The New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1788-07-31 00:00:00

NEW-HAMPSHIRE AND GENERAL THURSDAY,
PORTSMOUTH: By JOHN MELCHER,
GAZETTE, THE ADVERTISER.
JULY 31, 1788.
PRINTED AND PUBLISHED IN MARKET-STREET.
"WHEN ANGRY NATIONS PART IN LEAGUES OF PEACE, LET PRIVATE FEUDS AND CIVIL DISCORDS CEASE."
AN ACT
Passed February 5th, 1788,
For altering the name of the township of Grantham to New Grantham.
WHEREAS SAMUEL DUNCAN hath petitioned the General Court, setting forth, that the said township is recorded in the Treasurer's office by the name of Grantham, and the inhabitants of said township being settled under the name of New Grantham, as appears by the charter, it makes it very difficult for said inhabitants to collect any taxes, the precepts issuing from the Treasurer's office by the name of Grantham, and the inhabitants and the non resident proprietors holding their title by the name of New Grantham, and praying the name of said town may be altered, which prayer appearing reasonable,
Therefore,
BE IT ENACTED BY THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN GENERAL COURT convened, and by the AUTHORITY of the same, That the name of said township of Grantham, be and hereby is altered to the name of New Grantham, and that the annual meetings in said town shall, for the future, be held on the second TUESDAY of March forever.
§ II. And be it further enacted, That the several Constables or Collectors in said Grantham, who have heretofore had lists of taxes delivered them to collect, made by the Selectmen of Grantham in consequence of precepts sent them by the Treasurer of this State, and made under the name of New Grantham, are hereby as fully authorized to collect the same as though said taxes had been made under the name of Grantham;—And that all other proceedings in said town under the name of New Grantham, be good and valid to all intents and purposes as though made under Grantham,—any law, usage or custom to the contrary notwithstanding.
Trial of PLEASURE before Judge PHILOSOPHY.
THE trial being opened, PLEASURE was brought to the bar. —Repentance appeared to prosecute her.
The judge, Philosophy, with eye severe observed her. Beneath him sat sullen Melancholy, with folded arms:—Reflection, with close contracted brow, opened the indictment; and squint-eyed Care, with dark Disgust, were appointed to examine the witnesses.
The first evidence that was called —was a young fellow with a palid
countenance; his small legs scarcely could support him to crawl into court; he was obliged to stop for want of breath; and, in a squeaking voice, he deposed thus:
That, to his knowledge, the prisoner was the greatest jilt in nature; that he had thrown away a very good estate, and spoiled a strong constitution in following her; that she continually gave him hopes of enjoyment, but always deceived him; that his first acquaintance with her was at college, where she tempted him, in the shape of a beautiful pointer, to forsake his studies and follow her; he immediately set up his equipage to honour her; run after her from horse-race to horse-race; followed her to the hazard table; pursued her among women of the town; searched every tavern for her; but still he had missed meeting her.
At the tavern, indeed, he had sometimes a glimpse of her; but then he began drinking so young—that he was seldom there in a capacity to enjoy her, always either dull or drunk; when sober, he was commonly sick, and when fuddled, always for fighting; so, upon the whole, he told the court (swearing by his Maker) she was an impudent jilt, and had bilked him.
The next witness was a lady, a fine moulded female; she slid gracefully into court, her hoop held high before her, and immediately ran up to the prisoner to embrace her, but was prevented by the prime serjeant, Reflection, who asked her, if she knew the criminal; upon which, with a full stare and mouth wide open, she burst into the prettiest laugh; fell from thence into the most innocent confusion;—sweetly excused herself in a very becoming lisp; and, with a low courtesy, sunk negligently down on the bench between the prisoner's counsel, Fancy and Hope.
She was interrogated about her knowledge of the prisoner; when she told the court, that the lady at the bar was her intimate; that they had been brought up from their childhood together; and that the judge was truly a fright, and the rest of the bench a parcel of queer creatures, not to let so fine a lady sit down among them.
Then turning to the prisoner, she invited her to her drum, and told her what charming company was to be at it; as for instance, Miss Rout, Madam Raquet, Widow Hurricane, Lady Dowager Drum, and the Duchess of Helter-skelter; then she hastily got up & hummed an opera tune; and, with a round-about sweep, whisked away to her chair in an instant.
The next evidence was an old man; though stricken in years, his countenance had not lost all the marks of florid health; in his face the bloom of manhood seemed to contend with the winter of age.
He gave his evidence as follows: "Behold, most grave judge, one of the unhappiest among mankind; I have all my life been searching after Pleasure, fooled by that lady, the prisoner, till at last I am involved in an irremediable series of miseries."
"In my juvenile days, I had often read of the prisoner, Pleasure; I was charmed with her character; I longed to be acquainted with her; thought of nothing but her; and, like other lovers, turned poet to please her."
