The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1773-01-15 00:00:00

NEW-HAMPSHIRE AND HISTORICAL
CONTAINING the Freshest ADVICES
Friday Jan. 15, 1773.
THE
Vol. XVII.
GAZETTE, CHRONICLE, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
NO. 848 { Weeks since this Paper was first Publish'd. }
From the Boston Papers.
As the MEASLES are now very prevalent in most of our Country Towns, and the People in general ignorant of the nature of that Disorder and the Method of Cure, we freely publish the following Dissertation on the Treatment of it for public Benefit.
On the MEASLES.
THE Measles appeared about the same time with the Small-Pox, and are nearly related to that disease. They both came from the east, are both infectious, & seldom attack people more than once. — The disease itself when, properly managed, is seldom dangerous, but its consequences are often fatal.
CAUSE.—This disease, like the Small-Pox, proceeds from infection, and is more or less dangerous, according to the constitution of the patient, the season of the year, the climate, &c.
SYMPTOMS.—The Measles, like other fevers, are preceded by alternate fits of heat and cold, sickness and loss of appetite. The tongue is white, but generally moist. There is a short cough, a heaviness of the head and eyes, drowsiness, and running of the nose. Sometimes, indeed, the cough does not come before the eruption. The eye-lids frequently swell so as to occasion blindness. The patient generally complains of his throat; and vomiting or looseness often precedes the eruption. The stools in children are commonly greenish; they complain of an itching of the skin, and are remarkably peevish. Bleeding at the nose is common, both before and in the progress of the disease.
About the fourth day, small spots, resembling flea-bits, appear first upon the face, then upon the breast, and afterwards on the extremities: These may be distinguished from the Small-Pox, by their scarcely rising above the skin. The fever, cough & difficulty of breathing, instead of being removed by the eruption, as in the Small-Pox, are encreased, but the vomiting generally ceases.
About the sixth day, the Measles generally grow dry on the face, & afterwards upon the body, so that by the ninth day they entirely disappear. The fever, however, and difficulty of breathing, often continue, especially if the patient has been kept upon too hot a regimen. Petechiæ or purple spots, may likewise be occasioned by this error.
A violent looseness sometimes succeeds the Measles, in which case the patient's life is in eminent danger.
Such as die of the Measles generally expire about the ninth day, & are evidently carried off by an inflammation of the lungs.
The most favorable symptoms are, a moderate looseness, gentle sweats, and a plentiful discharge of urine.
When the eruption suddenly falls in, and the patient is seized with a delirium, he is in the greatest danger. If the Measles turn of a pale colour, it is an unfavorable symptom, as are also, great weakness, vomiting, restlessness, and difficulty of swallowing. — Purple, or black spots, appearing among the Measles, are very unfavorable. When a continual cough, with hoarseness, succeeds the disease, there is reason to suspect a consumption of the lungs.
Our business in this disease is to assist nature, if her efforts be too languid, in throwing out the morbid matter, by proper cordials; but when they are too violent, they
must be restrained by evacacarious, and cool diluting liquors, &c. We ought, likewise, to endeavour to appease the most urgent symptoms, as the cough, restlessness and difficulty of breathing.
REGIMEN.—The regimen in this disease should be the same kind with that recommended in the small-pox, viz. cooling and diluting. Acids however, do not answer so well here as in the small-pox, as they tend to exasperate the cough. Small beer, likewise, though a good drink in the small-pox, is here improper. The most suitable liquors are decoctions of liquorice, with marshmallow roots, and sarsaparilla, infusions of linseed, or of the flowers of elder with milk, clarified whey, barley water or such like. These, if the belly be bound, may be sweetened with honey; or, if that should disagree with the Stomach, a little manna may occasionally be added to them.
MEDICINE.—The measles being an inflammatory disease, without any critical discharge of matter, as in the small-pox, bleeding is commonly necessary, especially when the fever runs high, with difficulty of breathing, and great oppression of the breast.—But if the disease be of a mild kind, bleeding may be omitted.
Bathing the feet and legs in lukewarm water, both tends to abate the violence of the fever, and to promote the eruption.
The patient is often greatly relieved by vomiting. When there is a tendency this way, it ought not to be stopped, but encouraged, by drinking lukewarm water, or weak camomile tea.
When the cough is very troublesome, with dryness of the throat and difficulty of breathing, it will greatly relieve the patient if he holds his head over the steam of warm water, and draws the steam into his lungs. He may likewise lick a little spermaceti & sugar-candy pounded together; or take now and then a spoonful of the oil of sweet almonds, with sugar-candy dissolved in it; these will soften the throat, and relieve the tickling cough.
In case the Measles should suddenly disappear, the patient must be supported with wine and cordials. Blistering plaster must be applied to the extremities, and the body rubbed all over with flannels. Warm poultices may likewise be applied to the feet and palms of the hands. When purple or black spots appear, the patient's drink should be sharpened with spirits of vitriol; and, if the putrid symptoms run high, the Jesuits bark must be administered in the same manner as directed in the Small-pox.
Opiates are sometimes necessary, but should never be given except in case of extreme restlessness, a violent looseness, or when the cough is very troublesome. For children the syrup of popies is sufficient. A tea spoonful or two may be occasionally given, according to the patient's age, or violence of the symptom.
After the Measles are gone off, purging is absolutely necessary.
If a violent looseness succeeds the Measles it may be checked by taking, for some days, a gentle dose of rhubarb in the morning, and an opiate over night; but if these do not remove it, bleeding will seldom fail to have that effect.
