The New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1792-08-09 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.
Published by Authority.
The LAWS, passed at a session of the General-Court, begun and holden at Dover, JUNE 1792.
State of New-Hampshire.
In the year of our LORD one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two.
An ACT to prevent obstructions and impediments to navigation in the river Piscataqua, and harbor of Portsmouth.
WHEREAS masters and owners of vessels, or persons belonging to them, boatmen and others, have frequently thrown out ballast and other annoyances from vessels and boats, as well as from the shore or bank, into said river and harbor, tending to fill up or lessen the channel, and obstruct the passage near the wharves, to the detriment and obstruction of navigation:
For remedy whereof—
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General-Court convened, That from and after the first day of August next, no refuse whatever shall be cast or thrown into said harbor or said river within the limits hereafter mentioned, excepting such only as being naturally carried off by the current, does not tend to form or promote the obstructions aforesaid.
And if any person shall thereafter un-lade, cast or throw out of any ship, vessel or boat of any kind, or from the shore or bank, or from any wharf, any ballast, rubbish, gravel, earth, stones, dirt, ashes, or filth into said harbor, or into said river, within the following limits, viz. From the Light-House at the entrance of said harbor, up said river to boiling rock, so called, or shall be aiding or assisting therein, every such person shall, for every such offence, forfeit and pay a sum not less than twenty, nor more than forty shillings, to be recovered by action, complaint or information before any justice of the peace, or court of record proper to try the same, the one half of which sum shall be to the complainant, and the other half to the prosecutor.
And the town of Portsmouth shall annually at the meeting for the choice of town officers, or at any other legal town meeting, choose a discreet person to oversee and superintend said harbor and said river within the limits aforesaid, whose peculiar business and duty it shall be, to see that this act be observed, and to prosecute any breaches thereof, which officer shall be called the harbor-master.
AN ACT in further addition to an act, passed the seventeenth day of June, Anno Domini, 1791, entitled, "An act suspending the operation of sundry acts therein enumerated, and referred to until a certain period."
WHEREAS it is found necessary further to suspend the operation of said acts or laws now known by the name of the revised laws;
Therefore—
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General-Court convened, That the operation of said acts or revised laws, and those also in the said act referred to, be, and hereby are, further suspended until the fifteenth
day of September next, then to take effect, and be in full force. Provided nevertheless, That an act entitled, "An act to prevent incestuous marriages, and to regulate divorces," shall not be suspended hereby.
On the use of Oxen instead of Horses. (From Catherine Philips's Travels through England.)
I WILL venture to recommend, as tending to reduce the high prices of provisions, the more general use of oxen for tillage, and even drawing of carriages rather than so many horses. So much has already been written on this subject, as to demonstrate that it would be greatly to the advantage of farmers to till their land with oxen. I can see no reason for their giving the preference to horses, but that they do the work quicker; and if they would try oxen in the traces, instead of putting them under the yoke, perhaps that excuse would fail them. They will go steadier, faster, and I think, draw a greater burthen; and on public roads this method must be far preferable to yoking them. I have seen a waggon drawn by six or more oxen in the traces, and was told, the owner of them much preferred that method to the yoke; that they were employed in carriage as well as in tillage, and that they drew his waggon loaded, from his house to Exeter, which is full 17 miles, and returned again in a day. Prodigious weights are drawn and even carried by these animals in countries wherein they are generally used. And I doubt not if farmers and waggon-keepers would thoroughly try the before mentioned method, but much of our carriage as well as our tillage might be done by oxen, whereby the price of beef, tallow, leather, &c. might be reduced.
It appears to me probable, that an improvement upon the method used for drawing with horses in traces, might be made for oxen. As much of the strength of the ox is supposed to lie in its neck, which I conclude to be the reason for its being subjected to the yoke, might not an additional collar, perhaps best made of coarse linen, where to a cord or light chain might be fastened, and that again fastened to the carriage or plough, in the manner the Laplanders attach their rein-deer to their sledges, so tend to keep down the neck of the ox, as that more strength might be exerted by that part, than in the usual method of drawing in the traces only. As this is merely my own conjecture, I only propose it for consideration. The oxen I saw draw in the traces, drew single; and I did not observe, nor hear, that their geer was any wise different from that of horses: even the shafts were filled by an ox, and all seemed to draw with more ease, than when wriggling under the yoke. As the thing was, to me, new, I took the more particular notice. But if these valuable beasts were more generally used, it might be hoped that their inhuman drivers would not be suffered to beat them, as though their flesh like that of the poor horses, was only fit for dogs.
When it is considered that all parts of the oxen are useful, and divers of them very valuable, and how much less expence it is to breed and feed them than horses, and that horses when worn out are worth but a mere trifle, it is admirable that they are not more generally used in this money-getting nation. Their flesh, fat, hides, horns, hoofs, hair, yea, their very guts are used either for food, cloathing, or by our artificers, &c.
A celebrated French author (Buffon) says of the ox, "He is the most advantageous of all domestics to the farmer;
he is the very source and support of agriculture. Formerly the ox constituted the whole riches of mankind: and he is still the basis of the riches of nations, which subsist and flourish only in proportion to the cultivation of their lands, and number of the cattle, for in these all real wealth consists: even gold and silver, being only fictitious representations, have no real value but what is conferred upon them by the productions of the earth.
Perhaps some of our modern farmers may be too wise, or too conceited, to receive the old fashioned maxims, and may as reluctantly consent to do their business with oxen, as did the Irish to draw their ploughs otherwise than by the horses' tails. However that senseless custom is now, generally, in disuse; and we may also hope that horses will be more disused in the course of time in agricultural employments. Our rulers have latterly been otherwise too busy to attend to such minutiae for the welfare of the nation, or they might think it worth while to encourage the use of oxen, by small premiums, or other benefits to the farmers, who are most likely to be convinced by present interests, of the utility of any measure proposed, if but the tolls of turnpikes were remitted them it might induce some to increase the number of those very strong and useful cattle; and I do not think the turnpikes would suffer much by this indulgence, as oxen in travelling do much less damage to the roads than horses. Certainly, the price of leather is so high that if some measure is not adopted to lower it, the poor in England may be laid under the necessity of walking barefoot, as many of their children now do.
