The New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1792-07-12 00:00:00

New - Hampshire Gazette, and the General Advertiser.
Containing the Laws, &amp;c. of the United States, as well as those of this State passed since 1787, with a variety of other matters both useful &amp; entertaining.
PORTSMOUTH: Printed by JOHN MELCHER, at his Office in Market-Street, at nine shillings per Annum.
A short Philosophical Conversation, tending to some Explanation of Air, Wind, Vapours, Clouds, Rain, Snow, Hail, Lightning, and the Rain-bow.
Q. PLEASE, to give me a definition of air?
A. Air consists of invisible particles, which yield to any force, and move freely among one another, and from this ability of the particles to slip one among another, air is called a fluid*. It has weight; may be rarified and condensed, but cannot be congealed.
Q. Is not the air limited to a certain distance from the earth?
A. It is; we cannot indeed tell exactly the height, but it is most reasonably believed to be within forty-five miles†.
Q. Is the whole body of air of the same consistence?
A. No, the farther it is distant from the earth, the more rarified it is, and so by degrees arrives at a vacuum.
Q. Is not air absolutely necessary to animal life?
A. Certainly; though some animals will live a considerable time without it, as is found by experiments in the air-pump‡.
Q. Is not too fine or rarified an air unfit for human respiration?
A. Yes, even the air on the tops of the high hills (as the mountains of Peru) has been found to have very bad effects on those who have visited them§.
Q. What is the reason that fresh air is necessary for respiration?
A. Because the air is impregnated with a certain vivifying spirit that renders it fit for respiration, which spirit is either destroyed or left behind, every time the air passes out of the lungs.
Q. Please to give an explanation of wind.
A. Wind is nothing more than the air put in motion.
Q. Pray can you tell me by what means it is put in motion?
A. By various causes, as heat and cold, the pressure of clouds, eruptions of vapours from sea or land, and indeed any thing that alters the balance of the atmosphere.
Q. What is the cause of the particular direction of the wind, and that some winds are warm, and others cold?
A. The direction of the wind, I think past a doubt, is according to the degree of warmth or cold in the air; so the particular course the wind takes is to be attributed to the warmth or cold of the air; and not as is commonly imagined, for instance, that a cold day is caused by the wind being northerly.
Q. What am I to understand by vapours?
A. Watery particles, or more properly small bubbles, which are raised from the earth and water into the air by the heat of the sun, and carried various heights, according to their weight; for while they are lighter than the particles of air, they continue to rise, and if you remember, I told you the air is more and more rarified according to its height; therefore the lighter these vapours, or watery bubbles are, the higher they will go.
NOTES.
* It is a very general mistake to reckon a fluid and a liquid as the same thing. A liquid is certainly a fluid, but a fluid is not always a liquid. Fluidity consists in the ability of the particles to slip one among another by any external force, therefore sand may be reckoned a fluid as well as water.
† Dr. Keill, by an observation of the twilight, calculates the height of the air to be forty-four miles.
‡ See Mr. Derham's Physico Theology , Book I. chap. 1. note f.
§ See ditto, book I. chap. 1. note c.
Q. Is not the ascension of these particles or bubbles into the air, the cause of clouds, rain, snow, and hail?
A. Undoubtedly so.
Q. Pray give me a definition of a cloud.
A. A cloud is a collection of these bubbles of various heights, but commonly within a mile, and seldom less than a quarter of a mile.
Q. Please to favour me with an explanation of the different productions of clouds; and first rain, if you please.
A. Rain is caused by the particles running and mixing into one another, so becoming heavier than air, consequently fall: this mixing of the particles is variously effected, as by wind, the coldness of the air, and other causes.
Q. Please to explain snow and hail.
A. Snow is caused by the freezing of the watery bubbles, by the great degree of cold in that region where they are assembled, and by their adhering to one another, come down in flakes. Hail is the drops of rain congealed by the coldness of the air in their passage.
Q. Pray can you tell me how lightning is caused?
A. By sulphureous and nitrous vapours being drawn by the sun's attraction from the earth into the air, where by their close and confused mixture a fermentation is caused, and by this means they take fire; so produce lightning, and thunder as the consequence.
Q. Is not the thunder produced in the same instant with the lightning?
A. Yes, though we often see the lightning some time before we hear the thunder, which is by reason of the difference in the velocity of light and sound.
Q. What is the difference?
A. Light is computed to fly about 180,000 miles in a second of time, whereas sound takes about five seconds in flying one mile. So by this you may pretty nearly compute the distance of the lightning, by observing the space of time between the light and the report.
Q. Pray are there not such things as thunder bolts?
A. No, not according to the vulgar notion of them; what may with any propriety be called a thunder-bolt, is only that more solid part of lightning, which descends rapidly to the earth, and is obstructed by nothing. This kind of lightning, though it makes its way through every body it meets with, yet acts only on particular bodies: the many extraordinary effects it has (as striking a person dead when his clothes shall not even be singed, melting the money in a man's pocket, and himself not hurt) proceeds from the certain quality of the lightning, which causes it to have an ability to act only on particular substances.
Q. Please to tell me how the rainbow is caused.
A. By the certain direction of the sun's rays on the falling drops of rain.
MAXIM.
Never promise any thing without these two proviso's, If I can: If it be not against my duty.
REFLECTION.
