The New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1791-02-12 00:00:00

New - Hampshire Gazette, and the General Advertiser.
Containing the Laws, &c. of the United States, as well as those of this State passed since 1787, with a variety of other matters both useful and entertaining.
PORTSMOUTH: Printed by JOHN MELCHER, at his Office in Market-Street, at nine shillings per Annum.
CONGRESS.
THIRD SESSION.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
MONDAY, JAN. 17.
THE House took into consideration the amendments proposed by the Committee of the whole to the NEW REVENUE BILL ,
and agreed to the same. On the motion of Mr. JACKSON, to strike out the 13th section—the yeas and nays were taken, and were, Yeas 16—Nays 36.
Several private petitions were read and disposed of.
TUESDAY, JAN. 18.
The papers communicated to the House yesterday, by the PRESIDENT of the United States , were read, among them, was a statement of the expenditures made out of the sum of 10,000 dollars, appropriated for contingencies the last session—and several communications from different States.
A letter from The Secretary of State , inclosing a supplement to his report, on the subject of Coins, Weights, and Measures .
A petition from Michael Gabriel Handin , a native of France, and late an officer in the American army, praying compensation for services, was read, and referred to the Secretary at War .
On motion of Mr. GOODHUE, The Secretary of the Treasury was directed to report to the House, whether any, and what further provision is necessary to be made, for the respective officers employed in the collection of the revenue.
NEW REVENUE BILL.
The additional amendments proposed to the Revenue Bill , were taken into consideration, and after a considerable debate were all disagreed to: An amendment proposed by Mr. GERRY was not decided on, when the House adjourned.
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 19.
A letter from the Directors of the Library Company of Philadelphia , offering the use of the books in said Library to the Members of Congress, was read.
A Bill, authorizing The President of the United States , to cause the principal and interest of the debt due to Foreign Officers , to be paid and discharged, was read a first and second time.
A petition of the Baptist Association , of Connecticut, praying Congress to devise some mode to prevent inaccuracies in any editions of the Holy Bible, which may be printed in the United States, was presented and read.
Several private memorials and petitions were presented, read, and referred to the heads of departments.
NEW REVENUE BILL.
This Bill was again discussed—and several motions made to recommit the same; but the House adjourned without coming to a final decision.
THURSDAY, JAN. 20.
A memorial of the merchants of Philadelphia, trading to India and China , praying that an additional duty may be laid on all the goods imported from India or China in foreign bottoms, was read and referred to the Secretary of the Treasury .
A petition from Messrs. Sands, Livingston, &c. respecting a provision contract, was read and referred.
NATIONAL BANK.
The Bill making this establishment, having passed the Senate, was sent down to the House for concurrence.
A joint committee was raised to consider and report the time for the commencement of the next session of Congress.
commencement of the next session of Congress.
FRIDAY, JAN. 21.
The Act to incorporate the subscribers to the Bank of the United States received from the Senate yesterday, was read the first and second time, and referred to a committee of the whole House on Wednesday next.
Mr. MADISON presented the petition of W. C. Webb and Comers Wythe , which was read and referred to the Secretary of the Treasury .
Mr. WILLIAMSON, reported a Bill for preventing the importation of slaves from selling their pensions before they shall become due; read a first and second time and made the order of the day on Thursday next.
Mr. SEDGWICK's motion for a committee to bring in a bill to provide for the compensation of the inspectors of the duties on distilled spirits, was taken into consideration, and a committee consisting of Messrs. Sedgwick, Madison and Laurence was appointed.
The House proceeded in the consideration of the amendments proposed to the bill laying duties on distilled spirits.
A motion was made by Mr. JACKSON, in the following words:
And be it further enacted, That if any inspector or other officer or person concerned in the collection of the revenue to be raised by this act, shall, by word, message, or writing, or in any other manner whatsoever, persuade or endeavor to persuade any Elector to give, or dissuade or endeavor to dissuade any from giving his vote for the choice of any person to be a member of the House of Representatives, member of the Senate, or President of the United States—such inspector or other person so offending, shall be forever disabled from holding any office under this act, and shall be subject to a penalty of dollars.
This motion occasioned a lengthy debate. The yeas and nays being required by Mr. JACKSON, were yeas 21—nays 37. The further consideration of the bill was postponed until to-morrow.
