of these had been drawn into the Agreement with the most extreme Reluctance; that at the most critical Time, in the very Bud of our Hopes, this Colony, dead to every Sense of public Virtue, shamefully held back nigh a Twelve-month, and protracted a Work which might otherwise have been finished long since;---No Person would imagine that the greater Part of the Merchants of that Colony, sensible of the Expediency of an Importation at this Time, are withheld and terrified from delivering their Sentiments, and acting for the Good of their Country, by the Menaces of a few turbulent overbearing Persons, whose Interest it is to prevent an Importation forever!---No Person would imagine that another of these Colonies has unremittingly, and invariably Imported almost as many Goods as ever!---O glorious Union! O hopeful Measure, as thou hast been managed, to procure a Redress of Grievances!---Will not Poverty be greatly at a Loss to find an Epithet sufficiently disgraceful for the Persons who violated thee!---Will not the names of a Greenville, a Bute, and a Yorke, be hereafter Synonymous and of the same Import?---For the latter refused nobly to starve for the Good of his Country, and to permit his honest Neighbours, in the mean Time, to laugh at his Niceness, and to enrich themselves by his Credulity and Folly!---Can any thing in Nature be more absurd than the Assertion of our giving Cause of Triumph by our Conduct to the Ministry?---Has not the Patron of America openly declared, that if we were not satisfied by the late Repeal he would give us up?---Will not our late Resolution therefore afford Cause of Triumph to him?---Have not the Ministry constantly used as a Reason for coercive Measures, that we were an obstinate People, never to be satisfied? Will our present Behaviour justify this Assertion? Will it not rather shew that we are not desirous of wontonly contending with Great-Britain, but that we are willing to relax in Proportion to their Concessions?---Let the impartial World judge!---These are to me, sufficient Answers to all Objections of this Nature that have been suggested, & the Reasons which induce me, although a Non-Importer, to think an Importation at this Time expedient, are the following.
BECAUSE, in the first Place, I look upon the late Alteration of the Schemes of the Ministry, manifested to us by the Repeal of Part of the Revenue Act, to be a sufficient Justification of our altering our Measures also; and if any Change is proper, I conceive, an Importation of all Articles that are not dutiable to be preferable to a partial Importation of such Articles, because the Latter would suppose our being influenced by Necessity and not by Choice, and would argue our Incapacity to do without them;---the former would imply that we were solely induced by the Partial Repeal to change our Measures, and that if there had not been a Repeal our Agreement would have been inviolate. SECONDLY, Because I think the Duty remaining on Tea should not prevent our importing every other Article; as it is a Matter of the most trivial Consequence to us imaginable, whether we ever import an Ounce of Tea from Great-Britain again or not.---Suppose the present Ministry, who are so famous for their profound Knowledge of each Colony, should in their Wisdom think fit to impose a Duty, as a Rod to be held over us, on some Article which we have never had, and never can have Occasion to import from them?---Suppose they should place a Duty on all the Bar Iron and Timber hereafter exported from Great-Britain to the Colonies; would not their Behaviour therein rather excite our Ridicule than Resentment? Would not our Conduct be to the last Degree absurd, if we should permit ourselves to be restrained from importing by so preposterous a Tax? As absurd is it to withhold our Orders because a Duty remains on an Article which we have as little Need of from England as we have for its Iron and Timber. I knew it will be said that
the Duty remains on Tea for the Purpose of raising a Revenue, and that, therefore, we ought not to import until it is taken off;---But are there not other Acts equally oppressive, now in Force against us, which are not the least Bar in the Way of an Importation? Is there not Reason to suppose that our Liberties will be more affected by a Tax which we have constantly submitted to, than by one which we have taken the most effectual Measures to render of no effect? Can our Rights and Privileges be injured by a Tax if we neither consent to it nor pay it? Have we not unanimously resolved not to import Tea, until it is cleared of the duty? Is it not notorious that this mode of opposing the Revenue Act, in Point, by omitting only the Articles on which a Duty was imposed, would have been adopted at first by all the Colonies, if it had not been as easy for them to have dispensed with all Kinds of British Goods as with those Articles on which a Duty was so artfully imposed?---And shall a model Difference in Opinion, shall a Dispute between the East-India Company and the British Ministry, stir up, inflame, intoxicate with Wrath our deluded Brethren, and excite them to fall on us like hungry Wolves? to insult, abuse and vilify a Colony, whose Conduct has ever been a Glory on their Heads; to create in our Breasts towards them the most deadly Resentment, Detestation, and Thirst for Revenge!---Tell it not in Scotland!---Publish it not in the Streets of London!---Least the Bute's and the Greenville's should shout for Joy!---And least our most bitter Foes should say,---Behold! we have divided them, and therefore sudden Destruction is come upon them! THIRDLY, Because it is my firm Belief, that at the Time the Sense of Boston and Philadelphia was required, the major Part of the Inhabitants of those Places were for an Importation in the Manner proposed. Let it not be answered, that the Sense of the Town Meetings was the Sense of the different Places where they were held; there is not a Child in this Place who has ever seen one of those doughty Meetings, but would laugh in the Person's Face who would make such an Assertion. What Reason induced the several Committees, to whom we applied to refuse taking the Sense of their People by a general and regular Subscription?---The same Reason that prompted a few wretched Quixotes of this Place, to resolve in solemn Meetings, that the Opinion of the Inhabitants of this City respecting Importation should not be taken:---because they knew a Majority was for the Measure. FOURTHLY, Because the general Agreement of the Colonies not to import Goods from Great-Britain, has been entirely frustrated and rendered useless by the vile and scandalous Behavior of the Town of Boston, & other Places contiguous to it, where, as into a Breach made in a Citadel, our Enemies have from the Time we first entered into the Agreement until this Day, continually poured in their Goods, and rendered all our Struggles abortive.---Notwithstanding their high Pretences, the frequent glorious Resolves, the Town of Boston has been the Common Sewer of America, into which every Beast that brought with it the unclean Thing has disburthened itself!---If they had been in earnest and did not intend to import, why did they not absolutely prohibit the Commanders of their Vessels from receiving any Goods in Great-Britain, as was done by the other Colonies?---Why did they chuse to have the Goods brought to their Town?---Was it that they might have the Pleasure of sending them all back again?---Or was it that a Residue thereof might remain in the great Town?---Have not the Friends of Liberty both in England and America, continually upbraided them?---Have not the former declared, that at the Time the Parliament had the American Revenue Act under Consideration, the List from the Custom House of the Exports to the Town of Boston, absolutely prevented the Act from being entirely repealed?---And are these the very Men who are now so desperate angry with the New-Yorkers!---Are these the People who have lately determined and resolved---in full Meeting of the Trade, that our Letter should be rent, and also torn into Pieces, and cubirled and scattered in the Air!---For Shame ye Hypocrites! Sneak into your Holes!---Hide your Heads!---Consider what you have done, and whether there is therefore any Propriety in what you are now doing! Notwithstanding it was the Opinion of the Inhabitants of this City, when they heard that the Act was partly repeal'd, that an Alteration in our Agreement was expedient and proper, and that this could be done without wounding our Liberties, as we might hold up our Right as high as ever, by refraining from importing the Articles on which a Duty remained; yet, if the Town of Boston had not basely revolted, if their Conduct had not rendered our Pretensions to support an infringed, violated, broken Agreement, absurd and ridiculous;---Or, if the Citizens of New-York had imagined their Endeavours to preserve the scattered Remains of this Agreement from falling to Pieces might have been of Service to their Country; on the Contrary, if they had not supposed her political Salvation depended on its being altered---they would have starved and perished before they would have proposed an Alteration!---With their Consciences approving their Intentions; with their Hearts impregn'd with Love to their Country; with their Eyes fixed on no other Object but her Welfare, they have delivered their Sentiments with manly Freedom; nor at any Time have their Actions given the Lye to their Professions---Equally despising the pointless Shafts of Ignorance and of Party Spleen, they chuse rather to forfeit the long suspected Friendship of their selfish Neighbours, than to preserve it by those detestable Artifices for which the Town of Boston will be infamous until the Memory of their late Transactions is rotten and lost in Oblivion!
