The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1771-11-22 00:00:00

NEW-HAMPSHIRE AND HISTORICAL
CONTAINING the Freshest ADVICES
Friday Nov. 22. 1771.
GAZETTE, CHRONICLE, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
NO. 788 } Weeks since this Paper was first Publish'd. }
B O S T O N, Nov. 18.
Yesterday arrived here Capt. Lyde, in seven Weeks from London; by whom we have the following Advices from the public Prints viz.
V E N I C E, Aug. 24.
LETTERS from Corsou advise, that the Ottoman fleet, consisting of 56 sail having run the hazard of sailing out from the Dardanelles, whilst Vice Admiral Arff was cruising in the Streights of Tenedos; the Russians attacked & pursued them into the port of Modron, where they were entirely destroyed or burnt, except four caravelles, which they have taken. This action happened on the fifth of last month.
Constantinople, August 3. We have advice that Ali Bey having recalled his army from Syria to Egypt, to attack a competitor who had risen up against him, the Ottoman Troops had taken the advantage of this circumstance to attack him in his retreat, and that they entirely defeated him in a battle, in which Chief Daher was wounded. By accounts received from a vessel from Paros to Smyrna, Count Orloff arrived there the 10th ult. with two ships and six frigates. Some say he is preparing to make an expedition in Candia; others that he intends to try a new enterprize in the Morea. It is not without much uneasiness, that this Admiral was seen before Smyrna. The plague only can defend this city from the Russians, who will not like penetrating it as long as that disorder, which daily encreases, continues within the walls. All the foreign Consuls are obliged to retire to the country. Cara Osman Oglow, Governor of this city, and Kan Cioban Oglow, live in tents to preserve them from the contagion. It is remarkable, that the plague makes more progress among the Turks and Jews than among the Greeks. Every family is ordered to bury their own dead, and if any one who dies without relations or friends, his neighbours are to bury him.
Extract of a letter from Berlin, September 7.
"I am sorry that I can transmit no agreeable accounts to you of the progress of the negotiations of peace between Russia and the Porte. I am told, that the Court of Vienna does not at all relish the project of the Court of Petersburg, for rendering the Crim independent of the Porte for the future, and that they have made strong representations to the Czarina against such an independency. What view they may have in this, or how far it may be their interest that the Crim should remain under the power and influence of the Turks, I confess I have not penetration enough to discover. The King of Prussia is far from their way of thinking, and has refused to join with them in remonstrating to the Empress Russia against that measure. In the mean while this difference of opinion retards the negotiation."
L O N D O N, September 17 to 20.
From good authority the Printer received the following account, dated Venice the 24th of August, 1771:—They write from Corsou, that a Turkish fleet, consisting of fifty six sail came out of the Dardanelles by order of the Grand Signior, and that Rear-Admiral Arf, who cruised with his squadron thereabouts, having met them, affected to shun them till he had drawn them out upon the high sea; then facing about, he attacked them with such impetuosity, that the astonished Turks betook themselves to flight, and saved themselves in the harbour of Modron near Lemnos, where they erected batteries on shore, in order
to defend the entrance of the port. Rear-Admiral Arf, who was not strong enough to force the entrance, blocked up the mouth of it, in order to hinder the Turks from escaping while he sent for succours; & Admiral Spiritoff, upon the first notice, flew immediately to join him; they then set ashore 1500 Albanians, who, with surprising bravery, took the Turkish batteries; so that our ships entered the harbour without any resistance, and burned the whole Turkish fleet, except only four Caravelles, which have been saved & fell into the hands of the victors. This affair happened on the 5th of July last.
The virulent and unjust abuse daily propagated against the public and private character of a great personage, calls to mind, what a celebrated female historian is said to have thrown out in a company of Republicans, who were treating the Royal character with great freedom and levity: "I am, said she, as much for a Republic as any of you; but whilst you have a King, treat him like a Gentleman."
The late Mr. Pelham, as able and as honest a minister as any this country has been blest with, was once solicited by a hackney writer of better parts than principles to engage his pen in defence of the King and his Administration, but declining to give the least encouragement, the man retired, muttering, that he would draw his pen against them: when Mr. Pelham, with becoming dignity, said "You may write against me as much as you please but depend upon it, that my gracious Master's character shall not be traduced with impunity."
A correspondent says, that the paragraph in our paper concerning a painter's bill, brings to his remembrance a story of a similar nature; a church warden in his parish having been at some considerable trouble to remove a woman who was with child out of his parochial territories, innocently made a charge of it in his bill to the vestry, in the following words. To getting a Woman with Child out of the Parish, 2s. 6d.
A parson present asked him, what he would charge for getting a woman with child, in the Parish?
Extract of a Letter from Chatham, Sept. 15.
"All our docks and slips are full, in repairing and building ships at this port."
A person lately arrived from Madrid says, that the King of Spain is taking the most effectual method to increase his marine, and that the Spaniards in case of a war, will become more formidable than they have for some time appeared.
A person lately arrived from Cadiz, informs, that no less than five vessels, laden with troops and ammunition, have sailed from thence within two months for the Spanish settlements.
A master of a vessel lately arrived from the West Indies says, he spoke with nine sail of Spanish men of war, and that the Commodore hoisted out his boat and boarded him, and asked him if he knew what men of war were at Jamaica, to which he answered in the negative. They behaved very civilly.
By a Dutch ship that is arrived off Dover, from Denia, we have advice, that the Spaniards have ten ships of the line, four frigates, and several storeships, lying in the harbours there, all ready to sail at a few hours notice and a Regiment of soldiers daily exercising, which are to be embarked as soon as orders come for their sailing. The Capt. further says, that they will not admit an English ship into their harbours.
Province of New-Hampshire, Nov. 9, 1771.
WHEREAS the General Assembly of this Province, in April last, passed an Act, intitled, "An Act for establishing and making passable a Road from the GOVERNOR'S House in Wolfeborough, to Dartmouth College in Hanover;" wherein among other Things, John House, — Freeman, and David Hubbard, are appointed a Committee to lay out and mark said Road, three Rods wide, from Pemigewasset River, near the Mouth of Baker's River to Dartmouth College aforesaid, at the Charge of the Province;—And whereas the said Committee have accordingly executed the said Business, and have made the following Report thereupon, viz. Pursuant to our appointment by Act of Assembly, we have laid out and marked a Road from Pemigewasset River to Dartmouth College, in the following manner, viz. We began at David Webster's by said Pemigewasset River, running from thence West 32 Degrees North, 280 Rods to a Hemlock Tree.
