Fowle's New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser ([Portsmouth, N.H.]), 1787-06-02 00:00:00

NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE,  A N D  GENERAL ADVERTISER.
"WHEN ANGRY NATIONS PART IN LEAGUES OF PEACE, LET PRIVATE FEUDS AND CIVIL DISCORDS CEASE."
PORTSMOUTH: Printed and published by JOHN MELCHER, in Market-Street, where Subscriptions, (at FOUR SHILLINGS for six months) Advertisements, &c. for this Paper are taken in, the favours of correspondents carefully attended to, and the Printing Business carried on at a reasonable rate.—Also—Advertisements, Subscriptions, &c. taken in by T. ODIORNE, Esq. Exeter.
For the NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE.
MR. PRINTER,
As you favoured the public in your last paper, with some observations on the medicinal virtues and effects of eggs, externally used, for the relaxing of contractions of the limbs, occasioned by a rigidity of the fibres; I have taken the liberty to send you some observations on their use, internally taken, their efficacy in resolving and opening the obstructions in the duet, or pipe that conveys the bile from the gall bladder into the bowels, so frequently taking place, occasioning the jaundice with all its distressing circumstances, will be fully evinced by the following extract from a publication of the ingenious and worthy Dr. White, of Manchester, in Great Britain:—Your giving them a place in your paper, tho' they may not be entertaining to your readers in general, may be beneficial to some unfortunate persons, who are labouring under the disorder, and seeking relief from remedies much less easy to obtain, much more expensive, and infinitely less efficacious.
A. B.
THE attention I have paid to Jaundiced patients of both sexes, and of every age, who have been cured by frequent taking raw eggs in cold spring water, has inclined me much to this opinion. My supposition is, that eggs act as a dissolvent of the gluten, obstructing the mouth of the duct, thereby opening a free passage for the bile into the duodenum. We know that yolks of eggs will destroy the tenacity of gums and resins, and render not only them, but also oils, and natural balsams miscible with water.
The first trial I had of this remedy was upon myself about fourteen years ago, when I had been afflicted with the jaundice many weeks, and was much reduced, no bile having for a long time past into the intestines, when my skin was almost black, and after I had in vain taken large quantities of soap, madder, steel, rhubarb, and aloetic medicines. An officer of marines told me that if he might be allowed to prescribe, he would immediately cure me. I laughed at his proposal, when he informed me that some years before, in the Mediterranean, he was troubled with the same disorder to as great a degree as myself, and that after he had ineffectually tried all the remedies the Surgeon of the ship could think of, a Spanish Physician at Minorca had assured him he could cure him in a few days by this simple prescription only,—two raw eggs, the whites as well as yolks, to be taken every morning in a glass of water fasting, with the addition of an egg every four hours during the day. That in three days after following this advice he began to perceive the bile in his stools, though none had appeared in them for many weeks before; that he immediately began to recover, and was very soon effectually cured. Upon considering the dissolvent property of yolks of eggs, and that eggs must at least afford a nourishment totally void of acrimony, I began to entertain a more favourable opinion of the recipe.
I tried it and found it had exactly the
same effect which he had promised me. Though I was certain no bile had passed through me for six weeks before, upon taking the eggs only three days it began to flow, and in one day more in as great plenty as I could wish. I continued however to take them several months, and have never since had any return of the disorder.
I have recommended the use of them to many persons under the same complaint, and have always had the satisfaction of finding their success, except in cases where the disorder was occasioned by a dislocated liver, or by stones in the gall bladder."
EXTRACT from a celebrated Author. How dangerous it is, in Republics, to be too severe in punishing the crime of High Treason.
AS soon as a Republic has compassed the destruction of those who wanted to subvert it, there should be an end of terrors, punishments, and even of rewards.
Great punishments, and consequently great changes, cannot take place without investing some citizens with an exorbitant power. It is therefore more adviseable, in this case, to exceed in lenity, than in severity; to banish but few, rather than many; and to leave them their estates, instead of making a vast number of confiscations.—Under pretence of avenging the republic's cause the avengers would establish tyranny. The business is not to destroy the rebel, but the rebellion. They ought to return as quick as possible into the usual track of government, in which every one is protected by the laws and no one injured.
The Greeks set no bounds to the vengeance they took of tyrants, or of those they suspected of tyranny: they put their children to death; nay, sometimes five of the nearest relations; and they proscribed an infinite number of families. By such means their republics suffered the most violent shocks: exiles, or the return of the exiled, were always epochs that indicated a change of the constitution.
