New-Hampshire gazette, or, State journal and general advertiser (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1780-09-02 00:00:00

THE NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE; or STATE JOURNAL, and GENERAL ADVERTISER.
[ Vol. XXIV. ]
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1780.
[ No. 1245. ]
THE SCOURGE, No. VIII.
LONDON, Saturday, March 18, 1780.
To the FREEHOLDERS, BURGESSES, and ELECTORS of GREAT-BRITAIN.
FRIENDS and FELLOW SUBJECTS,
LET me conjure you by all you hold dear and valuable on earth, to take a retrospective view of the present inglorious and ruinous reign (the infamy of it I need not mention, you all know it, you all feel it, it is in your memories) a reign of TYRANNY, INJUSTICE and BLOOD; a reign that will forever render, without one bright ray of glory, the page of English history wherein it is mentioned, black, dismal, and gloomy; a reign that will be read by future generations with horror and detestation. I repeat it again, let me conjure you to do this seriously and attentively and you will then feel the injuries you have, and do suffer, as I feel them, and as every Englishman ought to feel them; you will then be fired with the same spirit of resentment against the authors of them as I am, and boldly stand forth, with a firm and determined resolution not only to punish the traitors however exalted, but to rescue your country from its now impending ruin. It is in your power, and you only can save it.
Your petitions will avail nothing, unless you carry into execution with a spirit that may do honor to your names, and to Englishmen, the plan of your committees of ASSOCIATIONS; it is that which gives them weight, force, vigour, and consequence, and strikes a tenfold terror into the guilty souls of wicked ministers, and their adherents. Remember, that 'till you effected petitions to parliament, and remonstrances to the throne, were treated with contempt and insult, and you was made the jest and mockery of the KING, and his corrupt servile tools and slaves; he held out to you the haughty language of an imperial tyrant, trampling on the freedom of mankind and the sacred laws of justice and humanity; you were called the mob--the canaille--the dregs of the people--and scum of the earth.--Can ye, O! my countrymen, forget this treatment, and quietly submit to it from a set of base mercenaries, who are grown rich and powerful by plundering you of your property, and who want to make you slaves. Will ye not, O! Britons, enforce your petitions, and insist upon the prayer of them being complied with, even at the hazard of your lives, with the sword, should cruel necessity compel it; if this is not done and speedily, farewell to the liberties of this country.--It now depends upon yourselves, whether you will deserve those vile reproachful names or not; shew that you are men, and you will be treated like men, even by the present pious just and graceful king.
IRELAND which has laboured for years, under a heavy weight of English tyranny and oppression, and all the restraints that could be laid on her trade, to keep the people poor and miserable, was denied even the shadow of relief; and some state villain or public traitor (who the people there never knew or saw,) was almost every month added to the pension list of that kingdom; it was of no use to remonstrate or complain, redress could not be obtained, oppression succeeded oppression, and while the people tamely bore those burdens, the king and his ministers were determined to load them with more; but the miseries of the Irish people had no sooner roused them to a sense of their wrongs, and they saw that nothing but ARMS could save them from ruin, and the baneful corruption of an English court; then the tyrant and his minions were so terrified (as they always will be) at the brave and manly spirit of freedom, that they readily granted, thro' fear, what justice could never obtain. And will you, my fellow-countrymen, be the last, nay neglect, to assert your freedom, and your rights, destroy the all grasping power of an arbitrary court, and restore the independency of a British parliament?
Consider, that you are the first principles of wealth and power; from your industry, labour and toil, arises all that can be called riches. The king, the nobility, the gentry, the clergy, and all officers civil, naval, and military, are supported in luxury and grandeur, at your expence, and by the sweat of your brow. Assert then your own dignity and consequence in the state,
shew that you are FREEMEN, and not foreign saleable slaves: You have the sole power over your own purses, and you have an undoubted right to call those to account who rob or oppress you--you are now reduced almost to beggary and bondage, by the enormity of taxes partially and oppressively levied by a vile and infamous ministry, and by these miscreant wretches whom you have raised as your guardians and protectors, to the sacred and important office of senators. These very men, and the prostituted lords in administration already dread your meetings and associations, conscious it will prove their overthrow, and the salvation of this country; and therefore they have the impudence to call the legality of them in question, as if you had no right to save yourselves; they would make you believe it is a great crime to destroy the influence of the crown and to obtain a free parliament; and that it is treason to appeal to any other law, than their will, and all this is, because they want to secure themselves in power, and to perpetuate your misery and bondage. The prostitute bench of bishops, and more than two thirds of the clergy are bought over to the side of the court, they are advocates for slavery, and shedding human blood. The pulpit from one corner of the kingdom to the other, as in the time of Charles the First, and James the Second, resounds with nothing but blasphemy and nonsense, and the infernal doctrines of passive obedience and non-resistance, in order to make you the tame slaves of a despotic court, and in compliance with the wishes of a Rigby, a Sandwich, a Weymouth, and a North, &c. who instead of being fit for ministers in a free state in a free country, are only fit to disgrace a bawdy-house.
