The New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1791-06-02 00:00:00

New - Hampshire Gazette, and the General Advertiser.
Containing the Laws, &amp;c. of the United States, as well as those of this State passed since 1787, with a variety of other matters both useful &amp; entertaining.
PORTSMOUTH: Printed by JOHN MELCHER, at his Office in Market-Street, at nine shillings per Annum.
LAWS of the UNITED STATES.
CONGRESS of the UNITED STATES AT THEIR THIRD SESSION, Begun and held at the City of Philadelphia, on Monday the 6th of December, 1790.
An ACT for raising and adding another Regiment to the Military Establishment of the United States, and for making further Provision for the Protection of the Frontiers.
B E it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there shall be raised an additional regiment of infantry, which, exclusive of the commissioned officers shall consist of nine hundred and twelve non-commissioned officers, privates and musicians.
And be it further enacted , That the said regiment shall be organized in the same manner as the regiment of infantry described in the act intitled, "An act for regulating the military establishment of the United States."
And be it further enacted , That the troops aforesaid by this act to be raised including the officers, shall receive the same pay and allowances, be subject to the same rules and regulations, and be engaged for the like term, and upon the same conditions, in all respects, excepting the bounty herein-after mentioned, as are stipulated for the troops of the United States, in the before-mentioned act.
And be it further enacted , That each non-commissioned officer, private and musician, who has enlisted or shall enlist pursuant to the act aforesaid, or who shall enlist pursuant to this act, shall be intitled to receive six dollars as a bounty.
And be it further enacted , That in case the President of the United States should deem the employment of a major-general, brigadier-general, a quarter-master and chaplain, or either of them essential to the public interest, that he be, and he hereby is empowered, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint the same accordingly. And a major-general so appointed may chuse his aid de camp, and a brigadier-general, his brigade major, from the captains or subalterns of the line. Provided always , That the major-general and brigadier-general so to be appointed, shall respectively continue in pay during such term only, as the President of the United States in his discretion shall deem it requisite for the public service.
And be it further enacted , That in case a major-general, brigadier-general, quarter-master, aid de camp, brigade major and chaplain should be appointed, their pay and allowances shall be, respectively, as herein mentioned:—The major-general shall be intitled to one hundred and twenty-five dollars, monthly pay, twenty dollars allowance for forage monthly, and for daily subsistence fifteen rations, or money in lieu thereof at the contract-price. The brigadier-general shall be intitled to ninety-four dollars, monthly pay, with sixteen dollars allowance for forage monthly, and for daily subsistence twelve rations, or money in lieu thereof, at the contract-price. That the quarter-master shall be intitled to the same pay, rations and forage, as the lieutenant-colonel commandant of a regiment. That the aid de camp be intitled, including all allowances, to the same pay, rations and forage, as a major of a regiment. That the brigadier-major be intitled including all allowances, to the same pay, rations and
forage, as a major of a regiment. That the chaplain be intitled to fifty dollars per month, including pay, rations and forage.
And be it further enacted , That if, in the opinion of the President, it will be conducive to the good of the service, to engage a body of militia to serve as cavalry, they furnishing their own horses, arms and provisions, it shall be lawful for him to offer such allowances to encourage their engaging in the service, for such time and on such terms, as he shall deem it expedient to prescribe.
And be it further enacted , That if the President should be of opinion, that it will be conducive to the public service, to employ troops enlisted under the nomination of levies, in addition to, or in place of the militia, which in virtue of the powers vested in him by law, he is authorized to call into the service of the United States, it shall be lawful for him to raise, for a term not exceeding six months (to be discharged sooner if the public service will permit) a corps not exceeding two thousand non-commissioned officers, privates and musicians, with a suitable number of commissioned officers. And in case it shall appear probable to the President, that the regiment directed to be raised by the aforesaid act and by this act, will not be completed in time to prosecute such military operations as exigencies may require, it shall be lawful for the President to make a substitute for the deficiency, by raising such farther number of levies, or by calling into the service of the United States such a body of militia as shall be equal thereto.
And be it further enacted , That the President be, and he hereby is empowered to organize the said levies, and alone to appoint the commissioned officers thereof, in the manner he may judge proper.
And be it further enacted , That the commissioned and non-commissioned officers, privates and musicians of the militia or said corps of levies, shall during the time of their service be subject to the rules and articles of war; and they shall be entitled to the same pay, rations and forage, and, in case of wounds or disability in the line of their duty, to the same compensations as the troops of the United States.
And be it further enacted , That the non-commissioned officers, privates and musicians of the said corps of levies, shall be entitled to receive such proportional quantity of clothing, as their time of service shall bear to the annual allowance of clothing to the troops of the United States, subject, however, to a proportional deduction from their pay.
And be it further enacted , That each of the non-commissioned officers, privates and musicians of the said levies, shall be intitled to receive three dollars as a bounty.
And be it further enacted , That in case the nature of the service, upon which the troops of the United States may be employed, should require a greater number of surgeon's mates than are provided for in the before-mentioned act, the President of the United States may engage, from time to time, such additional number of surgeon's mates as he shall judge necessary.
And be it further enacted , That the commissioned officers, who shall be employed to recruit men for the said regiments, shall be intitled to receive for every recruit who shall be duly enlisted and mustered the sum of two dollars.