The Romans had more sense. When Cassius was put to death for having aimed at tyranny, the question was proposed, whether his children should undergo the same fate: but they were preserved. "They (says Dionysius Halicarnassus) who wanted to change this law at the end of the Martian and civil wars, and to exclude from public offices the children of those who had been proscribed by Sylla, are very much to blame."
We find, in the wars of Marius and Sylla, to what excess the Romans had gradually carried their barbarity. Such scenes of cruelty, it was hoped, would never be revived. But, under the triumvirs, they committed greater acts of oppression, though with some appearance of lenity; and it is provoking to see what sophisms they make use of to cover their inhumanity. Appian has given us the formula of the proscriptions. One would imagine they had no other aim than the good of the republic; with such calmness do they express themselves; such advantages do they point out to the state; such expediency do they show in the means they adopt; such security do they promise to the opulent; such tranquillity to the
poor; so apprehensive do they seem of endangering the lives of the citizens; so desirous of appeasing the soldiers; such felicity, in fine, do they promise to the commonwealth.
Rome was drenched in blood when Lepidus triumphed over Spain: yet, by an unparalleled absurdity, he ordered public rejoicings in that city, upon pain of proscription.
L O N D O N,
Feb. 28. By a letter from Pekin, dated the 28th of September last, to the Minister of Tuscany, it appears that a missionary who had been sent to propagate the gospel in that empire had been arrested in the province of Huguang, from whence he was conducted to Pekin, loaded with chains, and suffered to starve to death. His name was Atte Pastoye.
A young woman in Coventry lately prevailed on her dying husband to make a will, and leave her such and such particular estates, as her dower; strictly, however, enjoining the executors not to permit her to receive more out of the premises than 2000l. per annum. The husband died, and Celia put on weeds: never was woman more dejected—her grief forbade her to have a relish for public amusements—and carriages and servants were but attendants on vanity, not worthy the attention of a mortal. The pretty widow, with 2000l. a year, made some noise however, and many a shoe was blackened, and many an head powdered, to attract her notice. At length, one of her lovers having seriously proposed marriage to her, and she thinking, as the six months were out, the sin of indecorum could not be charged on her, assured the gentleman she had no objection either to his person or manner, but she was greatly afraid he was under some mistake, and that it was her money, not herself, he wished to wed; if this was the case, he would be miserable indeed, as she had scarcely a competence wherewith to support herself. This the enamoured youth considered all finesse, for he had taken care to see the will before he saw her face; and clasping her in his arms, vowed he prized her charms more than gold; in short, they married, and speedily after, the husband pretending to light upon the will by chance, tenderly upbraided her for not before entrusting him with the secret—she was unkind, she doubted his truth, his constancy, and was resolved to try it: however, she must be convinced now, that he married her for love, and love alone; but as she had so much money, he would thank her for 5 or 600l. for a particular occasion.
The lady turning round, took his hand in her's—My dear, said she, remember I told you I had no fortune, and I told you true; my late loved Lord left a fortune for me on paper, it is true, but not a guinea in reality do I possess; on the contrary, I want a little money from you to pay a few debts I contracted while I was single.
The astonished husband stood motionless awhile, at length flouncing out of the room, determined to cut short the pain of living with one he could not love, which he immediately effected by discharging a pistol through his head.
Eggs good in Jaundice
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L O N D O N, April 2.
A letter from Copenhagen says, that a fleet of men of war, consisting of eight ships of the line, and four frigates, which are designed to go against the Algerines, will be ready to put to sea by the 23d of April. This fleet is to join the Russians, who are expected to be in the Mediterranean by the middle of May. The same letter says, that it is expected some other Christian powers will join them, in order to clear the Mediterranean of all piratical vessels.
A letter from Italy says, "The inhabitants of Rimini have lived in the fields during the months, of January and February, notwithstanding the inclemency of the season, the earth having been in constant motion, and the houses which appeared best able to resist the shocks, having successively given way to their violence. The great church of St. Francis, the sumptuous monument of the munificence of the Court of Malatesta, is entirely overthrown; the famous Arch of Augustus, which seemed of strength sufficient to defy the effects of time for ages to come, is split in the middle; and Trajan's bridge has suffered considerable damage. The Custom-house is wholly in ruins, and more than 40 persons have lost their lives from the fall of buildings in the city and its environs."
An Edict is in contemplation, and expected soon to issue, in favour of the Protestant Refugees from France. Virtually, therefore this edict is to be a revocation of the edict of Nantz; and thus it is, that the laurels of the Sixteenth Louis shoot out, amidst the growing greatness of his country.