Patients recovering after the Measles, should be very careful what they eat or
drink. Their food for some time should be light, and in small quantities, and their drink diluting, and rather of an opening nature, as butter-milk, whey, and such like. They are also to beware of exposing themselves to the cold air, lest a suffocating catarrh, an asthma, or a consumption should ensue.
Should a cough, with difficulty of breathing, and other symptoms of a consumption, remain after the Measles, we would recommend small quantities of blood to be frequently let at proper intervals, as the patient's strength and constitution will bear. He ought, likewise, to drink asses milk, to remove to a free air, if necessary, and to ride daily on horseback. He must keep close to a diet, consisting of milk and vegetables; and, lastly, if these do not succeed, let him remove to a warmer climate.
Province of NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
Quit-Rents.
THE Receiver of his Majesty's Quit-Rents gives Notice to the Proprietors of the Townships of Hinsdale, Charlestown, Westmorland, Keene and Swansey, who are yet considerably in Arrears for their Quit-Rents, that unless they are paid up, by the first of February next ensuing the Date hereof, a Process will be entered at the first Courts afterwards against each Delinquent. Notice is also given that the Quit-Rents are become due on the several Townships undermentioned which tis expected will be paid forthwith. viz. Lebanon, Hanover, Plainfield, Lime, ————— Canaan, Orford, Rumney, Lempster, Newport, Marlow, Campton, Relhan, Gunthwaite, Thornton, Saville, Cardigan, Bath, Lyman. And for the more easy Payment of the same, some person will be appointed in each Town to receive and give Discharges therefor.
JOHN HURD, Receiver Gen. Portsmouth, Dec. 25, 1772.
LATELY IMPORTED, and TO BE SOLD cheap for CASH, by
JACOB SHEAFE, junr.
At his STORE near the Long Wharf, a neat assortment of English GOODS, also, superfine and common Philadelphia FLOUR, Ship Bread, Bar Iron, Tyre ditto. Iron Shovels, Rum, Sugar, Tar. Turpentine, a few Quarter Cask of Lisbon, White, and Teneriffe WINES, &c.
Theodore Davis,
HEREBY INFORMS THE PUBLIC, That he has set up a STAGE, between this Town and Boston, and will set off, on Mondays, from here, and return on Fridays; and as he served his Apprenticeship in the Business, and being well acquainted with the best Houses of Entertainment &c. he hopes he shall meet with Encouragement, and as he always endeavou'd to give Satisfaction, and to oblige every Person, who committed any Business to his Care, he hopes the Continuance of their Favours, as he now sets out on his own Account, and the utmost Fidelity may be depended on, in any Affairs, which he may be intrusted with, which will be gratefully acknowledged.
N. B. The Price will be as usual.
Blanks of all sorts, &c. sold at the Printing Office.

L I F E endeared by A G E.
AGE that lessens the enjoyment of life increases our desire of living. Those dangers, which in the vigour of youth we had learned to despise, assume new terrors as we grow old. Our caution increasing as our years increase, fear becomes at last the prevailing passion of the mind; and the small remainder of life is taken up in useless efforts to keep off our end, or provide for a continued existence.
Strange contradiction in our nature, and to which even the wise are liable! If I should judge of that part of life which lies before me, by that which I have already seen, the prospect is hideous. Experience tells me, that my past enjoyments have brought no real felicity; and sensation assures me, that those I have felt are stronger than those which are to come. Yet experience and sensation in vain persuade; hope more powerful than either, dresses out the distant prospect in fancied beauty, some happiness in long perspective still beckons me to pursue, and, like a losing gamester, every new disappointment increases my ardour to continue the game.
Whence this increased love of life; which grows upon us with our years; whence comes it, that we thus make greater efforts to preserve our existence, at a period when it becomes scarce worth the keeping? Is it that nature, attentive to the preservation of mankind, increases our wishes to live, while she lessens our enjoyments; and as she robs the senses of every pleasure, equips imagination in the spoil? Life would be insupportable to an old man, who, loaded with infirmities, feared death no more than when in the vigour of manhood, the numberless calamities of decaying nature, and the consciousness of surviving every pleasure, would at once induce him with his own hand to terminate the scene of misery; but happily the contempt of death forsakes him at a time when it could only be prejudicial, and life acquires an imaginary value, in proportion as its real value is no more.
Our attachment to every object around us increases, in general from the length of our acquaintance with it. I would not chuse says a French philosopher, to see an old post pulled up, with which I had been long acquainted. A mind long habituated to a certain set of objects, insensibly becomes fond of seeing them: visits them from habit, and parts from them with reluctance: from hence proceed the avarice of the old in every kind of possession. They love the world and all that it produces; they love life and all its advantages; not because it gives them pleasure, but because, they have known it long.
Chinvang, the Chaste, ascending the throne of China, commanded that all who were unjustly detained in prison, during the preceding reigns, should be set free. Among the number who came to thank their deliverer on this occasion, there appeared a majestic old man, who, falling at the Emperor's feet, addressed him as follows: "Great father of China, behold a wretch, now 85 years old, who was shut up in a dungeon at the age of twenty-two. I was imprisoned, though a stranger to crime, or without being even confronted by my accusers. I have now lived in solitude and darkness for more than fifty years, and am grown familiar with distress. As yet dazzled with the splendour of that sun to which you have restored me, I have been wandering the streets to find some friend that would assist, or relieve, or remember me: but my friends, my family, and relations, are all dead, and I am forgotten. Permit me then, O Chinvang, to wear out the wretched remains of life in my former prison; the walls of my dungeon are to me more pleasing than the most splendid palace; I have not long to live, and shall be unhappy except I spend the rest of my days where my youth was passed; in that prison from whence you were pleased to release me."