Next to your gratitude to Heaven, take care, my fellow countrymen, that you are not wanting to yourselves, at this awful and important moment, in prudence, virtue, courage and resolution, you must be your own friends, you know who are your enemies, and their designs, the king, his ministers, and an execrable majority of your representatives. How modestly they solicited legislative power, how mildly and justly they have exercised it, how strictly they kept their promises, how scrupulously they have adhered to the laws of justice and humanity, asserted your freedom and preserved your property, needs no explanation, you all know it, you all feel it. Reject then with scorn and indignation all those traitorous partridges, who have basely betrayed their trust.--Suffer no man to be so much as a candidate, who has given up, or attempted to give up, your birth-rights, and trucked away your liberties and your property, for an equivalent to themselves, at the shrine of royal, or ministerial despotism. No, treat all such wherever they shew themselves, with abhorrence, as the common enemies of mankind, and as the pests and felons of society. You are freemen, and men of reason and spirit; awaken your spirit, exert your reason, and assert your freedom and your rights, enter into this solemn engagement, viz.
WE the Freeholders, Burgesses, and Electors of Great Britain, having for many years past seen with pain, and submitted with patience, which we now see criminal, to the lawless impositions of corrupt senators, ambitious cruel and wicked ministers; and to the arbitrary designs of a despotic court; and finding our freedom invaded; our liberties infringed; our property unjustly taken from us; taxes unnecessarily increased; decay of trade and manufactures; and the glory and honor of our country almost irrevocably lost. Declare, and solemnly engage, that we will by all lawful means, endeavour to procure and convene, a FREE and INDEPENDENT PARLIAMENT; and that we will protect the members of it at the expence of our BLOOD. And we do also further engage, that whoever shall presume to oppose us, or by any means or artifice, impose upon us, any man who will not subscribe to the following oath or conditions; that we will not suffer him or them to sit as members of the British parliament; and that we will prosecute the instruments of their election, as the betrayers of our rights, and subverters of the fundamental laws of the English nation.
OATH OR CONDITIONS.
I hereby solemnly declare, that I am chosen a member of the House of Commons: I will never vote for, nor consent to any supplies being granted to
the crown, till such time as a proper and just account is given in to parliament of the expenditure of the public money for six years past at least; nor till the authors of its mismanagement, or embezzlement, if any such should appear, are brought to condign punishment. I will use my utmost endeavours, to investigate the cause and consequences of the unnatural war with America; and by every means in my power consistent with the honor of my country, endeavor to bring about a reconciliation, and pursue even to death and destruction, the instruments of that horrid scene of cruelty and blood.--I will move, or strenuously support any motion that may be made for obtaining triennial parliaments.--I will endeavor to obtain an act of parliament, for a more equal representation of the people, by taking away the charters from the rotten boroughs in Cornwall, Wiltshire, and other places (immediately under the influence of the crown or its creatures;) the mere links of corruption, where the liberties and properties of Englishmen are bought and sold.--I will endeavor to procure an act of parliament, to prevent placemen, pensioners and contractors from sitting in the house of commons, under any conditions whatsoever.--I will use every means in my power to check the fatal influence and power of the crown, in a wanton lavish of the public money by granting useless and unmerited pensions, to worthless partridges and traitors, for betraying their country.--I will endeavor to restore to the people, the one hundred thousand a year, most unnecessarily, shamefully and traitorously granted to the king by a profligate ministry, and a purchased majority of venal senators, even in the extremity of distress and national ruin.
Unless, my fellow countrymen, you oblige every candidate, who shall offer himself to your choice, to subscribe to the above, or to similar conditions, you are lost forever; the liberties of Englishmen will not be worth contending for at the end of seven years more, should another house of commons equally as corrupt as the present, be procured, who will readily support all the mad, wild, wicked and ruinous measures of his, would be despotic majesty, and his ministers. Make use then, O! Britons, of this glorious opportunity, this precious day of liberty, to recover once more your invaluable privileges, and to obtain a relief from those burdens and oppressions, under which we groan; and under which, if you act otherwise, you and the whole kingdom must sink, never to rise again!
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THE SCOURGE, No. IX.
LONDON, Saturday March 25, 1780. To the PETITIONERS and ASSOCIATORS of the different Counties in ENGLAND.
