The New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1792-01-25 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.
FOR THE GAZETTE.
To the Clergy of the Episcopal Church, and to every one that has any, the least regard to truth.
INFINITE attempts have been made by the Roman and Episcopal church to prove the authority of her Prelates, by a lineal, regular and uninterrupted succession from the Apostles, by antiquity, and the tradition of the fathers, which have long since been refuted by the ablest pens; but inasmuch as that bloody church is now making new strides to intrude upon the unwary multitude, and bring upon them voluminous heaps of unmeaning traditions, and armies of political officers disguised with the christian profession, to be maintained in pomp and idleness, at their expense, gulled of their property, already to gorge the crops of voracious monsters and dragons of the islands and mountains.—It is thought not altogether impertinent to make a few observations relative to those attempts, besides what have been already made.
How can the Roman and Episcopal clergy be so wicked and impudent as to endeavour to palm upon miserable mankind a known imposture! For they well know, that their pretensions to an uninterrupted succession have been to all purposes and demonstrations, overthrown long ago by many able authors, and by all history. Who that reads history at all, can be ignorant that the Roman popes are successors of usurpers, bloody emperors, traitors, regicides, parricides, rapacious conquerors, martyrcides, and even suicides? and that they themselves were like and often worse than their predecessors?—In the fear of God before whom I stand and face in this charge, I testify that such are and have been those pretended successors of the holy Apostles, who lived in all innocence, and died martyrs before the pagan tyrants, whom they succeeded in disguise, in all their tyranny, rapines, martyrdom and mischiefs, with a superabundant increase. But as these things are out of the sight of the vulgar eye, I will observe obvious facts, and such as are nearer home.
It is a well known fact that the kings of Great-Britain, the conquerors of the Roman popes, in part, have ever stood in the same place over the Episcopal church, that the popes stand in over the Roman church, beginning in King Henry the eighth, and continuing to this day; but what bloody work have these kings made, not only upon the Roman church and people, but upon almost all nations; and finally, upon America, in which all the hierarchy and church of England were always immersed heart and hand. Not that I mean to reflect upon these Kings, and hold them the butchers of mankind without a cause, since they were the ministers of God's providence, and the executioners of his justice upon the wicked; but what I mean is, that they can be no more the successors, vicars or agents of Christ in the church than pagan kings and emperors, who ever did as much justice in punishing the wicked as they; and that their accomplices, accassaries and abettors in such bloody administration of justice, cannot be the ministers of the Lord Jesus, whose kingdom is not of this world, consequently not to be founded in or built up by blood, and who, not only has taught us to overcome evil with good, the infallible and most glorious victory of all; but has also set us the brightest example to conquer enemies by the exercise of unwearied patience, benevolence, loving kindness, & tender mercy,
which properly patterned after, would exhibit to mankind an evidence of christianity equal to the brightness of the firmament, and prove the authority of his successors and ministers with a lustre of evidence surpassing the glory of the sun.
It is a fact, that the Roman and Episcopal bishops and pontiffs pretend to be the very successors of the Apostles; but since the historical proofs are abundantly recorded, that the contrary is the case, it is strongly incumbent on them to give proof of their pretensions, and invalidate the historical proofs that they are not: What proof will do? We would have accepted this—an innocent life, a spirit and example similar to Christ and his Apostles, having nothing in their hierarchy or ministry which they had not in theirs: Is this, or was ever this the case? Have not those popes and bishops ever lived in all the pomp and affluence of princes? Are not their worldly advantages great, and their emoluments infinite? Do not they maugre and enervate their bodies with gluttony and drunkenness, and poison their minds with malice and venom against their opponents? Do they not consume with supineness, and rot alive in indolence, swerving in the pleasures of sensuality, by gulling the people of their property and draining them of their blood? Not a shadow of these things were found with Christ or his Apostles. What proof then can we have? Would infallibility do? or if that would do, what must they be infallible in? In abominable idolatry, gluttony, whoredom and drunkenness? they will then do for popes and bishops among pagans, epicures, prostitutes and bachinals, but not among christians, or temperate and chaste nations.
What proof then shall we implore? miracles! they have no need of them, since they have supplied the places of the evangelical virtues with diviner abominations, and of extraordinary cures with purer corruptions, and more salutary contagions.
Will inconsistencies and absurdities do? They have enough of them both in doctrines and practices; but since they are infinite, I shall only cite the glaring absurdities of the Right Rev. Samuel Seabury, Bishop of Connecticut, recorded in his pamphlet, printed 1791. First, his absurdity in building the authority of Episcopacy upon a lie, that their bishops truly succeed the Apostles, when the contrary is evident by all history and facts; and then building our salvation wholly upon their testimony, when we have received the gospel of salvation already, without their instrumentality, as the sound of the Apostles hath gone out into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world, and we have nothing to do but obey it.
Lastly, his jargon of absurdity in pleading that the Episcopal bishops are the successors of the Apostles, and therefore the first and superior officers in the church, and the presbyters and deacons were subordinate to them, yet he expressly makes bishops and presbyters the same officers and subordinate, and the deacons he hath, in the nature of it, set above them, since he gives to them not only all the spiritual powers of the first officers, but constitutes them the administrators of the holy ordinances, the trustees and superintendants of all gifts, charities and liberalities for the poor. See pages 16, 17. What a gross jumble—an absurdity without end! which makes his whole discourse a boundless and complicated lie.
The truth is, the church of Rome and the church of England are one, who by their contagious sulphur have poisoned the atmosphere, and by their
ignis fatuus burnt up the glories of the sun and firmament.