A message was received from the Senate, by Mr. Otis, their Secretary, informing that they had concurred in the vote of the House, in appointing a committee on their part to consider and report a time for the commencement of the next Congress.
Adjourned until to-morrow.
SATURDAY, JAN. 22.
Mr. LAWRANCE from the committee, to whom was referred the petition of Capt. Seth Harding , reported, that the committee considering Capt. Harding's case, as a peculiar one, beg leave to recommend, that Congress pass an act, granting to Capt. Harding the sum of dollars, as a gratuity for his sacrifices and losses, occasioned by leaving his estate and employment within the British dominions, and for the active, beneficial and meritorious part he has taken, in securing the rights and independence of America.
The House then, pursuant to the order of the day, proceeded to the further consideration of the Excise Bill; and after sundry amendments thereto, adjourned.
MONDAY, JAN. 24.
Mr. HEISTER presented a petition from a considerable number of citizens of Philadelphia, stating their objections against the Excise Bill.
TUESDAY, JAN. 25.
A memorial was read from sundry inhabitants of Lancaster county, remonstrating against that part of the Excise Bill, which lays a duty on spirits distilled from American produce,
and on stills employed in making such spirits.
A committee appointed to confer with a committee of the Senate, respecting the time for the commencement of the next session of Congress, reported,
That it was the opinion of the joint committee that a revenue bill might be passed, and such other business as is of immediate importance, accomplished, on the 4th day of March next; and that it would therefore not be necessary that a new session should commence immediately thereafter.
Other committees were also of opinion, that a new annual meeting of Congress, to an earlier day, than that expressed in the Constitution; but two committees could not come to an agreement with respect to the precise time.
The House then, pursuant to the order of the day, resumed the consideration of the Excise Bill, and after sundry amendments made thereto, it was proposed by Mr. PARKER, that the duties should not extend to any still of a smaller Capacity than 50 gallons: but the question being taken, passed in the negative.
The House having gone through the bill, the question of engrossment was taken and passed in the affirmative.
The Yeas and Nays being called for, were—Yeas 35—Nays 20.
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 26.
A message was received from The President of the United States , introducing a letter he had received from the President of the National Assembly of France, accompanying a decree of that body, to wear mourning for three days, in consequence of the death of the late BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. The letter and decree was read.
The House was then cleared of all, except members, to take into consideration business of a nature that required secrecy.
THURSDAY, JAN. 27.
A message was received from The President of the United States accompanied with sundry letters from Kentucky, of the 8th inst. giving an account of 47 persons lately murdered by the Indians North-West of the Ohio, 3 taken prisoners and some few missing, who are supposed to have been either killed or taken. These letters were referred to the committee, to whom were referred the secret papers read yesterday.
[To a handsome address of the inhabitants of Trenton, to his Excellency Governor PATTERSON, of New-Jersey, be returned the following elegant, patriotick, and truly Federal Answer.]
GENTLEMEN,
SCARCELY know in what manner to make my acknowledgments for your polite and affectionate address. Language fails me—I cannot describe the emotions of gratitude and respect, which rise in my breast—but believe me, gentlemen, I feel—my heart sensibly feels upon the occasion.
The attention and hospitality, which, as a private individual, I have experienced from the inhabitants of Trenton and its vicinity, I shall ever retain in grateful memory; and I have no doubt that when ever inclination may lead, or the duties of office may call me there—or whether my stay be as a resident, or as a guest, I shall meet with a cordial reception, and be treated with every mark of civility and politeness.
That my conduct in the different offices
which I have had the honor to fill, has met with the approbation of a free and enlightened people, gives me unfeigned pleasure; and it is my fervent wish, that I may in future demean myself, in such a manner as to cherish and increase this favourable opinion. My interest, as a citizen, conspires with my duty, as a ruler, to advance the growth and prosperity of this State, and to promote the welfare and glory of the Union at large. In this sentiment I am sure of meeting with your hearty concurrence, and that of every good and wise man in the State. As Free-men, we have but one common object; as citizens of the United States, our interests and our rights are common. That narrow system of local politics, which, for a time, distracted our councils, disturbed our repose, and tarnished our glory, is gradually disappearing under the benign influence and diffusive operation of the new government: Our political horizon extends and brightens—As a people we are united and happy at home—and as a nation respected abroad.—May New-Jersey sustain her rank in the political scale of the Union! To realize this wish ought to be our aim—our study—and our pride. May the ardour of patriotism be kindled into an active and noble emulation—and may we in our respective stations—and within the sphere of our influence, vie with each other, who shall contribute most to the welfare and aggrandizement of our common country! In this generous contention the social virtues will be called into exercise—all the high-toned passions will be enlisted on the side of duty, and whatever is amiable in character, or sublime in action will rise to view, and warm and animate the portrait of an American citizen. Thus may we act—and after a life, full of beneficence and years, may you be translated to that happy world, where the patriot and friend of mankind, will receive a sure and lasting reward.