"I courted the sciences for her sake; but in poetry I flattered myself I should soonest find her;—therefore immediately became fond of making her verses: But, alas! where I expected Pleasure, I met with pain; I was blamed as an idler, condemned as a plagiarist, or punished by the ignorant and envious with derision. I next applied myself to traffick; I crossed the seas for gain; I increased my fortune, but not my pleasure."
"Tempests, robbers, breaches in trade, disappointments, damped all hopes of enjoying her; I then recollected I had gained enough; I resolved to rest myself, and, in ease, was in hopes to find her."
"Again I was mistaken; while at rest I was uneasy; I grew discontented with having nothing to do; I then resolved to exercise my mind, and I began to examine the laws of nature."
"I studied them; I inquired into primary causes; but, alas! all I obtained, was an insatiable desire to know more than could be known, and a certain sorrowful reflection, that all I did know was insignificant."
"I then turned builder; I planned a house; I laid out my gardens; I amused myself among the artists; and then thought I was arrived at true Pleasure; but I was still to seek; the workmen's delays disturbed me; they fell out among themselves; I was distracted to decide their quarrels: At length they finished the house, and then I invited my friends, I treated my neighbours, I settled fortunes on my children, and once more I tho't of being happy; still I am deceived; my friends, I find, are flatterers; my neighbours are envious of my riches; my children wish for my death, to possess them; and, after all my toils, am at last as far from finding Pleasure as the first day I set out after her."
The judge then asked the prisoner, what defence she could make? She called her witnesses, Beauty and Love.
On their appearance, immediately the whole court was sensibly affected: Melancholy reared his head, Reflection smoothed his brow, Care looked pleased, & Philosophy gave a sigh; when Prudence, who had all this while stood concealed, stepped forth, and ordered the officers of the court, Fear and Disgust, to seize the two witnesses, Beauty & Love, for she had an indictment against them for perjury; objected to their testimony, and insisted on Pleasure's making a defence without their help. Pleasure immediately began:—
"Would mankind use me as I deserve, I should never be tried as a criminal, but rewarded as a friend."
"They call out upon me to help them; yet I no sooner come to their assistance, but they bind me captive to their tempers."
"The youth who appeared against me, I never was acquainted with; had he stuck to his studies, he might have found me: he mistook another for me, whom he followed; she is dressed like me; her name is Folly; it is to her he owes all his misfortunes."
"As to the lady, who says I attended her from her infancy, it is false: she had a waiting-maid that attended her, and took my name, but her true title was Self-love."
"The last and heaviest charge against me is the old man's; but he is a hypocrite: I would have attended him, always, as his wife; but he would use me like a kept mistress proud of shewing the world he possessed me; I despised him for his ostentation: I left him to be more sincerely dealt with; and I—"
"But why (raising her voice) should I plead among such cold, such spiritless judges? Come to my rescue, my friends! assist me, my allies!"
Immediately, the Passions came turbulently into court, drove Melancholy away, gagg'd Repentance; Philosophy hid himself under the table; they trampled upon Reflection; released Pleasure; and made Prudence prisoner, to be tried in her place.
REFLECTIONS.
I HAVE just come from viewing the effects of a bankrupt which are now upon fate; one who has not been in business above two years. The particular business was, like almost all business to a young man, of a very precarious nature, requiring strict economy, and rigid attention. The furniture was of the most elegant kind,

and all new; much plate, and of the most superfluous kind, but being also new, of course cost the owner twice as much as he can sell it for now; elegant prints, pictures and every article of luxury; some or all of which may become the man who is retiring from business with an ample fortune, but for one entering into life, what was it short of madness to have laid out money for such unnecessary, though fashionable, furniture?
Most men read the advertisements of auctioneers with the utmost indifference, and consider only whether there is any article they want, thinking no further of the matter. To me, to read those advertisements, it suggests a moral lesson of the highest importance. The auctioneer's hammer, like the stroke of death, shows the vanity of all human luxuries and superfluities; and every sale may be considered as a memento to those who have as yet escaped the mortifying state of bankruptcy. It seems to say, "Let him that standeth, take heed lest he fall;" and viewing these advertisements in this light, I have often drawn observations and remarks from which I think contribute to a moral purpose. If they do not show how we ought to live, they at least show what the unavoidable consequences of imprudence and extravagance are, when practised by tradesmen, and by men who have families to support.
Choice wines is one very common article in sales. To be choice in one's wines, when we can afford to purchase them, is, no doubt, the greatest proof of wisdom; for who would not be so? But, when the price of our wines exceeds the profits of our trade, our choice will be of little avail at the long run. It is better to be choice in the election of our customers and friends; choice in the keeping of our books: And, however agreeable it may be to have old wine , let us take great care of old debts : The one melliorates by keeping: the latter grow worse.
