The New Hampshire gazette (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1793-08-06 00:00:00

New Hampshire Gazette.
PORTSMOUTH: Printed by JOHN MELCHER, Printer to the Hon. GENERAL COURT of the State of New Hampshire, at his Office in Market-Street, at nine shillings per Annum.
The FARMER.
From the New-England Farmer.
CLEARING OF LAND,
An operation often necessary to be performed in this new country, especially in the most inland parts. Lands which were before in a state of nature, are said to be cleared when they are freed from their natural growth, as to become fit for tillage, mowing, or pasture.
In those parts of the country where wood is of little or no value, the method of clearing upland is as follows: The trees are felled in one of the summer months; the earlier in summer the better, as they will have a longer time to dry, and as the stumps will be less apt to sprout. The trees lie till the following spring; when the limbs which do not lie very near to the ground should be chopped off, that they may burn the better. Fire must be put to them in the driest part of the month of May; or if the whole of May prove wet, it may be done to advantage in the beginning of June. Only the bodies of the trees will remain after burning, and some of them will be burnt to pieces. Then they are to be cut into pieces nearly of one length, drawn together by oxen, piled in close heaps, and burnt; only reserving suitable trees which will be needed for the fencing. The heating of the soil so destroys the green roots; and the ashes made by burning, are so beneficial to the land, that it will produce a good crop of Indian-corn, or wheat, the same year, without ploughing, hoeing, or manuring. Indian-corn is most commonly the first crop; and it will bear a good crop of winter rye the second year, if it be only hacked in with hoes in September. After which, if grass seeds be thrown in with the rye, the land will be fit for pasturage, if not for mowing. The few sprouts which spring up from the stumps in the first summer, should be pulled off, and the ground is quite subdued. And it often happens that the first and second crops pay the farmer well for all the labor of clearing and fencing.
The invention of this kind of culture has been of essential advantage to the poorer sort of people: And it has been conducive to bringing forward rapid settlements in our new towns and plantations.
But those persons who are able to do it had better plough and harrow their ground after burning, before they seed it. The ashes will thus be well mixed with the soil, and the land has always been found to retain its fertility the longer.
If new land lie in such a situation, that the natural growth may turn to better account, whether for timber or fire-wood, fencing or charcoal, it will be an unpar-donable waste to burn the wood on the ground. But if the trees be taken off, the land must be ploughed after clearing, or it will not produce a crop of any kind.
When new lands are destitute of trees, and covered with oak-shrubs, the clearing is more expensive, and the first crops not so profitable. But such lands should not remain un-subdued, as in their present state they are quite unprofitable. The bushes should be cut with stub-scynes, or axes, piled in heaps, and burnt. After which the roots may be subdued by goats; or ploughed up with a strong team, the plough being proportionably strong. After ploughing the roots must be taken out with a strong narrow hoe.
Other methods must be taken for sub-duing low swampy lands.
THE STORY
OF ALCANDER and SEPTIMIUS.
Taken from a Byzantine Historian.
ATHENS, long after the decline of the Roman empire, still continued the seat of learning, politeness, and wisdom. Theodoric the Ostrogoth repaired the schools which barbarity was suffering to fall into decay, and continued those
pensions to men of learning which avaricious governors had monopolized.
In this city, and about this period, Alcander and Septimius were fellow-students together: The one the most subtle reasoner of all the Lyceum, the other the most eloquent speaker in the academic grove. Mutual admiration soon begot a friendship. Their fortunes were nearly equal, and they were natives of the two most celebrated cities in the world; for Alcander was of Athens, Septimius came from Rome.
In this state of harmony they lived for some time together; when Alcander, after passing the first part of his youth in the indolence of philosophy, thought at length of entering into the busy world; and, as a step previous to this, placed his affections on Hypatia, a lady of exquisite beauty. The day of their intended nuptials was fixed; the previous ceremonies were performed; and nothing now remained but her being conducted in triumph to the apartment of the intended bridegroom.
Alcander's exultation in his own happiness, or being unable to enjoy any satisfaction without making his friend Septimius a partner, prevailed upon him to introduce Hypatia to his fellow-student; which he did with all the gait of a man who found himself equally happy in friendship and love. But this was an interview fatal to the future peace of both; for Septimius no sooner saw her, but he was smitten with an involuntary passion; and, though he used every effort to suppress desires at once so imprudent and unjust, the emotions of his mind in a short time became so strong, that they brought on a fever, which the physicians judged incurable.
During this illness, Alcander watched him with all the anxiety of fondness, and brought his mistress to join in those amiable offices of friendship. The sagacity of the physicians, by these means, soon discovered, that the cause of their patient's disorder was love: And Alcander being apprised of their discovery, at length extorted a confession from the reluctant dying lover.
It would but delay the narrative to describe the conflict between love and friendship in the breast of Alcander on this occasion; it is enough to say, that the Athenians were at that time arrived to such refinement in morals, that every virtue was carried to excess. In short, forgetful of his own felicity, he gave up his intended bride, in all her charms, to the young Roman. They were married privately by his connivance; and this unlooked-for change of fortune wrought as unexpected a change in the constitution of the now happy Septimius: In a few days he was perfectly recovered, and set out with his fair partner for Rome. Here, by an exertion of those talents which he was so eminently possessed of, Septimius, in a few years, arrived at the highest dignities of the state, and was constituted the city judge, or prætor.
In the mean time, Alcander not only felt the pain of being separated from his friend and his mistress, but a prosecution was also commenced against him by the relations of Hypatia, for having basely given up his bride, as was suggested, for money. His innocence of the crime laid to his charge, and even his eloquence in his own defence, were not able to withstand the influence of a powerful party. He was cast, and condemned to pay an enormous fine. However, being unable to raise so large a sum at the time appointed, his possessions were confiscated, he himself was stripped of the habit of freedom, exposed as a slave in the market-place, and sold to the highest bidder.
A merchant of Thrace becoming his purchaser, Alcander, with some other companions of distress, was carried into that region of desolation and sterility. His stated employment was to follow the herds of an imperious master, and his success in hunting was all that was allowed him to supply his precarious subsistence. Every morning awaked him to a renewal of famine or toil, and every
change of season served but to aggravate his unsheltered distress. After some years of bondage, however, an opportunity of escaping offered; he embraced it with ardour; so that travelling by night, and lodging in caverns by day, to shorten a long story, he at last arrived in Rome. The same day on which Alcander arrived, Septimius sat administering justice in the forum, whither our wanderer came, expecting to be instantly known, and publicly acknowledged by his former friend. Here he stood the whole day among the crowd, watching the eyes of the judge, and expecting to be taken notice of; but he was so much altered by a long succession of hardships, that he continued unnoticed among the rest; and, in the evening, when he was going up to the prætor's chair, he was brutally repulsed by the attending lictors. The attention of the poor is generally driven from one ungrateful object to another; for night coming on, he now found himself under a necessity of seeking a place to lie in, and yet knew not where to apply. All emaciated, and in rags as he was, none of the citizens would harbour so much wretchedness; and sleeping in the streets might be attended with interruption or danger: In short, he was obliged to take up his lodging in one of the tombs without the city, the usual retreat of guilt, poverty, and despair. In this mansion of horror, laying his head upon an inverted urn, he forgot his miseries for a while in sleep; and found on his flinty couch, more ease than beds of down can supply to the guilty.