How delicate art thou, O thou that sittest as a lady to see no sorrows! Behold thou art clothed in scarlet and fine linen, drenched in innocent blood! And art thou not she that sittest upon the scarlet coloured beast that hath seven heads and ten horns, on which are the names of blasphemy? Behold thou hast made the nations drunk with the wine of thy fornications, and by the filthiness of thy whoredoms hast thou defiled the whole earth. By thy monstrous absurdities hast thou filled rulers with deism and lords with atheism, who being intoxicated with thy filthy spirits, abdicated reason and the gospel, and delighted themselves with human carnage.
Art thou not mystery, Babylon the great the mother of harlots, and abominations of the earth? For in conspicuous characters I see this title written upon thy forehead. Didst thou not steal and flatter thy power from the kings and potentates of the earth, and then tread upon thy plundered syco-phants? and besides plundering them by dispensations and indulgencies in wickedness, thou hast made tools of them to promote the purposes of thy avarice, lust of power and revenge, and then rewarded them with servility and contempt, and many times with anathemas.
Hast thou not spread desolation into the utmost bounds of the Indias, and thy destructions throughout the whole earth? Are not the Chinees and the rulers of Japan witnesses of thy impositions and ravages, and the Aborigines of the south of thy infinite murders and depredations? Cannot the Turks, the Arabs and Tartars testify thy piracies and bloodshed, and the rulers of Algiers, thy butchers and rapine?—
Have not the nations in lands unknown experienced thy barbarities, and distant islands thy vengeance? Besides wars and martyrdoms innumerable, in Europe thou hast drained her of men and money for the purposes of thy infamous crusades to recover the holy land which again wasted men in the east as the sand, and spread desolations and miseries as the dust and motes of the air; and not content with ruining the old world, thou must needs infect the new: the contagious spirit of avarice, fraud and war thou transmittedst into America, and hired blacks to kill, scalp and captivate those that had fled from thy tyranny, oppression, persecution and murder, and finally didst set children and parents to devour one another. Hast thou not made kings and great men drunk with folly and madness to serve thy lusts, at the expense of their own kingdoms, and at the ruin of their people? and for it will they not one day lay thee waste, eat thy flesh, and burn thee with fire?
How canst thou deceive thyself, that thou art Christ's beautiful bride, that, having neither spot, nor wrinkle, nor any such thing, is full of innocence, love and benevolence, and walk with godly propriety and dignity? How art thou exalted in the tops of the mountains of Zion and new Jerusalem, and above the hills of Canaan! O how hast thou beat thy swords into ploughshares, and thy spears into pruning-hooks? How is holiness written upon thy posts? Or does judgment run down thy streets as a stream, and righteousness as a mighty river? Are they not full of crying abominations, witchcraft and whoredoms, and thy temples of wolves, devouring monsters and dragons of the mountains, while thy belly is full of devils? Thy wisdom is carnal, sensual and devilish, and full of death
and deformity, not heavenly and divine, and full of innocence, while thy most exalted virtues are far inferior to those of other bloody warriors; theirs are honor, bravery, courage, intrepidity, &c. yours are hypocrisy, deceit, austerity, grimace, mummery, unmeaning muttering and false augury. Wherefore thy day is near to come, and the time of thy visitation shall be hastened.
January 7, 1792.
S.
From the FARMER'S JOURNAL.
Has he a FORTUNE!
WHY do you ask this question? Will nothing compensate for the want of Fortune? I am tired of hearing this question, as if the salvation of soul and body depended upon fortune. You never ask, if the young gentleman has a good education?—If he has abilities? If he is a Christian?—No, these are matters of no account, but—has he a fortune? If he has that, the young lady must certainly be happy, never considering that he may be a blockhead, a deceitful villain, or an atheist. Should he turn out to be either of these, the lady that is to be his wife must be miserable, were he possessed of the wealth of the Indies.
It is strange that mankind are so blinded by riches, that they cannot, nay will not, see a man's defects and vices while he is possessed of wealth: But the God of nature has so ordered the affairs of the world, that this garb is generally stripped from wicked men before they die, and then their vices appear in all their deformity. This may be some consolation to the generality of mankind, but to a lady of sensibility, who has resigned herself into the arms of one of these miscreants it must be a terrible mortification. He is every thing to her—on him must her happiness in this life depend, and to see him despised and detested by all good men must "harrow up her soul" and make her wretched indeed.
Were the ladies left to choose for themselves, I am satisfied they would, generally speaking, make better choices than is generally made for them—I know dear Mrs. Prudence, that you have more experience, and perhaps more judgment than your daughter: but you must consider that she can better judge what will please herself than you can; and it is she and not you that must spend her days with the man that she marries. I do not contend that a man ought to be poor. With good qualifications wealth is desirable. These united tend to produce as much happiness as this world is capable of. Perfect happiness cannot be expected. Nor am I certain that perfect misery can be experienced in this life; but if there can be a situation more wretched than that of a woman of sensibility under the tyranny of an unfeeling wicked brute of a husband, it must be a dreadful place indeed.
A. B.
NEWSPAPERS.
THAT universal information Should circulate throughout the nation, And knowledge be as free as air, Our Sages all as one declare— But in the bill they've fram'd, behold This knowledge's made as dear as gold!
ALL persons indebted to, or that have any demands on the estate of JOSEPH HAMMOND, late of Portsmouth, deceased, are requested to exhibit their claims immediately to George Hammond of Kittery, or Capt. Nathaniel Melcher of Portsmouth, in order for a speedy settlement.

Second CONGRESS of the UNITED STATES.
AT THE FIRST SESSION,
Begun and held at the City of Philadelphia, on Monday the 24th of October, 1791.
An ACT making appropriations for the support of government, for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Assembled. That for the service of the year 1792, and the support of the civil list of the United States, including the incidental and contingent expenses of the several departments and offices thereof, there shall be appropriated a sum of money, not exceeding three hundred and twenty nine thousand six hundred and fifty three dollars and fifty six cents ; that is to say,
For the compensation granted by law to the President of the United States, the Vice-president, Chief, Justice, Associate Judges and Attorney-general, fifty three thousand dollars.
