The New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1789-01-07 00:00:00

The New-Hampshire Gazette, and the General Advertiser,
Volume xxxiv.—Number 1688.)
WEDNESDAY, January 7, 1789.
(Letter-Box in the window.)
PORTSMOUTH: Published by JOHN MELCHER, at his Office in Market-Street, where Advertisements, Articles of Intelligence, &c. are thankfully received and carefully inserted.—This Paper contains all the Laws of the State passed since January 1787.
On Wednesday last, the Honorable the GENERAL ASSEMBLY of this State convened at the Court-House in Exeter, agreeable to adjournment, when His Excellency President LANGDON delivered the following Message to both Branches of the Legislature:—
Gentlemen of the SENATE and Gentlemen of the House of REPRESENTATIVES,
THE last Session of the General-Court was mostly taken up in making the necessary arrangements on the part of this State, for carrying into effect the Federal Government; of course, the general public business of the year has been put off until this time: It is therefore now necessary that the great and important objects of the State should be taken into consideration.
The Secretary will lay before you the public papers which have been received since June session, among which are the following:—A Resolve, of Congress of the eleventh of June last, directing the mode in which the States are to be credited for the sums paid, or which may hereafter be paid by them to invalids; and limiting the time of application.
A Resolve of Congress of the second of October respecting General Reid.
An act of Congress of the sixteenth of September, recommending to the several States to pass laws to prevent the transportation of malefactors, from foreign countries, into these States.
A requisition of Congress of the twentieth of August, for fifty-nine thousand two hundred and fifty-eight dollars, to be paid in Indents.
A letter from the secretary of Congress of the twenty-second of October, desiring that copies of the commercial and other acts of this State, might be transmitted as soon as may be, agreeably to several resolves of Congress heretofore passed for that purpose. Also, several letters and resolves from the States of Massachusetts, New-York and North-Carolina; these no doubt will be attended to in the course of the session.
GENTLEMEN,
THE Inventories from the several towns will be laid before you; and it is highly necessary that an act for a new proportion of taxes should be passed at this session; also, a supply bill for the next year.
It is probable the Treasurer's accounts, together with the state of the Treasury, will be laid before you in the course of the present session.
The Treasurer being appointed one of the Commissioners for settling the accounts between the United States and the individual States (if he accepts that trust) it will be necessary that another Treasurer be appointed in his stead.
The office of Comptroller General of accounts for the State should be attended to, it is of very great importance to the public, that proper books should be kept, and all monies paid by the State, charged to the respective individuals; and the Comptroller fully empowered to call on all persons who have, or may have accounts open with the public for adjustment. All accounts of the state whatsoever should be under the inspection of the Comptroller, and a fair statement of them from time to time, laid before the Legislature.
GENTLEMEN,
THE delinquency of so many towns in the payment of their taxes, has prevented the State from complying with its engagements, and has almost destroyed the credit of government; should not a speedy remedy take place, we may expect very disagreeable consequences,—the want of punctuality in this most interesting business, is not only injurious to the State, but also to the towns; several years, taxes having accumulated upon any town, puts it almost out of its power to discharge the increased sums; whereas a punctual, annual payment, might have been easily complied with.
The same want of punctuality is to be observed in the payment of Impost and Excise, by which means the orders drawn by the State, payable out of money arising from these revenues, are selling at discount from five to twenty five per cent.
While these evils continue, the natural consequence will be, the Collectors and Constables in the several towns, will sport with the public money in their hands, by appropriating it to their own use, to the great disadvantage of the State; Individuals will be constantly speculating, round the Treasury.—The public credit continually sinking until the faith and confidence of government are totally lost—should you
see these grievances in the same point of view with me, I have no doubt you will adopt every necessary measure for the removal of them.
There is a considerable tract of land (if my information is good) in the northerly part of this State ungranted, if this is the case, it would be greatly to the advantage of the public, to have this, and all other lands belonging to the government appropriated towards the sinking of the State debt.
GENTLEMEN,
BY the Constitution of this State, it is the duty of the Legislature to cherish the interest of Literature, and all Seminaries and public schools. The establishing and keeping up public schools in the several towns, properly regulated, under the direction of able and learned instructors, is of the highest importance to the community; the support of good government and civil society, greatly depend on the education of our youth: this, I hope, will claim your particular patronage.
These and many other matters (unnecessary to mention) will naturally come before you in the course of the Session, on the conducting of which I shall be always ready to contribute my aid, for the welfare and support of good government, and the happiness of the people.
JOHN LANGDON.
COUNCIL-CHAMBER, Exeter, December 24, 1788.
The Gifts of Fortune incapable of making us happy.