WILLIAM PATTERSON.
On MARRIED PAIRS.
WHEN a wife feels herself strong in cash, she is too apt to throw out the scold in a domestic debate, to oppose him from whom she derives all her consequence, in a mode which cannot procure his assent, as she is never satisfied with any of his motions.—When a man finds that he cannot be heard in his own house, while his wife is speaker, he may well complain of his matrimonial lot; and very sincerely wish that he could controul all her bold measures. Such a man must heartily repent of his having put himself into 'circumlocution and confine,' and as heartily wish himself decently released from so unsuitable a companion. Those, on the other hand, who are firmly attached to each other by the most rational ties, while they discover their mutual fondness, give striking proofs also of their wisdom. When such couples enter into the conjugal state, they give it at once dignity, lustre, and grace.
Anecdote of a Great Man.
WHEN any one was speaking ill of another in his presence, he at first listened to him attentively, and then interrupted him—"Is there not, said he, a fair side also to the character of the person of whom you are now speaking? Come, tell me what good qualities you have remarked about him."
BLANKS of all sorts printed on good paper, may be had at J. Melcher's Printing-Office in Market-Street.

Foreign Intelligence.
VIENNA, [Germany] Oct 30.
The negotiations between Prince Potemkin and the Grand Vizir are entirely broken off, and 70,000 Turks are on their march from Redschink to Silesia, to attack Gen. Suwarrows.
PARIS, [France] Nov. 4.
The Queen is indisposed, and has not appeared in public for some days.
NOVEMBER 11.
On Saturday the 125,000,000 stock was sold at 5 1/4 per cent. above par, (100 livres) and on Monday at par. This was owing to the National Assembly's declaring, that that fund should not be reimbursed.
They have also taken care not to lay their sacrilegious hands on the English, Scotch and Irish religious communities in France, in so complete a manner as those of their own nation.
LONDON, Nov. 1.
Friday morning Barrington attempted to make his escape from Newgate in his wife's apparel, but was discovered, before he had passed two doors.
Nov. 6. The King of Spain lately had a fall from his horse, the consequences of which are seriously apprehended.
Nov. 8. Fresh tumults have broken out in the province of Languedoc in France. The people of Montauban instigated by the Priests, attacked the garrison of Touraine regiment. They fired on the soldiers, but luckily without effect. Both the above regiments, and that of Royal BOULOGNE, were greatly molested by some of the inhabitants from the tops of their houses.
Nov. 12. A ship from North-America to Bremen, with tobacco, is lost on the coast of Holland.
Mr. Dabwood of Norfolk, has received from America a very curious breed of sheep. They are remarkably large, are regularly spotted with brown and white, are said to be great breeders, and of a peculiar fine flavour.
The new Assignats are to be printed by Didot, who offered to do them for 22,000 livres. The engraving is to be executed by Gateau: And the King's image, with the arms of France, to appear in the small ones, notwithstanding a former decree to the contrary.
The paper is to be of Reveillon's manufacture, and the whole expence for printing three millions and sixty thousand Assignats of different value, forming in all the sum of eight hundred millions, will be 200,000 livres (8333l. 6s. 8d. sterling.)
On Monday afternoon the remains of Savage Wogan, Esq. late ensign in the 12th regiment, of foot, were interred with military honors in the Governor's Chapel yard at Portsmouth. He was a promising youth, not quite 20 years of age, and would have come to a possession of 1400l. a year when 21. He fell a victim by being put into damp sheets at an Inn in Southampton.
Extract of a letter from Paris.
"The confusions in this capital seem growing apace! The two distinctions of soldiers—the Guards Soldees, and the Guards non Soldees, which mean those who are paid for serving, and those who are not paid have differed on the subject of a commander."
"M. de la FAYETTE wishes to command the whole. Marshal de BIRON has grown the favorite with those who act without pay."
