Fowle's New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser ([Portsmouth, N.H.]), 1786-02-25 00:00:00

FOWLE's NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE, A N D T H E G E N E R A L A D V E R T I S E R. The seal is a circular emblem. The outer border contains the text "SIGILLUM" at the top and "STATVS 1784" at the bottom. The inner circle features a landscape scene with a rising sun, a ship on the water, and a laurel wreath.
S A T U R D A Y,
F E B R U A R Y 25, 1786.
P O R T S M O U T H: By JOHN MELCHER,
PRINTED AND PUBLISHED IN PAVED STREET.
VOL. XXX. ]
"OPEN TO ALL PARTIES—INFLUENCED BY NONE:—WE AIM ONLY TO BE JUST."
No. 1532.
We shall lay before our readers, in this and the two succeeding Papers, the contents of a late publication in Philadelphia, which is recommended as well worthy the attention of the publick.
An ADDRESS to the ASSEMBLY of PENNSYLVANIA, on the Abolition of the BANK of NORTH-AMERICA.
To the Honorable the REPRESENTATIVES of PENNSYLVANIA in General Assembly.
Gentlemen,
WHETHER the Bank shall be abolished or established, is one of those important questions which will in course attract your notice. The heat of disputation will then give birth to many arguments. But disputants do not always convey information. There is (no doubt) a great majority of members who will vote according to their dispassionate judgment; and such men will naturally wish to form opinions on plain reasons plainly delivered. To them therefore this paper is addressed. And, in order that we may have a clear view of the object, let us consider (first) whether admitting the institution of the Bank to have been pernicious, a law to abolish it would be wise, and (secondly) whether it is really a pernicious institution.
First then, admitting the institution of the Bank to have been pernicious, would a law to abolish it be wise? The answer to this question depends on two points. First, whether such a law would be effectual; and secondly, whether it would be prudent. An enquiry whether the law would be effectual, involves a doubt of your power, and may therefore offend the weak or illiberal, but wise representatives of free citizens will listen with candour, and form a dispassionate judgment. They know that the boasted omnipotence of legislative authority is but a jingle of words. In the literal meaning it is impious. And whatever interpretation lawyers may give, freemen must feel it to be absurd and unconstitutional: Absurd , because laws cannot alter the nature of things; unconstitutional , because the constitution is no more, if it can be changed by the legislature. A law was once passed in New-Jersey which the judges pronounced to be unconstitutional, and therefore void, surely no good citizen can wish to see this point decided in the tribunals of Pennsylvania. Such power in judges is dangerous; but unless it somewhere exists, the time employed in framing a bill of rights and form of government was merely thrown away.
The doubt which arises on this occasion, as to the extent of your authority, is not founded on the charter granted by Congress: but supposing the incorporation of the Bank to have been the same in its origin as that of a church, we ask whether the existence and the rights acquired by law, can be destroyed by law? Negroes have by law acquired the right of citizens, would a subsequent law take that right away? It is not true that the right to give, involves the right to take. A father (for instance) has no power over the life of his child, nor can a felon or traitor pardoned by an act of grace, be by repeal of that act condemned and executed. Should an act be passed to cancel the publick debts, would that act be valid? Where an estate has been granted by law, can it be revoked by a subsequent law? Could the lands forfeited and sold, be resumed and conveyed to
the original owners? Many such questions might be put, and a judicial decision (either affirmative or negative) would be inconvenient and dangerous. Look then to the end ere you commence the labour.
Secondly, admitting your power, ought it (in prudence) to be exercised? You will certainly consider, that (as a violation of private property) it must sully the reputation of the state. Good men are careful of their own reputation, and protect that of their country, from sentiment . Wise men are confirmed in this sentiment , by reflection and information . Facts are sometimes better than arguments. It is then a fact, that applications made by citizens in Pennsylvania to borrow money in Holland, have been defeated by those attacks already made on the Bank. It is also a fact, that the credit of our merchants has been greatly injured (in foreign countries) from the same cause.— This is the argument which foreigners use. If your government so little respects the property of their own citizens as to overturn an institution like the Bank, how can our property be safe among you? It will not be easy to answer that question, and you know, gentlemen, that your merchants cannot give credit, unless they can get credit; and you know also how important credit is to the frontier inhabitants at least, if not to those of the more settled country.
