The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1771-08-23 00:00:00

NEW-HAMPSHIRE A N D H I S T O R I C A L
CONTAINING the Freshest ADVICES
Friday Aug. 23, 1771.
Vol. XV. GAZETTE, CHRONICLE, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
NO. 775 { Weeks since this Paper was first Publish'd }
L O N D O N, May 16. Lord Chatham's SPEECH in Support of the Duke of Richmond's Motion.
My Lords, THE present question has been so frequently agitated, and is so perfectly understood, that it may seem superfluous to enter into the discussion of it on this occasion. The public has certainly formed its opinion, and condemned the decision of the two Houses. That circumstance alone is to me a sufficient motive for refreshing your memories and for making one attempt more to procure justice to the injured electors of Great-Britain.
It will be said, that this step will create divisions between the two Houses, at a time which calls for the most perfect unanimity. Unanimity in the two Houses is certainly very commendable, when both adhere to the principles of the constitution; but in the case of the Middlesex Election, the commons have daringly violated the laws of the land; and it becomes us not to remain tame spectators of such a deed, if we would not be deemed accessory to their guilt, if we would not be branded with treason to our country, which now loudly calls for our assistance. Remove but this resolution, which my noble friend has demonstrated to be unconstitutional and absurd; and we have an undoubted right to take this step. We have precedent on our side. Our forefathers exercised this right in the case of Ashby and White, and received the applauses of the whole nation. It is ridiculous to pretend that, by this act, we will commit a breach of privilege. The Commons can have no privilege, by which they are authorised to break the laws.
Whenever they forget themselves & commit such outrage, we must step forward, and check their usurpation. Their jurisdiction can in no instance be so competent, final, and conclusive, as to prevent us from exerting ourselves in support of the constitution. We are the natural, the constitutional balance to their encroachments. If this be not the case, why in the name of wonder, were the three estates constituted? Why is our concurrence necessary to establish the validity of statutes? This point is so evident, that it may be left to the decision of the rawest school-boy. If then we must concern ourselves in the making of every law, how much more are we bound to interest ourselves in preserving the very essence of the constitution, in preserving that right which is antecedent to all laws, the right of election? But Lord Middlesex and Lord Bacon were expelled and incapacitated by this House without any opposition from the other branches of the legislature. They were so: but both were cases that only respected themselves, and consequently could not, with any propriety, come under the consideration of any other branch. In the case of Wilkes, I do not complain so much of the personal injury, as the violation of the rights of the people, who are grossly abused and betrayed by their representatives. The cases then being as widely different as North and South, the argument founded on them becomes utterly inconclusive. But let us allow you a succedaneum to your argument; let us suppose that the authority, which gives a seat to a Peer, is as respectable as that which confers it on a commoner, and that both authorities are equally affronted by expulsion and incapa-
citation. Yet still the comparison will not hold; since these Lords received no fresh title by birth or patent, and therefore could not claim a seat after the first expulsion.--- Wilkes may perhaps, complain that he was unjustly expelled, but the chief subject of the nation's complaint is, that he was rejected after his re-election. Had not this event taken place, prescription might have rendered the first expulsion valid. If you ask, who should be more tenacious than the commons themselves of their privileges? I answer, that none should be so ready to protect them; and it is sincerely to be lamented, that, by their recent conduct, they have so far forgot their duty, as to add to the long list of venality, from Esau down to the present day: though if we consider matters in their true light, it is the privileges of their constituents that they have betrayed. Having now set up a separate and independent authority, they would acquire, and you would grant them, a new privilege that of selling their constituents. If you desire to know how this doctrine came to be broached, I must beg leave to acquaint you, that it is as old, nay older than the constitution; the liberty of the people being the first thing for which provision is made in the original institution of government. Though in the case of Wilkes, we have not many instances to prove the contested right, yet it is by no means the less constitutional; nay it is the more so, that there are no parallel cases in our history; as the circumstance proves that it was never before questioned. The infrequency of the phenomenon may, indeed, like a comet in the firmament, dazzle the vulgar and untutored; but the statesman, versed in political science, it affects no more than the common appearance, its course being equally simple and intelligible. Some have attempted to be very exact in calculating the proportion which the petitioners bear those who have remained quiet; but they have been unfortunate in one circumstance, of which the omission overturns their whole system. They have compared the number of counties, not the number of their inhabitants. They forgot that they are not all equally populous, that the fifteen petitioning counties contain more people than all the rest of the kingdom, as they pay infinitely more land tax. And were they not the more numerous of the two parties, yet the superiority of their wealth entitles them to more consideration than the other counties for the share of the national burdens, which any part of the kingdom bears is the only rule by which we can judge of the weight that it ought to have in the political balance. This reasoning is founded on the supposition that they entertain sentiments different from one another. But who does not see that they only wanted leaders to rouse them to action: were the case otherwise, leaders were not wanting to excite them to present addresses; and they would certainly have presented them, had they disapproved of the petitions. After considering the vast influence of the crown, we may be justly surprised that fifteen counties had the virtue to assert their rights, and the remainder independance enough not to counteract them. But, were the majority clearly on your side you ought to remember that numbers do not constitute right, and that, if no more than one had petitioned, that one ought to be heard, and to have his
cause tried, and adjudged by the laws of the land.
This much I thought necessary to say on this head, in order to shew you the necessity of rescinding the resolution on which the present motion is founded. Till it is complied with, we can take no step towards the removal of the present discontents; and I should imagine that the single consideration would be sufficient to induce all honest men to vote for the noble Lord's proposition.
N O R T H - H A V E N, July 29.
