The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1770-02-16 00:00:00

THE NEW-HAMPSHIRE AND HISTORICAL
GAZETTE, CHRONICLE,
CONTAINING the Freshest ADVICES
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
Friday Feb. 16, 1770.
Numb. 696 | Weeks since this Paper was publish'd.
BOSTON, February 12. Last Wednesday Morning arrived here the Brigantine Rising-Liberty, Capt. Cazneau, who left LONDON the 22d of November...
From the LONDON EVENING-POST, December 19. When the Complaints of a brave and powerful People are observed to increase in Proportion to the Wrongs they have suffered...
SIR, IT is the misfortune of your Life, and originally the cause of every reproach and distress, which has attended your government...
You ascended the throne with a declared, and I doubt not, a sincere resolution of giving universal satisfaction to your subjects.
When you affectionately renounced the name of Englishman, believe me Sir, you were persuaded to pay a very ill judged compliment of one part of your subjects...
To the same early Influence we attribute it, that you have descended to take a Share, not only in the narrow Views and Interests of particular Persons...
a minutest Discussion of the Merits of the Peace, we may observe, in the imprudent Hurry with which the first Overtures from France were accepted...
Hitherto, Sir, you had been sacrificed to the Prejudices and Passions of others. With what Firmness will you bear the Mention of your own?
A Man, not very honourably distinguished in the World commences a formal Attack upon your Favourite, considering nothing, but how he might best expose his Person and Principles to Contempt.
Far from suspecting you of so horrible a Design, we would attribute the continued Violation of the Laws, and even this last enormous Attack upon the vital Principles of the Constitution...
The Circumstances to which you are reduced will not admit of a Compromise with the English Nation. Undesirable, qualifying Measures will disgrace your Government still more than open Violence...
In ours the general Contempt of the People is as fatal as their Detestation. Such, I am persuaded, would be the necessary Effect of any base Concession made by the present H--- of ---...
Taking it for granted, as I do very sincerely, that you have personally no Design against the Constitution, nor any Views inconsistent with the Good of your Subjects...
The People of I---d have been uniformly plundered and oppressed. In Return, they give you every Day fresh marks of their Resentment.
The Distance of the Colonies would make it impossible for them to take an active Concern in your Affairs, if they were as well affected to your Government as they once pretended to be to your Person.
It is not then from the alienated Affections of I---d or A---a, that you can reasonably look for Assistance; still less from the People of E---d, who are actually contending for their Rights...
As to the Scotch, I must suppose your Heart and Understanding to be biased, from your earliest Infancy, in their Favour, that nothing less than your own Misfortunes can undeceive you.

M---y, with Bows and Smiles; and Falshood, and kept him until they had settled their Bargain with the English Parliament; then basely sold their native K--- to the Vengeance of his Enemies.--- This, Sir, was not the Act of a few Traitors, but the deliberate Treachery of a Scotch Parliament representing the Nation. A wife P---ce might draw from it two Lessons of equal Utility to himself. On one Side he might learn to dread the undisguised Resentment of a generous People, who dare openly assert their Rights, and who, in a just Cause, are ready to meet their So-----n in the Field. On the other Side, he would be taught to apprehend something far more formidable;---a fawning Treachery, against which no Prudence can guard, no Courage can defend. The insidious Smiles upon the Cheek would warn him of the Canker in the Heart.
From the Uses, to which one Part of the Army has been too frequently applied, you have some Reasons to expect, that there are no Services they would refuse. Here too we trace to Partiality of your Understanding. You take the Sense of the Army from the Conduct of the Guards, with the same Justice with which you collect the Sense of the People from the Representations of the Ministry. Your Marching Regiments, Sir, will not make the Guards their Example either as Soldiers or Subjects. They feel and resent, as they ought to do, that invariable undistinguishing Favour with which the Guards are treated; while those gallant Troops, by whom every hazardous, every laborious Service is performed, are left to perish in Garrisons abroad, or pine in Quarters at home, neglected and forgotten. If they had no Sense of the great original Duty they owe their Country, their Resentment would operate like Patriotism, and leave your Cause to be defended by those to whom you have lavished the Rewards and Honours of their Profession. The Praetorian Bands, enervated and debauched as they were, had still Strength enough to awe the Roman Populace: But when the distant Legions took the Alarm, they marched to Rome and gave away the Empire.
On this Side then, which ever Way you turn your Eyes, you see nothing but Perplexity and Distress. You may determine to support the very Ministry who have reduced your Affairs to this deplorable Situation: You may shelter yourself under the Forms of a P---ce, and set your People at Defiance. But be assured, Sir, that such a Resolution would be as imprudent as it would be odious. If it did not immediately shake your Establishment, it would rob you of your Peace of Mind forever.
On the other, how different is the Prospect! How easy, how safe and honourable is the Path before you! The English Nation declare they are grossly injured by their Representatives, and solicit your M----- to exert your lawful Prerogative, and give them an Opportunity of recalling a Trust, which, they find, has been so scandalously abused. You are not to be told that the Power of the H--- of ----- is not to be original, but delegated to them for the Welfare of the People, from whom they received it. A Question of Right arises between the Constituent and the Representative Body. By what Authority shall it be decided? Will your M----- interfere in a Question in which you have properly no immediate Concern? It would be a Step equally odious and unnecessary. Shall the Lords be called upon to determine the Rights and Privileges of the Commons? They cannot do it without a flagrant Breach of the Constitution. Or will you refer it to the Judges? They have often told your Ancestors, that the Law of Parliament is above them. What Party then remains but to leave it to the People to determine for themselves? They alone are injured; and since there is no superior Power to which the Cause can be referred, they alone ought to determine.