Deeply therefore are we interested in preserving unsullied fame. But if this consideration has not sufficient weight, reflect on the domestick consequences of abolishing charters.—What is practice to-day, becomes precedent to-morrow. And sure it is worth some serious thought, whether this dangerous practice shall be introduced. Every man is interested in the establishment of such precedent, as a member of some religious society, or of particular corporations for the promotion of science, or the purposes of humanity. Attention to the changes of human affairs, like meditation among the tombs, teaches solemn and affecting lessons of wisdom and moderation. Look back to the disputes which convulsed this commonwealth twenty years ago. Mark the succeeding revolutions. See how friendships and how enmities have changed. See how power has been wrested from one, and grasped by another. This generation will soon pass away. Who can designate the men that will sit in seats of authority twenty years hence? or five? or one? You are here to-day, and gone to-morrow. Beware then how you lay the foundation for future encroachments. While justice is the principal of government, to be innocent is to be secure. Be not then seduced by the momentary bauble of power; for place it where you will it is dangerous, and the tyrannous use of it is always tyranny. Those who live by the sword, shall die by the sword. The violent must, of necessity, become victims of violence. Should the next election give power to those who may now be oppressed, what bounds shall be set to unbridled resentment? May not all the charters be at once laid low, by a general law declaring the existence of corporations to be incompatible with the publick welfare? Since, then, these consequences may follow, we may reasonably doubt whether a law to abolish the Bank would be wise, even if the institution had been pernicious.
Why is money scarce and not to be borrowed
ed? It is a melancholy truth, that during the late war many were ruined by payment of their debts in paper greatly depreciated.—Some who received the paper while it was valuable, put it in the loan office. Some purchased land. And some kept it 'till it was good for nothing. It is evident, that these persons (who before the war were lenders of money) have no money to lend now; and that every shilling so paid and disposed of, must be deducted from the sum formerly at interest in Pennsylvania. The remainder of that sum, is still in the hands of those who borrowed it ten years ago, and cannot be lent before it be paid. It may perhaps be said, that some merchants made money during the war. But it will be found that the gainers were few, the losers numerous; and that taking the merchants collectively as a body, it is poorer by millions. The reason therefore why money is not to be borrowed is that no one has money to lend, and even admitting that there should be a few who can lend, there are none who will ; for the following reasons:—Those who want are always willing to borrow, but those who owe are not always willing to pay. If therefore the laws of a country, or the administration of those laws, countenance unreasonable delays of payment, the owners of money (or any thing else) will not dispose of their property on credit, unless they be tempted by great interest, or great profit. And such as disdain usurious dealing, will not be tempted at all. A prudent peaceable man would rather buy stock in the British funds, and receive regularly but five per cent. than take a mortgage at six, on the best estate in Pennsylvania: Because he may suffer for years, a detention of both interest and principal, and because he apprehends some things which have happened already, and may therefore happen again.—For instance, he trembles lest a long train of paper emissions, with a legal tender at the tail of them, should cancel his debt for a tenth of the value. He fears also, that a tax on his bond may reduce the precarious interest of six per cent. to four, and even oblige him to pay the two per cent. tax, tho' he cannot recover the six per cent. interest. Thus we find, on fair investigation, that money is scarce, because (in one way or other) it has been taken or withheld from the owners. And that money is not to be borrowed, from a well grounded apprehension that (when due) it will not be paid.
Let us then, in the second place, inquire why it is so desirable to own Bank stock. Three causes present themselves. First, that the dividend gives something more than legal interest, although by extension of the capital, and contraction of the business, it yields less than formerly. Secondly, that this dividend is payable with rigid punctuality at the end of every half year, so that the proprietors can count with certainty on their income, to defray their expences. Thirdly, that in case of unforeseen demands, the stockholder can (for legal interest) command a temporary accommodation ; and if unfortunate events should oblige him to collect all his resources, he can speedily sell and thereby command the value of the stock. To these three reasons, which strike every person at first sight, must be added a fourth as applying more directly to the charge, that the benefits of Bank stock incline men to purchase it rather than lend.
(To be Continued.)

To the Printer of the New-Hampshire GAZETTE, SIR,
RESPECT is due to the station of rulers, and whoever, or whatever is found possessing the highest offices in government, demands the obedience and support of the people. But, if at any time or in any country, an interested man, having raised himself, contrary to the wishes of his fellow citizens, into an high office of legislation by the base arts of manœuvre and intrigue, offers himself to the same citizens as a candidate for the same office at another election, forms new arrangements, places his hands on the heads of his creatures, emissaries and dependants, and teaches them their implicit monosyllables, YEA and NAY; it might not be altogether amiss for that people to turn their thoughts to the reverse of his character. It will be no infringement of their right of election, no designation to a particular office, to describe a good officer at full length, with all his endowments; and, since he is only their servant, to be created by the breath of their nostrils, it might not be improper to enquire how he is to be distinguished, how formed and moulded into being.
Let us suppose a number of men to be found among this people in their dispositions generous, obliging and disinterested—of good learning and education—well acquainted with the letter and spirit of the constitution—just and honest in all their dealings—independent in their circumstances, yet careful only to protect, not to increase their fortune—making virtue and merit the recommendations to their friendship—aiming more at the character of good than great—void of all ambition, but the honest ambition of doing good to mankind—having passed through many offices in public life with uniform integrity and independence—not servile nor imperious, when out of power, nor contemptibly gracious when in it—of a stability of character deserving the confidence of their countrymen—indifferent as to their choice of public or private life, but careful to adorn both—lending a ready ear to the poor man's cry, and as much delighted in giving succour to the meanest individual, as in conferring an obligation on men of wealth and power; viewing them "in the inspired, royal style," as flesh of their flesh, and bone of their bone —not wishing to intrude themselves into office, nor desirous of a place because they want it, but because the place wants them.