To shew in what estimation the Commercial Treaty is actually held by the lower class of people, we have selected the following stanza from one of their most popular new ballads:
"Ye journeymen Taylors too, prick up your ears! We shall all wear French cloaths now, ye sons of the floorers; You must cabbage forget, and your thimbles near use And if you want victuals, Lads, suck your own goose."
The Art now being of prime consideration in view to mere TRADE should, in commercial treaties and regulations, be considered accordingly: The export trade of our engravings to France far exceeds the trade at home. The trade at home is chiefly in low priced prints, little ovals, and furniture decorations. Of the more costly production, the French exceed, by three to one, the buyers in England. In Paris alone, to Sir R. Strange's last print from Vendyke, the subscriptions there exceeded ours, as seventeen to three. The calculations in all undertakings is on the foreign sale, being thrice above our own. Spain is also beginning to deal largely in this commodity, which adverting to the state of the art in this country, is, indeed, "a commodity of good name."—A late order from Madrid to Messrs. Boydell exceeded 1500l. sterling. Portugal, by the uncorrected error of some religious persuasion, prohibits all importations of engravings. An error of this sort is not now likely to mislead even Lisbon long—that port will soon be opened to the prevailing powers of the British graver.
The Bailli de Suffrein has conceived a project worthy of his great soul, as well as of the power which he represents. Lately, in quality of Ambassador from Malta, he assembled all the foreign ministers to find out means for repressing the Barbary powers, which have now risen to so great a height. His scheme is either for the maritime states of Europe to enter into an agreement not to furnish them with any more naval stores, or to form a league in order to put an end to the piracies, or at least to lessen them. As soon as the ministers with whom he has conferred, shall have received their answers from their respective courts, we shall know whether the proposals and plan are capable of being put in execution.
P H I L A D E L P H I A, May 19.
A bill is now depending in the British Parliament, entitled, "An act for the better preventing vexatious suits being brought for the recovery of debts contracted in America, previous to the treaty of peace with the United States;"—the effect of which is to render the confiscation of property, by any of the United States a sufficient bar to actions brought in Great-Britain, or in the British colonies, against the former owners of such property, for debts which had been contracted in America anterior to the respective acts of confiscation. It is said that Sir James Wright and Mr. Joseph Galloway, who have had the address to obtain from a profligate ministry a compensation for their losses in America, amounting to double the sum they ever were worth, have likewise had sufficient influence to introduce this measure.
B A L T I M O R E, May 11. The following letter was delivered by Messrs. Richard Downing Jennings and Co. in St. Eustatius, to Mr. Samuel Hopkins, of this town, Merchant, who is just arrived from that island, in the brig Bald Hill, Captain Ca hoon.
St. Eustatius, April 12, 1787. "We have the honor to address you on a subject equally interesting to society, to commerce and to government."
"The enclosed paper will give you some information respecting a brig and her crew, which lay off and on this road, on Tuesday the 10th instant, whose outward appearance had nothing extraordinary in it; but what was seen within, gives great reason to believe her to be a masked pirate, as she was armed at all points, as a privateer; but had only two of the sixteen double fortified four pounders she carries upon deck. The person who managed the business of this vessel, passed a pretty considerable sum in counterfeit joes, in payment for negroes, which the rigor of our government obliges us to sell and deliver in the night; a circumstance that has greatly contributed to the execution of this villainy."
"They shipped a pilot here for Demarara, to give a better appearance to their pretended project of going therein quest of cotton, but sent him on shore in the evening, when they were preparing to receive the negroes; and it is from him we get our information of the warlike apparatus they had concealed on board, and the suspicious behavior of the crew."
"The interest we personally have in pursuing and detecting these villains, is but a second consideration with us, when compared to the hazard the unwary might be exposed to from a set made desperate by an accumulation of vice; and we are confident you will have the goodness to applaud the motives which have induced us to take this liberty. We have the honor to be, with great consideration and respect, your most obedient, and most humble servants."
"P. S. The circular letter of which the preceding is a copy, was written in that haste, a matter of consequence made unavoidable."
"We have since had good information that the brig is called the Eliza, of London, as written on her stern;—that she was the famous privateer out of Jamaica in the last war, called the Defiance; that William Johnson, who appears to have the direction of the vessel, married a woman of St. Christopher's, and that his mother lives now at St. Martins; that Hugh Thomas, Captain of the brig, commanded a privateer out of Tortola in the war, and that he has long been connected with Johnson. John Wetheril, who bargained for the negroes has a brother at St. Kitts.—The joes they paid to a considerable amount have all proved false."