As he continued here, about midnight two robbers came to make this their retreat; but happening to disagree about the division of their plunder, one of them stabbed the other to the heart, and left him weltering in blood at the entrance. In these circumstances he was found next morning dead at the mouth of the vault. This naturally induced a farther enquiry, an alarm was spread; the cave was examined; and Alcander being found, was immediately apprehended, and accused of robbery and murder. The circumstances against him were strong, and the wretchedness of his appearance confirmed suspicion. Misfortune and he were now so long acquainted, that he at last became regardless of life. He detected a world where he had found only ingratitude, falsehood, and cruelty; he was determined to make no defence; and thus, lowering with resolution, he was dragged, bound with cords, before the tribunal of Septimius. As the proofs were positive against him, and he offered nothing in his own vindication, the judge was proceeding to doom him to a most cruel and ignominious death, when the attention of the multitude was soon divided by another object. The robber who had been really guilty, was apprehended selling his plunder, and, struck with a panic, had confessed his crime. He was brought bound to the same tribunal, and acquitted every other person of any partnership in his guilt. Alcander's innocence, therefore, appeared; but the sullen rashness of his conduct remained a wonder to the surrounding multitude; but their astonishment was still farther increased, when they saw their judge start from his tribunal, to embrace the supposed criminal: Septimius recollected his friend and former benefactor, and hung upon his neck with tears of pity and joy. Need the sequel be related? Alcander was acquitted; shared the friendship and honors of the principal citizens of Rome; lived afterwards in happiness and ease; and left it to be engraved on his tomb, That no circumstances are so desperate, which Providence may not relieve.
AN EPIGRAM.
A MEMBER of the modern Great Pals'd Sawney with his budget; The peer was in a car of state, The tinker forc'd to trudge it. But Sawney shall receive the praise His Lordship wou'd parade for: One's debtor for his dapple greys, And th' other's shoes are paid for.
FRAGMENT.
**** O GOD of Heaven! cried the unfortunate ULAI, just as he entered the grave yard, have the caverns of the earth received her!—Was that the snapping of the cords that eased her corse into the grave, which I this moment heard!—Are the first clods now falling upon her doleful sounding coffin?—Have I arrived too late!—No: I will see her—sexton forbear—she was then, by his request, taken up—the lid raised—three times he attempted to move the napkin from her face—but his trembling hand was too feeble to effect it;—his astonish'd friends kindly removed the napkin—he fell to the ground—was motionless nearly half an hour—then revived—and with a low submissive voice says, ease her gently down, let her calmly retire home—the balmy sleep of death has freed her from a boisterous, from a tumultuous world. Oh! that the traveller death would come! That he would now call upon me—with one stroke would rid me of this life, which is no longer to be wished—with unfettered stride, through the shady worlds, I'd seek her wandering lovely ghost. His friends then led him, by his request, to the place where the expired;—he walked the room the whole night—refused any kind of refreshment—with a low, yet heart rending voice, was often heard to say, how could I be so cruel! How could I tarry so long!—My God! Forgive this revengeful temper, which has thus sported with life—which has thus sported with the life of my better self.
The following scrip was found, which she wrote the day before she died—it was directed to ULAI.
"True it is I was at times wavering—you ought to have attributed that to the weakness of our sex— Ulai , I now am expiring for you—it is a threefold death to die without your presence: Could I have but one moment to declare myself to you, at this eve of a life desirable for no other purpose, I would bid death walk in at the first rap. I have said ten thousand times to myself, he will come— Ulai will surely come—the cold sweat starts from every pore—racking death has seized my body—despair of never seeing you again, still more racking, has seized my soul—you now will come too late. Oh! Ulai , I can but think the name, with my eyes set—with my last breath, with my breath already too short to speak, I can but dimly look, and faintly groan, a long, long farewell."
A knowledge of the use and value of Time very important to Youth.
THERE is nothing which I more wish that you should know, and which fewer people do know, than the true use and value of time. It is in every body's mouth; but in few people's practice. Every fool who slatterns away his whole time in nothings, utters, however, some trite common place sentence, of which there are millions to prove, at once, the value and the fleetness of time. The sun-dials, likewise, all over Europe, have some ingenious inscription to that effect; so that nobody squanders away their time, without hearing and seeing, daily, how necessary it is to employ it well, and how irrecoverable it is if lost. But all these admonitions are useless, where there is not a fund of good sense and reason to suggest them, rather than receive them. By the manner in which you now tell me that you employ your time, I flatter myself, that you have that fund: that is the fund which will make you rich indeed. I do not, therefore, mean to give you a critical essay upon the use and abuse of time; I will only give you some hints, with regard to the use of one particular period of that long time which I hope, you have before you; I mean the next two years. Remember, then, that whatever knowledge you do not solidly lay the foundation of before you are eighteen, you will never be master of while you breathe. Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in an advanced age; and if we do not plant it while young, it will

give us no shade when we grow old. I neither require nor expect from you great application to books, after you are once thrown out into the great world. I know it is impossible; and it may even, in some cases, be improper: This, therefore, is your time, and your only time, for unwearied and uninterrupted application. If you should sometimes think it a little laborious, consider, that labour is the unavoidable fatigue of a necessary journey. The more hours a day you travel, the sooner you will be at your journey's end. The sooner you are qualified for your liberty, the sooner you shall have it; and your manumission will entirely depend upon the manner in which you employ the intermediate time. I think I offer you a very good bargain, when I promise you, upon my word, that, if you will do every thing that I would have you do, 'till you are eighteen, I will do every thing that you would have me do ever afterwards. Lord Chesterfield.
PHILADELPHIA, July 24.