THERE is nothing more lovely than to love to oblige others: nevertheless, it is the duty of a prudent and discreet man, not to be so far overcome by his obliging humor, as to promise any thing that is desired of him, without considering, whether he can, or ought to grant it. Too great a desire of being kind to others, or too great a timidity, which does not permit to refuse any thing, may make a man excessive in his promises, which will render his zeal indiscreet, and his timidity
shameful. If my promises are not suited to my power, I shall expose myself to the contempt of men; because my weakness will be better known to them. If I promise out of bashfulness what I cannot perform, I shall blush much more, when it will appear that I am not in a capacity of performing what I have promised. If my duty be not the rule of my promises, I shall do myself as much prejudice, by reason of the ill opinion which others will entertain of me, as I have been willing to oblige them by my promises. I ought not to be ashamed to refuse to do an unjust thing; he who requires it from me should rather be ashamed; the only thing that should make me ashamed, is, that perhaps I have given occasion to think that I was unreasonable enough to make such a promise, and to perform it. I do inviolably keep my word, when I can, when I think I have not given it without a cause; when I have reason to believe, that if I keep it, I shall not wrong the person to whom I gave it, and that it will not be more prejudicial to me than beneficial to him. The performance of one's promise may be attended with an inconveniency which could not be foreseen; and it is not likely that he, who made such a promise, was willing to suffer for by it. If I do not promise so much as I am desired, I am willing to do more than is expected from me. For I think our deeds should always exceed our promises.
From the INDEPENDENT CHRONICLE. The following Address to the Public, on the subject of rendering shingles incombustible, by Capt. John Macpherson, is re-printed from the Federal Gazette of May 25, at the request of a number of our customers.
IT is some time since I invented a method to prevent houses from being burnt. Nor could a house, prepared as I shall direct, be burnt, though flakes of fire fell on it, and it was covered with shingles. A multiplicity of other matters, prevented my publishing it as soon as I intended. But lately seeing an account of the fire at Marblehead, made me sorry I had not published it sooner, and determined me to do it as soon as possible; the expence is trifling, and houses so prepared, are not only secured from fire, but will extinguish any fire that falls on them.
The method to preserve houses from fire is as follows:—Let every piece of timber, before it is put on a building, be first soaked in strong brine for three weeks. This may be done at a small expence, as troughs may be made large and long enough, to admit the longest piece of timber used about a house. I think six such troughs would be sufficient for a larger city than any in America, though building as fast as we now are doing. How long they would last, I am sure no man can tell. Indeed it appears to me they never would decay, if kept full of pickle. When such troughs are filled with shingles, and weights put on to sink them, little more pickle will be wanted for a long time; as the sap and every watery particle will be expunged by the brine, which will take possession of every pore, and when brine has got that possession I believe it cannot be dispelled by any thing, not even by quick-silver (tho' this I have never tried) I am sure fire cannot; for I sunk a piece of stave, and a piece of shingle in a bowl of strong pickle fourteen days, then dried them in the sun; I afterwards put them where there was a considerable draught of air, then put burning coals on them; they did not burn but extinguished the fire. I then put them on the parlour fire—they nearly extinguished that, but were not burnt.
Houses already shingled, as it would be expensive to uncover them, and prepare the shingles, as first directed, I believe, if blankets were steeped in strong brine, and spread over the roof, and frequently wet with brine from a watering pan, and that method continued, till the under part of the shingles tasted salt to the tongue, it would save many lives, houses, &c.
By this method houses would last much longer than they now do and their inhabitants, especially the inland parts, preserve better health than they now do, as the air in houses thus prepared would be something similar to the sea air. Water will in time dissolve salt; therefore it would be prudent, after long rains, to sprinkle the roofs with brine.
JOHN MACPHERSON.
May 14, 1792.
*** No doubt every Printer, who is blessed with philanthropy, will make this improvement known as soon as he can.
Foreign Intelligence.
L O N D O N, May 5.
Our letters direct from Lisle, and which are dated the 29th of April, give accounts of an attack made by a detachment of French Troops from that place upon Tournay, in Austrian Flanders.
This expedition was by no means prosperous in its issue.—The detachment consisted only of three Battalions of Infantry, of 800 each, one body of the National Guards, six pieces of Cannon, and 12 or 1300 Cavalry. The remainder of the Troops and Artillery were left behind for the security of the city of Lisle.
The whole force consisted therefore of 4000 men only. They were repulsed on the morning of the 29th, before Tournay, by a body of 8000 Austrians, (3000 Cavalry, and 5000 Infantry.)
The French retreated in some confusion, after losing four pieces of cannon, and a considerable share of their baggage.—Dillon, who commanded the expedition, and who, if not a traitor, is stated as having acted with great want of judgment, together with Monsieur de St. Pol , Commandant of the Engineers, and a Curate disguised as a woman, are said to have fallen victims on this occasion. They were killed and cut to pieces by the enraged soldiery!
The French, according to other letters, did not suffer severely in this action, a retreat being instantly founded, when they began to suspect the treachery of their leader, and found themselves so greatly out-numbered by the enemy.
MAY 9.
The Mons. Dillon , who was so cruelly assassinated by the populace at Lisle is not the handsome beau Dillon , as was reported, but his cousin Count Theobald Dillon .
The sentence against Ankerstrom the assassin of the King of Sweden is:
"That he is adjudged to be infamous, and unworthy of any of the rights of a citizen. That he shall be put into the pillory for two hours in the forenoon on three successive days, and whipt with six pair of rods.—That his head shall be severed from his body, his right hand be cut off, and his thus mutilated body shall be impaled, an inscription to be placed on the pillory as follows:— "JOHAN JACOB ANKERSTROM, assassin of the King."
We shrewdly suspect that the facetious Peter Pindar has made his peace with the Peer of dark domains —in that case his late poetic invocation to money has not been in vain.

HAGUE, April 15:
A courier who arrived here yesterday morning from Treves, brought to the leading persons of this committee, intelligence of the most joyful nature, namely, that the King of Prussia and Francis I. had now settled, not only the number of troops which they were severally to furnish, but the plan of the campaign which they were to adopt against the French.
FRANCE.
Letter from the KING of the FRENCH to the KING of ENGLAND.
[This letter, which has been published in the Parisian prints, is certainly genuine. That it has thus appeared, may be attributed to the Creatures of the Court, who disapprove of such a correspondence in proportion as they are attached to the old system. They imagined that its publicity may subtract from its effect, or attach to it a degree of ridicule. But in this they are probably deceived. The opinions of mankind have sustained a material change, and the phantom of state secrecy has lost much of its repulsive power.—The event, we trust, will convince them of their mistake.]