"The brig Eliza is a long low vessel, but not pilot boat built, has a copper bottom and red sides, single deck; her quarter deck runs something before the main mast, and has an unusual curve in the quarter deck beams; the entrance into the cabin is by a step-ladder from the quarter deck into a
stateroom, in which, on each side is a sleeping birth, from whence you enter the cabin, which is very low; there seemed to be but one sleeping place on each side, though the length would nearly admit of two; and without these births were lockers, which formed seats."
"There were four or six negro sailors, and six or eight whites on board; in the cabin were four persons, one rather above the middle size, with a ruddy complexion, and black hair; he had on a black coat, and called himself William Johnson; another about the same stature, well made, marked with the small pox, soft speech, and with a Scotch accent, called himself John Wetheril, said he was born in Cumberland in England, and that the brig did belong to Bristol; he wore a cloth coloured coat. This person treated for the Negroes, and managed the business from the beginning to the counting the money on board; there is a sedateness and steadiness in his manners, which left no room for suspicion in the short time there was occasion to know him. The person who acted as Captain is fat and lusty, his stature about five feet ten, with a round, ruddy, freckled face. The boy handsome, and well shaped, about 13 years old."
"The negroes received here were, twenty eight men, two men boys, three boys, six women, and one girl; all Gold Coast slaves, for which he had a bill of parcels and receipt, as for cash."
"It seems that a pilot had been shipped here to go in the brig to Demarara, who was on board all day, but was discharged at night. He says they had fourteen guns in the hold, two armed chests upon the quarter deck; in all, about twenty men on board, which he saw; that they made a very suspicious appearance."
B O S T O N, May 29.
A gentleman who arrived in town last Friday from Orange, in the county of Hampshire, informs us, that the following letter was received by the person to whom it is directed on Wednesday last, viz.
"Hinsdale, May 21, 1787, 12 o'clock."
"BROTHER,
"I would have you acquaint my family, that I am taken prisoner by Shay's men.—They tell me, I must go to Head Quarters—where that is I know not."
From your Brother, JOSEPH METCALF.
"Mr. Savel Metcalf, Orange."
Mr. Metcalf was on his return home from a journey when he was captured.—The night following which, the house of Medad Pomeroy, Esq. in Warwick, was attacked, and himself made prisoner, by an armed body of insurgents, commanded by one Smith, of New-Salem, late a Lieutenant Colonel of the militia, who previous to his departure left the following with Mr. Pomeroy's lady, viz.
"This is to certify the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, that the persons now taken are to be reserved as hostages to secure the life of Jason Parmenter and Henry McCulloch, who are condemned to death by said State, and to assure you, that if the above persons are put to death by said State, that the persons taken as above shall be put to death, in the same manner, as soon as the news arrives, and that without delay, and therefore pray you not to be deceived, but pray to save life."
Our informant, who is brother to one of the gentlemen made prisoners, says further, that on Tuesday last, they were seen to pass through Brattleborough, Vermont, guarded by six of the rebels.
We hear that Mr. Joseph Metcalf, who was captured by a party of rebels, as related above made his escape from them on the road.
It is said, that Mr. Pomeroy, the other gentleman who was held as a hostage by the rebels, has been released, from an apprehension of their inability to hold him in defiance of the authority of Vermont the magistracy of which state, we are told, had issued a warrant for apprehending the culprits, in order to liberate Mr. Pomeroy.

TEMESWAR, Feb. 24.
In the space of two years, 3000 families of emigrants have arrived here from Germany. Some have settled in the towns abounded by the former inhabitants, and others have formed eleven new villages. Next spring a great number of houses will be erected. The establishment of the Colony will be attended with an expence to the Emperor of 1,000,000 florins. but there is reason to expect that this sum will produce a high interest.
BERLIN, March 15.
We learn, that the Imperial Envoy Comte Trautmanstord, lately arrived at Cassel and it appears that his business is to act in concert with the Prussian Envoy in a negotiation respecting the late events at Buckebourg.
BLOMBERG, March 13.
The young Comte is returned home from Buckebourg, on account as we are informed, of the small pox raging there, and having made great ravages at Minden. The Governor of Wilhelmstein still holds possession of the fort bearing his name, though he has only thirty men under his command. It is observed, that the place is supplied from towards Hanover.
COLOGNE, March 17.
The Elector of Hanover who repeated lately his demand for 180,000 rials from the Comte of Schaumburg, was on the point of taking possession of the town of Hagenbourg, and two regiments destined for this service, were actually on their march, when the Landgrave of Hesse paid the debt, and the Hanoverian troops returned in consequence.
