Fowle's New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser ([Portsmouth, N.H.]), 1785-04-22 00:00:00

NEW-HAMPSHIRE AND GENERAL
FOWLE's
GAZETTE, THE ADVERTISER.
FRIDAY
APRIL 22, 1785.
PRINTED BY
MELCHER AND OSBORNE.
VOL. XXIX.]
"OPEN TO ALL PARTIES—INFLUENCED BY NONE:—WE AIM ONLY TO BE JUST"
N o . 1485.
Having published the whole of the learned Doctor Price's "Observations on the Importance of the American Revolution," which he dedicates "To the FREE and UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, as a LAST TESTIMONY of the GOOD WILL of the AUTHOR," we proceed to say before our readers, M. Turgot's Letter, which the Doctor has published with his Observations, introduced by the following
ADVERTISEMENT.
THE following letter was written by the late M. Turgot, Comptroller-General (in the year 1774, 1775, and 1776,) of the finances of FRANCE. It contains observations in which the United States are deeply concerned; and for this reason, I now convey it to them; not doubting but that the eminence of Mr. Turgot's name and character will recommend it to their attention, and that it will do honour to his memory among all the friends of publick liberty.
MR. FRANKLIN has in your name, Sir, put into my hand the new edition of your observations upon civil liberty, &c. I am under double obligations to you: In the first place for your work, of which I long since knew the value, and which I had read with avidity, notwithstanding the multiplied occupation by which I was besieged, when it first appeared in print; and in the next place for your civility in suppressing that imputation of my want of address which you had mixed with the praise otherwise given to me in your additional observations. I might defer it, if you had not in view any other want of address than my inability to discover the springs of intrigue which played off against me a set of men much more adroit in that science than I am, than I ever shall be or than I wish to be. But it appeared that you imputed to me the indiscretion of having shown in the face of the general opinion of my nation; and there, I think, you neither did justice to me nor to my nation, which is much more enlightened than is generally supposed amongst you, and in which perhaps it is easier than even with you to call the public attention to ideas of reason. I judge so from the infatuation of the British in the prospect of conquering America, which continued until the adventure of Burgoyne made them in some degree open their eyes. I judge so from the system of monopoly and exclusion which governs all your political writers upon commerce except Mr. Smith and Dean Tucker,—a system which is the true prime cause of your separation from your colonies. I judge so from all your polemic writings upon questions which have been agitated for 20 years back, and in which, before your's appeared, I do not recollect to have read a single piece where the true point in dispute has been rightly taken up. I have been unable to conceive how a nation which hath cultivated so successfully every branch of the natural sciences can have continued so greatly beneath herself in the most interesting science in the whole—that, of the public good; a science wherein the liberty of the press, which the alone enjoys, must have given her a mighty advantage over all the rest of Europe. Is it national pride which hath hindered you from making the utmost of that advantage? Is it because you were something better off than others, that you have turned all your speculations towards persuading yourselves that you were quite happy? Is it the spirit of party and the wish to form self support out of popular opinions, which hath retarded your progress, by leading your politicians to treat as empty metaphysicks all those speculations which tend to establish some fixed principles respecting the rights and true interests of individuals and of nations? How comes it to pass, that you are almost the first among your writers who have given just notions of liberty, and who have exposed the fallhood of that thread-bear sentiment of the greatest class of even the most republican writers, that liberty consists in being subject only to laws, as if a man oppressed by an unjust law, was free? That is would not be true even if we suppose all the laws to be work of the entire nation assembled; because, in fact, the individual has certain rights which the nation cannot take from him but by violence and an illegal use of the general force. Although you have had regard to this truth, and have explained yourself thereon,
+ What is here said refers to an account of M. Turgot's administration in the second tract on Civil Liberty and the War with America, p. 150, &c. In the first edition of this tract I had mentioned improperly his want of address among the other causes of his dismissal from power. This occasioned a letter from him to inform me of the true reasons of his dismissal, and begun that correspondence of which this letter is a part, and which continued till his death.
* See Mr. Burk's letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol.
yet perhaps it merits your care to develop it more at large, considering the little attention which hath been paid to it by even the most zealous partizans of liberty.
It is also a strange thing that it should not be counted, in England, a trifling consideration to say that one nation can never have right to govern another; and that such a government could have no foundation but that of force, upon which also are supported robbery and tyranny; that the tyranny of a people is of all known in the world the most cruel and most intolerable, leaving no remedy for the oppressed; whereas a single despot is at length stopped in his career by self-interest, he has the check of remorse, or that of public opinion; but a multitude makes no calculations, feels no remorse, and decrees to itself glory when in fact it deserves the utmost disgrace.
Events are to the English nation a terrible commentary upon your book. For some months they have been falling headlong with accelerated rapidity. The knot is untied in regard to America. Lo she is independent irrecoverably! Will she be free and happy? Will this new people, situated so advantageously to give to the world the example of a constitution wherein man may enjoy all his rights, exercise freely his whole faculties and be governed only by nature, by reason, and by justice, know how to form such a constitution? know how to fix it upon everlasting foundations, by guarding against all the causes of division and corruption which would sap it by degrees and overturn it?
I am not satisfied, I own with any constitution which have as yet been framed by the different American States. You blame with reason that of Pennsylvania for exacting a religious test upon admission into the representative body. It is much worse in others. There is one of them, I think that of the Jerseys which requires (+)  I see in the greatest number an unreasonable imitation of the usages of England. Instead of bringing all the authorities into one, that of the nation they have established different bodies, a House of Representatives a Council, a Governor, because England has an House of commons an House of Lords and a King. They undertake to balance these different authorities as if the same equilibrium of powers which has been thought necessary to balance the enormous preponderance of royalty could be of any use in republics, formed upon the equality of all the citizens; and as if every article which constitutes different bodies was not a source of divisions. By striving to prevent imaginary dangers they have created real ones. They wish to have nothing to fear from the clergy, and yet unite them under the barrier of a common proscription. By rendering them ineligible they become formed into a body and such an one as is foreign to the State. Why should one citizen who has the same interest as others in the common defence of liberty and property be excluded from contributing towards it his genius and virtues, because he is of a profession in which genius and virtue are essentials? The clergy are only dangerous when they compose a body in the State; when they conceive themselves to have rights and interests as a body; or when it has been devised to have a religion established by law; as if men could have any right, or any interest in regulating each other's consciences; as if an individual could sacrifice to civil society those opinions on which he thinks his eternal salvation depends, or as if mankind were to be saved or to be damned by the lump. Wherever true toleration, that is to say, the absolute incompetency of government over the conscience of individuals is established, there an ecclesiastical when he is admitted into the national assembly is but a citizen, when he is excluded from it, he becomes again an ecclesiastical.