The following is a correct translation of the Letter.
"SIR—MY BROTHER, I SEND this letter to Monf. CHAUVELIN, whom I have named my Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of your Majesty. I seize this opportunity to express to your Majesty how sensible I am of all the public marks of affection you have given me. I thank you for not having become a party to the League formed by certain powers against France. From this I see that you have formed a better judgment of my true interests, and a more correct opinion of the state of France.
"Between our two countries new connexions ought to take place. I think I see the remains of that rivalry, which has done so much mischief to both, wearing daily away. It becomes two Kings, who have distinguished their reigns by a constant desire to promote the happiness of their people, to connect themselves by such ties, as will appear to be durable, in proportion as the two nations shall have clearer views of their own interests.
"I have every reason to commend the Ambassador whom your Majesty has appointed at my Court. If I have not invested with the same character the person whom I have sent to your's you will nevertheless perceive, that by associating in the Mission, Monf. TALLEYRAND, who, according to the terms of the constitution, cannot bear a public character, I have annexed the utmost importance to the success of the alliance, to which I wish your Majesty to concur with the same zeal as I do. I consider it as necessary to the stability, to the respective constitutions of both Kingdoms, and to the maintenance of their inferior tranquility. I shall only add that, united, we ought to dictate peace to Europe.
I am your good Brother.
(Signed) LOUIS."
Letter from M. LA FAYETTE to the WAR MINISTER, dated GIVET, May 6.
"MY dispatches of the 4th of May have informed you of the steps which the army have taken near Givet.—Since that time, every degree of intelligence that I have received, as well from yourself as from other places, confirmed my determination as judicious, in taking post at Ranciennes, and of having nothing but my advance guards upon the Austrian territory; one of these is extended upon the river Alias towards Luxembourg; but the other more numerous is still at Bourvines.—I have also an advancing party endeavoring to procure forage, which is here extremely rare—I have in person reconnoitered this part of the country, and, beyond
every thing, find the country people well satisfied with the conduct of my troops.—But the news that you have heard of the plenitude of our resources, you may depend upon it have been much exaggerated.—You know, Sir, that we have, and still continue to want many necessaries, of which I have given you the detail; yet my confession of the zeal with which my troops support these unremedied inconveniences is nothing more than a debt to public justice.
"The second division of my troops are cantoned about Dun, and there wait the means of encamping, or making further movements.—The corps under M. RISSE, near Longevi, have not suffered less than the others.—In fine, this post was of so much importance, that its occupation was certainly worth requiring any kind of difficulty that might attend it.
(Signed) LE GENERAL LA FAYETTE."
Domestic Intelligence.
PHILADELPHIA, June 23.
SLAVE TRADE.
The English House of Commons having on the 27th of April last, again resolved itself into a committee of the whole on the slave-trade, Mr. Secretary DUDDAS's motion for prohibiting the importation of African Negroes after January 1, 1800, was read.
Lord MORNINGTON argued strenuously for a more speedy abolition of the trade, and moved that 1795 should be inserted instead of 1800.
The committee divided upon Lord MORNINGTON's amendment for the abolition on the 1st of January, 1795.—Ayes, 130—Noes, 161.—Majority 31.
The Speaker proposed January 1, 1796.
Sir EDWARD KNATCHBULL begged to know, whether, if 1796 was agreed to, it was intended to revive the question by the promoters of it, by urging, at any future period, a more speedy end to the trade.
Mr. PITT and Mr. FOX both declared, that they should consider the vote of that night as decisive upon the question and not subject to revision.
The committee again divided upon the proposition for the 1st of January, 1796.—Ayes, 151—Noes, 132.—Majority 19, for abolishing the trade after January 1, 1796.
The ship Wilmington, Captain Jeffries, from Belfast, is arrived at Wilmington, Delaware, with upwards of 400 passengers.
JUNE 11.
Extract of a letter dated Trenton (New-Jersey) June 8, 1792.
"A Coroner's Inquest was held on Wednesday last, on the body of a young negro woman (late the property of Samuel Hunt) at the presbyterian church in Maidenhead, where it had been sent the evening preceding, for interment.) The Coroner's Inquest reports, that her death was occasioned by a most barbarous and inhuman whipping, which she survived but a few hours, inflicted by her said master.—To his shame, be it spoken, he is seventy years of age. The murder was committed by him and a connexion of his by the name of Elias Hunt, under the direction and superintendence of Mrs. Hunt, wife of the former. Such of the Jurors as I have had an opportunity of conversing with on the subject say, that from the appearance of the mangled remains of the poor wretch, they are of opinion that a more painful death than she must have suffered can scarcely be possible; refused by her mistress even a drink of water, which she supplicated with her last words; and yet these monsters are not even committed to prison.
Elias Hunt is in custody of the Coroner, but Samuel Hunt has suffered to slip out of the way, and his connexions are taking measures to have him bailed,
while Mrs. Hunt, who is generally believed to be the most criminal of the three, it is feared will entirely elude punishment.
One of the Jurors assured me, that if a judgment might be formed from Mrs. Hunt's countenance when she appeared before the inquest, she felt less concerned on the occasion than he did at that moment on her account."
JUNE 25.
Accounts from Cape Francois are received to third of June. At that time there was not the least appearance of the re-establishment of peace, or of any succour to the white inhabitants, that every day exhibited fresh scenes of devastation. Twenty families came in the vessel that brought these accounts.
JUNE 28.