From thence West 22 Degrees South 68 Rods to a spruce Tree.
From thence West 5 Deg. North, three quarters of a Mile to David Nevin's.
From thence West 15 Deg. South 70 Rods to Silas Brown's.
From thence South 40 Deg. West, 75 Rods to a Birch Tree.
From thence South 18 Deg. West, 56 Rods to the Widow Snows.
From thence West 40 Deg. South 4 Miles to the Line between Plimouth & Cockermouth.
From thence West 60 Rods to Sam'l Hazeltines.
From thence West 12 Deg. South 100 Rods to a Birch Tree.
From thence South 45 Deg. West, 66 Rods to James Gould's.
From thence West 13 Deg. North 254 Rods to Ebenezer Melvin's.
From thence West 32 Deg. North 4 Miles & an half to a Beech Tree.
From thence West to Deg. North, 260 Rods to the Line between Cockermouth & Dorchester.
From thence West 260 Rods to a Birch Tree.
From thence West 23 Deg. South, 1 Mile to a Birch Tree.
From thence West 4 Miles to Hemlock Tree.
From thence West 15 Deg. North, 1 Mile and three Quarters to a Hemlock Tree, standing in the Line of Canaan and Hanover.
From thence North 43 Deg. West, 190 Rods to a Hemlock Tree.
From thence West 30 Deg. North, 180 Rods to a Hemlock Tree.
From thence West 15 Deg. North, 1 Mile & a Quarter to a Spruce Tree.
From thence West 10 Deg. South, 200 Rods to a Maple Tree on Moose Mountain.
From thence West 3 Deg. North, 2 Miles to the spot appointed for a Meeting House in Hanover.
From thence West 3 Degrees South, 4 Miles and a Quarter to the COLLEGE:—The whole being computed at Thirty Miles and 3 Quarters, and is laid for three Rods wide.
Whereupon Notice is hereby given, to the respective Proprietors and Inhabitants of the Towns through which said Road runs, and to all others whom it may concern, That they forthwith cause a good Carriage Road to be made three Rods wide, as survey'd and mark'd according to the above Report, or in default thereof, Commissioners will be appointed to complete the same according to the Directions of the Act abovemention'd.
By His Excellency's Command. THEODORE ATKINSON, Secretary.

To all those to whom Heaven has given plentiful Fortunes, and generous Minds.
ILLUSTRIOUS PERSONAGES!
A Glorious opportunity now offers for the exertion of those Abilities with which you are possessed. To you your injured Country looks in this evil day for assistance, when so many Sons of ambition and avarice, regardless of the honor of GOD or the happiness of men, are pursuing plans destructive of both, in order to gratify their lust of power, avarice, and other sordid passions.—To you all eyes look, as the instruments of their deliverance and happiness—to devise & execute plans for the public welfare, erect bulwarks to keep out the dreadful curse of Tyranny—to lay foundations for the perpetual support of those heavenly Sisters, Religion, Liberty, and Learning—that Righteousness may reign in our Land through all Generations, and run on like an overflowing stream bearing down all iniquity and every thing that obstructs the Divine honor or human felicity until Time meets Eternity!
Knowledge, is the original Source and Spring of all happiness in the Universe, it is the foundation of Heaven itself, & supports the Throne Supreme.—Then how wise in man to “dig, for it as for Silver and search to find it as for hid Treasures” of inestimable value?—The study of the wise is to grow wiser, and spread the rays of knowledge, like those of the Sun, round the world.—While they thirst for wisdom and happiness to feast their own minds, they never cease their ardent efforts for the welfare of all; and nothing bounds their desires for the good of mankind, while there is one object of infelicity within the circle of their knowledge—such are the noble Persons whom I address: And as you only want to know, so it is my design to point out the objects worthy your attention and liberality.—You are already possessed of a disposition to pursue whatever reason dictates to be done. Knowledge being the foundation of all good, this should be the great object of your attention, and call forth every power to cultivate and spread it through all classes of people.
ONE very interesting and important object, is the increase of Public Schools, especially in populous towns, where vice and ignorance always prevail among the lowest denominations. To have a sufficient number of free Schools to instruct all the Youth in necessary learning, in religion and morality, to form their minds to virtue, and fit them early in life for business, is of the greatest importance to the prosperity & welfare of society. It is surprising that this momentous concern, on which depends every blessing that can be named, should in this enlightened age and even among the sagacious Americans, be so much neglected—And with regard to the Females, scarcely any public provision is made for their instruction. Multitudes of the fairest part of our species, even in these learned regions, in the most opulent Cities, pass through life in ignorance and darkness of mind almost as profound as the uncultivated Africans!—This is a very moving consideration to every generous mind animated with benevolence and virtue. Who that has a proper view of mankind, and a suitable concern for their welfare, can forbear exerting every talent to procure the blessing of a good education for the rising Youth, and lay a foundation for the instruction of all, through every future period of Time by establishing public Schools sufficient to instruct both sexes of every denomination?—Public money never can be more advantageously improved for the public welfare than by maintaining Schools for the instruction of all the Youth. As public instruction is attended to and supported, or neglected, the community always flourishes or declines. A consideration of the infinite importance of training up youth in learning and religion, has induced many worthy persons to support Schools at their own expence, and to leave Estates for the noble purpose of maintaining Schools to the end of the World.—A more glorious deed cannot be conceived or executed by man!—Nothing promises such felicity to the State, and so many blessings to mankind.