REPORT
Of the committee of the FEDERAL SENATE on the subject of WEIGHTS and MEASURES.
THE committee report, that it is their opinion, 1. The standard for the measures and weights of the United States, be a uniform cylindrical rod of iron, of such length as in latitude 45° in the level of the ocean, and in a cellar of uniform natural temperature, shall perform its vibrations in small and equal arcs, in one second of mean time.
2d. That the President of the United States be requested to have such a standard rod provided; that it be prepared with all the accuracy which the importance of the object merits and circumstances admit; that this be done by actual experiments under the parallel of 45° of latitude complete or by actual experiments, rectified by due allowances, under any other parallel, where a superiority of means for accurate experiment may promise on the whole greater truth in the result.
3. That the expenses of the measures be adopted for this purpose, not exceeding dollars, be defrayed by the public.
4. That the standard rod so to be provided, shall be divided into five equal parts, one of which to be called a foot, shall be the unit of measures of the length for the United States.
That the foot shall be divided into 10 inches.
The inch into 10 lines, The line into 10 points; and That 10 feet make a decad, 10 decads a rood, 10 roods a furlong, And 10 furlongs a mile.
5. That measures of surface in the United States, be made by squares of the measures of length, and that in the case of lands, the unit shall be a square, whereof every side shall be an hundred feet, to be called a rood.
That each rood be divided into tenths and hundredths.
That 10 roods make a double acre, And 10 double acres a square furlong.
6. That the unit of measures, of capacity in the United States, be a cubic foot, to be called a bushel;
That each bushel be divided into 10 pottles.
Each pottle into 10 demi pints.
Each demi pint into 10 metres;
That 10 bushels be a quarter,
And 10 quarters a last or double ton.
7. That the unit of weights of the United States, be a cubic inch of rain water, to be called an ounce, and to be measured and weighed in a cellar of uniform natural temperature.
That the ounce be divided into 10 double scruples.
The double scruple into 10 carats,
The carat into 10 minims or demi-grains.
The minim into 10 mites;
That 10 ounces make a pound,
10 pounds a stone,
10 stones a kental,
10 kentals a hoghead.
The consideration of this report was postponed until the next session of Congress.
From a late LONDON PAPER.
A FEW years since, while a petition against an undue return for a certain Western borough was pending in the House of Commons, a poor Barber, one of the Electors, strongly attached to the interest of the late Lord Egmont, undertook, in order to serve his patron, to walk up to town as an evidence on the business.
One evening, after a long march, the Barber's eye was attracted by the striking inscription of "Good home brewed," on the sign of a country ale house, that, gently moving in the wind, seemed to beckon to the thirsty traveller to stop there for comfortable refreshment.
The ale was good, and the Barber's clay wanted moistening: He drank freely—he intimated his wish to sleep there—His host had no objection, and pointed to his room. But he had the brown jug filled again; and then with reluctance staggered up stairs: By an untoward stumble, he put his candle out, missed the door of his intended apartment, and went into another room, where was the corpse of a man, who had died the day before of the small-pox, which was laid out on a bed, which our weary and tipsy traveller groped into.
Fatigue and West country ale are excellent opiates. The Barber slept soundly, and never dreamed of his bed fellow. When he awoke in the morning, finding that he had a companion, he curiously bade him good morrow: But receiving no answer from his lifeless chum, he stammered out in a passion, "If you wi—wi—will not sp—sp—speak, da—da—damn you, put away your co—co—cold legs."
The Barber, finding that neither civil nor uncivil language produced any effect, was going to get up in a great dudgeon, when a carpenter, with a saw to put the corpse in, entered the room. If the sight of a coffin alarmed the Barber, the appearance of a man sitting up in the bed of death, made a more terrific impression on the carpenter. Like Milton's Devil, he "back recoiled," and made but one step down stairs; he and the coffin being precipitated together, with no small injury to both.
The whole house was soon in an uproar. The carpenter stunned by his fall, but still more stunned by the fancied resurrection of the dead, was absolutely incapable of giving any account of the matter; when the barber, without stopping to shave, or even to dress himself, ran down, and with tremulous voice and scared aspect, cleared up the mystery.
The poor Tonson continues to this day, the butt of ridicule in the town where he lives, on the score of this tragi-comic adventure in his political trip to the House of Commons.

STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
An act for adjusting Accounts and collecting sundry debts Due to this State prior to the Year 1784.
Whereas sundry persons are indebted to this State on Bonds, Notes, Accounts, Receipts, and for Monies furnished, Arms, Ammunition and other articles supplied prior to June, 1784, which demands ought to be adjusted and the sums due collected—
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened, That JOHN TAYLOR GILMAN and NATHANIEL ROGERS, Esq's, be, and hereby are appointed a Committee in behalf of this state, with full power to settle all Accounts, Bonds Notes of hand, Receipts, and all other debts due to the State prior to June, 1784, whether for monies supplied, or any other Articles upon such principles and in such manner as they shall judge equitable on consideration of the circumstances attending the same, and to give regular discharge therefor on receiving payment, or such security as they may judge proper.
And be it further enacted, That said Committee be, and hereby are empowered to call on any public Officers of this State, (or any other person in whose care they may be) for all such Accounts, Obligations and other Books or papers as are necessary to adjust and ascertain such demands—And such public Officers, or other persons are hereby respectively directed to deliver over to said Committee all such Books and papers as are in their custody, and which said Committee shall judge necessary for the adjustment of said Accounts, Debts, &c.
And be it further enacted, That the Committee aforesaid, be and hereby are empowered (if it is found necessary) to cause any suit or suits to be commenced in the Courts of Law on behalf and in the name of this State, against any person or persons who had Accounts open with, or were indebted to this State prior to June, 1784, and whose debts or Accounts are not otherwise settled and paid, and the same to pursue to final judgment and execution.
And be it further enacted, That said Committee shall have full power and authority to appoint and substitute one or more attorneys under them, as to them shall appear necessary, with full power and authority to settle with or prosecute any person indebted as aforesaid, as to said Attorney or Attorneys shall appear most reasonable, and that said Committee shall, as soon as may be, render an Account to the General Court of their proceedings.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
In the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, December 31, 1791.