And be it further enacted , That for defraying the expense, for one year, of the additional regiment to be raised by virtue of this act; for defraying the
expense, for a like term, of the officers mentioned in the seventh section of this act; for defraying the expense of the said militia-horse, militia-foot, and levies, which may be called into, or engaged for the service of the United States, pursuant to this act; for defraying the expense of such surgeon's mates, as may be appointed pursuant to the fifteenth section of this act; for defraying the expense of recruiting the said two regiments; and for defraying the expense of any military posts which the President shall judge expedient and proper to establish, there be and hereby is appropriated a sum, not exceeding three hundred and twelve thousand six hundred and eighty-six dollars and twenty cents, to be paid out of the monies, which, prior to the first day of January next, shall arise from the duties imposed upon spirits distilled within the United States, and from stills, by the act, intitled, "An act repealing, after the last day of June next, the duties heretofore laid upon distilled spirits imported from abroad, and laying others in their stead; and also upon spirits distilled within the United States, and for appropriating the same;" together with the excess of duties which may arise from the duties imposed by the said act on imported spirits, beyond those which would have arisen by the act entitled, "An Act making further provision for the payment of the debts of the United States."
And to the end that the public service may not be impeded for want of necessary means:
Be it further enacted , That it shall be lawful for the President to take on loan the whole sum by this act appropriated or so much thereof as he may judge requisite, at an interest not exceeding six per centum per annum; and the fund established for the above-mentioned appropriation, is hereby pledged for the repayment of the principal and interest of any loan to be obtained in manner aforesaid; and in case of any deficiency in the said fund, the faith of the United States is hereby also pledged to make good such deficiency.
FREDERICK AUG. MUHLENBERG, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate. Approved—March the third, 1791.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, President of the United States. Deposited among the Rolls in the Office of the SECRETARY OF STATE.
THO'S JEFFERSON, Secretary of State. An ACT to continue in force for a limited time, an Act passed at the first session of Congress, intitled, "An Act to regulate Processes in the Courts of the United States."
B E it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That an Act passed on the twenty-ninth day of September, in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, intitled, "An Act to regulate processes in the courts of the United States," shall be, and the same hereby is continued in force, until the end of the next session of Congress, and no longer.
FREDERICK AUG. MUHLENBERG, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate. Approved—Feb. the 18th, 1791.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, President of the United States. Deposited among the Rolls in the office of the SECRETARY OF STATE. THO'S JEFFERSON, Secretary of State.
R ESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That ANDREW BROWN, or any other printer, be permitted under the direction of the Secretary of State, to collate with, and correct by the original rolls, the laws, resolutions and treaties of the United States, to be by him printed. And that a certificate of their having been so collated and corrected be annexed to the said edition. Provided , That such collation and correction be at the expense of the said Andrew Brown or such other printer, and that the person or persons to be by him or them employed in that service, be approved by the Secretary of State.
FREDERICK A. MUHLENBERG, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate. Approved, February 18th, 1791.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, President of the United States. Deposited among the Rolls in the Office of the SECRETARY OF STATE. THOMAS JEFFERSON, Secretary of State.
Prodigious Luxury of some Men in eating.
A NNO Domini, 1470, in the tenth year of King Edward fourth, GEORGE NEVILLE, brother to the Great Earl of Warwick, at his Installation into his Archbishoprick of York, made a prodigious feast to all the Nobility, most of the prime Clergy, and many of the Great Gentry; wherein by his bill of fare, 300 quarters of wheat, 330 tons of ale, 104 tons wine, 1 pipe spiced wine, 80 fat oxen, 6 wild bulls, 1004 weathers, 300 hogs, 300 calves, 3000 geese, 3000 capons, 300 pigs, 100 peacocks, 200 cranes, 200 kids, 2000 chickens, 4000 pidgeons, 4000 rabbits, 204 bittours, 4000 ducks, 400 hersews, 200 peasants, 500 partridges, 4000 woodcocks, 400 plovers, 100 curlews, 100 quails, 1000 egrets, 200 rees, 400 bucks, does and roebucks, 1506 hot venison pasties, 4000 cold venison pasties, 1000 dishes gelley, 4000 cold custards, 2000 hot custards, 300 pikes, 300 breams, 8 seals, 4 porpoises and 400 tarts. At this feast the Earl Warwick was Steward, Earl Bedford Treasurer, the Lord Hastings was Comptroller, with many more noble Officers; Servitors 1000, Cooks 62, Kitcheners 515. But seven years after, the King seized on all the estates of this Archbishop, sent him prisoner to Calais in France, where he was kept bound in extreme poverty; justice thus punishing his former prodigality.
Reflections in a Burying Ground.
HERE is the last stage of life's journey: Here is the collective rendezvous of suffering mortals; here is a safe retreat from the barbed shafts of malice, from pointed perils, and from misery's rod. Here, after noble and ignoble views—after every ardent wish—after pursuing every flattering object, we find the issue of them all. Here, from servile bondage, and oppression's iron hand, rests the wretched negro, whom chance has made a slave: Here he forgets his galling state, and with his lordly tyrant sleeps equally accommodated. Here the oppressor and the injured moulder together. Here sleep the meanly saving, and the riotous profuse. Here prostrate in dust, lay the degraded relicks of soaring mortals! Ought we not, then, to remember the transient vision of terrestrial greatness, and act so as to be prepared to pay the momentary loan of Heaven's great Lender!!!

Foreign Intelligence.
STOCKHOLM, March 1.
The English and Prussian warlike preparations occasion much talk here, and it is said that both those Courts have made several proposals to ours, relative to the arrival of an English fleet in the East Sea; it is even reported they offered an alliance with Sweden. Our Sovereign has, after the holding of many conferences, taken his resolution upon the business, but what that is has not yet transpired.
LONDON, March 8.
To counteract the annual export of silver to China, it is calculated that the sale of India goods one year with another brings back more than a million sterling from Germany, and the external parts of Europe.
Extract of a letter from Teignmouth, March 1.