"The long maintained rivalry of the Duke of ORLEANS, inclines him to favor Marshal de BIRON, and to throw every weight in his favor."
"The commotions seem increasing in consequence of this;—where they will end we know not."
"BURKE's Pamphlet has just made its appearance here. The Aristocratic party are devouring it."
DECEMBER 3.
The members of the parliament of Thoulouze, overcome by the earnest entreaties of their friends, are gone to St. Sebastian, in Spain, where they have
been received most politely and cordially.
By this timely precaution they have for the present avoided the chains with which they were threatened to be loaded, and the prisons which were opening to receive them in their dark and unwholesome recesses. Vincennes was intended to be their abode.
It is said a camp, to consist of 20,000 men, is forming in Spain. The members of the society, called, la Propagande, have so inveterately attacked all those who bear the name of Kings, that all the sovereigns of Europe are alarmed, and are preparing to be on their guard.
The last news from Oran, on the coast of Barbary, are dated the 1st of November. It appears that six shocks of an earthquake have been felt in that town.
The Moors, who are under the dominion of the Bey of Mascara, took advantage of the calamities of the inhabitants, and attacked them with 4000 men; but they were repulsed by the men, under the command of Count la Union, four different times.
The slaughter among the Moors was prodigious.
Immediately after the convention has been taken into consideration the following important objects will be submitted to parliament by the minister; the forming of two distinct governments for Canada and Brunswick, in North-America the appointment of an Ambassador to the United States of America, and a revision of the laws of Guernsey and Jersey.
We hear that Mr. Elliot, father-in-law to Admiral Digby, is to be the Ambassador to America, with a salary of 3000 pounds a year.
A private letter, from the East-Indies, just received, mentions that a war has begun between our troops and Tippoo Sultan, who now styles himself Snah Allum, or, king of the world.
PITTSBURG, Dec. 25.
Extract of a letter from Lieut. Ebenezer Frothingham, of the 1st U. S. Regiment, to a brother officer, dated Fort-Pitt, 23d June last.
"I had determined to write to you very particularly from this place, but you will excuse me when you know the grief and pain of heart I now feel. I arrived the day before yesterday; Mr. Ernest informed me that he had the evening before received a packet of letters for me from home; my heart gladdened in expectation of hearing from my wife and friends; but O! the astonishment of my soul, when on opening my letters I found my dear wife was no more: My fairest, my brightest prospects on this side eternity are blasted in the very bud; she died suddenly, only five days illness; went off in a fainting fit without a groan. The most comfortable assurance she passed to her Savior's arms, is my only consolation in this my hour of grief and woe: Why was she removed so soon, even whilst my fond heart was anticipating the help and advantage I should receive from her virtue and piety? But should I complain, when she is such an infinite gainer? Yet I feel as though my loss was irreparable. May my soul be well prepared to go and join her spirit above, where sin and sorrow are known no more."
"My dear sir, do not place your happiness on calculations in this world, where grief and disappointments await us. May your hope and mine be beyond the reach of all transitory things."
Lieutenant Frothingham being on the late expedition against the Indians, was killed in battle; his friend thought proper to publish the above extract, in order to show the great piety and christian dependence of Mr. Frothingham, and how fearless he must have met his death."
JANUARY 1.
The arrival of Mr. Robbins at this place from Sandusky, and the accounts brought by him of the disposition of the Indians, is rather unfavorable. It appears they are determined early in the
spring to turn out for war, and commit depredations on the frontiers; that they are greatly elevated with the issue of the late campaign, and (when speaking of it) say they are more than men. It may be necessary for the inhabitants on the frontiers to keep a watchful eye, although there may be no great danger, as a report of this kind never loses by frequent repeating; and we flatter ourselves their attention will be called to a more distant quarter, in order to protect themselves.
The navigation of the Ohio has been closed this sometime, so that all communication, by that channel, is for the present stopped between this country and Kentucky.
BALTIMORE, Jan. 11. Extract of a letter from a gentleman in this State, to his friend in Philadelphia.