Dublin newspapers are received in this city to the 25th of May; all of which corroborate the accounts of the success of the French arms over the combined forces. The accounts by a late arrival from Amsterdam are to the 19th of May, but no newspapers later than to the 16th.—According to these, in the battles of the 1st and 13th of March, Saxe Cobourg had killed of his army 4 staff officers and 27 others of distinction, 937 privates and 525 horses—The wounded were 1 general, 8 staff, and 80 other officers, 2883 men, and 330 horses—prisoners taken by the French, 20 officers and 25 privates—missing 43 officers, 400 men, and 12 dozen of horses. There are no free papers now printed in Amsterdam or any part of Holland. Even the Leyden Gazette has become a corrupted source, every sheet of which, and other papers, is examined by the Stadholder's Licencer, previous to going to press. Those papers mention that the court of Denmark had refused to acknowledge Monsieur, the king's brother, as Regent of France. It was also mentioned at Amsterdam, that the English were negotiating with the French for peace. Upon the whole, we may fairly gather from the information received by the last vessels, that the French are much better provided with necessaries of every kind, than the combined armies are, and consequently, they will be able to make a good stand against the petty princes, with all their dukes, kings and emperors at their rear; for we don't hear much of those great heroes exposing their persons, often, in the front of the battle.
We learn by a vessel from Port a Paix, in French Hispaniola, that the Spaniards from St. Domingo, taking advantage of the troubles at the Cape, had taken Fort Dauphin (a little to the westward of Monte Christo.) The garrison being 50 men, defended it bravely, but were at length obliged to surrender to superior numbers. We are informed by the same vessels that about one fourth of the town at the Cape, is still standing; the commissioners were about one mile from the city, much in want of ammunition, three magazines having blown up during the conflagration.
The sloop Driver, Capt. Wilson, in 20 days from Port-au-Prince, brings no intelligence of the capture of Fort Dauphin by the Spaniards, as was yesterday reported—It may however, be possible that Admiral Gardner after his unsuccessful attempt upon Martinique, may have gone round to join the Spaniards in a descent upon Port-au-Prince—but if they have done no more than taken Fort Dauphin, with only 50 men!—they have little to brag of, and should they effect a landing near Port-au-Prince, all the governor there is to do, to repel them, is to let loose the Free Negroes, and give them arms. These are so great in numbers, that they would actually destroy the Spaniards and British invaders, were they to return themselves in that Quixotian adventure.
An English frigate of 36 guns is carried into Cape Francois, prize to the America, a French 74: Another 74 and a 44 gun ship lay at the Cape the 28th of June. to protect such vessels as were not ready to go to sea.
The American brig Betsey, Captain CLARKE, bound from St. Bartholomew to Hamburg, with Dutch property and one passenger, was captured by a French privateer polacre, the Sans Culotte, of Nantz, off the Western Islands.—The passenger is said to be a Swede, and was kept prisoner on board the privateer.—Capt. Clarke was allowed to stay with his
brig. It is supposed the cargo will be condemned. Capt. Clarke came to town on Monday last. The prize was at Mud Fort, and the privateer coming up the river after her.—The privateer Sans Culottes of Nantz, has also captured the ship Flora of Glasgow, bound to Antigua, worth 30,000. sterling; also a Bremen brig and a Portuguese brig.
Yesterday arrived here the ship Flora of Glasgow, bound to Jamaica, and prize to the French privateer Sans Culottes, mentioned above.
HARTFORD, July 29.
Mess. Hudson and Goodwin,
By desire of the parents of the child destroyed in the tragical scene at Wintonbury, in the town of Windsor, on the 20th of July instant, and others whose attention was commanded, you are requested to publish in your next paper—That Ezekiel Case the perpetrator of the horrid crime had dwelt in the house of Mr. Ackley about ten weeks next preceding; and had been there employed as a journeyman, at the shoemaking business: That in the same family, a sister of his, an amiable and worthy character aged about 34 years, had resided as a nurse and house labourer about three weeks—in the course of which he had discovered upon several occasions, an inimical disposition towards his sister. That on the morning of the fatal day, he arose from his bed, and entered upon his labour, as was usual, and continued in the shop industriously employing himself, 'till called to breakfast, when he attended with the family, made his breakfast as at other times, and returned to his work, which he diligently attended to until about half past nine in the forenoon, (having by that time, and in that morning, performed as much service, as to begin and finish a woman's shoe, and in as good workmanship as at any other time.) Nothing peculiar had been observed of him, during the time above mentioned; but upon recollection, it appears that he had been unsociable, tho' unnoticed in him. The act was thus: he suddenly cast his shoe from him, and with his hammer in his right hand, he instantly left his seat, passed a door into the kitchen of the house, where his sister was engaged in family business, seized her by the shoulder with one hand, and smote her with the hammer upon the back part of the head—she exerted her utmost strength to disengage herself from him, and to flee, while he gave her a second, and most dangerous wound near the crown of the head, with which she now languishes; she dragg'd him thro' a second room into an outward entry, and thro' an outward door she made her escape, (during which he gave her three or four additional blows, upon the shoulders, back, &c.) Case immediately returned into the last mentioned room, and with a countenance terrible as death, with his arm and hammer extended, rushed upon Mrs. Ackley, enfeebled with long sickness, and setting at a cool window, with her only little daughter in her lap, aged about three years and two months, and without words, he seized the child by the arm, and smote Mrs. Ackley repeatedly upon the head, and by a third stroke fell'd her to the floor; he gave her several other violent blows with the hammer, before she with the utmost difficulty had effected her escape: The murderous hand then proceeded against the desirable child, and with savage barbarity and cruelty plunged (with one stroke) the face of the hammer, to its handle, thro' the skull into the brains of its head; and not satisfied with this, repeated the blows upon other parts of the head, and upon the ribs and hip of the child; and immediately retired into a dark corner of the lower apartment of an adjoining bark-house. The consideration public will please to suspend their opinion whether the above was in a fit of distraction (according to the usual understanding of the word distraction) as was suggested in your last paper, until the trial of the forenamed Ezekiel Case, in September next.
LANSINGBURGH, July 9.
An obliging correspondent who resided in one of the West India Islands at the time of the insurrection of the negroes, in the year 1791, has favored us with the following extract from his journal:
HAVING walked a small distance from the boat, my ears were stunned with the most agonizing cries, accompanied with the crack of the fouette,* which seemed to proceed from a neighboring cane-field; I quickened my pace, which in a few moments brought me to the place from whence proceeded the cries, Good heaven! what a scene presented itself!—a poor wretched negro lying with his face to the
ground, naked and covered with blood, and four other negroes holding his hand and feet extended as far as possible; beside him stood the overseer of the plantation, and a negro driver with his fouette, with which, at every stroke, he took a piece of flesh from the poor wretch's back-side, this was not enough, "strike harder, rascal," said the inhuman overseer, to the driver, and at the same time gave him a severe stroke with his large cane across the head. The poor sufferer turned his head to the overseer, and supplicated in terms that would have made a heart of adamant to relent. It could not be;—expostulating with devils is in vain. Frantic with anguish, he turned his eyes to me, and begged my intercession; it was too much for one of less feeling than myself to deny.—I stepped up to the overseer, and begged for God's sake that he would kill the wretch outright, if he must die, and not suffer him to linger under the sufferings of excessive inhumanity; I used all the eloquence humanity and my feelings could suggest to move the monster to compassion; but oh! the depravity of man! not one spark of that virtue could be found in him; my entreaties joined to those of the nearly expiring sufferer, could not avail; the fellow had run a way, he should have his full five hundred well laid on," was his reply. Unable longer to be a spectator of so much cruelty, finding myself grow sick and faint, I turned and made the best of my way back to the boat. What a pity, thought I, that the unhappy sufferer had not enough resolution to rid himself of these tortures by plunging a knife into his heart.