Yesterday about half an hour after one o'clock there arose out of the southwest a very thick and heavy cloud, from which terrible flashes of lightning with heavy thunder issued with unusual frequency; especially about 40 minutes after one there were three terrible streams of lightning, with heavy thunder, almost one upon the back of the other; the last, which was by far the most awful, was a stream from the northwest to the southeast, which passed the vane of the meeting-house, (perhaps at about 20 or 30 feet distance, yet so near as to drive it round the spindle several times with great velocity) and pitched into a tree a few feet from the ground, at about 24 rods distance. Just by this tree stood a sabbath day-house the nearest corner of which was not more than five feet from the tree.---This house belonged to Capt. Joseph Pierpont, who with a number of their brethren and their children were present. Five persons who all sat upon one bench in the house, viz. Mrs. Lydia, the wife of Capt. Pierpont, Mr. Abel Procket, and his wife, Mr. Giles Pierpont, and his wife, were all struck with the lightning. Mr. Procket had several small holes burnt in his shirt, about his loins, and was considerably burnt himself, tho' less hurt than any of the others. Mr. Pierpont was struck on one side, the lightning ran down upon the under side of this thigh, and leg, sing'd off the hair, and burnt the flesh so that it appeared as red as tho' it had been scalped. The women were all much more hurt than the men. They were all raised up from their seats by the force of the lightning, and then fell altogether upon the seat except Mr. Pierpont, who was fixed to his seat, and could not move without help. They were in great distress for breath, and their blood seemed to be stagnated to a very great degree; and it appeared by bleeding, that there was a very considerable separation between the serous and globular parts of the blood. They shewed signs of great distress at first, complained as soon as capable of manifesting their distress, that they felt as if they were in the fire. The most of them are now comfortable, & it is hoped that they will all soon recover. Mr. Giles Pierpont had two children with him, either in the arms of their parents, or in the arms of some of their friends on the same seat who received no sensible harm. The house was full of people, but none but those mentioned, who all sat on one seat, received any hurt.
Round the tree struck with lightning there were three horses and colt, which were all killed instantly upon the spot. There were no signs that the lightning ever so much as touched any part of the sabbath day house, although the people in it were so much hurt.
The women were so burned that blisters arose upon their flesh, which were of a bright vivid colour, like the flesh of Mr. Pierpont, as above related.
On Friday last the Steeple of the South Meeting-House in Hartford, Connecticut, was struck with the lightning, and greatly damaged.
We have disagreeable Accounts from the Country of great Damage done to the Grain, &c. by the late Rains.
L O N D O N, May 25.
The following is the real cause of the Earl of Sandwich's present survey of the dock-yards: At the beginning of the last session of parliament, Sir Edward Hawke declared, not only in the House of Commons but in the Privy-Council, that a certain number of ships were fit for immediate service; in a few days afterwards he was obliged to retract the assertion he had made, not one third of the number being fit for sea. Sir Edward was therefore summoned to a Cabinet-Council, to answer for his bad conduct and neglect of duty. His defence was, that he spoke from the reports made to him by the Surveyor of the Navy, Sir Thomas Slade. It was then resolved in Council, that Sir Thomas should answer for his conduct before the House of Commons. This resolution being taken only two or three days previous to the adjournment of the House for the Christmas holidays, it was referred to the next meeting before which time Sir Thomas Slade died. On this occasion a certain Nobleman was heard to say, he died just in time to save his neck. It was then agreed in Council, that Sir Edward Hawke should be dismissed; and that for the future the Navy and dock-yards, throughout the kingdom, should be surveyed by the Lords of the Admiralty every two years.
Last Wednesday Lady L--- was served with a process from the Ecclesiastical Court it having been determined to proceed against her for Adultery.
The same day Mr. R---y, wife of A---l R---y, was served with a process out of the same Court, in which proceedings against her for adultery will likewise be carried on.
May 22. One of the Gentlemen, with whom a certain Admirals Lady was too intimate, we hear, is Captain A---y. A favourite footman is also talked of: the Lady, it seems, has put him out of livery, and been at the expence of his being taught to dress hair, on purpose to attend her on her voyage.
May 24. A few days ago died, at his seat in Staffordshire, Richard Clive, Esq; Member for the Borough of Montgomery, and father of Lord Clive.

From a Boston Paper of Aug. 8.
To the PUBLIC.
THE number of sudden deaths from excessive heat, even here upon this cool peninsula, gives me very uneasy apprehensions for the good people in the inland and unventilated parts of the country: To prevent or remedy as much as may be, the ill-effects of a bad regimen in this dangerous period is the design of this essay.
By intense heat and hard exercise the blood and juices are rarified, and the thinner parts discharged in great plenty. The fat also liquified and mixed with the circulating fluid tends much to thicken it, and render its motion through the finer strainers more difficult. Of all parts of the body the liver in this case is most subject to disorder. Being in the direct course of all the blood, fat &c. collected in the abdomen, and placed between the thin coverings of the right hypochondrium and the stomach, it is extremely liable to have its contents chilled & thickened by cold drink taken down in large quantity, by too sudden an exposure to cold air, or what is very imprudent, plunging into cold water, stretching at length on the cold moist ground, grass, &c.
The concerted fat has after such mismanagements been discharged by the bowels, both of man and beast, and the bodies of either reduced to skeletons from the want of nourishment such a total deprivation of the digestive juices causes. From the circumstance it clearly appears, that as soon as the patient begins to complain of stoppage of perspiration, heavy and sometimes sharp convulsive pains at the heart pit, as if a cannon ball was immovably fixed in it, a swimming in the head, ringing in the ears, dimness of sight, &c. Some tea of any kind most agreeable to the taste, should be prepared, and exhibited gradually as hot as the patient can bare it, and if sugar or honey be not disagreeable, the more of them is added the better.
The patient should be held in a moderately warm place, and a universal sweat encouraged by every gentle method. A tea of lean beef well charged with crude salt ammoniac or even common salt, where the other cannot be had, and drank very warm, is very serviceable. Purges of calomel and rhubarb, each ten grains, made up with confection of roses, or even with molasses, are necessary perhaps weekly. Ripe mild fruits are not only good to prevent the ardent thirst which tempts to the excessive use of cold water, but wonderfully serve to remedy the ill consequences above described. A very mild and yet effectual remedy will be found in an infusion of a quarter of an ounce of rhubarb, and half as much of pearl-ash, or salt or wormwood, made in a quart of spring or brook water, in a glass bottle corked; and taken to the quantity of a small tea-cup full, once or twice a day. T. YOUNG.
P. S. To prevent injury from sudden draughts of cold liquors, take a moderate mouthful, and after holding it some time, swallow it leisurely; and thus proceed twice or thrice till gradually cooled. Moderate use of spirits should not be forbidden, but to drink rum when perspiration is stopped by any accident is to set the body on fire.