The foregoing Bill having been read a third time, passed to be enacted.
Sent up for concurrence.
WM. PLUMER, Speaker.
IN SENATE, January 2, 1792.
This Bill having been read a third time, voted that the same be enacted,
JOSIAH BARTLETT, President.
A true copy—Attest :
JOSEPH PEARSON, Secretary.
THE Committee named in the foregoing Act, will attend at the Treasurer's Office in Exeter, from the Tenth to the Thirtieth day of September next, (exclusive of Sabbath days) for the purpose of executing the trust reposed in them, and request that all persons concerned will call and settle their respective Accounts, or other demands referred to in the foregoing Act within the above limited time.
JOHN T. GILMAN, NATH: ROGERS.
Exeter July 20, 1792.
The several Printers throughout this State, are requested to insert the foregoing in their respective Newspapers for three weeks.
AUSTRIAN NETHERLANDS.
BRUSSELS, May 18.
INTELLIGENCE has been just received here, that the little town of Baway between Valenciennes and Meubeuge, was yesterday taken by the Austrians, and 108 men, with 4 officers, who were there posted made prisoners.
[The Gazette likewise contains, a Proclamation, forbidding any of his majesty's subjects serving at sea under foreign powers, or fitting out privateers against any.]
PARIS, May 12.
ADDRESS of M. LA FAYETTE, To his army.
"Soldiers of the Country!
"The legislative body, and the king in the name of the French people have declared war. The country, by the constitutional organs of it, call us to its defence, what citizen can refuse his arm!
"At the moment in which we first obey the oath, pronounced upon the altar of the federation of the nation in arms, I wish to inform you of my intentions, and remind you of my principles.
"Convinced by the experience of a life devoted to liberty, that it can exist only among citizens submitting to the laws, as it can be defended by troops consenting to subordination. I have served the people without flattering them, and, in my constant opposition to licentiousness and anarchy, have deserved the hatred of all the ambitious, and all the factious. Now, that the army expects of me not pernicious compliances, but an inflexible discipline, it is by rigorously fulfilling this duty, that I shall justify the affection which it grants, and the esteem which it owes me.—But when I subject freemen to the imperious will of a chief, we shall all know, General, Officers, Soldiers, that, in this war, becomes a deadly combat between our principles and the pretensions of despots—the rights of every citizen, and the safety of all are involved. The constitution to which we are sworn, the sacred cause of liberty and equality are involved in it. The contest is for the national sovereignty, under which there can be no compromise with any combination of strength, or with any dangers, without betraying, not only the French people, but all humanity.
"Soldiers of Liberty! to deserve these blessings is not sufficient to be brave. Your General ought to foresee and order; you to obey. Be generous; respect the enemy when disarmed. Troops which always give quarter and receive it not, will be forever invincible. Be disinterested; let not the degrading hope of pillage ever fully the nobility of our motives. Be humane; that our sentiments may be admired, and laws blessed, wherever we may go. Be, in short, like your General—resolved to see the triumph, liberty, or to die!
"Soldiers of the constitution fear not, that she may cease to watch for you, while you fight for her; do not believe, that while you are gone forth to combat for your country, intestine commotions will disturb your homes—The legislative body, and the King will doubtless unite themselves intimately in the decisive moment, to assure the empire of the law. Persons and property will be respected; civil and religious liberty will never be profaned, the peaceable citizen will be respected, whatever may be his opinion; the guilty will be punished, whatever may be their pretexes; all pretexes will be dissolved; and the constitution will prevail alone both over the rebels, who attack it by open force, and over the traitors, whom in disgracing it by their vile passions, seem to have sworn to make it feared at home and suspected abroad. Yes; we shall have this price for our labors and our blood. Let us adhere then, with confidence, to the chosen representatives of the people, who have sworn not to avoid the duties of the constitution as we will not its dangers; to the hereditary representative, that Citizen King, whose throne the consti-
tution has placed upon an irrefragable foundation; and to all the other depositaries of the powers delegated by the constitution.
"They all know, that the use of that authority is a duty for them, to whom the constitution has deputed it, as obedience is for those whom she has submitted to it; and that they may transgress the laws, by not doing what they prohibit. Let us adhere to the National Guards, whom the rising constitution when in danger will find always ready to defend it, and whose patriotism will render glorious the calumnies which may be shared with them.
"As for us, bearing the arms which liberty has consecrated, and the declaration of rights, let us march to the enemy.
(Signed) "LA FAYETTE."
COLUMBIA, July 10.
A letter from a gentleman in the Territory South of the Ohio, dated April 6, informs, that a number of the Creeks, and all the Chickamogga Indians, have, some days since, declared war against the settlements of Cumberland, killed twenty-two, and took two prisoners. We are at a loss to know whether they will turn out on our frontiers or not. One of the Shawanese has been lurking about the neighborhood where I resided for some time, and (to shew their natural propensity to barbarity) yesterday, while I was attending general muster, an express came to town with the melancholly news of his having, within fifteen miles of this place, killed and scalped three children. The father of them was chased a considerable distance, but escaped. The mother is supposed to have been taken prisoner.
This day a party sets off in pursuit of them. The people of Cumberland have sent to the Governor for assistance. A full Captain's company will march for that place on the 21st. The savage thirst for blood seems diffusing itself generally. I fear the consequences to us will be beyond conception great, and our army too late to redress the sufferings of an helpless people.
HALIFAX, July 19.
By a gentleman from Edenton we are informed, that a brig arrived at that port last week from Hispaniola, in which several Frenchmen came passengers. The disturbances in that wretched and ill-fated island still rage with unabated violence, and there appears but poor prospects that they will soon be settled. This vessel also brings accounts that the British have fitted out privateers under commissions from the King of Hungary, which have taken many French merchantmen in the West-Indies.
KINGSTON, July 7.
By a vessel which arrived yesterday from St. Mark, in Hispaniola, advice is received that France has declared war against Spain.—This intelligence comes in a letter from a gentleman of indisputable veracity at that place, to his brother now here, and had just been received from Cape-Francois, where an express vessel had arrived from Old France.