GENTLEMEN, I t must afford some comfort to every true lover of his country, to see the noble spirit that is gone forth among the free-holders, and the undaunted manner in which they despise the threats, and spurn the insinuations and base offers, of the wretched hirelings and worthless pensioners, of an abandoned and profligate court and ministry. Such a spirit of patriotism hath more than once rescued this country from slavery and despotism; 'tis this only that can check the ungrateful ambition of kings, and bridle the hasty strides of a corrupt mean servile ministry. This properly, and effectually exerted, will teach George the third, that to be a king of England, is to be a king of a free people, and of necessity to consult and pursue their welfare and happiness, nor attempt by any influence to violate or dastardly undermine their liberties and constitution. In the true spirit of Scottish cunning, slavery hath been advancing where we little expected it, prerogative would have alarmed the people, its baneful effects were to be produced in another method, where usually nothing was to be dreaded, nor the traitorous hand seen until employed in riveting the chains, which our representatives had forged. We have now attentively to correct our natural governors, the parliament, for basely deserting their delegated trust, and degenerating into the most passive instruments of court influence, a softer name for tyrannical prerogative. So exceeding vicious are they become that one of their members have called the House of Commons, the temple of corruption , an epithet that conveys the just idea of all that is vile, destructive, and abominable. What but the highest consciousness of guilt, could suffer such a charge to pass unnoticed; such a sting must have cut the souls of the offenders in twain, were there any delicacy or sentiment left, but they heard it with indifference, being determined to laugh all honor and integrity out of countenance. The character and conduct of the majority stinks from one end of Europe to the other; it is become an offence to all people, and admiration is harraſſed at the thought to which depth of wickedness human nature can sink. France, Spain, Germany, and all the world, stand amazed at their depravity, and shake with horror at the new ready arrangement of iniquity, introduced into the system of life. In the annals of infamy can there be found wickedness equal to this, "that many members of the majority have declared in private, the measures of the ministry to be entirely destructive to the welfare of their country, and the common acceptance of morality and their behaviour;" yet go into the house, vote for those measures, and give legal active operation and authority, to what they own, must end in the ruin of all probity and confidence among men. It is a pity the names of such members were not publickly known, sentiment of concealment is a crime, if not bordering upon a participation of the vice; they ought to be held up as a public mark of scorn and derision, that all might mark them, and flog such miscreants from society, as a pest of the most dangerous complexion. In the small space of twenty years, this nation is reduced from the highest pinnacle of glory; in herself to the very verge of destruction; in the concerns of Europe to the greatest insignificancy; for many think that the court's destructive system had great weight in the affair of the Venetian Ambassador, as if justice gave way to the fear of having Venice as another enemy upon our backs. Had the malice and invention of hell itself been gathered for the downfall of this country, the plan and prosecution of measures, could not have essentially differed from those prosecuted, by a set of men, who to dazzle and deceive a misguided man, have the impudence to assume to themselves the title of the king's friends —This cabal I am afraid will be still countenanced by the man who twenty years ago,
had the plea of youth and inexperience on his side; this was urged and admitted by the public, as of compassion; but now charity itself cannot no longer operate; the man is arrived at mature age, and must see, if he is not willingly blind, the misconduct of his servants, a perseverance in error discovers a malignant and fixed principle, that must, and ought to undergo, some amendment and coercion.
What must be the future prospect of this country, when one of the king's friends , and one entrusted with the education of our future king, "that the people of this country were too selfish to their prince, and that all our present miseries proceeded from the king not having power enough;" If this notion is not rooted in the mind of the Prince of Wales , the consequences will be dreadful; he will consider himself and act as a king, de jure divino, and look upon the people as chattels of his domestic estate. But Mr. Smelt should know, that a king in this country hath all power to do good, and none to do harm; he should know, that our laws and constitution will make a king good in spite of himself; if he should be vicious in habit, the guardians of our liberties, if they are honest, have a power of controul, to make him submit to further the prosperity of his people, and his own honor. This king's friend , Mr. Smelt, should know, that the house of Hanover was adopted by the people of this country: they were foreigners, aliens, and as such, terms of adoption was offered. The house of Hanover it is true, was allied by a very distant affinity to the blood of their antient kings, in a female descent; but the people in representation exerted a right of succession, that was unknown, and never existed before, for the purpose of having a head to the empire attached to the Protestant Religion, and the liberties of the kingdom. In consequence of an exertion of the primitive power of the people, in prejudice, if I may so say, to their natural princes, the house of Hanover ascended the imperial throne of these kingdoms, and from trifling princes and electors of Germany, became sovereigns of the then first kingdom in Europe.
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A vessel arrived in an out-port from Europe since our last: A gentleman who came in her has favored us with an Irish paper, of June 13, in which is the following particular account of the proceedings of a very numerous body of Protestants in England, on account of some late acts of the British Parliament, relative to the Roman Catholics of that kingdom.