I do not mean to perplex you with a tedious Argument upon a Subject already so discussed, that Inspiration could hardly throw a new Light upon it. There are, however, two Points of View, in which it particularly imports your M----- to consider the late Proceedings of the H--- of ----- By depriving a Subject of his Birthright, they have attributed to their own Vote an Authority equal to an Act of the whole Legislature; and, tho' perhaps not with the same Motives, have strictly followed the Example of the long Parliament, which first declared the Regal Office useless, and soon after, with as little Ceremony, dissolved the House of Lords. The same pretended Power which robs an English Subject of his Birthright, may rob an English K--- of his C---n. In another View, the Resolution of the H--- of -----, apparently not so dangerous to your M-----, is still more alarming to your People. Not contented with divesting one Man of his Right, they have arbitrarily conveyed that Right to another. They have set aside a Return as illegal, without daring to censure those Officers who particularly apprized of Mr. Wilkes's Incapacity, not only by the Declaration of the H---, but expressly by the Writ directed to them, and who nevertheless returned him as duly elected. They have rejected the Majority of Votes, the only Criterion by which our Laws judge of the Sense of the People; they have transferred the Right of the Election from the Collective to the Representative Body; and by these Acts, taken separately or together, they have essentially altered the original Constitution of the H--- of ----- Versed, as your M----- undoubtedly is, in the English History, it cannot easily escape you, how much it is your Interest, as well as your Duty to prevent one of the three Estates from encroaching upon the Province of the other two or assuming the Authority of them all. When once they have departed from the great constitutional Line, by which all their Proceedings should be directed, who will answer for their future Moderation? Or what Assurance will they give you that, when they have trampled upon their Equals, they will submit to a Superior? Your M----- may learn hereafter, how nearly the Slave and Tyrant are allied.
Some of your Council, more candid than the rest, admit the abandoned Profligacy of the H--- of -----, but oppose their Dissolution upon an Opinion, I confess not very unwarrantable, that their Successors would be equally at the Disposal of the Treasury. I cannot persuade myself that the Nation will have profited so little by Experience. But if that Opinion were well founded, you might then gratify our Wishes at an easy Rate, and appease the present Clamour against your Government without offering any material Injury to the favourite Cause of Corruption.
You have still an honourable Part to act. The Affections of your Subjects may still be recovered. But before you subdue their Hearts, you must gain a noble Victory over your own. Discard those little personal Resentments which have too long directed your public Conduct. Pardon this Man the Remainder of his Punishment, and if Resentment still prevails, make it, what it should have been long since, an Act of Mercy, but Contempt. He will soon fall back into his natural Station---a silent Senator, and hardly supporting the weekly Eloquence of a News-Paper. The gentle Breath of Peace would leave him on the Surface, neglected and unremoved. It is only the Tempest that lifts him from his Place.
Without consulting your Minister, call together your whole Council. Let it appear to the Public that you can determine and act for yourself. Come forward to your People. Lay aside the wretched Formalities of a K---, and speak to your Subjects with the Spirit of a Man, and in the Language of a Gentleman. Tell them you have been fatally deceived. The Acknowledgement will be no Disgrace, but rather an Honour to your Understanding. Tell them you are determined to remove every Cause of Complaint against your Government; that you will give your Confidence to no Man who does not possess the Confidence of your Subjects; &
that you will leave it to themselves to determine, by their Conduct at a future Election, whether or know it be in Reality the general Sense of the Nation, that their Rights have been arbitrarily invaded by the present H--- of ----- and the Constitution betrayed. They will then do Justice to their Representatives & to themselves.
These Sentiments, Sir, and the Style they are conveyed in, may be offensive perhaps, because they are new to you. Accustomed to the Language of Courtiers, you measure their Affections by the Vehemence of their Expressions; and when they only praise you indirectly, you admire their Sincerity. But this is not a Time to trifle with your Fortune. They deceive you, Sir, who tell you that you have many Friends, whose Affections are founded upon a Principle of personal Attachments. The first Foundation of Friendship is not the Power of conferring Benefits, but the Equality with which they are received, and may be returned. The Fortune which made you a K---, forbade you to have a Friend. It is a Law of Nature which cannot be violated with Impunity. The mistaken P---ce, who looks for Friendship, will find a Favorite, and in that Favorite the Ruin of his Affairs.
The People of E---gl---d are loyal to the House of Ha---ver, not from a vain Preference of one Family to another, but from a Conviction that the Establishment of that Family was necessary to the Support of their Civil and Religious Liberties. This, Sir, is a Principle of Allegiance equally solid and rational, fit for Englishmen to adopt, and well worthy of your M-----y's Encouragement. We cannot long bedeluded by nominal Distinctions. The Name of Stuart, of itself, is only contemptible;---armed with the Sovereign Authority, their Principles were formidable. The Prince, who imitates their Conduct, should be warned by their Example; and while he plumes himself upon the Security of his Title to the Crown, should remember, that as it was acquired by one Revolution, it may be lost by another.
JUNIUS. (Extracts from an Answer to the above, will be inserted next Week.)
L O N D O N, Nov. 9.
INTELLIGENCE EXTRAORDINARY from Edinburgh. ON Saturday the 28th of Octo. being the anniversary of the birth of that illustrious, tho' suffering Patriot, John Wilkes, Esq; several respectable citizens of this metropolis dined together, in solemnization of an event so important, to the liberties of Britain. It is with pleasure we are informed, that so far from the whole people of Scotland being the enemies of that gentleman (as has been often asserted, probably on account of some invectives against that country, which Fame ascribed to his pen) the judicious, sensible, & most distinguished inhabitants of the Northern capital, are remarkable for their attachment to his cause, and their support of it upon all occasions.