Gems of this lustre, stars of this magnitude and brilliancy are to be found, we trust, in good plenty in our political firmament; and if honesty and integrity alone have ever been considered as supremely essential to the happiness and well being of all administrations, how must this happiness be accelerated and increased by the well-timed union of this band of virtues! As nothing will tend more to alarm the fears, and excite the opposition, of a bad officer, than the prospect of an honest successor—there is no political event which claims a more general attention, nothing which ought to be nearer the hearts and wishes of a virtuous and free people.
A COUNTRYMAN.
For the NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE.
WE have heard many encomiums passed on the regularity and good order of Government in the independent State of Vermont, who are soliciting admission into the confederacy of the United States:—If we take a retrospective view of the characters, who composed the legislature of that State, we shall find cause to hope, that they will not be admitted into UNION, until justice is done by them, to the inhabitants of New-Hampshire, whose property they have wantonly and unjustly taken away.
It is an established fact, that at least, one thousand rights of Land, within the bounds of this revolted State, belong to non-resident inhabitants of New-Hampshire and other States, but mostly to the former. On all which rights this usurped government have laid a tax of 10% on the hundred acres, for the support of their government (which Congress have forbid to be recognized) and for the redemption of a Paper BUBBLE, and after giving notice in their News-paper (which travels but within a narrow compass) and in a Connecticut paper (because it never comes into New Hampshire)—The Lands are sold for a trifle, and bought by the men in office, for the most part, who possessed large sums of this paper money, and after being bought, if any proprietor applied for redemption, they must give silver money with heavy costs:—There are instances of proprietors of land, in Rockingham, in said State, who lived in Walpole, the next town on the other side the river, whose lands were sold before they were notified. If Congress will suffer these people to hold such lands by virtue of laws (which the subjects of New-Hampshire, &c. could not, with honour or respect to that Hon. body, allow to be valid and binding)—I say, if Congress will not guarantee to these subjects their lands, but admit revolvers in an unconditional manner into the union, it would have been but an act of justice to have done it years ago, that these non-resident proprietors might have timely secured their property, and known what to have done. It is to be wished the legislature of this State will see justice done to their injured subjects.
S E N E X.
L O N D O N, December 7.
Letters from Lisbon mention, that a large Algerine corsair, mounting 40 guns, and full of men, within a league of that place, by some accident blew up, and all the crew perished.
There is in Berlin, and in every considerable town in the Prussian dominions, a certain edifice, properly furnished and properly attended, to which every unmarried woman who has the misfortune of being with child may repair, before her shame becomes publick. The utmost secrecy is observed; the patient is treated with every possible care and indulgence; and a month after her laying-in, is discharged with a present of fifty crowns, if she has a son, and ten crowns if she has a daughter.—These establishments undoubtedly give encouragement to illicit amours: but that evil is more than compensated, inasmuch as all temptations to the murder of illegitimate children is removed.
The Minister's long vaunted scheme for the reduction of the national debt, has at length transpired, and we now submit it to the publick, leaving every intelligent man to make his own comment: the plan is, when he finds himself in possession of the expected surplus of a million, to take up twenty-five millions of the three per cent. consols, to be disposed of in a tontine scheme, to be divided into several classes, with proportionate interests for the different ages from fifteen to sixty. For the payment of the advanced interest, he thinks the appropriation of the million surplus will be sufficient, and as each class falls off, so much liquidated for ever. This surplus million he does not yet despair of producing, but then he is satisfied to forfeit his word in not paying of the money due to the Bank.
When an Elizabeth swayed the scepter of England, the oppressed of all the nations of the earth found protection and deliverance under the banners of Britons. But it is not so now. Even our own colonies, and natural allies bear testimony against us. That great Queen, adhering to the law of nations, held it to be no violation of any treaty whatever, to wage war against that Sovereign, "who invades another's territory, or who oppresses a free people:" and under the impression of this just law, she nobly supported the Dutch provinces, against the Spanish tyranny and inquisition. King Philip called upon the Queen to fulfil her treaties with him; he conjured her by the common interest, which tyrants like himself have in unlimited power, to assist him in the reduction of his rebellious subjects. But Elizabeth went to her parliament and asked supplies, not to subdue, but to assist the Dutch. "The king of Spain," she said, "complains of me in that I have always favoured his rebels; but I confess the action, and I glory in it; nothing is so commendable, nothing so worthy of a sovereign power, as to defend a free people against a tyrant and oppressor."