HOWEVER different the Pursuits of Men are, they all tend to the same Point, viz. Happiness; I mean that supreme Good, which, if obtain'd, leaves us nothing more to desire, as it contains every Thing desirable; for, were it deficient in any Thing, and left a Wish to make, it could not be called a supreme Good, as it would not be perfect; and Perfection is the Essence of true Happiness. Now it is manifest, that Fortune cannot bestow this Good; for tho' she may heap Wealth upon us, load us with Honors and Titles, invest us with Power, allow us the Enjoyment of Health, Strength and Beauty, yet can she not bless us with a sincere Friend; holy Friendship is the Produce of virtue; She cannot set us above the Strokes of Envy, and the reach of Calumny; neither can she bestow that
calm, that inward Satisfaction, which spreads an Air of Joy and Peace over the Countenance of self-conscious Virtue. The Gifts of Fortune cannot appease the Clamours of Conscience, and her greatest Favourite may, in the Enjoyment of Power and Affluence, amidst a Crowd of Followers, carry a Hell about him, and be more wretched than the meanest of his Dependents.
The Strength of our Passions makes us place Happiness where it is not to be found, in the Goods of Fortune; which is the Reason that we pursue as many different Courses, as we form different Ideas of the supreme Good; for we have, all of us, an innate Desire of that which is really good, tho' we are for the most Part in Pursuit of that which has only the Appearance of it, being led astray by the error of our Judgment.
B O S T O N.
[In a London rank ministerial print of a late date is the following paragraph—If any thing more is necessary to demonstrate the excellence of the lately ratified Constitution, the disagreeable sensations it creates in the breasts of those who do not wish well to this infant empire—and which vent themselves in reflections and observations, at once ill-natured and envious, might be adduced:—The paragraph follows:]
“The people of Rhode-Island have rejected the new Constitution proposed to be introduced under the plausible auspices of the Franklin and Washington Convention; or, in other words, opposed the French faction in their design to sap and subvert the Republican Confederacy and freedom of America, by the insidious attempt to raise up an Emperor and a Roman Senate upon the ruins of those divided Commonwealths.”
The immortal FRANKLIN retires to enjoy the otium cum dignitate . There are stations of acquired greatness which make men proud to recall the lowness of that from which they rose. The native eminence of this great man's mind is above concealing the humbleness of his origin. Those only who possess no intrinsic elevation are afraid to fully the honours to which accident has raised them, by the recollection of that obscurity from whence they sprung. The great Franklin tells with pleasure, he was once an indigent Printer.

L O N D O N, Oct. 6.
As to the poor Captain Pa-cha, they have made sad work with him, in the Russian, Ger-man, and even in the English news-papers. They have twice burned him alive, by burning two of his ships, or burning one of his ships twice; and serv-ed his Vice-Admiral neither better nor worse: and, to finish the catastrophe, they have de-livered him up a captive (ship and all) sorely wounded, into the hands of Vice-Admiral Paul Jones, of famous American re-bellious and free booting me-mory!!! Could his inveterate enemies, the patriots of Con-stantinople (brethren of our pseudo patriots) have consign-ed him to a more ignominious ragged fate, if let loose to the extent of their wishes? surely all this is enough to break the heart of a lion, or tame a ty-ger! We still reserve a cor-ner in our mind, to receive his own account of all these mat-ters, if they have left him alive to speak for himself. How many times has that poor man been beaten, cooped up, capti-vated, and all but killed, in Egypt, among the rebel Pachas! Rebels by instinct conceive a hatred to him.
The Most Christian King, if we may believe the foreign prints, seems to be adopting our max-im for the present with the Dey of Algiers—a conduct very dif-ferent from that of our Court. How long he will persevere in his pursuit of justice, time on-ly can shew. At all events, it is proper for our fleet to stand ready armed to see fair play a-mong them, otherwise the French Cabinet may make a stalking-horse of the Dey, to get the start of us in arming.
L O N D O N R E M A R K A B L E S.
One Thomas Elkes, of this neighbourhood (Middle, in Shropshire) being guardian to his eldest brother's child, who was young, and stood in his way to a considerable estate, hired a poor boy, to entice him into a corn-field to gather flow-ers, and meeting them sent the poor boy home, took his ne-phew up in his arms, and car-ried him to a pond the other end of the field, into which he threw the child, and drowned him. The child being missed and enquiry being made after him, Elkes fled, and took the road to London; the neigh-bours sent two horsemen in pursuit of him, who passing a-long the road near South-Mins in Hertfordshire, saw two ra-vens sitting on a cock of hay, making an unusual noise, and pulling the hay about with their beaks, on which they went to the place, and found Elkes asleep under the hay. He confessed that these two ravens had followed him from the time he did the fact. He
was brought to Shrewsbury, tried, condemned, and hung in chains on Knockinheath.