"Last week came in here his Majesty's cutter the Trial, commanded by Lieut. Malbon. She is built on an entire new construction, with three sliding keels, which are inclosed in a case or well; one forward, one midship, and the other abaft; they are worked with great facility, and are not of the least inconvenience to the crew, when manouevring the vessel. Her length is 66 feet, breadth 21, her hold 7 feet, and measures 120 tons, has a perfect flat bottom, only draws 6 feet water, whereas all others of her tonnage on the old construction, draw 14; so that by such an easy draught of water, she can go with safety into almost any harbour or creek whatever. In the construction of her, strait timber is chiefly used, by which article alone (without mentioning the many other extraordinary properties belonging to her, not possessed by other ships) an immense saving is made of one half the price of building a vessel of the same tonnage on the old construction. By means of her sliding keels, when at sea, which let down six feet below her bottom, she is perfectly steady in the greatest gale, and when at anchor she rides more upright and even than any other ship can do; and I was informed by the master, the keels work as perfectly in a storm as in still water; that it is quite easy in a great sea, does not strain in the least, and never takes in water on her deck. She fails incomparably fast, either before or upon a wind; no vessel she has ever been in company with, of equal size (even tho' copper bottomed, which she is not) has been able, upon many trials, to beat her in sailing, and yet her fails seem too small."
"Her hold is divided into several compartments, all water tight, and so contrived, that should even a plank or two start at sea, in different parts of the vessel, she may afterwards be navigated with the greatest security to any part of the world: a method hitherto never tho't of before this ingenious officer contrived it, and which may be the means of saving thousands of valuable lives, and large quantities of merchandise, besides if she should be driven on shore in a gale of wind, she does not soon become a wreck: for her keels will all naturally be driven up into their cases, and the ship being flat bottomed, she cannot easily be overset, and all the crew may be saved, with perfect security, by her being able to go into such shallow water."
"The world is indebted for these noble discoveries, to John Schank, Esq. of Barton House, Dawlish, a Captain in the Royal Navy, who had the command of the Kings' ships of war on the great Lakes of America last war."
"Great merit is due to Lord Chatham, and the present Lords of the admiralty, who getting the better of all former prejudices, ordered this vessel to be constructed."
Among the other ways and means, we hear a Stamp Duty on Shoes is one of the new resources to be adopted. The measure, we are told, is fixed upon; but the quantum and proportion remain to be settled.
In our account of the property insured at the Albion Mills, there was an error which we are desired to correct. Phœnis Office insured only 5000l. on the building, but none on the stock, which was insured 15,000l. by the Royal Exchange, and 6000l. by the Union. The whole property insured was 41,000l. not a sixth part of the whole value.
Last Monday the daughter of Mr. Nash, at Tenderden in Kent, a fine girl about six years of age, being put to bed, was heard to cry out and scream very much. The mother being greatly alarmed, went to the bed, when she found the child's face bit and torn in a terrible manner. On turning down the bed-clothes, a large rat jumped out of the bed; but the door being shut the rat was soon killed. The poor child's face is so mangled and torn that she lies dangerously ill.
HOUSE OF LORDS.
Monday, March 28.
Lord Grenville rose and said, that he held in his hand a message from his Majesty, which he moved might be read. It was accordingly read by the Lord Chancellor, and is in substance as follows:
"GEORGE R."
"His Majesty thinks it necessary to acquaint the House of Lords that his endeavours, in conjunction with his allies, to effect a pacification between Russia and the Porte, have, hitherto, proved unsuccessful. That as the consequences are highly important to this country, as well as to the general interests of Europe, his Majesty was desirous to add weight to his future interference, by an augmentation of his naval force; and he hoped that the House of Lords would concur in defraying the expence of such addition, so that permanent peace might be secured to this country, and the general tranquility of Europe established on a solid and lasting foundation."
MARCH 29. Besides frigates, cutters, fire ships, &c. &c. there are at present in commission, 32 sail of the line, viz. one of 110, four of 98, twenty five of 74, and two of 64 guns.
The sudden proceedings of England, relative to her present preparations for war, have, it is said, arisen from the reiterated complaints of the court of Prussia. The court, having every thing to fear from the wide spread conquests of the imperial Catharine, and knowing, from its proximity, more immediately than we the secret springs of the Russian Councils, as well as the movements of her several fleets and armies, has been pressing us to fulfil our engagements, and the last dispatches were still more pressing, and more descriptive of the reasons for arming, than any of the preceding ones.
It is the general opinion, that should we be drawn into an actual war, it will be of short continuance, for though the Empress is inexhaustible in men, her finances are much out of repair, whilst those of her enemies are fresh and vigorous.
There is a fall of 77 per cent. in the Russian ruble. By the last male we learn it was as low as twenty seven pence half penny, which is a fall from forty eight pence, the price it stood at before the war.
The Dutch bank wanting a loan, has interfered greatly with the views of Russia, tho' some Dutch letters inform us that a loan of half a million was negotiating for the Empress, at the house of Hope and company at Amsterdam.
Yesterday the stocks fluctuated from 75 3/4 to 77 3/4, and finally closed at 77. The occasion of this rise is attributed to large orders from the Dutch for buying in, which some speculators impute to what they call hedging—others to their having better information relative to continental politics.
The naval force talked of for immediate equipment, is, fifty sail of the line—thirty for the Baltic, and twenty for the Black Sea.
The domestic symptoms of war have increased very rapidly within the last ten days, and, as there is no reason to expect
a speedy removal of the cause, will certainly continue for many months, and probably at last end in hostilities.
The answers of the Empress to the memorial presented by our Minister, requiring some interpretation of her motives in the preparations for another campaign, contains almost as much provocation in the terms as in the substance of it.—"I, said she, as the Sovereign of an independent State, will answer no enquiries concerning my actions; I am to act as I please, and other States as they please."