I do not perceive that there has been sufficient cause to reduce the lowest possible number the kinds of business which the government of each State is to manage; or to separate the objects of legislation from those of the general and from those of the particular and local administration; to constitute standing local assemblies, which, by performing all the functions of detail in government, may free the general assemblies from engaging therein, and so take from the members of these latter all means and perhaps, all desire, to abuse an authority which should only be occupied about objects general in their nature, and therefore unconnected with the little passions which agitate mankind.
Nor do I perceive that due attention has been paid to the great distinction, and the only one founded in nature between two classes of men; I mean those who are
(+) It is the constitution of Delaware that imposes the test here meant. That of the Jerseys, with a noble liberality, orders that there shall never in that province be any establishment of any one religious sect in preference to another, & that all Protestants of persuasions shall enjoy equal rights & privileges.
proprietors in lands and those who are not; to their interests and consequently to their different rights, with respect to legislation, to the administration of justice and of the police, to the contribution for public expenses and to their employments.
No fixed principle is established in regard to imports. Each State is supposed to be at liberty to tax itself at pleasure, and to lay its taxes upon persons, consumptions, or importations, that is to say, to erect an interest contrary to that of the other States.
They suppose in all the States that they have a right to regulate commerce. They even authorize the executive bodies or the governors to prohibit the exportation of certain products upon particular occasions; so far are they from seeing that the law of intire liberty of all commerce is a corollary of the right of property; so far are they still involved in the mists of European illusions.
In the general union of the States with one another, I do not see a coalition, a melting of all the parts together, so as to make the body one and homogenous. It is only an aggregate of parts, always too separate, and which have a continual tendency to divide themselves, from the diversity of their laws, their manners, and their opinions; from the inequality of their present strength, but more still from the inequality of their future progress. It is only a copy of the republic of Holland; and this had no occasion like that of America to dread the possible growth of any one of its provinces. This whole edifice has been supported until now upon the false basis of very ancient and very vulgar policy; upon the prejudice which nations, which provinces may have concerning interests as a province or a nation, different from those which individuals have of being free and defending their properties against robbers and conquerors:—a pretended interest in carrying on more commerce than others, in not buying merchandise of foreigners, but in forcing these to consume our productions and the works of our manufacturers:—a pretended interest in having more extensive territory, in acquiring such and such a province, such and such an island, such and such a town—an interest in inspiring other nations with dread:—an interest in excelling them in the glory of arms or that of arts and sciences.
(To be concluded in our next.)
State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident Owners of Land in Andover, who have not paid their Taxes for the Year 1783, that so much of their Lands will be sold at Public Vendue, on Thursday the 12th Day of May next, at one o'Clock in the afternoon, at my own House in said Town, as will pay the Taxes and Charges, unless prevented by previous payment.
   No. R. War tax. State.   Q'y. s. d. s. d. s.     Israel Blake, 4 2 25 1 4 0 8   Ebenezer Loverin, 7 1 80 4 6 1 9   Joseph French, 10 2 100 4 4 2 2   Ditto. 10 4 50 3 4 1 8   Archelus Lakeman, 12 2 40 1 8 0 10   Ditto. 12 3 80 4 4 2 2   Ditto. 12 4 60 3 4 1 8   Samuel French, 21 1 50 1 4 0 8   Robert Miller, 25 3 100 3 6 1 9   Ditto. 25 4 60 1 2 0 10   Benjamin French, 26 4 100 2 2 1 1   Ditto. 26 2 80 2 2 1 1   Ditto. 26 4 60 2 0 1 0   Benjamin Sweat, 28 4 50 2 0 1 2   Benjamin Leavitt, 29 3 80 4 0 2 0   Amos Dunnell, 31 4 30 0 10 0 5   David Norton, 32 2 80 2 2 1 9   Jonathan Leavitt, 34 2 80 2 2 1 1   Hezekiah Kerr, 42 4 80 3 6 1 9   Samuel Bathrick, 51 3 100 6 2 3 1   Daniel Pierce, 53 1 50 5 0 1 6   Ditto. 53 3 100 5 4 3 8   Benjamin Tilton, 57 3 80 2 8 1 4   John Marston, 61 3 80 2 8 1 0   Jesse Prescott, 65 1 100 6 8 3 4   Anthony Emery, 69 3 100 2 8 1 4   Ditto. 69 4 40 2 2 1 1   Nathan Longfellow, 73 1 50 2 4 1 1   Ditto. 73 3 100 2 8 1 4   Tobias Lakeman, 75 1 100 2 8 1 4   Ditto. 75 3 90 2 8 1 4   David Page, 80 2 100 4 0 2 0   Ditto. 80 1 100 2 8 1 4   Ditto. 80 4 80 2 8 1 4  
JABEZ MORRILL, Collector.
Andover, March 28, 1785.

WHATEVER may, in reality be the difference between your abilities & mine, I readily grant that for managing a bad cause, your talents are vastly superior to any I can pretend to. I find that when all other resources fail, you have an admirable faculty of supporting your candidate by error and mistake: In the piece wherein I said, that "the resolves of Portsmouth" were similar to those of every other town upon the continent (a few tory towns only excepted); and the Printer, by mistake, inserted Parliament instead of Portsmouth , it was obvious even to a school-boy, that this must be an error of the press; unless you could first suppose the parliament of Great-Britain to be one of the towns upon this continent: but it was no doubt for want of other arguments that you had recourse to observations which could only prove the fertility of your invention; by a display of which you have undoubtedly proved to your own satisfaction, that your favorite was the only man in America who opposed the measures of parliament; that all the individuals on the continent, except him, were ready to bow the neck to the yoke of parliamentary usurpation: that he alone dared to withstand the threatening deluge; laid the foundation of the revolution, and then went to England to enquire from the British ministry, whether they approved of his proceedings. Perhaps it is fortunate for you that you have not yet lifted up your voice like a trumpet; and it may not be amiss for you now to open the eyes of your understanding, and you will soon discover that it was by mistake of the printer, you have proved your friend an opposer to the measures of parliament: that by his own mistake he protested against the American measures; went to England after hostilities were commenced; and landed with his effects in a British garrison a year after independency was declared. That by mistake of the British commander, a man was imprisoned as a friend to America who had uniformly condemned the American proceedings; that it was by mistake of the laws of war, and the principles of honor, that he broke his parole; or that by a more unjustifiable mistake, he took measures for accomplishing ends which he afterwards found impracticable. That by mistake of himself he is now seeking for a post through the suffrages of the people; which, by mistake, he formerly sought for in another channel; and that by a very extraordinary mistake of your own you have concluded that you have answered every objection, and wiped away every stain, without having answered a single charge.