From a late British Magazine.
Of the epidemical Madness of the Times.
IT is very manifest, we are all of us under the influence and government of a woman. Do not imagine Sir, I squat at Carlton-house. I think no such thing; I mean under the influence and management of Madam Luna. It is a mad world we live in, and we are all mad in it; and tho' my residence is not at present in the mansion-house of Moorfields, yet I candidly confess to you, Sir, I am a downright lunatic; but mad as I am, I will undertake to prove, that every mortal else, from the K--- to the cobler, is so too. You will perceive I am no party man; neither for nor against the ministry, as I think both sides are mad. The ins are mad at the opposition, and the outs are mad to get into their places. Is not the K--- mad to quarrel with his people? Lords and commons are mad after places and pensions, and bishops are mad after translations. The plump dean is mad after pluralities, and the lean curate is mad for meat to fill his belly. The formal physician is mad in sending for him. Every lawyer is mad to be Lord Chancellor, and every soldier to be a staff officer. Citizens and tradesmen are mad after the fashions & follies of the court, after keeping coaches, country houses, & neglecting their business; & all the common people are mad to live as high and luxurious as their superiors. Nor are women less lunatics than men.---Maidens are mad after husbands, wives are mad to get rid of those they already have, and widows are stark staring mad for a second. And now, Sir, let us wind up our bottom, by concluding with ourselves. We writers are undoubtedly mad in producing such miserable stuff, as few will read and none regard; and you printers are certainly mad in publishing it. MOON SICK.
CONSTANTINOPLE, April 17.
THE Ministers of Vienna and Berlin have continual conferences with those of the Porte. As the above Courts employ their mediation to re-establish peace between the Porte and Russia, we no longer doubt but that this empire will soon be delivered from the misery into which the present war hath plunged it. It is certain that in consequence of the declaration of the Empress of Russia, that she would hearken to no proposals of peace til M. Obreskow, her Resident, should be set at liberty, the Grand Signior hath already acquiesced to that condition, and hath sent orders to the camp of the Grand Vizir, where that Minister is detained Prisoner, to release him and his retinue. His children, who have been in this capital some time past, have obtained permission to join their father, and return to Russia.
PARIS, May 31. On the 27th instant forty-two counsellors of the Chatelet received letters de cachet, which banish them to different places. All these gentlemen have orders to depart within 24 hours.
L O N D O N.
May 9. The persons who huzza'd yesterday by the side of the state-coach, were supposed to have been hired; they were about 50 in number, shabbily dressed, with their hats marked with different coloured threads; after the business was over, they repaired to a public house, in the neighborhood of Charing-cross, and received a handsome gratuity, for the transactions and vociferations of the day.
It is a certain fact, that early yesterday morning several ministerial officers went to Spitalfields, and hired above 600 weavers, and others, at half a crown each to huzza a great personage yesterday at St. James's park.
A few days since, a noble Lord was married to a Lady, whose ages together do not make thirty-one.
May 11. A correspondent observes, that when he saw the sincere unbought Acclamations of the people on Wednesday from the Tower of the Mansion-House, and compared them with those of the purchased Shouts at the other end of the Town, he was shocked to reflect, that the ministry were reduced to the shameful Expedition of hiring a despicable Set of Wretches to huzza a Great Personage, whom, but for the iniquitous Proceedings, every true Englishman would blush as he passed along.
The city of Dublin, we hear, are preparing a most magnificent present for the Lord Mayor and Mr. Oliver, and is further determined to preserve the memory of their exemplary conduct, in erecting an obelisk in one of their best streets, with an inscription that shall animate future generations to display the same spirit in the glorious cause of liberty.
The Tarre de la Cote, a Spanish Register ship, from the Manillas, is lost on the coast of Chili, in America, and all her crew and cargo, valued at 1,259,000 dollars are lost.
May 18. That active genius, the King of Prussia, by a mixture of policy and force, is taking steps to form the united Provinces into a limited Monarchy, for the family of Orange. The intrigues, on this important subject, have long since begun; and it is supposed, that the conspiracy for the dissolution of the Republic is already far advanced.
It is said the offending Printers lately presented an Address of Thanks to the Lord Mayor, for his generous behaviour towards them; and that he made the following answer: "That it was not them; but the laws of the land, and rights of the city, that were the objects that promoted him to do his duty in the case with which they were connected; therefore, what they termed generous, he desired might be considered as an indispensable act incumbent upon him, which as an Englishman, and an honest man, he could not avoid executing."
May 21. On Tuesday came on at Westminster-Hall, a cause wherein an Auctioneer was plaintiff, and a Gentleman defendant: The action was brought to recover 57l. for goods bought at the plaintiff's auction by the defendants wife. The bill amounted to 151l. for watches, candlesticks and several other things, for which the defendants wife had paid 64l. in part. After a short hearing, the Judge gave his charge to the jury, in which he observed, no man was liable to pay for any things contracted for without his knowledge by his wife, unless they were necessaries. The jury gave a verdict for the defendant.
May 23. The treasonable letter said to be sent to the Lord Mayor, is supposed to have come from a ministerial hand, to try if his Lordship could be drawn into a premiare by not disclosing it.
The Levant and Mediterranean at this time swarm with pirates, who, taking advantage of the confusion in those quarters, commit the greatest depredations.
It is said that advice is received of the Spanish squadron in the Archipelago having acted offensively against the Russian fleet, and that notice thereof has been dispatched to the Court of Peterburgh.
Four Men of War from 60 to 70 guns each, sailed from Ferring up the Mediterranean the 12. instant, as supposed destin'd to join the Spanish squadron.
The Dutch have now building at Flushing, Amsterdam, and other ports, above 20 ships of the line, some of which are nearly finished.
May 25. Yesterday morning a great house in the city stopped payment.
May 4. The Death of Gen. Wolfe a picture at the exhibition of the Royal Academy, by Mr. West, is said to be purchased by Lord Grosvenor for 600 guineas, a circumstance highly honorable to the British artists.