That this is the purport, and nearly the manner of her answer, we have been assured from very high authority.
In Spain, the power to which suspicion naturally recurs, there has been lately a naval promotion, much more extensive than is useful in times of peace, or even of preparation. Two Lieutenant-generals, four commanders of squadrons, ten Brigadiers, fifty-five Captains of vessels, and many inferior officers, to the number of two hundred and six in the whole, were appointed on the fourth of the present month.
Our own preparations, it is understood, will amount, as soon as possible, to forty sail of the line and ten frigates. Of these, thirty sail and several frigates—with a Dutch squadron, will enter the Baltic; and the remainder will ascend, by the Archipelago, into the Black Sea, as the naval defence to Constantinople. These are the destination at present expected for our fleet; but which will of course vary with circumstances.
The immediate commencement of a press is certain. The regulating Captains, Harmood and Vandeput, have received commissions; and the Lieutenants who wish to be employed in that service gave in their names and address on Saturday at the Admiralty.
Admiral Lord Hood, Sir Richard King, Hotham, Cosby, and Cornish have received their appointments to commands; the three latter, with his Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence, are expected to hoist their flags at Spithead in the course of the present week.
Several ships that had cleared from the Baltic were unfreighted on Saturday last, in the River, and the vessels chartered for voyages to less dangerous ports.
Domestic Intelligence.
KINGSTON, (Jamaica) March 19.
On Thursday last, the following accident happened in this town: A board in the floor of a room, ten feet from the ground, suddenly gave way, as the mistress of the house was walking on it, and she fell through: Directly under the place was a well thirty feet deep, down which she was also precipitated. By the kind exertions of Mr. Latimer, in whose neighbourhood the accident happened, she was very soon got out again: Though the well was only three feet in diameter, and the lady fell altogether forty feet, she providentially received no other injury than a slight contusion on the head, and a scratch on one of her legs.
NEW-YORK, May 11.
On Saturday last was apprehended and committed to the goal in this city a man who calls himself Major Nathan Goodman, of North-Carolina, charged with fraudulently selling counterfeit and altered certificates of the State of North-Carolina. On his examination before the Mayor, it appeared that his real name was Nathan Laffciter; and about 17,000l. of North-Carolina paper was found in the possession of himself and an accomplice named Easton. The whole of which appears to be altered and counterfeit.—The papers are of what is called Halifax Wilmington. Easton was also committed. They came last from Boston by the way of Rhode-Island.
May 21.
"A traveller arrived in this town, who passed through Little York, Pennsylvania, the beginning of this week, reports, that he met an express going
to Philadelphia, who informed him, that the town of Pittsburgh had been burnt by the Indians. [This wants confirmation.]"
PHILADELPHIA, May 21.
The fall of rain last Friday in Berks county, Pennsylvania, exceeded any thing of the kind ever known in that part of the country. It poured down in a tremendous torrent from two in the afternoon till Saturday morning at three. Several mill dams were totally destroyed and otherwise much damage done. Houses on considerable eminences were entirely surrounded with water; in one of which the carpenter of Gibraltar Forge perished.
Accounts from Pittsburgh to us inform of some recent depredations of the Indians; the guard at the block house at Yellow Creek was attacked and two men killed—at the same time a guard of six men on crooked Creek was attacked and one man killed—These Indians appear to be ranging parties, having no object but robbery and murder; they are few in number, and although several scouts were sent out, they were not fortunate enough to come up with any of them.
SPRINGFIELD, May 18.
On Thursday last, nearly two thousand dollars damage was done by fire, on the plains, in this town, one small dwelling house was consumed—the damage consisted principally in the destruction of fences and a fine growth of timber: A day or two before, greater damage was done, by this raging element, on the plains between this town and Wilbraham; the last mentioned fire (it is conjectured) was set with an evil intention, the former arose from accident, or from want of care and necessary attention.
LITCHFIELD, May 11.
On Saturday night last, some abandoned villain with malicious design, attempted to destroy the dwelling house of Capt. Samuel Baldwin in Harwinton, by placing fire and inflammables under the sill, which communicated to the body, and would effectually have succeeded, had not the smoke and flames disturbed two young women, who were nearly suffocated, and whose shrieks alarmed the family; by whose united exertions the fire was with difficulty extinguished. Considerable damage was done; the fire having been so extreme as to reduce a variety of pewter and other furniture contained in the buttery. The escape was miraculous: a few minutes would have decided the fate of the building, and of 17 persons who were lodged in it. It appears that the evil demon first attempted to fire the barn.
WINCHESTER, May 7.
On Wednesday last Capt. Swearingen's company of Levies, lately raised in the county of Perkekey, marched into town from Martinburg, on Thursday they were equiped in their uniforms, and made a very respectable and soldier-like appearance.
We hear this is to be the place of rendezvous for the companies raising in this State—and that another company is shortly expected from Alexandria, to join those already here.
Capt. Brock's company, for which the first man was enrolled last Tuesday fortnight, is now upwards of fifty strong.
A French Emigrant of note, who arrived in this town on Friday last, in eight days from Gallipolis, on the Miami, contradicts the report of Capt. Guions being murdered, as mentioned in a former paper.
WORCESTER, May 26.
From a Correspondent.
"Mr. Levi Bixby of Winchendon, now in the forty-seventh year of his age, has killed 14 wolves, 33 bears, 10 deer, 5 moose, 16 otters, 17 beavers, 2 woollenegs, 22 raccoons, 33 foxes, about 130 minks 500 musquash, 75 fables, 17 porcupines, about 100 hares, 5 rattlesnakes and 55 polecats, besides other small game and wild fowl almost innumerable."