By letters from Cape-Francois we learn, that the King of the French has appointed Major-General COLLOR Governor of Hispaniola, in the room of M. DE BLANCHELANDE. He is now in the army, under the command of Marshal DE ROCHAMBEAU, at Valenciennes, and served under him in the last war in America.
The King has also appointed three new commissioners for quieting the troubles in that island, viz. M. POLVEREL, one of the most eminent advocates at Paris, M. SANTONNA and M. CHOLLET. The two first have been recommended by the Jacobins.
The accounts from the West-Indies begin to wear a more favorable aspect. We hope soon to be able to announce the intire restoration of peace, business, trade and prosperity, in those long distressed islands.
NEW-LONDON, August 2.
A school is just opened in Baltimore
for the benevolent purpose of instructing Black Children and Children of Colour in the several branches of useful learning. This school is under the direction and care of a committee, and has received a numerous patronage.
PITTSBURGH, July 21.
Extra of a letter from Capt. Paul, of the State Levies, dated Middle Block House (on the frontiers of Washington County) July 26, to Major M'Cully.
"The Indians on Tuesday last killed 2 men and one woman, and stole 7 horses between the flats of Grave creek and Col. Shepherd's in Ohio county, Virginia—Lieut. Gray and 14 of my men followed them over the Ohio, as far as the head of Sunfish, but the Indians being on horseback they returned without coming up with them. On Saturday last, at Dilly's station, opposite the mouth of Grave creek the Indians came into one of the houses killed four and wounded one—the number of Indians was supposed to be 20. It is thought they will strike this quarter—To-morrow morning I expect to start with a party to try to fall in with them."
PHILADELPHIA, July 26.
This day arrived here the Brig Betsey, Captain Henry White, from Plymouth, in England, which port he left on the 7th of June. Though this Brig is by several days, the latest from Europe, Captain White brings no very interesting intelligence—at Plymouth he was not able to learn any thing of French affairs—the British, he says, were disarming and discharging their seamen.
NEW-YORK, July 25.
A Liverpool Paper, of the 31st of May mentions that the little town of Bayay, near Valenciennes, has been taken by the Austrians, with 112 French Prisoners—That the Austrian General Sztary, with 3000, had attacked the French Gen. M. de Gouvion, with 7000, and beat him, killing 150, and losing only FOUR, after an obstinate resistance, at Florence ! part of La Fayette's army—We suspect telling this in a horse stable would be dangerous.—That Lord Thurlow continues to act in his office—That a report prevailed of the Queen of France being murdered—And that the Right Honorable George Bridges Rodney, died May 25th, of an apoplectic fit.
DANBURY, July 21.
In the fields of the Rev. Samuel Goodrich, in Ridgfield, was produced from one corn of Rye 86 heads, which yielded 3720 corns.
BOSTON, August 4.
LATEST INTELLIGENCE FROM FRANCE.
A vessel is arrived at New-York, from Havre-de-Grace. She left it the 20th June—and generally informs, That no action had happened since those of Mans and Valenciennes; that the armies were not far from each other; that the army in general was deploring the delusion which occasioned DILLON's fate, and that discipline was an object much sought after, and desired by the patriotic soldiery.—Messrs. Buffillon, de la Bigarre, Peaubelle, and Desdity came passengers in the vessel.
From PORT-AU-PRINCE—We have accounts as late as the 10th ult. They inform, that the Whites have, per force, consented to the execution of the decree of the National Assembly of France for extending to the free people of colour the rights of active citizens:—That in consequence the Mulattoes, who were in arms, had marched into town. That eight or nine members of the Provincial Assembly of the west, who had been active in exciting the late troubles, and whose continuance in the island was deemed dangerous to the public tranquillity, had been sent to France: That M. Coustard had been appointed Commandant at St. Marc, M. Beauvais, Grand Provost—and M. Hanus de Jamecourt, Town Major of Port-au-Prince: That peace was perfectly established, and that business was approximating towards regularity.

From PHILADELPHIA, July 26. The projects on foot, in this State, are great indeed—Its prosperity and business are continually increasing. Nearly fifty vessels are contracted for, to be built the next spring. The failure of molasses has created a great demand for grain for distilling—and there is no end to the quantity that can be supplied.
AUGUST 8.
FRENCH SQUADRON.
By last night's Mails we received the agreeable intelligence, that Capt. McDougal, of the brig American Hero, spoke July 16, in lat. 31 1/2. long. 68, a French Admiral, with a squadron of 10 sail under his command, bound from St. Domingo for this port. Should this account be true, of which we have some doubt, the arrival of the squadron may be daily expected.
FROM RUSSIA.
Capt. Hopkins, who arrived here on Sunday last, from Russia, informs—That at the date of his sailing therefrom, he could not learn that any warlike preparations were making in the Russian Empire;—That there had been many reports of attempts to poison the Empress—one of which, it was said, had been discovered to be made by several Frenchmen:—That, in consequence an order of State had been issued for apprehending the conspirators—ten of whom had been taken—and for punishing with death every Frenchman who remained within the Empire after a certain time—and, that Capt. H. brought away therefrom three French Gentlemen.
A letter from England says, "The assassination of the King of Sweden has struck an alarm into several European Sovereigns, almost incredible; and the sportive spirit of the times seems disposed to jest a good deal with royal credulity. The Empress of all the Russias has shut herself up in the interior of her palace. The King of Prussia has been nearly mad in consequence of a Rossecrucian vision. The Stadtholder of Holland is opposed by his own son, and receives daily letters not to appear at such and such places if he values his life; and even our own dear King, whom God long preserve with all his faults, has received a letter warning him not to go to the Tottenham-street concert, for there were Jacobins even in England."
SUGAR.—Experiments for obtaining this valuable article from Malt, are making at the southward.
From GREAT-BRITAIN.—Our intelligence is as late as June 7—at which date nothing of consequence had transpired respecting the French—and that every thing was tranquil in England.
Frequent mention is made in the General orders of the French Army, of our beloved President—his example is recommended to the officers, and the example of his troops to the troops of France.
PORTSMOUTH, August 9.