We are told in a paper of yesterday that "great pains were taken to ascertain the lowest rate of postage, which would be competent to defray the expence" of the carriage of newspapers. Circumstances however would lead us to suspect, that the proper inquiries were not made, 'till after the law was passed; for a majority of that House, in which the bill originated, have since acknowledged in fact that they had acted wrong in rating the postage so high; and before the close of the session, they endeavored to correct their former error, by passing in due form a new bill, to reduce the rate one half. After this unequivocal declaration of the sentiments of a majority of the Representatives of the people, would not a man be justifiable, in saying, that the present rates of newspaper postage are sanctioned only by the authority of the Senate, who by rejecting the new bill sent to them from the other house prevented the Representatives and the President from reducing the rates, in consequence of the inquiries that were made with so much "pains" and diligence?
NEW-YORK, June 25.
Extract of a letter from an officer belonging to the Western Army, to his friend in this city, dated
Fort Washington, May 6, 1792.
"The Indians are very troublesome here—they have killed five or six persons very near us. A flag of truce went from hence on the 6th ult. and have not since been heard of—I much fear they never will. The Indians, elated with their last victory, will treat us with contempt, until the scene is reversed: When that event will take place it is difficult even to conjecture; many lives, in all probability will first be lost. We have a chain of forts extending 69 miles into their country; but even this does not prevent them from killing people within sight of the garrisons. A few days ago, a Capt. Montford, stationed at Fort Jefferson, about day-break, hearing a noise resembling turkeys, went out of the fort with his rifle, accompanied by his waiter, and was immediately killed and scalped: This stratagem the Indians made use of to decoy him out of the garrison."
JUNE 29.
Captain Sells, of the Sloop Happy Couple, who arrived here yesterday from Edenton, brings the following account:
"That on the 23d inst. nine Frenchmen landed on the beach of Portsmouth; eight of whom set out immediately for Washington; the one remaining said they belonged to a French brig, bound from Savannah to France, with 300 hhds. of tobacco—that on Sunday the 17th June they murdered the Captain and Mate of the brig, scuttled both her sides, and left her with a woman on board; and that on Friday the 22d June, Captain Sells, in lat. 35—20, fell in with the above brig, which had just been taken possession of by a British Schooner, commanded by a Captain Elias Jones, from Antigua, bound to Edenton, who had put some hands on board, and directed her for Norfolk; the brig had 5 feet water in her hold when boarded by Jones."
JULY 3
Last Lord's day, between 3 and 4 o'clock, P. M. we were visited with a severe squall of wind, accompanied with some rain.
Mr. Wade's ship-carpenter's boat, which contained himself, wife, brother, two children and a young man, overset opposite to Yellow-Hook, a few miles from the city; all were drowned except the young man, who clung to the boat.
Also, another boat, with three men and two boys, was overset and all drowned.
We learn also, that a sloop, containing 15 or 16 persons were all drowned in consequence of this tremendous gust.
Tis reported that several other boats were overset, and persons lost, the truth of which we cannot vouch—Much damage has been done to houses, orchards and trees.
It is indeed a melancholly reflection, when we consider the number of persons drowned in taking their pleasures on the Sabbath. Every year since the peace commenced, produced some awful warning of the like kind. Boats are crowded with people going to different quarters on that sacred day, for their pleasures. May these be a warning to irreligious triflers!—A stranger, viewing our streets, our public walks, roads, boats, &c. near the city, might be apt to interrogate. Have they no Magistrates in New-York?—Tell it not in Gath!
BENNINGTON, JUNE 2.
By a gentleman of varacity from Canada, we are informed, that when he passed Three-rivers, he met an escort, who had judge Powell of Hesse district, in upper Canada with them, a prisoner and in irons.—The charge against him was said to be treason—letters have been detected written in his name, and as report says, in his hand giving information to his friends in the United States, how Detroit may be easily carried. This gentleman was formerly of Boston in New England, and when our informant saw him, was on his way to Quebec, by order of the commanding officer at Detroit.
WILMINGTON, JUNE 30.
According to letters from Bourdeaux, three hundred thousand men have voluntarily enlisted in France, upon finding there was a deficiency of little more than 50,000 in the line of the army. A million of men, it is said, are preparing to follow their example, if found necessary. It is mentioned in London papers, that so dreadful has been the plague in Egypt, that three hundred thousand houses have been depopulated, and shut up by the order of the government.—"What is very extraordinary this awful visitation, which carried off nearly half a million of people, lasted but three days."
Extract of a letter from a respectable gentleman in Lancaster, to his friends in Philadelphia, dated June 11.
"On the 7th inst. some of the largest hailstones fell here I ever saw—they were general pretty regular round or oval—some, 'tis said, weighed an ounce each, and measured five inches in circumference; in some places the quantity was so great as to damage grain, &c. but not totally destroy it, which a few minutes continuance would have done.
"You perhaps remember where New-Holland, a small village in this county, lies, about 4 or 5 miles Eastward of which, as a man was ploughing, his plough struck something that produced an unusual sound; upon examination he found a small chest, said to contain, by estimation, near half a bushel, the inside was wood, all strongly covered with iron—The man broke it open and to his astonishment found it nearly full of gold—there being several large wedges of that metal, and a number of small pieces, from the impressions on them, it was not easy, unless for some antiquarian, to know what nation the coin belonged to; this I have not yet heard of being determined.
SAVANNAH, MAY 31.
THE master, supercargo, mate, and four seamen, of the Schooner Dolphin, of Boston, have been committed to the goal of this city, for kidnapping negroes at Martinico, and selling them at this port.

NEW LONDON, June 28.
As a proof that many exotic plants can be raised in this fertile country, there is now growing in natural ground in the garden of Mr. P. Bradford, in Montville adjoining this town, a caper-tree full of that fruit, and equal in appearance to any imported from France, or any foreign country.
PORTLAND, JULY 9.
Trial and condemnation of JOSHUA ABBOT, JUNIOR.
At the Supreme Judicial Court held the last week at Old York, Joshua Abbot, jun. was tried for the murder of Moses Gubtail (both of Berwick) and found guilty.