LONDON, June 2, 3, 5, & 6. MONDAY evening the meeting of the Protestant Association was held at Coach maker's hall, pursuant to publick advertisement. At half past six o'clock the hall was quite full, and exceedingly crowded. Lord George Gordon took the chair exactly at seven, and in a nervous & elegant speech, addressed the meeting for near half an hour. His Lordship observed that the Popish Bill was carried through both Houses of Parliament with such amazing rapidity, that the people had not time to form an opposition, or make themselves acquainted with the pernicious consequences that must attend its passing into a law. That the indulgence given to Popery by the repeal of the act of William the Third was inconsistent with the principles of the Revolution had a tendency to endanger the succession in the House of Hanover, and threatened destruction to the civil and religious liberty of the country. His Lordship read an extract from a Popish catechism, just published by a Popish printer near Grosvenor-square, and dispersed among the ignorant and unthinking part of the community; likewise an indulgence granted by the Pope, this present year, to his Holy Catholic subjects and Saints of this heretic country; and from these publications, his Lordship bid the people form an idea of the rapid and alarming progress that Popery was making in this kingdom; and the only way to stop it was, by going in a firm, manly and resolute manner to the House, and shew their representatives that they were de-
termined to preserve their religious liberty with their lives. That for his part he would run all hazards with the people; and if the people were too luke-warm to run all hazards with him, when their conscience and their country called them forth, they might get another president, for he would tell them candidly that he was not a luke-warm man himself, and that if they meant to spend their time in mock debate and idle opposition, they might get another leader. This speech was received with the loudest acclamations of applause, and his Lordship then moved the following resolutions: "That the whole body of the Protestant Association do attend in St. George's Fields, on Friday next, at ten o'clock in the morning, to accompany his Lordship to the House of Commons, on the delivery of the Protestant Petition," which was carried unanimously, with repeated bursts of applause. His Lordship then informed them, that if less than twenty thousand of his fellow citizens attended him that day, he would not present their petition; and for the better observance of order, he moved, that they should arrange themselves in four divisions, the Protestants of the city of London on the right, those of the city of Westminster on the left, and the borough of Southwark third, and the people of Scotland, resident in London and its environs, to form the last division; and that they might know their friends from their enemies, he added, that every real Protestant and friend to the petition, should come with blue cockades in their hats.
Friday morning pursuant to advertisement from the Protestant Association, a large number of persons assembled in St. George's Fields, where they were joined about eleven o'clock by their President, Lord George Gordon. On his Lordship's arrival they formed a ring round him, in which situation his Lordship made a short speech to them, strongly recommending a peaceable deportment and behaviour, and in this disposition to proceed to the House with their petition. A hand-bill was likewise distributed, inculcating the same pacific temper, which was urged as the more necessary, there being reason, according to the hand-bill, to believe that a number of Papists would assemble to breed a riot, &c.
During the speech made by his Lordship, the crowd, in their desire of hearing and seeing, pressed to closely around him, that partly with the heat of the day, and partly with the largeness of their number, his Lordship was near being suffocated. The throng being then removed to a little farther distance his Lordship marched them in four different bodies, according to their four divisions of London, Westminster, Southwark, and Scotland, three or four times round the fields, after which his Lordship left them, proceeding in his carriage over Westminster-Bridge to the House of Commons, in order to be at hand there, to present the petition when brought up.
The Committee with several other members of the Society, went the same way. The rest, amounting to at least 50,000 men, took their route over London-Bridge, marching in tolerable order, and very quietly, about six or eight in a rank, through Cornhill, Cheapside, &c. towards Westminster, following their respective banners, on which was written the name of the division, with the words "NO POPERY," and other labels expressive of the business of the day. Each petitioner also wore a blue cockade in his hat, some of which were ornamented with gold and silver; and many likewise had printed labels affixed to them of the same tenor with those on the banner.
At the head of the Scotch division, a Highlander marched in his country dress, with his sword drawn, and followed by a pair of bagpipes.
In St. George's Fields, previous to the march, a tailor was employed to tack together the different skins, signed by the petitioners, composing a very large rose, which was carried on a man's head.
In this manner they marched on, gathering every where as they went, and when

they came towards Charing-Cross, were joined by fresh numbers, some on horse-back and in coaches, who proceeded with them to the house. As they proceeded by the churches, they gave them three cheers. The Admiralty was also saluted by them as they passed; and by the time they came to New-Palace-Yard, the company which passed over Westminster-Bridge having joined them, their numbers were now so large, that Old-Palace-Yard, with Westminster-Hall, and all the avenues about both Houses of Parliament were entirely filled with them.
In this situation they waited the arrival of the members of both Houses, many of whom were roughly treated by them in their way to the House.
Among these their principal vengeance seems to have fallen upon the Peers, both spiritual and temporal, particularly on the Archbishop of York, whose carriage they stopped, and greatly insulted him; the Lord President, whom they seized, jostled and kicked on the legs; Lord Mansfield whom they stopped, and reviled to his face; Lord Stormont, whose carriage they took possession of for near half an hour, getting upon the box, &c. taking great liberty with his Lordship's person, and might not perhaps even then have parted with his Lordship, had not a gentleman jumped into the carriage, and prevailed upon the populace to desist. The Duke of Northumberland was also roughly treated, and lost his watch.--- Lord Boston's usage has been recounted at large in the proceedings of that House. The Archbishop of Canterbury, with the Bishops of Lincoln and Litchfield, met with nearly the like treatment, the former having the wheels of his carriage torn off, and escaping himself with difficulty. The Archbishop's wig was pulled about, and his canonicals torn. Besides these, the Lords Hillsborough and Townshend (who went together in the same carriage) with Lord Wiloughby de Broke, and Lord Ashburnham, were roughly handled, the two former losing their bags, & the two latter being buffeted about for some time. Lord St. John and Lord Dudley received likewise strong marks of the rioters resentment.