On Thursday last, the COLUMBIAN LODGE at Nottingham was constituted in form,—The most Worshipful Grand Master being unable to attend (by reason of ill health) specially deputed Brother Adams for that purpose—The Deputy Grand Master and officers of the Grand Lodge, with the officers, and several of the brethren of St. John's Lodge being assembled at the house of Mr. Butler, were waited upon by the Master of the Columbian Lodge (Gen. Cilley) with his Wardens and other officers, and a number of the brethren. The Lodges then made the procession in form, to the house of brother Cilley, where the deputy Grand Master proceeded to constitute the Columbian Lodge with the usual ceremonies; and appointed the Right Worshipful JOSEPH CILLEY, Esq. Master, and invested him with the proper badge of his office. Brother Cilley then appointed his Wardens and other officers, and invested them with their proper badges; and the Columbian Lodge was proclaimed, with the honors of Masonry, a regular
constituted Lodge of free and accepted Masons; and registered accordingly by the Grand Secretary. After which the brethren partook of an elegant Entertainment provided by brother Cilley, which did great honor to the masonic hospitality of the General.—The Lodge was then closed, and mutual love and harmony prevailed.—Behold how beautiful and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.
The Grand Lodge of New-Hampshire have granted a Charter of confirmation to the RISING SUN LODGE, at Keene, and have also granted a Charter to a number of the brethren in Westmoreland, forming them into a regular Lodge, by the name of the JERUSALEM LODGE.
The Boston Tontine is dissolved—and the fund appropriated to the Union Bank, a new institution incorporated by the legislature of Massachusetts at the late session.
In the Quebec Herald, a poem is advertised for subscription, entitled, "The YANKY PARSON, or ALE HOUSE-CONGRESS, in three cantos, written in the Hudibrastic stile, by a gentleman during his tour through the United States."
A writer in the New-York Gazette, on restoring suspended animation, says, that the immediate causes of death in a drowned person, are the want of vital air, with loss of tone in the moving fibres of the heart itself.
This being admitted, the great object will be to renew the action of the heart and arteries, by obviating the causes which have interrupted their action; this is to be effected by three intentions:
1st. By restoring the heat and respiration; this is to be accomplished, 1st. By wiping the body as dry as possible, and then by applying a gradual uniform degree of heat, either by placing it before a fire, simmering it in a warm bath, exposing it to the sun, by the warmth of another person's body, or by covering it with warm grains, warm ashes, warm sand or salt, or lastly by rubbing it with warm clothes. 2d. By repeatedly inflating the lungs, imitating the alternate motions of natural respiration; this can be done either by inserting a tube in the windpipe, or as recommended by Dr. Monro, by inserting it into one of the nostrils.
2d. By more immediately restoring the action of the moving fibres, the means for answering this intention are, frictions, injections of tobacco smoke, vomiting, warm stimulating drinks, &c.
And 3d. By lessening the quantity of blood, thereby promoting its circulation; this is only to be effected by blood letting, in the use of this remedy however some caution is necessary, lest we take more blood than is sufficient to fulfil this intention.
The directions have been found repeatedly successful.
Alexander M'Gillivray advertises for a tutor, willing to instruct Indian children in the rudiments of the English language, and the first principles of arithmetic. In the advertisement this chief styles himself Emperor of the Creek Nations.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Shelburne (N. S.) to his friend in New-York, dated July 6.
"We are almost burnt out here, the fire has raged in the woods for upwards of a month, and has burnt up houses, fences and crops to a great amount. I shall be a great sufferer, as the poor people are incapable of making any payments. I am much afraid it will break up the settlement. The season being so far advanced, renders it hardly possible for any thing coming to perfection that is now put in the ground, turnips excepted. Such a spell of dry weather has not been known here this century; the very swamps are burnt up: The conflagration has not yet reached the town, but it is still hovering about it."
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in South Carolina, dated July 5, 1792.
"There has been no rain here for
some weeks, if we do not soon have rain we shall all perish, there is hardly a stalk of corn to be seen in a flourishing state, I am afraid it will all perish; the rice seems as though it is going very fast, and unless we have some rain, and that very soon, the crops will be totally destroyed; people are dying very fast in our parish; that worthy lady, Mrs. (Daniel) Blake died, on the 1st of July, the poor in general lament her loss; our worthy friend Dr. Perry is also dead, a young gentleman, by name Greer, arrived into our parish a few weeks since in order to practice Physic, and he is also dead; in short death spareth none.
A curious ring, wore by Queen ELIZABETH.
AN almost incredible piece of ingenuity, with the pen, was perfected by one Peter Bales, a clerk in chancery, in the 18th year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, who contrived and wrote in Latin, within the compass of a penny, the Lord's prayer, the creed, the ten commandments, a prayer to God, a prayer for the Queen, his poetry, his name, the day of the month, the year, and the reign of the Queen, and at Hampton Court,
He was introduced to her Majesty, to whom he presented it in the head of a gold ring, covered with a crystal. And at the same time, presented the Queen with an excellent spectacle, made by his instruction, for the more easy reading of it, with which the Queen read all that was written; and having handsomely rewarded the donor, wore the ring on her finger, as a memorandum of his ingenuity.
One Penny Reward.
RUN AWAY from the subscriber, on Sunday the 29th day of July last, an apprentice Boy, named Nathaniel Marston, about eighteen years of age—had on when he went away a light colored Coat and Breeches, and a blue Waist-coat—wore his own hair:—Whoever will take up said apprentice, and return him, shall have one penny reward.—All persons are hereby cautioned against harboring or trusting said apprentice on my account.
SAMUEL SMITH.
Newmarket, August 3, 1792.
At a meeting of the proprietors of Newmarket and Stratham Bridge, held at Newmarket at the house of Gen. James Hill, on Monday the 6th day of August 1792—The following votes were passed, viz.
WHEREAS some people are dissatisfied with the late act of the Honorable General Court, vesting the property of Newmarket and Stratham Bridge in certain individuals:
Voted that the proprietors will not avail themselves of the privilege given them by said act, provided any man or men, or body of men will give sufficient bonds to the speaker of the Honorable House of Representatives, to be lodged in the Treasurer's office, that said bridge shall be repaired and supported agreeably to said act, for the term therein mentioned, and pay the proprietors for their trouble and expence—Provided also, that the same be done on or before the 5th day of September next.