Perhaps it may not be amiss for you to explain why you seem so pleased with the revolution, applaud your friend as a great revolutionist; and yet appear to despise the means which brought it about.
Your observations on Dr. L—'s letter; your groundless hints about lost papers, your curious description of the construction of a frigate, and your learned dissertation on the law of arms, and law-martial, do not deserve a serious answer; but as you have mentioned the cases of Andre and Arnold, as different, respecting the mode of procedure against them; if you will give yourself the trouble of asking any officer that has once commanded a guard, he will tell you, that if either of them had been apprehended with effects, the effects must have been taken from them and secured.
You say that I acknowledged your candidate was once chosen a committee-man for Portsmouth, I confess I did not deny it, and enquired from you if he ever acted, but you are silent upon the subject: you ask whether his absence from this country produced any real change in his sentiments? I answer that in my opinion it did not, but the change of our affairs had great influence upon his conduct.
It would be a painful task for me to dispute abilities which you have extolled to the clouds.
But I have never supposed your candidate deeply versed in the laws of his own country, much less with the laws of nations, and the principles of government; I have never heard of his wasting the midnight oil to acquaint himself with the sentiments of political writers; or to gain a knowledge of the secret springs which move the political wheels in Europe or America; but I am led to believe that you would set a man down as a great politician which I should think deserved not the name: it is truly painful to see, that even in this young country, men, who get into office, labor to become leading men; to obtain their parties, and render them superior to other parties formed by others. Self is at the bottom of all their proceedings, sometimes the most violent opposition takes place between them, and then perhaps where two can be gratified, an alliance is formed for the purpose: in the mean time the interests of the people are bartered away, or neglected; and unhappily for us the man who is most industrious in keeping up this warfare, and most successful in gaining his points, however injurious to the public weal and whatever means he makes use of to accomplish his ends, is called the best politician.
Thus in some states we see men striving for certain offices, proclaiming themselves whigs and exclaiming against tories, successfully using their efforts to honor with civil and military commissions those very men they affect to despise, noted and avowed tories; and even those who have been imprisoned as such, are put into office upon express condition that they will use their influence with the people in favor of certain persons; and the most important commissions offered upon the same infamous conditions; should any of this manœuvring appear in New-Hampshire, I trust that the good people of this state will never set down the manœuvrers as good politicians for the public; whatever advantages they may make to themselves by such unjustifiable conduct. A COUNTRYMAN—not easily deceived.
LIBERTY-HALL, April 11, 1785.
To the PUBLIC.
ALTHOUGH I might well be excused in not answering accusations made against me by nameless writers, I will in the next paper, prove by the most indubitable evidence, that every charge made against me by the false Honestus , are totally void of foundation, and have nothing but the suggestions of his own malice to support them.
JOHN SULLIVAN.
Durham, April 20, 1785.
L O N D O N,
March 1. The King has been pleased to appoint John Temple, Esq., to be his Majesty's Consul-General to the United States of America. London Gazette.
March 4. Yesterday Mr. John Temple was at Levee at St. James's, and kissed the King's hand, on being appointed Consul from Great-Britain to America.
March 10. Yesterday Sir John Temple took his final leave of the king, at St. James's on his going Consul to America.
D U B L I N, January 21.
A few days ago Mr. B. made his first experiment by walking on the grand canal, in the presence of some of his most intimate friends. He walked about five perches with an astonishing alertness; and by one of the gentlemen present, we are authorized to assure the public there cannot be a doubt but he will fulfill his promise on Wednesday evening next, by walking from the basin to the first lock.
C O R K, January 12.
A letter from a gentleman in the revenue at Castle-Townshend, to his friend here, mentions, that eight American vessels, 12-pounders, who failed in company for the purpose of smuggling, appeared off that harbour last Friday, determined to fight all revenue cruisers; and being pursued by the Bush cutter, an engagement took place within pistol shot, and she was overpowered by numbers and weight of metal. They then landed all their cargoes. In the engagement Mr. M'Dermot, mate of the Bush , was killed.
P H I L A D E L P H I A, March 22.
Extract from the Journals of the House of Assembly of the State of Georgia, January 26.
On motion by Mr. Houston, Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a bill, for investing the United States in Congress assembled with a power to levy for the United States, certain duties upon goods imported into this state, from any foreign port, island, or plantation; and that Mr. John Houston, Mr. Bowen, and Mr. Telfair, be a committee to bring in the same.
On motion by Mr. John Houston, Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a bill, to authorize the United States in congress assembled to regulate trade from the British West-Indies; and that Mr. John Houston, Mr. Habersham, and Mr. Brownson, be a committee to bring in the same.
N E W-Y O R K, March 24.
Capt. Robert Ewart, in the ship Washington , arrived at Baltimore from Jamaica and Port-au-Prince, the latter of which he left three weeks ago, brings, it is asserted the following
IMPORTANT INTELLIGENCE!
THAT Don Galvez, Governor of Havana, with an armament of seven sail of the line, and 10,000 land forces, had sailed thence on an expedition against the Musquito shore, in order to take possession of that country, in right of his most Catholic Majesty: That the Spanish army had landed, and the British forts been summoned to surrender: That Don Galvez had permitted a vessel to go with dispatches to the Governor of Jamaica, from the British commander on the Musquito shore (where she was to remain but 15 days) in consequence of which a British ship of the line, and several frigates, with 1200 land forces, and 10,000 stand of arms, supposed to be for the use of the natives in the British interest, were immediately dispatched from Jamaica, to support and defend the invaded country. It is added, that this affair had occasioned great alarm in Jamaica, where the militia were frequently under arms, and exercising as on the eve of a war.