For the like compensation to the District Judges, nineteen thousand eight hundred dollars.
For the like compensation to the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, and the officers and attendants of the two Houses, estimated on a session of six months continuance, and including the travelling expenses of the members, one hundred and twenty nine thousand seven hundred and thirty dollars.
For the like compensations to the Secretary and officers of the several departments of the treasury of the United States, including clerks and attendants and salaries of the respective loan officers sixty thousand three hundred dollars.
For the like compensations to the secretary and officers of the department of state, six thousand three hundred dollars.
For the like compensations to the secretary and officers of the department of war, nine thousand six hundred dollars.
For the like compensations to the members of the board of commissioners, for the settlement of the accounts between the United States and individual States, including the clerks and attendants, thirteen thousand one hundred dollars.
For the like compensations to the governors, judges, and other officers of the Western Territory of the United States, including contingencies, eleven thousand dollars.
For the payment of the annual grant to Baron Steuben, pursuant to an act of Congress, two thousand five hundred dollars
For the payment of sundry pensions granted by the late government, two thousand seven hundred and sixty seven dollars and seventy three cents.
For defraying all other incidental and contingent expenses of the civil list establishments, including firewood, stationery, together with the printing work, and all other contingent expenses of the two Houses of Congress, rent and office expenses of the three several departments, namely, treasury, state, war, and of the general board of commissioners, twenty one thousand five hundred and fifty five dollars and eighty three cents.
And be it further enacted, That the compensation to the doorkeepers of the two Houses for services which have been heretofore rendered, or may be rendered in the recess of Congress for the year 1792, and certified by the President of the Senate or Speaker of the House of Representatives, in manner required by law for like services during sessions, shall be discharged out of the money herein before appropriated for contingent expenses of the two Houses of Congress.
And be it further enacted, That for discharging certain liquidated claims upon the United States, for making good deficiencies in former appropriations,
for the support of the civil list establishment, and for aiding the fund appropriated for the payment of certain officers of the courts, jurors and witnesses, and for the establishment of ten cutters, there shall be appropriated a sum of money not exceeding one hundred and ninety-seven thousand one hundred and nineteen dollars and forty nine cents ; that is to say .
For discharging a balance due on a liquidated claim of his Most Christian Majesty, against the United States, for supplies during the late war, nine thousand twenty dollars & sixty eight cents.
For payment of the principal and interest on a liquidated claim of Oliver Pollock, late commercial agent of the U. States, at Neworleans, for supplies of cloathing, arms, and military stores, during the late war, one hundred and eight thousand six hundred and five dollars and two cents : Provided, That the said monies be not paid to the said Oliver Pollock without the consent of the agent of the court of Spain.
For making good deficiencies in last appropriations, for the compensation to sundry officers of the civil list establishments, five thousand four hundred and seventy one dollars.
For defraying sundry authorised expenses to the commissioners of loans in the several states, twenty one thousand dollars.
For defraying a balance of certain liquidated and contingent expenses in the treasury department two thousand eight hundred dollars.
For defraying the additional expense of the enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States, nineteen thousand seven hundred and seventy two dollars and seventy nine cents.
For making good a deficiency in former appropriations, to discharge the expenses to clerks, jurors and witnesses in the courts of the United States, five thousand dollars.
For the maintenance and repair of light houses, beacons, piers, stakes and buoys, sixteen thousand dollars.
For the expense of keeping prisoners committed under the authority of the United States, four thousand dollars.
For the expense of clerks and books in arranging the publick securities, two thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.
For the purchase of hydrometers for the use of the officers in the execution of the laws of revenue, one thousand dollars.
For the farther expense of building and equipping ten cutters, two thousand dollars.
And be it further enacted, That for the support of the military establishment of the United States, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety two, the payment of the annual allowances to the invalid pensioners of the United States, for defraying all expenses incident to the indian department, and for defraying the expenses incurred in the defensive protection of the frontiers against the Indians, during the years one thousand seven hundred and ninety, and one thousand seven hundred and ninety one, by virtue of the authority vested in the President of the United States, by the acts relative to the military establishment, passed the twenty ninth of September, one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine, and the thirtieth of April, one thousand seven hundred and ninety, and for which no appropriations have been made, there shall be appropriated a sum of money not exceeding five hundred and thirty two thousand four hundred and forty nine dollars seventy six cents and two thirds of a cent ; that is to say,
For the pay of troops 102,686 For subsistence 119,688 97 For cloathing 48,000 For forage 4,152 For the hospital department 6,000 For the quartermaster's department 50,000 For the ordnance department 7,204 64 For the contingent expenses of the war department, including maps, hire of expressies, allowances to officers for extra expenses, printing, loss of
stores of all kinds, advertising and apprehending deserters 20,000 For the discharge of certain sums due for pay and subsistence of sundry officers of the late army, and for pay of the late Maryland line, for which no appropriations have been made 10,490 36 For the payment of the annual allowances to invalid pensioners 87,463 60 3/4 For defraying all expenses incident to the Indian department, authorised by law 39,424 71 For defraying the expenses incurred in the defensive protection of the frontiers, as before recited 37,339 48
And be it further enacted, That the several appropriations herein before made, shall be paid and discharged out of the funds following, to wit : First, out of the sum of six hundred thousand dollars, which by the act entitled "an act making provision for the debt of the United States," is reserved yearly for the support of the government of the United States and their common defence : And, secondly, out of such surplus as shall have accrued to the end of the present year, upon the revenues heretofore established over and above the sums necessary for the payment of interest on the publick debt, during the same year, and for satisfying other prior appropriations.
JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-president of the United States, and President of the Senate. Approved—December the 23. 1791. GEORGE WASHINGTON, President of the United States.
CONGRESS : HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. THURSDAY, DEC. 29.
THE letter of the Attorney-General of the United States, sent from the President yesterday, was referred to the committee who have before them the report on the judiciary system.
The petition of James Rumsey, respecting his invention of a steam-boat, was referred to the committee on useful arts, &c.
Two petitions, of William Langley and Adam Giffart, praying compensation for services, were read and referred to the Secretary of War.
The House resumed the consideration of the Post-Office bill. Many of the amendments were again amended—the time was taken up in discussing the various propositions offered from all parts of the House—the franking section was restricted in several particulars—A motion to reduce the postage of newspapers to an half cent each—and another providing for the transportation of periodical pamphlets by the mail—both failed. The several sections being gone through with—a motion to recommit the bill and amendments occasioned further debate, which continued to the time of adjournment.
Mr. Hartley obtained leave of absence for 8 days.
Mr. Hillhouse obtained leave of absence for 20 days—and then the House adjourned.
FRIDAY, DEC. 30. A number of petitions were laid on the clerk's table by several members—these were taken up in order, read, and referred—those for pensions and compensations for services and disabilities, to the Secretary of War.
A memorial of John Churchman was read, renewing his application for the patronage of Government, to enable him to undertake and prosecute a voyage of discovery towards the North Pole—laid on the table.
Mr. Bourne of the committee of enrollment, reported the bill for carrying into effect a contract between the United States and the State of Pennsylvania, as duly enrolled—the Speaker then affixed his signature to the same.
A message was received from the President of the United States, by Mr. Secretary Lear—communicating a copy of the ratification by the state of Virginia, of the amendments proposed by Congress to the Constitution of the United States.
A petition from a number of the inhabitants of Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, against that part of the revenue law, which lays a duty on spirits distilled from the produce of the country, and praying for a repeal of the law—was read and laid on the table.
In committee of the whole, on the bill to extend the time for settling the accounts of the United States with the individual States—Mr. Muhlenberg in the chair.
The bill being read, Mr. Clark proposed an additional section, providing for enhancing the salary of the first clerk in the Commissioner's office to the sum received by the principal clerk in the Auditor's office—which was agreed to.
The committee then rose and reported accordingly—the House accepted the report, and ordered the bill to be engrossed for a third reading.
The report of a select committee, respecting the Secretary of the Treasury's exhibiting annual accounts of the receipts and expenditures of public monies, was taken into consideration—This report consisted of two resolutions one requiring the account, the other that a committee should be appointed to examine and report thereon.
After considerable debate, the first resolution was adopted—the other disagreed to.
Adjourned 'till Monday.
Foreign Intelligence.
LONDON, Nov. 1—17.
A gentleman to whom the African Prince was introduced, at Plymouth, acquaints us, that he is pleasing, courteous, communicative.—He is named John Nambana, Prince of Robana.—Whilst they were shewing him the ships, great guns, and other objects of curiosity, in the dockyards at Plymouth, he told them in English, which he speaks with tolerable ease, these things were different to what he was sent to learn, and he was afraid he should not have room in his mind for it all.
In the course of the voyage from Africa, he was taught to read ; an attainment he is so fond of, that he is never more gratified than when asked to read in the testament, which he calls the Good Book. This untutored African Prince, seems to consider those, that have the power of imparting knowledge to others, as the first of human beings ; he therefore looks upon a school-master as the most honorable of all characters.—He said, when I return to Africa, if I live to succeed my father, I will not be the king of my people, I will be their school-master.
On the 31st ult. M. de MONTMORIN went to the National Assembly, in obedience to orders, to inform them how the King's acceptance of the Constitution had been received by foreign Powers.
M. SEMONVILLE, the French Ambassador, at Genoa, has put over his gate a design representing France embracing the Genius of Liberty. The people went in crowds to view it. The Senate was alarmed, but unwilling to do any thing rashly in their public capacity, they contented themselves with recommending to the Nobility not to dine with Mr. SEMONVILLE.
The spirit of emigration, it is to be regretted, still continues to spread in the Highlands of Scotland. Thus from the oppression of the proprietors of land the country is deprived of the flower and strength of its inhabitants, of its most industrious citizens in peace, and its bravest soldiers in war. The experience of the present age, whilst it has remarkably confirmed the first part of the fol-

lowing quotation in another country, has not rendered the conclusion less true or forcible in our own:
Princes or Lords may flourish or may fade, A breath can make them as a breath has made;
But a bold peasantry, a country's pride, When once decay'd, can never be supply'd.
The Revolution Society met yesterday at the London Tavern to commemorate the Revolution of 1688. THOMAS WALKER, Esq. of Manchester, was in the chair, and at 4 o'clock about 250 sat down to dinner. Several foreigners and members of the late National Assembly of France, were present, as were Dr. PRIESTLY, Dr. KIPPIS, Mr. PAINE, and others. When the latter gentleman's health was drank, he gave the following extraordinary toast, THE REVOLUTION OF ALL THE WORLD!
The expense of the war between Austria, Russia, and the Porte, is thus calculated on pretty certain information:—Austria, 400 millions of florins;—Russia, 200 millions of roubles;—the Porte, 250 millions of piasters. The late war has destroyed 130,000 Imperial soldiers, 200,000 Russians, and about the same number of Turks, making in all 530,000 men.
Letters were on Tuesday received in town from Gibraltar, which mention that the peace between the Spaniards and Moors has been fully ratified.
A few days ago died at Bath, Bamber Gascoyne, Esq. Receiver-General of his Majesty's customs, and formerly one of the Lord Commissioners of the Board of Admiralty. The Receiver-General of the customs is a place that nets 2000l. per annum.