"I AM so happy as to think as you do, with regard to trading in man: The custom is neither consistent with reason, nor with the laws of God or man. Poor unhappy slaves, particularly those forced from their place of nativity, are most certainly deplorable objects of commiseration. I never bought more than two, during twenty years residence here. One proved to be the son of an African Prince—he was a most comely youth: Having observed his uncommon parts, I sent him to school, and used him like a free man during his stay with me. The directors of the African Company having offered a reward for him, I presented the poor creature with his freedom, gave him an order for the reward aforesaid and sent him to London; from whence, the following year, he remitted me the sum he cost me, and sundry rich goods, to the amount of three hundred pounds and upwards, and therewith the following letter, in his own language, translated by Dr. Desaguillier, of Cambridge:
" From the Great City, Third Moon after my release.
"OH! my kind, merciful master! my good white brother! too good!—a very good son of a good woman and of a very good old man, created good old people by the Great Spirit who made my country!—thy poor, most grateful black prisoner, now rendered rich by thy goodness and mercy, is now most dead, most drunk, most mad with joy!—Why is he so?—Because he is going to his good warm country, to his good old mother—to his good old father—to his little sister and his Brother!—In my good warm country, all things are good, except the white people who live there, and come in flying houses, to take away poor black people from their mothers—their fathers—their sisters, and brothers—to kill them with hunger and filth, in the cellars of their flying houses! The Governor of the flying house has been to show that which is to carry me and him to my good warm country: I am glad, very glad indeed, he goes there with me! Should he be sick (and white people seldom escape being so there) because of thee, my kind, merciful master, and good white brother, and because he has been good to me, and is a very good white man, too, I will nurse him myself!—My mother, my father, my little sister and my brother, shall be his brother, his mother, his father and his sister, too! He shall have one large heap of elephant's teeth and gold, for my kind, merciful master, and good white brother—and one for himself, also, but smaller. I have received a great quantity of gold, besides what thou didst present me with, by means of thy hand writing to the people who are to send me to my country; some part whereof I have given to the Governor of thy swimming house, to be sent to thee. Had I a houseful I should send the whole with equal pleasure: However, thou shalt see, hereafter, that black people are not beasts, and do know to be grateful. My kind, merciful master, and good white brother, do not forget thy black prisoner—When thou dost speak to the Great Spirit, and to his son—I know he will hear thee—I shall never be sick, more; for which I shall be thankful! Pray
speak for my good old mother, my good father, my little sister, and my brother; I wish they may be healthy to many, very many moons—as many as the hairs on thy head! I love them all much, yet I think not so much as I love thee—I could die in my country for thee, could I do thee any kindness! Indeed, the Great Spirit well knows, I mean no lie; shall always speak to him for thy good!—Believe me, my good white brother, thy poor black prisoner is not a liar."
"DGIAGOLA, [Son of Dgiagola, Prince of Foot, Africa.]
RICHMOND, (Virg.) Jan. 15.
This morning about 5 o'clock, a very severe shock of an earthquake was felt in this City, which lasted about two minutes; it shook the houses so severely, as to occasion many of the inhabitants to get up to see what damage was done.
HARTFORD, Jan. 24.
Monday last, about 12 o'clock, noon, an house near the prison in this City, occupied by Mr. Ebenezer Clark, joiner, took fire and was consumed, together with his tools, sundry articles of apparel, furniture, &c.
From a late LONDON PAPER.
CATACOMB.
On Friday the 6th of July last, as some workmen were cutting turf on a bog near Donadea, Ireland, the seat of Sir Fitzgerald Aylmer, Bart. at about 17 feet from the surface, they discovered a vault of a quadrangular form, which seemed to baffle all the efforts they could take with spades & shovels for an entrance—but applying to a neighbouring smith, he furnished them with some sledges, which answered the purpose so well that in less than a quarter of an hour a breach was made about 4 feet in length, and 3 in breadth: one of the peasants in the mean time entering, beheld to his astonishment, a large stone coffin, supported by short pillars, about two feet from the floor of the vault; affrighted at so melancholy and unexpected a discovery, he ran out and immediately fainted away. This circumstance quite disheartened his companions, who instantly went to Sir Fitzgerald Aylmer, informing him of what had happened: He, accompanied by some gentlemen and servants, repaired thither without delay, carrying some torches with them to examine the vault the better.
As soon as they came to the place they lighted the torches, and William Coats, Esq. entered the vault first, holding a torch in one hand, and a hammer in the other; Sir Fitzgerald and the other gentlemen followed some little time after, and opening with much difficulty, the coffin, they found the skeleton and bones of a man of more than ordinary size, a spear by his side, and two small urns or vessels of brass (both empty) having the figures of the sun and moon engraved on them in a most curious, though antique manner. The vault measured 6 feet 3 inches in height, twelve in length and eight in breadth, and the coffin was 10 feet 4 inches in length, although the skeleton and bones (which are in great preservation) were but 8 feet 3 inches and an half in length; the spear was 7 feet long, but the handle immediately moulder into dust when touched.