Extract of a letter from Paris, October 19.
"Last week arose from the dead, M. Eustache Joucaïn, member of a medical academy, who not finding it convenient to discharge a few demands of creditors, had caused a report to be propagated that he was dead. The very day, however, after his resurrection, he was arrested, just as he was on the point of setting out for London."
DEC. 10. An express arrived in town on Saturday, informing Ministry that the definitive treaty between the Emperor and the Dutch was at length signed and ratified. The difficulty arose from the Emperor's insisting on the free and entire passage of the Scheldt, to which the Dutch would not accede. The French meditated between them, and it is said, that by promising the Emperor to interfere between him and the King of Prussia, and to use their interest with the latter to agree to the proposed exchange of Bavaria, they prevailed on him to conclude the treaty with the Dutch on the terms of a partial navigation of the Scheldt.
The most important consequences of this definitive treaty is, that it has induced the Dutch, in gratitude to their mediator, to conclude a treaty offensive and defensive with the French.—This treaty, which has been on the tapis for a considerable time, and with the progress of which our Court was well acquainted, is hostile to this country. It completely changes the aspect of European politics, and ought to awaken the suspicions of Britain. If they should meditate a scheme on our East-India possessions, their union would be highly dangerous to us, and might be the means of extinguishing our authority in Asia.
Intelligence arrived on Saturday from India, brought over land, that a battle had been fought between Tippoo Saib and the Mahrattas, in which the latter were completely victorious, compelling Tippoo to fly to save his person, after losing a great number of men, killed, wounded, and made prisoners, together with his artillery, camp equipage, &c. This victory is important to Britain, because Tippoo is the ally of France, and an enemy to us. But this war between him and the Mahrattas, will eventually introduce France and England, perhaps at first only by way of auxiliaries, to support their respective allies. This was the case with the war in 1756, under General Lawrence and Colonel (afterwards Lord) Clive; that war was at first between the country powers, but it ended in a war between France and England.
On Friday morning Stephen Sayre, Esq. formerly Sheriff of this city, but since one of the Members of Congress in America, set off for Madrid, where he is to act as Envoy Extraordinary from the United States; the reason of his coming to England was a mere chance, and totally owing to the vessel in which he embarked proving leaky.
Extract of a letter from Paris, November 27.
"M. de Puysegur is returned from the coast of the French American Colonies. He was sent by Government to the Antilles to make his observations on the different islands, and found the coasts as he proceeded. This officer performed his mission with praiseworthy punctuality; he was, notwithstanding, put under an arrest on his landing in France. When he set sail from Brest, he parted from his wife with tender regret; the pleasing knot had been scarcely tied, when the new-made husband received his Sovereign's mandate to exchange his bliss for glory; his amiable partner, unable to bear the shock of separation, disguised herself in the habit of a cabin boy, and flew on board the frigate her husband was to command, but did not appear before him until the vessel was many leagues from the coast of France. The astonished and loving husband gently insisted on her going ashore, as her presence made him violate one of the articles of the naval discipline, by which officers are prohibited from taking their wives with them to sea. The crew, affected from the tears of the young sailor, conjured their Commander not to persist in his resolution. Who could refuse such a request? Omnia vincit amor, et nos cedamus amori , came to the aid of their entreaties and forced the officer to relax. The lady is pleased to have made so long a voyage, during which she was never one day indisposed."

CHARLESTON, (S.C.) Jan. 17.
The Ship Peace, Captain Munroe, from Boston, is arrived at Savannah.
Jan. 18. A report is in circulation, that the Spaniards, not content to remain peaceably within their boundaries, as settled at the conclusion of the peace, have actually commenced hostilities against the American subjects, some of whom they have taken, and are now detained.
Jan. 19. The Brig Nymph, Capt. Palmer, arrived yesterday from New-York, has brought paper for printing the new emission money upon. It is in a water mark, a most difficult feature to prevent its circulation from being damped by doubts about its authenticity.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 2.
Extract of a letter from Madeira, Aug. 4.
The frigate El Rosarie, of 28 guns, from Lisbon, brought 300 soldiers to augment the garrison of this island; the fortifications are now under repair. The Most Faithful Court seems from these proceedings to be in doubts of some powerful enemy; for we can hardly suppose that the Algerines, with whom our nation is at war, is of consequence sufficient to make such precaution needful.
NEW-YORK, February 11.
Extract of a letter from an Officer at Fort Harmer, (Muskingum) to his Brother in this City, dated December 20, 1785.