From the evidence which was produced at the trial, it appeared that on the 7th day of February last, about sunset, the deceased went to the house of Mr. Abbot, and asked him for a flax-break, which was at that time in Abbot's possession, but which was the property of another person, of whom the deceased said he had borrowed it.—Abbot refused to give up the break, till he had finished his flax, which would not be till the next day at noon; at which time he said Gubtail might have it, if he had obtained the owner's consent. At this Gubtail appeared to be in a violent passion, and told Abbot that he was a "dam'd disobliging old fellow," but that notwithstanding this, he should have had the flax break had it not been for his "dam'd old bitch of a wife."—Abbot replied to this by ordering him to go out of the house. Gubtail immediately went out; and when about 16 feet from the door again abused Abbot, and told him "if he would come out he would cuff him." Abbot went hastily to the door; but there stopped and told the deceased to go away, or to go home; and then returned into the room.—Gubtail again called to Abbot, and again told him "if he would come out he would cuff him."—Abbot was now more exasperated than before, and ran out of the door towards the deceased, who at the same moment approached Abbot with hands uplifted, but whether his fists were clinched, or not, did not clearly appear.
Abbot, as he ran, took up a piece of an ox sled, about two feet in length and 3 or 4 inches thick at the largest end. With this he struck the deceased on the head and knocked him down. He with some difficulty got up, and then continued to abuse Abbot. He was again requested to go home, not only by Abbot, but by Benj. Gubtail, brother to the deceased, who was present during the whole transaction, and who was the only witness of any importance in the cause.—After some persuasion Gubtail went home. Within half an hour he lost the use of his left arm—then of his left leg—after that of his right leg—and then became speechless.—He lived about 36 hours.
Messrs. Parsons and Davis were for the Prisoner. They were each of them on their feet upwards of two hours. During which time, if the most clear and judicious statement of evidence—if the profoundest knowledge of law—and the utmost ingenuity in the application of it, could have prevailed, Abbot had escaped death.
The Attorney General closed.—His address was short; but pointed, and fatal.
Their Honors the Judges then gave the cause to the jury. They were lengthy in their observations—in which they discovered great ability, with a tincture of legal severity.
At one o'clock on Thursday morning the Jury retired; and at eight o'clock came into Court and pronounced the Prisoner GUILTY.
There were nearly two thousand persons present at the trial—not two individuals of whom perhaps, expected this bloody verdict.
Abbot is between sixty and seventy years of age. And has a wife and six children. During his confinement he was sometimes melancholy—at others, delirious. But at the time of his trial he appeared to be more composed than he had done at any other period.
There were, at the same Court a number of other trials of a criminal nature—such as thefts, forgeries, &c.
BOSTON, July 5.
NEWS from the CAPE.
Arrived at Salem on Sunday last, Capt. JOHN RUST, From Port-au-Prince. He has been several months in the island, and in various ports—and informs, that its affairs are still declining from bad to worse—that the most respectable of the white inhabitants are flying from it—that the mulattoes and negroes are entire masters of the country without the town of Port-au-Prince—that in their ports perfect protection is afforded to the Americans—that they say they can assemble an army of 40,000 men—and that a reluctance to shed blood and not the want of force, prevents their making themselves masters of the town, hoping that their contentions might be yet terminated without having recourse to the most desperate means.
It is a curious circumstance, that a gentleman, lately arrived in this State from Hispaniola, in order to preserve his property, brought with him 15 negroes for security—not reflecting, probably, that to breathe the air of Massachusetts, instantly converts them to freemen.
JULY 7.
The Post-Master General of the United States, is now on a visit to the various Post-Offices in the Northern States.
The English borrow their fashions from France—and we import ours from England.—Thus it happens that our beaux are getting into shoe-strings just as they are precipitating from the foot of fashion, in London.
On Monday his Excellency THE GOVERNOR adjourned the General Court to the first Wednesday of November next.
JULY 9.
SHIP NEWS.
Yesterday arrived, the Ship Hamilton, Higinson, master, 53 days from Gottenburg.
From the New-London MARINE-LIST kept by THOMAS ALLEN.
JULY 1. NAVIGATION, Dance up to the tune of New Duties.
Arrived here, Sloop Crisps, Jennings, from Boston.
Arriv'd here, Brig Prudence, N. Doane, Turks-Island, 13 days.
Packet Juno, R. Niles, from New-York, with ladies, gentlemen and ale-gators, passengers.
SALEM, July 3.
Capt. Thomas Putnam, of the brig William and Henry, arrived yesterday from Copenhagen, which he left the 8th of May.
Ankerstrom, the Swedish regicide, he informs, has been executed, pursuant to his sentence. He was publicly whipped three different times, in the market places—ignominiously exposed to view in the pillory—his right hand was cut off—and finally he was beheaded, quartered, and exposed at the common place of execution. To the last he gloried in the deed, by which he said, he had rid his country of a tyrant.
PORTSMOUTH, JULY 12.
The armies of France amount to above two hundred and fifty thousand men, independent of the national troops, which may be nearly as many more—with such a military force the French may be able to contend with the Sovereigns of Hungary, Prussia, &c.
A late British paper says,
It is with much pleasure we learn that a prosecution is commenced by Government against THOMAS PAINE for some passages contained in his publications.
The widow of the late Emperor, it is said, means to retire into a Convent of Florence, immediately after the coronation of her son as King of Hungary.
Since the death of the Emperor was announced at Brussels, papers have been posted up in various parts of the city,
exhorting the people to shake off the yoke of the House of Austria.
Cure for the Rheumatism. Soft soap spread upon brown paper, and applied to the part affected, is recommended as specific in this complaint.
We learn from Windjor, (Vermont) that on the evening of the 20th ultimo, the Distillery and Brewery in Middlebury, belonging to Mr. Rojar, was consumed by fire, supposed to have been communicated from the chimney. A large quantity of Grain, Brandy, Gin, Porter, and other liquors, were likewise consumed. The building was 150 feet in length, and completely finished—equal in value and convenience to any in America. Fortunately, the people who slept in the building escaped unhurt. The damage is estimated at three thousand pounds. Large sums of money have been subscribed, to assist in re-building the house.