[ Mr. West is a native of Philadelphia. ]
On Monday night, between eleven and twelve o'clock, a fire broke out at the house of Capt. Reverley, commander of the ship Colebrook, in the West-India trade, in Princess-street, Rotherhithe, which entirely consumed that house, and damaged the house of Capt. Curling, on one side, and the House of Capt. Daverson on the other.
May 25. Yesterday William Baker, Esq; one of the Sheriffs of this City, &c. was married at Spring-Garden Chapel, to Miss Juliana Penn, daughter of ----- Penn, Esq; one of the Proprietors of Pennsylvania, who was a few days ago put in nomination by the Lord Mayor to serve the office of Sheriff. It is said that the lady's fortune is 200,000 l.
The marriage between the Count de Provence, with the Princess Maria-Josepha-Louisa, of Savoy, grand-daughter of the King of Sardinia, was celebrated at Versailles last Tuesday se'nnight.
We hear a great Personage has earnestly signified a desire, that an immediate enquiry be made into the cause of the present most exorbitant price of provisions, and to severely punish those who shall be found to occasion this artificial Famine.
Jun 4. The following appeared as an advertisement in one of the morning papers of this day, dated Blackheath, May 30. "Whereas Parson Horne and Squire Wilkes have for some time given evident marks of insanity by their words, writings and actions, and have thereby greatly disturbed society: It may perhaps deserve a thought, whether the King as father of his people, and supreme Magistrate of the Kingdom, is not constitutionally authorized to send them both to Bedlam, if their friends should neglect to do it, that proper care be taken of those unhappy men; and that they may be prevented from doing any more mischief."
PHILADELPHIA, August 8.
The report of a party of men being cut off, who were despatched from Northampton county with provisions for our people in the Block-house at Wyoming, who are besieged by the Connecticut party, appears by the following extract of a letter which came by express, from the person who commanded the convoy, to be entirely without foundation.
"Last Tuesday about break of day, I arrived at this place, with 31 men and the provisions, and was attacked by the Connecticut party, who had information of our coming, by a letter falling into their hands, with which an Indian was sent by Capt. Ogden. We were surrounded by their fire, and lost two horse loads of our Flour, and got in with the remainder, and 22 men, two of whom are wounded; nine of our men are missing, whether they retreated, or are killed, I cannot yet get information: They have kept an almost continual firing on the Block house ever since, from four entrenchments; but we are determined to hold out to the last extremity. JOHN DICK."
We hear, with certainty, that the 9 men who were missing, retreated, and are returned home.
N E W-Y O R K, August 12.
Tuesday a Woman in this city, having drank a draught of cold water, was suddenly seized with a fit, and expired in a few minutes after.
The Thursday following, one Smith, a Cryer at a Vendue-house here, soon after drinking of cold water, was taken ill & died.
We hear from Albany, that Sir William Johnson is now holding a Congress at his seat at Johnson-Hall, with the Chiefs of the Six Nations, in consequence of some important intelligence received from the Southward.
P R O V I D E N C E, August 10
Saturday night last the Sloop Diligent, Captain Thomas Munro, arrived here from Hispaniola.---On his outward bound Passage, the 2d of June last about Two o'clock in the Morning being in the Latitude of Turk's Island, in a violent Thunder Storm, a large Flash of Lightning struck the Sloop's Topmast, and split it to pieces, shivered the Mainmast, started the Wale with most of the Water Casks in the Hold, and went out by the Chains; the Squaresail and Topsail were much torn, and all the Hands knocked down, two of whom were killed instantly, and another died at Turk's Island, four Days afterward; three Horses were likewise killed, and a Number of others wounded.---The Names of the Persons killed are, George Ruddock, a Lad belonging to Old York, late an Apprentice to Mr. John Smith, of this Town, Merchant; Thomas Walmsley, an Indian Seaman, belonging here; and John Boofe, likewise an Indian, belonging to Newport.
Saturday last a Flash of Lightning set Fire to a Brush Fence, on the Estate of the late Mr. John Merrett, in Providence Neck, and burnt about 70 or 80 Yards of the same.
At Palmer's River, about the same Time, two Cattle were killed within a few Rods of the House of Deacon William Blanding.
N E W P O R T, July 29. 1771.
Last Saturday se'nnight, Capt. St. Croix arrived here from New-York, with whom came Passenger a Person who called himself John W. Arnold, and was conducted by Capt. St. Croix to a House of as good Reputation as any in Town where he took Lodgings; at which a Gentleman boarded, who had a Bag of Gold in his Desk; was opened by said Arnold last Monday, from whence he took the Bag of Gold, and carried it to one Husted, who came Passenger with him telling him he won it at gaming the Night before, and desired he would keep it for him, as he was bound to Boston, and was afraid to carry it lest he should lose it again;---Next Day the Gentleman missed his Money, and, from several Circumstances, Arnold was suspected and apprehended, when he confessed the Crime, and Enquiry being made of Husted, who was at work with a Shoemaker, he produced the Bag of Money, and appeared to be innocent of the Method by which Arnold came by it. The Gentleman who owned the Money not having kept an exact account of it as he put it into the Bag could not certainly tell whether he received the whole or not, but imagines there was the value of 100 Dollars missing; the Sum remaining amounted to about 520 Dollars.---The Gentleman, being over persuaded, declined any further Prosecution, and 'tis supposed the Robber made the best of his Way to Providence and Boston; where perhaps he may attempt the like Villainy again.
B O S T O N, August 15. 1771.
Monday being the Anniversary of the Birth Day of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, at One o'clock the Guns at Castle William were fired on the Occasion.
The same Afternoon arrived in King-Road, the Honorable John Montagu, Esq; Rear-Admiral of His Majesty's Blue Squadron, in his Majesty's Ship the Captain; the Lively, Tamar, and Swan, which sailed from England with the Admiral, are also arrived.
The Halifax armed Schooner, with Dispatches, also the Canso with the Admiral's Baggage, both sailed before the Men of war, but are not yet arrived here.
There are now in this Harbour the following Ships of War, viz. with the number of their Guns.
Captain, with a blue Flag at Mizzen topmast Head 64, Rear-Admiral Montagu, Capt. Simonds.