A young couple had very industriously endeavoured to support themselves, but found all their efforts ineffectual, and at last, while they kept a pub-lick house in London, they were beset by creditors, whom they were wholly unable to satisfy, and who, though they had ev-ery reason to be convinced of the integrity of the persons they so severally pursued, had sent Sheriff's officers to take their whole pro-perty in execution. The un-fortunate pair, in this extre-mity, left their house and its contents to the agents of their unfeeling creditors; and hav-ing no settled direction or friendly asylum to resort to, wandered, absorbed by the con-science of their distress-es, and without knowing whi-ther they went, to Greenwich. They then went into a public house, and being shewn into a private room, ordered some ale. As the maid of the house was carrying this refreshment up stairs to the dejected pair, she heard them sob with great anx-iety, and looking thro' the key-hole, perceived the man lean-ing his head on the shoulders of his wife, trying to console her. The maid hesitated sometime before she entered the room, but ventered in at last. The man and his wife went away, but were found the next mor-ning dead in the Thames, tied to each other by the neck with a new silk handkerchief, and their hands locked in each o-ther. The melancholy circum-stance of this event have ex-cited great uneasiness among the inhabitants of Greenwich, and we doubt not will equally impress the hearts of our hu-mane readers.
NEW-YORK, Dec. 29. A Norfolk Virginia paper of the 3d instant says—
“On Monday night, 24th ult. a most daring PIRACY was committed by two villains on the schooner Nancy, Solo-mon Ashby, master on her voyage to Baltimore.—These men boarded said vessellate in the evening, armed with mus-kets, which they presented to the master and hands on board, consisting of two young lads, only, with menaces of instant death if any resistance was made. The master very for-tunately made his escape in the boat which conveyed these fel-lows to the schooner. It being extremely dark, no particular description of them can be given; and, as the vessel has not since been seen or heard of, the master conjectures that on their discovering he had made his escape, they proceed-ed instantly to sea. The above
schooner is American built; her frame and top timbers all of red cedar, and her burthen about 120 barrels, her cargo consisted of turpentine, tar, ro-sin, flax seed, bees wax, bear skins, fish and shingles. Her bottom is painted with Spanish brown; her sides yellow, and her quarters and stern green; her cabin is of a led colour, and has three good births; the names of the two lads belong-ing to her are, Stephen Fletcher and John Covington. This little vessel was the sole pro-perty of Capt. Ashby, with which he got a living to sup-port himself and a numerous family, and being a case of hu-manity, it is hoped the differ-ent Printers will insert the a-bove, which may be a means of bringing these daring pirates to condign punishment.
Abuses of Conversation.
THERE is nothing more pleasing and instructive than agreeable Conversation; nor is there any thing wanted more, than some Regulations to make it so. Nothing is more offensive to company, nor more destructive of sociable Pleasan-try, than a Positive way of Con-tradiction , which some inure themselves to, for no other rea-son than to make themselves remarkable . To demonstrate their happy talent at dispu-tation, some of these Universal Opponents will controvert the most known truths , or defend the most absurd falsehoods ; they will take either Side of the Question; it is equal to them, so they do but dispute .
There is another Set of Peo-ple equally impertinent , tho' they would seem more modest ; they will not contradict you, but with an unmannerly Scep-ticism doubt every thing you say, and one of these kind of Scepticks was ask'd by Florel-la , how he lik'd her White Tabby Mantua ? White , re-plied the hesitating Spark, with submission, Madam, I doubt, whether there is any such co-lour ; for in opticks ,—The La-dy, no great optition , tho' her-self affronted, flirted her Fan, and left the Room in a Pet.
There is another Abuse of Conversation , which more im-mediately affects the Ladies, viz. That nauseous familiarity which ill-bred Coxcombs affect, who pay no regard to decency, place or distinction of Sex ; who, to avoid the name of fops , turn clowns , and think every thing is agreeable which is free from ceremony . One of this notion will blaspheme before a Clergy-man , and talk obscene before a lady , though it is far from be-ing wit as good manners ; and as ungenerous in point of honour , as if he should draw his sword on either of them.
N E W - Y O R K, December 23.
Extract of a letter from Washington county, dated November 6, 1788.
“The Indians have been very troublesome in those parts all the sum-mer and fall. They at one time kil-led 16 men out of a company of 34 rangers that were out on duty,—and at another time very lately, a body of 4 or 500 attacked a fort on the fron-tiers, and took it, in which were be-tween 40 and 50 persons. The In-dians destroyed the fort, and agreeable to their usual inhuman disposition, they either burned, or barbarously butchered all, without any respect to age or sex.—These, with a number of other murders, have rendered our fron-tiers a scene of horror for some time past.
Extract of a letter from a member of the North-Carolina general assembly, to his friend in Philadelphia, dated Fayetteville, Nov. 10, 1788.
“Our general assembly is now sit-ting at this place. A great many of the counties have petitioned for writs of elections for a new convention, to reconsider and ratify the constitution on the part of this state. The anti-federalists are still numerous, and ve-ry many of them calous to reason. To-morrow we expect to bring forward the petitions to introduce the matter, the opposition will run high; but I am in hopes we will carry—though I believe it will be by a small majority. If we cannot have a new conven-tion, anarchy will most probably be the consequence.”
S A L E M, December 30.
The Supreme Judicial Court ended their session in this town on Saturday last.