The Landgrave of Hesse has made over to the Court of Denmark a loan of three millions of florins. The King of Prussia, it is said, offered to mediate between this Prince and the heirs of Comte de Schaumbourg Lippe. The Landgrave of Hesse Darmstadt has been attacked by a dropy of the breast, which is likely to prove fatal.
LONDON, April 9.
Considerations worthy the attention of the Friends to the French Treaty.
While France is laughing at their success in this last advantageous proof of the credulity of John Bull, how is she acting in every quarter of the world?— In India she is gradually collecting a great force;—she is secured from the Dutch, the consequential and commanding harbour of Trincomale for her fleets; and her troops now garrison the Cape. In Africa she is endeavouring to erect forts, and securing the means of annoying us in that quarter. In America she has got a whole continent in her power, which she has by her treachery emancipated from this country. She has a demand upon their government, which she knows they cannot pay, and which, whenever she thinks proper, can be made the plea for war and conquest—a matter already threatened. This is probably, only the conclusive part of a plan calculated for the recovery of her lost possessions there, and which was the object in view, when she first so very kindly assisted America, to obtain that freedom denied to her own subjects. Can we, after having entered into this amicable treaty, with our new and very trusty friends, in whom we repose such confidence, attempt to interfere in behalf of America, should our worthy brethren across the Atlantic sue for protection and assistance?—If we do, our conduct (as unjustifiable as that we complained of in them) must render a war unavoidable, and what becomes then of all our visionary schemes of wealth? If we do not assist the Americans, our remaining possessions there will be but in a very precarious state, should the Thirteen United States be conquered by, and become subjects to France; or purchase their liberation at the expence of an absolute offensive treaty to assist the arms of France against the possessions of Great-Britain on that continent, including Newfoundland. This would in all likelihood not be a very reluctant business, as it would satiate their revenge, and gratify their pride.—In Europe, France is taking every means which can enable her to accomplish such views; Holland is in her power, Spain is united with her, she is in alliance with every other great naval power, and we accede to the principles of the armed neutrality. She is enlarging her navy, and sparing neither expence nor pains to render it more formidable than ever: she is wading into the sea, and creating a harbour where none existed, and that in a situation the most dangerous to this kingdom. Let the friends of the treaty join the facts of the probabilities, and ask them-
selves whether these circumstances bear the aspect of long pacification?—whether, if the probable event in America should take place, from the natural demand of the French loan, we are now reduced to the alternative we have pointed out, and the breach unavoidable with us, will consequently lay at our door: this will give a plausible ground for European allies of France to break with us. If we should by such apparent means lose Newfoundland, it will then be irrecoverably gone, and the principal source of our naval strength totally destroyed, and transferred to that of our enemy.—By forming this treaty, giving those advantages to France, we might with propriety have given to other powers, we lose the opportunity of securing that alliance which may prove so highly necessary to us in the result of what is very likely to happen—Those who disavow the probability of such an event, cannot deny the possibility—it is the business of good ministers, as far as human prudence can effect—to guard against every possible contingency, that can prejudice the interest of their country. When ministers neglect it, it is incumbent on every good subject to oppose their measures; every individual should assist in preventing a probable or possible calamity, and condemn the man who dares to risque his country's ruin
SAVANNAH, April 26.
One of the five hostages given by the Creek Indians, for the performance of the treaty held with this state in November last, has put an end to his existence by hanging himself, and there is the greatest reason to think we shall immediately be involved in a war with that nation.
PHILADELPHIA, May 23.
The Canton, Capt. Truxton, arrived on Sunday last from Canton, in China, which place she left on the 3d of January. She appears to be well freighted, and, notwithstanding the several late arrivals from India at New-York, her cargo is calculated to afford a very considerable profit to the different adventurers.—A report is circulating that two of the sailors have been left in the hand of the civil power, in order to be punished for a mutinous disposition which they endeavoured to excite among the crew: this circumstance is perhaps sufficiently interesting, to require a public explanation,—that on the one hand, the example may be held up to the whole marine profession, and, on the other, that the state may be accurately informed for what cause she will probably be deprived of two of her citizens.
NEW-YORK, May 24.
We have the satisfaction of informing the public, that eight states, of the twelve that have appointed delegates to the Federal Convention, were represented in Convention, at Philadelphia, on Saturday last; and that it is expected a few days will complete the federal representatives.