Yesterday the deputation of West-India merchants and planters, waited on Mr. PITT, by order of the general meeting held at the London tavern on Tuesday; they presented the resolutions which passed the committee, requesting the protection of government in their respective settlements, Islands, &c. Mr. PITT, accompanied by Lord GRENVILLE, received them.
Mr. PITT's answer was—"That he was of opinion the present forces in the West-Indies were fully sufficient for the protection of our Colonies, and thought it his duty, as the servant of the public, to acquaint the committee, that if the gentlemen wished for further reinforcement to be sent thither, it must be at the expense of the Colonies, and not at the expense of the public."
Saturday the National Assembly decreed thanks to the King of Great-Britain, to the English nation, and to Lord Effingham, Governor of Jamaica, for his generous conduct in relieving the planters of St. Domingo from the horrors of famine, and furnishing them with arms and military stores against their rebel negroes.
The National Assembly have passed a decree against the emigrants, in which, amongst several others, are the following articles—
"That the French assembled beyond the frontiers of the kingdom, shall be declared suspected of a conspiracy against their country. That if, on the first of January, 1792, they be found in the same situation, they shall be declared guilty of conspiracy, prosecuted as such, and be punished with death. That after that period all the French Princes and public functionaries shall be considered as engaged in a conspiracy against the constitution, &c. That the revenues of those convicted of contumacy shall be forfeited to the nation, during their own lives only; and, that the revenues of the absent French Princes shall be confiscated from the date of the decree."
R U S S I A
Is almost the only country in Europe, in which the people do not enjoy a shew of civil privilege, or some kind of semblance of political right. The Sovereign is not only despotick, but every individual subject is a slave. The first nobleman of the land is the immediate
slave of the crown; and the wealth of every man in Russia solely consists in the number of slaves which he himself possesses. Thus the lower orders of the community are in the most abject state of being to which human nature can be reduced.
Domestic Intelligence.
N E W-Y O R K, January 3.
We are told, the Seneca tribe of Indians are able to furnish 300 of the first rate warriors, and are friendly to the United States, as are all the other tribes of the Six Nations—who would turn out with alacrity to join an American army against the Western Indians.
Late letters from Jamaica to a gentleman in Philadelphia mention, that the spirit of revolt among the Negroes had at length reached that Island:—That the white inhabitants were seriously alarmed for their safety, had proclaimed martial law, and were taking every precaution in their power to prevent a general insurrection. The flame is spreading, and threatens the West-India islands with ruin and devastation. Extract of a letter from Montpelier (Vermont) Dec. 5.
A melancholy accident took place here last Saturday morning, of which the following is an account. On Friday the 2d inst. being the day after thanksgiving in this State, the young people in this neighbourhood assembled to spend the evening in dancing. Among others, two young gentlemen from this town waited on two Misses Hobarts, of Berlin, on the other side of Onion river. After having spent the greater part of the night in merriment, they parted about two o'clock in the morning. The above mentioned couples having to cross the river in a canoe, they four, together with the ferriman, imprudently got in all at once, and had not got far from the shore before the canoe overset; but by the exertions of the ferriman they right her and he together with Mr. Putnam, one of the young gentlemen, and one of the girls, got in; but in helping the other girl in they unfortunately overset the second time. They then endeavoured for the shore; Mr. Putnam, at the danger of his life, swam ashore with the younger Miss Hobart under his arm; but were both of them so far chilled as to be unable to stand, having swam more than forty rods, as the water was high and the current swift, before they reached the shore. The ferriman got ashore by the help of the canoe; the other couple perished in the water. The young gentleman drowned is Mr. Theophilus Willson Brooks, son of Deacon Brooks of Ashford, Connecticut, a valuable young man, aged 25. The young woman, is a daughter of Capt. Hobart of Berlin, an amiable young woman, about twenty years of age. The body of the young woman was found about a mile below, yesterday morning—Mr. Brooks is not yet found."
N E W-H A V E N, Dec. 28.
The following is an extract of a letter from a French merchant in Port-au-Prince, to a gentleman in this city, dated
NOVEMBER 30, 1791.
"More than five thousand souls are without a refuge—a thousand houses have been reduced to ashes, we are of the number of the unfortunate—and we are all still threatened by the people of colour; yet we are at this moment labouring for a peace, if it succeeds, &c."
B O S T O N, January 18.
FEMALE HEROISM.
A very extraordinary circumstance arrested the attention of the House this afternoon. A petition was presented by a Mrs. DEBORAH GANNETT, who served with reputation, as a soldier, three years in the army of the United States, and received an honorable discharge therefrom. This extraordinary woman insisted as a male, by the name of Robert Shurtliff; and as such did her duty without a stain on her virtue or honor. She only prays, in her pe-
dition, for the payment of her arrears; but submits the circumstances of her services to the consideration of the Legislature: And from the feelings which appeared on the occasion, expressive of a strong desire to reward heroism like hers, there is no room to doubt, that a compensation will be granted, adequate to her services, and honorable to the government.
Several members corroborated the facts stated in the petition; which was committed to a respectable committee.
A Representation from the Committee for the sale of Eastern Lands, was read, in which it was stated, that there have been sold since the last sitting of the General-Court, about 2,100,000 acres of those lands, and that there are further applications for upwards of 2,000,000 acres more of that valuable and fertile country.
PORTSMOUTH, Jan. 25. INFERIOR COURT—Adjourned.
The Inferior-Court of Common Pleas, for the County of Rockingham, which was by law to be holden in this town on the first Tuesday in February next, is adjourned by the General-Court to the fourth Tuesday in said month, then to meet in this town.—The adjournment was occasioned by reason of the Convention, for the Revision of the Constitution, being adjourned to meet about the same time.