May those who have ability thus to bless their Country with their wealth, make themselves, and the community honorable and happy by a wise application of it!—To be distinguished only by gay apparel and sumptuous
living is far below the dignity of man and a dishonor to rational beings—for the inferior animals cloathed and fed by nature, surpass the most splendid monarch in every thing relating to the body. “The mind is the standard of the man,” and the only glory he has superior to the beasts.—Many persons spend more in luxury, vain pomp and empty show, than would support the instructors of a School,—how much more glorious lasting and sublime, the honor and satisfaction that will arise from beneficence which may make thousands happy, and bless the latest generations?—Let those things be done NOW (not defer them to be done by your last testament, which often takes away all the honor and benefit of a donation) that your own eyes may be blessed with the glorious fruits of your munificence.—The greatest happiness man can enjoy, is to have power and a disposition to do good.—It not only increases the pleasure of living, but even adds to life itself.—For Heaven, infinitely wise and beneficent, has made an inseparable connection between our duty and happiness, and the serene joy which arises in a virtuous mind from noble deeds, at once sweetens and lengthens life!
The gratification of our appetites, or what relates only to self, is low and of short duration, but that pleasure which springs from benevolence, and right principles of charity does not lessen by enjoyment nor grow old with Time, but increases through unmeasurable duration! Tis planting a flower in the garden of Eternity, and building a monument of fame in the temple of Heaven! which will shine with unfading lustre, & feast the mind with growing bliss through the rising circles of eternal TIME! A N A M E R I C A N.
L O N D O N, September 21. A report prevails at the west end of the town, that the Court of Spain have, by a new treaty, guaranteed to France all her settlements in New-Orleans on the American continent for ever.
In the Course of next week a Privy Counsel will be summoned to meet at St. James's, when it will be then finally determined, whether the Parliament will meet for the dispatch of business before Christmas, or be further prorogued to January next.
A Correspondent assures us he has received letters from Spain, which mention, that it is a general talk there, that the whole force of the Court of Madrid will shortly be employed against the Russians; if so it is impossible that England can long preserve her neutrality.
We hear from Plymouth, that six sail of large ships, supposed to be French men of war passed by in the night of the fifteenth of this Month.
Translation of a letter from Leghorn, dated July 19 th , to an Italian Merchant in London.
“Yesterday landed here, from three Sardinian Feluccas, a deputation from the free Corsicans, of seven persons, with their attendants and baggage, who set out at Sun rise this Morning for Florence, and are immediately to proceed for Vienna with proposals to the Emperor to guarantee their treaty with the Grand Duke, whom they are ready immediately to declare King, and Hereditary Sovereign of all Corsica, with an annual tribute of eight hundred thousand sequins, to be levied and collected in whatever manner the General Assemblies of the deputies of the different pieves shall think proper. The Corsicans engage to support a constant body of regular troops, of six thousand men, to be annually recruited from their Militia, which is to consist of the male inhabitants of the whole Kingdom from the age of twenty to forty years, to be supplied with arms and ammunition at the expence of each pieve; that their Sovereign the Grand Duke shall maintain, in Corsica, nine battalions of infantry three troops of Hussars, a corps of artillery of 360 men, with three trains of light artillery;—and that this military force shall be landed in Corsica within four months after the signing the treaty, which is acceded to even by all the Corsicans, now exposed to the barbarity of the French troops, of whom they are positive they have destroyed seven thousand within the last nine Months. Many they have destroyed by poisoning the wells and rivulets that supply their garrisons; their marksmen constantly kill the French officers; their horses are always hamstringing during the night, when they are at grass; the hay ground is regularly burnt up by their countrymen; their bridges of communication are no sooner finished than blown up; their new roads are immediately rendered impassable by a small kind of mine, call'd a Fougasie, in which work the Corsican peasants are very expert; for twenty of them can in one night, destroy what has employed a French battalion six weeks with infinite labour. They now declare, from the late examples of French courage, in their glorious victory over the French army, they have not the least dread of a hundred French battalions. Nothing but the savage barbarity of the French in stabbing the Corsican children, ravishing and then hanging their women, putting their countrymen first to the torture, and butchering them upon the rack—Marks of inhumanity unknown and unexperienced in any age—are, they trust, a sufficient apology with mankind for using some retaliation upon the unprovoked butchers of their infants, their parents, their wives, and themselves.”
The accounts from the second Russian army say, that after the conquest of the Crimea, a great part of Circassia has submitted to the
Russians are entirely masters of the navigation in the Black Sea, and in the Propontis from Azoff down even to Constantinople, and on the eastward to the mouth of the Danube.
His Majesty was greatly recovered of his hoarseness Yesterday.
Extract of a Letter from Chester Sept. 7. The following is an account of John Chapman, who was executed here for picking the pocket of Martha Hewitt, of this county.—At the hour appointed he was conducted to the place of execution by the usual attendants on such occasions, and a greater number of constables than usually attended executions here, as there was some suspicion of a rescue by the vast concourse of sailors (he being one of that profession) that accompanied him.—On his setting out, a book was put in his hand for decency's sake, by the hangman, which he no sooner received than he threw among his brother ships, as he termed them, and they immediately tore it in pieces; a clergyman then got into the cart, and exhorted him to behave with more decency, and to think of his sudden change; but instead of attending to his admonition, he got up in the cart, and (being pinioned) drove his head in the clergyman's belly, and tumbled him out of the cart; after this he flung himself out and attempted to run into the midst of the sailors, but was prevented by the irons with which he was loaded: he was then seized and tied by ropes in the cart, and in that manner was carried to the fatal tree; at his arrival there he refused either to hear prayers, or pray himself, therefore two men together with the hangman, attempted to lift him up, to fix the rope about his neck, in the doing of which, he by some means, got the hangman's thumb in his mouth, which he almost separated from the hand, before he would lose his hold: he was at last tied up, but with great difficulty; and it was remarked that he died very hard. He was a handsome young man, and seemed to be about twenty three years of age, but refused telling any thing of his past life and villainies. There was one George Mecartney concerned with him in this robbery, who got off for transportation.
North-Carolina, November 2. By a vessel in a short passage from Philadelphia, we have a certain account that Herman Husband is now at Wilmington, a little town just below Philadelphia, goes much in public, and is highly caressed by a multitude, who he every day entertains with the tragical story of Governor Tryon's massacre of his brethren in iniquity, in North-Carolina, & is undoubtedly the author of the many extraordinary publications we find in the Pennsylvania Journal. It should seem extraordinary & unaccountable that a person of Herman Husband's address and penetration, should be able to induce such, a number of people, whom we find espousing his cause, to believe that the Governor of this province, chief of his Majesty's Council, near forty Members of the Assembly, and a very considerable number of Gentlemen of the first families in this province who were in the battle of Alamance, should all be corrupted, all in league to harrafs and oppress a set of harmless industrious men, who were striving hard against the iron hand of oppression! The doctrine is absurd and ridiculous. The least reflection compel a belief that something amiss among these people? especially when among the provincial laws of the acts for redressing and removing every grievance that could possibly have an existence among them.