Yesterday Major ROGERS, Governor of Mechilimakinac, lately arrived from North America, was presented to his Majesty at St. James's, and had the Honour to kiss the KING's Hand.
Several of the Military and Revenue Officers at Boston have laid violent hands upon the patriotic OTIS, at a Coffee-House in Boston, and have almost murdered that good man.
Nov. 18. Yesterday a Bet of 20 Guineas to 15 was made at 'Change, that we were at WAR with France before the first of July 1770.
It is computed there are now upwards of 400 sail of Ships in the River to be sold, which used to be employed in the North-American Trade before the late Taxation of the Colonies. What a considerable Decrease must this make in the Consumption of the Manufactures of this Country.
Nov. 4. The present Ministry have the Faculty of blowing hot and cold with the same Mouth. When a few Merchants of London, that were hissed and pelted with Dirt and Mire from Temple-Bar to St. James's Palace, presented an Address to the King, that Address was by the present Ministry called the Sense of the whole Nation; but when the Freeholders of the Counties of Middlesex, York, Bucks, &c. &c. present their Petitions, those Petitions, so far from being esteemed by the Ministry as the Sense of the Nation, are treated with Contempt, and are said to be presented only by the Scum of the Earth.
We hope the impudence of the present M-----y, in calling the petitioning Freeholders of many of the counties in England "the scum of the earth", will cost those hard hearted Court-tools as dearly as the never to be forgotten, insolent expression Sir Robert Walpole was guilty of, when he wantonly, foolishly, and unpardonably called the Merchants of the City of London, "shady beggars" which impudent expression proved his downfall.
Dec. 16. On Monday Mr. Wilkes will have exactly four months to remain in the King's Bench; the term of his imprisonment expiring on the 18th of April.
To-morrow a great number of Citizens will receive the sacrament, to qualify themselves---not for Heaven---but to be Common-Councilmen.
Yesterday a number of merchants in the American trade met in the Smyrna coffee-house, in St. James's-street, and from thence went together to wait on the Earl of Hillsborough, at his house at Hanover-square.
The Mordock, Capt. Orr, from Virginia to Clyde, laden with upwards of 400 hogheads of tobacco, is lost near Girvan in Scotland. The people of Ayrshire immediately most inhumanely plundered the ship, rising even the soldiers chests.
L O N D O N, December 26.
A great personage, on reading in Junius's letter, the fortune "which made you a -----, forbade you to have a friend; replied, "hard fortune indeed! surely no one envies my station."
The following observation of the celebrated Addison is very applicable to the present times. "I have heard (says that excellent politician) of a country gentleman, who made a very long and melancholy complaint to the Duke of Buckingham, when he was in great power at Court, of several public grievances. After having given him a very patient hearing, my dear friend, says the Duke, it is but too true; but I have thought of an expedient which will set all things right, and that very soon. His country friend asked him what it was. You must know, says the Duke, there is a place of 500l. a year fallen this very morning, which I tend to put you in possession of. The gentleman thanked his Grace, went away satisfied, and thought the nation the happiest under heaven during that whole ministry.--- Can no such adequate employment be found for Junius.
We hear the result of the many C-----t C----- lately held, is a fixed resolution NOT TO DISSOLVE THE P-----t.
Notwithstanding the complaint which generally prevails, that our trade is every where on the decline, and particularly in North-America, we are well informed, that in the year 1747, the net revenue of the Customs did not amount to 900,000l. and that this year it surpasses 2,800,000l. sterl.
A letter from an English Merchant at Constantinople says, "the ruin of this mighty empire seems at length to be resolved on. The Grand Signior's situation is truly pitiable: surrounded by his Ministers and flatterers, he is kept a perfect stranger to the transactions of his own army; and which is, indeed, almost ruined, through the want of military skill in the principal officers. Trade is the only
thing which at present runs in its right channel; how long it may continue to do so, Heaven only knows."
"A young gentleman, named Mackenzi, whose father was an Admiral in the Russian service, and his brother now a Captain in the said service, died here last night at the King's Arms inn. This gentleman acted as Interpreter to the Russian gentlemen here; and was a Midshipman in our service.
Letters arrived this day by the Lisbon mail mention an attempt having been made on the life of the King of Portugal, by shooting at him; and that the person who fired at his Majesty had been apprehended.
Letters from Vienna advise, that the Russians having greatly suffered from the want of forage and provisions, in their expedition to Bender, it had been thought expedient to recall General Panin, in order that the whole army should go into winter cantonments.
Friday an opulent merchant in this city was arrested on the Royal Exchange for 20,000l. to which he immediately gave bail.
Dublin Dec. 16. Information having been received, that on the 2d instant an anonymous letter was written to Lieut. Gen. Dilkes, threatening to destroy him and his family, his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant and Council have offered 50l. sterling reward for the discovery of the offender.
WILLIAMSBURGH, (in Virginia) January 3. On Wednesday evening the Honourable the Speaker, and Gentlemen of the House of Burgesses, gave a Ball at the Capitol for the Entertainment of his Excellency Lord BOTETOURT; and it is with the greatest pleasure we inform our readers that the same patriotic Spirit which gave rise to the association of the Gentlemen on a late event, as most agreeably manifested in the dress of the Ladies on this occasion, who, to the number of near one hundred, appeared in homespun gowns; a lively and striking instance of their acquiescence and concurrence in whatever may be the true and essential interest of their country. It were to be wished that all assemblies of American Ladies would exhibit a like example of public virtue and private economy, so amiably united.
Not all the Gems that sparkle in the Mine, Can make the Fair with so much Lustre shine.