Of the House of Commons, Mr. Strahan, and Welbore Ellis, Esq; experienced a good deal of rough treatment. The former had his carriage considerably damaged, and the latter was pursued to the Guildhall, Westminster, the windows of which the populace broke in their fury, and then getting at the object of their pursuit, treated him with much roughness. Lord Trentham likewise received a considerable degree of insult, and had the front glass of his vis-a-vis broke.
The mob twice attempted to force their way into the House of Commons, and it was with difficulty the members got either in or out. They attempted also the House of Lords, but by the excellent management of Sir Francis Molyneux, and the exertions of the door keepers, were kept out.
Such of the members of either House as were acceptable to them, were received with three cheers. Among these were the dukes of Gloucester, Devonshire, and Richmond; Earl of Shelburne, Lord Camden, Bishop of Peterborough, &c.
To quell this riotous proceeding, Lord Mahon harangued the mob from the leads of the House of Peers. Several other members made the most laudable exertions, but all in vain; for when Ld North came, it was with difficulty he was permitted to pass up stairs, where he was stopped by several Members of the Association, and obliged to pledge his word, that he would support the Protestant cause as conducted by Lord Geo. Gordon. Lord George Germaine too, on his arrival, was much hissed and groaned at, and porter thrown in his face. Many other Members were sworn to support the cause, particularly Ld Stormont, whom they bound in two hundred pounds penalty.
About nine o'clock a party of horse and foot arrived; the former of which was drawn up in Palace Yard, the latter lined all the avenues to the House, and a Captain's Guard was stationed in the Court of Requests.
Mr. Justice Adington then, after receiving a salute of hisses, at the head of the horse, assured the people that his disposition toward them was perfectly amicable, as a proof of which, he declared he would order the horse away, if they would give their honour that they would disperse.
This stratagem succeeded; the cavalry galloped off, and upwards of 600 of the petitioners giving the magistrates three cheers, retired seemingly very quietly.
Yet did not their rage stop here. At night the Sardinian chapel was forcibly entered, the benches, and other moveables, carried out into the streets and burnt, and the inside with the organ, and a picture which cost 2000l. destroyed. The like was done to another chapel in Warwick street, and to two others in different parts of the town.
It is much to be lamented that the cause of Religion, which should ever be conducted with meekness and lenity, such extreme acts of violence should have been committed. Tho' the appearance of the Association in general, was such as only bespoke the mechanicks and working people, yet was their behaviour at first and during all their march thro' the city, such as would have done any cause, any rank, the highest honor. How they came afterwards to forget themselves, and the mildness of those tenets they were then going to support, is much to be wondered and lamented. This circumstance however, so much to be regretted in its effects, may serve as a lesson to those who would make use of a popular fury, that it is a demon of the most outrageous kind, which like other spirits of an evil nature, is much sooner raised than allayed.
F I S H - K I L L, August 24.
We hear that the people are considerably alarmed at Schenectady, and other places west of Albany, since the late mischief done by the enemy at Canajohary and Schoharie.
We learn, sometime after the capitulation of Charlestown, several British vessels arriving there with merchandise; several of the Charlestown merchants who had been a long time idle, laid out all their money in goods, in order to carry on their business, immediately after Lord Cornwallis issued his proclamation, prohibiting all from trading but English merchants.
Capt. Rosseter informs, that a fleet of 200 sail of merchantmen were making up at the Cape, which was to sail the 10th inst. under convoy of the whole French squadron, part of which were to convoy them to France, the destination not known. Capt. Rosseter sailed in company with a number of vessels bound to the American States under convoy of a French frigate.
Tuesday the Sloop Conquest, Capt. Jared Starr, arrived here in 22 Days from Cape Francois: He informs, that the French Fleet amounting to 22 Sail, were at the Cape when he sailed, and that the Spanish Fleet were gone to the Havanna.
Monday last, three Deserters from the Roeback, a British Cruiser, arrived here in a Canoe from Long-Island.
Saturday last, a Schooner packet of ten 4 pounders, bound from New-York to England, with a number of passengers, was chased on shore near Huntingdon, by the Young Cromwell Hamling, and a Brig privateer. The people got on shore, except two; the Vessel was immediately got off and sent into Connecticut-river. This vessel, it is said, sundry times attempted to get to sea by the Hook, but was as often drove in by the American cruisers; and when taken was attempting to get to sea through the Sound. Extract of a letter from an officer of distinction at Reading, in this State, August 19.