These are the Reasons which induced me to agree to the late Measures adopted by this City. As I had no Intention of importing;---as I was uninfluenced, unsolicited, it must be supposed that I followed the unbiaffed Dictates of my Judgment and Conscience---I considered my giving my Voice to be a Matter by which my Country may be affected:---I paused!---I laid my hand on my Heart, and examined myself whether I had any Doubts concerning what I was about performing:---I signed on the clearest Conviction that in so doing I discharged my Duty, and assisted in saving my Country. And let any Man, in the Hour of cool Reflection, seriously, dispassionately and impartially weigh my Conduct by the Reasons I have offered in its Justification. Let him judge whether they are not important: Whether an honest Man might not have been influenced by them: Whether they would not have influenced him, if he had fully considered them, and been in my situation, I feel, in reviewing my Conduct, that inward Satisfaction which is always the Reward of a well-intended Action; which he who

doubts of what he has done, or has no doubts of its Villeness, can never experience---The blind Followers of Faction may indeed, in the Height of Exultation, while the Trumpet of Discord is sounding the Alarm, perceive a momentary Flash of Joy kindle in their Breast but it expires when the Voice of their Ring-leaders is not more heard, leaving a melancholy Damp in its Room. The aspiring Demagogue, whose unprincipled Actions originate from a Thirst for Pre-eminence and popular Applause, who, if he could thereby gratify the Mob would root up Order and Distinction, unhinge the Portals of Government, trample on the Laws, and restore all Things to their pristine Level, may feel a gloomy Satisfaction while in the midst of his noisy Crew;---but black Despair seizes hold of his Heart, when awful Conscience, in the silent Hour, arraigns him, and gives his Crimes a Name!---The latent Villain; the undermining, whining, professing Wretch, who secretly glorious in his Wickedness, while he enjoys the Profits of it; who keep his Conscience, at Bay, will sooner or later find that restless Monitor too strong for him, and will sink at the dreadful View when his broad Crimes are laid open before him! He alone who carefully investigates his Duty, and guides his Actions by his Sense of what he ought to do;---He alone will experience that sweet Serenity, that gentle Joy, that Peace of Conscience which follows the virtuous Men through Life, supports him in Death, and attends him where his Actions are no longer denominated by the Multitude, but where their Intention and their Value will alone be, for ever, their unalterable and unerring Criterion.
CORIOBANUS.
New-York, August 27, 1770.
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S A L E M, September 11.
Captain Derby in the Ship Minerva , belonging to this Place, who arrived here last Sunday, left London on the 11th of July, and Torbay on the 22d, and has brought public Prints from the 2d to the 11th of that Month, from which the following fresh Advices are extracted.
L O N D O N, July 2.
S ATURDAY the new Lord Mayor, (Mr. Alderman Trecothick) attended by several of the Aldermen, and the Sheriffs Town-end and Sawbridge, with the city officers carrying the regali, went in state to Westminster-hall, and was sworn in before the Barons of the Exchequer, after which his Lordship paid his compliments to the several other courts of law who were sitting, and then returned in the same state, to the Mansion-House, where an elegant entertainment was provided on the occasion for the worshipful company of clothworkers (of which his Lordship is a member) and the Aldermen who went in the procession, viz. Stephenson, Turner, Crosby, Wilkes, Kirkman, and Bird, and the two Sheriffs. Saturday evening the remains of the Right Hon. William Beckford, late Lord Mayor of London, were interred at Fonthill in Wiltshire. The church was hung in black, with silver sconces double gilt. A funeral Sermon was preached by his Lordship's Chaplain, and the vault in which the body was interred was illuminated with wax-lights, in large branches, during the performance of the burial service. His Lordship's tenants attended in deep mourning, and six country labourers, to whom his Lordship has left each a suit of grey coarse cloth, and five shillings, were the bearers of the corpse.
Saturday evening a dumb peal was rung on Bow-bells, Cheap-side, on account of the interment of the late Lord-Mayor.
After the Recorder on Friday had declared the choice of the Aldermen to have fallen on Mr. Trecothick, the Lord Mayor elect addressed the Livery thus:
"Gentlemen, Whilst I return my thanks to you for the honor you have conferred upon me, I cannot forget the mournful occasion of it. My own particular loss is great; but I know not where you will be able to repair yours. The late Lord Mayor had great natural and great acquired abilities; he had a very ample fortune, with a spirit and firmness which enabled him to render you services, which I scarce know to whom to look for now. I think his memory and his actions will ever be dear to the citizens of London. I am obliged to you for chusing me your Lord-Mayor; but I could with you had not gone out of the usual course to elect me for these three or four months. I think Sir Henry Bankes is a very worthy gentleman, and with him he had been chosen. I shall be careful and impartial in the administration of the economy and laws and functions of my office as chief magistrate....Whoever has any property or connexions, or any thing of that sort, ought to be very careful to have the laws observed: for my part, I shall do my duty, without any regard to any political reasons, or any thing of that sort. I shall do my endeavour to observe strictly the laws, but it will be in your Power only, my fellow-citizens, that I may do it with effect."