A correspondent, who has seen announced in the news papers, the arrival in the new world, of Don Galvez, with a most formidable armament, declares, he cannot repress his astonishment and indignation, at the supineness and indifference, with which we regard an event, pregnant in the opinion of every intelligent, reflecting person, with the most tremendous consequences to the prosperity of this rising empire. The entire conduct of the Spaniards towards this country, continues he, is replete with hostility, either avowed or disguised: their interdiction of the navigation of the river Mississippi; their seizing and fortifying the Muscle Shoals, and in fine, their fitting out so warlike an armada, in a time of profound peace, speak to our rulers, trumpet-tongued, to shun the approaching vortex, which threatens to envelop us in ruin.
The correspondent is also of opinion, that previous to the dispatching any deputies or commissioners to inquire into, or remonstrate on any encroachments, the country should be put in martial array. The experience of past ages serves to evince, that the best means of preserving peace, is to be prepared for war: and when treaties are to be settled, or knotty points discussed, he has vastly the advantage who comes to the conference with arms in hand.
Extract of a letter, dated Black-River, Musquito shore, 19th Feb. 1785.
"Great-Britain seems inclinable to protect the Musquito shore, hence American vessels will find it very hazardous to come this way. The moment I am writing this, the cannon from the ships off the bar, announce the arrival of two men of war, and a large transport ship, with 400 sailors and a suitable train of artillery, from Jamaica, for the defence of this settlement."
Extract of another letter from Cape-Gratias a Dios, 28th Jan. 1785.
"A council has been held with the natives, who declare they had rather die to a man, than come under the Spanish government."
The brig Hector , Capt. Baker, which brought the letters of which the above are extracts, was obliged to come off with only part of her intended cargo, lest the vessel should be seized.
Yesterday being the anniversary of St. Patrick, the tutelary Saint of Ireland, the same was celebrated at the Coffee-House, by a number of respectable gentlemen of that ancient nation, with that festivity and good humour for which the brave sons of Hibernia have ever been remarkable. His Excellency the Governor, his Honour the Chancellor, Hon. John Jay, Hon. Judge Hobart, the Attorney General, and several members of the legislature, honoured this Social Knot with their company at dinner.— Morn. Post, March 18.
Mr. Hugh Gain, printer, late vendor of counterfeit continental money, was a worthy member of this social knot, and it is said, had the honour of bearing away the string of potatoes, he having distinguished himself by committing the last blunder. O tempora! O mores!
We are informed that Congress yesterday appointed the following gentlemen as Commissioners to treat with the Cherokees and all other Indians southward of them, within the limits of the United States, viz. Benj. Hawkins, Daniel Coriol, Wm. Perry, Andrew Pickens, and Joseph Martin, Esquires.
We are also informed, that the 20th of June next the commissioners are to hold a treaty with the said Indians at Port Vincent, on the Wabash-river.
A L B A N Y, March 11.
Letters received in town from Quebec, which mention, that it is currently reported in that city, that there is a treaty now on the carpet, between Great-Britain and France, for ceding of the whole province of Canada to the latter, in exchange (it is said) for some of the French islands in the West-Indies.
N E W - H A V E N, March 31.
It is said that Congress have granted a sum of money to be disposed of in subsidies to the piratical States of Barbary; a method which the European States are obliged to use, to conciliate the favour of the descendants of him whose hand was against every man.
B O S T O N, April 18.
In addition to the European occurrences, we find, That a cessation of hostilities, until the 15th of June, between the Emperor and Holland, is absolutely agreed on; this important event may be considered as a sure forerunner of peace, and as a renewal of the general state of tranquillity throughout Europe; the conditions of settling the peace were said to be that the Emperor gives up his pretensions to the Scheldt, and that, in return for this concession, the Dutch give him Maestricht, together with three Bailiwicks on the Meuse, and a sum of money to reimburse his expenses.
The General Court in their last session was pleased to pass an Act, generally called the STAMP ACT, a name heretofore held in an opprobrious light, and highly disgraceful to us. A clause in said Act lays,
"For every NEWS-PAPER, two-thirds of a Penny."
P O R T S M O U T H, April 22.
The following melancholy circumstance happened at Stratham, on Thursday, the 14th instant:—Mr. Samuel Kenniston, Mr. Thomas Bracket, and Mr. Elphalet Wiggins, having occasion to go on board a Schooner, then laying in the river, from Newmarket, took for their conveyance, a small float which lay on the shore: They had not proceeded far, when, (the wind blowing fresh) the float upset, and the three unhappy persons were drowned! The neighbours, upon missing the above persons, jealous of their welfare collected, and searching, found their Bodies near the place they were supposed to be drowned. "It is appointed for all men once to die"
It is hoped the above circumstance will be a warning to all persons, how they venture in such ticklish machines which have often prov'd so fatal to the lives of many—especially those unskilled in swimming.
Capt. Long, who arrived here from St. Eustatia, informs, that on the 12th instant, in latt. 40—53, North. long. 64—38, West, he spoke a sloop from Salem, John Osgood, Master,—all well.
Want of room obliges us to omit sundry Advertisements, Articles of Intelligence, Pieces of Entertainment, &c.
DIED. J Mr. John Seward, aged 88; and a negro boy.
M A R I N E L I S T.
PORT of PISCATAQUA, April 22, 1785.
E N T E R E D,
Schooner Betsey, Manning, from St. Kitts, Sloop Adonis. Long. St. Eustatia.
WHEREAS applications are frequently made to the SELECTMEN individually, and sometimes on matters of importance—which mode, does not appear to them either regular or proper; therefore give this public notice that they will meet at UNION-HALL every Thursday evening, at 7 o'clock;—any person or persons having business with them may govern themselves accordingly.

MISSSES
From the COUNTRY.
Taken to Board; And instructed in reading, writing, arithmetic, &c. by
BENJAMIN DEARBORN, on Moderate Terms.