January 10. We hear from Norfolk that the Snow Betsy of that place, David Ferguson master, from Antigua, has been just brought up by the Magdalen cutter, in a deplorable condition, having been on the coast for twenty odd days, and lost five of her crew, and a negro. The master, mate, and one mariner, were the only people on board when the cutter came across her, who by their hardships were rendered quite unfit for service, and must infallibly have perished likewise, had they not met with assistance.
A few days ago a convicted servant man of Mr. Doncastle's, in New Kent, having some quarrel with one John Jennings, an inhabitant of that county, ripped open his belly with a knife. The man had all necessary assistance, but died in a short time after. The murderer's name (who is since fled from justice) is John Dixon, an Englishman, about 23 years of age, five feet ten inches high, and wears his own light coloured hair, tied behind.
PHILADELPHIA, February 1. On Sunday, the 14th of January last, died SARAH MEREDITH, aged 90 Years. She was born in a little Log House, where the City of Philadelphia now stands (her Maiden Name was Rush) and there lived till she arrived to Woman's State, when she was married to David Meredith, and soon after settled in the Great Valley, Chester County, about 28 Miles from Philadelphia, then the westernmost Settlement in the Province, being six Miles beyond any Neighbour, except Indians, who were very numerous, kind & inoffensive; on which Place she spent the Remainder of her Days, and retained her Senses perfectly to the very last. She was Mother of 11 Children, Grandmother of 66, and Great Grandmother of 31, in all 108; and what is remarkable, the Chief of them are now living.
We hear that one Cadry Leacy, who was advertised in our Paper of the 18th instant, as a Runaway from Richard Lemon, of New-Ark, New-Castle county, was committed to Gloucester goal last week for murder: He passed thro' the country as a dumb man, and about two weeks ago stopped at a house on the Egg Harbour road, the lower end of Gloucester county, where he made signs that he was hungry, when the good woman gave him food; the woman's husband being at work in the Cedar Swamp's it is said, that Leacy wanted to go to bed to her, but she refusing, he killed her with the Pitch Fork; then beat the children, left the oldest of them for dead, who has since recovered, and then made off. He being pursued, was taken and committed as above.
NEW-YORK, February 5. From Freehold, in Monmouth County, in New-Jersey, we learn, that the Inhabitants of that County, are so irritated at the Lawyers there, that on Tuesday the 23 of January, being the Time appointed for holding Courts of Pleas and General Sessions of the Peace there, a great Number of them assembled in a tumultuous and riotous Manner, and absolutely refused to permit one Lawyer to come; and the Magistrates were so intimidated that no Courts were opened or held there that Time.
B O S T O N, February 12, 1770.
Capt. Paddock in a Schooner belonging to Nantucket, left London sometime in December, and left the Land with Capt. Cazneau, bound for this Port.
On the 6th of January, 40 Leagues Westward of the Lizard, Capt. Cazneau spoke the Talbot Indian, having been 9 Months from Madras.
Captains Jacobson, Omand, Nichols, Lyde, Davis, Roach, Bryant, Gibson, Scott, and Smith, from this Port, are all arrived in London, as were also several Vessels from Nantucket.
We hear a Gentleman belonging to this Town sent a Letter on board Capt. Cazneau when he lay at Dover, which Letter is come to Hand, and it is said mentions the Return of Mr. Patrick Smith and his Goods, and that he was well pleased with the Resolution of the Merchants in returning them. There is no other Account of this Affair come, that we can find, tho' there are many Reports.
We hear a Merchant in England has wrote his Correspondent here, that the American Affairs would not be taken up by Parliament before the Month of March.
The Honourable the Commissioners of the Customs have appointed GEORGE LYDE, Esq; Collector for the Port of Falmouth.
Tuesday Night last a young Woman, supposed to be seized with a Fit, fell into the Fire, and before any Person went into the Room, was most terribly burnt; she died the next Day.
The last Thursday's New-York Paper mentions that a particular Account of the Affair between the Inhabitants of that City and the Soldiers, was preparing to be published. We hear that what occasioned the Affray mentioned in our last, was the Resolves the Inhabitants came into not to employ any of the Soldiers to work for them; nor suffer them to be walking the Street in the Evening after Roll-calling: But it is said, all Matters are accommodated.
The Merchants and Traders at Philadelphia and New-York have agreed to renew their Trade and Commerce with Rhode-Island.

The Rev. Mr. SAMUEL LOCKE, of Sherburn, has accepted being President of Harvard College in Cambridge.
Extract of a Letter from a Gentleman now in London, to his Friend in this Town, dated 13th Nov. 1769.
---As to Politics, I really cannot tell you with any Certainty what is like to be done; some Persons are very sanguine that Matters will be settled to our Satisfaction; nay that a Plan is already determined on, that the duty on Tea will be repealed as well as on Glass, &c.---but that this is really the Purpose of the Ministry I have not yet full reason to believe. It is, however, the prevailing Opinion, that the next Sessions will redress what we with so much Justice complain of.---You may depend I shall do nothing in bringing out Goods that shall expose me to the least Chance of Censure; I have suffered much, but am determined to go through.---My Determinations to return are not all altered by the Measures on your side which this Day has made me acquainted with, * and you may rely on it, the Town will gain great Credit with all those whose good Opinion is worth meriting.
* The Merchants Meeting, when Mr. Smith and others agreed to return their Goods.
Extract of a Letter from London, dated Nov. 16. 1769.
As far as I am able to judge of the late Measures of the Merchants, I must think them such as are greatly adapted to the present Times; and am certain they have already answered a good Purpose. There are none here, that I have met with, who condemn them; far from it, they applaud the Spirit manifested on this Occasion; and as Factors upon Factors might and would have been expected, it was most surely the prudentlest Step that could be taken.---
Extract of a Letter from Bowdoinstown at the Eastward, dated February 1, 1770.