Salisbury, with a broad Pendant at Main-topmast-Head 50, Commadore Gambier, Capt. Burkley.

Lively, 24 Capt. Talbot; Rose, 20 Capt. Caldwell, Gibraltar, 20 Capt. Sir Tho. Rich; Tamar, 16 Capt. Hay, Beaver, 14 Capt. Linzey, Swan, 14 Capt. Ascough, Senegal, 14 Capt. Blair, Bonetta, 10 Capt. Squier, Hope Schooner, 8 Capt. Dawson, Gape Schooner, 8 Capt. Dudington.
On the Arrival of the Admiral, the Salutes were respectively paid by the several Ships in the Harbour.
The Day following the Admiral came up to Town in the Barge, with his Lady and Daughter, &c.
We hear that the Hon. Commodore Gambier, in his Majesty's Ship Salisbury, as also the Rose, and the Senegal, are to sail next Week for Halifax, and from thence to England.
The Honorable Admiral Montagu, we hear, is stationed at this Place, and succeeds the Honorable Commodore Gambier in the Command of his Majesty's Navy in North-America. The Deportment of Commodore Gambier in Office since his Arrival among us, has rendered him highly acceptable to all Parties, both as the Gentleman and Officer; his Removal, therefore can be only compensated by the agreeable Expectation we entertain of Admiral Montagu, from his former Visit to this Metropolis as Captain Montagu, in the Year 1748.
BOSTON, August 19.
Admiral MONTAGU, made a Visit to this Place in the Year 1748, being then a Captain of a Ship of War; he bro't with him the Reimbursement made by Parliament of the Expenses this Province was at in reducing Louisbourg in the year 1745. He tarried here a few Days, and being handsomely rewarded by the Province returned to England. That successful Expedition to Louisbourg was the Means of restoring Peace to Europe. From the Treatment which the Colonies have since had from the British Administration, one would think, that their signal Services in that and many other Instances are totally forgot. We have reason however to believe that the Measures of Administration of late, have been no less disagreeable to the People of Britain than to the Colonies; it is therefore to be supposed that a Change of Ministers would produce a total Change of Measures, which we earnestly wish may be brought about with all Speed. Till such an Event takes Place, it is natural to expect that an injured and free People will retain a certain degree of Jealousy of all those who are or shall be employ'd in the service of the Ministry in America; which will necessarily prevent those Expressions of cordial Esteem, which may be due to them as Gentlemen and fellow Subjects, as well as the Servants of our common and well beloved Sovereign on the Throne.
The following droll affair happened some time since. Some young men having tied an old broken chair to the tail of a large dog, turned him out in the street; away he ran with great swiftness, and in his way the chair catched hold of the gown of a very genteel dressed woman, and threw her down with great force; the dog being very strong, and the chair holding in her gown, he drew her a little way along the pavement, and bruised her in several places. But this was not the worst of the scene; the lady having her hair dressed in the modern perpendicular taste, the violence of the fall shook this temporary monument to the very foundation, and great was the fall! The materials with which it was erected were as follows: A piece of black knit breeches, stuffed with black wool, and made proportionable to the manner in which the hair was dressed; and on the outside was hair very ingeniously worked into the breeches; upon this surprising piece of workmanship was frizzed, the Lady's own hair, in order to raise the edifice. She being disentangled, got up, and complained of being hurt a little, but took no notice of her piece of ornament for the head, which some boys had got hold of, kicking about the street as a foot-ball.
SALÉM, August 20, 1771.
His Excellency the Governor has been pleased further to prorogue the Great and General Court or Assembly to the 6th Day of November next, then to meet at Harvard College in Cambridge.
In raising the Frame of a Dwelling House Yesterday Afternoon, some Part of it gave way, while the workmen were getting up the Roof, when all the Frame inside fell, and about 40 Persons, who were mostly upon the third Story came tumbling down, promiscuously, with Timber, Joist, and Boards, quite to the lower Floor, and several of them into the Cellar: But, by a very signal Interposition of Providence, no Lives were lost, nor even any Bones broke; one or two were stunn'd, who soon recovered, and some were bruised.
Important Intelligence from Boston. Quashee is yet alive. We have the Pleasure to assure the Public, that the Account of the Death of the celebrated Mr. QUASHEE in our Paper of the 30th ult. was premature. His Importance for having invariably exhibited his agreeable Face at this Market for upwards of 50 Years was so great as that his Absence at this Season induced a general Persuasion that he was dead; whereas he has only retired to spend the Evening of Life (being in his 85th Year) at his Country Seat in Norton.
Extract of a Letter from the Hague, May 3.
"The Kingdom of France is in an absolute state of confusion, Slavery and poverty. All their prisons are full and their shops empty. Their coffee-houses are full of small politicians, who live upon politics, all day, and go to bed at night after having eat a crust of bread and drank a glass of water. There are continual draughts from these coffee-houses to fill the different prisons. It is no small consolation for an Englishman, that he can cry out when he is hurt; should a Frenchman do it, he would pay dear for his temerity."
NEW-HAVEN, July 26.
About Six Weeks since, the Small Pox broke out at Durham, of which several Persons have died, and it is feared the Distemper will spread through the Town.
PORTSMOUTH.
On Monday last His Excellency Governor WENTWORTH, with a Number of Gentlemen, sat out from hence for Dartmouth COLLEGE, by Way of Wolfesboro'
Last Monday Morning died at Newcastle, Mrs. Sarah Sheafe, Wife of the Hon. Sampson Sheafe, Esq; of that Place, aged 81. Her Remains were decently inter'd last Wednesday.
Mrs. Sarah Sargent, Relict of Doctor Nathaniel Sargent, late of this Town, Esq; deceased, after she had prepared herself to go to Meeting, about Ten o'Clock, last Sunday, was seized suddenly and violently with the Return of a Paralytick Fit, at the House of the Hon. Daniel Peirce, Esq; her Brother, spoke a few Words imperfectly, --- and afterwards lay Speechless and Senseless, till Wednesday Morning about 4 o'Clock, and then ceased breathing, to the Sorrow of all her Acquaintance. Her Remains were decently inter'd Yesterday Afternoon, in the old Burying-Yard: She was in the 75th Year of her Age.