The next morning we saw from our ship a large smoke towards the plantations of ****, we soon received the intelligence that the negroes had risen, and that several overseers had been massacred, among whom was the relentless torturer related of.
* A FOUETTE is a whip in shape of a full bellied snake, is 10 feet long, and tied to a handle two feet long, purposely for the use of the drivers; it seldom fails of taking off a bit of flesh where it is laid on with any force; and the drivers are so dexterous with it, that at the distance of 6 or 8 feet they can strike a copper, perhaps 100 times without once missing it.
The island of Hispaniola is 450 miles in length, about one half belongs to the French and the other to the Spaniards. In 1790, the French part was populated with 30,800 whites, about the same number of free mulattoes, and 434,400 slaves. The amount of produce shipped from the Island in the same year was twenty-four millions, five hundred dollars.—Cape Francois was situated on the north side, and was the largest town in the island; it contained about three thousand houses. From its favorable situation for trade, the luxuries and richness of the soil, and temperature of the climate, it bid fair to be one of the largest cities in the western world.—The town and property destroyed by the late dreadful catastrophe, can be estimated at no less than four hundred millions of dollars.
Port-au-Prince is situated upon an extensive Bay on the west part, and which was very little inferior to the Cape, about eighteen months since shared the same fate; the inhabitants, however, were more fortunate in saving their lives. The poor ignorant negroes have long been kept in a state of cruel slavery, with inhuman severity, whilst the whites have wallowed in luxury:—they have now retaliated on their unfeeling torturers with a terrible vengeance.
BENNINGTON, (Vermont) July 12.
The convention for establishing the constitution of this State, for the ensuing septenary, met at Windsor, agreeable to appointment, on Wednesday the third inst. After thoroughly discussing the amendments proposed by the council of censors, they proceeded on Monday last to take the decisive question upon the article respecting a senate, which was negatived by a majority of 20—The particular alterations agreed on, we are not able to communicate at present, further than that every town containing eighty taxable inhabitants, is entitled to the privilege of sending two representatives, and each smaller town one, which mode, if generally adopted, will make the house consist of nearly two hundred members.
S A L E M, July 30.
The King of Spain has evinced how deeply interested he is in the happiness of the French Emigrants, by banishing them from his kingdom. A gentleman who was lately in Spain, assures us, that the King's edict for the expulsion of the French, included not only old settlers, who had resided there
many years, but even those refugees who, from enmity to the revolution, had abandoned their country, and crowded into Spain in great numbers: The whole number thus banished was about one hundred thousand; and only a short time was allowed them to quit the kingdom. The Governor of St. Andero humanely endeavored to protect some of them in a little longer stay, in order that they might take proper care of their interest; for which he was arrested, and sent to Madrid, where it was expected he might be severely dealt with. The King's motives probably were, that he might possess the property which many in their precipitate flight must leave behind them—and to rid himself of the claims which the French Royalists were making on his bounty and protection. The Frenchmen who had left their country previous to the revolution, when they returned were received by their countrymen with open arms; but those of the other class, who ventured to return, were hanged as soon as they arrived upon the lines—the French Republicans deeming it too dangerous to their cause, to admit so many of their professed enemies into the heart of their country.
A Gentleman in Philadelphia writes thus—and it is painful in the extreme that he has occasion to—to his friend in this town:
"The PRESIDENT has met a volley of the most unmerited abuse, on account of his Proclamation. It is to be regretted, that the men of virtue, and friends to the government, who are of one opinion in approving that measure, did not more generally declare their sentiments—the Address from SALEM has done honor to the citizens, and has served the cause of our country. It is painful to think that any men should be desirous of embroiling this country; and connecting our affairs with those of the governments of Europe, which are evidently hastening to ruin, and labouring under every evil, which vice, despotism and faction can inflict. Tho' we are bound to wish for their happiness, we are under no obligation to become parties to their contentions—we are not to imitate their manners, or to adopt their opinions, if we wish to consult either their or our interests—it would be a lasting disgrace, if not a ruinous calamity, to permit foreign councils to make an impression here—Every man ought to bear testimony against any political connection with any country of Europe—It is our duty to treat all with perfect impartiality and with the strictest justice, and by every means in our power to arrest that enthusiasm, which if indulged will necessarily divide our country into factions—This country, instead of being the most happy, would be the most wretched under heaven, if once engaged in those vindictive and savage wars, which in all probability will ravage Europe during the present age—We enjoy the consolation of believing the wishes of this country to be favorable to peace, order and virtue—it rests with the good men to restrain the passions of the few who are turbulent."
JUST OPENED AND FOR SALE BY WILLIAM SMITH, AT THE STORE OPPOSITE Mr. Samuel Hill's Store, On Spring-Hill, The following articles, viz.
WEST INDIA and N. E. FRENCH & Carolina Indigo. Rum by the hhd. Logwood. Brandy. Redwood. Holland Gin. Fustick. Best Hylon and Bohea Tea. Allum. Coffee. Copperas. Cotton. Salt-petre. Loaf & Brown Sugars. Brimstone. Warranted & common Chocolate. Alspice. Mustard. Pepper. Starch. Ginger. Flour. Figs. Raisins. Nutmegs. Rice.
Russia, Sweeds, and Philadelphia Iron, German and English Steel, 10 by 8, 9 by 7 and 8 by 6 Crown and common Window Glass, 20d. 10d. 6d. and 4d. Nails, Pots, Kettles and Tea-Kettles of all sizes, Iron Shovels, Powder, Shot, Flints, &c.
Portsmouth, July 23, 1793.

PHILADELPHIA, July 27.
We are informed, that the Grand Jury of the Circuit Court, on Wednesday last, made several presentments to that Court, of diverse persons in this city, for having caused sundry vessels in this port of Philadelphia to be armed and equipped in a warlike manner, being an infraction of certain treaties, and direct violation of the neutrality of the United States, declared by the President's Proclamation.
Extract of a letter from a Captain of an American vessel at New-Providence, dated July 9, received yesterday by the Schooner Linnet Valentine.