The coffin and contents were brought on a car to Donadea, amidst the acclamations of a numerous crowd, where they remain to be seen by the curious; those who have visited it, cannot conjecture by whom, or at what time this body was placed at so great a distance from the surface of the earth.
That it is the remains of some Irish Chieftain, is probable—and that it remained there untouched for upwards of 1400 years, is beyond all manner of doubt; from the urns and pagan figure, found engraved on them, it is clear that they were deposited there before the introduction of Christianity into that island.

HUMANITY—AN EXTRACT.
H UMANITY ! delightful tale, While we feel the winter gale, May the Cit in ermin'd coat, Incline the ear to sorrow's note, And where with misery's ills opprest, A fellow sits a shivering guest, Full ample may his bounty flow, To warm the bosom chill'd with woe.
In town or vale, where'er the tale Of real grief unfolded is, O may he give the means to live, To those who know—How cold it is.
From a late SOUTHERN PAPER.
As we hope no exceptions will be taken at the following—and it may create a de- gree of visibility—we give it a place.
Sir Pleas to give this Peace A Place in your paper.
This from your Reader.
T HE Lord Pronounst a Dreadful wo on all the Lawyers Long A go for heavy Burdens which they Lay on Poorif People Every Day 2 I Never Red Nor under Stood of Any Lawyers that was good they all git Rich and Lyes Can tell and Sow prepare themselves for hell 3 How high will feas to you Amount When you must give up your Account When all the world is in a flame And you Amidst of all the Same 4 God will bring Down your lofty pride for acting on the Devils Side you Never Can go up to heaven till you Repent and be forgin 5. O Lawyers Ive writ this for you and it is Absolutely trew you.r welcom to Reed when you Pleas I Do not talk Nor wright for feas
Cash and the highest price is given for Old Emission Money, New Emission Money, Final Settlements—Loan-Office Certificates, or State Notes of this and the other States, by Nathaniel A. Haven, At his Store in Market-Street. Portsmouth, Jan. 29, 1791.
NORTHWOOD.
State of New-Hampshire.
N OTICE is hereby given to the non-residents and owners of land in the Parish of Northwood, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1790, that unless they pay said taxes to me the subscriber, on or before the 28th day of February, so much of their land as will pay the same together with inci- dental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of Jona- than Clark, Esq. innholder in said Parish, at ten o'clock, A. M. on said day.
   State. Ac'rs. s. d. d.     William Cleserton 7 10 42   Col. Richard Kent 0 12 118   William Langdon 0 14 156   Cuting Norris 0 16 130   Thomas Pierce 8 20 156   John Weight 0 21 156   Col. Gilman 9 25 78   John Tufts 10 4 156   William Briggs 0 10 78   Fann Clements 0 11 130   Samuel Whitwell 0 14 96  
JOSHUA FURBUR, Constable. Northwood, January 24, 1791.
Portsmouth Academy.
T HE SUBSCRIBER influenced by the success and encouragement of his labors in the cause of EDUCA- TION, is preparing accommodations for instituting an ACADEMY FOR YOUNG LADIES, connected with a BOARDING HOUSE, for which pur- pose he wishes to engage a Master to teach the FRENCH LANGUAGE and DANCING, and a Mistress, to instruct in the useful and ornamental branches of NEEDLEWORK; both of whom must be well recommended as completely qualified for their respective depart- ments, and must (if their convenience will permit) board in the house, giv- ing their assistance in superintending the Manners and Morals of those who may be under their tuition.
Any person willing to undertake ei- ther of the charges before mentioned is requested to make proposals to BENJAMIN DEARBORN. Portsmo' N. Hampshire, Jan. 1791.
State of New-Hampshire.
N OTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in Mason, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1786, that unless they pay said taxes to me the subscriber, on or before the 24th day of February, so much of their land as will pay the same, together with incidental charges will be sold at public vendue, at the dwell- ing house of Capt. William Chambers, in said town, at 3 o'clock, P. M. on said day.