“On the 8th of last Month we had the greatest Inundation ever known here; the Tide rose 30 or 40 Feet above its usual height, (some suppose above 50 Feet) which has done incredible Damage;---Kennebec River is broke up as far down as Swan Island; and Androscoggin down to Brick Island;---two double Saw Mills and one Grist Mill are entirely carried away from Brunswick Falls, and two other Saw-Mills a little above, and partly carried away their great Dam and all the Logs they had in the River; and now it can't be known where the Falls are, for all are made level with the Ice, which is computed to be 40 Feet thick, hove one upon the Top of another;---As to Kennebec it is incredible to relate its Aspect; a large Store House belonging to Dr. Gardiner of Boston, was carried away and lodged down at the Narrows on the Back of Swan-Island, and his Pot-Ash House moved to the Back of Glidden's House, (now Smith's) and the Water was near even with the Roof of his Grist-Mill;---Henry McCaulland's House is carried off and lodged on the great Sands; several Barns, Hay, &c. together with a number of Sheep were also carried off by the Current;---the Inhabitants were greatly distressed, some of whom were taken out of their Beds in Canoes; and Vessels which were building were floated from off the Stocks and carried away on high Land;---This Flood was not wholly owing to the Freshet, but an amazing high Tide coincided therewith, which made the Water rise 10 Feet extraordinary for several days together, till it got to the astonishing height above-mentioned. The River is now filled with Ice, Boards, Shingles, Trees Canoes, Logs, Hay, Ruins of houses, &c. and in short to describe all the Devastation occasioned by this Torrent would seem more like a Romance than a Truth---In Cobbisconte the Stream was no way remarkable.”
Extract of a Letter from a Gentleman in a Southern Colony, to his Friend in this Town, dated February 1770.
“Your Bostonians shine with renewed Lustre. The last Efforts made by them was indeed like themselves, full of Wisdom, Prudence and Magnanimity: Such a Conduct must silence every pretended Suspicion, and baffle every vile attempt to calumniate their noble and generous Struggles in the Cause of American Liberty. Not only the Philadelphia Farmer, but every Farmer must and will applaud the noble Sacrifice made by the Boston Merchants, and stand ready to seal with their Blood the solemn Covenants they have zealously entered into. While, if no greater Curse befall those vile Wretches who have presumptuously broke thro' their honourable Engagements; the Blackness of Obscurity at least shall cover them from the Possibility of Favour or Affection from their much injured and enraged Country. Nobler Days nor Deeds were never seen than at this Time. But that we may live to see Days of a more grateful aspect, full of Peace and Happiness, prays your's, &c.”
S A L E M, February 13.
Yesterday arrived here the Brig Leopard, Capt. Gebaut, in 70 Days from Gibraltar, who informs, that about the beginning of December the Russian Fleet, one Division from that Place, and another from Cadiz, sailed for Malta, and that a third Division of the same Fleet was daily expected at Gibraltar when he sailed, in their Way also to Malta, where the whole were to winter; and it was said were to proceed early in the Spring to Constantinople.---This Fleet had Leave from the Courts of London and Madrid to stop at any of their Ports in the Mediterranean---The French were fitting out a large Fleet at Toulon to oppose the Russians; which it was thought would bring on a Rupture with some of the other European Powers. The Algerines had declared War against the Danes; and it was thought would also soon break with the Dutch. Considerable Fleets of Danish and Dutch Men of War were soon expected in the Mediterranean.
PORTSMOUTH, February 16th, 1770.
Extract of a Letter from a Gentleman in London, to his Friend here, dated November 18th 1769.
YESTERDAY Governor ROGERS being presented to his Majesty, at St. James's, he was received graciously, and had the Honor to kiss his Hand, and an Opportunity to acquaint him of his unjust Confinement. He expects to be with you in March, as his Business here will soon be finished much to his Satisfaction.
It is said a Ship is ashore at Mount Desert, and will be lost; but who it is or where from don't learn.
JUNIUS's Piece had a very great Run in England, and being much talk'd on it's arriving here, that our Readers might be gratified with the Perusal, we have omitted some Articles, which will be in our next, and crowded this excellent Piece with our other Articles in this very small Type, which some of our Readers dislike, and say it is too little, therefore we shall never wholly print the Paper on it but when a great deal of News arrives together, for two Reasons, one because some dislike it, and the other on Account of the longer Time it takes to Compose the Paper in it.
CUSTOM HOUSE Piscataqua 15. Feb.
  Inward Entries, NONE.   Outward Bound, FOR.   Schooner Speedwell, -----, Lambert, West-Indies.   Brig Irish Gimblet, George Turner, Ditto.   Brig -----, Jacob Mills, Ditto.   Clear'd for Departure, FOR.   Brig Lawrel, Edmund Roberts, West-Indies.   Schooner Joanna, Matthew Lindsay, Ditto.   Sloop Sally, John Harmon, Ditto.   Ship New-Hampshire, Thomas Simpson, Ditto.   Brig Speedwell, John Lawson, LONDON. 
THE Subscriber hereof being far advanced in Years, and about to move from the present Place of his Residence, to some one in the Country of a more retired Situation, and being desirous (before he moves) to settle all his Affairs, of Debt and Credit; and to answer this proposed End, he begs leave, (in this Method) to inform all Persons, who are Indebted to him respectively, in any Way or Means whatever, that unless they settle their respective Accounts before the 25th of March next, the several Evidences of their respective Debts, will be put in Suit before the setting of the Inferiour Court of Common Pleas in June next, and this without any further Advice or Delay.
THEODORE ATKINSON. Portsmouth, Feb. 9, 1770.
TO BE SOLD OR LETT, this Spring 1770.