This address was received with some applause, tho' some of the Livery seemed not very well to relish the compliment paid to Sir Henry Bankes so close after the compliment to Mr. Beckford. They thought it polite enough to pay compliments indiscriminately to all sorts of men, but they could not reconcile it to themselves in fact how Mr. Beckford should be so very good sort of a man, and at the same time that Sir Henry Bankes, who acted always in direct opposition to him, should be so good sort of a Man likewise. Plain men cannot easily bring themselves to any thing of that sort.
A gentleman in St. James's-street received a letter lately from a friend of his at Port Egmont, in Falkland Island, dated March 1, 1770, which makes not the least mention of the Spaniards having been there with an armed force to demand restitution of that island.
The paragraph in the papers, mentioning the arrival in the river of the Lion, Parnassus, and Speedwell, from Boston, with their cargoes, as ship from England, is void of Foundation, and a gross imposition on the public.
July 4. The ministry, it is said, received very disagreeable News from North-America by the Packet, which arrived on Monday from New-York.
Monday an Express arrived at Lord Hillsborough's Office from his Excellency General Gage, commander of his Majesty's Land Forces in North America.
It is reported that a certain great Naval Officer has signified his Intention of continuing no longer at the Head of his Department, unless vigorous measures should be speedily adopted to put the Navy of this kingdom upon a respectable Footing.
It was Yesterday reported, that there has been a general Engagement between the Russians and Turks, in which the latter were defeated with great Slaughter.
Two Men of war of the line, it is said, are ordered to sail with dispatch to reinforce the Squadron at Newfoundland: they are to take on board two companies of foot, and a quantity of ordnance and other Stores, for the Garrison at Placentia.
An exact List of the whole French and Spanish marine, has lately been procured at a considerable Expence, and which, it is said, has been the Cause of an Augmentation of our Naval Force.
By the last Packet from Lisbon, it is said that the hostile intentions of that Court against the Subjects of Great-Britain, were but too evident, notwithstanding the pretended shew of Friendship.
July 5. Yesterday a grand council was held at the Cockpit, at which most of the great officers of State assisted; the matters under debate are said to be the long contested cause between the Mohawk Indians and the Colony of Connecticut; and the recent quarrel between the inhabitants of Boston, and the military quartered on them.
Yesterday a full board was held at the Admiralty, at the breaking up of which expressions were dispatched to the several dock-yards of Portsmouth, Plymouth, Chatham, and Sheerness.
The Rev. Dr. Apthorp, Brother to the Lord Mayor's first Lady, is appointed Chaplain to his Lordship, and not the Rev. Mr. Meredith, as mentioned by Mistake.
Yesterday the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor attended the Levos
at St. James's to pay his respects to his Majesty, by whom he was most graciously received.
On Friday about seven o'Clock in the Evening, the corpse of the late Lord Mayor of London, arrived at Salisbury, in a hearse and six, decorated with plumes, and hung with escutcheons, &c. which was followed by three mourning coaches and six, attended by out-riders, servants, &c. and the same evening was laid in state at the Antelope inn, in a room hung with black cloth for that purpose; and the next morning, between eight and nine o'clock, was moved to Fonthill in order to be privately interred in the family vault.
The same day 45 of his tenants, from Fonthill, and the neighbourhood, in Respect to his Memory, came there to meet his corpse to attend it to the grave.
July 6. Letters from Otranto relate the particulars of an engagement that happened on the 25th of May, off Cerigo, between a Russian man of War, and a Turk accompanied by three galleys. The Russian having the advantage of the wind, after a fight of three hours, had the good fortune to sink one of the galleys, and to put the rest to flight, who, being pursued by the Russian Vice-Admiral, were overtaken, and roughly treated; that on the 27th, being reinforced with two Turkish men of war, a second engagement ensued, in which likewise the Russians continued victorious, having sunk another of the enemies galleys, and taken some tenders, with one Turkish Commander, whom they conducted into the port of Navarino; that Prince Orlow had received the Turkish Officer with all the marks of distinction due to his Rank, but being detected, in the dead hour of night, in an attempt upon the life of the Prince, his Highness ordered his head to be cut off at four in the morning.
Letters from the confines in Turkey, positively assert, that the Ottoman Armies now ready to take the field, consist of 300,000 men mostly Europeans, without including the Natolians; these letters add, that the Tartar army is already 100,000 strong, and is continually receiving reinforcements.
It is certain that an army of 40,000 men is now stationed on the frontiers of Portugal. What this sinistre means time will probably soon show.
Certain advice is received, that the French King, since the beginning of last month, has raised twenty millions of livres, at eight per C.
Orders have been sent to Birmingham, within these few days, for 1000 muskets, with crotouch boxes and other accoutrements, for the service of the King of Prussia.
The King of Prussia seems determined to compel the Dutch to settle accounts with him, for the quartering their troops in his dominions, in the year 1762, when the Dutch were at war with England and France. The King of Prussia and his Predecessors have often made a Demand for the same, but never could get any satisfaction from their High Mightinesses; but it is believed that his Prussian Majesty will be no longer trifled with, but oblige the Dutch to liquidate their differences, that he may be able to comply with his treaties with the Queen of Hungary, by discharging the Dutch Loan on Silesia, which his Prussian Majesty engaged to pay, by the 9th Article of the Treaty of Berlin, in the year 1742.
Orders are given for a man of war and two transports to be fitted out at Portsmouth for the Coast of Guinea, on board of which will be embarked a reinforcement of troops, to augment the several garrisons on that coast, which have been considerably weakened by sickness.
The Dolphin man of war is expected to sail every hour for the East-Indies: She only waits for some dispatches that are compleating, on account of advices having been received that the French have erected forts in that quarter, contrary to the late treaty.
July 7. We are assured that the weighty affairs of the nation, have had such a narcotic effect upon Lord North, that he was discovered, on Wednesday last at noon, fast asleep upon Epping Forest.
The indefatigable care of the Earl of Shelburne for his Country, was never more deserving the praise of every true Briton than at present; he having dispatched Emmissaries, at his own private expence, to different parts, to enquire into the earliest accounts of what passes in their different stations, worthy notice.
L O N D O N.
July 11. They write from Smyrna, that the Grand Signior had given orders for a general massacre of the Greeks through the whole Ottoman empire.
It is said the late Lord Mayor died worth half a million of money in the stocks.