"I have this moment received advice, that on the 16th the troops of the enemy embarked on board transports at White-Stone, twenty of which went to New-York; the transports took heavy cannon on board. Two divisions of troops have gone Eastward, the 16th and 18th through Setalcet; Gen. Clinton also went to the East end of the Island, escorted by a company of Horse; the 16th he dined about 5 miles Eastward
of Hampstead; about eight transports, said to have provisions for the fleet, passed Eastward. As these movements may possibly affect the Eastern coasts, I thought proper to apprize you of the facts."
It is said, that about 9000 British troops are at White Stone and West Chester.
B O S T O N, August 31. Extract of a letter from Philadelphia, dated August 7.
"Accounts from the Southward are very agreeable.---General Gates advances rapidly towards South-Carolina, and his Army increases fast."
Extract of a letter, taken in the Mercury Packet, Capt. Dillon, from Thomas Irving, of London, to John Cruden, Esq; Merchant, in New-York dated June 6, 1780.
"The mob have continued all last night to rage with a degree of violence unknown for this century past. Many houses are pulled down, and the fine new building of Newgate they have reduced to ashes. The Dissenters, and Wesley at the head of the Methodists, are blowing up the flame."
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in the country, dated August 21, 1780.
"Last week we detected a new emission of counterfeit 80 dollar bills, they are very well executed; the paper is of a lighter colour and thicker, the red colouring is fainter, the impression of black ink stronger, the figure 9 in the date of the year upon the back is smaller than the true bills.---I give you this information to prevent your being taken in, as they are so well done.---There is another emission passing, very badly done which I suppose you have seen."
We have authentic information, that the Sleur Clonard, in a French ship of 64 guns, lately captured, and carried into France, four large rich ships, from Scotland, with supplies of all kinds for Georgia and South Carolina. The cargoes of these ships were so valuable, and of such a kind, as the loss must be severely felt by the enemy in that quarter.
State of New Hampshire, Rockingham ss.
WE the Subscribers being ap- pointed by the Honorable PHILLIPS WHITE, Esq; Judge of the Probate of Wills, &c. for the County aforesaid, Commissioners, to receive and examine the Claims of the several Creditors to the Estate of STEPHEN HOLLAND, late of Londonderry, Esq; an Absentee from this State, (and for Months only being allowed the Creditors for bringing in and proving their Claims.) Hereby give Notice, that we shall attend said Business at the Dwelling-House of Mr. NOAH EMERY, junr. Innholder in Exeter, on the 1st Monday of this and the five next following Months, from two to six o'Clock, Afternoon on said Days. ELIPHALET HALE, } Commissioners. JOHN T. GILMAN, } NOAH EMERY, jr. } Exeter, September 1, 1780.
ALL PERSONS that have any Demands on the Estate of James Clarkson, late of Portsmouth, deceased, are desired to bring their Accounts in to James Clarkson in Portsmouth, Administrator on said Estate, in order for settlement. And all Indebted to said Estate, are desired to make speedy payment. Portsmouth, Sept. 1, 1780.
State of New Hampshire.
We the Subscribers being ap- pointed Commissioners by the honorable Court of Probate for the county of Cheshire, in the State of New Hampshire, to receive and examine the claims of the several creditors to the estate of BREED BATCHELLOR, late of Packerfield, in said county, Esq; absentee, who has joined the enemies of these United States; do hereby give notice that we shall attend the business of said appointment, at the house of Capt. Jonathan Whitcomb, in Swanzey, on the second Tuesday of October, November, December and January next, from one to four o'clock, P. M. No accounts will be received unless properly attested.
Thomas Applin, } Commissioners. Samuel Hills, } C. Frink, }
Swanzey, July 16, 1780.
The Widow Service,
Has removed to a commodious House near the State House, in Portsmouth, where she keeps Boarding for Gentlemen, and Entertainment for others as usual.
TO BE SOLD,
One half of the House & Land, now in the Occupation of the Widow Pickering, originally belonging to Daniel Pickering, deceased; Enquire of the Printer at Portsmouth.
A Pocket Book taken up, with some Money and a number of valuable Notes of Hand, between Newbury and Hampton Falls, last week, the Owner may have them on paying Charges Enquire of the Printer at Portsmouth.