"A great number of American vessels are here, and more every day coming in. The British privateers take all they meet with. They bribe the sailors; make them drunk and ship them on board their privateers: they leave some vessels with not more than one or two hands, and send them to port; they promise them shares in the prizes, if condemned.—Three of my people have been taken and sent on board a privateer. They offer the mates from 4 to 500 dollars for information.—Captain _____ has condemned his own vessel and cargo, and he is at present a captain of a privateer."
NEW-YORK, July 24.
The name of the French East India-man, mentioned in our last as having arrived here, is Port Louis, she is above 500 tons burthen, is commanded by citizen Jarente; her very valuable cargo consists of spices, silks, ware, some sugar, and various other articles.
A French ship of 18 guns has captured, and sent into Chesapeake bay, a Dutch ship with a cargo on board worth two millions of French livres (160,000. this currency.)
JULY 31.
Yesterday evening arrived the Earl of Halifax packet, Captain Boulderson, in 42 days from Falmouth and Halifax, N.S. by which we have just time to give our readers extracts from London papers:
JUNE 8. Last night, Mr. Major, the King's messenger, arrived at Whitehall, with letters from Sir James Murray, Adjutant General, to his Grace the Duke of York, at the British camp, near Valenciennes, which place he left on Thursday last, when the British troops were within cannon shot of the citadel.
Detachments from the Royal Regiment of Dragoons, the Enniskillen, and the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards are ordered to embark on Monday next for foreign service.
PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 9. The Boyne, Capt. Otway, arrived this morning, left nine sail of East Indiamen, under convoy of the Powerful, on the 27th of April, all well, off the Cape de Verd Island.
LONDON, JUNE 6. General Valence, the accomplice of Dumourier, had yesterday an interview with Mr. Pitt, and some other members of the Cabinet in Downing street.
General Custine writes from his camp at Weissenbourg, May 18th, informing the National Convention, that at half past five in the morning, he with 26 battalions of foot, and 8 regiments of dragoons, fought a part of the Prussian army—the battle at first was much in his favor, but while his infantry were forming, a regiment of his cavalry rode up towards them, which some of his infantry taking for the enemy, ran away and could not be rallied.
The General adds, that he did every thing in his power to stop their flight, but in vain, for, in running off, they fired indiscriminately.
Two hundred pieces of cannon unrelentingly fire upon the city of Valenciennes.
GLOUCESTER, July 18.
A remarkable LARGE CHILD was brought by its parents, who came on a visit to this town, yesterday, which excited the curiosity of all ranks in this place to pay it a visit. The child is but 27 months old; it weighs between 75 and 80 pounds; it measures round the body under the arms 31 3/4 inches, round the shoulders 34 1/2 inches; its height 35 1/4 inches; bigness of the arm below the elbow 9 1/2 inches; the calf of the leg just 1 foot; the thigh, just above the knee, 15 1/4 inches; and what is remarkable, it weighed but 8 pounds when born. It is in the bloom of health, and appears sensible and sharp. The parents are Mr. John Proctor and Consort, of Ipswich.
BOSTON, August 1.
FROM PHILADELPHIA, July 24.
Accounts are received from New Providence, by way of Charleston, that a French Fleet of considerable force had fallen in with the British outward bound Fleets for the East and West-Indies, some
time about the latter end of May, off Cape Finisterre, in Spain, and captured one hundred and sixty sail, then under convoy of two men of war and four frigates, the principal convoy having left them in a more northern latitude. This news was confirmed by the arrival of a French frigate at the Cape in 35 days from Brest, also by accounts from Jamaica, and from another quarter.
The French Fleet that is said to have captured the 160 sail of British merchantmen off Cape Finisterre, is mentioned in another paper to have consisted of nine sail of the line, several frigates, and a number of large privateers of from 24 to 36 guns.—A letter from the Havana to a merchant in Charleston, confirms the same news; it was generally believed in Charleston, when the last vessels left there.
A special session of the Supreme Court of the United States is now holding in Philadelphia. We hear that the important question will be determined, whether it is compatible with the principles of neutrality for the citizens of the United States to enter on board French cruisers.
Gen. Wayne, with the forces under his command had arrived at Fort Washington before the 27th of June. All expectations of a treaty with the savages in that quarter were given up, and the commander in chief had dispatched an express to the President of the United States, soliciting orders for offensive operations.
We have it in our power to give a direct contradiction of the English accounts of the capture of Nantz by the Brittany insurgents.—The privateer Sans Culottes (of old France) left that city on the 28th of April, when such an event was not even feared, or thought of. The English date of its capture was on the 24th.
The British news, published in most of the American newspapers, that 20,000 French had perished near Mayenne in passing the Rhine, to escape the pursuit of the enemy, appears to be totally void of foundation.
By the Sally, Capt. Egger, from Cape Francois, which she left the 4th of July, we learn, that at that time about one fourth of the town remained standing, but entirely deserted by the white inhabitants, who had fled in every direction, to avoid the melancholy scene. A few negroes remained, who were employed in burying the dead.—The Commissioners Santhonax and Polverel remained at Aude du Camp, a small distance from the town, attended by the mulattoes, negroes and other adherents. The Commissioners had issued orders to one of the mulatto generals to disarm all the whites, as it was supposed peace could not be restored to the island until they were deprived of all power of interfering with the Commissioners, whose express business was to enforce the decree of the Convention of France, granting certain privileges to the people of colour.
On the 27th of June a fire broke out at Augusta, in Georgia, which did damage it was supposed, to the amount of 3000. their currency. Seven or eight houses were destroyed, a number of stores and out houses, but fortunately no lives were lost, although the fire broke out about midnight.
Letter from Citizen A. F. Lozeau, member of the National Convention of France, to the Editor of the National Gazette, dated Paris, 30th of April.
CITIZEN EDITOR,
I beg you to publish the following account of the bravery of Citizen Scorcery. Capt. Scorcery, commander of the privateer L'Ami des Lois, of Dunkirk, carrying 8 guns and 40 men, failed the 8th inst. on a cruise; the next day she carried two prizes into Havre, one of them English loaded with hay, grain and strong beer, the other a Dane loaded with Spanish wine, bound to Prussia. On the 14th she sent into the same port a Dutch ship loaded with cheese and leather, bound to Falmouth: after having maned the three forementioned prizes, there remained on board the privateer only 25 men with whom the brave Scorcery did not hesitate, on the 20th inst. to attack an English brig, on board of which there were one hundred and five soldiers and three officers, which after an obstinate engagement, he took and carried into Dieppe.
Citizen Scorcery and his brave companions merit the highest eulogiums, for engaging a vessel loaded with troops, and with unequal force—they ran great danger, without the expectation of any profit.
The disinterestedness, patriotism and intrepidity of these brave Republicans, concur equally to render them meritorious.
A. F. LOZEAU.
AUGUST 5.