TO BE SOLD BY John Noyes, At his Shop on Kingston Plain, near Mr. Abbot's Tavern.
A general Assortment of Fall and Winter GOGDS — which he is determined to sell upon the most reasonable Terms.
Customers may depend upon being used in every respect ingeniously, and their Favor acknowledged with Gratefulness.
N. B. All sorts of West India Goods and a small Quantity of Groceries, are to be sold at the same shop.

L O N D O N, Sept. 18.  Copy of a Letter from BRITAIN, now in Confinement in Reading Goal to a second Noble Lord.
To Lord ----- As the late Fire at Portsmouth Dock engrosses the public Attention, I hope you will absolve me from my Promise of a Letter made to the Under Secretaries when at Reading, and give me leave to lay the whole State of the above Fire before the Public; which I intend to do in a Series of Letters to my Friends in London, and to be published in the public Papers. I hope your Lordship will not deny me this Request as it is but reasonable that I should have some hearing to clear myself from the false Reports that have been propagated by the Ministry. They have declared, "that I want a Sum of Money, and my Liberty out of Prison, which induced me to declare myself concerned in the above Fire." This you know, my Lord, is false. When I solicited a Pardon, I was then at Liberty in London; and in my Letter to the Lord Mayor I informed him, "that I want no Fee or Reward whatever but his Majesty's Pardon." In the said Letter I owned being concerned in setting Fire to Portsmouth Dock Yard, and the Writer of a treasonable Letter sent to the Lord Mayor, dated June 13, where ----- is expressly called a Blackhead, his ----- and Dignity threatened to be in Danger, and plainly told that the Government of the ----- Empire will be given to one more worthy of it before July the 10th, 1772." I owned myself a Party concerned in attaining his -----'s Life, and these were the Crimes I wanted a Pardon for. Now, his Majesty's Pardon to me is only conditional; in the Gazette for July 31st it says, "His Majesty is hereby pleased to promise his most gracious Pardon to the Writer of the said Letter for the Offences therein mentioned, provided Information shall be given to one of the principal Secretaries of State, upon which the Parties concerned may be apprehended and brought to Justice."
"Now my Lord, as I said before, this Pardon is only conditional; therefore if my Information is not sufficient to bring the Parties concerned to Justice, why do you forgive me the other Offences? If a poor Printer only print the Truth, you are ready to devour him. Pray what will you do now? Nothing my Lord! You dare not! I do not crave your Favour, but once more DARE you to bring me to Trial. You know you had Information sufficient, provided you had exerted yourself as a ----- ought to have done. It is not the Post you are in that is to be despised for the Neglect, but the Man who fills that Post. There is a Clerk in one of your Offices (I told the Under Secretaries) who gave the French Intelligence in your Secret Councils; his Name is -----. Will you deny that you have not Information enough to secure that Clerk? I do not doubt but you will. You know, my Lord, I desired you to confront me with Count Guignes long before he left England. If I was in the wrong why did not you do it? You have been called upon to publish my Deposition; why don't you? Your Secretaries were so careful to keep it from the Public, that they would not let the Mayor of Reading see the least Title of it. Nay, moreover, you have debarred me the use of Pen and Paper, and I do not doubt but as soon as you read this Letter, but my Keeper will have Orders from you to shut me up in a Dungeon; but if you do order it, the Public will soon be apprised of it; and they may judge of your Conduct as they think proper."
"Before I take Leave of your Lordship, permit me to return you my most humble Thanks for the Pains you have taken in propagating a Report that I am Insane ; and as a Proof of my Gratitude, I assure your Lordship, that I will prove some of your own Friends Traitors to their King and Country; and the Public may be assured, that Tower-hill will be found a more necessary Place than Bedlam . I am my Lord, your Lordship's Most obedient humble Servant,
Reading, Sept. 14. JONATHAN BRITAIN. "
A Correspondent supposes the Letter from Britain to a second Noble Lord to be written by an Irishman, as he makes him write at a Time when he says he is debarred the Use of Pen and Paper.
P H I L A D E L P H I A, November 4.
A Writer in the Cape-fear Mercury, says, "That the People called Regulators have been injured by the Public Officers is a point I have always insisted upon, I yet also insist that the Injuries they have sustained were not so enormous as the World hath been made to believe; that they were not precluded (unless by their own Means) from Justice, and that many of their complaints had no real Existence." To demonstrate this he lays a Number of Facts before the Public.
At the Supreme Court held here on Monday last, William Speedy was arraigned and tried for the murder of Lieut. Nathan Gagli, who was shot from the Block-House at Wilmington, while it was in Possession of Lazarus Stewart and Company; and after a long and impartial Hearing, the Jury soon gave in their Verdict NOT GUILTY.
B O S T O N, November 14.
Capt. Jenkins was to sail in three or four Days after Capt. Lyde.—And Capt. Robson in a Fortnight or three Weeks after, for this Place.
On the 10th of September, a West-India Ship loaded with Rum and Sugar, was sunk off Yarmouth.—In August a Ship was wrecked on that Coast, about 40 Casks of Wheat Flour was found, the Casks, were marked O'Kelby and Baltimore, by which it was tho't the was from New-England: No Person had been found.
But little News under London Head.—They are canvassing for Choice of Lord Mayor, which was to be on Michaelmas.—Alderman Nash, James Townsend, and the present Lord Mayor Crosby, are in Nomination.
Lord Chatham speaking of the struggle likely to be in the City for the office of Lord Mayor, declared, that Mr. Wilkes acted very imprudently to make his designs so public: "He is so eager (said this great man) to engross all the employments to his own circle that his true motives cannot remain long concealed; and the moment the Livery discover that he is only labouring to make himself their master, they will see their independency as much in danger from him, as it is from an abandoned Administration."