Said Dearborn has now in the press,
RULES for teaching VOCAL MUSIC entirely by letters, and for bringing all its characters within the compass of a common fount of prin- ting-types. This mode of instruction he has found by experience, to be much more expedi- tious than that heretofore used; and so simple as scarcely to perplex the youngest child who can read.
To make these rules more extensively useful, he proposes to open a
SINGING-SCHOOL,
on Tuesday, the 19th of April next, to be atten- ded on Tuesdays and Fridays, from 7 to 9 o'clock, P. M.
N. B. Scholars belonging to the writing- school the ensuing summer, whose parents desire they may attend the singing-school, shall have that privilege gratis. Those who are not of the writing-school will be received in the singing- school for EIGHT SHILLINGS per quarter.
PORTSMOUTH, March 31, 1785.
(Rindge.)
State of New-Hampshire.
To be sold at Public Vendue, at the house of Mr. Samuel Whiting, inholder in Rindge, on Tues- day the Tenth Day of May next, at Ten o'Clock in the fore- noon, so much of the following lots of Land laying in Rindge, aforesaid, as will pay the following Taxes and intervening Charges, unless presented by previous payment.
   No. R. l. s. d.     Jonathan Parker, Jr. 1 10 0 2 3   Ensign John Pollard, 3 1 0 5 9   Jonas Hadley, half, 1 3 0 5 8   Ditto, 2 3 0 5 6   Eleazer Blanchard, 7 5 0 6 9   Levi Farr, 3 2 0 6 9   Major James Richardson, 9 1 0 6 9   Cotton Whiting, half, 4 4 0 4 6   Ditto, 5 4 0 4 6   Isaac Preston, 1 5 0 6 9   Charles Newton, 14 1 0 6 9  
The above Taxes are for the State, War and County for 1783.
JEREMIAH CHAPMAN, Collector.
Rindge, October 18, 1784.
LANDS
On, and near LAKE OTSEGO, in Tryon County, State of New-York.
THE Subscriber, owner of 27,000 acres of excel- lent LAND, which lay on the above Lake, and on Oaks and Fly-Creeks, as well as more westerly in the same patent; hereby gives notice to farmers and others, residing in the States of New-York, Connecticut, Massachusetts and New-Hampshire, that he, or his agent will attend at the South end of the Lake from the 10th to the 30th of May, for the express purpose of selling the whole tract together, or to subdivide it into lots from 300 to 400 acres, as may best accommodate pur- chasers. The price for it, in the aggregate, or lesser proportions, will be then made public. In the mean time, he makes known, that the payments he shall require, will be one third down in Spanish milled dol- lars, and the remainder (also in Spanish dollars) in three equal annual payments, with interest: but if more eligi- ble to farmers, one half to be prompt payment, and the residue, on interest, in five equal annual sums:— and on the whole being paid, a full, clear and abso- lute title shall be given.
To describe the fertility of soil, its proximity to the Albany river, to Springfield, Cherry Valley, the German Flats, and to Schenectady; or the advantages deri- vable from its situation on, and near the Susquehannah, would be equally tedious and unnecessary, because they are generally known to the inhabitants of the Eastern States.—It is however incumbent on me to caution all men from confiding in any person or person's in Tryon County, who either ignorantly, or illusively, have assumed to be vested with a power of attorney, from me to sell these, or any other lands of mine in the State of New-York, at a less price than I affixed in my let- ters: For in strict truth, no such power hath ever been granted; nor will any pretended sale (inasmuch as I have never been made acquainted therewith, if any such been made) be sanctioned or confirmed by
J. WHARTON.
PHILADELPHIA March 1, 1785.
JOHN WHITE, Dancing-Master,
WOULD inform the respectable ladies and gen- tlemen, whom he proposed to teach Minuet Dancing, &c. by means of the roads being yet im- passable, has thought best to prolong the time of open- ing his school, to the third day of May,—when he will open it at the Assembly-Room in this town.
Jonathan Moulton, of HAMPTON,
HAVING for more than 20 years past, been prin- cipally engaged in settling several new towns in this State; which are now become so far peopled and cultivated, that he proposes to devote a principal part of his time for the future, in carrying on a trade at Dover; and intends to close all his old affairs as quick as possible, particularly with those persons who live in the upper part of the county of Strafford, and in the county of Grafton.
He is sensible of the scarcity of cash, and the difficulty of persons in the country, in particular, making that pay, and also that this is not the season of the year to expect much produce or stock; but his present design here is earnestly to request all those that have accounts open with him, or that he has concerns with, either by notes of long standing, or otherwise, to be prepared to settle them as soon as possible.
He proposes, in order to make it more easy to those who are indebted to him, in those counties, to receive from them next fall, or winter, all kind of merchanta- ble produce and cattle, in payment, at the current price;—and he trusts it will be acceptable to them to be seasonably reminded of it; and as he thus indulges them, he hopes they will use their best endeavours to be prepared accordingly.
Those persons who can contrive to make payment by the first day of July next, shall, for their encourage- ment, have a generous allowance made them.
Said MOULTON being fully convinced that it will be to the interest of the people in the new country in general to raise and save what flax-seed they can, would earnestly recommend it to them. And he hereby offers
GOOD ENCOURAGEMENT FOR
2000 bushels of good FLAX-SEED,
He will pay in CASH, or any kind of GOODS, at his store in Dover.—As he wishes to compleat the collection by the first day of September next; any sui- table person that will contract for the whole, or a part, may be supplied with goods on credit, to facilitate their collecting the same.—He would also be glad to engage
A QUANTITY OF MERCHANTABLE
POT-ASH, and a few Tons GINSENG.
ONE half to be delivered by the first day of Septem- ber next, and the other half by the tenth day of Nov- ember following; for which a good price will be gi- ven in cash, or goods as aforesaid. Part of the pay will be advanced upon a proper person's engaging, and the remainder will be paid on delivery. Also,
Good new Lands for Sale.