Accounts from Laurens county, Ninety-six district, and state of South-Carolina, of April 25, says:—That the wife of Thomas Rogers, of Little-River district, was delivered of four children, viz. on Monday evening, the 16th, the first was born; on Wednesday evening the second was born; and in the course of that night two others; three of which were sons, and the other a daughter. One of the sons was born dead; the other children are likely to do well. The mother appears to be in as good a state of health as can possibly be expected.
In Congress, April 24, Resolved, That the secretary at war direct the commanding officer of the troops of the United States on the Ohio, to take immediate and sufficient measures for dispossessing a body of men who have in a lawless and unauthorised manner taken possession of post St. Vincents, in defiance of the proclamation and authority of the United States, and that he employ the whole or such part of the force under his command, as he shall judge necessary to effect the object.
In Congress, May 2, Resolved, That the secretary at war be authorised and directed to sell, at public auction, or otherwise, certain damaged and useless military stores, lying at Springfield, West Point, Philadelphia, Carlisle, and at Virginia, and that he account with the board of treasury for the proceeds of the sales.
BOSTON, June 1.
The 30th ultimo, being the last Wednesday in May, the Gentlemen returned to serve as Senators and Representatives in General Court met at the State House in this town, agreeably to the Constitution, and took the oaths and subscribed the declaration required, before the Governor and Council for the time being, who then withdrew: The Senate made choice of the Hon. SAMUEL ADAMS, Esq. for their President; and the House of Representatives chose the Hon. JAMES WARREN, Esq. for their speaker; and being again joined by the Governor and Council (who were escorted to the State House
by the Company of Independent Cadets, commanded by Col. BRADFORD) they proceeded to the Old-Brick Meeting House, where a Sermon, well adapted to the occasion, was delivered by the Rev. Mr. LYMAN, of Hatfield, from Rom. xiii. 4.
For he is the Minister of God to thee for good. Extract of a letter, dated May 28, from a gentleman of a very respectable character in Stockbridge, to his friend in this town.
"† Tyler, with two other rebels, are in Albany jail for a rescue, &c. A centry at the bridge by ‡ Warham Lee's was fired at on Saturday evening last; he returned the fire, wounded the man, but he was not found last evening. About 2 o'clock Sunday morning, a number of men, armed, came to the house of * Nathaniel Kingsley, Esq. two came in, took all the arms in the house, about 20, his watch, and went off—whither, could not be discovered."
† A pardoned rebel. ‡ In Great-Barrington. * Representative of Becket, in the county of Berkshire.
SALÉM, May 29.
Five persons have been arrested in Sharon, Connecticut, by the authority of that state, supposed to be principals in the late insurrection in that town, viz. Dr. John Hurlbut, Dr. Jonah Barns, William Mitchel (who was said to act as their Captain) Hezekiah Frisbie, & John Lord; all of whom, except Barns, who was sick, were lodged in Litchfield jail, for examination.
PORTSMOUTH, June 2.
We are credibly informed, that a Spanish vessel has lately put in at Norfolk (Virginia) in distress, but was destined for Baltimore, and had 60,000 dollars on board, for the purpose of purchasing vessels and loading them with flour for the Spanish ports.
The returns of delegates from the twelve states (Rhode-Island resolved not to send any) to sit in convention at Philadelphia, the 14th ult. amounted to 57, of which 28 were present on the day appointed for their sitting.
There is a double sort of wealth in every country, says a correspondent. One consisting in the simple produce of the earth, and may therefore be called the true and natural riches thereof; the other, which is actually the greater treasure, arises from the labour of the people improving upon the former, and adding to its immediate and proper value. Thus a stone of flax may be worth about two shillings, as it is plucked from the earth; but when spun in fine thread it may sell for upwards of four pounds; and when wove into linen it still gives a better price. This kind of wealth may, with propriety, be termed artificial; wherefore, when natural riches are found insufficient to defray the expence of the people, recourse must be had to art and labor, which seldom fail to retrieve affairs, by obviating the evil effects of those continual drains that are occasioned by riot and luxury.
A Philadelphia paper of May 3d, contains the following advertisement.—"May be seen at Mr. William Pinchon's in second street, a MALE CHILD, from North-Carolina, of the most extraordinary size ever known of the same age. His body and limbs are much larger than any man's of the middle size. Nothing in the human shape can exceed him in point of beauty in every respect—he is healthy, amazing strong and active, and has frequently listed men who have weighed from 150 to 160 pounds. He is now six years old, and weighs 145 pounds. He has given the greatest satisfaction to all who have seen him, and is thought to be the greatest phenomenon of the present age."