A C C I D E N T S.
We have accounts of several melancholy Accidents that have happened within a Fortnight past, viz.
Last Friday at Tewkesbury, one Kitterich loaded a Gun to kill a Hawk that came down to catch the Dunghill Fowls, and seeing something move among the Bushes, fired, and ran to see what he had killed, when he beheld that he had shot his Sister, about 13
Years of Age, and fractured her Head so that she soon after expired. The young Man is in great Anxiety of Mind on this Occasion.
Last Tuesday Mr. Bezaleel Carlton, of Bradford, in crossing the Ferry between that Place and Haverhill, fell over the side of the boat, and was drowned.
A Man at Almsbury assisting in getting up some Rocks, a Lever gave way and struck him in the Breast, which instantly put an end to his Life.
A Lad near Newbury driving a Cart happening to fall, the Wheel went over his Neck, and severed his Head from his Body.
A Man at Newbury-Port fell and the Wheel went over him, whereby he died in a short Time after.
Last Thursday at Grafton, an only Son of Mr. Joseph Whipple of that Town, in the 6th Year of his Age, attending his Father driving a Team with a loaded Cart, fell forward from an Eminence before the Wheel, which went over his Shoulder and Part of his Neck: He lived about half an Hour, spoke several Times sensibly then departed, leaving his Parents in bitter Mourning for an only Son, in such an awful, sudden and surprising Manner ravished from them.
At Rhode-Island, a Fishing-boat overset near Beaver-Tail, with three Persons in it, one of whom was drowned. On Tuesday Evening at New-York a Peaty-augre, with three Men therein overset, and all of them drowned, three Names were Darby, Bradley and Verderlip, belonging to that City.
B O S T O N, November 18.
Last Wednesday Evening the Cabin of the Falmouth Packet, William Holland, Master, was robbed of near 200l. Lawful money and a valuable Watch.
By a Whaleman lately arrived at Nantucket, we learn, that after a violent Storm on the 24th of Sept. near Georges-Banks they came across and took up two Casks, one blue, the other green, a Cask and several other things; and also saw one Vessel bottom upwards, and part of another: by the Marks on the Casks, &c. it is supposed that one of the Vessels was a Whaling Sloop from Rhode Island, Jethro Dogget, Master; and the other from Nantucket, Capt. Frink; and that it's more than probable that both their Crews, (30 in number) must have all perished.
We hear that Capt. Coffin from London has brought a Diploma from the University of Edinburgh, conferring on JOHN WIN-THROP, Esq; Professor of Mathematics and Philosophy at Cambridge, and F. R. S. the Degree of DOCTOR OF LAWS.
The Fair Lady, Benjamin Smith from Liverpool, on the 10th of October in Lat. 42. 03. Long. 40. 18. West, spoke with a Brig, from Oporto, out 22 Days, belonging to Salem, Capt. Gerrish, all well.
We hear that Negro Cæsar, condemned at Rhode-Island for attempting to murder a white Lad at Narraganset, was hung there last Friday.
On Friday last in the Afternoon his Excellency the Governor laid before the Council for their advice thereon, a paper in the Massachusetts Spy of Thursday, signed MUCIUS SCÆVOLA , said to contain divers seditious Expressions, &c. The Council after debating till sundown, adjourned 'till the next day, when they met again and sent for the Printer, who in answer to the summons told the messenger he was busy in his Office , and should not attend: Upon which it is said a motion was made for his commitment to prison for contempt, but did not obtain-----Whether through the abundant lenity of the honourable Board, or from their having no legal Authority in the case, has not yet transpired to us. The final result was, their unanimous advice to the Governor to order the King's attorney to prosecute the Printer at Common Law. In the year 1768 Governor Bernard, who was as fond of prosecutions of this kind, as perhaps Governor Hutchinson is, laid before the Council a publication in the Boston Gazette, which he called a libelous paper, and said that, if unnoticed, it must endanger the very Being of Government. This must have been a sad libel indeed! And the Council were so subservient then, as to echo very loudly back to the Governor! deliberately telling him in a message, that it was "not only an insult on the G E N E R A L C O U R T -----not only an insult on the King's authority and the dignity of his government-----but---an insult on the K I N G O F K I N G S !" Even that Council however, did not advise the Governor to order a prosecution. After all, the libel contained nothing more than charging Governor Bernard with enmity and cruelty towards the loyal people of this province, and his insolence upon a particular occasion, which the Council themselves a very little while after, if we may credit their own Journal, thought not too severe---To show the different sentiments which the Council and the Representatives entertain'd of that publication at the same time, we shall just mention, that the House before whom it was also laid, told the Governor, that "as it did not appear to them that any thing contain'd in it could affect the Majesty of the King, the dignity of government, the honour of the General Court, or the true interest of the province, they tho't they might be fully justified in their determination to take no further notice of it; and they added, that "THE LIBERTY OF THE PRESSES WAS THE GREAT BULWARK OF THE LIBERTY OF THE PEOPLE; and that it was therefore the incumbent duty of the GUARDIANS OF THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS to DEFEND and MAINTAIN it"---STAND BY A FREE PRESS.
S A L E M, November 19.
Extract of a Letter from a Master of a Vessel at James's River, in Virginia, to his Owner in this Town, dated October 21, 1771, which is published as a Caution to those who send Vessels to Virginia or Maryland.
"There is a Man of War and two Tenders, who keep constantly cruising between the Capes; they board all Vessels, & are very severe in searching the same: They seized a Brig from Lisbon, which Vessel and Cargo is condemned; they also seized 2 Sloops which comes or Trial in a few Days; so that it behoves all Owners, sending this Way, to be very careful that the whole of their Cargoes are properly cleared."
On Thursday last Sentence of Death was pronounced on Bryan Sheehan, in Consequence of his being convicted of committing a Rape, as mentioned in our last. We hear he is to be hanged on the 19th of next Month.
P O R T S M O U T H.