The old man's passion for confinement is similar to that we all have for life. We are habituated to the prison, we look round with discontent, are displeased with the a-
bode, and yet the length of our captivity only encreases our fondness for the cell.—The trees we have planted, the houses we have built, or the posterity we have begotten all serve to bind us closer to earth, and embitter our parting. Life sues the young like a new acquaintance; the companion, as yet unexhausted, is at once instructive and amusing, 'tis company pleases, yet for all this, it is but little regarded. To us, who are declined in years, life appears like an old friend; its jests have been anticipated in former conversation; it has no new story to make us smile, no new improvement with which to surprize, yet still we love it; destitute of every agreement still we love it; husband the wasting treasure with encreased frugality, and feel all the poignancy of anguish in the fatal separation.
Messieurs Printers,
By giving the following Piece a Place in your useful Paper, you will much oblige your constant reader, C. M.
ON ILL NATURE.
Tantane animis coelestibus ira!
TO the shame of humanity, there are few faults more common in the world than that malevolence of temper, which we call ill nature.—Nothing shews a greater depravity of soul: and, accordingly, we find the very reverse to have been the distinguishing character of the great model of human perfection; who, when he appeared upon earth, was all benignity:—he went about doing good;—he commanded us to love our enemies, and he died for his own;—always in good humour, always amiable, he was never seen ruffled with anger, or murmuring with discontent;—he suffered with patience, and he rebuked with calmness.—But, gracious heaven! where are his followers?—Christians (for they assume the name) are daily seen, expressing, by their whole behaviour, a temper so monstrosely malignant, as we might really suppose could reside only in the breast of a devil.—There are numbers who scarce enjoy any other happiness in life, besides that accursed satisfaction, which arises in souls like theirs, from having given a full vent to their spleen, in slandering, in abusing and injuring their harmless neighbours. If one is praised in their hearing, their envy bursts to defame him: if it is in their power to serve an enemy or a rival, they exult in the opportunity of shewing their hatred by a refusal; and if any of their equals chance to rise above them in the world, they wait with impatience to see, and to triumph in their downfall. The instances that might be given of their base temper are numberless: every circumstance that occurs furnishes them with new matter for their venom.
Such, (I am sorry to say it) is the character of too many in the polite, and in the Christian world;—a character perfectly inconsistent either with religion or the dictates of reason.
No vice is attended with more disagreeable consequences, either to the person himself, or to his neighbours, than this of ill nature.—To many of these bad effects, I have myself been frequently a witness: in some of them I have had a share.—I am yet but young, and, so far as I know, have never been taxed for any degree of malignancy in my own disposition; but hitherto it has been my lot to live in a state (of all others the most unhappy) a state of dependence, wherein I have experienced a great variety of miseries, from the ill humours and peevishness of those with whom I have been connected; and although long habit has enabled me to bear a great deal, yet I am sometimes driven to almost dreadful extremes.—My tormentors, indeed, have generally been persons rather of peevish, fretting disposition, than really malevolent in their nature; and some of them have often discovered a real goodness of heart:—Would such persons only consider what demons they appear in their fits of discontent, they would certainly strive to overcome, or at least to conceal their spleen.—But I have insisted too long on my own suffering.—Allow me only to address a few
words to the ill natured in general; would it were as easy to reform them!
Tell me then, I pray you, O malignants! what are the pleasures you enjoy in making others miserable? What advantages do you reap? Are you the wiser, the richer, the more beloved and respected, for your malevolence? Are you not rather contemned, and hated, and frequently losers by indulging this cruel disposition?—In fact, you have no title to the esteem or services of others, since you make it your pleasure and your business to injure them.—But, in the name of wonder! how have you the arrogance to call yourselves Christians!—you scarce merit the name of men.—Go to your Bibles, and compare your conduct with his whom you profess to imitate; or compare it even with the doctrines of philosophy, and of reason, and say how far it agrees with either.—Consider, I beseech you, how despicable you appear, to all whom it is not in your power to hurt: believe me, a disarmed tyrant is justly and universally contemned. View, on the contrary, the veneration and regard with which the affable and benevolent are beheld by all; how sincerely they are loved, and how cheerfully they are served. A. P.
Printing-Office, Portsmouth, Dec. 24, 1772.
THE Subscriber intending to leave this Province, in a short Time, when the Co-partnership of Daniel and Robert Fowle, will be dissolved, earnestly desires all Persons who have Accounts open, in which he has any Connections, to settle the same, as soon as possible— up to the first of January will be most agreeable.—Those who neglect, & are Indebted, must expect, that without respect to Persons, the Accounts will be lodged with such Gentlemen as will create Trouble and needless Charges, but by no means ungenerous, after the repeated Solicitations for a Settlement, tho' very disagreeable to ROBERT L. FOWLE.
Stavers's Stage,
Now carries Passengers for One Dollar & Half.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the Subscriber's STAGE, will set out on Tuesday Mornings, from his House in Portsmouth, at Eight o'Clock precisely, for Boston, and return on Saturdays with the Mail; and intends to oblige his old Customers and others at the low rate of One Dollar and a Half, from hence to Boston, and doubts not as he was the first Promoter of a Stage Coach in this Province, the Public will think he ought to have the Preference, and not countenance others in taking Passengers the beginning of the Week, as he has always been ready to serve them on Monday, as well as Tuesdays, if their Business required it; and accordingly expended a large sum of Money to accommodate them. JOHN STAVERS.