By John Newmarch, Esq;
Of Portsmouth,
A large Dwelling House, and a large Barn, and Orchard, with upwards of Forty Acres of good Mowing, Planting, and Pastering Land, well water'd, adjoining the Country Road, leading from Kittery Ferry to Old York, and very near the Ferry.
American Grindstones of all sizes
manufactured in Nova Scotia, To be Sold by
JOSEPH BASS,
At his Shop in Portsmouth.
These Grindstones are by best Judges esteemed superior to those imported from Great Britain. The Grit being much finer and sharper, and the Stones more durable.---Allowance made to those who purchase to sell again.
WE the Subscribers being appointed Commissioners to receive and examine the Accounts of the Creditors to the Estate of Captain STEPHEN PARSONS, late of Portsmouth, deceased, represented Insolvent---hereby give Notice, that we will attend that Business at Capt. Zechariah Fols's, the first Tuesday in March next, and of the four following Months, at 5 o'Clock in the Afternoon of each Day.
Portsmouth, Feb. 12, 1770. JOSHUA BRACKETT. PETER PEARSE.
N. B It's desired the Accounts may be brought in as soon as possible, in order to a speedy Settlement.
WE the Subscribers being appointed Commissioners, by the Hon. JOHN WENTWORTH, Esq; Judge of Probate for this Province, to receive and examine the Claims of the several Creditors to the Estate of John Ayers, late of Portsmouth, deceased, represented Insolvent---hereby give Notice, that we will attend that Business at the House of James Stoodley, Esq; Innholder in Portsmouth, the last Tuesday of this and the four following Months at 5 o'Clock in the Afternoon of each Day.
Portsmouth, Feb. 12, 1770. JACOB SHEAFFE. WILLIAM WHIPPLE.
§ CHATHAM. §
THE following Original Proprietors Share of Land in the Township of CHATHAM, in the Province of New Hampshire, will be sold at Public Vendue at the House of Jeremiah Folsom, jun. Innholder in Newmarket, in said Province, on Monday the 26th Day of February, Instant, or as much of each Right as shall pay Thirty Shillings Lawful Money (which was a TAX voted to be paid to Walter Bryant, junr. Collector for said Proprietors for each respective Proprietors Share of Land in said Township) if said Taxes are not respectively paid to said Collector at his House at said Newmarket, before said Day of Sale.
Delinquent Proprietors Names are as follows, and the Sum to each is Thirty Shillings Lawful Money. Jonathan Trickey, George Meserve, Broadstreet Doe, John Doe, John Burley, junr. Clement March, Esq; David Gilman, Winthrop Hilton, junr. Josiah Hilton, John Bennet, junr. Daniel Foster, Thomas Merrill, Benjamin Smith, Esq; Noah Emery, Esq; George Levius, Ichabod Hilton, Joseph Senter, Nicholas Doe.
ALL Persons indebted to, or that have any Demands on the Estate of John Churchill, late of Portsmouth, deceased, are desired to bring in their Accounts to Joseph Churchill, of Portsmouth, aforesaid, Administrator on said Estate, and in his Absence to Elizabeth Churchill, Wife of said Joseph, who has Power to settle the same.
TO BE SOLD,
VERY REASONABLY, BY
Jonathan Moulton,
OF HAMPTON.
SUNDRY RIGHTS and PARCELS of LAND; hereafter express'd, lying in this Province, on the following Terms, viz. One third Part of the Money to be paid within six Months from the Time of Sale, one third part within one Year, and the other third part within two Years, the Purchasers giving Security for the same, with Lawful Interest 'till paid, viz.
Two 40 Acre Lots of Land lying in Hopkinton, with an Orchard, House and Barn thereon, well situated on the Country Road, which was formerly the Homestead of Capt. Burbank, deceased.---Also two 80 Acre Lots of Land in said Hopkinton, being the Lots No. 4 and No. 5 in the second Division of said Township, which were also formerly own'd by said Burbank.---One whole Right of Land in the Township of North Monadnock No. 3, being the original Right of the Rev. Ezra Carpenter.---Also 100 Acre Lot No. 12, in the second Range, drawn to the original Right of Jeremiah Norris.---Two Lots, 100 Acres each, drawn to the original Right of Nathaniel Page; 100 Acre Lot drawn to the original Right of Anthony Wibird, and 100 Acre Lot which was own'd by Thomas Wibird, Esq; all which lay in said Monadnock.---Two 80 Acre Lots in the Township of Wilton, No. 8 and No. 9, which were drawn to the original Right of Jehu Combs.---One whole Right of Land in the Township of Alstead, which was own'd by Col. William Symms.---Three Quarters of one hundred and ninety Acres of Land in Ipswich, which was own'd by Abel Webster.---One whole Right of Land in the Township of Cornish, laying on Connecticut River, being the original Right of William Temple, Esq;---One whole Right in the Township formerly called Halestown, Thomas Brown the original Grantee thereof.---One half of a 150 Acre Lot of Land in Chester, No. 54, being Part of the original Right of William Rhymes.---One half of a 200 Acre Lot of Land in Deerfield, being Lot No. 15, in the second Range, in the third Division; also one half of another 200 Acre Lot of Land in said Deerfield, being Lot No. 2, in the sixth Range and third Division of said Deerfield.---Ten full Rights of Land in the Township of Relhan, viz. The original Rights of Meshech Weare, Esq; Ephraim Doolittle, Nathan Baldwin, William Barrell, Paul Moores, Nathaniel Francis, Simon Powers, Hugh Floyd, John Symms and Simon Stevens.---Also twelve whole Rights in the Township of Bath, viz. the original Rights of Nehemiah Wheeler, Daniel Lunt, Theodore Moser, James Hasalut, Richard Cotts Shadston, Mark Seavy, David Copp, Bradbury Richardson, John Mason, Peter Garland, Joseph Wright, Esq; and Cornelius Sullivan.---Five whole Rights in the Township of Canaan, viz. the original Rights of Benjamin Chamberlain, Abner Chamberlain, David Chamberlain, William Chamberlain, and William Chamberlain, junr.---Two whole Rights of Land in the Township of Gunthwait, viz. the original Rights of Abel Lawrence, Capt. Jacob Tilton.---One Right of Land in the Township of Lyman, being the original Right of Joseph Root.---One Right of Land in the Township of Haverhill, being the original Right of John Hastings.---One half of a Right of Land in Gilmantown, being Part of the original Right of Benjamin Hilton.---Also a House, and House Lot in Newmarket, at the New-Fields (so called) nigh the Landing, conveniently situated for a Merchant and Tradesman.---A House and Barn with about 6 Acres of Land in Kennington, lately owned and improved by Moses Blake.---About 8 Acres of choice Land in Epping, some Part thereof Interval, adjoining Lamper-seel River.---One whole Right, both divided, and undivided, in Chichester, being the original Right of John Sherburne.---Also several other Rights of Lands laying in several Townships on the Westerly Side of Connecticut River, which were chartered by his late Excellency, Governor of New Hampshire, and have since fell within the Government of New York.