The Administration of the French West-India Islands, finding that the indulgence they have shewn to some Captains of vessels from the United States, who had unknowingly omitted to take passports from his Majesty's Consuls, Vice-Consuls, or Agents, has given occasion to many to consider as useless a formality which the orders of the Court have made an express condition for the admittance of the said vessels into the French Colonies: They have given positive direction to the several Custom-Houses, in the said islands, to refuse admittance, after the 5th of April last, to every vessel not supplied with a passport.
Mr James Cutler, of Salem, in the 73d year of his age, was lately married to Miss Huldah Symonds, in the 19th year of her age.
Died since our last, Capt. Henry Nutter, of this town, aged 46 years; and a child of Capt. Thomas Lewis.
   NAVAL OFFICE, PORT OF PISCATAQUA, June 2, 1787.   ENTERED, FROM,     Brig Dispatch, Wingate, St. Eustatia.   CLEARED, FOR,   Brig Endeavor, Riley, West-Indies.   Schooner Success, Jackson, ditto.   Sloop Dolphin, Coffin, ditto.  

Parnassian Spring.
MR. PRINTER,
The following little production of the very ingenious and elegant author, will I am persuaded, recommend itself to all the sensible part of your readers—even to those who may be displeased at the just severity of the Satire. P. A.
AMERICA,
Said to be written by SOAME JENNINGS, Esq.
CROWN'D be the man with lasting praise Who first contriv'd the pin, To loose mad horses from the chaise, And save the necks within.
See how they prance, and bound, and skip And all controul disdain! They bid defiance to the whip, And tear the sicken rein.
A while we try if art or strength Are able to prevail; But helpless, when we find at length That all our efforts fail.
With ready foot the spring we press, Out jumps the magic plug, Then disengag'd from all distress, We sit quite safe and snug.
The pamper'd steeds their freedom gain'd Run off full speed together; But having no pin ascertain'd, They run they know not whither.
Boys who love mischief of course Enjoying the disaster, Bawi stop 'em! stop 'em! 'till they're hoarse, But mean to drive them faster.
Each claiming now his nat'ral right, Scorns to obey his brother; So they proceed to kick and bite, And worry one another.
Hungry at last, and blind, and lame, Bleeding at nose and eyes, By sufferings grown extremely tame, And by experience wise.
With bellies full of liberty, But void of oats and hay, † They both sneak back, their folly see, And run no more away.
† A belly full of fighting, and a plentiful scarcity of every thing else. O'FLAHERTY.
State of New Hampshire, THIS is to notify all the non resident owners of land in the town of Nottingham, that have not paid the taxes assessed thereon for the year 1785, that so much of their land as will pay said taxes and charges thereon, will be sold at public vendue at the house of Benjamin Butler, Esq. innholder in said Nottingham, on Monday the second day of July next, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, unless prevented by previous payment.
   Ac. s. d. q. s. d. q. s. d. q. s. d.     Lt. Zeb. Barber 86 10 1 2 5 4 3 0 11 2   Josiah Burleigh 40 7 0 0 4 11 2 0 10 2   Moses Chaney 100 4 2 2 1 8 2 0 3 2   Abner Clough 76 1 1 2   Lt. Joseph Field 14 9 11 2 6 8 3 1 2 1   John Fogg 34 4 9 0 2 10 0 0 6 0   Phenias Fogg 88 4 9 2 2 1 2 0 4 2   Benjamin Norris 8 1 3 1 0 10 1 0 1 3   Jonathan Prescot 50 1 2 2  
Original proprietors names.
   N. First range. Ac. l. s. d. q.     9 Cutt and Moulton 180 0 3 1 2   3 John Favour 30 0 0 7 1   4 Col. Richard Kent 80 0 1 6 0   5 Samuel Penhallow 80 0 1 6 0  
Woodbridge's gore.
   1 Will'm Langdon or G. Jeffrey 150 0 1 7 3   3 B. Woodbridge 165 0 1 4 1  
JOSHUA STEVANS, Collector. Nottingham, June 2d, 1787.
BLANKS of most sorts for sale at this Office, for cash or country produce.
Samuel Hill
Informs his friends and customers, that he has imported in the last ship from London,
A general assortment of Spring and Summer
GOODS,
which he has for sale at his Store opposite the Market, viz.