For the Information of those who have Stocks in the Funds of the United States.
In order to transfer stock, or receive interest on it, the holder must be present at the Commissioner's office in person or by attorney. To make a good attorney, the letter for that purpose must be signed, sealed and acknowledged, before a judge of some court of the United States, or of the particular State, the Mayor of a city, or some justice of the Peace. But it must be observed, that, if there is no public or official seal affixed to the letter of attorney, it is necessary that one of the witnesses be present at the Commissioner's office, and swear to the execution of the power. As few judges and no justices of the peace have such seals, it is safest, and necessary when the witnesses can neither of them go to the office, to execute the power before the Mayor of a city, who may affix the seal of the Corporation, or a Notary Public, who has a seal for this purpose, and whose proper business it is to take the acknowledgment.—There must be two witnesses, and the place of residence and occupation of both must be mentioned. These regulations are necessary to guard against fraud and forgery.
BILL of MORTALITY, MASSACHUSETTS. DIED,
At Malden, Mrs. ABIGAIL HOWARD, aged 88.—At Dorchester, Mr. WM. BLACKMAN, son of Mr. SAMUEL BLACKMAN, aged 22.—At Beverly Mr. JOSIAH TROW, in his 86th year supposed to be the oldest male inhabitant in that town.—At Salem, Capt JONATHAN TUCKER.
C O N N E C T I C U T
At Hartford, Mrs. ABIGAIL COTTON wife of Mr. DANIEL COTTON, aged 49. Mr. AMOS HINDSDALE, aged 82.—At Norwich, suddenly, Mrs. ROBINSON, wife of Mr. SAMUEL ROBINSON.—At Windham, Mr. WILLIAM YOUNG, aged 90.—At Litchfield, Mrs. SARAH GIBBS, wife of Mr. ZADOCK GIBBS, aged 32.
R H O D E - I S L A N D.
At Providence, Col. THOMAS ANGELL, in the 69th year of his age.—At Narraganset, the Rev. Mr. TORREY, aged 93.
N E W-Y O R K.
At New-York, Mrs. DEBORAH SMITH, wife of Capt. JOHN SMITH, aged 23.—THOMAS MONTGOMERY, Esq. late Major in the British service.
M A R Y L A N D.
At Baltimore, Mr. SHEPARD HAVENS, aged 22.
In this town, a child of Mr. JOSHUA PIKE'S.
"Never seem to mind it."
I HAVE observed those people, who never seem to mind it , trouble their heads very little about preferment, honor and riches of the world:—If a trifling misfortune comes across them, they never seem to mind it : Let the world turn which way it will, they are easy. I confess, I once seemed to mind it, but now I have put away that foolish notion; and I warn those who tie the matrimonial knot to consider well, first, how they will seem to mind it . Last Monday my wife undertook to wash—she began about ten in the morning—got through with part of her work—left it about four in the afternoon—at which time, she is about fixing for gossiping—I am left at home to jog the cradle—night approaches, and no wife comes home—the child is squalling—cows are to be fetched and milked by candle-light. The pigs are to be fed—she thinks there is time enough yet —I scold—carry the child about in my arms—she, at length, comes in, while the boy is bawling—why wife, says I, you better torment me to death—why have you not been home before now? All the creatures to look after—wood to cut, and, in short, every thing to do.—Why, my dear (says she with a smile)— "never seem to mind it." —What an intrusion upon good nature!—I began to think we did not work it right —I slipped off to my next neighbour—spent a sociable evening and went home late at night—feigned myself groggy, staggering and reeling from one side of the door to the other as I went in—by this time you must think my wife's clacker was not idle—as I stood braced against the side of the house—turned up a deadly look'd eye at her. Why my— eh —(endeavoring to hiccough) dearest—eh —wife Peggy— eh—eh—never seem—eh—to mind it . This fraudulent put-upon-her had the surprising effect of keeping her at home, minding her business in the house that I might take care out of doors: I am now entirely free from petticoat-authority —we are up early and late—advise with each other on the smallest matter—live in good harmony—are abroad sufficiently for our interest—and go a head finely, and though we do work hard; WE never seem to mind it . OBSERVER.
A P H O R I S M S.
A VOID connecting yourself with characters whose good and bad sides are not unmixed, and have not fermented together; they resemble phials of vinegar and oil, or pallets set with colours; they are either excellent at home and intolerable abroad, or insufferable within doors and excellent in public; they are unfit for friendship, merely because their stamina, their ingredients of character, are too single, too much apart; let them be finely ground up with each other, and they will be incomparable.
He, who is ashamed of the poor in the presence of the rich, and of the unknown in presence of the celebrated, may become a base enemy, but never a fast friend.
The Mail due yesterday had not arrived at the publication of this day's GAZETTE, owing to the almost impracticableness of passing, the weather being extreme cold, and the roads wholly blocked up with snow.
Auction.
TO be sold at public auction, agreeably to licence from the Honorable Judge of Probate, for the county of Rockingham, on Thursday the first day of MARCH next, at 11 o'clock, A. M. at the Coffee-House-Tavern, in Portsmouth, part of the real estate of WILLIAM REEVE, late of Bristol, in the kingdom of Great-Britain, merchant, deceased, consisting of a DWELLING-House and two lots of LAND, situate in Market-Street, near Spring-Hill, lately in the occupation of Capt. James Stillson, deceased, subject to the incumbrance of the Widow's dower.—Conditions of sale will be made known at the time and place.
JOSHUA BRACKETT, Administ'r. Portsmouth, Jan. 21, 1792.

SONG Composed and sung AT THE FESTIVAL OF ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST. BY A BROTHER.