BOSTON, May 30. Wednesday last arrived the ship Nap- tune, Capt. Scott , in 75 days from London, in whom came passengers, Mr. Samuel Breck , jun. Capt. Russell Hubbard , and Mrs. Spencer , and Daughter.
From a late Dutch Paper. A woman at Altena, after loosing five children by cutting of their teeth, saved six others by rubbing their gums with Virgin Honey on the first indica- tion of pain, and repeating the opera- tion whenever the children were found uneasy. It is added that the same ex- periment had been tried with equal success on other children. From the Philadelphia News-papers per last post.
It is related with horror, in civilized countries, that some savage nation kill their own men, when they are no longer able to support themselves; and others expose their children to starve to death, when they think themselves unable to maintain them, but perhaps the follow- ing instance of domestic barbarity will be read with that indifference which attends the repetition even of murders, which the law does not punish, and which custom has rendered common. Extract of a letter from Newport (Rhode Island) dated 5th Mo. 9th, 1791.
"On the 7th instant arrived here, from an African slave voyage (but last from Havannah, where the slaves were sold) a bark belonging to this town, commanded by a Capt. Wolf , owned by said Wolf and Caleb Gardiner . One that was on board this vessel during the voyage informed me, that a few days af- ter they had sailed from Africa, symp- toms of the small-pox appeared upon a female slave. She was kept in the main top three days, then taken down, brought to the side of the vessel and thrown overboard by the Captain him- self, it is said that the reason of his drowning her was lest she should com- municate the disorder to those on board who had not had it. B H"
We hear, that besides other Charities, the late William Erving Esq. has be- queathed £. 1000 to the University; the interest of which he has appropriate by his Will, to the Profession of Chi- mistry for the time being.
June 1. Our beloved President, we are told by a gentleman from the south- ward, enjoys his health, in the south- ern tour, in a much greater degree than he did when in this part of the Union—May it be long continued.
OF WAR—AGAIN.
BY an arrival, yesterday, from Europe, we received English papers to April 4. They inform that Great- Britain was making great preparations for WAR! They commenced in conse- quence of a Message from the King, to the Parliament, purporting, That his Majesty and his allies had found their Me- diation unequal to the purpose of effecting a pacification between the Empress of Russia and the Ottoman Porte, and that the pro- gress of the war threatening to disturb the tranquility and the interest of his Majesty, and his Allies in particular, and the neigh- bouring powers in general, his Majesty had thought it necessary to make such an aug- mentation of his navy, as might prove likely to give weight to his negotiations;—The King then asks for adequate supplies, which the Parliament promises to grant.
We are also informed, That General Potemkin is really gone to Petersburg, it is thought, to persuade Catherine to push for the gates of Constantinople, and not to stop until her General shall be able to dictate terms of peace from that city.
CENTINEL MARINE JOURNAL.
Arrived, at Newbury-Port, Sloop May , Holland, from Martinico—11th ult. in lat. 39. 10, long. 63, 40, spoke Brig Nancy , Capt. Silas Atkins , of this port, bound to Surinam—out 5 days —all well.
Arrived yesterday, Ship Mercury , Capt. Caldwell , from Ireland.
SALEM, May 31.
His Excellency our worthy Govern- or perceiving, with his usual discern- ment, that LOTTERIES have a ten- dency to withdraw the people's atten- tion from INDUSTRY, the only certain source of wealth and prosperity—and also that they operate as a very unequal tax, the indigent and embarrassed be- ing commonly the greatest adventurers —suggests, in his patriotic speech to the Legislature, the propriety of discon- tinuing this mode of raising money.
Several persons have been prosecuted and severely fined, in New-York, for having opened, set on foot, and carried on, private Lotteries: One person was fined 500l. another 94l. and both com- mitted to goal till the fines are paid.
Died at Andover, on the 20th inst. Miss Priscilla Abbot , aged One Hundred years, wanting 7 weeks and 6 days.
PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 2.
The Manufacture of hard metal But- tons has become no inconsiderable branch of business. The perfection to which it is brought does honor to the workmen, while it renders essential ben- efit to the community, by saving a large annual importation from England and other countries. Mr. Mix of the firm of Mix and Co. of Newhaven, produ- ces a supply of 160 different kinds, and sizes and polishes from their house, the goodness, beauty and reduced prices of which, must give their goods a decided preference to any European whatever.
By Capt. Rice , in the brig Polly , arrived here on Tuesday last in 51 days from Poole, in England, we are inform- ed, that on the 10th of April, when he left England, the greatest exertions were making to man the British fleet intend- ed for the Baltic; press warrants were prosecuted with great rigour, the Bri- tish force designed to act against the Russians consisted of two divisions, one of 30 sail of the line, and the other of 10: The whole of Capt. Rice's crew were impressed, and detained one night, then discharged.
Accounts from Port Louis, (Tobago) of April 17, mention all is tranquility here—we have the pleasing prospect of an abundant crop—the difficulties in Martinique are fast subsiding, order takes the lead of anarchy, and the com- missioners (who are much respected here) will, it is supposed, be enabled in a short time to establish harmony thro' all the French colonies, and enforce due obedience to the acts of the nation- al assembly.—Captains Miller and Rollins , are still here.—The brig —, Watson , from Baltimore, arrived here yesterday, and a schooner from Amboy —On Friday and Saturday, arrived three French vessels, one with jury masts they bring accounts from France, that there was an attempt at Marseilles to effect a counter-revolution, that the mob had substituted the white cockade. —All French vessels here wear the na- tional flag.