Monday Dennis de Berdt, Esq; Agent for Massachusetts-Bay, received a packet containing some very important advices from his American constituents.
So certain the generality of people seem to be of an approaching War, that it is said some Gentlemen are building ships at private yards, which are to be fitted out for Privateers, in case of a rupture.
St. James's July 6. His Majesty in Council was this day pleased to order, that the Parliament which stands prorogued to Thursday the nineteenth of this instant July, should be further prorogued to Tuesday the twenty-fifth day of September next.
Triste, June 10. The affairs of the Russians in the Morea are at present in a very favourable way. They have beaten 3 bodies of Turks, one of seven, one of eight, and another of 10,000 men, of whom 700, 1700, and 3000, were left dead on the field; the Russians and Greeks have lost near the same number, but this their loss was soon replaced by treble the number of Greeks. The Russians are masters of the whole peninsula, except Malvasia and Napoli di Romania, which fort is still besieging. These accounts may be depended upon.
Constantinople, May 27. The plague reigns in Egypt, and particularly in Alexandria, where it makes terrible ravages. It has also shewn itself in this Capital, and in the Suburbs.
Ancona, June 19. Letters of good credit from the Morea advise, that Prince Orlow, on the 30th of May, dispatched a body of 2000 regular troops, for Corinth, to secure the passage of the Isthmus against the Turks; that the 4th instant the corps being arrived at Museniga, met there Soldie Pacha, with an army of 30,000 Albanians; that at eleven in the morning an action ensued between them, which lasted till three in the afternoon, when the Turks left 8000 killed on the field of battle, 1600 were made prisoners, 24 standards, a staff of command, 20 kettle drums, 5 pieces of cannon, and a great quantity of privisions was also taken; and that Soldie Pacha, with the remains of his army, had retired towards Lepanto; that the Russians had about 400 killed, and 500 slightly wounded, among whom were six Officers; and that a few days after Prince Orlow, at the head of 1500 Russians and Greeks, marched towards Drobolizza, with design to lay siege to the Capital of the Peninsula.
Lord Butts is in Italy; and by letters received from him on Friday last, declares his intention of not returning to England till next May.
Mr. Foote will shortly print the Devil upon Two Sticks, and the Lame Lover; the latter of which he dedicates to his R.H. the D. of C.
The write from Venice, that the last letters from Constantinople made mention of the Janissaries having rose in a tumultuous manner and demanded the heads of some great men on account of the present unsuccessful war with the Russians.
L O N D O N.
June 14. Yesterday a ship arrived in the river commanded by Capt. Scott, with returned goods from Boston.
June 16. We hear, that in consequence of the daily account which arrive of the obstinacy of the Americans, it has been resolved by a great majority in Council, to pursue the most active measures against them to REDUCE them to their former obedience.
The resolutions of the town of Abington in America, relative to the present state of affairs, have been represented, we hear, by a noble Lord to a great Personage, as approaching very nearly the verge of declared rebellion.
We are assured the accounts that were received last week from the Town of Boston in America, are of so very alarming a nature, that
measures of one kind or other either vigorous or lenative, must be pursued in a few Days.
This day at noon was finally closed at Guildhall, the poll for the election of a Lord Mayor for this city, when the numbers were,
For Alderman Trecothick, 1601 Alderman Crosby, 1434 Sir Henry Bankes, 437
June 16. The Surrey Remonstrance was received with the greatest marks of contempt and indignation.
June 23. The Right Hon. William Beckford, Esq; the second time Lord Mayor of the city of London, who died on the 21st instant, aged 63, is supposed to have occasioned his illness by walking in the rain, and sitting afterwards in his wet cloaths, which bro't on a cold that terminated in a fever.
We hear that the late Lord Mayor has by his Will left the Earl of Chatham 40,000l. in money, and 1000l. per ann. Jamaica currency.
We hear, that the late Lord Mayor has, by his last Will, left Mr. Beckford, his son, about 11 years of age, his real estate.
To Mrs. Beckford, her fortune of 600l. per ann. and the Fonthill estate during her life, which is worth about 1200l. a year, and be allowed 1000l. per year for the education of her son, who is to be entirely under her direction.
To each of her natural children 5000l. or in lieu of that 200l. a year.
To each of his servants, living with him at the time of his death, 100l. and mourning.
No legacy are left to any public Charity, or any of the popular Gentlemen, as has been mentioned.
His Lordship is to be buried at Fonthill, in Wiltshire, and his heart is to be inclosed in a leaden urn, and sent to Jamaica, the place of his birth.
June 27. The Income of the late Lord Mayor's Estate and Plantation in Jamaica, we are credibly informed, was 30,000l. per Ann. and his Estates in England 18,000l. per Ann. besides his Mortgages and Property in the Funds, which made him the richest Commoner next to Lord Clive in his Majesty's dominions.
June 28. Tuesday a Courier set out for the court of Madrid, to require a categorical answer for what cause they are sitting out squadrons at their ports.
Messrs. Baker and Martin are elected Sheriffs for the year ensuing
Extract of a Letter from Grenoble, June 20.
"A gentleman in the neighbourhood of this city lately received a large portmanteau-trunk as if from one of his acquaintance, who was soon to visit him, and to spend a few days at his house. While the servants were bringing it in, he observed the house-dog to set himself against it, and to bark violently, which put him in mind of a trick that had formerly been played at Lyons, and he communicated his suspicions to some intimate friends, who advised him to carry the portmanteau to some distance upon the Waste, and they would shoot at it; which they had no sooner done than they heard the groans of a dying man. On opening the trunk they found the villain just expiring, with a brace of pistols, a dagger, and a whistle by him. They apprized the proper officer with what had happened, who came immediately; and, having prepared proper assistance, in the middle of the night they blowed the whistle, when six men approached, two of whom they killed, two they took, and two made their escape."
Cadiz, June 8. His Catholic Majesty having been informed that a distemper, known by the name of the cancer-volant, or flying cancer, rages in the Ferrarese and Modenese, has forbidden the admission of any cattle from those provinces into any of the Spanish Dominions.
Rome, June 6. The Apostolic Chamber have prohibited the sale of horned cattle from the Ecclesiastical State, and have, at the same time, enjoined all who have any such cattle in their possession, to deliver in an exact list of their number.
Civita-Vecchia, June 1. We learn from Leghorn, that a Swedish vessel that had cast anchor in that port, had been attacked with the plague, but that all possible measures had been taken to prevent the contagion from spreading. They were likewise under the greatest concern for a Dutch Ship, infected likewise with the plague, who, being driven from Algiers and Malta, is failed no body knows to what port.