THE Public are hereby notified that a Cow belonging to Mr. Daniel Bragdon, supposed to be Stolen by one John Ryan , as Advertised in this Paper some little Time past, was found in said Ryan's Custody at Barrington in the Province of New-Hampshire, the 13th Instant, and said Ryan acknowledged the Theft, and was brought from thence with the Cow on the 15th as far as Kittery, where in passing a Cops of Wood said Ryan made his Escape, and it is imagined he is now Skulking in some part of this or the next County, to perpetrate the like offence, altho' Mr. Bragdon has been so fortunate as to recover his Cow after Six Weeks absence; Some others may sustain a greater Injury. All Persons therefore will be Cautious of harbouring the said Ryan for any other Purpose than to bring to exemplary Punishment. York, Nov. 16th.
We hear from Newmarket, that some Children playing on a Pile of Wood, a Log fell on one of them, another ran to its Mother who came and took the Log off, the weight of which was so great that it was scarcely possible for one Person to lift, and found her Child to be dead.
By Capt. Mc Intyre, who arrived here yesterday from Virginia, we are informed, that Capt. Seth Mitchel, of Saco died there last October, also one of his Hands, Benjamin Cromwel of Dover;
It was as sickly a Time there as was ever known.
Yesterday was observed as a Day of Public Thanksgiving, agreeable to Proclamation.
   CUSTOM-HOUSE, PISCATAQUA, November 20.   Inward-Entries, FROM     Schooner Jenny, Nathaniel Nowel, Newfoundland.   Schooner Polly, William Mc Intire, Virginia.   Sloop Dolphin, Caleb Weaver, St. Martin's.   Sloop William and Mary, John Elliot, St. Kitts.   Outward Bound   Ship Lane, William Parker, West Indies.   Ship Pompey, Timothy Mountford, Ditto.   Schooner Blossom, Joseph Dearing, North Carolina.   Schooner Molly, George Pearse, West Indies.   Schooner Merriam, Robert White, Ditto.   Brig Two Brothers, Nathaniel Odiorne, Ditto.   Brig True Briton, Thomas Mace, Great Britain.   Brig Bill of Rights, John Leigh, LONDON.   Cleared for Departure,   Schooner Tammey, Jonathan Butman, Virginia.   Schooner Harris, John Clark, Dominica.   Schooner Endeavour, Richard York, West Indies.   Schooner Martha, Amos Tappan, Ditto.   Sloop Hannah, John Combs, Ditto.   Sloop Peggy, William Friend, Ditto.   Brig Polly, Joseph Tappan, Ditto.   Brig Industry, Thomas Jones, Ditto.   Ship Rose, Thomas Palmer, Ditto.   Ship Cleopatra, Thomas Chevers Ditto.  
Subscriptions for the American Edition of Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England taken in by JOHN SPARHAWK, at his store in Queen-street, Portsmouth.
To be Sold at public Vendue, At 5 o'Clock in the Afternoon, on Thursday the 5th of December, by Samuel Bowles , at his Vendue Room in his Dwelling House, opposite the Post Office, in Portsmouth, sundry sorts of English Goods, Household Furniture, Mens Cloathing, &c. Any Person dispos'd to enlarge the sale, may apply at the above place. At the said Vendue Room will be sold at private sale, a number of Articles, very low for Cash. Likewise, may be had at said Bowles's Shop, a general assortment of English Goods, cheap for Cash.
Province of New-Hampshire, Rockingham ss. Court of Vice Admiralty.
PURSUANT to a Decree of COURT, Notice is hereby given, That sixteen Hogheads and four Tierces of Molasses, lately seized for Breach of the Acts of Trade and Decreed forfeited, will be exposed to sale, at public Vendue to the highest Bidder, at a Ware House on Long Wharf, in the occupation of Mr. John Beck, in Portsmouth, where it is now stored, THIS DAY at Ten of the Clock in the Forenoon.
Portsmouth, 16th Day of November 1771. Per Curiam, JOHN SHERBURNE, Rr.
TO BE SOLD BY PUBLIC VENDUE, BY the Executors of the last Will and Testament of Mrs. Mary Prescott, late of Danvers, deceased, at the House of Captain Zechariah Foss, Innholder in Portsmouth, on Thursday the 19th of December next, part of her Estate, it being one Tract of Land in the Town of Portsmouth, butted and bounded on the North by a Creek, with a privilege or right in the same, above Liberty Bridge, so called, on the South by a street, on the East by Land belonging to the Heirs of Simon Frost Esq; deceased, and the Heirs of Captain Goodwin, & on the West by Mr. Lowd's Land. Said Tract bounded as aforesaid, to be divided and sold in six Lots: Also, one Lot of Land at Newcastle, & a small dwelling House thereon, with a Pew in the Meeting House, in said Town: a plan of said Land to be seen at the Time and place of sale. The Conditions of sale are, that the purchasers pay down, one half of the Money at the Time and place of sale, and the other half in 3 Months after the sale, and then the purchasers shall have a valid Conveyance of the Premises; and in case the second payment is not made at the Time limited aforesaid, then the first payment which is to be made at the time of sale, to be forfeited, and the said Land &c. to be put up again, at public Vendue by the Executors aforesaid. But after the sale if the purchasers of the premises, should incline to make prompt payment, the Interest of the second payment for the three Months shall be deducted and a Deed given immediately for the premises aforesaid. Nov. 18, 1771.
TO BE SOLD, A LIKELY young NEGRO Woman, used to Child-rear, and very handy in a Family. Also, A good Milch COW. Enquire of the Printers.
William Elliot,
TAKES THIS METHOD TO INFORM THE PUBLIC, That he has opened a Store in Exeter, formerly improv'd by Mr. Thomas Parsons, where he has to sell, English and West India GOODS, at a reasonable rate for Cash only.
Newmarket Lottery Tickets, to be sold at the Printing Office.

† WEARE †
Whereas the delinquent proprietors of a Tract of Land granted to Ichabod Robie, Esq; and others, now called WEARE, have been Notified according to Law, for payment of their delinquent Charges, and they have not done it; This is to give Notice that so much of each of those original Rights of each proprietor, will be Sold at Public Vendue at the House of Capt. Jonathan Burnam, Innholder in Hampton Falls, on Tuesday the tenth Day of December next, at two of the Clock in the Afternoon, as will pay said Tax, with incidental Charges, unless prevented by Payment before.