TO BE SOLD,
A first Division Lot in the
Town of Middletown, in the County of Stratford, containing 100 Acres of exceeding fine Land; 12 of which was Plow'd, Harrow'd, and Sowed, last Fall, with Rye & Clover: The Conditions will be made vastly easy to any good Person who inclines to purchase and will go immediately on to live.
Enquire of THOMAS MARTIN.
Portsmouth, Jan. 5.
|| Sanborntown. ||
THIS is to give Notice to the Proprietors of SANBORNTOWN, that at their last Meeting they voted a Tax of four Dollars on each original Right or whole Share, therefore this is to desire said Proprietors to pay the above Tax to me the Subscriber at my Dwelling House in Epping, at or before the Ninth Day of February next, otherwise I shall notify their Lands for public Sale as the Law directs in such Cases.
SETH FOGG Collector,
Epping, January 5th 1773.
Wanted,
A Strong Healthy WOMAN with a good BREAST of MILK: Such a Person would hear of a Place by enquiring at the Printing Office. One from the Country will be preferred.

By the Lord Hyde Packet, arrived at New-York, in forty five days from Falmouth; and by Captain Cooper, arrived in the same place in forty days from London, we have the following advices, viz.
L O N D O N, November 1. WE hear that some very material changes in the government of America and the West-Indies are now in agitation.
Nov. 2. The King of Prussia has a demand of 700,000l. on Great Britain, and he has already declared that he expects immediate payment.
The exorbitant demand made by the King of Prussia upon our court, for damages sustained during the last war, it is said will not be complied with, though an invasion of our German Territories is threatened by Alexander of the North, and though the Emperor has intimated that he is ready to support him in his claim.
Nov. 5. Mr. Wilkes and Mr. Oliver had high words in the Council Chamber yesterday. Mr. Wilkes told Mr. Oliver that his conduct to Mr. Lewes had been exceedingly unbecoming him as a Sheriff and a Gentleman. Mr. Oliver asked Mr. Wilkes if he did not write things in the papers to set Mr. Lewes and him together? Mr. Wilkes answered, "Your own conduct will do that sufficiently. I shall give no account of any anonymous writings. Send to me as a Gentleman, you shall have an immediate and full answer, as becomes my honour."
Nov. 7. Yesterday Sir Jeffery Amherst was sworn in one of his Majesty's most Honorable Privy-Council, and took his seat at the board.
Nov. 9. By several private letters from the continent, a very extraordinary piece of intelligence has transpired, the substance of which is, that his Polish Majesty has declared to the Courts of Vienna, Petersburg, and Berlin, his resolution of resigning the Crown, in consequence of his not being able to support the monarchial dignity, & that the Court of Vienna has warmly espoused Charles Stewart, as a Candidate for the Polish diadem, which, it is probable, in case of a resignation, he will possess, as he is descended in a direct line from the celebrated John Sobiesky, who in the last century, at the head of an handful of Poles, defeated an army of 200,000 Ottomans, and made them sue for peace.
On Friday Captain Jones gave bail for the effectual transportation of himself pursuant to the condition of his Majesty's pardon, and was discharged out of Newgate.
It is reported that yesterday morning a certain Sheriff received a challenge from a popular Alderman.
They write from Berlin, that the King of Prussia was taken with such severe fits of the gout, the 26th of October, that his life was despaired of.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 23. On Thursday last departed this life in the 58th year of his age, Mr. DAVID HALL, of this city, printer. As a citizen he was greatly esteemed, in the character of an upright man, & a friend to the poor; — His abilities in his profession, his prudence and impartiality in the conduct of the press, renders his death a public loss.
Captain Casson from Lisbon, on his outward bound passage the 26th of September in lat. 38, long. 41, fell in with the hull of a brig, without any masts standing, and stripped of all her rigging, &c. on board of which he sent his boat, and found her very tight, with 130 barrels of oil on board, and in the cabin a cask nailed up the following advertisement, — "This is to certify any person or persons, that shall fall in with the wreck of this vessel, that she was the brig Abigail of Boston, belonging to Mr. John Webb, whereof Samuel Harding was master; she was wrecked on a whaling voyage, with 130 barrels of oil on board, and was dismasted the 31st of August in a hurricane of wind; and 5 days after met with William Hallock, in a schooner belonging to East Hampton on Long-Island, and put all her cargo on board of him; and left the wreck the 8th day of September, 1772: No dismember on board. If any person falls in with this wreck, I would have him save all he can, and mention it in the newspapers at the first port."
(Signed) Samuel Harding, late Master." Captain Bulkeley from Cadiz, informs, that the Moors were about to invest the town of Ceuta, on the Barbary coast, and it was expected they would be before that place in January next with 60,000 men.
Extract of a letter from London. "We have the pleasure to inform the public, that the Coun- tess of Huntingdon has purchased of the heirs of the late Rev. Mr. Whitefield, their rights in the Orphan House in Georgia, in order more effectually to secure to the British Colonies the advantages of that seminary, and render it a public blessing.---"
She has, to establish and superintend it, engaged proper persons, who are to sail in the Georgia Packet for that place, and are expected to arrive there almost as soon as this Account"
NEW-YORK, Jan. 4. His Excellency Governor Tryon, last New-Year's Day, was pleased to present a compleat Set of rich and elegant Hangings of Crimson Damask for the Pulpit, Reading Desk and Com- munion Table; a Folio Bible and several Folio Prayer Books, with a full service of Plate, &c. for the administration of the Lord's Supper, for the use and service of St. George's Chapel.