VIENNA, (capital of Germany) May 7.
At the double encounter, at Turkish Dubitz, we had near 200 men, and 67 horses killed. Among the wounded are eleven commissioned officers, and four hundred subalterns and privates. The Turks lost between three and four hundred men in the assault, and near six hundred in the field. We took one of their standards. Actions between our troops and the Turks are daily fought, and in general terminate in the slaughter of considerable numbers.
Private letters inform us, that the siege of Belgrade began the 3d of this month.
Every thing seems to foretell, that before the end of this month we shall hear of some great battle, either in Servia, the environs of Bender, or Oczakow.
WARSAW, April 27.
They are assembling an army of 80,000 men in this country as fast as possible; but we know not whether the republic will join them to any of the powers at war.
BERLIN, May 10.
Our politicians entertain not a doubt of the destination of our troops to take possession of the city
of Dantzic. They seem to conjecture a design of uniting to the dominion of Prussia the town of Thorn, the Wavodies of Gnerme-Kolisch, Posin, and all the western parts of Poland. They say that this point was settled a long time before the commencement of the war between the Imperial Courts and the Turks. Time alone can ascertain the validity of their conjectures.
LONDON, May 5.
The Vienna Gazette, by the pompous detail it gives of the various skirmishes between the Turks & Austrians, appears to have adopted the principles of the Brussels Gazette, and to have taken a vow against veracity; for hitherto the Mahometans have uniformly defeated and disgraced in every attack they have made, though in some of these wonderful actions five Austrians have had the wonderful courage, and, what is still more extraordinary, the wonderful good luck to withstand successfully the rude assaults of as many thousand Turks, and to escape all five unhurt!—The three Jews walking through the fiery furnace was not half so wonderful, nor half so heroic, for they were assured beforehand that they would run no risque.
The Russian troops still hang backward, and in the greatest inaction. They neither advance to effect a conjunction with the Austrian forces, nor have they yet made one hostile effort against the enemy. The Turks are assembled in such force in the neighbourhood of Choczim, that it is deemed hazardous to attack that fortress.
May 27. The Spanish Squadron which lately put to sea from Cadiz, under the command of Don Emanuel de Cordova, nephew to the Commander in Chief of that name, and which was by the last accounts, cruising off or near Cape St. Vincent's consisted of the following ships of the line and frigates,—El Magnificente, La Castilluna, El Fierro, of 70 guns each; La Dragon, La Sirena, El Poderosa, of 60 guns each. Frigates, La Venus of 38, La Mercuria 36, La San Maguel 30, La Santa Clara 26, and 3 Gallies.
The ships of the line which the Spaniards have ready at Cadiz, and are said to be arming at this time, are, one of 96, one of 80, eight of 70 and four of 60 guns—several of these are new since the last war.
Extract of a letter from Gibraltar. May 9.
"The shutting up of the Moorish ports begins now to operate very sensibly upon us, fresh provisions of every kind being no longer to be had at any price from Barbary. A fowl is now a stranger almost to the first tables. The Barbarian King perseveres, and it is difficult to say whether immediate hostilities or lenient measures would best operate to bring him to a proper sense. At any rate the garrison are in bad plight until they are supplied from home, or the dispute made up.
Conjugal infidelity is so frequent at the present day, as to be the chief subject of conversation in all circles. The following impromptu, on the subject, was spoken by a celebrated wit, at White's, a few evenings since.
BY love impell'd—lo! Asia's jetty wives, To ruin rush and fearless of their lives,
Quite dauntless mount the frightful sun- (ral pyre, And by their Husband's side in flames ex- (pire; But Europe's dames pursue a milder plan, They burn, 'tis true, but for another man!
Extract of a letter from Falmouth, May 22.
"Orders are come down here for two houses of rendezvous to be opened for the immediate entering seamen into his Majesty's service, to man the ships now fitting out at Portsmouth."
Extract from the proceedings in CONGRESS, relative to the District of KENTUCKY.
July 3, 1788.