Any Person inclining to purchase any of said Lands, may depend on having them very reasonably, as said Moulton is determined to sell the same, with a View of making it convenient for him to confine his Business to the settling a Township nigh Winnepesaukee Pond, and two other Townships lying on Connecticut River, in which he is more largely interested, and Intent on settling, is in Want of Twenty or Thirty Families to settle on the same to whom he will give good Encouragement, considering the favourable Situation and Circumstances, that said Townships are now respectively under.
Cash will be given by said Moulton for 50 or 60 young Cows and Heifers, to carry into the Country.
To be Sold cheap for Cash,
As the Person's Stay will be short in Town,
English and Scotch GOODS, at Jacob Tilton's, Innholder in Portsmouth.

Auction-Hall, KING-STREET.
Close by the Town-House, (in Court-Square) opposite the Royal-Exchange, BOSTON. This Day Auction-Hall is opened for Trade and Business—Where there is a very great Variety and Assortments of Goods and Merchandize, to be Sold EXCEEDING CHEAP for Cash down:—The Goods were Imported from the best Markets, and upon the best Terms, above twelve Months past,
By John Gerrish and Company.
PUBLIC VENDUES
Are to be held Weekly in said Auction-Hall: but chiefly on Tuesdays and Thursdays . Many Sorts of Goods, both New and Second-hand, are Daily sent to said Hall for PUBLIC SALE.
WHOEVER sends GOODS, either New, or Second-hand, to be Sold by private or public Sale , may be assured of the Fidelity of the Master of said Hall. VENDUE Jobbs about Town are undertaken by the Master of said Hall on VERY CHEAP TERMS INDEED!
John Gerrish,
[Public Vendue-Master.]
N. B. Very good Lodgings and Boarding, for Country GENTLEMEN, Travellers, and Traders, and very good Keeping for Horses, to be had in Court-Square, opposite to AUCTION-HALL.
Boston, February 1770.
NOTICE is hereby
Given to all Persons concerned, that the Tract of Land lying in the Two-Mile-Streak , so called, in Barrington , owned by Jonathan Warner, Esq; is now under the Care of the Subscriber, who is also empowered to bring Actions against those Persons who have been trespassing on said Lands. Therefore all those Persons who have been cutting or hauling Wood or Timber from off said Lands, may depend on being prosecuted at the next Term, unless they prevent by a speedy Settlement with said Warner .
JOHN SULLIVAN.
Durham, January 30, 1770.
TO BE SOLD,
By George Turner,
Cheap for Cash,
MOLASSES by the Teiree or Barrell, COTTON-WOOL by the Bag or Hundred. RUM, SUGAR, COFFEE, RICE, LOGWOOD, RED WOOD, SPICES of all Kinds, &c. &c. &c.
Said Turner has a few Barrells of choice LIMES , which he will sell cheap for Cash.
To be bound out a
healthy able-bodied Woman, about thirty-six Years of Age, who understands spinning, and all Kinds of Household Work; Also, Two Children to be bound out until they are of Age, with each of whom a Sum of Money will be given, one a Boy, in his fourth Year, the other a Girl in her third Year: For further Particulars, enquire of the Select-Men of New-Castle.
TO BE SOLD Cheap for Cash or Lumber , A likely, active Negro BOY , 19 Years of Age. Sold for no Fault, but for want of Employ. Enquire of the Printers.
One Half of a Pew in Dr. Langdon's Meeting-House, on the Larboard Side of the Steeple Door, to be sold cheap, Enquire of the Printers.
A few of Ames's Almanacks , for the present Year, printed on a fine Paper and new Types, may yet be had at the Printing-Office, near the State-House.
LEMMONS,
Fresh and Good, to be sold by
Joseph Hart,
At Half a Dollar a Dozen, and cheaper by the Hundred.
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
By some Things in
a natural and some in a providential Way, occurring unforeseen by us, we were obliged to adjourn the Vendue (after selling a few small Parcels) for Sale of the Lands in Rochester for the Delinquency in Payment of the Taxes on the same, till Tuesday the 20th Day of February next, Ten o'Clock A. M., at the House of Lieut. Stephen Berry's in said Town, where we expect to proceed. By Order, and in Behalf of the Select Men,
Per Jonathan Dam , Town Clerk. Rochester, Jan. 29, 1770.