A war with the Indians will inevitably commence next Spring.—At a Grand Council held at the Head Waters of the Miami in September last at a place called Cusahahin, at which were present a numerous number of the Chiefs from different nations, the Western Indians determined for war, and were sending Belts to those nations who were not present to make it a common interest; this may be depended on, as it is from one of their Chiefs to a gentleman whose name we are not permitted to mention.—General Parsons, when on his route for the Miami, last month, was when in a boat, fired on by a party of the Indians, about twenty miles above Red Stone, and the boat which now waits for our letters, met the same fate a few days since, at the same place, when on her passage up; fortunately no lives were lost.—Accounts from the Miami mention, there is but little appearance of the treaty taking place; few Indians have yet met, and little expectations from others; the messengers who were sent to invite them in, have been very ill treated; the Wabash Indians returned for answer to the Commissioners, that they knew of no treaty, neither did they want any; that they had then fifteen parties out in the settlement of Kentucky, collecting of hay, &c. and as soon as they had returned, and collected their forage, they should send out double the number; so that from every appearance I think in the Spring we may look out.
It is astonishing, observes a correspondent, how mildness and good usage will contribute to assuage the natural ferocity of some of the brute creation; a friend of his, who lives at Valenciennes, in France has sent him the following very curious account: He has succeeded so wonderfully in taming a wild he cat, that this voracious animal has taken under its protection a sparow, used to fly about the house and within the appartments; some time ago a tame cat laid hold of the bird, and was carrying it away, when the wild one sprung upon him, and strangled him on the spot, bringing back his little fluttering friend all bloody to his master, who found means to revive and cure the sparow: What perhaps will still appear more extraordinary is, that the animal having kittened, her little ones have imbibed the same attachment for the sparow, and watch over it with anxious care.
PROVIDENCE, January 28.
A Correspondent at Rehoboth desires us to mention, that a very simple remedy has been lately discovered for the Throat-disease, which for more than two years past has prevailed in the eastern states, and proved fatal to vast numbers of children, and in some instances to adult persons. The medicine is, Rum in which Rue has been steeped. Adults may generally take it without being mixed; but for children it should be diluted with water, according to their age and strength. Our correspondent adds, that in the towns of Rehoboth and Attleborough none have died, when this simple remedy has been used; and should it on further trial prove a sovereign specific against that dangerous malady, we have only to lament that an earlier discovery of it was not made.
NASSAU, January 7.
The inhabitants of Dominica have of late been greatly alarmed by the violent outrages of the run-away negroes. The Antigua gazette of December 14, affords the following information on this subject.
"St. John's, Dec. 14. By a gentleman just arrived from Dominica we have the following horrid account of the outrageous proceedings of the run-away negroes there, which may be relied on.
"The number of these wretches having ac-
cumulated into a very large body, they proceeded to carry into execution their determined resolution of destroying the estate called Rosalee, which would have made 200 English hogheads of Sugar this year, at least.
"Before they set fire to the estate, they laid hold of the driver, flogged him very severely, and afterwards put him to death by slow tortures.
"Having surrounded the works, they next killed the manager, and three white overseers, by wanton cruelties.
"On Saturday last the town of Roseau was falsely alarmed, by a report of the approach of these savages to the capital; many were preparing for a flight several ways, and some attempted to get on board the shipping for safety. But on better information their fears subsided.
"The heads of two of these miscreants have been cut off and brought to the town of Roseau, which our informant saw before his departure."
WORCESTER, Feb. 16.
A very valuable mine has lately been discovered in the town of Leverett, county of Hampshire, in this Commonwealth. What the most valuable metal produced from this mine really is, is not yet determined, the Proprietors not having met with persons of sufficient chemical knowledge to give them the desired information. True it is, that the ore yields, after the first simple mode of separation, one sixteenth part of a pale yellow metal, of a fine texture, which will bear drawing, even after the first process above-mentioned, into very fine wire; it is supposed to be too fine for copper, and upon trial does not appear to be a very base metal. Some persons suppose it to be silver mixed with copper—some gold with copper—and others, gold which wants the maturing hand of time to bring it to perfection—while others think it a new species of metal; but all agree, that whatever it is, it must be very valuable to its owners, as the ore yields bountifully, is easily come at, and the mine upon inspection is thought to contain immense quantities. Several tons of the ore have already, with very little trouble and expence, been taken from the mine, which also produces very large quantities of lead. Both the lead and the other metal, is in its natural state in flint stone. We shall publish further particulars relative to this discovery as they come to hand.
BOSTON, February 23.
In our last Gazette we mentioned the very sudden death of three children of Mr. John Durant of Newton, since which we are informed of the death of a fourth, of the same disorder, being a sprightly miss, in the 8th year of her age.