WHEREAS application has been lately made to Congress by the legislature of Virginia and the district of Kentucky for the admission of the said district into the federal union, as a separate member thereof, on the terms contained in the acts of the said legislature, and in the resolutions of the said district relative to the premises. And whereas Congress having fully considered the subject, did, on the third day of June last, resolve that it is expedient that the said district be erected into a sovereign and independent state, and a separate member of the federal union; and appointed a committee to report an act accordingly, which committee on the second instant was discharged, it appearing that nine states had adopted the constitution of the United States, lately submitted to conventions of the people. And whereas a new confederacy is formed among the ratifying states, and there is reason to believe that the state of Virginia including the said district, did, on the 25th of June last, become a member of said confederacy: and whereas an act of Congress, in the present state of the government of the country, severing a part of the said State from the other parts thereof, and admitting it into the confederacy formed by the articles of confederation and perpetual union, as an independent member thereof, may be attended with many inconveniences, while it can have no effect to make the said district a separate member of the federal union formed by the adoption of the said constitution, and therefore it must be manifestly improper for Congress, assembled under the said articles of confederation, to adopt any other measures relative to the premises, than those which express their sense, that the said district ought to be an independent member of the union as soon as circumstances shall permit proper measures to be adopted for that purpose:
Resolved, That a copy of the proceedings of Congress, relative to the independency of the district of Kentucky, be transmitted to the legislature of Virginia, and also to Samuel M'Dowell, Esq, late President of the said convention; and that the said legislature and inhabitants of the district aforesaid, be informed, that as the constitution of the United States is now ratified, Congress think it unadvisable to adopt any further measures for admitting the district of Kentucky into the federal Union, as an independent member thereof, under the articles of confederation, and perpetual union; but that Con-
gress thinking it expedient that the said district be made a separate state and member of the union, as soon after proceedings shall commence under the said constitution as circumstances shall permit, recommend it to the said legislature and to the inhabitants of the said district, so to alter their acts and resolutions relative to the premises, as to render them conformable to the provisions made in the said constitution, to the end that no impediment may be in the way of the speedy accomplishment of this important business.
To the Hon. JOSEPH BADGER, Esq. one of the Justices assigned to keep the peace in and throughout the State of New-Hampshire:
THE subscribers, owners of more than one-sixteenth part of the rights or shares of the original grantees proprietors of the township of Landaff, in the county of Grafton, and State aforesaid, request you to notify and warn a meeting of said proprietors to be held at the dwelling-house of JOHN CLARK, Esquire, in said Landaff, on Tuesday the 9th day of September next, at ten of the clock, A. M. to act and vote upon the following articles,—viz.
1st. To chuse a moderator to govern said meeting. 2d. To chuse a proprietor's clerk, assessors, collectors, and all other officers necessary for said proprietors. 3d. To vote to raise such sum or sums of money as may be adjudged expedient to defray proprietor's charges, & to re-imburse such sums as may have been advanced or expended, for the benefit of said proprietors, and order how and in what manner the same shall be assessed, collected and appropriated. 4th. To agree upon some method to regulate the pitches in said township in future, and see if the said proprietors will vote to confirm to the whole of the present settlers, or to any part of them, their respective pitches, whereon they have settled and made improvement. 5th. To agree upon and vote some method for drawing the lots already laid out in said township, and dividing the same among the several proprietors, and for laying out and dividing the undivided lands in said township. 6th. To agree upon and vote some method to ascertain, take proper care of, and appropriate to public use, certain rights of land mentioned to be reserved in the original charter of said township. 7th. To make such grants of lands for schools and other public uses, in said township, as may be adjudged proper by said proprietors, and to make any other grants of land for the advantage of said proprietors, that they may suppose just or equitable. 8th. To agree upon and vote some method for calling proprietors meetings, and where they shall be held. 9th. To chuse a committee for effecting all or any of the purposes aforementioned, and to do and transact any other matters that may be given them in charge, for promoting the settlement of said township, and to the advantage of said proprietors. 10th. To agree upon some method for adjusting and settling all demands against said proprietors.
NATHANIEL PEABODY. PETER GREEN. SAMUEL ATKINSON. Concord, June 3d, 1788.
State of New-Hampshire, County of Rockingham.
PURSUANT to the foregoing application, I do hereby notify and warn the aforementioned proprietors of Landaff, to meet at the time, place, and for the purposes therein mentioned. Given under my hand and seal, at
Concord, in said county, this 9th day of June, Anno Domini, 1788. JOSEPH BADGER, Justice of Peace throughout the State.

New-York Convention.
N E W-Y O R K, July 21. SUMMARY of late Proceedings in our Convention.
The 16th inst. Judge Hobart , after an excellent speech, moved, that the Convention do adjourn to the day of , then to meet at : Which after much debate was put, and negatived.— Yeas 22 — Nays 40.
The 17th, Mr. Smith, withdrew his Proposition for a Ratification, on condition that certain amendments should be introduced—but Mr. Lansing moved it again.—The motion runs—We, the delegates, &c. do make known, that a majority of them, cannot approve the whole Constitution, without amendments, or alterations, for the following reasons—
1st. Because the most important powers granted by this Constitution, are expressed in terms so general, indefinite and ambiguous, as to leave the rulers in the exercise of them to act too much at discretion.
2d. The limits of the power of the General and State Governments are not marked out with sufficient precision; nor those of the former so defined as entirely to prevent a clashing of jurisdiction; and there is reason to fear that the State Governments, may be impaired by the General Government in the exercise of powers granted in such general words and by implication only;—especially,
3d. Because the Constitution gives to the Congress an indefinite and unlimited power over all the sources of revenue in the Union; by which means there is reason to fear that the individual States will be left without adequate means of discharging debts, or maintaining their civil establishments.