Daniel Foster, of Rowley, was con-victed of manslaughter, at this Court, but has not received sentence. The circumstances of the crime were such as to excite compassion for Mr. Foster, and an utter detestation of the custom which occasioned the misfortune. At the close of a day of military exercises, the privates (as is customary in coun-try towns) from a false notion of Ho-noring their officers, kept up an irregular discharge of musketry; and Mr. Foster, having charged very deep, stepped into the house where the officers were assembled, “gave them a gun,” by which a Mr. Chapman received a wound, which, mortifying occasioned soon after his death. Tho' the very great imprudence of such irregular firings is readily admitted, yet there does not appear the least cause for supposing Mr. Foster to have com-mitted this act with any degree of malice;—and we are informed that he has made, and continues to make, every reparation in his power to the family of the deceased.
An action was brought, at this Court, by Dr. David Young of Ips-wich (but late of Worcester) against a number of persons concerned in the late insurrections, for firing on and wounding him in the knee, at New-braintree, in Feb. 1787. The jury gave a verdict in favor of the plaintiff against seven, with 1351. damage against each: but the Court being of opinion, that the damages should have been assessed on them jointly, and not severally, the verdict was set aside, and a new trial granted, and the cause continued.
B O S T O N, January 5.
Capt. Murray arrived at Salem last week, from Marseilles, which he left the 6th of October. Before he sailed, accounts were received there, and cre-dited, of an attack made by the Turks, in the night, on the night, on the Austrian army, when the latter were routed with the slaughter of thousands. This account was published in the Marseilles pa-pers, which capt. Murray forgot to take with him, and of which he does not recollect particulars.—It was said at Marseilles, that the eldest son of the late unfortunate Count de Grafté, af-ter having fought several successful duels in defence of his father's char-

after, had shot himself, finding, as he said, that he should be obliged to contend with the whole nation.
Late European advices are,—That the grand Ottoman army commanded by the Grand Visier in person, a warrior justly celebrated for his great art, enterprise and intrepidity, was drawn into a decisive and fatal action by the matchless address and manœuvres of the renowned Marshal Laudohn, to whom his Imperial Majesty had wisely given the uncontrouled command of his army—that the conduct of this ancient veteran, now 72 years old, during this dreadful conflict, which is represented to be one of the most tragical that was ever recorded in the bloodiest annals of mankind, manifested the greatest wisdom and the most astonishing bravery and vigour—that he was most gallantly supported by the Generals de Lacy and O'Donnell, (second and third in command) as well as by the Prince de Cobourg—and that, indeed, the whole army following the noble example of those heroes, performed prodigies of valour—that 14,000 gallant Ottomans were slain, many thousands wounded, and 12,000 Janizaries made prisoners, that the artillery, ammunition, implements of war, military trophies, &c. &c. which fell into the hands of the Imperialists, were immense in number and value—that the overthrow of the Ottomans had been so complete, that many politicians were so sanguine in favor of the arms of the Emperor and Czarina, as to suggest that the speedy reduction of Belgrade, Bender, Choczim and Oczakow (the keys of the Ottoman empire on the side of Europe) would be the probable consequences—and that even Constantinople, the ancient Brizantium, and capital of the Ottoman empire, would, ere long, be triumphantly entered by the combined armies of the two Imperial Christian sovereigns.
The same advices add, that the king of Prussia, through the medium of his ambassador at the court of Vienna, having communicated to the prince Kaunitz, his Imperial Majesty's prime minister and regent at Vienna during his sovereign's absence, that a requisition had been made to him by his Swedish Majesty for 30,000 men, which Prussia, by treaty, was bound to furnish in aid of Sweden. The prince made known to the Prussian ambassador, that the Emperor made war against the Porte as Duke of Austria, not as Emperor of Germany—that if the request of his Swedish majesty should be complied with, that a body of 24,000 men would be required of the court of France, agreeable to treaty—and that it was not improbable but that the Emperor might change his present system and war with the Porte as Emperor, when the troops of the Empire might be called into action, and some of the electoral princes required to command them.
PORTSMOUTH, Jan. 7.
The Senate, we are informed, have concurred with the House of Representatives, in appointing the honorable PAINE WINGATE, Esq. a Senator from this State to the Congress of the United States, vice Judge BARTLETT, resigned.
OLIVER PEABODY, Esq. of Exeter, is elected Treasurer for the county of Rockingham, His Office is kept at Exeter.
The Hon. Charles Carroll and John Henry, Esqrs. (both federalists) are elected to represent the States of Maryland in the Senate of the United States.
The State of New-Jersey have made choice of the Hon. William Patterson & Jonathan Elmer, Esqrs. to represent that State in the Senate of the United States.
Died Since our last, Mrs. Dorothy Hanro, aged 64 ; Mrs. ———— renough, aged 78.
Proceedings of the Legislature of this State.
HIS Excellency's message having been read, it was voted,—That Mr. Nathaniel Peabody, Mr. Hale, Mr. William Page, Mr. Duncan, and Mr. Emerson, with such of the hon. Senate as they may join, be a committee to take under consideration his Excellency's message, and report what business is necessary to be done.—[The remainder of this day was taken up in hearing petitions. &c.]
FRIDAY, December 26.
On motion, it was voted, that this House join in conference with the hon. Senate, to take under consideration the several returns, for a new proportion of taxes, in this state.