[ Meredith. ]
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
WHEREAS there is sundry
delinquent Proprietors, Grantees, or Owners of the original Rights or Shares, or other of their respective Lots thereto belonging, in the Town of Meredith , in said Province, which Town was lately called New Salem , but now Meredith : These are to notify and warn such Delinquents as aforesaid, that they respectively pay the several Sums herein prefixed to each original Share, to me the Subscriber, Collector for the Proprietors of said Meredith , by the first Day of March next ensuing; otherwise their Interests will be exposed to Sale, for the Payment of the Sum, according to the Laws of said Province, in such Cases made and provided. —The Delinquents are as follows, viz.
   1st Div. 2d Div. 3d Div.     John Taylor, 0 18 0 0 19 6 0 17 3   John Purmont, 2 10 7 3 0 8 2 5 6   Joseph Wadleigh, 0 12 0 0 14 3 0 10 8   Chace Robinson, 1 16 8 2 3 10 1 13 0   John Leavitt, jun. 1 6 10 1 11 5 1 3 7   Joseph Person, 1 6 0 2 11 3 1 4 5   Ebenezer Smith, Collector.  
Meredith, January 15, 1770.
WE the Subscribers, appointed
Commissioners, to receive and examine the Accounts of the several Creditors to the Estate of Patrick Taggart , late of Merrimack , deceased, represented Insolvent; hereby give Notice, that we will attend that Business the first Monday in December next, and the four following Months, from 2 to 6 o'Clock in the Afternoon of each Day, at the House of Col. John Goffe, Esq; Innholder in Derryfield .
Nov. 18, 1769.
John Goffe, James Underwood.
TO BE SOLD,
Two Lots of Land, near the Rev. Mr. Haven's Meeting House. Enquire of the Printers.
WE the Subscribers being ap-
pointed by the Hon. John Hill, Esq; Judge of Probate for the County of York , to receive and examine the Claims of the several Creditors of the Estate of Capt. JOHN LORD , late of Berwick , in said County, deceased, represented Insolvent: And six Months being allowed for that Service, from the second Day of January Inst. Do hereby notify said Creditors, that we shall attend that Service at the Dwelling House of Mr. Nabum Marshall , Innholder in Berwick , on the first Monday of February next, and of the five following Months, from 3 to 6 o'Clock Afternoon of said Days
James Govey, Benj. Chadburn, Wm. Rogers.
Berwick, Jan. 8th, 1770.
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
It being suggested,
that some Persons are posses'd of Bills of Publick Credit of this Province;
This is therefore to notify the Possessors of any of said Bills of Credit, that they may have them exchanged by the Province Treasurer, at his Office, agreeable to Acts of the General Assembly of said Province, by the 10th Day of March next.
And those Constables and Collectors of the Province Tax for the Year 1769, who have not paid their respective Collections of said Tax, are also notified, that any of the said Bills of Credit, will be received of them, for said Tax, by the Treasurer.
And as the Time limited for Payment of said Tax into the Province Treasury is expired: Notice is also given, that if said Tax is not paid into said Treasury, by the Tenth Day of February next, Extents will be issued against the Delinquents.
GEO. JAFFREY, Treasurer. Treasurer's Office, Jan. 29th, 1770.
§ CANAAN. §
APPLICATION having been made to me the Subscriber, one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace, by more than one sixteenth part of the proprietors of Canaan , in the Province of New Hampshire, to Notify a Meeting of said proprietors to transact the following Matters, viz. 1. To chuse a Moderator. 2. A proprietor's Clerk and Treasurer, Collector, and all necessary Committees. 3. To establish and confirm the Transactions of any former Meetings, if the proprietors shall see fit. 4. To receive, examine and pass upon any such Accounts as may then be exhibited against said proprietors. 5. To grant and raise all such Sums of Money by Tax, as may be thought necessary to discharge the Debts of the propriety, and to promote the Settlement of said Township. 6. To see if the proprietors will agree to Lott out said Township. 7. To see what Encouragement they will give for building Mills in said Town. 8. To determine upon a Method for calling proprietors Meetings for the future. — In Compliance with the above Request, I do hereby Notify said proprietors to meet at the House of Mr. John Man in Orford , in said province, on Thursday the 10th Day of May next, at Two o'Clock P. M. then and there to act upon the Premises.
Orford, Jan. 18, 1770. ISRAEL MOREY.
* WARREN. *
NOTICE is hereby given to the several delinquent Proprietors of WARREN , in New Hampshire, hereafter mentioned, that their respective Rights of Land, in said Town, will be exposed to Sale at publick Vendue on Thursday the Eighth Day of March next, at the House of Col. Jonathan Greeley , Innholder in Kingston , at three o'Clock, P. M. agreeable to a LAW of said Province, unless prevented by their paying the several TAXES assessed on their respective Rights, as the Balance is hereafter mentioned and set forth in Lawful Money, viz:
   Capt. Ephraim Brown £. 3 0 0   Thomas True 1 10 0   Abel Davis 1 8 0   Aaron Clough, junr. 1 10 0   Silas Newel 3 18 0   William Parker, junr. Esq; 2 14 0   Jacob Currier 2 8 0   Jacob Gale 3 0 0   Capt. John Parker 3 18 0   Philip Tilton 1 12 0   Nathaniel Barrell, Esq; 3 0 0   Lieut. James Graves 2 8 0   John Marsh 3 18 0   Jonathan Greeley, tertius, 3 18 0  
ENOCH PAGE, Collector. South Hampton, Jan. 22, 1770.
Nath l Sheaff Griffith
Hereby informs his Customers, and others, that he still carries on Clock and Watch making as usual, at his Shop opposite Dr. Langdon's Meeting-House; and has now by him all Sorts of Materials for said Business.