   John Brown £. s. d. James Lyndal £. s. d.     Thomas Boyd 1 2 6 Benja. Lyndal Esq 1 15 6   Jacob Brown 0 7 3 Richard Naffon 0 10 1   Nathan Brown 1 0 6 Samuel Prescott 0 6 0   Caleb Bennet 1 3 0 Joseph Prescott 0 6 0   Theo. Batchelder 1 6 10 Abner Philbrick 0 19 6   Jeremiah Bennet 1 15 0 Samuel Prescott jr 0 7 6   Timothy Blake jr 1 9 6 Elisha Prescott 0 14 6   Enoch Barker 0 9 4 Eben. Prescott 1 9 6   Joshua Batchelder 0 6 0 William Prescott 1 12 6   John Clifford 0 14 6 Judath Quinby 0 14 6   Rev. J. Chipman 1 3 6 Ichabod Robie Esq 0 11 6   Timothy Fuller 0 13 6 Daniel Robie 0 6 6   Thomas Cram 0 8 6 Pain Rowe 0 11 0   Rev. Eben. Flag 0 14 6 Samuel Robie 0 10 9   Jens. Green jr. 0 14 6 John Robie 0 6 0   John Gove jr. 1 2 7 Jacob Stanyan 1 8 6   John Green 0 12 4 Eben. Sanborn 1 3 6   Edward Gove 0 19 0 Abner Sanborn jr 1 12 7   Bradbury Green 0 9 0 Jona. Stewart 0 11 0   Benja. Hilyard 1 3 0 Reuben Sanborn 0 16 0   Jonathan Hilyard 0 6 0 Benja. Sweat 0 8 0   Joseph Hull 1 1 3 David Tilton 0 9 6   George Hull 0 7 6 Nathan Tilton 0 4 6   Hezekiah Jenness 1 2 0 Henry Thresher 0 6 0   John Lovring 0 12 0 Mess. Weare Esq 12 0 0   Samuel Lane 1 1 6  
Benjamin Leavitt, Collector.
Hampton Falls, Nov. 8, 1771:
[ BATH. ]
WHEREAS the Proprietors of BATH, in the Province of New Hampshire, have been legally Notified to pay sundry Assessments levied on each proprietors Right or share to me the Subscriber, and a number of the proprietors or owners of said Rights, have neglected either in the whole or in Part; These are therefore to Notify said delinquent Proprietors or owners of Rights, that they will be Sold by Public Vendue on Monday the 30th of December next at ten o'clock in the Forenoon at the House of Timothy Beadle, Esq; in Bath, in the Province aforesaid, as shall be sufficient to pay the Sums that remain due, with incidental Charges, unless Payment be made before the time mentioned. The Number of the delinquent Proprietors are as follows, with the Sums due on each Right.
   John Hazen junr. £. s. Nathaniel Croswell £. s.     John Teplin, Esq; 1 10 John Peters 1 10   Jacob Hall 1 10 Shubael Cross 1 10   Perkins Ayers 1 10 Charles Hinkley 1 10   Benjamin Miller 1 10 Samuel Phelps 1 10   Jotham Riedge 1 10 David Barber 1 10   John Sherburne 1 10 Samuel Rogers 1 10   Ichabod Palmer 1 10 John Pierce 1 10   Ebenezer Lamris 1 10  
Bath, November 8. TIMOTHY BEADLE, Collector.
Wanted a Lad of about 14 years of Age, that Writes a good Hand, and is capable of tending a Store, to go to Haverhill, with a Merchant. Enquire of the Printers.
Cotton Wool, Sugar, and Salt,
Just Imported, and to be SOLD by
John Evans,
at his Store on Capt. JANVRIN's Wharf.
THREE Months Longer from the Date hereof being allowed the Creditors to the Estate of Elias Merrill, late of Stratham deceased, to bring in their Claims; We hereby give Notice that we will attend to receive them at the House of Jonathan Robinson Innholder in Stratham on the second Mondays of the three next following Months from one to four o'clock in the Afternoon.
Stratham Octo. 30 SAMUEL LANE } Commissioners. MARK WIGGIN }
BLANKS of most Sorts, for the respective Counties sold at the Printing Office.
TO BE SOLD By Joseph Sherburne
At his Store next but one above F. Stoodley's, Esq. ENGLISH LOAF-SUGAR by Cask or hundred. Molasses by the Hoghead. Wool Cards per Dozen. German and English Steel. 4d, 6d, 8d, 10d, and 20d Nails. 7 by 9, and 8 by 10 Glass.
Robert Hughes, Perriwig-Maker & Hair Dresser,
HEREBY informs the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Town, that he has remov'd from Boston, and open'd a Hair Dressing Shop opposite Dr. Langdon's Meeting-House, on the Parade in Portsmouth, where WIGS of all sorts will be made in the newest Fashion, and Hair dressed in any Form, as reasonable as is done in Boston, and all favours gratefully acknowledged.
Portsmouth, Nov. 14, 1771.
[ Middletown. ]
WHEREAS at a legal Meeting of the proprietors of Middletown, in the province of New Hampshire, several Taxes have been voted to be raised on each original Right or share of Land in said Town, to pay for clearing Roads, and Building a Meeting-House, and a Grist Mill, which has been advertised in the New Hampshire Gazette, according to the Laws of said province, yet notwithstanding sundry persons have neglected to pay the same. This is therefore to notify those that are delinquent, that unless they pay the following sums in Lawful Money, annexed to each Owners Name, at or before the 26th Day of this Month, so much of their original Right, or share of Lands will be sold at a public Vendue, at the House of Mr. Ephraim Hanson, in Dover, Innholder, as will discharge said Sums or Tax with incidental Charges to me.
Charles Baker, Collector.
   £. s. d. Benjamin Evans £. s. d.     Nathaniel Young 0 10 0 Ephra. Wentworth 4 10 0   Samuel Hard 1 8 0 Love Roberts 0 14 0   Jonathan Gage 1 8 0 Mark Wallingford 0 14 0   George Hanson 0 4 0 Ebenezer Horn 1 8 0   John Varney 1 8 0 Thomas Varney 1 0 0   Samuel Varney 1 8 0 Thomas Bickford 1 8 0   Theo. Wentworth 4 0 0 Nathaniel Astin 0 14 0   Peter Cook 0 19 0   Capt. Benja. Mason 0 14 0  
Somersworth, Nov. 6, 1771.