4th. Because the number of Representatives are not sufficiently numerous at present to possess a competent knowledge of and attachment to the interests of their constituents, or to afford a reasonable degree of confidence; and no certain ratio of increase is fixed but left at the discretion of Congress.
5th. Because the power of regulating the times, places and manner of holding elections, though in the first instance given to the respective State Legislatures, is yet untimely placed under the controul of Congress, by which means they will have it too much in their power to secure their own continuance.
6th. Because an improper mixture of the Legislative, Executive and Judicial powers are lodged in the Senate. It is a maxim in a free government, that the Legislative, Executive and Judicial departments should be kept separate;—though this cannot be effected in all its extent, yet it may be much nearer attained than is done in this system; for the Senate not only form a branch of the Legislature, but are also associated with the President in the exercise of the most important Executive powers, and form the highest Judicial Court in the nation for the trial of impeachments.
7th. The Judicial powers in the Constitution are given in too general and definitive terms, are so
various and extensive, that they may easily be made by legal fiction to extend too far and absorb some of the Judicial powers of the respective States. No explicit security is given for trial by jury in common law cases, and the ancient and useful mode of trial in criminal matters is not secured. The appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, may deprive the citizens of safety from juries, and render the obtaining justice difficult, dilatory and expensive.
For these and various other reasons, this Convention would be induced not to accede to this Constitution, did not other weighty considerations interpose; but the strong attachments they feel to their sister States, and their regard to the common good of the Union impel them to preserve it.
This Convention have the firmest confidence in the common councils of the people of the United States and the highest expectations that all the necessary amendments will be produced from their further deliberations;—but as some time will be necessary to effect this, the Convention will forbear to dissent from their brethren of the other States:—they have therefore agreed to assent to and ratify the said Constitution, in the firmest confidence that an opportunity will be speedily given to revise and amend the said Constitution, in the mode pointed out in the fifth article thereof; expressly reserving nevertheless to this State a right to recede and withdraw from the said Constitution in case such opportunity be not given within years.
Then follows several recommendations to Congress respecting direct taxes, the calling another Convention immediately, and a resolution for sending circular letters to the several States,—on the 19th the question was taken, and it was agreed, to take the last proposition of Mr. Smith, which, it is supposed, will afford the groundwork for an adoption:
Extract of a letter from Poughkeepsie, July 20.
“We have yet hopes—several of those who were at first opposed to the Constitution, will now vote for it, others are relenting. Our Hamilton, Livingston and Jay, have done wonders, they have darted the rays of conviction into the hearts of all who have heard them, and they have melted them, the “big tears rolling down the manly cheeks,” have been witnesses to it—The God of our fathers, I believe, hath not forsaken us, and I hope in my next to give you an evidence of it—by informing you that we have adopted the Constitution.”
B O S T O N, July 30. According to an accurate account, the amount of the exports from this port, the last year, was £ 345 146 15 4, estimated at the value the articles bore at the time of exportation. The articles of pot and pearl ashes amounted to above 30 000. and New-England rum, to above 43.000.
QUESTION. WHAT word is that in the English language from which if you take the five last letters it is a male—the four last a female—the three last a great man—and altogether a great woman.
PORTSMOUTH, July 31. Extract of a letter from a gentleman of good information, dated New-York July 24, 1788.
“Our Convention have not yet come to a decision, but they will in a day or two, which, from the best information we can obtain, will be a ratification, a recommendation of amendments, with a proviso, that if the amendments recommended, are not inserted within four years, that the State shall then be allowed to recede from the government. This is a covered rejection, and will be considered as such by Congress.”
A letter from New-York mentions, that the procession in that city, on the 23d inst. was sublime and magnificent, and was conducted in a federal, decent manner.—No particulars of it are yet published.
TO BE GIVEN AWAY, SEVERAL important and high stations, in the new government. No persons need offer themselves as candidates for them, unless they can be well recommended, for tried abilities, strict honour and integrity, and unbaken federalism. Inquire of “THE PEOPLE” Information having been given that some persons have offered some of these stations as being in their gift, the world are assured that such persons were in no wise empowered to make the offer.
WANTED, A Reasonable Pretext for ratifying the Constitution. Apply to No. 46, Poughkeepsie.
LOST. By a flaming patriot in Virginia, all his Pretensions to Consistency—They were dropt at Richmond, wrapped up in an “Address of the Minority.”
WANTED TO PURCHASE, Blank Recantations of antifederal sentiments—Those of a good form will receive any price. Inquire of two would-be candidates for seats in the Federal Government, in two adjacent counties.