While Congress were sitting at Annapolis, in Maryland, the Rev. Dr. G. of R. in this State, represented to that Honourable Body, that, for the purpose of cherishing and preserving the principles of Liberty, he had undertaken to write a history of the American Revolution, and prayed for leave to inspect such publick records and papers as could with propriety be submitted to the perusal of a private person. Congress thought proper to indulge him, but, it is to be presumed, under such restrictions as prudence and their knowledge of the man must have naturally suggested. He now boasts of having, as he supposes, "been furnished with the necessary historical memoirs beyond any other person," and is publickly soliciting subscriptions for defraying the expence of printing his work, requiring, agreeably to his well known Modesty , half the price of it to be paid at subscribing. This with a competent number of subscribers, we are well informed, is all he wants in American; for, not chusing to employ an American press, he means shortly to return to his native country, Britain , and there publish his History. It is probably suited to the political taste and genius of the people of that Island, and there only may the publication of it be encouraged.
PORTSMOUTH, Feb. 25.
The Throat-Distemper, it is said, now rages in Princeton, and other towns in the county of Worcester, and has, within a few days produced instances of mortality equally melancholy with those experienced by the distressed family of Mr. John Durant of Newton (Massachusetts.)
How fearful the Britons are of being depopulated by emigrations to America! By the late London papers we find, that, in order to discourage Britons from emigrating to America, they descend to the same low cunning (if lying may be thus termed) which they so much practised in vain before the late war, of painting the characters of the Americans in the blackest colours—that they are thieves, rogues, dissemblers, descendants from British convicts, &c. is the continual din of those descendants from the gods, ironically speaking, or otherwise, from the devil!—It is well known that, by oppression, Britain reduces her subjects to states of starvation. Thus, from an impulse of the first law of nature, obliging them to steal (as, by the Newgate list, we see they continue to do) and then hang or transport them for it in defiance of
the laws of God.—The most natural conclusion from hence, is, that men who strictly adhere to the laws of God are to be preferred before those who would, by their laws, oblige them to violate the laws of God in suffering themselves and families to die with hunger while plenty surrounds them—that is to say, that some of those convicts are better men than the rulers of Britain! These good and honest Britons, doubtless, class those virtuous sons of religion, who were persecuted in England for their religion, and who flew for refuge to America, among the convicts. If they wish to know who are descendants from the criminal convicts, let them overhall the refugee list! That set of men must be greatly deluded which has lost all distinction between virtue and vice, good and evil.
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State of New Hampshire,
To the honorable NATHANIEL PEABODY, Esq. one of the Justices of the Peace within, and throughout the State of New Hampshire.
THE subscribers owners and proprietors of more than one sixteenth part of the township of Enfield, in the county of Grafton, and State of New-Hampshire, humbly pray your honor to call a meeting of the proprietors of said township, to be holden at the house of Capt. Asa Petty, innholder in said Enfield, on Monday the twentieth day of March next, at one of the Clock in the afternoon, for the following purposes.
 1st, To choose a Moderator.  2d, To choose a Proprietor's Clerk.  3d, To vote to raise such sums of money as shall be necessary to defray the charges of the propriety, and to choose assessors and collectors for that purpose.  4th, To see if the Proprietors will vote to dispose of part of the common and undivided land belonging to said proprietors.  5th, To see if the proprietors will vote to establish and confirm the former votes and proceedings of said Proprietors.  6th, To establish the lines and boundaries of those lots which bounds or lines are disputed, and to compleat the draft of all lots laid out and appropriated.  7th, To choose Agents to prosecute or defend any action pending, or that may be commenced, wherein said Proprietors may be interested.  8th, To agree and determine upon a method of calling Proprietors meetings for the future. 
Portsmouth, Feb. JESSE JOHNSON, 23, 1786. CALEB JOHNSON.
State of New-Hampshire,
PURSUANT to the foregoing application, I hereby notify the Proprietors of said Enfield, to meet at said time and place for the above-mentioned purposes.
NATHANIEL PEABODY, Justice Peace. February 23. 1786
THE MANAGERS of DARTMOUTH COLLEGE LOTTERY, inform the publick that by reason of the great scarcity of money, the sale of the TICKETS in the first Class has been retarded, and the time of drawing necessarily prolonged, however, they have fixed upon the first Wednesday of June to begin drawing at the State House in this town, and all persons who have been intrusted with the sale of Tickets are requested to make return of the same by the last day of May, with those that may then be on hand (if any).
The managers flatter themselves that notwithstanding the present scarcity of money, a generous publick will enable them to go on with said lottery, especially, when they take into consideration the great utility and advantage designed thereby, viz. to encourage and promote the education of youth, which is of the last importance to this and every other republick.—Tickets may still be had of the managers in this town, and at Exeter, of Mr. George Pierce at Newbury Port, —Mr. Vans of Salem,—Mr. Storer of Boston, —Col. Pain of Lebanon, and at the College. Portsmouth, February 22. 1786.
WHEREAS THOMAS HAYES, of New-Durham, has obtained from me the subscriber, a Note of Hand upon demand, signed by me, which note said Hayes has not paid any consideration for; therefore all persons are cautioned against purchasing said note, as I am determined not to pay the same. John Gorden.

Parnassian Spring.
ON FRIENDSHIP.