The master of a vessel lately arrived at Newport from Jamaica; on his passage spoke with Captain Courtney, commander of His Britannic Majesty's frigate Boston, of 32 guns, who informed him, that he had positive orders to cruise near the Sound 'till he met the French frigate L'Embuscade.—Further accounts state, that the Boston had arrived at the Hook, and that the commander had sent up a challenge to Capt. Bompard, of the Embuscade, and informed him that he should be there three days, in waiting for him, and that he wished much to see him.—Capt. B. was preparing to meet him.
Sandy-River, July 1793.
Friday 21st ult. about 3 o'clock P. M. we had a squall from the N. W. It began with Thunder and Wind, then followed by Hail or rather large lumps of hard ice, many of them one and a half inch diameter. It destroyed all in its way, cut down whole fields of corn, and vegetables; broke through the roofs of houses with great violence. When they struck the ground, they would rebound as much as 5 or 6 feet high. It lasted about 10 minutes; covered the ground, so that many of them were taken up 16 hours after. It was about one mile and a half in width.
Marine Intelligence.
New-York, July 20.
On Sunday the brig Mary, Capt. Langdon, arrived here from Cape Francois, which he left July 9th. The passengers, which are 40 in number, inform, that it was not supposed more than from 6 to 9 hundreds (instead of 10 thousand as we heard) lost their lives in the affair of the 20th—that not more than two thirds of the town was burnt—that upwards of 20,000 mulattoes and blacks are now under arms there, well fortified—that the negroes never came in from the country on the late occasion—that the Spaniards, from their part of the island, had taken a town, and were on their march against them, and, it is said, joined by the aristocrats and country blacks. If this be so we shall hear of bloody work soon.
NEWBURYPORT, Aug. 3.
Extract of a letter from Cape Francois, to a gentleman in this town, dated July 6.
"A greater havock and distress I never heard or read of than has taken place here. I arrived six days after the destruction—The fires were not wholly extinguished nor all the dead carcases removed from the streets. The cause of the battle I am not yet sufficiently acquainted with to give you a particular account of—at a period when I am more at leisure may be able to give you some idea, if words can do it."
"You will naturally think I am in danger, but an American is as safe here as in his own country; and his property (if he has it on board.) The day I arrived I sold my cargo of Flour to government, to receive coffee in pay—The miserable white inhabitants I pity. I have 30 or 40 passengers engaged for America, whom I took through compassion."
Thursday last, John Burroughs and William Little, of this town, were had before Justice PIKE, upon suspicion of altering Dollars from their present standard—search being made, several dies were found in their possession—also a plate of the Massachusetts Bank for 20 dollars, and another of the Union Bank for 5 dollars.—After a strict investigation of the matter, Burroughs was bonded for the sum of sixty pounds! to answer to the Supreme Judicial Court, and Little was recognized as a witness—since which they have both disappeared.
SHIP-NEWS.
ARRIVALS.
On Saturday, brig Martha, E. Hoyt, master, 36 days from Madeira—Left the following American vessels:—Brigs Molly, Capt. Morris, and Harriot, Captain Holland, of Philadelphia.—Ship Harriot, Captain M'Leod, and brig Morning Star, Captain Steward, of New-York.—Same day arrived Schooner Speedwell, J. O'Brian, master, 25 days from Aux-Cayes.—The inhabitants were in daily expectation of an attack from the British. On his passage was boarded by two New-Providence privateers, detained 12 hours, and then suffered to depart, without meeting with any ill usage. Capt. O'Brian informs that it rained three weeks incessantly at the above place, so that all communication from the country was cut off.
PORTSMOUTH, August 6.
It is said Great-Britain has made propositions of peace; but that these were rejected by the National Convention.
The Convention of the French Republic received the news of the acknowledgment of their existence, by the United States of America, with universal joy, loud and reiterated plaudits, and many public festivals.
It may be proper to notify the merchants—That when the British privateers board our vessels, they take full liberty of opening any letters they please, which they can find on board, whether public or private.—This may serve as a caution to those who are fond of literary correspondence.
Last Tuesday evening was married by the Rev. Mr. Buckminster, The Rev. Mr. Rowland, of Exeter, to the very amiable and accomplished Miss SALLY LADD, daughter of Eliphalet Ladd, Esq. of this town.
SHIP NEWS.
Capt. Parker arrived here since our last, in the Schooner William and Mary in 27 days from Tobago, says, the fleet which left Martinico has arrived at Barbadoes:—Spoke with in lat. 34. 50. long. 66, Schooner John, Frost, belonging to Beverly, out 63 days, from Teneriff, bound for Charlestown, S. C. Short of provisions, supplied them with bread & water.
ENTRIES at the CUSTOM-HOUSE of this District.
ENTERED FROM Schooner Wm. & Mary, Parker, Tobago. Brig Lucretia, Martin, Trinidad.
Prefs and Bonnet Papers of a superior kind, by the dozen, groce or single sheet, for sale at J. Melcher's Printing-Office.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
WHEREAS the General-Court of Massachusetts, by a Resolution of the 16th of March, A.D. 1793, authorised the subscriber to sell sundry LANDS, &c. in the county of York, formerly belonging to the estate of Sir WILLIAM PEPPERELL, deceased, notice is hereby given, that there will be sold at
Public Auction,
On Monday,
the 19th day of August next, at 11 o'clock, A.M. on the premises, to the highest bidder, (unless sold before at private sale)
THE
House situate in Kittery,
formerly the mansion house of Sir WIL-
LIAM PEPPERELL, deceased, with
Three acres of Land, (more or less)
adjoining the same, with the remains of The Wharf, in front of said House.
Any person who has a mind to have an advantageous and delightful situation for business, will find it worth their attention to apply to the subscriber at York, if not sold at private sale by the said 19th day of August.
The conditions will be declared at the sale.
JOSEPH TUCKER.
York, July 9, 1793.
Piscataqua Bridge.
THE proprietors of Piscataqua Bridge are hereby notified that their meeting stands adjourned to the second Monday of August, inst. at 6 o'clock, in the afternoon, to be held at Col. William Brewster's in Portsmouth, at which time and place a punctual attendance is requested.
NATH'L ADAMS, Prop's Clerk. Portsmouth, August 2, 1793.
WANTED
One or two Journeymen Printers, to whom wages will be given equal to their merit, by the Printer hereof.

Written at Midnight, in a Thunder storm. CARTER.