I detest the thought, that the people of this country, could not defend and maintain their liberties without the succour and support of the House of Brunswick; it is a fulsome price of flattery, that bids fair to answer the worst intentions; they could and did defend their liberties; nay, so far, to the prosecution of one hypocritical tyrant to death; and another besotted man to banishment. James the Second was driven from this country for the violation of our laws; let it be said he abdicated, it matters little, saving the contradiction in terms; for if he was rex jure divino , he could not abdicate that quod codem jure divino , could suffer no absence, forfeit or alienation; but his tenure to the crown was by jure civium , a popular compact, and a violation of that compact annihilated his right of holdance, and the power returned to its primitive resource, the people, I laugh at the term abdication, he flew from a just account with his people, because he was certain of meeting his reward; the rod of justice followed him, and he was not disposed to undergo the discipline. In good truth many apologies can be made for the conduct of James the Second; he was bred up in the maxims of the Romish church, that engender slavery in their principles; he was educated with the highest notions of his prerogative; he thought he was doing actions acceptable to God, in introducing Popery;—I question, whether he would not have suffered death, rather than countenance any system of policy that tends to the destruction of honor and integrity, even in private life; he had too much unreserved honesty, his zeal wanted the refinement of modern politics; for instead of directly pushing for the prize of his calling, had he used an enormous overplus of extraordinary revenues voted in parliament, in secret underhand influence, he would have stood a better chance of succeeding in his designs, and prevented the ruin of his family, and the melancholly reflections of a beggarly exile. What he attempted by his family prerogative de jure hereditarius divino , may be attempted to be done by secret influence , only with this difference, he endeavored to enforce his prerogative without burthening his people with extraordinary taxes for bribes , under the pretence of the exigencies of the state; for secret influence requires bribing in every instance to keep its miserable acceptors close to the work of their own infamy, and the ruin of their fellow-citizens. The frames of the bill of rights, and act of settlement, did not foresee secret influence ;—whether William foresaw it, or what were the motives of his objections to the objects of succession, are hid in the alca-na of family affairs;—they little dreamed, that the laws and liberties of this country, could ever be thought to be in danger under the House of Hanover;—they thought gratitude at least, would secure their posterity from such alarms, even if oaths and promises should loose their accustomed force; but their posterity have seen years of experiments; for I insist upon it, in the very being, nature, latitude and spirit of our constitution, James the Second, by his prerogative , did not offer a more violent attack to the constitution, than secret influence hath done since, in the repeated expulsion of Mr. Wilkes, and the conduct of government to the Americans. Where is the difference between a king exacting taxes without consent of parliament, and secret influence , illegally intruding members against the consent of the constituents, that assume a power of taxing which they were never invested with? Let secret influence , my countrymen, be the object of destruction; guard against it, as you would against a concealed coluber in gramine paratus vulnere moderre lethi; let not, born and bred a Britton , the tyrant lull you into a false security; let not, loving subjects , this pap of a state crane be administered in the mouth, in order through your representatives, to turn your stomach; stand firm in associations for your own safety, and the honor and happiness of your prince; association have alarmed the vendors of bribes, and the bribed, because it is the only old and constitutional mode of bringing them to
punishment; here alide as to a center fixed; remember, you all is at stake; stand firm, and your struggles will be crowned with success. JUNIUS MINOR.
TO BE SOLD, AT PUBLIC VENDUE, By JOSEPH ADAMS, At his House in EXETER, On THURSDAY the 7th of September, A large QUANTITY of New Mahogany Furniture, Among which are,—
Swell'd and plain front Desks, with Book-Cases and without; Tables of various sizes and constructions; Cases of Draws; Mahogany high-poll Bedsteads; Delph Chairs, neatly painted; Mahogany ditto; Bureaus; Tea-Boards, and Servers of various sizes.
Sale to begin at eleven o'clock forenoon. N. B. Short Credit will be given for one half any person shall purchase, if desired.
To be sold by public Vendue, At the house of Dr. Nathaniel Breed, in Packerfield, in the county of Cheshire and State of New-Hampshire, on Tuesday the third day of October next, at ten o'clock, A. M. and so continued till the whole is sold,
A number of lots, parts of lots and rights of unimproved LANDS, lying in said Packerfield, near the center and easterly part of said town, upwards of 2600 acres in the whole; said lands being part of the estate of Breed Batchellor, Esq; an Absentee, late of said Packerfield and is sold by virtue of the laws of the State of New-Hampshire, and by order of the Judge of Probate, for the use of the State, and to pay his just debts. Conditions and Inventory to be seen at time and place of sale, and by inquiring of the subscriber, at Packerfield. NATH.-BREED, (Trustee to said estate.)
Packerfield, Aug. 23, 1780. N. B. Those persons who have deeds of land, not on record, are desired to acquaint said Trustee before the time of sale.
WHEREAS GEORGE GAINS of Portsmouth, in the County of Rockingham, hath preferred a Petition to the General Assembly, of this State, setting forth, that Ruth Nudd did on the 26th Day of October A. D 1756, prefer a Petition to the General Assembly of the then Province of New Hampshire, for Leave to bring in a Bill to dock the Entail on a certain Estate in Portsmouth, then under her Administration, and now owned by said Gains, that the then Heirs at Law to said Estate consented that the Prayer of her Petition should be granted, and accordingly it passed both Houses, but by some Neglect no Bill was bro't in.
State of New Hampshire, in the House of Representatives, June 28, 1780.
Upon Reading and considering the foregoing Petition, Voted, That the Petitioner be heard thereon before the General Assembly on the second Thursday of their next Session, and that in the mean Time he cause the Substance of the Petition and Order of Court thereon to be published in the New Hampshire Gazette, three Weeks successively, that any Person may then appear and shew Cause (if any they have) why the Prayer thereof may not be granted. Sent up for Concurrence.