   No.R. Q'ty. d.q. d.q. d.q.     J. Blanchard 7 16 25 4 2 2 1 6 1 1   R. Fletcher 10 0 11 1 0 0 1 1 0 1   Jos. Brown 6 0 3/4 lot 3 0 1 3 4 1 1   J. Blodgett 9 0 3/4 lot 3 3 2 0 4 3 1    HEZEKIAH HODGKINS, Constable. Mason, January 24, 1791.
TAMWORTH.
State of New-Hampshire.
N OTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in the town of Tamworth, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1790, that unless they pay said taxes to me the subscriber, on or before the 28th of February next, so much of their land as will pay the same, together with inci- dental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of Sa- muel Gilman, Esq. in said town, at 10 of the clock, A. M. on said day.
   Highway. sp. or. sp No. Q'ty s. d. d.     Enoch Quimby 6 50 2 1 1   N. Remick, 1st R. 0 92 4 2 —   Common Rights.   George Jeffery, Esq. 10 5 — — —   Jonathan Warner 10 5 — — —    JACOB GILMAN, Constable. Tamworth, February 2, 1791.
T O be sold at public vendue, at the house of John Atwell, in Hollis, in the county of Hillsborough and State of New-Hampshire, on the 8th day of March next, at one o'clock, P. M. the following lots or parcels of land in the township of Cockermouth, in the county of Grafton and State aforesaid, or so much of each lot as will be suffi- cient to pay the taxes due thereon with incidental charges.
   No.R. D. s. d.     Dan'l Lovejoy, 1775. 2 3 2 4 2   S.Hart, jr. 1772, 12 int'le 9 0   Ditto, 1772, 10 2 1 9 0   Stephen Powers, 1772, 6 ven. lot 10 9   Ditto, 1772, 4 1 2 9 0   Ditto, 1773, 6 ven. lot 5 0   Ditto, 1773, 4 1 2 5 0   Ditto, 1775, 4 1 2 4 2   Amos Phillips, 1775, 4 5 1 4 2   Ditto, 1775, 1 8 3 8 3   John Nelson, 1773, 15 1 3 10 0   Ditto, 1775, 16 1 3 8 3   B. Wentworth's whole right for 1771, 11.16s.   Ditto, 1772, 16 3 2 9 0   Ditto, 1773, ditto 5 0   Ditto, 1775, ditto 4 2   John Green's whole right, for 1769, 11.2s.   Ditto, 1771, 5 2 —    JOHN ATWELL, Collector. Hollis, January 25, 1791.
STRATFORD.
State of New-Hampshire.
P UBLIC Notice is hereby given to the proprietors of the township of Stratford, in the county of Grafton, and State aforesaid, that a Warrant has been issued to me the subscriber to collect a tax voted by said proprietors on 18th December, 1789, for the pur- pose of paying the expenditures which have arisen on locating and lotting out said town, for cutting, digging and bridging a Road through the same, and such other proprietary charges as has been heretofore advertised, the whole assessment being seven hundred and forty-two pounds L. M.—These are therefore to give notice that there will be sold at public vendue, at the house of Jeremiah Eames, Esq. in Northum- berland, on the 21st day of March next, at ten o'clock, A. M. on said day, so much of each delinquent proprietor's right, lot or lots of land as will pay said tax, and legal cost unless prevented by previous payment.—The sum due on each right is as follows—The first division lots contain fifty acres, the se- cond, third and fourth contain two hundred acres each.
   1st div. 2d. div. 3d. div. 4th div. Sum due.   £. s. d. q.     Wm. King — — — — 10 10 8 2   Rich'd Hart — — — — 8 10 8 2   Capt. I. Brown — — — — 7 2 7 2   50 acres of the right of Agur Tomlinson — — — — 0 14 0 0   Do. Wm. A. Tomlinson — — — — 0 14 0 0    EBEN W. JUDD, Collector. Northumberland Nov. 2, 1790.
Massachusetts semi-an- nual LOTTERY.
The Managers of the STATE LOT- TERY assure the public, that the First Class of the Semi-annual Lottery will posi- tively commence drawing on the day appoint- ed, viz. the 17th of MARCH next. As the managers have in their several Monthly Lotteries commenced drawing at the hour assigned, so they are determined to be equally as punctual in this.
*The Printers in this and the other States, who have inserted the Scheme of the 1st Class in the Semi-annual Lottery, are requested to insert the above. Boston, Jan. 19, 1791.
SCHEME.