Last Tuesday died here, Mrs. Elizabeth Pendexter, aged 81.
Truth and Error.
How bold and open, is eternal Truth! Blooming and fair, in everlasting Youth. How free and easy her majestic Gait! Like some bright Goddess clad in heavenly State; Divinely calm she spreads her Charms abroad, Free from the Stains of Artifice and Fraud, Nobly she walks amid the Blaze of Day, Nor fears the Critic's Eye, nor keen Survey, But bids the deep-read Sage ply all his Art; Canvass her Nature, and look thro' her Heart. Not thus, low sneaking Error; She evades The piercing Eye, and lurks beneath the Shades; She deals in Sophistry, Deceit and Lies; Loves the dark Corner, and obscure Disguise; She starts from Truth, and shud'ring at her Rays, Seeks the blind Covert of some winding Maze; With bare bold Front she trembles to assail, But basely hides beneath a fine-spun Vail. Piach her, Proteus-like, she wreaths and squirms, Changes her Shape, and wears a thousand Forms, If you detect her, smitten by your Eyes, As by a Basilisk, the droops and dies.
Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, Aug. 1771.
LANDS to be given away. ONE Thousand
Acres of as good Up-Land and proportionable Meadow, as any in this Government, will be given to Ten good Settlers: The Land is situated within Eight Miles of 50 Families; and four Miles from two Mills; they must be applied for soon. Enquire of the Printers.
The Proprietors of RELHAN, who are yet delinquent in paying the Taxes due on their Rights, are desired to settle the same immediately, the Cash being now wanted.
ROBERT FOWLE, Collector.
Any Persons inclining to settle in said Relhan, which is but Six Miles from Dartmouth College, may have good Encouragement by applying at the Printing Office, Portsmouth.
County of Rockingham, ss. { WE the Subscribers being appointed Commissioners, by the Hon. John Wentworth, Esq; Judge of Probate of Wills, &c. for said County, in the Province of New Hampshire, to receive and examine the Claims of the several Creditors to the Estate of Caleb Beck, late of Portsmouth, in the County aforesaid, Ship Wright, deceased, represented Insolvent; and six Months being allowed for that Purpose, We do hereby notify said Creditors, that we will attend on that Business on the last Wednesday of this and the five following Months, at the House of Capt. Jacob Tilton, Innholder in Portsmouth, from Six to Nine o'Clock, P. M. John Wendell, Portsmouth, Aug. 22. 1771. George Wentworth.
The Proprietors of Bow in the Province of New Hampshire, who own 100 Acre Lots and part of 100 Acre Lots in said Bow, claim'd by the Proprietors of Rumford in said Province, are hereby notified, that agreeable to a vote of Bow and Rumford proprietors, a Committee is appointed by the proprietors of Rumford, to purchase said Lots of the Owners, and said Committee will attend that Business at the House of Mrs. Lona Chase, in Stratham, on Tuesday the 3d of September next, & on Wednesday following, at the House of James Dwyer, in Portsmouth. Andrew M c Millen, one of said Committee. Aug. 17.
Mast Contract.
This is to inform such Persons as are desirous of Contracting for White Pine MASTS, Yards and Bowsprits, white Oak Knees, or Standards, White Oak Pipe, Hogthead and Barrel Staves, with Heading, Lathwood, Ash Oar Rafters, &c. to apply to me, or Capt. THOMAS BROWN, at Portsmouth.
EDWARD PARRY,
Agent for the Mast Contract.
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Aug. 19, 1771
Stolen out of a Pasture in York,
Last Monday Night, a large black Mare, with a stripe of white in her Face, and white on some of her Legs, has Wall Eyes. The Person supposed to have stole said Mare, is a small Irish Pedler, and whoever apprehends him, with her, so that she may be got again shall have a Reward of Seven Dollars, and all necessary Charges paid by me, John Carlisle.
York, Aug. 19, 1771.
Whereas at a legal Meeting of the proprietors of the Township of Monadnock, No. Four, in the province of New Hampshire, Nov. 7, 1770, a Tax was laid on each Lot, liable to Taxes in said Monadnock, No. 4, of Eleven Shillings, Lawful Money, as also June the 19th, 1771, a Tax of Twelve Shillings Lawful Money on each Lot. This is to give Notice to all the delinquent Proprietors, that unless payment of said Taxes be made to me at my House in Monadnock, No. Four, in the province aforesaid, at or before the 13th of September next, then the aforesaid Lots of Land, will be advertised for Sale.
Edward Kendall, Collector.
To be Sold at public Vendue,
On Monday the 23d of September next, at three o'Clock in the Afternoon, at the House of Capt. Jacob Tilton, Innholder in Portsmouth, (unless disposed of at private sale)
A large and commodious Lot of Land in said Portsmouth, sit for a Gentleman's Seat, containing half an Acre, fronting on the Parade, near one hundred Feet, and runs about 213 Feet back; with a Dwelling House thereon, lately part of the Estate of Major John Shackford, late of said Portsmouth, Esq; deceased, and now in the occupation of Mr. James Grouard. Said Land is sufficient to erect two large Houses on, and a sufficient Garden for each. Any Gentlemen in Town or Country inclining to purchase the same at private Sale, may know the Terms on which the same is to be sold, by enquiring of Joseph Tilton of Exeter, Josiah Moulton of Hampton, or Richard Cutts Shannon of Portsmouth. Aug. 20, 1771.
Choice BOHEA TEA, together with a fine Assortment of English and Scotch GOODS, at the lowest Rate, TO BE SOLD BY
Thomas Achincloss,
Next Door to Capt Jacob Tilton's, among which are the following, viz.
IRISH Linnens; three quarters, seven-eight and yard wide, of various prices; Chincies and Callicoes; genteel Patterns; plain and flower'd Lawns; 6-quarter wide Cambricks; black Persian; black Taffy; plain and black Sattin; black Barcelona Handkerchiefs; Romalls ditto; a neat Assortment of check Handkerchiefs; Bed Ticks; 7 8 check Linnen and strip'd Holland; black Breeches Patterns; Ravens Duck; Ticklinburgh and Dowlas; handsome strip'd Camblets; plain and flower'd silk Gauze; a neat Assortment of hard Ware; plain and figur'd Ribbons; black and color'd silk Mitts; black and mixed knit worsted Hose; choice Indigo, &c. &c. &c. Kippen's Snuff by the Doz: or single Bottle, warranted.