LET coward Guilt, with pallid Fear, To hell's ring caverns fly, And justly dread the vengeful fate That thunders through the sky. Protected by that hand, whose law The threatening storms obey, Intrepid Virtue smiles secure As in the blaze of day. In the thick cloud's tremendous gloom, The lightning's lurid glare, It views the same all-gracious Pow'r That breathes the vernal air. Thro' Nature's ever-varying scene, By different ways pursu'd, The one eternal end of Heav'n Is universal good: With like beneficent effect O'er flaming ether glows, As when it tunes the linnet's voice, Or blushes in the rose. By reason taught to scorn those fears That vulgar minds molest. Let no fantastic terrors break My dear Narcissa's rest. Thy life may all the tend'rest cares Of Providence defend; And delegated angels round Their guardian wings extend! When thro' creation's vast expanse The last dread thunders roll, Untune the concord of the spheres, And shake the rising soul; Unmov'd mayst thou the final form Of jarring worlds survey, That ushers in the glad serene Of everlasting day!
THE CHARACTER.
AN easy mien, engaging in address, Looks, which at once each winning grace express; A life, where love and truth are ever join'd, A nature ever great, and ever kind; A wisdom solid, and a judgment clear, The smile indulgent, and a soul sincere; Meek without meanness, gentle and humane, Fond of improving, but yet never vain; So justly good, so faithful to his friend, Ever obliging, cautious to offend: A mind, where gen'rous pity stands confess'd Ready to ease and succour the distress'd: If these respect and admiration raise, They surely must demand our greatest praise; In one bright view th' accomplish'd youth we see; These virtues all are thine—and thou art he.
From the CONNECTICUT COURANT. Messrs. Printers,
THE melancholy fate of Cape-Francois, with the situation of the other settlements in St. Domingo, must excite compassion in every human breast. The humane attentions of our brethren of the middle states to the suffering inhabitants who have been fortunate enough to escape with their lives, deserve, and I believe, receive the gratitude of the sufferers, and the applause of all good men.
As the American trade to the French Islands must receive a considerable check by the present troubles, it may not be amiss to show the importance of that trade to this country.—For this purpose I send you the following statement of the French West-India trade, copied from authentic returns.
In 1786, the imports from the Islands into France were from livres, dol.* St. Domingo, 131,481,000 or 26,296,200 Martinique, 23,958,000 4,791,600 Guadaloupe, 14,360,000 2,872,000 Cayenne, 919,000 183,000 Tobago, 4,113,000 822,600
Total, 174,831,000 34,965,400 Of these, Sugar, 174,222,000 lb. Coffee, 66,231,000 lb. Cotton, 7,595,000 lb.
The ships employed in this trade were 569—the tonnage of which was 162,311. In 1786 the Exports from France to these Islands were—to
livres dol. St. Domingo, 44,722,000 or 8,944,400 Martinique, 12,109,000 2,421,800 Guadaloupe, 6,274,000 1,254,800 Cayenne, 578,000 115,600 Tobago, 658,000 131,600
Total, 64,341,000 12,868,200 * At five livres the dollar. But if these returns are made in the livre of the West-Indies, which is about seven pence farthing sterling, it will reduce the number of dollars in all these estimates, a fraction more than one fourth. The author from whom these accounts are taken, has not informed us of the value of the livre he makes use of.
Impo. to Fran. from I's (livr.) 174,831,000 Exports from France to them, 64,341,000
Balance against France, 110,490,000 or 22,098,000 dollars.
August 30, 1784, under the ministry of the Marechal de Castries, foreigners were permitted, under certain regulations, to trade to the French Sugar Islands.
In consequence of this arret, the trade in 1786 was as follows.
IMPORTS into the ISLANDS. livres, dol. From the U. S., 13,065,000 or 2,615,000 En. dominions, 4,550,000 910,000 Spanish, 2,201,000 440,200 Dutch, 801,000 160,200 Portuguese, 152,000 30,400 Danish, 68,000 13,600 Swedish, 41,000 8,200
Total, 20,878,000 4,177,600
EXPORTS from the ISLANDS. To the Americans, 7,263,000 or 1,452,600 English, 1,259,000 251,800 Spaniards, 3,189,000 637,800 Dutch, 2,030,000 406,000 Swedes and Danes, 391,000 78,200
Total, 14,132,000 2,826,400 Imports into the Islands, 4,177,600 dollars. Exports from them, 2,826,400
Balance against the I's, 1,351,200
From these statements it appears that more than half the foreign trade with the French Islands is American, especially the import trade of the Islands, which is our export trade, and amounts to almost thirteenth twentieths of the whole. Dollars.
Total impo. into the I's from the U.S., 2,615,000 Total exports from them into U. S., 1,452,600
Balance in favor of the U. States, 1,162,400 Total of Ships and vessels in this trade.
IMPORTS into the ISLANDS. American vessels, 1392 tons, 105,995 All other foreign vessels, 710 tons, 28,014
2102 133,109 EXPORTS from Do. American vessels, 1127 tons, 85,403 All other foreign vessels, 968 tons, 32,396
2,095 117,799
From this statement, the immense importance of the West-India trade to the United States, will appear in a strong light. A clear balance of a million three hundred and fifty one thousand dollars, in favor of the United States, in the trade with the French Islands only, is a very considerable object.
This statement likewise exhibits the magnitude of the commerce of St. Domingo, compared with the other islands; it being nearly three fourths of all the trade of the French Islands. The island of Hispaniola is larger than the four New-England States; and one of the most fertile of all the West-India Islands. A part of it is under the dominion of Spain; but the largest and best portion belongs to the French, and is exceedingly productive. The consequences of the present insurrections and disputes in the island, cannot be predicted. Heaven is just, and perhaps the signal vengeance inflicted on the French settlements, is the reward of the infamous traffick in human bodies, and a prelude to further and more extensive depredations in the West-Indies.
***** French Language!
MR. BURGES presents his most respectful compliments to the Ladies of this metropolis, and proposes dedicating his Morning-School for their instruction in the ENGLISH and FRENCH Languages, at his Academy now opened at the Assembly-Room (if honored with their commands.)
As a deference due to their sex, he will not only wait on them with punctuality and assiduity in the mornings, from 6 to 8, but likewise receive them as visitors, and attend them in the evenings, at his Academy every day in the week, except Saturday; and being favored with the assistance of some French gentry he has the honor to wait on, he flatters himself he may give satisfaction.
Mr. BURGES wishes the junior class of his Academy, would attend at 6 o'clock, P. M. in future.
See a qui J'offre mon hommage A vos charmes déjà le Francois applaudit, Quand vous parlez son langage Il admire votre esprit. Le Sre. Noel. Portsmouth, July 15, 1793.
TO BE SOLD, CHEAP, By JAMES SHAPLEY, At STORE No. 5, Long-Wharf, TOBAGO RUM, (THIRD PROOF.)
THE subscriber being legally appointed by the Hon. Judge of Probate of Wills, &c. for the county of Strafford, guardian to JOSIAH WOODMAN, a minor, son of Edward Woodman, late of Lee, in the county aforesaid, deceased, and the said minor has since my guardianship behaved himself very unbecoming, and contracts debts without my knowledge—I therefore forbid any person or persons whatever trading with, or harboring the aforesaid JOSIAH WOODMAN, during his minority; otherwise they must answer for the same as the law directs.