ENTRIES at the CUSTOM-HOUSE of this District.
 ENTERED, FROM  Brig Industry, Torrey, Grenada.  Brig Ceres, Sherburne, Dublin.  Brig Betty, Flag, Ostend.  Ship Caroline, Turner, Dunkirk.  Brig Betty, Garvin, Martinico.  CLEARED FOR  Ship Maria & Eliza, Bowles, England. 
EXTRACT.
I KNOW no servitude more shameful, than to serve one's own lusts, to be governed by one's passions, and carried away by opinion. "Who is it," says Horace, "that deserves to be called a free man?—The wise man: he, who has the command of himself; he, whom neither poverty, nor death, nor chains can frighten: who can resist his passions, and despise honors; who is altogether shut up within himself; who is above all the attempts of outward things; and who cannot be hurt by the greatest blows of fortune."
It were a dishonor to me, to be honored by some men; how can men of no honor, do honor to others.
A CURIOUS MISTAKE.
A country fellow left his village last summer, and went to Weymouth, for the royal purpose of beholding his most sacred and august Majesty. On his return home, he was asked by his neighbor, if the sight had answered his expectation: "Loch!" said the countryman "I never was so disappointed in all my life! why do you know now, that his arms were for all the world like the arms of any of us common men; and I wish I may die if I han't heard a thousand times that the arms of the King were a Lion and a Unicorn!"
Lon. Pap.
JUST PUBLISHED
By J. MELCHER,
And for sale
At his Office in Market-Street,
AN
ORATION,
Delivered before the GRAND LODGE Of the ancient and honorable Society of FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS,
of the
State of New-Hampshire,
The most worshipful HALL JACKSON, Grand-Master,
On the twenty-fifth day of June, Anno Lucis 5792, being the day appointed by the Grand Lodge for the celebration of the Festival of St. John the Baptist.
By EDWARD ST. LOE LIVERMORE, [Grand-Secretary.]
At the request of the Grand Lodge.
ALL persons indebted to, or that have any demands against the estate of Capt. Mark Fernald, late of Portsmouth, mariner, deceased, are requested to exhibit the same immediately for settlement, to
MARY FERNALD, Administratrix. Portsmouth, July 11.
JUST PUBLISHED
By J. MELCHER,
And for sale
At his Office in Market-Street,
A
CORRECTION
OF SOME
GREAT MISTAKES
Committed by the
REV. JOHN COSENS OGDEN,
A Presbyter in the Protestant Episcopal Church,
In the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, in his
Late LETTERS Published at Boston.
By SAMUEL LANGDON, D. D. Minister of HAMPTON-FALLS, in the State of New-Hampshire.
State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of Antrim, who have not paid their taxes for the year, 1790, that so much of their land will be sold at public vendue, at the house of Ebenezer Kimbel, innholder in said Antrim, on the first Monday in August next, at two of the clock afternoon, as will pay said taxes with the incidental charges, unless prevented by previous payment.
  Q'ty. 1. s. d.    Theophilus Dinsmor 95 0 0 6¾  John M'Keen 600 0 1 6  Col. Packer 50 0 0 1½  Doctor Rogers 50 0 0 1½  Major Curtice 100 0 0 3  Margaret Green 300 0 9 0   WILLIAM DUNCAN, Constable. Antrim, June 18, 1792.
TO be sold at public vendue, on Monday the 16th day of July next, at 10 of the clock in the forenoon, at the house of Colonel William Brewster, innholder in Portsmouth, by virtue of a licence from the Judge of Probate, for the county of Rockingham, the house and land adjoining, lately occupied by Mr. JOHN SHORES, situated in Portsmouth aforesaid, near Little Harbor, belonging to the estate of Capt. Edmund Roberts, late of Portsmouth aforesaid, deceased.
MOSES WOODWARD, } Administrators. SARAH WOODWARD, } Portsmouth, June 18, 1792.
State of New-Hampshire.
WHEREAS by an act of the General Court of the State aforesaid, passed in the year of our Lord, 1791, empowering the selectmen of the town of Washington to lay a tax of two pence per acre on all the land in said town, except the land then owned and possessed by Reuben Kidder, Esq. which was to be taxed the sum of fifteen pounds, L. M. for the purpose of making and repairing the public highways in said Washington, and two years are allowed for working out or paying said tax, one half of which is to be paid yearly, at the rate of three shillings per day for an able laboring man, finding himself customary tools: The subscriber being appointed by said act to collect the same, and lay the proceeds thereof out in repairing the roads in said Washington—hereby give notice, that three months is allowed from the first day of August next, for completing their first payment, that in failure of their making payment as aforesaid, their lands must be proceeded with as the law directs.
THOMAS PENNIMAN.
Washington, June 16, 1792.
BROKE open the House of the Widow Dorothy Wiggin, in Stratham, on Sunday the 8th instant, and from thence taken an old silver CANN, marked M. M.—Whoever will apprehend the Thief, so that he or she may be brought to justice, shall have five dollars reward, and all reasonable Charges paid by
POLLY WIGGIN. Stratham, July 10, 1792.

Parnassian Spring.
MATRIMONIAL DEAFNESS.