WANTED, By the Federalists—the ratification of North Carolina and New-York. By the antis—eye fight. By the R. I. majority—anarchy. By the minority—a separation. And by America in general—the speedy operation of the new government. July 22.
State of New-Hampshire. NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in the following towns, viz. Hawk for 1781 and 1786; Peterborough 1784, 1785, 1786 & 1787; Gunthwaite from 1774 to 1787; Protectworth 1782, 1783 and 1787; Unity 1784, 1786, 1787 and road tax 1788; Landaff, Windham and Meredith 1785; Peterborough-Slip, Candia, Hanover, Wilton, Pembroke, Malon, Canaan and Conway, 1786; Deerfield, Burton, Rochester, Middleton and Hollis, 1786 and 1787; New-Durham, Keen, Marlborough, Weare, Effingham, Cockermouth, Sutton, Raymond, Orford, Nottingham, Heniker, Hillsborough, Pittsfield, Chichester, New-Chester and Bridgewater, Northumberland, Fitzwilliam, Fishersfield, Antrim, Canterbury, Loudon & Grafton, for 1787; Sandwich, 1788. That their lands in said towns are taxed for the years aforesaid, and if they are not paid within eight weeks from the first publication of this advertisement to the collectors or the subscriber they will be advertised for sale.
THOMAS ODIORNE, Receiver of non-resident taxes. Exeter, July 23d, 1788.
C A R D I G A N. State of New-Hampshire. NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in Cardigan, who have not paid their taxes for the year, 1786 and 1787, that so much of their land will be sold at public vendue, on Friday the 15th Day of August next, at my dwelling house in said town, at ten o’clock in the forenoon and then by adjournment until all is sold, as will pay the taxes and charges unless prevented by previous payment. Each right contains 232 acres,
100 acres of which is drawn, the remainder not drawn. The 100 acre lot is taxed 1s. 7d½ in specie, 4d½ in certificates, and 2s. in facilities, the undivided lot is taxed 2s. 1d½ in specie, 6d½ in certificates, and 2s. 7d½ in facilities. The original proprietors are as follows. viz. Zachariah Waldo, Elkanah Cobb, jun. Aaron Cleveland. Theophilus Clark. Rev. Abel Leonard, Varney Fellows, Sam’l Payne, Daniel Payne, Amos Payne, John Batholomew, Thomas Baker, Ebenezer Craft, Silas Bowen, George Hodges, Ebenezer Gray, Thomas Gray, George Wentworth, William Darby, Isaac Fellows, Sam’l Gray, John Wendell, Rofel Morgan, Isaac Morgin, William Robertson, Ezekiel Pearce, Jonathan Douglass, Jeremiah Cady, Edward Ayers, Zadoc Spaulding, Joseph Spaulding, jun. Andrew Baker, Joseph Shepard, jun. Daniel Clark, Daniel Foster, Joseph Spaulding, John Cady, Ezekiah Spaulding, Oliver Spaulding, Ephraim Spaulding, jun. Joseph Shepard, Isaac Coit, Esq. Timothy Larabe, William Burns, Esq. Richard Saltus, James McHurd, Benjamin Hurd, John Larabe, Alexander Miller, Joshua Dunlap, William Faranuer, Nathaniel Rogers, Daniel Payne, jun. James Bradford, Rev. John Fuller, Thomas Sumner, Benjamin Cady, John Williams, Sam’l Chandler, Elisha Payne, Eliphalet Dyer, Ebenezer Child, Elkanah Cobb, Benjamin Spaulding, Sam’l Adams, 3d. Nathaniel Peirce, jun., David Shepherd, John Pearse, Nathan Waldo, Ichabod Ormsby, Sam’l Adams, jun. David Payne, James Brown, John Greene, Thomas Stevens, Perry Clark, Elisha Perkins, Jabez Eansworth, Ephraim Spaulding, Sam’l Chandler, jun. Joseph Eaton, Rofel Stevens, William Robertson, William Farnam, Curtis Spaulding, Simeon Forbes, Nehemiah Stevens, Richard Smith, Joseph Spaulding, Robert Washburn, Ephraim Jones, Ebenezer Brown, Ezekiel Peirce, Theophilus Clark.
JONATHAN HOYT, Collector. Cardigan, July 10, 1788.
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NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in Unity, who have not paid their taxes for the years 1781, 1782 and 1783, that so much of their land will be sold at public vendue, on the third Wednesday in September next, at the dwelling-house of Abner Chase, innholder in said town, at two o’clock in the afternoon, as will pay the taxes together with incidental charges, unless prevented by previous payment.
N.Em.Cert.Cert. N.R.Qty. s.d.s.d.s.d. Samuel Winslow 15 1 61 4 6 5 5 1 11 5 1 50 3 9 4 6 1 6 Nath’l Barrell, Esq. 13 1 78 5 8 7 2 2 4 21 1 87 6 5 3 0 2 8 James Bean 23 4 50 3 9 4 6 1 6 ELIJAH WEED, Constable. Unity, July 18, 1788.