L O N D O N, July 7.
A report is again current that Lord Sandwich is certainly to succeed to the Lord-Lieutenancy of Ireland.
A report prevails upon Change, that the Dutch have lately made some considerable encroachments upon our territories in the eastern parts of the globe, and that, in consequence, a formal charge will be exhibited against them for a breach of treaty.
It is expected the Right Hon. the Lord-Mayor will be chosen Colonel of the White Regiment in the City Militia, in the Room of William Beckford, Esq; it being a Compliment generally paid to the gentleman in whose Mayoralty a vacancy happens.
The statute of Mr. Alderman Beckford is to be erected over the Sheriff's-Court in Guild-hall, opposite the Husting, in order that (as Mr. Belias observed) future Mayors might be instructed by his awful figure, and call to mind his zeal and spirit in their service. In his right hand is to be the city Remonstrance, and the speech of his majesty inscribed on the pedestal.
On Tuesday Mr. Alderman Wilkes will hold a Wardmote at St. Paul's church, in Fleet-street, for the election of a Common Council-man of the Ward of Farringdon Without, in the room of Mr. Deputy Gamon, deceased.
July 10. A party of Russians and Greeks hav

got possession of Atheni, the ancient and renowned city of Athens, with very little loss or bloodshed.
A French man of War has lately been sent to Tunis, to demand satisfaction for an insult offered the French flag, and in case of refusal, war is to be declared against that piratical state directly.
The Empress Queen has published a declaration prohibiting the importation of Dutch lace into any of her Imperial Majesty's hereditary dominions in Germany.
Letters from the Levant mention, that the plague rages with great violence at Alexandria; and that several European ships are infected.
It is certain that Lord S——h has declared to several of his Friends, that he will not accept the post of Viceroy of a neighbouring kingdom, should it be offered to him. Lord T——d has certainly desired to be recalled: though he received not the ill usage in that kingdom lately, as was reported.
This day a Committee of Lieutenancy is appointed at Guildhall, for the Choice of a Colonel in the City Militia, in the room of the late Lord Mayor.
Last Saturday came on to be heard, at the sittings in Westminster-hall, before Lord Mansfield, a cause, in which one Boulton, Cook of a Guinea-man, was plaintiff, and Capt. W——n, of that vessel, defendant; the action was brought for beating and imprisoning the plaintiff, on board on the high Seas, which being clearly proved, the jury without going out of court, found a verdict for the plaintiff, with costs of suit and 200l. damages.
It is reported that the Jury in a late Cause, would have given much greater damages, but that they were apprehensive the public must provide for them.
To the E——l of H——gh.
*** F affidavit in plotting mischief were not a vice, I should hold myself culpable for interrupting you in your present labour. §
You are sinking a mine which is to blow up the charter rights of Massachusetts-Bay. Go on my Lord, and prosper. Every additional wound you give to America will strengthen their opposition the more it awakens their resentment. The greatest injury you can do them is to let them sink again into that fatal lethargy into which their confidence in the honour and justice of this country had lull'd their minds. † As you do not mean them any good I should imagine this consideration might recall you from attempts, from which their being destitute of wisdom & of justice will never influence you to depart.
At this time, when our Colonies are universally offended at the repeated oppressions of this country, when they are shock'd at her government and lost to her commerce, is it wise to be trying pitiful expedients of vengeance against one province? Is this a time for administration to adopt the wicked malevolence of a detected, disappointed, and despicable governor, against Massachusetts-Bay?
Could you change the temper of the people, there would be no necessity for changing the form of their constitution; and, without the former, the latter will be totally nugatory. Look into history, my Lord: Did the Quo Warrantos of the Second Charles and James promote, their execrable purpose? or did they, by rousing men's passions, contribute to overthrow the tyranny they wished to establish?
But the worthy governor, by whom you have chosen to be constantly deceiv'd in American affairs, will tell you that prescribing those whom he is pleased to call the Leaders of Faction, will level all opposition, and accomplish
§ When the contemptible person, who is only known by his letter of thanks to those who perpetrated the Massacre of St. George's-fields, declared in the H——e of C——s that it was in vain to send troops to Boston till there were Magistrates there who would use them, we know perfectly what it imported. There cannot, it seems, under the present constitution of that province, be found a set of Magistrates so dependent and depraved as to employ the military effectually, on every occasional direction from the Ministry here, or the Governor there. And this little mortal thinks the whole dispute with America would be decided, were the framing such a Magistracy once accomplished. Perhaps you, my Lord, are of the same opinion; and Governor Bernard's plan, which has long since been detected and published, weak and wicked as it is, you have taken under serious consideration. Hence the frequent C——s held of late.
‡ Paulum sepultæ distat incitæ celata virutæ.
your wishes to enslave America. Again my Lord, apply to his G——y: Did the bloody prescription of Russell, Sidney, and others, fulfil or frustrate the purpose for which they were sacrificed? If you will compel the Americans to erect a Temple to Liberty, you cannot, believe me, give it a more durable cement than that of Blood. In short, my Lord, it is by inaction only you can injure America. The more insults, the more injuries you offer them the more you will irritate and unite them in a determined opposition, till you have at length produced that determination never to submit or yield, by which our Colonies must be severed from our interests for ever.
It is certain, my Lord, that your measures tend most directly to produce those evils which you vainly expect they will remedy; disaffection, disobedience, and rebellion. But of what nature this rebellion will be, 'tis of the utmost consequence to consider.
The loom and the anvil will be their armour; the spade, the plough-share and the crook, will be their weapons in this compulsory war.
Such are the means with which Divine Providence has supplied them to resent the indignities they feel, to repair the injuries they suffer. You flatter yourself that threats and punishments will disarm and discomfit these opponents. Let the experiment be made, and mark the issue. In the mean time I will venture to foretell, that the first example that is made will be of more efficacy in promoting their associations, than all the arguments the ablest advocate from their utility can devise. It will sanctify their resolves, and make it religion to support them.
And here let me drop one tear at the mournful reflection of what the parent-state must suffer in this unnatural contest. Should it ever come to a trial, her loss is inevitable: should she conquer, it must be by the devastation, the destruction of her Colonies; — it must be by cutting off those limbs, at which her own vital blood must issue. Should she be overcome—but I will not anticipate evils so dreadful—I will still hope, my Lord, that heaven in its mercy, will avert the ruin which the unexampled folly of administration is bringing down on this distracted country.
JUNIUS AMERICANUS.
L O N D O N, July 8.