NOTWITHSTANDING said MOULTON's design of applying principally to trade at Dover, as foremen- tioned; yet his interest in the country must still de- mand a considerable share of his attention. It was to subserve that which originally induced him to fix on this trade, and soon expects to receive reciprocal ad- vantages from it.—But owning more lands than he shall be able to take proper care of, without incon- venience to his business at Dover, he proposes to sell several large tracts of good Land, in each of the follow- ing towns, viz. Orford, Piermont, and Bath, joining on the East side of Connecticut river; and in Moul- tonborough, New-Hampton, and Tamworth, lying on or near Winnepiseochee Lake; also in Eaton, which joins on the Easterly side of said Tamworth;—in Bur- ton, joining the North part of Tamworth, and South on Conway;—and in Chatham, adjoining the North side of said Conway.
ANY that apply, may expect to receive very encou- raging proposals, (even better than any he has ever heretofore offered) and accompanied with such favoura- ble circumstances, as he thinks must induce them to accept his terms, in preference to any (he apprehends) they will meet with elsewhere. He would now men- tion that he gives long or short credit, as most agree- able, and takes produce, stock, and all merchantable articles of trade.—Likewise publick securities of all kinds at their current value.
ANY gentleman, or company of gentlemen, who may become purchasers, and shall be disposed to clear and cultivate one or more plantations, in either of the aforesaid townships, can be well accommodated, and shall be afforded every necessary assistance. If any en- terprising gentleman or company, desirous of making plantations, and will take the lead, in furthering the settlements of some of said townships, by applying will find them, under circumstances peculiarly adapted to their purpose, and may be assured of meeting with sin- gular encouragement.
SETTLERS may still be furnished with lots or par- cels of land on credit, as usual, (and if desired) even so long, as to give them an opportunity to raise produce from off the land to pay for the same.
Likewise, to be sold or exchanged,
Sundry good FARMS in several of the aforesaid townships.
WHEREAS said MOULTON will require good requi- res for cash to execute his plan of trade to good effect, therefore he intends to sell a number of his farms in the country, on a very advantageous lay for that purpose. They will be such as are well situated in Moulton- borough, Tamworth, &c. consisting of excellent land, and of different sizes, and degrees of cultivation.
Take Notice! Here he particularly presents a fine opportunity to persons possessing old farms in the lower towns, that have a number of likely smart sons, and who wish to exchange their farms be-
low, for large ones in the country, of more fertile soil, with many other additional advantages, especially to improve the present fair opportunity of acquiring a sufficiency of good unimproved lands adjoining, at a reasonable rate; so as to enable them to settle their families compactly around them. A similar offer he also makes to others, who consider their places too small, indifferent as to quality, want of fire-wood, or for any other reasons, are desirous of exchanging their old lands for new. He acquaints them of his readi- ness to accommodate them, and is assured that he can, and is as willing to do it, on as good at least, if not on a better lay than any person in this State. He would in fine observe, to those who may incline to dispose of their old places for new, that he will make it convenient for them to make sale of their old places, or if most agreeable, will exchange with them, if can agree on terms. For further particulars, concerning any of the above premises he invites such as incline to be con- cerned, to make personal application, and shall be glad to wait on them on the subject either at his seat in Hampton, at his store in Dover, or at Center Harbour and Orford, at such times as his business may require his residing at those respective places.
JONATHAN MOULTON.
HAMPTON, April 7, 1785.
Phillips & Winthrop,
Inform the Public, and the Gentlemen concerned in the Fishery in particular,
That they have for Sale, at JOHN WINTHROP's Store, on Greene's Wharf, and at No. 40, on the Long-Wharf, Boston,
The following Articles,
COD-LINES, of a new and superior
Manufacture.
Mackarel Lines,
Best I P. Cod-Hooks,
Ditto Mackarel ditto,
Deep Sea Lines,
Sail Twine,
Salmon Netts,
Cordage of all Kinds, foreign and American
Boltrope, &c. &c.
A L S O,
Wilton and Persian Carpets, all Sizes.
Bed-side Carpets,
A few Pieces best English Ticking.
N. B. Every Article directly from the Manufactory, warranted of the best kind, and will be sold as cheap, for Cash, or short Credit, as Goods of equal Goodness can be purchased at any Store in Town.
Thomas Manning,
HAS for sale, Rum by the Hog- head, Barrel or Gallon—Cheese —Porter, by the Dozen or Cask—Cor- dage—large and small Hausers—Lines of all kinds—Twine—Stationary—Lig- numvitae—Newcastle Sea-Coal—Limes —and a number of other Articles, which he will sell at a low Advance, or trade for Lumber.
By the UNITED STATES in CONGRESS Assembled.
MARCH 17, 1785.
WHEREAS it must conduce to the preservation of public credit, and the equal distribution of justice, that the amount of the national debt be ascertained with the utmost expedition; and as delay in the settlement of accounts tends to render them obscure, and to encourage frauds, by preventing the means of detecting them;
RESOLVED, That all persons, having unliquidated claims against the United States, be, and they are hereby re- quired, within twelve months from the date hereof, to de- liver a particular abstract of such claims to some commis- sioner in the state in which they respectively reside, who is authorized to settle accounts against the United States.— And any person or persons, neglecting to deliver in their claims as aforesaid, shall be precluded from any adjustment of the same, except at the board of treasury: provided that in those states where there is no commissioner of accounts, the citizens of such state or states shall be allowed one year for delivering their claims, from the time when a commi- ssioner shall have been appointed and enter on the duties of his office.
THAT all persons who shall neglect to deliver in a par- ticular abstract of their claims as aforesaid, shall be exclu- ded from the benefit of settlement or allowance.
RESOLVED, That the commissioners of accounts, ap- pointed under the resolution of 27th February, 1782, be, and they are hereby instructed to remove their respective offices to the place in which Congress resides, before the first of May next, except such of them as by special order of Congress have been appointed to settle accounts in some other place.
CHARLES THOMPSON. Secy.
TO BE LETT,
A LARGE commodious HOUSE, suitable for a Tavern or Boarding House, with a Barn, Gar- den, and every other convenience.—For further Parti- culars Inquire of JONATHAN WARNER.
Wanted to CHARTER, A VESSEL, of about 40 Tons.— Enquire of the Printers.

POET'S CORNER.
On FRIENDSHIP.
Too oft in chusing friends we err, By warm good nature press'd ; And, in a dove like form, receive A serpent to the breast.
External beauties strike the eye, And such attractions wear, We nothing but perfection see, And rush into the snare.
No wonder that a pleasing face, With winning manners join'd, Are lov'd by those who cannot trace The motions of the MIND.