TWO Ears at a Time are too many for Use, When they're only the Inlets of Strife; But few there are found who (tho' wife) would refuse To possess these fair Organs of Life. Yet Deafness sometimes of Advantage is found, Misfortunes may turn to a Blessing; For when Nonsense distracts, or when Tu- mults surround, They then lose the Pow'r of distressing. Hence I wistly am taught to be deaf of one Ear, While the other for Use I employ, One Gate I shut up against Trouble and care, And the other keep open for Joy. When my Consort begins her loud Windpipe to clear, With a Peal would the World rend asun- der, Serenely I sit, and I cock my deaf Ear, Unmov'd 'midst the Roar of the Thunder. T'other day comes a dun—with good Sir! You well know— “What say you?—speak louder a little. You know, Sir, you borrow'd three twelve Months ago— “Alas! Friend, I can't hear a Tittle. You owe me ten pounds: Then louder be cries, And repeats it as strong as he can; I point to my Ears, and I lift up my Eyes, Till he hardly can think me the Man. I as grave as a Don cry “My Hearing's quite lost, And my money (says he too) I fear: Pox on him! 'Tis Folly to talk to a Post, So he leaves me as mad as a Hare. Thus my Life Night and Day in soft In- dolence flows, Scolding, dunning, nor brawling I fear. Ye married Men all, as ye wish for Re- pose, Be sure to be deaf of one Ear.
Has for sale
At his STORE, near the MARKET,
A very general Assortment of HARD WARE
GOODS,
Imported in the last Vessels from Lon- don and Bristol:
—Consisting of—
   IRON MON- GERY, SADLERY, BRAZIERY and CUTLERY Wares. London Pewter, Brushes of all sorts. An assortment of elegant TEA TRAYS and WAITERS. Mahogany and Gilt frame LOOKING- GLASSES of vari- ous sizes and fash- ions. Glass Ware of dif- ferent kinds, a- mong which are a few dozen fash- ionable cut Wine Glasses. A general assortment of CROCKERY WARE Complete table sets of do. blue and green edged.    Clothiers Cards and Press Papers. Powder and Shot. Painters Oil and Colours. Allum, Copperas, Brimstone, Whit- ing, White Lead, and Spanish Brown by the cask. At the same Store may be had Hyson, Souchong and Bohea Teas. Loaf Sugar, Wines, Brandy, Spices, Red-wood, Log- wood, Fustic, Oil of Vitriol in large and small quanti- ties. German Steel. Hollow Iron Ware. Iron Cambooses, West-India GOODS, &c. &c.   
The above Articles will be sold on the most reasonable terms. Portsmouth, June 30, 1792.
State of New-Hampshire.
WHEREAS at a meeting of the proprietors of the town of Leb- anon, in the county of Grafton, held at the meeting-house in said town, by ad- journment, on the first day of Decem- ber last, it was voted to raise a tax of ten shillings on each right of land in said town, to be laid on the twenty acre division of lots, and payable by the first day of March then next, to the propri- etors' prudential committee, for the purpose of defraying the cost of settling the town lines between Lebanon and Enfield, completing the several divisions of land in said town, and other inciden- tal charges of said propriety; and a bill having been committed to me the subscriber, to collect said tax as propri- etors' collector; therefore notice is hereby given to all concerned, who have not paid said tax, that unless the delin- quents pay the same forthwith, their lands will be proceeded with as the law directs.
JAMES JONES, Collector. Lebanon, June 20, 1792.
State of New-Hampshire.
PURSUANT to an act of the Gene- ral Court, passed June 1791, em- powering the selectmen of Thornton, to assess one penny per acre on all the first division lots in said town, for three years; also sixteen shillings and eight pence on each 2d division lot, that is, or may be laid out within six months from the date of said act, and if not so laid out, on each undivided right in said town, to be paid in labor on the highways in said town, at the rate of three shillings per day for an able bodied man; therefore this is to give notice to all those who have not paid said tax agreeable to said act, for the year 1791, that unless they pay said tax by the last day of September next, it will be collected as said act directs.
ISAAC BLAKE, Collector. Thornton, June 15, 1792.
State of New-Hampshire.
PURSUANT to an act of the Gene- ral Court, passed June 1791, em- powering the selectmen of Thornton to assess one penny per acre on all the first division lots in said town, for three years, also sixteen shillings and eight pence on each second division lot, that is, or may be laid out within six months from the date of said act; and if not so laid out, on each undivided right in said town, to be paid in labor on the highways in said town, at the rate of three shillings per day for an able bod- ied man; therefore this is to give no- tice to all those who have not paid said tax, agreeable to said act for the year 1792, that unless they pay said tax by the last day of September next, it will be collected as said act directs.
EPHRAIM LINDSAY, Collector. Thornton, June 15, 1792.
State of New-Hampshire.
County of Strafford.
PUBLIC notice is hereby given, that by virtue of an act of the legisla- ture of said State, passed the 15th day of June, A. D. 1791, all the lands in New-Durham, in said county, are tax- ed one penny an acre annually, for two years, for the purpose of repairing roads in said New-Durham; and whereas in and by said act, it is en- acted, that the owners of said lands should have liberty of “working out” their several proportions of said tax, at the rate of three shillings by the day for an able bodied man;—Therefore the said owners are hereby notified that they may “work out” said tax any time between the first day of June next, and the last day of September next fol- lowing, by applying to Messieurs Joseph Evans, Thomas Tash, ju- nior, and Elisha Davis, Selectmen for said New-Durham, for the cur- rent year, under whose direction said tax is to be laid out and expended. And said owners may know their re- spective proportions of said tax, by a list or assessment of the same, which is committed to John Bennet, jun. the subscriber, of said New-Durham, to collect.—J. BENNETT, jr. Collector. Dated at New-Durham, May 18, 1792.
NOTICE is hereby given to all whom it may concern, that in consequence of a petition to the Justices of the court of General Sessions of the peace, for the county of Grafton, pray- ing that a highway be laid out from Landaff, in said county, through Lin- coln and Goff's Location, so called, places not incorporated, to Thornton. A committee was appointed for that purpose, due notice having been first given to the owners of said land, of said petition: Which committee made re- port, that they had viewed the ground, and laid out a road as follows: Begin- ning at Corey's Mills (so called) in Lan- daff, thence through said Landaff, by John Clark's and J. Snow's, to Nathan Kinsman's, in Lincoln, as the road is now trod, being about nine miles and an half, from said Kinsman's, running a S. S. E. course through Lincoln, by Bogg-Pond to Goff's Location; so through said Goff's Location, about the same course to Thornton line, the whole being spotted from said Kins- man's, being ten miles by measure— Which report was accepted and record- ed in the records of said court:— Therefore the proprietors and owners of said tracts of land, not incorporated, are requested to clear out and make passable said road, by the first day of December next, otherwise said lands will be assessed for that purpose agreea- bly to law.