NOT TWO BLANKS TO A PRIZE. 25,000 Tickets, at FIVE DOLLARS each, are 125,000 Dollars, to be paid in the following prizes, sub- ject to a deduction of twelve and an half per cent. for the use of the Common- wealth.
   Prizes. Dollars. Dollars.     1 of 100000 is 100000   2 of 30000 60000   3 of 20000 60000   6 of 10000 60000   10 of 5000 50000   30 of 2000 60000   80 of 1000 80000   90 of 500 45000   100 of 400 40000   120 of 300 36000   161 of 200 32200   200 of 100 20000   7585 of 25 60680   8388 Prizes. 125000   16612 Blanks.  
*** TICKETS may be had of the several Managers, who will pay the Prizes on demand—of the TREA- SURER of the Commonwealth—of JAMES WHITE, at his Book-store, Franklin's Head, Court-Street, and at other places, as usual.
BENJAMIN AUSTIN, jr. DAVID COBB, SAMUEL COOPER, GEORGE R. MINOT, JOHN KNEELAND, Boston, July 28, 1790.
P UBLIC notice is hereby given That the Proprietors of the town of Plymouth in the county of Grafton, did at their meeting held by adjourn- ment at the dwelling-house of Col. David Webster, in said Plymouth, on Tuesday the ninth day of December, 1788,—Vote to raise by tax forty shill- ings on each original Right in said Plymouth, that is, twenty shillings on each fifty acre lot in the second or last Division of fifty acre lots,—and the same having been committed to the subscriber, Proprietor's Collector, with orders to collect the same in three months from the date of said meeting, and in case the said taxes or any part thereof on any or all of said lots respec- tively, should be refused or neglected to be paid as aforesaid; then so much of said lots respectively as is delinquent in the payment of said tax to be sold at public vendue to the highest bidder, as is sufficient to pay said tax and the charges arising in consequence of such sale. And the said tax having been advertised for payment as the law di- rects, and the following lots being de- linquent in the payment of the said tax or part thereof as is hereafter described viz.—
   Whole Rights.   Original Proprie- tors names. L.R. Description of Ranges. £.     Sam'l Goodhue 9 1 N. of the pond 1   ditto 1 2 ditto 1   William Read 21 2 S. of the pond 1   ditto 16 3 ditto 1   Jonas Keyes 20 2 ditto 1   ditto 15 3 ditto 1   David Hobart 6 0 in broken range 1   ditto 7 0 ditto 1   Oliver Parker 10 1 N. of the pond 1   ditto 5 7 ditto 1   E. Blood, jr. 8 2 ditto 1   ditto 13 2 S. of the pond 1        Half Rights.     E. Hartshorn 10 4 N. of pond 10 0   ditto 3 7 ditto 10 0   Step'n Powers 6 1 ditto 10 0   ditto 7 1 ditto 10 0   Tho's M'Clure 2 4 S. of pond 10 0   ditto 3 4 ditto 10 0   Sam. Thompson 2 4 N. of pond 10 0   ditto 3 4 ditto 10 0   John Harvill 8 3 ditto 10 0   ditto 18 2 S. of pond 10 0   Col. J. Smith 5 8 N. of pond 10 0   ditto 6 8 ditto 10 0   Will'm Cuming 2 2 ditto 10 0   ditto 3 2 ditto 10 0   Francis Powers 2 0 in bro'n R'ge 10 0   ditto 9 0 ditto 10 0   Part of Right } 17 1 N. of pond 7 6   of Z. Parker } 8 0 in bro'n R'ge 7 6  
Therefore the said delinquent lots, or so much of them as is sufficient to pay said tax respectively assessed or re- maining due thereon as aforesaid, and the charges arising in consequence of such sale, will be sold at public ven- due to the highest bidder, on Tuesday the 15th day of February next, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, at the dwelling-house of Col. David Webster in said Plymouth, unless prevented by previous payment.
SAMUEL MARSH, Collector. Plymouth, January 1, 1791.
Newcastle-Bridge-Lottery
The drawing of New- castle Lottery is postponed, to TUESDAY, the 8th of March next, by reason of the impossi- bility of procuring a return of Tickets, sent into different parts of the country for sale.
Lately published and for sale by the printer hereof, The Elements of English Grammar, methodically arrang- ed for the assistance of young persons who study the English Language Gramatically, By G. Neville Ussher.