There must the LASTING beauties lie, Which never know decay ; For ev'ry charm but those WITHIN, Are swept, by time, away.
Th' allurements of external charms, Can ne'er deceive us long ; Affection may the union bind, Esteem must make it strong.
A thousand smiling flow'ry paths, To FRIENDSHIP's temple lead ; But those that follow VIRTUE's steps, Most happily succeed.
To be sold at public vendue, at the house of Jonathan Smith, Inholder in Amberst, in the county of Hillsborough, on Wednesday the 4th day of May next, so much of the following lots of land in said town, as will be sufficient to pay the tax assessed on them by the selectmen of said Amberst, in the years 1781, and 1782.
For the year 1781.     Acres. l. s. d. N. Emi's'n. l. s. d. Silver     Heirs Col. Brown 166 38 6 5 1 5 6 1 2   Heirs Wm. Gorden 200 20 9 2 13 6 5 3   Heirs Col. Blanchard 5 2 3 3 4 1 6   Heirs Anne Cole 76 18 15 3 12 6 4 11   Heirs J. Wheeler 150 22 12 3 15 5 5 1 1    GEORGE BUMS, Constable.
   Acres. D. s. d.     Heirs of Peter Cochran 11 1 4 9   Jeremiah Dodge 60 1 11   Heirs of Joseph Majory 40 1 9 4   Heirs of Samuel Preston 45 No 106 4 9   Nathan Barker 23 1 3 7   Read or Jayueth 35 1 5 3   Joshua Blodget 30 1 3 7    JONATHAN SMITH, Constable.
   Acres. l. s. d.     Heirs of Anne Cole 76 18 8   Heirs of Joseph Wheeler 150 1 4 3   Heirs of William Brown 166 1 17 2   David Burnham 234 2 13 2    OLIVER CARLTON, Constable. Amberst, March 26, 1785.
[ Nottingham. ]
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident Owners of Land in the Town of Nottingham, who have not paid their Taxes for the Year 1783, that so much of their Lands as will pay said Taxes, with incidental Charges, will be sold at Public Vendue, at the House of BENJAMIN BUTLER, Esq. Inholder in said Town, on Monday the second Day of May next, at Ten o'Clock in the Forenoon.
JOSEPH HODGDON, } Constables. SAMUEL DANIELS, }     No. Persons Names No. ac. S. tax. C. tax. T. tax.   Hodgdon's list. anim. l s d q     Josiah Burleigh 40 0 19 2 2 0 10 3   Sam'l Brown, jr 50 0 13 10 3 4 4 2   John Carr, 38 1 0 8 0 0 9 3 7 5 2   Phineas Fogg, 88 0 2 4 3 0 7 0 3 9 0   Benja. Smith, 50 1 8 0 0 1 3 3 10 3 3   Benja. Norris, 10 0 3 7 1 0 2 0 1 3 0    Original Proprietors Names, 1st Range. }
   9 Cutt & Moul-ton, 210 0 8 4 3 0 4 3   3 John Favour, 50 0 2 4 3 0 1 2   4 Col. Rich. Kent 100 0 4 9 3 0 2 3   5 Sam'l Penhallow, 100 0 4 9 3 0 2 3    Woodbridge's Gore, (so called.)
   1 Geo. Jeffery or Will. Langdon, 110 0 6 9 2 0 4 1   3 B. Woodbridge, 250 0 6 0 0 0 3 1   4 John Goodman, 30 0 1 7 2 0 1 0   Col. Step. Evans, 176 1 8 0 0 1 3 3    Original Proprietors. Winter Street. William Peirce, 100 0 4 9 2 0 2 2 John Allen, 50 0 2 4 2 0 1 1 Cross-Street. Lower Range. Job Giddinge, 176 0 2 4 3 0 1 1 Lt. Gov. Wentworth's heirs, 400 0 12 9 2 0 7 1 NOTTINGHAM, March 21, 1785.
[ Cambridge. ]
WHEREAS the Proprietors of the Township of Cambridge, in the County of Grafton, in the State of New-Hampshire, at a legal meeting held at Orford, in said County, on the 6th Day of May 1775, Voted a Tax of Six Pounds, L. M. on each Original Right in said Town, to defray the Expences of Charter Fees, Roads, Allotments, &c. and committed the said Tax to me the Subscriber to collect, and whereas the said Proprietors have been notified thereof in the New-Hampshire Gazette, and many of them are still Delinquent: Notice is now again given them, that unless said Tax is paid me at the House of Deacon Simeon Avery, in said Orford, on or before the 15th Day of May next, so much of the delinquents Land will then be sold at said House at Public Vendue, to begin at 9 o'Clock in the Forenoon, as will pay said Tax, with incidental Charges.
The delinquent Proprietors are,     £. £.     Rev. Sam. Lock, 6 Ebenezer Green 6   John Hurd, Esq. 6 Simeon Butler 6   John Turfts 6 William Divoll 6   Edward Scade 6 Benjamin White 6   Otis Baker, Esq. 6 Theodore Moses 6   Eben. Thompson, Esq. 6 John Sprague 6   Israel Gilman, Esq. 6 Rich. C. Shannon 6   Tim. Ruggles, Esq. 6 Benjamin Grant, jr. 6   Daniel Jones, Esq. 6 Peter Grant 6   Nathaniel Rogers 6 Will. Marston, jr. 6   Jona. White, Esq. 6 James Reed, Esq. 6   Nath. Rogers, jr. 6 Thomas Carter, jr. 6   James Reed, jr. 6 Jonathan Darby 6   Frederick Reed 6 Amos Palmer 6   Giles Tiphany 6 Israel Morey, Esq. 6   Frederick Phelps 6 John Woodward 6   James Hacket 6 Ichabod Palmer 6   William Marston, 6 Samuel Phelps 6   Daniel Tillotson 6 Jonathan Child 6   Rev. Obediah Noble, 6 John Morey 6   Joel Phelps 6 Solomon Morey 6   Nathan Dewey 6 David Thompson 6   Abraham Palmer 6 William Thompson 6   Jacob Marston 6 James Homer 6   Aaron Stiles 6 Ben. Baldwin, jr. 6   Benjamin Stiles 6 Eben. Baldwin 6   Lemuel Paine 6 John Wood 6   Elisha Marsh, Esq. 6 Maj. J. Richardson 6   Jona. Sawyer 6 Simeon Olcott, Esq. 6   Joel Woodworth 6 Jotham White 6   Josiah Richardson 6 Ebenezer Swan 6   Aaron Storet 6 Samuel Moses 6    ISRAEL MOREY, Collector. ORFORD, April 8th, 1785.