TO BE SOLD
Three LOTS of LAND in
Barrington, all adjoining, being Number 252, 253, 254, and in the Sixth Range, containing about 230 Acres. Enquire of the Printers.

[ Gilmantown. ]
Province of New-Hampshire.
Pursuant to a Petition to me directed, by the Owners of more than ten Proprietors Shares in the Township of Gilmantown, desiring me to warn a Meeting of the proprietors of said Gilmantown, as soon as may be to act on the following particulars, viz. 1st. To chuse a Moderator. 2d. To see if the proprietors will vote to pay the Province Road Tax, on the Lots laid out to the Masonian proprietors. 3d, To see if the proprietors will sell so much of the common Land in said Town, as will be sufficient to pay the proprietors Debts, and chuse a Committee to sell the same, and to make such Conveyances thereof, as the proprietors shall direct. 4th, To see if the proprietors will chuse a Committee to examine the State of the Lots drawn in the several Divisions in said Town, and the Number still remaining in the Boxes to be drawn and to compleat the Numbers in the Boxes in Case any are missaid, or wanting. 5th, Whereas it has been heretofore customary for each Proprietor to draw his own Lots, but many have neglected to do it, and it is now become necessary by Reason of the late Tax, made on account of the Province Road, that every Proprietor should have his share in each Division ascertained, therefore to see if the proprietors will appoint a Time for those who have not drawn their Share in the several Divisions to appear and draw their full proportion. 6th, To see if the proprietors will chuse some person or persons to draw for those proprietors who do not attend at the Time prefixed for drawing, and that the Clerk shall enter them to the original proprietors as they are drawn. 7th, To see if the proprietors will accept the Committee Report that were chosen to draught an Explanation of the proprietors Books of Records. 8th, To chuse a proprietors Treasurer. This is therefore to notify and warn all the proprietors of said Gilmantown, to meet at the House of Mr. Antipas Gilman, Innholder in said Gilmantown, on Tuesday the tenth Day of September next, at one of the Clock in the Afternoon, then and there to pass any Vote or Votes on the above Articles, as they shall judge proper. JOSEPH BADGER, Prop's Clerk. Gilmantown, August 8, 1771.
N. B. Sundry Settlers in Gilmantown not having determined on whose Rights they have settled, are desired to give in to the proprietors Committee, an Account on whose original Rights they have taken up their Lots; and such of the Settlers that have not made choice of both their Lots, are desired to do it, and make return thereof to the proprietors Clerk, before the Time of drawing, or they may forever after expect to be excluded. And all Persons who are delinquent in paying the Province Road Tax, are desired to pay it, at or before said Meeting, or their Lands will be Advertized for sale, without any further Notice. Joseph Badger, per Order of the Committee.
The Proprietors of Hanover,
Are hereby Notified, that the VENDUE of LANDS in said Town, is adjourned to the second Monday in September next, at the House of Mr. John Ordway, in Hanover aforesaid, at which time sundry Lots of Land of the delinquent Proprietors will be sold for Taxes, unless prevented by Payment thereof to me the Subscriber JOHN HOUSE, Collector. Hanover, Aug. 5. 1771.
Province of New Hampshire.
Notice is hereby given to the Proprietors of Monadnock, No. Five, in said Province, that at sundry legal Meetings of the proprietors, the following Taxes, have been granted and assessed, viz. April 18th, 1770, Two Dollars on each proprietors Right, was granted, to clear and repair Roads, within said Township. Novem 21, 1770, Five Dollars on each proprietors Right was granted towards building a Meeting House. January 2d, 1771, Sixteen Shillings on each Proprietors Right, was granted to pay for building a Bridge over the South Branch, and likewise Two Dollars on each Right was granted to defray incidental Charges of the Proprietors. March 21, 1771, One Penny on the Acre of each proprietors Right was granted to clear and repair Roads with, and likewise, one Farthing on the Acre of each proprietors Right was granted, for to hire Preaching within said Township. THESE are therefore to desire all persons concerned to pay their Taxes to me the Subscriber, at Monadnock No. 5 by the second Day of September next, or their Lands will be Advertized for sale as the Law directs. July 31. Stephen Church, Collector.
N. B. Every man having liberty to work out his Taxes to the Roads any time before the said second day of September.
All Persons that have any demands on the Estate of Joshua Pool, late of Haverhill, at Cowas, in New Hampshire, deceased, are hereby desired to bring in their Claims to Timothy Beadle, Administrator on said Estate, in order for settlement, and those indebted to said Estate, to make speedy payment, in order to prevent Trouble. Bath, August 13th, 1771. Timothy Beadle.
All persons that have any demands on the Estate of John Rowel, late of Salem, in the Province of New-Hampshire, deceased, are hereby required to bring in their Claims well vouch'd to Timothy Beadle, of Bath, in said Province, Administrator on said Estate, in order for Settlement, and those indebted to said Estate, are desired to make prompt payment to said Administrator, to prevent further Trouble. Bath, Aug. 13th, 1771. Timothy Beadle.
ALL Persons indebted to the Estate of James Boyd, late of Salem in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, Mariner, deceased, are desired to make speedy Payment; and those who have Demands on said Estate, are desired to bring in their Accounts to Roger Peete, of said Salem, Administrator on said Estate. Salem, August 12. 1771.
Notice is hereby given, that three Months more from the last Day of July past, is allowed for bringing in the Claims, on the Estate of Benjamin Scribner, late of Brimfield, deceased, represented Insolvent, and the Commissioners will attend to receive them at the House of Peter Abbot, Innholder in Kingstown, the last Monday of this & the two following Months, from three to seven o'Clock, P. M. and those Persons that neglect to bring in their Claims to the Commissioners properly made out, and attested, must expect to lose them, notwithstanding their being sent to the Administrator, (but not properly made out or attested) before the Estate was represented Insolvent. Jeremy Webster. August 9th. 1771. Josiah Bartlett.