Province of New Hampshire.
Whereas the proprietors of Leavitts Town, at a Meeting, held in October last at the House of John Leavitt, Esq; in North Hampton, voted and laid a Tax of three Dollars, on all the Rights of Land in said Town, and chose me the Subscriber Collector or the same. This is therefore to give Notice to all said proprietors, that unless payment thereof be made to me, by the third of December next, so much of each original Right or share of Land in said Leavitts Town, will be Advertised for sale in this Paper, agreeable to Law, as shall be sufficient to pay said Tax, with all Charges. John Dearborn, Collector.
North Hampton, Nov. 12, 1771.
Just come to hand, and to be SOLD at the Printing-Office, a few of the Curious B I C K E R S T A F F's  Boston ALMANACK , For the Year of our LORD, M,DCC,LXXII. Being Leap Year, and the twelfth of the reign of his Majesty King GEORGE III. Calculated for the Meridian of Boston; but will serve, without any sensible errors, for any part of New England. Illustrated with an elegant head of the Earl of CHATHAM, and the figure of an extraordinary MAN FISH, caught in England, in the Reign of King JOHN.
[Monadnock, No. 5.]
NOTICE is hereby given, That the VENDUE of Land in Monadnock, No. Five, stands adjourned, to the 29th Day of November next, then the sale will begin at the House of Lieut. Benja Tucker, Innholder in said Number Five, at Nine o'Clock before noon. Stephen Church, Collector.
Monadnock No. 5, Octo. 17. 1771.
Stray'd or stolen from me the Subscriber, last Tuesday Night, out of my Field in Epping, near Watchek Bridge, a Black MARE, paces chiefly, eight or nine Years old, about thirteen Hands and a half high. Whoever takes said MARE, and will bring her, or send me Word so that I may have said Mare again, shall be well Rewarded, and Charges paid. Epping, Octo. 31. John Gilman.
Edward Rand, Pewterer in Newbury-Port,
TAKES this Method to inform the Publick, that he makes and has to sell, by wholesale and retail the very best of Pewter Porringers, Basens, Pots, Cans and Salt-Cellers, cheap for Cash or old Pewter, at his Shop in Newbury Port, almost opposite Mr. Carters Shop, and has to sell cheap for Cash, the best of London Pewter Dishes, Plates, Basens, Spoons, hard Mettle Plates, Brass Kettles, Skillets, Warming Pans, Frying Pans, Shot, Knives and Forks, Iron Candlesticks, Flat Irons, Locks, Knitting Needles, Shears, Awl Blades, Shoe Hammers and Knives, flat, half-round, and three square Files, half round Rasp, Compasses, plane Irons, Gimblets, Chizzels, Chaulk Lines, Hammers, 4d, 6d, 10d and 20d Nails, Brads and Tacks. CASH FOR OLD PEWTER.
ANY PERSONS having Demands on the Estate of NATHANIEL MENDUM, late of Portsmouth, Esq; deceased, are desired to bring them in, that they may be immediately paid. And those who are Indebted to said Estate, are ONCE MORE requested to make payment, as the Executors are determined to make an immediate settlement of said Estate.
William Shackford William Knight George Wentworth } Executors.
Province of New Hampshire, Rockingham ss. Court of Vice Admiralty.
PURSUANT to an Order of Court, Notice is hereby given, that the Wreck or Hull of the Ship Newcastle, George Fishley, late Master, lately cast away at the Entrance of Owls Head Harbor, so called, will be exposed to sale at public Vendue, to the highest Bidder at the House of James Stoodley, Esq; Innholder in Portsmouth, on Tuesday the 3d Day of December next, at Eleven o'Clock in the Forenoon.
per Curiam,
JOHN SHERBURNE, Register.
Portsmouth, Nov. 8, 1771.
NOTICE is hereby given to all the Proprietors of Alstead, in the County of Cheshire, and Province of New Hampshire, that at a legal Meeting held at said Alstead on June the 4th. 1766, said Proprietors voted to raise a TAX of two Dollars on each Proprietors Right to be applied in laying out and mending High Ways. And at their Meeting held as aforesaid, on the 23d of May 1768, voted to raise two Dollars on each Right to be laid to defray the Charges of said Town that Year in making and mending High Ways. And at said Proprietors Meeting held as aforesaid, on the 30th Day of May 1769, voted to raise two Dollars on each Proprietors Right to be laid out in making High Ways. And at said Proprietors Meeting held as aforesaid on the first Day of July 1771, voted to raise twelve shillings more Lawful Money on each Proprietors Right, to be laid out in making and mending High Ways—all of which Taxes are committed to me to Collect: Those who neglect paying the aforesaid Sums to me the Subscriber at my House in Alstead aforesaid, by the first Day of January 1772, will have their Rights Advertised for Sale in the New Hampshire Gazette, as the Law directs.
Alstead, November 5, 1771. SIMON BAXTER, Collector.
§ Lancaster. §
WHEREAS Application hath been made to me the Subscriber, one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Rockingham, by the Owners of more than one sixteenth part of the Township of Lancaster, in said County, and Province of New Hampshire, to warn and call a Meeting of the Proprietors of said Township, to be held at the House of Edward Buckman of said Lancaster, on the last Tuesday of November Instant, to act on the following Articles, viz. 1. To chuse a Moderator to preside at said Meeting. 2. To chuse a Clerk, Treasurer, Assessors, and Collector, for the said Purposes; and to reconsider all the Votes passed in the several Meetings which were held at the House of David Page, Esq; in said Lancaster, in Consequence of a Warrant given under the Hand of Meseach Weare, Esq; one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace, for the County aforesaid, bearing Date the 12th of December 1770, as will appear at large in the New Hampshire Gazette of the 14 of December 1770, and to consider of and pass such other Votes as shall then be found necessary by the Proprietors, to bring forward the Settlement of said Township as they apprehend the Votes past since the 12th of December 1770, is not only unlawful, but detrimental to the Interest and to the Settlement of said Town.
In consequence of the foregoing Application I hereby notify and warn said Proprietors to meet at the aforesaid Time and Place accordingly.
HUNKING WENTWORTH, Just. paces.