State of New-Hampshire, Strafford, ss. THE honorable the Judge of Probate for the county of Strafford, having allowed six months from the 8th day of July, instant, for the creditors to the estate of JOHN GRIFFIN, late of Durham, in said county, Esq. deceased, represented insolvent, to exhibit their claims: The subscribers being appointed commissioners to receive and examine such claims, hereby notify all persons having demands against said estate, that they will attend upon that business at the dwelling-house of Mrs. Hannah Griffin, in Durham, the afternoon of the first Monday in August and the afternoons of the first Monday’s of the four following months.
JOHN SULLIVAN, } Commissioners. EBEN’R THOMPSON, } Durham, July 24th, 1788.
N A V A L - O F F I C E. Port of Piscataqua, July 31, 1788. E N T E R E D From Schooner Swallow, Lang, St. Peters. C L E A R E D Brig Montpelier, Wardrobe, West-Indies

Parnassian Spring.
HAPPINESS to be found only in our own MINDS.
THE midnight moon serenely smiles O'er nature's soft repose. No low'ring cloud obscures the sky, Nor rustling tempest blows.
Now every passion sinks to rest, The throbbing heart lies still, And varying schemes of life no more Distract the lab'ring will.
In silence hush'd, to reason's voice Attends each mental power, Come dear Emilia and enjoy Reflection's fav'rite hour.
Come, while the peaceful scene invites, Let's search this ample round; Where shall the lovely fleeting form Of happiness be found.
Does it amidst the frolick mirth Of gay assemblies dwell, Or hide beneath the solemn gloom That shades the Hermit's cell.
How oft the laughing brow of joy A sick'ning heart conceals, And thro' the cloister's deep recess, Invading sorrow steals.
In vain thro' beauty, fortune, wit, The fugitive we trace; It dwells not in the faithless smile That brighten's Clodio's face.
Perhaps the joy to these deny'd The heart in friendship finds; Ah! dear delusion, gay conceit Of visionary minds.
Howe'er our varying notions rove, Yet all agree in one, To place its being in some state At distance from our own.
O blind to each indulgent aim Of pow'r supremely wise, Who fancy happiness in aught The hand of Heaven denies;
Vain are alike the joys we seek, And vain what we possess, Unless harmonious reason tunes The passions into peace.
T'emporate wishes, just desires Is happiness confin'd; And, deaf to folly's call, attends The musick of the mind
TO BE SOLD
At Public Vendue,
Pursuant to a licence granted by the Honorable Phillips White, Esq. Judge of the Probate of Wills, &c. for the county of Rocking- ham, in the State of New Hamp- shire.
The whole of the real estate of JOSHUA HAINES , late of North Hampton, deceased, with the reversion of the Widow's thirds —The sale will be at the late dwell- ing House of said deceased, on the 26 day of August next, at ten o'- Clock, A. M.
SHOBEL PAGE PHILBRICK,
(Administrator)
North Hampton, July 22, 1788.
State of New-Hampshire.
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given to all the proprietors and owners of lands in the township of Franconia, in the county of Grafton, in said State of New-Hampshire, that there is three proprietors taxes voted on each original right of land, in said township; one of thirty shillings on each right, for survey- ing and allotting out the township; one of forty shillings to pay the proprietors debts and expenditures, in bringing for- ward the settlement of said township; one of twelve shillings, for laying out and making roads in said township; — which are committed to me to collect; which if not paid to me at my dwelling house, in Concord, (Massachusetts,) before the first day of September next, the delinquent rights will be advertised for sale as the law directs, by
JONAS MINOT , Collector.
Concord, June 26, 1788.
WHEREAS THOMAS HUTCH- ING LEWES of Kittery, has in his possession a note of hand signed by the subscriber, and ISAAC CHAPTMAN and WILLIAM MUGRIDGE , dated April 8th, 1783, for the sum of one hundred and seventeen dollars, and said sum has been fully paid by me: This is therefore to caution any person or persons from purchasing said note, with any expectation of being paid by me, JOHN BELLAMY. Kittery, July 17, 1788.
(FITZ WILLIAM.)
State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non- resident proprietors and owners of land in the Township of Fitzwilliam, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1787, that unless they pay the same to me the sub- scriber, on or before the 3d day of September next, so much of their land as will pay the same, together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at ten o'clock on said day, at the dwelling house of Major Sylvanus Reed, innholder in said town, unless prevented by previous payment.