Both branches being met in the Representatives chamber, the Senate and House proceeded to examine the several returns of invoices from the towns and places in this state. The Senate then withdrew.
It was then voted, That Mr. N. Peabody, Mr. Rogers, Mr. Hoit, Mr. Sullivan, Mr. Darling, Mr. Emerson, Mr. Page, Mr. Frink, Mr. Freeman, and Mr. Young, with such of the hon. Senate as they may join, be a committee to cast the amount of the inventories returned from the several towns and places in this state, agreeably to the several articles mentioned in a schedule, and make their remarks where there appears any visible mistake, and lay the same before this House.
The House took into consideration "an act for establishing an equitable method of rates and taxes," &c. [On this subject a variety of debates ensued.]
On motion made, that the polls be estimated, in future, at eight shillings per poll, a considerable debate ensued, and the yeas and nays being called, stood as follows : Yeas 26—Nays 44—so it passed in the negative.
The following vote was then introduced :—Voted, That the polls, in the new proportion be estimated at ten shillings ; (male and female servants excepted) horses and oxen, four years old and upwards, at three shillings each ; cows, four years old and upward, two shillings each ; cattle and horses, three years old and upward, one shilling and six pence each ; cattle and horses two years old and upward, one shilling each ; cattle and horses one year old and upward, six pence each ; orchard, one shilling and six pence per acre, accounting so much as will produce, one year with another, ten barrels of cyder or perry, one acre ; arable land one shilling per acre, accounting so much land as will produce twenty-five bushels of Indian corn, or other grain equivalent, one acre ; mowing land, one shilling per acre, accounting so much land as will produce, one year with another, one ton of English hay, or other hay equivalent ; pasture land, five pence per acre, accounting so much land as will summer a cow to be four acres ; all mills and wharves to be estimated at one twelfth part of their net yearly income, all ferrys shall be estimated at one-twelfth part of their net yearly income.
Voted, That all other buildings, and the improved lands, owned by the inhabitants, and the buildings of non-residents be taxed at the rate of one half per cent. according to the real value thereof ; all stock, whether it be money at hand or at interest, more than the owner gives interest for, (except what is due on public securities) shall be estimated at the rate of one per cent.
[On this last clause the yeas and nays were called, when there appeared, for the clause, as it stood, yeas 55—nays 17, so it passed in the affirmative]—All unimproved land owned by non-residents, to be estimated at the rate of one per cent. according to the real value thereof ; and that a bill be brought in for the foregoing purpose.—[While the subject of taxation was under consideration, a variety of debates ensued upon
the propriety, as well as impropriety, of the rates affixed to several articles in the valuation : among others, stock in trade, wharves, &c. were noticed. It was considered, by some, a great grievance, to lay a restraint upon our commerce (or upon the mercantile interest) as the tax of one per cent. upon all stock in trade would in effect do.—It was also observed, that wharves were continually wanting repairs, and the expenses attendant on keeping them in proper repairs was more than commensurable with the profits arising from them.—It was likewise observed, in answer to observations made by some, that money holders took great advantages, in demanding exorbitant interest ; that the owners, or letters of cows, were guilty of the same selfish conduct ; that the man who let his cows at twenty shillings per head per ann. was as reprehensible as the man who let his money at thirty-three and one third per cent. per ann. It was here noticed, that persons who let their cows in this way, were but few in number ; and that those who did, ran all the risque of accidents, or of the cows dying, in which case they lost the whole. It was again observed, by a parity of argument, that the observation last mentioned equally applied to money lenders, and that they made themselves liable to a forfeiture of the whole. A great variety of other observations, were made upon the subject, which our memory cannot contain.
The vote apportioning the rate of taxes upon polls, real estate, &c. was sent up to the hon. Senate for concurrence, but was sent down non-concurred : It appeared to be the wish of that honorable board, that rate of taxation should remain the same as it was by the last valuation, expunging the articles, slaves and faculty, that stock in trade should continue the same, viz. one half per cent.—The House however, persisted in adhering to their vote.
A committee was then appointed to consider of a letter, received from the Treasurer, and report thereon.
The foregoing debates, together with attending to petitions, engrossed a chief part of the time, until
WEDNESDAY, December 1.
Treasurer's salary under consideration. Voted, That the Treasurer receive for his salary, responsibility of office, &c. from the 12th of June last, to the time of his resignation, after the rate of 230l. per annum : also the sum of £83. 8s. 8d. for extra expences.
P. M.
The Senate and House being met, agreeably to a vote of this day, the Clerk and Secretary, in presence of both branches, proceeded to count and sort the votes, returned for representatives from this state to the Congress of the United States.
[This business took up the time of both branches until 9 o'clock, when the Senate withdrew, and the House adjourned.]
THURSDAY, January 1st, 1789.
Voted, That Mr. Sheafe, Mr. Gilman, Mr. Smith, Mr. Page, and Mr. Freeman, with such of the honourable Senate as they may join, be a committee to examine and cast the votes returned for Representatives from this State to the Congress of the United States.