Orders are given for building five new ships of the line, viz. one of 74 guns, at Deptford; one of 74, and one of 64, at Portsmouth; one of 64 at Plymouth, and one of 50 guns at Chatham.
Thursday came on in the Court of King's Bench, Westminster, before the Right Hon. the Lord Mansfield, the great cause between Lord G. and his Royal Highness the D. of C. The damages were laid for 100,000l. The council for the Plaintiff produced some letters, said to be wrote by the defendant, the contents of which caused an universal laugh, while such as saw them were astonished at the method and manner in which they were written; and some jokes were passed on a dignified clergyman, who had the principal care in the education of his pupil. At seven o'clock in the evening, the Right Hon. Lord Mansfield gave his charge to the jury, when they withdrew, and his Lordship adjourned the court to his house in Bloomsbury Square; exactly at ten the jury left the hall, and proceeded to his Lordship's house, where they gave a verdict for the plaintiff, with ten thousand pounds damages.
It appeared upon a late trial that a noble lord has had seven mistresses in keeping since his Lordship's marriage with his present wife.
PHILADELPHIA, August 30.
Tuesday last arrived here the Brig Dolphin, Capt. Stevenson from London. She has no goods but such as are allowed by agreement, but has brought a number of weavers and other manufacturers, together with about £6,000 Sterl. in Specie, the property of persons in this place; such is the fruits of the agreement, that instead of Dry Goods, which drained these colonies of their cash, and kept them as poor as beggars, they are now receiving from England what may well be termed the nerves and sinews of every country.
Extract of a Letter from London, June 23.
The rising of the Parliament without giving the expected relief left us in a kind of suspense, and turned our eyes to the conduct of Americans. Many are the predictions of the Enemies of America, that the goods which had been shipped on speculation to Boston particularly, would be received, and the combination, as it is termed be at an end. But a few days ago the Boston ships returned with their goods, to the surprise, confusion and disappointment of the shippers, manufacturers and ministry. I never saw chagrin and vexation more visible on the faces of every man who has the least connection with America, and is unfriendly to its present plan of opposition. Our friends rejoiced openly over their enemies who on their parts acknowledged that they had utterly been disappointed. Should the goods shipped to Virginia, also return, the stroke would be compleat. Nothing has done the cause of America so much service as the rejection of these goods, many of them are yet on board the vessels, and cannot be landed without great expence; — One Mr. Haly has £1,000 sterling Duties to pay on one of these vessels only. It is now given out that the Duty on Tea will be taken off next winter, and I doubt not it will. — The death of Mr. Beckford the Lord Mayor is a heavy stroke to the opposition, few deaths are subject of so much sorrow and joy. In the election of a successor, as Lord Mayor and Alderman, the opposition carry every thing by a majority. A few deaths in the Court of Aldermen, will fix the whole city in the anti-ministerial system.
“I cannot find any two persons here who agree in sentiment on the influence of the Non-Importation, there seems to be some secret which is yet impenetrable. The manufacturers are employed, and though there are many goods on board, there is no complaint among them: various are the conjectures on this head, most probably it may be imputed to an encreased demand in many articles from abroad, but much more to ministerial management and application of public money, in order to make a grand experiment of our virtue and resolution.
“The struggle cannot be long. — The issue will determine us either slaves or freemen. I hope no American will hesitate at the choice.”
PROVINCE of ) By His EXCELLENCY NEW-HAMPSHIRE.)
JOHN WENTWORTH, Esq;
Captain General, Governor, and Commander in Chief, in and over his Majesty's said Province, and Vice-Admiral of the same.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS the GENERAL ASSEMBLY of this Province is now Prorogued to Tuesday the 18th Day of September Inst. and nothing at present appearing for his Majesty's Service, that requires the Attendance of the Members at that Time; and that they should not unnecessarily meet, — I Have thought fit to issue this Proclamation, hereby further Proroguing the said General Assembly to Tuesday the 18th Day of November next, then to meet at the Court House in Portsmouth, at Ten o'Clock in the Forenoon, for the Dispatch of the necessary public Business of the Province.
Given under my Hand the 11th Day of September, in the Tenth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the IIId, by the Grace of GOD, of Great Britain, France and Ireland, KING, Defender of the Faith, &c. Annoque Domini, 1770.
J. WENTWORTH.
By His EXCELLENCY's Command, THEODORE ATKINSON, Secretary.
GOD Save the KING.
PORTSMOUTH, Sept. 14.
In Captain Derby, arrived at Salem, came Passengers, the Captains Clap, and Shores of this Town, by whom we have London Papers to the 11th of July, from which many of the Articles in this Paper are taken.
Letters from Bolton informs us, that the Castle there, in consequence of Orders from England, is deliver'd up to the Troops, and that the Captain and Company kept there by the Province, have left it. — We also hear, that 8 or 9 Men of War with more Troops are expected there from Halifax, — for what Design or Purpose this is done, is not yet made Public.
Last Sunday Evening was Married in this Town, by the Rev. Dr. HAVEN, Benjamin Whiting, Esq; of Charlestown, in this Province, to the amiable and agreeable Miss Grace Hall, Daughter of the Reverend Mr. Hall of Westford, in the Massachusetts.
Last Wednesday was brought to Town in Irons, the notorious Catterel and Badger, from Boston, who were taken last Sunday Night, by the Watchmen of that Town, with large Packs of Goods, and secured till the Morning, when being carried before a Magistrate, they confessed them to be the Property of Mr. Joshua Wentworth of this Town, whose Store they broke open on the Night following the 4th Inst. and took Goods to the amount of upwards of £4000. They charge one or two Persons in Town being concern'd, and one is taken up, who denies knowing any Thing of the Affair. Badger is one who was concern'd in setting Fire to the new Goal in Boston, and last Year was set on the Gallows, &c. for the same there: They are both old Offenders, though young in Years, and but little Regard a Whipping. It is now hoped they will meet with a Punishment due to their Crime.
But a small Part of the Goods are yet got, they having hid them at different Places on the Road between this and Boston.
CUSTOM-HOUSE, Piscataqua, Sept. 13.
   Inward Entrees, FROM.     Brig Betsey, John Crawford, Rhode-Island.   Brig Shellaly, Pearse Long, Guadaloup.   Schooner Friendship, William Noyes, St. Lucea.   Outward Bound, FOR.   Schooner True Briton, William Johnson Bysam, Europe.   Schooner Occasio, Mark Fernald, West-Indies.   Brig Fortune, John Salter, Ditto.   Clear'd for Departure, FOR.   Sloop Victory, Joseph Sewall, Halifax.   Sloop Endeavour, Daniel Holt, Newfoundland.   Sloop Polly, William Fernald, Philadelphia.   Brig Elizabeth, Samuel Briard, West-Indies.   Brig John, John Tarbox, Ditto.   Ship Pitt, Thomas Curtain Chivers, Falmouth.  