Several Letters from London say, that the Ministry are determined to use their Influence in Parliament for a Repeal of the Act imposing a Duty on all Teas Exported to the Colonies from Great-Britain.
General Monckton is to have the Command of the Forces in the East-Indies. Extract of a Letter from a Gentleman of Character in London, per the last Packet.
"I hear your Militia are put on a good Footing, and that you are Marching and Countermarching: It is well; but I'm most desirous you should Fortify; as sure as you live, if you do not, the Town will be burnt about your Ears in the next War, and in a couple of Years, or sooner, such an Event is like to take Place."
N E W P O R T, January 4, 1773. The weather has been remarkably warm the month past, even so that a rose bush in a gentleman's garden in this town, was observed last week to put forth several buds, and two sprouts near three inches long; the oldest person among us scarcely remem- bers the like.
We hear Lord Dartmouth, secretary of state for the American department, in a letter concerning the Gaspée Schooner has assured his Honor our Governor, that his Majesty is determined to punish, in the severest manner, any of his servants who shall obstruct the legal trade, or in any wise insult and abuse any of his subjects of this colony; so that 'tis hop'd there will be no more unnecessary firing on and terrifying the poor, honest, in- dustrious woodmen, and others who bring the necessaries of life to this market; nor any more knocking down boatmen, throwing their wood overboard, and cutting down the best wood on private gentlemen's estates; of which almost numberless have been the complaints within eighteen months past; though, in justice to the present commanders here, we can say we have heard of scarce any against them.
Our harbour is now guarded by the Mercury of 24 guns, the Arethusa of 36, the Lizard of 28, the Swan of 20 guns, and the Halifax Schooner.
B O S T O N, January 7, 1773. On the 19th of October a Court of Enquiry was held on board the Centaur Man of War at Portsmouth on Lieut. Duddingston, on account of the Loss of the Gaspée Schooner; when, on full Enquiry, the Lieutenant was acquitted with Honor.
This Morning about One o'Clock a Fire broke out in the Tan-House of Mr. Winter Cales in Horn Lane, it is supposed it had been enkindling the whole Night inside as the Building was wholly in Flames when discovered: The Inha- bitants were very expeditious in attending with Engines and Buckets, but their being Want of Water at first, the Fire communicated to several other Buildings at the lower End of Milk Street, which were consumed, as also the Dwelling- House of Jeremy Russel, and the Shop and the Shop & Dwelling House of Mr. Parker, Wheel- wright. The Loss to Mr. Cales is very great, a great Quantity of Stock of Leather, Bark, &c. were destroyed.
MONDAY, January 11. It must afford the greatest pleasure to the friends of liberty and the constitution to perceive the country so thoroughly awak- ened to a sense of their danger that almost every town have or are about calling meetings to express their sentiments at this alarming crisis:—that union and good sense, patriotism and spi- rit already manifested in all parts of this Province, must under Providence work out our political salvation, in spite of all the efforts of our enemies to prevent it.
Wednesday last Mr. William Stone, Lighterman took up the body of another man on the Graves, supposed to be drown- ed out of Capt. Pike's vessel, mentioned to be cast away in our last which was inter'd last Thursday. He also took up a quan- tity of Junk which the owners may have allowing customary salvage.
Yesterday afternoon arrived Capt. Jarvis in the ship Hannah from London:—He left the Downs about 7 weeks ago, and last Thursday put into the Vineyard, from whence a passenger on board took the letters, &c. to bring up by land.
Capt. Welchman in a Snow from this place sailed about the same time with Capt. Jarvis. We hear from Newport Rhode-Island, that the Honorable Daniel Horsmanden Esq; Chief Justice of New-York, with his Lady, and the Hon. Frederick Smith, Esq; Chief Justice of New-Jersey, arrived there Thursday se'nnight in a Sloop from New-York; and on Saturday evening following the Honorable Peter Oliver, Esq; Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Bay, and the Hon. Robert Auchmuty, Esq; Judge of the Court of Ad- miralty throughout New-England, came thither by Land:— Which four Gentlemen, are appointed by the King, to join his Honor Governor Wanton, of the Colony of Rhode-Island to make Enquiry into the Circumstances of plundering and burning his Majesty's Schooner Gaspée on the 10th of June last. And, according to their Commission, they opened the said Court of enquiry there on Tuesday last, and attended the ser- vice thereof from Day to Day without any Interruption or Mo- lestation; though what will be the Conclusion of the whole Matter, we can't pretend to say, but must leave it to Time to unwrap.
One of the Rhode-Island Com-----s writes to his brother in this town, that they are received there with great respect, and they are like to make that their winter quarters.---Others write that their motions are carefully watched, and that it is not probable they will be suffered to execute a commission so in- consistent with their own and Magna Charta. Their Assem- bly sits this day, and it is hop'd they will not be induced by complaisant or rather artful behaviour to make any succession or submission whereby a precedent shall be introduced and estab- lished, which may be fatal to the freedom of their own con- stitution and the liberties of America.
PORTSMOUTH, January 15.
This EVENING
For the Benefit of Mrs. Foster, The Exhibitions will go on at the Academy-House, in Pitt-Street, The Advertisement came too late for further Particulars. Tickets as usual.
Messrs FOWLES, You are desired to give the following Extract from a late annual Register, a Place in your next Paper.