Voted that the preceding vote be published in the New-Hampshire Gazette as soon as may be.
A true extract from the minutes, Attest, ELIPH'T SMITH, Prop's Clerk.
Rockingham ss.
THE heirs to the estate of Michael Shute, late of Newmarket, Shipwright, deceased, are hereby notified, that the Executor of his Will has petitioned the Judge of the Probate of Wills, &c. for said county, for licence to sell of the real estate of said deceased, to the amount of £.145, for the payment of the remaining demands against the said estate, and that they may be heard concerning the same, at the Probate Office in Exeter, on the 13th day of August, 1792, at 10 o'clock before noon.
By order of the Judge. W. PARKER, Registr'r.
To JOHN SHEPARD, Esq. one of the Justices of the Peace, within and for the County of Hillsborough, and State of New-Hampshire.
THE petition of the subscribers, proprietors of the common and undivided land in the township of Lyndeborough, in said county,
Pray your honor, to issue your warrant, for calling a meeting of the proprietors of said common and undivided land, to be holden at the house of Capt. Benjamin French, innholder in Dunstable, in said county, on Tuesday the 11th day of September next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, to act upon the following articles, viz.
 1st. To choose a Moderator to regulate said meeting.  2d. To choose a Clerk, Committee, and other officers if need be.  3d. To determine on some effectual method for dividing said lands, so that they may be held in severality, or to sell the same entirely; to settle with the original Grantors and all persons whomsoever, having demands against the said proprietors, and to see if they will prosecute such person or persons as may have committed waste upon, or unlawfully entered, or trespassed upon said common interest, or any part thereof; and to do whatsoever may be necessary for a final settlement. 
Salem, May 22, 1792.
 William Walter,  William Pickman,  Andrew Oliver,  Samuel Welles,  Stephen Goodhue,  B. Goodhue,  Nebemiah Rand. 
To NEHEMIAH RAND, Esquire. one of the Proprietors aforesaid—Application having been made to me as aforesaid by the owners of more than one sixteenth part of said common interest,
THESE are to request, that you notify and warn said proprietors to meet at the time and place aforesaid, for the purposes aforesaid, by publishing such notice, together with the foregoing application, and this warrant, in some public newspaper, which shall be most likely to notify the major part of said proprietors; three weeks successive-ly, and cause the same to be posted up in some public place, in said Lyndeborough.
JOHN SHEPARD, Justice of Peace.
AGREEABLY to the above warrant to me directed, the proprietors aforesaid, are hereby notified to meet at the time and place, and for the purposes aforesaid.
NEHEMIAH RAND.
BARLEY.
CASH given for clean BARLEY, by the subscriber, at his Store at Portsmouth, Dover or Rochester—for which a generous price will be given for any quantity that may be offered.
SAMUEL STORER.
Portsmouth, August 6, 1792.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in the town of Chichester, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1788, that unless they pay said taxes to me the subscriber on or before the last Tuesday in August 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 Col. Cram, innholder in said town, at 10 o'clock, A. M. on said day.
   No. R. D. s. d.     Shubael Sanborn 1/2 paid 83 1 2 5 4   Andrew Wiggins 65 9 4 4 6   Nath'l Gookin's right 6 acres, S. W. corner 3 1 2 0 1   Jona. Cushing, 22 acres, and 6 acres—one the same lot—one the western side, N. end 8 1 2 3 9   Nathaniel Lock 12 4 1 4 0    THOMAS JOHNSON, Collector; Chichester July 18, 1792.

State of New-Hampshire, Strafford, ss. P UBLIC notice is hereby given, that by virtue of an act of the legislature of said State, passed the 17th day of June, A. D. 1791, all the lands in New-Hampton, in said county, are taxed one penny an acre, annually, for three years, for the purpose of repairing roads in said New-Hampton, and whereas in and by said act it is enacted, that the owners of said lands shall 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 before the last day of September next, for the current year, by applying to the selectmen, under whose direction said tax is to be laid out and expended, and said owners may know their respective proportions of said tax by applying to said selectmen. EBENEZER INGALLS, } Selectmen JEREMIAH MARSTON, } for New- BENJAMIN SMITH, jun. } Hampton. New-Hampton, July 13, 1792.
State of New-Hampshire. P UBLIC notice is hereby given, that so much of the original rights of land in the township of Stewardstown, in the county of Grafton, in this State, namely, the rights of Sir James Cockburn, baronet, Sir George Colebrook, baronet, John Stewart, Esq. and John Nelson, Esq. will be sold to the highest bidder, on the 12th day of September next, at ten o'clock in the morning, at the dwelling-house of Mr. BENJAMIN FRENCH , innholder in Dunstable, in said State, as will pay the sum of thirty pounds on each of said rights, with incidental charges, if payment be not previously made; which sum was voted by the said proprietors, on the 4th of April, 1792, at their legal meeting for the uses and purposes mentioned in said vote, and duly assessed and committed to me to collect. JOSIAH MELVIN , Collector for said (Proprietors. Packersfield, July 25, 1792.
State of New-Hampshire. P UBLIC notice is hereby given, that so much of the original rights of land in the township of Colebrook, in the county of Grafton, in this State, namely, the rights of Sir James Cockburn, baronet, Sir George Colebrook, baronet, John Stewart, Esq. and John Nelson, Esq. will be sold to the highest bidder, on the 12th day of September next, at twelve o'clock at noon, at the dwelling-house of Mr. BENJAMIN FRENCH , innholder in Dunstable, in said State, as will pay the sum of thirty pounds on each of said rights, with incidental charges, if payment be not previously made; which sum was voted by the said proprietors, on the 4th of April, 1792, at their legal meeting for the uses and purposes mentioned in said vote, and duly assessed and committed to me to collect. JOSIAH MELVIN , Collector for said (Proprietors. Packersfield, July 25, 1792.