LET holy Friendship be my theme, LO! muse its purest pleasures sing; Where the heart burns with mutual flame; What joys from such connexions spring!
Yet thro' life's dubious maze we find But few who real Friendship know, Whom sympathy and passion bind, Whose hearts with mutual ardor glow.
Friendship illib'ral acts disdain, Unmixt and pure are all its joys; For flattery is its surest bane, And base ingratitude destroys.
Ingratitude (the blackest crime) O'er love and friendship holds her reign, And damps the real joy, sublime, Which few can feel—but all can feign.
'Tis thee, sincerity, we find The earliest passion of our youth, T' improve the heart and win the mind, To ways of sentiment and truth.
When fell misfortune damps the hour, Friendship her lenient smiles bestow; 'Tis then her sympathizing pow'r Will share and mitigate our woe.
Where Friendship's undisguis'd and free, And link'd by virtue, honor, love, And bound by mutual sympathy, We emulate the joys above.
The heart with tenderness still glows, United by the gen'rous bands; Participates our joys and woes, And with philanthropy expands.
How BLES'T is he in whom we find A heart where social virtue move; And in whose servid, gen'rous mind Dwells kindness and FRATERNAL LOVE. LORENZO.
THE STORY OF MISS BRADDOCK.
MISS Frances Braddock was the admiration of every polite circle—Her person was elegant, her face beautiful, and her mind accomplished.
She unhappily spent a season at Bath.—The whole beau monde courted her acquaintance.—She gave the ton not only to the fashion, but to the sentiments of every assembly. Her taste was admirable, her wit was brilliant.
Her father at his death bequeathed her five thousand pounds between her and her sister, besides a considerable sum to her brother the late General Braddock, who was cut off with a whole party, on an American expedition against the Cherokee Indians.
Four years after the death of her father, she lost her sister, by which her fortune was doubled—but alas! in the course of a month, by a constant application to cards, she lost the whole.
She fell under the imputation of her own opinion—She conceived that judgment was sufficient, being totally ignorant of unfair practice.
Her misfortune preyed upon her mind, nor did she communicate the cause even to her most confidential friends for a considerable time, till at last her mind being unequal to struggle with accumulating adversity, she declared to an intimate female, that the world should never be sensible of her necessities, however extreme they might be.
Notwithstanding her caution, her poverty became known, and her sensibility was daily injured by the real and fictitious condolence of her acquaintance, which stimulated her to the rash resolve of terminating her anxiety, by putting an end to her existence.
On the night of perpetrating the act of suicide, she retired to her chamber in apparent good health, and in full possession of her senses. Her attendants left her in bed with a candle lighted, as was usual, and having locked the door, put the key under it.
Miss Braddock always opened her chamber door in the morning to admit her attendants, but the next morning the maid coming as usual, and not hearing her mistress stir, retired till near two o'clock in the afternoon, when being alarmed at receiving no answer to her calling, she employed a man to climb in at the window, when the horrid catastrophe of her mistress was discovered, and the following fact appeared in the evidence upon the view of the Coroner's inquest.
After the departure of the maid on this night,
she got out of bed again, and, it is supposed, employed some time in reading, as a book was discovered lying open upon her dressing-table. She put on a white night-gown, and pinned it over her breast; tied a gold and silver girdle together, and hanged herself on a closet door in the following manner—at one end of the girdle she tied three knots, each about an inch asunder, that if one slipped, another might hold; opening the door she put the knotty end over, and then locked it, to secure the girdle, at the other end of which she made a noose, put it about her neck, and dropping herself off a chair, accomplished her fatal purpose. She hung with her back to the door, and had hold of the key with one of her hands. She bit her tongue through, and had a bruise on her forehead, supposed to have been occasioned by the braking of a red girdle, on which she had tried the first experiment, and which was afterwards found in her pocket with a noose upon it. The Coroner's Inquest being called, they returned their verdict non compos mentis . On the day after she was decently buried in the Abby church, by the side of her brave old Father, who happily did not live to weep over the misfortunes of his children. In her window were found written the following lines:
O Death! thou pleasing end to human woe; Thou cure for life! thou greatest good below! Still may'st thou fly the coward and the slave, And thy lost slumbers only bless the brave.
Thus by an act of self-murder or of madness a young lady, in the 23d year of her age, in the full possession of personal charms, sensibility and virtue, lost her life by an unhappy infatuation to a fashionable vice.
O CARDS! ye vain diverters of our woe! Ye waste of life! ye greatest curse below. May beauty never fall again your slave, Nor your delusion thus destroy the brave.
State of New Hampshire, Grafton ss.