From some late publications it would appear that the United States have eg- gregiously erred in the form and admin- istration of their national government, and yet facts contradict all speculations upon this subject.—Our citizens are peaceable and happy—our laws are ob- eyed, and such of our rulers as are good men, are every where respected— Why then should a treasonable whisper be heard in favour of monarchical or aristocratical forms of government?— The advocates for Kings and Lords, as essential parts of a government, remind us of a speech which was made during the late war by a Scotch Lieutenant, to a New-England Captain who became his prisoner. "You are engaged, said the Scotch officer, in the most extraordi- nary rebellion I ever heard of in all my life. You are all fighting and yet have no king to fight for." These deluded people do not consider the dignity of human nature, and that men were made to inherit themselves, and not to be conveyed by will or otherwise, from fa- ther to son, as if they were of no more value than black cattle.
The London Morning Chronicle, of March 21st, informs, that so immense was the demand for Mr. Paine's pam- phlet in answer to Mr. Burke , that upon publication of the first edition, upwards of twelve thousand copies were sold off in sheets, wet from the press; and the remainder of that edition en- tirely disposed of in a few hours after its appearance. Upon the coming out of the second edition, it was found al- most impossible to supply the orders; and at the date above mentioned, the third edition was already in the press.
ENTRIES at the CUSTOM-HOUSE of this district.
ENTERED FROM Schooner Dove , Tredick , St. Martins. Brig Polly , Rice , Poole. Brig Lucretia , M'Clintock , St. Johns. CLEARED FOR Brig Abigail , Chauncy , West Indies. Schooner Industry , Brown , ditto. Brig Active , Greenough , ditto.
CANINE MADNESS.
WHEN persons have been bit by a dog supposed to be mad, the dog is generally killed before any one has ascertained his condition; in conse- quence of which, the person bit, con- tinues in a cruel uncertainty. M. Petit , an eminent surgeon in France, has published the following experiment for determining it, whether the suspi- cion is groundless or not.
He rubs the teeth, gums and throat of the dead dog, with a piece of meat that has been dressed; taking care that there be no blood to stain it; and then offers it to a living dog: If the living animal refuses it, with crying and howl- ing, it may be concluded that the dog was certainly mad; but if the meat was well received and eaten, there is nothing to fear.
Experiment to be made on a Living Dog. Pour down the throat of a living dog, apprehended to be mad, a cup of balm tea, which will immediately kill him if he is mad.
N. B. Milk will have the same effect, though not so speedily.
FROM THE NORWICH PACKET.
MR. TRUMBULL,
THE PROMPTER, is an entire stranger to me; I know not who he is, nor where he lives, but I would willingly travel twenty miles to see, and shake hands with him:—He wrote excellently on the subject of borrowing: His observations were well calculated to work a reformation in the ugly customs of the people; but I lament it, my neighbours are no more moved by his writings, than the wicked men of Sodom were by the hearty expostula- tion of righteous Lot. I do not recollect that Mr. Prompter said anything about lending; but you know, that in weighing any article or commodity in the scales, if one end of the beam goes down the other end must of course go up: So, where there is one borrower, there cer- tainly is one lender.—The scale-beam has but two ends, and one end is al- ways actuated by one end: But there may be ten borrowers, and but one lender; in that case it is hard, sure enough, on the side of the lender. Suppose here is four, five or six fam- ilies, who think it best and cheapest to borrow; and here is one who is well fur- nished with a complete set of tools, agreeable to my friend Prompter's ad- vice; will not the patience and all the tools of this one, soon be worn out? must he pace up and down all the morning to get his tools and hand them out to his neighbours, and be disturbed again at night to receive them in? Stop! no, he is not much trou- bled about receiving them in at night; his neighbor keeps the tool till the next day, and the next day; and on the 4th or 5th day, the obliging lender is under a necessity of using his shovel; where is it Tom? "I done know Sir seem to me some body borrow um tudder day." Tom is sent a hunting round the neigh- bourhood—the thing is found—the handle is broke—well Tom, this is the
way we get rich; go, you must carry it to the wood-worker, and get a new handle made to it Tom, "Yes massa, dis no berry good wua to get rich tho; me hope massa nebber lend um shubble gin, cussen nable plage Tom sole out alwa hollow shubble en bo, en ax, en rake and dibble do no wbat all." Tom Tom you must not swear so, if they do plague your soul out.
Now I say Mr. Trumbull , I wish you you would be so obliging as to convey my compliments to Mr. Prompter , and tell him I wish he would write once more on the subject, hotter than ever, and oblige yours, TOM'S MASTER.
EPITAPH,
FROM THE FRENCH. GAILY I liv'd, as ease and nature taught; And spent my little life without a thought; And am amaz'd, that death, that tyrant grim Should think of me, who never thot' of him.
Rockingham, ff.
The Court of Probate
for said County, will be held at Mr. GREENLEAF's Tavern in Portsmouth, on the fifteenth day of June inst.
By order of the Judge, W. PARKER, Reg'r.
Elopement.
INASMUCH as my Wife Eunice has deserted my House and board, I hereby caution all persons against trust- ing her on my account, I being deter- mined not to pay any debt of her con- tracting from the date hereof. I am also determined not to pay any debt which may arise in consequence of a child of mine which she has taken with her.
JOHN COLBY. Newbury, May 26, 1791.
A large Quantity of RIPE Juniper Berries Are wanted—for which a generous price will be given By SAMUEL HILL, Near the Market, Portsmouth.