State of New-Hampshire. P UBLIC notice is hereby given, that so much of the original rights of land in the township of Cockburn, in the county of Grafton, in this State, namely, the rights of Sir James Cockburn, baronet, Sir George Colebrook, baronet, John Stewart, Esq. and John Nelson, Esq. will be sold to the highest bidder, on the 12th day of September next, at 11 o'clock in the morning, at the dwelling house of Mr. BENJAMIN FRENCH , innholder in Dunstable, in said State, as will pay the sum of thirty pounds on each of said rights, with incidental charges, if payment be not previously made; which sum was voted by the said proprietors, on the 4th of April, 1792, at their legal meeting, for the uses and purposes mentioned in said vote, and duly assessed and committed to me to collect. JOSIAH MELVIN , Collector for said (Proprietors. Packersfield, July 25, 1792.
Joseph Haven, Informs his Customers and others, That he has removed to the new store, Adjoining the store of Dr. GODDARD'S In MARKET-STREET, Where he has opened A LARGE & FRESH ASSORTMENT OF EUROPEAN GOODS; Which he will sell At the lowest prices: Consisting of too many articles to enumerate in an advertisement. Portsmouth, July 28, 1792.
State of New-Hampshire. P UBLIC notice is hereby given, that so much of the original rights of land in the township of Whitefield, in the county of Grafton, in this State, namely, the rights of Josiah Moody, Thomas Clough, Leavitt Clough, Jonathan Moody, Jonathan Bailey, Jonah Lang, Nathan Johnson, Eliphalet Neal, William Norton, Samuel Swan, James Merrick, Phineas Merrick, Aaron Merrick, Jose Merrick, Obed Merrick, William Frothingham, Samuel Cate, Samuel Cate, jun. Phineas Hodgdon, Samuel Langdon, Jeremiah Clough, Esq. Peter Green, Esquire, John Flagg, Esq. David Woods, David Waite, David Woods, jun. Samuel Swan, junior, Eleazer Richardson, William Farrington, Holten Johnson, Henry Oliver, Matthew Harrington, John Stevens, Jonathan Dix, Stephen Greenleaf, Nathan Waite, Samuel Nutter, David Gardner, Timothy Nash, Samuel Boltwood, Benjamin Newell, Ichabod Weeks, Aaron Newell, Jeremiah Clough, jun. Esquire, James Gibson, John Holden, Aaron Sargent, jun. Benjamin Johnson, John Lewis, Edward Marden, Henry Clough, Abner Hains, Moses Randel, Jeremiah Gibson, Henry Gerrish, Esq. William Simons, Captain Stephen Gerrish, Samuel Pickering, Joseph White, Increase Newell, Joseph Hart, John Hurd, Esq. John Hodgdon, Benjamin Hurd, Benjamin Hurd, junior, Joseph Hurd, Isaac Hurd, Josiah Hains, jun. Samuel Harris, Nehemiah Rand, Thomas Rand, Patric Dougherty, James Braddish, James Braddish, junior, Seth Sweetser, Benjamin Sweetser, William Harris, Josiah Harris, Nehemiah Eastabook, Benjamin Rand, Roger Bartlett, Samuel Bartlett, John Cockran, Esq. Benjamin Wentworth, Thomas Macdonough, Paul Wentworth, Rev. Jeremy Belknap, John Marshall, Stephen Peabody, Ephraim Pickering, Robert Foster & Samuel Adams, will be sold to the highest bidder, on the 12th of September next, at one of the clock, P. M. at the dwelling-house of Captain Benjamin French, innholder in Dunstable, in the county of Hillsborough, in said State, as will pay the sum of twenty shillings on each of said rights, with incidental charges, if payment be not previously made to me at my dwelling-house in Concord, in the county of Middlesex, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, which sum was voted by said proprietors, on the 3d day of April, A. D. 1792, at their legal meeting, for the uses and purposes mentioned in said vote, and duly assessed and committed to me to collect. NATHAN BARRETT , Collector for the proprietors of said township of Whitefield. July 22, 1792.
A LL 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.
To AMMI R. CUTTER, Esq. Clerk of the proprietors of the township of Dummer. W E the subscribers, owners of more than one sixteenth part of said township, request you to call a proprietors meeting to be held at the dwelling-house of Mr. John Greenleaf, in Portsmouth, on the twenty-second day of August next, at 3 o'clock, P. M. 1st, To choose a Moderator. 2d, To choose a proprietors' Clerk. 3d, To see what further measures the proprietary shall think necessary for the speedy settling of said township; and to transact any other matters or things, for the benefit of the proprietary. SAMUEL LANGDON, SAMUEL HAVEN, JOSEPH HAVEN, NATHANIEL A. HAVEN, JOHN PEIRCE. Portsmouth, July 27, 1792. PURSUANT to the above request, the proprietors of the township of Dummer are notified, to meet at the time and place; and for the purposes above mentioned. A. R. CUTTER, Proprietors' Clerk. July 27, 1792.
State of New-Hampshire, Strafford ss. To RICHARD DOWNING, Esq. Proprietors' Clerk for Barnstead. W E the subscribers, of Barnstead, owning more than one sixteenth part of the township of said town, pray a proprietary meeting may be called on the 30th day of August next ensuing, certified as the law directs, to be held at Newington: 1st, To choose a Moderator. 2d, To choose a Committee to see whose hands the money is in, that the money may be paid to the creditors of said proprietors. 3d, To see if the proprietors will pass a vote, that James Lock may enjoy the land on the Commons, he has cleared, to him and his heirs forever, and any other matters that shall be thought proper when convened together. JOHN TASKER, JOSEPH TASKER, BENJAMIN ADAMS. Barnstead, July 26, 1792.
AGREEABLE to the above petition I therefore order a meeting of said proprietors at the dwelling-house of James Pevey, innholder in Newington, on the day and date aforesaid, at 11 o'clock, A. M. according to the petition—of which all concerned, are desired to take notice. RICHARD DOWNING, Prop'r's Clerk. W E the subscribers, duly appointed by the Hon. Joseph Badger, Esquire, Judge of the Probate of Wills, &c. for the county of Strafford, Commissioners to receive and examine the claims of the creditors to the estate of Ephraim Folsom, jun. late of Durham, in said county, deceased, intestate, hereby give notice, that we will attend said business on the fourth Monday of this and the three following months, from four to eight o'clock, P. M. at the house of Ephraim Pickering, Esq. in Newington, in the county of Rockingham. RICHARD DOWNING, } Commissioners. JOHN FAYBEN, } JOEL LEIGHTON, } Newington, June 14, 1792.