JOHN LANGDON, Speaker. In COUNCIL the same day read and concurred. J. PEARSON D. Sec'y.
State of New Hampshire, Rockingham, ss. TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.
NOTICE is hereby given, that a LIBEL is filed before me, in Behalf of George Thompson, Commander of the armed Privateer Schooner called the IRISH GIMBLET, the Officers, Marines and Mariners, and all concerned therein, against the Schooner called the ROSANNA, burthen about 20 Tons, her Cargo and Appurtenances, Waitstill Lewis, late Master; which Vessel and Cargo so libelled, is said to have been taken on the high Seas, about the 20th Day of August, and bro't into the Port of Piscataqua, in the State of New-Hampshire: For the Trial of the Justice of said Capture, a Maritime Court for said State will be held at the Court House in Portsmouth on Tuesday the 19th Day of September next, when and where the Owners or any Persons concerned therein, may appear and shew Cause (if any they have) why the same should not be condemned.
J. BRACKETT, Judge of said Court. Portsmouth, Aug. 21, 1780.
To be sold at the Store next to Samuel Cutt's, Esq; 4d, 6, 8d, 1od, 2od, 24d. Nails by the thousand. Also, 4 & half inch. Deck Nails—Womens English Shoes, Gloves and Gauze. Portsmouth, Aug. 24.
George Skinner Homans, Informa his Customers, and others, that he carries on the Tailor's Business as usual, opposite Dr. Brackett's, in Broad-Street; where any Gentleman may be supplied on the shortest Notice, and at a reasonable Rate.—Said HOMANS has for SALE, Rum, Wine, Molasses, Annaseed, Logwood, Indigo, Allspice, Ginger, Combs of different sorts, Aul-Blades, Brimstone, Pocket-Books with clasps and without, Knitting-Needles, Pins and Needles, Cards, Watch-Seals, &c. &c. &c. Portsmouth, Aug. 21.
Cash given by JOHN GOOCH, for old Pewter Brats or Copper: Or one pound of new Pewter for two pounds of old, who makes and Sells all kind of new Pewter. Portsmouth, Aug. 17.
Lost on Saturday the 28th July last, near Mr William Marshall's Chaise Makers Shop, (an English Horse Whip,) whoever will return the same to the Printer hereof shall have 40 Dollars and no questions ask'd. Portsmouth Aug. 17.
Notice is hereby given to the delinquent proprietors and owners of Land in Chichester, that unless they pay their taxes, with incidental charges, for the year 1779, to me the subscriber, that so much of their lands will be sold at public Vendue on the 21st day of September next, at one o'clock in the afternoon, at my house in said Chichester, as will pay the same.
   1. 2.     Peter Weare, jun. 8 6   Nathaniel Haley, 2 12   Christopher Page, 2 7   Nicholas Gilman, 3 14   Nathaniel Lock, 3 14   William Stanford, 3 19   Shubael Sanborn, 4 7   Benjamin Thomas, 2 15   Samuel Marston, 3 6   Jonathan Garland, 3 2   Daniel Weare, 2 7   John Prescott, 0 19   Rev. Joseph Whipple, 0 19   Joshua Wingate, 2 9   Nathaniel Weare, 1 13   John Sherburne, 2 7   Jonathan Philbrick, 0 19   Charles Steward, 3 15   Moses Blake, 0 19   Jacob Frezze, 1 18   Nathaniel Drake, 1 0   Josiah Dearborne, 2 12   John Batchelder, 2 17   Ezra Tappan, 1 13   Jarvis Ring, jun. 0 19   Capt. David Currier, 2 7   Cyprian Jaffery, 3 16   Hauking Wentworth, 3 2   Jeremiah Sanborn, 2 9   Ezekiah Jennis, 0 19   John Mansfield, 0 19   James Davis, 2 17   John Gilman, Esq; 1 18   Andrew Wiggins, 0 19   John Downing, 1 1   William Fellows, 0 19   Capt. Paul Gerrish, 3 9   Richard Jennis, 4 12   John Sanborn, 4 5   James Jaffery, 0 19   Governor Belcher, 0 19   Col. Mark Hunking, 6 4   Edward West, 1 18  
Aquila Moffatt, Constable. Chichester, August 15, 1780.
Notice is hereby given, that there is a Tax laid on a Tract of Land belonging to Mrs. Mary Whipple of Kittery, for the Year 1779. then in Possession of Richard Hayley, which is about 50 pounds L. M. for State, Town and Parish Tax—and unless said Tax is paid by the 25th of Sept. next, it will then be advertised for Sale so much of said land as will pay the Tax with incidental charges by me the subscriber, said Land lies Easternmost side of Spruce Creek in said Kittery.
William Dearing, Constable. Kittery, August 14.
TO BE SOLD, Two Rights of Land, or proprietors Shares, in the Town of Dummer; lying on Amascogon River. Enquire at the printing office in Portsmouth.