NOTICE is hereby given to the several delinquent Proprietors of LEAVITTS TOWN, in New Hampshire, that unless they pay the several and respective Sums at which their several and respective Lots are assessed, to me the Subscriber, Collector for said Town, their Lots will be exposed to Sale at Public Vendue, on Tuesday the second of October, at the House of John Leavitt, Esq; Innholder in North-Hampton, at ten o'Clock in the Forenoon, agreeable to a Law of the Province, unless the said Delinquents prevent, by paying the Sums affixed to their respective Names, v z.
   First Division. Second Division.   £. s. d. £. s. d.     Benjamin Perkins 0 12 0 0 0 0   Joshua Brown, junr. 1 3 0 4 12 0   Simon Leavitt 0 12 0 2 8 0   Joshua Brown 0 0 0 2 8 0  
JOHN DEARBORN, Collector.
Northampton. Sept. 11. 1770
ON Tuesday the 2d of October
next, will CERTAINLY be sold at Public Vendue, at Capt. Jacob Tilton's, in Portsmouth, the House and Land formerly belonging to John Churchill, late of Portsmouth, deceased, being pleasantly situated near the Governor's

Just Publish'd and to be Sold at THE PRINTING OFFICE, The Advantages of early Piety, A SERMON preach'd at Greenland, and now pub- lish'd at the Desire of a Number of Young People, to whom it is inscribed, with sincere Wishes, that it may be profitable for their Instruction. By SAMUEL MACCLINTOCK, A. M. Pastor of the Church in Greenland. — But very few are printed, exclusive of what the Subscribers take off, therefore if any others are desirous of having this valuable Sermon, they must apply speedily for them.
ALL Persons Indebted to, or that have any Demands on the Estate of Nathaniel Sher- burne , late of Portsmouth, Mariner, deceased, are de- sired to bring in their Accounts to Elizabeth Sherburne , Administratrix, to said Estate, in order for a speedy Settlement.
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
T HE Proprietors of East Town , so called, in said Province, are hereby NOTIFIED, that a Meeting of said Proprietors is to be held on Tuesday the 25th Day of September Inst. at Ten of the Clock in the Forenoon of said Day, at the Dwel- ling House of Lieut. David Capps , in said East Town , then and there to vote on the following Articles, viz. 1st. To chuse a Moderator to regulate said Meeting. 2dly. To chuse a Proprietors Clerk, Treasurer, and all other Proprietors Officers that is then the't needful. 3dly. To chuse a Committee to present a Petition to the Sessions, for a Road thro' Rochester : Also to chuse a Committee to look out and clear a Road thro' said East Town to Leavitts-Town , and to look out and clear any other Roads in said East Town , that may be thought necessary. 4thly. To see if the Proprietors will chuse a new Committee to lay out the second Di- vision. 5thly. To see if the Proprietors will vote to sell some Tracts on the Ministers Lott; also to see if they will fix on and clear a Place for the Meeting- House, and do any Thing towards building said House: Also to see if they will raise any Money towards sup- plying the Inhabitants with Preaching. 6thly. To see what Money they will raise for the carrying on the Settlement of said Township; and to consult and de- termine on any other Matter that may be the't need- ful for the forwarding the Settlement—All concerned are desired to attend at Time and Place aforesaid. By Order of the Assessors. John Gage, jr. Pres. Clk. Dover, September 3d. 1770.
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
T HIS is to give NOTICE to a Number of the Proprietors of Middle-Town , so called, to pay to me the Subscriber, at my Dwelling House in Somersworth , the Sum or Sums hereafter fixed to each of their Names, at or before the 20th of this Inst. otherwise shall sell so much of their Lands as will pay the Taxes, with all other Charges, as the Law directs. Charles Baker , Collector.
A List of the Proprietors of Middle-Town , so called, which have not paid their Taxes, and what is due at yet, in Lawful Money, viz.
   £: s. d.    Joseph Wentworth, 10 0 0  Isaac Hanson, junr. 10 0 0  Joshua Stacpole, 10 0 0  Ebenezer Varney, 10 0 0  Jonathan Merrow, 1 2 0  William Horn, 3 13 0  Eleazar Wier, 7 3 0  Joseph Hanson 10 0 0  Eleazar Young 10 0 0  Thomas Varney 10 0 0  Benjamin Stanton, 5 0 0  Love Roberts 7 0 0  Jonathan Gage, 5 0 0  James Gappey, junr. 8 16 0  James Clemments, 10 0 0  Noah Croft, 10 0 0  Nathaniel Varney, 10 0 0  Isaac Watson 10 0 0  Nathaniel Young, 4 3 0  Benjamin Evans, 5 10 0  Ebenezer Garlene, 10 0 0  Joseph Conner, 5 0 0  Thomas Robarts, junr. 10 0 0  Nathaniel Hanson, 10 0 0  Mark Wallingsford, 6 14 0  John Hall, 10 0 0  Andrew Horn, 0 9 0  Timothy Hanson, junr. 3 16 0  Benjamin Wentworth, 10 0 0  Samuel Clemments, 3 14 0  Trustrum Coffin, 10 0 0  John Peirl, junr., 10 0 0  Andrew Marshall, 10 0 0  Richard Gooding, 10 0 0  John Kelle, 10 0 0  Samuel Varney, 2 15 0  
Somersworth, Sept. 4th, 1770.
Lucy Fessenden
MANTU MAKER, FROM BOSTON, H ERE BY informs the Ladies in this Town, that she carries on that Business in the newest and most genteel Mode, such as making Negligees, Gowns, Cloaks, and Hats, West and Tunicks, Riding Hoods, Dolphins, &c. &c. She may be spoke with at Mr. Stanwood's, opposite Dr. Clement Jackson's, where all Ladies that incline to employ her, may depend on ha- ving their Work well done, with Fidelity and Dispatch.
A new milch Cow,
is wanted, for which a young One, that is dry, and partly fat, will be given in exchange.
Nathaniel Sheaff Griffith
H ERE BY informs the Public, that he has removed to a Shop between the two Taverns, Fols and Tiltons, where Watches will be well repaired, Clocks put in good Order, in the best Manner.
Taken up a Mast outside the
Fort, the 20th of this Month; the Owner may have it again, describing the same, and paying Charges. Enquire of Samuel Small Corn of Kittery Point.