Rockingham, ss. T O be sold at public vendue, by virtue of a licence from the Hon. OLIVER PEABODY, Esq. Judge of Probate for this county, on Wednesday 5th September next, 12 o'clock precisely, on the premises, the House and Land of Joseph Hammonds, late of Portsmouth, Blacksmith, deceased, lying on the south side of Deer-street, now in the occupation of Mr. John Sherburne, joiner.—Conditions of sale will be made known at the time and place of sale. GEORGE HAMMONDS, Administ'r. Portsmouth, July 20, 1792.
SCHOOL IN Daniel-Street.
GRANVILLE SMITH , begs leave to acquaint his friends, and the public, that he intends to open a school on Monday the 3d day of September next, for instructing young Masters and Misses in Spelling, Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Mensuration, English Grammar, Composition, Book-keeping, Geography, &c. and solicits their patronage to his undertaking.
Mr. Smith will pay the strictest attention to his pupils reading and writing with propriety; and as he was some time in that line in England, where the method is much improved from what it was formerly: He has no doubt of giving the fullest satisfaction.
IT having been found disagreeable for youth of both sexes to be in one room, a separate apartment will be appointed for each.
THE hours of attendance will be From the 1st April to the 1st October, from 8 to 11, A. M. and from 2 to 5, P. M. From the 1st October to the 1st April from 9 to 12, A. M. and from 2 to 5, P. M. Portsmouth, July 31, 1792.
State of New-Hampshire. P UBLIC notice is hereby given, that so much of the original rights of land in the township of Franconia, in the county of Grafton, in this State, namely, the rights of Isaac Searle, Francis Bernard, Esq. Thomas Hubbard, William Brattle, Joseph Pynchen, Oxenbridge Thatcher, John Micowendell, John Moffatt, Harrion Gray, Esq. Samuel Mather, Samuel Blodget, Samuel Blodget, jun. Nathan Blodget, William Blodget, David Welt, Daniel Jones, Joseph Russell, Richard Draper, William Taylor, Saunderson West, William Shepard, Fitch Pool, Justin Wheeler, George Gardner, Lewis Gray, William Mather, Jacob Wendall, Daniel Jones, John Temple, Theodore Atkinson, Mark H. Wentworth, Theodore Atkinson, jun. Willis Hall, Jeremiah Webb, Giles Alexander, Giles Alexander, junior, William Alexander, Isaac Willard, Moses Graves, Moses Graves, jun. Elisha Graves, Jonathan Graves, John Graves, Rev. John Searl, Samuel D. Searl, Titus King, Joseph Hutchins, Thomas Starr, Daniel Castle, Zephaniah Platt, Zephaniah Platt, jun. William Mitchell, William Mitchell, junior, Samuel Hopkins, Caleb Strong, Samuel Hunt, Thomas Allen, Thomas Meekins, jun. Eleazer Burt, Wiseman Clagget, Esq. Samuel Mather, jun. Daniel Hopkins, Joseph Richardson, and Benning Wentworth, Esquire, will be sold to the highest bidder, on the 12th day of September next, at 11 o'clock in the morning, at the dwelling-house of Capt. Benjamin French, innholder in Dunstable, in the county of Hillsborough, in said State, as will pay the sum of twenty shillings on each of said rights, with incidental charges, if payment be not previously made to me, at my dwelling-house in Waltham, or at Watertown, in the county of Middlesex, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; which sum was voted by said proprietors, on the 21st day of June, A. D. 1791, at their legal meeting, for the uses and purposes mentioned in said vote, and duly assessed and committed to me to collect. JOSEPH NIXON , Collector for the proprietors of said township of Franconia. July 22, 1792.
State of New-Hampshire. P UBLIC notice is hereby given, that so much of the original rights of land in the township of Franconia, in the county of Grafton, in this State, namely, the rights of Isaac Searle, Francis Bernard, Esq. Thomas Hubbard, William Brattle, Joseph Pynchen, Oxenbridge Thatcher, John Micowendell, John Moffatt, Harrion Gray, Esq. Samuel Mather, Samuel Blodget, Samuel Blodget, jun. Nathan Blodget, William Blodget, David Welt, Daniel Jones, Joseph Russell, Richard Draper, William Taylor, Saunderson West, William Shepard, Fitch Pool, Justin Wheeler, George Gardner, Lewis Gray, William Mather, Jacob Wendall, Daniel Jones, John Temple, Theodore Atkinson, Mark H. Wentworth, Theodore Atkinson, jun. Willis Hall, Jeremiah Webb, Giles Alexander, Giles Alexander, junior, William Alexander, Isaac Willard, Moses Graves, Moses Graves, jun. Elisha Graves, Jonathan Graves, John Graves, Rev. John Searl, Samuel D. Searl, Titus King, Joseph Hutchins, Thomas Starr, Daniel Castle, Zephaniah Platt, Zephaniah Platt, jun. William Mitchell, William Mitchell, junior, Samuel Hopkins, Caleb Strong, Samuel Hunt, Thomas Allen, Thomas Meekins, jun. Eleazer Burt, Wiseman Clagget, Esq. Samuel Mather, jun. Daniel Hopkins, Joseph Richardson, and Benning Wentworth, Esquire, will be sold to the highest bidder, on the 12th day of September next, at 11 o'clock in the morning, at the dwelling-house of Capt. Benjamin French, innholder in Dunstable, in the county of Hillsborough, in said State, as will pay the sum of twenty shillings on each of said rights, with incidental charges, if payment be not previously made to me, at my dwelling-house in Waltham, or at Watertown, in the county of Middlesex, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; which sum was voted by said proprietors, on the 21st day of June, A. D. 1791, at their legal meeting, for the uses and purposes mentioned in said vote, and duly assessed and committed to me to collect. JOSEPH NIXON , Collector for the proprietors of said township of Franconia. July 22, 1792.
WANTED A WOMAN to go to the Southward In the capacity of a MAID . ONE who can be well recommended for steadiness, neatness, industry and good disposition—is fond of, and willing to pay attention to children, and understands clear starching, will meet with handsome encouragement by applying to the Printer. Portsmouth, July 31, 1792.