WE the subscribers, being ap- pointed by the Honorable Oliver Peabody, Esq. Judge of Probate, for said county, commissioners, to re- ceive and examine the claims of the se- veral creditors to the estate of Timothy Dusten , late of Salem, in said county, deceased, represented insolvent, hereby give notice, that we will attend for that purpose at the house belonging to the estate of the said deceased, in Salem aforesaid, the second Tuesday in May next, and the second Tuesdays of the five following months, from one to five o'clock, in the afternoon on each day. ABRAHAM DOW, JEREMIAH DOW, } Commis- PETER CLEMENT, } sioners. Salem, April 21, 1791.
CROYDON. State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the proprietors and owners of land in the township of Croydon, in said State, who have not paid the tax of £. 3 12 0, voted by the proprietors, and assessed on each right in said township in 1763; of 6s. voted by said proprietors and assessed in 1764, on each right; of 20s. voted and assessed as aforesaid on each right in 1765; and of 6s. on each right, voted and assessed as aforesaid, in the same year; all said taxes and assessments being for proprietary char- ges, that unless they pay the same or whatever remains due and unpaid there- on, to me the subscriber, at my dwell- ing-house, on or before the first day of July next, so much of their land as will pay the same, with incidental charges, will be advertised for sale as the law directs.
MOSES LELAND, Collector. Sutton, May 11, 1791.

E P I G R A M.
W HAT's meant by a REBUS, Come tell me I pray, Says Dolly to Enos, While raking of hay. Let me BUS you again, And again, says the youth, And that will explain, What's a RE—BUS in truth.
ALL THE WORLD's A LOTTERY.
THE World's a LOTTERY, take it through, The BLANKS are many—PRIZES few. The STRIPLING, when his hopes elate, He tries his luck in marriage state, Expecting scenes of future bliss— Thinking, that he has drawn in MISS A PRIZE of no inferior rank, Full often finds he's drawn a BLANK.
The blushing MAID, by parents sold To age, ambition, lust, or gold, And flatter'd that she has a PRIZE, Will often find, to her surprize, She's bound for life (O! dreadful curse) To tedious BLANK, or something worse.
What but LOTTERY is the law, Where Lawyers all the PRIZES draw, Their Clients give them many thanks, For privilege to draw the BLANKS.
Physicians manage LOTTERY-WISE, Here death's the BLANK and—health the PRIZE;
And 'tis a truth which most men feel, There's but few PRIZES in the wheel.
He that at levees of the great, With fawning, cringing, can await, Can many a PRIZE of gain expect, Oft meets a BLANK of cold neglect.
But yet of all the casual crew, The Poet has the least in view, What hopes can starv'ling poets feel, When there's no PRIZES in the wheel, For should he draw the phantom fame, 'Tis but a BLANK—an empty name.
William Fitz,  CLOCK & WATCH-MAKER.
T AKES this method to acquaint the public, that he has taken a SHOP, at the corner of Market and Con- gress streets,—where he carries on the business in its various branches on very reasonable terms,—and
HAS FOR SALE,
A great assortment of American manufactured PLATED  BUCKLES —warranted to be of a su- perior quality to any imported.
Cash, and the highest Price given for Old Gold, Silver, Brass & Copper. Portsmouth, May 26.
AUCTION.
At Portsmouth, (N. H.) on THURSDAY 23d of June next, at 12 o'clock, A. M. will be SOLD
By PUBLIC VENDUE,
A LOT of Land, with the HOUSE and other BUILD-  INGS thereon, and the appurtenances thereunto belonging, advantageously situated for business, in Portsmouth, aforesaid, bounded on State-Street in front, and on another street in the rear, the premises now occupied by Mr. JAMES HASLET, will be sold for one half Cash, at the time of purchase, the other half in six months after, at which time a deed will be given thereof.
For further particulars, inquire of Benjamin Dearborn, of Portsmouth, or Josiah Waters, of Boston.
May 21, 1791.
A BOY is wanted
To go into a small family—apply to the Printer hereof.
NEW-DURHAM-GORE —State of New-Hampshire.
N OTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors of land in New- Durham-Gore, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1789, that un- less they pay said taxes to me the subscriber on or before the 30th day of June next, so much of their land as will pay the same, together with incidental char- ges, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of Mr. Zebulon Davis, innholder in said town, at ten o'clock, A. M. on said day.
   No. of lot. Ran. Q'ty. specie. s. d. sp. ord. county   s. d. s. d. s. d.     Samuel Solly & Clement March, 12 4 503 1 9 1 9 0 3   Thomas Packer, 3 2 1100 3 10 3 10 0 6 1/2   John Gage, 5 do. 220 0 10 0 10 0 1 1/2   John Gage, 11 3 165 0 8 0 8 0 1   George Jaffrey, 7 2 600 3 2 3 2 0 1   Daniel Rogers, 5 do. 153 4 3 4 3 0 7   Samuel Brag, 2 1 45 1 9 1 9 0 3  
The two lots No. 9 & 18, laid out to the right of Tho's Wallingsford, Esq. deceased, divided as follows: the heirs of John Wentworth, Esq. deceased, and Elizabeth his wife,
Stephen Evans,
Samuel Wallingsford,
The two lots No. 6 & 12, laid out to Jotham Odiorne, Esq. deceased, divided as follows,
Samuel Odiorne, No. 1 2 4,
south range, west side, and
No. 5, north range, west side,
The lot No. 14, in the third
range divided as follows, Sa-
muel Hale,
Jotham Odiorne,
Lot No. 8 in the second range,
divided as follows, George
Jaffrey,
Thomas Packer,
Thomlinson and Mason,
Richard Wibird,
Samuel Solly & Clement March,
New-Durham-Gore, May 26, 1791.
ELEAZER DAVIS, Collector.
State of New-Hampshire.
N OTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in New-Durham-Gore, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1790, that un- less they pay said taxes to me the sub- scriber on or before the 30th day of June next, so much of their land as will pay the same, together with inci- dental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of Mr. Zebulon Davis, innholder in said town, at ten o'clock, A. M. on said day.
The sums to be paid in specie & 3/4 in specie orders
   No. of lot. R. Q'ty. s. d.     Solly & March, 12 4 503 0 8   Thomas Packer, 3 2 1100 1 6   John Gage, 5 2 220 0 4   John Gage, 11 3 160 0 3   Sam'l Allin's Heirs, 13 3 950 2 6   ditto, 15 4 812 1 7   Thomlinson and do. do. 142 0 3   Mason, part of do. do. 142 0 3   Daniel Rogers, 5 2 153 0 5   James M'Duffee, 7 2 400 1 7   James Jewett, 2 1 300 3 6  
The two lots No. 9 & 18, laid out to the share of Thomas Wallingsford, Esq. deceased, divided as follows:
The heirs of John
Wentworth, Esq.
deceased, and Eli-
zabeth, his wife,
Eben. Wallingsford,
Hannah Brown,
The heirs of Sam'l
Allin, No. 5, south
range, west side, be-
ing part of lot No.
6 & 12, which was
laid out to Jotham
Odiorne,
S. Hale, part of No.
14 in 3 range, being
lot 3, in the division
300 acres,
Joth. Odiorne, part
NEW-DURHAM.
State of New-Hampshire.
N OTICE is hereby given to the owners of the following lots of land in New Durham, who have not paid their taxes from the year 1781, to the year 1787, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber on or before the 14th of July next, so much of their land as will pay the same together with incidental charges, will be sold at pub- lic vendue at ten o'clock, A. M. on said day, at the dwelling-house of Capt. John Bennett, innholder in said town.
Indents. Specie.
No. 4, in 1st Div. £. s. d. £. s. d.
The estate of J.
Wiggin, deceased
for 1781 in New-
Emmission 71. 8s.
Ditto, 1782,
Ditto, 1784,
Ditto, 1785,
Ditto, 1786,
Ditto, 1787,
No. 71 in 1st Div.
The estate Wm.
Murry, deceased
for 1781 in New-
Emmission 51. 14s.
10d.
Ditto, 1782,
Ditto, 1784,
Ditto, 1785,
Ditto, 1786,
Ditto, 1787,
No. 17 in 2d Div.
The estate of Paul
March, Esq. de-
ceased for 1784,
Ditto, 1785,
Ditto, 1786,
Ditto, 1787,
No. 32 in 1st Div.
Capt. J. Thomas
for 1782.
Ditto, 1784,
Ditto, 1785,
Ditto, 1786,
Ditto, 1787,
No. 99 in 1st Div.
Wm. Ham for 1784,
Ditto, 1785,
Ditto, 1786,
NATHAN KENISON, Collector.
New-Durham, May 12, 1791.
Church Prayer Book.
A FEW Copies of the Book of
COMMON PRAYER, as re-
vised and ratified by Convention, at
Philadelphia, in Oct. 1789, handsomely
bound, may be had at J. MELCHER's
PRINTING-OFFICE, in Market-street.
BLANKS of all Sorts, may on the shortest notice be had at JOHN MELCHER's Printing-Office.
H E N N I K E R.
State of New-Hampshire.
N OTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors or own- ers of land in Henniker, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1790, that unless they pay said taxes to me the subscriber on or before the 13th day of June next, so much of their land as will pay the same, together with in- cidental charges, will be sold at pub- lic vendue, at the dwelling-house of Lt. John Goodenow, innholder in said town, at ten o'clock, A. M. on said day.
   Acres. lot. R. d. q     James Smith, 100 10 1 2 2   Alexander Craig, 100 13 2 2 2   James Humphreys, 50 4 6 3 2   John Rindge, 100 1 7 4 0   Common land, 100 6 12 3 0   John M'Cullom, 30 19 12 1 1  
JONAS BOWMAN, Collector. Henniker, May 11, 1791.
O S S I P E E.
State of New-Hampshire.
N OTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in Ossipee, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1790, that unless they pay said taxes to me the subscriber on or before the 7th day of June next, so much of their land as will pay the same to- gether with incidental charges will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling- house of Capt. Jacob Brown, inn- holder in said town, at ten o'clock, A. M. on said day.
   No. Ac. s. d.     John Moffatt, Esq. 5 400 2 3   Thomas Wallingsford, 14 400 2 3   Thomas Packer, Esq. 1 400 2 3   30 400 2 3   37 400 2 3   John Rindge, Esq. 7 400 2 3   27 400 2 3   Solly and March, 10 400 2 3   23 400 2 3   25 400 2 3   Thomlinson & Mason, 1/2 22 400 2 3   half, 18 400 2 3   Jotham Odiorne, half 4 400 2 3  
WINTHROP SMART, Constable. Ossipee, April 4, 1791.
State of New-Hampshire.
N OTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of lands in the following towns, viz.—Hollis for 1785 and 1788—Mason and Jaffrey 1788—Conway and Alstead 1788 and 1789—Hanover, Canaan, Sharon alias Peterborough Slip—Francestown and Lyndborough 1789—Wentworth, Not- tingham and Peterborough 1789 and 1790—Bradford, Chichester, Effing- ham, Grafton, Hillsborough, Middle- ton, Orford, Stoddard, Sutton, War- ren, Washington and Weare 1790— Fitzwilliam 1781 and 1790, and Fitz- william Road tax for 1789 and 1790— That their lands in said towns are tax- ed for the years aforesaid, and if the taxes are not paid within eight weeks from the first publication of this ad- vertisement, either to the collectors or the subscriber, they will be advertised for sale.
N.