DR. ROTHERAM, in a Philosophical Enquiry into the Nature and Properties of WATER, lately publish'd, lays, "one Effect of SNOW, which I can assure my Readers of is, that a certain Quantity of it, taken up fresh from the Ground, and mixed in a flour PUDDING, will supply the Place of EGGS, and make it equally light; the Quantity allotted is two table Spoonfuls instead of one Egg; and if this Proportion be much exceeded, the Pudding will not adhere together, but will fall to Pieces in boiling. I assert this from the Experience of my own Family; and any one who chooses to try it, will find it to be Fact."
SCARBOROUGH, Dec. 28, 1772. LAST Monday Morning a sorrowful Accident happened at the House of Mr. William Hurmun, in this Town, as three of his Neighbours, viz. John Stone, Paul Thompson, and John Waterhouse, were about to assist him in Butchering a large Hog: Waterhouse with an Ax went into the Pen and struck the Hog on the Head, in order to stund him; Thomp- son enter'd with a Knife in order to stick the Hog, but the stroke not being effectual, the Hog rose, ran between Thomp- son's Legs, and brought him up against one corner of the Pen, where in order to secure himself, he plac'd his Arm and Hand in which he held the Knife over the side of the Pen, Stone unfortunately came up to the Place, and reaching over to seize the Hog by the Brusses, received the Knife into his Bowels, which Wound put a Period to his Life in less than 48 Hours, to the inexpressible Grief and Loss of his Poor Widow and 7 small Children: Thus died a very Honest, Industrious Mem- ber of Society; who in the anguish of Death, as it were wiped the Tears from the Eyes of his Neighbour that held the fa- tal Knife.
UNDERSTANDING that a Report pre- vails at Boston that my Brigt. Two Brothers, James Shores, late Master, lately Wreck'd on Cape-Cod, was an old Vessel, fully insured, and cast-away with Design, I have thought it incumbent on me in or- der to undeceive the Publick, to make the following Affidavit. JOHN EVANS.
Province of New-Hampshire, Rockingham, ss. January 13th, 1773. THEN personally appear'd before me John Evans, of Portsmouth, in the Province of New-Hampshire, Merchant, who made Oath on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God, that he was sole Owner of the Brigantine Two Brothers, James Shores, late Master, lately Wreck'd on Cape-Cod, and that he the said John Evans, had not, nor hath the Value of One Farthing, insur'd on said Brigantine Two Brothers, or her Cargo, although the Cost of the latter was above Eight Hundred Pounds Lawful Money, when She sail'd from Portsmouth, on her late Voyage. Sworn before DANIEL PEIRCE, Jus. Pac.
Custom-House, Piscataqua, Jan. 14, 1772. Inward-Entries FROM.
  Sloop Merrimac, Philemon Cassaday, St. Croix.   Brig Sucess, Nathaniel Newman, St. Lucas.   Brig Hooper, William Stickney, Ditto.   Outward Bound,   Ship Abigail, Nathaniel Dowie, Great Britain.   Schooner Return, James Guppy, West-Indies.   Brig Hannah, William Trefethern, Ditto.   Cleared for Departure,   Schooner Charlotte, Samuel Bragdon, Rhode-Island.   Schooner William, Abraham Parsons, West-Indies.   Schooner Speedwell, Zachaeus Jones, Ditto.   Ship Herbert, Thomas Chivers, Ditto.   Ship St. John, Magnus Henderson, Ditto.   Ship Nestor, George Rolland, Ditto.   Sloop Susanna Enoch Coffin, Ditto.   Brig Dartmouth, Mark Dennett, Ditto.   Brig Hooper, William Stickney, Ditto.   Brig Charming Molly, Ebenezer Recker, Ditto.   Brig Charming Peggy Henry Nutter, Falmouth.   Brig Nancy, John Smith, LONDON. 
JUST IMPORTED FROM Philadelphia,
Choice new FLOUR, Bread, &c
A few half Barrels of the best Superfine FLOUR, TO BE SOLD By GILLAM BUTLER,
At his Store near Liberty Bridge. ALL Persons Indebted to the said Butler, (tho' ever so small the Sum) would greatly oblige him, if they'd make immediate Payment.
TO BE SOLD BY William and Joseph Whipple, A Few Hogheads of choice Grenada RUM, Also a few Barrels of SUGAR,

[Monadnock No. 5.]