WE the subscribers being appointed commissioners by the hon. Charles Johnstone, Esq. judge of probate, &c. in said county, to receive and examine the claims of the several creditors to the estate of John Young, late of Hanover, in the county aforesaid, Esq. deceased, represented insolvent, and three months from the date hereof, being allowed in addition to six months which has been already allowed for that purpose; do hereby give notice that we will attend said business on the third Tuesdays of the three following months, from ten of the clock in the morning, to five in the afternoon on each of said days, at the dwelling house of Mrs. Fisk innholder in Haverhill, in said county.
ASA PORTER, EZEKIEL LADD, } Commissioners. DANL STEVENS, }
N. B. All persons indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment to Samuel Young, and Joshua Young, Executors.
Haverhill Jan. 31st. 1786.
Rockingham ss. TO be Sold by Public Vendue, at the House of Richard Bartlett, Esq. in Pembroke, on Tuesday the 21st day of March, next, at one of the Clock, P. M. so much of the following lots of non-resident land, lying in Pembroke, as will pay the tax on them, for the year 1783, with incidental charges, unless paid before that time.
   R. N. Q'ty. s. d. q.     Jonathan Rawlins 5 7 40 4 4 2   Thomas Piper 6 10 40 3 9 2   Nathan Taylor 16 40 4 0 2   Hon. John Wentworth 7 17 40 3 9 2   Benjamin Palmer 15 40 3 9 2   Joseph Rawlins, jun. 14 40 3 9 2   Richard Jennens 9 40 4 4 2   Thomas Piper, jun. 5 40 3 9 2   Broadstreet Wiggin 8 15 40 3 6 2   Jonathan Dearborn 2 100 7 7 0   Samuel Vese 4 100 7 7 0   Spafford Ames 100 7 7 0  
THOMAS BRICKETT, Constable. Pembroke, Feb. 13th, 1786.
State of New-Hampshire, Rockingham ss.
WE the Subscribers being appointed Commissioners to receive and examine the Claims of the several Creditors to the Estate of JAMES GREGG, late of Salem, in said county, yeoman, deceased, represented insolvent:—We will attend that service at the House of Captain James Aiken, in Londonderry, on the last Friday of this and the five following months, from one to six of the clock of said days.
JOHN BELL, JAMES BETTON, } Commissioners. JAMES AIKEN }
Londonderry, February 6th, 1786.
TO be Sold at Public Vendue, on Tuesday the 4th day of April next, at 1 o'clock, in the afternoon, at the house of Capt: Solomon Cutler, innholder in Rindge, so much of the following lots of land (lying in Rindge) as will pay the following tax and incidental charges, unless prevented by previous payment.
   N. R. l. s. d.     John Thompson's place part of 19 9 0 3 3/4   Ditto 19 10 0 3 3/4   Samuel Parker's place 18 10 0 5 6   Jonath. Parker, junr's 34acrs 19 20 8 0 1 5  
The above lots were rated in my rate list, for the year 1784, to the state tax.
EDWARD JEWETT, } Const. of Rindge for the year 1784. Rindge, Feb. 13, 1786.
ALL persons who have any demands upon the estate of JOHN MELLEN, Esq. deceased, are desired to bring in their claims as soon as possible to PUHA MELLEN, Administratrix. Fitzwilliam, Jan. 26, 1786.
THE Public are hereby notified, that SUSANNAH, my wife, has neglected the care of my family, and having been suspected of embezzling my property, and running me in debt; for which reason, I hereby caution and declare, that I will pay no debts by her contracted, after this date. John Spofford. Salem (New Hampshire) Feb. 6, 1786.
WHEREAS Loues Drew my wife, has misbehaved; this is to give notice, that I the subscriber will not pay any debts she may contract after this date. Witness my hand, JOHN DREW. Barnstead Jan. 20, 1785.
Hillsborough ss. TO be sold by Public Vendue, at the House of DAVID STARRET, in Francestown, on Tuesday the 21st day of March next, at 10 of the clock, in the forenoon, so much of the following lots of Land, lying in said Francestown, as will pay the Tax on them for the year 1784, with incidental charges, unless paid before that time:
   State tax. Soldier tax. No. Acre.     Unknown £0 15 2d £0 0f 10d 42 80   Coffin 2 1 1 7 11 70   Perce's und. land 4 3 150   Thomas Wilson 6 4 6 209  
DAVID STARRET, Constable. Francestown, Jan. 30th, 1786.
State of New Hampshire.
PUBLIC notice is hereby given to all the proprietors or owners of land in the town of Fitzwilliam, that there is a tax of six SHILLINGS and SEVEN PENCE TWO FARTHING, assessed upon each lot of land, liable to pay proprietors taxes in said town, to pay the Rev. Mr. BRIGHAM's salary for the year 1785, and other outstanding debts, and the same is committed to me the subscriber to collect, and unless the same is paid me at my dwelling house in Fitzwilliam, within thirty days after the date hereof, so much of their lands as will pay the same together with incidental charges will be sold at public vendue. (propriety.)
JOSEPH FARWELL, Collector for said Fitzwilliam, January 28, 1786.
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