N. B. Any Person inclining to undertake to allot out said Township, are desired to apply to Israel Morey, Esq. or Nathaniel Rogers, jun. at Orford aforesaid.
John White,  With respect, begs leave to offer his Service to the Gentlemen and Ladies of this Town, to teach them at the Assembly- Room,  Minuet Dancing and a variety of other Dances, &c. in the genteellest Manner.  IF a knowledge of the Art, after the most approved French Taste, is a recommendation, he flatters himself he shall give general Satisfaction.  Wednesdays and Thursdays  are the Days proposed to teach on.— On Tuesday, 3d of May, he will open School. An Evening-School will also be kept for an elder Class.  Should sufficient Encouragement be given, he will also teach the French and Spanish Languages.  PORTSMOUTH, April 6, 1785.
THE Heirs of Samuel Allen Esq. deceased, and others, claiming in right of them; having incorporated themselves into a Propriety, for the Purpose of asserting and prosecuting their Claim to the waste Lands in NEW-HAMPSHIRE within the Mason's Patent, so called; notify those Persons who have made Improvements in their own Rights, that they may be quieted in their possessions, by applying to the Subscriber: such as wish to purchase under them, may have Lands on reasonable Terms, all Persons are cautioned against making Purchases or Improvements in right of any other Persons.
JOHN SULLIVAN, Attorney to the Heirs of Samuel Allen. DURHAM, April 10th, 1785.
To prevent the unwary, from being deceived and injured, by the very extraordinary Advertisement of such, as call themselves the Heirs of Samuel Allen, Esq. deceased, &c. which appeared in the NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE, of the 8th instant: WE the Subscribers, in behalf of the Proprietors of the Lands purchased of John Tufton Mason, Esq. within this State, hereby caution all such, and any others, who may be influenced by different motives, against purchasing or entering on any Lands, within Mason's patent (so called) under said pretended right.—Should any, notwithstanding this precaution, be guilty of such a conduct, they may be made to realize the Fruits of their Temerity, and the difference between a false Claim, and a substantial Title.
WOODBURY LANGDON, } GEORGE ATKINSON, } Committee in be- WILLIAM WHIPPLE, } half of said Pro- JOHN PEIRCE, } prietors. PORTSMOUTH, April 12, 1785.
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
[ Hillsborough. ]
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident Owners of Land, in Hillsborough, who have not paid their Taxes for the year 1784, that so much of their Lands will be sold at Public Vendue on Thursday, the 28th day of April next, at Ten o'Clock in the Forenoon, at the House of Andrew Bradford, Inholder, in said Town, as will pay the Taxes, with incidental Charges, unless prevented by previous Payment.
State. War. County.     £. s. d. s. d. s. d.     Blanchard & Co. No. 5 in N. 29, 2 10 0 8 1 2   Jonathan Odiorne, N. 6 in N. 29, 2 10 0 8 2   Asa Hart, 34 acres, Widow March, 2d Div. N. 31, 53, 54, 3d div. N. 10 1/2, 15, 21, 45, west end, N. 16, 1 14 11 8 9 1 2   Garvin Brown, 3d div. N. 24, 44, 90 acres, Joshua Henthaw, 1 div. N. 16, 2 div. N. 12, 45, 16, 3d. div. N. 4, 11, 17, 39, east end, N. 46, 16 10 4 2 7   John Ford, 60 acres, Robert Means, 140 acres, Widow Lewis, 50 acres, Abram Cochran's heir, 50 acres, Daniel Mc Mellan, 2d N. 44, 100 acres, John Carson's heirs, 70 acres, Oliver Peabody, 140 acres, 1 11 7 9 1   Samuel Dodge, south part 2d div. N. 8 50 ac. Sam. & James Carter, 130 acres, William Ald, 2d div. N. 22, Jonathan Putnam, 50 part 3d div. N. 22, 83 acres, Graves and Upton, 200 acres, Silas Barker, 3d. div. no. part N. 37, 40; Widow Nick, John Chauncey, 40 acres; Paul Coolidge, 530, Lemuel Jones, west end, 3d. div. N. 5, 130 acres, Samuel Bradford, jun. Nathan Taylor, N. 17, 44 acres, Jonathan Taylor, west part, 3d div. N. 36, 50 acres, 1 8 5 1 2   4 1 1 2 2   1 5 4 1 2   1 5 4 1 2   2 10 8 2 2   2 6 1   4 1 1 2 2   1 5 4 1 2   1 5 4 1 2   3 11 1 2 2   3 4 10 2 2   1 1 3   6 6 1 7 2   4 2 1 2 2   11 5 2 10 3   1 3 4 1 2   1 5 4 1 2  
JAMES TAGGERT, Constable. HILLSBOROUGH, March 18, 1785.
[ Strafford, ss. ]
WHEREAS the Proprietors and Owners of Barnstead, at a legal Meeting, holden at said Barnstead, on the 24th, Day of February 1784, by adjournment; Voted to raise the Sum of Two Pence pr. Acre, on all the Lands in said Township, for the payment of Lands claimed and taken by the Proprietors of Chichester, which Sum having been duly Assessed, and a Warrant committed to me as Collector thereof, to levy and collect the same by the 10th Day of March last.
Wherefore said Proprietors are hereby Notified to pay said Tax, to me the Subscriber, at my Dwelling-House in said Barnstead, on or before the 16th Day of May next, otherwise so much of their Lands will be Advertised and Sold, as may be sufficient to pay the same Tax, with incidental Charges.
JONATHAN CHESLEY, Collector. Barnstead, April 6, 1785.
NOTICE is hereby given to the Inhabitants of the Town of PORTSMOUTH, to make out true and exact Inventories of all rateable Pells and Estates, agreeably to Law, and make return of the same to the SELECTMEN of said Town, by the first Day of May next; as none will be received after that Date, April 12.
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