WHEREAS the Proprietors of Monadnock, No. 5, in the Province of New Hampshire, have been legally notified to pay sundry Assessments, levied on each Proprietor's Right or Lots to me the Subscriber, and a Number of the Proprietors or Owners of Lots are yet delinquent either in the Whole or Part. These are therefore to notify said delinquent Proprietors or Owners of Lots that there will be sold at public Vendue, on Thursday the fourth Day of February next at the House of Lieut. Benjamin Tucker, Innholder in said Township, at ten o'clock forenoon, so much of each delinquent's Right or Lots as shall be sufficient to pay the Sum that remains due, with all incidental Charges unless payment be made before the Time mentioned. The Number of Delinquents Lots are as follows with the Sums due on each Lot,
   No. in the Range l. s. d.    No. 12 in the 3d Range 0 10 6  No. 2 in the 8th Range 0 16 1  No. 10 in the 4th Range 0 4 6  No. 3 in the 4th Range 0 2 1  No. 5 in the 3d Range 0 2 1  No. 10 in the 7th Range 0 15 0  No. 2 in the 4th Range 0 19 2  No. 3 in the 6th Range 0 1 0  No. 2 in the 5th Range 0 2 1  No. 12 in the 5th Range 0 10 11  No. 13 in the 4th Range 0 8 2  No. 8 in the 4th Range 0 18 11  No. 7 in the 1st Range 0 10 8  No. 4 in the 8th Range 0 5 3  No. 9 in the 1st Range 0 19 3  No. 13 in the 5th Range 0 16 3  No. 3 in the 1st Range 0 10 5  No. 12 in the 7th Range 0 6 2  No. 3 in the 2d Range 0 2 1  No. 1 in the 8th Range 1 0 9  No. 5 in the 2d Range 0 8 4  No. 13 in the 1st Range 0 2 0  No. 1 in the 3d Range 0 19 10 2  No. 9 in the 4th Range 0 6 3  No. 3 in the 5th Range 0 8 5  No. 4 in the 4th Range 0 2 1  No. 6 in the 3d Range 0 2 1  No. 1 in the 5th Range 0 12 3  No. 1 in the 4th Range 1 2 0  No. 4 in the 6th Range 0 2 1  No. 2 in the 2d Range 0 10 5  No. 6 in the 2d Range 0 10 11  No. 5 in the 8th Range 0 1 7  No. 1 in the 2d Range 0 8 6  No. 13 in the 7th Range 0 7 0  No. 7 in the 2d Range 0 18 7  No. 9 in the 2d Range 0 19 3  No. 5 in the 6th Range 0 10 10  No. 6 in the 6th Range 0 9 3  No. 11 in the 4th Range 0 2 1  No. 9 in the 6th Range 0 19 1  No. 13 in the 3d Range 0 6 11  No. 12 in the 1st Range 0 15 9  No. 11 in the 2d Range 0 19 6  No. 13 in the 6th Range 0 2 1  No. 10 in the 2d Range 0 11 2  No. 12 in the 4th Range 0 10 6  No. 9 in the 3d Range 0 10 5  No. 8 in the 3d Range 0 8 9  No. 10 in the 5th Range 0 2 1  
   No. l. s. d. No. l. s. d.    No. 52 0 18 10 No. 93 0 2 1  No. 14 0 10 7 No. 62 0 8 9  No. 82 0 2 1 No. 23 0 10 6  No. 97 0 18 7 No. 40 0 1 7  No. 54 0 5 4 No. 69 0 9 1  No. 2 0 9 3 No. 56 0 8 4  No. 90 0 16 9 No. 78 0 11 1  No. 36 0 2 10 No. 95 0 10 5  No. 80 0 8 6 No. 34 0 10 5  No. 53 0 16 9 No. 30 0 2 1  No. 15 0 10 7 No. 44 0 2 1  No. 37 0 19 3 No. 24 0 10 6  No. 98 0 19 7 No. 81 0 11 5  No. 100 0 8 2 No. 48 0 2 1  No. 3 0 11 4 No. 10 0 19 1  No. 9 0 18 7 No. 72 0 10 5  No. 71 0 8 4 No. 104 0 1 0  No. 75 0 9 1 No. 92 0 8 5  No. 49 0 10 7 No. 35 0 10 10  No. 102 0 8 10 No. 58 0 10 7  No. 83 0 18 10 No. 73 0 18 7  No. 41 0 11 5 No. 84 0 19 3  No. 65 0 9 3 No. 91 0 15 7  No. 70 0 9 11 No. 67 0 10 5  No. 46 0 10 6 No. 42 0 8 9  No. 85 0 1 7 No. 89 0 10 5  
JAMES BREWER, Collector. Monadnock No. 5 Dec. 20. 1772.
Wanted 12 good COWS, to put on a FARM: Enquire of the Printers.
Province of New Hampshire. WHEREAS the Proprietors of the Township of WENTWORTH, have been legally notified to pay sundry sums of Money, legally assessed on each Proprietor's Right or Lots of Land in said Township, to me the Subscriber, and several of the Proprietors being yet delinquent in the whole or part— These are therefore to Notify such Persons, that so much of each delinquent Proprietors Lands will be exposed to sale, at public Vendue, at the House of James French, Innholder in Southampton, on Monday the 22d of February next, at one of the Clock Afternoon, to pay said Taxes with incidental Charges. The delinquent Proprietors Names are as follows, with the sums due.
   Name £. s. Name £. s.    John Hook, Esq; 2 8 Dier Hook 2 8  Jacob Stevens 2 8 Thomas True 2 8  Col. Atkinson 4 19 Jacob Currier 2 8  Joseph Greeley 4 19 Jonathan Page 2 8  Samuel Page jr. 2 8 Nathaniel Greeley 4 19  Ebenezer Page 2 8 Joseph Page 2 8  David Evans 4 19 Nathaniel Currier 2 8  Jonathan Evans 2 8 Col. Stevens 2 8  Jonathan Greeley Esq; 8 8 Ebenezer Stevens jr. 2 8  John Page 2 8 Thomas Martin 2 8  Theophilus Stevens 3 19 Abel Dyer 4 19  Daniel Fogg 2 8 Jeremiah Fogg 2 8  Samuel Page 2 8 Lemuel Stevens 2 8  John Page Esq; 2 8    Salisbury, Jan. 5. 1773. JOHN PAGE, Coll.
[New Durham.]
WHEREAS more than a sixteenth Part of the Proprietors of the Township of NEW DURHAM in the County of Rockingham, in the Province of New Hampshire, have applied to us the Subscribers to call a Meeting of the said Proprietors, to consider what is necessary to be done, relative to certain Votes passed, and measures planned, and partly Pursued by the Inhabitants of said Town, towards the Settlement of a Minister among them; and to determine what method will be best for the Propriety to enter upon, in order to promote and facilitate his Settlement, and Maintenance, that it may not be burdensome to the Inhabitants. THIS is therefore to Notify the Proprietors aforesaid, to meet at the House of Mr. John Griffin, Innholder in Durham, in the County and Province aforesaid, on Thursday the 31st Day of January next ensuing, at 11 of the Clock in the Forenoon. Then and there to pass any Vote or Votes relative to said Affair they shall think proper; And likewise to vote upon any other Matters which may then be laid before them.