Y E gracious powers of choral song, Attend ; inspire your festive throng ; Let harmless mirth, and frolic glee, Dance sportive at our Jubilee. We ask no sound of spear or shield, No trophies of th' ensanguined field, Let hope, let faith and charity, Begin and end our Jubilee. No savage warrior's scarlet name, Shall e'er defile our rool of fame ; But peace, with white rob'd train we see, Presiding at our Jubilee. The heart that feels for widow'd woe, The tears, for orphans pangs, that flow, The voice which bids distress to flee, Shall celebrate in Jubilee. Mercy, with pearly melting eye, Stern Justice with her sword on high, Shall both attendant angels be, To guide, to guard our Jubilee. Each Brother's soul shall rapturous swell Nor sorrow toll her sad'ning knell ; The voice, the hands, the heart by three, Shall thrice repeat our Jubilee. Then call from East to West the World, The mystic banners are unfurl'd ! And O ! departed ancients, see From Heaven, and bless our Jubilee. Lo ! from his great or little store, Each brother flies his mite to pour, That men may still rejoice to see, A Mason's lodge a Jubilee. Then (round the circle) let the glass (Yet in the square) convivial pass ; And when the winds o'er the lea, Each lass shall have her Jubilee. Be this the general, cordial toast, (A wish that never should be lost) That all the world may Masons be, And live and love in Jubilee.
For Private Sale, That commodious and valuable Wharf & Water Privilege, Commonly called Sherburne's Wharf, at the lower end of Buck-street , Portsmouth, with five Ware-houses & Stores thereon,—ALSO— That large commodious and well finished Brick Dwelling-House
Adjoining thereto,— Which contain eighteen chambers, be- sides a large garret that will make at least four more,—four rooms on the lower floor, with a large kitchen, and a large shop and counting-room, with a cellar under the whole, divided into ten apartments—with a wash-house and other out-houses adjoining said dwell- ing-house.
N. B. One, two or three years credit will be given, if required. Enquire of GEO. WENTWORTH , Broker—or, SAMUEL SHERBURNE. Portsmouth, Jan. 11, 1792.
A LL persons indebted to the estate of JOHN EVANS , late of Port- mouth, Esq. deceased, are requested to make immediate payment to the sub- scribers ; and all who have demands upon said estate are desired to exhibit their claims properly vouched, in order for an immediate settlement.
NATH'L A. HAVEN , } Administra- JOHN HAVEN , } tors. Portsmouth, Jan. 18, 1792.
WHITEFIELD.
State of New-Hampshire, Dec. 8, 1791.
To the Honorable John Calfe, Esq. one of the Justices assigned to keep the Peace throughout the State of New-Hampshire.
T HE subscribers, owners of more than one sixteenth part of the township of Whitefield, in the county of Grafton, and State of New-Hamp- shire, hereby request your honor to call or notify a meeting of the proprietors of said township, to be held at the house of Capt. Benjamin French, innholder in Dunstable, in the county of Hillsbo- rough, in said State of New-Hampshire, on the 3d day of April next, at four of the clock, P. M. on said day, to act on the following articles, matters and things, viz.
1st, To choose a moderator for said meeting.
2d, To choose a proprietors' clerk. 3d, To choose assessors, a collector, a treasurer and other necessary officers for conducting business respecting said town- ship, as the proprietors may judge expe- dient.
4th, To see what method the pro- prietors will take to discharge the ar- rears of public taxes and requisitions due from said township.
5th, To agree on, vote and raise such sum or sums of money on the right or share of each original grantee, as will pay their respective proportion of such requisitions or taxes, as has or may be due from said township.
6th, To raise such sum or sums of money on each original right, for mak- ing and repairing highways, and for all expenses that has or may arise for bring- ing forward the settlement of said township, and for supporting and de- fending the proprietors title to said township ; and for any services done, or to be performed for the benefit of said proprietors, as may be thought ne- cessary.
7th, To see what grant, deed, or deeds the proprietors will give the in- habitants who settled under this pro- priety.
8th, To see what encouragement the proprietors will give any person that has, or may build mills in said township.
9th, To act by themselves, or their agent or committee, and every other matter which may be thought necessary.
10th, To see whether the proprie- tors will agree that any claimer or claim- ers be allowed to pitch a certain part of his or their interest in such parts of said township as may be agreed on, or for any other consideration.
11th, To agree on some method for calling proprietors meetings in future. Josiah Haines, Jonas Minot for himself and Oliver Farrar, and the heirs of Nathan Barrett.
State of New-Hampshire, Dec. 8, 1791. The proprietors and owners of the town- ship of Whitefield, aforesaid, are hereby no- tified and warned to meet at the time and place, and for the purposes before mentioned. JOHN CALFE , Justice of the Peace throughout said State.
JUST PUBLISHED, And may be had of the Printer hereof
LETTERS OCCASIONED BY The publication of a private Epistolary Correspondence,
BEGUN BY MR. SAM'L MACCLINTOCK. Preacher to a Puritan Congregation IN GREENLAND, N. HAMPSHIRE, BY JOHN C. OGDEN, A Presbyter in the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America.
Almanacks—for 1792, By the Groce, Dozen, or Single, of various kinds, to be sold by the Printer hereof, at his Office in Market-street.
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State of New-Hampshire.
N OTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors of land in Chichester, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1790, that unless they pay said taxes to me the subscriber, on or before the 15th day of February 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 the subscriber, in said town, at 10 o'clock, A. M. on said day.
Division. N. R. Ac. d.