JOSIAH DURGIN. Lee, July 30, 1793.
S U C C E S S. State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given, that so much of each original right of land in the township of Success, situate in the county of Grafton, in the State of New-Hampshire, viz.—The rights of Benjamin Mackay, George Jerry Osborne, Jonathan Shillebar, James Haslett, John Sherburne, jr. Thomas Bickford, Henry Bickford, Ephraim Ham, Daniel Hart, Joseph Walton, Joseph Walker, Samuel Ham, John Fernald, Samuel Briard, John Langdon, 3d, Stephen Weeks, Gerham Flagg, Humphrey Fernald, Joseph Moulton, jr. James Grouard, Theodore Moses, Daniel Lunt, John Mackay, Jacob Tilton, Titus Salter, jr. Richard Shortridge, John Beck, Robert Robinson, Mathew S. Parker, Henry Ruff, Thomas Hart, Paul March, John Plummer, Esq. and Samuel Hill, will be sold to the highest bidder, on the 23d day of September next ensuing, at 11 of the clock, in the morning, at the dwelling-house of Mr. John Greenleaf, Innholder in Portsmouth, in the county of Rockingham and State aforesaid, as will pay thirty-six shillings, L. M. on each of said rights, with incidental charges (if payment be not previously made;) which sum was voted by said proprietors, at their meeting on the 4th day of December, 1792, for the uses and purposes mentioned in said vote, and duly assessed and committed to me to collect, and duly notified for payment and still unpaid.
SAMUEL SHERBURNE, Collector. Portsmouth, July 24, 1793.
To the honorable the Justices of the Superior Court of Judicature, for the State of New-Hampshire, to be holden at Portsmouth, within and for the county of Rockingham on the fourth Tuesday of April, current:
HUMBLY complaining, sheweth, SUSANNAH OSBORNE, now resident of Portsmouth aforesaid, that about eighteen years ago she was married to THOMAS OSBORNE,—that the said THOMAS hath treated her in the most cruel manner, and hath absented himself from her for more than the space of three years last past, during which time he hath not been heard of by her, neither hath he made her any suitable provision for her support and maintenance, though in his power so to do, all which time he hath willingly so absented himself; wherefore she prays she may be divorced from the bonds of matrimony from the said THOMAS OSBORNE, agreeably to law in such case made and provided.
SUSANNAH OSBORNE. Portsmouth, April 20, 1793. Copy examined by NATH'L ADAMS, Clerk.
Rockingham ss. SUPERIOR COURT, April Term, 1793.
UPON reading the foregoing petition, Ordered, that the said SUSANNAH notify the said THOMAS to appear at the next Superior Court of Judicature, to be holden at Exeter, within and for the county of Rockingham, on the third Tuesday of September next, by publishing said petition and order thereon, three weeks successively, in the New-Hampshire Gazette, one month before said term, that he may then and there show cause, if any he hath, why the prayer thereof should not be granted.
Attest, N. ADAMS, Clerk.
All kinds of BLANKS, printed on good paper, as usual, may be had at this Office.
JUST PUBLISHED By J. MELCHER, AND FOR SALE AT HIS PRINTING-OFFICE, CORNER OF MARKET-STREET, PORTSMOUTH, PROPHECIES OF THE REVEREND CHRISTOPHER LOVE: AND HIS LAST WORDS ON THE SCAFFOLD, Who was Beheaded At TOWER-HILL, LONDON.
TO BE SOLD BY WILLIAMS & COFFIN, PHILADELPHIA FLOUR per barrel.—Also, a few barrels of excellent CYDER, and a few bushels of RYE.
Public Auction.
FOR sale, at public vendue, five shares in Amoskeag Bridge, on Thursday, the 16th day of August next, at Greenleaf's Tavern, Portsmouth, at 3 o'clock, P. M. for delinquency of taxes.
By order of the Directors. JAMES REID, Proprietors' Clerk. Goffstown, July 24, 1793.
TO BE SOLD—OR LET, And entered the 11th of Sept'er.
A SMALL (but very convenient) Dwelling HOUSE and LAND on which it stands, being 30 feet front and 39 back, with a good Well in the corner of the lot, pleasantly situated in Chapel-Street, now in the occupation of Mr. SCOTT, Merchant.—For further particulars enquire of the Printer hereof—or of Mr. Samuel Place, Dover.
Portsmouth, July 27, 1793.
WANTED ON HIRE, A steady, sober Man, by the year. For particulars apply to the Printer hereof.
E X E T E R. State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land, &c. in the town of Exeter, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1792, that unless they pay said taxes to me the subscriber, on or before the 26th day of August next, so much of said property as will pay the same, together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the house of Mr. Benjamin Lamson, innholder in said town, at 10 o'clock, A. M. on said day.
Town tax. Paris tax. s. d. l. s. d. Capt. Samuel Baker, 0 1 2 0 11 Lieut. David Colcord, 0 5 3 4 2 Levi Chapman, 0 3 7 2 10 Josiah Dudley, 0 0 7 0 5 Lieut. Joseph Fife, 0 1 0 0 9 Nabby Gilman, 0 2 6 2 0 Col. James Hackett, 0 9 4 7 5 Richard Jordon, 0 1 5 1 1 Thomas Moore, 0 1 3 1 0 Edward Mason, 0 1 0 0 9 Jotham Odiorne's heirs, 0 1 11 1 6 John Runlett, 0 0 4 0 3 Nathaniel Stevens, 0 1 3 1 0 Dudley Watson, 1 18 9 0 0 Jonathan Warner, 0 2 6 0 0 Theophilus Sanborn, 0 0 8 0 6
DUDLEY FOLSOM, Collector. Exeter, July 22, 1793.
E X E T E R. State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in the town of Exeter, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1791, that unless they pay said taxes to me the subscriber, on or before the 20th day of August next, so much of their land as will pay the same, together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the house of Mr. Benjamin Lamson, innholder in said town, at 10 o'clock, A. M. on said day.
Town tax. Paris tax. s. d. l. s. d. Levi Chapman, 2 7 0 4 3 William Durand, 0 10 0 0 11 Richard Jordan, 1 0 0 1 8 John Rundlett, 0 3 0 0 0 William Sibley's heirs, 0 8 0 0 5 Dudley Watson, 16 0 1 6 11 Capt. Jona. Tilton, 9 8 0 11 3 Major Dan. Tilton, 0 0 2 12 3 Nathaniel Stevens, 0 11 0 1 6 SHACKFORD BENNETT, Constable. Exeter, July 22, 1793.