   Yard wide, Pewter   7-8ths and 3 qrs. of all sorts,   Irish Linnens, Desk Furniture,   Dowlas. Bed Ticks, Joiners Tools,   Check Linnens, Files of various sorts   Chintzes and Calli- Sickles,   coes, Brass Cocks,   Sattins, Modes and Writing, Cartridge   Sarsnets, and Bonnet Paper,   Ribbons of various Dutch Quills,   sorts, Ink Powder, Wafers   Cambricks & Lawns and Spectacles,   Black and white Wool, Cotton and   Gauzes, Clothier's Cards,   Silk Cotton & Lin- Floor, Hearth, Cloth   nen Handkerchiefs and Buckle Brushes,   Worsted, Hemp and Buckles of various   Thread Hose, sorts,   Broad Cloths, Rat & Mouse Traps,   Serges, Ratteens, Cod, Haddock and   Fustians, and Jeans, Mackarel Lines,   Trimings of all sorts Hooks for ditto,   Callimancoes, Sein and sewing   Tammies, Durants Twine,   and Camblets, Best English Gun-   Locks and Hinges, Powder and Shot   Cafe-Knives and of all sorts,   Forks, Brimstone, Coppe-   Cutteaus and Pen- ras and Allum,   Knives, Best German Steel,   Scissars and Shears, Plated Stirrups, Bits   Nails of all sorts, and Spurs,   10 by 8, 9 by 7 and Hunting Whips,   8 by 6 Window and many other   Crown Glass, articles, too nume-   Frying-Pans, rous to enumerate.  
May be had at the same place, West-India Goods.
New-England Rum by the large or small quantity, Dye Woods, Iron hollow Ware, English and Nova-Scotia Grindstones,
Cash or any of the above Goods given for Pot and Pearl Asbes, Flax-Seed and Shipping Furs in their season.
Portsmouth, May 18,
State of New Hampshire.
WE the subscribers being appointed commissioners by the hon. Joseph Badger, Esq. judge of the probate of wills, &c. for the county of Strafford, to receive and examine the claims of the several creditors to the estate of Meshech Drew, late of Madbury,—in the county of Strafford,—husbandman, deceased, represented insolvent, and six months being allowed to the creditors for bringing in their claims and proving their debts, do hereby give public notice that we will attend the business at the house of Silas Drew, innholder in Barrington, on the last Monday of this, and the five following months, from two to seven of the clock, in the afternoon.
ELIJAH AUSTIN, SAM'L WIGGLESWORTH, } Commiss'rs Madbury, May 12, 1787.
TO BE SOLD By John Jackson,
At his Shop in Buck-Street, on reasonable terms,
A fresh and general assortment of Drugs and Medicines, of the best quality, Also—the following PATENT MEDICINES, (imported directly from London, and warranted genuine,) viz.
HOOPER's female Pills, Anderson's Scotts ditto, Turlington's Balsam of life, British Oil, Bateman's drops, Dr. Walker's Junc's Drops, Stoughton's Elixir, Ess-nce Peppermint, &c.—likewise—fresh Raisons, Oatmeal, Wine, Cinnamon, Cloves, Mace, Brimstone, Copperas, Rosin, Rice, Vials by the gross, or less, Pill Boxes, Marble Mortars, Ladies Court-Plaster, &c. &c.
Cash, Pot Ash, Flax Seed (in it's season) and Bees Wax will be taken in payment for any of the above articles.
TO BE SOLD By Thomas Sheafe,
At his Store, North end, RUSSIA and Ravens Duck, Green and Bohea Tea, India Nankeens,
German Steel, Nova-Scotia Grindstones, also,
A general assortment of English and West-India GOODS.
State of New-Hampshire.
WE the subscribers being appointed by the hon. Joseph Badger, Esq. judge of probate, &c. for the county of Strafford, to receive the claims of the creditors to the estate of Ichabod Rawlings, late of Rochester, blacksmith, deceased, represented insolvent, and six months being allowed for that business, we hereby give notice that we will attend the same on the first Monday in June, and the first Monday of the five following months, from three to seven o'clock, P. M. at the house of Simon Torr, innholder in Rochester.
ARON WINGATE, } Commiss'rs. SIMON TORR, } Rochester, May 12, 1787.
State of New-Hampshire.
WE the subscribers being appointed commissioners, by the hon. Joseph Badger, Esq. judge of probate, &c. for the county of Strafford, to receive and examine the claims of the several creditors to the estate of Alexander Welch, late of Rochester, mariner, deceased, represented insolvent, and six months being allowed for that purpose; we hereby give notice that we will attend said business on the second Monday in June next, and the second Monday of the five following months, from 6 to 7 of the clock, P. M. on each of said days, at the house of Col. John Goodwin, innholder in said town.
JOHN GOODWIN, } Commiss'rs. ARON WINGATE, } Rochester, May 12, 1787.
For sale for country produce,
A good Horse, Apply to the Printer hereof.