VOTE RESPECTING OATHS.
The following vote came down from the honourable Senate for concurrence :
Whereas by the adoption of the Federal government, an alteration in the oaths prescribed by the constitution of this state, will soon become necessary, in order to make them conform to the General Government, and the oaths therein directed to be taken by the officers of the individual states :
Therefore, be it Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court convened, that such parts of the oaths prescribed by the constitution of this state to be taken by the respective officers thereof, as are inconsistent with the
nature of the Federal Government, and the oaths therein directed to be taken by officers of each state, shall be omitted in the administration thereof, after the first Wednesday in March next. Which resolve was read and non-concurred.
CHOICE of a SENATOR.
The honourable Judge BARTLETT having declined to accept of his appointment as a Senator of the United States, and having notified the President of the same, his Excellency, by a message to the house informed them thereof.—In consequence whereof, they appointed this day at three o'clock, P. M. for the choice of a Senator to represent this State in the Senate of the United States.
Previous to their entering upon the choice, some queries were proposed relative to the mode to be pursued in the choice. Whether, after balloting, any member should not call for the yeas and nays.—This was said to be constitutional, and a liberty which no member of the house could be deprived of. It was objected to by some, as it would have a tendency to procrastinating the business, without producing any essential service. These observations took up a considerable time, when the house proceeded to the choice of a Senator, and the ballots being counted, it appeared, that the honourable PAINE WINGATE, Esq. was named by a large majority.
[This gentleman lately represented this state in the Congress of the United States, and is said to be a staunch Federalist.]
I was then voted, that the Hon. PAINE WINGATE, Esq. be he and hereby is appointed a Senator to the Congress of the United States.
Upon this vote, the yeas and nays were called, and stood
Yeas 53,—Nays 26.
So it passed in the affirmative, and was sent up to the hon. Senate for concurrence.
JANUARY 2d, 1789.
The committee appointed to re-examine and cast the votes returned for representatives to the Congress of the United States, reported, that they have carefully examined the returns, and find the whole number of votes returned from the several towns and places, to be 15377 ; that 2563 votes are necessary to make a choice ; that no candidate has that number, that the six candidates who have the highest number of votes, are as follow ;
 Honourable Benjamin West, 2374  Samuel Livermore, 2245  Paine Wingate, 2054  Abiel Foster, 1236  John Sullivan, 1058  Nicholas Gilman, 861   —Signed, C. TOPPAN, for the committee : which report being read and considered, voted, that the same be received and accepted, and that the Secretary be desired to procure a sufficient number of copies of the foregoing list, and disperse them to the several towns and places in this State, in the same manner as the act directs.  [The gentlemen who followed the above, and who had any considerable number of votes, were, the Hon. J. Atherton, 795 ; Nathaniel Peabody, 777 ; Pierce Long, 670 ; Benjamin Bellows, 527 ; the whole number of gentlemen voted for as Representatives, were about 70.]
TREASURER'S ACCOUNTS, &c.
This day, the committee appointed, agreeably to a vote of court, passed the last session, to "examine and settle the accounts between this State and the Treasurer thereof," reported to the House ; which report was read and accepted.
[This report, which was lengthy, contained a particular account of all monies granted to the Treasurer, what received, how disposed of, what on hand, &c. &c. &c. and was drawn up, methodized and arranged, in such a clear and conspicuous manner, as must reflect much honour to the gentlemen concerned. The substance of this report shall grace a page in the SPT as soon as a correct copy can be obtained.]
After the report was read and accepted, the Hon. JOHN TAYLOR GILMAN, Esq. resigned his office as Treasurer of the State of New-Hampshire, in proper form.

Parnassian Spring.
The NEW YEAR'S WISH.
For Seventeen Hundred and Eighty-nine. I.
H AIL happy year! with prospects fair replete, May great Columbia prove the envied seat
Of learning, piety and peace; Grant us, great God, that discord cease to flow,
And ev'ry blessing on this land bestow, That can its greatest good increase. II.
May Government, the Villain's greatest check,
Be' stabilis'd firm; to save a sinking wreck, And dignify our Union State;
Let ev'ry human heart expand with joy, Justice and virtue, ev'ry soul up-buoy,
And banish artifice, deceit. III.
May faithful Rulers guard our sacred rights,
And each of wisdom, drop their usual mites
To aid the glorious Cause: Let this New Year, an Era new commence
In which we raise a bulwark of defence, By Union's happy laws. IV.
If to these things we private good unite, Then will proud Europe view us with delight,
Tho' interest clash so near. What we require of men let us perform,
In virtue be sincere, in friendship warm To th' advent of another Year.
F I T Z W I L L I A M.
State of New-Hampshire.
P UBLIC notice is hereby given to the nonresident proprietors and owners of land in the township of Fitzwilliam, that unless they pay their respective taxes for the year 1787, to me the subscriber on or before Thursday the 29th day of January next, so much of their land will then be sold at public vendue at ten o'clock before noon, at the dwelling house of Major Sylvanus Reed, innholder in said town as will pay the same, together with incidental charges.