By order of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace for the county of Grafton. G. W. LIVERMORE, Clerk. Haverhill, March 10, 1792.
State of New-Hampshire.
Grafton ss.
PURSUANT to an act of said State, empowering the Selectmen of Dor- chester to assess a tax of two pence per acre on all lands in said town, public lands excepted, for the purpose of mak- ing and repairing highways in said town—Notice is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in the township of Dorchester, that there is a tax laid on their lands, for the par- pose above-mentioned, and they have the lib- erty of working out the said tax of two pence per acre, at the rate of three shil- lings per day, for an able laborer, at any time between the first day of May and the first day of October, within the term of two years from the date of this advertisement, under the direction of the Selectmen of said town.
BENJAMIN NORRIS, Collector. Dorchester, June 27, 1792.
PIERMONT.
State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in Piermont, who have not paid their tax- es for the year 1790, that unless they pay said taxes to me the subscriber on or before the 20th day of July next, so much of their land as will pay the same, together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of Abner Chandler, innholder in said town, at 10 o'clock, A. M. on said day.
   Proprietors. No. R. Spec. S. or Q'y. d. d.     R. Downing, house lot, o 2 45 4 3½   John T. Mason, half 1 2 100 4 3½   Undivided, half — — 4 4   Samuel Wentworth 4 2 100 4 3½   Jona. Carlton, undi. — — 4 4   John Wentworth 14 3 100 4 3½   Robert Auchmty 1 4 100 4 3½   Andrew Wiggin 6 4 100 4 3½   Christopher Toppan 9 4 100 4 3½   Undivided — — 4 4   John Temple 8 5 100 4 3½   House lot 40 1 45 4 3½   Undivided — — 4 4   Joseph Wright, Undivided — — 4 4   Col. Joseph Smith 14 5 100 4 3½   Nathaniel Barrett, Undivided — — 4 4   James Nevins 3 6 100 4 3½   M. Weare 5 6 100 4 3½   House lot 34 1 45 4 3½  
SAMUEL ROOT, Collector.
Piermont, June 2, 1792.
BLANKS of all kinds
may be had, as usual, of the Printer hereof, on the shortest notice, and ex- ecuted in the neatest manner.
STOP THIEF!
BROKE open on the night of the 23d day of June, inst. the dwell- ing-house of the subscriber in New- Gloucester, and a number of articles from hence taken, viz. —A velvet spotted Waistcoat—one pair corduroy Breeches —two Holland Shirts—two mufin Cravats—one pair men's Shoes, lined throughout, and bound with black fer- ret—one pair Shoe-Buckles, plated,— and other small articles:—Supposed to be taken by one BENJAMIN SHAW, short of stature, dark hair, bright eyes, and good teeth—dressed in a striped Waistcoat, thick-set Breeches, and had a large pack of cloathes.—Whoever will apprehend the above Thief, so that he may be brought to justice, shall have TEN DOLLARS reward, and all ne- cessary charges paid by
JOHN GLOVER. New-Gloucester, June 24, 1792.
State of New-Hampshire.
JUNE 29, 1792.
To JONATHAN WARNER, Esquire, a Justice of the Peace and of the quorum, throughout the State aforesaid.
THE subscribers being proprietors and owners of more than a six- teenth part of the township of Success, re- quest you to warn, agreeably to the laws, a meeting of the grantees and proprietors of the township of Success, in the county of Grafton, in the State aforesaid, to be holden at the dwelling-house of Jesse Young, Esq. innholder in Concord, in said county, on Tuesday the 31st day of July next, at two o'clock in the af- ternoon—then and there to vote and act on the following articles, viz.
 1st. To choose a Moderator, Pro- prietors Clerk, Assessors, Collector, Treasurer, and any other officers which may appear necessary.  2d. To see how much money they will raise for the payment of arrears of taxes of any and all kinds due from said proprietors, and for lotting out said township, or any part thereof, and mak- ing any surveys which may be thought for the interest of said proprietors, and to chuse agents or a committee to see the same accomplished—and to adopt some proper measures, if thought best, for bringing forward the culture and settlement thereof, and to make com- pensation in lands or otherwise for that purpose.  3d. To see if said proprietors will ratify and confirm any or all former votes of said proprietors, or make any alterations.  4th. To see if they will agree upon and establish a different mode for call- ing their proprietary meetings in fu- ture, and also to see if they will agree upon any particular place where said meetings shall in future be holden. 
JONATHAN CILLEY, JOHN YOUNG, THOMAS PINKHAM.
PORTSMOUTH.
Rockingham ss.
AGREEABLY to the foregoing re- quest, the proprietors and grantees a- foresaid are hereby notified and warned to meet at the time and place, and for the purposes abovementioned.
JONATHAN WARNER, Justice (Peace throughout said State. June 29, 1792.
State of New-Hampshire.
Hillsborough ss.
NOTICE is hereby given that the owners of the Crotched Moun- tain (so called) laying in Francistown, was taxed in the year 1789, in the fol- lowing manner, viz. State and county tax specie 5/7, indents 16/9; that if said taxes are not paid by the twenty- seventh day of August next, so much of said land will be sold at public ven- due, as will pay said tax with incidental charges, at the house of Mr. Peter Wad- bury, innholder in said town, at four of the clock P. M. on said day.
JOHN DICKY, Constable. Francistown, June 16, 1792.