  Christop. Toppan, Esq. 1 22 1 50 7   ditto, 1 18 1 50 7   Sir William Pepperell, 4 0 0 50 4   Capt. Richard Currier, 4 0 0 50 4   Bartholomew Thing, 4 0 0 50 4   Winthrop Hilton, 4 0 0 50 4   J. Jaffray, jun. 1 11 4 25 3   ditto, 4 0 0 50 4   Henry Rust, 1 5 6 50 9   ditto, 4 66 9 50 6   Capt. John Gilman, 4 0 0 50 4   John Downing, 1 17 8 50 7   ditto, 4 0 0 50 4   Moses Blake, 4 0 0 38 2   Abraham Drake, 1 25 8 50 8   Benning Wentworth, 4 0 0 50 4   Henry Robie, 1 1 8 50 1   John Cram, Esq. 1 16 3 50 6   ditto, 4 0 0 50 4   ditto, 4 0 0 50 4   Richard Jennens, 1 14 7 50 14   Archibald M'Fedris, 4 0 0 50 4   Samuel Thing, 1 2 1 50 10   ditto, 4 0 0 50 4   Peter Weare, jun. 1 26 5 50 6   Samuel Sawyer, 4 0 0 50 4   Nathaniel Treadwel, 1 13 8 43 7   ditto, 4 0 0 50 4   John Webster, 4 11 8 50 9   Thomas Leavitt, 1 10 1 50 10   John Wentworth, 1 18 7 50 10   Nathan Green, 4 0 0 50 5   Jarvis Thing, 1 14 4 50 10   Aaron Wells, 4 63 9 34 6 
N. B.—The 4th division is undrawn. JOHN HILYARD , Constable. Chichester, Jan. 9, 1792.
State of New-Hampshire.
N OTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in the town of Bradford, who have not paid their penny tax for the year 1791, that unless they pay said tax to us the subscribers, on or before the 10th day of April next, so much of their land as will pay the same, together with inci- dental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the house of Lieut. Enoch Hoyt, in said town, at 10 of the clock, A. M. on said day.
   No. s.d.    Richard Wibird, Esq. 32 8 4  ditto, 65 8 4  ditto, 83 8 4  ditto, 93 8 4  George Jaffray, Esq. 46 8 4  ditto, 48 8 4  ditto, 59 8 4  ditto, 81 8 4  ditto, 85 8 4  John Moffatt, Esq. 69 8 4  ditto, 47 8 4  ditto, 26 8 4  ditto, 90 8 4  Jotham Odiorne, Esq. 9 8 4  ditto, 2 8 4  ditto, 39 8 4  ditto, 92 8 4  Solly and March, 74 8 4  ditto, 61 8 4  Pierce and More, 37 8 4  ditto, 5 8 4  ditto, 50 8 4  ditto, 44 8 4  Theodore Atkinson, Esq. 38 8 4  ditto, 51 8 4  ditto, 88 8 4  ditto, 54 8 4  ditto, 96 8 4  Thomas Wallingford, 97 8 4  Thomlinson and Mason, — —  ENOCH HOYT, } Selectmen. —  JAMES PRESBURY,  Bradford, Nov. 1, 1791. (6w)  
A Journeyman Prin- ter that has acquired a thorough knowledge of his business, may have employ, and good wages by applying to the Printer hereof.—An appren- tice to the Printing business is wanted ; apply as above.
COLEBROOKE.
To the Honorable John Calfe, Esquire, one of the Justices assigned to keep the peace throughout the State of New-Hampshire.
T HE subscribers, owners of more than one sixteenth part of the township of Colebrooke, in the county of Grafton, and State of New-Hamp- shire, hereby request your honor to call or notify a meeting of the proprietors of said township, to be held at the house of Capt. Benjamin French, innholder in Dunstable, in the county of Hillsbo- rough, in said State of New-Hampshire, on the 3d day of April next, at one of the clock, P. M. on said day, to act on the following articles, matters and things, viz.—
1st, To choose a moderator for said meeting.
2d, To choose a proprietors clerk.
3d, To choose assessors, a collector, a treasurer and other necessary officers for conducting business respecting said township, as the proprietors may judge expedient.
4th, To see what method the pro- prietors will take to discharge the ar- rears of public taxes and requisitions due from said township.
5th, To agree on, vote and raise such sum or sums of money on the right or share of each original grantee, as will pay their respective proportion of such requisitions or taxes, as has, or may be due from said township.
6th, To raise such sum or sums of money on each original right, for mak- ing and repairing highways, and for all expenses that has or may arise for bring- ing forward the settlement of said town- ship, and for supporting and defending the proprietors title to said township ; and for any services done, or to be per- formed for the benefit of said proprie- tors, that may be thought necessary.
7th, To see what grant, deed, or deeds the proprietors will give the in- habitants who settled under this pro- priety.
8th, To see what encouragement the proprietors will give any person that has, or may build mills in said township.
9th, To act by themselves, or their agent or committee, and every other matter which may be thought necessary.
10th, To see whether the proprie- tors will agree that any claimer or claim- ers be allowed to pitch a certain part of his or their interest in such parts of said township as may be agreed on, or for any other consideration.
11th, To agree on some method for calling proprietors meetings in future.
Jonas Minot, David Page, Josiah Melvin, Jonas Minot, j'r.
State of New-Hampshire, Dec. 9, 1791. Agreeable to the foregoing application, the proprietors and owners of the township of Colebrooke aforesaid, are hereby notified and warned to meet at the time and place, and for the purposes before mentioned.
JOHN CALFE , Justice of the Peace throughout said State.
Insurance office.
T HE subscriber, having at the sug- gestion of a number of respectable characters, opened an INSURANCE OFFICE , adjoining the office of John Samuel Sherburne , Esquire.—Any per- sons having business to transact in that line, by applying, may depend upon having their directions executed with promptness and dispatch.
GEORGE WENTWORTH , Insu- rance Broker. Portsmouth, Jan. 10, 1792.
The largest collection of DIVINE HYMNS OR SPIRITUAL SONGS, BY
JOSHUA SMITH AND OTHERS,— Bound or unbound,—for sale at J. MELCHER's office, very cheap.