   N. R. s. d. q.     Solly and March 4 2 2 9 2   ditto 1 3 1 6 1   Col. Stoddard 6 3 1 7 0   ditto 7 3 1 6 2   Nathan Peirce 8 3 1 6 2   James Reed 9 3 1 6 2   Col. Stoddard 12 3 1 6 0   ditto 1 6 1 6 0   ditto 2 6 1 6 2   ditto 3 6 0 8 1   ditto 8 6 1 0 0   James Reed 12 6 4 9 1   Col. Stoddard 19 6 1 6 0   ditto 6 7 1 6 0   Col. Stoddard 20 7 3 6 1   Mathew Thornton 1 8 1 6 0   John Stephens 1 9 1 6 0   Col. Stoddard 3 10 1 6 0   George Libby 10 11 1 6 0   Abel Larance 4 4 1 6 3   Col. Stoddard 12 11 2 1 3   Mathew Thornton 13 11 2 1 1   James Reed 15 11 4 8 0   Charles Treadwell 16 11 6 2 2   Col. Stoddard 17 11 2 6 2   Benjamin Bellows 7 12 1 11 2   Col. Stoddard 8 12 1 7 0   Mathew Thornton 9 12 1 7 3   Col. Stoddard 18 7 0 7 1   ditto 21 5 1 0 0   Robert Cambell 23 5 5 3 3   Benjamin Edwards 2 4 1 6 0   Mathew Thornton 11 4 1 6 0   Col. Stoddard 13 4 2 2 1   ditto 1 5 1 6 0   James Reed 2 5 1 6 0   Col. Wallingford 5 5 1 10 1   James Reed 6 5 1 6 0   George Libby 5 4 1 9 3  
DANIEL FARRAR, Collector. Fitzwilliam, December 17, 1788.
BLANKS of all sorts printed and fold at J. Melcher's Printing-Office, VERY CHEAP.
State of New-Hampshire. N OTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in Marlborough, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1787, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber, on or before Tuesday the 17th day of February next, so much of their land will be sold at public vendue, at ten o'clock before noon of said day, at the house of Major Richard Robbards, innholder in said Marlborough, as will pay said taxes and incidental charges, unless prevented by previous payment. State. County. do. N.R. Q'ty. s. d. q. d. q. d. q.
H A N O V E R.
State of New-Hampshire.
N OTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in Hanover, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1786, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber, on or before Monday the 9th day of March next, so much of their land will be sold at public vendue, at the house of Benjamin Haich, innholder in said Hanover, at ten o'clock, A. M. as will pay the taxes with incidental charges, unless prevented by previous payment. Spec. Cert. Faci
   N. Q'ty. s. d. d. s. d.     J. Downing r. lt. 51 0 0 10 4 0 11   Samson Sheafe 4 100 1 7 8 0 0   ditto 5 60 0 10 4 0 9   Maj. Wentworth 5 100 1 7 8 1 10   Dr. Thornton R. 12 0 0 5 0 0 5   John Knight 3 100 1 7 8 1 10   ditto R. Lot 0 0 0 0 0 1 10   Hukins Storrs j'r. 5 100 1 9 9 2 3   ditto 23 60 0 4 2 0 4   ditto 3 100 0 10 8 0 11   Eleaz. Stoddard 1 100 1 7 0 1 10   Nath'l. Freeman 45 60 0 4 4 0 0   Abrm. Blackman 7 100 1 7 8 1 10   Wm. Johnson 52 60 0 4 4 0 4   Hukins Storrs 27 60 0 4 4 0 4   Otis Freeman 2 100 2 11 4 3 10   Wm. Woodward 60 0 0 4 4 0 4   D. Richardson 17 0 0 8 8 0 8   ditto 61 60 0 8 4 0 4   Jon'a. Freeman 9 60 0 10 8 0 11   Prince Freeman 35 60 0 4 4 0 4   Saml. Storrs j'r. 59 60 0 4 8 0 4   Steven. Wilcott 50 0 0 9 8 0 0   John Sherwin R28 0 0 8 0 0 0   ditto 15 100 1 11 5 1 5   ditto 27 60 0 0 4 0 4   Eben. Dunham 49 0 0 8 8 0 8   ditto 1 100 1 8 0 0 0   Silv. Freeman 5 100 1 9 0 0 0   Nath'l. Hopkins 2 100 1 9 0 0 0   Wm. Carey 38 60 0 4 0 0 4   Joseph Storrs 18 60 0 5 5 0 5   John Walbridge 6 60 0 0 0 0 5   Oziah Strong R53 0 0 10 8 0 11   ditto 33 60 0 4 4 0 4   ditto 9 100 0 0 9 2 0  
ISAAC BRIDGMAN, Constable. Hanover, January 11, 1789.
S U T T O N.
State of New-Hampshire.
N OTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors of land in the township of Sutton, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1787, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber, on or before the 28th day of January next, so much of their land will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of Joseph Wodly, innholder in said Sutton, as will pay the taxes together with incidental charges, unless prevented by previous payment. silver. certific.