WE the Subscribers, being appointed by the Hon. the Judge of the Probate of Wills, &c. for the County of Rockingham, Commissioners to receive and examine the Claims of the several Creditors to the Estate of Daniel Lad, late of Brimfield, in said County, Gentleman, deceased, represented Insolvent, HEREBY give NOTICE, that we will attend that Service, at the House of Peter Abbot, Innholder in Kingstown, the last Monday of this and the five following Months, from Two to Six o'Clock, P. M. And the several Creditors are desired to take Notice, that their Claims cannot be received, unless they are properly made out and attested. Jeremy Webster. Kingstown, Aug. 10. 1771. Josiah Bartlett.
Province of New Hampshire.
WHEREAS the general Court has passed an Act to authorise the Select Men or Proprietors Committee of Barrington, to make an Assessment on all the Lands within the said Town, at so much per Acre as will be sufficient to raise the Sum of eighty five Pounds three Shillings and seven Pence, Lawful money to pay John Mc. Duffee and Richard Jennes Esq; for making a Road or High-Way through said Town; Notice is hereby given to all the Proprietors and Grantees or Owners of Land in said Town, that said tax is made and committed to the Collector to collect, and they are desired to pay their respective Taxes to me the Subscriber, on Monday the ninth of September, at the House of Capt. Zechariah Foss, Innholder in Portsmouth; and on Wednesday the eleventh, at the House of Ensign Abijah Pinckham, Innholder in Barrington; and on Thursday the twelfth at the House of Mr. William Lock of said Barrington; and if not paid at either of the above Places before mentioned, they may depend upon their Lands being advertised for sale immediately after that Time in the New Hampshire Gazette, according to Law, as will be sufficient to pay said Tax, with incidental Charges— The Tax on each Acre in said Town is one Copper; or five shillings lawfull Money upon an hundred Acres. JOSHUA FOSS JUNR Collector of said Tax. Barrington August 8th 1771.
Ranaway from the subscriber, An Indented Servant GIRL named Rachel Peabody, about ten Years of Age; Whoever shall take up and convey said Servant to her Master, shall have One Shilling Sterling Reward. SEWALL GOODRIDGE. Linsborough, Aug. 10. 1771.
PROVINCE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
[ Relhan. ]
PURSUANT to a Vote of the Proprietors of RELHAN, impowering their Clerk to call a Meeting of said Proprietors, upon an Application of more than one sixteenth Part of said Proprietors; and such an Application being made to me for that Purpose, I DO hereby notify and warn said Proprietors, to meet at the House of Capt. Jacob Tilton, Innholder in Portsmouth, on Friday the 30th Day of August Inst. at Six o'Clock, P. M. then and there to act upon the following Matters and Things; 1st. To chuse a Moderator. 2d. To receive and allow the Accounts (if reasonable) of Mr. John Houle, for compleating the Road that remained unfinished through the Township; and if allowed, to provide Payment for the same. 3d. To see what Encouragement the Proprietors will give to any Person who will build the Saw and Grist Mills, as the late Contract for that Purpose, cannot be complied with. 4th. To chuse a Committee to adjust and settle any Disputes with the Proprietors of the Township of Canaan, relative to the boundary Lines between the two Townships. 5th. To see whether the Proprietors will contract with any Person for the building a Bridge over Mascomy River, and appoint a Committee for that Purpose. 6th. To chuse any necessary Assessors. 7th. To agree on some Method for Payment of the King's Quit Rents, which will become due the 29th of September, 1771. 8thly. and Lastly. To consult upon some effectual Methods of hastening the Settlement of the Township. JOHN WENDELL, Props. Clk. Portsmouth, August 7th. 1771.
JOHN HICKEY,
LIVING near the Canoe Bridge, give's this Notice, that he will Dye and Press Homespun Cloth, after this Date, as cheap as is done in Kittery or Stratham. Any Person that understands the Clothiers Business, and wants to Hire a Mill, with all Utensils, may hear of one by enquiring of said Hickey. Portsmouth, July 24th, 1771.
Samuel Foster,
At the Crown and Slippers, opposite Dr. Clement Jackson's, PORTSMOUTH, HAS by him ready to make up, very neat Red and Green Morocco Leather, for Slippers; Also very rich, fine white and black Sattin for Shoes; any of the above Articles applied for, will be made as soon as possible, in the very neatest Manner, at a reasonable Price. At which Place any Sort of Boots or Shoes are made in the neatest Manner, with Dispatch. A good Assortment of Women's Shoes to sell cheap for Cash, at the above Place.
AS the SUBSCRIBER proposes to leave this Town in a few Weeks, he ONCE more desires those who are indebted to him, or the late Company of Little and Jackson, to make immediate Payment, that he may with Ease effect his intended Removal: Those who neglect complying with the above before his Departure, are desired to settle the same with Mr. Samuel Hale, junr.
John Jackson.
N. B. A Pair of good Fire Buckets and Bags to be disposed of.
On Tuesday the 27th August next, at ten in the Morning, will be sold by public Vendue, to the highest Bidder or Bidders, at the House of James Smedly, Esq; Innholder in Portsmouth;
Sundry Lots of common Land, laying in the Township of Barnstead, viz. No. 97, 98, and 30, in the first Division or Home Lot, 60 Acres in a Lot. Also, No. 36, 41, 39 and 32, in the second Division in said Barnstead, containing one hundred Acres or more, in a Lot, champion Land. Also, the Commons adjoining to No. 64 in the 2d Division, adjoining to the Lot Richard Sinclair now lives on, parted only by a four Rod Road, containing by estimation 100 Acres. Also, the common or undivided Lands, adjoining to the Lots, No. 10, 9, 8, and 7, as laid down in the Plan. The above said common Lands are ordered to be sold in order to pay Richard Jennes, and John Mc. Duffee, Esq's for making a Road or High Way, thro' said Barnstead. The overplus Money, if any, to be appropriated or applied to such Uses as the Propriety shall order. By Order and agreeable to a Vote of the Proprietors. Benjamin Adams. Newington. July. Benjamin Cobebath, 28th, 1771. Richard Downing, Com- mittee.