   N. R. D. Q'ty s. d. q. s. d. q. s. d. q. s. d. q. s. d. q.    Timothy Rockwood 4 1 6 6 2  Robert Ware 14 1 6 6 2  Col. Stoddard 1 3 6 6 2  Levi Wilder 6 3 6 6 2  ditto 7 3 6 6 2  Matthew Osborn 10 3 6 6 2  Joseph Farwell 11 3 6 6 2  Col. Stoddard 1 4 6 6 2  James Reed 4 4 6 6 2  George Libbey's heirs 5 4 6 6 2  Levi Wilder 6 4 6 6 2  ditto 8 4 6 6 2  Col. Stoddard 1 5 6 6 2  James Reed 2 5 3 3 1  Col. Stoddard 7 5 6 6 2  Levi Wilder 1 6 6 6 2  ditto 2 6 6 6 2  James Stone 8 6 1 9 0  Col. Stoddard 19 6 6 6 2  Jalon Stone 21 6 2 1 3  Bartlet Bowker 20 7 6 6 2  Levi Wilder 1 8 6 6 2  Jonathan Whitcomb 3 8 3 3 1  Abner Morse 9 8 6 6 2  Joseph Forristall 19 8 6 6 2  Livi Wilder 17 9 6 6 2  Daniel Gould 22 9 6 6 2  Levi Wilder 3 10 6 6 2  Michael Switzer 4 10 4 4 1  Jonas Gary 7 10 3 3 1  George Libbey's heirs 10 10 6 6 2  Eb. Tolman & If. Jackson 23 10 3 3 1  Nathaniel Brooks 11 11 6 6 2  Col. Stoddard 12 11 6 6 2  John Rite 22 11 3 3 1  Col. Stoddard 16 12 6 6 2  Nathan Treadwell 17 12 6 6 2  Thomas Clark 18 12 6 6 2  Rufus Buckland 19 12 6 6 2  Ezekiel White 20 12 3 3 1  Lyman Brigham 21 12 4 8 3  Agabus Bihop 22 12 6 6 2  Col. Stoddard 3 3 3 3 1  John Swulland 22 11 3 3 1  
DANIEL MELLEN , Collector. Fitzwilliam, June 30, 1788.
(DEARING,) State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non- resident proprietors and owners of land in the township of Dearing, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1787, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber, on or before Tuesday, the 2d day of Septem- ber next, so much of their land as will pay the same, together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, at the dwelling house of Robert Hogg, innholder in said town, unless pre- vented by previous payment.
   Continental Specie. Facilit. Specie. Certif. Specie. State Specie. County tax. Meeting house. State Certif. Specie. Facilit. Specie. Certif. Specie. State Specie. County tax. Meeting house. State Certif. Specie.    John Dustin 1 4 1 0 0 4 5 10 0 4 2  Fit. Gibbons 1 4 1 0 0 4 5 6 0 4 1  S'l Philbrook 1 4 1 0 0 3 5 1 0 4 2  Esq. Moffatt 13 1 9 6 2 6 4 2 4 8  John Clough 1 4 1 0 0 3 5 1 0 4 2  J. Shackford 2 8 1 10 0 6 9 2 0 8 2  
MATTHEW FORSITH , Constable. Dearing, June 27, 1788.
For SALE, A Genteel Chaife, cheap. Apply to the Printer hereof.
(ANDOVER.) State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the township of Andover, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1787, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber, on or before the third Wednesday in August next, so much of their land will be sold at public vendue, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, at my dwell- ing house in said town, as will pay said taxes and incidental charges, unless prevented by payment. state&county.roads.
   N. R. D. Q'ty s. d. q. s. d. q. s. d. q. s. d. q. s. d. q.    Joseph French 10 4 50 0 7 2 0 6 0 0 3 0 1 1 0 6 0  Samuel Blake 10 2 100 1 3 1 0 11 3 4 3 2 2 1  Daniel Cram 11 1 80 1 3 1 11 3 4 3 2 2 1  William Swain 13 1 80 1 3 1 11 3 4 3 2 2 1  Joseph Gove 14 2 75 2 2 1 8 8 3 3 1 8  Edmund Brown 15 1 50 5 1 4 2 8 4  Samuel French 20 2 100 1 7 5 5 3 3 1 5 2 2 1  Robert Miller 20 2 80 1 3 1 11 3 4 3 2 2 1  Benjamin French 20 4 100 1 3 9 3 4 2  Law Lott 1st 21 1 80 7 2 6 3 1 1 6  David Norton 25 1 50 5 4 1 2 3 4  Jonathan Leavitt 26 3 60 7 3 5 3 2 2 1 2 1 3  J. Weare 30 2 100 3 9 3 2 10 1 2 2 7 1 3  Simon Marston 32 4 100 1 3 9 3 5 2 2  Law Lott 2d 34 4 100 2 6 2 1 11 2 9 2 4 3 2  Joshua Peirce 37 3 100 1 11 1 5 1 7 1 3 2 1 6  Joshua Towl 38 4