   N. D. s. d. s. d.     Richard Wibird 9 0 3 6 2 11   Thomas Noice 6 2 0 6 0 5   William Stevens 48 2 1 0 1 0   Benjamin Hale 25 2 2 0 1 8   Thomas Whittier 41 1 0 6 0 5   John Poor 54 2 0 9 0 7   Stephen Whittier 37 2 0 9 0 7   John Currer 23 1 0 9 0 3    JOSEPH WODLY, Collector. Sutton, December 10th, 1788.
N E W D U R H A M.
State of New-Hampshire.
N OTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in New Durham who have not paid their taxes for the year 1787, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber on or before Thursday the 5th day of February next, so much of their land will be sold at public vendue, at the house of Col. Thomas Taft, in said town, at ten o'clock A. M. as will pay the taxes, together with incidental charges, unless prevented by previous payment. N. D. s. d.
   John Footman and Thomas Stevenson 67 2 2 0   J. Mason & B. Bennet 69 2 4 0   Nicholas Perryman, Esq. 2 2 4 0   Jeremiah Burnham 13 1 3 0   ditto 0 2 4 0   Jerry Drifts & P. Moe 28 1 1 6   ditto 0 2 2 0   Matthew Livermore 26 2 4 0   John Wille jun'r 44 2 4 0   C. Wakeham & R. Denbo 59 2 4 0   Thos. Wallingsford, Esq. 60 2 3 2   William Jackson 47 2 4 0   John Crummett 51 2 4 0   Samuel Smith jun'r 30 1 1 6   ditto 0 2 4 0   Benjamin Jenkins 42 2 4 0   Ebenezer Jones 49 2 4 0   John & Francis Durgin 17 1 3 0   Benjamin Jackson 52 2 4 0   Samuel & Solomon Sias 52 2 4 0   James Smith 89 2 4 0   Walter Bryant, Esq. 74 2 4 0   Francis Drew and Abraham Stevenson 65 2 4 0   Ebenezer Bickford 27 2 4 0   Joseph Sias Esq. 80 2 4 0   Jonathan Chesley 73 2 4 0   Job Runnels 81 2 4 0    NATHAN KINESON, Collector. New Durham, December 24th, 1788.
M A R L B O R O U G H.
State of New-Hampshire.
N OTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the township of Marlborough, who have not paid their state and county taxes for the year 1786, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber, on or before Tuesday the 10th day of February next, so much of their land will be sold at public vendue, at ten o'clock before noon of said day, at the dwelling house of Jonathan Ball innholder in said Marlborough, as will pay the taxes and incidental charges, unless prevented by previous payment.
   N. R. s. d. q. d. q.     Andrew Armer 3 6 0 10 2 0 3   ditto 5 4 1 2 3 1 0   Sam'l Allison jr. 4 6 3 10 3 3 1   ditto 2 5 6 1 2 4 3   James Moore 81 0 0 10 2 0 3   ditto 106 0 0 3 1 0 1   Robert Allen 7 1 3 4 1 2 3   ditto 97 0 2 2 3 1 3   ditto 98 0 1 11 2 1 2   John Wilson 12 0 1 8 1 1 3   Sam'l Michel 6 6 1 1 2 1 0   ditto 12 7 1 7 1 1 1   Sam'l Cochran 3 2 3 8 0 3 1   Hugh Montgomery 1 8 3 4 1 2 2   John Cochran 25 0 1 8 0 1 2   Isaac Cochran 2 2 1 7 3 1 2   Solly & March 2 1 1 8 2 1 2   Melerve and Blanchard 66 0 6 2 2 4 3   Tho'm Wallingsford 4 0 0 10 1 0 3   ditto 11 0 2 10 3 1 2    DANIEL CUTTING, Constable. Marlborough, November 4, 1788.
A LL persons indebted to, or that have any demands on the estate of Jacob Jewett, late of Stratham, yeoman, deceased, are requested to exhibit the same immediately to Deborah Jewett, administratrix, in order for a speedy settlement. Stratham, January 1, 1789.
O NCE more all persons indebted to, or that have any demands on the estate of David Griffith, formerly of Portsmouth, late of Exeter, goldsmith, deceased, are desired to settle the same with Samuel Griffith, administrator, otherwise those indebted will be sued without further notice. Portsmouth, Dec. 12.
AMERICAN GOODS.
T HE Subscriber desirous of promoting the Manufactures of his country, and extending their circulation, hereby informs the Proprietors of FACTORIES, &c. in the several states, that any consignment of AMERICAN MANUFACTURES entrusted to his care for sale in New-Hampshire, will be received on any reasonable conditions, and his exertions shall not be wanting for the disposal of them, and remitting the proceeds per order.
BENJAMIN DEARBORN. Portsmouth, (New-Hampshire,) Market-Street, Nov. 1788. Those Printers of periodical publications in either of the United States, who will draw upon their patriotism for publishing the above, are requested to insert it in their papers.
H A W K E.