Durham, December 15th, 1772. Daniel Rogers, Thomas Tash, } Committe Valentine Mather, }  NOTICE is hereby given, once more, to the delinquent Proprietors of NEW DURHAM that there has been one TAX of Two Dollars, and another Tax of Two Dollars and half assessed on each original Right or Share of Land in said Township, and appointed me the Subscriber Collector, part of which Taxes some have already paid: Those who are still Delinquent, unless they bring said Tax to the Subscriber within three Weeks from the Date hereof, their Rights will be advertised for Sale as the Law directs, in the New Hampshire-Gazette. Valentine Mather, Esq; Collector. Durham, December 30, 1772.
ALL PERSONS indebted to the Town of Portsmouth, are earnestly requested to pay their Respective Balances immediately to the Select Men of said Town. And all Persons that have any legal Demands on said Town are desired to bring in their Claims to said Select Men in Order for Settlement.
ALL Persons having Accounts remaining unsettled with the Estate of Samuel Demerit, late of Durham, Gentleman, deceased, are desired to settle the same speedily with Eben. Demerit of Madbury, Administrator on said Estate, in order for him to settle with the Heirs of said Estate.
William Pearne,
DESIREs all Persons that have accounts open with him, that they would send or bring them in to him as soon as possible; and all Persons that have Accounts open with the Estate of Mr. Joseph Buss, deceased, are desired to bring them in to the aforesaid William Pearne, that they may be settled. The said PEARNE, has a good assortment of English Goods, which he will sell cheap for Cash, or Fish, or for Lumber of different kinds, which he will want to be delivered next Summer. Portsmouth, Jan'y. 5th, 1773.
WHEREAS there has been great Neglect on the Part of the Owners of sundry Vessels in the Plantations in not complying with the Act of the 7th and 8th WILLIAM 3d. C. 22, and more particularly the 21st Sect. wherein it is enacted, "That no Ship's Name registered shall be afterwards changed without registering such Ship de novo , which is required to be done upon any Transfer of Property to another Port, and delivering up the former Certificate to be cancelled, and in Case there be any Alteration of Property in the same Port, by the Sale of one or more Shares in any Ship after registering thereof, such Sale shall always be acknowledged by Indorsement on the Certificate of the Register, before two Witnesses, in Order to prove that the entire Property in such Ship remains to some of the Subjects of Great-Britain, if any Dispute arises concerning the same."
AND WHEREAS all Vessels trading at or belonging to any Port in America, the Owners or Masters of which shall omit to comply with the Directions given in the said Act, will be liable to the same Prosecutions and Penalties as if such Vessels were owned entirely by Foreigners:
The Commissioners of his Majesty's Customs therefore give this Notice, that all Persons concerned may govern themselves accordingly. By Order of the Commissioners, SAM'L MATHER, pr. Secretary. Custom-House, Boston, 15th December, 1772.
[Meredith,]
NOTICE is hereby given to each and every Proprietor, Grantee of the Township of Meredith, in the County of Rockingham, and Province of New Hampshire, that there is a TAX or an Assessment of Twenty One Shillings, lawful Money, made on each and every of said original Rights or shares of Land in said Township, and the said Assessment is made on the several Lots, in said Rights, as followeth, viz. The first Division 7s. 8d. Second Division 7s. 8d, and the Third Division 6s. 4d; — and the Owners of such said Lot or Lots, are hereby notified, to pay their several respective Sums to Ebenezer Smith of said Meredith, Collector for said Proprietors, at or before the 10th of April next ensuing, or those that are delinquent therein, will have so much of their Lots advertised for sale, at public Vendue, as will pay said Sums with all incidental Charges. Ebenezer Smith, Collector. Meredith, December 24th, 1772.
N. B. If the Owner or Owners, of the above said Lands, shall incline to leave the Tax for any of said Lots or Rights, with Col. Samuel Folsom, Innholder in Exeter, within one Month from the above Date, at which Place I shall endeavour to call to receive any such Sum, and give a proper discharge for what I shall so receive. per E. Smith.
TO BE SOLD, on easy Terms, Five Hundred Acres of good LAND in Wolfeborough, pleasantly situated on Winipisekee Pond, one half of which is fenced by Water, whereon is a good House, Barn and Corn House; a good Well within 2 Rod of the House, 35 Acres of clear'd Land, chiefly into Grass, seven Acres of which is sowed with Rye, 25 Acres of sell'd Trees, most of which have been down 2 Years, 5 Acres of which is well into Pasturing, also, a young Orchard of upwards of a hundred Apple Trees. — For further Particulars enquire of John Fings who lives on the Premises, or Gershon Fling at Port.
LANDS in NEW-BOSTON
TO BE SOLD immediately, 1 Lot No. 121, Containing 150 Acres. 1 64, 150 Acres. 1 94, 150 Acres. 1 20, 100 Acres. 1 22, 50 Acres. Jan. 8. Enquire of JOHN SPARHAWK.
TO BE SOLD A HOUSE of one Story high, with four Rooms on the Floor, well finished, with one Quarter of an Acre of Land, lying in Pepperhillborough, now in the Occupation of Samuel Cutts, jr. very convenient for a Trader or Tradesman. — Inquire of Deacon Thomas Cutts of Kittery.