(Stonington.)
NOTICE is hereby given to the Proprietors of Ston- ington, that at a Meeting of said Proprietors, held at the House of Capt. Ebenezer Hale , in Hampstead, on the 29th of May last; said Proprietors then voted to raise three Dollars on each Right, to be laid out in building a Grist Mill and Saw Mill in said Town: And also chose a Committee to build said Mills, or a- gree with some proper Person to build them. Like- wise said Committee have agreed with a Man to build said Mills; and as the Undertaker is now at Stoning- ton about them, the Money must be paid forthwith: THEREFORE it is requested of the Proprietors, that they would pay the abovementioned Tax, to Caleb Johnson , Collector, directly, without further Trouble. Stonington Proprietors Meeting, stands adjourned to the 18th of September next, at said Hale's , in Hamp- stead, at Two o'Clock Afternoon; and as there is Numbers of Men now preparing and going to make immediate Settlement, it is likely there will be Busi- ness of importance to be acted on; Money must be raised for clearing Roads and building Bridges, and therefore the Proprietors are desired to attend said Meeting: Jesse Johnson , Pres. Clk. Hampstead, August 24th, 1770.
WE the Subscribers, being appointed by the Hon. JOHN WENTWORTH, Esq; Judge of the Probate of Wills, &c. for the Province of New Hamp- shire, to receive and examine the Claims of the Credi- tors to the Estate of John Noyes, Esq; late of Bow, de- ceased, represented Insolvent, and six Months being allowed by the Judge, from the 29th Day of August Instant, for the Creditors to bring in their Claims, we hereby give Notice, that we propose to attend that Bu- siness at the House of Benjamin Noyes, Innholder in Bow, the first Thursday in the six following Months, from two o'Clock Afternoon of said Days 'till Eight. Benjamin Norris, Richard Bartlett, } Commissioners. Bow, Aug. 21, 1770.
The Creditors to the Estate of
Capt. John Lord , late of Berwick, deceased, are here- by Notified, that Six Months longer, from the sixteenth Day of July last, is allowed by the Hon. Judge of Pro- bate for the County of York, to bring in their Claims and prove their Debts; and that the Commissioners will attend to receive the same, on the first Monday of the five following Months, at the Dwelling House of Nabum Marshall , Innholder in Berwick, from Three to Six o'Clock in the Afternoon. Benj. Chadborne, Wm. Rogers, } Commis- sioners. Berwick August 20th. 1770.
WHEREAS at sundry legal Meetings of the Pro- prietors of New Britain, so called, Taxes have been laid on the Rights in said Town, This is to give Notice unto all the delinquent Proprietors, that have not paid their Tax, that unless they pay it to me, Collector for said Township, at Capt. Caleb Sanborn's Innholder in Hampton Falls, at or before the seven- teenth Day of September next, so much of their Rights will be advertised as will pay the same, with incidental Charges. Samuel Prescott , Collector. Hampton-Falls. Aug. 20, 1770.
The annual CONVENTION of MINISTERS, is to be held at Dover, on Wednesday the 19th of September next.
JEREMY BELKNAP , Clerk.
Dover, August 28th. 1770.
To the PRINTER.
As those lights which frequently appear in the North, called the Aurora Borealis have oc- casioned much speculation and enquiry; and the tho'ts of many have been exercised in searching after the cause of these Pheno- mena, few perhaps having met with any philosophical observations upon them, I make no doubt but the curiosity of many of your readers would be gratified by inserting the following extract in your public paper. A probable solution of the Aurora Borealis.
W HEN the air, with its vapours raised from the Ocean between the tropics, comes to descend in the polar regions, and to be in con- tact with the vapours arising there, the electrical fire they brought begins to be communicated, and is seen in clear nights, being first visible where it is first in motion, that is where the contact begins, or in the most northern part, from thence the streams of light seems to shoot southerly, even upon the zenith of northern countries; but tho' the light seems to shoot from the north southerly, the progress of the fire is really from the south northerly, its motion be- ginning in the north is the reason that it is seen there first, for the electrical fire is never visible but when in motion, and leaping from body to body, or from particle to particle thro' the air; when it passes thro' dense bodies it is unseen, when a wire makes part of the circle, in the explosion of the elec- trical phial, the fire tho' in great quantity, passes in the wire invisibly, but in passing along a chain it becomes visible as it leaps from link to link, in passing along leaf gold, it is visible, for the leaf gold is full of pores, hold a leaf to the light and it appears like a net, and the fire is seen in its leap- ing over the vacancies; and as when a long ca- nal is filled with still water, is opened at one end in order to be discharged, the motion of the water begins first near the opened end, and proceeds to- wards the close end, so the electrical fire discharged into the polar regions, perhaps from a thousand leagues length of vaporiz'd air, appears first where 'tis first in motion, viz. in the most northern part, and the appearance proceeds southward, tho' the fire really moves northward."
ALL PERSONS that are Indebted to the Estate of Abraham Perkins , late of Durham, Trader, deceased, are desired to make speedy Payment to Sarah Perkins , of said Durham, Administratrix of the Estate of the deceas'd: And those that have any Demands on said Estate, are desired to exhibit the same as soon as may be. Durham, Aug. 29. 1770.
ALL PERSONS Indebted to, or that have any Demands on the Estate of Samuel Smith , late of Durham, deceas'd, are desired to bring in their Claims to John Smith , of Durham aforesaid, Administrator, in order a Settlement.
Cash given for POT-ASH, By JAMES MC MASTERS, At his Store on Spring-Hill, on Colonel WALLINGFORD's Wharfe: At which Place is sold various Sorts of ENGLISH GOODS at so low a Rate as may induce Shopkeepers and Country Traders to purchase.
N. B. The highest Price given for good FLAX SEED at the above Store.
TO BE SOLD cheap for Cash, THIRTY ACRES of choice LAND , lying in Cape Natick, between York and Wells; part of which is covered with Timber; the Remainder good Pasture Land, adjoining to Land of John Littlefield , and the late Mr. Stens's . For further Particulars, enquire of George Homans of Portsmouth.
A Canoe was taken up without the Fort last Monday. The Owner may have it again by enquiring of Jeffery Wells of Portsmouth, paying Charges. Aug. 24.
TICKETS in Newmarket & Stratham Lottery selling off at the Printing Office.
Blanks of most sorts
printed on good Paper, to be sold cheap for Cash at the Printing-Office, near the State- House in Portsmouth, together with a variety of Books, Pamphlets, &c.